M91A. Imaginary murder (blood bubble).

.12.-.17.21. (.23.) .26.-.37.44.

The character pierces a container of animal blood or other red liquid, simulating murder or suicide. Cf. motifs K10C (wrapped in giblets) and M199H (Giant's ripped belly).

Fulbe, Wolof, Soninke, Cassonke, Mosi, Dagomba, Hadza, Tigre, Algerian Arabs, Kabilas, Spaniards, Italians (Tuscany), Sicilians, Corsicans, Ladins, French, Walloons, Bretons, British, Irish, Arabs of Iraq, Yemen, Mehri, Lepcha, (Santals), Ancient China, Albanians, Serbs, Greeks, Gagauz people, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Vologda, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Kyiv region), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Adygs, Ossetians, Terek Cossacks, Avars, Dargins, Megrelians, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Persians, Mountain Tajiks, Turkmens, Pashtuns, Lithuanians, Latvians, Western and Eastern Sami, Mordovians, Udmurts, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, (Salars), Chelkans, Shors, Khakas, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Buryats, Mongols, Darkhats, Mansi, Northern and Eastern Khanty, Northern Selkups, Nganasans, central (?) and northeastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts, Nanais, Orochi, Udege, Menominee, Western and Eastern Ojibwa, Potauatomi, Steppe Cree, Eastern Marsh Cree.

West Africa. Fulbe [the child is called Hammadi Vrun; his mother tells him that his father was a rogue; he says that his horse defecates with gold, puts a gold ring in the manure, and the emir buys it; when they come for HV, accusing him of deception, he hangs a bag of blood around his mother's neck in advance and pierces him; then pretends to revive his mother with the same knife; the emir buys a knife, kills his wife, son and mother; XM is carried in a bag to drown, left for a while; he shouts that he does not want to be a ruler; a griot who has ridden on horseback agrees to get into the bag instead of him, drowned; HV comes to the emir, praises the afterlife; the world tells us to drown ourselves, the courtiers with him; HV becomes the new emir]: Vinogradov 1984, No. 4:271-277; Wolof [the deceiver's son promises his father that he will be worthy of him; after the death of his father sits on a horse, goes to sell it to the king; puts three gold beads under his tail; when he sees gold in horse manure, the king gave half of his possessions for a horse; when he was convinced of the deception, he was going to decapitate a deceiver; he says this will not be of any use because he has a revitalizing brush (touffe); tied a blood bubble around his wife's neck in advance, pretended to stab her, and then waved his brush and the wife came to life; the king gave the second half of his possessions by the brush; cut off his wife's head, could not revive her; lost everything, the deceiver became king]: Copans, Couty 1988, No. 48:126-128; soninke [ when he dies, a man named Fraudster leaves his son Gaara Koutaana ("liar") a horse and gold, teaches that a lie will always overcome the truth; GK feeds pieces of horse gold, pulls them back out of the manure; the king commands to sell a horse, the GK pretends not to want to, gets a hundredth of everything the king has; tells him to lock the horse for a month, feed it through the window; but a month later there is only manure in the stable; when he is summoned to the king , negotiates with his grandmother, hangs a bag of blood under her clothes, kills her in front of the king's eyes; says that he has a magic broom and a calebass of water, touches an imaginary corpse with a wet broom, and the grandmother comes to life; the king buys a calebass broom for two-thirds of the kingdom, kills his eldest son, his mother, his beloved wife, cannot revive; sends servants to drown the GK; he is carried in a bag, he shouts that a boar, a wild cow, is running past , the servants do not react; that a beast is running with gold in his ears; it is true, the servants are running after the beast; GK shouts that he does not want to be king; the Fulbe passing by changes places with him; GK on horseback Fulbe catches up the beast, takes the gold; the servants drown the fulbe; the GK appears to the king in a luxurious outfit, sends greetings from the king's late father, who tells his son to visit him; his mother, son, killed by the king, also live well there, wife; king orders to light a fire in the pit, throw it there; GK becomes king]: Dantioko 1978:109-119; cassonka [Samba's young son remains after the thief's death; assured his mother that he would not give in to his skill father; brought a chicken to the king, which supposedly defecates with gold, the king gave her a hundred slaves; arranged with his mother to pretend to be dead when he hit her in the presence of the king; tied her to her stomach a bubble of ox's blood; her mother began to interrupt S., who seemed to stab her; moistening her ox's tail and hitting it, as if revived it; the king bought a tail for 200 slaves; stabbed his mistress, but could not revive it; ordered to plant S. in his wineskin, sent his slaves to throw him into the river; the slaves left his wineskin until the evening; when he heard the marabou approach, S. shouted that he did not want to go to heaven; the marabu untied the bag, climbed into it himself; the marabu was drowned, and S. took his gold, brought it to the king, said that it was a gift from his deceased parents; the king and his associates ordered them to be drowned, S. became king]: Monteil 1905:65-73; mosi [the liar is dead, the leader asks him son, will he become a worthy heir to his father; the young man replies that his father left him a horse that defecates with gold; let the horse swallow a piece of gold, this piece was found in horse manure; chief he bought a horse for herds of cattle, left it in the stall; when nothing was found in the manure, he demanded the young man to him; he tied a bubble of chicken blood to his mother's throat, told the chief to answer rude; she answered, son stabbed her with a knife, bleed, her mother fell, her son cut off the horse's tail, waved at his mother, she got up; the chief exchanged his tail for cattle; one day his mistress answered him rude, he stabbed her, tried unsuccessfully revive; ordered the young man to be sewn into the bull's stomach, throw it into the river; he entrusted it to the boys; they left the bag, chased the lame animal; a man walked by, carrying a bag of gold; the young man said that the leader told him throw him into gold mine, the man offered to change with him; he was thrown into the river, and the liar came on horseback in better clothes and gold; the chief asked him to be sewn into a wineskin, thrown into the river; the liar did this; said in the village that the chief was happy and ordered him to be chief]: Sissao 2010, No. 27:71-74; Dagomba [one person claims that honesty leads to success and the other that deception leads to success; went on a journey; at first they were honest, they got nothing; they came to the village where their beloved leader died; the deceiver promised to resurrect him; placed birds in one calebass, black and white, and in the other throat; an unclear noise can be heard from the calebas; all this under the wing on the grave; the deceiver said he revived the recently deceased leader, as well as his predecessor, and they can only be revived together; people agreed that it was better not to do this, they richly rewarded the deceiver; the deceiver and his friend came to another village; said that their donkey was littering cowrie shells; in the morning the owner at the place where the donkey was, found a kauri; bought a donkey, giving him another, as well as a cow and 40 thousand cowrie; before the deceived man came to him, the deceiver agreed with his wife; they played a quarrel, the deceiver stabbed his wife with a knife, but ripped open the cow's stomach previously hidden under the cape; then "revived" his wife with pieces of bark collected in the forest; the deceived man collected bark and forgave the donkey story; killed his wife, tried in vain to revive him; killed himself]: Cardinall 1931:131-135.

Sudan-East Africa. Hadza [Buffalo and Wildebeest have decided to become friends; Gnu invites buffalo and his relatives to visit, regrets it (there are too many buffaloes); promises to treat them with blood; threw it on his wife freshly torn skin; stabbed with a knife in a place where there was a lot of blood on the inside; filled the vessel with blood, gave it to the guests; hit his wife with a rod; she first pretended to be killed, and now she comes to life; buffaloes think he is a sorcerer and took his magic medicine; then Buffalo invited Wildebeest to his place and also gives him blood; he actually killed his wife and cannot resurrect her; Wildebeest goes for new medicine and runs away; Buffaloes fed meat to dogs, one of whom was killed and the other ran away and warned Wildebeest not to return]: Col-Larsen 1962:109-113; tiger [Beiho came out of mother's wombs help her draw water into her wineskin and put it on her shoulders; when born and grew up, fill the animal's esophagus with blood, tied it around the mother's neck; her brothers came, B. pretends to be furious how slowly the mother cooks food, as if she cuts her throat, gushes blood; then tells her to come to life; the mother's brothers kill their wives, they do not come to life; the mother's brothers burned house B; he collects ash, leaves bags of ash in something at home under the guise of valuables; when he returns, he takes valuables; tells his uncles that he sold ash; they burn their houses, no one needs ash; uncles kill B.'s cattle; B. dries their skins, lowers them from the mountain to the ground merchants, who think enemies have attacked, leave behind all their property; B. takes it, tells his uncles that he sold their skins; they kill their cattle, no one buys their skins; uncles tie B. to the back of a sled animal , they take him to drown, leave; he tells the shepherd that he was tied up because he does not want to be a leader; the shepherd has been drowned, B. brings his cattle, says he found him at the bottom of the reservoir; uncles with all his relatives drowned; in order to seduce the chief's daughter, B. comes to her under the guise of a girl, sister B.; seeing that the chief's daughter is pregnant, her relatives decide to marry Sister B. (i.e. B. himself in women's clothes); the imaginary bride asks for permission to ride a horse, galloped off; in the guise of a man, B. tells him to return his sister; in return he is given the chief's pregnant daughter, he is happy]: Littmann 1910, No. 16:19-25.

North Africa. Algerian Arabs: Belarmi 1990 [the prince has 7 sisters; after his father's death, his uncle invited the prince to lock them in the castle for 7 years; 7 years later, the prince came - the castle was empty, the sisters were kidnapped by cannibals; prince saw two doves; flying away, one shouted that she was Radia, Radi's daughter, and the other that she was the daughter of Guellidi Lakhdar; if she wanted them, let her look for them from their fathers; the prince went in search, found his 7 sisters; oh said that their cannibal husbands would not harm him; the cannibals asked their father to help the prince; he points out the mountain on which these girls were; one was guarded by the cannibal Salem, the other by Tamtam; the prince married them , brought them to his place; the uncle decided to take them away; sent the servants to take the prince to the desert; they gave him water in exchange for his eyes; the blinded prince stopped under a tree; vultures came down to the tree; old the vulture talks to the young, who point him to the unfortunate sufferer under the tree; he tells him to raise the stone: there is a spring under it; if you rub your eyes with tree leaves, you will see the light; by typing leaves, the prince set off; reached the house where the hostess had a wineskin with milk; the prince threw a leaf into the milk, it turned into butter; the hostess had a feast in honor of such a guest; not knowing what was in front of him prince, son woman says that the prince's uncle is trying to take his wives away; Salem and Tamtam protect them; the prince prepared two wineskins full of blood and, pretending to be one of his uncle's warriors, threw them at S. and T.; those everyone understood and pretended to fall, covered in blood; when the uncle led his army, S. and T. suddenly jumped up and destroyed everyone; the prince returned his wives]: 63-72; Bushnaq 1987 [Si'Djeha rode a mule, whom his father left him when he died; four robbers met him; they said that S. could fall off the mule and crash, offered to replace a donkey and let S. pay another hundred silver coins to save his life; At home, the mother said that they would soon go around the world this way; then S. put gold coins under his donkey's tail; when he met the robbers, he thanked them for their good deal; they believed that the donkey was defecating in gold; they returned the mule and gave 200 coins; S. advised to lay carpets under the donkey; each of the robbers is ashamed to admit to others that they were deceived; when the donkey spoiled the rooms for all four; S. cooked chicken with couscous, buried the cauldron on the ground floor; when four came, asked his wife for a hoe for hospitality, dug, took out food; sold the hoe as a robber for a hundred coins; again all four were deceived; now S. he told his wife to cook dinner, left one hare to her and took the other to the field; when four came there, he sent a hare to ask his wife to cook dinner; the robbers came - dinner was ready, and next to him a hare with a woman; S. sold him for a hundred coins; the deceived came again; S. pretended to stab his wife, blood was flowing; allegedly his wife did not give him water; touched her again with a knife, she came to life; the robbers bought a knife for a hundred coins; each killed his wife and was convicted]: 260-264; kabily [a sick father tells seven sons to bring the hearts of their wives - he will eat them and recover; only the youngest refuses, leaves wife; going for the fire, he comes to 99 Wuarssen (devas), who cook 99 dead people in the cauldron, offer to remove the cauldron from the fire; the young man picks up and overturns the cauldron, kills devas, throws them into the pit; brings them into the house Devas wife, tells him not to go into the same room, goes hunting; the wife comes in, sees that one dev is just injured, heals him, converges with him; the young man comes to the cannibal teriel, puts on her chest, now she is his mother, promises to help; to get rid of the woman's husband, dev advises her to ask him to bring rejuvenating apples from overseas; T.: meat in front of the ox, change straw in front of the dog; black a bull, he will throw horns furiously, you will fly across seven seas, fall on an apple tree, pick apples; an eagle's nest on the apple tree, give meat to the chicks, the eagle will bring you back; when he returns, the young man gave 4 apples to T. and 4 wife; dev woman: tell your husband that you are afraid, if you are not weak, let him tie yourself; when I can't break my fetters, I'll get out and kill him; he tears all the fetters; T. young man: you will be killed, ask me to put your bones in the bag, put it on the donkey, he will come, I will revive you; when he returned to his wife, she offered to tie it with her hair, he could not escape, the devil killed him and ate him, but the bones were sent on a donkey; T. folded bones, covered with wool and silk, poured milk on his body, she revived him with a rejuvenating apple; allowed him to return home when he could easily lift a bag of salt and a bag of iron; he comes disguised as a beggar, Dev lets him in; offered to tell a fairy tale; while he is telling his story, Dev and his wife descend into the ground, he cuts off their heads; kills their deva son; wants to return to to his father, T. gives a box (do not open it on the way) and a black man; he opens it outside the house, there is a beautiful daughter T., she has a ring that creates a palace; the young man's father sees his wife, wants her for himself, promises a Jew a reward for killing his son; he takes the young man hunting, feeds salty meat, gives water in exchange for his eyes, brings them to the young man's father; he and the warriors go to take his wife, but the black man does not let him in, kills everyone; the young man hears conversation between an old eagle and chicks; an old one has lost his feathers, asks him to hide; chicks: suddenly our father will treat us like a man and a son under a tree; eagle: let the young man rub his eyes with leaves trees; the young man saw the light, the chicks covered the eagle; the young man came to the old woman, changed his clothes, his father did not recognize him, promised to give him his power as an elder if he killed a black man alone; the young man agreed with his wife that the black man they will tie a gut with blood, blood will be shed, he will fall; witnesses: this man killed a black man; the father hands over power to his son without knowing who it is; before that, asks the wise men if the father can marry his daughter-in-law; 6 They say yes, seventh, that no; the father tells him to be killed, the young man kills him, tells him to kill a Jew and punish 6 wise men]: Frobenius 1922a, No. 2:11-24.

Southern Europe. Spaniards (Murcia) [a deceiver sells a hat that supposedly pays itself; a donkey that weeds gold; a postman hare; in most versions, he hides a vessel of wine or bleeding under his shirt the animal's liver, stabs a knife, plays the flute, the wife "resurrects", the husband sells the flute, the buyers kill the wives; the deceiver is put in a bag, carried to drown, left for a while; he screams that he does not want to marry on the princess, the shepherd takes his place, drowned, the deceiver drives sheep - supposedly from the bottom; the deceiver's counterparties jump into the water and drown]: Hernández Fernández 2013, No. 1535+1539:228, 231; Italians (Tuscany: Lukesia) [=Kotrelev 1991:90-93; Campriano puts gold coins under the donkey's tail; Cichorans believe that the donkey defecates with gold, buy it; they are indignant; K. says that his wrong hoopod donkey tail gold coins; chichorans believe that the donkey defecates with gold, buy it; resent; K.Rmyat, he is accustomed not to grass, but to rough food; promises to pick it up when he runs home; tells put a pot of boiling beans in the closet for his wife, as if the pan is cooking by itself; h. They buy a pot; K. puts a bubble of bovine blood under his wife's clothes; when indignant h comes, accuses his wife that she sold the wrong pot, stabs her, she falls into a pool of blood; blows through a cane into her wife's mouth, she "comes to life"; they buy a cane, kill their wives, go to prison]: Calvino 1980, No. 82:298-301; Sicilians [Pitré, no. 157; Uncle Capriano became friends with three robbers; agreed with his wife and daughter to pretend to have a rabbit to whom they instruct to bring firewood or food; the robbers bought the rabbit for a lot of money; when they hit, he ran away; K. explains that the rabbit was hit from the wrong side; then K. agreed with his wife to cook in an old cauldron, and before coming Pour the robbers into a new one without putting it on the fire - as if he were cooking himself; the robbers bought the cauldron for a lot of money; left the kid to cook in it without making a fire, they returned in the evening - the meat is raw, they they broke the cauldron; K. convinced them that they had put the cauldron on the wrong hearth, and now they had broken the cauldron themselves; K. again negotiated with his wife, told her to tie a blood bubble under her clothes; he would pretend that will be angry, because the wife did not light the candle, stabbed his wife, bleed, and then hung on the whistle and the wife would stand up alive; the robbers were amazed, bought a whistle, stabbed their wives; when they saw that they were deceived again, the robbers put K. in a bag, took him to drown, stayed in the same house; K. shouts that he did not want to marry the princess; the shepherd changed places with him, drowned, K. brought the herd; tells the robbers that if he were thrown further into the sea, he would have brought more sheep and oxen; robbers asked them to drown, K. took possession of all the cattle, got rich]: Crane 1885, No. 105:303-308; Corsicans [poor Tomasu planted potatoes, but the wind knocked them down; he came to the mother of the Winds to demand compensation; she gave the box, ordered them to open only houses; there was any food in it; the wife let it slip, the rich godfather exchanged the box for a bag wheat; T. went to Vetrov's mother again, she gave another box with batons in it; they beat the godfather; knowing that he would come to take revenge, T. tied a calebass with blood under his wife's clothes; "killed" his wife and revived him, blowing in a pipe; the godfather (having bought a pipe) stabbed his wife, but could not resurrect; M. placed the bees under an inverted cauldron, told his wife to say that he had gone to confess; the godfather also came to confess; T. on behalf of the confessor, tells you to knock on the cauldron in which the souls of purgatory, and then lift it up; the bees bit the godfather to death, T. took all his property]: Massignon 1984, No. 74:163-166; ladins [brothers agreed divide 8 cows; those that go to the old stall will go to the older stall and the youngest to the new stall; 7 cows went to the old stall; the youngest stabbed him, went to sell the skin, no one bought it; along the way back he climbed a tree; under him was a gang of gypsies; the youngest first wrote (they thought it was from God) and then dropped his skin; the gypsies thought it was hell, ran away; the youngest took their money; at home told the elder that he got them by the skin; the elder slaughtered his seven cows, no one bought the skins; the gypsies beat him under the tree; the elder came to kill the youngest; he put a boiling pot in the middle of the room, became hit him with a rod; supposedly, this makes the cauldron boil; the eldest bought a rod; when he came again, the youngest pretended to be quarreling with his wife and stabbed her; before that, he tied a blood bubble to her throat; blew in the pipe, the woman got up; the elder believed that she had been killed and revived, bought a pipe; when he returned, the youngest was dead; the eldest decided to relieve him, the youngest bit him, the elder decided that the dead man bites, ran away; if the youngest is not dead, he is still alive]: Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 5:29-33.

Western Europe. The French (Lorraine): Cosquin 1886, No. 10 [when poor René's cow died, he went to town to sell the skin and carried it with his head; walking through the forest, he frightened the robbers who shared money; when they saw the horns, they thought that the devil was approaching them and ran away; taking the money, R. bought a donkey and fed him a few coins; soon people began to say that R.'s donkey was defecating with gold; the senor bought it for a lot of money; when he realized that he had been deceived, he went to R.; he extinguished the fire under the boiler, pretending that the boiler was cooking its own food: you have to put it on the roof and hit it with a stick; senor again came to sort it out; R. had previously tied a gut in blood to his wife's throat; in front of the señor, told his wife to dance, she refused, he pretended to stab her; when he whistled, the wife came to life; The senor bought a whistle, stabbed his wife; together with the servants, tied R. and took him to drown on the cart; they left for a while, and R. shouted that he did not want to be a priest because he was illiterate; the shepherd took his place, drowned, the herd went to R.; the senor and servants asked them to drown, R. became rich], 25 [the poor shoemaker wanders complaining about fate; buys cheese and a ball of thread; enters the robber's castle in the forest; offers compete: who will throw a stone higher; the chieftain promises him a quarter of the castle if he wins; throws a stone, the shoemaker releases a bird, is recognized as the winner; who can squeeze milk out of the oak; the chieftain squeezes the oak , something is dripping; the shoemaker hugs the oak, the cheese is squeezed, the milk is pouring; gets the second quarter of the castle; whoever breaks the larger branch; the chieftain breaks the oak branch, the shoemaker begins to thread the entire oak; his they stop - we believe that you are stronger; at night, a shoemaker puts a blood bubble on the bed and lies under the bed; three robbers come in, pierce the bubble with a knife; in the morning the shoemaker is alive and well; gets the whole castle, but I agree to change it to gold; takes the gold, but other robbers took it away; the shoemaker, however, is happy; married a kind girl and has healed well]: 108-111, 258-259; walloons: Laport 1932, no.*1535B [in the 12th century. Vancent Lefebvre was a sacristy in Busu; in Mons he bought a mule, and on his way home he came across three crooks who claimed that he had bought a donkey; he ended up leaving a donkey for the last one; realizing that he had been deceived, VL bought identical white goats; left one at home, and the other went to meet the crooks, invited him to lunch: the goat would tell his wife to wait for guests and cook; when at home near the VL The crooks saw a goat (it seems to be the same one), they bought it for a lot of money; the crooks come to the VL's house; he pretends to cut off on the servant, stabs him, he falls; (in fact, VL in advance tied a blood bubble for him); VL plays the flute, the servant "comes to life"; crooks buy a flute; one stabbed his wife, the other stabbed his widow; they put the VL in a bag, carried it to drown (left for a while); hearing that the shepherd drives the herd, VL screams that he does not want to marry the count's daughter; the shepherd climbed into the bag instead of him, drowned; VL brought the herd, said it was from the bottom; the crooks let them drown], *1535C [poor man Rougecul took out grass that had grown to heaven; St. Peter gave him a whistle that revives the dead; the king sends his men to buy a whistle; R. hides it in the hay, ties his wife a blood bubble himself, pretends to kill and revive; the king cut half of his troops; R. returned to St. Peter, he gave him a donkey that defecates in gold and silver; his stepmother brought him to R. and the king tells him to drown; the messengers left the bag for a while, R. tricked the shepherd to switch places, shepherd drowned, R. brought the herd; the king drowned himself with all his men]: 112-113, 113-114; the Bretons [the poor miller owed the master; returning from the hunt, he killed his cow; the miller went sell the skin, spent the night on a tree in the forest; the skin was black and with horns; the robbers gathered under the tree to share the money; the miller threw their skin on them, the robbers thought it was hell, ran away, leaving the money; the miller brought them home in their shoes; sent his wife to the master to measure the money, said that he received it by selling their skins; the master ordered all the cattle to be slaughtered, sent servants to sell the skins, they were beaten; the miller tied a gut of blood to his wife's neck, called the master for dinner; said that he could kill his wife and revive him by playing the violin; the master asked for the violin, promising to exempt the miller from tax for two years; the gentleman stabbed his wife, could not revive it; the miller boiled a boiler of water, put it in the middle of the yard, convinced the master that the boiler was boiling without firewood; the miller gave the miller two more years of tax exemption, he took the cauldron, but it does not boil himself; the master and the servant put the miller in a bag, carried him to drown it, left it for a while; when he hears that the merchant has come, the miller shouts that he will not marry the master's daughter; The merchant was drowned, the miller took his horses and goods; tells the master that he found everything at the bottom, and if he were drowned away, he would take out the gold; the servant jumped into the pond first; the master thought he was waving with his hand, jumped after him; both drowned]: Luzel 1870:85-103 (=1887.3, No. 4:414-425); the British (Cornwell) [peasant son Jack promised to get rid of the giant who lived on the island; Jack dug a trap pit, the giant failed, he killed him and brought treasures; the giant Blundebor promised revenge; brought Jack to his castle, followed another giant, Jack threw ropes around their necks and killed them; freed the girls; spent the night with a double-headed giant; at night he put a log on his bed; the giant beat him with a club; in the morning Jack said that at night a rat hit him with its tail; the giant offered to eat a pound a bowl of pudding, Jack put the pudding in a bag under his clothes; in the morning he ripped it open; the giant tried to do the same, his intestines fell out, he died; the prince bought the deceased from the lenders, and Jack hired the prince to service; told the three-headed giant that a king with a thousand warriors was coming to him, locked him, and when he released him, he was rewarded with an invisible jacket, a hat that would tell everything, speeders, a sword that was all cuts; the prince marries the princess; she tells her to find her handkerchief, otherwise executes her; a spirit friend carries her to Lucifer; the invisible Jack flies after her, takes a handkerchief, the prince shows it in the morning; the princess demands the next morning show the lips she kissed; Jack cut off Lucifer's head, the evil spirit left the lady and she married the prince; Jack kills other giants, frees prisoners; saws the bridge supports, giant- the pursuer falls into the ditch, D. finishes him off; the giant Galligantua turns the Duke's daughter into a doe; D. blows a horn, turns into birds and animals; marries the Duke's daughter]: Jacobs 1890, No. 19: 99-112 (translated to Shereshevskaya 1957b: 124-134, =Kharitonov 2008:191-197); the Irish [a small merchant Carrol brings oil taken from farmers to the market, returns them their money; he was warned that robbers on the road; he hid the money in a bag full of oats; the horse ate it; in the house where he spent the night, K. spent the night in the stable, removing coins from the manure; the owner noticed and bought the horse for the expensive; at home, waiting that the deceived owner would appear, K. agreed with his wife to extinguish the fire under the boiler at the last moment, pretending to cook himself; that man bought a pot; K. agreed with his wife, tied a goose bubble with blood to his wife under his clothes, pretended to be angry, stabbed him, the wife fell as if dead; the guest was afraid that he would be accused of murder; ran away and did not appear again]: Danaher 1967, No. 6:23-28; Irish [Gilla Rua (GR, "Red") bought a mule at the bazaar; three crooks take turns meeting him and saying it's not a mule, but a donkey, then {missing pdf page}; GR (apparently agreeing with his wife and having bought two goats), pretends that the goat is only one, but can serve on parcels; invites crooks home; the wife says that the goat came and ordered to cook dinner for the guests; crooks buy a goat for crazy money; the goat is sent to his wives and is gone; the crooks go to beat GR, hear a scream; GK chases his wife with a knife: she is to blame for the goat story; strikes, blood gushes, wife falls; (apparently there is a blood bubble under his wife's clothes); GR plays the flute, the wife came to life; the crooks bought a flute, stabbed a pig, but it did not come to life; they caught GR, carried it in a bag to drown; hung it on a branch and went for a drink; two drive a herd of sheep; GR shouts that he is being forced to marry a princess; the shepherds released GR, replaced him with a sheep; all three drove the herd, met crooks; GR says that the herd is from the bottom, he is being helped to drive him away home; {the page is not in pdf; apparently the crooks drowned}]: Kennedy 1875:99-103.

Western Asia. The Arabs of Iraq [the peasant sent his son to sell the buffalo, and 40 Egyptian crooks said it was a goat, they paid accordingly; the peasant trained the cat as if it were obeying orders; In the eyes of the crooks, he told her to bring a stick, then bring her clothes, the cat does everything; the crooks bought the cat for an expensive price, she ran away from them; they came to the peasant to demand the money back, and he put money down the horse's tail; the crooks believed that the horse was defecating with gold, bought it; when they discovered the deception, they came to the peasant; he tied his wife's blood-filled guts around his neck and agreed on how to proceed; pretended to be dissatisfied with the food, stabbed his wife, bleed, his wife fell; he put a cane in her ass, blew, his wife "came to life"; the crooks bought a cane, killed their wives, they did not come to life; they they sewed the peasant into a bag, left; he shouted that he did not want to marry his uncle's daughter; the shepherd agrees to change places with him, is thrown into the well; the peasant comes with the herd, says that got it in the well; the crooks asked them to be thrown there; the peasant to his son: all the wealth went to the buffalo]: Weissbach 1908, No. 19:120-126 (translated to Lebedev 1990, No. 49:234-237); Yemen (to the NW from Sana'a, 2000) [Makhfiq ("fool") was born on the day his father died; he grew up, his mother said that his brothers gave him that name; he told his uncles he sowed bones in his field; they believed they were left without crops; ties to the mother's neck is a bubble of cow {apparently with blood}, pretends to cut her throat, tells the cat to revive her, the mother is healthy; uncles buy a cat, kill wives, they don't come to life; they put M. a bag, leave it at the edge rocks to throw off; past the shepherdess, she cries, she is not married; M. asks to untie the bag, puts the sheep there, the uncles throw the bag into the abyss; M. takes the shepherdess as his wife, brings the herd; says that at sea under the mountains he was given a wife and herds; brothers agree to blindfold and jump down]: al-Baydhani 2008:23-29; mehri [two merchants came to Bu Nuwas to borrow 20,000 coins from him; he stabbed a goat, tied a blood bubble to his wife's neck, said that there were no cattle, he would have to slaughter his wife; ripped the bubble; said that the angel had given him a reviving knife, hit his wife again, and she got up alive and well; merchants bought a knife for 20,000 (i.e. forgave the debt); the Academy of Sciences warned that if the killer is unclean, revival is impossible; on Friday, each merchant stabbed his brother; merchants began to accuse each other of sewage, killed each other]: Stroomer 1999, No. 4:11-13.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lepcha [one of the brothers puts the other in an empty coffin, tells the orphan that he is his brother and must give him silver; leads to an imaginary grave, from there you can hear a voice, supposedly a father; an orphan gives silver; king of liars Hongrugm offers to divide it, takes it away; tells his wife to say he is dead; brothers come, each leans over the coffin, H. cuts off both noses; ties goat intestines with blood to their necks wife; brothers come, he "cuts" his wife, revives him with ash; brothers take ash from him, slaughter their wives, they do not resurrect; H. puts a pony on the carpet, scatters money under his tail; brothers believe that ponies defecates with coins, borrows ponies, who only stain the carpet; H. agrees that the brothers throw it off the cliff in the box; the brothers leave, H. tells the passing merchant what he is doing gold in the chest coins; the merchant climbs into the chest, the brothers drop it, H. takes the merchant's wealth; says he found them at the bottom of the abyss; the brothers agree to be dropped, they die]: Stocks 1925, No. XXX: 438-441.

(Wed. South Asia. Santala [sému-rogue (SP) thinks in vain that he is more cunning than just a rogue (P.); he negotiates with his wife every time; tells his wife that rice is not salted, hits her with a mallet, throws it at a fenced off corner, pulls out a cute girl hidden in advance; the joint venture at home killed his wife with a mallet; P. ordered his wife to buy a hare, leads the joint venture to hunt, they see a hare, P. pretends to tell the dog itself drive the hare home; SP stole the dog, but it does not bring hares; the same when fishing: P. pretends that his rod is sending fish home (his wife has already bought fish at home)]: Bodding in Zograf 1971, No. 72:263 -266).

China - Korea. Ancient China [King Wu Yi (traditionally ruled 1198-1195 BC), one of the last evil rulers of the Shang Dynasty, makes a human figure, calling it the Spirit of Heaven (Tien Shen ), plays a game of checkers with him and wins. To show his contempt for him, he hangs a leather bag filled with blood, shoots arrows at him, saying that he is shooting Heaven. Shortly thereafter, the king was killed by lightning while hunting. Song Jun, the last king of the Song State, ruled by the descendants of the ruling Shang house under the Zhou Dynasty, also hangs a leather bag full of blood, shoots him, saying he shoots him Sky. Shortly thereafter, in 282 BC, he was attacked by a coalition of other states, killed, and his state destroyed]: Bodde 1977:282.

The Balkans. Albanians [three beardless people are waiting for travelers at three bridges; a peasant woman sells a draft ox; one beardless advises cutting off his tail first, the other his horns, and the third his ears; no one He does not buy this; the peasant slaughtered an ox; went with a donkey to the bridge; pretended to take a gold donkey out of a donkey; a beardless wants to buy a donkey for 200 lire, but the peasant demands 500; the second is ready to give 300, the third gives 500; the beardless fed the donkey barley (which supposedly makes money) and he is dead; they went to kill the peasant; he caught two birds with one stone in advance, agreed with his wife; promised beardless to return the money, but for now he invited him home for lunch, sending a hare to his wife with an errand; at home, the wife confirms everything, but now the hare rocks the baby (he was tied to the cradle); the beardless bought a hare for 800 lire (500 for a donkey); the peasant again agreed with his wife, tied her gut with blood to her neck: when the beardless come, the idea is supposedly a quarrel; for a knife that revives the dead, the beardless give more 500 lire; killed their own wives; put the peasant in a bag to drown him in the sea, left him for a while, he shouts that he does not want to marry the Beauty of the Earth, the shepherd changed places with him, drowned, the peasant took it his herd; tells the beardless that he brought him from the seabed, and if he had been drowned in a deeper place, there would be more sheep; the beardless ones rushed into the sea and drowned, the peasant would get everything]: Pedersen 1898, No. 10:70-81; Serbs [beardless ("chosso") met two merchant brothers; put ducats under the tail of a donkey; after the word "Chuksh", the donkey throws away ducats; the brothers bought a donkey for gold; in the morning they can't enter the room where he was left; something glitters in it; the door was broken: the donkey died, blocking the door, and the horseshoes glittered on his hooves; the brothers came to deal with the deceiver; he had prepared two in advance hares and agreed with his wife; the brothers say they will kill chosso; he replies that they did not feed their father correctly; releases the hare with orders for his wife to cook dinner and bring them; after a while, the wife all brings a donkey; the brothers bought a donkey for gold; the hare ran away from them into the forest; chosso tied blood bubbles under his wife and children's clothes; when the brothers arrived, chosso pretended to be angry and hit with a knife; then he played the flute, the dead came to life; the brothers bought a flute, killed their wives; put the chosso in a bag and carried it to drown; left the bag, went in for a drink; the shepherd chases a herd of sheep; chosso shouts that he did not wants to be the owner of a tavern; the shepherd climbs into the bag instead of him; the shepherd was drowned; the chosso brought the herd: if we left me not at the shore, but in the middle of the lake, he would have brought more rams; the brothers drowned , chosso brought the sheep home]: Eschker 1992, No. 104:299-305; Greeks: Dawkins 1916 [Nasreddin Hoxha sent his son with a mule to the bazaar; two crooks told the boy that if the mule's ear was cut off, he could it is much more expensive to sell; then another, a tail; no one bought a mule; NH put gold coins under the donkey's tail; the crooks believed that the donkey was littering gold and bought it for a lot of money; then NH got two birds with one stone , left one at home and told his wife to cook dinner, and took the other with him; when he met the crooks, invited them to dinner and pretended to send a hare to his wife to tell her to cook; at home he tied them to his wife had blood and when the crooks came, he pretended to be angry, stabbed his wife, and then pretended to revive her by blowing through a straw; the crooks bought a straw; killed the wives, the judge sentenced them to deaths]: 519-521; Hahn 1864, No. 42 (Epirus) [the priest brought oxen to the well; two beardless ones praised them, adding that if their tail and one horn were cut off, they would become even more beautiful; next time, the second horn and ear; ear and lips; oxen died, the priest realized that he had been laughed at; brought a donkey to the well, putting gold coins under his tail; the beardless bought a donkey; the priest ordered him to be left for two weeks in to the dark stable, giving her a bag of beans; the donkey's stomach swelled and he died; the priest arranged with his wife to tie her gut with blood; he would pretend to be angry, stab her with a knife, and then play a pipe and she will "come to life"; the beardless believed, bought a pipe, killed their wives; put the priest in a chest, dragged him to drown, went to eat; a shepherd came up, the priest screams that he did not want to marry princess, the shepherd changed with him; the priest brought his herd, said it was from the bottom; the beardless asked them to drown; the priest healed peacefully with his wife]: 220-223; Gagauz [Beardless received from merchants money for cotton paper; says to his wife: merchants will come for cotton, say that I am planting a thorn by the road; camels loaded with cotton will pass, the cotton will catch on the thorns, we will collect it; the merchants have come; wife: husband in the vineyard; Beardless: the cotton is ready; he has two hares, left one at home, the other, supposedly sent to his wife to cook dinner; in the afternoon, the merchants took the hare, forgiving the debt for cotton; They sent a hare to his wives, who ran into the forest; they came to kill the Beardless; he told his wife and daughter to tie blood bubbles to their necks; jump up when he played the pipe; the Beardless pretended to be angry with daughter and wife, stabbed, then "resurrected"; merchants took a pipe, stabbed their wives; Beardless prepared the grave, climbed into it, inflaming the stigma; merchants tried to desecrate the grave, Beardless put a stigma to everyone's ass; told the foreman that he had four slaves; merchants remained in slavery to the Bearded for life]: Moshkov 1904, No. 62:111-113.

Central Europe. Russians (Vologodskaya) [the jester took a pot and a stick, went to the big road, cooked porridge, scattered the fire; 12 Kolomna residents came, the jester offered porridge, said that it was necessary to knock on a pot and say - he will cook; Kolomna residents bought a pot and a stick; went to the jester to kill for deception; he again sold them a stick that supposedly bakes pies; tied a bubble under his wife's clothes with with the blood of a bull; pretended to be angry with her, stabbed her, the wife fell, the blood flowed; the jester whipped his wife, she got up again; sold the whip and knife to the Kolomna residents, they killed their wife; the jester told his wife to say that he died; the Kolomna residents did not believe it, pulled the living out of the grave, carried him to drown him in a bag; the ice-hole froze, went for an ax; the master was driving; the jester shouts: I can't judge and row in the province; the master with he swapped places, drowned his master; the jester came in a lordly troika, said he had it at the bottom; Kolomna residents climbed into the ice-hole, the jester drowned them]: Gura 1965, No. 41:265-266; Russians (Voronezh) [Mother Before he dies, he leaves his son with a ring to marry a girl whom it suits. He can't find a bride, the ring only fits his own sister, and her brother calls her to marry, she refuses, but he insists. She tells an old woman passing by about her grief, she asks for three old shirts, makes dolls out of them, and orders them to be placed in the corners of the room before the wedding. The dolls "snack", tell the story of her sister, after each line, the girl falls into the ground: knee-length, to the waist, completely. The replicas of the dolls are accompanied by questions from her brother whether her sister is ready, she answers: she has just put on her shoes, put on her dress, and for the third time, without hearing an answer, Danila enters the room and sees a hole in the floor. The girl falls down and finds herself in the same village as her native, enters the hut, sees a girl who looks like her, she embroiders her flies. She warns that Baba Yaga will eat the guest, turns her into a needle and hides her in a broom (her sister sticks the needle into the top of her head and thus turns her into a needle). Baba Yaga feels that "rus-bone smells", the girl feeds her and puts her to bed, then both girls take a brush, comb and wipe (towel?) , run away. When yaga catches up with them, objects (comb forest, brush reeds, lit duck) are thrown. Danila can't recognize her sister because the girls are similar. The cook helps to find out: he puts a bubble of a pig filled with blood under Danile's arm, pretending to be quarreling with him. The cook stabs Danila and blood flows from the bubble. His sister is the first to run up to Danila, he marries her]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 26:129-132; Russians (Voronezh, Nizhnedevitsky district, p. Kuchugury, 1936) [Vanya the fool exchanges the ruble for a penny, throws it from hand to hand and falls into the excrement of his weak horse. The pop and the deacon see that Vanya is looking for something, he says that his horse is being emptied with money, they buy it for 300 rubles. The horse is the first to take the pop, in the morning he realizes that Vanya has deceived them, he can't find anything. The deacon does not believe, brings the horse to him, feeds him, but he also does not find money. Vanya slaughters a sheep and draws its blood into a bottle. She persuades his wife to pretend to be sick. When a pop and clerk come to him, he stabs his wife in the side, she quietly spills lamb blood. The pop and the deacon go home to treat their wives in the same way and kill them. The pop and the deacon put Vanya in a bag, want to drown him, but cannot cut the ice on the river, go for a "crack". A master passes by, Vanya says that whoever sits in the bag will become Zemstvo changes places with Vanya, he is thrown into the river, and Vanya leaves in three. He meets a priest and a deacon, says that when they drowned him, he said "Storms, storms, give me brown brown horses" and got them. The pop and the deacon ask Vanya to drown them. They manage to say "burke"]: Pukhova 2006, No. 3:78-80; (cf. Russians (Arkhangelsk, 1908, Sumy Posad, Meshchanka U.E. Bazarova) [Guests live in the house of the jester Gavrila and his wife. Gavrila buys a cup to make oatmeal, persuades his wife to swear at him in front of the guests and promises that he will not cook dinner. She performs, guests see how she interferes with water alone in the cup, her husband quietly puts oatmeal in her sleeve. Guests ask Gavrila how his wife makes dinner out of water. Gavrilo replies that it's about the cup, you can even make dinner from the ice-hole water. They buy a cup ("pour out silver"), try to cook dinner, interfere with water, but "nothing is born". They understand Gavrila's deception. Gavrila scatters silver around the yard. Guests come, he asks for help collecting, says it's a horse's bowel movements. They buy a horse for 300 rubles. He suggests tying a bag to the horse's tail and taking it off after four days. Guests visit their wives and discover Gavrila's deception. They're going to see him again. Gavrila persuades his wife to scold him again in front of the guests and refuse to cook dinner, in response to her refusal, he stabs her and she falls (pretending to kill her). Then she whips his wife and she comes to life. Guests also want to teach their own people a lesson and buy a vein whip. They return home, their wives scold them for drinking all their money, the guests kill their wives, but they can't revive them. The jester Gavrila feels dangerous and asks his wife to bury him alive in a sack in the grave. Guests come and ask them to see Gavrila's grave. They took out a bag, brought it to the river and went to the village for a shovel (there is nothing to "dig ice out of Jordan"). The jester Gavrila shouts that he is forcibly married to a lady, a merchant passing by changes places with him. The guests returned and threw the master in the sack into the hole. Gavrila is met on the road in a carriage drawn by three horses, Gavrila says that horses are given in the next world, guests also want to teach horses, go to the ice-hole and drown. The jester Gavrila returned to his wife, they still live]: Tseitlin 1911, No. 1:6-9); Russians (Karelia, Zaozerye) [Two brothers are smart, the third is stupid, but he did better than smart. He set up a trap, his mother got there, saw her in the morning, harnessed a thin horse and went with it. Towards 12 Dorokhov children. They shout to turn him out, but he didn't turn it out, one of them slapped his mother with an ax and she rolled. Vanya (son) was angry, but the children gave him 100 rubles and he went home and buried his mother. I was thinking about how else to cash in, got on a horse and went. Twelve Dorokhov children meet him and ask him what he is doing. He says he's looking for gold and money. They asked him why he looked for it in horse scum, and he told them he was feeding the horse hay and it was throwing copper away. The Dorokhov children bought this horse from him, but they did not succeed, so they came to Vanya and his wife. He had previously tied a bull blood bubble to his wife's neck and said that when the Dorokhov children came, he would stab her in this bubble and she should fall. She did it like she was dead, and he whipped his wife and she stood up. He sold this whip for 500 rubles to Dorokhov's children, but this whip did not resurrect anyone. Then Vanya went and met a man who went to work as a clerk instead of him and gave Vanya a horse, and the Dorokhov children confused the man with Vanya and threw the man into the lake. When the Dorokhov children returned and saw Vanya, they asked how he came here and where he got the horse from. He said it was where they threw him. Then the Dorokhov children drowned in the lake themselves, and Vanya became rich and smart]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 16:81-83; Ukrainians (Kyiv region) [A man named Shchuts makes himself a small wagon, pulls it on the road, gets into it and goes down the hill. Merchants are surprised that the cart goes by itself without horses. They're offering Shch. whatever he wants for the cart. Shch. calls a significant price, merchants buy, sit and go without bargaining. The cart stops downstairs. Merchants think that the cart is capricious, they ask him and beat him, but the cart does not move. Merchants come back to ask Shchutz what to do or to collect the money, but he's gone. Shch. takes a pot, yagli (millet dish) and corned beef, goes out onto the road, digs a hole, makes a fire in it, and when the heat is enough, puts it in a pot, showering it with sand around it so that the fire is not visible it was, cooking porridge. Litvins (Belarusians) go, see that the pot is cooking without fire, buying it and moving on. In the evening, they showered the pot with sand, poured millet, filled it with water, foam appears. Stupid Litvins are already galloping in joy that they own such a treasure. They interfere, try it, but the millet is raw and the water is cold, the Litvins understand that they have been deceived and return to Sch. Shch., knowing that they will come to pay for the fraud, comes up with a new trick. He asks the Litvins to come to the table, but his wife does not do it very quickly, he takes a knife, hits his wife in the side with it, and she falls covered in blood. A minute later, Shch. takes off the batog from the perch, hits his wife three times with it, saying: "Resurrection Batozhek - get up, Marushka." The wife gets up healthy and cheerful. The Litvins buy themselves a resurrection batozhek. At home, Litvin, angry with his wife, stabbed her, and his wife falls, swimming in blood. He takes his jars in his hand, hits once, two and three, telling him to get up, but his wife is dead. Litvin, without telling his associates about this, secretly buries his wife, and the resurrection batozhek gives it to another. This is how all the Litvins killed their wives. They decide to take revenge on Sch. When they come to his house, they ask his wife where Shch. is, and she replies that she is dead. Sch. Anticipating that they would come to him, dug a hole, climbed into it, and told his wife that when they came to look for him, let him announce that he was not in the world. The Litvins come and tell his wife that they killed their wives because of him. Shchutz's wife says it was all a hoax, Shchutz hit a blood bubble tied under her arm, and she pretended to be dead and got up after he said it. The Litvins demand to show his grave. They pull Shch. out of the hole, tie it in a bag, and carry it to throw it into the water. They go for a stone to tie it to a bag. Shch. hears someone coming and starts screaming: "Help me! I can neither read nor write, but they want to declare me king." A Jew passing by, when he hears this, comes to the bag and says that he can read and write, so it's better to let him be king. Shch. asks him to get into the bag, and he'll tie it up without anyone guessing. The Jew comes in, S.h. Ties him up, runs away. Litvins find the stone, tie it to a bag and throw it into the water. Shch. continues to deceive people]: Nowosielski 1857 (2): 339-343; Belarusians [Stepan argues steals Mr. Stallion, money box, wife; to steal his wife, he throws his boot on the road, and then the second ; the coachman stopped the wagon, followed the first, S. stole the wagon from the lady; tells Mr. that he sold it to hell; he orders it to be returned; S. pretends to build a church on the lake where the devils live, viet from the vine carry the devils ashore; the devil offers challenges; who hangs more (S. blindfolded the line, hit the stake); who will throw an iron mace higher (S. waits for the cloud to pass, there are 12 blacksmith brothers they will snack a mace; the devil asks not to throw it); the devil gave the lady; S. tells his pansky sons that his wife helps him get rich: you need to rinse her left armpit with a knife, bad blood will flow out; agrees with wife, tied a bubble of blood under her clothes; the panychi stabbed their wives, carried S. to drown in a bag; the lake froze, went to make an ice-hole for an ax; S. shouts that he does not want to be king; the clerk climbs into bag instead, S. takes three horses; panychi ask them to drown them to get horses; drowned]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:197-201.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [khan ordered the sage Lukhman-Khekim to be thrown into the well; he is safe, eats elixir; the khan is dead, the heir is ill, doctors advise returning LH; he says that the khan will recover, if his son is killed in front of his eyes; ties a bag of blood to his son's throat, pierces him; Khan first thinks that his son is dead, then sees him alive; he has recovered from the shock]: Zarubin, Zarubin 1991:25-29; Adygs [Khoje's son went to sell a goat; two brothers began to tell him that it was a goose and bought it for the price of a goose; H. agreed with his family: when the brothers come, pretend to be a bay horse litters gold, throw coins into manure; they buy a horse for a lot of money; H. agreed with his family: to catch two chanterelles, one will be taken by H. and hid in the hayloft, the other will be sent for him when they come brothers; H. will come - supposedly it is one fox; the brothers bought a chanterelle; one sent her for the second, the fox ran away; H. tied a gut of blood to his wife's throat; in the presence of the brothers he pretended to stab his wife, then he revived it with the same knife; the brothers bought a knife, stabbed their wives; decided not to bother H. anymore]: Sokolov, Broydo 1936:476-480; Ossetians [three deceive the poor man who sold the bull; he hung it under his wife's clothes a gut with blood, invited the deceivers, "stabbed" his wife in front of them, immediately "resurrected" playing the violin; the guests bought a violin, stabbed their wives; put the poor man in a bag, carried him to drown, for a while left; the poor man persuaded the shepherd to change places with them; brought the herd, allegedly from the bottom; the deceivers rushed into the water]: Byzyrov 1960, No. 223:108-109; Terek Cossacks [Demidka caught two in the snare the raven, put one on the stove and told his wife not to let go; brought the other to church and pressed down a little; the crow croaked; explains to the ass that if he sends the crow to his wife now to tell her to cook a rich dinner ( agreed with his wife D. in advance), she will do everything; let the pop come and check; the pop came, sees a crow on the stove; bought it for a hundred rubles; sent him to the popadya with the order to cook dinner; the pop came to D. to convict he was deceived, but instead bought a self-propelled cart from him without noticing that D. was throwing it down the hill; the third time D. threw silver money into the horse manure - the pop bought a nag; the pop and the clerk bought her for a thousand rubles; in the morning the horse died, starving to wheat; when the pop and the clerk came to D., he hid a bubble of bovine blood on his wife's chest and agreed with her that she would swear, and he would pretend to stab her; and when he whips her, he would seem to come to life; said that a passerby from China to Jerusalem gave him two whips; the pop and the clerk bought them; both killed their wives; D. suggests drown him in a bag (if you just strangle him, he will come to life); the bag was thrown into the river, but D. ripped it apart with a knife, swam out quietly, came home; says that the water man rewarded him with money; the pop and the clerk allowed him drown himself, D. took their money and opened a shop]: Baranov 1899, No. 6:231-244; Avars (Khunzakh) [mother sends her son to sell a bull, but not to deal with a beardless one; beardless meets three times , the young man thinks that everyone in the village is like this, he agrees to sell it; the beardless man loudly tells his wife that if the bull had a broken leg, he would give more money for it; the young man broke the bull's leg, the beardless bought it for pennies; the young man found a thin donkey, put silver under his tail; sold it to a beardless woman for a lot of money, advising him to hang it by the ceiling; at home he tells his mother to tie a blood bubble to her throat, tell those who come that there is no food in the house; beardless comes with his people, the young man pretended to pierce her throat in feigned anger at his mother; he played the zurna, she "came to life"; sold the beardless Zurna; he killed his mother; the young man told his mother to spread rumors about his death, dug the grave with his spear pointing upwards; the beardless man began to tear up the grave, fell, ran into a spear, died]: Atayev 1972, No. 36:55-57; Dargins [khan did not pay the farmhand; he tells the khan that his pipe revives the dead; tied a blood bubble to his wife's throat in advance, stabbed her, then played the flute, the wife got up; khan bought a pipe for gold; stabbed seven wives; farmhand: you just didn't find the melody you need; Khan still plays the flute]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 30:139-140; Megrelians [the poor priest hid several times He sold the horseshoe coins that the boat was worth their weight in gold to the Jews, ordered them to be locked in a wicker shed for three months; three months later there were only bones; when the Jews came to him, the priest filled chicken goiter tied blood to his wife's throat, pretended to stab her and revived her by playing chonguri; sold the chonguri to Jews; they stabbed their wives; put the priest in a basket to drown her, and for a while left; another priest walks by; the first explains that he was put in a basket by Jews because he did not want to take money from them; the second changes places with him; Jews see the former selling at the bazaar bulls; he says he got them at the bottom; Jews threw themselves into the water and drowned]: Lominadze 1894:30-32; Georgians: Chikovani 1986 [the man led to sell bulls, the pop bought for pennies, the man's wife is dissatisfied; the man paid the perfume in advance, invited the priest and others; after feasting, raised his hat, said, "We are the doughman," he did not demand money; the pop bought a magic hat for an expensive price, invited guests tried to pay with a hat, disgraced; the man tied blood bubbles around his wife and children's neck; pop came, the man stabbed his wife and children in front of his eyes; everyone accuses the priest for not stopping; the man spent stupid with the side of the knife up to the necks, the dead were resurrected; the pop bought a knife, stabbed his wife and father-in-law; grabbed the man, dragged him to drown; went to get the boat, the man told the shepherd that he had bought a sheep from him, and she turned out to be a dog; shepherd the man untied; the pop caught the shepherd thinking it was a man, drowned him; the man brought the herd, said it was from the bottom; the pop asked him to drown]: 427-435; Wardrobe 1894, No. 3 (Guria) [the peasant caught a pheasant, and he asked him to let him go; for this, when the peasant died, he would gather all the birds for the funeral - this would be a motorcade; the peasant and his wife agreed that he would pretend to be dead, and she would close the doors and windows when the birds gather; they slaughtered many birds together; the merchant who came in is surprised by the abundance of game; peasant: it is my cat that catches everything you order; the merchant bought a cat; he only steals food from the house; the merchant returned to the peasant; he pretends to wash one grain of millet, then throws it into a pot in which porridge was cooked in advance; the merchant buys a pot; the peasant caught two birds with one stone, tied them to each the same ribbon; the merchant found it in the field; peasant: the cat could not be fed fried meat, and you also did something wrong with the pot; pretends to send a hare to his wife asking him to bring it to them lunch; the wife is warned, brings lunch and another hare, whom the merchant mistook for the same thing; the merchant bought a hare; the peasant filled his gut with blood, tied his wife around his neck; in front of the merchant, stabbed his wife and revived her by waving a knife; merchant: I forgive you for such a miracle; the merchant bought a knife, stabbed his wife; unable to revive her, he dragged the peasant into the forest, left him tied to a tree, and went to watch the funeral king; a shepherd brought a herd to the tree; the peasant shouted that he did not want to be king; the shepherd agreed to exchange places and clothes with the peasant; the merchant came after dark and brought the shepherd to the seashore; he shouts that he agrees to be king; the merchant thinks that the peasant is crazy and threw him into the sea; in the morning, a peasant with a herd met the merchant; the merchant asked him to drown so that he too to get cattle; a peasant drowned him]: 153-159; Armenians (Turkish Armenia) [Yaro sends his son to sell a cow; three beardless people deceive him, everyone says that it is not a cow, but a heifer, buying for pennies; I go by myself, taking a donkey, putting gold under his tail, selling it beardless for a lot of money; buys two birds with one stone, negotiating with his wife, leaving her one and taking the other into the field; beardless They come running, I promise to return the money and feed the beardless in my house, let the hare go with the order for his wife to cook dinner; the beardless buy a hare; I hang a blood bubble around my wife's neck; tells her to get money, she does not react; I pierce the bubble with a knife, pretending to stab my wife; pretends to throw herself at the beardless; they run away in horror and do not return]: Khachatryants 1933:101-109; Azerbaijanis [Ahmed's peers persuaded his father to marry the padishah's daughter; he orders to build a 40-storey house; A. goes to sell the bull; the crooks forced A. to sell the bull for a penny, saying that it was a kid; A.'s father agreed with his wife, caught two birds with one stone, met crooks, sent a hare to instruct his wife to cook dinner; then pretended to be angry with his wife, cut off her head, and then resurrected with a pipe; the crooks bought a hare and a pipe; a house was built with this money, A. married the Shah's daughter]: Nabiev 1988:100-104; the Turks [Beardless told his older sister to bring him to the field to eat, for a guest would come; caught a hare; in front of the guest he sent a hare to his sister; soon a sister came, the guest believed that it was the hare who had given the order; the Beardless sold him a hare; the man sent the hare to his to his sister; the sister explained that he had been deceived; Beardless agreed with his sister to tie blood around her neck, pretend to be angry, "slaughter" his sister, and then play the flute to make her come to life; sold the flute to that man, he stabbed his sister, she did not come to life; the man put Beardless in a bag, went to drown him, went to get a baton to beat him first; the Beardless explained to the shepherd that a man forces him to marry his daughter; a shepherd sits in a bag, is slaughtered and drowned; Beardless brings the herd, says from the bottom; that man threw himself into the sea and drowned]: Stebleva 1986, No. 61:259-261 .

Iran - Central Asia. The Persians (Kerman) [the son of a bald man asks him to marry; the father promises to marry his uncle's daughter, sends him to sell a cow; at the Isfahan bazaar, 40 scanty-bearded people take turns convincing the young man that his cow is a goat; a young man sells a cow for the price of a goat; this was enough to eat and buy a handkerchief for the bride; his father borrows seven gold, brings the donkey to the beardless ones, quietly puts gold in his mouth he drops them; the beardless believe that the donkey produces gold, buy it for a thousand mists, having been instructed to feed it with barley for 40 days; the donkey is eaten and dead; the bald man caught two foxes, left one to his wife, ordering 40 people to cook dinner; with another he meets the beardless; the fox lets go, telling his wife that guests will come - let him cook dinner; when they come to the bald man's house, the beardless see a fox and ready-made lunch, they buy a fox for a hundred mists; they send it to their wives, the fox is gone; they wait three days - he probably does not know the way, then they go to the bald one; he ties his wife's stomach with blood under his clothes ; pretends to be angry that his wife brought an unripe melon, stabs her, she will fall as if dead, and when he puts a pipe in her mouth and his wife will stand up as if nothing had happened; the bald man sold the phone beardless; they killed their wives, they did not come to life; the beardless put the bald man in a bag, carried him to drown, left; hearing the shepherd chase the herd, the bald man begins to scream that he does not want to marry the king's daughter; the shepherd changes places with him, is drowned; the bald man brings sheep, says he was given a herd at the bottom; the beardless jump into the water and drown, the bald man marries his son]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 29:180-190 (similar, but not identical text in the Ottomans 1987:464-468); mountain Tajiks (Khovaling) [Kusa sent his son to sell a cow; mullahs paid for it with a mulberry skullcap; K. went to sell a donkey with three in his mouth gold coins; mullahs bought a donkey, but found no gold; K. caught two birds with one stone, left one for his wife, took the other with him and went to plow; mullahs come up, he sends a hare to his wife with orders to cook pilaf; mullahs prepare a feast, send a hare to call guests; no one came; K. tied the skin of a rooster with blood around his wife's neck; when the mullahs came, hit his wife, she pretended to be dead; then K. resurrects wife with a stick; mullahs bought a stick, went to resurrect the deceased, they were beaten]: Amonov 1961:437-442 (=1972:284-289); Turkmens [when Aldarkose's son went to sell a cow, 40 merchants assured the boy that it's a goat; A. pushed the gold donkey down the drain; 40 merchants bought it for all the gold they had; A. told them to leave the donkey on the carpets in a dark room; A. cooked pilaf in advance; when 40 merchants came, he did pretended to cook pilaf in an empty cauldron; merchants bought a cauldron, began to hit it with a ladle until they broke it; A. caught two birds with one stone, left one in the house, took the other with him; pretended to send a hare to his wife with an order to cook a shurpa; the merchants bought a hare; the next time A. hid a blood bubble in his wife's bosom, pretended to be furious, stabbed his wife, and then began to play the pipe; the wife was resurrected; the merchants bought a pipe, killed their wives, at first pretended to resurrect them, but then admitted that they were deceived again; A. hid in the grave, taking with him a hot iron rod with a tamga at the end; merchants decided to spoil the grave, each A. gave a brand; told the khan that his slaves did not obey him; when he saw the brand, the khan gave merchants A., who sold them]: Kekilov, Kosayev 1962:63-70; Pashtuns [Tagga Khan smart, he has a rustic little brother; he sent him to sell a goat; six brothers are liars; each consistently says that it is not a goat, but a dog, bought it for a pittance; T. rode on a donkey himself; replies to his brothers that they are "Buchaks": he lives for a hundred years and litters gold; puts gold in the manure in advance; brothers buy a donkey for a lot; T. tells his wife that when they come, they should send one to pick him up of two rabbits, and he will take the other with him; the brothers bought a rabbit; T. negotiates with his wife: he will pretend to be angry with her in their presence, pretend to cut his throat; seeing blood, brothers in horrified; T. takes a stick, painting it red and green in advance, revives his wife; the brothers bought a stick; killed his mother, could not revive it, fled for fear of punishment for the murder]: Thorburn 1876:194-197.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians: Lebite 1965:154-158 [same or very similar text in Kerbelite 2014, No. 43:100-101; after the death of his parents, the Queen wants to marry; the messengers say he is more beautiful than all of him sister; he tells her to prepare for the wedding; she replies that she puts on her shoes, puts on a dress, a wreath, falls into the ground herself, finds herself in the lower world; she comes to the daughter of the Sun, that captive witches, pierces a needle into the wall, because of this, the witch does not see the queen; both girls run, throw a ball behind (mountains, the witch digs with a shovel), a brush (the forest, cuts with an ax), a towel (the lake, the witch drinks, tells and drink a mortar, she does not drink, the witch bursts; the girls come to the Queen, the same; he puts a bubble of blood under his clothes, pretends to kill himself; the sister cries more bitterly, Queen marries the daughter of the Sun, the brother of the daughter of the Sun marries the Queen)], 320-325 [the master sees poor Plikpetris digging through the manure; he replies that his mare defecates with coppers if it eats straw, in silver after hay, with gold after oats; the master buys a mare; P. manages to put silver and two gold coins under her tail; when he finds them in the manure, the master rejoices, then understands the deception; goes to punish P., sees with the fear left on the rubble by P.'s wife boiling pot of cabbage soup; believes that the pot cooks without firewood; P. puts a bubble of beet kvass under his wife's clothes, tells his wife to scold him for selling the pot and the mare is cheap, in front of the master's eyes he seems to hit his wife with a knife, kvass is pouring, the master believes that he will resurrect his wife by playing the flute and hitting her with a belt; the wife gets up; the master buys a belt and a flute, cuts his wife, she dies altogether; P. teaches his wife to tell the master that P. is dead, buried in a potato pit; the master goes to spoil the grave, P. thinks that the cow is poking a spit from below, the master is killed, P. has healed well]; Latvians [Machatyn cooked porridge in the cauldron, removed the cauldron from the fire, it is still boiling, the master believes that the boiler cooks himself, buys it; M. tied his calf intestines to his back with blood; the master ordered him to be beaten with a baton, blood splashed, the master believes that he killed M.; tells him to throw the corpse into the ice-hole; while they were going to get the ax, M. got out of the bag, put stones in it, drowned the bag; M. throws it into master's dogs are cones; says that there is a lot of money at the bottom; the master jumped into the ice-hole and drowned]: Alksnite et al. 1958:463-464; Western Sami (Lyngen, coast of northern Norway) [mother died, Matthias put his body on a sleigh, went to town, came to a wealthy merchant, who poured him vodka; M. said that an old mother was waiting for him outside, could she also pour it; the merchant offered the old woman a cup of vodka , she is silent, he hit her, M. accused the merchant of murder, he paid the money; after burying his mother, he came home, cooked porridge, put the pot on Keule {log?} ; the king saw, bought Keule for a lot of money; his wife began to cook porridge - she did not cook; the king came to M., his sister said he was sleeping, went to wake him up; M. stabbed the goat in advance, tied his sister under his apron stomach with blood; entering the room, pretended to be angry with his sister, stabbed him in the stomach, splashed blood; M. took a wand with a hole and began to blow his sister's ears until she "came to life"; king bought a wand, he and his wife killed the child, he did not come to life; the king put M. in a barrel; it was left for three days to be thrown into the ice-hole; M. screams that he was in paradise; the cattle merchant wanted to take his place {and drowned in an ice-hole}; M. brought the herd, told the king that it was from the bottom; the king also wanted to get the herd, sat in a barrel for three days, drowned; M. became king and celebrated a lavish wedding; I was stuffed into a barrel and shot so as not to lie again]: Lagercrantz 1958, No. 373:119-123; East Sami (Skolts, Neiden) [the guy is a famous deceiver; the king tells him to deceive him; he asked to let him go for a horse with his deceptive wand; did not return; the king came to him himself; when he saw him, the guy removed a pot of porridge from the fire, put a pot of porridge in the middle of the room on Pfahl {log?} ; the king believed that he was cooking the pot himself, bought it for a lot of money; the king called the guests - he did not cook the pot; he came to the guy to kill him; boy: you didn't take the log; the king also bought a log; the same; when the king came again, the guy stabbed the goat, tied the goat's blood-filled stomach to his sister; the sister tells the king that his brother cannot be woken up - he will get up and be like a mad man; she went to wake up, the guy did pretending to be angry with his sister, stabbed, blood splashed, the sister fell; then the boy blew into the goat's horn, the sister got up; the king bought a horn, gathered people, pretended to be asleep, telling his sister to wake him up; stabbed his sister, blew the horn in vain; the king put the boy in a coffin, left him on the edge of the cliff, promised to push him down when he screamed; the old woman drove the herd of sheep, the boy screamed how good it was to be in paradise; the old lady took his place; first she screamed for paradise, then screamed; the king came and pushed her down; the boy brought the herd; the king told him to push him off the cliff; the boy did so married a royal daughter]: Lagercrantz 1961, No. 295:140-145; Eastern Sami (Kilde dialect) [the guy does not obey his parents, he is idle, they send him to hell; the hell took him away; the eldest son of the old devil (the pass is probably something indecent); the middle son of the old devil offered to throw the sword - who is taller; the guy pretends to be afraid to throw the sword on the cloud, the devil asks not to throw it; the youngest son of the old devil offered to carry a log; the boy sat on him, carrying the hell; the old devil tells his son to make a horse out of the log and send the guy back to his parents; after eating with them, he went on a journey; Seeing two hunters, he removed the boiling pot from the fire and put it on the snow; the hunter believed that the pot was cooking himself, bought it for a lot; the guy began to live with his grandmother; tied a bubble of sheep blood under her arm; when the hunters come to kill him, let the old woman pretend to contradict and the guy seems to stab her; the hunters bought a knife and two sticks with which the guy allegedly revived the imaginary victim; killed their wives ]: Kert 1961, No. 21:75-78.

Volga - Perm. Mordva [the pop and deacon do not believe that the deceiver Mikit will be able to cheat them; they came to him while he was plowing; M. says he left the bag of tricks at home; his wife won't let you, I must go myself; he was given a sleigh, they rode it to the top and said that the pop ordered him to be given two hundred rubles in silver; as proof, a Popov cart with two horses given to him; the deacon's wife had the same; a pop with a deacon They plowed all day; when they returned to the popadye, they found out about the deception; decided to take M.'s daughter and pass her off as a farmhand; and M. overheard; dressed up as a girl; the pop and the deacon took the imaginary girl, told her to spend the night lock her in a barn or she will run away; the "girl" tells her to let her go out of need; the farmhand tied a rope to her and she tied her to a goat; the farmhand began to beat the goat that the bride had become; the pop explained what it was the neighbor's goat, and the bride ran away; in the morning, the pop and the deacon came to kill M.; he tied his wife a bubble of sheep blood; the wife pretended not to be in a hurry to bake pancakes; M. stabbed her with a knife; after that the wife hurried with pancakes; at home, the pop stabbed and killed him; the same with the deacon; M. lay down in the grave, told his wife to cover it up and prepared a red-hot rod; when they learned that M. was dead, the pop and the deacon came to spoil to the grave; M. put a rod in their ass; the next day, the pop and the deacon put M. in a bag, carried them to drown them; left them by the lake and went to warm up; M. shouts that he did not want to be king - he is illiterate; merchant got into the bag instead of him, and M. sat in his top three; the merchant was drowned; M. came in three: got it at the bottom; the pop and deacon asked him to put them in bags and throw them into the lake; drowned]: Paasonen 1941:308 -316; Mordovians (Erzya) [the kolesnik was going to sell the wheels, the envious brothers burned them; he carried ash, told the merchants that he was carrying clothes to the king; if you look, they would become ash; the merchants looked, paid money; the kolesnik said that he sold ash; the brothers burned their houses, took ash, beat them; killed the mother of the kolesnik; he carried the corpse, said that he was taking the girl to marry the king; the people they met looked; kolesnik: you jinxed; they paid money; the brothers killed their wives, took them to sell, beat them; they put the chariot in the kul, carried them to drown, went to drink vodka; the kolesnik says to the shepherd that the person sitting in the kula sees the king; he climbed, drowned, the kolesnik brought the herd, says that from the bottom; the brothers ask them to drown; drowned]: Yurtov 1883, No. 26:249-271 (=Evseviev 1964, No. 50:340-343); Udmurts [rich Zio asks Aldar Ivan to deceive him; he says that he left his purse with deceptions at home; tells Z. to prop up the birch tree instead of him so as not to fall, he leaves on his goat; stabbed the goat, threw his skin into the lake; Z. undressed, climbed into the water for his skin; AI took his boots, threw one on the road first, then the second; Z. does not take the boot, but when he sees the second, he returns for the first; the second one disappears; AI teaches his wife to say that he is cuts wood in the forest, and if necessary, send a hare for it; Z. buys a hare, tells his wife to send a hare for him, the hare ran away and disappeared; AI shoved coins under the horse's tail; Z. buys it; AI attached it in advance under his wife's clothes, a bubble of blood, in the presence of Z. stabbed her to make her work; blood gushed, AI whips his wife, the wife jumped up alive; Z. buys a whip; kills his wife; carries AI in a bag drown; while he went to look for a pole to push the bag away into the water, AI got out, put stones into the bag; AI left, returned three years later with the herd, said that three cows were being given by the needle at the bottom; Z. asked throw it in a bag into the water, drowned]: Kralina 1960, No. 83:236-245; Bashkirs: Bessonov 1941, No. 55 [when he dies, the old man tells his two eldest sons to take two horses, and the bald one to take a chest and a whip; bald at night he carries firewood on his brothers' horses; says he puts firewood in the chest and whips, the chest goes; the brothers exchanged horses for a chest and a whip; the bald man loaded the cart with earth, told the merchant that he was lucky gold; he offered to exchange carts; told the brothers that the land was worth, he became rich; the brothers took the land, met that merchant, who beat them, thinking it was one gang; the bald man tied his wife under a bubble of goat blood came; brothers came, the bald man told me to cook, the wife does not move, he stabbed her with a knife, then hit her with a whip - she came to life; the brothers bought a whip, killed their wives; put the bald man in the kul , carried to drown; left until tomorrow; the bald man shouts to the merchant that he did not want to be king, he swapped places with him; the merchant was drowned, the bald man returned with the goods; the brothers ordered them to drown], 64 [the man decided deceive 40 thieves; tells the forest to support a crooked birch tree, or else it will fall; says he will go to cut down the support; tied a mallet to a tree, she knocks in the wind; told their wives that their husbands were caught in theft, you need 100 rubles from each; piled brushwood into an unharnessed sleigh, 40 thieves believed that the sleigh carried firewood themselves, bought it; taught his wife to release a hare to send a husband who is over a thousand miles; a man came with a hare, the thieves bought it; the man tied a blood bubble to his wife's armpit; when the thieves came, he hit her and then revived it with a knife; the thieves bought a knife, stabbed his wives; the man pretended that he died; when the thieves defecated on his grave, he stabbed them with a hot iron bar, they all died]: 275-277, 305-307.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Vatagin 1964 [the fox pricked its paw, came to the field of poor Senyak; he tied her paws and pulled out a thorn; three rich brothers arrived, mistook the fox for a dog; S. exchanged it for a horse: my dog brings game by itself; the fox did not return, S. explained that his dog was probably stuck in a hole; put the food in advance and the arak in the hole, covered it with earth; hit this place with a stick, took out the hidden one; exchanged a stick for two horses; hid a gut with blood under his wife's hat; when the indignant brothers arrived, S. pretended to be angry with his wife, stabbed him on the head, splashed blood; then "revived" with a whip killed; exchanged a whip for three horses; the brothers killed their wives, could not revive them; the brothers tied S. to the poplar, went to burn him for firewood; S. says to the humpback and half-blind shepherd that he was tied to the tree is being cured of these ailments; the shepherd exchanged places with S., his brothers burned it; S. says that the spark from his body fell into the river, he was given a flock at the bottom; now underwater spirits share horses; brothers put sand into their trousers, jumped into the water and drowned]: 211-216; Zhanuzakova 1977 [=Daurenbekov 1979:380-382; Aldar-Kose took cattle from Bay Utezhan, promised to give back what he liked; caught two hares; bai came to visit, the wife said that the husband was herding cattle; buy him; he let the hare go, ordered him to run to his wife, let him cook dinner; bai asked and received a hare as a gift; now A. comes to bay, that also sends a hare; they come to bay's house, the wife does not know anything; A. said that buy did not feed the hare correctly, immediately brought the stored goods in advance, said that it was the same one, received the cattle again; ordered his wife to pretend to be sick, tied lamb's demand to her stomach; buy came, A. tells his wife to serve a samovar, cook food, but she does not get up; A. pretends to stab her in the stomach, the demand falls out; bai asks to spare his wife; A. pretends to calm down, takes a pipe (sybyzgy), blows into his wife's mouth, she gets up as if nothing had happened; bai takes a pipe, stabbed his wife, but could not revive it; A. says that Bai lost a small tongue from the Black Maiden's vein, he had all his strength; sends for a deva; buy went, dev killed him, A. took his cattle]: 274-276; Sidelnikov 1962 [Zheti Karakchi (Seven Thieves) were ruined Momunbay; he puts silver coins under the donkey's tail, says that he defecates with silver, eating oats, gold, eating wheat; Karakchi buy it; M. ties his gut with blood to his wife's throat, in front of his eyes Karakchi seems to cut his wife, revives him by playing the pipe, selling Karakchi a pipe; they kill their wives, trying in vain to revive them; M. pretends to be dead; Karakchi come to share gold in his crypt, he he jumps up, they throw everything; they come to spoil his grave, he pokes them from below with a hot rod; pretends to be resurrected; tells the khan that Karakchi were his slaves, they have a brand - a mark of burned with a rod) ruined Momunbay; he puts middle coins under the tail of a donkey, says that he defecates with silver]: 335-340; Kyrgyz [Aldarkos has a friend Otezhan; before he came to to visit him, A. caught two birds with one stone, left one at home and took the other with him to the pasture; his wife tells O. that A. is with the sheep; when O. came there, A. tells the hare to ask the hostess to cook dinner and lets go; at A. O. sees a hare and believes that it is the same; asked A. for a hare; when O. came to O., there is no hare; says that the hare should have been fed with "zhaprak" grass - he probably eats it in the field; caught another hare and brought; grateful O. gave A. horses, cows and camels; before O. came to him again, A. tied a bag of demand to his wife's stomach and agreed what to do; A. tells his wife to put on a samovar, she does not move; then A. portrayed anger and stabbed his wife into his wife's stomach; blood splashed; O. asks not to kill the woman; A. played sabyzgi (flute) and his wife got up healthy; O. begged for a flute; stabbed his wife; A.: you lost the damn tongue attached to the flute! O. went looking for the devil, but he killed him; all O. A. took it for himself]: Muchnik 1944:39-41; (cf. salars (Altiuli, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous County) [one daughter of an old man and an old woman was married to a rich man, the other to a poor man; the rich son-in-law was well fed and put to bed on a couch, and the poor was poorly fed and laid on the ground; at night the poor climbed onto the rich man's bed, pushed him and stained his place; then returned to his seat and screamed; the rich son-in-law woke up and ran away; the poor man set off in pursuit and started shouting: "It's a big event at home! Confess your wrongdoing!" ; then he returned to his home, sold the land and bought a horse; put three silver coins under his tail and went to his wife's father's house; stated that his horse threw away three silver coins every day; the horse threw away the manure, there were coins; the father bought this horse for two hundred; the son-in-law advised me to keep the horse in the pantry with peas; the father did so, at dawn the horse burst; the father decided to kill the poor son-in-law; son-in-law said to his wife: "My father is going to kill me. When he comes, take a stick from behind the door and say I died in bed <... > When he starts crying, you comfort your father [saying]: "Father, don't cry! I've got a nice stick. If you knock on it three times, [he] will come to life"; the wife did as told and hit him three times with a stick; the son-in-law got up, the father bought a stick for a hundred; at home he tried to revive the dead old woman with it, but to no avail; caught the poor son-in-law and locked him in one shirt in a cold room to squeeze oil; he dragged a heavy stone back and forth until morning; at dawn, when he heard his father's voice, he said: "Hey, precious shirt. If it weren't for you, I would die! You're warm in winter and cold in summer!" ; the father demanded to give the shirt; bought it for two hundred; the son-in-law locked his father in that room, at dawn the father died]: Tenishev 1964, No. 18:40-42).

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Chelkan residents (zap. 2001) [the orphan went to the taiga for berries, picked up quail chicks; towards Tivekchi; the orphan pretends to squeeze the heart of the earth {does it crush the chicks?} , T. asks not to do this leads to himself, shook the bull out of his skin, ordered him to bring water in the skin; the orphan digs in the lake, supposedly wants to bring all the water at once; then begins to tie the forest so as not to carry fuel for the fire on small things; says he eats with caution, because a bullet will shoot in his stomach; T. is scared, tells him not to eat; says he is going home to stab a bull for T.; others stabbed a bull, and an orphan took a bladder and placed a rooster in it; when T. came, he pretended to stab his wife for being slow; T. ran away in fear]: Shirobokova, Koshkareva 2003, No. 18:184-189; Shors [Argynak is poor, not even a dog; made a snare, took an ax, went hunting; began to hit the ground with an ax; answers the bear that he heals the earth; he asks him to heal; A. killed him; in one of the snares it turned out to be a fox; at home he tied it near the house; his brothers-in-law came; A. says that the bears are catching him; he sells a fox to his brothers-in-law for a lot of money; his brothers-in-law sent the fox to pick up bears, she disappeared into the forest; at home, A. tied a bear's gut with blood to his wife's neck, taught him what to do; when his brothers-in-law came, he began to accuse his wife that she was still sleeping, stabbed her, and then "resurrected" them; sold a knife, his brothers-in-law stabbed his wives ; put A. in a bag to burn; he tells a one-eyed merchant who passed by that he is healing his eye in a bag; the merchant exchanged places with A., burned, A. rides his horse to his brothers-in-law; says he met their wives, they drink vodka and call them to their place, they have to jump from the top of the tree across the lake; brothers-in-law drowned]: Chudoyakov 2002:104-107; Khakas [the worker plowed with the priest; told him to rest, put it on clothes, came to his wife: allegedly her husband ordered him to give him all the money, left, began to live with his wife in the woods; the priest asked two thieves to find the worker; the worker tells the thieves that the tied gray an object (i.e. a wolf) is a tool for shearing sheep; thieves leave the worker alone, take the wolf, and by morning he strangled all the sheep; the thieves went to the worker; he tied a bag of blood to his wife, pretended that stabbed his wife, and then resurrected her with a whip; the thieves took the whip, killed the wives, could not resurrect her; put the worker in a bag, carried her to drown in the sea, left; the worker tells the old man that he heals in a bag eyes; the old man sat in a bag, the worker took his clothes and horse; the old man was drowned (he was the priest), the worker came and said that there were many clothes and horses at the bottom; the thieves jumped into the sea and drowned]: Katanov 1907: 247-252; Tuvans [poor Mergeldei from the upper reaches of Chinge-Khem is a skillful builder; answers Karati Khan that his axe works by himself; he buys, is disappointed, returns, sees that M. is making tea, putting the cauldron on a stump (M. extinguished the fire before that); the khan buys a cauldron; the same; M. caught two crows ahead of time, took one to his mother's yurt, kept the other for himself; when K. appeared, he sent the crow, ordering to protect the mother; K. comes to mother M.'s yurt, there is a crow; he buys her; sends her to protect the hansha, the crow flies into the forest; M. hides a bubble of bovine blood in his bosom, and when K. appears, he strikes himself, saying that Khan Hereti threw the knife from the sky; blood is pouring, M. is alive; K. buys a knife, kills himself; M. tells people that the khan appeared before Kurbustu Khan]: Kalzan 1964:5-10; South Altai Tuvans [ Mergeldey pretends that the crow obeys his order to protect his mother; Haraldai Haan buys a crow for 50 langs of silver, it flies away; M. puts the cauldron on a stump to make tea; H. believes that the cauldron cooks without fire, buys; M. hangs a gut with blood around his neck, stabs himself with a knife, then "comes to life"; H. buys a knife, stabbed three servants to death; H. tells M. to drown; the servants leave the bag on the ice, go for the ax make an ice-hole; the khan's blind son is coming, M. shouts that he saw the light, sitting in a bag; the khan's son changes places with him; the khan's son is drowned, M. comes, says that there are many cattle at the bottom; H. orders him to be thrown into the water four officials and himself; M. began to rule the valley]: Taube 1978, No. 41:259-260; Buryats [Baldan Senge is a liar; Fat Tarba asks him to deceive; BS takes his horse to go home for a deceptive book, he does not return; left his hat - a golden bird under it; JT put his hand, there is something sticky; BE promises Itchy that he will feel his bowel movements; smeared his boot with crap, left it on on the road; then left another; Zudai drove past the first one, saw the second one, came back, began to wash it; BS stuffed a silver cup under the tail of the thin horse, sold the horse to seven merchants for cattle, the cup too if he took it, the horse will give you more; knowing that the deceived will come to him, the BS tells his wife to tie a gut of blood around her neck; in the presence of the merchants, she tells his wife to stand up, she lies, BS seems to have pierced her neck with an iron pin, then "revived" him with a magic whip; sold him for a price; the merchants killed his wives, could not revive him; BS pretended to die by making holes in the coffin lid; when seven sat down to desecrate his coffin, he pierced their backsides]: Bardakhanova, Gympilova 2008, No. 14:66-70; the Mongols [the owner tells the farmhand to take the food to the lama; he ate it himself, told the lama that his master was mad and wanted to kill the lama; told the owner that The llama asked him to take the axe and fix the door for it; when he saw the man with the ax, the llama ran away; the farmhand told the owner's wife that he had gone to kill the llama and now he would kill her; she ran away, and the farmhand told the owner that she went to dig up gold; the owner chased his wife; the farmhand went to another area, got married, agreed with his wife that when the prince came for tax, he would hit her twice with a stick: after the first blow, let pretend to be dead, after the second he came to life; the prince bought a stick, killed his wife; ordered the deceiver to be drowned, left the bag on the way; the deceiver told the bald man that he was put in a bag to grow his hair; The bald man was drowned, the deceiver took his property, said that it was a gift from the dragon king; the prince and officials drowned]: Bystrov et al. 1962:289-293 (=Mikhailov 1962:89-91); darkhats [khan's son killed, the murderer asked the cunning man (Argat) to make the death of the khan's son look like suicide; at night, Argata brought the dead body to the house of the victim's mother, began to ask his mother to give to eat; the mother answered rudedly, the imaginary son said that he would hang himself then; A. left the corpse to hang; the khan doubted, sent for the shaman; A. tied the horses with tails, began to poke with a hot iron, and turmoil arose, everyone ran out of the yurt, at which time A. drowned the shaman in a barrel of koumiss, "found it" himself; the khan was afraid that the shaman's son would take revenge; A. took the corpse to her relatives on a camel, attached awls to his boots, tied a blood bubble on his chest; threw pies to the children, they began to pick them up; A. pricked the camel to make it seem like he was mad because of the children, fell, pulling the corpse to the ground, the bubble burst; the shaman's son I was afraid that the Khan's envoy was wounded and happy that he was at least alive]: Potanin 1883, No. 49.6:249-250.

Western Siberia. Mansi: Balandin 1938, No. 8 [Ekva-Pyris lives with his grandmother, put the meat pot on two wood cutters, it boils without fire; two sons of Ushin-Otyr-Oiki came and bought a boiler for two sets clothes; they do not boil; next time he filled the body with sables and dried fish, pretended that his dog got it all and brought it himself; the sons of the UOO bought a male dog, he got nothing, their dogs tore it; EP tied a cow's neck with blood to his grandmother's throat; UO stabbed her with a knife in front of her sons, she fell; then he stabbed the knife into the ground, the grandmother got up; the UOO sons buy a knife, cut their wives, they did not come to life; EP takes up money to bury a dead girl; brings her to UO, leaves her in the ice-hole with a knife in her chest; accuses the UO daughters of killing the girl; marries the youngest daughter of UO as a ransom; lives with her; UO's other two daughters guessed the deception; EV hung them by the chin on the palisade; the shaman almost figured out who the killer was; EP releases dogs for dried meat, screams that enemies were coming; everyone jumped out, EP drowned a shaman in a cauldron with fly agarics, explains that he fell himself; UO asks to take the dead away; EP sticks an arrow in the dead shaman's forehead, accuses two people he meets, who give a rich ransom, his younger sister; comes to shamans, who hacked their own son in the dark; EP flies away with a loon, a shaman chases a hawk; EP descends, pierces, becoming a needle, the ice of the lake, the shaman crashed on the ice; EP became a pike, swims with other pike; y horns grow up; a shaman and a shaman catch him to the top, he became a man, crushed them into pieces with an iron hammer; returns to his grandmother with two wives and a long wagon train]: 131-139; Kumaeva 2015, No. 9 [ Ekva-pygris tells the two sons of the City Hero that he cooks his cauldron himself, without fire - just put the cauldron on two raw logs; they bought it, nothing was cooked; E. says that his dog herself brings fur from the forest - you just need to fill its bodies with honey food; they bought a dog, attached food bodies to it; other dogs ate the food, tore the food they bought; E.: the dog should have been released on the outskirts of the village; E. pretends that when he cuts his aunt's neck with a knife, a table with food appears, and his aunt then comes to life; the sons of the City Hero bought a knife, cut their wives necks]: 101-107; Chernetsov 1935 [Ekva-Pyrishch lives with his grandmother and younger brother; calls menkwa to help eat excess supplies; he eats everything, wants to eat his brother; E. invites him to come in the fall; pretends to be dead; menkv comes eats his brother; E. returns, finds menqua, says that he has come to life, took a lot of fur for his brother; tells Usyng-Otyr's two sons that the dog is getting the beast for him, that the cauldron cooks meat itself; takes it for the dog three deer, three more for the cauldron; ties a bag of blood to the grandmother's throat, pretends to kill her, that his knife revives her; sells a knife, they kill their wives with it; E. pretends to be his own sister, W.'s sons marry her, she goes swimming with the girls, jumps into the water when they dive, turns into a pike, swims away, becomes E.; in the fall E. comes, for her supposedly drowned sister, marries two W.'s daughters; girls recognize him, he kills them, hangs them on trees; the shaman eats fly agarics, camlates to know the murderer; E. shouts that enemies are coming, throws the shaman into a boiling pot; says that these are not enemies, but dogs, but the shaman is dead; he is asked to take the deceased to his father; sticks an arrow into the dead, pretends to be killed by hunters; E. gets sables from them; shouts to the shaman's father that the hell has come, he cuts the deceased, E. says that he killed his son; E. flew away with a loon, the shaman's father followed by a hawk; E. turns into a pike, the pursuer catches it; together with his wife he hits with a club, but they only beat each other; E. finishes off an old man, returns home]: 68-80; Northern Khanty: Steinitz 2014, No. 12 (Sherkal dialect) [people lead a horse ("a beast with a short mane, with small hooves"); Mischievous man sits on on the top of the oak tree, tells the horse to be tied with a golden halter; the sorcerer tells the City Village Man that it was Heavenly God who ordered his horse to be tied, so he liked it; MS took this horse he rode it to his youngest daughter of the GDM; stabbed the horse, tied its larynx around his mother's neck, smeared his mother's face with blood as if she were blush; tied horse hair to the knife on the table and pillow, for who could pull them; agreed with the mother that he would call the knife, it would come and then cut the mother's throat (i.e. the horse's larynx); the horse (i.e. her corpse) was left on the roof; the GDM sees that the knife obeys the order, and the mother of MS came to life and rejuvenated; gave her daughter for a knife; he stabbed his wife; tells her son to put MS in a bag and drown him in an ice-hole tomorrow; the sorceress sees the bag, MS replies what he thinks in it money given by Heavenly God; the sorcerer untied the bag, MS put it in there; came to drown, the sorcerer says she was counting the money; drowned; MS took out the body, smeared the deceased's face, put on his mother's fur coat, He hid his mother away; told his daughter of the GDM that he accompanied his mother to meet Heavenly God, and now she is near the ice-hole; the girl came up, pushed her, she fell into the ice-hole; the GDM tells her daughter that she MS's mother killed; and he shows his mother in the morning, says that she has returned from the ice-hole; the wife asks MS why he does not meet Heavenly God; MS: he is angry; father-in-law sends his son for a sorceress ( the one who is drowned) to pray to Heavenly God; MS: Heavenly God made her the wife of the water spirit; they brought another sorcerer; she orders to cook fly agarics; son of the GDM: the enemy is coming! everyone ran outside, and MS quietly returned, put his head in the boiling pot and went out again; the GDM is afraid of revenge on her sons; MS promises to settle everything; the body is carrying; he cut his head with an ax on the way, he put a larch branch in his head, accused the sorcerer's sons that they had such a bad road; they gave MS fur, MS told at home that the sorceress had been turned young by Heavenly God with a head carrying deer horns], 20 (son dialect) [Kai noticed royal bags of zolt on the shore; put the capercaillie at the top, the burbot in a trap; brought his wife; explains that the bird and fish are many places; took the bag; soldiers come , the wife says that they took the bag the day they caught the burbot in the trap and the capercaillie at the top; the husband and wife were driven away; Kai tied a calf's stomach to his wife with blood; in the presence of three men, he hit his sleeping wife with a knife; blood splashed, and the wife jumped up; the men bought a magic knife; they stabbed his wives; Kai tells him to put him in the boat like a coffin, say that he is dead; they decided to drown him, they brought the boat to the shore; he tells a man with three horses that there is a golden city under water; he changes places with Kai; drowned; Kai took horses]: 86-103, 134-137; Eastern Khanty (b. Wah, 2008) [Alva lives with her grandmother, a merchant on the other side; A. wrapped his grandmother in cows and blood; when the merchant's messengers came, he stabbed him, the grandmother pretended to be dead; A. told the knife "Who killed him, revive him", my grandmother "came to life"; the merchant bought a knife for a lot of money, began to poke the guests, they did not come to life; the merchant ordered A. to be drowned, wrapped in leather, left for the night; he shouts to those passing by that he was in the water he dived, he has wealth {not clear}; one person changed with A., he was drowned; A. took the expensive fabrics of the drowned man, brought him home; told the merchant's messenger that he had obtained everything at the bottom; the merchant's wife fell ill, A. came to shamanize, began to cry; to prevent him from crying, the merchant gave him three daughters and all his wealth {not clear}]: Soldatova 2008, No. 19:126-127; Northern Selkups: Tuchkova, Wagner-Nagy 2015, No. 56 ( E.D. Prokofiev, Yanov Stan, 1926) [Icha lived with his grandmother, old Prince Corse across the river; Icha tied sable skins around the dog's neck, let him go; the prince's servants came; the dog came; they believed that she herself gets sables, K. bought a dog for a horse; Icha killed the horse, filled his intestines with blood, tied it under his grandmother's sundress; the servants returned; Icha: you spoiled my dog; grandmother: you told me to sell it, stabbed her , blood poured, grandmother fell like dead; Icha to the knife: sorry for the grandmother, you killed, you killed, you and revive it; grandmother "came to life"; Icha pretends not to sell the knife, only gave it a try; and don't spoil it - they only You can kill the rich; K. cut all the rich, no one came to life; Icha: they ruined the knife, they probably killed the poor; K. tells Icha to be killed; Icha: first leave them in the bag for the night to suffer; the rich go past the ice-hole merchants; Icha: goods will come out of the ice-hole; reluctantly allows merchants to get into the bag with a promise to leave him some of the wealth; the merchants were drowned, Icha took the wealth; princely servants: he found everything in ice-hole; K. and all the bosses ordered them to be sewn into leather bags, drowned; Icha lives well], 57 (A.I. Kuzmina, recorded in Russian) [Ichekichika lived with his grandmother, near Tsar's Koltsak ira ("ira" -" old man"); I. stole a cow, stabbed her; tied his grandmother with blood; a servant came with a rifle; I. tells the grandmother to receive a guest, she hesitates, he pretends to cut her, bleeds; then the grandmother came to life; the governor ordered the servants to buy a knife to teach lazy women a lesson; I.: clean people must be cut, you can't keep a knife on the floor; the governor and his servants stabbed their wives; I. want to arrest, then a dog comes running around his neck a hundred sable skins; they bought a dog - nothing; I. sewed into rawhide to drown; I. sends servants to look for a large stone to drown it, put sable skins with it; a caravan is coming, the merchant believes that gold and sable skins at the bottom; drowned; I. took three carts of goods; the governor and all the rich drowned], 58 (A.I. Kuzmina, Turukhansk, 1977) [about as in (57); Kol'sako-old man]: 243-246, 250-252, 259-261; nganasana [Oeloko (Dyaiku) as tall as a finger, worked for Russian merchants; told his wife to fill a bubble of partridges blood, hide it under her arm; agrees with his wife what to behave when he leads to guests of the merchants; merchants came, the wife is angry, says that there is no food; D. stabbed her, blood has flowed; the three talins brought are three sons; concerns each "dead" wife, she finally gets up; D. with a visible reluctantly gives his "sons" to merchants in exchange for food supplies; three merchants killed their wives; decided to drown D.; he asks to find a stone of three pounds, brings it to his friend in the river; while merchants are looking for a stone, he arrives dolganin on horseback; takes his reflection for a rich guy in the river; untied D., ordered himself to tie himself up to visit; drowned; tells merchants that he exchanged a stone at the bottom for a beaded park; merchants they ordered to drown themselves]: Long 1938:110-116.

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts: Ergis 1964, No. 81 (place of recording not specified; central?) [Onohochun Choohoon arranges Baai Hara Haan's son and Oloon Doloon to fight, kills the first in turmoil, promises to revive him for half his wealth; puts on the dead man's clothes, comes to to his parents and brothers and sisters, who drive him away, PTS hangs the deceased as if he hanged himself because he was driven away; promises to bring a shaman who will revive him; when she is ready to reveal the truth, she screams that horses trample on other horses, drowns a shaman in a bag of koumiss; promises to save her wolf children from revenge if he is given all the wealth; ties a blood bubble to the neck of a dead shaman; when wolf cubs jump around, warns them to be more careful, spurs the bull, the deceased falls, PTS pretends that she has just died; to revive her, the wolves must lower their tails into the ice-hole; the tails are frozen in ice, wolves are dead], 82 (Verkhoyansky) [approximately as in (81), =Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 28:293-301; =Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976:167-174; Shaman fox, she has wolf sons, fox daughters; one wolf, one fox ran away with their tails cut off, the current ones come from them; for promising to settle the case with the drowned shaman, Oloon Doloon marries the owners' daughter]: 7-9, 13-16.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanai [the seven Mergen Brothers have a younger sister Pudin; the brothers say that flocks of cannibal squirrels will now arrive, hide P. in a hole near the hearth, lubricate all household items with wild interior fat beast, forgot a torn fishskin slipper; a bag of animal blood is placed on the sisters's chest; throwing arrows one in the tail of the other, they make a chain of arrows, go up to heaven; the sneaker gives out to squirrels, where P. they pierce their spears at the hearth, one is bloody, they think they have killed P., leave; P. harnesses the dog into sledges, leaves; the sledge turned its bump, the Frog came out from under it, P. asked to spend the night; complains that frogs interfere, the Frog replies that they are her relatives; two Mergen come, P. did not have time to put on her robe, turned into a red branch; the eldest M. sat on the Frog's can, the youngest took a red branch, began to cut, blood flowed; the eldest took the Frog, she put on P.'s robe; P. remained to tie the wound; the younger M. forgot the knife, came back, married P., they caught up with the Frog and the elder M., P. took his robe, gives her fish skin; before that, the Frog asks hazel, reddened, bird cherry, everyone says that she is ugly in any robe; The frog replies that he will make them kindling, toys for children, cleaning chips; Mergen's parents cover the floor with silk, the Frog walks on it, P. turns so as not to get dirty; father-in-law wants to warm up, the Frog heats the stove, sparks fly to his father-in-law; P. asks send the brothers good firewood, the bundle falls from the sky, the father-in-law is happy; The frog serves the father-in-law frog caviar, P. - porridge and butter that the brothers threw off; the father-in-law wants to see the relatives of the daughters-in-law, Frog brings frogs, brothers to P., give silk and fur clothes, return to heaven; The frog swallows spoons, ladles to simulate pregnancy, she is driven away, she jumps into the lake; P. gives birth to a son- heir]: Hodger 2011:67-77; Orochi: Arsenyev 1995 (1) [Egde hunted, broke the squirrel's leg, she promised to come for an answer; E. smeared oil on the whole tree, hid his sister (at the end she was named Bolige) in the ground under the fire, began to shoot arrows into the sky, they pierced each other's tail, E. took them to the sky; squirrels came, all objects were silent, there was an old street in the corner, it was not smeared, he said where B. ; squirrels pricked the fire with a spear, but E. poured blood in advance; when they saw blood on their spear, the squirrels decided that they had killed B., left; B. broke the street, came to the house where Gilenyr's owner; he still laughs, she asks if she doesn't want to whether he should marry her; I agree if G. leaves a bunch of fish and fish are arranged one by one; (apparently, G. did); came to his mother; she tells him to make a seven-legged shovel out of birch bark so that she herself came home and brought birch bark; he made it, the old woman and B. made a farce out of birch bark; B. sat on a shovel, covered it with birch bark; put it on the ice, carried B. with a shovel; the frog invited B. to her bump; She drove out a lizard, a snake, and more frogs; but B. made her birch bark farce; two brothers came, the Frog said that it was just her and the dog; B. hid under the reeds; the youngest began to slaughter it, bleed; the elder took the Frog and all his possessions; the youngest said he forgot the knife, came back, B. was naked there; he repaired her frog clothes; they caught up with her older brother and the Frog; B. took her Frog's clothes; the brothers' father asks the Frog to cook chumiza, she cooks sand; tells B. to cook; she did not know where the chumiza was, went to the taiga, her seven brothers gave her chumiza, did not tell her where she got it; gave her porridge and To the frog, the porridge is hot; the father-in-law told B. to bring firewood, again the brothers gave it; the father-in-law went with B., she showed him her brothers, he was happy; they ordered not to send B. to the forest anymore; the old man and B. began to live well , The frog was driven away]: 122-125; Margaritov 1888 [knocking down pegs (a type of game) with a stick, seven brothers accidentally injure a squirrel that comes to play with them; she promises revenge by bringing other squirrels; brothers they hide their sister under the hearth, placing a bag of blood on top; they shoot arrows into the sky, they pierce each other's tail, forming a chain; the brothers climb into the sky, the youngest is the last, picking up arrows; old boots give the squirrels how the brothers left, where the sister is hidden; squirrels pierce the wineskin, think they have killed the girl, leave; the sister goes to look for brothers, comes to the Frog; she takes away her clothes, puts her on herself; the girl hides inside a stick; two brothers come, the eldest sits next to the Frog, the youngest by the stick, scolds her with a knife, blood comes out on her; the eldest leaves with the Frog, the youngest returns for with a knife, finds a naked girl, who does not have time to hide in the stick again, tells her story; in his older brother's house, the Frog shows his brothers' father-in-law - these are frogs; he drives away his daughter-in-law; the girl calls her brothers, Enduri sends them from the sky; they give them rich clothes, visit for three days, return to heaven; the girl is recognized as the wife of her younger brother]: 29 (quail in Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:403-405, in Sangi 1989; 285-287); Udege people: Lebedeva et al. 1998, No. 31 [when the squirrel army approaches, seven brothers hide sister Bele under the hearth, go to heaven themselves; they smear various objects with bacon, forgot to smear their flip-flops; they told the squirrels where the girl was; squirrels hit the hearth with spears, see blood on their spears that the brothers had sprayed there in advance; left; bele harnessed sledges, they caught on a marsh hummock; there Emende, her relatives are frogs; began to live together; two brothers came, b. turned into an angelica; the elder brother married E., she wore silk robe b., left her fishskin clothes; the youngest cut the angelica with a knife, saw blood; returned from the road for a forgotten knife, saw b., married; the brothers' father asks to make a fire, cook porridge, show relatives; e. burns lilacs (sparks fly to her father-in-law), cooks sand, brings frogs; brothers B. cook ash firewood for her, give millet to cook porridge, come to her; they say they married seven stars, flying back to heaven], 107 [(Arsenyev's manuscript); hunter Egda broke the squirrel's leg, she promised to come for an answer; he hid his sister under the hearth, pouring blood on top of the whole tree in the house he smeared oil, fired arrows into the sky, which pierced one another, went up to heaven; when he saw blood, the squirrels thought they had stabbed his sister; she came to Gilenyta, he wanted to marry her, she ran away on the ice on a shovel; the Frog invited her to live with her, she gave her her jewelry; two brothers came, she became grass, one took the Frog, the other cut the grass, noticed blood, came back for a knife, took the girl, the Frog had to give her her jewelry and clothes, take hers; The frog tramples on her father-in-law's expensive bed, the girl folds it; The frog cooks sand, brings crackling firewood, brings a lizard, a snake, a frog - their relatives; seven brothers give their sister chumiz, cut good firewood, show themselves to their father-in-law; The frog is driven into the swamp]: 227-235, 474-476.

The Midwest. Menominee: Bloomfield 1928, No. 96 [two sisters go to get the Beaded Spitting (PB); The Diver (Hell-Diver) says it's him; hiding beads in his mouth and nose, he blows out and cleans his throat; y PB is a pet deer; The dive says that the deer ran away frightened by the girls; in the evening Dive is called to dance with PB; the girls put Dive's mother to sleep, leave driftwood instead, come to PB; there the Dive lies on on the floor, everyone dances on it; when he returns home, the Dive lies between driftwood, takes ant bites for tingling his wives; kills his mother, finds PB sleeping between girls, kills him by putting him in his mouth hot pebbles; hides a deer's stomach with blood under his clothes, pretends to kill himself at the news of PB's death; he is being chased, he says he will die if his wives follow him; turns him over their boat; he and both girls turn into dive ducks]: 359-365; Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II33 [Chief White Wampum spits beads; his brother is Hell Diver; two sisters come to marry the chief; The dive replies that it is him; every night he goes dancing at his brother's house; wives leave rotten decks in bed, secretly go dancing; stay with White Wampum; A dive pierces his brother's genitals hot iron dies; the dive pretends to mourn, simulates a suicide attempt by placing a blood-filled deer's stomach under his clothes and tearing it; calls his ex-wives into his boat, turns it over; sisters turn into female dive ducks]: 408-410; Western Ojibwa [people disappear one by one; boy and grandmother remain, she says windigo (cannibal giant) in the forest; the boy goes there the giant tells him to eat as much as he does; the boy quietly drops his food into a suede bag tied to his chest; rips it open with a knife, saying that he has ripped his stomach open; Windigo rips his stomach open dies]: Coleman et al. 197:14-16; Eastern ojibwa (timagami): Speck 1915d, No. 5 [see motif K19B; star husbands help wives descend from heaven; they get to the top of the tree; promise to go out for bringing them down to the ground; Bear, Lynx can't, Wolverine lowers them; they send him to bring a ribbon tied to a branch, run away; they sleep at the Woodpecker's house, he doesn't sleep with them; three types of ducks cannot transport them across the river; Toadstool transports them, marries them; they find out that Toadstool is a jester, Loon is the leader; go to Loon; Toadstool throws hot flints into the mouth of the sleeping Loon, killing him; ties him to a bag of rabbit blood on the belly, simulates suicide; people reveal deception, chase Toadstool; it turns them into ducks], 2 (Appendix, by Neil C. Fergusson) [two girls climbed the fir tree, couldn't go down; Moose, Deer, Otter, Lynx passed by, only Wolverine lowered; they sent him for a supposedly forgotten ribbon, ran away; neither the Beaver nor the Loon Chief was transported across the river, Hell-Diver transported; at night they got up, looked into Gagara's house, where he played the flute for the dancers; they went to Gagar, putting decks of ants under their blankets; when he saw Loon sleeping with two girls, Toadstool threw hot iron in his mouth; put a gut of blood under his clothes, pierced it, as if killing himself when he was told that the chief was dead; later shouted that he was a murderer; people dammed the river to dry lake and catch Poganka; he destroyed the dam, everyone drowned, became aquatic animals]: 47-53, 83-85; potauatomi [Gagara is a chief named White Wampum; his brother Red-necked Toadstool is no one, married to old woman; comes to another village, meets two women, says he is BV, takes them as his wife; on the way they ask to kill an elk, he replies that it is one of his horses; at home he calls his old wife grandmother ; in the evening he is invited to dance to a real BV; wives leave decks of ants in bed, come to BV; The toadstool is bitten by ants; kills a sleeping BV by putting hot stones in his mouth; hides blood in his mouth, simulates suicide; says he will survive if his daughters-in-law come to him; they swim in a boat, he knocks it over, everyone goes down; he emerges, screams that he killed BV; people ask the Frog for a drink lake; Toadstool first kicks her, then pierces her stomach; now the toadstool has two wives]: Skinner 1924:361-363; Steppe Cree [the old woman dies, tells two daughters to go to Wampum, spitting beads; The pancake puts beads in his mouth, spits it out; the sisters marry him; he wraps himself in pieces of meat and fat instead of a festive outfit; the younger sister suspects deception, spies on the dancers; those dance, trampling Dipper into the mud; sisters leave decks with bedbugs and bees in bed, run away; Dipper fakes suicide, piercing a bubble of blood hidden under their clothes; sails away in a boat, turns into a dive]: Bloomfield 1930, #32:297-309; Eastern Marsh Cree (Albany) [The otter pretended to be dead, put a rotten tree in its nose and anus; Hell-diver Tcīgibis said Crawfish, that their enemy was dead; the Cancers gathered, began to rot from the Otter's ass; he laughed, jumped up, killed everyone except one at a distance; Toadstool was jealous of his wife for his brother Gagara; while he was sleeping, he put hot iron down his throat; collected blood in a bubble, put it under his clothes; he was told that Loon had been killed; he pierced a blood bubble, supposedly killing himself; left, diving into the water; if he caught up, there would be no greaves now]: Skinner 1911:95-96.