M91c7. Tell them I'm dead .13.15.21.23.26.-.35.

When enemies come to kill a person, he pretends to be dead.

Sudanese Arabs, Italians (Veneto), Lepcha, Bengalis, Chinese, Gagauz, Luzhitans, Russians (Arkhangelsk), Ukrainians (Kyiv region), Ossetians, Avars, Georgians, Turkmens, Karelians, Lithuanians, Mordovians, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Buryats, Northern Khanty, Mansi.

Sudan - Northeast Africa. Sudanese Arabs [the guy puts coins under the donkey's tail, goes with him, coins fall, the merchant buys a donkey; he leaves only manure; the merchant goes to the boy; he takes a deer, tells his mother to bring it food when he lets go of the deer; the merchant comes in, the guy offers lunch, lets the deer go, the mother brings food in a minute; the merchant buys a deer; sends his wife to cook breakfast; a deer runs away into the desert; the merchant sees his wife sleeping, kills; the boy tells his mother to say that he is dead, to bury him, leaving a hole; the merchant looks into him, the guy cuts off his nose with scissors; the merchant carries the boy drown in a bag, stops, falls asleep; the guy tells the shepherd that he is sitting in a bag because he refuses to marry his cousin; the shepherd changes places with him, the guy brings a herd of goats; the merchant and other residents threw their sons into the river to bring goats from the bottom]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 55:192-194.

Southern Europe. Italians (Veneto) [a rich peasant came to his godfather and saw melons for the first time in his life; he replied that they were donkey eggs; a peasant bought one; when he arrived at the house, he dropped it, the melon rolled, it crashed, a hare jumped out of the bushes, the peasant thought it was a donkey; the next time the godfather sold a wolf to the peasant under the guise of a male who covered the sheep; when the sheep bleated, the peasant decided that the producer had started his business; in the morning all the sheep were dead; for the third time, the godfather sold a hare that runs on errands (the name of the Postman is Portalattere); sent a hare with a letter to uncle; when he saw that he was running in the wrong place, he decided that his explanation was too difficult, he should have been sent along a more familiar path; expecting the peasant to come again, the godfather told his wife to tell him that he was talking in the garden with God; the peasant also wanted to talk to God; the godfather taught him to stick his head in a swarm of bees; the next time the peasant took a gun and came to shoot his godfather; the wife replied that he just died; a peasant entered a room where an imaginary corpse was lying on the bed, was about to relieve himself; the corpse bit him; at home, the peasant complained that even his dead godson continued to torment him]: Widter et al. 1866, No. 18:279-282.

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.

South Asia. The Bengalis [two thieves, old and young, decided to lead an honest life; they were hired as laborers; one was told to water the plant and the other to herd the cow; both suffered: the water immediately went under the roots, and the cow was running through foreign fields; but each told the other that they had been resting all day; they changed duties and understood everything; decided to dig up the plant and find out where the water went; the young man came across a pot of gold coins, told the old man that there was only a stone; at night the old one got up, dug up two pots, buried it by the pond; the young man got up and looked; frogs jumped into the water from this side of the pond; he he guessed that gold was buried here, dug up, took the cow and drove it to his native village; not finding gold, the old one bought shoes with gold laces with the money he had; threw it on the road, along who was walking a young man, one, then the second; when the young man went to get the first shoe, the old one took the cow away; in the village, the young man met the old one at the door of his house, offered to split the money; he agreed, but one extra coin was left; the old one promised to exchange it; agreed with his women that when the young man came for change, they should say that the old one was dead; the young man pretended to believe and drag the body on a rope to the place of burning; forgot to take the fire; climbed a tree and hung the "corpse"; the robbers came; the hangman: a good sign; the robbers quietly slaughtered everyone in the old house, took the property; When they wanted to light the burial fire of the old one, he jumped up, and the young one jumped off the tree; the robbers ran away, the thieves got the treasures, they healed well]: Day 1912, No. 11.1:160-171.

China - Korea. The Chinese [in agreement with his wife, the poor man invited the evil landowner; the wife prepared everything in advance, and the poor man said that it was his pot that cooks food in minutes; the landowner bought the boiler for a lot of money; realizing that they had been deceived, he ordered the poor man to be drowned; the servants hung the bag on a tree and went to eat; when he heard the voice of the landowner's son nearby, the poor man began to say that he was sitting in a bag to heal his eyes; the landowner's son exchanged places with the poor man, drowned, and the poor man took his herd; said he received them in the barn of the spirit of the river; the landowner and his two remaining sons jumped into the water and drowned], 388-393 [the peasant in advance he caught hares, painted the duck, told the landowner that it was a magic golden eagle; he bought a duck, let it go to the hare, dragged it with him, the duck died; the next time the peasant pretended to cook his pot himself, the landowner bought it again; the peasant's wife spread a rumor that he was dead; the landowner ordered to open the coffin, hit the peasant with a rolling pin, he pretended to come to life; the landowner bought a rolling pin, began to beat his sick wife; he was brought to the county chief and beaten to death]: Lin Lin, Ustin 1959:381-387.

The Balkans. Gagauz people [Beardless received money from merchants for cotton paper; says to his wife: merchants will come for cotton, tell me that I am planting a thorn by the road; camels loaded with cotton will pass, cotton he will catch on the thorns, we will collect it; merchants came; wife: husband in the vineyard; Beardless: the cotton is ready; he has two hares, left one at home, allegedly sent the other to his wife to cook dinner; after for lunch, the merchants took the hare, forgiving the debt for the cotton; sent the hare to their 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 pipe; Beardless pretended to be angry with his daughter and wife, stabbed, then "resurrected"; merchants took the pipe, stabbed their wives; Beardless prepared the grave, climbed into it, inflaming the stigma; merchants tried to desecrate the grave, Beardless put a stamp on everyone's back; told the foreman that he had four slaves; the merchants remained in slavery to the Bearded for life]: Moshkov 1904, No. 62:111-113.

Central Europe. Luzhitans [the guy grazes the headman's cow and his own; asks what to do if a cow drops a cake on a bird's nest in the meadow; mother: kill her; son: ours too; mother: ours too; he killed his own cow, the mother is desperate; the guy went to sell the skin; wants to stay in the hut for the night; sees a hostess feasting with her lover through the window; knocked; the hostess decided that the husband has returned, hid roast in the oven, wine under the bed, pies in the closet; then the owner came up, the guy came in with him; the bag touches the bag at the table, the cat has a cow's skin, it creaks; guy: yes, shut up; explains what's in the bag he is a predictor; indicates the places where food is hidden; the owner wants to buy a fortuneteller, the guy asks to give him a chest (in which his lover) for him; Dali's chest with a cart, the guy took him home; threatens to drown his lover, received 300 thalers from him; when he learned that the farmhand had received 300 thalers for his skin, the elder stabbed his own, could not sell it; the guy persuaded him to leave him in the sheepfold overnight, let the wolf go there; in the morning the elder came to the boy to take him to prison, but the mother said that her son was dead; the elder went to relieve the need on the face of the deceased; (the story is cut short with reference to similar ones)]: Schulenburg 1882:40-41; Russians (Arkhangelsk, 1908, Sumy Posad, Meshchanka U.E. Bazarov) [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 veiling 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 (Arkhangelskaya: Pinega, d. Obrosovo, 1927, L.E. Zalusskaya, worked as a housekeeper in Arkhangelsk for several years) [Overina's missing mare eats his brothers' good stallions, they demand that he kill her. Overya kills a mare, takes off its skin and agrees to sell it for 40 kopecks. Pop sends Overa to his wife for money, he finds her with her master, she hears the pop coming home and hiding them both underground. Overya threatens to scream and give her master and get caught, and gradually lures him 25 rubles, a pair of master's horses, and a suit in exchange for silence. Overya returns home and tells her friends that she bought a pair of horses with the proceeds from selling mare leather. They kill their "hundred-ruble" stallions, but asked so much for their skins that they quarreled with their ass and ended up in the police. Their wives sell cows to buy their husbands and threaten to kill Overu. His wife tells him about it. They dig a hole behind the house, and Overya sits in it with a hot hook. The wife tells her comrades that Overya is dead. They come to the grave, sit down alone and Overya sticks his hook to find out that they are going to rob his wife. She puts her husband in a bag full of dry brooms. The comrades decide that there is money in the heaviest and most "poignant bag" and take it away. He asks to let him go out of the bag, his comrades are frightened, they run after the hooks to drown Overu. He shouts that he has been appointed voivode, although he can neither read nor write, the master hears this and changes places with him. Overya rides a pair of master, and his comrades drown him. They greet Overu alive, he says that he got a couple of horses in the next world, they also decide to drown themselves]: Karnaukhova 1934, No. 118:220-223; Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Sumy Posad) [the priest is thin horse; Senka rode it, killed it; said that she was missing, asked the priest to buy another one; drove it into the swamp, cut off her head, put it in the quagmire; called his priest to pull it out; the pop pulled, his head "came off" the pop fell, began to drown; then called the deacon, who looked: his head was cut off; they went to kill S. together; he lives with his sister, made an agreement with her; tied her gut with blood to her side; pretended to be angry with her and" killed"; then snapped the whip, the sister "came to life" and "went out to their party with the priest and the deacon"; S. sold them a whip, they stabbed their wives; they came back to S.; he put the horses under the tail of various money in advance; pop bought a mare; S.: only a week not to remove the bag from under the tail; a week later there was manure; S. pretended to be dead; the pop and the deacon decided to recover at his grave, he hit their ass with a hot rod; they planted him to the kul, brought to drown, went to make an ice-hole for a shovel; S.: I don't want to be a judge; the passing master agrees to change, drowned; S. took his top three, came: God let go and awarded horses; pop with deacon drowned in an ice-hole]: Razumova, Senkina 1974, No. 46:232-237; Ukrainians (Kyiv region) [A man named Shchuts makes himself a small wagon, pulls it out onto the road, gets into it and rides with roller coaster. 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, he's 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 gives it to someone else. 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 looking 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. S. continues to deceive people]: Nowosielski 1857 (2): 339-343.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [the wife orders to sell the cow; the crook tells her husband that it is a goat, the next is a kid, the husband sells the goat to the first for the price; the husband invites the crooks to eat, leaving the owner in advance money; crooks believe that having a hat, a royal gift, you do not need to pay; they buy a hat for a lot of money; the husband agrees with his wife: crooks will come, let the hare go, and then I will come with another; crooks they believe that the same hare sends messages, buys a hare for a price; the husband has taken the image of a boy, the wife cries over her husband's imaginary grave; the crooks are gone, the husband has taken on his former appearance]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 97: 409-412; 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 that, he agrees to sell; beardless 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 man 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 by the throat; 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 With his people, the young man, in feigned anger at his mother, pretended to pierce her throat; 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, putting his spear in it with the point up; the beardless man began to tear the grave, fell, ran into a spear, died]: Atayev 1972, No. 36:55-57; Georgians [the younger brother separated from his elders and became impoverished; the wife tells her to obey; walk with a donkey past the door of three merchants, throw a gold coin each time; merchants believe that the donkey is littering gold, giving enough gold to fill the donkey with its head; man tells you to lock the donkey for 7 days, open it for the eighth; the merchants do so, the donkey is starved; the man agrees with his wife to cook in advance, and he, when the merchants come, will send a hare to her with by order to cook; at home he sells another hare to merchants, which he kept at home; after that, the man pretended to be dead, the merchants began to tear up the grave, he gouged out one eye with a ramrod, they carried to drown" corpse"; on the way they fell asleep, the man told the shepherd that he was being forced to become king; the shepherd allows himself to be bound, thrown into the water, the man drives the herd, says that from the bottom; the merchants threw themselves into the water and drowned] : Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 137:270-273.

Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens [when Aldarkose's son went to sell a cow, 40 merchants assured the boy that it was a goat; A. threw gold donkeys down the drain; 40 merchants bought it for all the gold they had; A. orders to leave the donkey on the carpets in a dark room; A. cooked pilaf in advance; when 40 merchants arrived, he pretended to cook pilaf in an empty cauldron; the merchants bought a cauldron and began to hit it with a ladle until smashed; 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; next time A. hid it in his bosom the wife had a blood bubble, 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, first pretended to resurrect them, but then admitted that they were deceived again; A. hid in the grave, taking with him a red-hot iron rod with a tamga at the end; the merchants decided to spoil the grave, each A. gave a brand; told the khan that his slaves did not obey him; seeing the brand, the khan gave the merchants A., who sold them]: Kekilov, Kosayev 1962:63-70.

Baltoscandia. Karely (Kalevalsky district) [Khoma told his wife to bake pies, hid it along the road in the snow; gentlemen are coming, H. pokes a peak in the snow, pulls out pies; says that the peak is magical, sells at a high price; tells his wife to say that he is dead; lies down, taking three hot ramrods; the gentlemen decided to pump the dead offender in the mouth, he plunged the ramrod into their ass; the gentlemen put H. in a bag, took them to drown; not on the river cut an ice-hole, they went on foot; H. shouts that he does not want to be a judge; the judge goes, agrees to get into the bag instead of H.; drowned; H. comes on his horses, says he got them at the bottom; vanities a hundred rubles to the horse down the drain, hits the horse, he drops a hundred rubles; gentlemen tell them to be sent under the ice; H. also took their horses]: Onegin 2010, No. 60:495-497; Lithuanians [the same or very similar text in Kerbelite 2014, No. 43:320-325; the master sees poor Plikpetris digging through manure; he replies that his mare defecates with coppers if it eats straw, silver after hay, gold after oats; 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 his wife left in fear on the rubble P. boiling a 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 cheaply, in front of his master's eyes as would stab his wife, kvass pours, the master believes that blood; P. says 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 skewer from below, the master is killed, P. has healed well]: Lebite 1965:154-158.

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; Kazan Tatars [Aldar tells the mullah that his horse litters gold three times a day, puts a coin under its tail, the mullah buys it at a high price; he comes to A.; he cooked meat in advance, makes pretends to cook the pot himself; the mullah buys a cauldron; A. pretends to have a postman rabbit; the wife replies to the mullah that her husband has gone for firewood, releases one rabbit, A. returns with the rabbit, the mullah thinks that it was the same; the mullah bought a rabbit; the mullah came to beat A.; he pretended to be dead; smoke was coming from a hole in the ground; the mullah thought it was A. who was burning in hell and left]: Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 86:338-344; Bashkirs [the man decided to deceive 40 thieves; orders to maintain a crooked birch tree in the forest, or else he will fall; says he will go to cut down the support; tied a mallet to the tree, it knocks in the wind; told their wives that their husbands were caught stealing, they needed 100 rubles each; put 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 a thousand miles away; 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 her wives; the man pretended to be dead; when the thieves defecated on his grave, he stabbed them with a hot iron bar, they all died]: Bessonov 1941, No. 64:305-307.

Turkestan. The Kazakhs [Zheti Karakchi (Seven Thieves) ruined Momunbay; he puts silver coins under the tail of a donkey, says he defecates with silver, eating oats, gold, and eating wheat; Karakchi buy it ; M. ties his gut with blood to his wife's throat, cuts his wife in front of Karakchi's eyes, revives him by playing the pipe, sells Karakchi a pipe; they kill their wives, try to revive them in vain; M. pretends to be dead ; Karakchi come to share gold in his crypt, 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 Momunbay was ruined by his slaves, they have a brand - a burn mark with a rod); he puts the middle coins under the tail of a donkey, says that he defecates with silver]: Sidelnikov 1962:335-340.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Buryats [Baldan Senge is a deceiver; Fat Tarba asks him to deceive; BS takes his horse to go home for a deceptive book, does not return; left his hat - a golden bird under it; JT put his hand in, there was something sticky; BE promises Itchy that he would feel his bowel movements; smeared his boot with crap, left him on the road; then left another one; Zudai drove past the first one, saw the second one, came back, became wash it; BS stuffed a silver cup under the tail of a thin horse, sold the horse to seven merchants for cattle, took the cup too - the horse will give you more; knowing that the deceived will come to him, BS tells his wife to tie it to neck with blood; in the presence of merchants, tells his wife to stand up, she lies, BS seems to have pierced her neck with an iron pin, then "revived" it with a magic whip; sold it for a lot; the merchants killed their wives, failed revive; BS pretended to die by making holes in the coffin lid; when seven sat down to desecrate his coffin, he pierced their asses]: Bardakhanova, Gympilova 2008, No. 14:66-70.

Western Siberia. Northern Khanty (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 poultry 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 were stabbed to death by his sleeping wife; blood splashed, and the wife jumped up; 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, brought him 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]: Steinitz 2014, No. 20:134-137; Mansi [Ekva-Pyrishch lives with 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 menkwa, 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 animal for him, that the cauldron cooks meat itself; he takes three deer for the dog, and 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 their 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 his supposedly drowned sister, marries W.; the girls recognize him, he kills them, hangs them on trees; the shaman eats fly agarics, calls 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; his they ask 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 dead, 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 a club, but they only hit each other; E. finishes off the old man, returns home ]: Chernetsov 1935:68-80.