M91D. The drowned shaman. 33.-.36.

The character deceives others by passing off the dead as alive, directing suspicions of murder to innocent people, etc. When a shaman (less often a shaman) is ready to discover the truth, he succeeds in it kill and avoid being charged with murder.

Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Altaians, Khakas, Darkhats, Buryats, Mongols, Mansi, Northern Khanty, Nenets, Northern Selkups, Central (?) and northeastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts, Baikal Evenks (northern Transbaikalia), Evens.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [the beautiful woman complained to Tazsha that the khanzada fell in love with her, but she did not want to; T. killed the hanzada, brought the corpse of Bai's daughter; said that he was a khanzada, wanted her, she rushed furiously with with a dagger, but T. framed the corpse of the Khanzada, fled; bai gave T. gold to help; T. took the corpse, left it in the khan's treasury, disappeared; the guards mistook the Khanzada's corpse for a thief, struck; gave T. gold to help him; T. explained to the khan how his son got into the treasury; he doubts, ordered the shaman to be summoned; the old woman plays the kobyz, is about to reveal the truth; T. made a fuss, tied to his tail the stallion's dried skin, shouted that enemies had attacked, drowned the shaman in a vessel with koumiss in turmoil; the khan gives T. gold, asks to save her from the divas - the sons of the shaman; T. carries her corpse on a camel; her grandchildren scream , ask for sweets; T. stabs the camel with an awl, he throws it off and his corpse; the divas are afraid that the Khan's messenger has been killed; they give T. gold when they see that he is alive]: Kanbak-Shal 1985:217-220; Karakalpaks ( Takhtakupir district) [Kerboga told his wife that he would go to visit his sister, who lived three days away, but returned the next day; when he entered the house, he killed the khan's son, who was his wife's lover; told his wife , who is worried about the khan's son, because he saw a dead horseman in one woman; the wife tried to wake up the khan's son; K. beat her, and the body of the deceased leaned against the door of his older brother Jalimbet and ran away; J. decided that a horseman came to his daughters, beat the body of Khan's son with a stick; J.'s wife brought K. a purse of money, said that J. killed the khan's son, and asked for a way out; K. took the corpse to the wife of the khan's son; when he knocked on her, she replied: "Go to your female friend"; K. hung the corpse on an aspen tree, went home; the wife of the khan's son saw the body, thought that her husband hanged himself because of her words; brought K. a purse with money, asked for help; K. took off the Khan's son's clothes, put them on the road, and threw his body into the pond; the khan thought that his son was swimming, then began to look for him; divination the fortunetellers found out that the Khan's son went to K.'s house, then went out and went to J.'s house, then went out and went to his house, then went to the aspen tree, and then fell into the pond; the fortunetellers did not know which one he was from died and said: "There is an old woman on the same river three days away, this old woman, no matter why he dies, will say"; Khan sent K. for her; the old woman said to K.: "Miserable, why did you come, because you killed yourself Khan's son"; K. took her to the khan; when he drove up to the palace, raised the horse and knocked down the old woman; then put her back, brought her back to the khan; the old woman died of bruises; the khan began to believe that his son died his own by death]: Baskakov 1951:41-43.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians [Argachi replies to his younger brother Mekechi that he will live with his mind; M. says he will live by cunning; brothers disperse; M. sees how the Kormes take the soul of a sick girl away; goes with them, pretending that he is dead; offers to bear his soul; asks what Kurmes are afraid of (yellow thorn, horse lash, knife with a yellow handle); M.: kurutov (pies) on a bundle, butter in a wineskin, fat mares, a sacred roe deer fat tail; jumps into the thickets of thorns; Kormes throw fat into him, etc., after 7 days they leave, M. returns with the girl's soul, marries the healed; promises to cure her son bai Dieti -Kezer; does not fumigate with juniper, but burns him alive, takes his horse and property; comes to A., says that he got everything at the bottom of the lake, where their dead parents live; A. tied a stone around his neck, jumped into the lake; the mother of the Palace of Culture is a shaman Diebelek, camlates, M. screams, makes a stir, quietly drowns D. in a vessel of sour milk; hires to take the body home; drives up to her camp, the children run to meet grandmother, M. knocks her off her horse as if she fell on her own and crashed; as a reward for taking the old woman, she receives wealth]: Sadalova 2002, No. 38:365-377; Khakas [rich brother does not share with the poor; k A merchant comes to visit the rich; the poor quietly kills the merchant; the rich dresses the poor well, sends him to the shaman; he hears the old woman camlae, finds out the truth; kills her, throws haystacks, leaves the old woman's corpse standing with his head with a pitchfork; tells the three sons of the murdered woman to see a man throwing hay; brings the brothers, who shoot from afar, the younger brother says that they killed their mother, apparently she came to dry the hay; they give him cattle for silence; the poor man says to the rich brother that the shaman is accusing him: he killed the merchant drunk unconscious; the rich gave everything to the poor property]: Katanov 1907, No. 298:343-346; Darkhats [the khan's son was 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 him food in his voice; 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, turmoil arose, everyone ran out of the yurt, at which time A. drowned the shaman in a barrel of koumiss, "found" himself; the khan was afraid that the shaman's son would take revenge; A. took the corpse to her relatives on a camel, attached an awl 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 for the children, he fell, pulling the corpse to the ground, the bubble burst; the shaman's son was afraid that the Khan's envoy was wounded, he was happy that he was at least alive]: Potanin 1883, No. 49.6:249-250; Buryats [orphan hears under two crows talk in a tree: if a piebald mare is stabbed, Hartagan Khan's son will recover; he goes to the khan, he is driven away: they already have a shaman; an orphan ties a basket to the stallion's tail, frightens him away herd, everyone runs out into the street, an orphan drowns the shaman in a tub of sour milk; returnees think that the khan has a whorl from a person (legs stick out of the tub); the khan is afraid of revenge from the shaman's relatives, an orphan promises to help; taking the body of a shaman, he comes on a bull to her relatives, distributes bread to the children, stabs the bull with an awl, he throws off the orphan and the corpse, the orphan scolds the children that their mother was killed and maimed; when he returns, he heals the khan's son himself; when two features carry the soul of the khan's son, the orphan pretends to be hell; he is allowed to bear his soul; he says he is afraid of breast and neck fat, and the devils say they are afraid rose hips and hawthorn; he hides in a hawthorn rose hips, the devils throw fat in there, leave; the orphan lies under a tree; two people come, then four more; tell the lama they want to become burkhans; they jump from the mountain into the sea, go up to the sky, become the Big Dipper ("seven old men"); the lama envied them, turned into a scoter]: Gomboev 1890, No. 6:58-63; the Mongols [the old man tore off the goat's tail , he turned into a boy; steals noyon's ax, eats an ox; noyon tells his wife to steal the ring, tells his wife to hide it in her mouth; the boy feeds meat to guard dogs, throws sleeping maids premature lambs, lamb noyona testicles under his robe, lamam manure from sheep's intestines, poured bile into hanshi's mouth to spit the ring; everyone blames each other; the boy drowns the shaman in a wineskin with koumiss; noyon promises a reward to whoever takes the dead home; the boy takes a ferocious camel and an awl; when dogs rush towards him, stabs a camel, he throws off the dead shaman, the boy pretends to they also threw him off, that the shaman is dead now; the noyon gives the boy a herd, he returns to his parents]: Mikhailov 1967:112-115.

Western Siberia. Northern Khanty (Sherkal dialect) [people lead a horse ("an animal with a short mane, with small hooves"); a Mischievous man sits on top of an oak tree, tells you to tie the horse 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, rode it to his youngest daughter of the GDM; stabbed the horse, tied it her larynx around her mother's neck, smeared her mother's face with blood as if she were blush; tied horse hair to the knife on the table and to the pillow to pull it; agreed with his mother that he would call a knife, he will come and then cut the mother's throat (i.e. the horse's larynx); the horse (i.e. her corpse) left standing on the roof; the GDM sees that the knife is obeying the order, and the mother of MS has come to life and rejuvenated; gave her daughter for knife; he stabbed his wife; tells his son to put MS in a bag and drown him in an ice-hole tomorrow; the sorceress sees the bag, MS replies that he considers it to be the money given by Heavenly God; the sorceress untied the bag, MS shoved it they came there; they came to drown, the sorceress says he counts the money; drowned; MS took out the body, smeared the deceased's face, put on his mother's fur coat, hid his mother away; told the GDM daughter that he saw off his mother to meet Heavenly God, and now she is near the ice-hole; the girl comes up, pushed her, she fell into the ice-hole; the GDM tells her daughter that she killed MS's mother; and he shows his mother in the morning, says she returned from the ice-hole; the wife asks MS why he does not meet Heavenly God; MS: he is angry; the father-in-law sends his son for the sorceress (the one who is drowned) to pray to Heavenly God; MS: Heavenly God made her the wife of the water spirit; 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]: Steinitz 2014, No. 12:86-103; Nenets: Golovnev 2004 (Gydan, Zap. 1979) [similar to other versions]: 269-273; Labanauskas 1995 [(=2001:194-200); Nardalë finds a fresh grave, puts on the dead man's clothes; finds another, puts a dead old woman on a sledge; on the camp pretends to be ashamed to enter with his grandmother; says she is shy; the owner sends two daughters for her; sledges fall into the ravine, N. pretends that her grandmother died of fear; receives for the owner's daughter who died as a wife; the wife's younger sister slaughts their newborn, says that N. got his wife for the dead old woman; N. cuts off her tongue; the girl is silent, the sister thinks she is crazy; the name shaman, she begins to talk about N.'s adventures; he shouts that pop has arrived, everyone runs out of the plague; N. kills the shaman, tells those who returned that she died of fear; the owner asks N. to take the deceased to her seven Khanty sons; N. puts the shaman on sledges as if alive; on the way, a hunter's arrow hits her; hunters promise N. fifty deer; near shaman N.'s house, sledges, shouts that pop has arrived; the shaman's sons shoot, N. pretends to kill their mother; gets two wives; the father of the first wife puts N. in an iron barrel to supposedly send him to the bottom for money; the barrel does not climb into the ice-hole, left for the night; a Russian finds a barrel, agrees to climb into it himself to get money; in the morning he is drowned; N. returns, his father-in-law is ready to climb to the bottom himself, N. dissuades him]: 151-158; Tonkov 1936 [ Nardaliko puts his deceased grandmother on sledges, comes to the Ostyatsky prince, says that he left his grandmother on the Ob; he sends his daughters, the sledge falls through the ice, N. receives the youngest in return for the allegedly deceased daughter to wife; a son is born, N. hears his mother asking him if he will also exchange dead old women for living wives; N. cuts off his wife's tongue; the shaman wants to find out why the woman is silent; N. shouts that they are coming enemies, pushes the shaman into the fire; summons to take her burnt down to her sons; shouts that they are dying, they chop the deceased, N. says that they cut her mother; for silence they give N. furs; the prince commands throw N. in a barrel under the ice; his servants leave him overnight on the ice; he tells a passing reindeer herder that he is mining gold; the reindeer herder takes his place, he picks up the load, the deer, says he has taken it from the bottom; the prince tells him to throw him into the ice-hole in a barrel; N. becomes a prince]: 194-200; Mansi: Balandin 1938, No. 8 [Ekva-Pyris lives with his grandmother, put the meat cauldron on two wood stumps, it boils without fire; two sons of Ushin-Otyr-oiki came, bought a cauldron for two sets of clothes; they do not boil; next time he filled the body with sables and dried fish, pretended that his dog got everything and brought it himself; sons UOO bought a 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 his sons, she fell; then grandma stabbed her in the ground got up; UO sons buy a knife, slaughter their wives, they did not live; EP undertakes money to bury a dead girl; brings her to UO, leaves them in the ice-hole with a knife stuck in her chest; accuses the UO daughters of what it is they killed a girl; marries UO's youngest daughter as a ransom; lives with her; two other UO daughters guessed the fraud; EV hung them by the chin on the palisade; the shaman almost figured out who the killer was; EP releases dogs for dried meat, shouts that enemies are coming; everyone jumped out, EP drowned the 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, they give a rich ransom, his younger sister; comes to the shamans, who slaughtered their own son in the dark; EP flies away with a loon, the shaman is chased by 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; he grows horns; the shaman and the 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; 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 and eats his brother; E. comes back, finds menkwa, says he has come to life, took a lot of fur for his brother; says to Usyng-Otyr's two sons that the dog gets him the beast, that the cauldron cooks the meat itself; takes three deer for the dog, three more for the cauldron; ties a bag of blood to the grandmother's throat, pretends to kill it, that his knife revives it; 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, marries two daughters W. for his supposedly drowned sister; the girls recognize him, he kills them, hangs them on trees; the shaman eats fly agarics, camlates to recognize 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 has died; 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 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; hits each other with his wife, but they only hit each other; E. finishes off the old man, returns home]: 68-80; northern Selkups (recorded by G.N. Prokofiev in Selkup from a forest nenka) [Yompu lives with grandmother; once there is no fish, but dead bones float along the river; J. wrapped his arms and boat with birch bark, broke the dead barns on the hill, swam, the dead chased, only ripped off the birch bark from his hands and from the boat; J. sailed to the people, they started shooting at him with bows; he let a perch and a brush dam the river, the shooters drowned; the damn old man makes a dumpling boat; J. put a frog and a lizard in the boat, they immediately they crucified the boat; the devil split the log, asked Y. to split it with his hands, knocked out the wedge, left, "now dry for 7 years"; but J. has a beaver jaw hidden away, she split the larch; J. put on the skin of a mousetrap hawk , flew to where the hell was swimming along the river, put a snare from the top of the larch, the hell hung; J. drilled the bottom of the boat, sprinkled it with sand, two drowned; the old man began to shamanize - he sees nothing, the old woman shamanite - these people drowned; she was tied by a rope {obviously not to fall into the hearth}; everyone fell asleep, J. volunteered to hold the rope, let go, the old woman fell into the hearth and burned down; J. ran away, shot people, threw it into the water with his property; came to people who dive from two connected larches: they are trying to break the water plague, which locked the fish while his son is sick; J. volunteered to dive, shamanil, cured his son watery, he released the fish; but J. cannot get out of the plague; he met with the water's daughter; she told Y. to jump out through the smoke hole, the guard bears only tore their forearm; they run with the water's daughter, an animal with a horn is harnessed into the sledge to the sky; the water catches up, J. put a one-clawed female against him, "one-clawed grandmother, hold it well"; the same two-clawed, etc. to seven; then puts a one-horned - and up to the semiroy - choir (male deer); defeated six traits, the seventh cared him, the water carried him to the northern ocean; J. came to his grandmother, she died long ago, J.'s wife revived her, she became a girl; wife put up "Lands on the Ridge (located) sacrificial chortov chum"]: Tuchkova, Wagner-Nagy 2015, No. 37:165-171.

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) [about as in (81), =Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976:167-174; Shaman fox, she has wolf sons, fox daughters; one wolf, one face ran away with their tails cut off, they come from them current; for promising to settle the case with a drowned shaman, Oloon Doloon marries the owners' daughter]: 7-9, 13-16; Baikal Evenks (northern Transbaikalia) [Chamgchar went into a rich plague; no owners, A rich guest sleeps in the hearth, meat in the cauldron; C. ate the meat, told the owner that the guest had eaten, that guest kicked out; at night he got up, stabbed the cow, hid the meat; he volunteered to go after the shaman, whose children are foxes and wolves; afraid that the shaman would understand who stole the cow; tied birch bark to the horse's tail, set it on fire; everyone rushed after the horse, and C. pushed the shaman into the cauldron; volunteered to take the body to her children; put the shaman in the sleigh, as if alive; when he arrived at her house, he tells not to frighten the bull (who pulls the sleigh); he poked the bull in the side with an awl, the sleigh overturned, the body fell his head on the stump, the foxes and wolves are crying - the mother died; K.: everyone I'll cut an ice-hole, everyone sit in them and count the stars; count, the grief will pass; C. brought people to share their prey - frozen foxes and wolves]: Pinegina 2019:120-124; Evens [man comes to Nyonatikan 'u (White-eyed Old Man), asks for the news; the third time he replies that there is a young lover under the man's wife's bed; this is Nivani from a neighboring village, his man kills; Nyon. puts on the victim's clothes, comes to Togo's sister; she is beautiful, she is kept in the dungeon; says she wants to sleep with her; she refuses to sleep with her brother, he promises to kill himself, puts on Nee. his old clothes, puts a knife in the wound; the shaman is called to find out the truth; when she has found out almost everything, Nyon. shouts that enemies are coming, throws the shaman into a boiling pot; explains what he mistook the trees for enemies; people think that the shaman has scalded herself, they are afraid that her five sons will take revenge; Nyon. tells him to give him two deer with a bad character, carries meat and the deceased; meeting Nyon's sons. asks Don't scare the deer, they drop the deceased, Nyon. She pretends that she is dead now, gives her sons the meat she supposedly received for camlance; they are satisfied, reward Nyon.]: Jochelson 1926:292-295.