Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

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M94A. Mountain riding: antagonist victims .35.39.41.43.

The demonic character kills his victims, provoking them to slide down the mountain.

Mansi (southern and northern) [anthropomorphic characters], Eastern Khanty [fox and hare], northern Khanty [anthropomorphic characters], tundra yukaghirs [humans], Kuchin [wolverine and hers victims], Khan (?) [wolverine and its victims], upper tanana [wolverine and its victims], helmet [wolverine and its victims], southern tutchoni [wolverine and its victims], tagish [wolverine and its victims], slevi [wolverine and its victims], sechelt ( sisiatl) [anthropomorphic creatures].

Western Siberia. Mansi: Kuzakova 1994 (southern Mansi - Kondinsky district) [Mos-ne has a boy and a girl, and Por-ne too; both go to tear grass for insoles, P. offers to slide down the mountain, kills M ., after riding it with iron skis; M.'s children see their mother's intestines; run to her sister; P. does not tell another Por-ne to kill M.'s children, she will kill herself when she returns; she accidentally kills P.'s children, thinks they are children M., and M.'s children are hiding; they are running, throwing a comb (forest), a bar (a stone mountain), matches (fire); three P. jumped out from under the stump, one of them became friends with M.'s children; M.'s son pricked his finger with an awl, he was buried; girl P. leaned down for a drink, girl M. began to drown her, she had to give her sable clothes; P. sits in a sledge drawn by black ones, went beyond the mayor (Usyn-Oyr-Oika), M. into a sledge with white deer, married Tonton-Oika; went to remember her brother, found him alive with his wife, they gave a lot of deer; P. hid the sun, the Hare promises that the sun will appear, it has returned]: 110-112); Rombandeeva 2005, No. 41 (Khoshlog village, written by the author from his mother) [Mosne and Porne live, each has a daughter and son; P. calls to collect firewood, invites M. to be the first to ride wooden skis, presses it with his iron skis; daughter M. looks in, sees how P.'s children ask them to eat M.'s eyes, P. promises them the eyes and ears of M.'s children; daughter M. puts her brother in the back, runs, throws a comb (thicket) behind them, flint (flame to the sky), whetstone (mountain); P. could not climb the mountain; daughter M. eats cloudberries, does not pay attention to her brother, who falls into the ground at that time; daughter M. comes to the lake, where daughter P. invites her to swim, takes her clothes, gives her her measles; daughter M. asks for her bag back, his clothes are better than before; Toyton-Toika's son and son Usyn-Otyr-Toika shoot at the arrow, daughter P. mistakenly grabs the TT arrow, marries him, daughter M. marries the son of the WOT; daughter M. goes to a wake for her brother, where she left him; there is a house, a barn; a woman tells dogs to lick ice and snow from their man; daughter M. sees her brother, he married Misna; when she tried to pick him out of the ground, she poked him in the eye, now one eye is gone; M.'s daughter was given a wagon of deer; she arrives where she left her daughter P.; daughter M. replies that she was given an iron chain to encircle the city by her father-in-law, a copper cauldron, white deer; daughter P. says that she was given a bast rope, half a clay pot, a magpie, harnessed the crucian carp, clothes were given from the bark; asks her husband to do an ice-hole, or even a magpie, the crucian carp will die; they went into the ice-hole, the sledges got up; the bast rope breaks; half the pot will not fall far; M.'s little son says that his uncle's arrow in the house bounces off with a ringing ringing, grandfather - with a knock; daughter M.'s husband's father is offended, he is at war against her brother; daughter P. advises to remove the sun and moon from the sky; daughter M. takes off, attaches it to the sledge, it becomes dark, father-in-law cannot go to fight ; says he joked, M.'s daughter brings the stars back to heaven]: 289-301; Northern Mansi (Northern Sosva) [Mos-ne and Por-ne live together, both have two children, a girl and a boy; P. calls M. for grass for insoles, offers a ride down the mountain; kills M. by riding on M.'s back with iron skis; M.'s children find their mother's intestines in the grass, run to her sister; P. tells another Pore -ne kill M.'s children, but she kills the children of P. herself; M.'s children run, throw a comb, a whetstone, matches, a thicket, a mountain, a fire appear; M.'s children sit on the bed, it falls apart, three por-ne appear ; one made friends with them, goes on with them; the boy pricked his finger with an awl and died; P. sat in a sledge with whites (this is the Usyng-Oyr-Oiki sledge), and M. with black deer (Tonton-Oiki sledge), they come to town; M. finds a brother, he is married; the sister gets a wagon train of deer, leaves with her brother, does not wait for P.; she hides the sun; the hare tells the girl that the sun will appear again; grandfather tells P. to let go sun, light again]: Kupriyanova 1960:109-112; Eastern Khanty (b. Wah) [Lisa and Hare live together, both have children; Lisa offers sledding down the mountain, goes first against desire, Lisa runs over, breaks her back; Zaychikha's son and daughter see Lisa feeds meat to their mother's children, offers to eat their children Bunnies; they run, throw a comb, whetstone, flint, they turn into a thicket, a mountain, a fire; the fox lags behind; while the sister eats cloudberries, the brother fails into the ground; (hereinafter referred to as the Moss woman); hits the stump, from there the Pore woman jumps out, offers to swim; puts on M.'s rich fur clothes, gives M. her coryam; in the city of M. manages to pick up the arrow of the son of an Urban Village Old Man, P. has to take the arrow of Tonton-Old Man's son (Tonton-Oika is a poor man, servant, or cunning); respectively, they marry; P. weaves a rope that was enough to wrap half the city, M. - the whole city three times; M. comes to the place where his brother disappeared; there is a house, a bear enters, takes off his skin - this is his brother; sends a herd of deer to his sister]: Lukina 1990, No. 28:101-104; Northern Khanty: Aksyanova et al. 2005, No. 1 (b. Son) [Porne has a daughter, Moshne has a daughter and a son; P. calls M. roll down the mountain, puts a knife on the mountain, carries the corpse home, eats; promises her daughter that she will eat M.'s children; M.'s children run away, throw a firestone (fire to the sky), a comb (forest), a sharpener (river); P. cannot cross it; contrary to the ban, the brother drinks from a puddle, sinks into the ground, his sister only manages to grab his eye; touches a rotten birch stump, a new P. comes out from under it; offers to swim, puts on the girl's clothes, gives her hers; both come to the house, P. marries the son of Washan-Kurtan, an old man, a young M. for Tonton's son; daughters-in-law go home; where his brother has disappeared, M. sees a house, there is a woman ; brother comes, M. gives him his eye; when sending his sister home, brother tells him not to look back; she looked back when her eyes fell, those deer were gone, the rest were following her; argish P. was not carried by deer, but by fish, she lets them go into the lake; at night P. puts a nail in her husband's ear, he dies; M. hears P. singing about it, talks about it; the nail is removed, the man comes to life, P. was torn apart by deer]: 236-239.

SV Asia. Tundra Yukaghirs (Hallerchin Tundra, Nizhnekolymsky District) [Umchegen goes to visit his wife's parents, her brothers kill him; W. asks his mother why his father has not returned for a long time, she answers, I don't know; W. He comes to his uncles, sees them playing with his father's skull; they invite the young man to sleep on the blanket on which his father slept, bring water to his pot, eat from his plate; he defies cunning ( details are not a decree.); pushing off the ground with a spear, jumps over enemies, running home; uncles come for him; he offers to ride down the mountain, pierces nails into trees; uncles stumble upon them, die; mother cries, he kills her; becomes a good hunter, gets married]: Gogolev et al. 1975:195-196.

Subarctic. Upper tanana [Wolverine puts sharp stakes under a steep, icy slope; people slide, fall on stakes; Tsaosha (Beaver) remains the last; pretends to be pierced; Wolverine brings him into his house; looking for a knife; C. jumps up, kills Wolverine and his family; an old woman escapes to a tree; promises that wolverines will not eat people]: McKennan 1959:176-177; Kuchin [Wolverine puts sharp bones under a steep slope, passing, die; someone (name not named) understands deception, pretends to run into bones; Wolverine drags prey home, imaginary dead at every step blows the winds; Wolverine cannot find a knife at home; Wolverine's children notice that the prey's eyes are half-open; a man jumps up, kills Wolverine, his wife and children with a knife; one girl climbed the fir tree, became from there, water the person with urine and feces; the man left her alone]: McGary 1984:313-316; khan? [Wolverine puts sharp stakes under the icy slope; people slide and stumble; The beaver pretends to be pierced; Wolverine brings it to his house; looks for a knife; the Beaver makes the knife blunt; one of the cubs notices that the game has opened its eyes; Beaver jumps up, kills Wolverine and his family with a stone hammer; one cub escapes in a tree, and the current wolverines come from him]: Rooth 1965:274-275, 280-281; helmet [Wolverine puts sharp stakes under the icy slope; people slide and stumble; the Beaver pretends to be pierced; Wolverine brings it to her home; one of the cubs notices that the game has opened its eyes; A beaver jumps up, kills Wolverine and his family with a stick]: Teit 1917a, No. 1:429-430; southern tutchoni: McClelland 1987 [Clever (=Beaver) sees a woman making skin; realizes that skin is human , kills a woman, she turns into a hole; people disappear one by one; The clever comes to a slippery slope; Wolverine puts a sharp horn at the bottom; The clever hides a bag of blood under his clothes, does pretending to run into a horn; seeing blood, Wolverine brings Smetly home; children notice that the game has opened their eyes; Clever kills Wolverine, his wife and children with a stick; newborn cubs jump out of mother's womb, hiding in a tree; The clever makes a fire, they extinguish it with urine; The clever cuts the trunk, they tell the felling to be overgrown; The clever refuses to pursue, tells the cubs to stay small , no longer eat people]: 305-306; 2007, No. 2a [people go missing; Smart Man discovers that Wolverine has placed copper tips under an icy slope; pretends to pierce him; Wolverine brings his home; one of the cubs says that the prey has opened his eyes; Wolverine does not believe; the Beaver jumps up, kills Wolverine and his family with a stick; cuts the female's belly, the cubs jump out from there, hide in tree; deflect arrows; Beaver tells them to eat partridges and steal meat supplies]: 32-35; slevi [Wolverine invites a person to roll off a cliff; he pretends to be dead, smears a stake with blood from his nose; Wolverine takes him home, sharpens his knife; a man kills all wolverines except a cub that has climbed a tree; a man throws his snot against the trunk, the tree turns into a pine tree]: Russel 1900, No. 5:17; tagish [like slevi (no snot/pine motif); Beaver pretends to slip off the slope on a spear; turns Wolverine's children into wolverines]: Norman 1990:108-109.

The coast is the Plateau. Sechelt (sysyatl) [two sisters come to Eagle and Owl living together, both are good hunters; the Eagle marries the youngest, the Owl marries the eldest; the youngest gives birth to a boy, the eldest is a frog, puts him into the lake; husbands disappear; wives go looking for them; the eldest gives the Frog a magic rope, he pulls it, transports them across the lake; wives find husbands dying in the Yeneqemekwon house; she offers roll down the mountain, the abyss under the mountain; the eldest holds on to the magic rope, ending the boy, takes red and white paint in her mouth; J. thinks that the woman has broken, she pulls herself back on the rope; Y . wants to have hair as long as women; women say to coat her head with resin, sprinkle with hot stones; J. burns]: Hill-Tout 1904a: 49-50.