M95. Take the gift home, ATU 311.
(.13.) .14.-.17.22.27.-.29.31.32.
Aweaker character asks a stronger character to take the gift to his family and climbs into a basket, bag, etc. A strong character brings and leaves a gift without knowing that brought whoever sent this gift. Usually a girl hides her sisters in a bag (chest), and next time she sits there herself, and the cannibal believes that there are gifts for the girls' parents in the bag and carries the bag.
(Nuers), Berbers of Beni Snou (Algerian-Moroccan border), Arabs of Morocco, Tunisia, Kabilas, Portuguese, Spanish, Aragon (probably), Italians (Piedmont, Ticino, Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Rome, Campania, Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata), Sicilians, Corsicans, Sardinians, Ladins, French, Scots, Irish, British, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania, Grimms, Austria), Jordanian Arabs, Palestine, Khmu, Slovenes, Moldovans, Hungarians, Croats, Serbs, Bulgarians, Greeks, Czechs, Poles, Russians (Tersky Bereg, Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Ryazan, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Podolia, Kherson), Belarusians, Ossetians, Turks, Norwegians, Icelanders, Swedes, Lithuanians, Latvians, Lutsies, Livons, Finns, Karelians, Estonians, Setu, Western and Eastern Sami, Counselors, Mari, Mordovians, Komi, (Chuvash), Tatars, Bashkirs, Komi, Mansi.
(Wed. Sudan - East Africa. The Nuers [the fox called his brother Tutluet to go steal the cow; they came to the cannibal village; T. chose a cow to the barn, they took it; when the clouds cleared, it became clear that it was an ogre and a fox ran away and hid in his house; the ogre did not eat T., but a fox came to the house; the fox mother hid her son in a big pumpkin and said that there were beans; the cannibal took the pumpkin; hears a voice (this is a pumpkin fox): where are you Do you carry your mother's pumpkin a fox? Put it quietly on the ground; the ogre laid it down; they stood with their backs to each other; fox: let each of us catch a man; the fox ran to his village and the cannibal to his own; fox: you, cannibal, have decided to measure with me by cunning?] : Huffman 1971:102-104)
North Africa. The Berbers of Beni Snou (border between the Holy Republic of Morocco and Algeria) [the hedgehog and the jackal have agreed to grow barley together; while the jackal is working, the hedgehog sleeps under a rock, says it supports it, or else it will fall; when they carried the harvest in the bins, the jackal asked the hedgehog to go down, refused to pick it up; he asked to lower the bag to fill it with barley and take it to the hungry hedgehogs; he hid himself in the bottom; the jackal brought it to the hedgehogs barley, a hedgehog came out from under the barley]: Destaing 1907, No. 1:242-243; Moroccan Arabs: El Koudia 2003, No. 19 [The Hedgehog and the Jackal agreed to steal beans from the field; the Hedgehog fills the bags, and when the work is done, the Jackal is going to carry them away, leaving the Hedgehog to kill the peasant; the Hedgehog asks to take one bag to his children, sits quietly in it; whistles on the way, the Jackal thinks that a peasant has noticed them; brings a bag Hedgehog for children; next time the Hedgehog and the Jackal stole a sheep; The hedgehog screams that a shepherd is coming, the Jackal runs away, the Hedgehog takes the meat for himself; The Jackal smells cooked food; The hedgehog says he took fat out of his armpits ; The Jackal tries to do it, hurts himself, dies], 20 [The Wolf and the Hedgehog agree to steal grain from the barn; the Wolf lowers the Hedgehog on a rope, he fills the bucket, the Wolf pulls it out; when all the bags are full, Wolf is about to leave; the Hedgehog asks at least to take the grain to his children; fills the last bucket, hides in it; laughs at the Wolf at home; the Wolf and the Hedgehog each dig their way into the peasant's garden; The wolf is so full that does not go back; the Hedgehog advises to pretend to be dead, the peasant throws him away, the Wolf runs away; The donkey promises the owner to catch the Wolf if he receives grain and rest as a reward; lies down at the wolf hole, supposedly dead; The Hedgehog advises the Wolf to tie the carcass to his tail to drag him into the hole; the donkey runs away, dragging the Wolf with him, the peasant rewards him]: 108-109, 110-114; kabila (Frobenius, Bd 2, no. 1:3-11), Arabs Tunisia: El-Shamy 2004, No. 311:119
Southern Europe. The Portuguese [the robber marries the eldest sister, or the father is forced to promise to give the first to meet at home, this is the eldest daughter; then the robber consistently takes others daughters; forbids the wife to enter a particular room, giving an object that indicates a violation; the wife opens the door, there are the bodies of previous victims, the object is broken or covered in blood, husband kills his wife and throws her into that room; the youngest manages to remain unexposed (she does not bring an object into the room); she revives or heals her sisters or the wounded prince; exposed, sends a signal to her brothers, they show up quickly; either the wife puts the sisters in a bag, tells her to take it to her parents without looking inside; she stands by the window, he sees her looking around; then puts the doll out by the window, sits down herself into a bag, or runs away with the prince, hiding in a cart under straw; the robber hides in the couple's room; the wife asks to leave a lion (or a soldier at the door) under the bed; the lion kills the robber]: Cardigos 2005, No. 312:67; the Portuguese [a wooden spoon craftsman went into the forest; noticed a hollow in a chestnut tree, looked inside; the Moor tells him to give him what the man first sees in the house, otherwise she would die; the eldest daughter came out; she went to the Moor; in the palace he gave the key to the room, forbidding it to be opened; she opened the bodies there were decapitated; the Moor noticed blood on the key, cut off the girl's head and threw him into the same room; asked the man for his middle daughter for the company of his sister; the same; the youngest also entered that room, but noticed that the sisters' bodies were warm; connected the bodies to their heads, moistened them with blood, the sisters came to life; the youngest washed the blood from the key, the Moor was happy; the youngest put one of the sisters in the basket, told the Moor that she had sugar in it, asked her to take it as a gift to her father; she forbid opening it - she sees everything; when the Moor intends to look into the basket, the sister sitting in it says: I see everything; Moor: beautiful eyes see far - running, running; left the basket to the girls' father; the same with the other sister; then the younger she made a straw doll, left it on the terrace, dressed her own dress and sat down in the basket herself; when she returned, the Moor tried to grab the doll, fell off the terrace and broke his neck; after that, the palace and chestnut disappeared]: Coelho 1879, No. 26:63-65; Spaniards (everywhere) [the wolf is sure the day will be good; did not pick up the pig leg he found; demands that the mare give him a foal (more precisely mulina); that asks to first pull a splinter out of her back leg, kicks her hoof; two lambs ask for help dividing the meadow between them: they will disperse in different directions and whoever reaches the wolf first will get the best part; butt him on both sides; goats ask to be allowed to celebrate mass first, bleat, shepherds come running, beating the wolf; the pig asks to be baptized first by its piglets in the river; pushed the wolf into the water and took the piglets home; the wolf got ashore and laments: who are you to pull out splinters, divide meadows, perform church services, baptize piglets? let lightning strike me from the sky; there was a woodcutter with an ax nearby, hacked a wolf]: Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 122A: 199-201; Aragon [the woodcutter consistently gives his daughters to a nobleman ( this is a demon, an ogre), he pays for every money; in his castle he forbids entering a certain room; girls break the ban, they are given a key or ring that is colored with blood; the youngest finds bodies, revives sisters and, by deceiving the ogre, frees them]: González Sanz 1996, No. 311:75); Italians (Piedmont, Ticino, Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Rome, Campania, Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata), Sardinians: Cerise, Serafini 1975, No. 311:60; Sardinians []: Aprile 2000:204-205; Italians: Crane 1885, No. 16 (Veneto) [the devil decided to marry, turned handsome, created a rich house, married the girl; allowed her to go everywhere, but not unlock one room; the wife opened, there was a fiery abyss, the fire scorched the flowers on the woman's chest; when her husband saw them, he threw her into hell; then but with her middle sister; the youngest removed the flowers beforehand, pulled out the sisters; seeing the flowers unburned, the husband believes that his wife is obedient; she asks to take three chests to her parents, not to look into them on the road; sends one or the other sister home; when the devil is about to sit down, the one sitting in the chest says she can see everything; when the younger sister sits down by herself, she first puts a doll on the balcony in her clothes; when the devil returns, he finds a doll and an empty jewelry box; runs to his wives' parents; wives laugh at him while standing on the balcony, the devil leaves]: 78-81; Gubernatis 1872 (Piedmont) [the widow has three daughters; a signor passes by, takes the eldest as his wife; this is the chieftain of robbers; he orders to take care of the puppy during his absence; gives keys, forbiding him to enter two rooms; the girl does not feed the puppy; enters rooms, heads severed off in one, ears and tongues hang in the other; the chieftain returns, the dog tells him everything, he cuts off his wife's head; the same with his middle sister; the younger one is affectionate with the dog, feeds her, the dog and her owner are happy; while the dog is in the garden, the girl enters the forbidden rooms, finds in the second of them an ointment to grow dicks and revive the dead; after reviving her sisters, she hides each in the big a jug and asks her husband to take them as a gift to her parents; forbids looking inside - he will see; the chieftain is going to look, but hears a double whisper, frightened; at this time, the wife cooked the dog in boiling oil; among the lively was Carlino, the son of the French king, they got married; the chieftain comes to Paris, bribes the maid to put sleeping pills on the prince and servants pillows, hides in gold the pole he ordered to leave in front of the palace; the chieftain is going to cook the prince's wife in oil; she grabbed her husband, his head is no longer on the pillow, he woke up; the chieftain was burned alive]: 35-36; Calvino 1980, No. 8 (Piedmont) [The laundress widow has three daughters exhausted from work; the eldest is ready to hire the hell; the gentleman arrives with a silver nose; the mother is in doubt, but the eldest daughter is ready to go with him; at her house he gives the keys to all rooms, forbids entering one of them; at night he quietly sticks a rose into the girl's hair; when she unlocks the forbidden door, hell is behind her, the flame scorched the rose; when she returns, Silver Nose pushed the girl to hell; the same with her middle sister (Silver Nose explained that one maid could not do all the work; he stuck a carnation in her hair); younger Lucia noticed jasmine in her hair she put it in the water, he was not scorched; before Silver Nose came, she stuck it in her hair again; asked her to take a bag of laundry to her mother; warned that she could see far away - let Silver Nose does not sit down to rest on the way; instead of underwear, L. put her older sister in a bag; when Silver Nose intends to look into the bag, her sister says "I see, I see" instead of L.; in the same way, L. sent her middle sister; then she made a doll in her own likeness, said that she was ill, sat in a bag herself, taking money; when all the sisters returned, they put a cross in front of the house and the devil never came again]: 26-30; Corsicans [the mother has three daughters; the eldest goes to look for a better life, comes to a rich house, the owner hires her; when she leaves, she allows her to enter all rooms except alone; gives a golden ball; she opens the door, there are screams, she bends down, sees that this is hell, which means that the owner is the devil; the ball falls out and falls; when she returns, the owner demands the ball; throws the girl at the abyss in that room; the same with the middle sister; the youngest leaves the ball in the closet, shows it to the returning owner; after two or three years, the youngest asks the devil to take the gift to her mother; pulls it out by the hand He puts his middle sister in a box; if the devil wants to open it on the way, I must say: I can see everything! Two or three years later, the youngest sent her older sister home in the same way; to transport herself, the youngest made a doll, left it in sight; realizing the deception, the devil came to the sisters' house, but they they put crosses around and sprinkled everything with holy water; however, the devil blew, the facade of the house collapsed, but it was never possible to repair it]: Massignon 1984, No. 19:40-43; ladins [the peasant has Greta's daughter and Cilgia; in the spring, G. is the first to go to herd cows; the father warns not to turn left along the path, where you will fall into the hands of a wild man; G. {obviously, turning left} meets a man in a pointed hat; he makes her go with him, opens the door in the rock; there workers greet him, calling him "Gian Pitschen (GP) with a pointed hat"; he has a lot of treasures; he gives G. a gold-plated needle, forbids him to unlock one of the rooms; G. must make coffee every day; once she opened the door, there are the remains of women, she dropped a needle, not can wash off blood stains; the GP pushes her into the same room, locks the door; Cilgia goes to look for her sister; the old man tells her to greet the little man with the words his employees do; in the monastery, GP S. does not cry, but she pretends to be happy, the GP is happy with her; she first hides the needle, then opens the door, feeds her sister; pretends to be afraid for her parents - they are starving; the GP tells me to pack a bag of provisions, promises carry; S. puts his sister in a bag, teaches him and says, "I see!" as soon as the GP wants to open the bag; he is told he will look after him from the balcony; if he drops the bag, she will throw himself into the water; S. hung her red dress on the stake for the GP to see and think that she was watching him; when the GP was completely tired and threw the bag, he saw a red dress in the water {its reflection?} , rushed to grab him, slipped into the water, S. and GP officers killed him with stones; old man: since everyone got rid of the GP thanks to S., she should get rid of his treasures; sisters and their parents moved to live in GP Palace {the informant must have forgotten that this dwelling is inside a cliff}]: Uffer 1973, No. 40:179-187 (=Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 3:31-40).
Western Europe. The French (Bresse, Burgundy) [a poor woman has three daughters; a rich gentleman arrives, this is the devil, he asks for a maid, the mother sends her eldest daughter; in the forest, the earth opens and they go down to hell ; the same with the middle sister; the younger sister is smarter than the others; she finds the older sister's corpse in the closet, but the old woman gives a revitalizing ointment; the younger sister asks the owner to take her mother's gift, hides it in a chest the older sister, as well as food and money, tells the devil not to open it on the way - she will see everything; she teaches her sister to shout "I see, I see!" , if the devil tries to open the chest; the devil brings the chest to the woman; the same with his middle sister; to get out by himself, he makes a doll, puts a nightcap on her and says that he is sick and will go to bed, and she climbs into the chest herself; this story shows that women are more cunning than the devil itself]: Bressan 1908, No. 4:405-408; Scots: Kharitonov 2008 [(=Campbell 1890.2:388-389); someone steals cabbage from the widow's gardens and her three daughters; the eldest guards, the giant takes her away with the cabbage; tells her to weave cloth; elves come, ask for food, she does not feed them; the porridge is burned; the giant hits her, throws her in chicken coop; same with middle sister; the younger one feeds the elves; the elf comes taller than others, promises to weave cloth if the girl guesses his name; she feeds the old woman, she accidentally sees how underground the elf weaves, says he is Pyriglup; she tells the girl about it; the elf leaves all the cloth; the grateful giant agrees to take the grass basket as a gift to the girl's mother; she hides the eldest in the basket sister, the giant carries her; the same middle one; the third time she sits down herself; when the giant began to leave, the sisters scalded him to death with boiling water]: 410-418; Campbell 1890 (2), No. 41 (recorded in 1859) [the widow has three daughters; a gray horse comes to the garden to eat cabbage; the eldest daughter goes to guard; hit the horse with a spoke from the wheel, stuck to it, he led her to the hill, told her to open it to the royal son; in the morning the prince left her keys, told me not to unlock one room; she unlocked, there were women's bodies, she stained her leg with blood; the cat asked for milk, promised to clean her leg, but the girl drove her away; the prince came back, saw blood, cut her off the girl's head, threw it into that room; the same with her middle sister; the youngest gave milk to the cat, she licked the blood; the next day she ordered the girl to ask the prince to take three chests to her mother; they are not allowed open - she will see from the tree; let the girl revive her sisters with a magic club, each sit in her chest, take silver and gold; the prince will rush, he must cut off his head, the spell will crumble, he will take girl as a wife; that's what happened]: 279-284; Germans [the man has three daughters; the sorcerer came in the guise of an old man, his older sister took him to eat, was in his bag, he took her to his palace; when he left, gives keys and an egg, forbids entering the same room; she comes in, there are chopped people in the trough, she drops the egg, the blood stain cannot be washed off it, the sorcerer throws her remains into the same trough; the same with the middle sister; the youngest first hid the egg, and then only opened the room; put together the remains of the sisters, they came to life; promised the sorcerer to marry him, but asked her to take a basket of gold home; herself put sisters in it; when the sorcerer wants to sit down on the way, one of them says she sees everything; he believes it is the youngest, brought the basket to the girls' parents; the younger sister dressed up and painted the skull, left it in the dormer window as if she was watching; she smeared honey and feathered herself, went home; the sorcerers going to the wedding and the sorcerer himself mistook her for an unknown bird; the siblings surrounded her and set fire to the house, all the sorcerers burned down]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 46:155-158 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:130-132); (cf. Germans (Swabia) [Hubrich-Messow 1988, No. 4; an unfamiliar hunter comes to the miller, marries one of his daughters; gives his wife a key and an egg, tells her not to open the door to the cellar, followed by bears and wolves; she opens - there are skulls and blood, she drops an egg, cannot show her husband, he cuts off her head, throws her into the cellar; the same with her second sister; with the third - but the egg does not break; she and her husband visit parents, leaves the gift chest, the heads of his older sisters in it; returns to her husband's castle, and then runs away; asks the coachman to hide it; only the third agrees; the husband and his robbers search the coachman, but did not open the last bag and left; the girl returned to her parents]: Meier 1852a, No. 63:224-230); Irish, British, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania, Grimms, Austria): Uther 2004 (1), No. 311:191-192
Western Asia. Jordanian Arabs, Palestinians: El-Shamy 2004, No. 311:119
Burma - Indochina. Khmu [Bear and Squirrel friends; picking nuts, Squirrel pretends to have a stomachache, Bear offers to carry her in a sling; she refuses, agrees if in the basket; eats on the way the nuts collected by the Bear runs away; when both work in the Bear's field, the Squirrel imitates the cicada, says it's too late, they come back; when they work in the Squirrel field, they stay late; says that stays overnight, makes a bundle of leaves, asks the Bear to take the gift to her children; she hides in a bundle herself, the Bear brings it to the children Squirrels, they find his father in the bundle; the Bear tries to repeat the trick , barely covers itself with leaves, the Squirrel is going to shoot through the leaves with a crossbow, the Bear runs away; bamboo mats must be taken to the field, the Squirrel hides in them, the Bear brings it along with the mats; When back, the Bear tries to repeat the trick, the Squirrel throws a heavy pestle into the mats; the bear invites Squirrel to the barn to eat bananas, traps, cooks meat; calls the children Squirrels, says they ate father]: Lindell et al. 1978, No. 9:89-93.
The Balkans. Slovenes [hell was a count, got an eldest daughter; gave his wife a golden apple, told him not to go into room 12; she went in, the apple went to hell, the devil pushed his wife in the same place; got an middle daughter (same); the youngest tied an apple in her apron before opening the door; once she brought one sister from hell in the basket, told the Devil to take the gift to her parents, not to open it, otherwise she would be for with my back, screams, I see! Damn brought the basket to the girls' parents' house; the same with the second sister; the third time Devil's wife made her stuffed animal out of straw, sat down in the basket herself, shouting what she saw on the way; when she returned, the devil found scarecrow]: Arkhipova 1962:218-220; Serbs [the couple has three daughters; hell married the eldest; ordered not to go into the 12th room; the girl opened hell there, she dropped the golden apple given to her, it rolled away; hell pushed her to hell; came for her second sister - the wife misses; the same with her; the youngest tied an apple in her apron, showed the line intact; hid her older sister in the basket, asked for the devil take the gift home; when the hell wants to look into the basket, the girl sitting in it says, "I see it, I see it!" ; hell believes that it was his wife looking from afar; hell left the basket with the girls' parents; the same with his second sister; the youngest made a scarecrow, put her clothes on it; hell took it; when he came back, pushed the scarecrow, realized that it was carried out]: Tesic 2017:22-25; Moldovans [Laur-Balaur turns into an old woman, gives the elder princess an apple, it rolls, the princess runs after him, trying to grab it; refuses to give a bird a drink at the well, comes to the black kingdom; the LB forbids entering the same room; it enters, frees chained prisoners; the forehead sees an apple plunged into blood, cuts the princess into pieces ; the same with the middle princess; marrying the youngest, the LB pretends to be great; drives past the well, she tells her to stop, gives water to the bird; she tells her to ask her husband for a golden apple; the wife finds the corpses of her sisters, not lets the apple plunge into the blood; sees where the jug of live water is, when the forehead grows its severed fingers; revives the sisters; tells the forehead to take the bag of gifts to parents, puts the eldest one there, then middle sister, promises from her forehead not to look inside; when LB wants to open the bag, the princess from the chest says in his wife's voice that she sees him keep his promise; for the third time she leaves her promise wax doll, LB himself takes his wife to her parents; LB comes running, killed, thrown into the sea]: Botezatu 1982:257-265; Greeks [the woman has three daughters, they saw a cat, the eldest ran after him, ended up in a place where there are 6 houses; the cat forbids unlocking the sixth; she unlocks, there is blood on her finger, {the owner kills her}; the same with the second sister; the youngest unlocks, puts the sisters' heads to the body, sisters come to life; the girl promises the cat to marry him, but first asks her parents to take a chest of gifts, puts her older sister in the chest; then the middle sister; every time the cat wants to open the chest, the girl from does not tell the chest; the cat believes that it is the younger sister who sees everything from afar; the third time the youngest sits in the chest herself; under the guise of a herb seller, the cat came to that house and made his way inside through the chimney; sisters they poured peas, the one who made their way fell, one sister hit him with an ax, but her head grabbed her hand; the doctor had to cut off her arm]: Dawkins 1916:391-395; Romanians, Croats, Hungarians, Bulgarians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 311:191-192
Central Europe. Czechs [Betushka grazed goats by the pond, carried her away by a waterman; she grew up and asked the waterman to bring gold and silver as a gift to her parents; next time she made a doll, put it by the stove, and herself sat down in the chest; when the water man was about to sit down to rest, B. shouted that she saw him, told him to hurry; B. returned home, and the waterman found only a doll by the stove]: Erben in Lifshits-Artemyeva 2017:146-148; Poles [two sisters consistently get to a monster that forbids them to enter a particular room; gives them an apple, an egg, an ornament, etc., and when girls break the ban, they look like items, the monster finds out the truth and kills offenders; the third younger sister also enters the forbidden room, but does not take the object with her; the monster takes her as his wife; she finds and revives sisters; asks her husband takes a gift chest to her parents, puts her sisters in it; next time she sits down on her own, and leaves the doll for herself]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 311:93-94; Russians: Balashov 1970, No. 76 ( Terek coast) [the eldest daughter asks the old man to carve her a spinning wheel; he carved it, but forgot it in the forest; she followed her; the bird screams to the right, and the bear to the left, left; got to a bear, became his wife; the same with two other daughters (sewing and spindle); the bear forbids the youngest to enter the room, which is tied with bast and sealed with crap; she enters, there are sisters; asks for a bear take her parents a gift for her name day, puts her older sister in the chest; the bear wants to eat a pie; the girl from the chest: do not sit on a stump, do not eat a pie; the bear left the chest to the girls' parents; then with her second sister; the youngest dragged a stump to the mansions, put her dress on it, and the bear brought it]: 250-253; Karnaukhova 1948 {Karelia?} [granddaughter Dasha and Masha's grandmother; D. was carried away by the Bear in the forest; ordered her to manage, she did everything badly, he threw her into the cellar; the same is with M., but she is well managed, the Bear praises her; finds D.; asks the Bear take a hotel to his grandmother; hides in a bag with D., puts pies on top; when the Bear wants to stop, M. every time says, as if from afar, "I sit high, see far away, don't sit on a stump, don't eat pie"; The bear brings the bag to his grandmother, leaves himself; the girls get out of the bag]: 84-88; Onchukov 1906, No. 55 (Arkhangelskaya, Sumy Posad) [Father, going to the forest, forgets to pick up the spinning wheel sequentially , a club and a hoop ("prelitsa, palichu, spades") carved for three daughters. They take turns to go to the forest for these items, and a bear picks them up. The sisters live with a bear and can't run away. The eldest puts the youngest in a bag and tells the bear to carry the hotel for her father. On the way, the bear thinks to eat the hotel, the girl from the bag screams to carry the hotel whole. The bear takes the youngest daughter to her father. The older one sends her middle sister home in the same way. She sits in the bag herself, the Bear brought it to her parents, left it there]: 145-146; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [the same; the father of three sisters shot a bear]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:100-103; Russians (Vologodskaya) [the girls asked their grandparents to let Masha go to the forest with them; Masha got lost and ended up in a hut where three bears lived; only the porridge from a small bowl turned out to be delicious, only it is comfortable for a small crib to sleep, sit on a small chair; it is a bowl, a chair, a bear bed; the bears told Masha to bake pies, left her servants; Masha asked to take the pies to her grandfather with grandmother, she sat in the back herself; forbids when the bear is going to sit on a stump, eat a pie; the bear believes that Masha sees from afar; the bear left the body in Masha's house, left; grandparents are happy]: Kuzmina 2008, No. 39:103-105; Russians (Voronezhskaya, 1968, Aleksandrovka village, Pavlovsky District) [The old man asks his daughter to bring him lunch to the forest, spreads the way to him with branches. The bear sees this and moves the branches towards its den. The eldest daughter ends up with a bear, who forces him to agree to marry him (otherwise, he threatens to eat her). The bear goes hunting, gives the keys, but forbids his wife to enter one pantry. She sees a lot of goodness in the rooms, and a cauldron of gold in the forbidden pantry, she puts her finger in there and it turns gold. He ties it up, but the bear sees and eats his wife. The next day, the old man asks his middle daughter to bring him lunch, marks the way to him with strings, and the bear outweighs them. Everything is repeated with the old man's middle daughter. The youngest daughter Masha comes to the den on the ashes covered by the bear and also becomes his wife. In the forbidden pantry, she lowers a branch into the golden cauldron, it turns golden. She plants a branch in the ground. She bakes pies and asks the bear to take them to his parents, she hides herself in a bag under the pies. While the bear is walking, he forbids him to stop and eat pies. Dogs rush at their parents' house and tear them apart]: Kretov 1977, No. 13:27-28; Russians (Voronezhskaya, 1940, Anninsky District) [Tanya gets lost in the forest, meets a bear, he makes it in his house by the hostess. Tanya bakes pies and asks the bear to take them to her grandparents, and sits in the bag herself. Whenever a bear wants to stop and eat a pie, he screams that he sees it. The bear leaves the bag at Tannin's porch and leaves. Old people find their granddaughter and rejoice]: Tonkov 1949, No. 25:233-233; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Ryazan, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Podolia), Belarusians [Bear ( goblin, magician, robber) and three sisters: the elders violate the ban on entering a special room and die; the youngest revives them, hides that she has been to this room, forces the murderer to take the sisters, and then himself to his home in a bag (basket), forbiding him to watch "gifts for parents" (runs away, leaving a doll on the bed)]: SUS 1979, No. 311:111-112; Ukrainians (Kherson) [old people have three daughters; the grandfather asks to bring him lunch in the field, promises to cut a stick and throw chips on the way; the snake found out, put the chips on the path to his house; the snake tells him to have dinner, the salty meat is human; in the morning the serpent gave the keys, forbade entering one room; she went in, there were dead people and blood vessels; she dropped the apple given by the snake, the blood could not be washed off; the serpent cut off her head, threw it into that room; into the next since the youngest daughter, the father sprinkles ash, the same; the middle daughter, the father sprinkles potatoes; she did not drop the apple, the serpent believed that she did not look into the forbidden rooms; she caught a crow, forced her to bring it alive and dead water, revived her sisters, put them in a chest, told the snake to take the gift home; a few years later she gave birth to a half-human half-snake; ordered the snake to take gold home; cut the child, threw it in the forbidden room, she sat down in the chest herself; the serpent returned - no wife]: Yastrebov 1894, No. 15:145-148; (cf. Slovaks [the beggar asks to spend the night; when he leaves, a golden apple rolls after him; the eldest daughter follows, enters his castle, the beggar becomes a man; tells him to cook the human head, sweep 12 rooms, don't go into the 13th; she doesn't drink three pigeons, goes into the room, there are corpses on the walls and two barrels, she sticks it in one finger, he falls off; the returning husband hangs it in the same room; the same with the middle sister; the youngest gives water to the pigeons, they explain what to do; the girl revives the sisters with live water, locks them in caskets, they fly to the girls' mother; she baked the doll herself in her likeness; husband came, ate it; the girl took the weed, flew home; hell came again, she touched him with that grass, it spread resin]: Bogatyrev 1955:153-159).
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [Bear (wolf, sorcerer) and three sisters: older sisters die; the youngest makes the bear carry his sisters and then himself to his home in a sack, forbidding him to look into the bag]: Sokayeva 2004, No. 311:20-21; Turks: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 157 (Ankara, Istanbul, Kars, Malatya; various options) [old man - seller of spindles (skewers, beads, brooms maker, Jew - pin seller) locks one of his three sisters; either the poor, in need of money, sell their daughter to a sorcerer; or the padishah gives his daughter to a giant; or the father leaves and promises gifts to three daughters; a gift the eldest can only buy with the help of a dervish, to whom he promises a daughter; or childless spouses want a daughter; they must throw all the peas into the sea, but they forget one and the sorcerer finds one a girl; or three sisters look for a chicken or cat and go to a giant; the old man offers the girl a human being; she does not eat, says she will eat his finger (ears, chest, hands, donkey tongue); the old man cut him off, but the girl threw her finger away; the finger does not give a voice from the girl's belly, the old man kills her; the same with the second girl; the third feeds the cat's finger; the finger says he is in a warm stomach; or girls must take care of the sorcerer's children (snakes) and only the youngest does not cry, but does what needs to be done; after that, the old man trusts the girl, but forbids her to enter the 21st room; she goes in, there is a young man hanging there ; he advises cutting off the ogre's hair, then he will fall asleep for 14 days; the girl hears a voice: remove the bottle from the young man's head; then he wakes up, kills the old man; or, when she enters the room, the girl sees corpses (an old man devouring them) there; an indelible drop of blood appears on the key; or the girl's finger turns golden; the girl sees the corpses of her sisters, revives them with a whip; putting the sisters in a bag or chest, asks the old man to take the gift home; then she sits in the bag herself, the old man carries her too; either the girl is released by her brother, husband, prince; or she kills the old man herself when he falls asleep; or a sorcerer (der Böse) comes to the house of the girl who ran away from him in the form of a horse or a ram, in the form of a midwife; he puts everyone to sleep, but is still thrown into the oven and burns; sometimes a sorcerer kills two children girls]: 170-173; Dmitriev 1967, No. 33 []: 206-212.
Baltoscandia. Norwegians [a poor woman has a chicken and three daughters; the chicken goes missing; the eldest daughter goes looking, hears a voice from a crevice in the mountain, falls down, there are mansions, an ugly man asks if he will she is his mistress; she says no, he rips off her head, throws her remains into the cellar; the same with her middle sister; the youngest finds the remains of her sisters, says she is happy to become that man's mistress; says he is homesick; asks for gifts to his mother; puts food on top, gold down; the cannibal wants to see what's so heavy there, she screams that she sees everything; he doesn't stop anymore brings his mother's bag; one day a goat falls into the crevice, the cannibal tears off his head, throws it into the cellar; the wife regrets not being able to play with the goat; the cannibal revives the goat with ointment from the flask; the girl survives his older sister in the same way, sends her mother in a bag, putting food on top; the cannibal wants to stop again and see, the girl screams that she sees everything; the same with the middle sister; leaves for a scarecrow himself, runs away to his mother; the cannibal comes, the scarecrow is silent, he hits him, rushes in pursuit; the sun rises, the cannibal bursts]: Dasent 1970:14-22; Icelanders [old people love Signy's elder daughters and Asa, and the youngest Helga is tyranted by work; a handsome man came to S.; when he led him, he became a giant with three heads; brought him to the cave and locked him in the cellar, his hands tied and tied to his hair; the same with Asa; and with H., but made her a maid; the giant took the key with him, but H. saw the sisters through the keyhole; tried to flatter the giant; he trusted her with the keys, but forbid her to unlock one door; she unlocked and agreed with her sisters to send them home under the guise of a gift; put them in a bag, poured various food on top; forbade them to look into the bag: she would see them from afar; stopped to see one of those sitting in the bag the sisters began to sing: I saw through the forest, the hills and my cave; H. herself smeared her face with charcoal and left a scarecrow at the table in her wedding dress; the giant did not recognize her, began to ask questions; she said that his fiancée waits; H. went home, and the giant invited guests to his wedding; when they saw the deception, the giant and his guests started fighting and killed each other; people burned their bodies; H. married well, she has many children, and hers sisters foolishly remained old maidens]: Poestion 1994, No. 2:10-21; Swedes [one chicken goes somewhere to lay eggs; the eldest daughter goes looking, tied a thread to the chicken; comes to the cave the giant takes the girl, lets the chicken go; the same with the middle daughter; with the youngest, but the giant is going to marry her; she asked for the gift to her parents, put her older sister in a bag, told her saying that he sees everything if the giant tries to look into the bag; the giant believes that his fiancée is so keen; the same with his middle sister; the third time the youngest sits in the bag herself, leaving a scarecrow at home , warned the giant not to talk to her for a day; the returning giant found a scarecrow and burst with anger]: Stier 1971, No. 11:59-64; Norwegians [the troll consistently comes to marry three sisters; forbids entering one of the rooms; two sisters disobeyed and killed; the third is obedient; finds a magic ointment, revives sisters; sends them in a chest - supposedly gifts home; the troll believes that the wife She sees from afar and does not look into the chest; then leaves a scarecrow in her place and gets home in the same way as her sisters; the troll bursts]: Hodne 1984, No. 311:68-72; Swedes [girl enters the house of a demonic creature; there she is either told to eat a human (human leg) or is not allowed to enter a specific room; the man answers from the cat's belly; blood from a dropped key impossible to wash off; the owner kills the girl; the same with the middle sister; the cat helps the youngest; she finds an ointment to revive the sisters; sends them home in the chest as a gift and saves herself in the same way; sometimes she flies away in a feather dress, leaving a doll in bed]: Liungman 1961, No. 311:56-57; Lithuanians [35 options; the old man has come to the forest, the wolf wants to kill him, he promises a daughter; the wolf gives her a golden apple and a silk shawl, forbid her to enter one of the rooms; she enters, the apple and the handkerchief fall, stained with blood; the wolf took her to the closet and stabbed her; received a second daughter from the old man (the same); third; she did not drop the apple and handkerchief, the sisters came to life; the third sister asks the wolf to take the gift to her father, puts her first sister in the chest, the wolf takes her; next time, the second; then asked for time off for a christening, she made a scarecrow, put her clothes on it and hung it; she sat down in the chest, asking again to take it to her father; the wolf thought that his wife hanged herself, began to beat; the scarecrow full of sand fell and killed the wolf]: Kerbelite 2014, No. 104:254-257; Latvians [devil in the form of a hare (cat), (sorcerer, bear) carry (marry, lure) three sisters. They must keep the egg (apple, key) and not enter the forbidden room. Two daughters break the ban, the hell cuts off their heads. The third one hides the egg well, finds the murdered sisters, revives them, puts them in a box and tells them to take the line to their parents. Then she climbs into the drawer by herself, and instead of herself she puts a doll on the bed (roof). As soon as the hell stops and wants to see what's in the box, his daughter supposedly from home yells to him to hurry up. This is how the hell takes all her daughters home]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 311:273-274; Lutsie (Western 1936) [the widow has three daughters; hell married her; tells him to take lunch to the field; they made grass pies, the eldest daughter brought it; said that she would go for berries; the devil tied a rope to her leg, she tied it to the birch tree; he pulled and swallowed the birch tree: tasteless; the wife hid her daughter in the chest, told her to be taken sister; damn it, wants to look, the girl in the chest does not tell, the hell believes that he is being watched from afar; took it; then the same with his middle sister (the devil swallowed a pine tree), with the youngest (swallowed a spruce); now the wife carried pies and herbs; tied a rope to a spruce so big that the hell suffocated; started living with her sister's daughters]: Annom et al. 2018:192-195; Estonians: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 49 ( Sangaste; mostly distributed in eastern Estonia) [when she goes to church, the landowner tells her three daughters to cook; the eldest digs potatoes, sees a golden cat, runs after him, who turns into a German ( saks), leads to herself; tells not to open the last room; the wife opens, there is a chopping block, an ax, severed heads, decapitated bodies; she drops the key, blood cannot be washed off, her husband decapitates her; the same in the second sister; the third hides the key in his pocket, does not drop it; the husband believes that she did not enter the room; replies that it is easy to kill with an ax, and to revive with his head to her body and drip blood from her little finger; wife revives sisters, hides in a bag of money that her husband carries to her father as payment for the bride, leaves a straw scarecrow for himself; food is not ready for her husband to return, he cuts off the scarecrow]: 111-113 (=Põ der, Tanner 2000:31-35); Järv et al. 2009, No. 26 (Otepää) [the eldest daughter goes to take her father to the forest lunch, loses her way, comes to the old man, he marries her, tells her not to look into a big barrel; she looks in, there's blood, she puts her finger in it, she can't clean it, the old man kills her; the same with her middle sister; the younger one sticks a sliver; finds the bodies of her sisters; sends her home under the guise of gifts , looks from the roof herself, tells him not to look into the bag; then leaves a mortar on the roof instead of him, climbs into the bag herself; the old man calls his wife, she does not answer, he drags her furiously, the mortar falls on him head, kills; murdered sisters come to life immediately]: 116-118; setu: Järv et al. 2009, No. 25 [the old woman has three daughters; the eldest goes to get firewood, there the red hare actually the hell took her away, did wife, forbade opening the door to one room; she opened, there were severed bodies; the husband tells him to look in his head, notices a bloody finger, cuts his wife to pieces, throws him into that room; the same with middle sister; the youngest {it is not clear why the husband did not notice her bloody finger} sends her husband to take her mother a hotel; splices with dead water, revives the body of the older sister alive, tells the bag not untie, looks from the roof herself; the same with her middle sister; then she sits down herself, leaving a stupa on the roof, dressed in his clothes; the husband comes back, calls his wife, she does not move, he swallowed his stupa]: 113- 115; Normann, Tampere 1989 [three sisters strained their yarn, the mother sends them behind the frame to wind yarn; the bear locks the eldest, then middle sister in her hut; the youngest is also caught, married; gives keys to all rooms, does not tell you to enter a room with a red door; she finds her sisters in this room; asks the bear to give her parents a tub as a gift, does not tell her to look, puts her inside older sister; dogs rushed at the bear, he threw the tub at the girl's parents' house, ran away; the same with his middle sister; the third time the youngest sits in the tub herself, leaves the stupa dressed in her clothes; the bear was almost killed, he returned, broke his stupa with a club, did not understand that it was not a girl]: 37-43; Karelians (Kalevalsky district) [the father went to the forest, tells his wife to send his daughter to bring dinner; old woman I forgot to say that you should walk along the right road, where the mitten was hung; the girl went on the left, came to the bear, he killed her; the same with her second sister; with the third, but the bear took her as the bride; told her to go in to two barns (there is food, good) and you can't go to the third; she went in, her sisters' bodies hang there, blood is dripping into the barrel, a ring is spinning in the barrel, you can't grab it; her finger is dirty in blood, you can't wash it off; she has it tied up, told the bear that she cut herself; asked to take the hotel to her father; revived her older sister, put it in her birch bark purse; when the bear came up, the dogs barked, he threw his purse, ran away; the same with middle sister; for the third time, the girl put her foot on the roof of the hut, dressed in women's clothes, a spinning wheel next to her; filled the chest with clothes and jewelry, sat in it herself; on the way, the bear thinks to open it the chest and eat half; the girl, as if from the roof of the hut, shouts "I see, I see!" ; the bear ran home, hit a mortar, it rolled, he followed, crashed and died]: Onegin 2010, No. 15:168-171; Western Sami (Lyngen, northern Norway coast) [three daughters in the house; damn it the eldest wife; showed all the rooms except one closet; contrary to the ban, she looked there; picked up the lid of the chest, the egg in it, she took it, dropped it; hell came back, saw a broken egg, killed his wife and threw it into one of the rooms; the same with his middle sister; the youngest also dropped the egg, but found an ointment that made the egg whole again; revived the sisters with ointment; asked the devil to take her parents a bag of gifts, I put my older sister there; if the hell starts opening the bag on the way, you have to say: chur, don't look into the bag! Hell: my wife can see from afar! the hell left the bag at the girls' parents' doorstep and came back; the same with the middle sister; the youngest drew her picture, said that she would sit at the table, and let the hell carry the third bag; herself in it sat down; (this is how all three sisters were saved)]: Lagercrantz 1958, No. 359:75-81; Eastern Sami: Kert 1961, No. 27 (Kildin dialect) [the bear married the eldest daughter; brought her mice, she did not cook, he strangled her, buried her, only her heels are visible; the same with the middle one; the youngest believes that her husband is hard-working (he trained many mice), sprinkled the elder with live water, asked the bear to take the gift to her mother; on the way he wanted to open the bag, the wife screams not to open it; the same with her middle sister; then dressed the stump in her clothes; said that if the bear returns from hunting and she is not, let her carry the bag to her mother; when the bear came back, spoke to his wife: "Eugenia, Eugenia!" ; she is silent; he hit one cheek - his paw in half, the other with his paw in half; he sat down and began to roar]: 89-90; Yermolov 1959 [the old woman has three daughters; Tallo (the bear) married the eldest; the next day the middle one; then the youngest; she asks where the sisters are; T.: went to visit; she found them dead under the barn, soaked three twigs in the well, revived the sisters with them; sewed a bag, put her older sister in it, tells T. take gifts to her parents; if she tries to open the bag, she will see; when T. tried to untie the bag, a voice from the bag: I see far, I hear far; T. took the bag to his wife's parents; the same with the middle sister; for the third time, T.'s wife put her dress on a stone in the barn, climbed into the bag herself; when T. returned, she called his wife; she was silent; he hit her, her paw bounced from the blow to the stone; so Hands, legs and head bounced successively]: 51-53; counselors: Ariste in Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 311:224.
Volga - Perm. Bashkirs: Barag 1989, No. 7 [Fatima and daughter-in-law went to rinse their clothes, her daughter-in-law pushed her into the water; the father asks by the river if his daughter is on earth; he hears a voice from under the water - not in heaven, at the bottom, the hair is entangled in willow roots, let the father bring the hook; the father brought the hook, but could not pull F. out; the same episodes with his older brother; the Bear listened, called, F. did not respond; he shoved his tongue the blacksmith, began to call again, F. decided that her father was calling, said about the hook; the Bear pulled her out, took her home; F. asks the Bear to take the gifts to the village, she will climb onto the roof herself; got into the gift bag, putting a mortar wrapped in her dress on the roof; in the village, the Bear threw his burden, ran away from the dogs; F. went out, but did not open it, she went to the sheep in the barn, she was eaten by wolves, her black hair remained; her brother pulled it on at the violin, the violin sang - let her brother not press it, otherwise his head hurts, the brother supposedly did not open the door; the brother broke the violin, F. jumped out healthy]: 63-65; Ilimbetova, Ilimbetov 2009 (written authors, 1969) [the old man's black cow did not return in the evening; the eldest daughter goes looking, goes to the Bear, who forbids opening the chests, she opens it, there is gold and silver, the Bear ate her; the same with the middle daughter; He did not eat the youngest, he married him; he tells her to bake gifts, he will take the gift to his wife's parents; she sits in a bag herself, the bear leaves it at her parents' house; a son Ayyukək ("bear cub") gives birth; strong, cripples his peers, his grandfather sends him on a journey; in the underworld, A. kills a dwarf as tall as the top, a beard a thousand tops; marries his three daughters; gets chosen with the help of Samrigush into the white world; offspring from wives - the ancestral unit of Aiyu peanuts]: 110-111; Kazan Tatars [white {white, not polar} bear carried away the elder, then middle, younger sister; the elder asks him to take the gift to her home; puts his younger sister in a bag, tells him not to open it on the way; the bear wants to open it, the girl from the bag does not tell her, the bear thinks that the elder sees everything from afar; the bear left the girls' mother's bag; the same with the middle sister; the third time the older sister climbed into the bag herself; the sisters dug a hole, put firewood in it, the bear fell through, it was burned]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 24:67-70; Marie [a girl, lost in the forest, ends up with a bear; makes a bear take herself to her home, forgetting to look back]: Sabitov 1989, No. 311:22; Mordovians (Erzya) ): Evseviev 1964, No. 18 [the old man is three years old in the forest, bent down for a drink, Vedyava grabbed his beard; refuses a stallion, a barn, a mill, demands to give what he does not know at home; the old man comes home, a three-year-old daughter towards her; she grew up, she has one silver tooth; she waxed it, went to Vedyava; towards the old people, teeth like splints, eyes like buckets, did not recognize the girl; then ugly old woman, the girl laughed as she looked at them, the wax fell off, the old men and old women ran after the girl; she threw a maple scallop (maple forest), a bar (mountain), a brush; a tree grew out of the brush, the girl on she climbed him, old men and old women began to gnaw; the girl asks her sister in the sky to lower the thread; she replies that she will first plow the field, sow hemp; remove hemp; wet the hemp; sleep; hide; she lowered the thread, the sister climbed, the tree collapsed; old men and old women began to chew on each other; the sister's husband in the sky is a bear, she hid the girl under a pile of garbage; the bear began to eat garbage, did not finish eating, did not find it girls; sister turned the girl into a fever, hid it in coals; the bear began to eat coals, did not finish eating; hid it in the chest, the bear wants to eat the chest, the sister tells me to take the chest to her parents; on the way, the bear wants to open it, the girl from the chest: I see, I see; the bear left the chest in the yard, the daughter returned to her parents]: 150-154; Samorodov 1972 [(=Pomerantseva 1973:69-75); the old man leans over to drink, Vedyava is enough his beard; he promises to give what he does not know at home; returns three years later, his daughter meets him; grows up, goes to V.; her front tooth is silver, it is waxed; his mother gives a comb and a brush, the father is a whetstone; old men and old women ask if she saw the girl Silver Teeth; she laughs, the wax falls off, they chase her, she throws objects; the comb turns into a forest, a whetstone up a mountain, the pursuers gnaw through obstacles; the brush turns into a tree, the girl climbs on it, asks her sister living in the sky to pull the thread down; she consistently replies that she will plow the field, sow hemp, she will soak the tow, hide it; lowers the thread when old men and old women gnaw through the trunk; in the sky she hides her sister from her bear husband; he eats coals, does not find it hidden; the sister puts her in a chest, tells her to take it parents; The silver tooth from the chest says, I see every time the Bear wants to open the chest; the father finds a daughter in the chest]: 262-268; Paasonen 1941 [on his way from a foreign land, the old man leaned down for a drink, hell grabs his beard, tells him to promise to give what he does not know at home; his daughter meets at home, her front tooth is silver, he is waxed; parents decide to send her to her older sister; she meets young devils, then middle-aged devils, replies that she did not see a girl with a silver tooth; laughs at old ones, wax falls off, devils chase, girl follower throws back pieces spinning wheels; a lime, maple, birch forest grows, devils gnaw at them; when she throws a spinning rod, a tin mountain grows up, the girl climbs it, calls her older sister who is in heaven; that follower replies that she is already plowing the field, sowing, collecting, fluttering hemp, winding a rope, etc.; the devils have almost gnawed through the mountain, the girl climbs the rope to her sister, that follower hides her from her bear husband, making it a needle in moss, coal in the coals, garbage in a pile of garbage; the bear eats it, but does not find the girl; the sister turns the girl into a pea, hides it in a cake, tells the Bear to take the hotel to her father; The silver tooth from the box says, I see every time the Bear wants to eat a cake; the Bear was attacked by dogs near the house, he ran away, the father found his daughter; at home The bear is looking for a wife to eat; she is on the roof tells him to open his mouth, throws a millstone there, the Bear dies]: 282-291; Komi (Zyrians) [three sisters chase a silk ball that leads them to a bear; the bear takes them as wives; using By their husband's inintelligence, the sisters force him to make chests as gifts to their parents, sit in them, and thus return home, while the last sister makes him talk drooling instead]: Gren 1924:31; (cf. Chuvash [the old man's three daughters ask the Sun twice whose face is cleaner and whiter, the Sun replies that the youngest; the sisters push the youngest into the river, tell their father that the Sun named the youngest the youngest dirty, she stayed to wash; the mother goes to the river, the daughter replies that she is strangled by a snake, crushed by a millstone; after that, the Bear calls the girl, she does not respond; the bear honed the blacksmith's tongue, calls in a thin voice, the girl repeats the words about millstones, etc.; The bear pulls her out of the river, brings her wife; she gives birth to a son, the Bear carries his wife and child to visit her parents, leaves until Wednesday; parents put stakes under the floor ; wife warns Bear that he is waiting to die, but he still comes in, falls on stakes; wife stays with parents]: Eisin 1993:33-35); Komi [the bear needs babysitters for the cubs; the fox advises take the hunter's daughters; Yoma gives a basket, a spindle, a silk ball; the younger sister sees a basket, it rolls, she follows it, goes to the bears; the same middle sister runs after the spindle; the ram offers to take it the youngest to the house; the bears catch up, beat, return the girl; the same with the middle sister - she tried to run away on a bull; the eldest goes to the bears herself; asks to take gifts to her father; while the bears with the cubs are not at home, she dresses up three stupas, puts his younger sister in a chest; on the way, the bear wants to look into it, the girl says she sees far, does not tell him to open it; the same with her middle sister; then she sits down by herself; the bears come back, mistake their stupas for girls; then they push them, their stupas fall on them]: Plesovsky 1975:38-44.
Western Siberia. Mansi [the old man and the old woman have 4 daughters; the old man sent one to check the top; the top is empty, the girl saw a house made of twigs ("the house stands out of vitz"), went to warm up, there was an old man and his daughter; tells me not to go home and stay overnight; a girl lies down on the edge, an old daughter against the wall; an old man goes underground, puts on loon boots, they creak; from wolverine skin; a wolverine skin; a wolverine - the same; from bast - not they creak; comes up quietly, pierces an iron pin into the girl's ear, tells her daughter that God sent meat; the same with the second, third sisters; the fourth night swapped places with the old man's daughter, he killed his daughter; the girl went underground, found the bodies of her sisters, revived them; asks the old man to take her parents pies as a gift; puts her sisters in a bag, pies on top; the dogs rushed, the old man left the bag, ran away; asks the wife (the word that husband and wife call each other, but also girls or women) what was so heavy there; the girl says she will send a gift again in the morning; she planted her daughter's body the old man on the floor, climbed into the bag, the pies from above; the old man took the bag; when he returned, he called his daughter to eat, she was silent; he pushed her, she fell; he cried; the girl brought her father to that house, the father called out the old man looked out, his father killed him with a hammer]: Kannisto 1956:148-152.