I22C. Board from the stern of Argo.

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The character safely jumps, swims, flies through the hole, which slams shut, but the edge of the stern of the boat, the tail of an animal or bird, the body of a riding animal, the hero's companion, or his own heel is flattened, torn off, etc.

Arabs of Mauritania [tail of a she-camel], Western Sahara [tail of a foal], Germans (Westphalia-Hesse), Scots, Southern Cook Islands (Mangaya), Tibetans (Amdo) [tail of a she-camel], Ancient Greece [tail of a pigeon, stern of a ship], Greeks [tail of a horse], Romanians [tail of a stork], Bosnians [croup of a horse], Russians (Olonets?) [hind legs of a horse], Ukrainians (Hutsuls) [heel of a boot], Abkhazians [horse crushed, rider slipped past], Adyghe [tail of a horse], Ossetians [tail of a horse], Avars [tail of a horse], Lezgins [tail of a horse; horse crushed, rider passed], Georgians [horse's tail], Uzbeks [horse's tail], Burish [horse's tail], Kazakhs [Simurgh's tail], Mongols [horse's tail], Dagurs [horse's tail], Evenks (Baikal?) [horse's tail], Chukchi [steering oar], Asian Eskimos [boat's stern], St. Lawrence Island [boat's stern], Nunivak [boat stern], Bering Strait and Northern Alaskan Inupiat [boat stern], Caribou [garment hem], West Greenland [boat stern], Snookualli [boat stern], Snohomish [jay nape], Twana [jay nape], Puyallup [jay crest], Upper Chehalis [jay tail], Tillamook [buttock meat], Yakima [jay crest].

North Africa. Western Sahara [two sisters are married to two brothers; when they leave, they tell them that if children of different sexes are born, one family must go east and the other west; one sister has a boy, Nehry Bugam, and they decide to dress him as a girl; NB grows up, the truth is revealed; NB grows up, and goes off to look for his cousin Dayesmus, with him an ostrich, a riding camel and horse, a young camel and she-camel, a dog and a raven; the snakes that crush the mountains allow him to pass, the mountains only cut off the tip of the young camel's tail ; NB gives the shepherd a ring to throw into a bowl of milk, which the chieftain's daughter (i.e. D.) will take; the shepherd says that the seven-headed serpent demands girls, and the only one left is the chieftain's daughter; NB tells the serpent that he has come to see such a glorious creature, and asks to be allowed to take one of its heads as a keepsake; then the second; the other five he cuts off in battle, hides under a huge stone; no one else can lift it, NB gets D. as a wife; foreign warriors wound NB, take his wife; animals nurse him back to health; he defeats the enemies, gets his wife back, the crushing mountains and snakes let them through again; all is well]: Aris, Cladellas 1999: 65-73; Arabs of Mauritania [a woman gives birth to boys, but each of the newborns is carried away by the wind; a medicine man promises her a talisman on the condition that when the first surviving child learns the Koran, she will give it to him; the mother deliberately leaves her son's sabre at the old camp and sends for it; the she-camel says that a ghoul is hiding near the sabre - it must be seized and the she-camel will quickly carry away the rider; orders it to be killed, there is a foal in it - half gold, half silver; orders to sit on it; they stopped under a tree where a green bird brought people; the jewels of those eaten are scattered on the ground; after eating, the bird sings; the young man took the jewels; the sultan will give his daughter to the one who spits from below to her face high in the window, only the young man succeeds; he receives the sultan's daughter, but hides in the guise of a poor bastard; in the guise of a beautiful warrior he defeats the enemies; the wife bandages her wound with a handkerchief; learns that her lousy husband is a handsome man, but keeps quiet about it; the sultana is pregnant, wants to hear the green bird sing; the sultan's elder sons-in-law do not know how to do this; the young man promises them to get the bird, in exchange for which he cuts off a phalanx of the little finger of each son-in-law; the foal teaches how to lure the bird into the chest where the meat is; the bird tells the sultan that it will not sing until he gets Bzougue's daughter; the sons-in-law again do not know how to do this; the young man promises to get them a girl, in exchange for which he cuts off an earlobe of each; the bird demands the milk of a lioness who has given birth for the first time, and with her other such lionesses; this time the young man cuts off the little fingers of the legs of the contenders; the young man fed and decorated the lioness's cubs, she fulfilled all the demands; now Bzougue's daughter asks to get water from behind the crushing mountains; the young man cuts off a piece of the sons-in-law's nose; the foal orders that the ants guarding the path be given grain, the girls pearls, the dogs meat; to tell the mountains that are pounding that the other mountains move further apart before a collision – one towards the sunrise, the other towards the sunset; the youth gets water, runs away, the mountains cut off only the tip of the foal's tail ; the bird sings, Bzougue's daughter is happy, everyone praises the sons-in-law; the wife tells the youth that she knows his secret; the youth appears in all his glory, shows the Sultan his cut off little fingers, etc.]: Tauzin 1993: 127-142; Berbers of southern Morocco [a poor wood-seller has two sons; he caught a beautiful bird in the forest and brought it home; his wife did not let the children play with it, but hid it; every day the bird lays an egg, the Jew buys each one for a hundred calicoes; the husband went on a pilgrimage, and the Jew became his wife's lover; he asked to slaughter and cook the bird; returning in the absence of their mother, the boys opened the lid of the cauldron, the younger Hammed ate the head, and the elder Muhammed the heart of the bird; not finding the head and heart, the Jew orders the woman to slaughter the children and take out the contents of their stomachs; she orders a servant to do this; she let the children go, brought the head and heart of some killed bird; Jew: that's not it; the woman drove the servant away and married the Jew; M. went to the right from the fork, came to the locked gates of the city; the king died there, the inhabitants will choose as the new king the one who comes to the gates first in the morning; M. became king; X. went to the left, hired himself out to a bagel baker; brought happiness to the house; he has a magic ring; when you turn it, a palace appears; the youngest of the king's seven daughters saw this, asked their father to give them in marriage; the king called all the men, gave each of the daughters an apple to throw at the chosen one; they all threw, the youngest waits; when they brought the baker's lousy worker, she threw the apple at him; the king fell ill; vizier: let the sons-in-law bring lion's milk in a lion's skin, the lion will carry it, and the other will walk in front; the lousy one turned the ring, ordered the servant to give him a white stallion, weapons, etc.; promises the other sons-in-law to get what they demand in exchange for the apples received from the princesses; brought slaughtered bulls to the king of lions, he gave what was required; vizier: one more medicine is needed - water taken from between the rocks that open once a year; the same (red stallion; H. demands that the sons-in-law cut off their earlobes); H. managed to take water, the rocks only cut off the horse's tail ; third medicine: an apple from the garden of Rhalia Bint Manssor, who lives beyond the seven seas; a black stallion; cut off the phalanges of the little fingers; a servant from the ring: only an elderly spirit, almost deprived of feathers, will take it there; he asks to take 7 vessels of blood and 7 pieces of meat on the road; when he flies, he asks what kind of land H. sees; he answers (less and less); the seventh piece slipped out of his hands, H. cut off the flesh from his hand; having flown, the spirit teaches how to pass through the three gates to the sleeping RBM; H. took the apple, left a note that he was here; H. says to the king that he has got everything, orders the sons-in-law to present the apples; the king executed 6 sons-in-law, arranged a wedding for H. with the youngest daughter; the brothers' father returned, but his wife, who had become the wife of a Jew, refused to recognize him; he asked King Sidi Mohammed (i.e. his son) to judge between them; he called his brother Hammed, each told everything; the mother and the Jew were burned]: Stumme 1895, No. 15: 119-131; Arabs of eastern Algeria (Souf) [the king keeps his seven sons in the palace, wanting to protect them from everything bad that is in the world; they are given meat without bones, almonds without shells, watermelons without skins; one day a black servant forgot to take out the dice; the young men began to play, throwing dice at each other, broke a window and saw the outside world; they told the servant to tell them everything - about birth, love, death; they sent to their father with a request to let them go; the king married his sons; his daughters-in-law irritated him, he decided to get rid of them; a Jew advised them to pretend to be sick, let the sons bring the blood of their wives; six wives were killed, and the youngest, Ali, brought the blood of a gazelle, ran away with his wife; they came to the house of 40 blind ghouls; they prepared 40 flatbreads and 40 portions of meat; Ali quietly took one; the ghouls fought, Ali killed them and threw them into a well; the wife heard a groan, pulled out and hid one ghoul, who was only wounded; the ghoul advised to send Ali for golden rejuvenating apples; the old woman teaches Ali: you need to rush between the crushed mountains; have time to jump over the garden fence (as soon as the wall sees Ali's horse, it will begin to grow); having collected apples, gallop away without turning around; Ali slightly turned around at the voice, the horse's tail was cut off ; the old woman orders the rejuvenating apples to be given to her, and to bring the usual ones to his wife; the ghoul advised to invite Ali to play chess for life; Ali let his wife win, believing that this was a joke, but she killed him, put the pieces of his body in a sack, attached it to the saddle of his horse and ordered the horse to gallop back where he came from; the old woman joined the pieces, but the heart and liver are missing; she sent a cat to the ghoul, it brought the heart and liver; the old woman revived Ali with the juice of the rejuvenating apples; he came to the ghoul disguised as a dervish, hacked him to death at night, stabbed his wife, returned to the old woman; she turned the cat into a beauty, Ali married her, returned to his father, who handed over the throne to him]: Scelles-Millie 1963: 313-316.

Western Europe. Germans (Lower Rhine - Westphalia and Hesse, mixed version; from the Haxthausen family) [the king fell ill; the old man: he needs living water; the eldest son goes out to look for it, a dwarf comes along and asks where the youth is going; he: you don't know anything; the prince rode into a narrow gorge and got stuck there; the same with the middle son; the youngest is kind to the dwarf; he gives a twig (to open the castle gates) and two loaves of bread (to throw to two lions); collect living water and go back, at midnight the gates will close; in the castle the youth took a sword and bread; the princess: you have freed me from the spell; come back in a year and marry me; the prince lay down on the bed and fell asleep; managed to collect water and jump out, the gates cut off a piece of his heel; on the way back the dwarf: this sword will defeat the army, the bread will not run out; The prince begged the dwarf to free his brothers; he told him to beware of them; on the way back, the prince saved three kings, defeating their enemies with his magic sword; while he was sleeping, the brothers poured his living water into themselves, and poured sea water into his goblet; they convinced their father that the youngest son wanted to destroy him; the king told the huntsman to kill the prince; he persuaded him to exchange clothes and let him go; the three kings brought gold for the youngest prince; the king realized that he had ordered him to be killed in vain; the huntsman confessed that the prince was alive; the princess, saved by the prince, ordered a road to be built: whoever goes straight along it is her fiancé, and whoever goes by a roundabout path is not to be let in; the older princes were driven away, the youngest goes straight; he came to his father with his wife; the elder princes fled overseas]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, no. 97: 327-331 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987: 266-271); Scots[Campbell, II,, i, 9; a monster came out of the sea and stole the three daughters of a knight of Greenock; the soldier has three sons, the youngest is Iain; at his insistence they go to play on the knight's lawn; he is indignant; I.: better give us a ship and we will return the girls; the brothers sailed to where three giants are going to marry three kidnapped girls; they live on a rock, the way up a crevice; the eldest climbed, a raven attacked him, he barely got down; the same with the middle one; I. to the raven: do not attack me, but help me up; the raven helped, asked for tobacco, I.: there is nothing to give for yet; came to the eldest kidnapped sister; to call the giant, you need to jingle a chain; they fight, I. knocked down the giant, the raven orders to take a knife from under his wing, cut off the giant's head; the same with two other giants who kidnapped two other sisters; for each help I. pays the raven with tobacco; after the eldest, the raven warns that she will ask him to come down at once, but let I. free her sisters too; orders him to first lower the girls from the cliff, and then get down himself; I. did not obey; the girls with the jewels came down and forgot about I.; there is a mare that gallops on the sea as on land; she is behind a stone door that continually opens and closes; a raven flew in, the door chipped off part of his wing feathers; then I., his buttocks were cut off, he lost consciousness; the raven carried him out and cured him with herbs {from what follows it follows that the mare was obtained}; three sleeping heroes lie with spears on their chests; I. took the spears, they jumped up; they cast a spell so that I. would go with them to the southern end of the island; One entered a cave, there was an old woman; her tooth served her as a knitting needle, a staff, a poker; her fingernails curled to the elbows, her hair got tangled in her legs; turned the one who entered into stone, hitting her with a club; the same with the other two; a raven: to remove the spell from them, you need to bring living water from the island of the Big Women of Jura; there by sea on a mare; 16 young men will offer to take care of her - do not allow them; the mare orders not to eat or sleep in the house of the Six Big Women; and the women fell asleep; but he fell asleep and he fell asleep to the sounds of sweet music; the mare woke him: now I do not know how it will be; I. grabbed the Sword of Light lying in the corner, cut off the heads of 16 grooms; I. collected living water, they returned; I. revived three heroes and killed the old woman; raven: two girls for your brothers; leave the younger girl's cap with me; when asked where you are coming from and where you are going, answer, from behind you and forward; the mare brought I. to Greenock; orders her head to be cut off, for there is a girl inside her; and the raven is a youth, my bridegroom; I. stopped at a goldsmith's; he was ordered to make a cap for the younger girl by morning, but he knew not how; I. orders him to lock him up for the night, called a raven, who brought a cap decorated with gold and diamonds; orders his head to be cut off, became a youth; the goldsmith said that he had made the cap, but the girl called him a liar and ordered him to bring the one who gave the cap; she told I. that he was as strong as I., the soldier's son from Albainn; I.: I am I.; wedding]: Montgomerie, Montgomerie 2023: 214-223.

Micronesia – Polynesia. Southern Cook Islands (Mangaia) [in the lower world Avaiki lived the god of fire Mauike, the god of the sun Ra, the support of the sky Ru, his wife Buataranga, guarding the way to the world of the dead (to the invisible world); R. and B. have a son, Maui, sent up to the world of people; there they eat raw food; visiting her son, B. hides the contents of her basket; M. peeks in, there is baked food; overhears what words B. says in front of a rock, it opens; M. asks Tane for a red dove, he reluctantly gives it on condition of returning it whole; M. inside the dove (or in the form of a dragonfly on the dove's back) follows B. into the lower world; two demon guards manage to tear off the dove's tail; B. confesses that she is sending her husband to the owner of the fire Mauike for fire; M. goes to him, receives a brand, extinguishes it four times; Maui, in anger, offers to fight, M. puts on a belt, becomes huge, easily throws Maui; he agrees to give sticks for kindling fire; having received them, M. burns the lower world, himself flies away as a red dove; the fire raging in the lower world comes to earth, but the gods extinguish it; people took the fire, it went out; Maui, taking pity on people, said that fire is in hibiscus (Urtica argentea) and banyan (Ficus indicus) and taught how to use a fire drill]: Gill 1876: 51-58 (retold in Frazer 1930: 74-79).

Tibet – North-East India. Tibetans []: Lorimer 1931: 109-110; Tibetans of Amdo [King Kerker orders the forest to come together when Geser rides through it; the gap between the trees becomes narrower and narrower, Geser rushes through, only pinning his horse's tail ; then two stones come together and move apart; Geser advises them to move further apart, so that they can meet at a running start; he rushes through, the stones hit each other, break]: Potanin 1893: 30.

Balkans. Ancient Greece. 1) Phineus advises the Argonauts to first release a dove between the rocks. The rocks cut off the tip of its tail; Argo passed, only the stern figures were damaged . The rocks froze, since they cannot move after at least one ship has passed between them (Apol.:20). 2) In the story of the adventures of Odysseus, crushed rocks float in the sea near Charybdis and Scylla (Myth. 2:245); Grimm 1883 [Athen.4,325-6: "The Pleiades, like doves, bring ambrosia to Zeus, but one of them dies each time passing Plancti, and Zeus replaces it with a new one]: 728; Greeks (Lemnos) [the king's palace has 40 rooms; the king is jealous, the queen is beautiful, he killed her a few days before she was due to give birth; cut the boy out of his mother's womb; not believing that this was his son, he left him in the forest; a female wild animal suckled him; one day, 4 doves from the four ends of the world flew to this place; seeing the boy, one said that he was of royal lineage; the second: and will reign; the third: after much suffering; the fourth: a foal will help him achieve his goal; and the king began to regret what he had done; went hunting; saw a beauty in a cave; sent to her people, but they fled when 9 dragons came out of the cave; the king ordered to paint a portrait of the girl and hang it in the room where he did not let anyone and where he spent most of his time; another king attacked, killed him, captured the capital; he saw a young man in the forest, ordered to catch him, baptized him and began to raise him together with his own son; they named him John the Deer; he is incredibly strong and a little older than the prince; after the death of the king, the heir and IO found the portrait; the old servant said that this is a portrait of the sister of the dragons; IO realized that his mother was killed by his own father; decided to return to the forest; in the stable, an inconspicuous end ordered to take him and pull out his hair: cut and I will appear; IO came to the cave of dragons; there is a beauty and an old man; he accidentally knocked over a huge cauldron, but IO picked it up with one left hand; in full view of the dragons, he threw a rock; amazed by his strength, the dragons gave him their sister; the young king envies; promises to bring closer to himself the one who brings him IO's head; the old witch promised to kill IO and deliver the dragons' sister to the king; became IO's servant; said that he boasted of his strength in vain: the heroine was stronger; IO went to look for her; there were crowded mountains ahead; IO called a horse, it rushed past, only the tip of its tail was cut off ; horse: the strength of the heroine is in three hairs on her head; if you wrestle with her, pull them out; he did so, the girl fell at his feet; by the road there is a Negro, whose lips weigh 40 centners; he offers to wrestle everyone passing by and kills; IO wrestles with the Negro; he summoned the horse; horse: the Negro's strength is in his shadow, hit it with a spear; the Negro became IO's servant; the sorceress to the king: give me a ship with a crew, and I will deliver IO to you; gave IO an apple, he fell asleep, was carried onto the ship; the king threw IO and the heroine into a pit; she hugged IO, the apple fell out of his hand and he came to; forgave the king, but killed the sorceress; at a feast the king blinded IO, but the Negro licked his eye sockets with his thick lips and restored his sight; IO killed the king and became king himself]: Georgeakis, Pineau 1894, no. 11: 68-800; Romanians [the youth Floria did a good deed to the king of storks, who gave him a feather to summon him, promising to help; the king orders to get living and dead water; its source is at the foot of the crushing mountains; the king of storks called his people; only the lame and crooked stork had been to the crushing mountains, and that is where he got crippled; he flew there; the swallow orders to wait until midday, when the mountains stop for half an hour; the stork filled two bottles, and when he was returning, the mountains cut off his tail feathers ; when the stork returned, the others began to laugh at his appearance; the king of storks ordered them all to lose their tails, since then storks have not had them]: Gaster 1915, no. 86: 263-266; Bosnians [in Istanbul the sultan forbade lighting fires for a month; servants noticed a small flame; in a hut three sisters were spinning by candlelight; they asked each other what they could do to make the sultan forgive them; the eldest: I will cook mamaliga for the whole army; the middle one: a hundred square meters of fabric to dress the whole army; the youngest: I will give birth to a daughter with golden hair and pearl teeth and a son with a golden hand; the sultan ordered the sisters to be brought; the first two could not fulfill their promise and he sent them home, and married the youngest; when she was pregnant, the other wives were afraid that they would be left without attention; the eldest Badscha told the woman in labor that according to custom she should blindfold herself; she replaced the children with puppies; everyone advised to tear the woman in labor apart with horses, but one person advised to wait for the Serbian patriarch; the patriarch: bury her waist-deep in manure and feed her half-starved; they buried her at the crossroads so that everyone passing by would spit in her; B. put the newborns in a chest and lowered them into the river, the miller and his wife found them; a month later they were so beautiful that the pitchforks carried them off to their mountain castle; the children grew up and realized that they themselves were not pitchforks, but people; they ran away and asked a passerby what place on earth was the best; Istanbul; at the sultan's palace they lay down to sleep under a fig tree and God built a palace better than the sultan's over them; B. came and told the girl% on the plain lives an invincible Moor; if your brother kills him, the sultan will reward him; the brother brought his head; B. there are 5 more Moors there; then 9; the same; on Mount Tman there is a horse named Avgar, whom the pitchforks fatten; a giant came towards us: there were 20 of us, but we could not take possession of the horse; Another giant overheard the pitchfork's conversation and told him how to catch the horse: leave a wineskin with water at the watering hole; seeing the wineskin, the horse looked back, the young man grabbed him by the neck and tamed him; he gave him three hairs to summon him; B.: on the Jordan, a wreath of pitchforks hangs between heaven and earth, and the Jordan flows between the mountains Zmaigodiya and Doksana, whose peaks constantly beat against each other; the young man summoned the horse A., galloped between the mountains, took the wreath, and on the way back the mountains tore a piece of meat from the horse's rump ; B. let your brother get the princess from the tower covered with ducats; she turns suitors into stones; A.'s horse brought the young man there; the horse neighed, the roar was like thunder, the girl was frightened and did not turn them into stones; greets the young man; asks the pitchfork how quickly they can transfer her tower, her, the young man and the horse to Istanbul; pitchfork: 3 days; other pitchforks: 2 days; third: in a day; chose them; when they flew there, she ordered the youth to wipe the face of a woman buried in manure with a handkerchief of the pitchfork; when the sultan seated the guest at the table, he threw a piece to the dog and it died; the sultan called B., ordered her to eat a piece, she also died; the youth called the sultan to him; on the way home he freed his mother and brought her to him; the sultan came, everything became clear; when the mother stood under a wreath from the Jordan, youth and beauty returned to her, but she died of happiness; at the wedding celebrations, the 7 wives who helped B. were tied to the tails of horses]: Preindlsberger-Mrazovic 1905: 99-116.

Central Europe. Russians (location of recording not specified) {the motif of the headscarf, with which the sister waves it to create a bridge for her demonic lover, is found only in the Russian North and the Pskov Region; the execution of the antagonist "by firing squad" - only in the Russian North; therefore, in the correlation table, the text is conditionally attributed to the Olonetsk Province.} [Ivan Tsarevich and his sister went to live in a state where the people had died out; they come to Baba Yaga; she has a revolving hut on chicken legs; she advises I. not to take his sister with him; gives him a ball of yarn and tells him to follow it; the ball rolls to the second Baba Yaga, who is in the same hut; gives him a towel, with which he can wave it to create a bridge across the river; wave it again, and the bridge will disappear; she also advises not to take his sister; I. ​​hunts with dogs; the Serpent Gorynych arrives and becomes a fine fellow; advises Ivan's sister to ask him for a handkerchief, as if to wash it; then the Serpent will cross the bridge to her; in order to get rid of I., the Serpent advises his sister to pretend to be ill, to ask for wolf's milk; the she-wolf gives milk and a wolf cub; the same with the she-bear; with the lioness; (further insertion, var. 2: 459-460: the serpent suggests to his mistress to send her brother for living water to the kingdom where two mountains diverge once a day, after 2-3 minutes they come together again; between those mountains living and healing waters are kept; the prince rode on horseback between the mountains, scooped up two bubbles of water, but on the way back the mountains crushed the horse's (hind) legs ; the prince sprinkled him with water and he became whole); now the Serpent came up with the idea of ​​sending I. to the mill for flour dust; there are 12 iron doors there, they will slam shut themselves; I. managed to get out, but his hunt remained locked up; I. asks to be allowed to take a steam bath before dying; does everything slowly; the raven reports how many doors the hunt gnawed through; the animals managed to run up and tore the Serpent apart; I. put his sister in a stone pillar; left an empty vat, a vat of water and a bundle of hay; he will let her go when she eats the hay, drinks the water and cries a vat of tears; I. went on; half the people in the city are crying, half are having fun; old woman: the 12-headed serpent flies to eat people from different ends; the people of the end where he will not fly today are having fun; it is the princess's turn to be eaten; I. chopped off the snake's heads, cut out the tongues, fell asleep on the princess's lap; the water carrier cut off Ivan's head and ordered him to say that he is the savior; the animals found the body, the lion caught the young raven, made the raven bring living and dead water; first he tore apart and revived the little raven, then he fused Ivan's head with his body and revived him; I. came to the wedding, showed his tongues; the water carrier was shot; the wedding; I. went to his sister; she ate the hay, drank the water, cried a tear in the vat; he forgave her and brought her to live with him]: Afanasyev 1985, No. 204(2): 100-106; Ukrainians (Hutsul region) [the king grew old; he dreamed that there was living water that turned old men into eighteen-year-olds; the elder brothers went in search, went on a spree; the youngest ended up in the wooded mountains; the old man in the hut; "If the soul is pure, then let the doors open, and if impure, then let it crumble like poppy seeds"; the doors opened; the old man: there had been no pure soul for 300 years; he put the prince on a dove and sent him to his brother, who was 600 years old; he sent the same to his brother, who was 900 years old; he sends to the princess, she is sleeping, the prince got some water, lay down with the princess and left a note of who he was and when he came; at the entrance there were sabers that stop for only half a minute; when the prince jumped out, they cut off the heel of his boot ; the 900-year-old grandfather went to bed and told the prince to collect all the dust in a pile; he did it; the grandfather gave this dust: it will be of great benefit; the same with the 600- and 300-year-old; they want to hang the prince's brothers, because they owe a lot, and have nothing to pay with; the prince volunteered to pay, but did not have enough money, they want to hang him too; he spilled some of that dust - it turned out to be money; while the younger was sleeping, the elders took the living water and everything else, and urinated in the flask of the younger; they brought the water to their father, he became younger; the youngest came - the king's eyes only stung from that "water"; the princess's son grew up, he wants to know who his father is; she found a note; the princess sent a letter to send her the child's father; the eldest prince came; the boy: he does not walk on carpets, but along the edge; they beat him and kicked him out; the same with the middle one; the brothers had to confess that they stole the water from the youngest; the younger one walks on the carpets, shows a mark on his heel from a sabre; a wedding; the narrator drank vodka there]: Zinchuk 2006a, No. 4: 15-24.

Caucasus – Asia Minor. Abkhazians [the vizier has grown old, the king has asked to send an equally intelligent man in his place; the vizier sends his eldest son, attacks unexpectedly unrecognized, the young man returns and brings back his wife, her sisters have been tied to horses; the witch persuades B. to ask her brother to get 1) a golden accordion located between crushed rocks; the rocks have only torn off the horse’s tail ; 2) the sister of the seven brothers and an apple tree from her garden; the brothers seize Ch.; the horse brings B. there, she plays the golden accordion, the brothers give Ch. their sister, one marries B.]: Alieva 1978, no. 30: 244-248; Ossetians : Dzagurov 1973, No. 33 [comrades reproach a young man: first find your father, and then quarrel with us; he tells his mother to fry corn and squeezes her hand; she has to say that a giant kidnapped her father, and her father's horse is standing up to its ears in manure; he does not believe that a son can lift his father's sword; the young man nursed the horse, easily lifted the sword, rides away, the horse shows the way; the young man hit the decomposed corpse of the giant with a whip: revive, but be blind; the revived one says that his wife was stolen by the same giant who carried off the young man's father; at night he tries to pelt the young man with trees and stones; the young man turns him into a corpse again; the young man found a giant, chopped off 6 heads, ordered him to tell where his father was, then chopped off the seventh head; there are crushing mountains on the way, the horse slipped through, only half of its tail was cut off ; The young man's father, a shepherd, cleans his fur coat of lice; the young man brings the giant's ears to his wife; she tells her to be wary of the giant's mother; the young man kills her, but she curses him: he will have no peace until he gets the daughter of the king of the genies; the horse teaches how to give millet to the birds, how to drink from the spring and praise the water, how to throw a ram to the iron-faced wolves; how to grease the door hinges; the young man finds the girl and lives with her for a month; then they load all their belongings onto an all-encompassing felt and gallop away; the young man destroys the pursuing army, but one warrior kills him with a dagger; the fox cub began to lick the blood, the woman killed him; the fox bathed in the spring, the fox cub came to life; then the woman revived her murdered husband; he says that he was already going to marry the daughter of Barastur, the ruler of the underworld; the young man revived the giant again with a whip and gave him back his wife, who had been kidnapped by the seven-headed giant; the young man returned home with his wife, all is well]: 91-99; Libedinsky 1978 [Satan hides from Batrazd that his father Hamits was killed; Akhsartaggata is sent by wind to tell B. that Kh. has been killed; he asks Sh. to roast grain for him and give it to him by hand; clamps his hand; Sh. names the murderers from the Borat clan; he kills the murderers]: 362-371; Libedinsky 1978 [when Aisana enters, Soslan's wife does not get up to greet him; each time she says that she does not do this because he has not accomplished such and such a feat; 1) get a tree that blossoms from sunset until midnight, and by dawn is hung with fruits; it is behind crushed rocks; A.'s horse orders it to be powerfully whipped, gallops between the rocks; on the way back the rocks cut off three hairs from his tail ; A. brings a tree; 2) to take Saumaron-Burdzabakh as a wife; the suitors call out to her, but she does not hear them in her tower, they turn to stone; A. begins to turn to stone, the horse screams louder; S. makes A. former, marries him; at his request, revives the other petrified ones; they attack A., S. turns them to stone again; 3) to bring God's fur coat; A. replies that since the fur coat was not sewn by the hands of Soslan's wife, he will not get it]: 251-252; Avars [the eldest sister promises to weave cloth for the tsar's army, the middle one - to bake bread, the youngest - to give birth to a son with pearl teeth and a golden-haired daughter; the tsar eavesdrops, takes the youngest; While the king is at war, the sisters throw the children into a nettle gorge, report that the queen gave birth to a puppy and a kitten; the king orders her to be sewn up in a donkey skin, chained to the city gates, and spit on; A doe feeds the children with milk, leaves them in an empty castle, orders the boy to cover his mouth, the girl - her hair; a widow fishes out a golden hair in the river, the evil sisters order this woman to destroy the survivors; she advises the girl to ask her brother 1) to bring a branch of an apple tree that sings and dances; he gallops on horseback between crushed rocks, the tip of his tail is cut off , brings the branch; 2) to marry the beauty Ezenzulhar ; he sees petrified horsemen near her castle, calls E., himself turns to stone; the sister wears out her iron soles and staff; E. looks at her when she bares her hair, the petrified ones come to life, the brother marries E.; the king meets his children, frees his wife, the children take their mother to their castle]: Bulatova 1985: 59-66; Lezgins : Ganieva 2011b, no. 31 [the shah has three sons from his first wife, she died, the second gave birth to a daughter; someone eats off a horse's legs; the eldest and middle sons guard, do not notice anything; the youngest cut his finger, sprinkled it with salt, shot off the finger of the monster, it turned out to be his sister's finger; the shah decided to kill his daughter, the sons do not agree, they leave; the eldest rides along the road "from which they return", the middle one - "I don't know", the youngest - "they do not return"; exchanges his rich clothes for a lion cub; kills a one-, two-, seven-headed azhdah, freeing the three princesses, promises to take them on the way back; comes to the mother of the seven azhdaha, makes friends with them; they want to get a golden cockerel and a golden sieve, to get a girl for them; the young man goes to get them; the azhdaha brothers give a fat tail, a carpet, cotton wool; the young man gave the lion cub a fat tail, sent him back; laid a carpet on the bridge that goes down and up; cotton wool - on the thorns; jumped over the crushing mountains on a horse, only the hairs from the horse's tail were cut off ; in that country there are only women; a young man stole a cockerel and a sieve, returned, took three princesses, found brothers; they pushed him into a well; a merchant pulled him out; the queen of the women's kingdom came to the brothers, they said that they got the cockerel and the sieve, she killed them; she found the young man, made sure that he got the items, became his wife; the young man goes to visit his father, only his sister is there; he asks if the brother has arrived on a horse with three, two, one horse, on the carcass of a horse; she has already eaten them all; the brother became a dove, the sister a fox, the dove sat on a tree, noticed a lion cub, it tore the fox to pieces; the dove became a young man, noticed a leaf with a drop of his sister's blood, the leaf became a beetle, the young man threw the beetle to the hen, she ate it; the young man returned to his wife; feast]: 301-304; Khalilov 1965, No. 47 [three daughters of Tsar Sultan decide to replace his son; the eldest, the middle one returns from the fields, says that she saw nothing; the youngest answers in more detail, remains in men's clothing; the father sends his "son" to marry the daughter of another Tsar; she agrees, but asks that the groom find out why the city turned to stone; at the fork, the young man chooses the road with the sign "you will not return", and not the one where "you will not return soon"; he comes to the azhdaha, there is a girl who calls the "young man" brother; the azhdaha does not know about the city, sends him with a letter to the mother of all azhdaha; she says that the city is behind the mountain, comes to life for a few moments at dawn; at this time the gates rose and fell again, the "young man" managed to slip through, the horse was cut in half ; he sees a man whose lower part has turned to stone; his wife went to the robbers at night, he cut off their heads when they were drunk; for this the wife turned everything into stone, half of her husband; the "young man" finds the woman in the basement, she tells him to change his sex; he, having become a man, demands that she disenchant the city; she does this and the young man immediately kills her; he returned, married the princess]: 119-124; Georgians [the uncle envies the strength of his nephew (this is the son of his elder brother); offers to get the Bozhmi flower; the old woman says that when the beautiful B. lets her hair down from the cliff, there are flowers on the ends; B. braids the young man's hair, throws him into Kadjeti (the world of spirits-kaji); the young man's sister goes to look for him; the father tries to stop her, but allows her to go, making sure that she is stronger than him; between the sea and the sky is the castle of the woman from Kadjeti; the girl takes her as a companion; they come across a dev, who demands to bring a lamp from Kadjeti, takes the kaji girl as a hostage; the gates of Kadjeti come together and part, the young man's sister on a horse gallops through, only the tip of the horse's tail is cut off ; in the palace there are petrified people, among them a brother, petrified to the waist; the sister threatens Bozhmi with a sword, she disenchants the petrified; Kazhmi was locked in a tower, the sister took the magic lantern, did not give the girl, the girl from Kadjeti was kidnapped by an earthly girl; the dwarf killed the young man and kidnapped the girl; the young man's sister revived him with living water; the kidnapped woman pretends to be afraid for the life of the dwarf; he replies that his life is in a broom; she promises to take care of the broom; the dwarf laughs: his life is in a fish, that one is in the sea between two seas; the kidnapped woman tells her brother and sister who came to her about this; the sister caught a fish, there is a box in it, she released three birds, the dwarf died, the brother, sister and girl returned home]: Chikovani 1986: 73-80.

Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks [recorded by Buyuk Karimov, told by Zibog-bibi Sarymsakova; the padishah and the vizier are childless, going on a pilgrimage; the elder gave them an apple each, ordered to name the children Takhir and Zukhra and betroth them in the cradle; a girl was born to the padishah; he wanted an heir, ordered to execute the girl, to bring a handkerchief soaked in her blood; then he regretted it; the nobles admitted that they did not carry out the order; the vizier, having learned about the birth of a son, galloped home, fell and was killed; the padishah refused to betroth his daughter to an orphan; T. was playing and touched an old woman; she ordered him to extract the name of his intended bride from his mother; T. pretended to be ill, asked his mother to roast wheat, squeezed a handful of hot grains in her palms, the mother agreed to tell everything; T. found Z. and began dating her; the padishah found out, ordered T. to be put in a chest, and thrown into the river; Z. made sure that the chest was spacious; the daughters of the Rum king noticed it; it went to the youngest by lot; she fell in love with the young man who found himself inside; the padishah adopted T. and gave his daughter to him; she is even more beautiful than Z., but T. does not speak to her and puts a dagger between them on the bed; after 40 years he took pity on his wife, spoke to her; her name is Khadicha; the padishah promises a reward to anyone who makes T. laugh; Z.'s father wants to give her in marriage to Prince Kara-batyr; Z. sends caravan drivers to look for T.; he hears their song - he himself sang the same as in childhood; T. rides with the caravan drivers, his wife H. follows; she dies of fatigue; at the last moment T. lays her head on his lap; the caravan keeps returning to her grave; only after T.'s farewell song does a straight path open up; there are mountains on the way; according to T.'s song, one of the mountains is cut in half; the camel manages to slip through, " only the mountain pinched off the bottom of his tail "; at the crossroads of three roads, T. chooses the shortest one, where the sign says "if you go, you won't return"; in one city they are thrown into prison; a friend recognizes T. by a song, helps her to freedom; T. finds Z. in the garden; K.'s sister sees them; the padishah orders T. to be cut in half, and the pieces to be hung on the gate; Z. is in mourning for 50 days; on the way to T.'s grave, she drops her pearls; while the girls accompanying her are picking them up, she comes to T.'s grave and kills herself; the grave opened and accepted her; having learned of the death of his bride, K. also killed himself; his sister orders him to be buried between the graves of lovers; "the oppressors did not leave the lovers even after death, they put a black thorn between them"]: Zhirmunsky, Zarifov 1947: 295-297; Burishi [a rich man picked up a baby in the wheat, they named him Dungpa Miru, he grew up, they gave him a wife, but she gives birth to 100 sons with the heads of animals; while hunting, DM shot a goat, but someone else's bullet hit the same goat; two people came up and gave him meat for a promise to give him a son or daughter if he was born; the name of the one who came up was Fasan Karaski, and he lives in the country of Yal Butot; the wife gave birth to a boy and a calf; DM brought him to FC; when parting, the son tells his father to wait on the roof with a cauldron in 12 months: he will fall into it as a raindrop, let the wife drink and he will return; she became pregnant; the son speaks to her from her womb; he came out when she was sleeping; then the second boy was born; the first one put him in his mouth, the mother screamed; first son: if she had not interfered, his whole body would have become like iron, but now his armpits were left vulnerable; every day the first son Pangchu grows weaker, and the second Bumliftan gains strength; the name of all one hundred sons is Kiseré; the eldest of them Aba Kitung divided the land and property among them, and P. received a cemetery, a ford across the river and a miserable hut; did not allow to bury there; when AK wanted to cross, P. did not allow it, replaced his lion's heart with a fox's; after that P. received as much of everything as all the others together; the king wants to give away seven daughters; P. took the form of a lousy; decided to take the eldest Langa Brumo; planted a donkey's embryo in her sleeping body; she has to agree to marry P. so as not to be disgraced; her father and sisters are shocked by her choice; when the other sons-in-law go hunting for the golden bull, P. goes too; LB and her stepmother secretly follow him, see how he first takes the form of a magnificent king, then hides the horse in his sleeve, again becomes a pitiful freak; mocks his sons-in-law; having climbed into the ear of a bull, feeds him poison; dying, the bull says that it was prophesied that he would die at the hands of Geser (Kiser); orders that the knife be taken out of his ear and cut open; P. takes the golden tail and hooves; the sons-in-law find the skin, bring the king the wool, each says that he killed the bull, the king convicts them of lying; P. does not tell his wife that he killed the bull, but gives a nut with its bone marrow; when the king and the courtiers try it, they feel a magnificent taste; P. gives the king the golden tail, hooves, horns of the bull; asks for a gift of one grain and a drop of oil in return, puts a sack under, the king's granaries are empty; Kiser left LB, conquered another country and took another wife there; at this time the king Pahardang Gaipo took LB away; she told that Bumliftan's armpits were vulnerable; provoked him to raise his hands, the hidden warrior shot, but the arrow did not pierce Bumliftan through and through and he galloped away; but when the arrow was pulled out, he died (it was necessary to pull it through the body forward, then the tip would not remain in the body); Kiser went to return LB, on the way there are crushing rocks; having ridden up to them, K. shoots an arrow, only the tip of the feather is crushed; gallops on a horse, but its tail is clamped ; K. wants to cut off the tail, but the Rocks promise to release the horse if K. brings each of the heads of two boys that LB gave birth to from the kidnapper; K. comes unrecognized to King H.; there everyone pulls K.'s bow; the unrecognized K. pulls the bow so that it flies into pieces, they kill everyone except King H. himself; having assumed his form, he tears the kidnapper into pieces; takes his treasures, the dev-servant carries them; cuts off the heads of the sons of King H., having ridden up to the crushing rocks, gives them the heads of the boys, they let him pass; he reigns with his wife LB]: Lorimer 1935, No. 4: 102-179.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [the khan's son overheard at a yurt how his elder sister promised to weave him a golden carpet, the second to feed the people with one egg, the youngest to give birth to a son with a golden head, a daughter with a silver one; the khan's son gets married, in his absence the elder sisters order a witch to switch the children of the youngest with puppies, to throw the babies in a chest into the river; the khan orders to leave his wife with the puppies in the desert; a fisherman fishes out the chest; the boy is named Kudaibergen ("God gave"), the girl Kunslu ("sunny beauty"); the old people die; Kud. kills saigas, the khan gets nothing; the elder wives send a witch to persuade Kunslu to ask her brother to get; 1) a self-playing dombra ( Zhalmauyz-Kempir here and further helps to get it); 2) a mirror that shows everything; one Simurgh chick is crying (the dragon Aidahar will eat him today), the second one is frowning (tomorrow), the third one is laughing (the last one); Kum. kills the dragon, Simurgh carries him between the crushing mountains, he takes a mirror, on the way back the mountains tore off Simurgh's tail ; 3) Tasshilar's daughter as a wife; this is Ayslu, her late adoptive father-fisherman Kudaibergen teaches her underwater; in the house of Kud. A. turns the sorceress into a needle; Kud. became friends with his father-khan; A. orders the demons to build a canal, a bridge; the khan returns his wife, the sorceress was burned, the older wives were torn apart by horses]: Sidelnikov 1952: 178-190 (= 1971 (1): 33-45).

Southern Siberia – Mongolia. Mongols [one of Geser’s two wives was stolen by Rdur’; on the way G. encounters two crushing stones; he says that they do not spread apart much; they spread apart more, he manages to slip past, the stones only cut off the horse’s tail ; G. kills the shepherd R., comes to R.’s house in his clothes, on the way asks the woman how R. drives the cattle; the wife hides G., G. kills R.]: Potanin 1893: 42-43; Dagurs : Bender, Su Huana 1984 [a boy and his older sister were left orphans; when the boy became a young man, his sister was carried off by Sujani Mergen; the old man tells him to look for her in the west; the young man comes to the old woman with her breasts thrown over her back; she says that she is his aunt and his name is now Kuchuni Mergen (“strong hunter”); gives him his milk to drink, KM becomes strong; he pours water from a well into a stone basin; a fiery red horse drinks, carries KM; jumps through the Scissors of Heaven, which sometimes converge, sometimes diverge, only the horse's tail is slightly cut ; the same is the Straw Cutter of Heaven ; the horse teaches how to wrap a deer skin around your head, to take venison with you; a cloud of crows rushes at KM, but cannot peck through the skin, they remain to peck the venison thrown by him; KM hacked SM to death, but the horse orders to destroy seven hairs on his right sole, otherwise he will be reborn; KM kills two wives of SM, frees his sister; she orders to kill the third wife of SM, she prepares to give birth; KM kills the woman in labor and the newborn monster]: 56-68; Stuart et al. 1994 [an official died, leaving his wife and son a horse named Gold; the boy wins games with his neighbor's son; the neighbor suggests that he, like his father, tend the flocks on the South and North Mountains (the horse teaches him to tame two wild horses); marry the daughter of the monster Yelendengeir; on the way of a flock of crows, the horse teaches him to throw them meat; jumps through moving scissors , only the tip of his tail is cut off ; teaches him to shoot at the middle head of the monster; teaches him to tie him to a poplar - in it is the life of the monster's wife; her upper eyelids hang down on her face, the lower ones - to her breasts; to see, she props them up with sticks; the daughter of monsters helps the young man; when he drops his comb, you can take chopsticks; the mother sleeps when there is white smoke from her nostrils, does not sleep when there is black; the young man and his wife run, the mother sends two swords after them, they will return soaked in blood; the girl cuts off her finger, smears the swords with blood; the demoness rushes in pursuit herself; the horse fights with her at the bottom of the lake: if a black fog rises, the horse wins, if red - the demoness; the fog rises black and red; the horse comes out, says that he will die; his legs must be cut off, put up as pillars, his skin on them; in the morning there is a large house on this place; in the house a black dog chases a yellow one, the young man kills the yellow one; the young man and his wife go out into the yard - there is a live horse; they return to the young man's mother, a wedding]: 129-130.

Eastern Siberia. Evenki (location of recording not specified; conditionally – Baikal) [ Singkoltukon invites Cholbon-Chokulbai to sit down; he falls into the lower world of cannibals; he manages to get out, he invites S. to compete at the cliff where the earth and sky meet; ChCh is the first to jump into the gap when the sky moves away, only the tip of his horse's tail is cut off ; when S. jumped on his horse, he was cut in half]: Sangi 1989: 181.

NE Asia. Chukchi [a sister of two brothers is kidnapped; a woman looks into the house, tells the elder brother that the kidnapper lives overseas; the brothers make a boat, sail between crushed rocks, only the steering oar is broken ; the brothers see a man catching many sea animals with a net; the elder hides under the carcasses, is brought into the house, reveals himself to his sister; the owner tells the brothers to sit on the flooring, he jumps up; the animal bones turn into dangerous animals; the brothers do not fall; the owner throws the younger brother against a sharp whale shoulder blade, his head is cut off; the elder jumps back; throws the owner against the shoulder blade, killing him; puts the heads on, reviving the owner and brother; the owner locks the elder in a stone house, sets it on fire; the brother does not burn; locks the owner in the house, he burns; the brothers and sister fly home in the form of seagulls; Despite the slave’s warning, the younger one pecks at a navaga on the way and remains a seagull forever]: Belikov 1982: 57-65.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos (Sireniki): Menovshchikov 1985, #99 [girls and boys play wives and husbands, one of them didn't get a husband, she took an old whale skull; the skull dragged her into the water; her eight brothers swim after her, following the birds; the birds overtake them twice; on the third time the brothers build a kayak, which overtakes the fastest birds - the harlequin ducks; the birds fly into the passage between the crushed rocks, the rocks bite them with their points, become covered in the blood of the birds; only the beams at the stern of the kayak are damaged ; in the whales' dwelling the old man suggests a competition; having turned off the light, he throws in a whale blade, but the sister has previously hidden the brothers in a hole; the sister creates seagulls from pieces of a jacket of one of the brothers, sewn from seagull skins; while the seagulls attack the old man, the brothers take their sister away; a whale chases their boat; the woman successively takes off her clothes, throws them to the whale; each time it plays with them, falls behind, stops chasing; the woman gives birth to a whale calf; it regularly brings whales to the people; people from another village kill it]: 238-241; St. Lawrence Island [boys and girls were playing, each took a mate, one girl was left without a mate, sat on a muzzle skull, said that it would be her mate; the skull took her away; her older brother Ayvanga began to question everyone; the old man explained that they had to make a boat faster than a duck; A. and his four brothers made boats from different types of wood and broke them when they could not outrun the ducks; finally, they found a suitable tree and sailed; ahead were crushed rocks, in front of them were many dead birds and seals; the boat slipped past, only the very stern of the kayak was cut off ; there is a man on the shore, he was promised a knife as a gift, he said that the chief had brought a new wife; A. killed him so that he would not tell on them; the brothers see the assembled people through the hole in the dugout, their sister is preparing food; they met with their sister; the chief asks what his wife is worried about; she replies that her food is too monotonous, the chief promises to bring different meat; A. went to the old woman, killed her, put on her skin, and the other brothers came to the chief and he offered to wrestle; the local youths followed the old woman, carried her, since she usually cannot walk, they are surprised why she is so heavy; the chief easily wins and kills each of the younger brothers; when he is about to kill the youngest, A. removes the old woman's skin, kills the chief, everyone is happy; A. revives both the brothers and the chief; the competition continues the next day; A. is lowered into a pit, it is covered with burning wood; in a pit A. hid under the shoulder blade of a whale; a rope was lowered to him, he came out; the chief was subjected to the same test, burned; the brothers go to the shore, taking their sister and another girl; an old man and an old woman come towards them, holding human figurines and a stick; as soon as they hit the figurine with the stick, one of the brothers falls dead; A. kills the old men themselves, revives the brothers; in the sea, a whale chases after the boat; the brothers successively throw items of the girl's clothing, the whale lingers each time; when the girl remains naked, they throw her to the whale]: Slwooko 1977: 54-60; Nunivak Island [two brothers are swimming in the hope of finding suitable wives; the two halves of the mountain sometimes diverge, then come together with a roar; first one brother in his kayak, then the second manage to swim through ; in both cases the stern of the kayak is smashed , small round-mouthed people rush to chew the chips; the brothers swim to the village, get married]: Lantis 1946, No. 13: 281-282; Inupiat of the Bering Strait [ Vinilinatuk refuses to marry; gives birth to a child, does not allow her parents to look at it; while she is gone, they look; it has a huge mouth, it bites them to death; V. goes away with it, he hunts for her; A. marries a man who has four other children, one of them a girl; the big-mouth becomes more and more like a man, although he manages to kill one of his named brothers; the sister is carried away on an ice floe; the big-mouth and one of his brothers swim in an umiak to the mouth of the sky; it opens and then contracts; only the stern of their boat is crushed ; they find their sister; her husband offers to fight; kills her brother, is killed by Big Mouth, brother immediately comes back to life; evil shaman kills people by pointing severed human fingers at them; Big Mouth kills him; both brothers and sister return home by following the edge of the sky]: Garber 1940, no. 14: 115-114; Inupiat of northern Alaska (Kotzebue) [four brothers disappear one after another; when conceiving a fifth son, the husband strikes sparks that fall into his wife's womb; gives the baby hot stones to swallow, making him invulnerable; a young man Kayartuarungnertok goes to avenge his brothers, meets various strange creatures; sails in a boat with his uncle; two cliffs on either side of a river collide and move apart; K. sails between them, only the end of the stern of the boat is broken ; then a log rises above the river, then collapses into the water; the boat manages to slip under it]: Ostermann 1952: 243-244; caribou [Kivioq finds himself on an ice floe, sails to an unknown land; there is an old woman and a daughter, he takes the daughter as his wife; the mother-in-law kills her, searching in her head and piercing her ear, pulls her skin tight; K. guesses about the substitution, seeing wrinkles on the legs of the imaginary wife; runs away; the mother-in-law puts obstacles in his way; he 1) runs away from bears; 2) runs between crushed rocks (the hem of his clothing is cut off) ; 3) walks along the edge of a boiling cauldron; 4) copulates with the lower part of a woman's body blocking his way, passes; 5) jumps over a belt that kills travelers; 6) spends the night in the house of an old woman from whose body an iron blade protrudes from behind (he places a flat stone on his chest; the old woman jumps on it, dies, pierced by her own blade); 7) escapes from a huge oyster in a kayak; his parents die of joy at his return]: Rasmussen 1930b: 97-99; West Greenland [wife pretends to be dead, Kiviok buries her; child sees mother with new husband; G. kills her and her lover, abandons the child, swims across the sea; fights off sea lice (they ate his pole, but he put old mittens on his oar and they did not have time to gnaw the oar); two icebergs come together and diverge; only the tip of the stern of the kayak is scratched ; having sailed to some land, G. spends the night with an old woman and her daughter; notices a sharp protrusion on the old woman’s back; unnoticed, he places a flat stone on his chest; at night, the old woman jumps on it, breaking her tail; her daughter K., leaving, killed with a harpoon; comes to another old woman and daughter, lives with them, helping them catch halibut; many years later returns to his son; he grew up to be a brave hunter]: Rink 1975, no. 15: 257-261 (=Rink 2007: 88-91, =Menovshchikov 1985, no. 258: 473-476).

Coast - Plateau. Snookualli [salmon women stole Blue Jay's grandson; s/he searches to the ends of the earth; flies between the crushing rocks, only the back of his/her head is flattened ]: Haeberlin 1924, #1 [it is dark beyond the crushing rocks; the found grandson is now a grown man; teaches how to make nets; tells them to put a thick branch between the rocks on the way back; himself returns to the people, leading the salmon; since then the salmon have been climbing the rivers], 2 [the back of Blue Jay's head is flattened on the way back while carrying her grandson on her back; the grandson makes the rivers], 2a [it is always day beyond the crushing rocks]: 372-375; Snohomish [the woman-eater carries off the Loon man; he runs to Thunder and Flint; the door of Flint's house keeps opening and slamming shut, cutting the ogress into pieces]: Haeberlin 1924, no. 39: 437; Twana [see motif A5; one of two sisters has a baby Moon; while the sisters dig roots, their mother rocks the boy on a swing; two women substitute a piece of driftwood for him; the mother sends birds and animals to find him; only a Blue Jay manages to slip through the opening and closing stump ( the Jay's head is flattened ); he finds the Moon, who returns]: Adamson 1934: 374-378; Puyallup [see motif A23; creatures from the nether world kidnap the baby Moon; the animals go looking for him, with the Blue Jay; at the edge of the world, the Jay flies through a horizontal crack that opens and closes; only his crest is touched ; Blue Jay finds Moon, who returns]: Adamson 1934: 356-360; Upper Chehalis : Adamson 1934: 14-15 [see motif K27; chief and his people arrive at unknown land; contest offered; must navigate river under five hanging ice floes that rise and fall; boat passes , Blue Jay's tail is cut off ]; Tillamook [Led and his people live in the village of Nehalem; they sail out to hunt sea otters; cannot catch a sea otter with a white face; they arrive at the village, there is a woman, she was a sea otter, in her house are their arrows; she agrees to get into their boat, takes her purse with her; Ice thinks there is food in it, but there are living creatures in it; he throws the purse overboard; the woman says that if she had brought it to Nehalem, people would not have died; jumps into the sea; they swim to the Salmon village, eat one; swim to people with tails; to naked people, who cover themselves with their ears at night like blankets (their ears are normal size during the day); to invisible spirits, who throw baskets; to a house whose door opens and closes as fast as the woman in the house speaks; in the next house, a woman speaks slowly, because she is angry: she got one vertebra with meat on it, and the other got two; Ice runs into the house where the first woman is, grabs the meat, and manages to jump out; the door only cut off a little flesh from his buttocks , but he was immediately cured by herbs; they swim to people without mouths, who feed on the smell of food; Ice cuts a boy's mouth, he can speak; watches as Ice copulates with a mouthless girl; Ice cuts everyone's mouths, tells them not to copulate in public; earlier, mouthless people conceived children differently from us (it is not said how exactly); swim to cannibals, Ice turns the boat into a feather, eludes pursuit; to people with tiny mouths, they feed on dentalia mollusks; return home]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 1: 3-9; Yakima [a mother sends two daughters to dig roots; they sleep on the street, the youngest Yas-lum-mas wants a red star as a husband,offers a bright one to her sister Tah-pal-lug ; The stars take both of them to the sky; Ya. has an old husband, T. has a young husband; the husbands do not allow them to dig deep when collecting roots; T. digs, the wind blows into the resulting hole, the husbands feel it; the sisters weave a rope from a hazel root, descend to the earth; T. has a child, the Golden Boy (GB); a woman from the east comes when the blind granny (the sisters' mother) rocks the baby; she replaces him with a rotten snag; the rope that descended from the sky, which served as a swing, immediately breaks; the sisters soak and wring out the dada (diapers?), make a new boy out of them; the Blue Jay gets to the place in the east where the earth rises and falls; he flies through the crack, only the feathers of his crest are touched ; GB is already a man, he makes arrows, throws shards of flint at the Blue Jay; he tells what happened, ZM removes the splinters from the wounds; the wife leaves their son to look after his father; he leaves the hair to answer for himself, returns home with the Blue Jay; the brother made from swaddling clothes becomes the Sun; the Europeans descend from the son of ZM who remained in the East]: Hines 1992, No. 49: 141-146.