J59C. To revive the dead with a blow of the whip. .29.33.34.

The character beats the remains of the deceased with a whip or a knout and it comes back to life.

Abkhazians, Ossetians, Tats, Georgians, Karakalpaks, Altai people.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians [father died during a raid; the boy broke a neighbor's jug with an arrow; she tells him to find out better where his father's brothers died; he tells his mother to bake a churek, puts the hot churek to her hands, forcing her to tell where his father's brothers went; she says that after bringing his father's coffin, the brothers went somewhere; he went to look for them, found them sitting under a tree and covered in lice; they were ashamed, they decided to kill him, sending him to the river for water; he defeated the monster, it turned into a girl, she said that she was freeing the river, gave her a golden cup; the young man with his uncles returned home, the king learned about the cup, demanded 12 more; the old woman says that the king sends guards to his son's grave, but they all die, it is her son's turn; the young man goes himself, sees a girl descend from a cloud, revives the prince with a whip, goes with him into the forest; a young man stole a whip, publicly revived the prince, and then other dead people; the people across the river are starving, there is a drought and crop failure; when a ship with food is sent, a bull's head sticks out of the water, stops it, sinking its teeth into it; the young man pulled them out, the ship sailed on; the young man comes to the castle, there are three beds, he hides under one; three sisters enter, they are grateful to the one who freed them from evil, forcing them to kill those who came to the river, kill the prince and hold the ship; the young man takes the younger sister, the two older ones - for his uncles; he gives the king golden cups and receives the throne]: Shakryl 1975, No. 20: 87-93; Ossetians [a hunter roasted a roe deer, the carcass and shashlik came together, the roe deer came to life, ran away; the hunter came to the house of half a man; he tells how he and his seven sons got to a one-eyed giant; the latter slaughtered a goat and ordered that the bones not be damaged; when leaving, he closes the exit from the cave with a rock; every day he eats a horse and a person; he roasts the narrator on a spit, half of his body burns; the narrator manages to escape; the hunter decides to go to that giant; he again orders that the bones of the slaughtered and cooked goat not be damaged; he revives the goat from the bones; the hunter overcame the giant, forced him to get the bones of the eaten ones from the cellar, revive them; he buried the giant himself in the cellar; the hunter and the revived ones revive other eaten people and animals; having hit half a person with a whip, the hunter makes him whole]: Britaev, Kaloev 1959: 275-281; ​​Ossetians[a voice from a spring to a childless Aldar: slaughter a black hen and give your wife the boiled crop to eat; a dog ate half of the crop, she gave birth to a golden-haired boy, and Aldar's wife gave birth to an ordinary one; they came to the Uaigs to woo their sister in marriage to Aldar's son; the Uaigs: climb a tree with a full cup and come down without spilling; the son of a bitch fulfilled; get an apple from a tall apple tree (the son of a bitch chopped down the tree); Aldar's son was given a wife; the son of a bitch and the son of a Uaig are hunting, and Aldar's son and his wife are at home; he was forbidden to unlock the eighth room, he unlocked it, there was a seven-headed Uaig on red-hot iron chains; Aldar's son doused him with water; the Uaig broke the chains, carried off Aldar's son's wife; the son of a bitch went in search; met, took as a companion 1) a priest carrying a church on his head; 2) running after a hare with millstones on his feet; 3) drinking the sea; there is a hole in the ground, the companions ordered to raise them back up - it is hot; the son of a bitch came down, there is the wife of the son of aldar; he teaches to find out from the uaig where his soul is; uaig: in the middle pillar of the house; under the hearth; a woman decorates these places; in a boar, for which a hundred mowers mow hay; in the boar there is a roe deer, in it a hare, in it a casket, in it three swallows; the son of a bitch killed the boar, tore off the heads of two swallows, and having come to the uaig, tore off the last one; sent the woman up; then tied a log - the companions cut the rope; in the corner of the house the son of a bitch sees the mother of the uaig, one fang above the sky, the other in the underworld; She tells him to grab the ram's right horn, he accidentally grabs the left one, does not rise to the ground, but falls into the seventh lower world; there the dragon has locked up the water, once a year he is given a girl, it is the turn of Aldar's daughter; the son of a bitch dresses up as a girl, chops up the dragon; refuses Aldar's daughter, asks to show the way to earth; kills the Zaliag serpent, which regularly devoured the eagle's chicks; a downpour began (the eagle's tear), the scorching sun sparkled (the mother saw that the chicks were alive, the light from her eyes), the wind (from the wings); the eagle tells to prepare the meat of bulls and wineskins with beer; the son of a bitch cut off the last piece from his leg, the eagle put it back; the herders say that the priest who wore the church is getting married; the son of a bitch asked to give the bride a ring, she recognized him; the son of the bitch chopped up the companions, brought the sister of the Uaigs to the son of the Aldar; on the way home the devils put a bed under the spouses, they turned to stone; the son of the bitch returned for the whip of the Uaigs and revived the spouses; with it he rejuvenated the Aldar and his wife]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 45: 162-177; Ossetians[the young man's comrades reproach him: first find your father, and then quarrel with us; he tells his mother to roast some corn and squeezes her hand; she has to say that a giant kidnapped her father, and that her father's horse is standing up to its ears in manure; he does not believe that his 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 giant's decomposed corpse with a whip: come back to life, 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 throw trees and stones at the young man; the young man turns him into a corpse again; the young man found the giant, chopped off 6 heads, ordered him to tell him 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 is a shepherd, cleaning his fur coat from lice; The young man brought the giant's ears to his wife; she told her to be wary of the giant's mother; the young man killed her, but she cursed him: he would have no peace until he got the daughter of the king of the genies; the horse taught him to give millet to the birds, to drink from the spring and praise the water, to throw a ram to the iron-faced wolves; to grease the door hinges; the young man found the girl and lived with her for a month; then they loaded all their belongings onto an all-containable felt bag and galloped away; the young man destroyed the pursuing army, but one warrior killed 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 the 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 his wife, kidnapped by the seven-headed giant; the young man returned home with his wife, everything is fine]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 33: 91-99; Tatyana[Zola's son Rustom went on a journey; one jump of his horse - 7 days of flight; reached a huge, but empty city; tore off the lock on the gate; in the evening a horseman galloped up, arrows sticking out of his body; he tore them out and threw them in a pile, washed himself in the pool and the wounds healed; he realized that he was Rustom; he told him how his father sent him to study with the wise Sheikh-Islam for 7 years; after 4 years, letters from his father stopped coming; SHI allowed him to return home, for the young man had already comprehended wisdom; during this time, the padishah of Chime-china robbed the city, destroyed all the inhabitants, and took the young man's sister for his son; Rustom promised to return his sister; the young man gave Rustom his ring so that she could identify him; R. threw it into the maid's vessel and told her to ask the mistress to strain the water; she recognized the ring, met R., he told her everything, brought her to the city; the padishah sent an army, but R., together with the youth and his sister, destroyed them all; but accidentally killed each other; R. buried them; showed the graves to Peygambar; the wise men stood along the graves, read wise books and ordered P. to hit the graves with his whip; P. hit the first time - the earth parted, everyone saw the bones of the dead; hit the second time - the bones acquired a body; after the third time, life returned to the dead; the wise padishah Peygambar revived them; gave his daughter in marriage to the youth, R. married the youth's sister]: Kukullu 1974, No. 2: 26-36 (= Ganieva 2011b, No. 3: 47-76); Georgians (Kakheti) [the husband went off to war, the mother gave birth to a son, named him Orphan; he comes to serve two robbers, is incredibly strong, they are afraid of him, make him their leader; an old merchant falsely accuses him of stealing a magic cup; S. left the robbers hostage, promised to bring two more of the same; stops at an old woman's; it is her son's turn to guard the dead prince in the coffin, not a single guard has returned alive; S. goes in place of the old woman's son; the dove became a girl, she revived the prince with a whip, and in the morning killed him again with another whip; S. grabbed her, she dropped the whip and flew away; S. revived the prince, asks for the cup in exchange, the king does not have one, he moves on; at the sea, people cannot exchange their bread for overseas clothes, the ship sinks every time; S. swims, grabs a woman's hand reaching out of the water, tears off the golden hoop; These people also did not have a cup; a beauty was hung on a willow by her hair, asking to take it off, to come up to her for this; S. jumped on her shoulders, began to trample her into the ground, that was how she destroyed men; S. broke free, the girl flew away, S. was left with a golden slipper; the old woman: I was kidnapped by three sisters, there is their castle; hid S. under the table; each of the three girls tells how S. defeated her and what a fine fellow he is; S. came out, he was given 40 such cups that he is looking for; one of the kings called Pashkundzhi to deliver S. to the hostages; the execution was stopped, the merchant was executed]: Chikovani 1954, No. 18: 104-110.

Turkestan. Karakalpakstan (Takhtakupyr district) [a hero learned that his wife had a lover and left home; met two people, agreed to be friends; the first of his companions said that his occupation was to revive white bones that lay on the road; the second - that he connected one city with another city with one kopeck; the hero began to ask the first to revive the bone he saw on the road; the companion refused; the hero found another bone, repeated the request; the companion at first refused, then hit the bone with a whip; the bone turned into a tiger, the tiger chased the hero; the hero ran to a city in which there were no people; found a girl, took her as his wife; the girl went to bathe in the river; her hair got tangled in sedge, broke off, floated away; people noticed sedge with golden hair in the water, took it to the khan; he ordered to find the owner; an old woman went to search; She sailed in a boat to the place where the girl was bathing and told three horsemen to wait for her to return with her; then she lay down on the road; the hero saw her, picked her up, and brought her to his home; the old woman added poison to his food, and the next day he could not get up; the old woman took the girl to the river, pushed her into the boat, and took her to the khan; the khan made the girl his wife; the man who revived the bones came to the girl’s door and asked for alms; the girl gave him a kopeck; the man who connected one city with another with one kopeck, with one kopeck moved the city to the place where that hero lived; they saw that the hero had died; the man who revived the bones struck him with a whip; the hero came to life; the three friends began to live together]: Baskakov 1951: 68-72.

Southern Siberia – Mongolia. Altaians (Katun) [after the death of their parents, a teenage boy, Altai Sain Salam, and his younger sister were left behind; ASS regrets that he cannot bring home the meat of a killed animal on horseback; he sees the heroic horse Aikym-Saikym, and his sister explains that the horse is for him; ASS brought game for his sister on horseback; but when he rode off again, he fell from his horse and broke his neck; the sister ordered the rock to part, placed her brother’s body inside, put on men’s clothing, and went off to woo the daughters of the Sunny Khan and the Moon Khan; “She could tell by the frosty collar that it was winter, and by the warm shoulder blades that it was summer”; each of the khans promises the middle daughter whose arrow flies through the eye of a needle, an iron hook, a mountain forest, and falls (at the feet) of the khan; The imaginary AAS fulfilled the condition and received the girls, but did not sleep with them on the way back; they were already thinking of returning to their fathers; the sister galloped forward, ordered the rock to open, put a note in her brother's hand describing what had happened, turned into a hare and ran away; the daughter of the Sun Khan hit AAS with a whip, he came back to life; the daughter of the Moon Khan completed the revival; AAS hit the hare in the leg with a wooden arrow, caught him, gave him to his wives and ordered them to feed him well; the hare gnawed their clothes; they killed him; AAS placed the hare in three boxes, one inside the other, left a note for the doctor asking him to revive the hare, and launched the box into the sea; the box floated to the domain of the Moon Khan; his doctor revived the hare, the hare became a girl, the khan's son married her; after 7 years, AAS went to look for his sister and came to a yurt, there was a boy running around there; AAS's sister saw Aikym Saikym's horse and cried; the horse saw her and neighed; brother and sister met and had a feast]: Radloff 1866, no. 2: 12-23.