K38b4. A serpent emerges from a pond. .30.34.35.46.

The nest of the mighty bird is located on a tree in the middle (on the edge) of a pond, from where a snake (monster) emerges, threatening the chicks.

Yagnobis, Wakhans, Bartangs, Sarykols, Dardys, Chelkans, Tuvans, Baikal and Transbaikal Buryats, Mansi, Crow, Khidatsa, Arikara.

Iran - Central Asia. Yagnobis [an unloved wife pushes her beloved into a pond; she feeds her son well, her stepson poorly; a ram tells him to feed him coarse bread, gives him tasty things from his horn; the stepmother pretends to be ill, will get well if she eats her stepson's meat; he goes to the pond, complains to his mother; she makes the knife turn into felt and dough; the king orders to drain the pond, his wife is alive at the bottom, with twins Hasan and Hussein on her lap; a feast; a div took the king's daughter from his other wife and the daughter of another king; princes Soki and Boki find them, B. kills one, then the second div; S. is jealous, lowers B. into the abyss for a gun, cuts the rope, he falls onto a gray horse, from the gray onto a bull, from the bull in front of the old woman; kills the foxes that were eating her chickens; kills tigers that devoured the ploughman's bulls; wolves that ate the shepherd's cattle; they all send to the plane tree where the Simurgh bird nests; the dragon comes out of the pond, kills the chicks every year; B. kills the dragon; Simurgh asks for the meat of 40 lambs, 40 wineskins of wine; the shepherd and ploughman give; Simurgh takes it to the ground, there is not enough meat, he bites off a piece of B.'s leg, regurgitates it on the ground and replants it; B. takes his gun, which S. could not take away, kills the dragon in the village on the ground, which gave water in exchange for people left to be eaten; the king asks B. not to kill his brother, marries him to the vizier's daughter]: Andreev, Peshchereva 1957, No. 10: 79-87; Vakhans[the maid tells the king that his three favorite sons are sleeping, and the son from the unloved wife wants to go to Mount Qaf to bring the Pearl that Shines at Night; the king sends his sons, the favorites go along the road from where you will return, the unloved - from where you will not return; he kills the black, white, red divs, three bets remain to wait for him; the last one sends him to the bird Simurg; she has a nest in a plane tree; every year the dragon comes out of the pond, eats her chicks; the prince chops off his three heads, the chicks tell their mother that he saved them; Simurg carries him, the supply of meat runs out, he cuts off part of the caviar; on Mount Qaf Simurg regurgitates a piece, puts it on; explains how to take the Pearl and the White Falcon from the Queen with Hair in Forty Gyazes; the burnt-out garden must be called blooming, the crooked bridge and crooked gates - straight; under the dog there is hay, in front of the horse there are bones, they must be changed; the hair of the sleeping Queen with Hair in Forty Gyaz must be nailed to 40 posts; the pearls at the feet and at the head, the inner and outer trousers must be swapped; the keys to the inner ones must be unlocked, 40 rooms must be unlocked, and the Falcon and the Pearl must be taken; the Queen wakes up, orders the guards (gates, bridge, etc.) to hold the kidnapper, they refuse; on the way home the prince ransoms his brothers from slavery; they tied a sword to the doors of the tent, the prince runs into it, and is left without legs; the brothers gouged out his eyes and laid them next to him; the dog and the horse look after the prince; a voice orders him to hold on to the dog's tail, it leads him to a spring, his legs grow back, his eyes grow back into their sockets; the brothers bring the Falcon and the Pearl; the Queen with Hair in Forty Gyaz comes, asks each of the brothers how they managed to get the things; she cuts off one's nose, another's hand, a third's leg; forces him to find the prince, takes him as her husband, his father passes the throne to him]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 8: 113-125; Bartangians[the king has three sons, nothing to eat, the eldest went hunting; chases a goat, the owner comes out; the prince: I did not know that this is yours; the owner points out where there are many goats; the prince goes, there is a beautiful house, in it a girl; she will marry the one who will tell what Gul did to Sinavbar and what S. did to G.; the one who does not find the answer will be executed; for three years the eldest prince did not find the answer; the girl cut off his head and threw the body into the well; the same with the middle prince; the youngest came to a tree by the pond; in the pond there is a three-headed dragon, on the tree there is a nest of the Simurgh bird; the dragon eats a cub every year, only one remains; the prince cut off the dragon's heads; Simurgh orders to prepare food: she will take the prince to Mount Kof, where the answer can be found; there was not enough food, they returned; the next time they almost flew, the prince cut off the meat from his hand; When they reached him, Simurg regurgitated him and put him back; gave him a hair to call her; the prince met an old woman, asked a question; the old woman: S. is the king, G. is his wife; the prince entered to them; S. is sitting on the couch, his wife is in the cage; S. is feeding the dog, and throws the scraps to his wife; S. agrees to tell his story, but, having told it, he will kill the listener; G. leaves for the 41 divs every night; S. with the dog quietly follows her, spies; each div slaps G., and she laughs; asks to go tie up her horse so that she does not get free; S. kills 40 divs one by one; in single combat with the main one he overcomes, but G. sprinkles sand under the div's feet; after this the div knocked down S., but the dog saved him, squeezing the div's throat; S. orders the executioners to execute the prince, but he sets fire to a hair of Simurg, she takes it away; brings it to that girl; the girl is G.'s sister; the prince orders to revive the brothers, otherwise he will tell everyone about G.; the girl pulls them out of the well and revives them, the prince returns home with her and his brothers]: Sokolova 1960, No. 9: 47-55; Sarykoltsy [the king sees a beautiful bird Murgi-Zarin in a dream, his three sons go to look for her; whoever goes along the right and middle gorges will return, along the left - no; the youngest Malik-Hasan goes along the left; the old woman turns him into a gazelle, her daughter dispels the spell; explains that there is a nest of the Simurg bird on the plane tree, every year a dragon crawls out of the lake, eats the chicks; MK kills the dragon, for this Simurg carries him across seven terrible rivers to Mount Kof, where Murgi-Zarin lives; the taken meat runs out, MK cuts it off from his thigh; Simurg burps, puts a piece; MK brings the queen of Mount Kof and the cage with Murgi-Zarin, the granddaughter gives him a bullet to kill her grandmother; he frees the brothers from slavery, they throw him into a pit; the queen asks Murgi-Zarin who got her; by her order the devas kill the deceiving brothers, MK marries, takes the throne]: Pakhalina 1966: 203-207 (= Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 9: 125-132); dardy(Kalash) [the king is getting old, but childless; the fakir gives two apples; let him eat one with his wife, she will give birth to twins, give the elder one to him; give the second apple to the mare, she will give birth to a foal; when the brothers became teenagers, the fakir took the elder one; the king tried to give the younger one, but you can’t fool a fakir; the elder one took a horse and a sword; warned his brother that if blood appeared on his sword, trouble would befall him; in his house the fakir gives the keys to 6 rooms, but forbids entry into the 7th; but the young man forgot about the ban and went in; there is a weakened old woman there; asks to come to her tomorrow: the fakir will leave for 5 days; in the morning she tells that the fakir fattens up teenagers and eats them; but she refused to eat with him, therefore she became weak; she feeds on birds; the fakir asks to look in and dance by a boiling cauldron with 7 ears; you must ask him to show you; and push it into the cauldron; then crush its bones and sprinkle them on the bones of those eaten: they will come to life; and so it happened; 60-80 young men and women came to life; the young man told them to go where they came from; the old woman became young; the young man promised to marry her, but first he went wandering; he saw a falcon's nest; the falcon hatched chicks every year, but under the tree there was an ocean, from which a dragon came out and devoured them; the chicks were crying; the dragon appeared, the young man hacked it with a sword; the falcon wanted to eat the young man, but the chicks called him a savior; the falcon gave him one falcon as an assistant; then he freed the lioness crushed by the tree - gave her a lion cub; the young man came to the city; the king offers his three daughters to touch with a flower the one of those gathered whom they want as a husband; the young man put on clothes in which he looked like a person with a skin disease; but the youngest princess saw him in his true form; and touched the pretended patient with a flower; the king settled them in a stable, and the elder daughters with their chosen ones - in the mihman-khan; sends a servant to eavesdrop on what the sons-in-law are talking about; the elders - about nothing, the younger would like to be sent hunting; the young man gave the elder sons-in-law pheasants, having branded their buttocks with a hot ring for this; he kept the entrails for himself; the soup made from them turned out to be the most delicious; but the daughter threw a piece of dung there: they live in a stable; the servant overhears that the younger son-in-law dreams of a new hunt; he orders the lion and the falcon to get mountain goats, and to drive away all the game from the elder sons-in-law; (the same episode: the brand from the ring on the buttocks); the third day: the younger son-in-law dreams that the king will offer to play polo; The youngest son-in-law appeared as a handsome man on his horse; he warned his wife that he would throw the ball to her elder sister and she would return it to him; then to the middle one; then to his wife, but she had to throw the ball away; the elder sons-in-law could not play, it was painful for them to sit on horses; the youngest won; the king elevated him, and humiliated the elder sons-in-law; in the back room there was a woman who turned people into stones, beating them at dice; the wife did not allow him to go in there, the husband went and disappeared; the younger brother saw blood on the sword; the falcon and the lioness took him for the elder brother and again gave him a falcon, a lion cub; the wife took him for her husband, but he put the sword across a dish of rice,which she brought for food, and then into bed between them; when he came to play with the woman, the mouse knocked over the board and the young man won; ordered the petrified men to be revived; the elder brother decided that the younger had communicated with his wife and killed him; having learned from his wife about the sword, the elder returned to the body of the younger brother; a fakir approached; the elder asked how many years he was destined to live; having learned that 50, he asked to divide it in half and give 25 years to the younger brother; the king allowed the brothers to return to their parents; the younger married the woman who had grown younger thanks to the elder brother; seeing their sons, the parents grew younger; a holiday and a feast]: Petersen 2015: 197-205.

Southern Siberia – Mongolia. Chelkantsy : Kandarakova 1988 [after the shaman’s calling, the wife of the childless Ak-Kaan gives birth to seven sons; after the second calling – to the six-eyed Karagys ; the eldest son Maka-Maatyr sees a girl rise from the cradle, devour animals, lie back down; MM runs away, marries the youngest daughter of the great khan; two other sons-in-law persuade MM to give difficult tasks, the wife explains how to accomplish them; 1) get a golden eagle feather; MM cuts off with an arrow the heads of a seven-headed serpent emerging from a lake to devour golden eagle chicks; they hide it from their parents; their father arrives with rare snow, their mother – with heavy rain (these are golden eagles’ tears), they carry deer in their claws; the chicks explain that MM saved them, the golden eagle does not kill MM, but gives a feather; 2) get a tooth of a monstrous wolverine (one of its horns is stuck in the ground, the other props up the sky; MM jumps between the horns, the wolverine runs under the clouds, cannot throw it off, gives two teeth); the sons-in-law do not know how, MM makes a cauldron, working with these teeth like tools; 3) bring Altyn-Tan , the daughter of God; the wife gives MM fur coats to have them, AT's brothers ask her to show MM her face, to drink araki from a thimble; AT loses consciousness, MM takes her away; the brothers catch up, she sends them back; turns the khan into a fox, his people and property into black earth; MM climbs the mountain, sees his camp, cries; says that a branch, pipes, wind damaged his eye; AT punishes them, the wind mother explains what is going on; MM gets home on a six-legged horse; the six-eyed K. has eaten everyone, chases after MM, tears off one by one all the horse's legs; AT tells her not to touch her husband, K. leaves]: 44-72; Sadalova 2002, No. 20 [after turning to the shaman and sacrificing a horse, the wife gives birth to seven sons, the eldest is Maka-Maatyr ; next time he asks for a girl, but sacrifices not a mare, but a dog, gives birth to the six-eyed Karagys ; MM sees K. get up from the cradle, eats the calf, lies down; then a foal, a bull; MM says that he will leave for a short time, leaves forever; marries the youngest of Ulug-Piya's three daughters ; other sons-in-law advise father-in-law to order MM to bring 1) feathers of the Purush bird ; wife says that its nest is on the top of one of the seven larches; a seven-headed snake crawls from the lake to the nest, MM kills seven heads with arrows, climbs into the nest; chicks say that this snake always devours chicks; father-P. flew in with the wind and fine snow, then mother with the wind and rain (these are her tears), gives two feathers; 2) a tooth of a wolverine living at the confluence of seven rivers to make a tagan; wife says that one of its horns is stuck in the ground, the other is raised to the sky, you need to grab both; wolverine gives two teeth; 3) the youngest daughter of Kudai Altyn-Tan; the wife teaches him to make a dwelling where K. gets water; his three sons will come; for a fur coat sewn from what he has collected from the mountains, ask to see half of his sister's face; for one sewn from what he has collected from the meadows - a button under his arm; from the rivers - let him drink arak from a thimble; AT gets drunk, MM carries her away; the brothers, having received the fur coats, catch up, AT sends them away; UP turns cattle into black earth, and him into a fox; MM marries AT; she says that only six-eyed K. remains at MM's father's camp; AT gives him a six-legged trotter; K. gnaws the bones of his parents, sees MM on the chimney, chases, cuts off, eats the sixth, fifth legs of the horse, fights with his brother; AT tells her to leave, she returns home; AT and MM live on]: 173-201; Tuvans(archive) [an old man went into the forest, a she-bear carried him off, made him her husband; gave birth to a human child with bear ears; he grew up, easily pushed aside the stone; he hit the she-bear and she stopped pursuing him; in the village of Adyg-kulak (Bear's Ear, AK) he eats a lot, cripples other teenagers; goes off to wander; meets and takes as companions the Mountain Rooter, the Forest Rooter, the Lake Swallower; they found a cattle pen, a huge cauldron in the house; the friends cook in turns; a gray-haired old man comes out from under the stone, eats everything, pushes the cook under the stone; when it is AK's turn, he defeats the old man, who hides under the stone; they make a belt out of skins, try to descend; one says that it is cold below, the other - hot, they order to pull him back; AK descended; the kidnapped girl Golden Dangyna (the khan's daughter): it is not the old man, but Ak-Mangys; he kidnapped two more girls; gave something white to eat to gain strength; the same - Silver Dangyna; (the third also gave something white, but the meeting with her is not described); the defeated Ak-Mangys orders to take a knife from the sole of his shoe and kill him with it; AK burned the body; sent three girls up; companions began to lift him, released the belt; he came to a lonely lama, began to graze his cattle; he orders not to drive the flock into the saddle; AG went, fell into the mouth of the 6-headed Amyrga-Moos; he suffocates, asks to come out; AK went out, chopped off 6 heads, crowds of people began to emerge from the belly of Amyrga Kara Mangys; the monsters, swallowed before others inside, went bald; the lama is happy, gave the bald ones medicine, their hair grew; reports that in the middle of the black sea there is a black poplar, on it is the nest of Garuda; a snake comes out of the black sea, eats her five chicks; a lama gives a fruit fastened in 90 layers to swim to the poplar; one chick cried (the snake will eat it tomorrow), another sang, the third laughed, the fourth performed kargyraa, the fifth played the khomus (it will be eaten last); AK struck the snake in the star-shaped copper on its forehead, the snake drowned, the sea turned red from its blood; chicks: it is drizzling, it is our mother returning, crying; the chicks first hide AK from their mother; she swallowed him and spat him out; carries AK to the ground, he throws fish from two sacks into her mouth; he cut off the last piece from his thigh; on the ground Garuda regurgitated him and put him back; promised to help; AK caught up with the traitorous companions; Golden Dangyna told everything; they arranged a competition: to shoot an arrow through a hole in a lead circle for threading hair, a hole in the ilium, to catch one's own arrow; AK did everything; gathered the people: the arrow will hit the evil in the head and come out of the backside, and will not harm the good; traitors are hit by one arrow; AK began to live with three khans]: Khabunova 2017: 97-117; Tuvans[the son of a woman and a bear, Yygylak-Kara, takes the Larch Rooter Uzun-Saryg and the Rock Rooter Ulug-Kara as sworn brothers; each in turn stays to cook; the shulbu Adygyr-Kara arrives with copper claws and a nose, heats them up, and fights with the cook; the younger brothers do not tell anyone what happened, YK wins, wounds the shulbus, who goes into a cave, into the lower world; the brothers lower YK down on a lasso; below, a woman says that she must give the shulbus her daughter to be eaten; YK finishes off the wounded shulbus, takes the youngest of the sisters as his wife, takes the other two for the brothers, and lifts them up; the brothers cut the lasso; the girls' mother advises them to help the Khan-Khereti bird, who lives in the middle of the three iron poplars; every year a 15-headed serpent crawls out of the lake, devours the chicks; ЫК cuts off all 15 heads with an arrow; one chick cries, the second laughs, the third sings (thinks that he will be eaten last); wind and rain, this is the breath of wings and tears of the chicks' mother; she carries ЫК on her back to the upper world, he throws her the ducks he has shot; when they run out, he throws his hat; the lasso cuts US, and he takes the younger sister as a second wife; ЫК kills him against a larch tree; with UK and the wives of both, they come to ЫК's mother]: Samdan 1994, No. 2: 227-248; Baikal Buryats: Dugarov 1990 [in old age, the king of Bogdor gives birth to a son, Khan-Khuzhir {more precisely, Khan-Guzhir}, with a golden upper body and a silver lower body; B.'s brother Zoton-Khara tames a horse for him; XX goes to woo Gonokh-gokhon-dukhe, the daughter of Guli Khan (GH); wanting to test the groom's foresight, the bride gives poison, XX does not drink; GH demands 1) to defeat the 58-headed mangadhai; he comes out of the sea, his dog, burkut and kite sense danger, he kills them in anger, XX hits him with an arrow; 2) bring the dog Gunir; XX approaches when she is sleeping, puts on a collar, brings her, GH is horrified, XX releases the dog, it promises to help; 3) a feather of the Khan-Kheregde bird; her chicks say that a 25-headed serpent will come out of the sea to eat them; XX turns into a birch tree standing by the sea; the serpent comes out, XX becomes a man again, hits all the serpent's heads with an arrow; a drop of blood the size of a tick chases after him, catches up, XX dies; the dog Gunir runs up, swallows XX, vomits him out alive, and herself dies from poison; the bird gives a feather, GH is horrified, the feather remains with XX; 4) the liver of Naral-Gerel, in which there is edible oil; on the way XX sees Khokhodoy-Mergen, who fought with NG, and now he has only the upper half of his body, and below only bones; XX turns into a beggarly calf shepherd, comes to NG; he sends him to bring a knife that remained under the body of HM (he himself is afraid to approach him, fearing this knife); HM gives a knife, XX cuts NG with it, takes the liver, revives HM with oil, he flies away to the sky, promises to help; 5) get back from the heavenly Eseghe-Malan-Tengir what GH has sacrificed to him over all the years; lightning immediately destroyed GH, the wind scattered the ashes; XX takes the bride, goes to his father, falls asleep; the monster stole half of the subjects and cattle, flew away; XX woke up from the bride's tears, shot an arrow and galloped after; the sky beats against the ground, cutting the swallows in half; XX gallops past, only cutting off the horse's tail; the servants in the palace answer that the mistress returned with an arrow in her back, died, her four sons went to bury her; XX defeated and killed them, took everything; his 4 younger brothers are coming towards him, they are looking for him; XX shoot an arrow: if brothers, they will read his name on it, if strangers, the arrow will hit them; they caught the arrow; all is well]: 231-244; Dugarov 1991 [(synopsis); on the branches of a tree or in a nest on its branches sit the doomed chicks of Garuda or, less often, another mythical bird; under the tree in the water lives a monster in the form of a giant snake; at certain intervals the snake swims out of the water and swallows the chicks; they are saved by the hero of the epic or fairy tale (AT, 300-301)]: 138; Baikal Buryats[old man Irensay kills 77-headed Mangadhai, who led away his herd; returns home, his wife Untan-Durai gives birth to a boy, Khankhan Sokto, and a girl, Agu-Nogon. I. hunts, his horse tells him that during this time his wife has gotten together with Mangadhai; during the fight, UD throws black millet at M.'s feet, and I. throws red millet, I. falls and kills himself, he is thrown in an iron barrel to the bottom of the Black Sea; the horse saves the children; the owner of the forest, Orjol Bogdo Khan, takes them to him; HS kills M. and the traitorous mother; Having become a fish, Abarga Shara Zagakhan, gets the remains of his father from the bottom, revives him with living water; goes to woo the granddaughter of the king, Gazar Khan-Nalkhin; fights with Mangadhai, his soul is in the nest of the Khan-Hirdeg bird on an aspen tree on the mountain; the bird sends it to HS in the form of a pebble with an arrow, HS breaks the pebble; the soul of another M. is in the yellow sea with his one-eyed, one-toothed mother-in-law, HS comes to the mother-in-law under the guise of M., the soul takes various forms (animals, birds), HS chases in the guise of other animals, kills M.; proposes to the daughter of Gazar-Bayan Khan; performs difficult tasks; 1) defeat the hero; 2) bring a puppy (for this he gets iron fetters from the heavenly blacksmiths); 3) bring a feather of the bird Khan Hirdeg; in the palace one maiden is crying, the second is playing, the third is singing; these are the daughters of the bird, the serpent Abarga Sharga must come out of the Black Sea, eat them; HS kills the serpent with an arrow, XX gives him a feather, he marries]: Zabanov 1929: 14-19; Baikal Buryats (Balaganskie): Khangalov 1960, No. 107 [ Uta-Sagan-batar rides up to a tree, on which there is a nest of the bird Khan-Kheregde-bushun ; nine chicks say that a serpent with a star on its forehead will come out of the yellow sea and open its mouth; every day one of the chicks will have to enter it (today the serpent will eat the one who cries, tomorrow - the one who tells a fairy tale, the day after tomorrow - the one who sings a song, etc.); if you kill the serpent, the yellow poisonous fog will disperse; U. hits the serpent with an arrow in the star on its forehead, hides in a hole from the poisonous fog; the parent birds of the rescued give him a golden whip, which gives food and drink, and a silver one, which binds any enemy; (further about the victory over the fifteen-headed mangathai Ashura-Shara, the marriage of the sons of U. to a girl and a frog, the plot of "The Frog Princess")], 111 [ Khan-Guzhir proposes to the daughter of King Guli ; he demands to bring a feather of the bird Khan-Kheregde ; KHG comes to the yellow sea; the three children of the bird KH say that the twenty-five-headed serpent Khorto-Sharta uee ate their six brothers, their father cannot defeat him; KHG turned into a golden birch on the seashore; kills the snake that crawled out with an arrow; dies from its black blood; his dog resurrects him, herself dies; the bird KHG gives his feather, buries the dog; when the feather is leaned against the palace of King G., the palace shakes, G. is afraid; (further CG gets for G. the liver of the king Naran-Gerel , kills G., takes his daughter)]: 156-158, 250-253 Transbaikal Buryats(Khorinsky) (informant unknown) [the parents want to get rid of Tyskh Biskh, they send for a black bull; it is a bear, TB brings him, leaves him in the barn, he has killed all the cows; they send to bring a cauldron, supposedly given to the owner of the forest; TB brings the cauldron and the tied up owner; he lets go, leaves; he meets, takes as a companion a man who lifts stones, lifts mountains, steps over the sea (he catches fish with his beard); each at first answers that he is not strong, but TB is mighty; they cook in turns, the bearded dwarf beats the cook, eats everything; TB beats him himself, pinches his beard, he rips off his beard, leaves; the friends come to a crevice, TB descends on a rope; there is a beauty in a copper hut, another in a silver one, a third in a gold one; TB tells the beauty in the gold to find out what the life of a mangadhai is like; in the ram's horns; TB breaks the horns, crushes the wasps that were in them, except for two; the beauty swapped the barrels with strong and weak water; TB kills the mangadhai, sends the women up; when he himself rises, his companions abandon him; he falls, breaks his leg; sees how the weasel broke the ermine's leg, it ate the root, recovered; TB also ate, recovered; Khan Garudi's chicks are by the sea, one cries (the snake coming out of the sea will eat him today), another sings (will eat tomorrow), the third laughs (the day after tomorrow); the snake orders the chicks to fly into his mouth; TB kills the snake with a stone; Khan Garudi flies in, covers TB from the poison; carries him to the ground; in flight he eats and drinks what he has prepared, TB cuts off the last piece from his leg, the bird regurgitates the piece, puts it back; TB kills satellites, lives with three wives]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 9: 147-167.

Western Siberia. Mansi [Ekva-pyris lives with his grandmother; shows her his invisibility cap, goes off to look at people; meets four old men, one gives him a ball of thread, the second - an ermine skin, the third - a mouse skin, the fourth - a hatchet; Usyng-otyr promises a daughter to the one who 1) kills two man-eating birds Tovlyng-kars; they live on the top of a larch in the middle of a hot sea; E. climbs the trunk with an ermine, a mouse; kills with a hatchet the Iron Frog Without a Heart and Liver , who lived under the nest and nibbled the feathers of the chicks when they were about to take off; for this T. promises not to kill people anymore; first the female flies to the nest, then the male, they bring people; E. makes sure that when the people are released, they do not break when they fall; the grateful T. takes E. to U.; 2) to catch a golden perch (T. brings E. to the icy sea, catches the perch); 3) to get the bird Satnematur-shishki (T. brings E. to the edge of the earth, catches the bird); E. gets a wife; takes the ends of the horns broken off by T. to the mammoth, brings from the mammoth the feathers T. torn from him; now both are as strong as before]: Lukina 1990, No. 134: 346-352 (according to Chernetsov 1935: 47-57).

Plains. Crow : Lowie 1918, #1 [hunter touches something in the grass, feels a blow, finds himself on a rock by a Thunderbird nest; two young birds cover him as their mother arrives, then their father, each bringing a raincloud; a bald eagle brings a deer to the man to eat; explains that the young birds are being swallowed by two monsters that crawl out of a lake; the man kills the monsters by throwing hot stones into their mouths and pouring water on top; Thunder calls all the birds together, asks them to cut up the bodies; Blue Heron succeeds; the birds eat the monsters], 2 [hunter touches something in the grass, feels a blow, finds himself on a rock in the middle of a lake; two young birds tell him to hold on to their wings; first their mother arrives with rain, then their father with hail; a condor brings him a deer; The male Thunderbird explains that every summer the young birds are eaten by two serpents (lit., "long otters") that crawl out of the lake; then as in (1); Thunder offers the man to become a condor; one day a moose drags him into the river, where he is beaten by underwater creatures, made a man again; he returns home]: 144-145, 146-148; Hidatsa [as Crow; the Thunderbirds bring the hunter to the nest on a rock in the middle of the lake; the young birds say that every year a serpent with a head at each end of its body crawls out of the lake, devours the young birds; the man hits both heads with arrows, hitting them in the vulnerable places]: Beckwith 1938, No. 7: 92-94; Arikara: Dorsey 1904d, #21 [a son of poor parents has received power from the gods of the four cardinal directions; the Wood Rats give him a bow and arrows, he easily kills game; he goes west; in a dream two Thunderbirds carry him to their nest on a cliff; there are four chicks there; their mother says that a monster from the lake devours the chicks, lightning is not terrible to him; promises power over the birds for help, lightning will fly out of his eye, mouth, joints; he goes down, kills, roasts a deer, feeds the thunderbird chicks; their parents are happy; a two-headed snake crawls out of the lake, lightning is powerless even if it gets into its mouth; a youth hits both heads of the monster with arrows; all the birds peck at the meat; two youths in the village hunt birds; one shoots at something like a white mushroom, which sometimes rises, sometimes falls; Both find themselves on an island in the sea, where the sun rises; an old woman invites them to her place, gives five corn cakes, one for them, four for their grandfather, who will take them across the water; they must reject three snakes, who one after another will offer to take them across, and sail on the fourth; give him cakes; collect and give him his lice - freshwater turtles - to eat; jump ashore only when he runs into him; the one who is not on dry land jumped earlier, was swallowed; the other asked the snake to open his mouth, pulled out his comrade; along the way there is a long snake on the trail; a stupid young man cut it, ate a piece; in four nights he turned into a snake, ordered it to be taken to Missouri; the young man who helped the Thunderbirds began to pursue this snake with the birds; it carried him to the bottom, made him belch out all the strength he received from the Thunderbirds, except for lightning from his eyes; let him go; the young man covered his eyes all his life to keep out lightning; the serpent gave the people songs and medicine rituals]: 73-78; Parks 1996, #15 [while the man sleeps, the Thunderbird chicks (male and female) carry him to the top of a cliff; lightning flashes from their eyes, sparks from the flapping of their wings; they give him two arrows, ask him to kill a snake with heads at both ends of its body that comes out of a lake and devours the Thunderbird chicks; tell him to aim at the spot under the jaw of each head; the man kills the serpent, the Thunderbirds tell him to cut the body into pieces, the birds eat them; they ask him to also kill the serpent that the man became after eating snake meat (see motif L28); but it swallows the man; lets him go home, but deprives him of most of his strength; in the summer, when a thunderstorm was approaching, this story was not told]: 209-215.