K66C. Bear Marriage.

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A bear (lion) takes a woman or a she-bear takes a man. They give birth to children who have a human or bear appearance. Less often, a woman gives birth to a son in a den, since she was pregnant at the time of the bear's abduction.

Portuguese, Spanish (Murcia), Aragon, Basques, Catalans, Italians (Liguria, Lombardy), Germans (Hanover, Pomerania), French (Picardy, Normandy, Lorraine, Dauphiné, Switzerland), Sinhalese (Koreans), Bosnians, Serbs, Bulgarians, Macedonians (Ancient Greece), Slovaks, Russians (Nizovaya Pechora, Karelian Pomorie, Arkhangelsk {Leshukonsky district}, Vologda), Belarusians, Kalmyks, Stavropol Turkmens, Adyghe, Ingush, Avars, Georgians, Yagnobis, Shugnans, Uzbeks, Setos, Livs, Karelians, Mordvins, Komi, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Uighurs, Khakasses (Altaians), Tuvans, Shors, Baikal Buryats, Oirats (Xinjiang), Dagur, Mansi, Northern Selkup, Central Yakuts, Dolgans, Negidals, Nanais, Udege, Forest Yukaghirs, Chuvans, Coastal Koryaks, Chukchi, Chugach, Igloolik, Polar, Tanaina, Southern and Northern Tutchoni, Tagish, Interior Tlingit, Tahltan, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Bellakula, Lower Chinook, Sauk, Assiniboine, Tiwa.

Southern Europe. Portuguese : Braga 2002 []: 214-220; Cardigos 2006, no. 301 [the son of a bear and a woman he kidnaps grows up quickly, feeding on a donkey's milk; setting out on a journey, takes an iron club; meets and takes as companions the Pine-Tearer, the Mountain-Comparer (etc.); they come to a house in the forest, each in turn staying to keep house; the monster comes, defeats the cook, throws ashes into the food; the hero defeats him, follows him into the abyss; in the lower world defeats the monsters, choosing a rusty sword instead of a new one, frees three kidnapped princesses, sends them up; the companions leave the hero below; he rises to the ground, biting the monster on the ear, thanks to which it is forced to obey and flies upward, or on the back of a bird, to which he gives a piece of his own flesh; the princesses are to be married, at which time the hero comes and shows the rings or other objects that the princesses have given him; or he picks up a sword that no one else can lift; the hero marries one of the princesses, the companions are punished]: 56; Portuguese []: Dias Marques 2019, no. 100: 149-151; Spanish (Murcia) [the hero, who is usually the son of a bear and a woman, and therefore very strong, meets others who have strength and unusual abilities; they come to a cave where the enchanted princesses are; at night a dwarf appears and beats the three men in turn whose turn it is to guard; the hero tears off his own ear; he is lowered down on a rope, he frees the three princesses; he sends them up, but his companions do not lift him; the dwarf's ear that he tore off fulfills wishes: it gives food and drink, the spirits lift the hero to the ground; he marries one of the rescued princesses]: Hernández Fernández 2013, no. 301: 86; Spaniards (Ciudad Real; also Toledo, Cordoba, Cadiz, Huelva, Salamanca, Cantabria, Castile and Leon; Galicians) [a bear carried a peasant girl to his cave; she gave birth to a son; when he was 14 years old, he moved aside the stones with which the bear was blocking the exit; the bear chased them, but people appeared and drove him away with shots; they complain about the bear's son: he is so strong that he maims others; he took a heavy club and went wandering; he meets a man who tied up a pine grove in order to tear it out entirely; he works for 6 pesetas; Son of the Bear (SM): I give 7, come with me; the same with the one who levels mountains; who carries loaded carts with mules in his hands; they come to a bronze house; the companions cannot knock down the door, SM knocked it down with a club; they take turns cooking; a little man comes, asks for fire, beats the one who remains; SM cut off his ears, hung him on a stuck knife, but he left; they go further, see a deep hole, everyone asks to lower it, everyone is afraid and asks to lift it back up; below there is a river of blood; CM goes down, sees the princess; she and two sisters have been kidnapped; each will give the savior half a wine of a golden pear; one was carried away by a bull, the other by a lion; the third by the beast-Lucifer; the third orders to choose a rusty one from a pile of swords; CM sent the princesses up, and his companions did not lift them; he ate the bull; the lion; the beast-Lucifer; only the ears remained; when he bit, the ear asks: what to do? CM orders to transfer it to the earth; he comes to Madrid; he hired himself out as a poultry farmer; the king will give his daughter in marriage to the winner of the tournament; CM orders the ear to turn him into a knight; so for three days, different horses and vestments; then, again in new vestments, he arrives and presents the halves of the golden pears; marries a princess]: Camarena, Chevalier 995, no. 301B: 24-32; Aragon [a bear abducts a woman, she bears him a son, Juan el Oso; he grows up, moves the stone blocking the exit, and is joined by companions, each of whom has a certain dignity (Pine-Plucker, Mountain-Crusher, etc.); H. defeats the demon, tears off his ear, which subjects the demon to his power]: González Sanz 1996, no. 301B: 74; Basques[a girl was kidnapped by a bear, she gave birth to a son; he moved a rock that blocked the entrance to a cave, killed the bear, to the village; too strong; asks to make him a hammer, breaks it; another, heavier - good; goes wandering; meets, takes as a companion a man who propped up a rock so that it would not fall on a church; who leveled mountains; they see a crack in the ground; one is lowered, he orders to raise back; then Juan Oso (XO), breaks the door below, the princess is behind it; she orders to choose a rusty sword, if the devil offers a choice; XO takes the rusty one, cuts off the devil's ear; the companions left, there is no rope; XO bites the devil's ear, he appears, throws them to the ground; XO forgot his hammer below, the devil brings it; they come to the princess's village; she says that she is cursed, because dropped the icon (? habiendo recibido al Señor y llevado en la boca del portico de la iglesia, lo lancé fuera); XO says that under the stone of the portico there is a toad, in its mouth there was something thrown; the princess got it, married XO]: Barandiaran 1962a, no. 29: 108-112; Barbier 1931, no. 5 []: 84-90; Catalans [the son of a bear and a woman kidnapped by him is unusually strong, goes on a journey, meets and takes as companions He who pulls out pines, He who listens, He who moves mountains, He who blows; they stay in a house and cook in turns; the owner beats the cook each time and spoils the food; the hero defeats him, follows the bloody trail to the well; having descended, he meets the princess kidnapped by the giant; she advises to choose a rusty sword for the duel; having killed the giant, the hero sends the princess up; his companions abandon him in the lower world; he returns using the giant's ear that he cut off]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, no. 301: 61-64; Italians (Liguria) [the husband was working in the forest, the wife was carrying dinner, got lost, and when it got dark she found a cave to hide in; a bear came and took her as his wife; when Jean was eight years old, his mother returned home with him and they moved to the city; he was apprenticed to a shoemaker, then to a blacksmith, but he was too strong and did everything awkwardly; he forged himself a huge iron club and went wandering; he met and took as his companion 1) someone playing with millstones, 2) someone moving mountains; they stopped in an empty castle, they cook in turns; someone comes down the chimney and beats the cook unconscious; Jean beats him himself; friends find a hole in the ground, only Jean dares to go down; there is a girl there, Jean sends her to the surface, she gives her a ring that will take her to any place; the same with the second girl (a self-assembled tablecloth); the old man and the third girl are not happy with Jean, the girl calls the servants, he kills them; at this time Jean's companions left, taking the girls; Jean ordered the ring to take him to the ground, killed the companions, married one of the raised girls]: Andrews 1892, No. 40: 181-186; Italians(Lombardy: Mantua) [a bear carried off a charcoal burner's wife; inside the den turned out to be a beautiful palace; the woman gave birth to a son by the bear - Giovanni the Bear (DM, Giovanni dell'Orso); he grew up and moved the stone that blocked the exit; he and his mother went out {nothing more is said about the mother); DM meets, takes as companions people named Paletta, then Molle; they came to the palace, wanted to eat, a laid table appeared; in the morning the two left, and P. began to cook; a giant appeared, beat P. with a club; the next day the same with M.; DM beat him himself; the companions followed the bloody trail to a hole in the ground; DM climbed down a rope; in one room there were treasures, in another three princesses, in the third a wounded giant; DM finished him off, sent the princesses and treasures up; the companions left him below; he asked the eagle to carry him to the ground; did not punish his companions, but took the most beautiful girl for himself, and gave them two others]: Visentini 1879, No. 32: 157-161.

Western Europe. Germans (Hanover) [a shepherd's wife was looking for a cow, got lost, spent the night in a cave; a bear came there; when leaving, he blocked the exit with a stone; she gave birth to a boy, at 9 months he had already grown up, was incredibly strong; they went down to the village, people chased the bear away; the boy was christened Peter - Peter Ber ("bear", PM); he forged himself a huge iron club, went wandering; the one throwing boulders replies that he is weak compared to PB; he says that he is PB, takes him as a companion; another strongman ties and unties an iron stake with a knot (ditto); a third one uproots trees (ditto); they settled in a house in the forest, stay in turns to cook; a long-bearded dwarf asks for food, eats everything and beats the cook; when it is PB's turn, he ties him to the bed with his beard; companions came, everyone began to eat; The dwarf tore off his beard, ran, and hid in the well; PB ordered him to be lowered down in a basket; there is an old woman there; a castle is visible through the window; the old woman: in it is a princess kidnapped by four giants; PB killed them with his club; the princess gave her a handkerchief and a ring; another castle is visible through the window, where the sister of the first princess is, with her are 8 giants; (all the same); through the window you can see a castle where the younger sister is, she is guarded by a fire-breathing seven-headed dragon; PB killed 4 giant guards, then a dragon, then 12 more giants sitting at a table in the hall; he cured the wounds with an ointment that the old woman gave him; the companions pulled out the princesses; the fourth time PB put a stone in his place, just in case; the companions dropped a stone from above and broke the rope; PB makes the old woman tell her how to get out; she has a dragon, but he needs to be fed in flight; he cut off the last piece from his leg; healed the wound with an old woman's ointment; the king promises a thousand ducats to anyone who brings the rings the rescued princesses had when they were kidnapped; PB hired himself out to a jeweler, drank and ate all night, and gave them the rings in the morning, as if he had made them; the princesses learned from them that their savior was nearby; then he appeared disguised as a beggar, showed the handkerchiefs; the king married him to his youngest daughter, and after his death PB inherited the throne]: Colshorn, Colshorn, Colshorn 1854, No. 5: 18-30; Germans(Pomerania) [during harvest season, the village headman asked his young wife to urgently deliver a letter to another village; as the woman was walking through the forest, a bear grabbed her and carried her to his den; a year later a son was born, grew up quickly, moved the stone with which the bear blocked the exit; the mother and son returned to the village; the boys tease the bear's son (SM), he scatters them; is forced to leave; found a violin, the sounds of which make everyone dance; a Jew asks to sell the violin, SM makes him dance; he says that SM is a robber; he is led to the gallows, asks to give him the violin for the last time, drives everyone unconscious; SM comes to a garden, and in it a palace; he kills three giants one after another; in the palace there is a bearded dwarf; he is one of 12 brothers who are forced to serve the dragon; the princess asks SM to run away: the dragon will kill him; the dragon came, SM played the violin, he became exhausted, SM strangled him and threw away the corpse; the princess's father promised her hand to the savior; the grateful dwarfs remained to guard the treasures, and SM and the bride galloped to her father; but they returned to rule the dragon's country, for it was richer and larger]: Jahn 1891, No. 21: 135-140; Germans(Eastern Pomerania) [a blacksmith went to burn coal and took his wife, leaving her to watch the coal pit; a bear took her away; began to bring meat; a year later Hans was born - half bear; when he was able to pull out a tree larger than the bear, he strangled it while it was sleeping; they came to people; the blacksmith cut Hans's hair and dressed him; at school he cripples his peers, so he has to leave; the blacksmith makes him an iron club; he meets a basket weaver and a forester, takes them as companions; they stopped at a house in the forest, where there are beds and a table for three; they cook in turns; a dwarf with a huge beard eats everything, beats the cook; when Hans is left, he hangs the dwarf on a linden tree, holding his beard in the trunk; but the dwarf left, having pulled out the linden tree; they followed the tracks, found a linden tree near a mountain, and a hole nearby; The basket weaver wove a basket and Hans went down, and the companions were frightened; the princess in the castle ordered the vessels with strong and weak water to be exchanged; the second princess was in another room, the most beautiful one was in a third; the dwarf was sleeping, his head on her lap; they fought for an hour, the dwarf was drinking weak water, and Hans was drinking strong water; he cut off the dwarf's head; he sent the princesses up; the youngest advised them to put a stone in the basket and see if the companions would cut the rope when they started lifting Hans; and so it happened; the basket weaver took the eldest princess, and the forester the middle one; the youngest shouted to Hans: run to the stall, grab the cow's right horn; but Hans accidentally grabbed the left one; the cow jerked and Hans flew up and fell on an island in the southern sea; a huge bird flew in; gave him a gun and cartridges, told him to shoot some game so that he could store up some meat for future use and she would take it home; in the end the meat ran out, but the bird flew to the shore; Hans, in the guise of an overgrown ragamuffin, came to the castle where his companions lived; grabbed his club and ordered his servant to hang the deceivers; married the youngest princess and began to rule the country]: Stanitzke 1928: 60-70; French (Picardy, Normandy, Lorraine) [from the list of sources and episodes it is clear that the motif of a hero born of a woman from a bear exists at least in Picardy, Normandy and Lorraine]: Delarue 1957: 116-118; French(Dauphiné) [a pregnant wife and her husband went into the forest to get firewood, a bear carried off the woman, closed the exit from the cave with a stone; the woman gave birth to a son, when he was seven years old, he rolled away the stone, he and his mother ran home; the children tease him Bear Jean (MB, Jean de l'Ours), he beats them; tells his father to order a 10-ton iron rod from the blacksmiths, goes off on a journey; meets and takes as companions 1) one who fells trees with one blow of an axe (Jean the Woodcutter, JB), 2) Jean the Fearless (JF); only MF can climb a huge tree, from which an iron castle is visible, they break through its wall, eat and drink; the next morning JF stays to cook, a seven-headed cannibal (Mâgou) comes, beats JF, the cannibal's sister serves him food; the same with JF; MZh cuts off the ogre's heads and takes his healing ointment; the sworn brothers find the ogre's sister, learn about the three kidnapped princesses, kill the sister; only MZh can descend through the hole leading to the underworld (ZhB and ZhD tell them to lift them up, it is too hot or cold there); the old woman advises to save the princesses, they lift them up, when MZh is lifted, the sworn brothers cut the rope; MZh crashed, but was healed by the ogre's ointment; the old woman says that the ogre was raised on an eagle; MZh prepares meat, throws it into the eagle's beak while she carries it; the meat is gone, he cuts off his buttocks, heals himself with ointment; MZh prepares meat for the eagle again, she brings it to the mountain, from where the city with the princesses is visible; MZ manages to take his place at the altar instead of JD, beats him, marries the princess]: Joisten 1991, no. 3: 58-64; French (Switzerland, canton Unterwallis) [a bear entered the house when the husband was away and stole the wife; Jean the Bear was born; when he was three years old, the mother and son sent the bear for water, giving him a basket; Jean moved the stone slab and they ran away; but Jean returned to the forest to kill the bear; he met a man uprooting trees; Jean uprooted two at once; the man recognized his superiority and went with him; the same with the one who threw in the millstones; they find an empty house in the forest; they cook in turns; each time a red-haired giant appears from under the floor, asks to warm up, throws ashes into the cauldron with food; When it was Jean's turn, he tore off the giant's beard, and he returned underground; the companions lowered Jean there on a rope; it was short, he broke his leg; he opened the door, behind it was an old woman; he ordered them to give him some healing ointment, his leg recovered; in the next room was a giant, Jean killed him with a sabre hanging on the wall; he ordered the old woman to free three captives; the companions lifted them up; seeing the last one, they decided to get rid of Jean; suspecting deception, Jean tied a log to the rope, the companions cut the rope; the old woman agreed to show Jean a bird that would carry him up; he prepared some meat, fed her during the flight; seeing Jean, the companions ran away; Jean is happy with his wife]: Jegerlehner 1909, no. 31: 143-148.

South Asia. Sinhalese [According to the historical chronicle "Mahavamsa", the ancestor of the first local dynasty was born, born to the daughter of the ruler of one of the states of northern India from a lion that attacked a caravan in the forest. He bears the name Simhabahu ("lion-handed"). Over time, he runs away from the lion's cave with his mother and sister to his grandfather-king, and kills his father-lion, who attacked his grandfather's kingdom. After the death of his grandfather, Simhabahu gives up the throne to his mother's husband, and he himself retires to his native forest. There he founds the city of Simhapura ("Lion's City"), becomes its king, and marries his sister. The eldest of his sons, Vijaya, along with his peers sailed to Ceylon, inhabited by yaksha spirits. Vijaya kills them with the help of a yakshini, who became his lover. The island is named Sihaladipa (“Island of the Lion Family”]: Vasilkov 2012: 63.

( Cf. China – Korea. Koreans (sources of the 13th-15th centuries) [the heavenly ruler Hwanin sent his son Hwanung to rule the people; he and his retinue descended onto the mountain; a bear and a tiger lived in a cave; they began to ask to be turned into people; H. ordered them to avoid sunlight for 100 days; only the bear passed the test and became a woman; H. took her as his wife; their son Tangun became the sovereign]: Kontsevich 1982c: 491-492).

Balkans. Bosnians [a poor widow's well-behaved and beautiful-haired daughter rejects suitors; her mother chased her into the forest: you will become a bear queen; the bear carried her to his lair; when leaving, he blocked the exit with a stone, but she did not even think of running away; gave birth to a golden-haired girl with the same intelligent eyes as the father bear; the bear: the son would be like me and would inherit my kingdom, and let the daughter be a queen among people; the bear put his crown in his daughter's cradle and went away to die; the bears buried him; the bear's wife turned the daughter into a toad and hid her under a stone; the king has three sons; the father tells them to take bows and shoot arrows from the top of the tower; the eldest shot arrows into the neighboring kingdom and brought princesses; the youngest shot an arrow towards the forest; he found the arrow on a fir tree above the cave, and everything around was tidied up; wanted to kick the toad, but she said: don't hit me, I am (your) happiness; he brought her home; they noticed that although the servant brought food to the prince's room as expected, then everything was turned upside down; the prince entered and saw the girl in the crown; he opened the closet and threw the toad skin into the fire; the prince introduced the bride to his father; he told his three daughters-in-law to eat; the eldest ones threw the crumbs on the carpet, and the youngest - on a plate, and they turned into ducats; after this the king demanded that his son give the sorceress to him himself; he does not agree; then let him sew clothes for all the soldiers from one piece of fabric; bride: go to where you found me and shout "Burning hair - appear!" Tell my mother what is needed, she will do everything; she gave everything; the second task: cook food in a cauldron for all the soldiers; the same; bring the ring that the king's late wife took to the other world; bride: go ask your mother what to do; the bride's mother ordered silence and led her deeper into the cave; one snake steals the eggs of another (the girl is turned into a snake because, in life, she secretly took eggs from her mother); a man and a woman are hanged by their feet, with their backs to each other (in life, the spouses quarreled); a baby is hanged, a dog licks the dripping blood (the dog is a woman who strangled her child); two men are roasted on spits, and they complain about the cold (in life, they stole fences for firewood); the deceased queen, the prince's mother, is boiling in boiling water; she held out her hand and ordered her son to take the ring off her finger; let the king pay for the 30 cherries she did not pay for - the only thing she could be punished for; when the prince returned, he told the king everything; he called the people together; having learned to whom the wife owed money, he gave that poor man the money; the prince returned to the cave and the bride's mother showed how the prince's mother came out of the boiling water on a golden bridge and was saved; the wedding of three princes; the king handed over power to the youngest]: Preindlsberger-Mrazovic 1905: 81-94; Bosnians[a craftsman went into the mountains to chop up some blanks for linen rollers; a she-bear forced him to mate with her; when he had finished, the man ran away, throwing down his axe; the she-bear brought it back to her den; gave birth to a human boy and a female bear; the boy grew up and went around the villages showing off the axe; the man who recognized the axe was his father; the young man was named Medvedevich; he took a bet and carried off a sack containing 300 iron ploughshares; he ordered the blacksmith to forge a mace out of them; the king loses a daughter every night, 9 out of 10 have disappeared; he promises a tenth to whoever finds them; M. lay down with the girl; a rooster ran in, with Beard-with-Arshin riding on him; M. beat him and stuck his beard into a crack, splitting a poplar; but in the morning there was neither the princess, nor the dwarf with the poplar, but there was a hole in the ground; M. asks to forge a rope and a basket from iron; he was lowered into the lower world; the eldest princess weaves golden calico on a golden loom, he sent her up; so nine; the tenth in the golden palace with the dwarf; M. killed him and his rooster; sent the queen up; the worker rejoiced and accidentally let go of the rope; the princess warned that in case of trouble, a white and a black hair should be plucked from the dwarf's beard, they will turn into two rams; M. sat on the white one, but was thrown onto the black one and it carried him even further {or lower}; on two poplars there is a nest, in it are two chicks the size of an ox; a snake is crawling towards them; M. killed it with a club; the giant bird wanted to kill him, but the chicks called him a savior; she carried him down to the royal palace, he married the younger princess]: Krauss 2009(2), no. 475: 141-145; Serbs (Herzegovina) [a bear stole a woman, she gave birth to a son, ran away; the bear let the young man go wandering after he managed to pull out a beech tree; Medvedovich eats the food brought for many ploughmen, they give him the iron from the ploughs, he orders the blacksmith to forge a club, he hides half of the iron, M. throws the club into the sky, it falls on his back, breaks; he kills the blacksmith, takes the iron he stole, goes to another; the club does not break; M. likes the girl, her father says that she is promised to Usach (Brko); from behind the mountain first appears Usach, on which there are 365 birds' nests, U. puts his head on the girl's lap, M. hits him three times with a club, it seems to him that the insects are biting; U. chases M., a man throws him across the river with a shovel, another hides him in a bag with seeds, tells Usach that M. passed long ago; U. stops chasing; the sower throws M. into his mouth with a handful of seeds, M. hides in the hollow of a tooth, the daughters-in-law use two stakes to pick out what was stuck in the tooth, the sower remembers M.; tells how he ruined his tooth; he and his companions went for salt, they spent the night in a cave, it turned out to be a human skull in a vineyard; the watchman threw it from a sling at the starlings, that's when the man ruined his tooth; "Here's a whole box of lies for you"]: Karadzic 1853 in Karadzic 1987: 403-407 (=Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956: 9-15, =Arkhipova 1962: 180-184, =Eschker 1992, No. 2: 14-22); Bulgarians[the hero is the son of a bear, a horse, sat on a stove for 25 years, etc.; wanders, takes heroes with different abilities as companions (can drink the sea; weaves a rope out of sand; is very strong); while the others hunt, everyone cooks in turn; each time a demonic character (a man, an old woman) comes, eats all the food; the hero kills or wounds him; follows his trail down to the lower world; there he receives a ring from the youngest and most beautiful of the girls who own magic items; there he kills a snake (lamia, hala), which annually devoured the chicks of a large bird (usually an eagle); the bird lifts the hero up, in flight he feeds it meat, cuts off the last piece from his own leg; on the ground, the hero fulfills the marriage conditions of three girls; punishes traitorous brothers-in-arms; [marries the youngest]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, #301A: 98-99; Macedonians [a she-bear took an elderly man to her home and made him her husband; a son, Aslanopoulo {"son of a lion"?}, was born; by the age of 4 he was incredibly strong; his father asked the she-bear to move away - he smelled bad; she ordered him to hit her with an axe; the wound from the axe would heal, but the insult would not; she drove him away; the son and his father came to the village; A. maims and kills many; when he was sleeping, the king sent to chain him; the prince tamed him in a friendly manner; he wanted to marry the Beauty of the World; A. with him; ordered a chest with a handle to be made, in which two people could fit; carried the prince in this chest; he met an old man who easily carried an oak tree; it is not I who am strong, but A.; Having learned that it was A. before him, he became a brother and they went together; the same with the brother of the first old man (he was carrying two oaks); with the other brother (three oaks); they spent the night in a village, where the dragon ate everyone; A. went out for bread; killed the dragon and brought all the bread from the oven; A. came to the 40 robbers; left them the prince: in 40 days do with him what you want; went to the Beauty of the World; on the way he killed a monster that killed with a glance; placed the Beauty of the World in a chest, came to the robbers; took one of the two captives of the robbers, also placed her in a chest; together with the prince they went back; the three old men gave a hair each to call them, if necessary; the prince married the Beauty of the World, and A. that captive; her father, the king, was attacked by enemies; A. called the old men and they destroyed the attackers; ]: Mazon 1936, no. 90: 325-331; (cf. Ancient Greece[Artemis's companion Callisto was hunting, lay down to rest, Zeus saw her and had sex with her; jealous Hera, having learned that Callisto had given birth to a son, Arcadus, turned her into a bear; or Zeus turned Callisto into a bear, and Hera convinced Artemis to shoot her; one day she saw Arcadus, who had grown up and become a hunter; Callisto rushed to him, but he, not knowing that the bear was his mother, shot an arrow at her; or Arcadus with other people found the bear in the temple; Jupiter stopped the arrow and, wishing to protect Callisto and Arcadus from Hera, threw both into the sky; Callisto became the Big Dipper, Arkad became Arctophylakos ("guardian of the bears") - Bootes or only Arcturus; Hera asked Tethys and Oceanus not to allow Callisto to bathe in the sea, so the Big Dipper does not set below the horizon]: Ovid, Met. 2,420-538, Allen 1899: 420).

Central Europe. Slovaks [a bear grabbed a girl in the forest and dragged her to her den; she gave birth to a son: half-man, half-bear; in winter she sent the bear to the village to collect feathers for a feather bed; people followed his trail, found the woman with her son, and shot the bear; he became a young man who had been bewitched; married the woman he had kidnapped]: Gašparíková 1993, no. 41: 34; Russians (Nizovaya Pechora) [a priest got lost in the forest, a she-bear dragged him to her den; sucks her paw and gives her to the priest; in the spring she gave birth to a son, Yevlashka Bear's Ear (MU); in the spring they ran away; the she-bear caught up with them, but MU tore off her skin, put it on himself, and came with the priest to the village; the priest told the priest's wife that his worker was with him; MU harnessed himself to the plough instead of a horse; then they plowed the deacon's land; and the deacon's; the priest is already falling off his feet; and then the peasant's; the priest decides to get rid of the worker; the priest advises sending across the river for the lost calf; there a bear will eat it; MU dragged a bear instead of the calf; they sent to the mill to return a debt or bread; and the devil became a miller; MU dragged in the devil; the devil and the bear began to fray; MU locked them up with the cows and sheep; they strangled all the cattle; in the morning MU killed them both; the tsar's daughter went mad; MU came, beat the devil who came to the princess at cards at night; smashed his forehead with a hammer and pulled out his intestines with tongs; the tsar married him to the princess; the beer was a narrator at the wedding; the beer was warm, it flowed down his mustache, but did not get into his mouth]: Leontyev 1939, No. 68: 127-130; Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [the priest's wife went to the garden, a bear carried her off; two years later she gave birth to a son; when he was three years old, she told about herself; the son Ivan Medvedevich suggested leaving; the bear caught up; HE took him by the hind legs and hit him against a tree, only the skin remained in his hands]: Korguev, Nechaev 1939(1), No. 14: 336-337; Russians(Arkhangelskaya, Leshukonsky district, Vozhgory village, 1928) [The priest got lost, met a she-bear, helped her make a den, and wintered in it. The she-bear gave birth to Palfil Popovich (PP). In the spring, the priest returns to the village with his son. The priest's wife does not immediately recognize her husband, and is happy. PP is large, eats a lot, and his parents have a hard time feeding him, so they send him into the forest to graze the cows. PP catches a bear that wants to tear a cow to pieces, brings him to the village, and locks him in the barn. The servant enters when the bear has finished eating the last cow. The priest sends PP to the king for tribute, who rides on the bear and meets a bewitched man. In order to free himself from the spell, he must "bring the mountains together into one place." PP helps him, and they ride together. The same with the man who is obliged to uproot an oak tree. The three of them with the bear come to the king, PP demands tribute, the king pays him to leave quickly. PP gave one bag of gold to the priest, and left with the other four. The three of them stopped in a hut, catching bulls. Two of them go to the city for food, Gornik stays to cook, an old man appears from under the floorboard, demands to treat him, the man refuses, the old man beats him, eats everything. The same thing happens when Dubnik stays to cook. PP defeats the old man, scolds his comrades for not admitting why the food was not ready. PP wants to know if there is other earth under the floor. He cuts the bulls, makes belts, his comrades lower him down. PP gets into the copper, silver and gold towers, meets three girls, reports that the old man who stole them is dead. The girls rejoice and ask to take them with them. PP feels sorry to leave the towers. Each throws a ring from her hand onto the roof, the towers turn into rings, they are given to PP. The companions lift the girls, but PP is too heavy, the companions cut the belts, PP falls, goes waist-deep into the ground. She is hired by a blind old man to graze cows. He shows the border of Baba Yaga's clearing, forbids grazing cows there. PP observes the ban three times, the fourth time he drives the cows to Baba Yaga's land, she gets angry, he promises not to bring cattle to her anymore. The cows have eaten their fill and are roaring. PP again leads the herd to Baba Yaga's clearing. She says that she would fight the hero PP, she has heard of his strength. They agree to beat him three times. Two blows of PP do not harm Baba Yaga, then PP hits the mortar, Yaga becomes a woman, he puts her in a sack and tramples, at home lets the old man touch her, he is convinced that Yaga is killed. PP kills one of the bulls, climbs into its skin, catches a chick that flies up, sends another for living and dead water. Having received the water, he tests it: he tears the bird apart, then revives it. He offers to cure the old man's eyes, sprinkles dead and living water, he regains his sight, in gratitude promises to take PP to the ground. This is done by his daughter, a sorceress, she eats people and can turn into a bird. He orders to forge an iron spear and prepare 40 barrels of meat and 40 of water. There was not enough meat, PP cut off some from his calves. The bird says that his meat is sweet and would eat it, but her father's request does not allow it. Spitting out what he swallowed, PP's legs are whole again. After 10 years of absence, PP returns to his kingdom,the maiden from the golden hut is waiting for him, he marries her. PP punishes his comrades: he cuts off one's hand, another's leg. He builds silver and golden towers, lives in them]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 109, 272-278;Russian: Russians (Vologda, Belozersky Krai, Kirillovsky District) [a bear took away a priest's wife; a son, Bear's Ear, was born; he grew up, they went with his mother, the bear followed, MU tore off his skin; living with a priest, he maims his peers in games; asks for an iron club weighing 30 poods; he threw it up, it broke; 60 poods - the same; he forged one weighing 90 poods, went wandering; meets and takes Gorynya (he rolls mountains) and Dubina as companions; when they meet, both say that they are not heroes, and the hero is MU; they live in a house in the forest, they cook in turns; an old man the size of a fingernail, a beard the size of an elbow, eats everything, pushes the cook; when MU is left, he pinches his beard in a split stump; all three beat the old man, he leaves, dragging the stump under the stove; there is a hole; IM went down; the girl in the copper house asks to marry her; sends to her sister in the silver (ditto); she to her sister in the golden house; the dwarf is their father; the girl from the golden house sends to the oak: the father sleeps in the hollow; IM beat the old man until only his beard remained; each girl rolled her house into a ball, gave it to MU; the sworn brothers lifted the girls, and MU began to lift and threw them; he went, met a shepherd; he says that people eat snakes, the princess must be brought to him to the sea; MU cut off three heads of the snake; the Nagai bird's nest is by the sea; bad weather, the chicks roared in the nest, MU covered them with his robe; the grateful mother orders to prepare meat, promises to bring it to land; there is not enough meat, MU cuts off his from the calves of his legs; the bird regurgitated the pieces and put them back; MU came to his sworn brothers; his wife was there as a servant; he tore them apart, stepping on one leg and tearing the other; he married their wives; he got married to his own; I drank beer there, it ran down my mustache, but didn’t get into my mouth”]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 54: 204-209; Belarusians(Mogilevskaya, zap. 1888-1891, v. Novaya Bych, Bykhov district, from the family of Pavel Ivanov, 45 y.o., illiterate) [The wife gets lost in the forest, a bear carries her off, 3 years later she gives birth to a son, Ivashka, bear's ear; 3 years later he grows up and leaves, they meet Dub-Dubovik and Gora-Gorovik, the three of them go; they find a house, leave Gora-Gorovik to cook dinner, they themselves go hunting, Kashchei ("Koschei") appears, demands that he be brought into the house, seated at the table and served food, eats the ox, flies away, Gora-Gorovik slaughters another ox, puts it on to cook, his comrades come, the meat is raw, Gora-Gorovik does not tell about Kashchei; the same is repeated with Dub-Dubovik; On the third day, Ivashka remains to cook dinner, Kashchei flies in, Ivashka refuses to follow his orders (does not bring him into the house or seat him at the table), drags Kashchei into the forest and pinches Kashchei's beard in a crevice in an oak tree, his comrades return, Ivashka feeds them, they go after Kashchei, but he has flown away; the three of them set off after Kashchei, come to the forest, Dub-Dubovik clears the way, Gora-Gorovik digs up the mountain, finds a huge stone and a hole under it, they make a belt from ox hides, Ivashka goes down, they agree that in a year the comrades will be in the same place; Ivashka goes underground, finds a copper house, there a girl says that they have never seen a Russian here, they live behind Kashchei the Immortal, the girl offers to marry, but Ivashka spends the night and goes to look for Kashchei; he reaches the silver house, a girl is also sitting there, history repeats itself; Ivashka reaches the golden house, where the girl warns Ivashka that Kashchei is stronger; Kashchei flies in, senses the Russian spirit, the girl calms him down and finds out where Kashchei's death is hidden (there is a casket in the sea, a hare in the casket, a duck in the hare, an egg in the duck, hit Kashchei on the forehead with that egg); Kashchei flies away, the girl tells Ivashka, he takes a gun, wants to kill a wolf and a kite on the way (and eat them), but the animals ask for mercy and promise that they will be useful, Ivashka sees a crayfish on the shore, does not kill it, but helps it swim out to sea; in gratitude, the crayfish brings Ivashka a casket from the sea, Ivashka breaks the lid, the hare runs away, the wolf catches the hare and tears it apart, the duck flies away, the kite catches it and tears it apart, Ivashka carries the egg to wash in the sea, but drops it, the crayfish returns the egg; Ivashka comes to Kashchei, hits him in the forehead with an egg, Kashchei dies; Ivashka takes the girl, regrets leaving the golden house, the girl takes the egg, rolls it around and the house assembles in the egg, Ivashka puts the egg in his pocket, the second girl assembles the silver house in the same way, the third - the copper house; they come to the exit upstairs (exactly a year has passed), comrades lift the girl from the copper house, argue who will get her as a wife, she assures that there is "more beautiful" than her, they lift the girls from the silver and golden houses, decide to take them as wives, and the first - as a servant, and on the rise to cut Ivashka's belt so that it breaks; Ivashka ties a stone in his place, comrades cut the belt, the stone falls back, Ivashka grieves and leaves; hides from the cloud under the oak, birds are screaming, he climbs the oak,covers the chicks from the rain, then gets down and hides, the bird Polugritsa flies in, in gratitude for saving her chicks, promises to deliver him up, Ivashka must prepare 2 barrels of any meat; Ivashka collects 2 barrels of snakes, frogs, mice, ties the barrels under the wings, they fly, Ivashka throws meat from the barrels into the bird's mouth, the meat runs out, Ivashka cuts off his caviar; the bird carries it out into this world, finds out what kind of meat was at the end, coughs it up, the caviar grows back; Ivashka comes to the city, announces himself as a shoemaker ("Ivanichka the Drunkard"), does not know how to sew, lodges with a Jew; the girl from the golden house promises to marry the one who will sew the same slippers that she had in the golden house, Ivashka accepts the order through the Jew, drinks for two days, on the third day rolls out a golden house from an egg, takes out the slippers, the Jew takes the slippers; the girl asks for the same dress - history repeats itself, the third condition is the same crown; Ivashka goes into service to the blacksmith, gets a wreath in the same way; the girl comes to the blacksmith, finds out who made the wreath; they get married; Dub-Dubovik and Gora-Gorovik marry two other girls, each lives in her own house]: Romanov 1901, No. 36: 340-347;Belarusians (Mogilevskaya, Goretsky district, Svyatoshitsy village) [a woman went to pick berries; a bear carried her off, she gave birth to a son; she ran away with him; the bear followed her, but the men killed it; the husband wanted to drive his wife away, but the people insisted that he build her a separate hut so that she could raise their son; he beats and maims the other children - he is too strong; the son left, hired himself out to a priest, said that his name is Misham; his horse can barely move; M. does not want money, but wants to be able to hit the priest and the priest's wife in a year; the priest agrees, not knowing that a strongman {strongman} stands in front of him; he chops wood without an axe, hitting the logs on the ground; the horse falls from M.'s blow; the priest's wife: let's send to drive the cows out of the oats and bring one cow home (they are not cows, but bears); M. brought a she-bear and agrees to milk her; the priest sends him to the mill where the devils grind at night; M. brought the devil; the priest's wife: let's send to the tsar, order him to bring 800 rubles in salary; M. harnessed the devil and the bear, went off; the tsar gave the money, if only M. would leave quickly; the priest and the priest's wife decided to run away, M. hid in a sack; seeing M., they decided to spend the night by the lake and push M. into the water at night; he changed places with the priest, and together with the priest's wife pushed the priest; began to live with the priest's wife]: Shein 1893, No. 19: 36-42; Belarusians (Mogilev, Gomel uyezd, Staro-Yurovichskaya volost) [someone is poisoning oats at the priest's; the son went, spent the night at the neighbors; the priest himself - fell asleep; the priest's wife; the bear carried her off and she gave birth to a son, Ivashka-Barashka Bear's Ear (MU); after a year and a half they left; the bear chases: smoke comes out of his ears, ashes pour out of his mouth; MU pulled the bear out of his skin; they began to live with the priest; MU hired himself out to thresh for the master, did everything in a day; asks the priest to stock up on iron; threw up the club, put his knees under it, it crumbled; the next time it only bent; MU leaves, meets, takes as companions Vyarni-Mountain, Vyarni-Stone and Vyarni-Oak; they live, cook in turns; the bearded dwarf beats and outeats the cook each time, tears the belt off his back; when it is MU's turn, he pinches the dwarf's beard in a split stump; he reattached the torn skin; the dwarf tore off his beard, went into a hole; MU went down; there are 4 maidens there; in the bathhouse there are two springs with strong and weak water; MU and the snake are driving each other into the ground; MU killed the snake, sent the girls up; MU goes to meet the snake; promises to deliver it up, let him get her 20 pairs of birds; she took him across the sea; there was not enough meat, he cut off his calves; on the other bank the snake regurgitated them and replanted them; MU came to his companions, killed them with a mace, made their wives servants, and married the best girl]: Shein 1893, No. 54: 110-116.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks [the daughter of an elderly couple is beautiful; she was proposed to by a young man whose lands are where the sky meets the earth; but she decided to elope with a bald orphan shepherd who played the violin well; a bear learned of this; he came at the appointed hour; when the girl left the yurt, he carried her off; she bore a son by the bear; he grew up and moved the stone away; his name is Alvt Khar Bear Son (AH); the bear pursues, AH cuts him down after 7 days of fighting; they come to her parents; he asks to make a steel staff; brought on a cart harnessed by two horses, he broke; bent by four; took it and left; meets, takes as companions the Son of the Mountain, the Son of the Ear (he hears everything, putting his ear to the ground), the Son of Water; they cook in turns; the old woman comes, ties the cook with her hair from the top of his head, takes away the meat; when it is AH's turn, he sends the old woman to fetch water with a leaky bucket; then he fights with her, hangs her by her braid on a branch; the skin is torn, the old woman runs through a hole into the lower world; AH comes down on a belt; comes out to the light; there is a beauty; he says that the soul of the old woman is an almas in the lake by the lake at sunrise; there is a boar in the reeds, in it an iron chest, in the chest three chicks: her eyes and soul; AH came to the lake, hired himself out to the old man as a shepherd; every day he fights with a boar; the old man notices that the shepherd returns tired; he spied, got scared; AH killed the boar, took out the chest, the birds flew out; AH created warmth in his palms, and cold around; the birds came down to warm themselves, he grabbed them; returning, he began to fight with the old woman, then strangled the birds, she died; AH sent the girls up, the first left him her ring; the companions cut the belt; AH fell; he killed the mouse; the other one revived it with a leaf; AH ate the leaf and recovered; a yellow snake crawls up the poplar to devour Khan Garudi's chicks; their mother carries AH to the ground; the meat runs out, he cuts off the last piece from the thigh; KH regurgitated it and stuck it back on; AH came to the khan, the father of the rescued girl; he wants to give his daughter in marriage to one of the three imaginary saviors; she sees AH, points to him as the savior; wedding and feast]: Khabunova 2017: 21-42; Stavropol Turkmen [a bear kidnaps a girl Sas; she gives birth to a boy with bear ears; he rolls away the stone with which the bear closes the exit from the cave, comes with his mother to the village; playing with his peers, he cripples them; the khan sends him into the forest for firewood, he brings it on a bear (his father), kills him; he is pushed into a pit leading to the lower world; he kills a crocodile holding water; people send him to a tree where an eagle lives; Bear Ear kills a crocodile ready to devour the eaglets; the eagle carries him to the ground; he feeds her meat and gives her water to drink, cuts off the last piece from his leg; on the ground the eagle regurgitates him, puts him back; Bear Ear killed all the inhabitants of the house except his family]: Bagriy 1930(2): 146-152; Adyghe(Temirgoy people) [a bear carried off the beautiful Sas, she gave birth to a son; he grew up, moved the stone that blocked the exit, his mother brought him to the people, they call him Bear's Ear (MU); while playing, he cripples other children; the old man advises the khan to send MU to the forest to fetch firewood, to harness two bulls of unequal strength; the undersized bull does not move; the Bear comes to the noise, MU harnesses him instead of one of the bulls, brings firewood; everyone is horrified, the old man advises to send MU to the forest, to push him into a bottomless pit there; MU falls into the lower world; kills a crocodile that tried to prevent him from drinking water from the river; the locals are grateful, but cannot help him return to earth; they advise killing the crocodile that annually devours eaglets; MU kills him, the eaglets hide him from their mother, tell them who their savior is; The eagle promises to raise MU to the ground, orders to stock up on water and meat; the last piece of MU is cut off from his leg; seeing that he is limping, the eagle regurgitates the piece, puts it back; MU killed all the inhabitants of the aul, began to live with his mother, grandfather and grandmother]: Bagriy 1930(2): 146-152; Ingush: Potanin 1883 [a she-bear forces a plowman to come together with her; that same day his son, immediately born and raised, approaches him; the son has become an abrek, takes a tree-puller and another as a comrade; each in turn remains to guard the hut; the man himself is six quarters, the beard of seven ties up the guard, takes what he needs; the guards say they are sick; the bear's son drives the bearded man into a tree like an axe; he breaks free, they follow a bloody trail to the tower, the woman lifts them up; the bearded man comes, they kill him; the bear's son unleashes his comrades on chains, he himself cannot; the woman warns that three rams will come; if he jumps on the black one, he will fall into the third underworld, on the red one - into the second, on the white one - he will end up on the ground; he ends up on the black one; in the lower world the woman is going to knead dough with urine; the serpent Sarmyg lay down by the spring, gives water in exchange for the girl; the Bear's son takes water twice, the third time S. swallows him, he chops him up from the inside with his saber, comes out; orders the saber so that no one can take it out of the body of the serpent except him; the king, whose daughter was to be eaten, orders to turn to the eagle on the tree in the middle of the sea; the chicks ask their father for a man; on the way the Bear's son throws buffalo and rams to the eagle, at the end cuts off flesh from his thigh; on the ground he regurgitates a piece back; the Bear's son finds comrades, marries the woman from the tower, marries his comrades]: 782-784; Tankiev 1997, No. 12 [the bear stole the girl, she gave birth to a son, he grew up right away, they came to her parents; the son of the bear Chaitong (Ch., "little bear") left immediately; meets and takes as his companions 1) the one tossing a log with his little finger, 2) the one listening to the ants; they cook in turns, the eshap eats everything, ties the cook with his mustache; Ch. ties him by the mustache to the door; he tore out the pole, the bloody trail leads to a cast-iron pipe; only Ch. dares to go down; kills the eshap in a duel, sends the two older wives up, exchanges rings with the youngest; she warned that she must touch the white horse, it will carry her to the ground; red and black must not be touched; her companions lift her up, cut the rope; Ch. touched the black, ended up in the lower world; the water dragon closed the water; twice allows Ch. as a guest to draw water; the third time he fights, because Ch. protects the princess given to the dragon; kills him; no one can pull Ch.'s dagger out of the dragon's body, only he himself; the king teaches how to kill the dragon that ate the eagle's chicks; the eagle lifts him up, Ch. feeds her, cuts off the last pieces from her leg, arm; comes to the girl, they want to marry her off, Ch. shows his ring, marries]: 257-263; Avars[a bear stole a pachakh's daughter, his son Bear's Ear grew up, killed the bear, hired himself out to a pachakh as a worker, dragged in a hundred trees, breaking down walls in houses; pachakh sends him to a hart, supposedly for an unpaid debt; a hart tries to stuff MU into a chest, he stuffs it himself, brings it to a pachakh, who orders it to be taken back; the same thing - azhdakha owes a bull; pachakh orders it to be taken back, on the way azhdakha swallowed a herd of horses; pachakh went to war against MU, who destroyed his army, went off to wander; he meets and takes as a companion the Tree-Bearer, the Millstone-Turner; they cook in turns, a bearded dwarf riding a hare ties him with hair, eats out of the cook; MU clamps his beard in the trunk of a tree, he tore out a plane tree by the roots, went into a hole in the ground; MU descends, kills the dwarf, sends the kidnapped princess up; she warns him that his companions will abandon him, he must jump on a white ram, and the black one will carry him even deeper; MU accidentally sits on the black one, finds himself in a village where a nine-headed azhdakha has blocked the water; MU cuts off his heads, brings his ears to the pachakhu of the underworld; he offers his daughter, but MU wants to go to earth; there is an eagle in the forest, MU kills a three-headed snake that was devouring chicks, the eagle carries him up; there is not enough meat, MU cuts it off from his leg, the eagle puts the piece back; MU kills the traitorous companions, marries the rescued princess]: Ganieva 2011b, No. 2: 50-57; Georgians (Imereti) [a she-bear forced a priest to mate with her, gave birth to a son, they named him Datvis ("bear")-shvili; he is incredibly strong; his father gave him into the service of the king, who wants to get rid of him; orders to make a palace in the forest and deliver it; D. brings the palace on four winged horses; orders to get Mzis-nahavi ("unseen by the sun"); D. meets, takes as companions 1) an earth-swallower, 2) a water-drinker, 3) one who listens to ants and controls them, 4) a hare shepherd; the king will give his daughter if D. drinks and eats a lot (the earth-swallower and the water-drinker perform); D. says that there was not enough hare meat for dinner, the hare shepherd drove the hares; the king and his people hide in the palace, the one who listens to ants hears, D. breaks the palace, carries off the beauty; the tsar digs a pit with boiling water, but D. calls the horses, they carry it out, destroy the tsar, D. lives in a new palace]: Bogoyavlensky 1894a, No. 1: 1-8.

Iran - Central Asia. Yagnobis [a bear stole a princess, she made some thread, threw a ball of yarn out of a cave, Grandfather-Collector of Thorns found it, reported to the king, the princess was returned, she gave birth to a strong man; people complain about him, because he cripples other children in games; he goes off to wander, his name is Khirs-ed-Din ("hirs" - bear); he meets, wins, takes as companions Chanor-ed-Din (wears plane trees), Sang-ed-Din (turns a millstone on his finger); they stole a girl, made her a servant, ordered to always feed the cat, otherwise it would extinguish the fire; the cat was late for food, doused the fire with urine, the girl saw smoke, came to the barzangi, she gave fire and a handful of grains; she followed the trail of grains of the barzangi, sucked the blood of the girl; Ch., S. remained to guard, were frightened, hid; Kh. cut off the head of the barzanga, but the head disappeared into the abyss, promised to harm; Kh. descends on a rope, there is a captive peri; she learns that the soul of each div is in a locked room, in a pair of pigeons, in two worms; she gave the divs a drink, Kh. took the keys, Kh. unlocked the rooms, killed the worms, the divs died; the peri warns that the companions will cut the rope; the peri agrees to marry the one who lifts Kh.'s knife, gun and purse, no one can; in the lower world Kh. tells the tigers not to touch the peasant's bulls, kills the fox that was strangling the old woman's chickens; the old woman advises to kill the dragon that was devouring the chicks of the Simurgh bird; in flight Kh. feeds the Simurgh with the eggs that the old woman gave, the lambs that the peasant gave; The last piece Simurg bites off from H.'s leg, burps it, puts it back; gives a white and a black feather to become an old man or a young man; only H. raises the knife, etc.; the brothers were tied to the tails of horses; a feast, the tsar rewarded Grandfather-Collector of thorns]: Andreev, Peshchereva 1957, No. 27: 131-138; Shugnans [a she-bear carries off a hunter, makes him her husband; she gives birth to a son Bear Cub (M.), 3 years later as a 20-year-old youth; he kills the She-Bear, comes to his house with his father; kills the tsar's hero who offered to move his leg from a gold bar; meets, defeats, takes as companions Stonebreaker, Tree Uprooter, Windmill Spinner with his little finger; the sworn brothers live in a fortress, cook in turns; each time an old woman comes, eats all the pilaf, beats the cook; everyone keeps silent about what happened; when it is M.'s turn, he cuts off the old woman's head, she hides in a crevice; his companions lower him down on a rope after him; he sends the princess and treasures up; the companions leave, leaving M. below; there is a horse: whoever strikes the whip twice will be carried to the upper world, whoever strikes once - to the lower; M. struck once, ended up below; he sends a peasant for bread, tames lions, plows with lions, kills them; they killed two people daily; they make him king; he sees the chicks of the Simurg bird, one cries, a werewolf will eat him now; M. kills the werewolf, Simurg carries him to the upper world; he takes the saved girl, drives away his sworn brothers, becomes king]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 3: 74-84; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1972(1) [the king has daughters Mukhliyo, Mukhabbat, and the youngest Ikbal; the king wants to give them in marriage to someone richer than him; the sisters flee, wearing men's clothing; at the fork, I. chooses the road to the right with the sign "if you go, you won't return"; the sisters go straight ahead and to the left ("you're unlikely to return" and "you will return"); the sisters promise to marry whoever they meet; I. meets a bear; gives birth to a son with the legs and body of a bear; at the age of 14, the son moved the millstone that was closing the cave, defeated and killed the bear; I. ​​returns with his son to his father, who throws a celebration, names his grandson Aikpalvan ("bear hero"); while playing, A. wounds his peers; The vizier advises I. to pretend to be ill, and A. to go to the land of the divines for leaves and roots of the tree of life; A. meets a man playing with millstones; he trains to overcome A. (whom he does not recognize); A. defeats him, makes him his companion; the same with the man who moves mountains; they come to an old man; he explains that the land of the divines can only be reached by riding a divine; the sworn brothers hunt, take turns cooking; a dwarf emerges from a plane tree by himself with a quarter, a beard of 40 quarters, ties the cook with his hair, eats everything; when it is A.'s turn, he kills the dwarf; the sworn brothers find a hole in the ground; each tries to go down, but orders to pull him out at once; A. goes down to the end; comes to the castle, there is a princess kidnapped by a divine; A. sends her up in a chest; when he begins to climb up himself, the sworn brothers cut the rope; the old man advises to kill the dragon that annually eats two chicks of the Simurgh bird, she will thank him for it; Simurgh brings him to the ground, tells him to go to the tree whose top reaches to the sky; asks the plowmen to bring food; harnesses two divs that tried to attack, plows on them; the old man explains that the tree reaching to the sky is the tree of life; he meets former sworn brothers, they fight over a chest, believing that it contains gold; A. throws them into the abyss; brings the tree to his mother, kills the viziers, finds and marries off his mother's sisters, plows on the divs]: 434-444; Ostroumov 1906, No. 1 [King Iron tells his son to hunt only in the west; he does not find game there, goes to the east; a she-bear carries him away, locks him in a cave; Dekova's son is born with hairy legs; tells the traveler to tell Tsar I. that his son and grandson will soon return, to trace a trail on the ground with a saber to know where to go; after 7 years he throws away the stone blocking the entrance, leads and then carries his father on himself, kills a she-bear that rushed in pursuit; I. is afraid of him, moves him to a distant dacha; orders to deliver firewood from the swamp, where there are shaitans and predators; D. loaded firewood on them and arrived riding on a tiger; I. ​​ordered all the firewood to be unloaded at the dacha; D. went on a journey; meets Takh-palvan, then Hyrs-palvan, Chinar-palvan; one threw up mountains, another - huge stones, the third - plane trees; each was going to Chimkent to wrestle with D.; D. called himself D.'s disciple, easily defeated the palvans, took him as a companion; On the edge of the city there are 7 Baba Yagas sitting in a row, in front of each there is a cauldron with 40 ears, in each cauldron there are 40 rams; D. hit one,her head flew off and knocked down the head of the neighboring one, and so all 7 heads flew off; in another place D. killed four Baba Yagas; the companions arrived in another place; they agreed to cook in turns; T. was the first; a dwarf arrives on a goat, a beard 40 vershoks long, bells on each hair of the goat; he asks for fire, empties the cauldron in one gulp, leaves; now D. is left, he knocked the dwarf's head off his shoulders with a hot stone, it rolled, disappeared into the pit; everyone tries to get down, but immediately screams to be pulled out; D. went down; two peris in an iron cage say that Raznun-div reigns here, he has 70 thousand divs, from every drop of blood spilled another 70 thousand appear; divs sleep and stay awake for 40 days; D. killed them, sent the girls and treasures up; While lifting D., the companions let go of the rope; D. came to his senses, met a plowman, asked for food; while the plowman went for food, D. ordered the animals and birds to plow the field, and then obey the plowman; he came to an empty city; there everyone hid underground from a snake named Mundurkha-adjar; D. killed him; in another city, two idroim-azhdargas come out of the lake and devour everyone; D. to the old man: if blood appears above the water, then I am dead, and if pus, then I have killed me; D. went down into the lake and killed the snakes; goes further, kills several Baba Yagas; defeated the last one; she asks D. to become her son - she had the same hero, but he died; after him there was a powerful bow; D. asks how to get out to land; the old woman tells him to go to the sea, there is a plane tree with a nest of the Sirug bird; her cubs are eaten by the alpan-azhdarga; D. took the old woman's son's bow, struck the azhdarga in the heart, fed it to two chicks, who hid it under their wings from their mother; Simrug smelled the scent of a man, but the chicks told her everything; she ordered 80 ram carcasses and 80 vessels of water to be prepared; there was not enough meat, D. cut off his leg; Simrug regurgitated it on the ground and put it back; she said that if she had known how tasty D.'s meat was, she would have eaten it; D. came to the house where his companions and peri were, killed the companions, began to live with the peri; one day he heard that the Bukhara Khan had attacked Iron; he came and scattered the Bukhara army, and then returned to his own place]: 157-182.and then listen to the plowman; came to an empty city; there everyone hid underground from a snake named Mundurha-adjar; D. killed him; in another city two idroim-azhdargas come out of a lake and devour everyone; D. to the old man: if blood appears above the water, then I am dead, and if pus, then I have killed me; D. went down into the lake and killed the snakes; goes further, kills several Baba Yagas; defeated the last one; she asks D. to become her son - she had the same hero, but died; after him a powerful bow was left; D. asks how to get out to land; the old woman tells him to go to the sea, there is a plane tree with a nest of the Sirug bird; her young are eaten by an alpan-azhdarga; D. took the bow of the old woman's son, struck the azhdarga in the heart, fed it to two chicks, they hid it under their wings from their mother; Simrug smelled the scent of a man, but the chicks told her everything; she ordered 80 ram carcasses and 80 vessels of water to be prepared; there was not enough meat, D. cut off his leg; Simrug regurgitated it on the ground and put it back; she said that if she had known how tasty D.'s meat was, she would have eaten it; D. came to the house where his companions and peri were, killed the companions, began to live with the peri; one day he heard that the Bukhara Khan had attacked Iron; he came and scattered the Bukhara army, and then returned to his own place]: 157-182.and then listen to the plowman; came to an empty city; there everyone hid underground from a snake named Mundurha-adjar; D. killed him; in another city two idroim-azhdargas come out of a lake and devour everyone; D. to the old man: if blood appears above the water, then I am dead, and if pus, then I have killed me; D. went down into the lake and killed the snakes; goes further, kills several Baba Yagas; defeated the last one; she asks D. to become her son - she had the same hero, but died; after him a powerful bow was left; D. asks how to get out to land; the old woman tells him to go to the sea, there is a plane tree with a nest of the Sirug bird; her young are eaten by an alpan-azhdarga; D. took the bow of the old woman's son, struck the azhdarga in the heart, fed it to two chicks, they hid it under their wings from their mother; Simrug smelled the scent of a man, but the chicks told her everything; she ordered 80 ram carcasses and 80 vessels of water to be prepared; there was not enough meat, D. cut off his leg; Simrug regurgitated it on the ground and put it back; she said that if she had known how tasty D.'s meat was, she would have eaten it; D. came to the house where his companions and peri were, killed the companions, began to live with the peri; one day he heard that the Bukhara Khan had attacked Iron; he came and scattered the Bukhara army, and then returned to his own place]: 157-182.

Baltoscandia. Setu [a man walked with a bear, the bear danced; in the house where he spent the night, the bear made a girl pregnant; she gave birth to a son with bear ears; he is incredibly strong; they called him Ivan the Bear; he took three companions, went wandering; they earned their living as woodcutters; each one cooks in turn, a dwarf with a big beard comes, eats the cook; when IM is left, he beats the dwarf, lets go, he hides in a hole; IM goes down there on a rope; he meets three kidnapped princesses in succession, one spins copper, another silver, the youngest gold; on the way to each one there are two lions, IM kills them by hitting each other; each one switches bottles with strong and weak water; the kidnapper-devil drinks the weak, IM kills all three, driving them into the ground; sends the princesses up, the youngest gives him a ring, it splits in half, the princess and HIM take one half each; the companions did not lower the rope to take HIM; he comes to a pine tree on a hill, devils crawl out from under the pine tree like mice, HIM kills them all, cuts out their tongues; there is an eagle's nest in the pine tree, HIM feeds the eaglets with the devil's tongues, they are incredibly tasty; when a giant eagle flies in, the eaglets do not want the horse she brought, they say that there was better food; the grateful eagle agrees to carry HIM to the ground; he throws her the prepared food in flight across the sea, there is not enough, he cuts off the meat from his calves; he lies in bed for almost a year until he can walk again; he comes to the king when the youngest princess is to marry the imaginary savior; she recognizes the half of the ring; a deceiver was left in a barrel in the forest, a wolf dipped its tail in it, the deceiver climbed out and was happy to be alive; after the death of the king, IM inherited the throne]: Sandra 2004: 270-275; Livs [two priests saw a hole; one went to look; there was a bear; she wouldn’t let him go back in and told his companion to leave; a boy was born; in the image – a man, but with the strength of a bear; his father sent him to the village; he returned with bread and an axe and killed the bear; they arrived in the village, the priest began serving in the church again; the son is misbehaving; they want to shoot him, but he put a church bell on his head, the bullets bounced off; he goes off on a journey; he sees a little man who crawled out from under a rock and went into the field; he turned the rock aside, there was a staircase, the bear’s son went down into the castle, there was a table set, he was eating and drinking; that dwarf came, he defeated him; the dwarf said that if you turn the keys 9 times in one direction, the lock will rise to the ground, and if in the opposite direction, it will fall again; he came with wealth to his father, brought him to the castle, the priest buried the bones of those who died when the castle rose]: Loorits 2000(4): 383-385; Karelians(Southern Karelia) [a priest rode through the forest on horseback; a she-bear ate the horse, carried the priest to her den; she bore him a son; his face was clear, his body was hairy; Ivan Medveddin (IM) grew up, suggests that his father leave; the she-bear caught up with him, he killed her; the priest and his wife are afraid that IM will ruin them - he works too much; they decided to kill him; they order to bring a foal that had been behind the fence for three years; it opened its mouth, but IM pacified it and brought it; the priest orders to put it with the horses; the foal killed them all; they send for fish to a small lake, where a water spirit attracts fish from 30 fathoms; IM makes a sleigh out of pine trees, harnesses the foal; beats the water spirit, forcing him to load the sleigh with fish; he calls the water spirit a deacon (he has long hair) and brings it to the father: we have no deacon; people tell THEM that the priest wants to destroy him; he goes off on a journey, taking the foal and the sleigh; he meets and takes a fisherman as a companion (a fishing rod is a pine tree, a lure is a horse); then a second; a third; they live in a house, cook in turns; a two-toothed old woman got up from the cellar, pinched the cook's beard between the floorboards, ate everything, went back; so every time; when it is THEM's turn, he puts a red-hot iron in the old woman's mouth, she loses the gift of speech, hides underground; THEM is lowered down after her on a rope; below is the seashore, clouds from the sea, an eagle's nest, the eaglets are freezing; THEM plugged the cracks in the nest, the eaglets warmed up; the eagle attacked THEM, but the chicks explained that he had saved them; she agrees to carry him out to land, but must rest; THEM walks along the shore, a girl is weaving in a hut; as he strikes with a harpoon - 12 shoes fall; says that HIM crippled her grandmother; HIM says that HIM died, proposes to marry her, she agrees; the same with the second girl (12 overcoats fall); with the third (12 rifles); in the fourth hut is the grandmother (this is the old woman); they ask him for help: let the grandmother either recover or die; HIM tells everyone to leave; puts a hot iron in the grandmother's mouth, pours boiling water; the old woman died; HIM sent three girls to the ground; puts a stone in his place; the companions lifted it halfway and threw it, thinking that it was HIM; the eagle carried HIM to the ground; he forgave the companions; arrived in the city, there the princess is given to the snake; the first angler is coming; a three-headed snake; angler: there the magpies pecked to pieces your hemp field; the snake turned around, the angler cut off two heads, the snake returned to the sea; second angler; 6-headed serpent; "Smoke rises from the NE, you don't see it"; the serpent turned around, the angler cut off 5 heads; third; 9-headed serpent; 12-headed serpent; HE himself is coming; he made an iron woman who smiles; the serpent put his hands in her mouth, she bit them off; HE knocked down 11 voices; HE took as his wife the princess whom he himself saved, others received ranks from the king]: Konkka, Tupitsyn 1967, No. 29: 251-262.

Volga - Perm. Mordvins [a priest's wife went to pick nuts and fell into a den; gave birth to a boy, he grew up, moved aside the logs with which a bear had blocked the exit; killed the bear, which chased him and his mother; the priest calls his son to thresh, but he orders to make an iron club; Ivan took two comrades, they reached the place from which a 12-headed snake comes out; they built a house; the snake demands a man a day; Ivan goes to the bridge, tells his comrades to watch the cup: if it fills with blood, drain it; the snake began to overcome, the bear's son threw down his shoe, woke up his comrades, they drained the blood; Ivan chopped off the remaining 6 heads; they went to woo the daughter of the tsar with an iron nose; the old man: the tsar has two bears, I can calm them; Ivan: come with us; another old man promises to calm the tsar's 12 daughters, they take him along too; the third promises to cool the iron bath; the first old man killed the bears; the second lifted his shirt: the tsar's daughters saw it and left in shame; the third cooled the bath; I. received the princess]: Maskaev 1966: 88-90; Bashkirs (west authors, 1969) [the old man's black cow did not return in the evening; the eldest daughter goes to look for it, ends up with the Bear, he forbids her to open the chests, she opens them, there is gold and silver, the Bear ate her; the same with the middle daughter; he did not eat the youngest, took him as a wife; he orders her to bake some treats, he will take the gift to his wife's parents; she herself sits in the sack, the bear leaves it at her parents' house; a son Aiyukθbek ("little bear") is born; he is strong, cripples his peers, his grandfather sends him to wander; in the underworld A. kills a dwarf, a vershok in height, with a beard a thousand vershoks long; marries his three daughters; is chosen into the white light with the help of Samrigush; the offspring from the wives is a clan division of Aiyu arahy]: Ilimbetova, Ilimbetov 2009: 110-111.

Turkestan. Kazakhs (place of recording unknown) [at the age of 32, a rich woman became a widow; managed to give birth to 5 sons; a bear carried her off; fed her apples, berries, raw meat; when leaving, he blocked the exit; she gave birth to three sons: two like bears, one - a man; the boy grew up, began to move the stone from the entrance; his mother taught him to shoot a bow; having learned about people, the boy brought his mother to the village; she found the eldest sons; the boy was named Ayubala ("son of a bear"); he grew up, defeated all the young men, beat off girls; they had to leave together with his mother; wandering, A. meets, takes as companions 1) a fortune teller by the stars, 2) one who understands the language of fish, 3) one who sees a trace left 40 years ago; A. himself is a marksman, and his soul is on the tip of a blue arrow; Baksy told one khan that a gold bar the size of a horse's head was buried under a poplar tree at a depth of 400 paces; the khan would give his three daughters with a dowry to the one who would find the bar in two days; A. and his friends fulfilled the condition, married three friends to the khan's daughters, and went on himself; he shot a man in the forest; he came out to a tent, there was a girl there; she said that she and her brother had fled from the khan; their cattle had been eaten by animals, and their brother had recently disappeared; A. realized that he had killed him; he repented and confessed, and they got married; Baksy told the khan where the girl was, and he sent an old woman; she gained the trust of the young people; she persuaded the girl to ask where her husband's soul was; the third time he confessed that it was at the end of an arrow; the old woman threw the tip into the river and ran away herself; A. lost consciousness, and the girl was taken to the khan; the fortune teller by the stars found out everything, the pathfinder found A.'s body, the one who knows the language of fish asked them to find and bring the tip; the friends killed the khan and returned A.'s wife]: Khabunova 2017: 73-81 (apparently Sidelnikov, vol. 3: 88-93); Kazakhs(location of recording not specified) [Uzbek Alikhan asks his wife to bring him lunch in the field; the wife forgot; then let the daughter; A. threw chips along the road so that she would know where to go; but this trail led her to a bear's den; {did the bear move the chips?}; the girl gave birth to a son, named Ayualpan; he has been talking since birth; easily moved the stone from the entrance and led his mother out; defeated the bear, although with difficulty; removed the skin; they came to the house of the girl's parents; while playing, A. often kills other children; goes off to wander; two mountains crash against each other; this is done by Taudytalpan; A. defeated him, took him as a companion; water from one sea gushed into another; this is done by Sudysalpan (same); they came to a house by the river, nearby 100 bulls, in front of each a feeding trough; they began to live there in turns, cook; having lifted the threshold, a dwarf the size of a fingernail enters, with a beard of 5 karis (1 karis = 18-20 cm); he ate everything, blows on S., he fell; when it was T.'s turn, he hung the dwarf by his beard; but he broke loose and left; following the bloody trail, the heroes came to the well; A. ordered to lower it; there are 6 beauties in the house; they explain that that dwarf-zhermistan ate them all; his chest, arms, legs, soul are in three separate ovens in the house; A. smashed all the ovens with a club, there were ducks and geese in the ovens, he killed them too; he sent the girls upstairs; he shouted that the most beautiful one was for him; then the companions did not lift him up; a girl came up and showed the passage to the vast lower world; there they knead dough on saliva; Aidarkhar locked the water, gives it for a ram, a girl and a man; A. brought water, and then asked for a sword and let himself be swallowed, cutting the aydarhar along his entire body; the grateful padishah is ready to build a ladder, but A. promises to look for another way to get to the ground; something similar to a bird, everyone eats the chicks of the Samruk bird; A. killed the monster; the chicks hide it under their wings; their mother will fly in with the wind (from the flapping of her wings), rain (from the blood - these are her tears), snow (her phlegm), hail (her excrement); Samruk swallowed, but regurgitated A.; she is ready to take A. to the ground, let him prepare 40 stallions and 40 measures of water; A. cut off the last piece from his thigh; Samruk licked the wound, it healed; A. found companions, beat them, gave them five girls, and he himself stayed with the most beautiful]: Khabunova 2017: 83-94 (in Kazakh in Tilengenova, Babalar sozi, vol. 75); Uyghurs[a girl is kidnapped by a bear, she gives birth to a son, a hero, he kills the bear, returns with his mother to people; his name is Tughluk-batur; the khan is afraid of his strength, the vizier offers to give difficult tasks; 1) to kill the dragon; T. throws himself with a sword into the dragon's mouth, cuts it open from the inside; 2) to kill the diva; along the way, T. successively defeats and takes as companions heroes named Er (earth), Chol (desert), Su (water), Tag (mountain), Ashlyanpu (cold noodles), Muz (ice), (Uighur name not given) (millstone), Tomir (iron)-batur; not recognizing T., A. boasts that he will easily outrun him, he himself is defeated; the diva remains in the house to guard while the others hunt; the diva ties him up with a hair-snake, sucks his blood; The next time T. remains on guard, wounds the diva, follows the bloody trail to the well, descends on his belt; frees the diva's two daughters, whom he was ready to kill for pitying his victims; they explain where their father's soul is (kill two roosters with green beans; go down to the basement, there is a fish swimming in the chest, in it an egg, in it a box); T. burns the box, the diva dies; T. sends up the treasure, the diva's daughters, four more women; A. cuts off his belt, T. falls, the divas heal him; T. kills a snake that was devouring the chicks of the Simurgh bird; it carries him to the surface, T. cuts off the last piece of meat for the Simurgh from her own leg; the diva's daughters turned the four women into cats, they scratched A.; T. married the diva's daughters]: Kabirov 1963: 125-153.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakass (Askiz, now Beysky district; Beltir dialect of the Sagai dialect; another variant was recorded around the same place; self-recordings of informants) [a girl went to pick berries, got lost, a bear carried her off, blocked the exit from the den with deadwood; the girl gave birth to a human son, but with bear ears; name Abu-Khulakh; he pushed aside the deadwood, they went outside; they came to some watchman, who took the girl as his wife; AKh is so strong that he cripples other children during games; went wandering; meets and takes as companions the Master of the Trees, the Master of the Water, the Master of the Mountain; they found a pen with cattle, they cook in turns; each time a dwarf the size of an elbow with a beard down to his waist beats the cook, eats everything; AKh tore off his beard, he ran under a rock; the companions are unable to move the rock; AH moved it, he was lowered down on a belt; he finished off the dwarf, freed the three sisters; turned their houses into silver, gold, copper rings, put them on his finger; sent the girls up; when he himself was going up, the belt broke; came to live with a blind old man; he does not allow cattle to be driven to the land of the huu-hat (witch), it was she who tore out the eyes; AH forced the huu-hat to return the eyes, and then killed; forced another huu-hat to give a bottle of living water, then he also tore off her head; the old man inserted the eyes and returned his sight; the old man orders him to mount a brown stallion, he will carry him to the ground; AH got out, the stallion fell back down; if that stallion had remained on the earth, there would not have been a man who could have defeated them (AH with the stallion)]: Khabunova 2017: 137-144; (cf. Altai [a bear carried off a man's wife; licked her, and she became covered in fur; began to eat raw meat; in the spring the woman was caught, and she sang: although a bear, but my husband, although a den, but my home]: Oinotkinova et al. 2011, No. 47: 159); 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: Samdan 1994, No. 2 [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 one stays in turn 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 her daughter to the shulbus 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 fifteen-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 down his hat; the lasso cuts US, and he also takes the younger sister as his second wife; ЫК kills him against a larch; with UK and the wives of both they come to ЫК's mother], 7 [each of the seven brothers goes along one of the seven rivers; the youngest gets married; the wife asks him to go harrow, he does not want to go without her; she draws her image for him on paper; the wind tears the paper out, it falls into the water, into the lower world to Kuzut Khan, who went to fetch water; he sends an army, takes the woman for his son, kills her husband; the brothers see his staff cracked; each has a special gift (an expert, a forest uprooter, a skillful joiner, an endower with flesh, a giver of breath), together they revive the killed; together they make the Khan-Khereti bird; it brings them to the lower world, grabs the stolen one, carries her back to earth; the seven brothers begin to take her from each other; she says that they will meet with her on the new moon; becomes the Moon, the brothers - the Pleiades; (the Sun is not mentioned)]: 227-248, 293-301; Khadakhane 1984: 23-27 [Karaty-khan's youngest daughter has disappeared; the old man Adygan agrees to send his nine sons to search, giving each an arrow; the first will find a bug along a seven-year trail; the second will see a needle at the edge of the earth; the third can lift and carry the sarlyk to the ends of the earth; the fourth will climb any rock; the fifth will steal a feather from the tail of a magpie; the sixth will hit any target; the seventh will catch a stone falling from the sky; the eighth will build a hut of any size; the youngest ninth will dig an underground passage; the brothers together find and carry away a girl kidnapped by the Khan-Kereti bird; the old man orders to give the girl to the one who worked the hardest: dug an underground passage from the shelter built by the eighth brother; the girl: I will marry the sixth, he spent an arrow, hitting the bird's claw so that it would release the girl, the rest kept their arrows], 72-78 [the bear carried off the woman, closed the exit from the cave with a stone; she gave birth to the Son of the Bear (SM), he grew up, moved the stone away, went wandering; meets, conquers,takes as a companion Mountain Raiser, Forest Rooter; they live by the sheepfold, eat rams, cook in turns, the rest hunt; albys (a witch with red claws and a copper nose) takes away the meat; both companions say that they fell ill, did not have time to cook the food; SM hits the witch with a knife, she disappears into a crevice; SM asks to lower him; below, two princesses bandage albys's leg; SM killed albys, sent the princesses up; Mountain Raiser cut the lasso; SM sees a poplar, on it there are three chicks, one is crying (mangys will eat it today), another is singing (tomorrow), the third is sleeping (the day after tomorrow); a six-headed snake crawls out of the lake, SM kills it; the bird lifts it to the ground; he kills Mountain Raiser, takes the second princess for himself];Shors [in another translation also Chudoyakov 2002: 108-110; a bear carried off a woman, a son Ai Tamash was born, moved the stone that blocked the exit from the cave, AT and his mother came to her village; AT went hunting, sees a man Kaya ("rock") Chuktezhi, he raises and lowers the rock, AT takes him as a companion; the same Sug ("water") Ortazhi (drinks and burps the lake); they stay in the house in turns to watch over the cattle; a big man comes, eats the side of the one who remains; when it is AT's turn, he ties him to a cedar; he tore the cedar out by the roots and left; AT caught up with it, grabbed it, and tore it to pieces]: Arbachakova 2010, No. 8: 237-243; Baikal Buryats (Ekhirit-Bulagatsky district, Irkutsk region, 1937) [young men and women came to the games; upon returning, two cousins ​​lay down to sleep on an arba; at night a bear dragged her off; one jumped off unnoticed, and the bear took the other one home; she gave birth to a son; he grew up strong and agile; he moved the stone, led the mother out of the den, and they went to the people; the bear caught up with him, but the guy wrung his neck]: Khabunova 2017: 11-20; Baikal (?) Buryats [a girl was kidnapped by a bear; she gave birth to a son, returned to the people; the Bear's Son ( Baabgayan khubüüün ; hereinafter SM) went to look at the land; he became a sworn brother of Sabudai mergen (he threw up a hammer), Babudai (he threw up a tree), Khabuidai bator (he moved mountains); each in turn stays to cook the meat; the bearded old man eats the meat, throws the owner into the vessel; each of the three sworn brothers is ashamed to admit the disgrace; SM crushes the old man; he leaves his beard, goes through the crevice; SM descends to the lower world; the girl replies that her father went to earth, returned sick; SM promises to cure him, burns him in the fire; the three daughters of the Kherdig-bird say that their father is forced to give them to the monster Arkhan; SM cuts off his head; the Kh.-bird delivers him to earth; SM performs feats, marries the daughter of Ermen-khan , receives his possession]: Baldaev 1960 (in Bur.): 365-371 in Ulanov 1974: 39-41; Oirats(Xinjiang) [a bear kidnapped a khan's daughter; she bore him a son; when the son was three years old, he moved a boulder, came out of the den with his mother, killed the bear; they came to the girl's parents; her father ordered an iron club to be made for him; his name is Ayu batyr (bear-hero, AB); he met, defeated, took as a companion the one who throws a stone block to the sky; who throws a boulder from hand to hand; everyone does not know who is in front of him, says that he is looking for the hero AB; AB marries a beauty; in order to take possession of her, the descendants spread a felt mat over a deep hole; AB fell near the dwelling of a mangys; killed him and his newborn son; came to live with an old man and an old woman; they tell them not to drive the oxen loudly: two leopards will hear and eat them; AB harnessed the leopards and plowed the field with them; [the old man shows where there is a dried-up tree reaching to the sky; AB climbed to Khan Garudi's nest; killed a snake that was going to eat the chicks; they hide AB from their father, then explain that AB saved them; Khan Garudi carried AB to the ground; when he came home, his companions turned into a boar and a pig, ran into the reeds; pigs came from them; AB began to live with his wife and became a khan]: Khabunova 2017: 46-56; Dagurs (Hohhot, Inner Mongolia) [a she-bear caught a hunter; they began to live together; they had a bear cub; the hunter missed people and decided to run away; he ran out of the den, got into a boat he had previously dug out of a tree and sailed; the enraged she-bear rushed in pursuit, but was unable to swim after him; then she tore the bear cub in two; from the part that the she-bear kept for herself, bears came into being; from the other part, which she threw after the hunter, the Daurs came into being; the bear is called atirkan (old man), and the she-bear is called etirken (old woman)]: Tsybenov 2012: 170-171.

Western Siberia. Mansi [someone is destroying a turnip field; an old man goes to guard, a bear kills him; an old woman goes, a bear carries her off, she gives birth to a son, he is a bear from the waist down; they run away, the son kills the pursuing bear; he goes to look for a wife, on the way he meets a noseless man, then an earless man, both hear the voices of women from the underworld; the bear's son asks to be lowered into a pit on a rope; there is a dragon, he chops off its heads with an axe; sends three girls up on ropes; when he himself rises, his companions cut the rope; he asks an eagle to lift him to the ground; he prepares meat, feeds him in flight (three months); drives away his companions, marries]: Munkácsi 1995: 118-120); Northern Selkups (Tolka, 1988) [Pachka's old wife disappeared, returned with Korky Pachka Iya's child; disappeared again, her son found her in a bear's den, brought her home; went traveling, took the Sea-covering Stump, the Falling Forest, the Quickening Swamp as companions; a stranger comes to the one who remains to keep house, scalds him with boiling water; when Iya remains, he chops up the stranger with a knife; asks the companions to lower him on a rope into the lower world; an old man wounded by him sits there, I. heals him, marries his daughter; I. ​​sends her up, when he himself rises, the companions cut the rope, he falls to the seventh lower land; an old man and an old woman sit there, they say that their grandson dies every time thunder rumbles over the tent; I. shoots an arrow into the air, the Thunder disappears; the old men order them to sit on the seventh of the seven cranes, it carries I. to the ground, he finds his wife; they walk around the cauldron clockwise, plunge into the ground, and the Mountain of Spirits (Lozyl Lakka) appears in this place]: Golovnev 1995: 495-498.

Eastern Siberia. Central Yakuts (Abaginsky nasleg of Amginsky ulus, 1947) [on the way an old man forgot a sack of flour by the path, sent his daughter to get it; she got lost, a bear took her, a boy was born; he tells his mother to leave; she is afraid that the bear-father will kill them; the boy killed him himself; he left his mother with an old woman, and came to the tsar himself; the latter named him Mishka-Mikhailo, and made him his heir; the previous heirs reported that MM allegedly reproached the tsar for not having a golden bridge; the tsar orders a bridge to be built overnight from his house to the church; MM built it overnight; there are 44 golden pillars on the bridge, each with a golden crossbill (ditto); the tsar's wife gave birth to a boy, the midwife replaced him with a puppy, the old woman raises the boy; the same after the birth of a girl (she replaced him with a young crow); third birth: again a boy (substituted with a kitten); the king orders to cut off the queen's head; at this time MM brings three children born to the queen; the midwife's head was cut off, MM received the king's eldest daughter as a wife; at night he takes off the bearskin; the wife threw it into the resin; MM left; the wife sailed on a ship; an old woman in silver clothes and a silver yurt sends to the eldest sister - she blew and the woman flew there; she has a golden yurt; she - to the eldest (the yurt is also golden); MM lives with her; meeting; returned to the king, wedding and feast, MM accepted the crown]: Khabunova 2017: 146-153 (= Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976: 138-146; also in Ergis 1964-1967); Dolgans [an orphan girl came across a bear's den and stayed with the bear; he fed her, letting her suck his paw; she bore him cubs; when the bear came to people, they received him as a guest]: Popov 1939, No. 32: 91.

Amur - Sakhalin. Negidals [a boy's parents forbade him to marry the girl he loved; when the women went to pick berries, the girl disappeared; a bear carried her off and made her his wife; he took care of her, but did not let her leave; one day the boy met the girl in the forest; she was naked and had two bear cubs with her; she explained that they were her children and that her bear husband had died; the girl's parents killed the cubs; after that she became sullen and soon died]: Khasanova 2004: 55-56; Nanai (recorded in 1914) [a story about the origin of the Aktanko clan: the wife of a Gold went into the forest, where she was grabbed by a tiger, who took her into his house and lived with her; after some time the woman returned home, where she gave birth to a son; they named him Aktanko]: Ponyatovsky 2009: 117; Udege [a girl was picked up by a bear and taken as a wife, a boy was taken as a husband by a tigress; the Udege were descended from the first marriage, the second was childless; the boy mortally wounded a bear while hunting; the bear said that he was his sister's husband, ordered that the sister not be given the meat of the bear killed by his brother, so that the sister would not sleep on the bear's skin and pass on his ost penis through the female line]: Arsenyev in Podmaskin 1991: 48.

NE Asia. Forest Yukaghirs (Nelemnoye village, Verkhnekolymsky ulus, Yakutia) [a girl went into the forest in the fall, got lost; came across a bear's den, climbed into it; the bear pushed her behind his back, she fell asleep; when she wanted to eat, the bear gave her his paw to suck; in the spring the girl returned home, noticed that she was pregnant; soon a boy with bear ears was born; he was strong and looked like his father, a bear; therefore, they believe that bears and people are related by blood]: Zhukova, Prokopyeva 1991, no. 21: 159; coastal Koryaks (Karaginsky dialect) [ Tinienevvut collects berries; the She-Bear tells her to come to her; one of the She-Bear's brothers takes T. as a wife, lives with her in the guise of a man; they visit her parents, who are delighted with their son-in-law; her sister Rera wants the same to happen to her; she was afraid of the Bear, her brothers kill her; R. missed her fiancé because of laziness, cowardice and disobedience]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 136: 419-422; coastal Koryaks (western A.N. Zhukov, Palana village, 1958; Russian borrowing) [a hunter fell into a bear's den; the Bear gave birth to a son by him, Kainyvilya (Bear's Ear); he is a man, only he has bear's ears; four years later K. asks his father to bring him to his home; his father replies that the Bear will catch up with them and kill them; they run away, K. kills the Bear Mother with his fist; K. is too strong, cripples other children; goes into the tundra; meets, takes as a companion 1) a man carrying a birch grove; 2) carrying a hill with cedars; 3) carrying riverine tundra; they come to the house of giants; K. lies down on the bed of their master; beats (to death?) him and the three he came with; K. comes to the old man, tells about the defeated giants; the old man was their father; he offers K. a bride inside the hill; lowers him down the hole on a rope, cuts the rope; Spider lifts him back up; he beats the old man, hangs him by the rib in the house, sets the house on fire; returned home; his father is there, the Cossacks gouged out his eyes; K. killed the Cossacks; his father said that there is a cure for blindness made from the liver; the neighbor says that this is the liver of a man with a fiery head named Ognishche; gives a saber, teaches what to do; K. goes to the sunset, where the red earth is; [cuts off O.'s head, cuts out his liver, takes the bile, runs away; the fire follows him, he manages to escape; smears his father's eyes with bile, he regains his sight]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 139: 434-447; Chukchi[the hunter Tylene met a she-bear; she agreed not to eat him, since he was thin, but took him as her husband; T. noticed that they came to the den by the left path, and there was also a right one; the she-bear was hunting, and T. was doing women's work; a bear-daughter was born, then a human son; they named Keinyvilya (Bear's Ear); he became strong, learned everything from his father and mother; and T. grew weak from women's work, lost his male strength; K. met the hunters, told them who he was; they said that they would wait for him and T.; having learned that the bear and her daughter went by the left path, he realized that they had gone hunting and would not return for a long time; he put his father on his shoulder and went by the right one; a bird told the she-bear about this; she and her daughter set off in pursuit; K. went out to meet them and killed them both; he came with his father to the people]: Kozlov 195: 52-56; Chuvans [two women, one pregnant, went into the tundra, hid from the rain in a bear's den; a bear came, they ran, the bear let one pass, left the pregnant woman; when leaving, he blocked the entrance; fed them roots; when she gave birth, the bear killed her, and raised the boy like a bear; they came to a dead seal; it was a trap; the boy's father shot the bear; together with other hunters, he caught the boy with difficulty; he got used to living among people, became a strong young man; easily won the reindeer sled races]: Brodsky 2018, no. 12: 27-29.

Arctic. Chugach [woman picking berries, steps in bear dung, curses bears; her husband turns out to be a bear; he takes her away; she gives birth to cubs; in spring her brothers kill the Bear, bring their sister back to the people; her cubs are left in the forest; she cries (because the hunters killed them?)]: Birket-Smith 1953: 153-154; Igloolik [woman is given no food because she is menstruating; she comes to a house in the mountains, there are bears in human form; the She-Bear feeds her, tells her to keep quiet about what she saw; the woman tells her husband about the bears, he goes hunting, kills the She-Bear, the Bear tells him not to be afraid, he will only kill his wife, bites off her head, plays with her like a ball; dogs rush at him, he rises with them to the sky, the bear and the dogs become the Pleiades; the husband is left alone with two orphaned bear cubs]: Millman 2004 (Pond Inlet): 34-35; Arctic Eskimos [two variations; husband and wife fight, wife goes to the mountains, ends up with a Bear; he feeds her seal meat, asks her not to tell anyone at home about the encounter, because he feels sorry for his children; at home the wife whispers to her husband where the bears are; the husband goes hunting; the Bear comes, tears the woman's head off, walks, tossing her around like a ball; the dogs pursue him; the bear and the dogs rise to the sky, turning into the Pleiades]: Holtved 1951a, no. 6: 50-55 (=1951a: 16-19; Russian translation by Menovshchikov 1985, no. 265: 488-489).

Subarctic. Tanaina [a handsome stranger marries a girl; he is a brown bear; she bears him three sons; they grow up, kill Father Bear by luring him under a platform with heavy stones on it; the woman and her sons return to people; someone teases the sons, they kill the offender; they go into the forest; since then people and bears live separately]: Vaudrin 1969: 45-48; Interior Tlingit , Tagish , Southern and Northern Tutchone [a girl steps in bear dung, scolds the bears; meets a handsome man, he takes her away to his home, takes her as his wife; he turns out to be a grizzly bear; preparing for hibernation, the wife tells her husband to make a den where her brothers hunt in the spring; she gives birth to two (three) sons, each month of winter seems like one night to her; in spring, rolls a ball of grass down the slope for her brothers' dogs to smell; Bear realizes this, asks his wife why she betrayed him; decides to let her brothers kill him; brothers find the den (sister leaves arrow shafts or her mittens in front of her or ties them to the dog that found the den); sister teaches her how to ritually dispose of Bear's body; asks her mother to bring clothes for her and her children (all of whom have begun to grow fur); despite sister's warning, brothers ask her and her children to put on bear skins and walk down the slope; when they begin shooting at them with toy arrows, sister actually turns into a grizzly bear, kills the brothers (or just the youngest, the oldest, the two youngest); the rules of handling a dead bear that sister taught her brothers are still followed by the people]: McClelland 1970: 5 [summary], 5-55 [13 separate texts]; Southern Tutchone [woman picking berries, steps in bear dung, scolds bears; Bear takes form of her husband, leads her away, marries her; her brothers kill Bear, bring her home; ask her to play bear with them; she turns into a bear, kills them all, returns to mountains with her cubs]: McClelland 1987: 261-264; Tahltan : Teit 1921a, no. 59 [woman picking berries, steps in bear dung, scolds bears; Bear takes form of man, leads her away, marries her; she becomes a bear herself; bears two sons; Bear sends her back to the people, tells her not to talk to her ex-husband; at the village she changes form back to human; people tease her sons because they look like bears; she turns into a she-bear, kills many; hunters kill her and her sons], 60 [A grizzly bear takes a woman away, she gives birth to twins; they return to the people; agree to play bears; hunters pursue them, they kill the people; go into the forest; as they leave, they sing a funeral song in mourning for their dead relatives (the origin of the Grizzly Song )]: 337-338, 338-339.

NW coast. Eyak : Birket-Smith, Laguna 1938 [woman picking berries, steps in bear dung, scolds bears; Bear takes form of her husband, carries her off, takes her as wife; she returns to humans, helps find bear dens]: 276-277 [runs away], 277-279 [bears two sons; her brothers find her; she sends sons to their father, the Bear]; Krauss 1982 [Octopus carries young woman out to sea, makes her his wife; she bears him two sons; visits relatives with them; whale kills Octopus, woman dies of grief; her sons kill whale, never return to humans]: 106-107; Smelcer 1993 [as in Krauss]: 61-63; Tlingit : Romanova 1997, #25 [after Swanton 1909, #89, two versions; the chief's daughter picks berries, steps in a bear pie, curses; her basket of berries falls apart, the maids leave; a Grizzly in the form of a man carries her away; she collects dry firewood, it does not burn; Bears collect wet ones; when they take off and shake off their skins, fat drips onto the firewood, it burns well; they teach the woman how to do it; Grandmother Mouse tells her to run, gives a branch of a thorny bush, a thorn from a rose hip, mud, sand, a stone; the woman runs away, throws away what she received, behind her back appear thorny thickets, rose bushes, a swamp, dunes, a rock; a man in a boat (this is the son of the sun, or Gonacadet) promises to help when the woman agrees to marry him; kills grizzlies that swim up with a club; the sons of the Sun were married to a cannibal; they killed her in order to marry the girl, cut the corpse into pieces; this was above the Tsimshian country, that is why there are many cannibals among the Tsimshian; from above the girl sees her father's house; having loaded the boat of the father-Sun with belongings, his sons and the woman with the child she had born sailed to her father's house; they fed the boat along the way; for earthly people, the sons of the Sun are moonlight, the woman's son is a ray; one day a strange man took a woman by the hand at the well; the water she brought turned into slime, her husbands immediately returned to the sky; leaving, they wished that the woman's son would get sick; people told her to leave the village; she began to live with her son in a hut, he became stronger and stronger; people called boy Garbage Can Man; his father's copper boat came floating toward him with open mouth; he fired, it fell apart; the boy made his first copper things from it; he took the chief's daughter as his wife; the chief, looking for the daughter, found a house of copper inside the hut; thus copper was made]: 87-91; McClelland 1987 [as Southern Tutchone; informant did not remember end of text]: 261-263; De Laguna 1972 [beginning as Eyak in Birket-Smith, Laguna; Bear carries off woman; brothers find her, kill Bear; she returns to people; her five bear sons remain in the forest]: 880-882; Swanton 1909, no. 6 [drowned girl becomes Otter's wife; her brother's family starves; she comes to her brother with her three sons (half-men, half-otters), brings meat, helps; leaves when her brother tells others what happened], 31 [1) the girl picks berries, steps in bear droppings, scolds the bears; Grizzly turns into a man, takes her to Grizzly; she leaves beads where she relieves herself; Grizzly thinks this is her excrement; the supply of beads runs out; the old captive woman tells her to take devil's club grass, a wild rose thorn, clay, sand, a stone; she runs, throws objects, they turn into thickets of grass, thickets of wild rose, a swamp, a sandy slope, a rock; she promises the man in the boat to become his wife; his club kills the Grizzly pursuers; at home he does not tell his new wife to look at old Oyster when she eats; the woman looks, water pours out of the Oyster, the woman drowns; husband brings her back to life, kills Oyster; allows woman to return to parents; 2) chieftain's daughter slips on octopus slime, swears; Octopus takes human form, takes her away; she gives birth to two octopus sons; they crawl to her parents; her father invites his son-in-law; Octopus, woman, and small octopuses come out of the sea; people grab the woman, kill Octopus, throw the small ones on the beach; at night many octopuses attack the village; shaman calms them down], 65 [girls are forbidden to eat between regular meals; two sisters break the ban; mother scolds the elder one terribly, asks her to marry Mountain Man; sisters go to the mountains; Mountain Man marries the elder sister; forbids looking at the woman behind the curtain; wife looks,both sisters fall dead; Mountain Man kills the woman behind the curtain, brings the sisters back to life; allows them to visit their relatives, gives them a basket of meat to take with them; there is enough of it for everyone in the village; it is considered good luck to hear the Mountain Man's axe in the forest], 89 [the chief's daughter picks berries, steps in bear dung, curses, and is carried off by Grizzly; Old Woman Mouse tells her to run away; the Sons of the Sun take her away in a boat, marry her; she has a son; they all return to her father; her husbands are the moonlight for the humans; see motif K43], 92 [as in #65; the two sisters are accused of eating the food prepared for the guests; Old Woman Mouse helps them through obstacles on their way to the Mountain Man; the sisters throw pieces of fish to the dogs, moss between the clashing seaweed, whetstone between the crushing rocks; Mountain Man marries both sisters; his mother sets fire to a ram's carcass, throws it at them; they throw it back, killing their mother-in-law]: 29-30, 126-129, 130-132, 222-224, 252-256, 280-288;Haida : Deans 1889 [chief's daughter secretly meets with lowborn boy; she is kidnapped by Bear; boy finds her in hollow tree, returns to people; one son stays with bears, other lives with people; Bear teaches her ritual songs]: 255-259; Haida (Masset) []: Swanton 1908a, no. 36: 500-508; Tsimshian : Barbeau 1946: 3 [girl picks blueberries, laughs too much, steps in bear dung, curses bears; they kidnap her; her brother kills her bear husband; dying husband teaches his wife ritual songs to be sung after killing a bear; her sons show hunters the bear dens]; 1953: 88-102 [(episodes illustrated in Haida argillite figurines); in the forest, the girl does not sing a special song so that the bears know about her, but laughs; having stepped in bear dung, she curses; two men approach her, this is Grizzly; Grizzly forces her to become his wife; living with him, she takes the form of a she-bear; the husband knows that the youngest of her four brothers will kill him; in winter, he tracks Grizzly; before his death, Grizzly tears off the bear skins of his two sons, turns the boys into great hunters; together with their mother, they return to people], 117-129 (p. Ness) [while picking berries, the chief's daughter steps in bear dung, curses the bears; on the way home, the strap of her basket breaks; two men offer to help, take the girl to Grizzly's house; the owner calls her daughter-in-law; Mouse asks to give her the fat and wool of a mountain ram (rich women use them for cosmetics and jewelry); immediately the servants bring in much fat, the Grizzlies are pleased with the rich dowry; the Mouse advises the girl to hide her excrement, replacing it with pieces of copper (her ornaments); the Grizzlies believe that she had a right to despise the bears for their droppings; when the woman brings dry wood, the bears ask what fool did this (their wood is green and wet); in winter the woman gives birth to two cubs; the youngest of her four brothers finds the den, kills the Grizzly; the woman's children in human form come with her to the people; they hunt in the form of grizzlies, get many animals, the woman's father becomes rich; they finally become bears, go to their father's relatives], 129-146 (Gitsees group, Port Simpson) [while picking berries, the chief's daughter steps in bear droppings, scolds the bears; on the way home the strap of her basket breaks; two men offer to help, take the girl to the Grizzly's house; the owner calls her daughter-in-law; Mouse advises the girl to hide her excrement, replacing it with pieces of copper (her jewelry); Grizzlies believe that she had the right to despise bears for their droppings; the girl discreetly ties Grizzly's two sisters to stumps, runs away; on the shore she calls Dzaradilaw, swimming in a copper boat; he takes the girl into the boat when she promises to marry him; kills Grizzly with a live boomerang club with a mouth at the end; the girl sees frogs in D.'s hair; she clicks as if gnawing them, in fact, she throws them into the water; D.'s first wife is friendly, but D. warns not to look at her; the girl peeks, Wolverine devours her soul; D. kills his wolverine wife by cutting off her head and smearing her neck with an herbal infusion (otherwise the head grows back): he takes the woman's soul out of her body, it comes to life; gives birth to a boy; her brothers bring gifts; D. hides his wife, the brothers find her corpse (i.e. the appearance of a corpse); D. sends his wife and son to her parents; the son should not communicate with people until he reaches maturity; the ban is violated, the boy weakens; the grandfather moves him and his daughter away; the young man shoots a bird on the water, it turns into a copper boat, they make jewelry from it; the uncle gives his daughter in marriage to the young man when the slave reports how much copper he has; the club received from his father hunts seals by itself; the young man invites water monsters,sending for them a living spear received from his father; feeds them fat, erects a totem pole];bellacula [girl picking berries, sleeping on ground; discovers she has been lying in bear dung, scolds bears; bear in human form takes her away; she spends a night with him, a year for humans; bears agree for her younger brother to come for her; she returns home with him]: McIlwraith 1948(1): 678-679.

Coast - Plateau. Lower Chinook [a girl is taken away by a Bear; she gives birth to a son and a daughter; her four brothers come in turn to the Bear's house; his son asks her to remove lice from him, kills the youths; the youngest fifth brother does not shoot a pheasant on the way, does not enter the Bear's house; together with the Bear's daughter, he burns the Bear and his son in their house; the Bear's wife revives the brothers; dives into the lake, turns into a monster; the chief Blue Jay marries the Bear's daughter; she never laughs; promises to laugh if he gets on all fours in the forest; laughs, devours all the men; the husband's legs below the knees disappear; she keeps him in a basket; she gives birth to two sons; does not tell them to go down the river; they go, find there the bones of people that their mother regurgitated; they find the basket with the father; he says that their mother has become a monster; the brothers turn her into a dog, put their father under water; go on a journey; see a two-headed swan on the lake {possibly a swan with heads at both ends of its body}; the younger shoots, swims to the bird, disappears; the eldest throws hot stones into the lake; the water boils away; he rips open the bellies of all the monsters; in the last one he finds his brother holding a swan; brings him to life; a man dances with an oar, while fish jump into his boat; the brothers taught him to fish with a net; another man shoots at the rain, because his house is roofless; the brothers taught him to make a roof; they wash dirt from their skin, mold people from it, blow on them, the people come to life; a man sharpens knives, promises to kill those who fix all things; the brothers turned him into a deer, tying his knives to his head, these are horns; a woman throws people into the abyss onto sharp flints; the brothers throw her away, cut her body into pieces, throw them in different directions; the Indians who live where the feet fell have strong legs; those who live where the hair fell have long hair; etc.]: Boas 1894a, no. 1: 17-21.

Midwest. Sauk (story heard from Sioux) [girl meets Bear; pretends to be dead, covering her face with skirt; Bear puts his hand on her vulva, she says, Don't ; he carries her to den, takes her as wife; people find her, kill Bear; his brothers come to kill woman, but leave her alive; she gives birth to boy with bear's teeth; he becomes invulnerable warrior]: Skinner 1928, no. 14: 168-169.

Plains. Assiniboine [woman asks husband to bring her a bear cub; it grows up, carries her off; she spends the winter with it; bears a cub by it; runs with it to the people; they kill Father Bear; cub plays, kills four boys; goes into the woods]: Lowie 1909a, no. 34: 191-192.

Great Southwest. Tiwa (Isleta) [girl rejects suitors; says she would rather marry a bear; Bear comes, offers to marry her; she accepts; men pursue them, but rain washes away their tracks; she bears two half-bear sons; they are good hunters; old bear dies; men kill his sons, bring woman home; she dies of grief]: Parsons 1932c, no. 17: 404-405.