K93b5. Disguised as a puppy. .27.28.43.46.50.

The character infiltrates the enemy camp in the form of a kitten or puppy. Usually, one of the enemies suspects deception, but the others believe the cute animal is harmless.

Hungarians, Russians (Bryansk), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Cherkasy district, Kyiv, Yekaterinoslav), Slovaks, Kutenay, Blackfeet, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Kiowa Apache, Jicarilla, Lipan.

Balkans. Hungarians : Gidas 1953: 147-156 [the younger prince and his brothers ride to get the solar-lunar stallion; the neighboring king has promised to give his daughter in marriage to the one who brings the stallion; an old woman gives the prince a brush, another a currycomb; the uncle tells him that this is the stallion of the younger son of the Iron-Nose Hag; at the hag's house the prince throws down the brush, turns into a cat, eavesdrops on the hag's sons returning; waits for them by the bridge, kills them one by one with the help of a raven, which drops drops of water on him; in the form of a cat he eavesdrops on the conversation of the wives of the murdered men, who promise to turn into a poisonous apple tree, pear tree, water; chops down the apple tree, pear tree, water - blood flows; the hag pursues, the prince throws down the currycomb, mud appears on the way; a horseshoe - he pierces the hag's feet with thorns; the blacksmith hides the brothers behind an iron gate; the brothers drill the gate, the hag sticks her tongue in, it is pulled out with red-hot pincers; she leaves; the brothers meet and take as companions Merzlyak, Beat Without a Miss, One-Eyed (sees everything), Obedala, Drink the Sea, Begun; the king promises a daughter if 1) she sits in a red-hot oven (Merzlyak sits); 2) eat and drink a lot (Obedala, Drink the Sea); 3) bring clothes from the ends of the earth (One-Eyed sees, Swift-Footed gets them, falls asleep; Without a Miss wakes him); wedding]; Hungarians[dying, the poor man tells his three sons that, according to the sorcerer, the stolen sun and moon will be returned by one of them, but he does not know who exactly; the king found out about this and called the brothers to him; he promises to make the one of them who copes with this task the heir, and to make his assistant viceroy; the youngest brother is Kiss Miklos (KM), the elders laugh at him; the king orders to choose horses and weapons; the elders take the best horses and swords, KM - a shabby and dirty horse, a rusty sword; the horse turned out to be a six-legged racer conceived by the wind, which eats hot coals, the sword - self-cutting; the brothers come to the country beyond 49 kingdoms, beyond the sea of ​​Operentsia, behind the glass mountain to the silver bridge; KM orders to hide under the bridge and wait for the 12-headed dragon, who has the moon tied to the saddle; the dragon's horse stumbled for the first time, the dragon understands that he will fight with KM; KM ordered the sword to cut off his heads, it cut them off; KM gave the horse with the moon to the middle brother; the same at the golden bridge, the 24-headed dragon; KM ordered the sword to cut off the dragon's heads, but they grew back; KM began to fight himself, but cannot defeat him; the dragon: I will become a blue flame, and the dragon - red; when the red soared higher than the blue, the KM brothers threw a piece of sulfur at it, as KM asked them beforehand, the red flame went out; having sent the brothers home with the moon and the sun, KM took the form of a gray kitten and climbed into the house where the mother and wives of the dragons were, eavesdropping on their conversation; the younger dragon's wife: I will turn into a spring, if the brothers swallow the water, they will die; the eldest's wife: will turn into a pear with poisoned fruits; the mother of dragons asks to prop up her eyelids with an iron beam weighing 1200 pounds so that she can see; promises to turn into such a mouth that the upper jaw is in the sky and the lower jaw is on the ground; swallowed KM and his brothers; the kitten rushed out, the dragoness threw the beam at him and immediately went blind, because the eyelids covered her eyes again; KM got to the brothers on his horse in two jumps and they all went to the house together; along the way, KM chops a spring and a pear with a sword, blood flows from them; the brothers see the approaching open mouth, hide in the house of the one who smelts lead (Lead Friend, SD); they pour molten lead into the dragoness's mouth, she died; now SD offers KM to fight; with his little finger he drove KM into the lead floor; lets go for a promise to get the Green Daughter of the Green King for him; lets go of the older brothers; they attribute to themselves the victory over dragons, marry princesses, the eldest becomes king; they released the lunar and solar horses into the sky, but they began to shine sadly; KM goes in search, meets, takes as companions the Runner, the Drinker, the Glutton, the Freezing in Fire, the Far Seeing, the Strongman, throwing an iron club; the Green King (GK) demands that Pluto bring his daughter's wedding dress faster than the local runner; but GK sent his old witch mother to run in the evening, and the Runner ran only in the morning; he overtook her, received a dress from Pluto, but on the way back the witch persuaded him not to hurry and go together; put him to sleep,She grabbed the dress box and ran; The Seer saw this, The Strongman threw his club, knocking the horse skull out from under the Runner's head, on which the witch had laid his head; The Runner overtook the witch again, took the box and handed it to the ZK; he demands to spend the night in an iron oven; The Freezing One cooled the oven; The ZK demands to eat and drink an incredible amount of meat and wine (The Eater and the Drinker complied); The KM received the princess, but as soon as he admitted that he got her for someone else, she disappeared; The Seer saw her in the whale's belly, Drinker drank the sea, The Runner delivered the whale, The KM got the princess out of his belly; the princess disappeared again; The Seer saw her in an apple hanging in the ZK's garden, The Runner brought her; the third time the princess is in a cocoon hanging in the sky; The Strongman knocked down the cocoon with a club, The Runner ran and caught the princess; KM let his companions go; told the princess that she should find out what SD's power was; while he was talking to KM, the princess used her magic to open 7 iron doors to the basement, took gold out of the lead barrels and ordered the jeweler to gild the threshold; SD became furious, began to beat the princess, but she replaced herself with the devil and lay down on the bed; promised not to gild anything else if SD told him what his power was; he refused; then she gilded three more thresholds; all the same; 7 thresholds; after this SD confessed: in the silk meadow under the seventh bush there is a hare, there is an egg under its tail, in the egg there is a hornet, in it is his power; at night the princess told KM about this; he became a hound, caught the hare, then the hornet that flew out; SD died; KM and the princess arrived in KM's kingdom in a luxurious chariot; the sun and moon immediately shone brightly; the sage explained everything to the old king; KM said that as heir to the kingdom of SD and ZK, he leaves this kingdom to his brothers; KM and his wife are still ruling the two kingdoms, if they have not died]: Curtin 1890: 477-516.what is his strength; he refused; then she gilded three more thresholds; all the same; 7 thresholds; after this SD confessed: in the silk meadow under the seventh bush there is a hare, under his tail there is an egg, in the egg there is a hornet, in it is his strength; at night the princess told KM about this; he became a hound, caught the hare, then the hornet that flew out; SD died; KM and the princess arrived in KM's kingdom on a luxurious chariot; the sun and moon immediately shone brightly; the sage explained everything to the old king; KM said that as the heir to the kingdom of SD and ZK, he leaves this kingdom to his brothers; KM and his wife still rule the two kingdoms, if they have not died]: Curtin 1890: 477-516.what is his strength; he refused; then she gilded three more thresholds; all the same; 7 thresholds; after this SD confessed: in the silk meadow under the seventh bush there is a hare, under his tail there is an egg, in the egg there is a hornet, in it is his strength; at night the princess told KM about this; he became a hound, caught the hare, then the hornet that flew out; SD died; KM and the princess arrived in KM's kingdom on a luxurious chariot; the sun and moon immediately shone brightly; the sage explained everything to the old king; KM said that as the heir to the kingdom of SD and ZK, he leaves this kingdom to his brothers; KM and his wife still rule the two kingdoms, if they have not died]: Curtin 1890: 477-516.

Central Europe. Russians (Bryansk) [the youngest son is Ivan Popyalov, lay in the ashes ("in popyale") until he was 12 years old); the sun was hidden by a snake; IP asks his father to make him a club, throws it up, puts his forehead under it, the club breaks; the third club weighing 15 poods did not break; kills three- and six-headed snakes; chops off 9 heads of the 12-headed one; the snake asks Raven to fly and call his She-Snake for help, IP asks to call his brothers, promises snake meat; Raven flies to his brothers; the brothers came, killed the snake, broke his head in his house, light appeared in the world; IP returned halfway for mittens, becoming a cat, overheard the conversation of the snake's wife and daughters; the brothers want to rest on pillows in the meadow, IP hits the pillows with a club, blood flows; on the apple tree there are golden and silver apples, IP beats them, blood flows; a spring – the same; these were the daughters of a snake; a she-snake flies, her mouth from the ground to the sky; the brothers throw three pounds of salt, the she-snake thinks that this is IP, tries, loses time; IP hides in the forge of Kuzma and Demyan; they offer her to lick 12 doors with her tongue, then take IP; they grab her by the tongue with pincers, kill her with hammers, burn her]: Afanasyev 1958 (1), No. 135: 264-266; Ukrainians(Transcarpathia; village of Zbuj, Zemplin County, Hungary) [the emperor has no children, he goes to fortune tellers; one answers that the queen spat into the water, a fish swallowed the saliva, gave birth to offspring, but the queen has no children; this fish must be caught in the lake under a stone slab and cooked, but no one else must try it; the maid tries the fish, the queen eats it, throws the bones to the dog; the maid, the queen and the dog become pregnant and after nine months each give birth to a boy; the emperor is frightened; the advisers order to hire wet nurses; the boys grew up, went to school; the son of the bitch Janko learned all the sciences and languages; the king rejoices; Jan learns from books that once there was the sun, the moon and the stars, but now there is nothing, the earth is covered in darkness; he asks his father, the king says that three sharkany (dragons) arrived; The one with 24 heads grabbed the sun, the one with 12 heads grabbed the moon, the one with 6 grabbed a star; the three royal sons saddle their horses and go to look for the sun, moon and star; their father tells them that his brother, i.e. their uncle, was studying to be a blacksmith in the Shedzmeritsky region; the devil brings a letter: the brother serves as a blacksmith to these three shufflers and their paternal uncle Lakcibrade, who is himself an elbow tall, but with a long beard; the sons must go to the Shedzmeritsky country, where their uncle is; there he has iron gates a hundred meters high, 24 blacksmith comrades and 24 apprentices; taking the letter to their uncle the blacksmith, the brothers come to the Shedzmeritsky region, knock, the gates ring, the uncle comes out; having made sure that they are nephews, he welcomes them warmly; knows where the luminaries are, because he is the blacksmith of the kidnappers, whom he calls devils; one has a house of gold, another of silver, a third of copper; to them respectively 24, 12, 6 miles; their girlfriends are 48, 24, 12 miles away; at noon each leaves until midnight to his girlfriend - then you must arrive; the princes will arrive to the copper house and the copper gates, there is the weakest (with the star); he has a bridge from his to the home of his girlfriend; his horse does not go on the ground, only on the bridge; in the evening you need to take out one board to make a hole; I. must sit under the bridge and listen when the shuffle will go home; the shuffle mounts the horse, the earth shakes; his horse comes along the bridge to the hole, gets scared, rushes back; the shuffle calms: there is no such horse as he, and such a young man as he; only his mother-in-law Gyn'dzhibaba said that she had seen Bitch Yanko, but if he were to meet her now, then Sharkan would chop him into pieces; Ya.: I will chop you up, knocks off all the heads, mounts Sharkan's horse, takes his sabre and star, throws the star into the sky, it rises to its place, becomes brighter; the brothers go to the 12-headed Sharkan; Ya. breaks out two silver boards from the silver bridge; Sharkan promises to chop up Bitch Yanko, whom G. mentioned, to throw the meat to the magpies and crows; Ya. knocks off 6 heads, then 6 more; cuts off the end of the tongue from each, hides it in his pocket, releases a month; tells his brother from the maid that he will have the horse of the 6-headed one, to his brother from the queen - the 12-headed one, he himself will take the horse of the 24-headed Sharkan; offers the brothers to take the sun,they are afraid; leaves them a spoon given to them by their uncle behind the beam: if blood appears on it, hurry to help; tears 4 gold boards out of the bridge; shackan promises to chop up the dog's son, whom the mother-in-law mentioned, and throw it to the magpies and crows; Y.: I will do it with you; they fight for a day; both ask the crows to help, but Y. promises even more meat; shackan breathes fire, the crows stuff weeds into his mouth, take away the sun, it rises to the sky; shackan throws even more fire, the crows carry water in their beaks, pour it on Y., others grab shackan by the legs, he falls, Y. kills him, cuts off the tip of the tongue from each head; there is blood on the spoon behind the beam, the brothers lead out the horses to save themselves by flight; when Y. appears, they say that they were going to help him, he catches them in a lie, divides the horses; On the way home they pass the hut of the mother-in-law of the shackans; her daughters have gathered there; Ya. became a cat, climbed through the chimney, the youngest daughter, whose lover had 6 heads, recognizes Ya. by his eyes, the other two confirm; Gynjibaba: Ya. would have recognized her if she had seen her; the youngest lifts one of her mother's eyelids with a pitchfork; G. sees Ya., tells his daughters to put him in a fur; it seems to them that they have done this and burned the fur in which, but Ya. is a sorcerer and escaped; the mother tells one daughter to become a red scarf and lie on the road, to strangle his two brothers and horses; the second - a silver pear, the fruits of which the brothers and horses will choke; the third must become a meadow with silken grass and a well in the middle, from whose water people and horses will die; Ya. cuts the scarf crosswise with a sabre, blood flows from it up to the knees of the horses; the same with the pear, with the well; the king's brother, the chief blacksmith, orders the iron gates to be opened, because the nephews will run away from G.; she chases with her mouth open, the youths rush to their uncle's yard, his students and comrades close the gates and prop up G.'s eyelids; G. demands to show her Ya.; he orders those gathered to take hold of one leaf, and he alone - of the other; they let G.'s head into the yard and lock the gates with a key; G. is amazed that some good-for-nothing destroyed six (her daughters and the Sharkans); Ya. replies that he will not let her go; let her become such a horse that he would run around the world in an hour, better than the Sharkans; G.: you won't wait; Ya. asks his uncle for workers with hammers; they hit G. on the head, she asks for mercy, but does not agree to be a mare; Ya. orders them to hit harder; G. swears to serve faithfully; iron stirrups and a saddle are forged for her; J. mounts, takes a strand of flax in his hand, lights it, the flax does not have time to burn while the mare runs around the whole world; his uncle praises him, gives him a letter to his father and orders him not to react to any wonderful thing he sees on the way; the brothers are riding home, they meet old Lakcibrada on a hare along the ditch, his sheepskin coat and beard dragging behind him; he says that J. is not a man; J. dismounts, L. finds himself in the saddle and flies away on the horse; J. tells the brothers to inform their father that the sun, moon and star are already in the sky, and he will go for the horse that was made in his uncle's forge from a shamrock; returns to his uncle, who reproaches him for disobedience, orders him to take the hammer and go to the plain where L. is grazing a mare,and he himself sleeps on an iron saddle and stirrups; he must smash his head in and take the mare; having found L., Ya. decides that he is so small that he is not dangerous, grabs the mare, shouts at L.; he wakes up, beats Ya. with the stirrups and saddle; Ya. asks for mercy, L.: his sister will no longer carry Ya., for although Ya. beat her, L. himself beat him, therefore he must honestly leave; Ya. leaves; his uncle sends him back; L. agrees to give the mare if Ya. brings him a princess from the other end of the world; uncle: it is in the seventh land, it is easy to get there, any novelty that he sees must be taken with him, the king's daughter will be given to him; On the way, Ya. sees and takes with him a hungry man (they bring him bread on carts), a drunkard (he drinks a river, but cannot get drunk), a freezing man (he cannot warm up near a fire in 12 fur coats and 12 sheepskin coats), one who throws a hammer to the ends of the earth; who crosses the whole world in two steps; one who has a huge eye and sees everything; the king accepts them, offers them to eat a thousand oxen and bread from three thousand measures of flour for one supper, to drink a thousand barrels of wine and a thousand of vodka; Ya.'s companions eat and drink everything; the king puts them to bed in an iron house, sends blacksmiths to bring sacks of coal, lights a fire; the freezing man takes off one fur coat and one sheepskin coat, the coals go out, everyone goes to bed; the craftsmen bring more fire; the freezing man throws off two fur coats and two sheepskin coats, the coals go out, the craftsmen freeze to each other to death; the king orders to go to the end of the world in three hours and take the leather and gold to the craftsman, so that he can cast a ring and sew shoes; companion Y. takes one step and finds himself with the craftsman; on the way back he goes into the city, where sister G. puts him to sleep, puts a horse's head under him as a pillow, takes the ring and shoes; half an hour before the deadline; the seer sees the sleeping man and sister G.; another companion throws a hammer, knocking the horse's head out from under the runner's head; he catches up with sister G. with one step, takes the ring and shoes, and with another step finds himself at the wedding; Y. and the princess are married, given a cart and an army to accompany them to the border; L. pretends to be stuck in a swamp, Y. tries to help, L. drags him into the swamp up to his knees, runs on his horse with his wife; Y. rides on a Sharkansky horse to the Shedzmeritsky region to his uncle; uncle: go to the oak grove where there is a hollow, through it you will get to the city, which is 7 miles deep into the earth, in the city there is a three-story house on a duck's leg - L.'s dwelling; Ya. finds the house, hides by the well, meets his wife: let him find out where L. gets his strength from; L. to his wife: he is being called to war, whoever he helps will win; in response to his wife's persuasion, he explains that a wooden deer drinks water near the well, in it there is a chamois, in the chamois a hare, in the hare a duck, in the duck two eggs; if he breaks one, he will lose half his strength, and both will die; if you take a golden apple on a golden cord and put it in your pocket, then you can take the house with you; L. goes to the seventh land for a month to fight; Ya. cuts apart animals with a saber, breaks one egg; L. flies home on a mare - he is still stronger than Ya. I. breaks the second egg, L. falls, I. kills him; turns the house into an apple, takes his wife home,on the way they stop by their uncle, who advises them to return to their homeland and secretly build a house; his father's servants discover an unknown house; the princes watch for a possible enemy, warmly greet their brother, he tells them that he has obtained a mare and married the daughter of a king from the seventh region]: Gnatyuk 1898, No. 8: 39-54;Ukrainians(Kyiv, Cherkassky district, Mleev village) [the tsar built a bridge; the old man tells his companion that he is grateful to him for this; he replies that the tsar has no children; the old man: let them catch a golden-finned pike, the tsarina will eat it; they caught it on the third try (there was only one pike in the seine); the cook tried the broth, the dog ate the bones; all three gave birth to a boy; in 18 months they grew as if in 18 years; the Tsarevich and Kukharevich want Suchenko to be the eldest; they shoot arrows; Ts.'s arrow pierced the base of the oak, K.'s - in the top, S. - in the window of the serpent's palace; they stayed in the palace for the night, every night someone must stand guard under the bridge; Ts. sleeps, S. walks; the three-headed serpent flies, scorching with hellish fire for three miles; S. cut off his heads, cut out his tongues, said nothing to his brothers; the same on the second night (K. is sleeping, a six-headed serpent); on the third night, a 12-headed serpent, S. cut off three heads, but is tired; the place where the brothers are sleeping is flooded with blood, but their sleep is deep; S. throws his hat towards the brothers and shouts to the serpent: the end for you, my brothers are coming; the serpent looks back, S. cuts off three heads; throws one boot (same, three more); the second - the last three; S. wakes up the brothers, swimming in blood, but still sleeping; all three ride on; S. says that he forgot his gloves, comes back, turns into a cat, meows, the female snakes take him into the house; their mother suspects that it is S., but calms down; cat-S. hears how the mother of the widows of snakes orders one to become a well, the second - an apple tree, the third - a blackberry (ozhina) with silver and gold flowers; the cat jumps out the window; the mother of snakes: I knew it was S.; S. returns to his brothers, cuts down a well, an apple tree, a blackberry - blood flows; the mother snake pursues, one lip under the clouds, the other drags along the ground; swallowed Ts. together with the horse; then K.; S. throws a thorny blackthorn into her mouth, hides in the house of the blacksmith Saint Kuzma and Demyan; the she-snake demands that the fugitive be given to her; KD: lick the door, I will put him and the horse on your tongue; KD and S. grab the tongue with red-hot pincers and hit the she-snake with hammers; she burps Ts. and K., but dead; KD orders to wrap the horse's tail and run around the blacksmith three times: the hemp is burnt; KD: still a lot of strength; they beat until the strength disappeared; then they harnessed him to the plow and began to plow the world; they reached the sea; the snake drank half the sea and burst; KD gives S. two hairpins and a cake; if you go through the first field, sleep will overcome you - if you forever; through the second - you will want to sing, bite the cake; through the third field: they will start pinching and biting you from behind - do not turn around; otherwise you will perish; at the last boundary of the third field S. could not stand it and swung his saber back; they seized him and brought him to the king; the king: why did you cut off my nose? I will forgive you if you go from Tsaronos to Tsarolos and woo my daughter; S. goes, meets, takes as companions the Musician, the Runner, the Far-Seeing, Frost ("I am a cold one, I walk into the yard in the snow"), the One who covers himself with a cloak from any fire, the Glutton, the accurate Shooter, Vernygora, Vernydub, Vernyvoda; they came to the king, they were placed in a bathhouse, covered with straw and set on fire; they took shelter from the fire,and in the morning Kholobzda relieved himself in the snow; left to spend the night with the lion, the Musician plays, the lion dances, they cut his hair and trimmed his claws; eat a huge amount of meat (Obedalo ate); again a bathhouse, a fire below - Kholobzda cooled down; who will be the first to bring water; Runner sat down halfway, the king's daughter put him to sleep, she herself carries water; The Seer noticed far away, the Shooter woke up, Runner caught up with the princess, took away the bucket and brought it; they got the princess, but she threw herself into the water like a pike (Vernyvoda caught), like a squirrel up a tree (Vernydub caught), like a mouse into a hole (Vernygora got it); the companions dispersed, S. brought the princess to the king; she orders him to cross the pit with heat along a pole; S. crossed; when the king was in the middle, the princess turned the pole, the king fell into the fire; wedding of the princess with S.]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 69: 256-269;Ukrainians (Ekaterinoslavskaya, Mariupolsky district, Olginskoye village) [while hunting, Ivan Tsarevich meets an iron wolf; the wolf agrees to eat him on his wedding day; the tsar surrounds the palace with an army, but the wolf passes by, Ivan gallops away, comes to a hut on a chicken leg, where a witch with three daughters; she agrees to rid him of the wolf if he marries her daughter; the wolf is her husband; they decide to destroy the son-in-law, send for living and dead water; a crow promises to get it if Ivan does not touch her crows; teaches a bird to fly into a well and fly away to the side, otherwise the guard snakes will burn it with fire; Ivan came to an old man, his wife died, Ivan revived her; the old man gave a handkerchief, told me to throw it on the wolf, he became a 12-headed snake, you need to hit the right and the left, the heads flew off; [one must get to the witch as a kitten; I.-the kitten hears how the eldest daughter of the witch and the wolf promises to become a well, the middle one – an apple tree, the youngest – a room with food on the table; he chops all this, blood flows; returns home to his wife and parents]: Novitsky 3007, No. 117: 78-81 (=Petnikov 1955: 189-192); Slovaks[the queen is childless; the old woman gave her a fish to eat, forbidding her to give any to others; the cook tried it, the kitchen girl who stoked the stove (or the dog) licked it, all three gave birth to a boy; they were named Kinglet, Cooklet, Ashlet (or Doglet – Pesúčin, Песучин; Slovak originals of other names are not given); P. is the smartest of all; the brothers grew up and went on a journey; in the morning P. throws his club, saying that we will have breakfast where it fell; when he gets there, he throws it again - there we will have dinner; where he threw it the third time - there we will spend the night; there is an iron bridge; the brothers decide to keep watch in turns, but each watchman goes to bed himself and each time only P. goes to the bridge; a three-headed dragon appears on a horse; the horse stumbles, the dragon says that if P. is here, he will kill him; but P. cut off the dragon's heads, in the morning he told the brothers that all was quiet; The next overnight stay is at the silver bridge, the six-headed dragon (the same); at the golden bridge P. asks the brothers not to sleep until midnight; if blood drips from the cuffs he left behind, they must come to the rescue; P. chopped off the heads of the 12-headed dragon with difficulty, fell asleep exhausted; blood was pouring from the cuffs, but the brothers did not come, they were ashamed in the morning; when he rode on, P. remembered that he had forgotten the cuffs, returned to the hut; the wives and mother of the dragons were there; the wife of the eldest promises to become a pear tree (meadow), the middle one - a spring with clean water, the youngest - the sun (bed); those who ate pears, drank water, and found themselves in the sun will die; P. became a cat, the wives of the snakes let him in, caressed him, he grabbed the cuffs and ran away; he chopped down a pear tree and a spring, blood poured out; the brothers made protection from the sun from capes, but the heat was unbearable; P. chopped up the cloaks, blood flowed, the heat subsided; the brothers parted, agreeing to meet in a year; P. stayed at the blacksmith's; his wife is the same witch, the mother of the dragons' wives; she hid his horse, ordered him to get her a girl with golden hair, a duck with 12 golden eggs, a golden goat; P. went to look for them; an old man teaches him to get to the city, take the drum hanging at the gate, beat it, go up to the royal palace, they will give him everything; and so it happened; the blacksmith prepared a pit in the stable, but P. pushed him into it himself; the witch ordered the servants to tear P. apart with red-hot tongs, but he promised them a golden goat and they tore the witch apart; he met the brothers with the beauty and the golden duck; at night they beheaded him, the eldest took the girl, the middle one the duck; the horse took the reviving herb from the snake, which was carrying it to revive her father; P. arrived when the wedding of the eldest with the girl was being prepared; he received her, the duck and the throne; the elder brothers were made servants; var.: the brothers meet beggars to whom they must throw money without looking; the elders looked and died; at home P. found only his mother alive]: Dobšinský 1970, no. 27: 146-153.

Coast - Plateau. Kootenay [Raven hides buffalo, people starve; Beaver feigns death, Raven comes down to peck him, is caught, brought into the house; scares Coyote with a scream, flies out through the chimney; Magpie notices which way he flew; Rabbit and Hare come to two old women; turn into a puppy and a stone; one old woman wants to throw the puppy into the water, the other picks it up; picks up a stone to use as an anvil; a bladder and a rattle hang in the passage, making a noise when the buffalo pass; the young men puncture the bladder, take the rattle, drive the buffalo out; cling to the testicles of a bull with their teeth; standing on either side, the old women hit the buffalo, flattening his body; [Bison are now available to hunters]: Boas 1918, no. 65: 213-219, 303-304.

Plains. Blackfoot : Spence 1985 [Gray Crow hides buffalo; chief asks Napi to help; N. turns himself into a dog, chief's son into a stick; Crow's little son picks up the dog, Crow's wife - a stick; Dog and Stick find an underground hole, drive the buffalo out; come out themselves, clinging to the wool of an old buffalo; N. turns into a dead otter, catches Crow, hangs him in a chimney; since then the crows are black]: 208-212; Wissler, Duvall 1908, #1 [Raven hides buffalo; Beaver turns into a dead beaver, catches Crow, smokes him in a chimney (since then the crows are black); once freed, he breaks his promise to release the buffalo; The beaver turns into a digging stick, his friend Little Dog into a puppy; they are picked up by the daughter of Raven; taking the form of a dog and a man, they drive the bison out of an underground hole; Raven stands ready to kill those who have released the bison; the stick and the puppy hide in the fur of the bison, pass Raven unnoticed]: 50-52; gros ventre [the old woman hides the bison and the summer; Nishant tells the little boy to cry until he (N.) comes; the boy complains that he wants meat and land without snow; N. turns into a puppy, the old woman's daughter, contrary to her mother's orders, picks him up; one day she takes him with her into the forest, the puppy turns into N., rapes the girl; she calls her mother for help; while the old woman runs to her daughter, N. returns to her dwelling, throws the sack of summer outside; the snow melts; to get out himself, N. clings to the scrotum of the last buffalo, hanging under its belly; the old woman does not notice him; a warm wind blows at night, the buffalo come]: Kroeber 1907b, no. 4: 65-67; ​​Kiowa [white Raven hides animals underground; Sendeh sends Owl and Dragonfly to reconnoitre (their eyes have since bulged); turns into a puppy, Raven's daughter picks him up; he opens a flint door, drives the buffalo onto the ground; turns into a burdock, sticks to the fur of a buffalo, Raven does not find him; turns into a dead moose; Raven comes down to peck him, is caught between his ribs, thrown into the fire, turns black]: Parsons 1929a, no. 9: 21-26; Kiowa-Apache [people smell fat on Raven; Dragonfly manages to track down his tipi; in a cave under the fire are buffalo, the hole is blocked by a stone; Coyote turns into a puppy, Raven's daughter picks him up; Raven says the puppy's eyes are too smart; at Raven's house, Coyote opens a cave, releases the buffalo; Raven waits to kill him; Coyote hides under the feet of the last buffalo; tells Raven to eat carrion]: McAllister 1949, no. 9: 52-53.

Great Southwest. Jicarilla : Goddard 1911, no. 20 [Raven holds buffalo; men see Magpie carrying entrails; Bat and Rattlesnake follow his flight; man turns into puppy, Raven's children pick him up; Raven throws him into fire, puppy burns, Raven believes it is really a puppy; man releases buffalo at night; Raven stands ready with bow; man clings to old buffalo and creeps out unnoticed; Raven tells his children they will eat eyes and meat remaining on vertebrae], 21 [as in (2); Raven's youngest child leaves stone door open]: 212-214; Opler 1938, no. VC [Magpie carries off entrails from Raven's quiver; Thus the people learn that Raven is hunting buffalo; Bat succeeds in following his flight to the east; two young men turn into puppies, Raven's children pick them up; Raven orders a fire to be lit before them; one blinks, he is thrown out; the one who does not blink is kept; the puppy sees Raven open a door in the rock, kill one buffalo; the puppy becomes a man again, drives the deer, buffalo, mountain sheep out; Raven stands ready to shoot the thief; the last buffalo offers the man to hide on his hooves; under his arm; on his head; the man says he is afraid of falling, hides in his backside, and so gets out; the animals were tame; poor old women made a hut out of leafy bushes; the animals began to gnaw the leaves; the old women burned a stick, hit the deer on the nose, ordered them to breathe in; thus the animals acquired a good sense of smell]: 256-260; lipan [Raven drops bison entrails; Bat flies and watches him; Coyote turns into a dead hairless dog, Raven's children pick him up; at night he comes to life, opens the door in the hill, drives the bison out onto the ground; steals tobacco, hiding it in his ear; learns spells used in hunting bison; to leave Raven's house, he clings to the fur under the chest of the emerging bison]: Opler 1940, No. 11: 122-125.