L102A. Escape from the Seagull Husband. .37.39.-.41.

A seagull kidnaps a girl or woman, but manages to return to people.

Udege, Chukchi, Igloolik, Baffin Island (or polar), Koyukon.

Amur - Sakhalin. Udege [a girl Akha dreams that she was carried away by the seagull Kiley; brother Egdiga does not believe in danger; A. disappears; the dog's skull replies that the girl was carried away by K., tells her to shoot an arrow at herself, it will bounce off, to go after the arrow; the same thing - the dog's bones; the skull and bones turn into two young men, they go with E.; E. frees a jay tangled in branches; sees how A. with two of K.'s sisters are picking blueberries; the jay lures A., she sees E., they agree to defeat K. during the shamanic ritual; E. hides in the house; A. sings, K.'s brothers listen, they dress K. up as if he were dead; a kingfisher, a nuthatch, a heron, an eagle, a squirrel, a hunchbacked dwarf boho are K.'s assistants, they perform the ritual; Only the kingfisher and the squirrel say that they see E. hiding, K. drives them away; the others do not want a conflict, they say that E. is not there; when everyone falls asleep, E. tells the mouse to gnaw through the straps-tendons; fights with K. and his brothers and assistants; their bowstring snaps, the tip of the spear falls off, their trousers fall off; E. kills K. and his brothers, beats the assistants; since then the nuthatch has a blue back, the rear part of the squirrel has become a frog; E. married one of K.'s sisters, gave the other and his sister to his two companions]: Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010: 100-105.

NE Asia. Chukchi (Uelen, 1955) [while the husband is hunting and the daughter is at home, the wife goes swimming in the lagoon with other women; two men carry away her clothes; she follows, they turn into seagulls, and together with other seagulls they carry her away; in the spring the husband and daughter go to look for bird eggs; he sees a yaranga, goes in, his wife is there, and a large skua seagull is nearby; she orders the seagulls to attack the hunter, who successfully fights off the hunter with a stick; she hits the skua on the wings; the other seagulls are happy, because their leader made them carry his catch to him; having killed the skua, the husband and his wife return home]: Anonymous 1958: 70.

Arctic. Igloolik (Smith Sound) [A seagull asks a girl to marry him, carries her off to his nest on a rock; while he flies overseas to bring his wife whale meat, the girl climbs down a rope and runs home; the seagull does not have time to catch her, a man shoots the seagull in the wing; the same or another girl is swallowed and regurgitated alive by a narwhal]: Kroeber 1899, no. 14: 175; polar (the narrator's mother is from Baffin Island ) [three girls play at getting married, one wants a seagull for a husband, another a whale bone, the third a grave; the seagull carries the first one off to his nest, the whale takes the second one to an island in the sea; the kidnapped girl is collected, she ties the rope tied to her by the whale to a rock, swims away with the people; in the boat, Keith's wife successively throws him parts of her clothes, strips naked; when Keith jumps out onto the shore, he again turns into a whale bone; Seagull brings his wife beluga whales in his crop; the wife makes a rope from their tendons, climbs down the cliff, runs to her father; he offers Seagull to raise his wings, kills him with an arrow; makes a dog kennel from the hip joint]: Holtved 1951, no. 39: 174-179 (translated in Menovshchikov 1985, no. 205: 415-416).

Subarctic. Koyukon [the husband is hunting, a cannibal enters, the wife says she will go for firewood, hears how the cannibal tears apart and roasts her child; she runs to her husband; when the cannibal approaches, they kill him with spears, burn the corpse; apparently, the cannibal has cast a spell so that they separate; having come to live in the village where the woman's parents are, the husband often leaves; the wife follows the trail, looks into the house, where two giggling girls are trying to hold him back; leaves alone, lives on the seashore; a Seagull arrives in a kayak, takes her away by force; in his house there is only rot and rags; the woman sees the Seagull's huge beak, is swallowed and regurgitated many times; a man looks in, carries her away; it is an Eagle; in his house there is an old woman, feeds her well; the Seagull comes, demands the return of his wife; The Eagle says that the Seagull kills his wives by swallowing them and regurgitating them; the Seagull says that the Eagle throws his wives off a cliff; a woman gives birth, the old woman tells the Eagle that the child is a girl, then immediately corrects herself that it is a boy; warns the woman to relieve herself only where the path does not lead; after the birth of the sixth girl (according to the number of feathers in the Eagle's tail), the old woman tells the woman to follow the path; the woman misses her parents and earthly husband; the Eagle is ready to take her home; they walk together with the children; at a fork in the road the woman chooses the wrong path; they come to a house where there are many children, they behave outrageously; in the morning those who come see that they are dogs; in the next house someone is crawling at night, the woman stabs one with a knife; it was the house of ants, since then the ants seem to be cut in half; in the spring the travelers reach the woman's village, there is her husband and parents; [The Eagle husband and the children, who have become eagles, fly back]: Attla 1983: 215-241.