L103b1. A stream of excrement in the face of the pursuer. 28.30.-.32.

The hero or heroine flees from the demon riding a domestic animal (often a bull). When the demon approaches, the animal releases a stream of excrement or intestinal gas into the demon's face, causing the demon to give up the chase.

Russians (Vologda, Pskov, Moscow, Ryazan, Bryansk, Voronezh), Uzbeks, Karelians (Tver), Vepsians, Udmurts.

Central Europe. Russian (Vologda) [Masha got lost, came to Baba Yaga; she tells her to rock her bed, fell asleep; the rooster offers to take her home; Masha: you won't take her there; rocks Baba Yaga again; the ram offers to take her; Masha: my legs are weak; rocks her again; the bull; Masha sat on the bull, and when Baba Yaga almost caught up, he punched her in the face, she ran to wash herself; the grandparents gave the bull something to drink and fed]: Kuzmina 2008, no. 41: 106-107 (approximately the same, in short, no. 40: 106); Russian (Pskov) [the granddaughter went to pick berries, got lost, a wolf comes towards her, wants to eat her; the little bull-dristunok tells her to sit on him, the wolf catches up; the little bull takes a crap, the wolf runs to wash himself; that happens twice; the little bull brought the girl home]: Ploshchuk 2004, no. 23: 91; Russian (Moscow) [three sisters came into the house on chicken legs, on spindle heels; there the grandfather offers pancakes; two sisters ate, the third did not; he walked two of them home, left the third, tells him to rock him; when he fell asleep, the girl went out onto the porch, the hare offers to take her home; the grandfather in a mortar, chasing with a broom, caught up with the hare, took the girl away, tells him to rock him again; next time the heifer is a dribbling heifer; the grandfather caught up, and she dribbled in his face; he ran to wash himself, the girl was saved]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, no. 28: 73-74; Russian (Ryazan) [a granddaughter got lost in the forest, came to a hut on chicken legs; tells her to turn her face to her, her back to the forest; she entered; there were human heads under the bed, and breasts on a baking sheet in the oven; Baba Yaga was spinning, her snot running down to the floor; she replied that she had rutabagas and pies; she treated her to raw meat, the girl threw everything out the window; BYa began to sharpen knives, tells the girl to spin; she jumped out the window; a bull tells her to sit on him, runs away; BYa catches up, and the bull spit in her face; while she was washing herself, the bull took the girl home, the bull was released]: Samodelova 2013, no. 70: 80-81 (approximately the same as no. 71: 81-82); Russian(Voronezh, Bobrovsky district) [the tsar bent down to the well to drink some water, the bear tsar grabbed him by the beard and let him go for his promise to give him something he didn't know about in the house; at that time the tsarina gave birth to twins: Ivan Tsarevich and Marya Tsarevna; the children were hidden in an underground chamber; the parents died, the bear tsar came, the palace was empty, a chisel was stuck in the wall; he replied that it should be thrown away: where it sticks, that's where they'll dig; the bear tsar found I. and M. and took them to his place; the children ask for a drink; when the bear tsar went to fetch water, the eagle picked up the children and carried them away, but the bear tsar singe his wings; the next time the children want to eat, the eagle carried them; the third time the little bull-dristunok carries the children; three times he defecates in the face of the bear catching up; then he gives I. a comb and a towel; the thrown comb turned into a forest, the bear gnawed through it; I. waved the towel - a fiery lake; the bear stopped chasing; he brought the bull to the house in the clearing; he orders to slaughter it and burn it, scatter the ashes over three ridges, a horse, a dog and an apple tree will grow; I. took the horse and the dog for himself, brought a wolf cub and a bear cub from the hunt; one day he did not take the dog with him; a six-headed snake flew in, became a handsome man, asked M. to throw a bridge over the lake, took her away, and locked the dog and threw the key into the lake; I. went to look; in an open field there is a hut on chicken shoulders, on dog heels; I.: turn your back to the forest, face me; there is a baba yaga in the hut, a bone leg from corner to corner, her nose has grown into the ceiling; Baba Yaga tells you to break three twigs from that apple tree, hit the lock, it will open, you can take the dog and go after the snake; the dog, the wolf and the bear tore the snake apart, I. returned M.]: Afanasyev 1958, No. 201: 90-93; Russian(Bryansk, Karechevsky district) [a bear with iron wool eats people; the king ordered to build a high pillar; he placed Ivan Tsarevich and Elena the Beautiful on top with a supply of food for 5 years; the bear ran to the palace, out of annoyance began to gnaw a broom; he ordered to go to the field, there was a pillar; the bear began to swing the pillar, I. threw him food, he fell asleep; I. and E. ran, mounted a horse, the bear easily caught up with him, tore him apart, brought him in the mouth of I. and E. to the pillar; the same a second time (the geese carried away, the bear scorched them); the third time I. and E. carried a third bull; three times he covered the bear's eyes with droppings; swam across the river, and the bear drowned; the bull orders him to be slaughtered, the bones to be collected, beaten, and a little fist-sized peasant will emerge from them - himself as small as a fingernail, with a beard as long as an elbow; the little peasant brought I. and E. to the robbers' house, killed them all and locked them in one room, not allowing E. to go in there; she went and fell in love with the chieftain's head; asked I. to get living and dead water, revived the chieftain; in order to destroy I., she sent him for wolf's milk; the she-wolf gives it to her with a wolf cub to boot; the same with the she-bear; the lioness; E. sends for the firebird's eggs; it swallowed the little fist-sized peasant; E. and the chieftain were going to kill I.; he asked permission to wash in the bathhouse; the animals came running and told I. that the little fist-sized peasant had escaped; he ordered the beasts to tear the chieftain apart, and tied E. naked to a tree to be eaten by flies and mosquitoes; he brought E. to the heroine; E. conquered her with difficulty and took her as his wife; at night she put her hand on E.'s chest, he felt ill, and called a peasant; the peasant beat the girl until he tamed her; I.'s wife persuaded him to free E.; she began to search in E.'s head and threw a dead tooth into his head; the lion cub saw it, pulled it out, and began to die himself; then the bear cub; then the fox, but she threw the tooth into the frying pan and it fell apart; I. ordered E. to be tied to the tail of a horse and scattered across the field]: Afanasyev 1958(2), No. 202: 94-97.

Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks [a young man forgot a golden bat (toy) on a summer pasture; he returns for it, Almauz Kempir (AK) is there; she pretends to be weak; the young man grabs the bat, gallops away; the foal is tired, the young man mounts a donkey; a horse; a camel; a bull; it lifts its tail, passes gas, the pursuer loses her way in the fog; the bull comes to the princess's maids, takes them for a ride, brings the princess to the boy; orders him to be slaughtered, buried, in the morning there is a garden and a castle; the buried eyes turn into two dogs; they jump into the water where AK disappeared; first pus surfaces, the young man thinks the dogs are dead; then blood - they won; the king arrives and gives his daughter in marriage to the young man]: Afzalov et al. 1972(1): 167-173 (=Sheverdin 1967: 124-130)

Baltoscandia. Karelians (Tver) [an old woman put a pot of porridge in the oven; a voice came out of the oven: it's hot; a girl came out, they named her Ogushka (Fire); she went into the forest, got lost; a hare offers to bring her, she ends up in Baba Yaga's house; she orders to heat up the bathhouse and steam her; a bull offers to take her to her grandparents; Baba Yaga catches up; the bull drank, Baba Yaga went to wash herself, the bull delivered O. to her grandparents]: Makarov 1963, No. 41: 59-60; Vepsians [children went to pick berries, the boy got lost; a horse offers to take him home; Baba Yaga jumped out of the house, took the boy away, ordered to lull her; he begged to let him go out onto the porch to comb his hair; the bull offers to take him away, runs with him, Baba Yaga pursues, the bull lifts his tail and splashes her with excrement, she goes to wash herself, the bull brings the boy home]: Onegina, Zaitseva 1996, No. 39: 151.

Volga - Perm. Udmurts (Sosnovka, Sarapulsky district, Vyatka province) [a man lost his horse; he has no sons, he sent three daughters to look for him; they hear neighing in the forest, then they see a bell on a spruce branch, then they go into a hut; a scary man with long teeth is in it; he replies that he saw and knows where the horse is, but let the girls sit with him for a while; he brings fried human fingers and treats them to them; the girls pretend to eat, throw the fingers under the bench; the long-toothed man brings a mortar in which they pound linen, says that he will release the one who jumps over the mortar; the youngest and middle ones jump, the eldest does not; the long-toothed man keeps the eldest with him, sends the girl to the mill; the girl sits there and cries; a hare offers to sit on him, the long-toothed man chases, throws a pestle in front of the hare, the hare leaves the girl; the same with the fox; with the wolf; finally a skinny little horse comes, all in mud and dung; the girl wipes its sides with grass, mounts, they ride, the long-toothed one catches up with them, but the little horse has made a mess of him, and he falls behind; the girl is saved]: Vereshchagin 1886: 158-159.