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The fairy tale «The Brother and The Sister - Jaj pa upi oӆәӈәn»

Once upon a time there a brother and a sister lived. The brother had very loyal dogs. Once a man came to his sister in the image of a wolf, and his sister began to live with this man. Twice the wolf tried to persuade the sister to kill her brother, but the faithful dogs always prevented him to do this. For treachery, the dogs killed the wolf, and the sister harbored a grudge against her brother. After some time, the brother married the daughter of Woshang Wert. His sister put the bones of a wolf in his bed, and one of the bones stuck in her brother and he died. But the faithful dogs found the living grass and revived the brother. And the brother tied the treacherous sister to three horses, which tore the sister into three parts. And the brother still lives.

The Ob Ugrians, the Khanty language, the Kazym dialect

Folklore, Prose folklore

Polnovat settlement, Beloyarsky District, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra

March 1997

00.16.57

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