Digital audio recordings

Fairy tale "The Tambourine - Kўjәp"

One little boy in a cradle was left alone in the yard of a house. Gradually, he learned to take care of himself and even get food. After killing a forest deer, he made a tambourine and went to look for people. So he found a house where a sick girl was. Her brothers were barely able to bring a tambourine into the house and the boy was finally able to shamanize. Gradually, the girl recovered, and the boy, remaining in this house, grew up and married a girl. Relatives gave them a large herd of deer. The young man did not leave the thought of finding out about the fate of his family. During the rite on the tambourine, he clearly saw that his mother was alive. One day, while hunting, he came upon the trail of Giants, destroyed them one by one, and in the house of the third Giant he found his mother. She told him that their whole family was destroyed by Giants, she was taken away, so he was left alone.

The Ob Ugrians, the Khanty language, the Surgut dialect

Folklore, Prose folklore, Fairy Tale

Trom-Agan settlement, Surgut District, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra

March 1992

00.13.53

A-1384/1