One is Kasket, and the other is Totabol (these are names).
“A squirrel’s head, a head, a squirrel’s head, a squirrel’s head, a squirrel’s head,” Totabol cries and asks.
- You ate it yourself, Totabol, stop crying! You see, Litysey is walking around a lot again,” says Kasket.
In the evening dootam came:
“Ho, ho, ho,” every evening he cries and cries!
They jumped up - one dived under the olatin, and Totabol climbed under the hearth stick. She came in and looked - no one was there!
She found a ladle and threw it up.
“Dear granddaughter,” she said, “tell me where they went!”
And the cook answered:
“I ate the fat from Kasketov’s cauldron, I won’t tell you!”
She took it, beat it and broke it.
She found the cauldron and threw it upside down so that it would fall where they went:
- Tell me where the Caskets are!
And the boiler replied:
- I won’t tell! I cooked fatty fish and ate the fat!
She took it, beat it, beat it, and the cauldron broke.
She found a glue stick, threw it up and said:
- Dear granddaughter, tell me!
She threw it up, and the glue stick stuck at the butt of the olatin. She started digging and found Kasket; She took it and put it in her pants. Then she took the glue stick again and threw it up - it stuck at the hearth stick. She started digging there and found Totabol. She took it and also put it in her pants and went home. She came home and shouted:
- Daughters, daughters! - Calls them by name. - I brought you people to play with!
She stuck an ordinary needle into Totabol, and stuck a thick needle into Kasket. She went into the forest, killed a bear, ate half of it herself, and then prepared food for them. She put the casket down. Told him:
- Kasket, Kasket, eat, eat, eat a lot!
Kasket Totabolu says:
“You don’t eat much, otherwise it will eat us.”
Then she left again. She left and locked the dugout. The casket of one of the daughters says:
- Give me your mother's drill!
And she, Khintyya, brought him this drill. He took the casket and drilled a stone chum, made a hole and plugged it. In the evening I caught a big bear and brought half of it home. Then she prepared the food and said:
- Casket, eat, eat!
And Kasket stuffed food into his sleeve and then threw it away. Totabol ate everything. Then he and Kasket went out into the street, and Kasket said to Totabol:
- Don't eat too much!
The next day the dootam left again and got one bear. She brought it home and cooked it; I took out the fatty meat and put the casket down. I also put in Totabolya.
- Totabol, eat, eat!
Kasket pretended to eat, but then he dumped the food through his sleeve, and Totabol ate everything.
Dootam left, and Kasket killed his daughters and cooked them. He, Kasket, climbed out through that hole and opened the stone tent. Then he hung his daughters' meat along the road.
Dootam returns home - the meat is hanging. She took it and swallowed it. And the meat of her daughters was hanging, it was hanging! She came home, and Totabol was lying there. He couldn't get out through the hole; The casket pulled him, pulled him, until Totabol’s head came off. Kasket put Totabol's head in his pocket and left, he walked for a long time.
Dootam goes home, she found pieces of meat and swallowed them.
“Hu, hu, hu,” she said, “there’s my piece of meat!” Hu, hu, hu, daughters, don’t lose my share!
She thought her daughters had killed one of them.
She chased after Kasket. Kasket looked around - he was walking towards the end. Kasket said:
- Let the grove with seven larches grow, let the larches grow!
A grove of seven larches appeared - Kasket climbed a tree.
Dootam approached him:
- Kasket, come down here, I won’t eat you!
- I won't come down! — Casket answered. - Oh, you cut me down yourself!
- What will I use to cut it down with?
And he, Kasket, said:
- Once upon a time, you ate the old Ydatov people, you vomited up their axes!
She vomited, vomited, vomited - an ax! She started cutting down the tree. And Kasket said:
“My father once fed a hare. If only he would come!
A little later the hare came running:
- Grandma, what are you cutting?
- I want to get Casket.
- Grandma, let me chop. You, grandma, are tired. Grandma, go to bed!
She gave him the ax. She went to rest herself. The hare took an ax and hammered into the tree the chips that Dootam had chopped off.
“Grandma, the tree has fallen,” the hare shouted and ran away.
Dootam jumped up:
- Bunny, give me my axe, give me my axe! - she screams. - Kasket, come down here to grandma!
- First, lie down at the butt of the tree, stretch your mouth with a stick and widen your eyes with sticks!
She lay down.
- You just lie there, and I’ll jump to you!
He himself went down a little and is sitting. He had small pebbles in his pocket, and he covered his eyes with them. Well, go for a ride!
He jumped down, slashed at her with a spear, and killed her. He built a big fire, a big fire, and burned her in the fire.
He went back to where Totabol lies. He came, put it in the seven-eared cauldron, took the head out of his pocket, put it in the Totabol and rocked and rocked it in this cauldron.
Totabol exclaimed:
- Whoa, who woke me up?
And Kasket replied:
“Dootam almost ate you.”
He came to life, and they went with Kasket. Maybe they are still going now.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru