Old man Ydat lives with his old woman. They raised a little fox, who then left them.
The little fox crossed the Podkamennaya Tunguska to hunt, climbed into a storage shed and stole the fish. Inget said:
“The fox left, took the fish, and took it to old man Ydat.”
In the morning Ydat woke up:
- Look, the fish is lying! Apparently our little fox brought it!
Then she left again. Inget and the bitch were waiting. The fox came again, climbed into the storage shed, took the taimen and threw it down.
Inget and the bitch heard the sound of a fall:
- Come outside! - They say.
People looked - the fox stole the fish again and took it to old man Ydat. People chased after her:
“She’s carrying our fish!”
The fox hit the ground and became an ermine. He left. He walked and walked and went up along the bank of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River.
How long or how long has he been rising, he looks - the three-legged horse is going up. He hit the ground and became a man, mounted a horse. The horse ran.
He rode and rode, and heard a shaman’s staff with beads ringing, a cradle hanging on it2. He climbed into it and shook it. Now he has risen upward in the guise of an eagle, and gone upward. There's an eagle's nest in the sky tree up there. He began to move the eaglets so that they squeaked. The big eagle flew in.
He said to the eagle:
- Give me the flint bag!
Old Eagle Woman says:
- Bring me the claw. The ruff fish3 was hiding in the sea. If you bring my claw, then I will give you a bag of flint and steel.
He left there. The stump is standing. He sat down and began to look out. He sees a needle stuck into the back of the fish. He pulled it out and put it in his pocket.
Then he left again. He walked and walked and returned to the eagle and brought her a claw.
“Grandma,” he says, “give me your finger!”
He placed a claw on her finger. She gave me the bag with the flint. After that, he went home and returned to the old man Yidat.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru