One man's wife died. He put her on the horse and set off. On the way, he found a shoulder blade bone. I went into one ulus and saw something cooking in a cauldron. meat. He smeared the bone with blood from the deer's nose, threw it into the cauldron and said:
“I put deer meat in your cauldron.” When the meat was cooked and the owners took it out of the cauldron, this man also took out a bare bone, threw it and said:
“Your cauldron ate the meat I put in.” Give me the meat!
The people got scared and gave the man nine goats. He took them and moved on.
He walked and walked, chasing his goats; On the way he met a rider on a horse, and the horse’s back was mutilated. The man exchanged nine goats for one mutilated horse, sat on this horse and rode on. And he is carrying his dead wife on another horse nearby.
Approaching one ulus, I heard girls singing. The man told them:
– Don’t sing, my wife is sick, the horses are shy. The girls did not listen to him and continued to sing. Then he stuck a stick into his horse's wound. The horse gave way, and the dead wife was thrown to the ground. He cried and said:
“You scared my horse, it bolted, threw off my wife, my wife fell and died.
In this camp they gave this man one of the girls for a wife, and he stayed there and lived well.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru