Old man Erohot lived on the bank of a pebble channel, he raised a fox. Then she left them, crossed the pebble channel, found the Init storage shed, climbed onto the storage shed, took the fish and took it to old man Erohot. People spent the night, morning came. She went to this storage shed again, climbed onto the storage shed and threw taimen down - the ground began to shake. Kasket lives among the Inits. Init Kasketu says:
- Go outside and take a look!
Kasket answers:
- There’s no one there.
The fox again took the taimen to old man Erohot and brought it to him. Init went out, found the trail of the fox, chased after it, chased*, chased. How long or how long did he chase - the fox hit the ground and became a three-legged horse, and the init turned into Kasket. Kasket sat astride his horse and galloped forward, galloped and galloped.
Kasket listens - the shaman tree sings like a kosach. He looked there - the cradle was tied to a tree. He jumped into it and began to swing. He swayed and swayed - he was lifted up. Then he went up in the guise of a deer3. There's an eagle's nest up there. He began to shake the little eaglets. The eaglets squealed. The eagle4 flew to her chicks. Kasket to the eagle said:
- Give me a bag for flint!
The eagle replied:
“You go to the sea, bring my claw from the ruff, then I’ll give you the bag.”
The casket left there. How long or how long did it take?
Kasket (chanterelle) goes, goes, hit the ground - Tylget
became with larch. Tylget sits on a larch tree. An eagle flew in from somewhere. The eagle wanted to catch him, and Tylget snatched one of his eyes. Tylget with the larch became Kasket again.
He walked and walked and came to the seashore. Kasket looked: “Where is this ruff hiding?” Kasket is talking to himself: “They are sending me somewhere to some ruff!”
A little later the tel6 stuck her nose out of the sea.
“Grandson,” she says, “what are you looking for?”
“Grandma, the eagle sent me to get her claw and said that the ruff took it away.”
Tel said:
“Granddaughter, granddaughter, the eagle wanted to grab me, I still have her claw.” Grandson, I won’t give him away. My antlers were frozen to the ice in winter. If you bring me my horns, then I will give you the claw.
The casket is gone, looking for horns in the sand on the seashore. How much or how little time had passed, he himself did not know. He looked ahead - people were sitting on the sand. They were so drunk! Kasket took a good look at them - and these were the Litys sitting. Kasket smeared himself with soot, became like a litysy, walked up to them, and sat down next to them.
The Litys drank so much! They pour vodka for Kasket, a full cone. The casket pretended to drink, splashed the vodka to the side, and stuffed the empty cone into his bosom. They drank and drank here, the Litys smeared themselves in the sand. The casket poured the vodka to the side again and again and pushed the horn into his bosom. So they gave him seven horns. The wine drinking is over, the Lityns can no longer see anything. Meanwhile, Kasket left. And the Lytysians later guessed: “This,” they said, “was a man from this world, he drank with us, and now he has disappeared somewhere.”
The casket walked and walked and came to the place where the body had previously been lying in the water. The casket is inspecting the area around, and its body is sticking out of the sea. Kasket said:
- Grandma, I brought your horns.
Tel said:
- Well, here it is, very good!
Tel gave Kasket the eagle's claw, and he gave her the horns. The casket set off on its way back.
How long or how long did he walk and walk - he again found the place where Tylget and the larch tree were. Tylget plays the accordion7, paying no attention to anyone. He looked down - there was a touchstone lying at the butt of the larch tree. He put it in his bosom and again climbed onto the larch tree. And she still plays the harmonica just as she played8.
The sea has risen. He pulled out the whetstone from his bosom, put the whetstone on a larch branch, and the sea water reached the whetstone and took it. The casket on the accordion plays and plays, and from somewhere an eagle flew in and sat on the top of a larch tree. Tylget gave his eye to the eagle9. Kasket said to the eagle:
“I won’t give you the eagle’s claw.”
Eagle carried Kasket. How long or how long did they fly until they arrived at the eagles’ nest. Kasket to the eagle said:
- Here's your claw.
The eagle took it and put it on her finger. The eagle gave away the flint.
“Now,” he says, “go downstairs to old man Erohot.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru