Five girls went to the tundra. Mayirakhpak saw them there, caught up with them and put them all in a kamleika (raincoat). The girls got scared and cried. Mayirakhpak came up to the tree and said:
- Tree, bend down!
The tree bent over and the giantess tied the girls to its top. Then she said:
- Tree, rise up!
The tree rose. Mayirakhpak left the girls on the tree and left.
A bear passed by the tree. The girls turned to him:
- Passerby bear, be a man, untie us! The bear answered angrily:
“When we bears are looking for food, your hunters try to kill us.” I won't untie you!
“You’re bad,” the girls said, and the bear left. A crow passed by. The girls asked him:
- Raven, be a man, untie us! Raven said:
- No, I won’t untie you! When we come to your garbage dumps for food, you throw whatever you can at us!
“You’re bad,” the girls said, and the raven left. A fox passed by. The girls asked her:
- Passing fox, untie us!
- Wait, I’ll untie you now! She approached the tree and asked:
- How did you get there? The girls replied:
– Mayirakhpak tied us down. Tell the tree: Bend over and it will bend over.
“Tree, bend down,” said the fox.
The tree bent over. The fox untied the kamleika, and four girls came out, and the fifth fell asleep so soundly in her sleeve that they could not wake her up. The girls filled the kamleika with berries and ran home. There was only one sleeping girl left in the kamleika.
Meanwhile, Mayirakhpak walked to the tree and sharpened a large knife as she went. She came up to the tree and said:
- Tree, bend down!
The tree bent over. Maiirakhpak cut one sleeve with a knife, and berries fell from there. She screamed:
- How many eyes, how many eyes! She cut the second sleeve, and a girl fell out with a cut finger. The girl cried:
- Oh, that hurts, you cut my finger! Don't kill me, I'll light your fat shops! Mayirakhpak said:
– I would have said so right away!
She took the girl by the hand and led her to her home. She took off the girl’s clothes, tore them and threw them away. The girl remained to live in the dugout.
One day a girl said:
- Grandma, let me go for a walk.
- What will you wear? After all, you don’t have a backpack or a kitchenette.
- Your bag, I’ll put on your kuhlyanka!
Mayirakhpak let the girl out into the street in her clothes and tied her to a yaranga post. She went to the yaranga herself. The girl looked at the spit and saw two people there. Seeing people, she sang:
People appeared there, One comes with a spear, Another comes with a bow!
The giantess heard the girl’s voice and asked:
- Daughter, what are you talking about? – I just remembered about my brothers, Nagyak and Mytykhlyuk!
Meanwhile, two men came up, untied the girl and ran away with her. Mayirakhpak called:
- Daughter, daughter!
But no one answered her. The giantess came out of the yaranga and saw people running away far away on the spit. She ran after the fugitives and shouted:
- Watch out, I’ll catch up and eat you! The brothers said:
“Sister, Mayirakhpak cut your finger.” Now you, too, have probably become a sorceress, do something!
The girl took a stone, placed it on the road and ran her cut finger along it. The stone immediately grew and turned into an impregnable high rock. But Mayirakhpak climbed the rock, went down from it and again chased the fugitives. One of the brothers said:
- Sister, do something! The girl blew on her cut finger and drew a line across the road with it. And in place of the line a river appeared. Mayirakhpak shouted:
- Daughter, daughter, how can I get across?
- And you, grandma, drink water from the river!
And so Mayirakhpak began to drink water from the river. Saw-saw, drank all the water from the river. Mayirakhpak's belly became like a hill. The girl shouted to her:
“Grandma, go up the hill and dance, then it will be easier.”
Mayirakhpak climbed the hill and began to dance. Then her stomach burst, and teapots, cups, plates, buckets and other objects fell out of it.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru