Once upon a time there lived five women. Whether they lived like this for a long time or for a short time, one day their elder sister said:
“I’m your older sister, so I’ll tell you this: here in the lower reaches of the river lives an old man’s son.” They say his body walks separately from his hair. We will turn into five wolves and go there. We will tear his hair and body separately.
“Well, well!” they said. Five women, turning into five wolves, ran down the Amur. So they ran and found the trace of the old man's son. They hid on that path and began to keep watch.
In the evening, the old man's son went back, his hair has a separate path, and his body has a separate path. So he returns. He reaches the place where the wolves hid. Elder sister says:
“The three of us will jump on the man’s body, and you two jump on his hair!”
The old man's son approaches.
“Well, well, let’s jump, hiruronin-hiruronin!” said the eldest.
They jumped and began to tear the body and hair of the old man’s son. Then they tore all of his hair out, only the grass insoles were thrown away.
After that, the wolves went home, reached the house, hung up their wolf skins, and turned into women again. They live at home.
“How long or how short they live like this, one day the elder sister begins to teach them again:
“I’m your older sister, so I’ll say this.” There are said to be five people living here in the upper reaches of the river. These five people have one horse. That horse has five hairs on one side and five hairs on the other side. Let's go there, hiruronin-hiruronin!
“Well, well!” they said.
Let's go. They are going up the Amur. They walked like this and reached one house. In front of him a horse is tied, and on one side it has five silver hairs and on the other five gold hairs. When we got there, we began to look at the horse. We saw five golden hairs. Five women pulled out one hair at a time, then went to the ice hole and hid in the snow near the ice hole.
While they were hiding, four people returned and entered the house; their younger brother walked behind. He went up to his horse, began to look at it and saw that it was missing five golden hairs. Then he called his older brothers:
- Brothers, come here, look, our horse has lost its golden hairs!
One of his brothers looked in the door and said:
-Where will they go? Okay, look! Then the younger brother says:
“Come here quickly, I’m sick to my stomach!” and he groaned. Then he says:
- Go quickly, if you don’t come, I’ll die! Hurry up and go! His brothers ran to him. Their younger brother says:
-Where did the hairs get lost? How do you think?! Who stole it - what do you think? His older brothers answer:
- We don't know. Younger brother says:
— Five women live in the lower reaches of the river, they say their elder sister teaches them everything. They killed the old man’s son and they intend to kill us.
Then the younger brother asks:
- Where do they hide, do you think?
“We don’t know,” the older brothers answer. Younger brother says:
- Well, quickly, quickly, take the sticks. Let’s run here to the shore to the ice hole: they hid at the ice hole!
“Well, well!” they said and ran.
We reached the ice hole. When they ran up, the women jumped out and ran along the path towards themselves.
The elder brother caught up with the elder sister of those women and hit her so hard that she died immediately. Then the elder brother returned home.
The four men chased after the remaining women. They overtook them and grabbed them one by one. They took me to their home. They entered the house and took them as wives.
This is how they live and live.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru