So, the fox heard that the nomadic wolf Ankakumikaityn was going to woo the neighbor's dog girl. The girl lived with her brothers and younger sister.
Lisa sewed herself a men's jacket, trousers, a bag and a hat. And then one day, when the brothers were not at home, I went to visit my sisters. She came and started drinking tea. The fox says to his elder sister:
- I have two herds of deer, I came to you to woo. She deceived her sister. And the girl thought that it was the groom, and said joyfully:
- Oh, you came to woo me again. She thought it was the reindeer herder Ankakumikaitin. The fox bewitched her. The girl treats the fox with fatty venison, brains, and sausage. He puts in the best pieces. And the fox is sitting in a hat. He is afraid to take off his hat so that they won’t find out. Says:
- I’m rich, I don’t know how to take off my hat. Suddenly a bark was heard in the distance. The girls were happy. The eldest said:
- Here are my brothers returning from hunting.
The fox got scared. I wanted to run away. She thought and said:
- Oh-oh! They will disperse my herds.
She ran out into the street and placed stones on the mountain. When the brothers approached, she rolled stones and killed the brothers. The sisters did not see when she killed. The fox entered the yaranga, drank tea and went home in the evening. At night I stole all the sisters' supplies.
The sisters waited for the brothers for a long time. They didn't come. In the morning we woke up and looked: there were no supplies. Let's go to the mountain; saw the murdered brothers. They cried. The eldest said:
- Who caused such trouble to us? The younger one thought and said:
“It’s probably the fox’s doing.”
The eldest objected:
- Why talk in vain? The fox didn't come. And the youngest says:
“When Ankakumikaytyn’s hat moved, it seemed to me like it was a fox.” The eldest got angry. And the youngest says:
- Let's go to Ankakumikaytyn and find out. All the same, there are no brothers and they are left without food.
Went. The sisters, crying, told everything. Ankakumikaityn was surprised. It turns out that he didn’t go anywhere yesterday. He was at the warehouse all the time. Then they realized that it was a fox. We decided to take revenge. Everyone went to the sisters' yaranga.
The next day they saw a fox walking, dressed like Ankakumikaitin. The real Ankakumikaityn hid. I drank tea again and ate everything delicious. The elder sister treated me. And the younger one slowly went out into the corridor and slammed the door down with a stone. Then the real Ankakumikaytyn appeared. They grabbed the lying fox and tied him up.
Ankakumikaityn asked:
- What will we do with the thief, with the robber? The eldest said:
- I don’t know. And the youngest said:
“We’ll put it in a bag and take it to the tundra.”
And so they did. In the tundra they put it on a hummock. The fox froze in fright. The younger sister collected dry grass and dry bushes and piled them on the fox. The eldest said:
- You need to take it out of the bag and untie it. The younger one did not agree:
- No, don't. Let it be there.
They argued for a long time. Still, the eldest took it out of the bag and untied it. The youngest again piled up dry grass and brushwood. She surrounded it with stones. I made a stove with only one hole. I lit it. The fox woke up. She screamed, no one listened. As they walked, something on fire ran past. It turns out that a fox jumped out of the oven. Then the false clothes on her were burning. So the burnt one ran away into the tundra. Since then, red foxes have appeared.
And the sisters and Ankakumikaytyn buried the brothers. Everyone began to live together. The eldest married Ankakumikaytyn. The youngest nursed their children.
Then she grew up and got married herself.
All.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru