It happened that the cannibals set off, they went hunting; they went far. They met boys tending cattle, sheep and goats. There was fog, they took the fat sheep and went with it. The boys didn't see them. The cannibals went with him to their house, they came to their house.
There was a girl there whom they had captured earlier in one village. She had brothers. “When the cannibals left, they forbade her, saying: do not fry the meat of our sheep.” For they were afraid of other cannibals, that they would come, smelling the smell of meat, and capture the girl when her owners were no longer there. They went far.
It happened at noon, the girl was hungry, she fried the meat and ate it. Other cannibals smelled the meat
and said: Mind, mind! Where does this delicious smell come from? They snorted as they smelled the delicious smell. They came to where the girl was.
There was a large rock where she was; the name of that rock was Tunzhambili rock, for there was a dwelling inside; They also say that that rock opened at the word of its owner; it was also closed by the owner, who said: open, it opened; who said: close, she closed. For she obeyed him alone.
When the owner was hunting, the girl was inside. He locked her there inside like his prey. He forbade her, he told her not to fry meat, because he was afraid of other cannibals. When she got hungry, she fried the meat and ate it. - When the other cannibals smelled him, they said: mind, mind! Where does this delicious smell come from? “They sniffed in the direction where the smell came from, they went there and came to a rock, its name was Tunzhambili. “One of them said: Tunzhambili rock, open for me, let me enter.” The girl inside found out that these were other cannibals, not her owner, and said: get away! let the long-haired ogre go away. This is the wrong owner of the place.
He cleaned up, went and burned his voice with a hoe. - He returned again to the Tunzhambili rock; he appeared and spoke in a small voice, almost like the voice of the owner of the place; he said: Tunzhambili rock, open for me, let me enter. - It opened; he went in and ate the meat that was spoken of. When the girl saw him, she lost strength.
The cannibal said: let's go so that I don't eat you. The girl was trembling with great fear. She gave him meat, he ate and was full. “He said to that girl: stay here until I return; I'm going hunting. He got out and walked.
The girl knew that he would come to eat her, and she went out. She
poured corn into the bowl and went.—The cannibal appeared
and said: Tunzhambili rock, open for me, give me
log in. There was silence; for the girl is gone. He repeated again,
saying the same thing. It was the same. The cannibal found out that the girl had left. He called many people and they followed the girl. They came to the path and saw corn; for the cannibals loved corn; they began to collect it. The girl did this while walking, so that when the cannibals walked, they would find corn, and stop gleaning so that she could see them; for the girl knew that they would pursue her. The cannibals were chasing her. They found corn and were gleaning it. “She saw them in the dust and said: here they are.” She threw a lot of corn on the ground and walked, walked quickly. They came to where the corn was scattered, gathered, and stayed; she walked very quickly. Again she saw them raising dust; she did the same again; she threw the corn and walked quickly. She saw that they were close; She again threw the remains from the vessel and went.
The cannibals got tired and sat down on the ground. She walked and was also tired. She saw a very tall tree, a giant. She walked up to him, climbed on him and sat down in the bird's place. Having risen, the cannibals walked; she was very far away. They came to the tree, tired again, they sat under it resting, saying that they would pursue her again when they rested.
It happened that the girl leaked urine, she emptied on top of them; I heard: ktso, ktso! - Frightened, the cannibals said: what is that there? They looked up and saw the girl sitting on the bird's seat. Rejoicing, they cut down the tree with axes, for they had axes: they cut it down, some were on one side of the tree, others were on the other side. When the tree was about to fall, it again swayed from side to side and fell silent, and took root in the ground, it became as it was before. Again they cut, some on one side, others on the other, some on both sides. They chopped him down; when the tree was about to fall, it did the same again and took root in the ground again, it again became as it was before It. Again they chopped again; when it was supposed to fall,
it took root again in the earth, it again became as it was before.
The girl's brother saw in a dream at night a girl, his sister, she was being eaten by cannibals in one place that he knew. In the morning he went out with his very large dogs and went hunting in the place he had seen in his dream. When he was hunting, he saw a crowd of cannibals at the foot of a tree, they were cutting down the tree. “He went there with his big dogs; he came there and asked: what are you cutting here, my friends? “They answered: come, help us chop, our brother.” This is where our game is, it’s at the top. He looked up and saw that it was his sister.49
They say her brother also climbed up; he saw a very beautiful country. They found a very beautiful house there; that house was green, its floor was wiped, and the country above was very beautiful, they walked along it all the time, examining it, for they had not seen it before. But they saw the earth very far away, not being able to go down there? for they were afraid of cannibals, thinking they saw them walking the earth in search of food.
They went to the country that lay before them. They found and caught the cattle, a large ox; they drove him, they went with him to the house; they came and killed that ox, they tore off the skin and spread it in the sun; Before it dried, they lit a fire in the house. The cannibals smelled the meat, smelling delicious, they looked here and there, they looked up and saw a house. - Skazad boy: this cannibal is similar to the one who chased them on earth.
His sister said: Let’s bring him here to us, since you have a spear, he will be afraid to eat us; for cannibals fear the spear. — Her brother asked: how will we raise him? “His sister said: I don’t know, just like you.” “Her brother said: let’s cut the skin while it is still raw, and lift it with a rope from the skin.” He left the house with a spear, he cut the skin until there was a lot of it, until the skin was finished.
He took the rope, threw most of it down and said to the cannibal: grab this rope, climb up it. - The cannibal said: how! my mother! I will fall if I climb the rope, for it is small; it will break. They said: no; it will not tear; we know she's tough. Come on in. The ogre grabbed the rope and climbed. - But when he was halfway to the top, they both started talking, the boy said: let him go, he will fall down. “The girl said: let’s raise him up so that he comes here to us, we will torture him, for they also tortured us.” “He said: we will raise him again.” - His sister agreed. Her brother let go of the ogre, he fell down and cried out: oh! my father! I'm dying! You said you would hold me with a rope; You let me go, I broke my butt, I fell on it. “Her brother said: no, cannibal, we didn’t let you out on purpose; the rope jumped out, now we have thrown a very strong rope: grab it tightly.
And sure enough, the ogre grabbed the rope; he climbed in, they helped him up to them, took him to the hut and entered; they sat down and fried the meat, three pieces. “Her brother said: the meat is fried, let’s eat now.” - And they took the meat and ate it. The ogre looked at them and drooled. “Her brother said: stop drooling.” I'll stab you if you're drooling. And they sat and finished the meat.
When it got dark they lay down. The cannibal lay by the hearth, the meat was placed near the exit, and they themselves lay in the upper part. At night the cannibal got up, crept up, went and took the bull's stomach, he grabbed a handful of it. The sister woke up and said to her brother: get up, get up! Someone took the meat. — Her brother asked: who took the meat? - His sister answered: it was captured by the cannibal. And her brother immediately woke up, saying: put down, put down the stomach of my ox, who gave it to you? - The cannibal answered: no, really, lord: I thought that it was not yours, I thought you would throw it away. “Her brother said: put it down immediately.” I can stab you. And the cannibal laid down his stomach. They fell asleep.
It's dawn. They spent many days eating meat. They didn't give anything to the cannibal. They threw the dice down; they are careful
lived an ogre so that he would not pick up anything from below. And the cannibal remained dying of hunger. It happened that he died at night. They slept without seeing him. In the morning they got up and saw that he had died. They threw him down.
His sister said: let's go look for our sister, since our mother said there is another sister of ours, married. Let's look for her until we get her, let's live with her, since our father and our mother died and we were left alone. - Her brother asked: if we go down - ah! won't we see cannibals? - His sister answered: since we lived here for so long, do you think the cannibals are still there? “Her brother said: come on, let’s go down and look for her.”
They took the rope that remained, with which they raised the ogre; they put it in the water and it became soft. In the afternoon they found a large log, dug it into the ground, it went very deep and tied a rope to that log; they climbed down the rope until they reached the ground. And they left the rope hanging from the log. They went and walked over the bones of that cannibal who died. They moved on, went and looked for their sister; They walked until the moon died without seeing its sister. When another moon came out, they found her. They came and saw their sister, but did not know what her name was. “She saw them herself and called them by name, she said: these seem to be our children.” - They answered. “She asked: where are you coming from?” They answered: For a long time we were separated from our father and our mother. But we were tormented by cannibals. We came from the beautiful country above, where we lived, not tormented by anything. We raised one cannibal, we tortured him, we did not give him food, he died, we threw him away; and we came down to find you. We are happy to find you.
The three of them lived wonderfully in that place.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru