There lived a one-eyed man with his wife. He spent the nights with his wife, but as soon as it began to get light, he left his wife and left the house. So he spent the whole day somewhere. His wife did not know why her husband did not come home during the day, where he spent his time and what he was doing there. She decided to find out.
One day, when he left in the morning, she followed him and reached the place where he had gone during the day. But when she came close to him, she saw that he was missing one eye. As soon as she saw this, she decided to leave him. As daylight approached, she set off. As she walked, she suddenly saw a giant coming towards her. The giant reached her, took her on his shoulders and carried her. He walked with her to the mountain and climbed to the top. There was an underground yurt. The giant threw the woman into the passage of the yurt. She woke up in a dugout and began to cry. Having no clothes, she was very cold and regretted that she had left her husband simply because she considered him ugly. So while she was crying, she suddenly heard someone say:
- Well, stop crying. Here above you are the skins of earthly birds. Take them and put them on.
The woman looked above her and after a long search saw a basket woven from grass. Having searched through it, she found a kukhlyanka made of crow skins. I took the kuhlyanka, but no matter how hard I tried to put it on, I couldn’t. The Kukhlyanka was too small for her.
She started crying again. And again I heard someone’s voice:
- Leave it, stop crying. There's a grass basket hanging above you. In it you will find the skins of earthly animals, take them and put them on. Stop crying.
When she was told this, she looked up and saw a basket. There I found tanned fox skins. I took them and tried to put them on. When I started putting them on, I felt warm. Having put on the skins, she began to look for a way out of the dugout. I found him and left. I hit the road.
On the way, the woman became thirsty. She reached the river, and when she bent down to drink, she saw that she had fox ears. The woman moved on. As she walked, she felt that someone was following her. She turned her head back and saw that behind her, it turned out, a fox’s tail was dragging. When she saw this, she tried to free herself from him, but could not. So I moved on with the fox's tail.
The woman reached the place where her father used to hunt for seals. She went down to the seashore and began to watch her father kill seals on the sea. So the father stopped hunting seals and went to the shore. He saw a fox on the shore and stuck to the place where she was. Noticing that the fox was not afraid of him, he wanted to take her, but she kept bouncing away from him. Then he threw her seals. Having fed her, he went to his village. And when her father went to his village, she also ran there.
When the day was already over, the fox woman came to her father's house. She tried many times to enter the house. But as soon as the fox woman bows her head to go down into the house, her head itself jumps to the side. So she did not go down to her father’s house, but went into the field and, they say, stayed there.
All.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru