I'll tell you a fairy tale about the Wolf.
Kukki says to his wife:
- Give me a straw sled, Mitya.
— There is no straw sledge, only a braided rope under the slats. Kukki doesn’t believe him, he searches for him himself.
- What are you looking for?
- Yes, Nartu.
-Where are you going?
- Yes, I’ll go ride down the hill.
Go Kukki. Rolled down the hill.
- Ox! How nice, only the sky flashes before your eyes! - Kukki screams with joy.
Kukki rolled down the hill again and shouted:
- Oh! How nice, only the sky flickers!
The Wolf heard the joyful cry of the rolling Kukki.
“Where is he screaming from?” - thought the Wolf and went to Kukki.
- Hey, grandpa, what are you doing?
- Oh, you scared me. Where did you come from?
- Yes, I heard you screaming while skating, and I thought: “I’ll go and see how grandpa skates.” Let me take a ride!
- You can’t, you’ll slide into the water.
- No, I won’t jump into the water, I have long legs. What should I shout when I roll?
- Shout: “Oh, how nice, only the sky is flickering!”
“Okay, then I’ll scream,” and the Wolf rolled down the hill.
Gurgle - and fell into the sea.
- Oh-oh! Grandfather, he fell into the water. Pull it out! - shouted the Wolf.
- No, I won’t pull it out. You have long paws, but I have crooked claws, that’s why I don’t fall into the water.
- Listen, grandfather, pull it out!
- No, I won’t pull it out.
- Well, pull it out, your legs are getting numb.
- No, I won’t pull it out, you’re long-legged.
- Grandfather, I’ll give you a herd of fleas *8.
- I don't need fleas.
“Listen, grandfather, your legs are getting numb,” the Wolf shouts from the water.
- I’m telling you that I won’t pull you out! - Kukki insists.
- I'll give you a flock of sheep.
“You’re lying, my children hunt mountain sheep themselves.”
“Then I’ll give you a pack of wolverines!”
- I don’t need it. I tell you, my children hunt different animals.
“What can I give you?” the Wolf reasons. “Oh, I’ll give you my long-eared sister in marriage.”
- Well! - Kukki was delighted. - Hey, father-in-law, wait, wait, I’ll get you out now.
Pulled out Cuckie Wolf.
- Brrr! My legs are almost numb,” says the Wolf and wrings out his clothes. Kukki helps him.
- Well, how? - asks Kukki. -Will you give your sister for me?
- I don’t have any sister.
- Wha-a-k?! He deceived me! That’s enough, I stopped skating,” Cukki was offended. -Which valley will you go?
— Yes, along the Vatvytkavnyn valley. And you?
- I’ll go to the upper reaches of the Antchina River.
Kukki and the Wolf went in different directions. They went along the river valleys, and in the upper reaches they converge. The Wolf reached the origins of Vatvytkavnyn. Went up to the upper reaches of the Antchina Kukki River. And suddenly it turned into a piece of fatty meat from the back of a deer.
- Wow! - Wolf was surprised. - Thank you, my friends left me food.
And he immediately ate a piece of meat. And this was Kukki.
The Wolf went home, and Kukki began to move in his stomach.
“Oh, my father probably brought these intestines and hung them here in the food warehouse,” Wolf Kukki reasoned in his stomach and suddenly threw the intestines out.
“Grandfather, are you talking about me?”
“I’m not here, I’m at home, sitting in the food warehouse.”
- Oh, he threw away my intestines!
“But I’m not here, I’m at home,” and he throws away the kidneys. - Ugh! It’s probably Itchym who hung up his stinking bags.
- Oh, my kidneys!
“Why are you shouting, I’m at home, in the food warehouse,” and I threw away my lungs. - Ugh! Itchym brought it again.
- De-shower, my lungs!
“Don’t make things up, I’m at home, in the food warehouse,” and I threw away my heart. - Ugh! This is probably the spear of Puyitynpytyp *9. Why is it hanging here?
- Grandfather! My soul! - and the Wolf died.
- Oh-oh! Killed the Wolf! - Kukki shouted and got out of it.
Kukki went home. Auppali saw him and said to his mother: “Mom, dad is coming from skating.”
“Well, let him come,” the mother answers.
Kukki gets angry and shouts:
- Auppali! Tell your mother to perform the thanksgiving ceremony!
“Okay,” and Auppali went into the dugout. - Mom, dad is dragging something. He told you to perform the thanksgiving ceremony.
“Well, but go and see what he’s dragging,” and she began to perform the ritual. She sang: “Ku-u-kki v-o-lka without gut-ho-o-v kill-i-l!”
Cukki entered the dugout:
- Stop dancing, here I come.
- Let the daughters skin the booty.
- No, no need to skin it. Let it be entirely.
Mother-in-law came out naumat *10, met father
- Do it that way. Take the wolf to the food warehouse and watch there, do your sewing.
The crows fell asleep. Kukki fell fast asleep.
Meanwhile, the wolf brothers followed the tracks. Kukki sits at the door of the dugout and knits a net. His youngest son Auppali comes out of the dugout to his father.
“Go out more often, look around,” Cukki tells him.
“Dad, look, two wolves are coming,” Auppali told him.
- Oh, wait, now I’ll make fat balls *11. You will go to the place where they should come. Pretend that you are playing and leave the balls, says Kukki Auppali.
The wolf brothers came and saw:
“Oh, probably the boy Auppali was playing here and dropped the balls,” they decided and immediately ate them.
We approached the dugout. Kukki is knitting a net near the doors.
- Oh, come!
- Yes, grandfather! What's wrong with us? It shakes us, it darkens our eyes!
- Perhaps you ate something?
And then the wolves died.
“Oh, I killed two wolves again,” Cukki rejoiced and took them to the food warehouse to his daughter:
- I brought some more, take care of them...
Meanwhile, the little wolf cub asks his old parents:
“There were a lot of beds here, they were empty, I was the only one left.”
- We go to different places, we leave a lot of beds. The wolf cub’s name is Vechovtyn. The wolf parents fell asleep, followed in the footsteps of the Vechovtyn brothers...
Kukki is sitting at the door again, knitting a net. Kukki is a great shaman-sorcerer. Auppali often leaves the dugout.
“Go out more often and take a look,” Cukki tells him.
Another time Auppali came out and saw:
- Dad, one little wolf cub is coming.
“Yes, probably, Vechovtyn,” Kukki knows. - Take the balls and put them on his path.
He took the balls to Auppali, left them on the path of the wolf cub, and returned to the dugout.
A wolf cub is following the tracks and suddenly sees balls. "What is this?" - he thought and took them with him.
- Oh, he's here! - Kukki greeted him.
- Yes! Didn't my brothers come here? - Vechovtyn asked.
“No, they didn’t come, only we were alone,” answered Cucchi.
Here Vechovtyn shows a ball clenched in his fist and asks:
- Grandfather, what is this?
- Oh, you! - Kukki got scared, ducked into the canopy and crawled under the skins.
- What are you doing?! - Mitya screamed. - You can scare me like that! Where are you going?!
— The little wolf came, showed the ball and asked: “What is this?”
- So why are you hiding?! If you’re playing pranks, go to him,” Mitya reproaches him.
Vechovtyn entered the dugout.
- Oh, you came! - his wife Cukki greeted him.
- Yes, here I am. Grandma, what is this? - Vechovtyn shows the ball.
- I don’t know, I’m not familiar with this. Ugh! - Mitya spat, and she herself thought: “You won’t fool Akaltchiki’s daughter”*12. - Kukki, come out, what are you afraid of? You're a man. I'm a woman and I don't hide.
- No, no, I won’t go out. I want to sleep.
- Well, be there! - Mitya got angry. It's already dark. Vechovtyn says:
- It's time to go home, I'll go.
“Well, go,” Mitya answered. - Just don't peek at me.
Vechovtyn went to the food warehouse, in which Kukka’s daughter Sinilymnylnakkut was guarding the dead wolves, and shouted:
- Hey, are my brothers here?
- Yes, here.
He woke up the Vechovtyn brothers and told them:
- What will we do with this wolf? He has no insides. Let's leave him. And you follow us,” he said to Sinilymnylnakkut.
Kukki's daughter went to the wolf people. Vechovtyn brought her and said to her parents:
- Here, meet me!
The parents came out.
- Oh, come! Fast. Where did you find your brothers?
- Yes, grandfather killed them at once, and for this I took his daughter away.
Sinilymnylnakkut is afraid. This is her first time among wolves.
- Oh, the woman has come!
- Yes!
- Come in!
“Yes, I’ll come in,” and Sinilymnylnakkut went into the wolf’s dwelling. So she stayed there. The human wolves fell asleep...
Mitya went to the food warehouse to look. There is no daughter and only one wolf lies there without entrails.
- Oh, what a dirty trick Cuckie is! He even let me steal his daughter - Mitya was indignant and returned to the dugout.
“Kukki, Kukki!” she shouted.
- Ahh!
- Our daughter is gone, there are no wolves either!
- Oh-oh! - Kukki was scared. “Vechovtyn probably did it, he was here recently.”
“There was only one wolf left without entrails.”
“I’ll go put his insides in, revive him, let him go home.”
Kukki sewed the insides of different pieces of meat into the wolf.
- ABOUT! — the Wolf came to life. -Who did this to me?!
“Yes, I did that,” replied Cucchi. - Go home, I woke you up. Our daughter is missing. Probably yours. Bring her, don't detain her.
- Okay, let's bring it.
The Wolf went home. Comes to himself.
- Here I am, mother, meet me!
- Oh, who came? Probably ours, who left yesterday.
“Yes, we left it there; we didn’t know what to do, because it had no entrails,” said Vechovtyn.
- What did they do to you?
“Grandfather put my insides in, woke me up.” Tomorrow, as soon as we wake up, we’ll take their daughter home, otherwise she’ll do something to us again.
“Yes, yes, take her home, take her now,” the old men said.
The wolves went to the raven's home. They came in the evening.
“Wolves, you stay here, I’ll talk first,” said Sinilymnylnakkut.
- Mother, here I come, meet me!
- Oh-oh! - Cukki shouted. - It’s like my mother-in-law has come!
Mitya came out...
- Oh, have you come?
- Yes, she came! The wolves brought me.
- Where are they?
- On the street.
- Tell them to come in.
-Where are you, wolves? Come in!
- No, we won’t go in. Kukki will take revenge. We're in a hurry.
- Well, maybe I can treat you to something?
- No, we are glad that your daughter was brought. I feel sorry for her. You didn't know anything about her.
Mitya led her daughter into the dugout. Kukki is still trembling with fear and is hiding under the bed. Mitya tells him:
- Look, mother has come.
-Where did mother come from?
- Yes, the wolves brought me.
The wolves returned home. They shout:
- Meet me! We came from my grandfather and left our daughter with him.
- What did grandfather say?
- Yes, he’s afraid, he doesn’t show himself.
- Well, that's enough, calm down and don't play around...
Sinilymnylnakkut began to say to Kukki:
- How did you save me?
- Yes, he revived a wolf that had no entrails, and sent him to his brothers. He promised that he would bring his daughter. He says: “I feel sorry for the old woman.” Well, it's good to be back.
I’m finishing telling the tale, this is all I know.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru