There lived in the taiga on the banks of a large river one Evenk hunter with his wife and child. One evening the wife went far from the plague to pick grass for insoles in oloch. She tore up grass in the dark and pulled someone’s hair. The woman was frightened, then realized that it was a man lying hidden.
[Olochi - summer shoes of the Evenks.]
- Oh, what strong grass this land has! - speaks. -I'll go somewhere else to-
And she went into her tent. I told my husband. He says:
- The Changits, however, are in ambush. They are waiting for us to fall asleep.
[The Changits are a hostile tribe.]
The woman began to pinch her child's ears. The child began to cry.
A woman shouts to her husband:
- The child got burned. There is deer blood in the boat. Go get it!
The child is crying, and the man is carrying things to the shore and putting them in the boat. I've already dismantled the chum and moved it to the boat.
—Where can a deer find blood in a boat? However, go and look for it yourself! - he shouts.
The woman and child ran to the boat to look for blood from the deer. She came running, the three of us got into the boat and swam away.
When they sailed far from the shore, the woman began to sing:
- Changits, I deceived you. You will never find us!
The Changits heard it and began shooting arrows in the direction of the river in the darkness. How will you get there in the dark?
So the Evenks sailed away, and the Changits were left with nothing. That’s why the old people say: “The Evenks have always beaten and deceived the Changits. There is no one stronger and more cunning than the Evenks in the taiga.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru