Samoyedic Tale 1
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Samoyedic Tale 1
Description
A boy loses his family, because they do not trust his views about the necessity of reindeer sacrifice. The orphaned boy ends up marrying a woman in a community where the same man kills him three times. Another man with only one leg, one arm, and one eye, always comes to save him. After the third time, the orphaned protagonist kills the whole community except his wife and her parents and again dies fighting with the man who has already killed him three times. The protagonist gets his life back in the underworld, where the one-legged man takes his bones to be burned to ashes by a woman. He gets married to the woman in the Otherworld, comes back to this world and loses both his wives and relatives after slaying the man who had killed him as well as the one-legged man.
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