Samoyedic Tale 6

Samoyedic Tale 6

A man kills his wife, because the ptarmigans promised him he would get rich if he does so. After killing his wife, the man deceives a Khanty leader into believing that he, the Khanty leader, has killed the woman. Willing to compensate the man for his loss, the Khanty leader offers his daughter as a wife for the man. Afterwards, the man kills a shaman and deceives two hunters and, later, also a Khanty in another camp into believing his story about the death of the woman. Later, the same man tricks his former neighbors into burying their property and themselves, comes back to his two wives and sons, and begins to live there in wealth.