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coming to a house where her brother and husband were staying. Her sister-in-law tried to keep her out as a beggar woman, but her husband said she could tell stories. She told her own, and they unwrapped the baby and saw she had told the truth. Her brother tied his wife to the tail of a mare; it returned with only her braid, the rest strewn over the field. They harnessed the horses and went back to the husband's mother and father.
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556:The Norka
521:The Fiend
35:Косоручка
570:Verlioka
344:Tales in
169:See also
103:Variants
86:Synopsis
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