This story happened to one traveler. One cold winter day, a man was driving along the road and got a little lost. The places were unfamiliar to him, so he wandered for a long time and finally got out to one small alas, where in the middle there was a booth, from the chimney of which smoke billowed.
The man was very cold and was very glad that he found a warm shelter for the night, but the behavior of the owners was more than strange.
Usually, our ancestors who lived at a distance from each other rejoiced at the arrival of each person, especially if he came with an overnight stay and could slowly talk about this and that. No wonder, instead of a greeting, they used to say: “Tuoh sonun? Kapsae "(" What news? Tell me ").
For some reason, the owners of this booth did not respond to his greeting, did not ask him about anything, and they themselves kept silent, to all his attempts to make them talk, they only waved them off with their hands. However, as befits the hospitable hosts, they cooked the meat and fed the guest to their fill. Then the hostess put away the dishes and, before going to sleep in her own half, for some reason put on the table two kytya dishes filled with boiled horse brisket - oyogos and another large bowl of soup.
The man was very surprised by this, but did not ask anything, anyway, they would not answer.
Finally, everyone, both the hosts and the guest-honoso, settled down. Night has come. The guest, despite the terrible fatigue, could not sleep. The strange silence of the owners (they all seemed to be afraid of something), the table set for someone's meal - all this greatly alerted the man. He lay there, pretending to fall asleep, but in fact, vigilantly listening to everything. And, according to the Yakut custom, he put a sharp hunting knife under his pillow.
After midnight, the door leading to the hoton (cowshed) was opened with a terrible grinding, and a large, dark figure, similar to a human, with hair sticking out in all directions, and something in fur, appeared from there. A terrible stench was clearly emanating from the figure.
The night stranger went to the table and in one fell swoop poured the soup into himself, then, munching and making uterine sounds, began to gnaw the meat.
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Our traveler, by this terrible smell, immediately understood that this was none other than the abaasy-deryetinnik himself. And, pulling out his knife from under the pillow, he threw it at the monster. Immediately there was a heart-rending inhuman cry, and the deryetinnyik jumped out into the street and that strength rushed towards the forest.
Everyone woke up, jumped out of the orons. The owner threw wood into the embers of the fire. The knife, half in the blood, was stuck in the threshold of the booth. The men who ran out into the street saw the bloody footprints of huge feet leading into the forest.
The hosts who finally spoke up did not know how to thank the random guest who saved them from this terrible misfortune - abaasy-deryetinnyike, who had been living with them for a year now and distinguished by inhuman gluttony. He ate them, destroyed all their supplies, and if anyone spoke up, he instantly ate that person. Therefore, fearing the anger of the abaasy, the owners were silent. And now, fortunately for them, a brave man was finally found who was not afraid to engage in battle with evil spirits and managed to turn him to flight.
Such cases, when deryetinniks (as the Yakuts called the spirit, ghosts, usually the dead who were not buried in time, stuck between worlds) settled in someone's house and did not give the owners live, were frequent and are present in Yakut legends and bikes. In the event that desperate people in the middle of winter moved to another alas in the hope that the uninvited roommate would lag behind them, even this did not help to get rid of the annoying abaasy. He usually moved with them.
Only an accident, as it happened in our history, could help to get rid of such a scourge forever.
Yana PROTODYAKONOVA