A35B. Cover the moon with resin .28.31.

The character tries to cover the moon with resin to make it less bright.

(Kashubians), Russians (Arkhangelsk), Swedes, Livonians, Estonians, leaders, Karelians, Western Sami.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors): When Cain killed Abel, he saw it for a month and told the sun; after learning that his crime had been solved for a month, K. smeared the month with resin, climbing with a bucket and with a lipstick; during this month he drew him towards him and he can be seen there; previously the month was as bright as the sun]: Holy 1913:22 (a brief retelling of Belova 2004a: 126); (cf. Kashubas [the moon is the chariot wheel on which Heavenly Prince Michael was chasing the devil; the wheel fell off from a quick chase; black spots on the moon are traces of grease from the axle]: Gura 2006:469 (=Gura 2010 : 41).

Baltoscandia. The Swedes [every time the old man and the old woman were going to steal, the moon was shining; they decided to smear it with tar; when they climbed onto the moon, they stayed there; on the moon you can see a bucket of tar and two figures on parties]: Balzamo 2011, No. 9:19; the Livs [a thief and his wife from the edge of the forest climbed onto the moon to cover it with resin; God left them on the moon with a pot of resin and a brush]: Loorits 1926, No. 7:81; Estonians: Jõeveer 1972 [Saarema: In winter, two thieves went to steal, the moon was shining brightly; they took a barrel of resin, began to paint over the moon; they stuck to the resin; you can see there is a barrel of resin between them]: 30; Kuperjanov 2003 [out of harm or to cover up a crime, villains smear resin on the moon to reduce its light; they stick to tar or are drawn to the moon as punishment; the criminal is a thief (everywhere) femicide (southern Estonia)]: 72; counselors: Ariste 1974, No. 3 [The rainbow drinks water from the lake or the sea; the girl went to the well to get water, the rainbow drank from there, sucked the girl; now she can be seen from with a rocker arm and buckets on the moon]: 5 (=1977, No. 19:175; translated into Konkova 2009:97); Ernits, Ernits 1984 [a woman with a rocker arm and buckets is visible on the moon]: 579; 2012 [three thieves were disturbed by moonlight; they climbed Cover the moon with resin, and they stayed there]: 94; Karelians [there is a story about people who tried to store resin on the moon]: Pentikäinen 1978:310; Western Sami [evil Hatsjaedne decided steal the only sheep from a good neighbor; to prevent the moon from shining brightly, tell her daughter to become a bird, take a bucket of resin, cover the moon; the moon draws her, she can be seen there with a bucket and brush]: Billson 1918:188 -189; Pentikäinen 1997 [the moon god is Mánnu; it used to be as light as day in the moonlight; a thief with a bucket of tar climbed to cover it, but he stuck and is still visible there with the bucket]: 108; Simonsen 2014 ( Sweden) [two women live together, have a good son and daughter, an angry daughter; an angry one suggests going for berries: whoever fills the basket faster, takes the child with another; puts moss in the basket, berries on top; picks up the boy, leaves his daughter in his place, goes to live far away; when the young man has grown up, does not tell him to go over the mountain; he goes, sees a woman with two girls in the house; quietly throws a piece into the cauldron venison; returning to her imaginary mother, makes a big fire and throws it at him; she turned into a beetle, flew to the deer, but on the full moon she can be seen; so she took the tar and flew to paint over the moon; but she grabbed her; a woman can be seen on the moon holding a bucket of resin]: 34-38.