B40A. The one who lost his horns. .11.-.13.16.17.21.23.24.26.-.29.31.33.-.35.40.41.43.47.48.50.-.52.68.
Today, a hornless animal loses its horns or is deprived of the opportunity to obtain them. See motif B40.
Bantu-speaking Africa. Ila: Smith, Dale 1920, No. 5 [only horned animals are allowed to attend the festival; the hare pasted their horns with wax, came with the rhinoceros bird, and rightfully sat by the fire; the wax began to melt; the rhino bird became To shout about it, the Hare explained that he wanted the grounds of the beer; but the wax melted, the Hare was shamefully kicked out; (retelling in Werner 1933:291-292)], 19 [when the horns were dismantled, the Zebra continued to eat, was late, stayed hornless; still eats all the time]: 368-360, 386-387; lamba [The elephant invited only horned ones to his beer; the hare cut off the young deer's antlers, glued it, appeared; got drunk; the old hornless Deer came ; whispered to the Hare, "What is glued will come off"; The hare laughs, others ask why; The deer said the same thing out loud; The hare trembled, the horns fell, the Hare ran away]: Doke 1927, No. 41:89-91 (translated in Olderogg 1959:49); nsenga [about like lamb and silt]: Werner 1933:291; bulu [Turtle is Beme's maternal uncle (pig's carp, Potamochoerus porcus); received from his ancestors the art of making horns; called the animals for distribution; B. is sure that his horns are provided, he comes last; all horns are distributed]: Abega 2002:51-53; beti bulu [The turtle is Beme's maternal uncle (pig's hand, Potamochoerus porcus); brought horns from the land of the dead so that animals could defend themselves from humans; set a condition: horned ones should not attack turtles; predators refused to take horns, so enough armed; B. is sure that his horns are provided, he comes last; all horns are distributed; since then he has been digging the ground with his fangs, looking for horns]: Binam Bikoï 1977:23-26; Swahili [for the holiday only horned animals gather; Hyena waxed its horns, came in the morning; when the sun rose, the wax melted; Hyena screamed that some of them would now lose their horns, but others realized it The hyena is a liar, chased her away]: Velten 1898:2 in Arnold 1984:42-43 (=Werner 1933:291).
West Africa. Mandingo [The hare came last, received the shortest tail; the next day they handed out horns, he came first, got the biggest ones; people came to God to complain - the Hare frightens children with its horns; God took the Hare's horns, dragged them by the ears, they became long]: Mendelssohn 1971:202-203; baule [The turtle brought animal horns from the spirits to protect themselves from humans; the pig came late, for decided that her Aunt Turtle would leave her horns; the Turtle had to attach her fangs; since then she has been grumbling and digging the ground in search of horns]: Pozdnyakov 1990:29-30.
Sudan - East Africa. Hadza [The goat asks Daman to lend him horns while he goes to Antelope; she asks the Goat to let her try on one horn, does not give it back; splits both himself and him, now both have two horns, and Daman has horns not returned]: Col-Larsen 1962:104-109.
Western Europe. The French (Haute-Brittany) [cats had horns, oxen and cows did not; a fisherman was carrying a cart of fish; cats asked for fish, the fisherman promised a whole cart if they gave him horns; placed the horns on heads for oxen and cows]: Dähnhardt 1910:125-126 (=Kabakova 1998, No. 36:52-53).
Western Asia. The Sumerians [The fox demanded that god Enlil give her wild bull horns; the wind rose, it rained, the Fox could not get into her hole because of her horns; decided that as soon as it dawned... (text break; apparently Lisa persuaded Enlil to take her horns away)]: Kramer 1965:151
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Knokte [Before pounding the rice, the Dog took off its horns; the Goat grabbed them and placed them on its head; the dog tried to attack the Goat, but it threatened it with horns]: Elwin 1958a, No. 20:382- 383 (=1958b: 423-424); vancho [before being crushed in a mortar, the Dog removed the jewelry from its ears; the Goat stole them, they became its horns; the dog has since been an enemy of goats]: Elwin 1958a, No. 22:383 (=1958b: 424); lakher [the dog had horns; the woman put the meat in a mortar; the dog put its horns aside to reach it; the Goat who ran by picked up the horns; dogs have been barking at goats ever since]: Parry 1932:544; ranks (? Mizoram) [the woman put a piece of meat in the mortar and walked away; the dog tried to eat it, but the horns did not fit into the mortar; she took them off, grabbed the meat; at which time the goat came up and took the horns, and the dog has since hornless]: Borgohain, Roy Chaudhury 1975, No. 16:70; rank [like lakher; Deer carries horns]: approx. Hutton in Parry 1932:544; ao [when the Dog came to the wedding, took off his horns, left them in the hallway; Goat asked permission to vilify them, did not return them; dogs have been chasing goats ever since]: Smith 1926, No. 7:376; naga Burma [the dog had horns, she took them off, threshing the rice, walked away; the goat put it on to have at least some weapon, but placed them not obliquely, but straight, so it must bend down butting; dogs hate goats ]: Zapadova 1977:223-225.
South Asia. Ceylon [The Horse had horns but had no teeth in its upper jaw, and Ox had teeth above and below but no horns; they envied each other and changed]: Dähnhardt 1910:125; baiga [The hare had horns, he pricked Nanga Baiga with them while he was working; the NB grabbed his horns, threw him into the sky; the horns fell off, fell on the deer's head and stayed there; the hare ran to the moon; if from there lure out, the moon will be as bright as the Sun]: Elwin 1939:333; cond (kuttia) [to provide food for people, Rani-aru made sambhar (a large antelope or buffalo), but forgot to make him horns; the horns were hares; The Hare and Sambhar were friends, went swimming, the Hare put their horns on the stone, entered the water; Sambhar came out first, took their horns away]: Elwin 1954, No. 47:364-365; sora (Hill Saora) [people had horns and pets, wild ungulates did not have them; one young man met a girl, others found them, he ran out the door, beat their horns against the lintel; so gradually people lost their horns; sambhar had male horns, deer (Barking deer) - women; that's why men go bald]: Elwin 1954, No. 48:365-366.
Malaysia-Indonesia. Mangaray [Buffalo had no horns, and the Rat had horns, which prevented her from climbing into the hole; she agreed to give them to Buffalo in exchange for wool from his belly]: Burger 1941, No. 10:269.
China - Korea. Chinese: Tishkov 1957 [Yudi invites animals to the Jade Palace to identify those to count by years; the mouse promised to wake the cat up and go together, but left alone; the dragon begged the rooster to lend him horns for a week; the centipede persuaded the rooster to agree; they chose 12: ox, horse, ram, dog, pig, hare, tiger, dragon, snake, monkey, rooster, mouse; let them be the first will be the biggest; the mouse sits on the ox's back, people say, What a huge mouse (no one says What a huge ox), the mouse begins the cycle, the ox is behind it; the dragon did not return the rooster horns, the rooster is now biting centipedes; in his cry you can hear a request to the dragon to return its horns; the cat, offended by the mouse for not waking it up, hunts mice]: 77-79 (=Riftin 1972:27-32; =1987:27-31); Ting Nai-Tung 1978, No. 235A An Animal Borrows Horns, etc., from a Bird or Another Animal, and then refuses to return them. Lots of records (no details); Dähnhardt 1910 [the Dog had horns, not the Deer; he asked the Ducks to ask the Dog to lend him horns to defeat the Goat; the Ducks refused and the Chicken agreed; after receiving horns, the Deer ran into the forest; since then, the chickens have been bubbling, telling the deer to return the dog's horns, and the ducks quack saying they knew how things would happen]: 131; Chinese (Zhejiang) [the rooster had horns; he lent them to the dragon so that he could make an impression in the sky; the dragon did not return them; in the morning the rooster screams, demanding its horns back]: Eberhard 1937, No. 1:13.
The Balkans. Ancient Greece: Gasparov 1968, No. 117 [the camel notices how proud the deer is of its horns; asks Zeus for a horn; Zeus is angry that the camel lacks his height and strength, cuts off the camel's ears]: 98; 1991, No. 9 (19) [the hare asked Jupiter to give him deer-like horns; but under their weight he could not run and was killed by shepherds]: 228; Hungarians [God gave the horse horns but did not give teeth; a hornless cow two rows of teeth; she asked for horse horns to protect her; God and the horse agreed, the cow got horns and gave the horse's (upper) teeth in exchange; the horse grinds its teeth and the cow shakes its horns]: Dä ; hnhardt 1910:125 (shorter in Krappe 1930:62).
Central Europe. Ukrainians (Western) [The cow had teeth but no horns; the horse had horns because it was a trait's creation, but it had no teeth; the Horse and the Cow changed]: Belova 2004a, No. 375:176; Poles (Krakow Province) [when a horse asked a cow to exchange its teeth for horns, the cow gave it teeth from one jaw; therefore, the cow has no teeth on its upper jaw]: Belova 2004a, No. 375:176.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Kumyks [the horse always bragged, the goats asked him to break the rock with his horns; he only broke his horns and has been hornless ever since]: Khalidova 2012, No. 41:59.
Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [the hare had horns and scared everyone; God removed the horns, pulled the rabbit's ears]: Kerbelite 2001:84.
Turkestan. Kazakhs [the deer asked the camel's horns to visit, the horse the tail; everyone says they will give their horns (tail) when the camel grows its tail (horns); the camel drinks, looking around, for waiting return of debtors]: Benningsen 1912 (g. Kobdo) [{is this the original for Sidelnikov?}] : 19-20; Sidelnikov 1958 (1): 172; 1971 (1): 137; Yughurs (Mongolian) [plot known]: P. Rykin, personal report on April 26, 2015, with reference to a Mongolian publication.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Telengites [the camel had horns like a maral, a tail like a horse; the maral borrowed its horns, the horse borrowed the tail to go to the wedding; both did not return it; so the camel, when drinking, looks around to see if they are going return]: Yadanova 2013, No. 19:169 (=Oinotkinova et al. 2011, No. 50:161); Tuvans: Alekseev et al. 2010, No. 26 [the maral asked the horse to give him horns in exchange for a mane and tail; he gladly agreed]: 77; Vatagin 1971 [Maral goes to the party, asks Camel to lend him his horns at the watering hole; the horse goes to the races, asks for a tail; both do not give it back; since then Camel has rarely drunk, Maral loses horns every year (they are stolen), Horse doesn't like dating Camel]:? (=Hadahane 1984:109-110; =Dachshunds 1988:205-206); Kalzan 1964 [the camel had horns and a mane with a tail; the camel drank water greedily, the horse asked him for a mane and tail for a day, the maral asked for horns, both they did not return it; since then, the camel has been drinking less and less, but looking to see if the horse and the maral are in front of him]: 137-138; Khalkha Mongols [V.A. Kazakevich's report on a trip to the Gobi in 1924; the deer asked for a camel lend him his horns and did not give him back; they began to fall off every spring as punishment for deception]: Nosov 2014:217; Mongols: Potanin 1881, No. 27 [the camel ate people, he had maral horns; one khan He put a wooden stick in his nose, tied a leash, carried firewood and dung on it; a maral (Cervus Elaphus), who had horns like a reindeer (Cervus tarandus), went to the wedding of a lion and a tiger, asked the camel for a while; did not return it; the camel now looks around, raising his head high to see if the maral is coming; the maral loses its horns every year because strangers]: 167-168; Skorodumova 2003 [y The camel had horns and a lush tail; the deer borrowed its horns to go to the animal meeting, the horse borrowed its tail, both did not return; when the Camel drinks, it spins, seeing its reflection, and looks around to see if the deer are coming and a horse; deer antlers fall off every year because strangers]: 52-53; Taube 2004, No. 12 (Suhebatorsky aimag) [The deer borrowed Camel's horns and did not return it; when the Camel drinks, he looks around to see if the Deer is coming]: 24; Oirats (Xinjiang) [the motif corresponds to the fairy tale "Camel" from the collection "Betege caγān boqširγ", published in 1981 in Urumqi in the Xinjiang Oirat Folklore series {without details; original verification required}]: Ubushiyeva, Damrinjav 2020:16; Dagurs [the horned camel despised the hornless deer; when visiting the tiger, he asked for horns; the camel borrowed; the deer I wanted to return it, but I saw wolves by the river and went to the forest; the camel still does not want to look at its reflection in the water, but looks up and around to see if the deer is coming]: Kevin et al. 1994:83-84.
Western Siberia. Mansi [The elk consults his wife who to give a free pair of horns; Moose advises to give it to a deer relative; there is a couple more, the Hare asks to give it to him to frighten enemies; she fell on the Hare's head a bump, he ran in fear, entangled in the bushes with horns; everyone laughs, the Elk gives the Hare long ears instead of horns]: Paderina, Plitchenko 1986:91-92.
The Arctic. Caribou [The Musk Ox gave his horns to the Walrus, who gave him his fangs; but it turned out that his fangs were cracking all the time in the cold; he gave them back to Walrus with their horns back]: Boas 1901, No. 4:307; the Eskimos Labrador [the woman everyone wanted to die, then wanted to become a stone; the raven flew over her three times and croaked, she became petrified; Superguksoak made her shoes a walrus and her pants - caribou; the spots on the caribou skin were the ones on the clothes; the walrus first had horns and damaged kayaks, and the caribou had fangs, he killed hunters; S. did the opposite]: Hawkes 1916:160; Baffinova Earth [a woman makes a walrus out of her seal skin jacket, a caribou out of her pants; crowns her caribou head with fangs, a walrus with horns; a caribou kills a man; a woman gives walrus fangs, caribou horns, makes the caribou head flat, makes people afraid]: Boas 1901b, No. 3:167-168.
Subarctic. Tagish, inner Tlingits, southern tutchoni, helmet [Animal Mother gives birth to commercial animals; rocking them on moose skin between four mountains, gives rise to current ones features; before that, the Rabbit had horns; Animal Mother gives them to Moose; scary fangs from the upper jaw Moose gives the Grizzly]: McClelland 1975 (2): 454-456; 1987:257; tagish [the rabbits had horns , they played with them; Rabbit Mother didn't like it, she took them away from them]: McClelland 2007, No. 37:209; Chipewayan [Moose and Rabbit were the same size and had no name; fighting for the right to be the elk; the elk wins; when it falls into the fire, it burns its ass; the rabbit hits the fire with its hind legs; they are so stretched out that he could not be a moose]: Goddard 1912, No. 10:59.
The coast is the Plateau. Tillamook; alsea; clickitat.
Southeast USA. Chirokee; choctaw [The Ox Frog had horns, the Deer begged him to borrow them, did not return them, the Ox Frog has been roaring ever since, regretting what he lost; since then he has rushed to live in a hole without a tail, his wife wore him e-because the Deer did a bad thing, he must drop his horns every year]: Mould 2004:203-204.
California. Yurok; pomo (kashaya); nisenan; coastal mivok.
The Great Southwest.
Seri [cotton-tail first had antlers; they clung to the bushes; so their horns were taken away]: Moser, Marlett s.a.NW Mexico. Huichol.
Mesoamerica Tepehua; mountain areas; cakchikel; tsotsil; canhobal; acatec; chuh; jacaltecs; tojolabal.
Southern Amazon. Paresi [Tapir has large horns; the Deer invites him to race; Tapir is entangled in the thickets, gives antlers to the Deer, they do not interfere with it]: Pereira 1987, No. 114:601-603.