F73B. The bear lets himself be shattered, ATU 153. .15.16.27.-.29.31.
A person tells a wolf or bear that his ox or horse is strong because he has been neutered. A wolf or bear allows himself to be castrated, but is going to do the same to a person the next day. When a man shows his wife, the predator believes he has already been neutered.
Spaniards, French, Germans, Hungarians, Russians, Ukrainians (Ruthenians), Poles, Czechs, Ingush, Finns, Estonians, Seto, Veps, Livons, Latvians, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Eastern Sami.
Southern Europe. The Spaniards [a fox and a wolf ask a man who plows two donkeys; why one is fat and the other is skinny; the plowman: because the fat man is single; the fox and the wolf ask to do this to them but; the fox is the first, pretending that it does not hurt that the wolf should allow himself to be castrated; both came to the man to see if he was neutered; he exposed his wife, the wolf and the fox believed that yes, he was neutered]: Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 153:265-266
Western Europe. French: Delarue, Tenèze 1976, No. 38 [the ploughman's wife explains to the bear that surgery is not painful and castrates him], 153 [a person responds to a wolf or bear that his oxen are strong because who is neutered; he allows himself to be castrated; when he comes to see if the person himself is neutered, he exposes his wife; the wolf (bear) laments: what a big wound]: 200-201; 420-421; Germans (Schleswig-Holstein): Uther 2004 (1), No. 153:106
The Balkans. Hungarians [a person tells a bear that a horse or ox is strong because it is neutered; the bear lets himself be shattered and promises to come tomorrow to perform the same operation on a person; instead The husband's wife comes; the bear decides to heal the "wound" he sees, leaves the fox to drive away flies from the wound, goes away for ointment himself; the woman starts wiping out loudly, the frightened fox runs away and the bear too]: Ková cs 1987, No. 153:276.
Central Europe. Russians (the place of recording is not specified) [the hunter gives the goblin a bullet instead of nuts; explains that only those who are emptied can gnaw; pinched between aspens, tore off the goblin tusticula, then gave a nut; at home, tells his wife to go dry the sheep instead of him; two goblins come to see if the hunter is really single; they leave when they see the woman's vulva and think that the hunter's wound is even greater than the one he inflicted goblin]: Afanasiev 1992, No. 25:37-38; Ukrainians (Ruthenians) [Freezing a bear: to become strong, a bear, according to a person, must, like a horse, be cold; bear Demands that a person also emasculate himself; a person sends a wife to him instead]: SUS 1979, No. 153:77; Poles [a peasant single bear who believes that this will make him stronger; when comes to a peasant, he shows him his wife]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 153:63; Czechs: Uther 2004 (1), No. 153:106.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ingush [seeing the ploughman, the bear saw the strength of the oxen; the peasant: they are strong because they are emptied; the bear asks him to be emptied; after performing the operation, the peasant tells the bear before sunrise run through the dew and then lie on her back on a sunny slope; the fox promised the moaning bear to avenge him, but the peasant broke her paw; the gadfly decided to take revenge, but the peasant stuck a straw in his ass; after that, bears, foxes and gadflies began to live high in the mountains]: Malsagov 1973, No. 152:289-290.
Baltoscandia. Estonians: Kippar 1986, No. 153 (including setu) [a man tells a bear that the oxen he plows on are strong because they are neutered; the bear asks to hunt him up; the next day he wants to hunt him up do the same to a man, but he sends a wife instead; a bear takes the vulva for a wound], 243.4 [The crow sees an old maiden, a shepherdess, a mare sleeping by the fence (by the haystack); screams, Oh, a wound! Magpie replies that this wound cannot be healed]: 111-121, 161; Norwegians [the bear allows a man to tear himself apart on the condition that he then oscopes with the person; he sends a wife instead]: Hodne 1984, No. 153:41; the Swedes [bear (cannibal giant) believes that the ox and horse are strong because they are neutered; the bear allows himself to be castrated]: Liungman 1961, No. 153:22; Danes, Finns , Livons: Uther 2004 (1), No. 153:106; Veps: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 153:220; Eastern Sami (Inari): Qvigstad 1925, No. 153:11.