H46. Dog share. 26.-.29.31.-.37.

God takes away people's bread as punishment, but leaves some for the animal (usually a dog), so cereals still exist.

French (Upper Vosges), (Bretons), Chinese (Shanxi), Slovenes, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Romanians, Gagauz people, Poles, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Tver, Bryansk, Kursk), Belarusians, Ukrainians (Volyn and the whole West, Kiev, Chernigov, Poltava, Kharkiv), Ossetians [for the horse's sake], Armenians, Latvians, Karelians, Komi, Udmurts, Mari, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Kazakhs, Dungans, Altaians, Khakas, Buryats, Oirats (merchants, durbuts), Mongols, Mongors, Siberian Tatars, Turukhan Evenks, Yakuts, Manchus.

China - Korea. The Chinese (Shanxi, W. Linfen) [at first, the wheat had several spikelets on the stem; the heavenly lord sent the barn god to inspect, and he dressed up as a poor old man; came to the house, whose mistress was cooking, and played nearby the child, his toys were made from the misfortune of flour; the child defecated; the mother took a bun and rubbed it with it; when the barn god reported what he had seen, the heavenly lord decided to take the wheat from the people; everyone The dog was more hungry, it began to bark at the sky; the god of the hearth felt pity for people; began to ask for forgiveness for people; the Heavenly Lord refused, but decided that the dog really suffered innocently, commanded give her half a grain of wheat; the barn god began to cut the grain in two, but Venus god Taibo said that if you give a dog half a grain, the wheat would not be able to multiply; you'd better welcome a whole grain, and then wheat will be able to multiply, and if it is not enough, people will appreciate it; His Eminence ordered that only one ear grow on one stem, and the grains are oblong and kept a knife mark, reminding people of a mistake; people, remembering the lesson, began to treat wheat carefully and did not give it to the dog; it had to eat leftovers; it feels offended and barks at people at sight]: Zhou Yang et al. 1999, No. 12:20-21; (cf. a fox [grains of rice were the size of a human head; it was necessary to eat three times a month and harvest every 12 years; one woman wiped the baby with rice; the spirit of Dza-ni rice flew to heaven, people and pets are starving; the dog reached heaven, saw a pile of rice in the residence of the supreme god Vusa, rolled in it, ran back; when it sailed through Salwen, most rice it washed away, but she brought three of them to the owner and new rice was grown from them; but since then, the grains are small, you have to harvest every year and eat often; on the 15th day of the second moon, they celebrate the New Rice Harvest ; dogs are given grains, vegetables and meat; depending on what they choose, more attention should be paid to growing cereals, vegetables or raising livestock this year]: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994:233 -234).

Western Europe. The French (Upper Vosges) [a rye ear started from the ground, but God decided to punish people for their transgressions, leaving only straw; one angel asked if the dog and cat were also to blame; God replied no; then let an ear be left at the end of the stem with as much grain as people leave to dogs and cats; God agreed]: Kabakova 1998, No. 98:112-113; (cf. The Bretons (Morbihan) [at first the ear began from the ground; but for the sins of the people, Jesus decided to starve them and began to peel off the seeds from below; St. The Virgin stopped him so that people would have at least a little bit left]: Guillaume 1902, No. 3:56).

The Balkans. Slovenes [the earth gave birth to a lot of grain, people did not appreciate it; God cursed the earth; people and animals began to ask God for help, God did not forgive; the last dog came running with his tongue out, became beg God; God gave an ear as long as her tongue; before, an ear grew from the ground; people did not value bread, mothers wiped their children with ears; God reduced the ear, leaving grains only for the dog]: Belova 2004:442 (according to Stoilov, dep. ott.); (cf. Slovenes [once cows had udders in their entire belly and had milk "like water"; people were proud - women bathed their children in milk and washed themselves with it; then God took the cow's udder, but cats meowed and begged God to leave the cow a few nipples]: Fat 2004:284); Bulgarians: Kovachev 1914 [the sky was low; the reaper wiped the baby with her hand and wiped her hand against the sky; the offended sky became get up with ears of ears that were half covered with grains at the time; the dog jumped and held part of the ear; since then heaven and God are far away, the ear is small, and what the dog eats is halal] : 16; Marinov 2003 [the ear was full of grains from root to crown; the woman wiped the child with an ear, God destroyed the ear; some returned when the dog asked to leave some for her]: 88; Macedonians: Ortenzio 2008, No. 3 [there were seven ears of bread on each cereal; the woman wiped the baby with a cake, God decided to deprive people of bread as punishment, but the dog begged them to leave a little for her], 4 [as in (3), an ear from earth to crown]: 131, 132; Gagauz people [the sky was at the height of human height, an ear of wheat went from root to top; the reaper wiped the deceived child against the sky; God raised the sky up with him, along with him took the harvest; the dog grabbed the tip of the ear and kept it in its mouth]: Moshkov 1901:52; Romanians: Brill, Ispas 2005 {translation and localization of N.G. Golant's records}, No. 10907 (Muntenia) [the ear was from lands; the Tatars attacked, burned the fields, people fled into the forests; the dog snatched one ear out of the fire, brought it to people; when these grains were sown, wheat grew with an ear only above - so much the dog captured with his mouth; therefore, the dog must be given plenty of bread], 10908 (Transylvania) [Noah got off the ark, began to sow, the ear was off the ground; people became angry, for which God took an ear, began to shake it off; when his hand came to the top of the stem, God decided that he would leave the birds of heaven without food; so the ear remained only at the top], 10909 (Olthenia) [God created wheat with an ear from the ground, gave it to the dog; she ate only top, so God made the ear short], 10910 (Transylvania) [the wheat was with an ear off the ground; the woman wiped the child with wheat stalks; God decided to take the ear; people begged him to feel sorry for at least the birds ; God left only a (short) ear; var.: the woman was Jewish, so the wheat sown by Jews does not grow and there are no Jewish farmers], 10911 (Moldova) [the corn cob and ear of wheat were from land; one woman mocked the grains, God took the cereals; the Mother of God grabbed a part, ordered them to leave as much as necessary for the cat and dog; therefore, they must be treated well]: 229-231; Niculiţă-Voronca 2008 [God at the beginning of the world gave bread, such that the cob was from ground to top, ear from root to top; one woman mocked bread, God grabbed corn and wheat to people had nothing to eat; the Mother of God grabbed the ear and the cob with her hand and said: "Lord, have pity, at least leave as much as you need for the cat and the dog!" And how much she grabbed in her hand then, the corn and ear were left]: 130.

Central Europe. Poles: Belova 2004 [the reason for the end of the era of abundance is the use of pancakes, grains, ears instead of wiping or instead of a broom, refusing to ask the wanderer for food; as a savior the ear is most often the Mother of God; the reason for the decrease in the ear is God's anger at people; Helm: the cat cries and says that there will be no more bread, because God wants to destroy everything as punishment for human sins; God leaves a portion of bread to the cat; therefore, "as much bread as the cat cried"]: 441-442; Sumtsov 1890b [the rye ear was twice as large; the Mother of God came to beg for alms; the woman said she would rather give a piece of cake for the dog; the Virgin cut off the top of the ear as much as her hand grabbed, the rest was preserved thanks to Christ's intercession]: 12; Russians (Bryansk) [many options; the ear grew from the ground; God punishes a lazy reaper or punishes sins; a dog and a cat ask for a share]: Belova 2004:495-498; Russians: Belova, Kabakova 2014, No. 335 (Kurskaya) [the bread had many ears; the woman wiped the child with a pancake; the Lord starved for three years; people drove the dogs out of the house - there was nothing to feed; the Lord asked why they were howling; returned the ear, but only one per stem], 336 (Tverskaya) [= Cherepanova 1996, No. 423, Ostashkovsky, Ovinets, 1991; the woman wiped the child with a pancake; the Lord began to rip off the grains from the ear; the cat and the dog prayed, the Lord left part of the grain for them, told people feed a dog and cat]: 216, 216-217; Russians (Arkhangelskaya: Kargopol) [the ear grew from the ground; God punishes people for their sins, leaves some to the innocent dog and cat]: Belova 2004:495-498; Belarusians: Belova 2004 [everywhere, many options; the ear grew from the ground; the woman wiped the baby with a pancake; God began to rip off the grains, but left some for the dog and cat]: 477-495; Volodina 2017 [ God sent a flood for people's transgressions; the cat stood with its paw on an ear and thus preserved grain for people]: 166; Dobrovolsky 1891, No. 58 (Smolensk Gubernia) [the lazy woman complained that the ears were heavy; God removed the ear, left some at the dog's request]: 289; Shane, pp. 357-358 in Azbelev 1992, No. 316 [the reapers complained that the ears were heavy; God decided to leave only stems; The dog begged to preserve its share]: 457-458; Shane, pp. 359-360 in Azbelev 1992, No. 317 (Hrodna Gubernia) [Each stem had two ears; God, disguised as a beggar, begged for alms; the man ordered to put in the bag what was lying around - ears and crusts; rye degenerated; God gave the dog and cat a stalk with one ear ; man took it for himself; man picks up bread crumbs, but dogs and cats don't]: 458; Ukrainians: Belova 2004, No. 996 (Volyn) [the ear was from the ground with grain; Christ with Peter and Paul, saw a woman in the field; Christ asked her for bread; she wiped bread on the baby's ass and gave it to Christ; he said that there would be no more bread; Peter grabbed the ear with his hand, asked him to leave it for dogs and cats; how much He covered his hand, the ear remained so long]: 446-447; Bulashev 1909:372-373 (Starobelsky Uyezd) [people ate linden leaves and bark, God gave wheat to the dog, because it howled with hunger; the man snatched from dogs from their mouths, an ear thrown from the sky, began to sow; therefore, it is a sin to kill a dog], 373 (Kupyansky County) [the ear began from the ground, ears were cut with an awl; Christ with St. Peter, in the form of wanderers, went to the woman to beg for alms; she wiped the traces left by the child with a pancake, threw the pancake to those who asked; Christ began to sniff his ear from the bottom up; the dog began to howl, Petro begged her to leave the grains for her share], 373-374 (Kupyansky County) [Peter and the Savior walked as beggars; the woman snatched a piece of bread from under the child, gave them; the Savior began to sniff his ear, the dog howled, The Savior left a dog's share on two tops]; Strizhevsky 1905 (Poltava) [the bread stalk was covered with grains; the Lord went into the house to beg; the woman served bread that she had just wiped child; the Lord and Peter began to rise into the air, taking the bread with them; the dog asked to leave it for her share; the Lord left what he had not yet ripped off]: 163; Sumtsov 1890b [was a stocked bread; Savior, Peter and Paul walked in the form of beggars, asking the woman for mercy, and she gave a piece of bread with which she wiped the child; God ripped off the wheat from bottom to top, but left some for the dogs]: 12.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [Batradz brags that he killed the son of the lord of bread Khor Aldar Burkhor Ali; as a sign of the correctness of his words, the Huatsamong bowl flies up to his lips; H. himself hides in Braga, jumps out, furious clenches a barley stem with 6 ears; Uastyrji asks to leave one ear for his horse; since then, barley has one ear]: Liberinsky 1978:340; Armenians: Harutyunyan 2007 [the sky was close to the ground; the woman wiped the child with an ear of wheat, threw an ear into the sky; the sky deprived the wheat of an ear; the dog began to howl, asking for bread; the sky took pity, allowed the wheat to have a small ear; people their share was taken away from dogs]: 364; Lisitsyan 1992 (Nagorno-Karabakh, 1920s records) [the sky was so close that it touched the ground, and God walked on the ground and talked to people; cereals reached the sky right from the ground, without stems, in long ears; an old woman with a child in her arms walked through the field; the child defecated; the old woman began to look for something to wipe him off; tore off several ears (according to another version, Dzamdzor, took out lavash bread) and wiped the child with them, but so carelessly threw it back dirty ears that fell into the sky; there was thunder, and the sky rose miserably; God's angry voice was heard: "From now on, none of the people will see me except the righteous"; they reached for the sky up and ears, but the dogs began to howl plaintively; God took pity on them and left a small ear at the tops of the elongated stems]: 167-168.

Baltoscandia. Latvians: Brivzemniaks 1887, No. 40 (Livonia) [bread plants consisted of only ears; one woman wiped a baby with a hump; God forbid ears to grow; the dog begged him to leave an ear as long as it fits in her mouth]: 43-44; Pogodin 1895 [ears were up to the ground; God collected alms; the woman baked pancakes, wiped the child with a pancake, told God that it was better than giving a beggar; God destroyed the ear, but the dog and cat asked them to leave it for them; as many as they grabbed in their mouths were left]: 438; Karelians [there used to be an ear on every section of the cereal stem; Syöjätär: and why so much, their hands are pricked when you knit a sheaf; God threw ears into the fire, but the dog managed to grab one: what am I going to eat? Therefore, dogs have a black nose - taking the ear out of the fire, the nose is burnt]: Pentikäinen 1978:311.

Volga - Perm. Komi [children were born able to walk and talk; lost this gift after one of them's mother insulted bread and the sky, which could then be reached by wiping the child's ass pancake and sticking it to the sky; after that, humans lost super-fertile agriculture, and the sky moved far from the ground]: Konakov 1999:43 (=Limerov 2005, No. 40:43), 438 (No. 10 [let one ear remain on the ground - for dogs]); (cf. Limerov 2005, No. 44 [small people lived as tall as a child; they plowed a plough the size of a spoon, the horse was as tall as a sheep; their land was good, the ear started from the roots; one stung barley, tired, began to swear, let Chomor reap; C. asks what kind of barley is needed - with a finger long; C. cut everything off, only left an ear at the tip]: 44); the Udmurts [the ear began from the ground; to punish for disrespectful attitude towards bread, Kyldysin left only empty ears (then the quote is cut off, apparently K. leaves the top of the ear for the dog)]: Pervukhin 1888 in Shutova 2001:217; mari: Aktsorin 1991, No. 19 [rye had large ears; gods lived on treetops; the reaper hung a dirty baby diaper on a branch; the gods were offended, rose high into the sky, only left for the dog and cat rye has a small ear]: 52-53; Ödön 1937, No. 5 [the woman wiped the baby with bread; God said the bread would no longer ripen; a dog was there and God agreed for him a little leave bread; so people are alive only because of the dog]: 150-151; Chuvash: Meszaros 2000 (southern, Çn Elpuç village, Tsivilsky District, Kazan Gubernia, 1906-1908) [At first, when people were not plowing, sowing, or knowing the grain, God showed man rye with ears full of grains from root to top and asked him, "Do you need this?" ; the man replied: "No need, I'll live without it!" ; after these words, the ears, starting from the roots, shrunk by about one elbow; God asked again, "Do you need this?" ; the man replied that it was not necessary; the ears shrunk by one more elbow; when God asked a third time, the dog barked: Hamm! ; so the rye's ear remained, otherwise it would have disappeared]: 99; Yukhma 1996 [Silyuk was lazy; the ear started from the ground; Tangar asks S. three times if he needed bread, he replies every time he did not; the ear is all decreases; the dog has time to answer what is needed; thanks to her, the bread remained]: 91-92; Kazan Tatars [the sky was close to the ground; the woman wiped the child's ass with straw and plugged this straw across the sky ; the sky was offended, it began to rise; the cat and the dog began to beg him not to move away from the ground; when they heard their pleas, the sky stopped rising, but did not approach the previous distance]: Gilyazutdinov 2015, NO. 268:264.

Turkestan. Kazakhs (Tarbagatay) [people and horses ate grass, people had no choice; God began to send people cereals from the sky; the boy stayed in the yurt, got dirty, hid the sewage in a bag of cereal; God began to send snow instead of cereals, people began to eat each other; a one-eyed three-legged big-eared man remained; he was thin, returned to the camp, found a girl and a dog there; the girl told that God was the dog gave two grains a day, she gave one to the hostess; began to eat every other day, and sowed some of the grains; from them the current cereals, from the marriage of a girl with one-eyed people]: Ivanovsky 1890b: 264-265; Dungans ( Gansu) [cereals spiked from root to top of their head, women wiped their children with bread; Allah sent the immortal to tear off the grain to the top of the stem, the dog begged her to leave some; so the cereals had an ear; the immortal asks the Dog if it wants to get what is outside or what is inside; The cat advises taking what is inside; when sifting, the flour spills out, the bran stays in the sieve; the dog eats bran, hates the Cat]: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 39:212-213.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Altaians [Baba wiped the child with a cake, threw it on the ground, the cake was eaten by dogs; God raised bread to heaven; the dog began to howl, asked to leave her bread; God left five ears from them current ones are happening]: Khokholkov 1997:14; Khakas (Kachins) [a naked man lived on earth without a soul; Khudai went for his soul, put a naked dog to the man; when he left, Irlik Khan came, his dog was not lets him in; he covered her with hair, she let him go to the man; Irlik Khan spat on the man; Thin returned, failed to clean the man, turned him inside out, drooled inside; Thin breathed into the man soul; then I. began to ask X. for land; he did not give; for I. to fall behind, H. gave land to stick a stake; I. pulled out the stake, the snakes crept out of this place; so the snakes and other reptile worms spread; soul, H. made man herbivorous; let a mare with a foal and a woman with a child into the steppe; the mare pinched the tops of the grasses, and the woman ate the grass along with the ground; H. sees: after a woman, even grass grows it will not be; then H. made the man eat wheat; the ear grew from the very root; the woman baked bread, the child got dirty; she wiped it with pancake pancakes; H. began to cut off his ear, but the dog howled that she will eat; H. felt sorry for her, left the tip of the ear - the dog's share; the man knew the time of death; one was supposed to die in the fall, began to make a grass fence - enough for his life; H. decided that man he will drink everything, leave nothing for the children; he made sure that now the person does not know about the time of his death; Irlik Khan sent a mosquito the size of a bull to the ground to find out whose blood tastes better; it turned out that humans ; the mosquito sat down to rest, the swallow asked to show her tongue, tore it off; the mosquito tried to grab it, but only tore off part of its tail, now it is split; the mosquito flew underground but could not tell anything Irlik Khan; he got angry, hit him, ordered him to become a thousand mosquitoes; this is how mosquitoes appeared]: Mindibayeva et al. 2016, No. 1:77-81; Buryats (Balagansky, Zap. Khangalov) [grains used to grow all over the bread stalk; the woman wiped the child's ass with bread; God began to peel off the grains; the dog asked to leave her a pie; this is the current ear]: Gomboev 1890, No. 31:84-85 ( retelling to Tugutov, Tugutov 1992, No. 24:81); Oirats: Ivanovsky 1890b (Tarbagatay traders) [people ate grass like horses; God was afraid that they would eat everything, began to send people flour; little boy dipped in a kibitka, hid the novists in a bag of flour; God began to send snow instead of flour; the dog begged God not to starve her, God sent her grain; cereals came from him]: 263-264; Potanin 1883, No. 89b (durbuts) [the grains covered the cereal trunk from the ground to the top of the head; the burkhan or man, thinking that they were unnecessary, began to sniff off the grains with his foot; the dog asked to leave it for her; so it was necessary to sow bread for a dog or for children so that bread is born well]: 352-353; the Mongols [the grains covered the rye stem from top to root; someone mistook this plant as unnecessary, began to scrape the grains with their feet; the dog asked me to leave it to her, that's all; you have to sow bread on the dog and on the children]: Sumtsov 1890b:11; the Mongors [the ears were short but branched, the bins were full, people did not bother to bother harvest the whole crop; the Heavenly Emperor became angry, beat the crop with rain and hail; in the rain, people were afraid to leave the house, but the dogs saw the grain scattered on the ground, began to bark; NEITHER heard, took pity, recalled his generals; by this time there was only one ear left; one summer it did not rain; then God, the White Dragon Horse God, on his own initiative, sent rain; for this, NEI enclosed him in the 18th, lower tier of hell, promising to let him go if the golden beans went red; people saw the old man's golden soybeans, began to fry, the husks burst, under the yellow red; NI released BBLD]: Stuart, Limusishiden 1994:136-137.

Western Siberia. Siberian Tatars [the sky was low, the woman baked pancakes out of heavenly flour; wiped the child with a pancake, stuck it all into the sky; God got angry, raised the sky, heavenly food disappeared; the dog said To God, who is not to blame, God left her one spikelet; today's cereals come from it; the dog must be fed, it gave people bread; bread is called "dog bread" (folk etymology: it and itmek )]: Korusenko et al. 2013:181.

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts [the ear of bread began from the ground itself; the woman wiped the child with an ear; God decided to take away people's ears; the dog asked to leave her share; these are the grains that are now in the ears; (western 1934, Nemyuginsky Nasleg)]: Ergis 1964-1967 (1), No. 36:106-107 (retelling to Sivtsev, Efremov 1990:16-17, in Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976:24-25); Turukhan Evenks [(Zap. K.S. Rychkov, Archive of the Institute of Oriental Studies, f. 49, d. 6a, fol. 521); The Amaka god is angry with a woman who wiped her child with bread; decides to take away people's bread; The dog asked for some bread for himself; thanks to her, the bread remained]: Voskoboynikov 1980:45.

Amur - Sakhalin. Manchus (Liaoning) [at first, the dog ate what humans ate, but then began to eat excrement; when people first arrived they ate wild fruits and roots; in winter, many died of hunger; the divine farmer (BZ) found out about this and sent people suffering, which was so abundant that pigs, dogs, and cats also began to eat it; people soon ceased to appreciate her; BZ descended into the human world disguised as an old woman to see what they were doing with the flour she sent; she asked for food in a wealthy house, but the hostess, instead of feeding her, gave the cakes to her children as bedding for seats; BZ returned to heaven and instead of flour began to send snow; people again began to eat wild plants and starve in winter; BZ felt sorry for them again and sent the fairy a hundred cereals (F.) in the spring to bring people had five cereals; this is how bread appeared on the ground; corn grew five cobs per stem; corn tasted worse than white flour, but there was also plenty of it; F. turned to an old woman, went to see what people do with corn, and saw people throw their cobs at each other; she asked her for a treat, but she was refused, people began to throw their cobs into the lake; then she took people's corn; but to the fairy The dog ran up, bowed and begged her not to take all the grains from people; F. refused, but the dog promised that if F. left people at least a few cereals, the dogs would no longer eat them, and will eat excrement because it comes from the same grain, and as long as people have grain, dogs will not starve to death; F. saw that the dog was sincere and agreed to comply with the request; since then corn grows one or two cobs per stem, and gaoliang and millet no longer grow one ear per leaf, but one ear per stem; to keep people occupied, F. sent weeds and people had to weed them and fertilize the land; people realized that growing grain was not easy and began to appreciate it; dogs have been eating excrement ever since]: Chen, Wang 1989 (31): 50-54.