H49C. Innocent Slaughtered Falcon, Th B221.2.2; ATU 178C.

.11.15.17.21.-.23.29.30.33.34.38.

A pet bird (rarely: a pet) shows visible aggression towards its owner (usually a falcon knocks the bowl out of the hands of a thirsty person). A person kills a bird (animal) and then discovers that they saved it from death.

Zigula, Basques, One Thousand and One Nights, Arameans, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Tibetans, Inta, Kashmiris, Punjabi, Bengalis, Ingush, Turks, Persians, Baluchis, Tajiks, Tajiks of Sistan, Kazakhs, Dagurs, Oirats, Tuvans, Japanese (Kyushu, Honshu, except Tohoku), Ancient Japan.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Zigula [the merchant has a son; the teacher dreamed that the merchant is going to kill his son; advises the young man to remain silent when he goes to his father; he is silent; the father's wife complains to her husband that his son tried her seduce; the father sends a servant to kill the young man, the servant lets him go; told the merchant the story of how the couple began to work in the fields, leaving the baby in the shade; a snake crawled to him, but the dog killed her; wife saw the dog's bloody mouth, thought it killed the baby, the husband killed the dog; another servant spoke about a man riding a donkey through the desert; saw it dripping {off a cliff?} liquid, was about to drink; the donkey knocked over the bowl, the man killed the donkey in anger; then realized that it was pus flowing from the snake's corpse; the young man spoke, talked about the teacher's dream and the attempt stepmother seduce him, father admitted he was wrong]: Arewa 1961, No. 3506:176-178.

Southern Europe. Basques [two recordings like "The Loyal Falcon Killed by the Owner"]: Camarena, Chevalier 1997:323.

Western Asia. One thousand and one nights [King al-Sindbad brings up a falcon; when hunting, a gazelle threatens to kill anyone whose head it jumps over; the gazelle stands on two legs and kisses the ground at the king's feet; jumps over his head; he lets her go; the hunters remember the king's oath; with the help of a falcon, he kills the gazelle with a baton, decides to give the horse a drink; sees a tree with liquid flowing; three times offered this drink to the falcon; the falcon refuses three times; the king cuts off the falcon's wings; the falcon points to the top of the tree; there is a baby viper sitting and lowering its poison on the tree; the king repents; the falcon dies]: Salle 2010, night 5:44-45; Arameans [one of two plug-in stories, see H49D motif; the king chased a rainbow-skinned gazelle; thirsty, he saw a trickle of water oozing from crevices, and put up the bowl; his falcon knocked it over twice; the second time the king killed him; then rose higher and saw that it was oozing the poison and fat of a dead dragon]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:305-306; Arabs Iraq (north of Baghdad) [Sheikh Hassan returned and found his daughter pregnant; in his absence, she found a bundle of white powder and licked it; he lowered his daughter and grandson in a box down the river; his fisherman caught it; once caught an unusual colorful fish; the boy told me not to eat it, take it to the Vali Palace; the fisherman received a lot of money for it; when Vali's daughter saw the fish, she was shy and the fish laughed; Wali demanded that the fisherman explain this; the boy told the fisherman to bring him to the palace; the boy warns that Wali would regret wanting to know the truth; first he told two parables; 1) king co his favorite bird is in the desert; the bird knocks out a cup of water twice from him, which is difficult to aim from the stream; he kills the bird, walks up the stream, sees the stream oozing from mouth line; 2) the king's favorite nightingale brought a seed, an apple tree grew; the courtiers poisoned the apple, the king gave the cat a try, he died, the king killed the nightingale; the gardener tasted the second apple, younger; the king repented; yet Vali tells the boy to explain why the fish laughed; he asks to open the hatch into the underground of Vali's daughter - there is her black lover and four children]: Yaremenko 1990, No. 11:60-68; Druze Israel: Blackburn 1996:495; Syrian Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 174C: 73-74.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [the poor hunter went down to the stream, made a bowl out of a leaf and filled it with water to drink; the raven flew up, knocked over the bowl; after the third time, the hunter shot the crow; but beware drink and went to the upper reaches of the stream; it turned out that it was flowing out of the snake's mouth, and around the skeletons of animals that died after drinking poisoned water; the hunter repented bitterly]: Shelton 1925, No. 24:103-104.

Burma - Indochina. Inta [the hunter's bird helps him; tried to cover with her body the poison spit out by the cobra, which the thirsty hunter mistook for water; then tried to close his mouth; the hunter killed the bird and drank the poison; when he died, he realized that the bird wanted to save him]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 52:170-171.

South Asia. Kashmiris: Knowles 1888 [(plug-in story); another prince told how a king wanted to drink while hunting; when he was offered a goblet of water, his hunting falcon knocked him over; so three times; on the king killed a falcon for the fourth time; the servant went up the river and saw greenish poison dripping into the stream from the serpent's mouth; the king bitterly repented of his haste]: 437-438; Stein, Grierson 1923, No. 8 [king and wife They listen to the chirping of the chicks, then they find them dead; the female died, the male took another, killed the chicks; the wife died, the king took the other, she fell in love with his two sons; they refused to marry her, she accused them of encroaching on her; the king orders the sons to be executed, but the vizier tells them to flee, the queen is brought the hearts of dogs; another king has taken the young men as guards; the elder brother watches, sees a snake, cuts to pieces and erases blood drops from the body of the royal wife; the king sees it; when it comes to his younger brother, he replies to the king that the traitors must be executed, but first tells the story; one The king collected water, but his falcon knocked over the bowl; the king killed the falcon, and then noticed a snake whose poisonous saliva was dripping into the water; let the king find out first; after the younger brother on guard, two more an old warrior; one tells how one merchant bought a dog from another; at night this dog did not stop the thieves, but in the morning led to the place where the thieves kept the loot, the merchant became rich; sent the dog with a note to the previous owner, who decided that the dog was guilty and killed him; then read the note; the fourth guard tells the whole story of the young princes, up to the murder of a snake by his younger brother; the king appoints one of them as a vizier, the other as a pasha]: 45-57; Punjabi [(legend episode); after killing a deer, Raja Parag sat in the shadow of a ficus and prayed to God to send him water to drink; dozed off, and Raindrops began to fall in the sky; the Raja hunting falcon noticed a snake coming down from the tree and dropping a drop of poison into the goblet; the falcon knocked over the goblet; the laja thought he was his enemy and killed; then noticed the snake, knocked down with an arrow, chopped it to pieces; Raja's head bit his thumb and he died]: Temple 1884:467-470; Bengalis [(plug-in story); Raja hunted, thirsty; he saw that from a tree something was dripping; thought it was rainwater and collected a full cup; but it was poison dripping from the snake's mouth; the horse jerked to knock over the bowl; in anger, the Raja killed the horse]: Day 1912:154.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Ingush [the boy was riding a mare; the prince poked her with a whip; the boy said he gouged out the eye of a foal in the womb of a mare with a white mark on his forehead; the mare was stabbed, everything was so it turned out; the prince took the boy to him; once they caught an unusual fish; the prince's daughter picked it up, but realized: what if this fish was male; the fish laughed and died; the prince demanded to know the reason; The prince told that young man (he is already 17) to answer, otherwise he would burn him; the young man tells how the rider, thirsty, put his hands under the water pouring from above, but the hand pigeon splashed it; the rider killed a dove, and looking up, he saw a dragon salivating; the second story: devout blind spouses have a golden bird; God gave her two apples that would restore her sight; the bird threw apples to the old people, and the old man thought it was stones and killed the bird; then he saw the light and repented; the prince was adamant - his daughter must know the reason why the fish laughed; young man: in the basement there are three bastards whom the princess gave birth to Black Nega; the young man left the prince, began to study, became smarter than teachers; they sent him to a certain country out of envy; he went there, brought the golden shoes given by the girls; the teachers hired a witch, who said that her daughter's shoes were stolen; the young man went back to that country; people on the shore complain that a woman was bringing food by ship, showing, teasing and taking her back; the young man grabbed the girl, she escaped, leaving the ship and her ring; on the other side, another woman teases people in the same way, bringing clothes on the ship but not giving them; the young man grabbed her handkerchief and the ship; the young man climbed into the tower, hid; three came in birds, they tell how one lost her ring, the other lost her scarf, and the third lost her golden shoes; birds became girls, one noticed someone drinking from her glass; the young man seemed to be his wife , gave a ring - if worn, all three will come; the young man has been taken home, the teachers and the witch are thrown into prison; they say that the young man brought his stolen shoes again; the young man put on the ring, and those girls appeared liars are punished, the young man became a padishah, married his wife's sisters]: Tankieva 2003:132-140; Turks [the princess sweeps, finds a pearl, swallows, gives birth to a son; her brothers expel her; her son grows up, one of the brothers takes a boy; sells; the buyer dreams that he was ridiculed by fish; the boy tells him how the owner's grandfather was thirsty, and the falcon (ein treuer Vogel) knocked over the water that he wanted a drink; the bird died, the owner found out that the water was poisoned; the owner has a wife with 40 lovers, so the fish laughed; he kills lovers, the boy and dies of hate]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, NO. 100.III: 117.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Osmanov 1987 []: 256-260; Romaskevich 1934a, No. 4 (Isfahan) []: 50-51; Marzolph 1984, â„– *178c [Azerbaijan, but also a reference to literary summaries; thirsty king hunting collects moisture oozing from the cave ceiling into a goblet; his falcon turns the goblet three times; the king killed the falcon and then finds that the moisture was poisoned]: 55; Baluchi: Longworth Dames 1902 [ the author heard a story about the grave in which a faithful dog is supposedly buried; this is a story about a wolf and a dog that is almost the same as Beddgelegt's, which is especially surprising, since the Indian version in Hitopadesa talks about a snake and a mongoose]: 266; Porozhnyakov 1989 [Tsarevich Nigal pays a fisherman to let go of fish; the king drives his son away; a young man joins N.; they were hired by another king; his rock leaves, because in the evening the king will be bitten by a snake; N. hides under the bed, kills the snake, a drop of blood falls on the sleeping queen, N. washes her, the queen wakes up; in the morning the king goes to kill N., but companion N. asks him listen; tells how a falcon knocked out a goblet from the king's hands, into which he began to collect water while hunting; the king killed the falcon, and then saw that poison from the snake's mouth dripped into the goblet from the tree; another king killed a parrot that brought him fruit from the tree of life, but the snake managed to inject poison into the fruit; finding the corpse of a snake under the bed, the king passed off his daughter as N.; on the way home, the companion demands to divide the woman; swung his sword, Two snakes came out of her mouth; N. left the companion, saying that he was the fish N. saved]: 40-45; Tajiks: Amonov 1972 [a man asks three brothers if they saw his camel; blind on one eye, a woman is sitting on it, the load is halva on one side, oil on the other? the man took the brothers to the padishah; brothers: the camel pinched the grass on one side; where he knelt down, ants gathered to one side of the road, wasps to the other; the one who sat down, and when she got up, she leaned her hands; the padishah invited her brothers, began to eavesdrop on what they were saying; the meat smells like a dog, the wine smells like human blood, the padishah himself was not royal; the padishah threatened his mother; she explained that she was barren and bought the baby from a butcher; a lamb fed a female; there was a cemetery under the garden; the younger brother killed a snake that crawled to the sleeping padishah; he thought he wanted to kill him; first brother: Simurg predicted the future to one padishah; pretended to be dead, he ordered her to be buried in a manure heap; the bird flew to another ruler, and this was defeated by enemies; second brother: the padishah's falcon he stirred up the spring, hacked it down; then saw that water was flowing out of the dragon's mouth; the padishah swore to obey his brothers]: 225-229 (=1980:220-223); Ulug-zade 1967 [dying, father to each of his three sons tells the brothers not to tell them; he was upset to learn that they had done so; while they were burying his father, the younger brother hid the gold; the brothers went to the judge; the elder sees the camel's trail: the camel is blind in one eye, the thorns are combined on one side of the road; middle: on the left side of the camel there is a jug of honey (wasps are flying on the left), and on the right side with vinegar (midges are flying); younger: there was also a rider, here is crumpled grass, where he cried to rest; the camel owner met, did not believe the brothers that they knew the signs of the lost animal without seeing it; the judge asks to guess what was under the handkerchief; the older brother: it is round; medium: sweet; younger: apple; brothers are cleared of kidnapping a camel; the judge brought them to the padishah; they guard his sleep; the elder, the middle did not notice anything, the youngest killed the snake, hid it under bed, the padishah woke up, saw a man with a sword, ordered to be executed; the elder brother tells the story of a parrot that brought a seed to the padishah; an apple tree grew, an envious vizier poisoned an apple, offered to give the dog died; the padishah killed a parrot; the gardener's parents tasted the apple, were younger; the padishah also ate, younger, spoke in a hurry; the middle brother talks about a falcon that spilled water; the owner killed a falcon, and then saw the venom of a killed snake dripping into the spring; the youngest talks about the snake he killed; the brothers came to the girl; she tells the story of a girl with whom a merchant is a padishah and the robber treated nobly; younger: better than others, a robber; girl: so you hid your father's gold; the youngest shared it equally with his brothers]: 235-243; Sistan's Tajiks [dying, king tells three sons to share the wealth fairly, and if they argue, contact their uncle (i.e. the king's brother), who is king in another city; the brothers went to their uncle; the person they meet is looking for the missing camel; the older brother says that the camel was blind in one eye, the middle brother was carrying honey and molasses, the younger brother said that it was driven by a pregnant woman; the camel owner goes with them to the local king; the king served pilaf and began to listen to what the brothers were saying; elder: the meat in pilaf is filthy; medium: wheat for bread grew on bones; youngest: the king is the son of a shepherd; the king's mother admits that she gave birth to girls and exchanged children with a shepherd's daughter; shepherd: a dog fed a sheep for pilaf; stolnik: the wheat field was plowed in the cemetery; the king asks the brothers to protect it for three nights; the younger brother guards the third night , kills a dragon, the king sees a sword, wants to execute a young man; the elder talks about a talking parrot: he warned about thieves, the king did not listen, killed a parrot, thieves looted the treasury; middle brother: king got lost hunting, the falcon did not allow him to drink water, the king killed him, and then noticed that the blood and poison of the killed dragon were dripping into the water; the king apologized, the brothers went on to their uncle; he told to judge an argument between her daughter's nephews; she tells the story of a young man letting a girl go in exchange for a promise to come to him the night after her wedding; her fiance let her go, her lover too; the elder and the middle brothers said they would do the same, and the younger brother would take the girl; girl: you want a larger share in the inheritance, marry me better; wedding; older brother became king, middle and younger - by viziers]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 11:141-149.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Daurenbekov 1979 [the scientist's three sons are wise; the eldest is asked who owns the newborn camel; one camel gave birth to a living and the other to a dead one, but no one was present; the elder brother ordered the camel to be put in a boat and taken across the river; only the mother followed him into the water; the khan made the brothers viziers; the shepherd says that the thief stole from him money from his pocket, and the thief is his money; the elder brother tells him to throw the coins into hot water; they are fat, which means the shepherd is right; when the middle brother judged, buy came; the poor man borrowed a pound of meat from him for the sick the child, promising to return it even if you cut it out of your own caviar; the child died, but there is no meat; middle brother: you can cut it, but only for sure a pound, otherwise you will be beaten with whips; buy leaves; when the younger one judges brother, one person says that another took his gold; the judge tells them to fight; one is stronger than the other; so he took it away; the viziers are jealous, they want to destroy their brothers, let a snake into the khan's bedroom; younger brother He hacked her, threw her under the bed; the khan thinks he wants to kill him; older brother: the padishah let the talking parrot go to his sister's wedding; he brought a seed; an apple tree grew; the envious vizier smeared the fruit with poison, ordered to be given to the criminal, he died; the padishah killed a parrot; sees a younger gardener who ate the fruit, tasted the apple himself, is younger, bitterly repented; middle brother: the golden eagle splashed the bowl, when the owner wanted to drink from it in the desert; he killed the golden eagle, then saw snake venom dripping into the bowl; the khan found a snake killed under his bed; reluctantly let the brothers go]: 389-395; Zhanuzakova 1977 [khan and the vizier is friends, their sons are fed together; the khan's wife is dead; the new young one wants to marry his son; he refused, she tore her clothes, accused him of trying to dishonor her; the vizier tells her son Khan and his son go away for 40 days; the khan's son wants to get drunk; one, then the other falcon knocks the cup out of his hands, the khan's son killed them; the vizier's son brought water: and it flows from the mouth of a dead dragon; daughter Khan makes signs, the son of the vizier explains that she invites the khan's son; he overslept, the girl put an apple in his pocket; the same on the second night; on the third night they met; they were found, they are going to hang them; son The vizier entered the prison under the guise of a girl, helped him escape, pretending that he ("her") was found sleeping together and that he was the sister of the khan's son, they were tired from the road; everything was clarified; the khan returned his son, hanged him young wife]: 240-245; Baby 1962 [three brothers are wandering; see camel tracks; elder: camel is tired; middle: blind to his left eye; younger: carried honey; owner does not understand how the brothers could do this determine whether he leads them to the khan; they give explanations (he dragged his legs, pinched the grass only on the right, flies flew to the honey); the khan made them his viziers; they make a fair trial; the former viziers want to lime them; they threw a snake into the Khan's rest; the younger brother hacked it, threw the body under the bed; the khan woke up, accused the young man of trying to kill him; the older brothers tell parables; the elder: Khan's favorite parrot brought a seed; the khan planted an apple, an apple tree grew; the servant carried an apple to the khan; the vizier told him to run away for a golden dish, smeared the apple with poison, the dog died; the khan killed the parrot; he did not recognize the gardener: he was younger, after eating an apple; the khan also ate and is also younger; but the parrot cannot be resurrected; the middle brother talks about a man who hunted with his favorite golden eagle; leaned over the stream, the golden eagle prevented drinking, the owner killed him ; then he saw water flowing out of the snake's mouth; the brothers asked them to let them go, the khan reluctantly agreed]: 15-17.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Dagura [(plug-in story); the hunter saw water flowing down the tree, wanted to get drunk; his falcon began to interfere with him, he killed him; looking up, he saw that the tree was a snake and the liquid was its poison; the woman left the child to mark the cat; she took care of him; the caress bit the child's ear, the cat killed her, began to lick the wound; the mother decided that the child was bitten by a cat, killed her; then found a caress]: Stuart et al. 1994:148; Oirats (Oirat manuscript with a translation of Twenty-Five Vetala Tales, bought in Northwestern Mongolia) [(insert story); the shepherd lost several buffaloes, went Look for them; when I was in the desert, I noticed that water was running from the branches of the sandalwood that grew at the top of the cliff; he folded a tree leaf, took water into it, and was ready to drink, when suddenly a raven flew up, he hit his wings and spilled water; the shepherd collected water three times, and each time the raven immediately splashed it with its wing; the shepherd took the stick, took water again, and when the raven flew up to him, hit him and killed; then the shepherd climbed the rock; it turned out that a huge poisonous snake, looking for coolness from the heat, wrapped around the sandalwood; the snake's head was hiding on the top of the tree, and poisoned water was dripping from its tail;" I killed such a gracious crow!" - the shepherd exclaimed]: Vladimirtsov 1958:104 (=2003:281-282); Tuvans (Khemchik) [Khan was surrounded by wise men, he did not smoke or drink; but his wife died leaving her son; the khan married again and now around him there were drunks and smokers; one day the khan was lying drunk, and his eight-year-old son was playing next to him; saw how the new wife turned into a three-headed snake and crawled to the khan; the boy grabbed a sword and cut the snake in half; she became a woman again and began to shout that the boy had almost killed his father; the khan sent a close man to take the boy to the counselor to behead him; but the counselor told a story whom he asked to tell the khan; the hunter hunted gazelles, stopped in the steppe under a tree; when he saw something dripping from the tree, he filled the bowl and wanted to drink, but the parrot flew up and turned it over bowl; the hunter grabbed the bow to kill the parrot, but then saw a three-headed snake in the branches emitting poison; he mistook it for water; but the khan sent his son and his adviser to a sage living in the south; let him they will be beheaded; the chief sage also told the story; the husband and wife have a baby and a dog; the dog saw a mangys-shulbus rise from the ground to kill the child; the dog killed him; when they saw blood on her face, they killed the dog and then understood what was going on; now the khan sent his son and both wise men to the one who lives in the north; he told how the kitten scratched the puppy's face so that he would immediately rush after him and escaped from the leopard; now the khan has sent them all to the one who lives in the east; he came to the khan and asked: how far are truth and lie; khan: four fingers away (ear to eye); wise man dragged the hansha to the temple, where she became a shulbusikha again; tore off her breasts, threw her into the fire; the khan ordered her to be burned all; began to lead a decent life again]: Taube 1978, No. 51:259-263.

Japan. Japanese: Ikeda 1971, No. 178C (Kyushu, Honshu, except Tohoku) [the story is in Konjaku, ca. 1050 AD; when hunting, the dog barks at the owner, who cuts off her head in anger; his head soars at a tree digs into the throat of a huge snake about to swallow a man; the owner buries the dog, now the place is called Dog Hill], 178D [the cat constantly follows the owner; the husband thinks the owner is makes love to the cat, cuts off his head; a severed head flies and digs into the throat of a hidden snake that is about to swallow the mistress; a sanctuary is built in honor of the cat, it is still in this village]: 45-46, 46.