I87A. One creature is bigger than another.

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A gigantic character turns out to be small compared to an even larger character, or the same character turns out to be small in some episodes and gigantic in others.

Vietnamese Thai, Kumaoni, Nepali, Punjabi, Kannada, Maldives, Malays, Chinese (Zhejiang, Jiangsu), Koreans, Serbs, Moldovans, Russians (Arkhangelsk), Kalmyks, Abkhazians, Abazins, Adygs, Kabardian, Karachays and Balkarians, Ossetians, Ingush, Chechens, Nogais, Avars, Laki, Kumyks, Megrels, Georgians, Svans, Armenians, Turks, Danes, Lithuanians, Latvians, Finns, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Karakalpaks, Buryats, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Khalkha Mongols, Northern Khanty, Japanese, North Ryukyu.

Burma - Indochina. Thai Vietnam [a woman gave birth, a child fell into a pond where a buffalo was, killed a buffalo; ate 7 containers of rice, named Chet hay ("seven (bamboo) vessels"); playing with other children, easy kills them; the father decides to destroy him; leads him to prepare stakes for the palisade, throws pointed stakes at him from the hill, catches them and takes them home at once; they cut down the tree; when it is ready to fall, father tells his son to pick fruit; a tree falls on him, he takes him to the village; invites the children to pick fruit from him, throws it, suppressing all the children; the father sends CH to repay an alleged debt to a giant named Susilanam; his daughter says that her father has been cutting trees for three years and will soon return, carrying everything he cut; S. comes, eclipsing the sky, tells his daughter to fry 6 frogs, i.e. deer; S. and CH got into a fight and fell into sea; giant Kom Fa is fishing a seine, calls both frogs, broke their legs and brought them home]: Degeorge 1925, No. 17:498-502.

South Asia. Kumaoni [one hero lived far east and the other far west, 12 years between them, everyone wanted to face off with another; the oriental hero went to the West; soaked food in lake, then ate and drank the whole lake; the animals came to look for water; the hero grabbed an elephant by the trunk and threw it to where the Western hero's daughter was breaking rice; her mother put the elephant in her pocket to show others a strange beast; an oriental hero came and asked the girl where her father was; she said she went for firewood; the Eastern met the Western one, who carried a bunch of uprooted trees; they decided not to fight in the forest, but in public; they met an old woman, invited her to watch their fight; she said that she would first take bread to her grandson, who was herding cattle in the forest; carried both heroes on her back along with a bunch of trees; grandson He put the old woman and everyone with her in the fold of her clothes and carried him home; the wind picked him up and them all with him, and they fell into the woman's eye; she asked the other to take what was in him out of her eye; she she pulled it out and put it in her pocket; in the evening she showed her husband and he advised me to give it to the cat; all those in trouble begged for mercy and promised not to brag about strength anymore - all people are just worms in their faces God]: Grierson 1916b: 165-166; Nepali [strongman Dosmane ("Eating 10 Measures of Rice") goes to face off against Noumane ("Eating 9 Measures of Rice"); drank the pond and fell asleep; seeing an empty pond, the elephant rushed on D., he mistook him for a mosquito in a dream and wiped it off; when he woke up, he took the dead elephant, put it in front of the door of N.'s house; little daughter N. opened the door, threw the elephant away, took the tail, and said that her father had gone for firewood; D. saw N. carrying a hundred measures of firewood; they began to fight; the old mistress of the house told the girl to take her camels home; she wrapped a hundred camels in a cloth, carried them away; the old woman picked them both up the fighters, threw it away; the eagle snatched a parcel of camels from the girl, carried it over the royal palace; dropped the parcel, it fell into the princess's eye; she asked the courtier to get the garbage, he blew the bundle flew to unknown where]: Sakya, Griffith 1980:193-195; Punjabi (Seraiks) [a mighty fighter goes to look for an opponent; makes porridge in the pond; the elephant is outraged, tries to trample the sleeper; he says that if an elephant wants to wash his hair, let him do it tougher; carry an elephant behind his shoulders; comes to a rival who is not at home; he throws an elephant over the fence; the owner's daughter: he threw a mouse at me; mother: sweep her out; the owner comes, dragging 160 carts of firewood; the hostess offers to fight in her palm; the daughter at this time carried 160 camels in the hem; she also put trees, a house, a peasant, etc.; then the whole town; then she put it all in half a melon she ate, covered another one; the melon was carried away with water, it opened, everyone went out, healed in a new place]: Steel, Temple 1884, No. 28:223-227; kannada [y one king had 7 sons, the other had 7 daughters; they decided to marry them independently; the messengers met in the village where a man from the gowda caste lived, showed each other portraits of brides and grooms, were pleased; Govda asked him for the wedding ceremony; put all the people and carts in one pumpkin; Govda's daughter did not know what was in it, began to urinate; the pumpkin was carried away into the sea, swallowed by fish, the crane swallowed the fish, the fisherman caught the crane, carried it to the bazaar; the old woman's daughter bought a crane, but the louse swallowed it; the old woman began to beat her daughter, she began her period, the old woman gave her soiled clothes laundress; he crushed the louse, a crane appeared; the laundress cut the crane, etc. - fish, pumpkin; the fisherman placed the pumpkin on a pole to use as a lantern, the wind threw it off, it crashed, that's it the wedding attendees came out; the question is: who is bigger?] : Ramanujan 1997, No. 74:209-211; Maldives [the husband did not return from the forest; the pregnant wife went to look for him and gave birth to him; the tiger ate her without noticing the child; he was fed by cows; a boy was brought to the king who He could not speak and ran on all fours; but he learned quickly, was handsome and smart; the king asked what unusual thing the young man saw when he lived with cows; he replied that he once saw fish on the shore swallowed seven ships, the eagle took the fish, and a snake crawled out of the cave and swallowed an eagle; the king asked him to be taken to that cave; trees were thrown into it for three months and then a fire was lit; when the mountain cooled down, only the young man agreed to go down; returned with golden sand; the king ordered to get all the golden sand from the bottom of the cave and became fabulously rich; asked the young man what reward he would like; the young man asked a ship with a crew and a bag of golden sand; sailed south, landed in the Maldives and became a local king; converted to Islam; once saw a boy draw a ship in the sand; boy: I give this ship to you; The king returned to the palace, and the boy soon came for him and said that the ship was in the harbor; the king came, the whole crew on the ship was dressed in white; as soon as he stepped on the ship, it took off and disappeared]: Romero-Frias 2012, No. 6:23-27.

Malaysia-Indonesia. The Malays (recorded by the Malays of Cambodia) [the king of Java has a huge ferocious bull; he goes to look for a rival for him to fight the bull; the king of Siam says he does not have a bull, but But there is a crab that is now hidden in its hole; if it places its claws, the bird will fly from one to another for a year; the king of China also does not have a bull, but there is a cauldron that only 13 pairs of bulls can move; on his way home, the king of Java went to see King Sumatra; he was ready to put his three-month-old bull against the big bull; he was fixed with sharp horns on his head and kept away for three days mother; seeing the bull, the goby rushed to suck milk, but unable to find the udder, butted the bull from below and pierced his belly; the king of Java admitted defeat and was forced, by agreement, to change into a woman forever dress]: Leclère, Feer 1895:295-300.

China - Korea. Chinese (Zhejiang, Jiangsu) [the giant meets an even bigger giant and then even bigger]: Eberhard 1937, No. 209:261; Koreans [the swallow decided to fly across the sea, spent the night on at the top of the pole; after flying another day, sat on another pole; these were not poles, but the antennas of the big lobster; {cf. Japanese; the plot is known from one source, it is likely that there was a continuation, as in Japanese options}]: Choi 1979, No. 40:19.

The Balkans. Serbs (Herzegovina) [a bear stole a woman, she gave birth to a son, ran away; the bear let the young man travel after he was able to pull out a beech; Medvedovich eats food brought for many ploughmen, they give him iron from the plows, he tells the blacksmith to forge a club, hides that half of the iron, M. throws the club into the sky, it falls on his back, breaks; he kills the blacksmith, takes the iron he stole goes to another; the club does not break; M. likes the girl, her father says that she was promised to Barbel; from behind the mountain, he first shows a mustache, he has 365 bird nests, W. puts his head on the girl's knees, M. hits him three times with a club, it seems that insects are biting; W. chases M., the man throws him across the river with a shovel, the other hides him in a seed bag, tells Barbel that M. long gone; W. stops chasing; the sower throws M. into his mouth with a handful of seeds, M. hides in the hollow of a tooth, daughter-in-law picks out the stuck tooth with two stakes, the sower remembers M.; tells how ruined his tooth; he and his companions went to get salt, they spent the night in a cave, it turned out to be a human skull in a vineyard; the watchman threw it out of his sling at the starlings, and then the man ruined his tooth; "Here you have a whole box of lies "]: Karadzic 1853 to Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:9-15 (=Arkhipova 1962:180-184); Moldovans [three brothers took an oath to watering; three days from head to tail; eldest in the evening reached his front hooves, the middle brother reached his hind legs at sunset; the youngest reached the tail at dusk; the mare drank the sea; one fish began to fight, swallowed the mare; the eagle carried the fish to the top of the oak tree; the bone fell into the eye of the sleeping shepherd; the fishermen threw a seine into his eye, took out the bone the third time, the shepherd threw it away; the gypsies broke the camp on it; the wolf pulled the bone, the gypsies thought that earthquake; killed a wolf; half ripped off, but they can't turn it over; the furrier sent a boy, he turned the wolf over and ripped him off to the end; the gypsies ran to him, the boy was frightened, rushed away from them; the old man sowed sunflower, put seeds in his mouth, the boy was in his tooth; sneezed, the old man let the dog in his mouth, it smelled the wolf and ran away; the old man asked his wife to joke with a poker, she pulled out the boy; he ran to his father, who makes him a shower heater]: Botezat 1981:368-371.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [Popa butts the kid and the pop throws him over the fence. He decides that he has become strong and goes to fight. He sees a man standing in the river with his beard blocked and fishing with his mouth. Pop asks to transport him across the river, the man refuses, says that Pleshka the hero took his wife and told him not to let anyone in. Pop promises to return his wife to the man and defeat Pleshka the hero, the man held out his beard and the pop crossed the river along it. The man's name is Heroic Kussyn. Pop meets a man who wakes spruce trees, opens and closes the passage with trees. He also promises to return his stolen wife to him and defeat Pleshka the Hero (Pleshkó). The man's name is Yelinka the hero. Pop sees a man moving and spreading mountains with his hands, opening and closing the passage, and the pop promises him the same for the pass. The man's name is Gorynka hero. Pop catches up with Pleshka the hero, finds a stake in the forest and hits the hero twice on the head. The hero decides that one of the wives does not wave off mosquitoes well. After the third blow, Pleshko gets up and follows his ass. Pop is hiding in the old man's pants in a nearby hut. The old man tells Pleshka that he did not see his ass, Pleshko hits the old man, but the old man defeats him with a lame leg. Pop explains why he went to war. The old man says that he was one of his seven brothers, who, when they saw a cloud (a strong hero) coming in the field, hid in a dry bone and playing cards. The hero hit the bone with a whip (the hero says he defeated the one who was a bone 10 years ago, but it did not decay), the bone flew up, all the brothers broke, and the old man injured his leg. The old man advises his ass to go home. Pop returns wives to husbands and returns to himself]: Onchukov 2008, No. 47:167-168.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Kalmyks [the old man grabbed a naughty ox by the tail and threw it over 70 hills; decided that there was no one stronger than him, went to look for three hero brothers; one asked him to hold the fishing rod, but he could not hold it; the same happened to his middle brother; she hid the old man from the brothers' younger mother; the brothers found him and began to throw him away; the old man ran away, asked Musa to hide him, hid in the corner of his eye; The mousse threw three brothers and their horses with one hand to where the horse had been jumping for 49 days; at home, the mousse said that there were 60 robbers, they hid from the rain in a horse's skull; the giant threw the hill on which the skull lay, everyone died, and the narrator managed to ride away; the giant caught him and began to roast him on a spit, and fell asleep; the mousse fell asleep from the skewer, burned the giant's heart; the golden eagle snatched the narrator a piece of meat, a leopard tried to take it away, a whale grabbed a piece; the narrator escaped; tells the old man not to boast of strength]: Vatagin 1964:194-197; Abkhazians: Bgazhba 1983 [hell: what news? Kobluch: 8 dogs cannot eat a mosquito's thigh; devil: dogs are small; Kobluch: they ate eagles that flew into the owner's yard; hell: eagles are small; Kobluch: when they sat on the roof, their wings touched land; devil: the palace is small; Kobluch: each room will accommodate 8 camels; devil: the camels are small; Kobluch: the tops of the pines ate; hell: the pines are small; Kobluch: when the brother looked at the peaks, he lifted his head, so that the hat fell; hell: little brother; Kobluch: he took stones out of the well with his hand; hell: the bottom is close; Kobluch: you will throw a stone in the morning, it will not fly until the evening; hell: the day is small; Kobluch: the cow that conceived in the morning returned in the evening with a running calf; hell: you won]: 305 (=Shakryl 1975, No. 89 [another translation; instead of the name Koblukh, just "Abkhaz"]: 395-396); Shakryl 1975, No. 4 [for three brothers a bull, he drank water only once a year; when the deadline came, the brothers drove the bull to a watering hole; the elder sat on his neck, the middle on his back, the youngest behind everyone; the rider met; the elder asked him to give it to the middle brother to drive the bull as soon as possible; by noon, the rider reached the middle brother, who asked him to give it to the younger brother; by evening the rider caught up with the younger one and told him what they asked for; the bull drank water until the next noon, then the brothers drove him back; the kite carried the bull, sat between the goat's horns and began to eat; the shepherd took refuge from the rain under the beard of this goat; the shovel that fell out of the kite's beak fell into the shepherd's beak eye; at home, the sister took out her shoulder blade and threw it away, it was covered with earth, and a thousand people settled on it; one day the ground shook; it was the fox who noticed a bone sticking out of the ground and began to gnaw it; people killed the fox and the skin were torn off one side, a thousand people sewed dudes for themselves; but they could not turn the fox on the other side; the woman walked and spun; turned the fox over with the tip of the spindle and took off the skin from the other side; I wanted to sew a dude for my son, but he died; a thousand people dug a grave for the boy for a month, but his head remained outside; one day we went to get salt; on the way back they decided to cover the salt from the rain and hid under with the buried man's jaw, put arbs there, went home themselves; one person stumbled, put salt from a thousand arbs into his pocket and went home; the sister was cooking, salt was needed, the brother offered, but the sister answered that this was not enough and went to her neighbors for salt; who was the strongest?] : 20-22; Adygs: Aliyeva 1978, No. 25 [three brothers drove the bull; the eldest sat between the horns, the middle on the back, the youngest at the tail; the oncoming rider drove from the eldest to the middle midnight and midnight from middle to younger; the eagle carried the bull; the old man hid from the rain under the goat's beard; the eagle sat on the goat, eating up the bull's shoulder blade; the old man went out, the eagle flew up in fear, dropped his shoulder blade, it got stuck in the old man's eye; daughters-in-law did not find this speck; one herd climbed into the old man's eye, dragged his shoulder blade into the steppe with all the bulls; the village settled on it; the fox gnawed on his shoulder blade, the residents were afraid of an earthquake, one shot a fox; only the upper half could hardly be skinned; a woman passing by ripped off the skin from the other half, made a hat for the boy; the wind carried the fox's skull into the steppe; several carts with people drove into it, who went to the Kalmyks for salt; a Kalmyk dog brought a skull; the Kalmyks threw a piece of salt to the Kabardian people; they loaded all the arbs and returned home], 26 [starting as in (25); the eagle dropped the bull's leg in the shepherd's eye ; the women hardly dragged her out, the village settled on it; salt carters drove into the hole on the bull's leg, loaded salt; the old woman asked her daughter to bring salt; she poured salt into her palm from seven carts, the old woman put all the salt in her mouth; about a fox and a woman who made a fox skin hat, as in (25)]: 223-225, 226-227; Andreev-Krivich 1957 [when hungry, Kuytsuk promises to get food overseas; they come to others, they eat their food, they say that they have come to the wise who will answer the question; there was an ancient bull, his hind legs behind Indyl, the front legs behind Psyzh, pinched the grass on the bank of the Terek; the eagle took him away, sat on the goat's horn; the shepherd hid from the rain under the goat's beard; the eagle dropped the bull's shoulder blade, it hit the shepherd's eye; nine daughters-in-law took a wooden shovel into the eye, but did not pull it out; the old man's mother licked her with her tongue; the shoulder blade it was covered with snow, people settled on it; the fox began to drag it; the fox was killed, one side was ripped off, the other could not; K.'s mother easily turned the fox over, ripped off the skin - if there were two, it would be enough for half a hat for newborn; who is bigger? the hogs argued and killed each other; K. and his companions packed food; then the sledges moved to the lands of the others]: 327-335; Kerashev 1957 [three days from the horse's head to tail; the water in the rivers is not for her enough, she was taken to the sea for a watering hole; one brother sat on the withers, the other on his back, the third on the tail; the first asked oncoming travelers to tell the second to drive the horse, and the second to the third; the horse swallowed the fish, carried it away by an eagle, sat on the goat's head, began to bite, the horse's shoulder blade hit the shepherd's eyes; 9 daughters-in-law boarded 9 boats, swam in the shepherd's eye, found a shovel a day later, said what father-in-law gentle, made me look for such a trifle; they threw out a shovel; it was covered with earth, overgrown with grass, people built an aul there; an earthquake began; a visitor noticed a wolf trying to pull him out of the ground bone, shot him; took off only half of the skin, because they could not turn the wolf's carcass over; the woman walked, picked up the carcass, took off her skin, said it would be enough for her boy for half a hat]: 271-272; Kabardian people [ when the bull was drinking water, the rivers ran out; the owner's three sons drove the bull to the sea; the elder sat between the horns, the middle on the back, the youngest at the tail; the oncoming rider exclaimed in surprise; the older brother asked him to bow to the middle and the middle to the youngest; the rider reached the middle at midnight, and to the youngest by morning; after drinking the bull, the brothers let him graze; the eagle carried him away; the old man hid from the rain under his beard goat; an eagle sat on the goat's back; dropped the bull's shoulder blade, it hit the old man's eye; one herd got into the old man's eye, tied his shoulder blade by the rope, pulled out the whole village; the shovel was covered with earth and overgrown with grass, people built a village; the fox began to pull the shoulder blade, people thought it was an earthquake; the fox was shot, but only half of the skin was removed; a woman from a neighboring village turned the fox over, took off her skin and, after adding 300 sheep skins, she sewed a hat for her boy; the wind rolled back the fox's skull, and barbers drove into it for salt; the Kalmyk dog brought the skull to the owners; they threw a piece of salt to the arombers, he seemed like a mountain to them; they loaded their arbs and left]: Lopatinsky 1891a: 93-96; Abaza people: Tugov 1985, No. 58 [the boy carried food to the field workers; the person he met asked for a try, swallowed everything; they they began to fight; the rider put both of their boots on the bootlegs and came home; the wife said that there were many men stronger than him; he came to the sea, the fisherman asked him to hold the fishing rod, he could not hold it log; the old mother of the fish carried the rider and the horse in the basket; he ran away, asked the sower to hide him in the seed bag; when the old woman left, the sower threw him away with the seeds; returning to to his wife, he bit off three fingers, for three men were much stronger than him], 121 [the old man has a huge ox; if shot at the head, the belly man would hardly hear a shot; it began to rain, fish grabbed the ox, dragged it into the water; the old man sat under the goat's beard, saw an eagle carrying an ox dragged by fish; the eagle sat on the goat's horns, ate the ox, dropped his shoulder blade; the shovel hit the old man's eye, he I asked my daughters to see what was interfering there; they threw the bone with a wooden shovel; carried it outside the village; the shoulder blade was covered with earth, a new village settled on it; people feel an earthquake - it was the fox that began to gnaw the protruding end of the shoulder blade; the fox was killed, the skin was removed from one side, but they could not turn the fox over; they sewed hats for the whole village; the widow's son did not have a hat; she turned the fox over with a kick, but her son did not have enough for a hat; the prince sent a squad to kill the boy, because he would be too strong; he was beheaded, thrown out of the village; the skull was covered with earth; the prince sent a hundred arbs for salt, they drove into the nose of the skull, seven they wandered for days, only on the eighth day they got out of the skull; the shepherd took a piece of salt out of his pocket, broke off half, loaded a hundred arbs; who was stronger and bigger?] : 174-176, 336-337; Karachays: Aleinikov 1883, No. 4 [when the bull approached the watering hole, the head was by the river, the back part was on the mountain; the eagle took the bull to the top of the mountain, pecked, the shovel remained; holding it in paws, he flew into the valley, sat on the horn of a goat, under whose beard a herd with a shepherd hid from the rain; the shepherd looked out, the eagle was frightened, dropped his shoulder blade, it fell into the shepherd's eye; the runaway people became pick this speck out of the eye with crowbars; the shoulder blade became covered with earth a few years later, the village settled on it; the fox noticed the end of the shoulder blade, began to gnaw, people became alarmed, killed the fox; could not turn it over carcass to remove the skin; a woman passing by easily turned the fox over, asked for half the skin to pay; one half was enough for hats for all villagers, the other was not enough for one hat for her son giantesses]: 155-157 (=Jurtubayev 1991:204); Pröhle 1909a, No. 6 [the man was carrying eight wineskins full of sour milk; a man approached him asking for some milk and eventually drank everything; man grabbed him and put him in his bootleg with his wineskins; he came to his wife and told him to take off his boots; from there came a man who had drunk milk; a man: "How big I am!" ; wife: "When you go to my parents, you will see someone who is even bigger"; the man went to his wife's parents, met a man who had a plow with a harrow attached to his paralyzed arm; a healthy hand he sowed seeds and plowed; at this time, witches threw stones from the edge of the forest; the ploughman grabbed the man with his horse and put him in a handkerchief; the ploughman's wife brought food, he told her to take the guest to their homes; witches stones were thrown again, so the ploughman's wife put the man and his horse in one bowl and covered them on top with the other; in the evening, the ploughman asked the man why he had come; the man replied that he was their husband daughters and that she told me to go to them; the plowman said that he and his wife were not big, and began to talk about those who were bigger: we were a hundred horsemen, I was the youngest of them; we spent the night in a cave; A shepherd came in the morning and kicked the cave; it slid down with us into the valley; I saw that everyone was dead and that the cave was a human skull; since then my hand has been paralyzed; what we mistook for a cave, turned out to be the eye socket of the skull; the man was amazed at what he heard, sat on his horse and rode away]: 284-287; Karachays or Balkarians [Aladin asks his father to get him a good horse; he brings a nondescript horse; the horse got stronger, rushed further at the races, ended up on the seashore, disappeared into the sea; A. sees three girls bathing, hides their swan clothes; promises to give it back if they help get the prince's daughter you need to get to talk; you have to touch the fur coat with a wand, she will tell a fairy tale, there will be an argument in the fairy tale, you have to resolve the dispute incorrectly, then the girl will start talking; the brothers for three have one bull; the elder head , the middle one was the belly, the youngest was the hind legs; the youngest thought that the bull was sick, went to consult his middle brother; late in the evening he reached the bull's belly, both went to the elder, reached the bull late at night the bull's heads; the brothers took the bull to a watering hole, he drained the sea with a sip; the brothers decided to leave the bull on the island, it turned out to be the back of the fish; the fish swallowed the bull; the eagle took the fish; in the steppe, the shepherd sat down to rest in shadows from his goat's beard; the eagle descended on the goat's horns, ate the fish with the grass and trees that grew on it; a bull's shoulder fell out of its beak, hit the old man's eye; he asked his daughter to take it out; she was in a boat her father's eye drove up and down, picked up her shoulder blade with her little finger fingernail, threw it out the window; the shoulder blade fell at the well, where a caravan of ninety camels had stopped; the caravans spread the fire on the bull's shoulder blade, and a fox ran by, smelled the smell, began to gnaw on the shoulder blade, the caravans thought that an earthquake had begun; the woman hit the fox with a rocker arm, killed; the caravans took off half of their skin, and half no - 90 people could not turn the fox to the other side; they decided to sew 90 fur coats from half a skin; the woman pushed the fox with her dude's toe, turned it over, wondered if half the skin would be enough for a hat for newborn son; which one is bigger? ; Aladin: fish; silence could not stand it: more and more children; A. got a wife]: Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983:90-97; Ossetians: Dzagurov 1973, No. 31 [strongman Dombay twisted a fallen buffalo by the tail and somewhere abandoned; his wife brags about her husband; another woman: there is even stronger than him; D. goes to look for the strongest; the giant sends to his brothers - cannot fight without their permission; the middle refers to the eldest, the eldest to their mother; one fang touched the sky, the other went underground; D. rushed to suck her breasts; the mother of the giants says that her sons were going to make kebabs out of D., tells her to run; the giant pulls 20 arb of salt, hid D. in the hollow of his tooth; tied the pursuers with his hair when they ran up; D. asks why the old man was one-eyed; he said that there were 12 brothers, they went into the cave to spend the night, it turned out to be a skull; the dog grabbed the skull, ran to the house; the girl went out, put her skull with her foot; the brothers died, the narrator lost his eye; D. no longer boasted of strength], 42 [husband threw a bull away with a stick, his wife said that there would be someone stronger than him; he goes to look for a stronger one; meets a Waiga fisherman (giant), who has a cow on the hook with bait, the next one has a bull, the third is a buffalo; the third leaves the man a fishing rod, he cannot hold it, the Waig covers him with his hat, tells his mother to fry the "bird", the Waig mother tells the man to run; the crooked waig pulls one with a hand of 12 arbs with salt, hides the man on the arba, asks him to pull out his hair to tie the pursuer, the person is unable to do it; the giant easily ties the pursuer with one bristle; the person asks why did he become crooked, so strong; he says that he, among the 12 hunters, spent the night in a cave, it turned out to be a human skull, picked up by a dog, put it on a staff, and abandoned inside they were maimed; the opponent's seeker returned home]: 76-79, 142-146; Libedinsky 1978:123-127 [Soslan brags about his strength, throws the bull across the river, goes to look for an equal; mother of three Waigov hides him under a sieve, releases him at night; the Waigi chases him; the one-armed and one-eyed waig hides it in his mouth, ties the three pursuers with his hair; tells how he and his father and six brothers entered the cave; it turned out to be a horse skull, which the giant faked on a stick and threw it against the goat's horns; the skull crashed, the giant killed his father and brothers, tore off his arm and knocked out his eye; S. returns to sledges]; Shanaev 1870 [the bull was standing on Garamonov Field, and grazing on the Terek bank (the distance between this field and Terek is about 75 km); a hawk descended, claws into the bull and carried it away; sat on the tree began to devour the prey; the bull's shoulder fell and fell into the eye of a shepherd who was hiding under a tree from the sun; when the shepherd came home, he said to his mother: "Mother, something has come into my eye: look at it" ; she cleaned her eye with a shovel and threw out a bull's shoulder blade; on this shoulder blade, the meadow on which the whole village had settled was green; a fox got into the habit of walking to the shoulder blade; grabbing it by the cup and knocking it over one by one , then on the other side, the village worried; the inhabitants of the village tracked down the fox and killed it; having ripped off the skin from one side, they could not turn it over to the other side to peel it off; in the morning the newlywed went to fetch water , who, pushing the dead fox with the tip of her foot, knocked it over on the other side; taking the tail in her hands, ripped off her skin and said: "Here's the rim on my son's hat"; meanwhile, the skin was not enough for half a hat]: 14- 15; Ingush: Dalgat 1972:280-281 [a man lifts a cow by the tail, a neighbor's wife says there are stronger people beyond the mountain; there fishermen throw a bragger to each other; he runs away, one-armed and a one-eyed giant hides it in his pants, ties his pursuers with his hair; tells how seven brothers, including him, climbed into a horse's skull; the dog brought it to a one-eyed shepherd; he roasted six brothers on a spit; the narrator burned the sleeping giant's eyes with a twirl, put on a goat skin, stole the herd, called out to the blinded man; he threw the rock, tearing off the narrator's hand and knocking out his eye] , 298-299 [Aarhustoyans threw Botoko Shirtg's son into the cauldron, said that the boy fell by himself; BS came to the giantess's hut, promised to bring Nipple Sols and 12 other people; said that he had found the prey; the giantess tied up the visitors, began to discuss with her sons how to slaughter them; BS forgives Aarhustoyans, invites giants to guess who is bigger (the giant bull was taken away by an eagle, began to eat it, sitting on the goat's horns, a shovel a bull hit the eye of a shepherd sitting under a goat's beard with a garbage, etc.); giants quarreled and killed each other]; Kibiev, Malsagov 1981 [the ox walks through the gorge above the mountains; he was carried away by an eagle, saw it below a goat, went down to his horns, ate the ox, threw out the ridge, he hit the shepherd's eye, he did not immediately notice, the bone was pulled out by the whole village, new houses were built on it; they swing - at night the fox pulls a bone; the fox was shot, but they could only take off the skin on one side; the old woman picked up a fox and began to sew a fur coat for her grandson, but it was not enough for her sleeves and collar]: 26-28; Potanin 1890 [plug-in story; arguing about who stronger, demons fought and slaughtered each other, people escaped]: 138-139; Chechens [the ox drank the water of all the rivers, was carried away by an eagle, fell on the goat's horns, ate the ox, threw out his spine, it hit shepherd in the eye; the whole village pulled out the spine, a new village was built on the ox ridge; the fox began to gnaw its spine, the houses staggered, the fox was killed, the skin was removed from one side, all residents can be sewn from it fur coat; they could not turn the fox over; the old woman turned it over with a scoop, began to sew a fur coat for her grandson, but not enough for her sleeves and collar; who is more: an ox, an eagle, a goat, a shepherd, a fox, an old woman or her three-year-old grandson?] : Kapiyeva 1991:445-447; Avars, Kumyks, Lucks [sartu say that there are people stronger than him; he comes to the giants, they play them like a ball; he runs, meets two more (var.: ploughman), one drags 9 arbs with salt with one hand, crumples a bull's skin with the other; hides the fugitive, usually in the hollow of a tooth, drives away the pursuers; tells how he lost an eye (tooth) while spending the night with his brothers in the skull, which they mistook for a cave; a giant on horseback hit him with a whip (var: forged it with a stick), he survived alone, although he lost his eye (tooth)]: Gamzatov, Dalgat 1991:22-23; Lucky [Isa beats his wife, says that there is no stronger hero than him; his neighbor advises sending him to the other side of Kunzunt; Isa shoots a mountain, it turns out to be a dev, Isa runs, asks a ploughman named Yarmagomed to hide him; he hid him in his mouth; without answering the deva's question, he picked up the plough with the bull and killed him; forgot about Isa, who could hardly scream from his mouth; says that one day he and his friends spent the night in a cave; he found himself the skull, the shepherd forged it with a staff and abandoned it; his comrades died, but Y. only had a tooth knocked out; when he returned home, Isa no longer beat his wife]: Khalilov 1965, No. 61:180-182; Avars [khan could not find an equal in strong; came to the sledges, one blew, the khan hung from the ceiling; ran away, the one-eyed giant hid it, putting it in his pocket, tied the pursuers sledges with his hair torn out from under his arm; told how with six his brothers hid from the rain in a cave; the shepherd threw a wolf there trying to steal the sheep, the brothers died, the narrator lost an eye; the cave turned out to be a skull]: Abakarova 1985:24-25; Nogais [ Batyrbek, the son of poor Bolat, is ashamed that his horse is worse than others; Bolat finds a trail of tulpar, exchanges him from a beggar (tulpar looks like a thin nag); Khan gives grain to feed tulpara; Batyrbek wins it at the races, but, contrary to his father's warning, he unties the last knot on the reins, the horse rushes, dives into the sea, Batyrbek goes ashore; finds the clothes of three girls; promises to return if the girls help make Khan Olmes's daughter Soleimes ("the enduring Khan's non-speaking daughter") speak; the girls take Batyrbek to Khan, the eldest hides in S.'s fur coat, tells a fairy tale, at the end we must give an answer, Batyrbek must deliberately answer incorrectly, then S. will speak; then the same: talking kumgan; talking golden bowl; fur coat story: three brothers take turns grazing sheep; the elder carves the girl out of wood, the middle one dresses her, the younger sprinkles her with herbal infusion, revives her; Batyrbek replies that the girl should be taken by the one who revived her, S. objects: the younger brother should not marry before the elder; Kumgan's story: one brother grazes his head, the other's belly, the third hind legs of a bull; the older brother goes to the middle brother all day, they both go to the younger one to find out if he is sick the bull; the bull is healthy; they lead him to a watering hole; the bull drank the sea, the island remains, it turned out to be a fish, it swallowed the bull, the eagle took the fish, descended on the goat's horns, an old man sat in the shade of his beard, the bull's shoulder hit him in the eye, the old man's daughter swam in a boat in her father's eye, pulled out her shoulder blade, threw it out the door; the caravans stopped on the shoulder blade, the ground under them trembled - it was the fox who began to gnaw his shoulder blade; the woman killed the fox with a rocker arm, left; 99 caravans ripped off the fox skin from one side, but could not turn the fox over; the woman returned, turned the fox over with her toe, but doubted if half the skin would be enough for a hat for a newborn son; Batyrbek replies that the eagle is the most, S. is that the child; the story of the bowl: the mother of nine sons sews a skullcap, answers everyone what is for him; tells them to go to Khan, let him judge who the skullcap is; everyone tells the khan about his abilities; one finds everything, the other sees everything, the third shoots accurately, etc. (makes a bow from a chip; a boat out of a chip; a house from one bricks; he will feed everyone; digs an underground passage; thief); the khan asks the brothers to find his missing daughter; the brothers find out that Azaa took her away, hit him with an arrow in the eye, return the girl; Batyrbek replies that The younger brother, S., who is the eldest, should receive a skullcap; Batyrbek marries Soleimas]: Nogai 1979, No. 18:86-102; Megrelians [receiving 1000 pound wineskin of wine, giant and glutton Khecho as a gift from the king sat down to rest under the mountain; a stranger offers to help carry his wineskin across the mountain; picked it up easily and drank everything at once; they quarreled; Kazhi ("flint") put everyone in his pocket, brought it to his wife, and bragged that There was no other strongman like him; his wife objected; K. saw Ndia, a forest giant, sleeping; fled in horror, N. followed him; K. asked the ploughman to hide him, he put him and the mule in his bag; N. cut off his dry head, threw his body away; in the evening, the ploughman tells a story; there were 60 brothers, they conquered the Kaget state and returned home, hid from the weather in a cave; in the morning someone threw the mountain saying, "The damn little dog, where she dragged her"; everyone died, the narrator survived alone, the cave turned out to be a horse's head; K. returned home, agreed with his wife]: Mingrelsky tales 1890, No. 4:326-331 (approximately the same in Gachava et al. 1890:32-35; =Virsaladze 1973, No. 63:108-110 {Virsaladze has an erroneous reference to Tskhakai 1895, Descriptions of Caucasian localities and tribes 19 (2): 143-144}; Georgians: Chikovani 1954, No. 96 (Kartli) [the tsar put one watchman on the field, and the other 11 go to him all day from the edges, they will not reach him; the bull came up, ate the whole crop, died, the body on the royal field, legs and head on the neighbor's; the crow carried the bull to the nest, sat on the sheep's horn, dropped its bull's side, flew away; the wind raised its side, it hit the shepherd's eye; the shepherd has three son-in-law - kings of birds, animals, the seas; birds, animals did not find their side in the eye, the king of the seas let all the waters into his eye, the water carried his side to the seashore; merchants built a city on it; the fox began to tug - the city begins to collapse; a three-day-old child shot a fox, asked for half of the skin as a reward; he was given, but not enough for sleeves and floors]: 409-410; 1986 [the hunter pulled all the stuck arbs out of the mud, drank all the loaded wine, shoved the arbs behind bootlegs, offers a hand to a woman who threw the buffalo over the wattle fence; she agrees if he finds out why the river is bleeding; there, in order to stay awake, the knight leaned his forehead on the edge of his sword, bleeding; he if he falls asleep, then for a month, and now the devil will carry the woman; the hunter promised to wake him up, he hardly did it, the knight grabbed the deva; asks the hunter to stab him with a dagger; the hunter killed the deva, and then the knight; a woman agrees to marry him if her nine brothers agree; dev pours water on the ground, the hunter is washed away, he picked him up; he is one of the woman's brothers; their mother carried the hunter with the horse through the river; the brothers have an evil father; the hunter struck him three times with a sword, cut off three hairs; when he woke up, found severed hair, chased the hunter; by the river, a fisherman hides him in a hole in his tooth, a horse - to the other; Dev ran up, the fisherman easily killed him with a net handle, took out the hunter; tells how he lost two teeth; he and his brother took refuge from the weather in the eye sockets of the skull; the shepherd threw him into the wolf, brother disappeared, the fisherman himself hit a rock, lost two teeth; the hunter finds bones, asks God to revive this creature for a minute, but not to give it an eye; a freak appeared to the sky; instead of a hand, the hunter put him in the rock, he broke it easily; turned back into the bones; the hunter found that shepherd, asked him to show how he launched that skull; the shepherd was tired, he threw the mountain hunter who was killed; the shepherd began shame, but nothing can be done]: 266-270; swans: Palmaitis 1986:134 [the ox was standing at sea, its front legs on one side, his hind legs on the other; the eagle took him away; in another country there was a goat, a shepherd with a herd took refuge from the rain under his beard; an eagle descended on the goat's horns, the ox carcass pecked, the shovel fell, people built a village on it; the fox began to gnaw the shoulder blade, the village swayed; people killed the fox, but not they can rip off; the woman took the skin off one side, turned her foot over, ripped it off on the other side, but not enough for a hat for her child; the mouse dragged the fox meat into its hole, but the mice did not have enough; who the strongest of them?] , 136-137 [the ox stood on the sea, its front legs on one side, the back legs on the other; the eagle carried it away, sat on the horns of the shepherd's goat, the shepherds themselves and the herds gathered under the goat's beard; one boy looked up, the bull's shovel fell into his eye; the rest of the shepherds took shovels and sticks and pulled it out with difficulty; people built 12 farms on his shoulder blade; the fox began to drag it; people killed the fox, but they could only peel off the skin west side, because the fox cannot be turned over; clothes and hats were made from the skin for everyone; a woman came up, turned the carcass over with a spindle, ripped off the skin, but not enough for a hat for her baby; who is big?] ; Armenians [the fisherman's worker let the fish go, he drove him away; he meets him; promises to give a cow for three years that will provide the worker and his family with food, but then he will come and ask questions, if they answer badly, will take them with him; before the monster arrives, a guest appears, is called to answer instead of the hosts; the dialogue between the monster and the guest: where are you from? - From the other side of the sea. - What did you drive? - Saddled a lame flea. - Is the sea small? - You can't fly over an eagle. - Is an eagle a chick? - The shadow of its wings will cover the city. - Is the city small? - You can't run across a hare. - Is the hare tiny? You can cut a sheepskin coat, hat and a pair of mittens out of the skin. - Will a dwarf wear them? - Put a rooster on his knee, he won't hear the crow. - Is he deaf? - He can hear a deer stinging grass in the mountains. The monster is gone. The guest said he was the rescued fish]: Tumanyan 1984:101-106; Turks [a bragger hunter shoots an arrow through his wife's earring every night; he really only hunts hares; neighbors dressed up the boy is a bear, the hunter is frightened; the old woman advises the hunter's wife to send him to an Arab over Mount Kaf, who supposedly shoots better; the lioness guards the gorge; the old man gives magic bread to tame her; the hunter throws pieces to the lioness, the birds, the dragon; the Arab is a monstrous giant; the hunter ran away from him, threw bread to the diva, who hid it in the hollow of a tooth; told the Arab that he saw no one, he went back; diva tells us who broke his tooth; they were 40 brothers; they were met by a giant knee-deep in the sea; he caught whales, cooked them in the sun, swallowed them; chased his brothers, killed several, and smashed the narrator a tooth with a stone; the hunter swore that he would no longer brag, received diamonds and gems from the diva; the firebird brought him home; he lived happily with his wife]: Aganin et al. 1960:80-85.

Baltoscandia. Danes [father had difficulty finding 427 daughters one man to marry his 427 sons; on the way back he went down to a half-dried lake to give his horse a drink, but something caught his eye; at home the sons found nothing; then they got on a boat and swam in their father's eye for a week until they pulled out the fish bone that the bird had dropped; the carpenter made legs out of it for 427 beds; the father decided to lie down on one of them, while the fox began to nibble on the leg of the bed because it tasted like fish and poultry; the man threw his red hat at the fox, the fox jumped back and hid in his red beard; to get it, 427 They took braids and mowed their beards for a week until they found a fox that gave birth to seven foxes; 427 brothers married 427 sisters, everything is fine]: Cramer 1919:69-72; Lithuanians [three sons of an old man sat between the horns, on the back, at the tail of the bull; from one brother to another, the rider rode for three days; the bull drank the lake, the eagle carried the bull; their father took refuge from the rain under the goat's beard; did not let the eagle carry it away, that came back with the bull's edge, poked his old man in the eye; the old man noticed that something was interfering, telling his son to look into the eye; for three days, men with horses and chains pulled the rib out of his eye; it was covered with earth, Three yards were built there; a fox came to gnaw a rib, houses collapsed; she was shot, but could not be turned over to take off her skin; the old woman did it easily, added 500 sheepskins, sewed a hat for her son]: Lë bat 1965:277-278; Latvians [The strongman is looking for equal opponents. She stays overnight with an old lady, whose sons are also strong. They eat four cakes, drink a barrel of beer, and at night they cough the guy from one end of the hut to the other. The next morning, the guy runs away, meets a man who promises to save him from his pursuers. He puts his strong brothers in his pockets and keeps them there until the guy runs so far away that he can't catch up]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 650B: 307; Finns [a good fist fighter brags about strength and goes to look for someone else to fight with; stopped in a house where he had a barrel of herring, a barrel of salt, a pole of bread (everything on a pole under the ceiling) and a keg of beer; in the evening the hostess's sons came and ate one portions; at night the guy ran away in horror; Kalevanpoika is fishing on the shore, the guy got into his pocket; K. threw his pursuers one behind the northern lights, and the other towards the midday sun; the guy promised not to fight with anyone else]: Concca 1993:142-144.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Sidelnikov 1958 [the old man looked at the sky, a fly was flying, something fell into the old man's eye; he asked his wife to take out a speck; she pulled out the pelvic bone of a bull she had pecked last year a young swallow; that swallow was eaten by a fly; the old man threw a bone into the sea, an island was formed; 40,000 kibitki hibernated there; one winter night the island trembled; people ran, came to see them in the morning; them a fox gnawed on the island; people killed it, could not take off all their skin because they could not turn the fox over; the old man who threw the bone walked by, ripped off the other half of the skin, asked his wife to sew a fur coat and malachai; old woman: enough only for malachai; the old man ordered to give the skin to a neighbor; he sewed two fur coats and 1855 Malachai]: 420-421; 1962:402-404 [there was a crucian carp in the lake that could swallow a bull; the eagle took him away, the tears of the crucian carp rained; the shepherd hid from the rain under the goat's beard; a bone from the eagle's beak fell into the shepherd's eye; 40 people took it out, rivers flowed from the bone, the people began to live there; the fox began to eat cows and sheep, she was killed, her skin was removed from one side, but could not be turned over; a hundred hunters sewed her fur coat from the skin removed; the giantess turned the fox over with her hand, took off her skin, it was only enough for half a hat for her child; who is the biggest?] , 404-405 [=Potanin 1916, No. 36:138-139; the gray bull littered gold, urinated with silver; the eldest son of the bay grazed his tail, the middle son on his side, the youngest on his head; the eldest answers the passerby that there is nothing to treat, for the bull has constipation; the middle one is that there is no urine, the youngest is that the bull does not chew gum; the cherry plum kara-gus bird carried the bull, sat on the goat's horn to eat a bull; a shepherd slept under the goat's beard; the bull's shoulder blade fell out, got into the eye shepherd; the wife picked it up, threw it away, water accumulated in it; in this lake, the people began to water the cattle; the fox grabbed the shoulder blade, killed the fox; they could not turn it over, they took off the skin only from one side, for everyone they sewed hats; the woman turned it over, only a quarter of the baby's hat was enough skin]; Kyrgyz: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1968 [Alabash tells the eldest son to feed the ox and the youngest to water; on the eighth day the ox stopped eating; the oncoming man said that he should be given a drink on Lake Ala-Kul; the younger brother remembered that he had not watered the ox, brought him to the lake, the ox drank it; fish lay at the bottom, swallowed the ox; the golden eagle took it fish, began to eat on the rock; water poured out of the fish, the old man under the rock was surprised that something had splashed; looked up, a bull's shoulder fell into his eye; his daughter pulled it out and threw it away; the caravan sat on her; the fox began to pull her shoulder blade, she was shot; 40 caravans managed to remove the skin from only one side, because the fox could not be turned over; the woman asked to leave her the other half of the skin: she would make a hat for newborn; without getting off her horse, she took the fox]: 196-198 (=197:205-206); Sabyr uulu 2008 [Three orphan brothers have a blue ox. The elder lived on his horns, the middle one on the ridge, the youngest on the repitsa. One day, the younger one noticed that the ox began to defecate kyuchala ("a poisonous plant, perhaps referring to the ox defecating with hard and dry discs similar to the roots of this plant), went to report Brothers, by noon I got to middle ground, by evening both reached the eldest. The elder decided that the ox should be given a drink. They took him to the lake and drank it in one fell swoop. One fish on the dry bottom swallowed the ox, and three orphans fled. The Alpkarakush bird came down from the sky and carried away the fish. Where fish hits a mountain, a mountain collapses, where a stone hits, a stone bursts. She flew to an old man herding a herd of goats and sleeping in the shade of a goat leader. The bird sat on the horns of this goat and started eating fish. One ox shovel hit the old man's eye. All the shepherds and other neighbors made a lasso out of their goatbeard, tied their shoulder blades to the head, pulled their shoulder blade out of their eyes, put it on the ground, and covered the whole city. Forty merchants were going to spend the night and found an open space, but the ground began to move and roll. It was the fox who pulled the shoulder blade in her teeth. The travelers shot a fox, peeled off the skin on one side, and God cannot turn the carcass over to the other. The old woman turned the fox over with one hand and peeled off her skin; there was not enough fur for the newly born boy's hat. The boy, once seeing mountain sheep hunters, asked his father to make him an iron club. He threw it up to the clouds, too light. Master Dev forged him twice as big a club. The boy took two horsemen and went to the mountains. They take turns cooking at night. A man appeared, his eyebrows were covered with snow, his mustache was covered with ice, tied the horseman to a pine tree, and ate everything. It's the same with the second horseman. The boy tied that man himself, but he pulled out a pine tree and disappeared into the ground. The boy after him has overcome that man's daughter, but doesn't know how to get back to earth. A dragon wrapped around the plane tree, and at the top there is an Alpkarakush bird's nest, with three chicks in it. A boy killed a dragon. The mother bird tells us to stock up on 40 sparrows and 40 water bubbles, and promises to take them to the ground. Calf-sized sparrows. The supply ran out, the boy threw both his eyes to the bird, pulled out pieces of meat from under his knees and squeezed the bird's blood. On the ground, the bird restored his legs and eyes. The boy bothered the lion and came to the ruler. He got scared and gave me the gold. The boy fed his two horsemen and those three orphans]: 71-74; Karakalpaks [a fisherman catches three carps every day; his son caught them and a ruff, released a ruff, the old man drove him away for it; the young man began to work from an old woman; the khan will give his dumb daughter for the one who talks to her; the young man goes to the khan, takes another young man as his companions; he tells the princess how three brothers lived, the eldest fed the bull, the middle one cleaned, the youngest removed the manure, you have to walk from head to tail for 6 days, the brothers met every 3 days; the bull drank the lake at the watering hole, but the catfish living in the lake swallowed it; the black bird took the catfish, began to eat, the fox she crept up and ate the bird; the hunters killed the fox, sewed hats from half the skin for all the inhabitants of the village, and the other half was taken by a shepherd, but only half a hat was enough; people began to think who was bigger; princess: shepherd; Khan gave his daughter to the young man's companion; on the way back, he offered to divide her, held his sword, a snake jumped out of the girl's mouth, she was killed, and she prevented her from speaking; the companion said that he was that ruff, gave the girl young man, disappeared]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:53-55.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Buryats (Khorinsky) [the old man led him by the horns, the old woman drove behind; stopped poroz; a month later the old woman reached her head: the old man was killed by an old man because he was walking slowly; the old man is sitting under his beard a goat, an eagle sits on its horns, eats a poroz shoulder blade; the eagle flew away, throwing its shoulder blade, it fell into the old man's eye; the old woman climbed there, searched for six days, pulled it out on the seventh; the fox found and dragged the shoulder blade; troops it was taken away, swam across the sea; who is bigger: a poroz, a goat, an old man, an eagle, a fox? whoever says that a fox is cunning, who an eagle is brave, an old man is sedate, a goat or a poroz is red tape]: Gomboev 1890, No. 9:65; Tuvans (2 options: Bai-Taiga and Sut-Khol) [the old man's little goat is dead, the fox began to eat his shoulder blade; a thousand warriors took his shoulder blade by the field, stopped for the night; the Khan Hereti bird carried his shoulder blade with the warriors, sat on the horns of a big goat, and when the shoulder blade of a small goat swallowed, a thousand warriors fell into the eye of an old man sitting under a goat; the old man mistook a thousand warriors for a speck and snorted; who is more?] : Samdan 1994, No. 28:399; South Altai Tuvans [a traveler with seven camels loaded, spent the night on an old man's shoulder blade; it started raining, the old man looked up, something flew into his eye; this there was the Khan Gard bird; he began to escape in the goat's beard, and then the bull appeared; everyone chose his own; whoever he chose the bird H. will do it easily; the one who chose the old man loves people; the goat - He will not be sweet like a goat, but he will drink water in many lands and live to a very old age; the one who chooses a bull is calm, but not like a cow]: Taube 1994, No. 57:276-277; Khalkha-Mongols (Urga): Bennigsen 1912 ["Once upon a time there was a bull, 2 people, an eagle, a fox and a goat. The bull was so big that it took 2 people to follow it. At a time when one was feeding him, the other was cleaning up manure. You had to be two, because it took a person 3 days to go from head to tail. It happened that the bull was dead. People ripped it off and cut the carcass in half. At this time, an eagle flew in, grabbed the front of the bull and carried it to the sky. There, in the air, he pecked the prey 2-3 times and, when he did not like it, released it from his claws. At that time, one of the people was just looking up and the carcass hit him right in his eye. The man, who did not expect anything like this, was terrified and rushed to a safe place - under a goat's beard. After that, a fox was summoned, and she rode in a boat in the eye of a person for 3 days, looking for the part of the bull that had drowned there. Who is bigger - a bull, a human, an eagle, a goat or a fox? Whoever answers: the bull is stupid; man is smart; the eagle is the master; the goat is Don Juan; the fox is cunning"]: 18-19; Potanin 1893, No. 4 ["In ancient times, there was a big city called Varanas. There was a huge cow in that city; it had one camp on its head, where the inhabitants could constantly hear a cow breathe. There was another camp on her back against her kidneys. From one camp to another, the distance was twenty days on horseback. There was another camp on its back near the cow's tail, whose inhabitants watched her defecate. At one time, this cow died out. An old man from this ulus (hoton), herding goats (Yamans), was lying on his back in the steppe. At this time, a bird carrying the shoulder blade of an exhausted cow in its beak somehow dropped it from its beak. The shovel hit the old man's eye. The old man took out the bone, put it on the ground and left. Then one army of 1,000 men, following this bone, stopped at it for lunch. At this time, the fox comes up and carries the bone along with the troops on it. Now we need to figure out who is bigger: a cow's bone or an old man's eye, or a fox? Whoever says the cow the most should be considered stupid, whoever says the old man's eye the most should be considered a sedate person. Whoever says the power of a fox the most should be considered a person who knows how to skillfully do his business"]: 378.

Western Siberia. Northern Khanty (Obdorsk) [- Why is your throat soot? - Did you eat raw fish. - Was it delicious? - Your throat is dry. - Why are your legs crooked? - I passed 7 seas in a boat without oars. - So the seas were small? - Who knows. A blue, green bird flew and fell in the middle of the sea. - So the bird was small. - Who saw it, but seven guys covered its wing like the roof of a house. - So the guys were little. - Who knows. They say it's the size of a net on the Ob. - So the nets are small. - Small or large, but placed on 7 fathoms and the tops are visible. - So the water is shallow (small). - Small or large, but blue is green the fish swims there, you can't see the tail, you can't see the head]: Nikolaeva 1999, No. 11:156.

Japan. The Japanese (including northern Ryukyu) [the giant bird thinks it is bigger than all other creatures; it flies into the sea, sits on a pole, it's a lobster tentacle; now it thinks it's the most Sails into the cave, it turns out to be the nostril of a turtle, it sneezes, the lobster flies out of its nostril, hits a rock; since then, the lobster's body has been bent]: Ikeda 1971, No. 1960J: 281.