i87C1. The mouse in the boat .17.31.32.35.

The mouse makes a boat for itself from a small object.

Saudi Arabia, Eastern Sami, Komi, Mansi, Kets, Yugi.

Western Asia. Saudia [the mouse found an eggshell, lowered it into the stream, sat down and began to row; rat: whose boat is this? - This is a mouse boat. - And I'm a rat - can I get in the boat? - Why not. Next: a yellow chicken who likes to peck {rhyming is English; Arabic is something different, but the principle is like in Eastern European texts}; a rooster crowing on deck; when everyone appears the new character, all the previous ones consistently call themselves; - And I'm a big dog, a friend on any trip; the dog put its paw on the boat and it drowned]: Taibah, MacDonald 2016:24.

Baltoscandia. Eastern Sami [the old woman quarreled with the old man and drove him out of the vezha; at this time the mouse climbed onto the table and stole the dry crust; lowered it to the lake with a boat, began to row her paws; hare: mouse, mouse, short leg, fat quilt, eight as comrades; then the same fox; fox; bear; wolf; ermine; sailed to the island, but there was nothing to eat, so they ate the crust; then the bear and fox ate the wolf, fox, hare, ermine; the mouse took refuge in the hole; the fox hid the food, told the bear that it was eating its own guts; gave it a try; the bear ripped his stomach, began to eat its intestines; fell asleep; fox with a mouse began to eat it; the mouse ran to the mainland on thin ice; the fox waited for the ice to get stronger and also ran across]: Yermolov 1959:43-45.

Volga - Perm. Komi-Permyaks [the sparrow went to plow, the mouse remained at home; sparrow: why is the porridge so tasty? mouse: I interfere with its tail; the next day the mouse is in the field, the sparrow is cooking dinner, stuck its tail, scalded it; the mouse: lie down, I'll cure it; bit it myself, made a boat out of the sternum, made a boat out of the sternum, swam along the river, sings about himself; reluctantly lets a hare; a fox; a wolf; when the bear sat down, the boat turned over; everyone swam out, the mouse is gone; the bear takes turns accusing everyone, they run away, and he swallows the mouse himself; she sings at him stomach: I sharpen the knife, I'll cut the bear's stomach, I'll go out; the bear asks to go out through the mouth, through the ass, the mouse refuses; the bear vomits, the mouse runs between his teeth, but he steps on it]: Klimov 1997:9-11 in Kippar 2002:169-172); Komi-Zyryans [magpie and mouse lived together; only a mouse baked bread and made dinner; magpie: give me soup; mouse: take it yourself; magpie fell into a boiling pot, the mouse cooked it there and ate; made a boat out of her sternum; sings how it sails upstream in a boat from the sternum of a magpie, a paddle with beaver blades, a crossbar from an otter's tail; the hare asks to take it too; mouse: the ears are long; the hare: I'll pick it up; the mouse took him; the fox (the tail is long); then the bear; he feather, everyone hit each other, the mouse climbed into his ass; the fox ate the hare and followed the bear for three years, waiting for his mouse It eats, intending to eat the mouse as well; but the mouse got out of the bear's carcass and hid under its roots]: Fokos-Fuchs 1951, No. 21:198-203.

Western Siberia. Muncie: Lukina 1990, No. 192 (zap. Chernetsov on Konda, North Sosve or Lozva) [Earth Brother mouse lived with his grandmother, made a nettle boat, swam; invites the deer to play hide and seek, hid in the grass, the deer swallowed it; refuses to go out through his nose, ears, nostrils, ass, cut his stomach, the deer died; the mouse called the woodpecker to rip off the deer, gave it less meat; he sails in a boat, he is called ashore several times, but he only arrives when he is called to eat caviar; the mouse fell, the stomach burst, the caviar flowed out, the children sewed up their stomach; the mouse brought meat to the grandmother, turned her into a girl, lived happily]: 498-501; Kannisto 1956, No. 10 (Konda) [the mouse married a doll, became steal, got rich; other mice also began to steal, the mayor started killing them, they asked the mouse for help; he took his comrades on a hike: a slimy fish board, a dog rope, perch caviar, hot brazier, foot, knife, ax; the brazier was placed on the doorstep, a board in the doorway, hot caviar on the table, a foot, a knife and an ax nearby; the mayor stepped on the brazier, hit the lintel, slipped on the board, fell, the mice had hot caviar in his eyes, the rope confused, the foot, the ax, the knife were finished off; the mice took all his supplies; his daughter's son lured the mice into the plague with food, everyone died there; the doll became the mouse mourned, went on a journey; refused to load horse, cow, sheep manure - it would get dirty; came to another mouse's aunt, stayed with her, married her nephew; he made a hemp boat , swam; his name is from the shore there is perch, ruff, fish oil, he does not pay attention; when he calls to eat burbot, he goes; he sails on, he was swallowed by a bear with the boat, the mouse began to stab from the inside, the bear fell, the mouse cut the way out with a knife, invited the bear to swallow it again, cut off the heart from the inside; took the meat, swam back downstream past the people who invited him; at home, the aunt took meat, mouse played, aunt danced (song about how he got a bear)]: 100-117; chum salmon (=Dulzon 1966, No. 31:105-107) [mouse found kleinitsa; people: why do you need it? mouse: for boats; people: which river is the estuary? mouse: a glue river; then I also found a needle (needle river mouth), half a needle (needle eye of the river mouth; thimble; people: why do you need it? mouse: will be a rain hat]: Alekseenko 2001, No. 144:256-257; yugi [The mouse found a dough bowl, swam in it like a boat, found a needle, made a pole, a thimble - a hat; invites the Bear to hide ; finds it easily, hides in an empty grass stem, the Bear does not see it, swallows it with grass; she gnaws out, killing the Bear; calls all the mice, they feast]: Werner 1997, No. 30:285-287.