K140. Demonstratively thankless. 12.14.

Traveling with his sister or brother, the young man regularly kills saviors and helpers, exposing himself to new dangers.

Mamprusi, Mosi, Krachi, Dagari, Kpelle, Manden, Bambara, Kassonke, Temne, Wolof, Songhai, Egyptian Arabs.

West Africa. Mamprusi [mischievous brother Nanzu-bishi (NB) and calm Nanzu-kara (NK) were born from a bump on the woman's leg; leaving their parents, they went on a journey; a woman with a baby asks to fry for he is a grasshopper; the NB roasts the baby, tries to feed the meat to the grasshopper; the old man asks to take the threshed millet to the house by the stream, the NB sprinkles it into the stream; the brothers climb the tree under which the naba rested ( ruler), the NB spits on the naboo; he orders the tree to be cut down; when it is ready to fall, the lizard raises its head and the tree straightens up; the NB kills the lizard with a knife; the tree falls, but the vulture picks up and takes the brothers away; The NB tells him he stinks, the vulture drops them; where the NB fell, small hot peppers grew, and where NK is large sweet]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1966, No. 12:22-24; mosi [the woman has a son Raôgo and a daughter Poco ; she fell from a tree, crashed to death; a hawk brought them to the nest, raised them; gave them an iron club: if a hawk comes from the east, it's not me, kill him; one day he accidentally flew from the east, R. killed him; the children came to the chief, he adopted them, loved them very much; R. set fire to the palace, the leader is desperate, thinks that the children are dead; sat down to cry under the tree they climbed; R. relieved him; the leader all understood, told me to cut down the tree; when it was ready to fall, the salamander said ko-ko-ko, the tree was intact; R. cut off Salamndre's head, ate the salamander, put P.'s head by the cheek; the tree was cut down, the children crashed to death, the chief ordered the bodies to be left without burial; but they came to life and left; when they saw the people, they gathered for a huge fire-breathing kite to eat them all at once, not one at a time; R. ordered them to disperse. killed a kite with an iron club; people asked what R. wanted as a reward, he replied that the sky; the blacksmiths built a ladder, R. and P. climbed it, became thunder; when thunder was heard, P. asks his brother to be be careful, but he replies that he has neither children nor a wife on earth and hits with all his might]: Sissao 2010, No. 28:75-78; curls [as soon as the Krakra Nyansa (KN) boy was born, he came to his father in the field ; the father was frightened; on the way back, crossing the river, the father crushed the fish with his foot; KN demanded it for himself - he saw it first; he fried it and ate it at home, and dried his head; the leader lost his bull; KN said he knew who thief; brought the warriors to his father, magically turned a fish head into a bull's head; his father was executed, but his son was expelled for such betrayal; he came to women who washed dishes in the river; one pot was gold; NC grabbed it and threw it into the river to the depths; the women did not catch up with him; KN came to the hunters, who had just put their guns on the ground; KN collected them together, poured gunpowder and set them on fire, all the guns were gone, the hunters did not catch up with him; KN came to the women who sat down to rest by the road; they bought rice; KN scattered and scattered all the rice, ran away; KN ran to the village to the chief, and then he was surrounded by everyone he had caused evil; the chief asked why KN did this; he replied that they were all fools; the chief ordered him to be put to death; KN ran again, rushed after him and surrounded him; then he jumped into the leader's eye; it was him - the black pupil where our intelligence is concentrated]: Cardinall 1931:125 -128; dagari [a blind father has an eldest son Hard Heart (TS), the youngest is Soft Heart (MS); MS always objects TS decisions, but he threatens to kill him and he is forced to agree; the TS tells his father to tear out the eyes of his father's cows, fry them, tell his father they are (bird's) eggs; when there is only one cow left, the mother found that happens; the brothers climbed the tree, spoiled the vessel from which the father was drinking; people began to cut down the tree; when it was ready to fall, the hawk saved the brothers by carrying them on its wings; the TS broke the hawk's wings, To plan for them, the brothers fried and ate the hawk]: Métuolé Somba 1991:184-186; kpelle [two brothers had the means to kill people; killed their father; came to the king, who gave them a gift two chickens and two girls; they killed their wives, climbed a tree, shouted that they were murderers, asking people to cut down a tree; he was knocked down, but the hawk picked up the brothers and carried them to the rock; the younger brother killed with a hawk knife, the brothers fell and crashed; the turtle revived them, the eldest went down the river and the youngest went up; he came to a woman working in the field, asked her to kill and eat the turtle {the one that saved him} , they did it; the woman asked to watch over her child, fry the frog and give him a leg; the younger brother killed the child, fried the leg and gave it to the frog; came to the blacksmith, that woman's husband, asked sharpen a knife, cut off the blacksmith's scrotum with it; his wife came running, both began to cry; the husband took a basket of peanuts, went to look for the boys playing; asked who they "did a great job"; one said that once stole rice and fish from his mother; blacksmith: not you; then the villain boy spoke about his actions; blacksmith: I adopt you, go into the basket so as not to walk; closed the basket; brought it to his wife to burn a villain in the field; their daughter asked that peanut, opened the basket, the villain locked the girl in it; she screamed, but her father did not believe it and burned her; angry went out to her father and ran away]: Westermann 1924, No. 5:129-130; manden [the girl's father promises her to the one who will run faster; the antelope is the fastest, but the chameleon hides on her back, touches the girl first, gets a wife; she gives birth to a son, then a daughter; the mother tells they take food to their father; they call their father, the chameleon answers; the children do not believe that he is their father, they laugh; (in anthropomorphic form) the father tells them to always be together; they hear the chameleon again, kill him, mother chases them away; they come to the lioness, kill, cook one of the three cubs, feed the lioness; she asks to bring her cubs to breastfeed; the boy brings one twice; explains that he has already eaten beans, so she does not want to suck; the same with the second; fed the lioness and the last one, hid in a hole, threw the lioness the skulls of her children, put a bag over her, sold the lioness bag to merchants - supposedly there is a big dog; ordered not to open it right away; at night the merchants opened them, the lioness ate them, the old woman was left alone; the children climbed the tree, lowered the lion's rope, she got up, they threw the rope, the lioness broke to death; the tree is high, don't get down; the bird put the children on its wings; boy: the bird stinks, I'll cut off the wing; the girl doesn't mind: you have to be together; the wings are cut off, the bird fell, the children crashed to death ; the turtle revived the boy, who does not want his sister to be revived, but the turtle also revives her; sister: let's eat the turtle! went to buy firewood; the brother tells the turtle to leave, but the sister catches it; they come to the blacksmith and ask him to cook a turtle; he has swollen testicles, the children offer to cure it, burn it, run away; they come in a peanut field, a boy tells a story, people understand that this is about how he maimed a blacksmith; the blacksmith puts the boy in a bag, walks away for a while; he tells the blacksmith's children that there are peanuts in the bag; they untie the bag, get inside instead of the boy, the blacksmith throws the bag into the fire; the boy screams that he burned his children, runs away; comes with his sister to the village, gets a wife; sister: let's kill her; brother does not I may disagree, they kill the girl, run away, climb trees; two old men come, the sister pees, they think it's raining; the brother poops, they notice them, they cut down the tree with axes, it starts to fall, two lizards restore it; a sister kills one lizard, a tree is cut down again, but a second lizard restores it again; a sister kills a second lizard, people cut down a tree, brother and sister go up to heaven, since then they have been making rain and thunderstorms]: Frobenius 1922b, No. 95:170-177; bambara [a boy of 8 years old Kama Kamasoro has a sister of Fatima Kamasoro 15 years old; when dying, mother and father told his sister everything obey her brother; (hereinafter F. tries to object to K every time, but he reminds her of her parents' will); K. tells F. to make him a bow and arrow to hunt rats; hit a rat, and she hid in the barn; K. set fire to the barn and killed the rat, the grain burned; ate the rat, left its head on stone; their only slave ate it; K. killed the slave to get a rat's head out of her belly; F. hid the cow, but K. tied A bag of gold at her foot, found a cow on an ash trail and stabbed her to have a wake for her father; tells F. to go wandering with him; comes to the lion, he offers to hunt together; K. climbs on a tree asks the antelopes who have come why they were not there before: the lion waited for them; the antelopes ran away; then the lion hunts F., and K. stayed with the lions; he killed them, made stuffed animals; wrapped the lion {in cloth?} , carried it, exchanged it from the chief for jewelry for his sister, saying that it was selected meat; when he later unwrapped the bag, the living lion jumped out, but told him not to be afraid: he would go to pay K.; when the lion was ready eat K., a big bird took K. and F. under its wings and carried it away; K. broke the bird's wings, K. and F. fell and crashed; the turtle took the amulet and revived F.; she advised not to revive K., but the turtle revived and him; K. roasted the turtle, but F. refused to eat it; they came to the king, where there is eternal darkness; every time the sun is about to rise, the big bird says three magic words and the sun hides again; K. and F. stopped at the old woman's house, she gave porridge, K. broke a plate of porridge on the old woman's head, forcing her to serve two roasted roosters; K. mockingly responds to the bird's three cries; she comes to eat it, K. cut off her head; plucked the bird (F. could not do it, the feathers were too big), fried it; F. said she could not eat it; the sun was rising; the leader would give the hero half of the kingdom, but let him show the bird's head; the impostors bring only feathers; K. comes to dance; someone Sambou says he is too small, let him dance after him; K. hit him, he fell, ran away; K. took out his head the birds and showed everyone; the sun (at the sight of the bird's head) disappeared again; K. hid his head, the sun appeared again; K. refused to take half of the kingdom and the leader's nine daughters; took one for himself and the other as servants sister; they are on their way again; the leader's daughters cannot walk so fast, K. killed them; the chief was told that he sent soldiers; K. broke an egg, a tree grew, K. and F. climbed on it; the chief ordered him to cut tree; monitor lizard hits its tail and the felling overgrows; K. killed the monitor lizard; the tree collapsed; rope and chain descended from the sky; K. climbed the rope, and F. climbed the chain; they were not seen again]: Zeltner 2013:47-62; cassonne [after three brothers went hunting, a fourth was born; immediately grew up, very strong, went looking for brothers; they told me not to kill red antelopes, he killed, came {premature?} night; seeing the lioness, the brothers congratulated her on the birth of lion cubs, the lioness is happy; began to hunt with her brothers, and the youngest remained to watch the lions; kills one at a time, gives the lioness to feed the rest twice, then three times; the brothers run away, the lioness catches up, the big bird picks up the fugitives; the younger brother says that the bird stinks, breaks its wing, everyone has fallen; comes to the woman, secretly spoils her field, then shoves her head into a hot porridge; comes to the girls whom her mother told to fry hares; fried the girls, called her mother; hired a blacksmith; when he fell asleep, he put a hot rod in his groin; the blacksmith recovered, made honey couscous, began to walk and ask the boys which of them was the worst - he would give him couscous; the bad one began to talk about his atrocities, the blacksmith put him in a bag with couscous, brought it home to fry; while he was making a fire, his two daughters tried couscous, decided that his father was hiding it from them; the voice from the wineskin promises the most delicious; the girls opened the wineskin, the boy planted they went there, the father burned his daughters; when he heard the blacksmith groan, the boy began to rise into the air and laugh]: Monteil 1905:158-165; dark [one of the three brothers slept so long that when he snored, from a girl came out of his nose, an adult three days later, gave birth to twins Fearless and Cautious, fell ill; dying, told them never to argue with each other, gave them a pair of shoes that could quickly take them to the afterlife of Rokerfi; many years later B. offered to go there; old Dundukulma transported them across the Sirathi River; going to Rockerfy must pass 12 cities; in one of them, a person took they were in a gold house, slaughtered two cows for them; B. offered to kill him, and O. could not argue, promising his mother to be unanimous with his brother; they killed the owner, took the valuables, moved on, climbed the tree ; the victim's brother raised the alarm, told the king; spread a prayer rug by the tree; B. wrote on his head; people began to cut down the tree; when it had already bent down, the lizard hit the trunk with its head and the tree recovered; B. killed a lizard; the bird picked up the brothers and their property and carried them away from danger; it has two wings - English and dark; B. killed a bird, they fell on a rock and crashed; at that time, a sorcerer revived people, revived O.; he asked to revive the bird, but not his brother, but the sorcerer revived everyone; it turned out that the sorcerer was a snail; B. was going to fry it, went to get the fire, but O. let them go; the brothers went on; there is a monster Kamyoko on the tree, there is a slit gong by the tree; B. began to beat him; O. ran to hide in the cockroach's house, and B. cut off the monster's head; O. went to tell the king; he promised the killer K. half the kingdom property, including wives; B. came when O. was already on the throne; the king told him to bring the monster's head if he was victorious (O. brought the head); B. brought the heads of his 7 sons, but they did not fit; O. remained king and B. poor]: Turay 1989:165-191; wolof {only one episode is mentioned, but the plot is clearly this} [The devil Samba and the Pious Amar, through the fault of the first, constantly find themselves in almost hopeless; once they were killed, but the turtle revived them, after which S. fried and ate it; they disperse and eventually S. becomes king and A. becomes a blind beggar]: Sylla 1978:113; Songhai : Calame-Griaule 2002 []: 160-168; Hama 1967 [When dying, father, then mother tells his daughter not to let her younger brother cry; boy beats other children, kills animals; brother and sister run to the forest, they climb a tree; the king's men cut it down, the Lizard tells the felling to grow every time; the brother kills the Lizard, but the Eagle picks up the children, takes it away; the brother kills the Eagle, the children fall, break; the Turtle revives a sister from bones; she asks her not to revive her evil brother; the turtle does not listen, the brother comes to life, kills the Turtle]: 258-259.

North Africa. The Arabs of Egypt [a man has a youngest son and an eldest daughter; when he dies, he bequeathed that his son should not mind and be allowed to do whatever he wanted; the mother bequeathed it to his sister; the brother first burned all his property; then I found what my sister took to their neighbors, burned down their houses; brother and sister ran away, started working for a man; he asked to take care of the children, the brother killed them; the brother and sister ran away and climbed on a tree; brother defecated on the face of the leader who was sleeping under a tree; he ordered the tree to be cut down; the bird felt sorry for brother and sister, carried them away from the top of the tree; the brother pulled her tail, she threw them off; they fell in a land of darkness; a brother cut a fire, a pile of stones caught fire; a huge ghoul shouted: Who dares to light a fire in a land of eternal darkness? the brother threw burning stones into the ghoul's mouth; the ghoul exploded, the country around him lit up; the local king ordered to look for a hero; brother and sister hid in the cave, fearing that they would be punished; but the king offered the throne a young man; he replied that he only wanted to be a vizier, but let his sister stay by his side; so it happened, everyone was happy]: Artin Pacha 1895, No. 12:150-156.