K153. Grateful beasts and an evil man, ATU 160.

.11.-.17.21.-.23.26.-.31.33.34.

A person provides services to several (potentially dangerous) animals and another person. Grateful animals help him, and humans betray and harm him.

Swahili, Hausa, Guro, Ashanti, Yoruba (nago), Bura, Fulbe, Kafa, Arabs of Sudan, Egypt, Libya (Benghazi), Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Berbers Morocco, Spaniards, Catalans, Italians ( Veneto), Germans (Silesia, Swabia), Irish, British, French, Syria, Iraq, Qatar, Yemen, Tibetans, Thai Vietnamese, Lao, Thais, Ancient India, Northern India (Hindi), Kumaoni, Rajastanis, Bengalis, Tamils, Santals, Muria, Koreans, Chinese (Guizhou? , Henan), Hungarians, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Czechs, Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians (Chernigov), (Russians), Avars, Armenians, Turks, Persians, Latvians, Finns, Norwegians, Kyrgyz, Salars, Khalkha Mongols, Mongols of Ordos.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Swahili [1) Bateman no.6; the hunter finds a monkey (ape), a snake, a lion and a man in his traps, frees everyone; everyone asks to save him from the rain, promising to save him from the sun one day; each animal advises not to release a person who will repay good with evil; man assures that this is not the case; once a man got lost in the forest, a monkey brought him food and drink; a lion brought game and fire; the snake gives silver and gold; then the hunter comes to visit the rescued man; he reports the hunter to the Sultan, he is about to be executed; the snake lies at the feet of the informer, the hunter has to release; after listening to the whole story, the sultan orders to put the informer in a bag and utopias in the sea; 2) Held, S. 34ff; the hunter freed a monkey, lion, snake, man from the trap; during the famine he went seek food and gets lost; the monkey helps him and feeds him; the same lion; the snake gives gold and silver; the rescued man takes gold and silver and accuses the savior before the Sultan; the hunter was planted to prison; the snake threatens the townspeople, who ask the prisoner to drive it away; the snake crawls away after the hunter is released]: Klipple 1992:93.

West Africa. House [the merchant pulled a leopard, a monkey, a snake, and a foreman of blacksmiths out of the well; each promises to repay with good; the monkey collected fruits from the tree; the leopard dispersed the robbers and their property, among them, the necklace went to the merchant; he decided to sell it to the foreman of the blacksmiths; he recognized the necklace stolen from the emir's daughter and told the emir; he ordered the merchant to be beaten and then thrown into the river; but the snake did not let the guards do this; and a man found robbers killed by a leopard in the forest; the emir understood everything, rewarded the merchant, ordered the foreman of the blacksmiths to be expelled from the city]: Laptukhin 1964:34-37; Yoruba (nago) [the hunter pulled a panther, a snake, a rat and a woman out of the pit; the rat digs a way to the royal palace and brings valuables from there; a woman reports a man who has been chained; the snake splashes something into the prince's eyes, he is dying; the hunter cured him by mixing the drug with the informer's blood; the king rewards the hunter and lets him go home]: Klipple 1992, No. 160:94; Ashanti: Barker, Sinclair 1917, No. 32 [ the hunter pulled a man, a leopard, a snake and a rat out of the pit; a grateful snake provides a remedy for a snake bite, it must be mixed with the blood of a traitor; the leopard brings meat; the rat - fabrics, golden sand, elephant bone; the rescued person lives with his savior and is jealous; when the royal treasury is robbed, he accuses the hunter; he is going to be executed; at this time the king's son is bitten by a snake; the hunter asks to be added to the remedy the blood of a traitor, he was beheaded; the young man recovered, the hunter was awarded]: 163-166; Klipple 1992, No. 160 [a man pulled another person, a leopard, a snake and a rat, out of the pit; a grateful leopard brings meat, the rat is gold dust; when a rescued person brings some wine, the hero does not take it, cites the example of a rat that brings gold; the rescued person reports this to the heavenly deity, who tells the hero to scourge; the snake bites the child of his beloved wife and gives the hero an antidote; the informer is executed, his blood has been mixed with a healing agent]: 95; guro [a panther, a snake, a hawk fell into the buffalo pit; the hunter pulled them out; the panther began to bring antelopes; the hawk saw and brought a gold box; the man told a friend, who told the leader, the owner of the box; the chief makes an appointment with the hunter; the snake says: if the leader asks to wash himself, you must demand that he do it himself first; I will bite him and you will cure him (the snake gives an antidote) by asking the head of an informer for it - otherwise the antidote will not will work; the informer's head was cut off, the chief recovered]: Tououi Bi 2014:151-156; borax [Helser, no. 20; Waikil fell into a hole where there were two snakes; the man pulled them all out; when he came for With the promised reward, W. drove him away, and the snake gave gold; after learning about everything, the leader handed over the position and property to the man W.]: Klipple 1992:95; Fulbe (Senegal) [hunter saves a lion and a hyena; in the time of hunger they bring food to the savior; otherwise as in other texts]: Gaden, no. 20 in Klipple 1992:92-93.

Sudan - East Africa. Kafa [Dawit dug a hole to catch an antelope, but a lion, a leopard, a man, a snake, and a jackal fell into it; the lion promised to bring him pets, and the leopard promised to bring him meat, jackal - to give good advice, the snake kept silent; the man promised to herd D.'s cattle; when D. pulled out the man, the jackal gave advice: not to trust man; one day four came up; three recognized their animals in the pen, who were taken away by a lion; the fourth was saved and advised him to complain to the king; a snake crawled to the court, bit the informer and he did not have time to say anything; the judge released D.]: Reuss-Nliba, Reuss-Nliba 2016:61- 65; Sudanese Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 160:68-69

North Africa. The Berbers of southern Morocco [a man pulled a snake and a rat out of the well; the snake gives a piece of skin off, the rat gives fur, both promise to help, advise not to pull out a person who stayed in the well; but the first man pulled him out; came to town, got married; decided to try to burn his fur; a rat appeared, asked her to help him get the royal treasures; she told him to leave the basket and in the morning it is full of gold; so several times; the king noticed that the daughter promises to the one who finds the thief; the Jew promises to find; lit a fire in the treasury and saw where the smoke came from; said that gold the rat carried out; the king ordered the Jew to be cut off; the man pulled out of the well pointed to him and put him in prison; he called the snake and asked him to be saved; the snake wrapped around the prince's neck; the man promises to save the prince if the king releases him; says that the remedy for the snake is the brain of the one he saved and who reported to him; he was beheaded, his brain was brought; the snake crawled away, the man received princess and half of the royal property]: Stumme 1894, No. 2:394-396; Algerian Arabs [Ben Kadur is poor, Sidi Amun is rich; while hunting, BC heard cries for help; pulled a jackal, a monkey, a snake and a SA out of the pit; he gives BC only two coins, the judge ruled in favor of the SA; God sent locusts, the SA harvest died, he also became poor]: Nowak 1969, No. 304:278; Tunisian Arabs [the traveler looked into the well and saw there who fell into it; began to pull them out; the snake, the rat warn not to pull the man out; but the traveler still pulled him out; once decided to test the promise of the rat, burned its hair, asked for royal treasures; the rat ordered to leave the basket and pick it up at dawn, it is full of gold; the king promised a daughter to whoever would find the kidnapper; the fortuneteller lit a fire in the treasury, began to see where the smoke came from; it is clear that gold was carried away by a rat; the king executed the fortuneteller and appointed another; the story became known; the man saved by the traveler remembered the rat's promise to help the savior and reported it; the man was thrown into dungeon; he burned the scales and called the snake; she wrapped around the neck of the king's son; no one knows what to do; the man asked him to be brought to the prince; "The snake will leave the boy if you feed her brains to such" (i.e. informer); and so it happened; the man married a royal daughter]: Bushnaq 1987:246-248; Arabs of Egypt, Libya (Benghazi), Morocco: El-Shamy 2004, No. 160:68-69.

Southern Europe. Spaniards, Catalans (Spanish and Portuguese indexes do not contain this story, only in the sources referred to by Uther): Uther 2004 (1), No. 160:114; Italians (Veneto): Cerise, Serafini 1974, No. 160:30

Western Europe. Irish, British, Germans (Silesia), French: Uther 2004 (1), No. 160:114; Germans (Swabia) [the king's close associate fell into the hole; the merchant lowered the rope, but pulled out a lion; then a bear; a snake; everyone thanks, gives gold and advises not to pull a man out; the merchant pulls out; the saved person sees gold and is jealous; reports that the merchant has killed and robbed many; The real murderer was this close associate of the king; the merchant must be skinned, hung on an oak tree, and tied to an oak tree until he dies; the lion and bear tore the ropes, freed the merchant; he again grabbed and thrown into prison; the snake crawled, promised to bite the princess, brought antidote grass; now only a prisoner can cure the princess; for saving his daughter, the king freed the merchant, married her, handed him the throne]: Meier 1852a, No. 14:54-56.

Western Asia. Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Qatar, Yemen: El-Shamy 2004, No. 160:68-69; (cf. Kuwait (or Saudi Arabia) [a merchant from Basra decided to prove to his son, who had fun with friends and was generous with them, that these people would easily betray him; he has only one and a half friends; the merchant killed and killed him shroud a sheep and told his son's imaginary friend that he had accidentally killed Kadia; the one who came refused to help hide the body left; so did the son's other friends; reported to the governor; the governor sent soldiers to take the merchant away with his son to prison; on the way, another merchant offers any ransom, but the officer is inexorable; the merchant tells his son that this man is half a friend; the young man tells the governor that he killed Kadia (this is a real, full friend); everything turned out; the governor praised the merchant and his young friend, and the merchant's son stopped walking and got down to business]: Dickson 1949, No. 3:305-307; mehri [father advises son: marry to a girl from his tribe, albeit poor; the son married a girl from another tribe, and passed off his sister as a man from his own; came to live in the place where the Sultan lived; hid the Sultan's goat and told his mother Do not say that, otherwise the goat would be stolen; told his mother that he had allegedly killed the Sultan's goat, ordered not to tell anyone; the sultan wanted goat meat; his mother-in-law came to the boy's mother; she said that her son killed a goat Sultan; sultan to a young man: if you do not bring my goat, I will execute; my wife's relative did not help, and my sister's husband helped, gave 30 cows in return for the goat; the young man brought both a goat and cows to the Sultan; the sultan praised him]: Hein, Mü ller 1909, No. 32:80-84.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [the ground collapsed and a man, a crow, a rat and a snake found themselves in a hole; asked the traveler to help them get out, promising to repay them well; the crow saw the precious things left by the queen the necklace and brought it to the man; when he met the one he had pulled out, the man told him about the grateful crow, and he reported it to the king; the man was thrown into the dungeon; the rat got into it and learned that man starves to death, brought food; the snake promised to help him out; becoming invisible, she wrapped around the king's neck; the llama said that if the king released the prisoner from prison, he would be saved; the king released and rewarded him; the snake left the king, and the man healed well]: Shelton 1925, No. 7:39-43.

Burma - Indochina. Thai Vietnam [a young man Sirota fished a stick in the river; a voice said that it revives the dead; he revived a mouse, a man, a frog, a bird; went to revive the princess and those alive with him; the man stole a wand, he revived the princess himself and told the prince to throw Orphan into prison; the mouse, frog and bird began to bring him food and drink; the princess does not like the applicant, she is numb; but he insists on the wedding; the bird pecked out his eye, arranged that the fallen sword cut off his head; brought a wand to Sirota; the walls of the prison collapsed, the princess spoke; the orphan saved the dying during the pestilence; received the throne]: Nikulin 1976:245-250; Lao [an old woman caught a golden turtle on top; asked to take it home; once told an old man to make a fruit, flooding is coming; during the flood, she orders to save the tiger, the snake, but do not save a person; the couple did not listen and saved; the tiger stole the princess's treasures, brought them to the elderly; the rescued man saw them, let's get to the king, put the old people in prison; the snake made its way there, gave the root of snake bites and bit the queen in the eyelid; the old people healed her and received half the kingdom]: Nikulin 1988:372-376; Thais [a brahmana named Thephasavami pulled a monkey, a snake who fell into the pond , a tiger and a royal jeweler; animals promise to help in difficult times, advise not to pull the man out; T. still pulled it out and the jeweler promises to repay well; later the monkey gave T. forest fruits; the tiger ate the prince and took T. to the place where he hid the jewelry that had been torn off the prince's body; believing that he should not own such jewelry, T. brought it to the jeweler to make him out of it betel box; the jeweler reported to the ruler, accusing T. of killing the prince and stealing jewelry; the king ordered T. to be chained; the snake taught what to do; bit the princess, T. volunteered to cure her, the snake sucked off her poison, T. was released and married to a princess; after hearing T.'s story, the king ordered the jeweler to be shaved, his face burned, and then executed; T. persuaded him not to execute him, fearing for his own karma]: Thal 1958:321-325.

South Asia. Ancient India (Panchatantra) [the wife reproaches the poor brahmana with starving children; he went to seek food; he saw a well in the forest, with a tiger, a monkey, a snake, and a man; each of He asks him to release the animals and not be afraid, they promise a reward; they advise him not to pull a person out of the well; but the brahmana pulled him out, he was a jeweler; the monkey gave amrita, the tiger, gold; the brahmana brought gold to the jeweler; he told the king that he had a man who killed the king's son; in prison, the brahmana thought of a snake; she immediately crawled in and promised to bite the king's beloved wife, and only a brahmana could cure her; the king punished a jeweler and appointed a brahman minister; he summoned his family and relatives to rule the country]: Hertel 1921, No. 31:101-105; North India (Hindi): Crooke in Bødker 1957, No. 1120:110, in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 160:33; Kumaoni [a jeweler, barber, lion and snake fell into a well in the forest; began to ask a passerby to pull them out; he pulled out the lion, who gave a diamond ring, promised to help at any time, advised not to pull out the barber and jeweler; the same snake; a few years later, a man came to the city where the former barber became a cauldron (manager); when he saw a diamond ring, a cauldron and a jeweler told the king that the owner had killed his daughter; in fact, the princess was torn to pieces by a lion; before being executed, the snake told the man that it had bitten the king's wife and he would cure her; the king was all equally refused to let the man go; only when lions filled the city did the king believe in his innocence; executed the kotwal and the jeweler]: Upreti 1894:322-323; Tamils [astrologer father predicts youngest son Gangadhara leaves difficult trials and leaves no inheritance; wandering, G. pulls a tiger, a snake, and a rat out of the well; the tiger warns not to pull the jeweler out, but G. pulls him out; 10 years later G. goes the same going back and finds himself at the well; the tiger gives him a diamond crown; G. comes with it to the rescued jeweler; he took the crown, realizes that the tiger killed the king, tells the crown prince that the murderer is G. the prince, who became king, gave him half his kingdom; G. is thrown into prison; rats and snakes bring him food and water, but are unable to free him; snakes and tigers exterminate his subjects; 10 years later, the last to be bitten by a snake the princess died; the king freed G., who revived all those who had died over the years; forgave the jeweler; met his older brother and died of happiness; the brother carried the body, Ganesha revived it; G. married the one he saved princess]: Natesa Sastri 1984:12-34; Tamils [the young man went to look for work; pulled a snake, a man from different wells; pulled a splinter from the tiger; the young man did not find a job, but on the way back the tiger gave him a bag of gold: they, the tigers, killed the prince and took his property; the young man spent the night with the man he saved; he saw gold, remembered the death of the prince and reported it; the Raja ordered him to be in the morning the elephant trampled on; the snake climbed into prison and promised to bite the princess, and only a young man could cure her; everything turned out; the Raja ordered the informer to be executed in the same way, and gave the young man the princess]: Blackburn 2005, No. 27; Rajastans [Ahir (cast/tribe of shepherds and farmers), a crow, a tiger and a donkey fell into a well; the king hunted and saw them; the crow promised to help, he pulled it out; she advised to pull out everyone but ahir; the donkey and the tiger then advised them to do the same; but the king pulled out ahir; the tiger gave the king gold and silver, carried this load and the king himself on his back to the village; the crow stole and brought to the king a gold ring and bracelet, which were taken off by a woman; after that, the king came to ahir; in this village, the God of Earth demanded man and house as a sacrifice every day; ahir called people, tied the king and sharpening a sacrificial knife; animals came to the rescue; the crow grabbed the sacrificial lantern, set fire to the village; people rushed to the fire, ate the remaining three tigers, and the donkey brought the king to his home]: Grierson 1908:231-232; Bengalis: Damant in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 160:33; Sinhalese: Goonetilleke in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 160:33; Santals [the carrier bequeathed the boat to five sons by his eldest wife, And he gave his youngest son another upstream; everyone used the services of this young man; the brothers, out of envy, let him down the river in a boat, taking away his oars; the boat was carried into the open mouth of a snake; the young man waited when the serpent crawled ashore, cut its stomach and went out; came to an empty village; all the inhabitants were eaten by this snake, there was only one girl left; the young man began to live with her like a raja from rani, for they inherited all the riches ; the wife does not tell me to go south; the husband went, pulled a cow out of the swamp, then a buffalo, who promised to thank him; then he pulled a man out of the well, and he pushed him there; the wife found and pulled him out; they moved to where his father's house was]: Bompas 1909, No. 98:292-294; (cf. muria [the son is dead, the father has gone on a journey; gods: why did he come? man: son died; gods: go get water from the well; at the well, the monkey asked her to drink, invited her to visit; then the same tiger; the same snake; the gods are tired of waiting and when man brought water, they are no longer there it was; he came to the monkey, who washed his feet, fed him well and gave him a few drops of water of immortality; the same tiger (gave him a gold necklace); the man came to people; began to cook by the river, putting a gold necklace nearby; the guard detained him, accusing him of stealing the necklace from the wound; the man asked the snake for help; she bit the raja and he died; the man promised to revive him; at his request, the snake sucked him off his poison; the Raja gave the man a daughter; while preparing for the wedding, two laundresses found drops of immortality water, one drank and became younger; the man received more water from the monkey, made rani beautiful and revived his own son; returned with his princess wife to his former foolish gondi; the Raja gave them the village]: Elvin 1944, No. 2:398-399).

China - Korea. Koreans: Cho 2001, No. 79 [the cinnamon tree grew to the moon; the mooners decided to drag it towards them; they raised it in three years and three months; the remaining hole on earth is a lake in the Paikdu Mountains; now the tree began to obscure the moonlight; the night was very dark; God sent a storm, it tore out the tree on the moon, killing all its inhabitants; moonspots were the trail where it grew; when the tree was back on earth, God sent an angel girl to protect him from the stars; she gave birth to a boy from the spirit of the tree; God told him to protect the tree himself now, his mother brought him back to heaven; the rain flooded the earth with a flood; the father tree told his son to climb on it , swim on it; asks the father if ants can be saved; mosquitoes; the father replies yes; categorically returns when the son wants to save a young man like him, but he saved; the tree sticks to the mountain; both young men come to the hut, where an old woman and her two daughters; when she dies, she must choose her husband; the rescued person lies that the son of a tree can quickly clean and collect millet scattered in the sand (ants perform); the old woman says that she will give her own daughter to the one who guesses what room she is in; the mosquito whispers to the son of the tree in the east; the son of a tree marries his own daughter, the rescued man to the foster room; these couples come from people]: 122-126 (everything but the beginning, from the episode of conception by a tree also in Ząng 1952, No. 8:16-18; the same is about two girls, in Cho there is only one; apparently, these are two close but different options); Garin- Mikhailovsky 1958 [a carrier across the river helped the snake cross; he cried, flowers were growing in this place; then moved the roe deer; later in winter, a goat ran out of the forest and began to dig the ground with its hoof; at this time a passerby was walking with a shovel; the goat ran away, and the carrier asked the passerby to dig; it turned out to be gold; the carrier offered the passerby half, and he demanded everything; the judge gave the gold to the passerby, and the carrier they beat him with sticks and put him in blocks; at night, a serpent bit an old man and then gave him healing leaves; bit the judge's wife, she was dying; the judge asked the old man and found out; he was given gold, and a passerby put in blocks]:; Chinese (Henan, wu. Zhengyang) [there were ten suns in the sky, and their heat kept people from living. A man named Yi, who was extremely powerful, shot nine of them, and the people healed well. One day, the Jade Lord began to sigh sadly. Sivanmu was asked what was going on, and he said that people were becoming more powerful, nine out of ten of his celestial lamps were shot at his palace. Sivanma was told not to worry, because the world has a catastrophe every 500 years. She went down to people and turned into an old beggar to test them and decide if the Jade Lord was worried for nothing. She was driven from everywhere. She decided that there were no good people left in the world and people deserved disaster. On the seashore, I met my brother and sister named Fusi and Nuiva, who lived without parents. Fusi felt sorry for the beggar and asked her to be a foster mother, and Nuiva brought her rice and fish. Then Sivanmu decided that people should not be completely extinct. F. and N. told me that disaster would soon begin: let them collect enough brushwood and rice and get on the boat. She allowed pets to be saved, but not humans. After that, she went to Mount Kunlun ("Burnt Dragon"), where a black dragon had been sleeping in the cave for five hundred years. Sivanma woke him up and told him to destroy humanity. He flew out of the cave, rushed into the clouds, swam in the Sky River (Milky Way), hit his tail and punched a hole in the Sky River, then returned to the cave and fell asleep again. As soon as Fusi and Nuiva got into the boat, it started raining; it did not stop for 49 days. They saw a man drowning nearby, felt sorry for him and, despite Sivanma's ban, saved him. They also rescued a turtle and a dog. When they reached Mount Kunlun, they left a man to guard the boat, and took the harpoons themselves and, together with the turtle and the dog, climbed the mountain in search of a secluded place. The rescued man was dishonest, and as soon as they left, he sailed away in their boat. Brother and sister found a suitable cave and wanted to drag brushwood into it, but the dog, with its keen sense of smell, smelled evil spirits and said they should go inside and kill the monster, otherwise they wouldn't only will be able to live in a cave, but they will also say goodbye to their lives. Brother and sister went into the cave, saw the dragon sleeping and hit him with two harpoons. The black dragon crawled out of the cave in pain and rolled southeast. Where it rolled, a winding river with muddy waters formed - today's Yellow River. The dragon came to sea and died, and since then the law that catastrophes every five hundred years in the world has no longer been in effect. The brother and sister returned to the place where they left the boat, but did not find it, so they returned to the cave with the turtle and dog, hunting wild animals and fishing. Their clothes decayed, and they wore tree leaves in summer and animal skins in winter. Fusi once told N. that there were no other people left in the world, so they should marry, but N. refused. Then they asked the dog to judge them. Dog: Just as male and female flowers that grow from the same root on the same stem can set fruits, brother and sister can marry. N. still disagreed and invited F. to catch up with her, and if he succeeded, they would marry. They ran from dawn to dusk, but Fusi didn't catch his sister. Then the turtle advised F. not to run, but to hide behind the mountain. When N. ran by, F. jumped out and grabbed her. To this day, in many places, spouses are referred to as brother and sister. N. hated the turtle and ordered it to hide its shameless face and close her talkative mouth. Since then, turtles have been pulling their heads into their shells and not talking. Then she peed on the turtle and kicked it into the river. Since then, the turtle's shell has cracks and smells like urine]: Zhou Yang et al. 2001b, No. 9a: 14-15; Chinese (Guizhou? The Qingshuihe River is mentioned; there are several similar hydronyms in China, but the river in Guizhou is probably the most famous) [the carp warned the fisherman that the river would split; ordered the reeds to be put on the water, he would turn into a boat; the fisherman picked up a crow, lizard, snake who were drowning; he did not want to take a rich neighbor into the boat, but his wife insisted; when the water slept, the boat turned into a reed again; the emperor promised a reward for this boat, and if the owner refuses to give it back, he will be executed; the rescued neighbor volunteered to take the reed to the emperor and share the reward; became a senior official; the fisherman sent his son to the capital to find out How are you; the rich man threw the young man into prison and forbid him to feed; the crows brought food, the lizard dug out of the dungeon; the snake bit the rich man and he died]: Riftin 1957:55-57.

The Balkans. Hungarians [pilgrim (poor man) pulls a monkey, a snake (with a ring), a wolf, a jeweler out of the pit; animals pay him well, and a man reports to the king; a snake bites the king's son, a pilgrim praying to him saves; having learned how it was, the king brought the poor man closer to him; the wife sends a man to the general, and he orders him to be beaten; the king drove the general away, appointed a man to his place]: Kovács 1987, No. 160:279 -280; Macedonians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 160:114; Bulgarians [when dying, the father tells his son to do good to the snake but not to the person; the son helps the wounded snake and stork; the snake brings him gems, and the stork is game; the hero also helps the wounded man; when he learns that precious stones are missing from the treasury, he reports on him; the tsar is going to hang the hero, but when he hears how it happened, he hangs a slanderer]: Daskalova -Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 160:71.

Central Europe. Czechs, Poles: Uther 2004 (1), No. 160:114; Belarusians, Ukrainians (Chernihiv) [Grateful animals: pulled out of the pit by man, later provide help him, they reward him generously]: SUS 1979, No. 160:79-80; (cf. Russians [{1 link to the 1977 publication, no number in the list by region}]: SUS 1979, No. 160:79-80).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Avars [fox, bear, snake and rich Ismail fell into the hole; the peasant pulled them out; the fox brought chickens, geese, turkeys; the bear brought firewood; the snake brought a pearl; when the peasant tried to sell the pearl, he was accused of stealing; he summoned I. as a witness, but he denied everything; they wanted to execute the peasant; at that moment a fox, a bear and a snake came and testified that he was right]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 60: 266-268; Armenians [wife harassed her husband; he took her to a well, drained her to get water and covered the hole with a stone; threw a snake, wolf, bear there; came a week later; animals beg to save them from evil women; he pulled out the animals; then agreed to pull out his wife; at night, the wolf brought sheep, and the bear brought a camel loaded with good; the husband gave the go-ahead to his wife, and stabbed the sheep and camel to make a kourma; the wife reported that the husband stole the king's camel, he was put in prison to cut off his head; the snake wrapped around the neck of the king's six-month-old grandson; the prisoner promises to remove the snake; the snake crawled away, the king listened to the man, executed his wife ]: Karapetyan 1967:170-172; Turks: Boratav 1990, No. 1 [when he dies, the father tells his son to help all creatures except humans; he saved the snake from the cat, the stork chicks from the snake; but he also saved the orphan who was beaten other boys, adopted him; the snake began to bring him a gold coin every day, and the stork a fried chicken; the boy grew up; noticing that his father had money and food every day, he denounced the padishah; The padishah and the vizier came incognito, saw everything for themselves, the owner told them everything; the padishah ordered the owner's adopted son to be beheaded]: 11-14; Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 165 [mother advises her son not to do it good to man; a son saves a dove and a snake from the hands of children; a dove brings chickens, a snake brings precious stones; a young man finds a chest on the seashore and a boy in it; he grows up and reports on his father; the padishah appeared incognito, I learned the whole story from my father and understood why chickens and precious stones are missing from the palace]: 73-74.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [the hunter pulls a tiger, a monkey, a snake, a jeweler out of the pit; the tiger gives him a necklace of the princess he killed; the jeweler reports the necklace to the king; the snake saves the hunter by giving medicine cure a sick princess]: Marzolph 1984, No. 160:53

Baltoscandia. Latvians [Grateful animals are an ungrateful person. The guy rescues an elephant, a snake and a mouse from the pit. Despite the mouse's warnings, the guy also pulls out the goldsmith. The goldsmith accuses the guy and he goes to jail. An elephant tramples the royal fields. The king orders that the guy be released from prison because it turns out he is innocent]: Aris, Meedne 1977, No. 160:260; Finns, Norwegians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 160:114.

Turkestan. Kyrgyz [Aalybay adopted Chotur, the son of his deceased friend; C. saves and heals a frog; she gives him a stone that revives the dead, tells him not to revive a person; C. goes to Baghdad, revives on the way a snake, a mouse, a wasp, a skull; a revived person deceives him of a stone, lowers him into the well to get water, throws it there, becomes a vizier himself; the mice dry the well, C. comes to the khan, upon the libel of the vizier he is thrown into the zindan; the snake he saved bites the khan's daughter for C. to cure her; the vizier persuades the khan to dress up his daughter and several other girls in the same way, let C. identify her; the rescued wasp points to the bride, C. marries the khan's daughter; he tells his son-in-law and vizier to touch the stone, the vizier's hand turns into a head, C. reigns]: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1989:108-115 (=1963:138-147; 1981:98-103; = Ledenyov 1987:88-98); Kyrgyz [bai sent him to study with his only son; in the third year, the young man began to study worse, slipped down, avoided peer society; moldo (mullah, teacher) ordered to follow; he reported that the young man was sitting on the shore, cutting meat off his thighs and feeding a frog; Moldo summoned the young man to his place, but he refused to study and returned home, and then went on a journey; a huge herd; suddenly the cattle split, the wind dragged the young man in front of the dragon opened its mouth; it was the same frog; when he recognized the young man, the dragon slammed its mouth shut, greeted the young man, gave a satiating stone; You hold it to your mouth, and food appears at will; it also revives the dead; going on, the young man revived a 12-year-old boy, a snake, ants, bees; after putting a stone in his mouth, the young man did not need food; together with the rescued boy, the young man went to the well for a drink, the boy pushed him down; the snake promises to save: it will sting the khan's daughter, the young man will volunteer to treat her, the snake will extract poison in three days, the young man will get this girl; it happened, but the khan offers difficult tasks; in a dark house to separate wheat, barley, oats and millet; ants separated; daughter in one of the sixties covered wagons, indicate in what; bees began to spin there; the khan gave his daughter and made his son-in-law a vizier; the wife found a stone, called the boy, he explained everything; the khan asked his son-in-law to revive the dead animals, he did it]: Sabyr uulu 2008:46- 48; salars (Eishe Ahvar, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous County) [the young man saw a lame frog, tied its paws and placed it in a pond; gave it half of his bread every day; the boy's father found out about this and decided to kill him; frog: "Don't go home, your father will kill you! If you [want to] listen to me, [then] stroke my throat and a couple of jewels will appear from there. Take them and, whatever you see on the road, touch [them]. What [you] touch will come to life. [Just] don't touch the dead man - he'll hurt you!" ; the young man took the jewelry and left home; saw and revived the dead a snake, a dog, a mouse and a bee; when he saw a dead man, he touched him too; the man came to life and invited the young man to be friends; they went together; the young man talked about his jewels, the man said he would take it; the young man gave it to him; the man threw it into the well; the young man got out and found that man; he hit and buried the young man in the ground ; the dog brought the people and began to tear the ground with its paws; people helped her, the young man got to the surface and went in search of that man; he gave the jewelry to the prince, the prince identified him as his son, and He put the young man in prison; a mouse, a snake and a bee came to the young man; a mouse: "I'll bring [you] the prince's butter bread!" ; snake: "I'm going to bite the prince's daughter!" ; the bee said, "I will tell you what they say"; the snake crawled away and bit the prince's daughter; the prince posted an announcement on the wall: whoever helps his daughter, he will marry her; the bee broke the ad and took it to the young man; the young man cured the prince's daughter and got her as his wife; told her about the jewels and the lively man; the prince asked both the young man and that man; then said: "I will put the jewelry on a table and I'll name each one of you. Whoever the jewels belong to [they] will go!" ; first named the man who was revived; the jewels remained in place; then named the young man; the jewels immediately jumped on the young man's chest; the prince put the lively man in prison]: Tenishev 1964 , NO. 45:84-86.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols (Khalha) [poor young man Banga is a lumberjack, sells firewood; lama; there will be a flood, make a raft, put his mother on it, save the snake and mice; and do not save the old mantis (chavgants); but B. saved and him; the hurricane took him to the land of demons; that old woman is the mother of demons; she accused B. of stealing jewelry, the khan put him in prison; the mice brought him food; the snake wrapped around the khan's neck, forced him to release young man; B. returned to his mother]: Mikhailov 1962:12-14; the Mongols (Ordos) [Ereldei-hu pulled a kite, a rat, a snake, and a man named Togos out of the well; they all promised to help him; the kite took his head the headdress of Emperor Samandi's daughter was brought to E. to make him rich; the emperor promised a daughter to marry the one who found a hat; T. reported that E.'s hat was thrown into prison; the rat dug through the passage, carried food and water ; the snake wrapped around the emperor's neck; the predictor explains what's going on; E. is summoned, agrees to ask the snake to crawl away after receiving the princess; Togosa was beheaded]: Mostaert 1937, No. 25 in Solovyov 2014.