K27Z. A gamble for life and death.

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A character gains power over another by winning a game of chance or intellectual play (not in a sporting event). The motif includes all texts with the K27z4 motif.

Nubians, Kordofan, Gubians, Kabiles, Tunisia (Algeria, Egypt), Germans (Swabia), Tibetans, Sindhi, Punjabians, Kashmiris, Bengalis, Konkani, Santals, Telugu, Sinhales, Bosnians, Greeks, Czechs, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks, Bukhara Arabs, Persians, Tajiks of Sistan, Mountain Tajiks, Yagnobes, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Buryats, Tanaina, Atna, Taltan, Quarry, Kalispel, Vishram, Alsea, Menomimi, Western Ojibwa, Seneca, Hurons, Iowa and Oto, Yana, Serrano, Southern Payut, Pima, Chirikahua, Jicarilla, Western Apaches, Lipan, Zunyi, Western Ceres (Akoma).

Sudan - East Africa. Kordofan (language not specified) [The Sultan has two sons with his main wife and the youngest Hasan from a side wife; the sultan promises to transfer property to the one who is more successful in business; older brothers they come to the city where Fatma lives; she offers every groom to play a board game of chance; always wins by getting all the applicant's property; asks her older brother what he needs: her property or herself; he says she loses; the same with her middle brother; brothers flee to another city, one is hired to serve in a coffee shop, the other in an inn; at this time H. is clever sells, got rich; met brothers, divided the property equally; won against F., who gives him her anklet, keeping the second one the same; the brothers took H. out of town, blinded him and threw him so get his property and F.; picked up a bracelet, H. began to understand the language of birds; if you put the flowers of the tree to the eye sockets, the blind person will see the light; then the bracelet nourishes and waters him, protects him from wild animals; Returning to his father's city, H. hired a silver jeweler; F. told the brothers' father that he would marry someone who would show the same bracelet as hers; the older brother showed the bracelet to the older jeweler, but replied that no one could make such a thing; H. told the craftsman he could; his older brother brought both bracelets to his father, but F. demanded that the person who made the second one be shown; the master admitted that this was not he, brought H.; mother recognized son; H. became sultan]: Frobenius, No. 12:117-134; Nubians [bet on life and property]: Kronenberg, No. 48:230-235 in El-Shamy 2004, No. 217A§: 84.

North Africa. Kabila [Akkarui-Buthluva ("restless head") is the son of agelite (village chief); he went on a journey; the old man says that one road leads to seven seas, the other to wild animals; AB crossed the sea, found a box of gold, stayed in a caféin; the local agelite has a beautiful daughter; sleeps for a month, awake for a month; when she gets married, he will sleep like ordinary people; they fell in love with each other friend; the girl sent her father a ripe pomegranate, rotten on the one hand: it's time to marry; the father will give it to someone who brings a hundred bags of beans from across the sea that a Jew has; a sea maiden came out ("daughter of agelite genies"), carried AB across the sea; he married her, they have two sons; a Jew guards his bags himself during the day, and at night the cat holds a lamp and even if a rat runs, does not leave it; a Jew: who will force throw the cat a lamp, I'll give him all his property, and whoever tries, but can't, will give me everything and will be executed; many tried unsuccessfully, the Jew took possession of everything; AB lowered a rat on a rope through a hole in ceiling; at first the cat did not react, but in the morning he grabbed a rat, dropped the lamp; AB executed a Jew, brought bags of beans to the sea; the sea maiden and her children disappeared into the water, the waves carried AB and bags to on the other side; AB married Agelite's daughter; soon began to miss the sea maiden; threw himself into the sea, swam out six months later; rushed again; the sea maiden realized that he loved her, went ashore; AB with two became the wives and sons of a sea maiden to rule the country where that Jew was]: Frobenius 1921b, No. 50:265-271; Tunisia [bet on life and property]: El-Shamy 2004, No. 217A§: 84.

Western Europe. Germans (Swabia) [the king of England is sick; dreams that he will be cured by the fruit of a tree from a distant country; the eldest son is going, refused to share bread with an old man in the forest; comes to the castle, feasts; beauty offers to play; prince loses everything, is thrown into prison; the same with his middle brother; younger Karl is kind to the old man, gives him gold; does not stop at the castle, goes to the land of the monkeys; the king monkeys show the way to a wonderful garden; an hour before noon, the bridge will fall, while the lions guarding the garden are sleeping; we must pick the fruits and return before noon; then the monkeys will regain their humanity appearance; there is a palace by the garden, it is beautiful, they met, but suddenly it disappeared; K. wrote who he was - in case a child was born; the monkey king bit off the fruit, became human, as well as his subjects, instead forests are a city; when he came to another city, he saw two black flags; tomorrow two princes who cannot pay their debts are executed; K. bought the prisoners and recognized them as brothers; the brothers threw K. into the well, took them fruits, and his father was told that K. was dead - they found his dead horse; that old man pulled K. out on the condition that he would not go home; K. hired a peasant to herd pigs; a rich childless merchant passed by, offered to work for him; bequeathed him all his property; the beautiful woman in that palace gave birth to a son, which was a condition for her to get rid of the spell; now she can throw away the palace; after finding out from the note who her son's father is, comes with an army to the King of England; Charles's elder brother, then his middle brother, meets them; she drives them away: if K. does not appear in 3 days, she will raze the city to the ground; K. is found, the king is happy; the older brothers torn by 8 bulls; K. became king]: Meier 1852a, No. 5:20-29.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. The Tibetans [a foolish Muslim young man was picking yellow flowers; a passer said that now his feet were yellow, so he was about to die; the young man dug his own grave and lay down; the man carried a vessel of oil to the king, offered him to carry it, promising a chicken; the young man began to think how it would bring him chickens, etc., he eventually married; stumbled and broke the vessel; the man brought him to the king, who laughed, gave the young man a purse with gold; when the young man came to the house, the dog grabbed the purse; the mother poured sugar on the roof, told her son that sugar was falling from the sky; while the son was collecting sugar, the mother took the dog's gold; agreed on marriage; the young man promised to come to the bride's house in the evening; rides a horse and sees a shadow, takes it for a stalker spirit, consistently throws him all his garments, jumps off his horse, hides in the shadows of the poplar, where the shadow disappears; climbed onto the poplar, fell asleep; the travelers picked everything up, sat down under the poplar to divide; the young man shouts from the tree: and to me; they ran away, the young man went down, dressed and sat on his horse; during At the wedding ceremony, the young man put the best pieces for his mother in a jug; put his hand deep, she got stuck; I had to say that he no longer wanted to eat; wife: knock a jug on a white stone on the street; it turned out that he hit his father-in-law on the head; thinking that he had killed the man, the young man ran away; in some yard he lay down first on honeycombs and then on his hair; in the morning he decided that he had been turned into punishment for murder in the sheep; joined the flock; at night the thieves came to steal the sheep, found the biggest young man; on the river bank they wanted to slaughter the sheep, the young man shouted that it was not necessary; the thieves ran away, the young man returned to his wife; through He went to work for several years; the owner said that it would not be a servant who would hold the lamp at night, but a cat; if this did not happen, the guest would take all his property, and if so, he would give everything to the owner; so this the man regularly robbed travelers; after losing, the young man remained a servant in the house; the wife dressed up as a man, went in search; agreed with her husband that he would release the mice; the third time the cat rushed after the mouse dropped the lamp; husband and wife got riches, returned home]: O'Connor 1906, No. 6:30-42 (parfionovich retelling 1976:110-121, hero name Lodup); Amdo Tibetans ("Tanguts") [on the way Gesar meets seven cannibal girls; they offer to play, win all his possessions against him, offer to play for his soul; he lashes, plays not them with damn black, but with his white bones of God, she plays everything, wins the souls of six, decapitates the girls; wants to marry the seventh; raises her hair, sees that her entire skull is covered with eyes and mouths; cannot kill her with a knife, sends her soul out of her body , she dies]: Potanin 1893:30.

South Asia. Sindhi [the king falls ill with leprosy, no one talks to him; the parrot promises to bring medicine if the king releases him; climbs into the crack of the rock from the rain; there is a myna (locust starling, Acridotheres tristis) promises to bring medicine from Persia (these are the flowers of a local tree) if the parrot marries her daughter; she brought it, took the parrot, flew away without fulfilling its promise; the myna and her daughter flew then; the king recovered, and the myna and his daughter complained to him about the parrot; he responded with a story of two brothers; one lived with his wife and children, the other was wandering, and came to his brother's place to eat once a month; his wife is unhappy; when his brother came, she put a bandage around his neck, turning him into an ox; told her husband that his brother had brought the ox to work; one day an ox at a watering hole, the participants of the wedding procession approach, the bride says that this is not an ox, but a man who was turned into an ox by his daughter-in-law; she took off her bandage and became human again; the groom thought that the bride was a witch herself; he and both brothers went to another country; the king made them guards in the palace; married against their will; the abandoned bride and former wives of both brothers flew in the form of black cocks; the new wives understood everything, became colorful roosters, started with those fight, telling husbands to finish off blacks when they fall; husbands killed all six and left; protecting women, Myna tells a different story in response; a jealous merchant does not sell for fear of leaving his wife; she gives he has white clothes: if stains appear, I am wrong; in one city, the princess offers to play dice for property; the merchant loses, like everyone else before him, sold to work in an oil mill; the king is surprised that the worker's clothes remain snow-white; when he finds out what is going on, he orders the merchant's wife to be brought to him; the courtier arrives by ship, the merchant's wife tells her people to throw those who come in the chest into the sea, sails away to the court's ship, dressed as a man, comes to play dice with the princess; finds out that the princess has two mice; one extinguished the lamp, the other at that moment turned the enemy's bone over if she fell there six; the merchant's wife releases the cat, wins, frees the prisoners, buys her husband, they return home; the king offers Maina to stay at court: maybe the parrot will still marry her ugly daughters; the offended myna and her daughter fly away, the parrot stays]: Schimmel 1995, No. 21:177-187; Punjabis (Rawalpindi District) [Raja Rasalu went to play chaupur with King Sarkap; at the pottery furnace saw a cat rushing around; she said that her kittens were in one of the vessels; R. bought the stove from the potter; the cat gave R. one kitten: he would help him; S.: the first bet is the kingdom, the second is all the treasures of the world, the third is life; R.: the first is his weapon, the second is his horse, the third is life; contrary to warning, R. began to play with Sarkap's bones made from the dead man's bones; he released the rat, she turned the bones over like it is necessary and R. lost the weapon; then the horse; then R. offered to play it with bones, released the kitten, the rat did not dare to leave, S. lost; R. played the weapon and the horse, won the kingdom, wealth and the head of S.; R. did began to kill him, took an oath not to play on the lives of others; received his newborn daughter and after 20 years married her as a horse; then R. offered her kingdoms to unite; Rakshasi did not appear again won, i.e.; art, where she ruled with]: Steel, Temple 1884:276-280; Punjabi [Prince Ghool refuses to marry; asks a girl for water at the well; girl (she is the daughter of blacksmith Alim): this is the one a prince whom no one marries; he promises to marry her; she asked for a year's delay; placed the growing melons in a vessel; the melons grew, she offered to extract them; no one can; she soaked clay, widened her necks, took out melons; after the wedding, the prince regularly whips his wife; she advises to get the princess better and beat her; the princess offers to play three games of chess; losing the first, the prince gives the horse, the second to her mercy, the third goes to clean the stable; the wife, wearing men's clothes, goes in search, saves the drowning rat, she explains that the princess has a cat with a magic a lamp on her head; this makes her invisible, she moves the figures and the princess always wins; the wife releases the rat, the cat rushes after her, the wife knocks the lamp off her head, the cat runs away; the princess loses; but she is silent, she must be talked three times; the rat is responsible for the princess, she thinks the leg of the bed is talking, yelling at her; the wife tells long stories twice, the rat comments the princess shouts that this is not the case; the wedding, but the imaginary prince asks to postpone a genuine marriage for six months; frees the enslaved, but not her husband; tells him to wear her man's outfit and give her his groom; prince brings the princess; the blacksmith's daughter shows his clothes to the groom; he realizes that his first wife got the princess; everything is fine]: Swynnerton 1892, No. 80:313-330; Kashmiris [a wealthy merchant has a stupid son; he was ashamed to marry him, but his wife insisted on finding a bride; his father agreed to give his son three coins; let him buy one for himself, throw the other into the river, and the third she will buy food, drink, chew, plant in the garden, and more food for the cow; the blacksmith's daughter: leave one coin in your pocket and buy a melon for the other, it has all five things; the father did not believe what his son came up with himself ; having learned about the blacksmith's daughter, he decided to marry her son; I came to the blacksmith, only my daughter at home; - Where are the parents? - The father went to buy a ruby for a cowrie, and the mother went to sell words; explained that the father went to buy lamp oils and the mother went to marry; people advised the groom to say that he would beat every day the wife had 7 shoes; the blacksmith offered to cancel the wedding, but the daughter said she would settle the matter; the first night she said it was not good to quarrel on the wedding day; then the first week; and then, as usual, returns to his parents for a while; the merchant's wife insisted that he give his son money to trade; a young merchant comes to a luxurious house; the hostess offers to play backgammon; the cat is taught to extinguish the lamp rang, at that moment the hostess replaces backgammon; the merchant lost his property, wife and himself; occasionally gave home a letter to his father, in which he described everything as it was, and to his wife, in which he wrote that he was rich, and when she returns, he will beat her with a shoe; the person sent accidentally mixed up the letters; the wife in a man's dress came to the cat's owner, asked the servants what was going on, took a mouse with her; released when the cat was supposed to turn off the lamp; the hostess lost everything, including herself; the husband did not recognize his wife, she appointed him her sardar, hid his prison clothes; when the husband was going to beat his wife with shoes at home, she was in his presence She told her parents everything, showed his clothes; the hostess, now a slave, confirmed everything; the old merchant ordered all the treasures to be handed over to her daughter-in-law, not to the fool's son]: Knowles 1888:144-153; Rajastans [the stupid and stupid prince swore that when married, he would hit his wife twice with shoes before eating; after that, all the brides refused; the daughter of another king is confident in her mind and herself invites her father to marry her prince; when the prince arrives, the princess first says that they are not married yet, then that they are still in her father's house, then that she is supported by her father-in-law, not her husband at all - let he would earn money first; the prince took the money and went home; got to fraudsters; during lunch, they shouted that one of them had lost his gold hat; village elder: whoever found the hat was he would give all his possessions; the hat was tied to the prince's clothes, he had to give everything away; the prince began to earn a living as a lumberjack; the prince's wife watched him and, dressed as a man, came with with her people to the same swindlers; quietly untied her gold hat and hid it under the carpet; there she was found and all the property of the crooks went to the princess; began to live as a noble person and fed the poor; came and her husband; she offered him a servant job, gave him nice clothes, and kept his rags, axe and shaved beard;]: Mathur 1995:29-32; Nepali [no one wants to marry a lazy guy who promises to beat his wife; one girl married him; gave him a hundred rupees, sent me to earn money; you can earn money, then hit; the young man went into the same house; there he was one-legged: your father took my leg to fix it and did not return it; the young man had to pay 50 rupees; in another house blind in one eye; the same, the other 50 rupees; in the third, the hostess: if my chicken sings with a rooster, you will become my slave, if not, the woman will give everything to the guest property; the chicken sang; the wife went to look for her husband; told the one-legged that her father-in-law had many legs - she needed a second leg to find the first one; took the cutter; one-legged returned the money; the same one-eyed; in the house the woman hears the chicken talking to the rooster, which is in the basket under her basket; she swapped the birds; when the rooster screamed, it was the rooster who was under the basket; all the owner's property, including the slave, went to the young man's wife; he respected his wife]: Sakya, Griffith 1984:130-133; the Bengalis [the queen's life is in a set of dice; the king went hunting, Prince Dalimkumar played dice with friends; Rakshasi took the form of a beggar, asked for bones, took them to her kingdom, where her sister Pashabutty ruled; the queen fell breathless, Rakshasi took her form, hid her body in the far room; the imaginary queen gave birth to 7 sons; they went on a journey, taking D. with them; the imaginary queen asked the snake she kept in the box where D.'s life was; the snake: in pomegranate seeds; sent a snake to kill D. and tell his sister to pass 7 beauties off as her 7 sons; the snake bit D. and he went blind; hid in an apple for the night; he was eaten by a local princess, swallowing a snake and a letter from the imaginary queen to her sister; P. She offered those who came to play dice; if they won, she and her 7 sisters are at their mercy, and the losers will be killed and eaten; she always won because the mouse turned the dice unnoticed; the brothers lost, they were eaten; blind D. was chosen as the next fiancé of the local princess: all her suitors died on their wedding night; at night the snake came out of the princess's nostril, but D. hacked her down; immediately he regained his sight; with the snake there was a letter, from everything became clear to him; D. went to play dice with P., but released the kitten and the mouse did not dare to go out; recognized the set of bones - his mother's life in them; 7 brothers and their horses came to life; two kingdoms joined; rakshasi did not appear again]: Bradley-Birt 1920, No. 6:174-178; konkani (Goa) [when the king sees his third son born, he goes blind; to see the light, he needs a bakali flower; two sons are sent to look for it; the third, who lives in the forest, rides on his own; the princess beats the guests at cards, the two brothers are imprisoned; on the advice of an old woman, the younger brother hides the mongoose, who kills the rat that was shuffling for princess cards; a young man marries a princess, frees his brothers; a giant sends him to a giantess, he marries her daughter, a rat digs a passage to the flower owner's palace, a young man picks up a flower and a sleeping ring princesses; at home, brothers take a flower from the youngest, make his father sighted; younger brother builds a palace, gathers his three wives, father comes to visit, brothers are ashamed]: Davidson, Phelps 1937, No. 1:6-8; Telugu {the collection contains mostly Telugu texts, but there are several Marathi texts; there is a small possibility that this text is also Marathi} [the king goes blind, only the leaves of a certain trees; two sons from the first wife go in search, play chess with a rich courtesan, lose, become her servants; the son from the second wife stays with the old woman; she explains that everything the players certainly lose; the courtesan has a cat with a lamp on her head; when the courtesan feels that the opponent is stronger, she gives the cat a sign, she drops the lamp, the courtesan changes the arrangement of the figures; the prince releases two rats, the cat rushes after them, he changes figures himself and wins; the courtesan becomes his maid herself, he frees all enslaved kings and princes , including brothers; goes for leaves; defeats the cannibal, who marries him off her adopted daughter; gives him three pebbles: they must be thrown into a tree, the snakes, scorpions and centipedes teeming on it will disappear; the young man took it leaves and went to his father with his brothers; the brothers killed him, filled him with dung, set him on fire; his dog brought the cannibal's daughter and courtesan to the fire; the cannibal's daughter mixed ash with water, sculpted the figure the husband and he came to life; the older brothers restored his father's sight; the youngest with both women came to his mother, told her everything; having learned the truth, the king expelled his eldest sons and handed over the throne to the youngest]: Venkataswami 1923, No. 78 : 144-149; Santals [betting on life and property]: Bodding 1929:253-257; Sinhales [apparently translated by Parker, vol. 1, No. 155:173-177; parents bring the prince one wife after another; he asks Each one to heat water for him, they refuse, he sends them back; they paid more for the last one, she heated the water, they began to live together; contrary to the warning, the prince goes with the merchants to the city, where Hetera lives; she has a cat holding a lamp; merchants bet: if the cat does not drop the lamp during the meal, the merchants will lose all their property, and if he drops it, they will get the whole city of heteras; merchants lost; the prince's wife in a man's outfit went to save her husband; released four mice, the cat did not move; three more - the cat dropped the lamp; the wife returned the prince, everything is fine]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 100:245-247.

The Balkans. Bosnians [a childless man went on a journey; the person he met gave him an apple; the peel should be given to a mare and a dog, and the rest should be eaten in half with his wife; the wife gave birth to twin boys, a mare of two foals, a dog of two puppies; when parents died, the brothers each took their horse and dog and went into peace; at the fork there is an inscription: a person who walks along the upper road for five years will not see the world, but those who walk on the left - three years old; the one who walked along the top came to the lake, on the pole there is an inscription: if you enter the water, you will regret it, but if you do not enter, you will also regret it; he came in; after that he, the horse and the dog became golden; the young man stopped at the king, the princess saw him, fell in love, the young man married her; after the wedding he went hunting; chased a deer, drove to the castle; the girl in the castle offers to play checkers: if the young man wins, he will get a deer, and if she gets his dog; he won, but suddenly someone sang, he turned around, the girl changed checkers and won; then he lost his horse and himself, was thrown into prison; another brother too I drove across that lake, he was mistaken for the first; he was cold with the princess, went hunting in the morning, got to the same castle, kept his eyes on the board, played back his brother's dog and horse, himself and the girl herself ; on the way home, I wanted to kill my brother out of jealousy, but the girl did not let me; I found out at home that my wife was faithful; my second brother married that girl]: Wratislaw 1890, No. 46:246-251; Greeks (Peloponnese) [the widow's youngest son goes to get water, catches fish, she asks her to let go, gives her beauty for it; the middle brother, then the older brother also catches fish, asks and receives pockets that always contain money; princess invites the grooms to play cards; marries the winner, throws the losers into the dungeon; the older brothers lose, end up in prison; the youngest receives a magic tablecloth from one girl on the way, from the other is a fez that fulfills every wish; he loses, but thanks to a tablecloth, he feeds all the prisoners, and then puts on a fez, shoots cannons at the king's palace, gets the princess and the throne]: Kretschmer 1919, No. 49:211-215.

Central Europe. Czechs [12 cuirassiers ran away from the service; they saw a castle, there are tables with food; a witch comes in: you can lie down, but a box has been prepared for everyone: don't open it; they're dead in the morning: they opened the box no demand; witch: now you can open it; one takes an invisibility cloak out of his cloak, the other a cape you can fly in, the third is an inexhaustible purse; at the inn, the princess beats everyone and whips away; the owner of the purse began to play; lost, but the money was all there; the princess put sleeping pills in his wine, changed his purse; did not beat him, but told him to leave; the other cuirassier put on cloak and cape, grabbed the princess from leaving him by a pear somewhere in the woods; she asked him to pick up pears, the cape with the cloak fell, the princess flew home; the cuirassier ate pears, horns grew; came to the Wind; he was not strong enough to take him home, sent him to his brother; this Wind offered to eat apples that lose their horns; after picking apples and pears, the cuirassier returned to his friends; told one of them to pretend to be a merchant and sell pears to the princess; she had grown horns and could not walk; the cuirassier disguised himself as a doctor, told the princess that she had probably committed a grave sin; she returned the wonderful items, and he gave her apples; the king gave his daughter for a savior, his two friends took senior positions in the kingdom]: Curtin 1890:356-369.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Armenians [betting on life and property?] : Levin 1982 in Uther 2004 (1), No. 217:136; Azerbaijanis [Shah invites merchants to play backgammon; if his cat keeps seven lamps on its tail until morning, the Shah will take his property and plant him to prison, or vice versa if he does not; the cat did not move, the merchant lost everything; the servant told his wife; she ordered to catch mice, disguised herself as a merchant, came with a caravan; during the game, her servants became release mice, the cat dropped the lamps, the merchant was released, and the Shah was put in prison]: Akhundov 1955:306-307.

Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks [Ahmad goes to trade; the owner of the caravanserai offers to play chess; if her cat keeps the lamp on her head all night, she will win; A. lost everything, becomes a servant; A. Zukhra found out that there are no mice in that country; she takes four mice, releases it, the cat drops the lamp, Z. played everything and took her husband]: Rogov 1980:315-318; Bukhara Arabs [the emir is blind, sons are going for medicine; the elders come to the old woman; she stipulates that if the lamp stays on the cat until the morning, she will take their property; having lost everything, the brothers are hired as a fish merchant; younger greets the Albanists, who refers him to her older sister; she to the younger sister; she to the bargitumi tree; there are divas and peri, the young man collects the leaves of the tree; plays back what the brothers lost (sends the mouse to the cat); in the youngest steppe is thirsty, his brothers tear his eyes out in exchange for water, take the leaves, throw him into the well; he finds leaves in his pocket, sees the light; the horse pulls him out of the well; he heals his father; the father curses elder sons]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 36:237-239; Tajiks of Sistan [long text: female player]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 5:64-76; Tajiks of Sistan [the king is blind, we need a leaf fortieth tree; two elder princes from one wife, the younger Malik-Muhammad from the other; at a fork in the roads a stone with the inscription: you will come back to the right, God knows straight, you will not return to the left; brothers sent MM along the left road, drove the other two themselves, the roads met again and they drove together; the young man invited them into the house, the girl offered to play dice, they all lost; became servants to the merchant and the baker; MM is polite to the diva old woman; she hid it from her seven sons; they swore they would not harm the guest; the old woman gave MM a letter for her older sister, she for herself the eldest; this old woman tells me to go the other way on the way back, otherwise he will cause harm; in the betting garden, the king of the bet; when he sees MM, he will cry, and the 4-headed tree will scream; we must hide; the princess will reproach them; twice; then pour sweets on the horse, iron the tree; they will become MM's friends; you have to swap the gold and silver lamp near the sleeping girl, eat food, pick up one of the 7 bedspreads ; MM did so, picked up the leaves of the tree, went back to the fork where he left the brothers; their arrows rusted; MM beat the girl and even won her; bought the brothers and labeled them as a slave; they he was not recognized; one of the brothers gave a girl player and the other a princess, whom the local king gave for a gem taken by MM from a bet; sent the girls with leaves home to his father, but alone kept the leaf for themselves; the brothers realized that MM was with them; there was no water on the way, they gave MM water in exchange for their eyes; they took the leaves from the girl, brought them to their father; the dog led MM to the spring, spit out his eyes, he rubbed He saw them with a leaf, sat on his horse that came up; bet - the owner of the tree and the army went to look for MM to marry; the older brothers went out, walked barefoot on the carpet spread out, could not answer what they saw at the bet; beaten; MM came, answered correctly; wedding; brothers were expelled, and he also took the girls MM wanted to give them for himself]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 9:118-131; mountain Tajiks [the merchant goes to Egypt; the wife gives advice: not to mention his wife, put two mice in the bootlegs (note: then the narrator missed the episode when the mice are released and the cat drops the candles; in There is another Tajik fairy tale); the merchant stayed with an old man for the night; he attached candles behind the cat's ears and offered to play chess; the merchant lost everything; said that if his wife found out about this, she will take away the property of the old man and his relatives; in response, the old man promises to bring the merchant's wife's trousers, if possible, he will cut off his head; the old man hired the old woman, but the merchant's wife beat her; the old woman explained how to crochet and steal trousers for an old man; when she saw the loss, the merchant's wife wore a man's outfit, came to the Shah of Egypt under the guise of Shah of Baghdad and asked for permission to rule the country for three days; ordered execute a chess player, give the merchant his property; came to the merchant under the guise of a Shah; he is looking for a wife to execute her (lost trousers); everything is clear; wife: you violated both advice - mentioned your wife and did not put mice by the bootlegs]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 13:57-62; the Yagnobes [the merchant's son came to the king; he sets the condition: if the cat drops the lamp before dawn, he will give the merchant the kingdom; If he does not drop it, he will take the merchant's caravan and himself; the king took away his wife's ring, sent 40 soldiers to pick up his wife; the merchant's father received the visitors; the daughter-in-law overheard their conversation, she put poison in the pilaf, they died; she put her heads in the chests, took the pot and the mouse and came to the king; during the game she released the mouse, the cat dropped the lamp; the merchant's wife took him and his goods to the king left the heads of his warriors; the merchant went to trade again; his companions said that that king molested her; merchant: if she is not clean, bring her ring; that man gave the merchant's wife three trays of gold and received the ring; the husband left everything, left, hired it in the tea room; the wife found it and returned it]: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 9:70-79; Persians (Mazendaran, Khorasan, Isfahan) [a trained cat keeps all night a lit candle; the other releases the mouse, the cat rushes after her, the candle falls; the episode in the context of the bet; the young man puts all his possessions, his clever wife wins and returns everything; the cat reacts to the third mouse released; in the Khorasan version, the youngest of the 7 brothers falls in love when he sees a portrait of the princess; kills 7 devas guarding her garden, removes the ring from the sleeping princess's finger; the king puts three marriage conditions, including a cat must drop a candle]: Marzolph 1984, No. 217:56-57; Persians (Isfahan) [Padishah Chyna is blind; he asks his three sons to go to Misr to see Padishah Peri and bring leaves Tutia tree; in Misra, elder Jamshid agreed to play with the daughter of the chief of the guard, lost everything, became an apprentice to the barbecue maker; middle Shamshir was the same (assistant stoker in the bathhouse); younger Ibrahim I met a man who warned of that girl's cunning; he came to her and saw that she had 4 cats holding lamps; they argued: if I. could make cats throw lamps, then will receive all the girl's property, and if she cannot, he will give her all his own; there were no mice in Misra, I. hardly bought four at the bazaar; 4 times cats threw the lamp and ate the mouse before the girl she had time to understand what had happened; she refused to fulfill the contract, I. cut it in half and took all the property; went to sell the calf, the chief of security recognized him, it was his daughter's calf; in confusion I. fled and came to the chief of the guard under the guise of a girl; lured him to prison, offered to show how the prisoner was placed in blocks, beat him with an iron bar until he lost consciousness; fled; came to the chief guards disguised as a doctor; ordered them to be left in the bathhouse and for the orchestra to play; smeared him with syrup and released wasps; the vizier knows how to find the deceiver; cook the soup and shout that it is being given away for health the chief of the guard; the deceiver would come; I. rode in the prince's clothes, disappeared; then dressed up as a poor tramp, the chief of the guard agreed to serve him, and he threw him into the boiling pot; everyone talked: Give me my calf! After that, I. arrived at the Peri Garden; he was guarded by divas, animals and ghouls; the old man teaches what to do; you must get to the sleeping daughter of Padishah Peri, leave a stick, a night hat, food, her shoes nearby, tear it apart dress, put a fly on his cheek and tie his belt; pluck the leaves from the third tree, although it will pull the branches up; I. returned to Misr, found and took the brothers with him; on the way they threw it into the well, killed the slave and took the leaves; I.'s dog ran to the shepherd, who gave her bread, she brought it to I.; the shepherds pulled him out, left; I. told the head of the caravan, who was en route to Chin, went with a caravan; at this time, the padishah saw the light from the leaves and placed the crown on J.'s head, and S. appointed him a vizier; when I. appeared and told his father everything, J. threw him into prison; the daughter of the padishah peri arrived in Chin and demanded the one who picked the leaves; J. came out, could not tell anything, he was cut into four pieces; then S. was quartered, the pieces were hung on the gate; I. told everything; became Padishah of the Peri Kingdom and the Kingdom of Men]: Jaliashvili, Faras 1967:109-130.

Turkestan. Kazakhs (Semipalatinsk Oblast; Ethnographic Review 1912) [a rich man tells his son to marry a girl, not to marry women; he still took it; before his death he showed his daughter-in-law where they were buried treasures; the daughter-in-law took her lover, gave everything to him; sent her husband to the bazaar in the city; there the khan offers to play: puts a candle on the cat's tail; in whichever direction the candle falls, he lost; the cat always runs to to the owner, the candle falls in the opposite direction; the man lost his property and himself; the wife also sent her husband's sister to lime her, but she hid a mouse in her sleeve; the khan lost the property, the courtiers and herself; the girl exchanged him for his brother]: Sidelnikov 1964:65-66 (=1971 (3): 51-52); Kyrgyz [Sulaimanbay has a son Mamyr; his father tells him to marry a girl, he took a young widow; when he died, S. entrusted his daughter-in-law the treasury, which the rake son did not know about; the wife offers to sell the house to a neighbor; tries to give M. a drink, but he heard her neighbor tell her neighbor about the treasure buried on the site; M. sold the house to a neighbor for a lot, dug up the treasure and left; the judge decided in favor of M.; M. married Alymkan, the daughter of the wise Shakirbay; went with a caravan; the old woman suggests an argument: if her cat holds a candle in her paws all night, M. will give her her her her property; M. lost, left, hired a caravanserai worker; his wife wore men's clothes, came to that old woman, let go of her mouse, got her husband's camels back, found M.; everything is fine]: Brudny 1954:85-90 (=Ledenev 1987:40-46).

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Western Buryats [Galdan's elder brother is brave, younger Bair is modest and quiet; G. studied at the monastery for three years, and B. stayed to watch chess players on the way there and during these three years learned play well; Khan orders a person to come to him every morning to play chess, the loser is beheaded; it is the turn of the son of the elderly; G. looks at the book and says that fate cannot be avoided ; B. goes to play instead of the son of the elderly; Khan says that the saber hanging on the wall moves and cuts off the loser's head; when in a hopeless situation, offers a draw, but B. refuses and leaves; Khan died near the chessboard without inventing anything]: Eliasov 1959:77-82.

Subarctic. Tanaina [a shaman wins property from a rich man, three daughters, a wife, a young son; the loser comes to the house of giant K'eluyesh; on the way, the man takes a squirrel out of the trap, or rather the rest of that skin; now the squirrel has jumped out alive, it is the baby of a giant; the giant gives animal skins, dice; by betting the skins, the person plays everything from the shaman; the person advises the shaman should go to the giant for dice (the giant himself advised to offer this to the shaman); as a result, the shaman loses his abilities]: Ruppert, Bernet 2001:316-317; atna [two families live; the head of one invites the other to visit, wins all his property and household members with checkers; tells the loser to migrate by extinguishing the fire; a good slave hides hot coals for the owner; he sews clothes from the remaining scraps of skin, hunts rabbits, survives the winter; in summer his marmot traps are empty, he is desperate; a stranger touches him with a stick, he regurgitates his bad luck; the traps are full; despite warning a stranger, a person takes a groundhog from the last trap; he jumps out of the bag, runs away; the stranger teaches him to win checkers; the man beats the offender, takes everything; the slave did not leave him fire, the offender died of cold]: Ruppert, Bernet 2001:343-345; taltan [the young man loses his family and all the inhabitants of the village to the Water (Sea) Man; he keeps them under water as slaves; Mouse advises to ask Drake for help; he suggests how to play; the young man plays back all people and property]: Teit 1921a, No. 39:233-234.

The coast is the Plateau. Career [The player loses property, relatives, finally his hair; The rabbit in the form of a person gives him the ability to put it correctly; Utakke, the master of heaven, descends, puts sky against earth and everything on it; Player loses first bet, second wins; afraid of the decisive third; players disperse]: Jenness 1934, No. 15:161-162; kalispel [cannibals have come (some animals), offered people to play stick-game; won all their property against them; if they won them themselves, they would eat them; Sleepy Boy appeared and won back everything; said that he was Sweat-Lodge; the fire in the steam room is his payment]: Vogt 1940, No. 7:89-91; Vishram [The chief invites him to play dice, cuts off the heads of the losers; Eagle has wives Cricket and Gorlink, each with a son; the Eagle goes to play; The Chief sends Blue Jay, Whitefish, Crab, Rabbit to find out who has come; Eagle's sight makes the first three crippled (almost blind, his mouth is burned, etc.); the Rabbit transmits a message; the Eagle loses to the Rabbit, The chief cuts off the Eagle's head; the Coyote takes the Eagle's wives; the Cricket believes it's the Eagle, Gorlinka is not; two old women tell the Young Eagle how his father died; the Young won, cut off the Chief's head; since then the losers are not killed; the Young Eagle removed his father's head from the pole, put it to his body, painted it five times, he came to life; the resurrected Eagle told Coyote to climb the tree to the nest; the birds were not there; the tree with Coyote turned into a rock]: Hines 1998, No. 36:135-140; alsea [brothers (no number specified) go from one side of the river to play with brothers living on the other side (shooting at a target, throwing a spear, gambling - dice throwing, guessing game); killed, grandmother and boy remain of the whole family; he trains to become invulnerable to a knife; finds a set of playing sticks in the steam room, which owned by his father and uncle (uncles); plays, wins; he is attacked, he cuts off the attackers, the grandmother throws them into the hole so that they go into the world of the dead; the youngest has his neck cut, so the hawk (in which he turned) crooked neck]: Frachtenberg 1920, No. 12:137-159.

The Midwest. Menominee [Moose always win, beat losers with Reindeer clubs; hero marries Chief Deer's daughter; wins all competitions; 1) dice game (Moose instead of plum bones play with human eyes; the hero refuses to use them), 2) throw a heavy metal ball, 3) dive into the ice-hole for a long time (The turtle keeps the hero warm under water, his opponent half dead pops up), 4) run on ice (Otter makes sure that the hero's soles do not slip), 5) just race (Wolf, Fox run instead of the hero); Moose kill the hero with clubs when he takes off his protective bracelet; Wolf, Fox, Dog come under his guise to his widow, who rejects them; The wolf revives the hero; he returns to his wife, destroys the Moose, turns them into moose]: Hoffman 1896:187-196; Ojibwa [Player offers to throw beads into a hole, kills losers; Manabozo wins, kills Player]: Radin 1914, No. 1.

Northeast. Seneca [a woman dies giving birth to a premature baby; her husband leaves him in a hollow; he comes to play with his five-year-old brother while his father is away; looks like a chipmunk; the father notices traces He is surprised that food supplies are quickly depleted; turning into a stump with mice, he catches the Discarded One; gives him a club, he destroys trees, calms down, agrees to live with his father and brother; father warns sons not to go in one direction or another; they break the ban; in the north, the Discarded one kills frogs that threaten his father; in the west he climbs a tree into the Thunder's nest, kills a male, a female, two cubs; in the north, he smashes a stone giant with a log, comes home riding his dog; on SW, a dice player kills losers; Thrown out wins, cuts off the player's head, saves people ; in the east, he wins the ball game, taking the side of the wolf and bear genera against the genera of eagle, turtle, beaver; father agrees to become the leader of that country]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 34:176-180; Hurons [ the hero comes to play, the bet is life; he uses his pebbles, wins, cuts off the enemy's head, throws it against a tree; the head turns into a growth on the trunk; from such growths since then they cut out vessels for playing stones]: Barbeau 1960, No. 34:29.

Plains. Iowa and Oto [Muskrat rules people, does not give them commercial animals; summons Rabbit to compete (gambling, running); Rabbit wins; sends his own instead the skin to compete further, he comes to Muskrat's wife himself, deceives her to find out where he hides his heart; gives Beaver an ax (i.e. sharp teeth), for which he gets his heart for a while, replaces his heart with them Muskrat, when the Guardian Loon pulls him out; burns his heart, Muskrat and his wife turn into a muskrat]: Dorsey 1892:294; Kiova-Apache [the world is dark; N. plays against herbivorous animal people; you have to guess who has the sticks; Coyote keeps track of the score, always supports the winner; N. loses, Coyote helps throw him off a cliff; he breaks, turns into grindstones ; Wagtail (? Road Runner) raises its wings, dawn begins; birds choose which one is better; reject the Raven, choose the Eagle; Coyote throws a tree core into the water, it pops up; so life will be eternal; The furious Raven throws a rock, it sinks - death becomes final]: McAllister 1949, No. 2:20-22; wichita [Shadow of the Sun offers to play, kills losers; short young man loses property and part of his body; two bisonic women take him to an old man and an old woman, who give him strength; he breaks the game sticks of the Shadow of the Sun, plays with his own, wins; two bison raise the Sun's Shadow on their horns, people burn a corpse; a young man turns into a starling, flies to the buffalo]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 28:194-199.

California. Oriental pomo [The hawk is not loyal to the Partridge, she decides to leave him; weaves a basket with patterns symbolizing the water world; sends children to the cave with food; she sits in the basket herself, she swims on the lake; seeing the patterns, the aquatic creatures do not touch her; she goes ashore, the flying monster Gilak takes her away; his sister is a ritual drum, she has teeth in her vagina, with which she devours what her brother has brought and women thrown into a hole in the roof, spit out their bones; in the passage leading to the house from the side, there are two bears and two rattlesnakes; Gadfly also guards; once he fell asleep, G. snatched him into punishment is one eye; brother G. forgot to set a trap at the entrance, G. tore off one leg; hawk's wife G. did not throw his sister to eat, but led him through the door to keep it for himself; The hawk flew to G.'s house, killed two bears and two snakes, but was trapped, broke his spine, Brother G. threw it into Sister G.'s vagina, who ate it; Hawk's grandfather asked two Flint Brothers and two Bluebirds brothers to go with him; collected Hawk's bones in a bag, blinded bears and snakes with smoke, and trapped a stone; Coyote and his four companions and two Brothers-G. began to play guessing (dice); G. shot Flint, the arrow bounced; Bluebird shot G.'s second toe, killed him; then they killed Brother G., fed them a toothy vagina; started dancing on the drum, smashing it; the Coyote revived Hawk; they wanted to burn house, but Bumble-Fly asked to leave it to him; everyone comes back, but people smell dead, Hawk decides to leave, his brother is with him; Coyote goes to the fork, and then Hawk's trail goes the same path, his brother's trail is on the other; the Coyote throws up his stick, she falls, divides him into two Coyotes; they follow two paths (text ends)]: Angulo, Freeland 1928:244-249; Maidu [ the old woman put a bead in the basket, told her husband not to make a fire in the house; he lit it, the ground shook, a boy was standing by the fire; he grew up, he had a second pair of eyes under his shoulder blades on his back; he heard the sounds of dancing in the distance, He enters the house, he was stuck to poisonous insects, he rolled them into a ball, threw them into the fire, some of them escaped, the current ones come from them; he killed dangerous woodpeckers, chased a deer, that deer into the sky, he climbed rainbow, killed a deer, threw it on the ground, came back; the Coyote takes the guise of different people, runs ahead, each time asks the young man to share berries with him; he hides wasps in a ball of berries, the Coyote screams, runs away; The young man's grandmother lived as a Raccoon, the young man invited him to travel; while his grandson was climbing the rock, the grandfather thought that he was gone, burned himself in the fire, only one leg was left, the young man revived him; they enter the house of the Old Man of the North Winds, grandfather slides, breaks his head; CER offers to play against his eyes and hearts; the young man loses his grandfather's eyes and heart; comes out supposedly out of need; asks dust why he lost, dust tells me to ask The sun, the Sun says that CERV has a hole from one armpit to the other, through which it passes dice; the Sun, with its heat, brings the fog to vitreous, the hole becomes clogged, the young man plays everything back, the grandfather comes to life; both return home leaving the CER with one eye; the old woman on the rock offers to straighten the young man's back; with his second eyes he sees that she is going to crush him with a stone, dodges; she confesses that she killed all his brothers; he makes her lie down, kills her with a stone, returns to her grandmother; she and his grandfather die, he leaves]: Dixon 1902, No. 4:59-65; konkov [there are no fruits, no berries, no grasshoppers; Piu'chunnuh sends a boy to Hai'kutwotopeh ("the great") and Woan'nomih ("the killer"), which are far north in the land of ice; when the boy enters them wigwam, both sleeping on high platforms, their hair hangs to the ground; they say they know everything and will show up as soon as it gets dark; they never go out; people have gathered in a community house, both old men they spread the roof and descended among the audience; one has a shaman's rattle in his hands, the current ones come from it; W. tells the boys to be initiated (first initiation); everything should pass in silence for three days and in the dark; P.'s heart rejoiced; but on the third day, two boys decided to look at those who had come and came in with torches; only P. covered his face not to see; and a curious woman looked in; W. says it's okay, they're leaving, now there will be fruits and grasshoppers, rituals should be performed in the community house; boys and women fell dead; in the afternoon, a fire came down from the sun and burned everyone except P. because only he did not see W. and Hai'kutwotopeh (H.); H. came to play sticks in one of the villages; there was a cavity inside him through which he could quietly throw chopsticks from one hand to another; he won all the inhabitants and took them to his land of ice; only the old woman and her daughter Kiunaddissi remained; P. went to live with them; K. met a young man who was the Red Cloud at sunset; became pregnant and gave birth to a boy, he grew up immediately, his name is Oankoitupeh; the old woman asks people to lie on their stomach, fix their backs, throws a heavy stone; O. saw what was behind his back, dodged, killed the old woman herself with a stone; the eagle takes people away, O. made a trap, killed the eagle; both times the grandmother advised his grandson not to go where the monsters are; O. came to play with H.; at first he lost everything except his mother; at the last moment he closed the hole in the body of H., played his people; after giving them law and order, O. went to heaven, last appearing in the form of a rainbow]: Powell 1877:294-305; Yana [Acorn marries daughter of the Month; husbands of other daughters They hate him for months; he wins dice, a race race; his uncle is hidden in his hair; helps him bypass a scorpion, jump over a hole, a rattlesnake, a grizzly bear; An acorn kills sons-in-law]: Curtin 1898:425-442 (=2004:266-278); serrano [see J4A motif; a woman gives birth to two sons from the Sun; they make flutes; the youngest can be heard playing on the other side of the world; two daughters The vultures go from there to this sound; on the road, the Coyote, the Hawk say they played; the older sister believes the younger one tells us to move on; the sisters spend the night with their brothers, leave in the morning; the brothers follow soon for them; mother knows they will die; Vulture sends his son named Tsaikakat to find out who has come; light from the bodies of young men kills Ts; Vulture calls his warriors, Hawk manages to kill twins; their bones are powdered, long bones are used to play; the younger sister gives birth to a son Kveshomari; he also shines; she lies to her father that she gave birth to a girl; K. plays with her uncle, who says that he did not kill his father and uncle; K. finds the bones of his father and uncle, cannot revive them; plays with Coyote; throws the dice, the earth splits, everyone but K.'s mother dies; with her he visits his grandmother; mother carries across the sea, drowns]: Benedict 1926, No. 3:2-7.

Big Pool. Southern Payut (Shivvitz) [Wolf's son and Coyote live together; two girls reject suitors; Wolf's son came to them and they accepted him; father-in-law offers to win back the lost Players {the essence of the game is not quite understandable, but apparently gambling}; Wolf's son screams in pain and falls into the river; his grandfather caught his remains, boiled him several times in a bucket, revived Wolf's son; sent him back to play, letting him play again, letting him a stick divided into 4 parts; it will contain the body of the Wolf's son; but you can't show these pieces to the Players; but he put them where they can be seen; the player put the wand in the hot ash; the grandfather looked for his grandson raised a terrible storm, everything scattered with difficulty finding a charred stick, revived his grandson; he gave his grandfather everything he won; Wolf's son found a pregnant wife (she is heavy and therefore not blown away by the wind) squeezed out of her belly all the children who are from other men; came to a place where girls play with men's testicles and limbs cut off, throwing them into the air; those people eat human meat]: Lowie 1924, No. 5: 105-109; Southern Payut (Moapa) [two women stand in front of the house and their sons play with those who come to the house; before playing, women give poisonous porridge to those who come; when players win, they cut off the heads of the losers and throw them to their mothers; Cünawab {apparently Coyote}, his brother Töbats {apparently Wolf} and their people came to play; did not eat the porridge offered, but threw it to those women ; The Coyote rabbit won, cut off the players' heads and threw them to their mothers; they first thought they were the heads of those who came, but then they cried; these women were killed too; then they came to play elsewhere; Everyone won, including the pignon pine seeds; they were at the top of a smooth pole; by order of the Coyote, the mouse took them out; the Coyote placed the seeds on the pines - let them always be there; the turtle killed the wild ram; Coyote: Whoever jumps over the carcass will get the skin; the turtle could not jump over; the Coyote refreshed the ram, but there is no rope to carry the skin; while he went to get grass and made the rope, the Turtle dragged everything to to his home; the Coyote asked one of his sons to call a downpour to flood the Turtle's house; but the Turtle is alive; asked one of his sons to cause a terrible fever; the Coyote and his sons died]: Lowie 1924, No. 2:160-161.

The Great Southwest. Mojave [gamble; bet on whether the chipmunk will lift the rock; whether the lizard will get the scalp off the pole]: Kroeber 1948, No. 1:18; 1972, No. 17 [also a cane chip game]: 97; pima [ Sand Coyote is the elder, Yellow Coyote is the younger brother; the LCD's wife is the Corn Woman; they come to the PC, which considers CE a dirty syphilic; the LCD loses the PC's property, body and soul, the PC kills, eats it; a widow gives birth to a son; when he is 9 years old, the PC drops a piece of fat, the boy supports him, hides him under his arm; the PC finds him, offers to play the same game as with his father; the mother says that the father died playing with the PC; mother and son run away, live alone; boy kills increasingly big game; Vulture brings his arrow to the village, PC recognizes her, comes to his nephew, he is not treated, he leaves crying; mother leaves visit relatives; the son follows her later; when he sees two girls, he turns into a corpse; the girls hear a euphonic song; the youngest realizes that the corpse is singing; the eldest mocks her when she returns to the corpse; instead of the corpse, a handsome young man; now the eldest wants it too, the youngest refuses; the young man takes both; their former husband offers to play, let the young man put one of the wives on the line; the young man asks him to put his shirt on the line; he replies that it is his skin; the young man shakes him out of his skin, he dies; the boy's mother returns; the young man goes to play with the PC; passes the pebbles off as bird eggs (PC thinks that birds can't lay eggs yet, argues, loses); turns his nail into a young month (the PC knows that the new moon is far away, argues, loses again); the young man wins and then, enough PC for hair, kills; mother offers to go to her homeland; at each night, she, the eldest, youngest wives successively turn into gray, black, yellow spiders; left alone, young man turns into a black lizard]: Russel 1908:233-237; Papago [Acorn Eater is Big Brother's sister; refuses Puma and Jaguar, Hawk and Eagle; brother advises her to marry Gopher ; Gopher magically fertilizes her, she gives birth to twins; Coyote and other men claim to be paternity; her mother collects them, but the children do not crawl to anyone; everyone separated, Coyote stayed, said he was a grandfather twins; they grew up, went to ruin the eagle's nest on the rock; the eldest turned into a snake, got to the middle, fell, died; the youngest revived him, became a ball of feathers, the wind lifted him to the nest, they came down from two eagles; brothers argue who to take the smaller chick, the eldest has to take the smaller one; it snowed, the eagles froze, the brothers burned them, the mother revived them from the remaining fluff, told the youngest to take a smaller chick; the Coyote made himself a good bow, and the mother was bad for her sons, she was in a hurry; became a deer to teach them how to hunt; the mother tells them to bring bamboo from the lake; around the bamboo lies a lightning snake; the youngest managed to get there, his mother made bamboo flutes for her sons; in the east lived the Brown Vulture; his two daughters go to the sound of a flute; on the way Owl, Barn Owl, Hawk, another bird give a voice to prove that they played, but are rejected; the girls come to the brothers' mother; she feeds them but does not let them into the house; the youngest broke his flute, after that the eldest also stopped playing; the sisters return to their father, the youngest is expecting a child; after the wives left, the brothers lost their luck; they came to their wives, the Hawk destroyed their strength, their father-in-law killed and ate them; promised to eat the youngest daughter's child if a boy was born; but he went blind to him they said that a girl was born; then she tried but could not kill her grandson; the mother sent him to his grandmother; the young man stirred up the fires, images of father and uncle appeared in front of him, but immediately began to fall apart; they said that his grandfather killed them; a young man comes to his mother; he was swallowed by a water monster, but he collected sharp stones in advance, cut the monster's womb, went out; the grandmother made four playing sticks out of that bamboo ; a young man comes to his cannibal grandfather, bamboo falls on the old man's head, kills (var.: the bet is life, the young man wins); the young man brings his scalp to his grandmother, she dances; she goes overseas; the young man comes to mother and aunt; goes to his grandmother, mother and aunt follow him; he made a bridge, when they are in the middle, he brought it down; they turned into birds walking on the sea beach; the young man steles to live with his grandmother]: Densmore 1929a : 54-79; chiricahua: Opler 1942, No. 1a [birds gamble against four-legged animals (moccassin game: what moccasin is hidden under a short stick, pebble, etc.); if birds win, in the world there will be daylight; the winners will destroy the losers; the birds have almost lost, but the turkey that falls asleep has 3 more sticks and the birds have won back what they lost; when the animals have 2 sticks left, the day dawned; the Coyote decided to go over to the side of the birds; the wren began to sing: day, day; the giant told him to be silent and poked his head, since then the wrens had a black speck on his head; the wren flew up the rock and light poured through the crevice; the animals lost the last stick and the birds began to kill them; the giant went away; the arrows of the birds did not harm him; the lizard, although among the animals, reported that the giant's heart is under the sole; shot at her, the giant fell dead; now there are white stones - his bones; the snake hid in the crack in the rock, it was not reached; the bear ran away into the forest, where it now lives; so I was in a hurry to put moccasins on the wrong leg, now clubfoot], 1b [the world is dark; the birds decided to play against the four-legged animals in the moccasin game; the winners will kill the losers; insects on the birds' side; the Coyote supports those who win; gopher threw his wand under another moccasin out of the ground if the birds guessed correctly; at first the birds lost, but then the plantain cuckoo began to guess, the birds were all played back; someone hit him with a smut, now he has red peppers on his face; then the four-legged began to win again; the turkey hid a few sticks, now they are in his paw; after that, the birds began finally win; giant: it's time for me to leave, I'm walking slowly; he went, hung (on a tree) his testicles and sat in their shade; when the four-legged lost their last stick, he sowed the day for the first time; those who were killed by the birds are no longer on earth; the coyote went over to the side of the birds; the giant's arrows did not harm; the lizard decided to help, shot the giant in the sole where he had a heart; he died; the snake went into the crevice, the birds fired arrows at it; there are now many bears in the thickets where the bear disappeared]: 23-25, 25-27; Western Apaches [moccassin game option: guess which moccasin the ball is under ]: Goddard 1918 (San Carlos) [1) The world is dark, Owl and Bear want it to always be like this; others call them to dance; Coyote sings, Let the day come, Owl, Let the day not come; Owl and The bear falls asleep, the Coyote wins the light; the Owl and the Bear prefer the dark; 2) The bear and the owl want only darkness; other people animals dance and sing, Let there be light; The bear wears moccasins On the wrong foot, runs to the mountains]: 44; Goodwin 1994, No. 34 (White Mountain) [two var.; the world is dark; snakes, lizards, beetles want the darkness to continue, their leader is the Bear; other animals led by Coyote they want light; agree to play (who can guess where the ball is hidden); Coyote repeats, Dawn, Dawn; It brightens in the east; The bear repeats, No dawn! Bear's party loses, they start to be killed; Bear puts moccasins on the wrong leg, runs away]: 148-150; Zunyi [Ayuta brothers come to play with the Player, lose; he roasts them; theirs the grandmother sends their four sisters to help; three also lose even themselves; the fourth throws the Player's dice into the fire; playing with their own, wins; A. cut out the Player's eyes, throws them into the sky, they turn into Evening and Morning Stars; Player releases a fireball; people close doors, the ball rolls past the village]: Parsons 1930, No. 12:45-46; Western Ceres (Akoma) [Player steals valuables; the hero plays with him, the last bet is the heart; the hero takes out the Player's eyes instead of the heart, throws them to the sky, they turn into stars; the player tries to destroy the world with a stream of burning resin; the rain floods fire]: Benedict 1930 [players play on people's lives, Kaupata is the most dangerous; the Sun sends his son to change the rules, play only for valuables and jewelry; he wins; cuts out K.'s eyes, turns them into two bright stars; K. sets fire to the world; birds fight fire, taking on their current color (the raven turns black, the hummingbird flies through the rainbow, becomes colorful); the rain floods the fire]: 62 -65; Boas 1928a [The player steals rains, people; tells you to guess four times what is in two vessels; Sunny Young Man calls beads, butterflies, pebbles, Pleiades; then ants, bumblebees, wasps, Orion; the last in Each series of answers is correct; the player releases the Pleiades flying west, agrees to be killed; the Sunny Boy takes out his eyes with a flintlock knife, throws him south, they turn into stars (unspecified which ones)]: 76-82, 253-254 [summary]; White 1932 [Kaubat rapes a girl, she gives birth to twins; they come to play with him; they win; one of them correctly guesses what is in the star's bag]: 165- 168; Lipan: Opler 1940:87-93 [ferocious animals play against harmless animals; you have to guess which moccasin the bone is under; the bet is life; Rabbit, Antelope are playing on the side of the evil; if they won, it would be eternal night; the good win the day because of the Possum, who climbed under the moccasins and changed the bone; for this, the evil beat it into the ground; from some losers, the winners take fat; Bear hurriedly put his moccasins on the wrong leg, so the clubfoot; the birds beat the Big Owl, he hides his heart in his leg, the Lizard hits him there with an arrow; his body turns into flints, flies out of it an ordinary owl, asks for a little darkness, lives in caves], 93-95 [as on pp.87-93; The Sun, the Morning Star play on the side of the good], 199-200 [Puma, Coyote and other four-legged animals fight insects; those are all had a bite; Coyote stayed behind, ran away].