K27z4. A player's trained dice animal.

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The character always wins bets or beats others thanks to a trained cat (mouse, rat) that holds (or turns off) a lamp, turns the bones over, etc. The hero releases a mouse (or, accordingly, a cat, a mongoose), the cat rushes after it (or the mouse is afraid to go out), the character loses.

Nubians, Kabilas, Berbers and Arabs (?) Tunisians (Algeria, Egypt), Tibetans, Sindhi, Punjabi, Kashmiris, Bengalis, Konkani, Santals, Telugu, Sinhales, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks, Bukhara Arabs, Persians, Mountain Tajiks, Yagnobes, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz.

Sudan - East Africa. Nubians [betting 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 with wives and sons of a sea maiden, he began to rule the country where that Jew was]: Frobenius 1921b, No. 50:265-271; the Berbers of Tunisia [the poor brother has a son, a rich daughter; the rich took the poor son as a servant, for him to carry his daughter to school; the teacher demanded offerings from the students; the daughter of a rich man asked him to write down the requirements on paper - her father would send everything; other girls: if your father were rich, he I would not take her brother's son as a servant to carry you; the next day the girl would not let her carry her, but went on her own; her mother and father began to argue whether to pass her off as a paternal nephew named Ahmed or on her mother's side named Said; she suggested that both of them go by ship to trade; whoever brought more money would go out; both young men ended up in the city where there was a hangout for gambling; Said was told that they have a cat that holds a candle in its paws all night; if he drops, S. can take a hundred ships, and if he does, they will take his ship; the cat held the candle; losing In total, S. began to work in the kitchen; A. persuaded the boy to come in the evening and release the mice at the signal; when he released the first one, the cat only jerked, and when the second one, he chased the mouse; A. received a hundred ships; returned the ship to Said, for which he agreed that A. burn a stigma in his back; returned first, his wedding was being prepared; A. turns the wedding train to his yard; if S. has A.'s seal, then he is his property; A. married a cousin and S. died of grief]: Stumme 1900, No. 6:49-51; Arabs (?) Tunisia [bet on life and property]: El-Shamy 2004, no. 217A§: 84.

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 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 received wealth, returned home]: O'Connor 1906, No. 6:30-42 (retelling in Parfionovich 1976:110-121, hero name Lodup).

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 you 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 a fool's son]: Knowles 1888:144-153; Nepalis [no one wants to marry a lazy guy who promises to beat his wife; one girl married him; gave him a hundred rupees, sent him to earn money; you can earn money, then hit; the young man went into the same house; there 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 mistress: if my chicken sings with a rooster, you will become as my slave, if not, the woman will give the guest all the 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 woman's house she hears a conversation between a chicken and a rooster, which is in the basket under her basket; swapped birds; when the rooster screamed, it was the rooster who was under the basket; all the mistress'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 has gone 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 accepted her appearance, her body was hidden in the back 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 her sister to marry 7 beauties 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. offered dice to those who came; if they won, she and her 7 sisters were in their power, and the losers would be killed and eaten; she always won, because the mouse turned over imperceptibly bones; 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; immediately returned to him vision; there was a letter with the snake, everything became clear from it; D. went to play dice with P., but released the kitten and the mouse did not dare to leave; 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) [seeing his third son, the king goes blind; a flower is needed to see the light bakali; two sons are sent to look for him; the third, who lives in the forest, rides alone; the princess beats the guests at cards, two brothers are imprisoned; on the advice of an old woman, the younger brother hides the mongoose, he kills a rat shuffling cards for the princess; 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, the young man takes the flower and ring of the sleeping princess; at home, the brothers take the flower from the youngest, make his father sighted; the younger brother builds a palace, gathers his three wives, the father comes to visit, the brothers are ashamed]: Davidson, Phelps 1937, No. 1:6-8; Telugu {the collection is mostly Telugu texts, but there are several Marathi texts; there is a small chance that this text is also Marathi} [the king goes blind and will be returned to him sight is only the leaves of a certain tree; two sons from their first wife go in search, play chess with a rich courtesan, lose, become her servants; the son of the second wife stays at old lady; she explains that all players are sure to lose; the courtesan has a cat with a lamp on her head; when the courtesan feels that her opponent is stronger, she gives the cat a sign, she drops a lamp, a 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 everyone enslaved kings and princes, including brothers; goes for leaves; defeats the cannibal, who marries her adopted daughter to him; gives him three stones: they must be thrown into a tree teeming with snakes and scorpions and the centipedes would disappear; the young man took out the 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 her husband's figure, and he came to life; the older brothers restored his father's sight; the youngest came to his mother with both women, told her everything; having learned the truth, the king expelled his eldest sons, handed it over throne to younger]: Venkataswami 1923, No. 78:144-149; Santals [betting on life and property]: Bodding 1929:253-257; Sinhalese [parents bring the prince one wife after another; he asks each to warm up for him, water, they refuse, he sends them back; they paid more for the latter, she heated the water, they began to live together; contrary to warning, the prince goes with the merchants to the city where the hetera lives; she is 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 it drops it, they will get the whole city of hetera; merchants lose; wife a prince 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]: Parker 1914a, No. 105:137-141 (translated into Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 100:245-247).

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 eldest sons]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 36:237-239; mountain Tajiks [the merchant goes to Egypt; the wife gives advice: not to mention his wife, put two mice in the bootlegs of their boots (note: further narrator missed an episode when the mice are released and the cat drops candles; another Tajik fairy tale has one); 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 would take away the property of the old man and his relatives; in response, the old man promised to bring trousers to the merchant's wife, and if possible, he would cut off his head; the old man hired an old woman, but the merchant's wife beat her; the old woman explained to the old man how to crochet and steal trousers; when she saw the loss, the merchant's wife wore a man's outfit and came to the Shah of Egypt under the guise of Shah Baghdad and asked for permission to rule the country for three days; ordered the execution of a chess player, to give his property to the merchant; she came to the merchant under the guise of a Shah; he was looking for his wife to execute her (lost trousers); everything was clarified; wife: you violated both advice - mentioned your wife and did not put mice by the bootlegs]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 13:57-62; Yagnobtsy [the merchant's son came to the tsar; he sets the condition: if before At dawn, the cat will drop the lamp, he will give the kingdom to the merchant; 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 warriors to pick up his wife; the merchant's father accepted who came as guests; the daughter-in-law overheard their conversation, put poison on the pilaf, they died; she put her heads in the chests, took the cauldron and mouse and came to the king; during the game she released the mouse, the cat dropped lamp; the merchant's wife took him and his goods, left the heads of his warriors to the king; the merchant went to trade again; his companions said that that king molested her; merchant: if she is not clean, bring it ring; that man gave the merchant's wife three trays of gold and received the ring; the husband left everything, left, hired him in the tea room; his wife found it and returned it]: Andreev, Peshereva 1957, No. 9:70-79; Persians (Mazendaran, Khorasan, Isfahan) [a trained cat holds a lit candle all night; another releases a 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 7 brothers falls in love when they see a portrait of a princess; kills 7 devas guarding her garden, removes the ring from the sleeping princess's finger; the king sets three conditions for marriage, including the cat must drop the candle]: Marzolph 1984, No. 217:56-57.

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).