K37C. Identify an animal or object. 11.-.13.
The character must identify an animal or object among several identical ones. See motif K37.
Bantu-speaking Africa. Bass [drum]: Binam Bikoï 1977:36-49 (translated to Pozdnyakov 1990:199-205); ganda [cow]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:409-410; Roscoe 1911:461-464 (=Radin 1952, No. 16:69-72; retelling in Parrinder 1967:41-43; Zhukov Kotlyar 1976, No. 28:76-81).
West Africa. Dark [cow]: Cronise, Ward 1903:249-256; senufo [the monkey who bought the bull]: Diep, Bamba 2007, No. 11:41-43; boulsa [cows]: Schott 1996:159-179, 181-189; mofu-gudur [horse]: Sorin-Barreteau 2001, No. 24, 25:177-199, 200-226
Sudan - East Africa. Malgashi: Lombard 1976 (Sakalava, West 1971) [the couple already has a son, the wife is ready to give birth to a second one; he says from the womb that his name is "Zatovo not created by God", asks his mother to swallow a razor, to circumcise himself; his mother did not get hurt; the father gave 100 bulls Z., the other 100 to his eldest son; Z. met an old man, exchanged all his bulls for a talisman, went on a journey, leaving an orange a tree and a banana; if he withered, he fell ill, if they dried up, he died; he climbed a mountain, there was a thunderstorm, he pointed a talisman at her, the thunderstorm stopped; he crossed the river with the help of a talisman (it does not say exactly how) ; quicksand converge and diverge, Z. sent a talisman at them, the sands froze and hardened; Z. gives the king of birds, wild boar, fly to get enough; in God's village, the talisman advises Z. to turn into a kingfisher ( martin-pecheur); allows God's daughter to take him, turns into a man at night; she is afraid that her father will kill him; Z. replies that he will not be able to kill someone who is not created by God; father notes oddities in his daughter's behavior, Z. opens to him; knows about the trap pit in his father-in-law's house, does not fall into it; father-in-law tells 1) to cultivate a huge field (wild boars dig up, weed teals, parrots, sparrows collect grain); 2) recognize the main cow in the herd (the bird shows); 3) recognize the bride among several women (the fly sits in front of her eye, she blinks); on a winged horse, Z. brings his wife to the ground; she doesn't tell him to look at her child, she goes to get water; she looks, there are twins, a boy and a girl; the wife dies immediately; these children are the ancestors of Europeans and other foreigners in Madagascar]: 175- 205; Rodman 1965 [each of the seven brothers goes successively to marry Ramituviamandrenini's girlfriend; the elder refuses to share food and rejects offers to help flies, wasps, larks, pigs, chomgi; Father R. tells 1) to count the rice sown, 2) find out which of the cows calved first, 3) cultivate a huge rice field, 4) get a pearl thrown there from the pond, 5) distinguish R. from her mother ; neither the older brother nor the other five brothers can complete the tasks; the younger Faralahi shares honey and rice; the lark collected and counted the rice, the wasp sat on the head of the calving cow, the chomga took out a pearl, the pig dug up the field, the fly sat on R.'s cheek; F. received R.; when he gave birth to a son, the brothers decided to kill F.; took turns going down on a rope into the hole where the crocodile lived; when F. was lowered, they threw it rope; but Zanahari (the supreme deity} led F. down the aisle used by the crocodile himself to his treasury and then outside; F. came wrapped in his skin, nasal, sent him like a beggar spend the night in R.'s hut; opened to his wife; at a circumcision festival, he demonstrated his newfound wealth]: 170-176.