K56D. Broken foot. .21.26.-.30.32.-.34.38.
One person heals a bird, it brings a seed, and something valuable grows. Another deliberately maims a bird, then heals it, it brings a seed, and something harmful and terrible grows up.
Tibetans (Yutzang), Chinese (Shaanxi, Guangdong), Bulgarians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Adygs, Abazins, Uzbeks, Maris, Uighurs, Dungans, Dagurs, Japanese.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans: O'Connor 1906 [almost identical text in Sakya, Griffith 1980:92-94; a passerine chick fell out of the nest, broke its paw; poor Cham-ba bandaged it, put the chick back in the nest ; he grew up, flew in, threw a seed, ordered it to be planted, an ear grew, where instead of grain jewelry, the poor man sold them, raised money; the rich TSE-ring found out, took the chick out of the nest, threw it so that it broke his paw, bandaged it, put it in a nest; the sparrow gave a seed, the creditor grew up from the previous incarnation, took all the property, made the man a slave; C. left, giving Ts. a bag of gold for preservation; he wasted everything, returned the sandbag, said that gold had turned into sand; C. set up a free school, C. sent his son there, left for a while; C. taught the monkey to say, "Father, this is what I'm into turned"; I had to return the gold to get my son]: 20-25; Shelton 1925, No. 26 [two old men lived; one loved animals and birds; a bird came out with a broken leg; she brought him a pumpkin seed; when the pumpkin grew, it turned out to be golden; the second old man deliberately shot the bird in the leg; he also had a pumpkin, but an angry old man jumped out of it and said he was sent to evaluate that old man; put it on the scale, said it was too light, cut off his head]: 107-111.
China - Korea. Chinese (many in Guangdong; eat in Shaanxi) [the poor man heals a swallow (crane), which brings pumpkin seeds; there is wealth in pumpkins; the rich man deliberately breaks the swallow's paw to then cure; punished (in Dancers and beggars who grow up from him take his goods); according to some options, a rich man goes to the moon, where he always tries to cut down a tree]: Eberhard 1937, No. 24:36-37.
The Balkans. Bulgarians [the poor man saves, heals the swallow, which brings him three wonderful seeds, he gets rich; the rich brother deliberately maims, then heals the swallow; the three seeds brought to it bring him ruin and death]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 735:253-254.
Central Europe. Ukrainians, Belarusians [Two brothers and a bird (swallow): a poor brother saves a bird, cares about its nest; in gratitude, she gives him a wonderful seed (three grains), with which he gets rich; a rich brother cares for a bird that has been deliberately maimed by him, receives a seed from it that brings him misfortune (he is robbed, his house burns down)]: SUS 1979, № -735* ***: 182.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygs (Kabardian people) [old Gurasha slammed the door in the house, the swallow fell out of the nest on the windowsill, broke her paw; G. came out, the swallow flew away; in the spring she brought watermelon seed; when the watermelon was ripe, containing gold and precious stones; other people caught a swallow, broke a leg, went out and released; in the spring, each swallow brought a watermelon seed; crawled out of watermelons poisonous snakes; G. asked her swallow for help; she called the swallows and they drove the snakes away; no one has harmed the swallows since then]: Kardanov 196:128-130; Abazins [poor widow cured a swallow that fell out of the nest and broke its paw; in the spring a swallow flew in, dropped a pumpkin seed in the hem of the widow; the woman planted it, a pumpkin grew, and gold coins were in it; a neighbor she deliberately broke the chick's paw, then bandaged it and put the chick back in the nest; the swallow brought a seed, a pumpkin grew, snakes in it, they stung the woman to death]: Tugov 1985, No. 26:45.
Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks [the poor man cured the stork that had broken its wing; he threw three watermelon seeds on it; watermelons full of gold coins grew; the rich man broke the stork's leg with a stick, cured it, the stork, and threw off his seeds; huge bumblebees flew out of the cut watermelon, bit the rich man and his relatives]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 74-75 (= Rogov 1980:337-339).
Volga - Perm. Marie [Poor man, rich man and bird (swallow): (1 archive record only); the poor man cares for the wounded bird carefully, for which she gives him a wonderful seed (three pumpkin seeds), with which he becomes rich; a rich man cares for a bird that has been deliberately maimed by it, receives a seed from it that brings misfortune (three snakes swallow a rich man)]: Sabitov 1989, № 735****: 43 .
Turkestan. The Uighurs (Southern Dialect, Keria) [a reaper threw a sickle and wounded a swallow; another man made it a wing out of wood; later, a rescued swallow threw watermelon seeds on his head; he sowed them and grew up watermelons with gold coins instead of seeds; another person deliberately broke the swallow's wing and got along with another one; she dropped its seeds, a scorpion was inside the grown watermelon, and bit a person to death]: Tenishev 1984, No. 75:102-103; Dungans [the snake crawls to the swallow's nest, the poor brother kills the snake, cares for a chick with a broken leg; when the swallow returns in the spring, the swallow gives three pumpkin seeds; in Grown pumpkins are food, fabrics, gold; a rich brother deliberately breaks the swallow's paw; in his pumpkins there is water (floods the house), fire (burns it)]: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 12:104-107.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Dagurs [the swallow made a nest under the poor man's roof; the chick fell out and broke its leg; the poor man bandaged his paw, put the chick in the nest, he recovered; in the spring the swallows returned and brought it to the poor a pumpkin seed; he planted it, in the fall there was gold in the pumpkin; the rich man deliberately broke the chick's paw, then bandaged it; in the spring they also brought him a seed; when he cut the pumpkin in the fall, a flame broke out of it , burned down the house and family]: Bender, Su Huana 1984:177-179.
Japan. The Japanese [the old man saved the sparrow from the crow that was chasing him; the sparrow remained with him; the old sparrow disliked, tried to cut off his tongue with scissors, the sparrow flew away; the old man came to the grove, there fanza, she has a girl in her, she is that sparrow; she fed the old man, gave her a chest of jewelry; the old woman went there, also got a chest, monsters came out of it at home and attacked her]: Fedorov Davydov 1904:9-16 (=Tales of Old Japan in Tremearne 1913:314).