K77A. Verlioka, ATU 210.

.12.14.-.16.19.21.-.39.42.45.46.68.

Various objects and animals (rare: only animals, but including those that are actually safe and are not active in the narrative, but can interfere, for example, stepping on them, it's easy to slip) defeat a strong opponent (usually consistently join a hero who goes to take revenge on a strong opponent for a resentment and hide in the house where they should appear enemy), attacking him one by one; he dies or flees. Either someone, or the attacked character himself, places objects in his home, which then harm that character.

Samo, Moroccan Berbers, Italians (Lombardy, Piedmont, Tuscany, Rome, Abruzzo), Sicilians, Sardinians, Irish, Dutch, Germans (Grimms), Loyalty Islands, Tibetans (Sikkim, Amdo, etc.), Qiang, Mizo, Lakher, Kachari, Sema, Meitei, Burmese, Mona, Thais, Lao, Ancient India, Nepali, Sinhalese, Hindi (Uttar Pradesh), Rajastanis, Bengalis, Telugu, Tamils, Santals, mentawai, southern Sumatra (lampung?) , Toraja, Minahasa, Loda, Sangihe, Visayas, Chinese (Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Sichuan, Gansu), Miao, Dong, Koreans, Greeks, Bosnians, Slovaks, Czechs, Russians (Tula), Ukrainians, Belarusians, Kalmyks, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Kumyks, Dargins, Avars, Georgians, Persians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Udmurts, Kazan Tatars, Yellow Uighurs, Salars, Tuvans, Altaians, Khakas, Buryats, Dagurs, Mongors, Mansi, Forest Nenets, Ents, Dolgans, Central and Northeastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts, Evens, Nanais, Udege, Nivhi, Japanese, Forest Yukaghirs, Tsimshian, Haida, Bellacula, Quakiutl, Nootka, Delaware, Teton , Yankton, Omaha and Ponca, Iowa, Oto, Pawnee, Paresi (Iranshe, Nambiquara).

West Africa. Samo [all women in the village are missing; the young man brought his wife, fell asleep in the morning, The creature took his wife away; the young man went to look for her; on the way he stumbles over a stone, does not pay attention, the stone follows him ; the same bees (bitten), lion (hit with its paw), hawk (clutched); they come to the forest where Creatures and stolen women live; bees bite Creatures, the stone rolls, presses, the hawk bites, the lion - finishes off; the young man takes his wife and other women; goes, leaving assistants where he met; they do not want wives for themselves, but demand the right to steal chickens (hawks), goats (lions), bite children (bees), lie under feet to stumble over him (stone); in the village, a young man is given three wives, the rest are dismantled by other men]: Platiel 1984:131-135.

North Africa. The Berbers of Morocco: Laoust, no. 29:30-31 in El-Shamy 2004, No. 210:79

Southern Europe. Italians (Piedmont, Lombardy, Tuscany, Rome, Abruzzo), Sardinians: Cerise, Serafini 1075, No. 210:34; Ardinians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 210:132-133 K77A; Sicilians [the rooster went to Rome to become a pope; on the way he found a paper with text; met a chicken, who asked if she could go with him; he replied that he would first see what was written about it on the paper; it said that it was possible; so consistently meets caress and cat; they come to the witch's house; weasel goes to bed in the closet, the cat on the warm ash of the hearth, the chicken and the rooster on the lintel above the door; the witch is back, went to the closet for with a candle, the weasel hit her face with her tail; the witch mistook the cat's eyes for coals, put a candle in there to light it, the cat scratched her face; the rooster sang, the witch realized that these were not spirits, but animals, kicked her out their broom from home; the cat and weasel did not go any further, the rooster and the chicken came to Rome; the rooster told the bell ringer (sacristan) to ring all the bells; he twisted his neck, cooked dinner, called friends]: Gonzenbach 2004b, 8:32-33.

Western Europe. The Irish: Uther 2004 (1), No. 210:132-133; the Germans [the cockerel and the chicken got into the wagon, harnessed four mice and went to Mr. Corbez; they meet and take with them a cat, a millstone, an egg, a duck, a pin, a needle; in Corbes's house, a cat climbed onto the stove, a duck into a log house, an egg in a towel, a pin in a pillow, a needle into the bed, a millstone on the door; when K. came in, the cat fell asleep on his face ash, the duck sprayed, the egg broke and the eyes covered, the pin and needle were pricked, the millstone fell and killed]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 41:145-146 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:128); the Dutch [cockerel and chicken cooked beer, the chicken fell into the vat, the cockerel pulled it out and left it to dry, it was carried away by a fox; the cockerel goes to save the chicken; meets, takes a needle, spindle, mice, cat, brick as companions; there was no fox in the house, they freed the tied chicken, stayed overnight; the cockerel and the chicken climbed into the closet, the needle into the chair, the spindle into the tea, the cat into the oven, the mice into the bed, the brick on the edge of the roof; a fox came and sat down on a chair pricked; a spindle fell out of the tea, rolled away; the cat grabbed her face, the mice began to bother in bed, a brick fell on her head and killed the fox; they took its property and returned home]: Soer 1979:129-130.

Melanesia. Loyalty Islands [a demon chases two girls; a hawk, a flying fox listen to them, but fly away; then they meet a stick filled with hot coals, charcoal tongs, calebasu, a banana leaf, a butterfly; a stick poking the demon with a hot end, tongs threaten to throw hot stones into his mouth; Calebasa knocks on a tree, scaring the demon; he hides in a crevice; the leaf lights up, illuminates This place, the butterfly flaps its wings in front of his face; they defeat the demon, the girls come home]: Hadfield 1920, No. 9:237-239.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [two kittens went to buy salt, Handre chased them; they were joined by a cow, a dog, a crow, a pile of ash, a bag of 100 needles, a snake, a pea cauldron; they hid in different places Handre's house; when he came and reached for the water, a crow pecked him; a snake bit him for bread; needles were pricked in bed; ash covered his eyes; on the stairs he stepped on peas, fell on the horns of a cow, she left it to the dog that ate it; the kittens came out of the shelter and ate a quiet dinner]: Shelton 1925, No. 31:128-130; Tibetans (Sikkim) [Rakshas eats everyone in the house, the cat and the kitten remain; coal remains , needle, stone, mouse droppings, a bunch of straw, a dog, yak consistently ask what the problem is, hide in different places in the house; at night Rakshas comes, lights a fire to find and eat a cat with a kitten, a fire blazed in his face, a needle pricked, a stone fell on his head, he slipped on mouse droppings, caught his foot on straw, fell down the stairs, was bitten by a dog, butted to death yak]: Krapivina 2001:87-91; Tibetans (Amdo) [the old lady has gone for firewood, the wolf wants to eat it, she asks to leave her until evening to come to her house; the rabbit promises to help; tells me to put the lamp off, put it down a needle on the floor, a heavy stone above the door, cow droppings on the doorstep; the wolf comes in, asks where the lamp is, the old woman says that at the hearth, a pigeon flies out, the wolf shies away, sits on the needle, slides on cow dung, stone falls, kills wolf]: Kajihama 2004, No. 17:66; Qiang [orphan is afraid of being eaten by an orangutan; goes, cries, meets, companions a needle, scissors, magpie, crow, stomach, mortar and pestle; a needle is above the door, scissors in an orphan's bed, a magpie at the hearth, a crow in a vessel of water, a stomach on the upper step of the stairs, a mortar on the bottom, a pestle above with a ladder; an orangutan came, a needle pricked him to blood, the scissors bit off his hand, the orangutan rushed to fan the fire, the magpie covered his eyes with ash, he washed them, the crow pecked them out, he slipped on his stomach, fell into a mortar, pestled him off]: LaPolla, Huang 1996, No. 3:266-268; lepcha [the boy has a chicken; the jackal wants to steal it, but when he leaves home, the boy always takes the chicken with him; once I forgot, the jackal took it away and began to cook it; the boy went to look for chicken; he met, took with him an egg-plant fruit, a needle, a cow cake; a cow cake lay in front of the stairs of the jackal's house, a needle sticking out on the steps, the fruit burst into his eyes; the jackal jumped up, slipped on the manure, ran into a needle, died]: Stocks 1925, No. 14:370-371; Bhutan [chicken (woman) housekeeper, monkey (male) works in the field; when he returns, the chicken always sleeps; he thinks she is doing nothing, offers to change duties; the chicken has gone to the field; the monkey did not even know how to start a fire; asked the chicken to go home again, but remained peeking; thinking that she found out everything, stayed at home again; had a hard time fanning the fire; tried to sweep the floor, as the chicken did with its wings, but only she picked up the dust with her hands; heated the pan full of butter and tried to lay the egg, but only scorched its tail; when the chicken returned, the monkey tried to kill it, but it jumped out the window; the chicken met the needle a piece of salt, a stick; all four came into the house when the monkey was not there; the needle hid in the crack, salt in the hearth, the stick at the door; the monkey began to fan the fire, salt in her eyes; fell to the floor, the needle in her ass; the stick started hitting her, the monkey ran out and never came back; the chicken was sitting under the roof all this time and cackling happily]: Choden 1994:27-30; Meitei [wild cat and bird became friends; bird (male) called the cat to her place, fed him eggs; the cat decided that the bird's meat should be even tastier, asks where his friend sleeps; he chooses a new place each time, but one day he spent the night in the same place and the cat ate it ; the bird's wife raised the chick and said that it was time for revenge; on the way he meets and takes an egg, a bamboo chip, a fish, a snare, a snare, a mallet; in the cat's house, the egg is hidden in the hearth, a sliver in a mosquito net, a fish in a clay jug, a snare in the door, a mallet on a pole, a pumpkin under the roof; the bird chirped, the cat jumped out of bed, began to inflate the hearth, the egg burst in his face; he became his wash, fish fins, and then the sliver dug into their hands; when caught in the snare, the cat hung and began to beat him. The pumpkin fell and finished off the cat]: Singh 1985:265-267; Meitei [the cat asks the rooster if they have grown up his children; rooster: begin to take care of themselves; cat: send them to me to study; rooster: thank you uncle; after eating cockerels one by one, the cat asks where the rooster and chicken spend the night; the rooster calls a new one time the place, and they sleep in another place; the rooster's friends egg, fish, crab, bee, needle, pumpkin and turtle promised to help; the cat enters the house, it's dark inside; wants to fan the fire in the hearth, the egg bursts his eyes; the cat has become to wash, the crab grabbed his hand; began to wipe himself off - the needle pricked him; the cat tried to run out, the pumpkin hanging on the lintel fell, broke his back; then he hit the pestle; the turtle finished off the cat, falling on his head; rooster and chicken live well]: Oinam et al. s.a.; miso (lushy) [parents send Nuchhimi and her sister to take their aunt pork; at the fork the road leading to my aunt, clean, piles of branches and leaves lie on the road to Hmuichukchurudini; H. overheard, expanded her road, filled another with garbage; told the sisters that she was their aunt; the sisters lay down in the yard; sister N. had a wound on her head, H. began to suck it; said that bugs were biting; by morning she ate the girl; N. saw the bones, said she was crying from the smoke; H. closed it in the basket, went to the station; the mouse freed N., she ran home; while H. was not at home, N.'s parents put an egg in her hearth, a hornet in bed, a snake in a bamboo vessel, cut down the pillars of the veranda, tied a ferocious goat there; H. came, stung by a snake, an egg exploded in her face, a hornet bit in bed, the veranda fell, the goat was hurting]: McCall 1949:92-94; Lakher [Wild Cat pretends to be Chicken's friend; asks where she will sleep; she has two bedrooms places, she answers incorrectly three times; the third time he checks both, kills, eats the Chicken; she has ten eggs left; the Little Egg goes to take revenge; on the way he meets Cold Wind, the Rat Trap, the Pest, The Red Ant, the Chaff, the Knife; everyone knows what's going on, joins the Egg; they come to the Cat's house; no, he's weeding; while the Cold Wind makes him tremble, the Rat Trap hides under house, Pest above the door, Egg by the hearth, Ant and Chaff on the floor; The cat sits by the fire, the egg bursts, it leans back on the chaff, it is bitten by the Ant, he rubs against the wall, cut with a knife, falls on him in the doorway Pest, under the house he falls into the Trap, dies]: Parry 1932:543-544; kachari [the monkeys told the old man and the old woman that other people plant boiled sweet potatoes; they listened, the monkeys dug up sweet potatoes and ate; the old man pretended to be dead, there was a stick nearby; the old woman advised the monkeys to mourn him and say that they wanted to be beaten - the old man's soul in heaven would rejoice; the monkeys began to cry, the old man killed them with a stick, only one cub escaped; promised to send the demon Yaojoma to the old men; the old men throw him pieces of roasted monkey meat, but it soon ran out; the old woman said that the old man was dead and she was ill , let Me put his hand behind the meat; the old man cut it off; I ran away, wiped the blood on the leaves, since then there has been a banana variety with red fruits; becoming a rat, overloading the bags of the basket that the old woman was carrying; companions went ahead, and I twisted the old woman's neck; the old man took a snake, a tiger, bees, ants and various objects, came to Y.'s house when he fell asleep; he was bitten by ants, stung by bees, cut by a razor, and the egg burst in hot coals in his face, a snake in a jug bit him, an old man hit him with a club, a tiger in the yard killed]: Borgohain, Roy Chaudhury 1975:81-84; sema [known story]: Pawsey 1939:281 in Bø dker 1957, # 34:15: (cf. ranks [The cat is friends with the Rooster; decides to eat the Rooster, then the Chicken; the Rooster suspects bad, each time he takes a different path; the Cat eats the Chicken; it has laid the egg, it rolled into ash; the Cat began to fan the fire, the egg burst, killed the Cat]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 19:79-82).

Burma - Indochina. Burmese [every time a pregnant woman takes out a basket of rice to dry it, the Sun hides; she scolds the Sun; for this she gives birth to a son the size of a thumb; the son grows up and goes look for the Sun; takes the Boat (it stayed on the shore when the river dried up), the Bamboo Thorn (its brothers and sisters withered in the sun), the Moss, the Rotten Egg; tells them all to hide in his stomach; they spend the night in the Ogre's home; The thorn hides in the bed, the egg in the hearth, the Moss by the water jug; they hide the chair; the ogre is pricked with a thorn, the egg explodes into his eyes, he slipped on Moss, broke his neck; they they fight the Sun, Rain comes to their aid, the boat saves them when streams of water flow; people celebrate the defeat of the Sun]: Aoun 1957:69-72; monk [a pregnant weaver spread the yarn to dry, and the sun came out and then hid behind the clouds; the weaver scolded him, the Sun made the boy born as tall as a finger; he goes to fight the Sun, meets him, takes a pestle and a mortar as his comrades, a hammer, a duck egg, a corner; the sailor promises to take them to the Sun if they defeat the evil Bill, who bewitched the sailor; in Bilu's house, a mortar and pestle take refuge under the stairs, an egg in the kitchen, a hammer in a vat of water, a needle in bed, the boy hid outside the door; Bill pricked a needle, went to light a fire, an egg splashed ash into his eyes, hit a hammer in a vat of water, fell into a mortar, and the pestle finished him off ; arriving at the Sun, the boy called for wind and rain for help, returned home victorious, became a handsome young man]: Zapadova 1977:206-208; Thais [a monster with 4 mouths and 5 noses eats people, Mother Ba's turn Kho ("poor man"); he goes by himself, companying the kings of Pepper, Bees, Lichen, Snake, Pumpkins, Fox; but the Monkey refused to go; the fox made a fuss in the chicken coop, the monster jumped up, put his hand in the cauldron for rice, his bitten by a snake, the bees extinguished the tinder, the pumpkins fell on the head, the lichen braided the stairs and threw it off, BK finished it off with a knife]: Kornev 1963:62-67; lao [Needle without an ear, Rotten egg, Rotten banana, Rotten fish (Old Fish), The broken pestle came to the ogre's house while he was sleeping; the egg climbed into the hearth, the Fish into the water jug, the Bananleg on the steps, the Pest at the legs, the Needle pricked the sleeper; he got up to light the fire, the Egg burst in his face, he put his hand in the jug, the Fish smashed it, he slipped on a banana, fell, Pest fell on him and finished him off]: Fleeson 1899:152-153.

South Asia. Ancient India (Jataka 357) [The elephant destroys the bird's nest; the bird's friends take revenge: The fly buzzes, the Elephant closes its eyes, the Woodpecker pecks them out; the Frog croaks, the frightened Elephant rushes blindly at a pond, but in fact an abyss there, it breaks]: Bødger 1957, No. 33:15; Nepalis: Heunemann 1980, No. 17 [the old woman has a grandson, a tree house; when she leaves, the grandson must lower the stairs; the demoness promises turquoise to the boy, he lowers the stairs, she takes him away, hangs him in a bag under the roof to make him fat; the crow, the mouse, the mungo, the chicken promise to help; while the demoness weaves, the crow puts her to sleep singing, the mouse gnaws the rope, the old woman carries her grandson; the crow is promised the boy's arms, legs and eyes for singing; the crow pretends to be looking for him; the chicken throws dirt into the demon's eyes, mungo offers her eyes clean them, pulls them out; the crow cuts off the legs and arms of the demoness with its beak, she dies]: 133-139; Sakya, Griffith 1980 [the thief stole the chicken; the eggs promised the old woman to punish the thief, went to him; met him, took companions igloo, pumpkin, pea, stick; the pumpkin climbed to the roof, the pea remained on the step, the needle went to bed, the eggs went to bed, the eggs went to the brazier; the thief began to fan the fire, the bursting eggs blinded him, he sat on bed, a needle pierced his ass; he ran out, slipped on a pea, tripped over a stick, a pumpkin fell on him, he died; so the eggs avenged his mother's death]: 67-69; Rajastans [bird flew in for a drink and drank the lake; the laundress, who did not have time to reach her laundry, hit her with a stick; the bird burst, the lake poured back; the bird's wife sees the body; from it a voice: if you take revenge today, I will come to life; wife made a wagon out of sticks and straw, harnessed mice, went to take revenge; she met and accompanied a snake, a scorpion, a throat, a stone; at night the bird woke up the laundress; she thought she had gone to get up, went light a fire; the throat was sitting in ash, the laundress's face was dusty with ash; she was bitten by a snake; she was at the lamp - there was a scorpion; the laundress's husband rushed to help; a stone fell on him from the roof, killed him, and his wife died from a snake bite ; the whole company went back, the husband's bird came to life, everything is fine]: Dinesh 1979:55-58; Bengalis [a thief regularly steals food at night from a half-blind old lady's house; when she walks along the road, a coconut, a nest of bees , a knife, a cat is consistently asked to take them, they will be useful to her; at home, she puts the coconut in the hearth to warm up by morning, hangs the bee nest on the hook above the door, throws the knife on the floor, the cat lies down at the hearth; the thief comes in, the cat scratches him, he falls on a knife, slides on a coconut and his ankle is sprained, bitten by bees, screams, neighbors grab him; the old woman is grateful to her saviors; (p.10: "The plot is known in East and West Pakistan")]: Siddiqui, Lerch 1998:140-143; Hindi (Uttar Pradesh): Zograf 1976 [sparrows nestled in the royal palace; a passerine drop fell on the king, the king ordered him to plant sparrows in a cage; Sparrow caught, Sparrow flew away, asks the carpenter to make him a cart, went to fight the king; Mouse pulls the cart; Needle, Scorpion, Rope, Stick join along the way; Needle hides in the king's bed, Scorpion by the candle on the table, the Stick with the Rope at the door, the Sparrow under the eaves, the Mouse guards the cart; The needle pricked the king, the Scorpion bit, the Rope entangled, the Stick began to beat; The sparrow demanded that Sparrow be released, the tsar agreed]: 63-65 (=1964:50-53); Crooke 1892-1893, No. 440 (Mirzapur) [the needle went to kill the tiger; on the way she met and took a baton, a scorpion, as companions, an insect that feeds on mango fruits and a cow cake; in a tiger's house, a needle stood on the doorstep, a scorpion climbed into a jar of butter, an insect into the hearth, a cow cake on the steps; the tiger stepped on the needle, put his paw in the oil, where he was bitten by a scorpion, climbed into the hearth to light the lamp, but the insect bit him in the eye; he jumped out of the house, slipped on a cow cake and broke his neck; (pro baton not said)]: 117; Rouse, Crook 1922, No. 3 (Etah County) [the boy killed a sparrow with a stone, decided to take revenge on the sparrows; made a wagon out of straw, asked the rat to drag it; they met, took it with them scorpion, snake, wolf; a wolf hid by the river, a snake in a pile of peat, a scorpion in the house; a sparrow flew in and shouted to the boy that the fish was biting; he rushed to the fishing rod, the wolf gnawed his throat; the boy's mother I wanted to take peat, died from a snake bite; my father woke up and was bitten to death by a scorpion]: 1-7, 16-22; Bengalis [the thief regularly steals the last from the old woman's house; she is going to complain to the king; a lump of clay advises you to take it to the house and leave it on the doorstep; next time he finds a razor, she tells you to put it in the aisle to the room; for the third time, a fish with sharp needles behind his head tells you to put it in a vessel of water on the step of the stairs; then the bomb asks to leave it at the hearth, and the frog is at the bed; the thief stepped on the clay, wiped his foot with grass, cut himself against a razor, put his foot in the water, the needles pierced into the wound, began to warm his leg at the hearth, the bomb exploded, the thief swept away, the old woman woke up, told the frog to look at the thief, he fell exhausted; the old woman took care of him, he turned into an honest man and began to take care of the old woman; when he learned this, the king gave the old woman a pension and awarded her assistants; a rose bush was planted on a clay coma, the king himself began to shave with this razor, and the fish and frog were placed in a pond in the palace, bomb fragments made an object of worship]: Bradley-Brit 1920, No. 12:62-63; Telugu [The louse asked the bull to plow the field, the shepherd to sow beans; the king orders the soldiers to trample field; Louse crawls to take revenge, Scorpio, Serpent, Tiger join her on the way; they hide in the king's house; at night, the Louse began to bite the king's beard, he reached for the comb, he was bitten by Scorpion, the king rushed for with a stick, the Snake hissed at him, the Tiger tore him in the doorway]: Zograf 1964:31-34 (=197:67-67); the Tamils [the flea asked the oil merchant to give her some oil; he did not give it; she decided to take revenge; a centipede joined her way, then a wagon, they climbed the wagon; then a scorpion, a snake, a grain grater, a bhuta (demon); in the merchant's house, a grain grater settled above the doorway, a scorpion - in a matchbox, a centipede on a flea comb, a snake wrapped around a broom, bhuta in the yard; at night, the flea began to bite the merchant, who reached for matches, was bitten by a scorpion, then a centipede; he wanted to sweep these creatures away with a broom, but was bitten by a snake; he rushed out of the house, a grain grater fell on him, and bhuta ate him]: Blackburn 2005, No. 29; Santals: Bodding 1925, No. 12 [The Jackal and the Chicken decided to become friends; drank for the occasion, the Chicken is drunk, the Jackal ate it; asks the chickens why they cry, where they sleep; they place knives and razors in their house for the night; the Jackal came in, cut himself; the next they sprinkle hot coals with ash at night, the Jackal is burned; they hide in the calebass, advise the Jackal to eat them on the rock, the calebass breaks against the rock, the chickens fly away; alone, says that before eating, it must be washed and then dried; The Jackal dries it on his lip; the chicken flies away with the need in the Jackal's mouth; (almost the same in Bompas 1909, No. 113:325-326)], 13 [the jackal made beer from lizards and frogs, chicken made from grain; could not drink what the jackal cooked; got drunk and fell asleep, the jackal ate it; the chickens are going to take revenge; answer the jackal that they are sleeping in the hearth; leave the egg in the hearth, the pest in corner, mortar on the roof above the entrance; the egg burst into the jackal's eyes, the mortar and pestle fell on him, the chickens smashed his head with hammers]: 165-185, 187-197.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Mentawai, southern Sumatra {probably lampung} [like everywhere else in Indonesia]: Helfrich 1927:274-278 at Hoebel 1944:2; Mentawai [man kills his grandfather, takes him in a boat to bury him, with him Crocodile, Eel, Squirrel, Fish Kalayat, Flint; come into the house; Kalayat hides in the hearth, Squirrel in Wassereimer, Eel above, Flint in the middle, Crocodile at the bottom of the stairs]: Von Morris 1900:93 in Aarne 1913:2; minahasa []: Bezemer 1904 [a mouse, a suweko bird (stork-shaped, walks in rice fields), rattan, a thousand-year-old, an eel and a stone live next to the stingy widow; they came to the widow to ask for food, she refused; they decided to kill her; the mouse wrapped in a sheet next to her bed, the rattan leaned against the wall in this place, the bird settled on the ashes of the hearth, the thousand-year-old in a bamboo vessel, the eel on a step of the stairs, a stone at the bottom of the stairs; at night the mouse began to cross, the widow wanted to hit her, pricked her hand on the prickly rattan, the bird raised a cloud of ash with its wings into the widow's eyes, she began to wash them, bitten by a thousand legs, rushed to her neighbors, slipped on an eel, fell her head against a stone and died]: 307-308; toraja, minahasa, loda, Sangihe Islands [Egg, Snake, Ant, Centipede, Piece of Manure went headhunting; went into an empty house; The centipede hid under the floor, the Ant in a vessel of water, Manure on top of the stairs leaning against the entrance, the Snake at the door, the Egg in kitchen pot; at night, the Centipede bit a man; he rushed to light a fire, an Egg jumped in his face, blinded; the man wanted to rinse with water, he was bitten by an Ant; he rushed out of the house up the stairs slipped on Manure, fell, was bitten by a Snake, died]: Adriani 1898:356-357 (retelling in Dixon 1916:202-203).

Taiwan - Philippines. Visayas [the giant Macaandog won, Juan Pusong became his slave; he worked properly, but M. forgot to bring him food; HP meets, companions a grindstone, an eel, a swallow, a crab, a fan, a bee; M. sleeps in his house; a swallow sits above his head, a fan at the hearth, a crab in a jug of water, an eel on the top of the stairs, a grindstone on the ground by the stairs; M. yawns, a swallow defecates in his mouth, a bee bites him, a fan throws ash in his face, a crab grabs his hand, he slides on an eel, breaks his head against a stone]: Rybkin 1975, No. 100:247-249.

China - Korea. Chinese: Riftin 1957 [poor woman finds three coins, buys carrots to cook soup; gives half of the carrots to monkeys, they demand everything, threaten to come to kill her at night; a neighbor gives a woman the night is a cow, she ties it at the gate; the crab seller gives a few, tells her to put it in a vat of water; another merchant gives a needle, tells her to stick it in the threshold; the mat weaver gives a slippery mat, tells put on the stairs; at night, the cow butts the monkeys that have come running, others attack the needle, slide on the mat, bend over to drink water, the crabs grab their noses; the monkeys run away]: 100-102; 1972 [hare replies to the old woman that her calf was eaten by a witch and will come for her at night; Awl, Thorn, Egg, Frog, Cow manure, Stone Skating Rink come to help; Awl behind the old woman's belt, thorn behind the lamp, Egg in the stove, A frog in a vat, a skating rink under the lintel, Manure on the ground; when a witch tries to attack, they hit her, stab her, she slides on manure, crushed by an ice rink]: 48-50; Chinese: Eberharg 1937, No. 14 (Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong) [brief summary of the story]: 25-26; Fielde 1893 (Guangdong) [the old woman collected firewood and picked up a sugarcane stalk; the boar ordered it to be given to him; the old woman refused - this is for her granddaughters; the boar promised to come at night and eat her granddaughter; the old woman is sitting at the door of the house crying; the passing sympathizes, everyone leaves her something; needles (stuck on the doorstep), crabs (put in a vat with water), a millstone, a turtle, a bull, a horse (brought it, brought it into the house), one person dug a well, the other gave her cloth, she covered the well; the boar ran into the needles, began to drink, the crabs dug into the face, the turtle grabbed the tail, the bull and the horse beat him, the boar fell into a disguised well, the old woman threw it on top of the millstone]: 37-40; Wilhelm 1921, No. 9 [mother and little boy go to their grandmother, two daughters remain at home; The leopard eats the mother, puts on her clothes, carries the boy's bones in the basket; the sisters do not open it, they say that the mother had different eyes, face, legs; the leopard explains why they changed (spots on face - slept on peas); sisters open it, make sure that it is not the mother when she gives them not turnips, but her brother's finger; they climb a tree, invite the Leopard to pick it up in the basket, hit her against the trunk, Leopard takes his form, runs away; sisters tell passers-by that the Leopard will return and eat them; the nail seller tells you to drive two nails into the bench with the point up; the scorpion catcher - put the scorpion behind the stove; egg seller - put an egg in ash; a turtle seller - a turtle in a vat of water; a mallet - hang two above the door; Leopard comes, sits on nails, is bitten by a scorpion, the egg bursts into his eyes, he rushes to wash, the turtle grabs his hand, the mallets fall, kill]: 19-22; the Chinese (Gansu) [an elderly woman went to the mountains with a bag, sat on a stone to rest; the Tiger took the form of a peasant woman, became ask, found out that the woman had 3 daughters and a son at home, found out their names; offering to look for lice, killed a woman, put on her clothes; began to call the children by name, they unlocked them; the daughter asks why the mother's face turned black; the Tiger smeared her face with flour; refused to light the lamp - it was expensive and the midges were flying; the sisters went to bed separately, and the brother went to bed with his imaginary mother; at night, the Tiger hit one girl with his tail, answered , what is hemp brought from an uncle; What do you eat? - Give it to me! The imaginary mother gave the boy's finger; the girls asked for time off, climbed a tree, called the imaginary mother, pulled her up twice on a rope, threw her down; the Tiger climbed the trunk, was doused with oil; the Tiger said that he would go to sharpen his claws and come back; in the morning the girls got down; the needle merchant stuck needles by the bed, the egg merchant put an egg in the cauldron, the turtles put a scorpion in the firewood compartment, and the ducks put the duck in flowers, millstones - hung a millstone above the doors, with carts - tied a cart to the doors; at night the Tiger came, sat down on the bed, pricked; he was bitten by a scorpion, an egg burst into his eyes, the duck frightened him with quacking, the millstone fell on him, the wheels of the cart spun; in the morning, the girls buried the dead Tiger; a huge cabbage grew in this place, but they did not eat it]: Eberhard 1941, No. 8:27-33; dun [The ferret ate two chickens, the third youngest is left; Drake, Fur, Chestnut, Dog Pestrik agree to help; Pestrik hid behind the door, Fur fanned the fire, Chestnut hid in the hearth; The chicken jumped on the stove, the Ferret behind him, but the bursting chestnut blinded him, the Drake grabbed the tail, the Dog stepped, bit to death]: Lin Lin, Ustin 1959:183-184; Koreans: Choi 1979, No. 53 [(=Ząng 1952, 70:160-162; same or very similar text in Pack 1991:234-236); a young man rides a horse, meets and takes with him a May beetle, an egg, a crab, a scoop, an awl, a mortar, a mat, a stick to carry weights; in the house, a girl complains that the Tiger ate her family; when the Tiger comes, the beetle blows out the candle, the egg bursts in the hot ash into the Tiger's eyes, the crab scratches his eyes when he rushes to the pelvis to wash them, the scoop, hiding behind a pot of rice, hits Tiger in the face, an awl hides at the door of the girl's room, pierces Tiger's leg, a mortar rushes to Tiger's head from the roof, he dies; a mat and a stick carry the corpse], 54 [The tiger ruined the garden old woman; she called him to visit; when the Tiger blew on the coals, ash burned his eyes; rushed to wash himself - red pepper in the water; began to wipe himself off - there was an awl in the towel; ran, slipped on cow manure; his carried away, thrown into the sea]: 23-24; Tibetans, Miao, and Dong [5 variants of the "Chicken Revenge" subtype]: Eberhard in Saito 1994:70-71; Miao: Coyaud 2012, No. 28 [wild cat dragged the chicken; she shouts to the chickens to avenge it; the chickens go looking for a cat, meet them, take with them a needle, a cow cake, a crayfish, a mallet, a chestnut; in the cat's house, a cow cake lay in front of on the threshold; the rest knock consistently, asking the cat to let them in; the needle on the bench, the chestnut in the hearth, the cancer in the jug of water; the chickens are the last to come; the cat is happy, gets up from the couch, goes to the hearth, a chestnut bursts into his eyes; a needle digs into his ass; the cat jumps out of the house, slides on a cow cake, a mallet falls on him, the chickens finish him off]: 75-82; Graham 1954 [The chicken carried the Rooster to the field lunch, she was met by a Wild Cat, ate her; Je Seo advised the Rooster to put cow manure in the door, drive a nail into the seat, put a chestnut in the stove, put a trap on fire; at night, the Rooster and the Chickens climbed on attic; Wild Cat enters, Chickens advise him what to do; he slides on manure, sits on a nail, lights up, goes blind when a chestnut bursts into his eyes, gets stuck in a trap; Rooster stuffs ash his scarecrow hangs on a tree; when he comes to the scarecrow, the Wild Cat gets frightened and leaves these places]: 173-174.

The Balkans. Greeks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 210:132-133; Bosnians [the hostess added salt to the chickens, they died, made scrambled eggs from the remaining eggs, one egg rolled away; meets, takes the Rooster as a companion, A cat, a donkey, a ram, everyone ran away from the owners; they answer the Wolf that they are not suitable for food, Ram is suitable; the Wolf opens his mouth, the Ram jumps, breaks his head with horns; they come to the Wolves house, drink for the health of the person lying under the fence, Wolves see that it is the Wolf, run away; decide to return; The egg hides in the ash, the Cat under the bench, the Sheep in the back, the Donkey at the door; the Wolf enters, makes the fire, the egg bursts in his eyes, others hit him, all Wolves run away, Egg and his comrades stay in a wolf's house]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:231-235.

Central Europe. Verlik is a "eyed, rotating eye" cyclops, cm. Cherepanova 1992. Russians (Tula), Ukrainians (7 sources; Hutsuls, Lugansk, etc.); Belarusians [Verlioka walks, tears off his drake's tail along the way, tears the rope, kicks the mallet, presses acorns, Grandfather and granddaughter trample the peas; The grandfather goes to take revenge, all the offended join him along the way; they come to V.'s house; while not, the Acorn jumps into the cabbage soup, the Rope lies on the doorstep, the Mallet on the shelf, Grandfather hides behind the door; The acorn bounces V. into his only eye, stumbles on the Rope, beaten by Kolutushka, Grandfather hits him with a stick, Drake asserts; V. runs away]: Karnaukhova 1948:89-92 (apparently by Dobrovolsky 1891, No. 87:152); Ukrainians (Kharkiv, Olshana, Bogodukhovsky Uyezd, until 1890) [The wolf eats all the chickens from his grandfather and woman, then the chicken, the grandfather goes to kill him. On the way, he meets a "kizyachok" (litter), a bast, a wand, an acorn, a crayfish, a jug - they all join him. They come to the empty wolf's hut and hide. The wolf comes, drowns, an acorn sings from the oven that guests are in the hut, have come to destroy him, the cancer grabs his leg, the predator grabs the perch, he is hit by a jug, he slips on the doorstep, stepping on litter, gets mixed up in the bast, the stick falls from the attic, kills him. The grandfather takes the chicken, the skin and goes home]: Manzhura 2003:5-6; Ukrainians (Kharkovskaya, c. 1878, Lipetskaya Sloboda) [Dovgomud is neither a man nor a wolf: human hands, the body is covered with hair, A hat on his head, he steals a man's turnips. The man goes to beat him, sees a hammer on the road - he asks him to take it with him, then takes a bear, a wolf, a bast and an acorn. They enter the hut, the bast remains on the doorstep, the ax climbs into the hut, the acorn into the stove, the bear hides behind the hay doors, the man behind the doors to the hut. When a dovgomud enters, an acorn shouts from the oven that evil people have come for him to avenge the theft of turnips, the acorn bursts in the fire and falls into his eye. He runs out of the house, stumbles over his bast, and an axe hits the head. The bear is afraid that he will be beaten, runs away, the wolf after no trace]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 26:95-97; Ukrainians: Berezovsky 1979, No. 321:342-342; M. Wozniak, book 2 in Pankeev 1992 (the place of recording is not a decree.) [(=Petnikov 1956:67-68); the ferret dragged all the chickens; when he took the chicken, the grandfather went to kill him; on the way he took a dung, rope, wand, crayfish, cockerel as his comrades; while he is not at home, the acorn climbs into the stove in his hut, a dung on the doorstep, a rope at the doorstep, a stick in the attic, a crayfish in a garbage tub, a rooster on a pole, a grandfather on the stove; the ferret is frightened when he hears the click of an acorn, a cancer grabs him from the tub, a rooster pokes in his head, he tripped over a dung, got entangled in a string, a wand killed him; his grandfather took the chicken and ferret skin, returned home]: 40-41; Czechs, Slovaks [6 options]: Aarne 1913: 80-81; Slovaks [the egg goes on a journey, takes cancer, duck, turkey, horse, ox, rooster as companions; the rooster sees fire, they enter the hut, the old woman warns that her sons will come- robbers, drives away; the egg tells the ox to raise it to the horns, throw it into the hole; the ox throws the chieftain, the horse hits him, the egg bursts into the eyes with hot ash, the cancer in the bucket grabs the fingers, the duck, the turkey frighten , chieftain struggles to escape; robbers run away, those who come feast in their hut]: Bogatyrev 1955:160-163.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks [old Tegtha goes, finds, puts a needle, white owl eggs, a snake, a mallet, a mare's last in his pocket from his camel's peritoneum or in his bosom; enters an empty yurt; bakes in ash owl eggs, puts a snake in a chigyan (a koumiss drink), sticks a needle into the pillow, puts a mare's last at the door, hides a mallet on the door himself; the old woman returns, is frightened of the snake, pricks with a needle, blinded by bursting hot eggs, slides and falls at the end, the mallet kills her; the old man's gut burst with laughter, he also died]: Basangova 2002:155-156); Abkhazians [Oreshek, Pestik, Awl, Shovel steal a bull, cook, eat; when the owner of the bull enters, the Nut hides in the ash, the pestle in the attic, the awl under the seat, the spatula outside the door; the nut throws at the ash that has entered, the pestle falls on head, Shiloh pierces from below, throws his shovel into the yard]: Bgazhba 1983:209-210 (=2002:227-229); Ossetians (South Ossetia) [bottle, donkey, rooster, egg went to steal wine; the egg burst in ash, the hostess woke up, a donkey jumped at her, the rooster yelled, the owners ran away]: Byazirov 1958, No. 24:317; Kumyks [cup, rooster, goby, awl, bar are going to steal nuts from Enem; crossed the river; In Enem's dugout, the cup entered a niche in the wall, a bar into a niche above the door, the rooster in ash, the awl rose upside down, the goby on the roof put its ass to the chimney; the bar fell on Aenem's head, she started kindling the fire, the chimney stuck her head, the goby filled her with crap, the awl went into her thigh, the rooster covered her eyes with ash, Enem ran away; the cup filled itself with nuts, returned home with her comrades]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 137:320-322; Dargins: Ganieva 2011a, No. 136 [the rooster went to steal nuts from the witch Biazhuk; on the way he met and took with him a dog, a needle, cow droppings, a pigeon; the rooster climbed into the water vessel, the dog at the door, the droppings under the stairs, a needle in the pillow, a dove in the ash of the hearth; B. began to fan the fire, the dove ash in her eyes, she faced the pillow, the needle in the eye, she washed her eyes, the rooster pecked, slipped on the stairs litter, the dog drove her away; her friends took all the nuts]: 318-319; Kapiyeva 1991 [=1974:156-158; The rooster asked the evil Hala-Ava woman for a nut, she hit him with a stick; he consistently meets Shiloh, Pigeon, Stone; everyone follows, says what he will do in the house HA; The Rooster flaps its wings, HA thinks there is a cat in the house, begins to inflate the coals, the Pigeon flutters out of the ash, falling asleep HA eyes, HA sits on a pillow, an awl in it, a stone hits her on the back in the door; HA ran away, her friends ate nuts]: 147-148; the Avars [Ginook and Chinook went to steal nuts from a fabulous woman named Honobika; met they took a rooster, cow dung, sticks, an awl; sticks stood outside the door, manure at the doorstep, a rooster in the ash, an awl into shoes, G. and C. began to steal nuts; H. put on her shoes, pricked, slipped on the manure, fell, the rooster fell into her eyes, sticks began to beat in the doorway; G. and C. brought nuts home]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 138:322-323; Georgians [the jug went to his grandmother to drink wine; on the way he took a rooster as his comrades, an egg, a cobblestone, an awl, a donkey; he hung a cobblestone from the ceiling, put the rooster in a pot, stuck an awl in a mattress, tied the donkey in the hallway, hid himself in a large jug, buried the egg in ash; the grandmother became fan the fire, the egg burst into her eyes, a cobblestone fell on her head, the rooster covered her eyes with droppings, the awl stuck in her leg, the donkey kicked in the hallway; the grandmother left the house forever, friends are still feasting there]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 26:68-69 (=Chikovani 1986:33-34).

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Osmanov 1987 [boy Hasan-Zanoz (H.) went to his aunt for vinegar; meets, agrees to take it with him, carries a jackal, a crow, a scorpion, a dog; tells a scorpion to climb in his aunt's house in a box of matches, put a jackal in her shoes, a crow to relieve her need when a woman looks at the sky to God, a dog to grab her aunt by the leg if she tries to go down to the basement; H. climbed steal vinegar into the basement, the jug's lid broke, the aunt wanted to light the fire, planned misfortunes fell on her; mother H. cooked soup, splashed it into a crow jug, poured it into a plate for the jackal and the dog, the scorpion killed; the crow's head was stuck, the jug broke, the corolla remained around the crow's neck; H. promised to remove it if he croaked every time H. pushes him in the side; H. with the crow came to my aunt, she has a lover; H. sees how she hid pilaf and her lover when her husband came; the crow pushed, he croaks, H. explains: why for a man there is pilaf under the pot, and bread and onions for her husband; aunt hid her lover under the stairs; in the morning she told him to leave, sprinkling millet behind her - she would bring him lunch; H. heard that her lover's trail had been erased, scattered millet on the way to the field where her aunt's husband worked; the husband was surprised that his wife brought lunch; next time with straw scattered; the aunt asks the sacred tree how to dazzle H.; H. hid himself in a tree, tells X. to feed X. for 40 days with chicken pilaf ; well-fed H. pretends to go blind; aunt orders animals to be driven away, H. hits her lover with a stick, says he is blind; kills his lover by pouring boiling oil in his face; aunt asks to bury the dead; H. tied the corpse to a donkey, brought him to the field, the owner hit him, H. accused the man of killing his father; received a ransom; brought the "father" to the caravanserai where the Lurs were staying; said that his father might die, if strangers spoil the air; poured paste into the sleeping luram's pants; the Loures fled in fear, H. buried the corpse, took the goods of the Loures; tells the widow that her late husband had, he sells greens at the entrance to hell; widow gives a golden watermelon, asks to give it to her husband; father-in-law ran to look for a deceiver, did not find it; H. brought all his mother's wealth]: 416-423; Marzolph 1984, No. 210A [boy goes to a woman's house to steal food; c him a scorpion, a cat, a dog, a raven, etc.; a scorpion stings the hostess when she wants to light a fire, a cat scratches, a dog bites, a raven bites in the eye, etc.]: 55-56; (cf. Turkmens (Merv Tekins) [an orphan boy bothered a herd of sheep; their owner was a blind diva; the boy turned his fur coat up with his fur, came with the sheep; groping the sheep, the divas were happy to have them one more, but smelled a human smell; in order not to be eaten, the boy killed the diva by hanging millstones in the door, sticking the knives upside down where the divas usually sat, sticking needles where he laid his head with hot coals hanging hot coals above the diva's head]: Samoilovich 1914, No. 6:534).

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians: Lebite 1965:144-145 [someone tramples peas; a father sends an elder, middle daughter to guard, a monster drags them away in one eye, one leg; the father goes looking for them, meets, companions an acorn, a rope, a baton; finds daughters in a forest hut, they cook porridge for the owner; the old man lies down on the stove, a baton on the lintel, a rope on the doorstep, an acorn hides in a pot with porridge; a monster enters, an acorn jumps into his eye, a monster clings to a rope, a baton hits him to death], 377-378 [the old woman goes to herd sheep, meets, takes a pebble, a sparkle, a crayfish as his companions, boletus; they spend the night in a shepherd's hut - an old woman on the bed, a stone on the roof, a boletus on the doorstep, a crayfish on the bench, a sparkle with coals; at night a thief came in, began to fan the fire, a sparkle burned his hand, he sat on a crayfish bench, rushed out, slipped on a boletus, a stone fell off the roof, killed him]; Latvians [The hare made a cart, dragged it with him; met him, took a needle, a pin as his comrades, coal, duck; in the robber's house, a duck climbed into a tub of water, a needle in bed, a pin in a towel, a coal jumped into a chair; the robber began to wash, the duck filled his eyes, pricked a pin in the towel into his face, burned the coal, the needle began to stab in bed, a stone fell from the roof, killed him]: Alksnite 1958:89-90; Estonians (1 entry, Tartumaa, Võnnu) [the fox stole the chicken; the rooster goes in search; on the way to A stone, an egg and a needle join him; they hide in the fox's house and kill her]: Kippar 1986, No. 210:145.

Volga - Perm. Udmurts [someone steals turnips; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest bald man calls his father and brothers to beat Satan; goes to look for him; meets him, takes a twig, cancer, salt, awl, cow a cake, a baton; seeing a bald man, Satan hides in the basement of his house; a bald man puts cancer in a bucket of water, an awl on a chair, a baton to the floors, a twig and a cow cake at the door, salt in the hearth; Satan pulls hands to the hearth, salt burned him, the awl pierced his ass when he sat down on the chair, the club hit his forehead, Satan slipped on the cake, the twig began to beat him; the bald man brings Satan, also taking turnips and gold; invites his wife to cook Satan, he runs away]: Kralina 1960, No. 76:225-228; Kazan Tatars [the old man bought a needle, a crush, an egg; put the egg in hot ash, stuck the needle into a chair, a crush put it on the door; the egg burst into his eyes, he sat down on a chair, the needle dug into him; rushed outside, the crush fell on his head; since then the old man has been putting things in place]: Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 137 : 457.

Turkestan. Yellow Uighurs [Tekejer, the old man poured milk into the jug, put the egg in the fire, stuck the awl in the hearth, held the hammer to the pole on the ceiling, placed the last one at the door; Mangys came and drank milk, pricked; the fire began to fan, the egg burst into his eyes; he sat down, the awl pierced his ass; at the door, a hammer hit him on the head, stumbling over the last, he fell, died; T., laughing, also died]: Malov 1967, No. 101:99; Salars: Tenishev 1964, No. 7 (Ujirem, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous County; "According to the narrator, this is a Tibetan tale he heard from the Salars") [the old woman went to mow the grass; her daughter Tutyrja stayed at home; Mungiskarjah took the image of an old woman, came to the door and began singing: "Tutyrzha-ah, open the door! Ma-ah-at came, mowed the grass with a sickle, collected the grass with a rake, waded across the river, the ditch crossed"; T. replied: "You are not my mother. My mom is white, [and] you're black!" ; M. rolled in the whitish dust and came back to the door; T. looked into the crack, mistook him for his mother, let him inside, and then hid under the grain measure; M. found her and ate it; promised the old woman who returned that she would eat her in the evening; the old woman went out on the road, met a needle, an awl, scissors, an egg, a frog, a couple of rams, a liquid dung and a stone roller for threshing wheat; they promised to help her; a needle hid on the old woman's head, an awl on her stomach, scissors at her feet; an egg in the hearth, a frog in a water tank; a couple of rams stood outside the door, the dung was at the doorstep, and the roller was above the door; in the evening he came M. and said that he would start eating the old woman from his head; a needle and an awl pricked his mouth, scissors pierced his lips, a pitchfork fell on his head in the hayloft, an egg burst and covered his eyes with dust, the frog hit him on the cheek; M. ran, slipped on the dung, but got up; the rams knocked him down, the roller fell off the door and killed him]; No. 25 (Altiyuli) [the old woman saw a sparrow and cried out; Mungiskarchi appeared; said an old woman who would eat her in the evening; she met a ram, a frog, a stone roller, an awl, a needle, scissors, an egg; they promised to help; the scissors were placed at the old woman's face, the needle sat at her feet, the awl sat on head, egg sat in the hearth, the frog jumped into the water, the ram hid in the barn, the dung sat under the hearth, the roller sat on top of the door; M. came, tried to eat the old woman; scissors and awl pricked his lips, the egg swelled the fire in the hearth and, blowing heavily, let ash into his eyes; M. rushed to the vat, the frog hit him on the cheek; M. hit the barn, where a ram butted him; M. hit the door, the roller fell off the top and killed him]; No. 56 (Ullagyl) [a lonely girl fell asleep and cried out in her sleep; her voice touched the stone, and Mungiskarchakh came out from there; he asked the girl if she knew where the spring was; the girl, crying, set off; met knife, scissors, knife, awl, frog, egg, dung and stone roller; told them that M. wanted to eat it; they promised to help; M. came to the girl in the evening and demanded that she open the door; girl refused; the ax {not previously mentioned} protected her legs, scissors her cheeks, the knife her ankles, the frog sat next to the sword, the egg fit on her chest, the dung sat at the doorstep, the roller sat on the lintel; M. began to shout: "My daughter, open the door! [Your] mother came, mowed the grass with a sickle, raked the grass, swam across a big river, crossed a small river, brought you clean water, and there won't be any left for you!" ; the girl opened the door, M. entered the house and said he would bite her in the head; the knife jumped up and pierced his lips; M. felt no pain and said he would bite the girl in the leg; defenders pricked him on the lips; M. laughed, hit the girl in the stomach, but the scissors prevented him from biting her on the lips; M. again did not feel pain and asked the girl very close to her lips where to bite; the awl pricked him on the lips; everyone went to the hearth, M . also went to him; the egg covered his eyes with ash; everyone dragged M. under his sword, knocked him over on his back; the frog hit M. on the cheek; he escaped, but was caught, rolled in ash, beaten and killed]: 19-21, 62- 63, 115-117.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians: Garf, Kuchiyak 1978 [old man Kurana Gorbaty has a tiny son Kulakcha; he climbed into the ear of the goat Chadak-Pai, he ran, followed by sheep, K. hid in a hole; C. tells Kurany three months to work for him for free; to get food, Kulakcha rides a horse to people who do not see him, but hear a song, give him grains in fear; he returned to his parents in the belly of the horse that swallowed him along with the grass; choked and belched; takes a snake, a hornet's nest, a capercaillie's egg with him, comes to C.; he sleeps with two wives; Kulakcha stabbed a horse, threw a piece of meat to the couch; C. fights with his wives - who eats lard at night? wants to drink sour milk, stung by a snake; touched an idol, he has a hornet's nest in his eye, C. is bitten, fell into a hole]: 111-118; Sadalova 2002, No. 37 [tiny Dyarym-Fist near the threshold of the house where my grandmother lived with grandfather, scattered garbage (apparently, put the last one), hung a mallet above the door, wrapped a snake around the vessel, placed a bumblebee in the place where the spirit figure stood, buried an egg in the ash, stuck an awl on the couch, he hid himself in the folds of felt; Grandma slipped when she came in, hit the mallet, was bitten by a snake and a bumblebee, an egg burst into her eyes, the awl pierced when she sat down, she ran out, slipped again Finally, hit the mallet; DK laughed, rode a camel, climbed under the leaves of the rain, the camel swallowed it along with the grass; he screams for the camel to be stabbed; the owners stabbed, the gut in which DK, swallowed by one of the seven wolves; when the wolves try to approach the prey, the DC screams, the wolves are starving; the fox tells them to eat fat falls; the wolves have eaten, cleansed their stomachs, the DC offers them three thieves serve; they send him for an ax; he hides in the dog's ear, asks the boy to give bone marrow; the boy tells his mother that the dog asks for bone marrow, the mother tells her to hack, the ax flies off, the DC brings his thieves; DK puts a parcel between two sleeping girls, ties a cecum to the pigtails of two guys, spreads interior fat over the old woman and the old man; everyone woke up, the guys started fighting, the girls - accuse each other that the other gave birth, the old woman and the old woman - that the other tore their skins (they hear a crackling fat); DK laughed and dried up]: 361-365; Khakas [the ventricle, walking, found a needle, then an awl, an egg, a bee, a toad, a snake, a fresh skin, a mallet; I came across a yurt, no one; stuck a needle and an awl behind the hearth, hid the egg in the hearth, put the bee in front of the image, put the toad in the water, lowered the snake into the ayran, the skin on He spread it out on the doorstep, hung the mallet above the threshold, stood outside the door himself; the old woman came in, wanted to sit down, pricked her corner, fell, pricked her with an awl, the fire began to interfere - the egg burst; she ran to drink - in the water a toad, a snake in ayran; began to pray, the image kissed - the bee stung; ran into the yard, slipped on her skin, the mallet fell from above, the old woman died; the ventricle laughed until his stomach burst]: Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 46:585-587; South Altai Tuvans [old woman Deptegen with a camelskin bag walks in search of sour god and a thick hoitpack; picks up the last mare, a poisonous snake, three chicken eggs, an awl, a dried skin, a deer antler mallet; hides in a hole in a yurt; beautiful Shinak enters, stabs her awl, a snake stings her, eggs buried in ash burst into her eyes, she falls at the end, thrown on her skin; D. finishes her off with a mallet, puts her clothes on, throws her body into the water; her young husband is surprised that his wife looks bad; she replies that she was ill; the camel, the stallion, the ram, the bull are crying , the name is Sh.; the imaginary S. orders to kill the animal every time; the husband pierced his son's thigh with a knife, began to rotate it on the knife; the boy's cry awakened his mother, she flew in a golden swan; the husband asks D. she will take; she chooses seven mares, she is tied to them, torn apart; the couple live happily on]: Taube 1978, No. 64:298-400 (=Taube 1994, No. 29:236-238); Tuvans [old woman Töppene found a snake, a bumblebee, a wasp, a needle, an awl; stuck a needle in front of the lamp, an awl in bed by the wall, a bumblebee hung from sacred ribbons, a wasp at the top of the yurt, buried a bird's egg in the ash of the hearth; sat on a mattress - pricked, became to drink koumiss - she was bitten by a snake, on the bed - pricked again, bowed to the ribbons - the bumblebee stung, looked up - the wasp, began to rummage through the hearth - the chick gouged out its eye, slipped outside the door, with her mallet hit, killed]: Samdan 1994, No. 27:399; Buryats [Bochon-chobun goes hunting; with him scissors, a toad, a snake, horse manure, a hammer, two eggs, two bushes; come to Mangatchai's house yet; toad, a snake is hiding in water vessels, scissors, a bush in bed, eggs in hot ash (splashing into the eyes), horse manure at the doorstep, a hammer above the door (falls, kills the owner), B. under the bed]: Aarne 1913:3-4; Dagurs [Hanika harnessed a cow the size of a louse, got into a cane cart, took a dog the size of nits with him, went to steal gold and silver from the demon; along the way he consistently meets his eye, ear, an awl, an egg, a skating rink; everyone says where the demon will hide in the house, how he will harm him; while H. fills the bags with treasures, the eye and ear watch the demon approach; the swallow replies to the demon that there is no one in the house; he lay down on the couch, pricked him with an awl, began to shovel ash in search of fire, a bursting egg blinded him, he rushed into the yard, the ice rink fell on him in the doorway, crushed him; H. with treasures and companions friends returned home]: Todayeva 1986:90-92; Mongors: Todayeva 1973, No. 5 [the monster meets an old woman, demands that she bring her daughter; she replies that her daughter is married; the monster promises to come to an old woman and eat it; on the way home, the old woman meets an Egg, an Awl, a Ice Rink, Cow Dung, Scissors, a Frog; everyone asks why she is crying, promises to come to guard; objects and animals hide in the house; the monster sits on the can, pricked with an awl; tries to take fire, the burst egg blinds him; tries to wash his face, a frog jumps out of the bucket; tries to make a fire with blacksmith's fur, the scissors jump out, fingers are cut off; the monster slides on cow droppings, falls in the door, the ice rink falls from above, presses it to death]: 239-242; Schröder 1959 [Mangudze ate the old woman's cow, promises to eat it herself in the evening; She meets a frog, an egg, a flail, a floor rag, a cow cake, an awl, scissors, everyone asks for a butter cake, promises to help; when M. came, the awl pierced his mouth, the scissors cut off his fingers, the egg burst, his eyes were filled, the rag hit, he slipped on a cow's cake, the flail finished it off; the old woman buried her corpse at a fork in three roads;]: 81-87.

Western Siberia. Mansi (Konda) [the mouse married a doll, started stealing, got rich; other mice also started stealing, the mayor started killing them, they asked the mouse for help; he took a hike comrades: a slimy fish board, dog rope, perch caviar, a hot brazier, a foot, a knife, an ax; a brazier was placed on the doorstep, a board in the door, hot caviar on the table, a foot, a knife and an ax nearby; the mayor stepped on the brazier, hit the lintel, slipped on the board, fell, the mice had hot caviar in his eyes, the rope confused, the foot, the ax, the knife finished off; the mice took all his supplies; son his daughter was lured into the plague with food, everyone died there; the doll began to mourn the mouse, went to wander; refused to load horse, cow, sheep manure - it would get dirty; came to another mouse's aunt, stayed with her, married her nephew; he made a hemp boat, swam; his name is from the shore to eat perch, ruff, fish oil, he does not pay attention; when he calls to eat burbot, he goes; sails on, his the bear swallowed along with the boat, the mouse began to stab from the inside, the bear fell, the mouse cut the way out with a knife, invited the bear to swallow it again, cut off the heart from the inside; took the meat, swam back down with the flow past those people who invited him; at home, my aunt took meat, the mouse played, my aunt danced (a song about how he got a bear)]: Kannisto 1956, No. 10:100-117; Nenets: Lekhtisalo 1998 (forest Nenets, r. Maykovskaya) [The ermine goes to beat a lonely old woman, meets the Board, Stone, Strug, Burav, Bubble, Rosehips, they go with him, hide in the house; The ermine tickles the old woman, she makes the fire, the Bubble bursts, (ash?) dazzles the old woman, she puts on her pants, there are thorns, she runs out, slides on the Board, the Stone falls on her head, the Drill drills, the Strug scares], No. 35:81-84; Osharov 1936a (St. Luzino, West 1929) [The mouse invites the Deer to play hide and seek, hid in the pipe, the Deer swallowed it without noticing it; bit through the heart, went out; called the animals to take off their skin, asked them to leave their tongue, lips, brain; the animals ate everything themselves, left Ermine to wake up the Mouse, he woke him up, ran away, the Mouse found only bones; on the old plague he finds Shiloh, Chips, bone Shield from the sturgeon's back, the Board covered with fish slime, the Board, the Stone, dog Strap; is at war on big animals; an old man in the plague; The mouse tells the stone to climb onto the tagan, the board to lie over the threshold, the awl to stand near the board, the strap will hang in the door in a loop, the sturgeon shield will climb into bakar (shoes), shavings into the hearth under the coals; The mouse woke up the old man, pulling his hair, he put his foot in the bakar, scratched it, began to fan the fire to see if there were lice, the chips flashed, the old man ran in fear out of the plague, slipped on the board, fell on an awl, hit the noose with his head, hit the tagan, dropped a stone on himself, died; (Quail in Paderina, Plitchenko 1986:102-108)]: 192-195; Ents: Dolgikh 1961 [at Dia Baruchi's brother with one arm, one leg; rips the skin off the deer's feet so that they do not soak their training at the river crossing; D. decides to get rid of him, invites him to step into the ice-hole; he returns through three days with fish; D. ties B. to the top of the tree, he returns with firewood; picks up Sigio's nets; disguises his mother as Satan (idol), who broadcasts that his nets, B.; S. agrees; B. finds an awl, a strap, polygolds, a pestle, a fish bubble, a mouse; they all agree to go to war with S., hide in his house; the mouse scratches S. in bed, the needle stabs in his shoes, the bubble blazed in the hearth, the strap tightens the poles the plague, preventing S. from jumping out the chimney, the pestle slides under his feet in the door, S. falls on his back, the awl pierces his heart, he dies; he no longer kills people]: 32-36; Entsy (Madu dialect) [Mouse finds a Board on the plague, asks if he will help, promises his wife; go together, consistently meet Strap, Chips, Stone, Needle; they come to the plague, where a witch and a woman, a witch sends a woman, promises come to her grandmother tomorrow; kindles the stove, the fire from chips burns her, the spoke in her boot stabs, the board does not allow her to go out, the stone hits the head, kills]: Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 85:306 (=Sorokina in Porotova 1982:158-159).

Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [Dolgikh: Analogies to the Enets fairy tale in Dolgan folklore]: Saito 1994:77; Yakuts: Vitashevsky 1912, No. I.2 (central, Bayagantay ulus) [old woman caught 10 hares, Mangus took them away; she harnessed the louse bull into a sleigh thimble, on the way she grabbed a black stone, two pikes, two crane eggs, broken needles and awls; put a stone at the door, pikes in a bucket of water, eggs in ash She stuck the hearth, needles and awls into the shop; Mongus tripped over a stone, eggs that burst from the heat splashed into his eyes, pike grabbed his hands, needles dug into his body, he died]: 465-466; Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 16 (western 1985 in Yakutsk from a native of Verkhoyansky ulus) [Angaa Mangys took horses, cows, sons, daughters from old Nyy-Nyy; Chyngyrykaan advised to bury two eggs near the hearth, next to a tub with two pike and poker, cover the stone at the doorstep with a horse afterbirth, nail awls in the door, traps on the window; go for pike in a thimble sleigh, harness a louse, two needles are servants; AM came in slipped on a stone, broke his ribs, fell into a trap with his fingers, began to fan the fire, his eggs burst, burned his eyes, he put his hands in the tub, his pike grabbed him, the old woman killed him with a palm tree; C. ordered him to prick left thumb pad, horses, cows, sons, daughters of the old woman came out from there; AM's body was burned]: 177-185; Sivtsev, Efremov 1990 [Angaa-Mongus consistently comes, swallows horses, bulls, sons and daughters of old woman Nii-Niya; Mouse Head tells two pikes to be left in a tub of water, duck eggs in the ash of the hearth, put a transparent stone on the threshold, covered with slippery afternoons of cows and mares, on put awls on the threshold and jambs, put traps on the windows, hide yourself with a sword; A. falls on the doorstep, traps cut off his fingers, eggs burst into his eyes, pike grab his hands; N. cuts through A.'s little finger, everyone swallowed comes out of there]: 224-228; Ergis 1964, No. 42 (central, 4th Malzhagar Nasleg of Khangalas Ulus) [old woman Shutyukeen brings Hara Haan and Sabyya Baaya as a gift to hare; her they feed her unclean oil and hayak sludge; they give her a black calf and a shabby foal; she mows hay for them; Ala Mongus swallows them; she harnesses a bull louse into a sleigh thimble, goes west, finds stones, the last mare, two crane eggs, two pikes; at home he puts stones on the threshold, the last on them, buries the eggs in ash, puts the pikes in buckets of water; AM falls in the doorway, goes blind from bursting eggs, pike grab his hands; an old woman kills him with an ax, pulls a living calf and foal out of his stomach, takes his property], 43 (central, Taragay nasleg Megino = Kangalassky ulus) [to two children- Angaa Mogus comes to orphans with eyes on his forehead, one hand, one leg; children ask him to come when they are fat; the contents of the calf's stomach are dumped onto the threshold, crane eggs are buried in the hearth, They put a live pike on the tub, they climb a tree themselves, taking a tambourine; AM falls, burns his hands, they are bitten by a pike; he climbs a tree, the children throw him a tambourine, he thinks that a child is falling, trying to catch them, falls, breaks]: 131-133, 135-136; 1967, No. 80 [Mongus (Var.: Old Woman Syutyukcheen, Bukeennir Yasah, Alaa Mongus and Elaenuon Ayalaah) offended his neighbors, took away their food, cattle, hunting the prey finally wanted to eat them themselves; the neighbors set up traps: they put a slippery stone at the entrance, buried duck eggs in hot ash, let pike into the water tub, and hammered nails into the shop with the point up, a heavy stone was dragged onto the roof of the house; they hid themselves; M. comes, falls on a stone and breaks his ribs, burst eggs make him blind, pike bites off his fingers, injured his ass against nails, when leaving the house it is finished by a fallen stone. After killing Mongus, neighbors take away his wealth], 81 [orphans, nicknamed "pattern children," wanted to be eaten by Angaa Mongus; the children asked for a ten-day delay; they stabbed a calf, the contents of his stomach were thrown onto the threshold, crane eggs were buried in the ash of the hearth, live pike was lowered into a tub of water, nails were hammered into bed with the point up, climbed the tree themselves; M. came, slipped on the doorstep and broke his thigh, crushed his eggs and burned himself, the pike bit his hands, he injured himself in bed against nails, fell off a tree, broke his neck, died]: 176-177; Evens [Knife, Caviar, Fish The Goby, the Spear, the Ice go to the Bear; they hide in his den; when the Bear comes, Caviar bursts, splashing it into his eyes, the Goby throws sand with its tail, the Spear pierces the canopy; slipping on the Ice , Bear falls, dies]: Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:302-303 (=Novikova 1958:40-41; =+1987:42-43).

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanai people: Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951 [=Medvedev 1992:266-268; devil killed the father of a bird named Cholchomiaka; C. knocked down a tree, made a hollow, swam to kill the devil; meets Pike , Acorn, Skewer, Hammer and Block, takes them with them; they hide the devil in the house, kill it]: 352-355; Naikha Nanais [The tit sails on a boat down the river, consistently takes it as companions Pike Jaw, Sledgehammer, Diarrhea, Acorn, Skewer; they go to kill the brother of the seven pudi; they laugh at them; in Mergen's house, the tit hides the spit under the edge of the bunk, diarrhea on the bunk, the acorn in the hearth, the jaw in the jar for water, a sledgehammer at the door; she sits on the chimney; this rabble attacks Mergen when he tries to take something, a sledgehammer kills in the doorway; her head was placed on the mast, the bird sits, bites; the rabble took seven pounds as a wife, a tit of two, the eldest and youngest of the sisters]: Aurorin 1986, No. 22:92-93; the Udege people [an idol steals and eats people; the old man takes an acorn, a hammer and other things with him; on the way, the Acorn offers take another Goby Fish; in the ogre's house, he lets him into a bucket of water with the Acorn, leaves a Leather near the bucket; the Hammer, the Scraper and the Stretcher hide in the corner, the dough gurney by the hearth, the Awl in bed; the cannibal leans over the bucket, the Acorn hits him in the forehead, he falls while sliding on the Wheelchair, others hit him, Shiloh stabs him, he runs away]: Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010:208-209; nivkhi: Bereznitsky 2003, No. 27 [ sister goes to get water, kins drags her into the ice-hole; brother takes a knife, an awl, a bar, goes to look for it; a pike's head, a dog's head, an iron man with a bird's paw instead of one leg are asked to take them from by themselves; they come into the house, there is a thin sister, Kins sucks her finger, sucking her strength; the brother puts his companions in a cauldron of water, the awl with the point up on the bunk beds; the knife with the point up on Sister's bunk beds, a bar hangs above the bunk beds; the keins come in, pricks with an awl, tries to wash his hand, the pike's head, the dog's head, the iron man bites him; he sits on a knife, jumps up, hits the bar , dies; brother and sister return home]: 120-121 (=2005, No. 127:511-512); Pevnov 2010, No. 11 [the grass sheaf and awl lived in the same house; a sheaf went out into the snowstorm to chop firewood, the wind blew it away; the awl went looked, met, took urine, feces, a dog's skull, a grindstone; they entered the house, the awl settled on the floor, urine and feces on the sides of the dog's skull under the threshold, the grindstone above the door; An evil spirit came in, sat on an awl, slipped in the urine, grabbed his feces with his hand, his skull bit his leg, the stone fell down, killed him; then they found a sheaf of grass and returned home]: 140-141.

Japan. Japanese: Ikeda 1971, No. 9M [Monkey and Pheasant agree to grow rice together; only Pheasant works; when sharing the crop, the Monkey takes two-thirds; Pheasant, Chestnut, Crab, Mortar, Manure together take revenge on the Monkey], 210 (from Tohoku to Shikoku) [similar version in Fedorov-Davydov 1904:3-8; The monkey exchanges Crab's rice bun for persimmon seeds; Crab's persimmon grows rapidly and bears fruit; The monkey invites the Crab to collect persimmons for him, collects a bag, prevents the Crab, drops a green persimmon on it; he says that monkeys used to be able to climb the tree with their feet forward; The monkey climbs feet forward, persimmon falls out of her bag; Crab (or Crab's son, if killed by a fallen persimmon), along with Chestnut, Manure, Mortar, Bee, hide in the Monkey's house; The chestnut in the hearth bursts the Monkey in eyes, Crab stings the Monkey when it leans to the water to wash its face, the Bee bites, the Monkey rushes to the door, slides on the Manure, is killed by a Mortar that falls from the ceiling], 333C [the Sparrow has three eggs in its nest ; The monkey (or the Ogre) demands one thing, then comes after another; the third one rolled out of the nest, the Monkey did not find it, took Sparrow herself; the hatched Sparrow makes rice dumplings, gives them to objects and animals that promise to help him; together they come to the Monkey's house, hide in different places and attack the owner who enters; he dies (Borovkov 1938:184-185, in Markova 2000, No. 73: also in this story: 269-272, in Adriani 1898:357, note 1)]: 18-19, 50-51, 93; Ainu [when the spider goddess was embroidering, a deity came from the sea and reported that the monster, which has a camp for the clouds, would fly and will attack her; the goddess let the human needle sit on the floor, the chestnut man in the hearth, the human bee near the window, the snake man in the water barrel, the human pestle inside the house above the threshold, she herself turned into a miscanthus stalk, waiting for an attack; when the monster flew in and started fire, the chestnut burst into his eyes, a needle pricked the fallen man in the ass, the bee stung in the eye at the window, the snake bit when the monster ran up to the barrel, a pestle fell on it at the exit, and a stupa ran over on the street; var: a monster with six heads; one head cries, the other sings a lullaby]: Saito 1994:73-74.

SV Asia. Forest yukaghirs [an old woman makes a sleigh out of a sewing box, harnesses a thimble, goes to the lake, catches two pikes, digs two swan eggs from under the snow, finds four stones; one hangs at home above the entrance, the rest above the windows; puts the pikes in a tub of water, buries eggs in the hearth; fills his knee pads with hot coals, hangs them at the hearth; when the Fairytale Old Man enters, he is beaten, blinded, burned with stones, eggs, etc.; an old woman cuts his tendons on his legs with an ax, cuts off his head, builds a willow canopy over him; by morning she becomes a young girl, and he is handsome himself, they get married]: Jochelson 1926, No. 3:250-251 (=Zhukova, Chernetsov 1992:76-78).

NW Coast. Tsimshian [the weather is bad, only the South Wind (SE) is blowing, the fish does not bite, Txámsen (Raven) is starving; T. calls fish; Octopus, Halibut offer to go to South East War; Killer Whale gives participants its boat; The scallop (Cockle) on the bow of the boat always brags that SE will kick down; The halibut lies in the door of the SE house; the scallop enters the house; SE sits with its back to him, the wind constantly blows, the Scallop cannot come up; the Raven calls him back, breaks his sink, eats the bouncer; lit a smoky torch in the South House, he started coughing, went to the exit, slipped on the Halibut, fell on the Killer Whale Boat; the Octopus dug in the boat does not let it into it with suction cups; SE suggests that it be a day of good weather and a bad day; the Raven does not agree; - Two days; - Disagree; - Eternal summer; - Too much, even if four days of good weather in a row; tells the Octopus to let SE go; everyone has gone home, the weather has been good since then]: Boas 1916, No. 20:79-81; Haida [The Raven asks the birds to go with him to the South Wind; Jay is rejected because too old but he still wants to go; the Raven stretches his neck; fails to make a boat out of different types of trees; only a maple one came up]; bellacula: McIlwraith 1948 (2) [two var.; winter stands all year round, the Cold Wind kills people; plants, animals, birds, people go to fight it; Halibut lies in the doorway, the Cold Wind steps on him, slides, tied; agrees to blow only in the morning in March]: 433-435; Quakiutl [Omeal (Raven) and his brothers go to war in SE Wind; when captured, South Wind suggests that it should always be quiet; Norka says it's too much; then SE promises blow no more than four days in a row], chickpea: Boas 1916 [Tsimshians, Hyda, Quakiutl, Nootka, Poppies hide animals, fish or birds in different parts of the South Wind's dwelling; it slides on them, falls]: 658-660 (evidence of the motive's identity in Eurasian and American versions in Hoebel 1941:5-7).

Northeast. Delaware [(summary in Bierhorst 1995, No. 71:45; west 1909 in Oklahoma); mother does not tell six sons to go west; the youngest ball has a lynx head, digs her teeth into a tree; the eldest goes, finds a wife; she warns that the one-eyed sorcerer Red Feather on his head wants to kidnap her; at home, the younger brother guards the elder's wife; when he is away, the sorcerer took her away; the brothers disappear one by one to others; the sorcerer lets his Naked Bear at each; his younger brother goes, picks up a toad, a snake (makes a pipe out of them for himself), an otter (makes a pouch out of her skin), a weasel; a weasel jumps into the mouth A bear, gnaws out a heart; a pouch made of otter skin grabs the Bear by the legs, the toad (i.e. the pipe) is full of fire; the younger brother kills the sorcerer by throwing a lynx ball into his eye, burns him; the head four times jumps out of the fire, Laska brings her back; her younger brother revives his elders by firing an arrow over them]: Hitakonanu'laxk 1994:88-93.

Plains. Teton: Wissler 1907, No. 4 (Oglala) [Turtle Goes to War; Comrades Hot Coal, Grasshopper, Pemmican, Yellow Butterfly, Leveler Runner; they all disappear along the way; Turtle in captivity not afraid of fire; thrown into the river, shows enemies a child's head cut off from the water]: 126-128; yankton [Ash, Fire, Bubble, Grasshopper, Dragonfly, Fish, Turtle go to war; ash was carried away by wind, fire went out in the river, the grasshopper's legs fell off, the dragonfly's head; People are going to throw the Fish and the Turtle into the fire; the fish spit hot water on others, decide to drown both; they throw them into muddy water]: Zitkala-Ša 1985:159-163; Omaha, Ponka [Turtle goes to war; comrades Red-breasted Turtle, Squirrel, Terochnik, Crest, Shiloh, Pest, Smut, Bison Bubble; rejects Puma, Wolf; on the way, the Bubble breaks, the Red-breasted turtle cannot climb over the log; the woman picks up Terochnik, tries to rub the grain, hits her arm to blood, Terochnik triumphantly returns to A turtle; another woman picks up a comb, he pulls out half of her hair, comes back screaming that he has brought a scalp; the third picks up Shiloh, it pierces her hand; the fourth is Pest, he hits her knee; Now the Turtle goes to the enemies, is captured; says that whoever chops, cooks, burns it will be maimed themselves; pretends to be afraid of water, thrown into the river, is alive; the Snake and the Otter dive after it , The turtle bites the Otter; two birds drink water, the Squirrel bites their goiters, the water fills the river again; the turtle and his comrades come home triumphantly]: Dorsey 1888b: 206-208 (=1890:271-277); iowa [The turtle goes to war, takes the Curant and the Bone Shiloh with it; all three are captured; the Curant hits the finger of whoever rubs corn with it; Shiloh pins them; they are thrown away, and wounded people die from blood poisoning; The turtle is boiled and eaten]: Skinner 1925, No. 19:479-480; to [The Biting Turtle reluctantly agrees to go camping with the Spotted Turtle; they reject the Hare, take the Skunk, the Squirrel, Mortar, Crest; when approaching the enemy camp, Mortar asks to leave it in the bush, the Comb closer to the dwellings; the Spotted Turtle is immediately grabbed, they want to throw it into the fire; she asks to be allowed to sing first; says that the fire will spread all over the camp; if it is cooked, it will fill the entire camp with boiling water; pretends to be drowned in a pond; three times she is thrown nearby, she laughs; when far away, disappears, people think the turtle has drowned; it screams that the water is her home; the chief tells the Big Belly to drink water; the turtle asks the Squirrel for help; she shoots from a tree, the water pours back out of the hole in the belly of the monster; the Skunk, hiding in the bushes, stunned the woman with the stench, took off her scalp; the girl picked up the comb, he took the hair off her and her father's head, she threw it away; The squirrel screams that the Comb got scalp; the girl tried to pick up the Mortar with a pestle in it; the pestle stuck, she pulled, the mortar hit her forehead; the squirrel shouted that Mortar had scalped; hiding at the bottom, the Biting Turtle almost dragged the boy by the leg; The squirrel offered to return home; The elk doubts that such slow-walkers could get scalps; the Spotted Turtle invites him to race; The turtle arranges other turtles, when the Elk comes to the finish line, the Turtle is already sitting there]: Curtis 1976 (19): 164-166; Pawnee: Dorsey 1904b, No. 74 (throw off) [like oglal; Turtle takes Knife, Awl, Brush as comrades, rejects Hawk; in captivity he is not afraid of hot coals, boiling water; teases enemies out of water; people take a knife, awl, brush to use them]: 275-276; 1906, No. 147 (kitkehahki) [The turtle goes to war, taking them The mosquito and the Cricket; they grab it, the mosquito hides in the hearth, the Cricket in the hole; the Turtle says that if it is thrown into the fire, it will scatter it; it pretends to be afraid of water; it is thrown into the water, it screams that everyone deceived; The cricket stays in the people's house, the mosquito flies into the swamp]: 469-470).

(Wed. Bolivia - Guaporé. Takana [probably Heb.; the old woman caught a deer, a wild cat, a motley chicken to eat them; the cat overheard the old woman's conversation with her daughter, warned the others, ola a deer, a wild cat, colorful chicken to eat them; the cat overheard the old woman talking with her daughter, the warnings ran into the forest; the cat and the chicken climbed the tree, the deer took shelter under it; the owner of the jaguars came at night Mururi; they told him they were looking for a jaguar skin, that there was a man sitting in a tree who would kill him with a sharp comb or spurs; M. called 40 jaguars, the cat and the chicken scared them, screaming, Hey man, stab them spurs in the back of M.'s head; jaguars fell off the cliff, M. and 20 jaguars escaped; M. met a deer, spoke about three unknown terrible animals; the same ocelot told the fox]: Hissink, Hahn 1961, No. 141:270).

Southern Amazon. Paresi [see motif J42B for full text; four orphan brothers living with old woman Alawrir learn that Jaguar and Jaguariha ate all the men in the village, and the Eagle ate all the women; Jaguariha razed mouth, people entered it; brothers turn into hummingbirds, cut Jaguarihu from the inside with a knife, go out; the male Jaguar has two stone clubs in the house, the brothers swapped the dangerous and ordinary; the same is two spears; hid in the Jaguar's house; they met various animals on the way to it (alma-de-gato long-tailed cuckoo, Canis jubatus Maned Wolf, Euchroma gigantea beetle, Anolis punctatus Iguana, Hemidactyluc lizard mabonia); everyone asks where they are going; when they receive the answer that to kill the Jaguar, they join, hide in the house; The lizard stains the fire sticks with a lot of peca fruits; The maned wolf left his bowel movements; brothers place the caiman's rat head and tail on the threshold; the Jaguar, seeing traces of each object hidden or left behind, perceives them as a sign of his death; brothers giggle, Jaguar the club is enough, but it is not fatal, the brothers kill it; Europeans arose from ash and coal and various groups of Indians are not paresi (which of the burnt objects is listed); the brothers shot at the sky tree, climbed a chain of arrows (or a thread lowered, at A.'s request, from the sky tree); all the animals wanted to climb too; Canis jubatus and Dusicyon thous climbed, but the thread broke or the Europeans cut off the chain of arrows; the two fell; in the sky, A. and the brothers play ball with the head of the jaguariha, the tail of the caiman, the head of a rat (A. gave them to the brothers with her); the red sunset is the blood of the jaguariha's head ]: Pereira 1986, No. 8:159-169; (cf. nambiquara [two boys play ball; one wounds his knee with a shard of a vessel; they believe the spirit of Sani .kalisu is to blame, they go to kill him; the old woman shows the way; Canis that, then Canis jubatus join them; they summon S. from home, kill him with a wooden sword]: Pereira 1983, No. 45:63-65; an Iranian [cannibal (jakolo) invites a man to his village; that On the way, he meets the Black Monkey, the Callicebus personatus, the Maned Wolf, the Fox (short-haired zorro, Dusicyon), the Possum (Conepatus semistratus amazonicus) gives them peca flour; each asks where he and his animal companions are going, joins; animals stay in the forest, the man enters the village; an old cannibal gives him her two daughters; they offer themselves, are refused; mothers answer that the guest said that he never copulates; at night, a person puts the ogre to sleep with stories, leaves a deck in his hammock, runs away; goes home with animals; cannibals they throw a hammock into a boiling pot, but only break the cauldron with a deck; now the man's younger brother comes; does not give food to animals, copulates with both girls; falls asleep himself, is thrown into the cauldron; the older brother goes take revenge, meet the same animals again, torment them, everyone joins him; humans and animals make a fire at the entrance to the cannibal hole, kill them with smoke; let the Turtle go because it did not eat human beings, but only sucked on bone]: Pereira 1985, No. 31:142-155).