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Theantagonist makes formally justified, but essentially unfair demands on the hero. The hero performs them or is punished by an antagonist. The antagonist then takes an object or animal belonging to the hero, but cannot return it and is punished equally or more severely.
Batanga, Luchazi, Ndau, Kongo, Sakata, Mongo, Safwa, Isanzu, (kikuyu), Kaguru, Swahili, (aka), Nzema, Dogon, (Yoruba), Western Dan, Mano, Grebe, Nalu, Baule, Tangale, Joluo, sandave, Amhara, Ancient Egypt, Khmer, (Kai Islands).
Bantu-speaking Africa. Batanga [the eldest half-brother caught an unusual fish; the youngest asked for a look, missed it; the eldest demanded it back; the youngest dived; when he met fish, shared food with them, they showed the way; washes, feeds a dirty, sick old woman; she turns young, teaches her to come to the next village, demand the fish that belonged to his murdered uncle; he was given the fish he was looking for; that woman gives him a cane made of sugar cane; he returns the fish to his brother; he plants cane; one day his older brother cuts off, eats a piece; the youngest demands it back; he goes to the bottom without feeding the fish, does not go to the old woman; returns, gets lost, drowned]: Nassau 1915, No. 16:45-47; luchazi [elephants ruin a cornfield; the owner asked a neighbor for an arrow; the wounded elephant carried it away in his body; the owner refused the ransom, demanded the arrow back; following the elephants, the man entered the cave; there is a village of elephants; the old woman teaches how to pull a fragile bowstring over the bow; he is asked to shoot at the antelope, in fact In fact, this is the leader, the bowstring is torn, everyone laughs; the chief gives an arrow, brings two elephants with him; they ruin the arrow owner's field; once he asked for a bracelet for his daughter, the man borrowed it; the girl grew up, the man demanded the bracelet back; it cannot be removed; the man refused the ransom, the girl's hand was cut off, she died]: Mesquitela Lima 1968:257-260; ndau: Boas, Simango 1922, No. 14 [good man married on the younger, angry at the older sister; guarding the field from wild boars, the good takes the evil bow, the boar carries the arrow; the evil demands the arrow back; the good one comes to the mistress of the wild boars, she allows him to find his arrow among those stored in the shed, pick it up; gives a rubber ball; if you swallow it and take the medicine, it is easy to regurgitate; everyone began to play with a ball, the evil swallowed it, but could not regurgitate; the owner demanded the balloon back; explained that if he were angry, he would rip open his stomach], 15 [one man's goat ate three corn cobs of another; he refused compensation, forced him to slaughter the goat, remove the cobs eaten from her stomach; his son swallowed the first man's bead, who demanded it back; taking pity on the boy's mother, he agreed not to slaughter her son, but let this be his lesson father]: 186-188, 189; safwa [man dug a hole; another cow fell into it; he did not demand compensation (money, daughter as wife), but the same live cow; the one who dug a hole went to the lower world to the spirits dead; he was asked to find that cow, he found it, although not immediately; the perfume gave another bell; if swallowed, it rings; the man regurgitated it; perfume: let the owner of the cow swallow it, but return it the bell can't; at home, the pit digger gathered people, swallows the bell; it rings: swallow, swallow, cow owner; spit out, spit out, cow owner; everyone tried to do the same; but when the owner of the cow swallowed, he could not regurgitate the bell; the digger refused to take the money or the girls, cut the cow's owner, removed the bell; went to tell the spirits; they said: well]: Arnold 1984:124-127; isanzu [the pig began to ruin the man's garden, he waited for her, she ran away with his spear in her body; this spear was given to him by a friend, now abandoned a new one, from 500 bulls, demanded his own; the man came to the hole, there were people (dead) inside; they said that he had wounded his dead sister; when he got up at night out of need, there were only bones around; old people play by throwing, swallowing and coughing up a white pebble; agree to give it to a person along with a spear; a person brings a spear to the owner, throws up and coughs up a pebble in front of his eyes; he asks to give it to him and try it; cannot regurgitate a stone; the person does not agree to accept 1000 bulls in return; demands that the swallower's stomach be ripped open; on the sixth day his stomach swells and dies]: Kohl-Larsen, Allenbach 1937, No. 31:38-40; ( cf. kikuyu [a man borrowed a spear from another to hunt porcupines that had ruined the field; the wounded porcupine took his spear; the owner demanded it back, refused a new one; the man climbed into the hole, found himself in a cave where people sat by the fire (the name of this underground place is the same as that of the world of the dead); they gave him a spear, fire, told him to grab the roots of the tree, he was on the ground; there was no fire before, people ate raw food; the man returned the spear; said that if the owner of the spear wanted to have fire, he must rise with smoke and bring it; he tried it unsuccessfully; the old people chose man as chief, fire made common property]: Paulme 1968:198-199 (transferred to Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 42:108-109)); Congo [Kinkenda's mother died a long time ago; when Nsansa's mother also died, she borrowed K. to dig it up the grave; the men who helped forgot the hoe in the grave; K. demanded it, refusing any compensation; N. was forced to dig the grave, returned her hoe; a few months later K. left her child; she made low from beads, the child swallowed the bead; N. demanded it, the child was cut, the bead was taken out, K. cried bitterly]: Struyf 1936:75-81; sakata [the father brought three nuts, the son ate them, the father demanded that he bring the nuts from where he picked them; the son goes, the old woman with a skin disease asks her to wash; he washes them, she gives them two parcels, big and small; at a fork in three roads the young man asks a large package, he says it's none of his business; the boy shows the way; the young man hears laughter, asks if he should laugh; the small bundle says no; the young man picks nuts and banana leaves, brings home; leaves, father eats them, son demands that father bring new ones from where he picked them; father goes, refuses to wash the old woman; laughs, stones fall on him, he dies]: Colldé ; n 1979, No. 22:177-178; mongo [after the death of his parents, the older brother became impoverished, the younger brother became rich; their younger sister lived with their older brother; the elder borrowed a spear from his younger brother to drive elephants away from the field; the wounded elephant took the spear; the younger brother demanded it back; the sister prepared food for the elder, he went to look for elephants; two months later he came to the field, next to the house; the old woman asks her to wash with warm water, comb, cut his nails; he did it; cooked meat, offered it to her first; she explained that elephants were dead, that he had wounded his own father; he saw his mother dead; there was a dog in that house serving like a human being; older brother quietly takes out his spear; mother gives him that dog and more; he tells the dog to build a new home for the old woman; brings people hemp that hasn't been before was; returns the spear; the youngest asks for a calebass with tobacco (i.e. hemp), accidentally swallows it; the elder cut it, took it out for the calebass, he died]: Retel-Laurentin 1968:215-219; kaguru [ a monster swallows all the villages, a pregnant woman escapes to a cave, gives birth to a boy; he sees a monster, realizes that onions cannot kill him; asks his mother to make cakes, gives the monster, he is happy, every day asks for more; the young man throws hot stones into his mouth instead of cakes, the monster dies; the mother tells her son to rip open the monster's belly, the swallowed ones go out; the mother's brother accuses the young man of when he cut the monster's belly, he cut his (uncle) eye, made him pay for it {it is not said how}; the young man had a chain that he could swallow; his uncle asked for it, swallowed it, did not was able to regurgitate; the young man demanded the chain back, his uncle's stomach was ripped open]: Beidelman 1967d, No. 2:8-11; Swahili [Mohamedi (the merchant's son) threw a spear into the wild boars that had ruined the garden; the boar ran away, carrying it away a pierced spear; it was the spear of his friend Saidi, the son of the Sultan, who demanded it back, did not accept compensation; M. went for a spear, met an old woman, licked her ulcers, they were gone; she gave Calebas with fire; the same with the next old woman, gave a calebass with sea water; M. found sleeping wild boars (these are genies who have moved into wild boars), pulled out his spear, ran; threw the calebass with fire (gift), then with water ( river); the boars stopped pursuing, M. returned, gave the spear to S.; saw monkeys swallowing the ball, letting it through; the monkeys gave him a potion, he gained the same ability; S. wanted to play like this However, the ball remained in his stomach, M. demanded the ball back, the sultan ordered S. to be cut, he died]: Baker 1927, No. 12:283-286; (cf. aka [Tôlé and four wives went to clear the plot; when they left, the old women came, told pieces of trees and vines to join and stand up; in the morning the forest was intact; so 4 times; taking a hoe and his relative Disokodi, T. waited for the old women, they ran, he threw his hoe, she pierced one of them's back; D. demands his hoe back; T. goes in search, finds a body with a pierced hoe, there is a rooster nearby; he screams if you try to pick up the hoe; T. promised him to make his voice louder, sealed his beak with tree sap, carried away his hoe; when the rooster finally screamed, he climbed the tree; threw it off fruits that came to the pursuers; at night he ran away, covering the noses of two fortunetellers with wood resin; they no longer see him; D.'s mother died; T. dug the grave and left his hoe in it; began to demand it from D.; he guessed that the hoe was in the grave and took it out; since the corpse had already decomposed, D. acquired a cadaveric smell, becoming a smelly ant]: Motte-Florac 2004, No. 3:27-35; l amba [mother-in-law requires his son-in-law to catch it a vulture eagle; he covers himself with a bull's skin, the eagle descends, his son-in-law grabs him; asks his mother-in-law to collect water from a river where there are no frogs; she searches for such a river to no avail, dies of fatigue; Chief acquitted his son-in-law]: Doke 1927, No. 22:43; translated in Olderogg 1959:52-53).
West Africa. Nzema [Kofi crocodile hunter broke the tip of his spear, borrowed another from neighbor Kwao; the spear broke, the crocodile swam away with the tip; Kwao demanded that not the same one be returned; Kofi went down to the underwater city, was warmly received; three months later, the wounded officer (= crocodile) recovered, the chief returned Kofi's tip, gave a precious bead as a gift; he gave it to his niece; she washed along with Kwao's niece, dropped a bead in the mud, Kwao's niece found it and accidentally swallowed it; Kofi demanded that the same bead be returned; the woman was cut, found in the twins's stomach, and stuck in her throat bead; twins and woman died, Kofi was avenged]: Grottanelli 1989, No. 3:84-86; catch-up [the girl forgot the comb while combing her lover's hair; returned for it; the boy's mother said the son died in the war; the girl refuses to pay, demands the comb back; the young man's father sends the daughter (i.e. the older sister of the victim) for the crest; she goes to the land of the dead, sings at the grave; the brother goes out, tells Follow the tornado, which leads to the crest; she picks it up, returns to the grave, her brother gives her something else, tells her to leave without turning around; the mistress of the comb brings the dead young man's gift to her lips, accidentally swallows; sister demands it back; girl's stomach cut]: Paulme 1968:191-192; (cf. Yoruba [the king told the birds to clear the area, forgot to call the kini kini bird; when the birds had finished their work at noon and lay in the shade under the ficus, the kini kini began to sing, telling the herbs and bushes grow up again; the king ordered the same work to be done again; so three times; the fourth time the king allowed the thief to be caught; the birds smeared the ficus branches with bird glue; the caught kini kini was brought to the king; he explained that the king offended him by not inviting him along with everyone else; promised a lot of kauri; the king hit the kini kini, who defecated, filling the kauri room; so twice; the king put the kini kini in a closed basket and sent for people to see the miracle; the king's little son decided to slap the bird himself, opened the basket and the kini kini flew away; the king beat his son, tore off his ear and ordered the kini kini to be returned; the boy took the drum and went into the forest, began to beat the drum, all the birds began to dance; finally, the kini kini agreed, the boy grabbed him, brought him to his father and demanded that his ear be returned to him; he made a new ear out of a leaf of wood and an ear recovered]: Ellis 1894, No. 4:253-258); tangale [the elder brother stayed to build the house, the youngest went hunting with his spear, wounded the antelope, she took the spear; at home the young man was denied food he went look for a spear; Josongom {animal owner?} never misses, shoots, but arrows fly past the young man; J. says he is his own man, greets him; warns him not to take the food offered; chooses his spear among many; two nights cannot run away, because the ram raises the alarm, the young man is brought back; the third time the ram is not listened to; J. lets the young man go home, he returns the spear to his brother; after a while, the older child brother sticks his hand to wash the younger's ceramic pot, the hand gets stuck, the youngest does not agree to break the pot, the child's hand was cut off, he died; he {it's not clear whether the older or younger brother} gave his bracelet to the child the other, he could not take it off, his hand was cut off, the child died; so they took revenge on each other]: Jungraithmayr 2002:343-374; Western Dan [Maja took a flintlock gun from his friend Dan without asking for a flint gun to hunt on elephants; the bullet was stuck in elephant skin; D. demanded a bullet back (a bullet on an elephant is used many times); M. went along the elephant trail; woman Se took him to the village of Elephants, where they look like humans; Having found out why M. had come, the Elephants rushed at him with spears, but M. stopped them with his witchcraft; told the son of the wounded Elephant that he had come to heal him; he was left in a dark hut; Snakes, Leopards, Spiders, The scorpions came and asked him what he needed; all the bullets that hit the Elephants hung on the huge tree, M.'s bullet on the uppermost branch; Düzo climbed and asked M. if the bullet was his; he each time replied that no, until D. took out his bullet; the elephant showed M. the way home, told him not to hunt elephants anymore, M. and his family should no longer eat elephant meat; Se brought M. to his village; D. was shot back, went hunting, the monkey tore his stomach; he came back, took M.'s snuffbox sink, used it to place his intestines back in his stomach; M. demanded the shell back, people again they ripped D.'s stomach, took out the shell; so they don't eat elephant meat]: Fischer 1967:714-715; nalu [stepdaughter dropped calebas into the river, stepmother demanded that it be returned; girl went down the river, all people they gave her rice and peanuts, she wrapped each handful in a separate sheet to remember who gave it; on the second day she found a calebas, filled it with the food she had collected, brought it to the swords; she put everything in a pile said that the stepdaughter would already remember who to thank; the girl complained to her father; he told his wife to put everything on separate leaves again; the stepmother could not, she cried for a long time, and since then she had not offended the orphan]: Mendelssohn 1971:124-126; Baule: Himmelheber 1951b: 21-24 [translated into Himmelheber 1960:137-141; Hand, Foot and Roth came to the swamp; Roth asked Hand to shoot a fish, missed, arrow disappeared in the swamp; Hand refused to accept compensation, demanded his arrow back; Roth saw a waterline at the bottom of the swamp; he felt sorry for him, sent him to the house, where his arrow and many other toys, allowed him take what he likes; there were months; Roth took a month, returned to the village, gave the arrow, hung the month like a lamp; The hand tried to grab the month, it went up to heaven; Roth demanded that it be returned, the Hand did not smog, became a slave to the Mouth], 110-111 [translated into Himmelheber 1960:159-160; the father expelled the young man; he borrowed a basket from the peasant, planted a throat pumpkin under it so that the stems curled along the bars of the basket and grew good calebasses; the calebasses did not have time to ripen when the peasant demanded the basket back, the young man's labor was wasted; the peasant's son accidentally swallowed the young man's cowry shell; he demanded it back, the child cut, he died].
Sudan-East Africa. Joluo [Niylak woman gave birth to sons Nyabongo, Gipir and Gifol; N. founded a dynasty in Bunyoro; Gifol's sign of leadership was a ritual spear; when the elephant began to trample on the garden, Gipir grabbed this spear, hit the elephant, he left with a spear in his body; Gifol demanded his spear back; in search of an elephant, Gipir met an old woman (this is the Mother of Elephants), spent the night, talked about his business; moving on, Elephant leads him to the place where his spears are folded, Gipir finds his own; on the way back, the Elephant Mother gives him a beautiful bead; at home, Gipir returns the spear to his brother, gives the bead to his wife; Gifola's little son accidentally hers swallows; Gipir demands its return; three days later, the child is cut, a bead is found; then Gifol takes the land east of the Nile, Gipir to the west]: Belcher 2005:154-157; sandave [ the person was Irangari (?) ; he decorated it with pearls, she looked like a man; he forbade his little son to enter the hut where she was; he came in, irangari was frightened, ran to the village of chiefs, stayed in the chief's hut; the father demanded that the irangari be returned; the boy ran to look for her to return his father's jewelry; came to the chief, who allowed the irangari to be taken; on the way, the boy picked up a cricket; put it in his father's hut under the basket; when the father entered, he picked up the basket, the cricket disappeared; the boy demanded that his father return the cricket; he went to the forest to look for it, did not find it, died]: Arnold 1984:167-168; amhara [two brothers they built a house together and bought a donkey; the youngest found a treasure, built a new house for himself, separated; demanded half of the house and half of the donkey from the poor brother, refusing to pay for them; the judge admitted the rich man was right, he stabbed his donkey, began to dismantle the house; the poor took the utensils out of the house and set fire to his half, the judge allowed it; along with one half, the other burned down; on his half, the poor brother sowed beans; they grew up, the son of a rich man ate a few pods, the poor demanded them back, refusing to replace them in kind or money; the elders stood up for the child, the poor did not kill him, said what I just wanted to teach my brother a lesson]: Ethiopian 2002:41-42 (=Tyutrumova 1991:9-15; about the same in Reuss-Nliba, Reuss-Nliba 2016:48-51).
North Africa. Ancient Egypt ["The Tale of Truth and Krivda", papyrus of the 13th century BC; older brother True is beautiful, noble, younger Krivda is ugly and mean; K. pretends to go on a journey, leaves to his brother to save the precious dagger, he steals it himself, demands that he return it; does not agree to take other valuables instead of the dagger, says that the ruby in the handle was the size of a mountain; the court recognizes the truth of K. The truth was blinded, made a gatekeeper slave K.; K. orders him to be taken to the desert, killed; the servants let P. go; he comes to some house, the owner's daughter takes him as her husband, gives birth to a son; then makes P. a servant- gatekeeper; having learned from his mother who his father is, the son returns him a place of honor in the house, goes to take revenge; gives the bull to remain in the herd of K.; K. orders him to be slaughtered, the young man demands that the bull be returned; in court he says that one bull's horn was on the mountains of the east, the other on the mountains of the west; that such a bull could be, since it was a dagger decorated with a ruby the size of a mountain; K. gets a hundred blows with sticks, blinded, made a slave- gatekeeper at P.'s house]: Katsnelson 1958:96-100 (=Machintsev 1993:131-136).
Burma - Indochina. Khmer [the man borrowed an ax from his Sethay neighbor, went into the forest to buy firewood; the ax flew off the axe, pierced the deer's back, he ran away; the neighbor refused a few new axes, demanded the old one ; the man gave him his son; once he found a dead deer in the forest with an ax in his body, brought it to a neighbor, who returned his son; the sethay borrowed the man's pot, the dogs smashed him, the man demanded his pot, not compensation; told the judge the whole story; he ordered Sethay to give his daughter to a man as a maid]: Gorgoniev 1978:307-309.
(Wed. Malaysia-Indonesia. Kai Islands [there are three brothers in the sky (the eldest is called Hian) and two sisters; the youngest Parpara lost the hook of the elder, who ordered him to return it; the fish said that the other had something stuck in his throat; brought hook; in order to take revenge, P. placed a vessel of palm wine over his brother's bed; when he got up, he could not help but touch him, the liquid spilled; P. demanded that H. return everything; H. began to dig, dug a hole; the brothers lowered the dog into her on a rope; when they picked it up, they found sand on their paws; three brothers and one sister began to descend on the rope; when the second one began to descend, the brother looked at her from below; she ashamed, pulled the rope, the people who remained upstairs pulled it out; three brothers and sister became the ancestors of the island's inhabitants; others came out of mangrove trunks, water, or ground]: Bezemer 1904:415- 416 (retelling in Dixon 1916:156-157).