L128. You're Luta and I'm Pra-Luta .22.23.28.30.
When a demonic character or predator reveals who he is, a hero or herbivore responds with a name that suggests that he is superior to his opponent.
Chakma, Sindhi, Northern India (Hindi), (Nepali), Marathi, Oriya, Konkani, Tamils, Sinhales, Ukrainians (Poltava), Persians (Isfahan), Bartangans.
Burma - Indochina. Chakma [the widow has two sons: humpback and blind in one eye; they decided to go to the forest; on the way they picked up a buffalo head, a rope, a vessel of lime; they came to the palace and asked if anyone was there; answer: I am a rakshasa; brothers: And we are Pakshas (super-rakshasa); the rakshas demanded proof; the brothers showed a buffalo head instead of lice, a rope instead of hair, and lime instead of spitting; the Rakshas was frightened, then killed; they took possession of his treasures and miraculously became princes without bodily defects; one married a princess and the other married a minister's daughter]: A, Sattar. Tribal Culture in Bangladesh. Dacca, 1975. P. 202-203 in Majumdar 1991:191-192
South Asia. Sindhi [the widow sends her son to earn some money, gives her money; the monkey asks to buy her peas, promises to reward her; the young man does so; the monkey gives peas to the jackal, for which he demands help take away some property from people; each time one distracts a person, the other takes what is needed; sickle; barber's tools; flail; horse; drum; bowl of yogurt; monkey lets go of the jackal; together with young men come to an empty community, where the ogre's palace has a captive woman; they hide in a gallery; a demon enters, says he is a rakas (i.e. rakshas); the monkey replies that she is a barrarbacas; he beats her with her fist, she cuts his face with the tools of a barber; he throws his tooth at her, she throws a sickle, then a flail, Rakshas believes it is her tooth, ear; they compete to see who spits harder; the monkey pours it on her head Rakshasa a bowl of yogurt; hits the drum is a hungry rumbling in the stomach; the demon runs away in horror]: Schimmel 1995, No. 26:188; northern India, Mirzapur, Hindi [the soldier was looking for service, met a monkey; he was not they let them into the well, the monkey bit the people, they ran away, the monkey took the ropes they had left behind; then stole the fans to smell the grain, then the donkey; they came to the old woman, she sent them spend the night in the attic; the tiger came; the monkey began to sing and beat the drum; the tiger said he was deo and the monkey said she was Mahadeo; we decided to compare the spit, the monkey knocked over the cottage cheese vessel; the tail was ropes; ears are fans; (the narrator forgot about the donkey); the tiger fled in horror, the monkey jumped on his back, then jumped onto a tree; the soldier and the monkey took possession of the tiger's wealth, lived well]: Crooke 1892-1893, No. 332:81; northern India, Jalaun County, Hindi [the laundress has 4 donkeys, one is missing; wife tells me to be wary of tigers; husband: don't care about tigers, but it's bad that it flows (I don't mid a tiger, a am more afraid of a wetting; tapakwa); the tiger hears and thinks that tapakwa is some kind of demon; went into the stall, saw an animal, hit it with a truncheon, sat on it and went to look for the missing donkey; in the morning saw that he was riding a tiger, jumped and hid in a cave; the tiger told the hare about his terrible adventures; the hare called others, they came to the cave; whoever has the longest tail, let him stick it inside; the man tore off his tail, the hares ran away; that missing donkey towards the tiger; tiger: I am a tiger; donkey: and I am one and a quarter (apparently a play on words); when crossing the river, the water carried a donkey, the tiger pulled it out ; donkey: I threw myself into the water to catch fish; the tiger ran away, the owner saw the donkey and returned it to the stall]: Crooke 1895, No. 257:104; chhattisgarhi (Bilaspur) [the elephant invited the jackal to ride it to find it edible; he noticed a field of sugar cane; the jackal was full and thirsty; the elephant offered to see if the cranes (they are where the water is) could be seen, but the cranes were not visible; then offered to climb into his belly, there is water there; warned not to look up; the jackal climbed through his nose, got drunk, saw his heart, liver, etc., started eating; the elephant died, the jackal continued to feed on it from the inside; the carcass dried up, the jackal could not get out; Mahadeo and Parbati were walking by; M. said he was M., asked who was inside; jackal: and I am Sahadeo, M.'s father; if you are M., cause a downpour; the rain soaked the carcass, the jackal ran away; M. decided to take revenge, hid in water, the jackal came up, M. grabbed his leg; the jackal said that he was holding the root, M. let him go; pretended to be dead; jackal: the corpse must release gases; M. did it, the jackal ran away; M. made it out of wax the figure of an old woman, a basket of sweets in his hands; the figure hit him with his hand, then another, he stuck; M. tied the jackal in his yard, whipped him every day; another jackal came; the first said that his they are fattened here, the other swapped seats with him; M. began to beat him; when he found out that he had made a mistake, M. let the jackal go and made him his guard; when the jackal howls at night, he serves for M.]: Gordon 1908:61-64; Marathi [blind and deaf live together; one is afraid of lightning, the other is thunder; they come to Rakshasa's houses while it is not there; Rakshas comes, the blind man is not afraid of him; says that he himself is bakshas, and bakshas is the father rakshasa; rakshasa asks to show his face, the blind man sticks the donkey's face through the door; the torso rolls the laundress's cauldron on the floor; give a voice - lets ants into the donkey's ears, he yells; the rakshasa leaves, blind and deaf they load treasures on the donkey, go home; the Rakshasa brings six others, the blind and deaf climb the tree, the Rakshasa stand on top of each other to get them; the blind man falls, clings to his ears Upper Rakshasa, thinking it's a branch; all the Rakshasa falls; the deaf screams to hold tight; the Rakshasa run away; at home, the deaf tries to deceive the blind man by taking most of the treasure; both fight, from blows the blind saw the light, the deaf found hearing; they became friends]: Frere 1868, No. 18:228-237; konkani (Goa) [the boy terrorizes the whole village, his mother expelled him; on the way he took a skein of rope from the traveler, from the ploughman has the blade of the plow, the sower has a basket; he came to the house where food and drink, was full, climbed into the attic; the Rakshasa entered, calling out: who is in the attic? Boy: Rakshasa father Borkos; show me your hair! - lowers the rope; ear! - basket; teeth! - plow blade; the Rakshasa want to run, but the leader tells me to climb one on top of the other and see for themselves; guy: I'll knock down the lowest one on the spot, leave one upper one; the lower one rushed, the others fell, ran away; the guy took possession of the house and all his wealth]: Rodrigues 2020:170-174; (cf. Nepalis [the poor man goes on a journey, comes to the empty palace of cannibal giants, locks himself from the inside; replies to the returning giants that he is their grandfather, who will eat them; they ask them to show how big his head is, he shows a sieve for the grain; his hair lowers the rope; a toothpick throws them a large wooden pestle; lice throws a chicken; a man dumps a jar of cottage cheese, says that he coughed up; to see him in the upper floor window, cannibals stand on top of each other; the person asks himself out loud: should I start eating from the top floor or from the bottom? perhaps from the bottom; the lower one bounces off in horror, everyone falls, runs away, the man gets the palace]: Sakya, Griffith 1980:163-165); oriya [the goat is behind the herd, climbed into the cave, a tiger comes up; a goat asks who he is; tiger: I am a tiger, king of beasts; goat: I am a fig, king of kings; the tiger runs away; the jackal leads him back, offers to contact him with his tails for courage; goat: I ordered me to bring me 12 tigers, how much only one; the tiger ran, dragging the jackal over the rocks, he died; the shepherd found a goat in the morning]: Mohanti 1975:115-116; the Tamils [Clever and Skillful decided to steal the sheep; the shepherd, leaving, put it instead a stick, put his clothes on her and said out loud: if any bhuta (evil spirit, dev) - or kuta - comes, drive him away; (there is no word kuta, but they say bhuta-kuta, "multicultur"); The skillful did not understand deception, but the Clever understood; at the same time, bhuta came for the sheep; he thought that the kuta was someone stronger than him and just in case he chipped in with a sheep; the thieves chose her because it was heavier than others; bhuta let her in on Skillful body pain, and the Clever offered to rip open the sheep's belly and cut it in half; bhuta ran away, told others about his experience; they laughed at him and went to the thieves' house; Skillful in horror, and Clever I agreed with my wife: I will ask you what you can eat; you will say that vegetables, and he had already eaten the three bhuts killed by his son; the bhuta ran away in horror; later the friends went through the forest and spent the night in a banyan; The bhutas were just gathering under him; the Skillful fell in fear, and the Clever shouted for him to grab the biggest bhutu; they ran away]: Natesa Sastri 1884-1888, No. 7:91-98; the Sinhalas [brothers One Elbow and Two Elbows were hired to herd cows; youngest Three Cubits stayed with his younger sister; went to fetch fruit for her, at which time she was taken away by Rakshasa; three brothers come to their sister when Rakshasa is away; on the way, TL tells me to buy donkey, buy two bundles of vines, a drum, two elephant tusks, porcupine needles from the tree, then remove two ant nests from the tree; the brothers hid on the upper floor; TL says he is prakshas - Rakshasa eater; he consistently asks to show testicles, fangs, gone, eye (TL shows ligaments of vines, tusks, grain sifting trays, drum); rakshas tells you to pat yourself on the stomach, TL hits the drum; Rakshas wants to run, grabbing his wife, i.e. the brothers' sister; tells me to speak; the brothers put ants in the donkey's ears, began to stab him with needles, he screamed; Rakshasa left his wife, ran away alone]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 125:302-307.
Central Europe. Ukrainians (Poltava, Piryatinsky, ca. 1878) [A gypsy falls asleep on the grave, kills a hundred flies with his hand, asks the clerk to write a table "Ivan the Great Warrior beats a hundred souls in one fell swoop" {the quote is not accurate}. He lies down on the road, the king passes by, demands to move, he does not move, telling him who he is. The king asks to beat the overseas army, he agrees if there is lard. Gypsies are fed, given a regiment of soldiers, everyone has an armful of straw in their hands, when they set fire to them, enemies see a fire army, flee into the sea, and drown. The king rewards the gypsy, asks to defeat three dogs, he asks for bacon, he is fed. He lies down at the gate, the dogs cannot enter, they notice the gypsy, they recognize him and invite him to go with them, he agrees on the condition that he becomes the main one, he blindfolds them in front of the river, as if He's going to order the river to cross them, kills them. The king rewards the gypsy, asks to exterminate the snake, he eats up, lies down at the gate, the snake recognizes him (the text of the sign). The serpent offers to be comrades, says that he is Luta (evil spirits), the gypsy says that he is Pra-Luta. They come to the Serpent's father, he offers to compete in the run, the gypsy exposes his "son" - the hare, who overtakes. Father Snake offers to compete in throwing a mace, the gypsy barely carries the mace in the field, the Serpent throws it up - it returns in 2 hours, the gypsy is afraid that if she does, she will not return. The serpent discourages him from throwing: his father has only 2 maces, it's a pity to lose. Father Snake offers to compete in whistles, the Serpent whistles - leaves fall from the trees, the gypsy blindfolds him - so as not to get out of his whistle, hits his forehead, his eyes come out of his orbits. The gypsy realizes that the Serpent wants to kill him, puts a bag of straw where he sleeps, covers him with his robe, the snake hits the bag, the gypsy says "the mosquito bit". The serpent collects a bag of money for the gypsy, he is met by gypsies, the gypsies say that it was the devils who came for the soul of the Snake. He drops the bag and leaves, the gypsy receives an award from the tsar]: Rudchenko 1870, No. 45:185-187.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians (Jews of Isfahan) [smart brother is rich, married; stupid bought a bull, took him to the mountains, asks if the mountain will buy a bull; takes the echo for the answers of the mountain, leaves the bull; comes, asks where the money is ; I found chervonets under the stone; seeing that the stupid man had returned with profit, the rich went with him; the guli came up; the stupid climbed onto the plane tree, the smart one stayed below; the guli climbed one on top of the other; stupid to the clever: pierced with a knife, the lower eye; he ran, the guli fell; the wife is dissatisfied that her husband did not kill her brother, but he explains that his brother saved him; the stupid man bought a goat, a horn, a wineskin of sour milk, goes to the steppe; ghoul: I am a ghoul; stupid brother: and I'm a ghoul over a ghoul; a ghoul throws a spit the size of a dish, a stupid brother pours a wineskin of milk; a ghoul pulls out a huge louse, a stupid brother sticks a goat at him; the ghoul makes an indecent sound, stupid brother blows the horn, its sound is louder; the ghoul tears and comes back]: Romaskevich 1934a, No. 14:81-83; the Bartangans [a donkey met a lion; he has not yet seen donkeys; donkey: my name is Chandon-Sher ("several lions"); lion: my name is Cher; the lion was frightened; the lion suggested that he would drive wild goats from the mountains and catch donkeys; donkey: the opposite is better; the donkey saw the goats and roared; they rushed down and the lion killed them; now the lion has gone to drive the goats; the donkey lay down, the magpie began to bite in his ass, he pulled in his ass and caught a magpie; lion: where are the goats? donkey: I don't know, but I caught forty backwards; lion: let's cross the river; the donkey was blown down; lion: why did you go down; donkey: but I caught the fish (it fell out of his ear); the lion got scared and ran; wolf: it's just a donkey; the lion agrees to return only after they have tied the neck with a rope; the donkey roared, the lion fled, dragging the wolf, which fell to pieces; the donkey rushed home]: Sokolova 1960, No. 5:29-32.