L39C. Grown from a bone. 14.-.16.21.30.

A boy (less often a girl) climbs a fruit tree that has just grown (usually from an abandoned bone). The cannibal tries to force the boy (girl) to go down to earth.

Algerian Arabs, Sardinians, French (Provence), Rai, Mountain Tajiks (Darvaz), Tajiks, Uzbeks (Kokand), Parya, Yagnobs, Pashais.

North Africa. Algerian Arabs [Gulya keeps trying to catch Hadidouane, but he hides in his bronze house every time; promises to go with her for water and firewood, but let her pour out the water that is still eat, does not take ropes with her; he does not go to fetch water himself, Gulya cannot cook bundles of firewood; finally she caught H., carried it in a bag; H. recalled that Gulya missed the prayer time; Gulya went to pray, H. filled the bag with stones, ran away; once he found a coin, bought a fig, ate it, threw it away, threw it away, a large tree grew out of it overnight; H. climbed a tree, began to eat fruit; gulya asks for it, not to throw it, but hand to hand; Gulya grabbed him again and brought him home in a bag; began to fatten him, each time feeling her hand - whether he was fat, but H. put her hand not her hand, but a spindle; realizing the deception, Gulya went to call relatives, telling her daughter to cook a "calf"; H. says that there is a dangerous louse around Guli's daughter's neck, she asks her to kill, H. cuts off Guli's daughter's head, cooks meat, puts on her clothes; while gulya eats, H. runs away and shouts from afar that Gulya has his daughter; the cannibals covered H.'s house with firewood and set it on fire, but H. sat in a vat of water]: Belamri 1982:100-106.

Southern Europe. Sardinians [a woman found a coin, gave her son named Pochettin to buy a fig; one of the figs fell out the window; the woman advises not to touch it: a tree will grow; P. climbed this tree eat fruit; (the dragon lured P., carried it away in a bag); left out of need, P. got out; the episode repeats, this time the dragon brings P. to his place; the rat tail motif; when leaving, the dragon tells his wife to fry P.; he pretends not to know how to sit on a shovel; the ogre's wife shows that P. pushes her into the oven; climbs onto the roof; shouts to the dragon that he is eating his wife's breasts; advises the ogre to climb up to him with pots one on top of the other; the cannibal fell and crashed to death]: Aprile 2000:399-400.

Western Europe. French (Alpes-Maritimes; the author does not know any other French versions) [the Pitchin-Pitchin-Pitchot boy found a coin, asks his mother what to buy with it; she offers peppers, apples, dogwood, he agrees to buy figs; eats them, throwing bones through the window and fearing to go out into the garden: the cannibal will take them away; the next year a fig tree grew; PP climbed on it to eat figs; the cannibal came up and asked for it to him; the fig falls to the ground; the cannibal asks for hand; shakes the PP into a bag and takes it away; left the bag and went to drink; PP, cut a hole, filled the bag with stones, ran to the ogre's house and climbed onto the roof; At home, the cannibal opens the bag so that the prey falls into the cauldron, the stones break the cauldron; the PP laughs; the cannibal asks him how he got onto the roof; put all the plates one on top of the other, etc.; the cannibal did so, fell, the dishes were broken; PP: sit on a red-hot iron rod; the cannibal sat down and died]: Delarue 1957, No. 327C: 328-329.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Rai [orphan Khosipa (X.) has two older sisters, the elder Tõwama and the youngest Khliyama; their uncle Saphopte (an owl; they are all birds too) is angry; K. teases him, he tears his throat, eats him, leaves only bones; his sisters revive him by putting his seed in a calabasa with beer; they have difficulty getting some rice, putting it to cook, he accidentally knocks the pot over; he falls asleep; they think he is dead, they bury him with a knife on the grave; he wakes up, gets out of the grave, tells the banana to grow and ripen immediately, eats bananas; the cannibal Cakrodhoma asks her to lower a banana, tied to the boy's long hair, pulls her hair, brings her to her, tells her daughter to cook the prey, goes to call her brothers; the daughter is surprised how long the boy's hair is; he says he poured boiling oil on them; shoves it his head into boiling oil, pushes her pestle, puts on her clothes; K. eats her daughter; H. shouts to her what she ate, runs away; throws ash (a cloud of fog), a shard (mountain), an egg (a river) behind her; K. asks how he crossed; you have to tie yourself hand and foot, go into the water; the river took it away; then motive F7]: Ebert, Gaenszle 2008:83-92.

Iran - Central Asia. Mountain Tajiks (Darvaz) [Odin's boy, nicknamed Zardoliyak, planted an apricot kernel, a tree grew, he climbed on it to eat fruit; the old woman asked herself not to catch it the thrown apricot, told her to go down, give her a handful in a skullcap, carried Z. in a bag; on the way she left for a while, Z. cut the bag with a knife, filled it with stones, returned to eat apricots; the old woman brought the bag daughters, poured the contents into the cauldron, the stones split the cauldron; the next time the old woman brought Z. home, who hid under the roof of her house; said that she sat on a hot shovel, she lifted it under the roof; the old woman sat on a shovel, burned down]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990:208-209; Tajiks [boy Bakhrom planted an apricot; apricot grew quickly, B. climbed on it, began to eat apricots; the blind witch asks throw off the fruit, go down and serve her; takes B. in a bag to his home; while he kindles the fire, B. runs away, climbs the poplar; says that he climbed by sitting on a hot shovel; the witch dies]: Amonov, Ulug- back 1960:148-149 (=Amonov 196:311-313); Uzbeks (Kokand) [the girl did not split the apricot bone, but planted it, ordered it to grow quickly; climbed on an apricot for fruit; an old woman came and asked to throw off the fruits, asked her to go down - it is difficult for her to collect; the girl went down, the old woman carried her in a bag; sat down to rest, the girl ran away, climbed the apricot again; the old woman came again and finally persuaded the girl to get down; this time she tied the bag, brought it home, left the girl to her 40 diva sons; they fell asleep, the girl cut off their heads with a golden sword, ran home]: Ostroumov 1890, No. 25: 141-143; parya [Bahram boy found an apricot kernel; his mother advised not to split it, but to plant it; by morning a tree had grown, B. ate apricots on it every day; the diamonds asked not to throw it off, but serve; took B. in a bag to her home; while she was making a fire, B. made a hole in the bag, climbed a tree; said the diamonds that he climbed, sitting on a hot shovel; the diamonds heated the shovel, burned down]: Vinnikov 1977, No. 9:161-162; Yagnobtsy [Shomilty asks the reaper to help reap the sickle; he sends him for a sickle to his wife; S. tells her that the tsar demands girls; she does not give it, he shouts it to her husband, that tells me to give it back, S. takes the girl away; promises to cure the bald shepherd, buries it up to the neck in the ground, kills, takes the herd away; plants an apricot seed, threatens to grind it, the apricot grows in a few days, S. climbs on it; the old woman asks to throw off the fruit, asks for her hands, grabs S., takes it away in a bag; the reapers offer her to eat bread, S. runs away, leaving stones in the bag; the old woman's daughter lowers the contents the bag into the cauldron, it breaks; the old woman catches Sh again in the same way, does not stop eating bread, brings S. home; while she sleeps, S. gets out, cuts off the heads of the old woman's daughters, throws one into the cauldron, hides at the top of the plane tree; the old woman eats meat, discovers her dead daughters; asks how S. climbed; he says he hit himself in the ass with a hot iron; she does so, burns, dies]: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 33:167-169; Pasha'i [the orphan boy said that when the mulberry grows and the fruits on it ripen, he will eat; she grew up, he climbed the tree; a cannibal came and asked throw off the fruits, said they were not good, he threw off a branch, she grabbed it, brought it home, told his daughter to cook it; the boy asked the cannibal's daughter to give him her dress, dressed like her, threw it in boiling water; the cannibal did not understand that her daughter was replaced; the imaginary daughter says that she does not want human, she will eat chicken; asks the cannibal to give her long hair; ties her, runs away; the cannibal sees that cooked her daughter, cries; the boy killed her with a stick]: Morgenstierne 1944, No. 21:127-129.