Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

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L40C. The person who bought the bridle takes the camel away. .17.29.

Based on the ambiguity of the statement, the person who bought a cheap object claims rights to a much more valuable one.

Arameans, Socotra, Georgians.

Western Asia. Aramei [the girl gives the groom three mules loaded with musk; if she returns six, she will marry him, and if not, he will be beheaded; the groom sold one mule for a pound of meat, the other for a head (sheep), a third for two leather belts; then he told one customer that he meant a pound of his own meat, the second his head, and the third the belts torn off his back; each gave a man of two mules]: Belov, Wilsker 1972:403-404; Socotra [a woman has a beautiful daughter for marriage; a woman demands from each of her daughter's suitors to herd three camels and bring them back in the evening; woman I knew that there were robbers in the pasture; a woman with a child came up to the boy; said that he was a father, let him give one camel or call people; then a one-eyed man came up: you knocked out my eye, give it back camel; I had to give it back; a third person asked to sell him a leash; the guy sold and he took a camel with a leash; this man ran a butcher shop; the guy asked to sell him his head (camels); took out his sword: you sold me your head; he had to give me two camels; the boy demanded a second eye from the one-eyed man, since he had already knocked out the first one; he had to give him two camels; demanded the woman split the child in half by cutting it; she had to give her two camels; now the girl's mother gave it to her boyfriend, but did not allow her to enter in the evening; brought her to the palm grove and told her to be dismantled pubic hair, separating the dead from the living; he got down to it, and the woman wrote on him; the guy left, and the woman complained to an intelligent person: I asked him to separate the dried ones in the palm grove running away from the living and he didn't; man to guy: was that true? guy: yes, but when I got down to business, water poured out of the wadi and took away all the shoots; the woman agreed that this was the case; after receiving the girl, the guy met her in the house 9 times and the 10th out; the daughter reported mother, which was only 9 times and the 10th was away from home and without ejaculation; a woman to an intelligent person: I gave him 10 kids to herd, and he brought him back only 9; man to guy: is that right? guy: yes, I brought house 9 and the 10th died at the door; the woman agreed that was so; man: then give him his payment; the woman covered the well with a cloth to make the guy fall in; but her daughter reported about this guy; when a woman led him to the well, he threw her there and she died; the guy married her daughter and took him home]: Naumkin et al. MS, â„– 19.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Georgians (Kakheti) [the beautiful woman is even ready to show her hand only for a lot of money; the king gives her eldest sons money, but not the youngest; the beardless tells him to buy a goat and an awl; in front of the house beauties begin to stab the goat with an awl, as if they do not know how to slaughter; the servants call the mistress to show how to do it; then the beardless puts the cauldron upside down (same); when the meat is cooked, the prince and the beardless they beat their lips against the table as if they can't eat; the beauty came out, she was also fed; then the prince and the beardless pretend to fall asleep, lie down on top of each other every time; the beardless karasavitsa tells him to lay down to the servant, and takes the prince into his room; gives three mules loaded with gold and silver; if he doubles his wealth, he will become his wife, and not; the prince gives one mule to the seller khashi (boiled tripe with garlic and pepper), let him then give him a head (khashi sellers sell boiled sheep heads); the mule gives the seller matsoni for matsoni, the third to the rope seller for rope; man explains to merchants that the seller may demand from them a human head, matsoni made from human milk, a rope from the seller's mustache; the prince heard this, came and demanded; each gave him twice as much better than he received; the prince married a beautiful woman]: Chikovani 1986:268-261; (cf. Georgians [a merchant makes a poor man's son sell a cow for 3 rubles, claiming that it is a calf, a goat, a lamb; the poor man sends him to say that they sold a cow, not its tail, but the merchant cuts off its tail, returns; the poor man throws coins on the ground, pretends that his donkey is defecating with gold, the merchant buys a donkey; he runs to beat the poor man; he digs up a previously hidden pot of pilaf, barbecue, chicken, the merchant buys a shovel; ties the poor man, drags him to drown, goes to get the boat; the poor man persuaded the shepherd to untie him, ran away; the merchant dragged the merchant to drown, he also ran away]: Jaliashvili 1970:93-96).