L42b1. The pans are placed one on top of the other .15.16.23.29.
Thecharacter kidnapped by the demon advises him to place pots, pans and other kitchen items on top of each other and climb them upstairs. He does this, falls, crashes.
Italians (Friuli, Tuscany), Sardinians, Ladins, French, Tibetans, Karachays.
Southern Europe. Italians: Calvino 1980, No. 37 (Friuli; the plot is known throughout northern and central Italy) [Pierino Pierone boy climbed a pear; a witch asked him to go down and give her pears; PP refused, threw a pear, it fell into a cow going into the horse droppings; then PP went down, the witch put it in a bag, carried it, stopped on the way and went to relieve himself; PP gnawed the rope, filled it the bag ran away with stones; at home, the witch dumped the contents of the bag into the boiling pot, which crashed, boiling water flooded the room; the witch put on a wig, came back to the pear tree; PP recognized her, but still went down; could not gnaw the rope, but at that moment the hunter came up, untied the bag, replaced the boy with the dog; when the witch untied the bag, the dog bit her and ran away; the third time the witch had a red wig; she brought PP home; left for a while, telling her daughter to cook it; PP pretends not to know how to put her head on a board for Margarita to cut it off; cut off her head, threw it into the cauldron; climbed on a shelf above the hearth; a witch asks how he got there; PP says he made a ladder out of a spoon, knife and fork; the witch tried it, fell into the fire and burned down]: 110-114, 723; Crane 1885, No. 85 (Tuscany) [ Buchettino found the money, bought a fig, climbed a tree and began to eat; the cannibal asked him to throw it off; one, the other fell into the mud; the cannibal asked B. to get down and hand it in his hands, grabbed it, carried it away in a bag, along the way stopped, walked away; B. cut the bag, filled it with stones, ran away; at home, the cannibal threw the stones into the cauldron, realized that he had been deceived; went back; B. on the roof, says that he climbed in with pans on top of each other, pots and other dishes; the cannibal did so, fell and crashed]: 265-267; Sardinians [the boy Pistirrincheddu steals grapes; the cannibal comes up, puts them in a bag and carries them away; P. made a hole, gets out , and filled the bag with stones; the cannibal caught him again and this time brought him home; (put him in a cage and fattens him); P. puts him a rat tail instead of his finger; (frees himself and climbs onto the roof); suggests that the cannibal put the chair on the table, spit on the chair and climb like that; the cannibal fell down and crashed to death]: Aprile 2000:399; the Sardinians [the woman found a coin, gave her son Pochettin to he bought a fig tree; one of the figs fell out the window; the woman advises not to touch it: a tree will grow; P. climbed this tree to eat fruits; (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 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 to him, placing pots one on top of the other; the cannibal fell and crashed to death]: Aprile 2000:399-400; ladins [Buetin boy was walking through the forest from school and was carried away by a bear; tells his wife to put a cauldron on fire to cook B.; he managed to climb to the roof and told the bear that the view from there was a village beautiful; How did you get in? - He put all the buckets, pots and pans one on top of the other; the bear did so, climbed, fell, something pierced his stomach, the kinshki fell out, he died; B. returned home, the bear was skinned, and the meat was removed ate]: Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 27:189-192.
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. Tibetans (Sikkim) [mother goes to dig tubers, tells her daughter not to open strangers; Rakshasa knocks, shows her paw; the girl replies that mother's hands are smooth as oiled; Rakshas asks oil and fire, burns the hair on her hands, oils them, the girl opens them, hides under the ceiling; to find the girl, Rakshasa makes indecent sounds, she laughs; Rakshas asks how she got in; Putting needles on top of each other; Cups; finally admits that buckets; Rakshas takes the girl away; the mother goes to look, shares the zamba with the crow, the fox, the wolf; the wolf drove the Rakshasa sheep, that rushed after her; saw a dead fox, a raven above her; ran to the fox, she jumped up, Rakshasa followed her; the mother and the wolf in the Rakshasa house took the girl out of the bag above the fire, put ice and thorns inside; the rakshas returned , water has flowed, he thinks that the girl is peeing; hits her, scratches her against thorns; realizes that she has been deceived; looks for a fox; she pretends to be a different fox every time; throws sand in his face; smears glue; offers learn to climb into the basket, descends from the mountain, he dies]: Krapivina 2001:51-65.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karachays [the old man has a son Kokaichik, the old man does not tell him to go over the mountain; after the death of his father, K. goes and climbs an apple tree; Emegensha asks him to drop her apples from another apple tree; K. tries jump there, falls into the hem of an emegenshe; she brings him home, starts cooking, goes to get firewood; he throws her cubs's clothes into the cauldron, climbs under the roof; Emegensha finds her son's hat in the cauldron; K. replies that he climbed upstairs, putting benches and barrels on top of each other, stuck a red-hot awl on top of it, stood on it; the Emegensha does so, falls, K. finishes her off]: Kapiyeva 1991:221-222.