L44. Show me your head! ATU 1152
.11.13.15.21.-.23.25.-.33.37.38.
Ademon or powerful beast requires a person or a weak animal to show individual parts of his body. It shows parts of the body of a large animal or some objects. The opponent decides that the hero is scarier and stronger than him.
Tonga, Malgash, Portuguese, Sherdukpen, Toto, Garo, Chakma, Khmer, Shans, Nepali, Sindhi, Marathi, Northern India (Hindi), Himachali Pahari, Bengalis, (Maria), Konkani, Kannada (? Karnataka), Tamils, Sinhales, Visayas, Taunyos, Koreans, Romanians, Bulgarians, Slovaks, Talysh, Persians, Tajiks, Baluchis, Turkmens, Uzbeks, Swedes, Veps, Karelians, Mari, Udmurts, Komi, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Udege, Japanese (6 versions: Tohoku, West Honshu, Kyushu and North Ryukyu)
Bantu-speaking Africa. Tonga [humpback and blind picked up a porcupine stubble, a turtle, a gun; stopped at an old woman with whom two young women were; at night the lion eats those who came to the village; at night the lion looked into a hut, asks to show the hair of those who came (showed stubble), a piece of leather (they gave a turtle), to give a voice (they shot a lion in the ear with a gun); in the morning they began to quarrel about who would take the old woman and who would take two young women; the humpback lost his hump from the blows, and the blind man saw the light; both married young people]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1986, No. 117:283-285.
Sudan - East Africa. Malgashi (sakalava) [parents leave their two sons, the Blind and the Lame, in the forest; the Lame carries the Blind Man; they find a coin, buy food; then they find a cow horn, a fan for the trend, a piece of iron; they come to the ogre Ndrimobe's house; show him a horn instead of a tooth, a fan instead of an ear, let him touch a hot iron; N. believes that the Blind is stronger than him, runs away; brothers share his treasures, come back home; The Lame gives the Blind only a third, he hits him with a stick, correcting his lameness; the Lame gives the Blind a crack, he sees the light]: Haring 1982, No. 3.2.327f: 383-384.
Southern Europe. Portuguese [two entries; shows a plow (toy), chest (toothbrush case), sheep (louse), shoots (supposedly sneezes); or log (hair), gate (comb), shot (breath)]: Cardigos 2008, No. 1152:263.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Sherdukpen [the porcupine sends his nephew to get water, who says that the water is muddy; the porcupine goes by itself; the bathing elephant replies that it will only leave if the one who asks more than him; the porcupine gives his nephew has his needle, tells him to show the elephant as if it were hair; the elephant is frightened; the porcupine leaves the elephant to support the tree; the big stone; the elephant believes that they will fall now, the porcupine leaves quietly; the tiger does not dare to attack him, because he believes that the porcupine has a bag of poison; the porcupine offers the elephant to dig a tunnel, wins easily; offers to race, placing his own at a distance relatives; the elephant hears the voice of a porcupine in front of him every time, falls dead from exhaustion]: Borgohain, Roy Chaudhury 1975:72-73; toto [older brother blind, younger chrome; to go to on the way, the elder put the youngest on the back; they spent the night with a blacksmith (secretly took ticks), with a peasant (they took a drum), from another peasant (they took a pig); in the city, the king agreed to leave them overnight , warning that demons will come to this house at midnight; the demon tells us to go out; brothers: first we'll find out who is stronger; the demon showed his louse, the brothers showed his pig; when they held it out, they grabbed the demon with ticks, he cried out and ran away; the second demon came; hit yourself in the stomach; he hits, the brothers beat the drum; the demon ran away; the third came: whoever pinches harder; the brothers put a log, grabbed the demon themselves with ticks; he also ran away; the king kept his brothers; one day his younger brother caught a fish and a snake; he fried and ate the fish, and gave the snake to his older brother; after biting the snake's head, he thought that the younger one was planning to poison him, kicked him in the leg, his lameness was gone; and the elder saw the light from the snake venom; the king gave his two daughters to the brothers]: Majumdar 1991, No. 21:275-281; garo [the elephant is outraged that the porcupine has muddied the water there, where the elephant was drinking; he hid into the hole and told the elephant to get out because it was bigger and stronger than him; offered to compare his hair; the elephant took the porcupine needle and realized that his own hair was useless; He left ashamed; the mole saw everything and laughed for a long time, protruding his upper lip and closing his eyes; they stayed that way]: Rongmuthu 1960:125-126.
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; Khmers [blind and lame run away from their owners in a boat; rowing all night, sitting facing each other; in the morning, the owners see their boat ashore; lame puts a blind man on his own on their backs, they run away by land; they are told that a tiger tiger is rampant in the country; the blind man replies that they are not afraid of the tiger, much less afraid of the local tiger; the tiger hears and understands this way the way that a terrible Tiger is somewhere nearby; the blind and lame went into the barn and began to take the bulls out; a tiger also climbed there; a blind man mistakes the tiger for a bull, throws a rope through his nostrils the tiger runs away in horror; the blind and lame chase him in vain; the honey collector gives them manure instead of honey; the blind hears a knock, thinks it is a collector, but on a woodpecker tree; people are forced to give the Yakka princess ( cannibal giant); blind and lame come to the Yakka house; a yakk comes, demands that the visitor show his liver, heart, hair; the blind man throws the basket, the turtle, the ropes, the yakk runs away in horror; at night Yakka's wife enters, the blind man cuts off her head with a sword; sharing jewelry, friends fight; from blows the blind saw the light, the lame straightened up; the blind ex gets the princess and the kingdom, makes the former lame chief adviser]: Gorgoniev 1973:78-88; Shans [Town Tway and Town Maun are thieves; a mother frightens a crying baby with a tiger, he does not react; frightens thieves - he falls silent; a tiger who has climbed into the pen hears this, decides that TT and TM are stronger than him; the thieves also came, TT mistook the tiger for a fat cow, dragged him on a rope, the tiger was frightened, did not give a vote; when dawn, the TM walking behind saw the tiger ran away; TT kept dragging the tiger; when he saw who he was dragging, he ran without letting go of the rope, tied the tiger to the fig tree, climbed it; the bear from the hollow: what are you doing here? TM: I'm from a tribe of freaks, looking for something to profit from; bear: what kind of animal are you, show me your tail; TM holds out a knife, the bear hurts its paw, decides that the tail bites, rolls to the ground, sees a tiger, starts running; the tiger cut off the rope, also started running, the rope whipped; since then, the tigers are striped, the bears have scars on their paws, the fig trees lean to one side (the tiger bent when it was torn); TT and TM decided do honest work]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 199:558-560.
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 city, 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; Marathi [blind and deaf live together; one is afraid of lightning, the other is afraid of thunder; they come to Rakshasa's houses while he is not there; Rakshas comes, the blind man is not afraid of him; says that he himself is bakshas and bakshas is the father of Rakshasa; Rakshas asks to show his face, and the blind man puts a donkey's face through the door; torso - rolls a laundress's cauldron on the floor; voice - lets ants into the donkey's ears, he yells; Rakshasa leaves, blind and deaf load treasures on the donkey, goes home; Rakshas brings six others blind and deaf climb a tree, the Rakshasa stand on top of each other to reach them; the blind man falls, clings to the ears of the upper rakshasa, thinking it is a branch; all the Rakshasas fall; the deaf screams to hold stronger; the Rakshasa run away; at home, the deaf tries to deceive the blind by taking most of the treasures; both fight, the blind saw the light from the blows, the deaf found hearing; they became friends]: Frere 1868, No. 18:228-237; northern India, Mirzapur, Hindi [a soldier was looking for service, met a monkey; he was not allowed to enter the well, the monkey bit people, they ran away, the monkey took the ropes they had left behind; then She stole the fans for the grain trend, then the donkey; they came to the old lady, who sent them to the attic for the night; 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; decided to compare the spit, the monkey knocked over the vessel with cottage cheese; the tail - the ropes; the ears - the fans; (the narrator forgot about the donkey); the tiger fled in horror, the monkey jumped on his back, then jumped over on a tree; a soldier and a monkey took possession of the tiger's wealth, lived well]: Crooke 1892-1893, No. 332:81; Nepali [the poor man goes to wander, 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 to show how big his head is, he shows a sieve for the grain; hair - lowers the rope; toothpick - throws them a large wooden pestle; lice - throws a chicken; a man dumps a jar of cottage cheese, says he has coughed up; to see him in the upper floor window, cannibals stand on top of each other; the person asks himself out loud: start eating from the top 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; Bengalis: Bradley-Birt 1920 [the king has a Rakshasi wife and a woman, each with a son; the Rakshasi ate the woman; the invited Rakshasi rakshasa swallowed her son, and Rakshasi herself ate her own son; the rakshasa regurgitated the golden ball, and the Rakshasi the iron ball; buried them, bamboo grew, the peasant cut it off, found two eggs, red and blue; the woman's son Neelkamal came out of blue, and the son of Rakshasi Lalkamal came out of the red one; they came to a city where demons were exterminated by demons; while L. was sleeping, the demons came to the house; N. replied that L. was with him, the demons were frightened because he was Rakshasa; suggested that L. show his nose; N. show them a knife; to spit, N. threw burning fat at them from the lamp; showed his tongue, the sword; when the demons came for the second time, N. said that he was waiting for them alone; they rushed at him, but L. woke up and chopped them; the king gave the brothers two daughters; to destroy the Rakshasi brothers sends news that their father is ill, the brains of the Rakshasi will cure him; the brothers have gone in search; under the tree they hear two birds Bangoma and Bangami talking: if L. touches their chicks, they will be cured of blindness; birds would do a favor for this; L. healed the chicks; B. ordered the chicks to take the brothers to the Rakshasi country, giving them peas; they would have to be chewed when the Rakshasa were asked to chew iron peas; old Rakshasi suspects that N. is human, but he successfully pretends to chew iron peas; L. took out a box with two hornets from the well; one contains the souls of all the local Rakshasa, and the other contains the soul of mother L.; they immediately killed the first, brought the Rakshasi head to mother L., killed the second; inherited both kingdoms]: 168-173; Devi 1915 []: 79-83; (cf. Buffalo Maria [the lender came to the debtor, only at home little son; - The father went to cover the thorns with thorns, the mother to make a big one, the sister to make two out of one; the lender forgave the debt and paid extra to find out what the boy meant; the father went to make a barbed fence around the garden where the prickly brinjal was planted; the mother went to the cotton field, pulled the seeds out of the cotton wool; the sister went to rub the peas (each pea breaks down into two halves); when his parents returned, the boy did not give them the 20 rupees they had received; then they decided to kill him; they took him to fish with poison, pushed him into the water, the big fish swallowed him, but they also poisoned her washed ashore; the tiger came to drink, hears sounds, asks who is bothering him; boy: I am brushing my teeth with a palm tree panicle, eating tiger tails; the tiger asks him to be spared; the boy: carefully rip the fish's belly and go to the other side of the river; kill the deer there (? sambhar), leave me one leg and go without looking back; the boy brought a deer leg to the old lady; cut off all the meat, said it was bones, you can chew them now; and we'll give the meat (actually bone) to my grandfather when he came; the old man swallowed the imaginary meat, the bone was stuck in his throat, the old woman tried to push it in, and the old man suffocated to death; the old woman promised money if the boy saved her dead body; that took the body to someone's garden; the owner thought it was a thief, hit him with a stick, the body fell into a well; boy: you will be responsible for the murder of my grandfather; the gardener paid money for silence; having received money from a gardener and an old woman, the boy saw a bear by the road; he came behind and put a few coins in his ass; a Muslim merchant believed that the bear was defecating with silver; boy: I'll ride your horse I'll take the money, and you can take whatever comes out in my absence; the boy rode off on the merchant's horse and never came back; the girl washed the Raja's clothes; boy: Raja sent me to pick up his clothes - it doesn't matter , washed or not; the girl gave it away, the boy dressed up as a raja; the old woman led her granddaughter to the river; boy: my grandfather sent me for her; he put the girl on a horse, rode to people, promised to eat a goat on a bet and a pot of rice, a bride as collateral, and if she eats, she will receive a girl from the Kalar caste; quietly dumped food into a hole, got a girl; he now has two of them; brought them to an empty house; everyone who came there by chance he deceived; the young man let them in (they did not recognize him in the dark) on the condition that no one would relieve themselves at night, otherwise he would kill them; those who came thought that the local spirit was talking to them; when they fell asleep, the young man smeared crap on everyone's clothes; when they smelled, those who came ran away; the young man built a palace and became a raja]: Elwin 1944, No. VIII.12:262-266 (Zograf translation 1971, No. 74:271-275); Tamils [girl- a brahmana woman falls in love with all boys; upon learning about this, the tiger took on a human form, married her; led her; took the form of a tiger on the way, ordered them to obey; a brahmana gave birth to a tiger cub; asked The crow should take the letter to her brothers; they went to rescue their sister, took with them a donkey, an ant, a palmyra tree, an iron trough; they hid under the roof of the tiger's house; when they saw him and had previously drunk plenty of water, they peed themselves; the tiger was surprised that there was so much urine; wanted to hear the voice of his wife's brothers; they put an ant in the donkey's ear, the donkey roared; the tiger asked to show his leg, the older brother stuck out the tree trunk; show his stomach - an iron trough; the tiger ran away in horror; the brothers and sister went to their parents, the sister had previously tore the tiger cub and hung it over the hearth, closing the door from the inside and getting out of the back door; the tiger came up I felt that meat was being roasted; when he understood what was going on, the tiger came back in human form; he was asked to sit down, disguised as a hole, he fell through, covered with earth and stones; the tiger's wife planted it on it The place was a sacred bush and smeared it]: Natesa Sastri 1884, No. 10:116-127; the Sinhales [brothers One Elbow and Two Elbows hired to herd cows; younger Three Cubits stayed with his younger sister; went for fruit for her, at this time she was taken away by Rakshasa; three brothers come to her sister when the Rakshasa is gone; on the way, TL tells you to buy a donkey, buy two bundles of vines, a drum, two elephant tusks, porcupine needles from the people they meet, then remove two ant nests from the tree; the brothers hid on the upper floor; TL says he is a prakshas, a Rakshasa eater; he consistently asks to show testicles, fangs, gone, eye (TL shows bundles of vines, tusks, trays for sifting grain, drum); Rakshas tells you to pat himself on the stomach, TL hits the drum; Rakshas wants to run, grabbing his wife, i.e. the brothers' sister; tells you to voice; the brothers put ants in the donkey's ears, stabbed him with needles, and he screamed; Rakshas left his wife, ran away alone]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 125:302-307; Karnataka State (Kannada?) : Jason 1989:45.
Taiwan - Philippines. Visayas [the father has 8 sons, 4 blind, he drove them away; one climbed a coconut tree, fell and crashed; two more followed them; the youngest realized that it was not the coconuts that fell, but the brothers; the perfume was given to him the tail of a stingray, brought him out of the grove; the blind man met, carried the lame man; they came to the house of the two-headed giant; when he returned, those who came replied that they were giants themselves, showed the tail of the stingray, the giant believed that it was hair, left; blind and lame stayed in his house]: Rybkin 1975, No. 95:226-227.
China - Korea. Taunyo [The Blind and the Hunchback began to live together; at night they lay under the tree with their feet to each other; the tiger thought this creature was about two heads; all the animals gathered, the hare talked about the monster, everything they ran away; the turtle remained, the Blind man took it with him; then the Hunchback hung a harrow around the Blind Man's neck; they came to the village, when they saw them, their people ran away in horror; the Hunchback hung the Blind Man around his neck drum; they came to the land of giant cannibals, said that they were nats (spirits); hitting the drum is a voice, they show the turtle is a louse, the harrow is a comb; the giants ran away, the hunchback gained gold and silver, they began to fight; Blind saw the light from the blows, and the Hunchback straightened up]: Zapadova 1977:286-289; yi: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1152:51-52; Koreans (Western 1915) [when dying, an impoverished father leaves his eldest son a grain grater with a chimes, the middle son a bamboo stick and a vessel of half a gorlyanka, the youngest a tall drum with a constriction in the middle; the brothers broke up at a fork in three roads, agreeing to meet 10 years later; the eldest night found himself in the mountains, he climbed a tree; at night, under a tree, two robbers began to share money; the young man began to write and rub chimes on a grain grater, imitating the sound of thunder; the thieves thought it was heavenly retribution and ran away; the young man took the money, built a house in the village, got married; the second spent the night in the cemetery; someone calls the skeleton to for a walk; the young man answers; the demon says he recognizes the voice of a living person, demands to show his head, then his hand; he sticks a calebass and a stick; the demon believes it is a naked skull and bone; led the young man to steal his daughter's soul rich man; the demon took his soul, asked the young man to put it in his bag; they returned to the cemetery, and then the rooster sang; the young man volunteered to revive the dead girl; opened the bag near her nostrils, girl came to life, married a young man; her younger brother saw a tiger and began to beat the drum; the tiger followed him, dancing; people threw money; the capital liked the show so much that the ruler gave his daughter for the young man; 10 years later, the brothers met and talked about their successes]: ZÄ…ng 1962, No. 65:146-159.
The Balkans. Romanians: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1152:51-52; Bulgarians [a young man expelled from home spends the night in an empty mill; devils come; he shows them items randomly picked up along the way; the turtle - this is my louse, my ponytail is my mustache; the devils are leaving]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1152:389.
Central Europe. Slovaks: Uther 2004 (2), No 1152:51-52
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Talyshi [mother left the cowardly son alone in the field; he went on a journey, picked up an egg and horsehair; met a deva; he clenched the stone so that water flowed; the young man crushed the egg; dev pulled his hair out from under his arm, the young man showed his horsehair; the dev ran away in horror, the young man returned home; the fox told the deva that the young man had deceived him; led him, tied with a rope; offered Kill a young man; the young man came out with a gun, the dev ran away, breaking the rope]: Bayramalibekov 1894:21-22.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Ottomans 1958 [the mother is forced to put food in her lazy son's mouth; she spread the apples so that he got out of bed to collect them and went out the door for the first time; her mother locked her; gave her son an egg, a handful of flour, a skein of wool yarn and a horn; the lazy man went, got caught in the rain; took off his clothes, sat on them, and when the rain stopped, put on the dry one; the diva asks why he is not wet; lazy: and I am Satan; divas offers to crumble a stone with his hand, the lazy man sprinkles flour; squeeze oil out of the stone; the lazy man crushed the egg; the diva ran away; the lazy man came to the castle of the king of divas; he pulled out his hair and showed that the lazy man showed a skein wool; the diva shouted, the lazy man blew the horn, came out louder; near the village, a lazy man climbed a tree above the spring; the black slave took the reflection for her own, thought she had turned white; the lazy man laughed, said that he Satan came from the dead; the slave asks whether their dead man was taken to heaven or hell; lazy: to hell and he does not have enough money; the slave ran to the mistress and she gave the money to her late husband; the lazy man took also a horse to get to hell; when they found out what was going on, the woman's sons jumped after the lazy man; he told the man washing the demand that it was the guards who were jumping after him; gave him his horse, and began to wash him demand; the riders jumped after that man, and the lazy man brought home the money]: 104-108; 1987 [older brother Ahmad is smart and hard-working, younger Temri is stupid; takes a year to work for the owner for A.; when the child cried, held his mouth with his hand, the child died; the chickens turned their heads, threw them on the roof; poured oil on the ground; removed the door from its hinges, brought it to the owner (he told him to wait for him under the door); get rid of T., he agrees to give him 20 meters of rope, karnai, spades, shovels, wineskins with rotten yogurt; came to the divas fortress; throws a rope: this is my hair; emptied his wineskins - a spit; threw a hoe - a piece of his fingernail; a voice began to blow into the karnay; divas climb on each other's shoulders to see who's on the roof; T. says that someone is next to him: roll a pebble of a thousand manas; the lower diva was afraid that the stone would fall on his leg, jerked, everyone hit and hammered; T. cut off their heads, people are surprised]: 90-92; Marzolph 1984, No. 1152 (Azerbaijan, Khorasan, Markazi, Fars, Mazendaran) [the husband was kicked out of the house, he meets a diva; to be mistaken for an even more terrible monster, a man hiding in a shelter agrees to an offer to show parts of his body, etc.; whose lice are larger - a person shows a frog (or turtle); longer hair - shows a rope; teeth are larger - a donkey's hoof; a voice louder - hits with an object; whose spit is more powerful - falls out intestinal contents; whose fist punch is more powerful - hits the diva with an ax; etc.]: 188-189; Tajiks: Amonov 1980 [to lure a cowardly husband out of the house, his wife did not feed him and then took pancakes out into the yard and locked the door; he killed 70 mosquitoes, wrote on his staff that he had got rid of 70 evils; picked up a donkey's tail, a frog, a share from a plow along the way; towards the divas, offers to throw his tooth to each other, the coward throws share; the hair from under the arm is a donkey tail; the louse from the body is a frog; the diva brings the coward towards him, is afraid that he will swallow him and his mother, decides to kill him at night; the coward put a log, the diva hit him with a club at night, The coward said in the morning that mosquitoes were biting; the pot of boiling water was hot, sweating; the divas were pulling trees, the coward pretended to tie up and tear out the whole garden at once; that he was going to hit the sky with a stick; Div brings a coward loaded with gold into the house and leaves]: 160-165; Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957 [starting as a separate text in Niyazmukhamedov 1945:46-48; going on a journey, the weaver picked up a turtle, a horse tail, ox horn; came to the divas fortress; the diva offered to measure his strength; threw his louse (the size of a cockroach) from behind the wall; the weaver threw the turtle; the other threw his hair off his mustache, the weaver threw his horse's tail; who sneezes louder; when the diva sneezed, the weaver was thrown into the corner; he says he plugs the cracks so that the diva does not stun; blew the karnay; the diva was horrified and ran away; the weaver entered the fortress, brought the prisoner out of there girl; in the village they decided that the weaver was a hero, they asked to kill the bear; the weaver watched the hole when he saw the bear, cried out, the bear jumped, stuck his head between the branches of the tree; the weaver was asked defeat the robbers; he ordered himself to be tied to a skinny horse; the horse carried, the weaver grabbed the poplar and pulled it out, the enemies retreated in horror; at night the weaver returned home unnoticed]: 317-319; Osmanov 1989 [father died, the eldest son sent the youngest to buy what he needed for the funeral; he bought nishals, anointed the bedding, people stuck, threw a gold coin, tore off the bedding; the eldest sent to sell the bull; the youngest offers the bull to the crow; he screams every time, Carr! ; the youngest comes for money, the bull was eaten by wolves, there is no money, he picked up a stone to throw at the crow, a treasure under the stone; when the elder was digging up the treasure, a man passed by; he killed and buried it; knowing that the youngest will spill out, asked to inform the padishah tomorrow; buried seven goats in the same hole, scattered cakes in the yard; told the younger that they were falling from the sky; the youngest replied to the padishah that the dead man was under goats, and this happened when cakes fell from the sky; the youngest took away the girl's pot of roll, tore off the donkey's tail, took the frog and millstones; towards the thieves, he offers to bet; katyk is snot, the frog is a louse, the millstone is my father's bracelet; {the tail is not mentioned}; the brothers took the thieves' property]: 456-459; baluchi [the old man walked, picked up 4 eggs, pheasants, rope; buzlangi wants to swallow it, the old man offers to bet; the buzlangi crushed the stone in his hand into powder, the old man clenched his eggs, the buzlangi believes that he squeezed water out of the stone; the buzlangi took his hair out of his bosom and threw it at the old man; the old man threw a rope at him; the buzlangi took out and threw the louse, the old man released the pheasant; the buzlangi invites the old man to eat meat from the cauldron; the old man warns that if he does not like it, he will eat; ate, and then said he didn't like it; in the buzlanga's house, the old man went to bed; put the deck in his place, lay down elsewhere; at night he hit the buzlangi three times with a club, not knowing that he was hitting the deck; old man in the morning: I asked so that you can take me to a place where a louse does not bite - bite three times; buzlangi blow the winds, lift the old man up, hit the walls; he said he closes holes in the walls so that the buzlangi do not run away; the buzlangi set off run; the fox leads him back, wants to make friends with them; old man: I demand 40 buzlangas from your father, and you only lead one thing; the buzlangi hit the fox to the ground; the old man moved his whole house {where?} and became king]: Zarubin 1949, No. 7:61-64; Turkmens [Aldarkose went for brushwood; the fox offered to collect brushwood for him if he gave her his churek; having received a churek, she ran away; running after the fox, A. picked up a pheasant, pheasant eggs, turtle, dead donkey tail; came across devas; they suggest comparing lice, A. shows a turtle; fleas releases a pheasant; hair - donkey tail; squeeze oil out of the ground - tramples on pre-buried pheasant eggs; the devas offered him food, left the cauldron with meat; A. ate, threw the rest of the meat into the hole, said that he was still hungry; A. put his fur coat on the bush for the night, and he himself hid; the devas threw stones at his fur coat, A. unharmed; he was sent for firewood, given an ax (which he can't pick up); A.: I collect firewood without an ax; I started tying trees to pull it all out at once, devas they ask not to do this; at night, the devas poured a cauldron of boiling water on A.'s fur coat; A.: it rained warmly at night; the devas rushed to A. (the wind lifted him from their nostrils to the ceiling of the cave; A.: I think which one of you would wear to break his anger; Dev raised A., his eyes are wide: I see which one of you to throw; one dev carried A. and the hum of gold that the devas gave him; wonders how easy man is; A.: holding on to heaven; dev: let go of the sky; A. stuck an awl in the back of his head; wife at home: only the deva heads were left for lunch, which one should I serve, black or white? the devas rushed to run; the fox led them back, offered to tie them with a rope so they wouldn't be afraid; A.: why are you leading only two devas, your father owed me 40; the devas ran again, dragging the fox, it was torn apart to shreds]: Kekilov, Kosayev 1962:88-93; Uzbeks [only the last wife of the bay gave birth to a son; by the time it was time to do that on the occasion of circumcision, bai was impoverished; friends went to war against him; the son is strong, moved his mother, father and all his possessions to another place; the father died; the divas came to dig up the grave; the young man chased him, he disappeared into the cave; at the entrance the young man found a baby; this is his mother's son from a diva, his mother has long been in connection with him, hides him in a chest; the young man found him, killed him, made a belt out of leather, left; stayed with the robbers; the diva's son grew up, found his brother; the young man left him two bowls of pilaf, which he will know if he is with him trouble; gone; came to a city where the dragon eats people, it is the turn of the ruler's daughter; the dragon is surprised that the young man is not afraid; tells him to show his hair; the young man shows a torn donkey tail; the dragon is terrified runs away; the bald man has attributed victory to himself; but the daughter of a padishah is married only by someone who transplants 40 tall trees from the forest into the garden in a day, ties a pumpkin snuffbox to the top of one and knocks it down with an arrow; the young man fulfilled the condition, married the daughter of a padishah; two moons rose; one was a reflection of the face of the daughter of a padishah of another country; she was a batyr woman; the young man began to fight her, but she won, and he was thrown into zindan; the diva's son sees that pilaf turned into blood in one bowl and pus in the other; he came to the young man's wife, she thought it was her husband who returned, so they looked like; he defeated the hero, married her, and the released young man returned to his wife]: Afzalov et al. 1972:502-508.
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Volga - Perm. Marie, Udmurts, Komi: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1152:51-52
Turkestan. Kazakhs ["Collection of materials for statistics in Syr-Darya region, vol. 6, Tashkent, part 2, p. 107"; a poor old man suggests a wonder to compete; knock his brain out of the ground (buried a jug of milk, stomped); compare the size of lice (pulled out a turtle from his sinus); uproot trees (if he vomits and throws it up, the sun also kills, the diva asks not to do so); the diva brought the old man to his home; the old man overheard the conversation between the diva and his wife, lay down in another seat; at night the diva cut him with a sword, in the morning the old man says that fleas bite; the diva gives gold, the old man orders him to carry it to his house himself; teaches ask the wife whether to cook the brisket of the former diva or the head of it; the diva ran away, the fox leads back - she gives out the old man's goat and then she is not afraid; old man to the fox: are you leading a diva about the old debt of your parents? the diva ran, hit the fox on the ground, killed]: Nasyrov, Polyakov 1900:92-93; karakalpaks [Yeshamak told his brother Doshamak to take care of the foal, he died, D. went to run, saw her stuck in a horse in the swamp, tore off its tail, picked up the partridge eggs, the frog; began to herd the old woman's goats; climbed on the apricot, began to shake off the fruits, told the goats to eat half, but they ate everything, he stabbed them, ran away; returned to his brother, to meet two giants, D. offers competitions: squeeze oil out of the ground (presses eggs), pull hair out of his armpits (shows a horse tail), race lice (lets the frog in) ; the giants ran away, the brothers took their wealth]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:145-147.
Japan. The Japanese (6 versions: Tohoku, West Honshu, Kyushu and North Ryukyu) [on the way, blind and deaf find a cauldron and a horse; stay in an empty house in the mountains; an ogre comes; the blind man replies that he is his uncle; the cannibal wants to feel his uncle's head, the blind and deaf slip the cauldron; in the morning, after taking the ogre's treasures, they ride a horse; other cannibals chase them, they climb a tree, cannibals stand alone on the other, the blind man accidentally grabs the upper one by the ears, the cannibals are frightened, run away; sharing treasures, the blind and the deaf got into a fight, hit each other's eyes and ears, one saw the light, the other began to hear, parted friends]: Ikeda 1971, No. 1152:228-229