L85C. Half chicken, B171.1, ATU 715.

(.11.) .14.-.16.25.27.-.29.

A character with half a body is a chicken, a chicken. Sometimes it's just a name, and the character's appearance is more anthropomorphic.

(Wed. Bantu-speaking Africa. Malawi (Nyasaland) [Chiruwi (half man with one leg and the other half of a body made of wax) summoned people to fight; the loser died, the winner received medicinal herbs from C.; south Malawi: A large bird with one eye, one wing, one leg carries children across flowing rivers; {see also Schoffeleers 1991:348-349}]: Werner 1933:199).

North Africa. The Berbers (Beni Menacer, Kabylia) [one wife is smart, the other is stupid; they quarreled, separated the only rooster; one part fried, the other kept; Half-rooster (one wing, one leg) went on a pilgrimage; he rushes at the jackal, at the lion, pulls it out by a hair, hides it under his wing; asks for the stubble of a wild boar, he gives it; in the king's house he shouts that he will die tomorrow and he will take his wife; the king orders throw it to sheep and goats; he burns the jackal's hair, he asks not to burn, calls all the jackals, who have gnawed sheep and goats; the same is thrown to the bulls (the lions have torn them to pieces); the king orders to lock the Half-Rooster, to kill with his own hands; he calls the wild boar, the boars broke the door, the Half-Rooster left, taking the gold in the room; asks his mistress to beat him, gold falls; seeing gold, the stupid wife offers to divide the dog; the clever gives her half to it; the stupid sends the dog on a pilgrimage; she saw a yellow stone in the spring, grabbed it, brought it, ordered to beat herself; she killed her and found it in herd a yellow stone]: Basset 1887, No. 42:83-89; Tunisia [the man married but the wife did not get pregnant, the same with the second and third; he told them that if they did not become pregnant, he would marry the fourth ; they began to pray; the first: "At least half of the rooster", the second: "The pot", the third: "The donkey"; this is how they gave birth; digging through the sewage of the royal court, the Rooster found a chest of gold, brought it to his mother; the king found out, ordered the guards to take the Rooster's chest by force; the Rooster got angry, flew to the palace, went up above the palace, saw the royal daughter, and she was bald, he shouted that the royal daughter was bald ; the king ordered him to be locked in a lion cage; the Rooster said, "Let's get the mouse out of the cave!" The lions smashed the cage and started running around the city; the Rooster shouted for the royal daughter again; he was put in the dungeon; he said the same words again, the water came out of the banks and flooded the dungeon, even reached to the Sultan's room; the Rooster began to scream again; the Sultan ordered him to be locked in a wheat warehouse so that he could eat and die, and the rooster called the ants; they took all the wheat away, and he again began to shout about royal daughter; the king ordered the rooster to be turned into a couscous; after eating it, he felt a stomachache, went to the bathroom, a rooster came out of it, shouted about the royal daughter and the king himself that he was red and fat; the king gave the rooster a jug of gold; the Rooster returned to his mother with gold; the pot also decided to help his mother, told him to wash it, turn it over and put it in front of the house; a man passed by, saw the pot, took it home; the wife put fresh meat and vegetables in it, told her husband to take it to the bakery for meat to be cooked there; the baker cooked the meat and placed the pot next to the other dishes; the pot rolled home to his mother, she ate meat; washed the pot again and put it in front of the house; a Jewish jeweler passed by, picked up the pot, put jewelry and precious stones in it, fell asleep, the pot returned to mother; the next time the old man who passed by took the pot to use it as a night vase; sat on the pot at night, and he stuck to it, the old man could not get off, promised whatever he wanted, he demanded a property contract (house); the donkey's mother envied him, began to force him to work too; the donkey ate green unripe plants, went home; a boy ran by, the donkey sent him home, for his mother to make him a bed; she laid carpets and rugs; the donkey stretched out on the carpets and began spewing sewage, and then rolling on carpets and rugs until he died]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 66 in Korovkina MS; Arabs of Egypt [through a woman's prayer, God sent her daughter Shams ("sun"); she soon became an orphan, spun yarn and sold; one day she mistook the moon for the sun, went to the bazaar, but there empty; I saw a rooster with three chickens, admired his singing; rooster: come on, you'll hear the singing even more beautiful; he brought S. to the underground palace; she is trying to take food, a cauldron, a jug, etc., they don't tell me - now the mistress will come; King Kamar ("month") and his wife, wife, are rude and obstinate with her husband; when he falls asleep, went to the garden to the slave, he scolds her for being late, eats what he had brought to her, gives the woman a dry cake; Sh. wanted to hit the slave with a tree branch, got into the mistress's eye; when she returned to the palace, she tells her husband that someone beat her; S. returned home; to find out the truth, K. goes to sell women's jewelry for fairy tales; S. says he knows one thing; twice ends the story, afraid to admit that she knocked out the eye of K.'s wife; after telling everything, he advises Kamar to pretend to be asleep; K. chopped his wife and slave to pieces, married S. asks to let her go to the ground; K. builds her a palace, visits her there; S. cannot get pregnant for a long time, asks God for a daughter at least half a chicken; gave birth to a little girl; she goes with other girls to steal fruit from the royal garden, every time tells the watchman to turn over and stay hanging upside down while they are picking the fruit; the king fell in love with her when she bathed {meaning, throwing off her chicken skin, but straight this is not said}; marries; however, at night the wife is a chicken {apparently half a chicken, but again not directly mentioned}; according to her, pots and jugs go to fetch water by themselves; the jug's nose has broken off, they lead conversation; the groom hears, advises the tsar to address his half-chicken wife with similar magic words; she threw off her chicken feathers and became beautiful]: Lebedev 1990, No. 27:147-155.

Southern Europe. Spaniards: Malinovskaya 2002 [two women have a chicken for two; they split her chicken in half; one ate her half, the other took it to the chicken coop; half a chicken found a purse full of gold; prince borrowed it for a month, did not return it; half a chicken goes to the palace, takes a fox and a wolf with him on the way, putting them under his tail; on a rocky road he draws in stones; by the river he draws in the water with his back, went dry; servants throw him to war roosters, to stallions; fox, wolf kill roosters, stallions; thrown into a well, covers it with stones; fills it with water into the oven; the king gives him the kingdom]: 199- 201; Caballero 1918 [one of the chickens of a beautiful chicken is half; he is self-confident and self-loving; goes to the king's court; his mother advises him to avoid cooks and images of St. Peter; Poltsyplo refuses to help the stream clean him of branches; the wind that fell to the ground from the heat; the last spark in the fire; comes to the cooks; water, wind, fire refuse to spare him, he is burned, turned black, the cook threw him out, St. Peter picked up, placed on the spire of the tower; since then he has been there]: 75-79; Catalans (many records, including Mallorca) [a half cockerel is born, or a normal rooster is cut in two along the body; he goes see the king or marrying his daughter; meets a river, a fox, a mountain, etc., puts them in his pants, swallows them, puts them under his wing; the king orders him to be thrown into the fire, the rooster releases the river; into the chicken coop - the fox eats chickens; sends soldiers - however, to cross the mountain; the half-cock gets wealth and the princess's hand]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 716:141-142; Portuguese [many records; rooster finds gold, money; goes to the king to recover what he has stolen from him, takes the money to the king, complains about something, runs away so that he does not get eaten; he takes with him (swallows, carries it in his pants, puts it in his ass) a river, a fox, wolf, stone, bee or wasp, owl, etc.; in the castle he is thrown into a chicken coop, into a stable (fox, wolf kill chickens, horses); they try to burn him (water floods the fire); bees or wasps bite the king in the ass; he is eaten king and alive again the next morning; a stone (wood) breaks the pan (glass); he is given what he demanded, or he runs away]: Cardigos 2006, No. 715:164-165; Italians (Calabria) ["Half Rooster"]: Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 715:159

Western Europe. Bretons (West 1884) [the miller bequeathed the mill to the eldest son, the donkey to the second, and the rooster to the third and fourth; the third threw his half on the pile of manure; the fourth wanted to do the same, but the half-rooster advised him not to do this, promised to make him rich; they went to their father's debtors, but everyone said that he had no money now; then the half-cock went to get the money himself; everyone he met told him to get in the ass; this fox, wolf, swarm of bees, river; the half-rooster came to demand a debt, the owner ordered him to be thrown into the chicken coop, he released the fox, it strangled all the chickens; received money; in the second house the same (thrown into the stable, the wolf lifted the horses); in the third (thrown into the oven, released the river); the fourth ordered the servant to place the rooster in his big pants to sit down and crush him; the half-rooster released the bees); on the way back the half-rooster left his assistants where he met them; gave the money to the owner, who became the richest]: Sébillot 1910, No. 57:205-210; French: Joisten 1991, No. 46.1 (Dauphine) [west 1957; The half-chicken found a hundred ecus; the king asks to lend them to him, promises to return them to him in a week; does not return; the Half Chicken goes to demand a debt; the Fox, then the Wolf, then the Romanche River ask to take them with them; everyone gets tired soon, Half-Chicken tells her to get in her ass; the king promises to give a hundred ecus tomorrow, puts Half Chicken in the chicken coop, she releases the Fox, which strangles the chickens; the next day, to the sheep, Half Chicken releases the Wolf; the king orders the Half Chicken to be thrown into the oven, she releases the river; the king returns one hundred ecus], 46.2 (Dauphin) [western 1960; Poltsyplo found a purse, gave it to pilgrims to Rome; the owner says that they will not return them, let them catch up and take them back; the river asks to take it with them, Poltsyplya tells her to get into his ass; then the same bees, wolf, fox; pilgrims put Polchicken in the chicken coop, that releases a fox; to sheep (wolf), want to shoot (releases bees), want to burn (lets out the river), pilgrims return their purse], 46.3-46.8 (Dauphine) [short versions]: 262-263, 264-265; Basset 1887 ( Upper Brittany) [wife and husband shared the rooster; half of the wife finds a purse full of gold, the king takes it away; the half-rooster goes to return the gold, puts a fox, a wolf and the Seine under his wing on the way; the king throws him to the bird's yard (the fox strangled everyone), to the stable (the wolf bit everyone to death), to the stove (the Seine floods it with water); the king is forced to return the gold]: 187-188; walloons [The half-rooster goes to get a rent; on the way, he puts a fox in his pocket, knocks on the peasant, who throws him into the chicken coop; the chickens pecked him, the fox jumped out, strangled the chickens; next time he met a wolf, threw him into the barn, the wolf slaughtered the cows; then he puts the river in the carmn; he is thrown into the fire, he releases the river and floods the fire]: Laport 1932, no.*715A: 70-71.

Taiwan - Philippines. Apayao [Sibbara-yonnan leads his daughter Dommaria to tear the bark, leaves her in the forest; arranges a wake; D. gets to the snake, takes off his skin, becomes a young man; brings her home again in the guise of a snake ; they are greeted by a rooster with half a body (one leg, one wing, one eye); they are married, the groom finally turns into a young man]: Wilson 1947b: 135-138.

The Balkans. Albanians [the old man and the old woman shared the property, the old woman took the cat, the old man of the rooster; the cat caught birds for the old woman, the old man was starving; cut off half of the rooster and ate it; The half-rooster went to earn money money; met, took with him a frog, a fox, a wolf, a mouse that had swallowed water, each of them climbed into his womb; the half-rooster climbed into the king's cabbage, began to crow; the king ordered him to be seized; his found in the last head of cabbage, thrown into the oven; he told the frog to release water, it flooded the fire; the half-rooster was thrown to the horses, the wolf lifted them up; the fox strangled the geese; locked in a chest of gold; Half-rooster swallowed gold coins, told the mouse to gnaw a hole, ran away; told the owner to feed him well and hit him on the back every day; a gold coin popped out to the old man for life; the old woman is jealous, she sends a cat get money; she also told her to feed her and hit her on the back every day; only on the first day did the coin fall out, the loan only reptiles; an old woman killed a cat, died of grief herself]: Lambertz 1952:187-193 (=Elsie 2001, No. 15).

Central Europe. Ukrainians [the chicken has one chicken and a half body (vertically); he was nicknamed Polpetushka; he grew up and decided he was better than others, although he was laughed at; decided to go see the king and queen; the mother advises cooks and cooks to take care of; the stream asks Half a cockerel to clean up the children's dam, the wind to lift it off the ground on a hot day, a sparkle in the ash to throw straw on her - that arrogant refuses; the capital is not afraid of the cook, he grabbed him; Polpetushok calls for help from water, wind and fire, they refuse; the wind throws him on the spoke over the palace, he stayed there]: Lukashevich 1909:3- 15.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ingush [Akhkotam chicken (the "half-chicken" plowed the field with her legs, wings, sowed millet; Ati's horses poisoned the crops; Akhkotam comes to meet a fox, promises to eat it, Akhkotam swallows it herself; then But a wolf; Ati throws her into the river, Akhkotam drinks it; throws it into the chicken coop - the fox strangled the chickens; the wolf bit sheep into the sheepfold; he releases water into the fire, Ati's farm swam; he returned the millet]: Malsagov 1983, No. 143:284; Avars [Half-chicken had one eye, one wing, half a crest, limping on one leg; other chickens offended her, she left, came to the field, waited for the harvest; Khan's horses they began to trample on the field, she drove them to the khan; on the way she swallowed a fox and a wolf, drank the lake, demanded compensation from the khan; he ordered her to be thrown to the geese; she spit out the fox, which strangled the geese; horses - the wolf spit out, he lifted them up; the khan ordered her to be thrown into the oven, she filled the fire with water, pecked out the khan's eye, then swallowed the khan, took the wealth, drove the vizier in front of her]: Khalilov 1965, No. 44: 104-105; khvarshins [half of Ochu's chicken sowed wheat, the khan's horses poisoned it, O. went to the khan to complain; met and swallowed a fox, then a duck, a river; asked Khan why his horses they poisoned wheat; Khan swallowed O.; she began to eat Khan's guts; Khan ordered the nukers to kill O. when he released it through the anus; O. ran away, returned home, and the nukers injured the khan]: Musayeva 1995; Georgians (Kartley) [poor half a chicken stabbed his leg, asks the baker to pull out the thorn, he pulled it out, threw it into the oven; P. demands the thorn back, threatens to smash everything, the baker gives him bread; he shares bread with shepherds, demands it back, gets a ram; slaughters a ram at a wedding, demands back, gets a bride in return; sees a flute playing, exchanges a pipe for a bride, playing on flutes, sings about what he exchanged for]: Chikovani 1954, No. 93:402-403 (=1986:35-36); Turks [{the hero's name is Half-Rooster, although he is referred to as a person and does not mention his half-heartedness}; The half-rooster is poor, yeah, he owes him three gold, he goes to demand them; he meets, takes Wolf, Fox as his companions, they are tired, he tells them to get in his ass; the river also wants to go with him, he takes it; yeah locks P. in a goose, he releases Lisa, she strangles geese; into a barn (The Wolf cuts the cattle); in the barn, sets it on fire, P. releases the river; in the pantry, P. takes three gold ones, shoves the rest into his ass; on the way back, she releases the Fox and the Wolf; tells the old woman to hit him with a roller, she first does not want to, then hits him, a few coins fall out; she wants more, he does not give; becomes rich]: Stebleva 1986, No. 11:33- 35.