L93A. Helper fox.

.12.-.17.21.23.27.-.37.39.-.41.43.47. (.59.)

A fox, jackal or coyote, using cunning, helps a hero, heroine or people in general, saves them.

Hausa, (Twi is clearly a recent borrowing), Nubians, Tigre, Shilluk, Nuers, Kafa, Sakho, Tigre, Berbers Beni Snu (NW Algeria near Morocco), Kabila, Algerian Arabs, Spaniards, Portuguese, Basques, Galicians, Sicilians, Corsicans, Ladins, French (Upper Brittany, Niverne, Gascony, Languedoc), Walloons, Flemish, Dutch, Germans (Austria), Scots, Palestinians, Syrian Arabs, Kuwaitis, Tibetans (Amdo), Toto, Punjabi, Nepali, Uttar Pradesh (Hindi), Assamese, Bengalis, Marathi, Konkani, Oriya, Bondo, Santals, Oraons, Haria, Kondas, Sindhi, Pakistan, Paharis, Kumaoni, Tamils, Sinhalese, Agaria, Gondas, Hungarians, Serbs, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Moldovans, Gagauz people, Greeks, Bosnians, Albanians, Russians (Vologda, Pskov, Moscow, Tula, Gorkovskaya, Voronezh), Ukrainians ( Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Hutsulshchina, Ternopil, Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Poltava, Chernigov), Belarusians, Poles, Kashubians, Crimean Tatars, Stavropol Turkmens, Kalmyks, Nogais, Kumyks, Abkhazians, Adygs, Abazins, Ossetians, Balkarians, Ingush, Chechens, Laki, Avars, Kyurins, Aguls, Tabasarans, Dargins, Tatas, Georgians, Megrelians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Vakhans , Sarykol, Yazgulyam, Pashayas, Parachi, Norwegians, Danes, Swedes, Western Sami, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Setu, Finns, Kazan Tatars, Chuvash, Mari (meadow), Mordovians, Bashkirs, Komi, Kazakhs (Turgay), Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Siberian Tatars, Altaians, Chelkans, Khakas, Tuvans (Dzun-Khemchik, Saldan, Southern Altai), Buryats, Oirats, Mongols, Mansi, Nenets (Yamalo-Nenets), Northern (and Southern?) Selkups, Sym Evenks, Evenks of Podkamennaya Tunguska, (Evenks of China), Central Yakuts, Nanais, Wilta, Chuvans, Coastal Koryaks, Chukchi, Asian Eskimos (Chaplino), St. Lawrence, Northern Alaska Inupiate, Upper Tanana, Katlamet, Kalispel, Clackamas, Kerdalen, Flethead, Ne Perse, Klikitat, Tenino, Yakima, Western Sachaptin, Caddo, (Wapishana).

West Africa. House [(the beginning is not told, but apparently a man saves a crocodile, he is going to eat it, and the jackal saves the man); the man promises him four chickens for this; at home he finds out that his wife is sick , the jackal's skin will cure her; tells his children to take sticks and dogs, go to the place where he promised to bring chickens to the jackal; but the jackal doubted and did not come]: Klipple 1992:78; (cf. twi {fox episodes are clearly a recent borrowing} [the hunter took panther cubs from the hollow; the fox asked for one, then the hunter gave it another; the panther mother became a girl, came to the village, promised to marry someone who fell into a calebas hung from a tree; only the hunter got there; his amulet warned him not to fall asleep before his wife fell asleep; the hunter pretended to be asleep, his wife became a panther, the amulet turned the hunter into a mat; the next time the panther tore the mat, but the hunter turned into a pillow; then the wife called the hunter to her city, and he forgot the amulet; she knitted it and went after her husband to pour the hunter's heart blood on her own amulet; a fox came and taught the hunter what to do; when his panther wife returned, he invited her to tie her lightly to her A fox came up and she would grab it and eat it; fox: hunter, how are you? "I caught something and I want to get rid of it." Scratch it with a knife so I can see blood. Panther: Just a little bit. The hunter killed the panther with a knife; he escaped thanks to the fox]: Bellon 1914, No. 3:17-20; translated in Olderogg 1959:191-193 - the text is referred to as acan).

Sudan - East Africa. The Nubians: Massenbach 1969:166 in Kharitonov 1975, No. 154 [the crocodile bet Neil would drink it, but Neil threw the crocodile far to land; the man agreed to carry the crocodile on a camel to the shore; the crocodile grabbed the man, he asks the fox for help; the fox tells both to get out of the water, ties the person with onion leaves, the bloodile with hair ropes; whoever fails to break the fetters, we will eat it; The man and the fox ate the crocodile]: 249; Reinisch 1879, No. 4 [the crocodile bet with Neil that he would drink it, but Neil threw the crocodile far on land; the man agreed to take the crocodile to the shore on a camel; the crocodile grabs the man, he asks the fox for help; the fox pretends to find out everything from the very beginning; let the person tie the crocodile, take it back to its original place; tells him to take him home and eat it; man promises to give the fox two chickens a day; the first time he gives it, then the wife drives the fox away; he comes back at night, strangles six chickens; the husband and wife decide to go to live elsewhere; the fox lies down on the road, pretends to be dead; then runs ahead again; the man decides to go back to pick up the first dead fox; the wife waits, falls asleep; the fox eats the chickens, rides the camel]: 206-211; cafa [Dawit dug a hole to catch an antelope, but a lion, a leopard, a man, a snake and a jackal fell into it; for D. to pull it out, the lion promised to bring him pets, the leopard to bring him meat, the jackal would give him good advice, the snake kept silent; the man promised to herd D.'s cattle; when D. pulled the man out, the jackal gave advice: not to trust man; four came up one day; three recognized their animals in the pen, which had been taken away by a lion; the fourth he was saved and advised him to complain to the king; a snake crawled to the court, bit the informer and he did not have time to say anything; the judge released D.]: Reuss-Nliba, Reuss-Nliba 2016:61-65; tiger [snake She wrapped around the man, threatening to kill him; he asked the fox for help, the fox told the snake to let the man go, the snake obeyed; the man promised to bring lamb to the fox, but brought the bag, putting the dog in it; the fox barely escaped]: Littmann 1910, No. 4:5-6; shilluk [the monkey pulls the lion out of the well, he is going to eat it; the fox suggests that both pray first with their hands raised to the sky; the lion is forced release a monkey and it climbs a tree]: Westermann 1912, No. 73:183-184; nuers [the lion chased the antelope and fell into the hole; asks the fox to pull it out, the fox did not say anything; asks the monkey; that held out her paw, the lion got out; he was going to eat the monkey; the fox invites everyone to rest under the tree and says that a monkey can be eaten, but monkeys are eaten only in a tree; the monkey understood the hint and climbed to a tree; the lion is left with nothing]: Huffman 1970:98-100 (retelling in Arewa 1961, No. 2803:137-138); sakho [the snake asks to be pulled out of the water, the man pulls it out; she begins to strangle him to eat it; lion, leopard, antelope, hyena reply that they do not dare to judge this case; jackal: let the snake slide from man to the ground first; tell the man to kill the snake with a stick; the man brings a black dog, says jackal that it's a ram; jackal runs away then kills a dog; says people have a black head and a red tongue]: Reinisch 1889, No. 17:205-207; tiger [man collected firewood, the snake crawled out and wrapped around his neck; the man complained to the fox, who told the snake to release the man and hinted at him what to do; the man killed the snake with a stick, told the fox to wait - he would bring her a kid; instead brought it under his clothes the dog; the fox managed to escape]: Littmann 1910, No. 4:5-6.

North Africa. Berbers Beni-Snou (NW Algiers near Morocco) [the prophet warmed a snake on his body; it refused to slide; the prophet went to Kadiya-jackal; jackal: the lips of two speakers cannot be side by side; the snake slipped down, killed with a stick; prophet: Do you want paradise as a reward? jackal: paradise is not needed, give a third of the herd; so a third of the sheep go to jackals]: Destaing 1907, No. 6:260; kabila [the king's wife has died, he is crying; the jackal asks for a sheep, then another one; promises to get a new wife for him, tells him to get blush, the king painted him; he came to one house, demanded a girl; the owner refused to give his daughter to the jackal; the jackal: your house is in the king's land; the man went after the jackal, saw the king and gave him his daughter; once the jackal pretended to be sick, the king and his wife took him in their arms; and then he actually died and was buried]: Rivière 1882:135-136; the Arabs of Algeria [in the herd bull and sheep; the shepherd does not pay attention to the fact that the jackal takes the sheep every day; after eating all the sheep, the jackal also ate the bull; the owner took away the shepherd's clothes, beat and drove them away; the jackal promised the shepherd to make up a hundredfold damage; put the shepherd in his cave, brought him meat; taught him how to steal the robes of the prince and the courtiers; they are going to have a party in nature, change into a carnival outfit; the jackal will run, everyone they will rush after him, let the shepherd take away the clothes he had left behind at that time; so happened; then the jackal came to the king, asked the measure to measure the money; returned several coins, sticking to the bottom; so several times; tells the shepherd to dress in stolen clothes, go to the city to a cafe and sit there; when asked, answer that he is the son of Jackal Si Emhammed; the Sultan passed off his daughter as a shepherd, giving a rich dowry; then The jackal took the wedding train to the Gulya Palace; he came running there earlier, tells the gulya that the army is moving to kill him, let him hide in a pile of straw; tells the maids to clear the palace of bones, carry him to the shock straw is all that burns; set fire to the shovel, the ghoul burned; everyone is happy; one day a former shepherd pretended to be dead to see if he would be grieved; the wife was inconsolable, but the jackal said something wrong; the imaginary deceased got up; the jackal called him a shepherd; but then he corrected himself and explained to the hostess that her husband was not a shepherd of sheep, but the owner of horses and a harem; when the jackal died, he was buried honorably]: Filleul de Pé tigny 1951:157-169.

Southern Europe. Spaniards: Malinovskaya 2002 [the snake crawled into the cave, has grown up, cannot grow up, asks the shepherd to roll back the stone; he releases a snake, it wraps around it, is going to strangle and eat it; donkey, dog they say that the snake is right, people are not grateful; the fox asks to show how it happened, the snake remains to die in the cave; the shepherd promises the fox a sheep, brings a dog in a bag; she unties the bag, struggled to escape]: 192-194; Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 154 (Castile and Leon, Asturias) [A peasant scolds an ox to be eaten by a bear; a bear catches him at his word, a peasant asks to let the field plow; a fox promises portray a hunter if a farmer gives her chickens; fox: what is this under the cart? bear: say it's a log; peasant: log; fox: if it's a log, put it in a cart; tie it; stab an ax; bear: pretend to stab; the peasant hacked a bear; brings dogs rather than chickens in the bag; the fox suspects this is the case, but still picks it up and opens the bag; she manages to escape, she praises all parts of her body for helping; the tail also wants to be praised; fox: if I hadn't squeezed you, you the dog would grab it!] : 267-271; the Spaniards [the king is sick, he will be cured by three wonders of the world; the eldest son goes in search, is captured by the robbers; the same with the middle one; the youngest comes to the cave of the winds, where the mother of the winds hides him; the wind returns, his mother tells him about the young man, the Wind does not know about miracles, tells him to his older brother the Sun; there the same old woman also hides the young man, the Sun sends the Moon to her sister; in the same place, the Moon sends birds to his brother; he called a couple of birds of each species; the last was the lame eagle, only he knows about miracles; tells him to prepare meat for the journey; it is not enough, young man is going to cut off a piece from his leg, but the eagle tells him to throw his pen into the sea instead; after flying across the sea, the eagle shows the path to the castle; meets a woman who says she has no money to bury the deceased husband; the young man gave her money; a fox appeared; said that there would be a bird, a horse and a girl in the castle room, you can only take one thing; he takes the bird, the cage asks him to take it; as soon as the young man takes the cage, towards the giant, throws him to the lions, but the fox saves him; says he can save only three times; next time the young man takes the girl, she asks her to take her clothes, then the giant meets her again, the same; for the third time he takes a horse; the blanket asks to take it too, he does not take it, jumps away, taking a bird in a cage and a dressed girl; on the way back to meet her, the brothers took the loot, came to their father, attributed their merits they said to themselves that his younger brother had become a robber; the king ordered him to be found and hanged; then a fox appeared in the form of a man and told everything; he was the dead man for whose funeral the young man gave money; the king handed over the throne to the younger, married the girl he had received]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 550:516-523; the Catalans [the peasant curses the ox to take you away; the wolf appears and demands an ox; the peasant talks about his misfortune to the fox; she promises to help if the peasant gives her chicken and chickens; the fox appears with all the cubs, the wolf is scared; the fox asks what kind of log there is; it is a wolf, but the peasant says the log; the fox: the log must be on the cart; the wolf: throw me on the cart; the fox: if it is a log, it must be cut; the wolf: pretend to be hitting with an ax; the peasant kills the wolf; the peasant gives the fox a bag - supposedly with chicken; she opens, there are three dogs, the fox runs as best he can]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 154:48; Basques: Barandiaran 1961, No. 80 [the wolf persuaded the man to release him from a trap, is going to eat; the donkey confirms that there is no gratitude; the fox asks to show how it happened; the wolf climbs into the trap, the man kills him; the fox has come for the promised reward - two chickens, took a squirrel with her; dogs rushed at them; the squirrel climbed the tree, the dogs drove the fox (but fell behind); the fox asked the squirrel to shove it with a nutshell - there were thorns on the road; the squirrel was happy; they came to the man, he gave them a bag, not chickens, but dogs; when the bag was opened, the savvy squirrel could not climb the pine tree, the dogs grabbed it, and the fox disappeared into the hole]: 130-132; Webster 1879:181-182 [ the aged king sends three sons to get rejuvenating water; the eldest two can't get it, stay drunk somewhere; the youngest old woman explains how to safely avoid creatures in the forest; he must take water, but nothing more; but he also takes a horse (and a bird), so all animals in the forest are awake; he passes thanks to an old woman's magic wand; he finds brothers; they throw him into a hole , they take water, horse, bird; but the water does not work; the old woman sends a fox to pull her younger brother out of the pit; he comes home, the horse laughs, the bird sings, the water makes a century-old father twenty years old], 182-187 [ the king will see the light if he gets the white crow (blackbird); the eldest, middle sons leave, play cards; the youngest does not play, pays the brothers' debts, they are not executed; the owner of the white crow asks for it get a princess for him; the fox (this is the spirit of a dead man whose debts the young man paid) teaches what to do; the princess sings, people run, her father agrees to give her back if the young man gets another king's white horse ; the horse laughs, but people allow the young man to pick him up; he asks for permission to put the princess on his horse, takes him away; the white crow flies to the princess's knees, the young man takes everyone away; the brothers throw the youngest into the tank with with water, they take the crow away; the fox pulls out the young man, the crow flies to him by itself; the young man returns to his father, the princess and the bird sing, the horse laughs, the old king sees the light; the young man tells everything, marries princess; father drives elder sons into the desert]; Portuguese [1) the snake asks the man to release her, is going to eat her; the donkey confirms that people are ungrateful; the fox pretends to want to see how it happened, the snake is trapped again; comes for a reward, a person lets dogs at it; 2) a shark instead of a snake; a donkey, a greyhound; a fox checks a person's gratitude, pretends several times dead, the man is going to take her skin off; and other options]: Cardigos 2006, No. 155:42-43; the Portuguese [the wolf asked the boy to release him from the cage and then set out to eat it; fox asks what's going on, pretending not to understand who was sitting in the cage and who was passing by; the wolf climbs into the cage and the fox locked it]: Dias Marques 2019, No. 69:110-111; Portuguese [by at night someone ruins the royal garden; or a sick father (king) needs a magic remedy; three sons go in search; only the youngest is kind to an animal (old woman), they help him; if the option with a ruined garden, only the youngest does not sleep and finds a thief; the youngest catches the bird, but must also complete other tasks; he is helped by an animal; he gets living water; his brothers take everything away, they throw the youngest into the well; the fox pulls him out, gives him everything back; she is beheaded and turns into a prince; the younger brother marries the princess]: Cardigos 2006, No. 550:137-138); the Galicians [ the snake was crushed by a stone, she begged the man to release it, and then was going to eat it; agreed to ask the people she met if this was permissible; the ox and the sheep answer that the person himself is ungrateful; the fox ordered to show how it was, the snake was again under the stone; the man asked the fox how to thank her, and she asked for chickens; the wife refused to give the chickens and ordered the dog to be put in the bag; the dog rushed after her, the fox ran, praising its eyes, legs, ears, scolding its tail]: Contos 1972, No. 24:31-32; Sicilians: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 6 [after the death of his father, the young man was left with only a pear that bears fruit all year round; The fox asks for pears; promises to make the young man rich; brings pears to the king in winter, says that it is from Count Piro; then the second; says that P. is fabulously rich; marries the king's daughter; promises to bring the tailor to bring money later, P. dresses up; next to Princess P. is silent, Lisa explains what he thinks about business; after the wedding, everyone goes to Castle P.; the fox tells the shepherds to say that they are herding herds of sheep, cows, pigs, herds of horses that belong to Count P. (not an ogre); tells the ogre that the king's army is going to destroy him; the ogre and his wife hide in the oven, the Fox burns them; promises P. to bury her in a luxurious coffin after her death; pretends dead; P. orders to throw carrion; Fox forgives P., solemnly buried after death], 31 [The horse agrees to release Leo stuck in the crevice, but he, contrary to his promise, is ready to eat it; they they go to the Fox - let him judge; Lisa says that Leo is probably right, but we need to see how it happened; tells Leo to climb into the crevice again; he gets stuck, the Horse kills him by rolling stones on him]: 41- 46, 208-209; Crane 1885, No. 33 [similar to Gozenbach, No. 6; after receiving a wife and wealth, a man throws dust at the fox; she tells his wife everything; a man kills a fox by throwing a pot in her head; but continues to live with his wife in the palace]: 127-131; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 4 [the king is sick, you need to get a horse that is fast like the wind, a bird that sings and plays, seven times beautiful more beautiful than beauty (la donna di sette bellezze); the eldest son goes, sees the inscription "the one who goes will not return", at the inn lost everything at cards, remains an employee; the same with the middle son; the youngest does not stop, but pays the debts of the deceased, whose body is mocked; the road is over, the young man walks, the fox invites him to sit on it and carries him to the owner of that horse; let the young man refuse to spend the night in the room, but will ask him to leave him in the stable; around midnight, the fox tells him to jump on the horse and ride away: the owner is going to eat the visitor; the young man on horseback and the fox reached the house where the bird, his lions are guarding; the fox tells the lion to be allowed to take the horse by the tail, then he will allow him to take the bird's cage; the lion coughed and released its tail, they galloped off; the sorcerer owns the beauty; while he thinks that now his horse and bird, the young man takes the beautiful woman, jumps away, the sorcerer did not have time to detain them; the fox warns that the young man's brothers were imprisoned for stealing, and she herself is the dead man he bought; if what, you can call her again; the brothers pushed the youngest into the well, took the horse, the bird and the beauty; the horse bites, the bird is silent, the beauty has become a freak; the fox pulled the young man out; when he got home, the horse was delighted, the bird sang, the beauty became beautiful; the king ordered the eldest sons to be smeared with resin and burned], 8 [the king became blind, the eldest son went for the "water of Veronica" that regained sight; not shared food with an old woman; lost cards at the inn; began to steal, was captured; the same with his middle son; the youngest offered the old woman (possibly Madonna) something to eat; she advised her to insist to sit in the place of a gambler; he won back all the brothers' possessions; bought them; got water by entering the garden while the sorcerer and his lions were sleeping; one bottle contains water that makes them blind, the other from which they saw the light; the brothers pushed the youngest into the river, came to his father, said that the brother had died, unknowingly gave his father blinding water; the fox pulled the young man out of the river; he returned, cured his father; he ordered to smear the eldest sons with resin and burn them]: 7-10, 18-21; ladins: Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 18 [after the death of her husband, the stepmother decided to get rid of her stepdaughter; called to pick berries, raised a stone, She told me to put her hands under the stone to get the berries, threw it down again, left; the fox began to lick the girl's hands, they shortened and disappeared, the girl got up; the fox brought her food; said she would die; let the girl will take an iron box out of her belly; the prince found the girl, buried the fox; the girl tried to take the box with stumps of her hands, dropped it into the river; held out her hands behind the box and they grew back; wedding], 53 [a person was attacked by a snake; the fox agrees to help if a person allows her to eat chicken eggs for a whole week; person: you can even eat the chickens themselves; the fox bit the snake; when it came to chicken coop, owner and wife attacked her with a pitchfork; then the fox met a dog and a cow equally offended by people]: 159-165, 289-290; ladins [three knights went in search of adventure; failure in the forest ; one asked others to let him down on a rope; there was a princess; the knight defeated the one-headed dragon, then the three-headed dragon, then the seven-headed; sent the girl upstairs; not trusting his companions, hung him in his place there was a piece of tree trunk on the rope; they cut off the rope; the fox offered to hold it by the tail and brought the knight to the surface; he came to the palace, where one of the liars was preparing to marry the princess; hired him in the kitchen and threw the ring she gave him into the princess's food; the king gave the knight his daughter and throne; the liars were ripped apart by horses]: Jecklin 1878:100-103.

Western Europe. The French (Nivernay, Gascony, Languedoc) [a wolf, lion or snake ask a person to release them from the trap, are going to eat it; the first animals asked speak out against humans; the fox does The appearance that wants to see how it happened, the wolf (lion, snake) is trapped again; a person promises chickens to the fox, instead dogs rush at it, or a person puts a dog in a bag instead of a chicken]: Delarue, Tenèze 1976, No. 155:424-426; the French (Haute-Brittany) [the three sons of a rich man go in search of a whitebird whose voice rejuvenates; the older two remain in tavern; the youngest buries the deceased, who is mocked because he did not pay his debt during his lifetime; fox: a thrush in the forest under the protection of three sleepless giants; take a thrush, but not the luxurious cage that is nearby; the young man takes the cage, the giants grab it, let it go for the promise to get the donkey "Step - 7 Leagues"; the fox: we must take a worthless saddle; the young man takes the best, is captured by giants and released for the promise to get it a gold-haired girl; she is guarded by a lion and other creatures, they fall asleep at midnight; now the young man does not violate prohibitions, brings a girl; the fox advises asking the giants for permission to ride a donkey with as a girl, takes her away; then a thrush takes her away; the fox tells her not to stop in the city, but the young man frees his brothers, who throw him into the well on the way and take credit for themselves at home; but the thrush does not sing and everyone is sad; on the third attempt, the fox, with its tail down the well, pulls the young man out; the young man gets home: the gold-haired girl breaks the silence, the thrush sings, the father recovers; the father wanted to shoot the eldest sons, but the young man begged not to do so]: Sébillot 1894, No. 10:174-176 (=Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 550:347-348); Walloons [the old king promises to hand over power to whoever gets it a whitebird, whose singing makes them 50 years younger; the youngest son saves a fox from a trap; it teaches you to get a thrush out of a guarded tower; there is also a mule that litters gold; warriors chase, but a fox He builds a wall in front of them; the young man's elder brother is hanged in the city, he buys him; he pushes the young man into a hole, takes the thrush and the mule; the fox pulls the young man out of the hole; the old woman says that there are giants in the forest gives a magic tablecloth; from the first giant, a young man exchanges it for a baton in which there are 4 grenadiers; sends them to take away the tablecloth; from the second, in the same way, a young man takes away a hat in which he is impregnable the third has a violin that revives the dead; a young man comes to his father, but he throws him into prison, then expels him and intends to kill him; with the help of wonderful objects, the young man smashes his father's army, puts his brother in jail and then revives the killed warriors]: Laporte 1932, no.*569A: 65-66; Flemish [a snake or monster promises a reward to the liberator; the man frees the snake, it gathers him kill; the dog, the horse confirm that there is no gratitude; the fox, to whom the man promised chickens, asks the snake to get into the trap again first; when it comes for the promised chickens, it is beaten]: Meyer 1968, No. 155:27; the Dutch [crushed the snake with a stone; she asks a peasant passing by to release her; she wraps around his neck - this is the reward; the dog, the horse answer that people are ungrateful; the fox says that she does not understand the question, asks her to show how it happened; the snake is again under the stone; the peasant brought the fox to him; she began to live with him and eat chickens; the peasant killed her with a stick; the fox: this is what it is thanks]: Soer 1979:102-104; Germans (Austria) [the count is blind, learns that there is a songbird doctor; the eldest, middle sons go in search, lose, remain to work their duty; the youngest goes, pays for the funeral of the unburied; the fox says that he freed her from the curse, promises to help; he helps ants in their work; gives sugar to bees; the bridge over the river protects soldiers; the young man lets he has ants and bees, crosses the bridge, goes to the cave after the fox; takes a cage with a bird while the dragon sleeps, the fox carries him back; goodbye, the fox tells him not to buy hangman meat; the young man bought brothers, they pushed him into the well; the fox lowered his tail into the well, pulled out the young man; the brothers do not sing, the father does not see the light; the youngest son came to the count unrecognized, the bird sang, the father drove the eldest sons away]: Cerf 1992:137-142; Scots [Queen Irene Dirac's stepmother is a witch; he sees a blue falcon, picks up a pen; stepmother tells me to bring her a falcon; the fox promised to help; the falcon has a five-headed giant, you must hire him to take care of the birds; when carrying the falcon, you must make sure that it does not touch anything with its wings; the falcon hit the door jamb, the jamb creaked, the giant heard it, came back; agreed to give falcon, if A. steals a lightbearer sword from three giant sisters for him; fox: you must hire Women to clean steel and copper things; carrying a sword, there is nothing to hurt; A. hurt, giantesses demand for a sword King Erin's gold-bay mare; fox: you have to hire a groom; stealing a mare, do not hurt anything; A. hit a pole at the gate; King E. orders to get the daughter of the French king for a mare; the fox turned into the ship, the music on it, A. brought the queen to the ship, sailed away; the fox turned into a royal, then a horse, a sword, a bird, everyone returns to A., who has everything he got; on the advice of the fox, A. pointed the edge of his sword towards his stepmother, who turned into an armful of brushwood; A. thanked the fox]: Klyagin-Kondratyeva 1967, No. 5:259-274 (=Kharitonov 2008:468-479).

Western Asia. Palestinians [one farmer has a cow and the other has an ox; a cow gave birth and a calf was under the ox; the owner of the ox claimed that his ox had calved; the jackal came, listened to both sides and pretended that he had no time to figure it out: he is in a hurry because his father gave birth; ox owner: men don't give birth; jackal: oxen either; the cow owner got a calf]: Schmidt, Kahle 1930, No. 117-118:161; Syrian Arabs [the fisherman caught nothing, and the next day he caught a huge fish; it gave him three scales, which must be burned if help is needed; a fisherman killed a snake that was about to eat the eagle's chicks; an eagle gives three feathers; the fisherman drove away the dogs chasing the fox, the fox gave three hairs; the fisherman came to the city, where the princess's suitors are on the walls on the stakes; she is married by someone who can hide from her; the fish takes me to the sea, the eagle to the clouds, both times the princess sees everything; the fox hides the young man in the chest in the princess's room; her mirror sees everything but this chest; after the wedding, the fisherman became a vizier and ordered to remove skulls from stakes]: Kuhr 1993:89-95; Kuwait [Nésop warmed a frozen snake under his clothes, but she refused to crawl away and threatened to bite it; the fox undertakes to resolve the dispute and asks the litigants to sat on opposite sides of her; when the snake finished speaking, the fox gave the floor to N.; he killed the snake with a stick]: Dickson 1949, No. 10:326-327 (=Taibah, MacDonald 2016:45).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo) [mother digs wild tubers, tells her daughter not to unlock it; a demon comes, puts her paw under the door, the girl says that her mother's hand is hairless and oily; the demon asks for fire and oil , scorches her hair, rubs herself with oil; puts her paw again, the girl unlocks it, hides under the roof; the demon blows the wind, the girl giggles, the demon notices her; she says she has climbed on a pile of needles; pots; he can't; jugs; he climbs in and takes her away; the mother comes, goes looking for her, gives tsampas to the crow, the fox, the wolf, they go with her; first the wolf, then the fox distract the demon (he is afraid that the crow is afraid that the crow will spoil the skin of a supposedly dead fox), the girl's mother and the wolf take the girl out of the basket, put ice and thorns there; the demon puts the basket on the fire, the ice melts, he thinks that the girl pees; pricked; chases behind the fox; she appears to be another fox three times; the demon agrees to learn how to sift the sand (the fox covered his eyes), cook glue (filled his face), weave the basket (braided it in the basket, lowered it down the mountain, he drowned in the river); mother and daughter, fox, wolf and crow remained friends]: Kajihama 2004, No. 1:1-6; (cf. Clearly the same text; recorded from refugees? ; Sikkim's Tibetans [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 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 a stone with glue, rakshas sits down, ripped off his ass; the fox offers to climb into the basket to learn how to weave, descends from the mountain, the rakshas dies]: Krapivina 2001:51-65); toto [the parents died; the sister took care of the boy, but then left and never returned; he went to look for her, spent the night with the old woman and stayed in her house until he grew older; came to the king, got his youngest daughter; on the way back he does not know where to go: his own home; led wife to that old woman; a fox came; said that the witch killed the old woman, occupied her house and took her form; let the young man and wife come, not pretend, then dig holes in the yard, filling them with hot with coals; they will scream that the royal army is coming, the witch will run out, fall into a hole, she must be covered; that's what happened; the fox was the soul of that good old woman]: Majumdar 1991, No. 19:263-269; Sami 2015 [at the crows the nest is on the tree, and a black snake lives in the hollow of the tree; it eats eggs every time the female crows lay them; the male asks the jackal for help; he teaches what to do; the crows stole the gold necklace the princess was bathed and dropped into the hollow; the servant ran, saw the snake and killed her with a stick to get the necklace; the crows safely bred the chicks].

South Asia. Sindhi: Schimmel 1995, No. 31 [a young man makes a drink from hemp seeds, the jackal steals it; the man catches him, ties him to a pole, feeds him, but hits him every morning with an old stieblet; other jackals send an old respected man to find out what's going on; a tied jackal praises the owner, who feeds him for free, the visitor asks for a change of seats; when a person comes to beat him, the old The jackal asks him to let go - he is not a thief, but a friend of the jackal king; the man lets go; the jackal offered to fulfill his wish; the man asked him to marry the king's eldest daughter; says that another king asks his eldest daughter, otherwise she will go to war; the king agrees to give his daughter; the jackal tells the young man to sell both cows and buy good clothes; on the bridge, the jackal tells the young man to wait - he will send him a horse, but let him the young man refuses and demands an elephant; tells the king that the wedding procession that arrived along the river drowned, only one groom has escaped; the young man sends back a horse, a camel, arrives on an elephant; in the palace, the young man is strange behaves; the vizier advises to send him to bring a sea horse - if he is not a real king, the horse will kill him; the jackal tells the young man to climb a tree by the sea; the jackal chased the horse until he is exhausted and the young man was able to sit on it; out of fear he clung to the tree, tore it out, came to the king on horseback with a tree in his hands; the vizier recognized him as a hero, the king married him a daughter, built a palace for the young; the jackal returned to the thickets], 33 [cows were grazing in the grove; when the cow calved, the jackal ate the calf; the man was going to kill the jackal, he asked for mercy, he would repay kindly; the man's cow gave birth to a calf, that ran away, the mullah put him to his bull as if the bull had given birth; those who came agreed; the man called the jackal his witness; he was late, pretended to fall asleep; he and the other jackals extinguished the whole night burning river; king: you are lying! jackal: if the water does not burn, how can a bull give birth; the king gave a calf to a man]: 205-212, 214-216; Punjabi [the tiger begged the brahmana to release him from the trap, was going to eat it, allowed him to ask the opinion of three people he meets; banyan, buffalo, road confirm that gratitude does not exist; the jackal pretends not to understand anything, the tiger is trapped back]: Steel, Temple 1884, No. 12:116-120; Kumaoni [the wanderer spoke contemptuously of the fox, but the fox warned him what else he would need; in the village he tied his pony to an oil mill; people said that their crush gave birth to a pony; to man I had to carry (so that dogs would not attack) the fox to court as a witness; she dozed off in court: she extinguished the burning sea all night; the pressure could not give birth; the man got the pony back]: Upreti 1894:189; Nepalese: Sakya, Griffith 1980:53-55 [the tiger persuaded the brahman to let him out of the cage; he is about to eat it; the tree, the donkey confirm that there is no gratitude; the fox tells us to show how it happened, the tiger enters the cage, the brahmana closes it], 60-64 [the fox brought chickens to the beggar and then decided to marry him; lay down on the doorstep of the royal palace; the king swore to fulfill the fox's wish if she went off the road; the fox demanded the king's daughter; the king responded by demanding that there be at least 600 people in the wedding procession; the fox threw the clothes of the bathers into the water, they swam after her; the fox took their hats; set fire to bushes, the king thought that a procession with fireworks was moving; the fox said that everyone had drowned, brought two dozen hats; the fox came to the palace to the rich old woman, asked a shovel to dig a hole to hide from the robbers; the old woman asked to dig for her; the fox buried the old woman alive; the palace went to the former beggar and his wife; wanting to test the owner, the fox pretended to be dead; the owner told his wife to tie the fox's neck, drag it to the river and throw it into the water; the fox accused the man of ingratitude, the princess heard that her husband was poor, went back to her father; the man persuaded the fox to forgive him; he caught up princess, called the shoemaker's daughter; explained that he had only named the owner in a fit of anger; the princess returned], 149-152 [when the king saw the thieves, he went down to them, said that he was also a thief; a voice rang out jackal, one of the thieves said that they had a king in front of them; the king promised thieves peace and wealth for teaching him their art; this is the ability to put him to sleep, know where the treasures are, and discover any constipation; the fourth knows the language of animals (it was the jackal who told him that the king was in front of them), but if he revealed the secret, he would die in 7 days; the king promised to take care of his family, found out the secret; laughs at the deer's conversation with deer; wife demands to teach her animal language; the king is preparing to die; jackal: I control several jackals, and you listen to one absurd woman; tell her that the initiator of mystery must get 100 whipped; after the fifth, the wife asks for mercy, refuses her demand]; Uttar Pradesh (Mirzapur, Hindi): Rouse, Crooke 1899, No. 16 [fish {more like a crocodile} I found myself on the shore and persuaded a man to get off his horse and take it to the river - deeper; I was going to swallow a man; a wild apple tree (crab-apple) and an elephant say that gratitude does not exist; jackal pretends to want to understand everything thoroughly; tells the person to take the fish to where it was and leave it; later the fish reached the water and when the jackal came to drink, grabbed his leg; Jackal: Why did you grab the root? the fish let go of its leg; one day it went ashore and climbed into the jackal's lair when he was not there; the jackal came up, suspected something was amiss, called out: lair, lair! the fish decided that his lair should respond to the owner and responded; the jackal said he would return now, collected dry leaves and made a fire at the entrance; the fish roasted and the jackal ate it]: 165-171, 205 [man from Banya castes (merchants, merchants) pulled out a tiger stuck in the mud; he asks: should I eat him or his ox? the jackal acts as a judge, tells him to show where the tiger is stuck, leaves him to die]; northern India, Western Hindi texts [the merchant promises the beggar 20 rupees if he stays in the pond all night; he stood, looking at the light of a lamp, in a temple far away; the merchant refused to give money - the beggar was warmed by that light; the beggar went to meet the fox; she promised to help, but then the beggar must bring her to the place where she met him; let him tell the city to tie dogs: the king of the forest is coming; the fox gathers judges, hangs a pot of rice high on poles and makes a fire below; how can rice not to cook, and that man could not warm up; the man received the money and took the fox back]: Grierson 1909:478; India (Hindi) [the leopard persuaded the brahman to let him out of the cage; when he released him , the leopard is going to eat it; Banyanyu is a camel, an ox say that people themselves are unfair and ungrateful; the jackal wants to see how it happened; the leopard is caged again]: Starling and the Pea 1956 : 23-27; Assamese: Goswami 1960:80 [a fox eats sugar cane in a peasant's field; he pretended to be dead, grabbed a fox; she promises to marry him to the merchant's daughter; comes to the merchant, agrees pass off the daughter of a merchant's widowed servant as a "grandfather"; let them not beat drums at the wedding out of respect for the groom's guests; tells the peasant to let rice flour in banana bark cups along the river; the merchant sees cups and decides that the groom has invited many guests; in the evening, the fox gathers other foxes, gives each one a torch, tells them to go to the merchant's house; the drums are beating, the foxes run away, the fox accuses the merchant of contempt for to the groom; after the wedding, the fox ran to the peasants' hut, set it on fire, said that the house burned down with all its wealth; the merchant orders to build a new house, gives money; the couple are happy], Goswami 1960 [once in trap, the tiger persuaded the man to let him go; he is going to eat it; the tree, the stream agree with the tiger; the fox wants to see how it happened; when the tiger is trapped again, he advises the man to beat him to death]: 85; Bengalis: Porozhnyakov 1990 [same or very similar text in Siddiqui, Lerch 1998:82-90); The Jackal promises the poor weaver to marry him to the king's daughter; narwhal bethel, chews it on the female half palace, tells the princess that bethel grows like grass in the kingdom of his master; asks jackals, crows and sparrows to make a fuss, the king thinks that many thousands of guests are on the way, agrees with Jackal that the groom will arrive without a lush retinue; at night, the weaver compares the ceiling beams with the details of the loom; in the morning, the Jackal explains that the best weavers in the world live around the groom's palace; the weaver brings his wife to his hut; the princess covers herself with dough, picks up pieces, they turn into gold coins; she settles weavers around, feeds the cattle with betel, shows all this to the father who has arrived; the king and the Jackal are happy]: 6-11; Bhattacharya 2006 [the tiger persuaded the brahman to let him out of the cage; he was about to eat it; a protective dam in the field (jellied rice), banyans say that people themselves are ungrateful and the tiger can eat brahmana; the jackal wants to check how things happened and whether the tiger was really sitting in the cage and the brahmana released him or vice versa; when the tiger entered the cage again, the jackal locked it and told the brahmana to move on his business - for a holiday at the royal palace]: 180-181; Strokes 1879 {probably Bengalis} [the tiger begged the man to pull the splinter out of his paw; then he was going to eat it; then the jackal and the dog appeared ; the jackal offered the tiger the best way to eat a man; let him bring the bag, get into it, and he throw the man in his mouth; when the tiger was in the bag, the man, the jackal and the dog tied him up and killed him tiger]: 17; Marathi: D'Penha 1890, No. 5 (Mumbai) [see motive K119; the fox ate melons, the owner caught him, he married him to the princess]: 29-32; Frere 1868, No. 14 [the brahman agreed to release the tiger from the cage, he is about to eat it; the banyan, the camel, the ox, the eagle, the crocodile say that there is no gratitude; the jackal pretends to see how it happened; the tiger stays in the cage, the brahmana and the jackal leave on his own business]: 198-202 (apparently similar texts in Dexter 1938:60-62 (How the Fox settled an Arhument) and 82-85 [The Judgment of Fox]); konkani (Goa) [a fox steals sweet potatoes from the field; a peasant made a stuffed straw, covered it with glue; the fox hit it with its paw, stuck, then with other paws; the peasant had already raised a stick to kill the fox, but he promised to marry him to the princess; on condition that he should receive a royal funeral ; brought a hundred elephants, horses and peacocks from the forest; ordered jewelry for the princess for the jeweler; dressed in luxurious clothes and sitting on an elephant, he came to the king; said that elephants, horses and peacocks were presented by the king, the ruling in the West; tells his forest friends to build a palace for the royal son-in-law; wanting to test the former peasant, the fox pretended to be dead; he tells his servants to throw carrion; the fox accuses him of ingratitude; forgives; when he really died, he was buried with honors]: Rodrigues 2020:189-191; Santals: Bodding 1925, No. 1 [husband and wife went to visit her parents; husband in front, wife behind; bhut (evil spirit, mortgaged dead) took the image of her husband, grabbed the woman, said it was his wife; the jackal promised to settle the dispute; told the woman to pour oil out of the jug; whoever gets inside is the husband; bhut climbed in, husband plugged his neck; the jackal ordered him to leave the jug and move on; (translated to Zograf 1971, No. 18:64-66)], 4 [when dying, the father advises his son to get a job with an influential person; he sees how the king is being carried in palanquin, the jackal crosses the road, the king goes out and bows to the jackal (to appease him; if the jackal crosses the road, it's a bad sign); the young man comes to the jackal's cave; the jackals and the jackaleha are afraid to go out The jackal gives the young man a cow - whatever you ask will come out of her mouth; the young man gets food, dishes, etc.; the woman sees it, her husband has changed the cow; calls people as witnesses, the young man gets jackals; the jackal: my wife relieves me three times more often than me for having once passed a wrong verdict; the judges were afraid that this would happen to them, told them to give the young man his cow], 6 [the main story is the same; the jackals promise that an unrighteous judge will sit in crap in the next world]: 3-9, 33-39, 59-91; Oriya [the tiger begged the man to release him from the trap, was going to eat him; tree, ox say there is no gratitude; jackal pretends not to believe that the tiger could fall into the trap; the tiger climbs into it again and stays there]: Mohanti 1975:117-118; dombo [a tiger settled in the forest near the village, began to hunt people, especially on women and girls; he took off jewelry and kept it in vessels (gold in one, silver in the other, the rest in the third); people complained to the king, who ordered to make a trap, put a goat in it; a tiger He continued to hunt people, but when they fled the village, he was tempted by a goat and caught; a beggar came up; the tiger promised him his accumulated wealth, if he freed him, swore not to touch him; the beggar freed him, the tiger was going to eat it; agreed to ask the people he met if he had the right to do so; the cow, the fig tree, replied that he had; the fox ordered to show how it happened; the tiger remained trapped, the fox told Report this to the king; he sent warriors to kill the tiger and pick up the treasures; endowed the beggar with land and cattle; the beggar and the fox remained friends]: Tauscher 1959, No. 1:13-17; Oraons: Hahn 1906, No. 17 [ the man bought oxen at the bazaar, spent the night near the village on the way back, tying oxen to a butter press; in the morning the owner said that his oxen were given birth to them by a press; the village council agreed with the owner; The jackal first asks why the person let dogs on him; then agrees to help; when he comes to the advice, he says that he was late: the pond was on fire, he collected and ate fried fish; he is objected, the jackal replies that and the presses do not give birth to oxen; the owner took them away], 33 [a poor brahmana (Priester) caught a turtle to kill and eat; it asked to let it go, promised to transport it across the river; she was going to drown it in the middle of the river; the tree replies that it should be so; the jackal (a fox in the text, but means a jackal) pretends to hear hard, asks him to swim closer, tells the brahman to jump ashore; the turtle promises revenge; the jackal comes to the water, the turtle grabs his paw, he says that it has grabbed the root, the turtle lets go of its leg; tells the children to go to the jackal to say that the turtle is dead; the jackal comes up and says the deceased's eyes must be opened; the turtle opens its eyes, the jackal breaks its head with a stone]: 32-33, 62-64; haria [the crocodile agreed to transport a man across the river; in the middle of the river he gathered eat; the man suggested that the fox should judge who was right; the fox told both to go ashore; the man ran away, the crocodile promised revenge on the fox; hid at the shore, grabbed the fox by the leg; the fox: instead of my leg grabbed the root; the crocodile released the fox's leg; the next time, coming to the river, the fox says: it's strange why crabs don't swim on the surface; the crocodile stuck out his nose, the fox ran away; the next day the fox they wonder why crabs don't make gurgling sounds in the water; the crocodile gurgles; the crocodile collected the fruits of the tree and hid under them; the fox: it's strange, the fruits are always scattered, but here in a heap; the crocodile began scatter fruits; hides in a fox hole; fox: hello nora! It's weird that Nora doesn't say "What?" ; the crocodile answers; the fox promises to bring crabs to the burrow, brings dry grass, makes a fire, the crocodile suffocates]: Roy 1937:438-441; condas [the tiger persuaded the brahmana to release him from the trap; I'm going to eat; the mango tree, the cow says the tiger has the right to do so; the fox asks to show how it happened; the tiger is trapped, the fox and the brahman are gone]: Schulze 1922, No. 5:40-43; himachali plowmen [jackal marries weaver to princess]: Dracott 1906:125-131; Tamils: Kudinova, Kudinov 1995 [brahman agrees to release the tiger from the cage; he is about to eat it; agrees to ask for an opinion the jackal pretends to know how it happened from the very beginning; the tiger enters the cage, the brahmana locks it, the tiger dies of hunger and thirst]: 215-219; Robertson 1885, No. 4 [brahmana agrees let the tiger out of its cage; he's going to eat it; banyan, camel, buffalo, eagle, crocodile say people are angry and ungrateful; the fox pretends to know what happened from the very beginning; the tiger enters the cage, the brahmana locks it]: 372-363; Sinhales: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 45 [the crocodile was in a dry place, the man agreed to carry him to the river; in the water, the crocodile grabbed him by hand; agreed to ask others if evil can pay for good; cow: man is an ungrateful creature; jackal: I must see how it happened; man takes the crocodile back, the jackal tells him to beat him to death], 46 [the servant bought a horse for the rich man; after spending the night outside the oil press, tied it to the press; the owner of the press took the horse, said that his abs gave birth to it; the judge agreed; the jackal promised to help servant; came to court two days later; one day I looked at the sky (it is unreliable - it is sun, then rain), the second at the ground (the same - pits, hills), and today I looked at the fire, you can believe it; I yawn, therefore that he was awake - watched the fish come out of the water, split into two teams, played on the plain; referee: this is a lie; jackal: but the abs cannot give birth to a horse either; the judge returned the horse to the servant]: 91-92, 92-96; agaria [The jackal asked a man riding a horse to help him reach a dead calf lying in a stream; promised to repay kindly; the man helped the jackal; tied a horse to a pole in town; owner The pole said that his pole gives birth to a horse every year, and this is his horse; everyone agrees with him; the jackal pretends to fall asleep in court: he did not sleep last night because the lake was burning and he ate all night fried fish; he is told that the lakes do not burn, he says that poles do not give birth either; the man got his horse back]: Elwin 1944, No. 5:247-248; gondas [dying, the father tells his son to go everywhere , but to mock the Rewa kingdom; but the young man went there; asked the boys to collect him a dung for the fire, promised to give them "something or something else"; the young man rode away from them; went to a crooked old woman; she said that his father borrowed her eye and did not return it, so she would take the young man's eye; the young man promised to bring her eye to the old woman in a few days; but he had to leave the horse as collateral; when he heard the young man's story, The jackal asked him to bring him two bottles of alcohol and chicken - then he would help; taught him what to do with an old woman; but the boys throwing crushed peas is "something"; they rushed to pick it up; taking Awl, told the old woman to give her second eye for comparison - "father has many eyes in his chest"; the old woman agreed, the young man pulled out her eye and rode away]: Elwin 1944, No. 26.3:486-488.

The Balkans. Hungarians: Gidash 1953 [the old man hears a bird singing, as if he is getting younger, telling his sons to get it; the eldest, puts a dog on the fox, which turns him, his horse and dog into stone; the same middle; the youngest calls the fox to dinner; she leads him to the Blue Kingdom, tells him to take the bird from the hollow of a pear tree, not to touch the pears; the ban is broken, the tree raises the alarm, the king lets the young man go with the condition to bring the girl from the shore of the Blue Sea; the fox makes a boat out of burdock, offers the girl shoes, they take her away; the fox takes the form of a girl, gives herself to the king, becomes a fox again, runs away; the young man takes the girl and the bird, asks his brothers to be revived, they cut off his head; the fox takes the healing herb from the snake, revives it; the fox feels his gratitude, pretending to be dead; the young man gathers To bury her with dignity, she says goodbye to him; the young man brings the bird to his father, marries the girl he brought, the brothers are expelled]: 95-102 (=Hungarian... 1955:69-80); Ortutai 1974, No. 61 [the poor man laughs when he sees how the hare fights with the bear; the offended bear promises to eat it with his cows; the fox promises to help if the poor man gives her 9 chickens and a rooster; the poor man does not have them, but he promises; in the evening the fox blows, pretending that hunters are coming; the bear asks to hide it in the bag; the fox: what's in the bag? poor man: a burnt log; fox: well rubani; a man killed a bear; after bringing a fox, the poor man went into the house and began to bark: hounds; the fox ran away]: 430-432; Kovács 1987, No. 155 [the man lifted a stone, the one who crushed the snake is going to kill him, agrees to look for someone who will solve the case; a horse, a dog curse a person for ingratitude; the fox to whom the man promised a chicken wants to see how everything is it was; the snake climbs under the stone again, the man crushed it; when the fox comes for the chicken, the man (or his wife, maid) hits it]: 277; the Serbs [the bear met a man in the forest; he asked let him say goodbye to his family; the cart and oxen are left to the bear; the fox promises to help and teaches him what to do; a voice is heard; a bear: who is this? man: hunter; bear: where do I hide? man: get in the bag; fox: what's in the bag? person: oats; fox: can you hit the bag with a club? man: hit 10 times; then: wheat in the bag (also 10 times); barley; beans; bear died]: Eschker 1992, No. 62:234-235; Bosnians [man hears chicks squeaking, poked with a stick, the snake slipped out of the nest , wrapped around her neck; the man asks those he meets to judge; the first said that the snake has the right to bite; the fox says he does not dare to judge in the clearing; tells the snake to stand next to the person; tells the man to beat a snake with a stick]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:390; Albanians: Lambertz 1952 [the princess agrees to marry only someone who can hide from her; she has a spyglass through which you can see the earth and sky; a poor young man throws a fish on the shore into the water, it gives him flint - throw it into the water, I'll come to the rescue; releases a bird from his snare (gives a feather); a fox from a trap (fur); a young man hides in his stomach fish, behind the clouds on the eagle's back - the princess sees it; the fox hides it in an apple next to the princess; not finding the young man in the clouds, etc., she puts the apple in her bosom; the young man appears]: 134-138; Serkova 1989: 236-237 [Hunters run after the wolf, the old man agrees to hide it in the bag; when he releases it, the wolf is going to eat it; fox: you have to see everything with your own eyes; when the wolf is back in the bag, tell the fox to beat him him to death], 264-267 [=Pedersen 1898, No. 7:49-53; a peasant saves a snake from the fire; it is going to sting and strangle it; the horse, the ox say that the snake is right - people are also ungrateful; the fox is a peasant promises to eat chickens; wants to see how it happened; the snake crawls on the tree, the fox tells the peasant to run away; the wife does not give the peasant the chickens he promised the fox, tells him to put the dog in the bag; the fox refuses herself get into the bag, offers to open it; the dog rushes after her, she runs away; regrets that she contacted people in her old age]; Macedonians: Martin 1955:47-64 [the widow's son is strong; played with the prince, He hit him, he covered in blood, ran to complain; his mother tells her son to run; he comes to a cave by the lake, where there are many ducks; prepares firewood for the winter; allows him to overwinter at home, feeds ducks for a fox and a wolf, bear, eagle, hare; in spring, a fox offers to marry him to a princess; a bear and a wolf harnessed themselves to plow; a hare got through the gate and opened it; the king, his wife and daughter went out to watch the animals plow ; the eagle took the princess, brought the widow's son; the princess was found, but she refused to return; the king sent an army, but the animal army defeated him; the king asked the witch for help; she asked her princess shelter; said she lived in a clay pot; the princess did not believe it; she climbed into the pot, dragged the princess with her, the pot flew to the king; but the eagle took her away again; the king agreed to marry her son widows; everyone came to live in the palace, including animals], 65-72 [the fisherman did not catch anything all day; a man came up, gave the fisherman some money, asked him to throw a net for him; a sealed copper vessel came across ; the man opened it, a snake crawled out from there, wrapped the man around the neck, asked whether to strangle him or eat it; she takes revenge on people, because one of them put her in a vessel, but agreed to ask the opinion of others; the dog, the horse say that the person is ungrateful and does not deserve gratitude; the fox pretends not to believe that the snake could fit into the vessel; it climbs, the fox demands to hide its head, man closes the vessel; promises the fox 10 chickens; the man's wife is dissatisfied, but he puts the chickens in a bag; the wife secretly replaced the chickens with a dog; the fox opened the bag, the dog tore it; the man quarreled with his wife forever]; Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 155 [a man saves a snake from a fire or a wolf from a trap; a snake or wolf is going to kill him; a horse, a dog, a wolf and other animals say that a person ungrateful; the fox for promising to give her chicken or chickens demands to be shown how it happened; the snake (wolf) is trapped again, the man kills them; the man or his wife puts a dog in a bag instead of a chicken, she kills the fox], 155* [the wolf asks the boar to pull it out of the trap; he pulls it out, the wolf is going to eat it; the fox undertakes to judge them - let the wolf get into the trap again; he stays there]: 68, 69; Moldovans: Botezatu 1981 [a man hid a wolf in a bag that hunters were chasing; the wolf is going to eat it; the dog, the donkey answer that the wolf is right; the fox pretends not to believe: how could the wolf fit in a bag; the wolf got into the bag, the man beat him to death; promises the fox a bag of chickens, brings a dog in a bag; the fox has hardly run away, since then it has been stealing chickens to get its share of kindness]: 376- 378; Gagauz people [the snake wrapped around the man's neck; the wolf refused to judge because the man sent dogs to him; the fox demands that the snake first get off the man, then tell the man to kill the snake; a man promises her chickens; his wife tells her to put a dog in a bag instead of chickens; she caught up with the fox, the man took off the fox's skin]: Moshkov 1904, No. 145:214; Greeks: Hahn 1864 (1), No. 61 [the hunter let her go to sea the fish on the shore gave scales; killed a snake that was going to devour the eagle's chicks, which gave a feather; she did not shoot the fox, it gave fur; the princess would marry someone who could hide from her losers are executed; the hunter summoned the fish with scales, which hid it in her mouth; the eagle hid it under her wing in the clouds; both times the princess sees the hunter in her mirror; foxes dig a passage under the chair in which The princess is sitting, she does not see the hunter; he marries her and gets the throne]: 301-306; Legrand 1881 [the hunter pulled a snake out of the stone, it is going to eat it; the dog, the horse say that the snake has it right, because people are not grateful either; the fox wants to see how it happened; the snake is back under the stone]: 187-189; Megas 1970, No. 10 [the children wanted to kill the snake, the poor man bought it; the snake grew up, rushed at the man, began to strangle; sheep and oxen say that the snake is right, there is no gratitude; the man hints to the fox that he will give her chickens; the fox says he does not believe that the snake could fit into stiffening; it crawls there, a man kills her; a man tells his wife to put chicken with chickens for the fox, she puts the dog with puppies; the dog tears off the fox's tail; after running away, the fox blames itself: her parents were not judges, why she got involved in this]: 11-13; Moldovans [the prince breaks an old woman's jug with a stone, she tells him to go around the earth, enter the immortal kingdom, but there is no peace there either; the old man tells him to say hello on the road with animals, greeting the snake, he will let him into the castle; in the castle, another old man gives a ball, tells him to follow him; the acorn promises that the young man will die when the oak tree that grew out of this acorn decays; the same grape seed (will drink wine as long as the grapes that will grow from it are alive); the eagle asks not to shoot at it, heal it; the king of fish will push it into the water; the fox - save it from dogs; the mosquito - remove it from webs; the thread ends at the castle; the bride will be given if the young man hides; the eagle hides behind the clouds (the eldest daughter finds it), the fish in the sea (the middle one finds it), the fox among the flowers (the youngest picks a flower , puts it in the basket, does not recognize it); the king gives it if the young man identifies it among three (the mosquito sits on the youngest's nose); the king does not tell you to go out the gate through which the young man entered; he goes out, sees the thread his ball, decides to go visit his parents; the vine has grown, the oak is huge, the dragon has grown old, his father's castle has fallen apart (many years have passed); the 300-year-old hermit says that once everyone died of the plague; the young man goes back, sees a mortar, Death comes out from under it; the young man runs away, the old man gives him a belt, the oak gives him an iron staff, the vine gives them to Death, let him come when he wears out, when the sword rust ; time comes, the young man runs to his wife, she grabs his hand, Death by the leg; the wife turns it into a golden apple, throws the Evening Star into the sky); sisters turn her into an apple, throw it (Morning Star) Star); Death turns the king and sisters into stone pillars]: Botezatu 1981:27-37;.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya, recorded on a steamer on the river. Pinega, N. Utkin is from Kemi, 1921) [Gregory Vysota lives in a dirty hut and never washes. The fox promises to marry him a royal daughter, he does not believe it. The fox goes to the king, bows from the GW, asks the measure to weigh the pearls, the king tells the servants to leave some resin on the measure, and the Fox stuck one pearl. He comes to the king again, asks the quadrangle to measure silver, sticks a piece of silver. He returns the quadrangle, brings the king a herd of forest animals from GW, marries GW for the princess, and the king invites GW. The fox finds him a shirt, he washes himself, sits in the bushes by the road, the Fox tells the king that robbers attacked them on the way and took away their property, asks for clothes and a carriage, and the king gives them. The princess falls in love with a washed and elegant GW. After the feast they go to the groom. The fox runs forward and warns the shepherds that the king with thunder and the queen with lightning are coming and will burn them if they say that the land belongs to the Serpent, let them say GW. The fox runs to the house of ZL, warns that a king with thunder and a queen with lightning are coming to him, and advises him to hide in a hollow. The tsar and princess and groom learn from the shepherds on the way that they are passing through the GW lands and coming to the ZL house. The fox suggests burning a tree in which the hollow, the Serpent dies]: Ozarovskaya 2009, No. 29:281-283; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Ust-Tsilma, a literate, Old Believer Olga Yermolina, tells a lot fairy tales that ridicule the Orthodox Church, 1979) [Fedor Vysokoy catches a fox in his mouth, wants to sell it and marry with the proceeds. Lisa asks her to feel sorry for her and promises to help Fedor. She steals money (from old women in baths), asks the tsar for a measure, measure Fyodor Vysokoy's money, puts coins under the hoops and returns it. In the forest, he calls the wolf to go with her to the king for a feast, who gathers a pack of wolves, and the fox tells the king that Fyodor sends animals as a gift. He also collects 40 foxes and leads to the king. She leads Fedor to marry the tsar, puts him on the ship's bottom, tells the king that their ship has sunk, and only she and Fyodor have escaped. The king gives him festive clothes. He marries the princess, while the fox runs around the lands of Snake Gorynych, warns the shepherds (they herd cows, horses, sheep) that they must tell the tsar that they work on the land of Fyodor Vysoky, otherwise their king will kill. He runs to Snake Gorynych's house, tells his whole family to hide under straw, because the king is following him to kill him. She sets fire to straw and orders her servants to prepare food. She also returns after Fyodor's wedding with the princess, takes them and the tsar to the house of Serpent Gorynych, and on the way, the shepherds inform the tsar that he is traveling through Fyodor's lands. He occupies the Snake's house and becomes the owner]: Karnaukhova 1934, No. 159:327-331; Russians (North - Olonetskaya?) [The fox steals chickens from Kuzma; he waited for her, caught her; the fox promises to make him happy, tells him to fry a chicken for her; tells the Wolf that she feasted at the king; leads forty forty wolves to the king, says that Kuzma Skorobogaty sent; the same bears; sables and martens; the tsar tells Lisa that he is ready to give his daughter for the COP; the Fox cut her bridges, the COP fell into the water; Lisa asks the tsar to send the Constitutional Court new clothes; rejects ordinary, requires a front door; the Constitutional Court takes his wife home; the Fox answers the shepherds that they are herding sheep, cows, horses not Serpent Gorchnych, but CS; otherwise the Tsar Fire and the Lightning Queen are going; the ZG says the same, advises to hide in straw, sets fire, ZG dies; the Constitutional Court and his wife remain in the golden palace of the ZG]: Karnaukhova 1948:135-141; Russians (Vologodskaya) [two smart brothers and a third fool take turns guarding the haystack; the fool sees when the fox grabbed some hay and ran away; set a trap for the third time; the fox asks her to let her go, promises to make her king and marry her lordly daughter; let her call himself not Ivanushka the Fool, but Ivanushka Korolevich; meets a bear; "This is how I am trying for you and looking for you, because the prince of the local estate is making a great feast today and wants to see you bears at it"; bear gathered the bears, the fox brought them to the palace: I.-Korolevich marries and sends animals as a gift; the same with wolves; ("I am looking for you wolves, but I can't find you; see how I'm trying for you"); with foxes; prince: I. wanted to incognito check whether the princess was really so good; went alone with her servant, fell asleep; the robbers killed the servant and robbed him; the prince sent a carriage with clothes for I.; on the way, the fox teaches manners; after the wedding, they go to Ivan's kingdom; the fox runs ahead; the cow shepherds say that they are the Rasim state, and their king is Rigen; the fox tells them to answer that they are citizens of the Rasim State, citizens Ivan Korolevich, otherwise he, I., a great hero, will chop them up; Regen advises him to hide, and let the ministers go out to greet I.-Korolevich; he will not become angry and leave; when the guests arrive and feast , the fox tells I. to shoot through the hollow; "I think this hollow is in the wrong place; however, I want to see if a bullet falls through it"; although the ministers knew, they shot through it; then had fun for several months; and the fox lived alone the rest of the time for her services]: Burtsev 1895, No. 45:248-265; Russians (Pskov) [The man cultivates the field for turnips; the bear asks for share; draw lots to see who gets the bottom and who gets the top; the bear gets the upper hand; the next year the man sows wheat; the bear demands the bottom, gets roots; threatens to kill the man; he asks to go home say goodbye, meets a fox, she promises to help for the chicken and the rooster; rattles in bags of iron, pretending to be approaching hunters; the bear asks the man to cut off his paws and say that he is dead; man kills a bear; a fox demands the promised chickens; a man brings two dogs in a bag; dogs drive a fox into a hollow; the fox asks its legs, eyes how they helped her escape; the tail replies that he was hanging out and clung, the fox gives it to dogs; dogs pull the fox by the tail]: Smirnov 1917, No. 105:348-350; Russians (Moscow) [plowman wolf: I'll eat your mare; man: lie down - I'll plow, I'll give it myself; fox: What's in between? - A stump. - If there was a stump, an ax would be stuck in it. Wolf: stick an ax; the man hacked the wolf; the man promises the fox a couple of chickens; he put two dogs in the bag himself; the fox hid in a hole, asks his eyes, ears, legs how they helped her; tail; he replies that got confused and interfered; the fox stuck it out, the dogs pulled the fox by the tail, tore it]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 13:43; Russians (Gorkovskaya) [Ivan Pechinsky is lying on the stove; the fox promises to marry him ; Mikola Gorsky and Tsar Thunder live nearby; fox to the Thunder King: IP marries, but his father MG keeps all his wealth in oak; King Thunder sends clothes for individual entrepreneurs; the fox warns the shepherds: to answer that they are grazing surrender your son to MG, otherwise the Thunder King will kill with thunder and ignite with lightning; after the wedding, they come to MG; the fox asks the Thunder King if he can hit the oak tree; the oak is in pieces; it was the fox who quarreled with MG and took revenge on him so] : Borovik, Mirer 1939, No. 17:21-24; Russians (Pskov, Tula, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Hutsulshchina, Ternopil, Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Poltava, Chernigovskaya), Belarusians ["Old bread and salt is forgotten": a person saves a wolf (bear, snake); when the danger passes, he wants to eat it (strangle, sting); turn to oncoming animals- judges; a fox makes the wolf return to its previous position (in a bag); a man kills a wolf, and at the same time kills a fox]: SUS 1979, No. 155:78; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Khust district, p. Gorinchevo) [in the 77th state, behind glass mountains, behind milk streams, grandfather and woman live, there are no children; the old woman asks her grandfather to make a child and a cradle out of wood; he cuts down a sycamore, combs the boy, him they call Yavorovy Ivan (YAI); makes a cradle, a woman shakes her, the child does not come to life, grows up; two years later he goes to the forest, helps his grandfather; snakes (shufflers) took three royal daughters; their savior will receive one of them and the state; YAI goes in search, meets a gypsy, becomes friends; they find a hole, wind a rope, fix them on the stove; one will take the youngest daughter, the second will take the middle daughter, the eldest will serve; YAI goes down, hears a girl singing, she is in a hut rotating on a chicken leg; girl: her husband has five heads, he has strong water; YAI drinks water; an iron club falls into the yard, YAI throws her back, snake sees that someone strong is in his yard; comes in, says he smells sinful; wife: this is my brother; they shake hands; the serpent eats melted tin dumplings, drinks water, then goes to fight; snakes He hammers JAI knee-deep into the ground, YI to the waist, the serpent to the arm, YAI to the neck; begins to beat off his heads with a club, but they come back again; the girl sprinkles ashes on them, the head cannot grow, the snake kill; the girl says that she and YAI belong to each other; YAI tells me to collect everything valuable, lock the house, wait for him; puts on a snake's clothes, takes his sword, comes to her middle sister; she also plays harmonica and sings; her husband has ten heads, drinks special wine; YAI swaps barrels of water and wine; when approaching, the snake throws a club of 12 quintals; YAI drinks wine, throws away the club; (hereinafter the same as in YAI changes his sword to the one that the stronger snake has, comes to the third hut; there is a younger princess; the snake yells at his wife who found her with her lover, breathes fire from 12 mouths; Yai hides from by the door; when the heads show up in the hut, tells her sword to cut them; the elder princess puts all the jewelry in cream, the middle princess puts them in an apple, the youngest in a walnut, Yai puts them in her pocket, sends them upstairs the royal daughters, the gypsy pulls them out and goes away with them; Yai walks along the path day and night, comes to the hut, there is a woman, she has eyelashes to the ground; she calls him a dog son, agrees to serve, tells her to take a pitchfork and raise her eyelids, otherwise she does not see him; YAI raises her eyelashes to the woman, she recognizes him as YAI: the sycamore from which he was made knows him; she will take care of the mares: herd three times and bring back, otherwise your head is down; mares are women's daughters; the woman gives YAI a sleepy cake; when YAI wakes up, there are no mares; the fox asks for a cake, tells me to go home and become in a manger: mares have become chickens, the fox begins to torture them, the chickens run into the barn, become mares, YI ties them up, reports to the woman, who hits them with an iron pitchfork for letting themselves be caught, tells them what they should do; on the second the day is still the same, the wolf promises to help if YAI treats him to bread; explains that mares have become crows; the old horse lying on the manure will say everything to do; horse: there is a twig in its tail, they need wave and say: "Stay in place"; three crows sitting in a tree fly into the barn, become mares; the woman hits them with an iron pitchfork: they probably sleep with Ivan, love him, want to destroy her; On the third day, YAI gives a cake to the bear; he advises him to go home, there is an ox on the second pile of manure, he will explain what to do; the ox tells him to take two twigs from its tail, one wave to the left, and the other on the right, until the mares appear, ask the woman for an old horse for his service; the mares turn into crayfish, swim from pool to pool, YAI hits them with twigs, turns them back into mares; the woman tears her hair, tells him to ask what YAI wants; he asks the old horse; the horse advises the woman to bow down, the woman spits after him, he has time to close the door, otherwise he would burn down; the horse asks how to go - in the wind or against winds, soars up, asks to see what's behind them; YAI sees a black cloud, it's a woman, a horse tells you to throw the comb (thickets from ground to clouds); the cloud is almost catching up, but they cross the border of the earth; woman screams terribly, falls to dust; the horse offers to go to the royal city; woman: three royal daughters have returned, the wedding is being prepared, the gypsy takes the youngest; YAI is hired by a shoemaker; princess ordered to make shoes like they had not done before; Yai takes out her younger sister's shoes out of the walnut, hangs them on a carnation; in the morning the younger princess comes and tells the shoemaker that he did not do it, but she also it is necessary to go to the tailor; YAI runs to the tailor, takes out his dress from the walnut; the princess calls the craftsmen for her wedding; YAI tells the horse to climb into his left ear, there are beautiful clothes; they fly to the palace; gypsies to the king: this is an angel going to the wedding; when she sees YAI, the bride cries for joy, but the gypsy does not confess; YAI puts plum, apple and nut on the table; the older sisters take out their wealth, and the youngest's nut is empty; she Understands everything; gypsies are executed, YAI marries a younger princess]: Lintur 1969:151-160; Northern Ukrainians (Chernigov): Berezovsky 1979, No. 221 (Kozeletsky u.) [the wolf asks to hide it from hunters and dogs; the man hides it in a bag; when he releases it, the wolf is going to eat it; the fox pretends not to believe that the wolf may have been in the bag; the wolf goes there climbs in, the man kills him; the fox asks for chickens, put a stud in "on wheels"; the man puts three dogs there; the fox opens, the dogs are behind her, she hides in a hole, asks for parts of her body, how they helped to escape; says to his tail that he just got confused, sticks her out of the hole, dogs pull her by the tail, kill her]: 256-257; Rudchenko 1869, No. 8 [the man plowed in the field; a bear came, said what the ox would eat; the man persuaded him not to eat the ox until it passed the furrow; the bear lay down on the cart; the fox ran up and asked what was on the cart; the bear asked the man to say it was a deck; the man did did; the fox said that an ax would then be stuck; the bear told me to stick in the ax; the man hacked it; the fox asked what the man would give her; he called her with him; said he would give chickens; the fox told bring them all to her; the man put three chickens and a dog in the bag; the fox said to release the chickens one at a time, caught them all; the man released the dog, it chased the fox; the fox ran into the hole; the dog got up above the entrance; the fox asked her eyes what they were doing when she ran away; they said they watched how close they would get to the hole so that the dog would not catch up; the fox said she would buy them glasses; asked her legs what they were they did; they replied that they jumped and did not stumble to prevent the dog from catching up; the fox said that he would buy them shoes; then asked the tail; he replied that he was dangling and clinging to the bush and then to the stump so that the dog caught up with her; the fox stuck out its tail and told the dog to bite it off; barely escaped in the toga; a man came, decided to dig it out; went home for a spade; left an empty jug at the hole, directed against winds; the wind was buzzing, the fox thought it was barking; looked out and saw a jug; said: "Dak se ti me? Well, I'll give you!" ; tied him with a rope to his neck, carried him to drown; the jug began to gurgle; the fox told him not to ask - it would not help; the jug was filled with water, began to pull it; the fox: "Tyu is stupid! I'm crazy, but woon is already good!" ; went on, saw the balalaika, started playing, saying: "Beautiful voice, damn thought!"] : 17-18; Ukrainians [the person wanted to know what ingratitude is; the snake is crushed by a stone, asks for its release; he frees, she wants to strangle him; the wolf says that the snake is right; the fox, To whom the man promised a chicken, wants to know how it happened; the snake is again under the stone, the fox goes to the man's house, the man's wife killed her]: Pankeev 1992:53-54; Poles (incl. Kashubov - Weiherowo Dargolewo, by Lorenz) [a man has freed a snake (snake, bear) from the trap; he is going to eat him or his horse; the person suggests asking other animals who is right; everyone replies that there is no justice; the philosopher or fox says that it is necessary to first familiarize yourself with the situation; the snake is pressed down again with a stone, etc.; the rescued person promised the fox chickens, but he deceived it]: Krzyżanowski 1980:221-222.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [The fox eats the poor shepherd's grapes; he guards grapes, grabs and beats Lisa; she promises to fulfill his every request; he wants to marry the daughter of the padishah; the fox comes to the padishah on behalf of the rich Besh-Salkim-Bey; he is ready to give his daughter if the groom brings the heads of the seven-headed Azhdaga; fleeing from dogs, the Fox enters the Azhdagi cave; says to what he has taken up arms against him a myriad army, advises them to hide in the oven, sets fire to straw, Azhdaga suffocates from the smoke; the fox tells the shepherd that he will help him get Azhdakhi's heads if he does not throw it away to eat after her death jackals; the shepherd brings heads and skin, marries the daughter of the padishah; a year later, the Fox tests the former shepherd, pretends to be dead; he tells him to throw this carrion away three times; supposedly dead Fox comes to life , the palace disappears, the shepherd has an old hut with a vine]: Birzgal 1992, No. 18:236-244; Stavropol Turkmens: Bagriy 1930 (2): 74-77 [Dzhigit became friends with the fox, asks to find him a bride; The fox began to marry the khan's daughter; he sent people to meet him; Lisa stole a hundred hats, threw them into the river, explained that the groom's retinue had drowned; the khan believes he gives new rich clothes; the fox warns not to hide bread, do not marvel at the gems; he violates prohibitions, Lisa explains that the owner marvels at such poor clothes, hid bread for dogs; the fox comes to the village of heroes, says that the khan is going, they are hiding in straw, the Fox sets it on fire, their property goes to the horseman; the fox pretends to be dead to test the horseman's loyalty; he orders to throw the dead meat away; the fox runs to the remaining hero, orders to kill the horseman; the horseman, seeing a hero with a fox, shouts to Lisa to lead him faster; the hero gets frightened, runs, kills Lisa when he stumbles upon her; the horseman threw the fox on the big road, happy with his wife], 114-119 [old man pulls the human liver out of the well, throws it to the dog; pulls out the old woman; she demands her liver back; does not agree to take the liver of the old man's wife, agrees to take his son's liver; old people they migrate, leave the golden alchiki in the old place, send the son for them; the stunted foal is called to take him, turns into a horse; teaches what to do; the young man says he cannot get down, an old woman who cannot serve; the young man says that his father is coming, he will give; while the old woman looks around, grabs the alchiki, jumps away; stops three times, each time the owner's dog has a puppy, the young man takes it; not knowing whether he stays with the old woman's son; he asks to keep the dogs at home; an old woman appears, the young man climbs a tree, the old woman pulls out two teeth, turns them into an ax and a chisel, cuts a tree; a fox calls to cut for it, carries an ax and a chisel; an old woman pulls out two teeth, they turn into an ax and a chisel; the same episode with the Wolf; the old woman cuts again; the boy ties bells to the crane, tells you to fly to the camp; three dogs come running, tear up an old woman]; Kalmyks [eight brothers marry eight sisters; the youngest ninth brother is Iestir; the Serpent orders to send he to him, otherwise he will destroy everyone; demands to get the daughter of a rich khan; on the way, I. meets a man sucking grass and takes another, drinking two seas, with him; the khan orders to turn fresh bone into an old one (the person who sucked the grass sucks all the juices out of the bone); fires fire on his brothers, Drank floods it; The fox takes the form of a girl, goes to the Snake instead of her; the Serpent gives the bride a chest with his soul; I. a snake kills the soul, marries a khan's daughter, keeps his brothers with him]: Badmayev 1899:6-9 (quail in Basangova 2002:40-42); Abkhazians [the old couple had a boy named Khimkuras, her parents soon died; Lisa says that his mother fed her chickens; brings a ram, feeds a boy; comes to seven adaus, says they are surrounded by enemies, offers to hide in a haystack, burns, brings A. their clothes and treasures; makes A. prince over people left without a prince; marries him to the daughter of another prince; when Lisa is old, A. disliked her; she pretended to be dead, he threw her into dirt; A.'s wife took care of Lisa; when leaving, Lisa said that A. would not live more than a hundred days, and his wife would live a long time; and so it happened]: Shakryl 1975, No. 3:16-20; Adygi [the wolf asks the old man to save it from hunters; the old man hides it in a bag; the hunters leave, the wolf wants to eat the old man; the fox: who believes that the wolf could fit in the bag; tells him to remove the tail and paw; the old man ties the bag, the fox tells beat the wolf to death]: Aliyeva 1978, No. 71:340-341 (=Tambiev 1900:23-25); Adyghi [when leaving, Zaychikha tells the children to lock the door, open to her voice; Wolf overheard, but speaks in a rude voice; Komar- the blacksmith forged a silver voice for him; the bunnies were discovered, the Wolf ate them; the fox promises to help, offers to complain to the Wolf that someone ate the Bunny; the Wolf says the Bear is to blame; the Hare and the Fox complain Bear; animals are called to the wake, dig a hole, pour hot coals, cover them with a carpet; The wolf does not want to go, but then comes, falls; The bear threw branches into the fire, the guests feasted on wake]: Maksimov 1937:54-63 (=Kerashev 1957:278-285); Abaza: Kapiyeva 1991 [the wolf asks to hide it from hunters; the old man poured out the bumps he collected, hid the wolf in a bag; when he untied him , the wolf decided to eat it; the horse and the dog answer that this is what a person should; the fox pretends not to believe that the wolf could fit in a bag; he climbs there, the old man hits him with a stick]: 25-26; Tugov 1985, No. 1 [The fox steals chickens from the poor old man; he catches her, she promises to help him; the old man wants a fur coat; the fox leads the wolves to the river, tells them to put their tails into the water, and by morning a lot of fish will be caught; the tails are frozen in the ice, the old man killed the wolves, sewed a fur coat; gets along with the Fox], 17 [Chaltyk notices that his horse's back is all torn; sees a bear, wolf, fox riding it at night; grabs a fox; she asks her not to kill; the wolf lures C. into the forest, where the bear grabs him; the fox calls C., asks if he has seen the bear, hunters are looking for him; the bear lets C. go, asks him to say that there is a stump in front of him; - Why does the stump have ears ? - These are branches; - Then hit the axe between the branches; the bear asks to hit lightly, C. kills the bear with an ax]: 18-19, 35-36; Nogai: Nogai 1979, No. 6 [a man saved a snake from the fire, puts it in a bag, takes him away from the fire, releases it; the snake is about to swallow it; the tree, the cow say that people are ungrateful; the fox does not believe that the snake fits in a small bag; tells the person to tie up a bag and throw him into the fire], 9 [The fox promises the orphan to marry him the khan's daughter; asks the khan for a scale, returns it with a gold coin, explains that her owner hung gold; the khan agrees to give him a daughter; Lisa the owner and the owner steal a bag of hats at the bazaar, throw them into the sea, the khan believes that the matchmakers have drowned, gives the groom rich clothes; when the owner goes with his wife and father-in-law, Lisa tells the shepherds and herders to answer that everything this belongs to the khan, whose wealth is innumerable; the giant says that an army is coming to him, he runs away; the owner receives the Giant's wealth; the fox pretends to be sick, the master tells her to throw it away; the offended Fox leaves people and has since avoided them]: 18-20, 33-34; Ossetians: Dzagurov 1973, No. 18 [the wolf asks the poor man to hide him from hunters and dogs, he hides the wolf in a bag, and when he takes it out, the wolf is going to eat it; the horse, the dog say people are ungrateful; the fox pretends not to believe that the wolf could get into the bag; he climbs, the man kills him], 24 [from a poor man named Tsupara only seven chickens; the fox offers to live together, promises to marry him; shouts to the animals that war is coming, everyone must hide in the same hole, brings the animals to the stable to the Aldar, says that it is dowry; when C. crosses the bridge, Lisa pushes him into the water, asks Aldar to send new clothes; Aldar asks why the groom is looking at himself; Lisa explains that he is used to better clothes; speaks to seven Waigi, who is chasing her, asks for permission to hide in a haystack; the Waigi hide themselves, the Fox sets him on fire; their mother drives them away, settles Ts and his wife in their palace; asks to marry the bride and her, Lisa; Ts. refuses, says he has no money for this; Lisa goes to Waig, says that a bad man has settled in the house; Waig is afraid, does not believe, Lisa offers to throw a rope around her neck, go with him; Ts. shouts that he told Lisa to bring a male, not a female; the Waig hit the fox on the ground and ran away]: 44-46, 51-53; Miller 1881, No. 1 (Digors) [the wolf suggests that the ploughman bring him a lamb every day until he will not take out his plow, and when he does, let him give one bull; the plowman agreed, but then does not know what to do: it is impossible to plow on one bull; the fox promises to help; comes and asks what it is next to plowman. - Bag. - If the bag, tie it to the arba; hit the top of the head; the wolf is dead; the fox asked for a lamb as a reward; the man put a greyhound in the bag; the fox ran away and hid, but the dog tore off its tail; the fox brought pigs to the field of a man, but they did not give her the promised pig; the fox brought people to kill pigs; they gave her a horse; she does not know how to kill a horse; calls a wolf, teaches you how to cut a horse correctly; for Let the horse and the wolf put their heads in one loop; both died]: 83-87; the Kumyks [the fox asked the woman to remove the thorn from her leg; the woman threw a thorn into the fire; the fox demanded bread in return the woman did not give it, the fox grabbed the bread, ran away; she also exchanged bread for chicken, chicken for lamb, lamb for a girl, left the girl's bag by the cliff; the shepherds found it, released the girl, put it on her the place of the puppies; the fox hugged the bag, the puppies screamed, the fox fell off the cliff in fear, crashed]: Ganieva 2011a, No. 113:276-278; Balkarians [the miller has 5-6 rams; he does not cut them, saves paying dowry for his wife; the fox comes to visit every day; insists that the miller slaughter a ram for her every time, promises to marry her; comes to the khan, praises the groom for his daughter; promises to bring the groom with with a huge dowry; told him to climb into the river, and set fire to the bridge herself; told the khan that the bridge had collapsed, people drowned, the goods were gone, only the groom himself was saved; the khan sent the best clothes; the groom did not touch looks around his clothes; the fox explains to the bride that he was better, so he is shy of what he sent to him; the fox told the people accompanying the groom to his house to make noise and shoot; ran to giants: an army is coming, you will be killed; the giants have fled, the fox stayed with the young; then she came to the giants and said that a cowardly miller lives in their house, whose sheep she ate; the main giant went, afraid; the fox told her to hold her tail; the man agreed with his wife; tells him to carry an ax and a knife; the fox: lead him soon, giants have not been slaughtered for a long time; the giant smeared the fox on the ground, ran away; the giants left and they are still going]: Malkonduev 2017:561-564; the Ingush [the rider pulled the snake out of the fire, it turned around his neck and began to strangle him; the horse, the dog are responsible that evil pays for good; the fox tells show how it happened; when the snake slipped to the ground, the rider trampled on it]: Sadulaev 2004, No. 23:63-64; Chechens: Malsagov 1983, No. 49 [Prince Bigaldi went broke; the fox offers him to marry his daughter prince; asks the prince for a measure, catches mice with it, and before returning it, leaves a silver coin in it: B.'s stove is thrown at birds not with stones, but with silver; next time he leaves a ruble: B.'s stove is heated money; on the way to the prince, the fox pushes B. into the river, calls for help - that's why B. is naked; at the feast he tells you not to climb into the plate with his hands - I'll feed you myself, I'll say that I've been used to it since childhood; B. considers the palace - it seems lower than mine; on the way back, the fox is in front, then the young, then the prince's men; the fox tells the shepherds of sheep, camels, horses that Gur-Gur is riding; the Sarmak (dragon) lies around the golden palaces; fox: save yourself, jump to the mountains; Sarmak jumped, hit a rock, knocked out his eye; the young live in the palace, the fox wants to test B.'s loyalty, pretends to be dead; B. orders to throw the smelly fox on manure heap; fox brings Sarmak; B.: did you talk about this with one eye? I'll bring mine now; Sarmak killed the fox, ran away]: 190-194; Eldarkhanov 1901, No. 6 [after achieving success, Gelag threw away the fox, pretending to be dead; she brings the monster to eat it; G. : Are you driving a monster instead of money? A frightened monster kills Lisa, runs away]: 30-33; Kumyks: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 103 [the peasant caught a chest in the river, opened it, a snake crawled out of there, began to strangle it; said that she was hungry for the chest will eat the peasant; the old man promises the fox two chickens for salvation; the fox says he does not believe that the snake fit in such a small chest; the snake crawled there, the fox slammed the chest shut; the peasant goes after the chickens, the wife advises that it is better to kill the fox with a gun; the fox overheard everything, said that she knew about the man's cunning, ran away], 132 [the wolf runs away from the hunters, asks the man to hide it in the bag; when the hunters are gone, is going to eat the man; agrees to ask the person they meet if he can do it; the dog and the mule confirm that people are not grateful; the fox pretends not to believe that the wolf could fit into the bag; the wolf shows how he got there; the man beats him until the skin separates from the bones, the wolf runs away slightly alive]: 249-250, 312-314; Kapiyeva 1974 [Chaltuk-Ahmed notices that his the horse is wounded; he catches a wolf, a bear, a boar, a fox that scratched it at night; the wolf promises to bring sheep, the boar to plow the field, the bear to show a hollow of honey; the fox promises nothing, but asks let her go; the wolf, the boar keep the promise, the bear leads the CHA to the tree, begins to strangle; the fox calls CHA, shouts that hunters are coming, they need bear skin; the bear asks him not to betray, say that in front of him is a block, not ears, but branches, asks to hit with an ax easily; CHA hits with all his might, kills a bear, collects honey together with a fox]: 126-128; Khalilov, Osmanov 1989 [the wolf asks the traveler to hide him from hunters, he hides it in his bag; when he releases it, the wolf is going to eat it; the horse, the dog say that the wolf is right - people are ungrateful; the fox does not believe that the wolf can fit in the bag, even if the head will shove; tells a man to beat the wolf with a stick]: 20-22; Avars: Atayev 1972, No. 4 [Shudukai (the name is not etymologized) has five daughters; she goes for spoons, at which time the Wolf asks to open the door; daughters recognize a rude voice; next time Wolf imitates Sh., the children open the door, he swallowed the two smallest ones, ate all the porridge, hid one daughter in ash, the second in the chest, hung the third from ceiling; Fox promises to help, invites Wolf to ride down the mountain when he rolls down, pours water, Wolf's tail freezes; S. beats Wolf, two swallowed girls come out of his nostrils]: 15-16; Dirr 1922, No. 12 [Lisa stole some rags from the miller Lause-Haji; he wants to kill her, but Lisa promises to marry him to Khan's daughter if he buries her in a fat tail after her death; asks the khan for a measure - Bukuchi Khan wants measure silver; leaves the coin in measure; then gold; then asks the daughter; the khan gladly agrees; the fox tells the miller to jump into the river, call for help, supposedly everything has been carried away by water; he is given new vestments ; Lisa explains that B. feels awkward because he is used to clothes covered with diamonds; the same with food; after the wedding, the miller takes his wife; the fox is in front, telling the shepherds to say that they are herding cattle and horses not a dragon, but B., otherwise B. will kill them; tells the dragon that the king of the seven kingdoms is coming, tells him to hide in a haystack, sets it on fire, the dragon dies; the bride and miller are happy; the fox decides to check if he is grateful miller; pretends to be dead; he says he doesn't care; Lisa accuses him; when he really dies, the miller really buries her in a fat tail just in case]: 66-70 (=Saidov, Dalgat 1965:131- 137); Avars: Atayev 1972, No. 25 [Gelega forester sees that his mare has drained him; watches; at night, a wolf, a fox, a boar and a bear ride it; G. caught them, began to beat them; wolf: I'll bring you fat rams; boar: I'll dig up a vegetable garden for you; bear: I'll show you a hollow with honey; fox: I'll help you in difficult times; wolf, boar fulfilled their promise; the bear took me to the forest, said he would eat it now; the fox pretends to be Khan Nuker Khan is getting married, he needs bear skin, have you seen a bear? bear: tell me you didn't see; G.: didn't see; fox: what's in front of you? bear: say that a stump; G.: stump; fox: why does the stump have ears? bear: say it's branches; fox: hit between branches; bear: quietly; G. kills a bear with an ax; since then, a fox's friend]: 32-33; Saidov, Dalgat 1965 [poor Chakarilav notices that his horse is thin, back in sores; at night he watches: wolf, bear, boar, fox ride it; C. rushed and caught animals; let go after the fox promised to help, and the rest returned with gifts; the wolf brought sheep, boar plowed the ground, and the bear led to the tree where honey was going to eat; suddenly the voice: C., the khan's servants are looking for a bear, the skin is needed, did you not see it? a frightened bear tells C. what to say to him; C.: did not see; fox: Who is next to you? C.: block; fox: Does a block have ears? C.: this is a branch; fox: Hit the fox between the branches with an ax; Bear: Only quietly; C. split the bear's head, hugged and kissed the fox]: 138-140; the Kyurins [the poor man went into the forest; the lion chained to the peg asks to pull out the peg; he is going to eat the poor man; the ox, the donkey tell how ruthless and unfair people are; the fox replies that both lie and want to prevent her from serving as ambassador to the king's daughter genies; suggests that the person drive the stake back into the ground: if the lion does not pull him out, then he is right; the fox and the man are gone, the lion remains chained]: Uslar 1896, No. 3:274-280; khvarshins [from the old woman Lyluka had 9 daughters; she cooked porridge for the children, there were no spoons, warned her daughters not to unlock the doors, maybe the wolf would come, went to the forest to make spoons herself; she met a wolf in the forest, warned her daughters not to eat; the wolf went to L.'s house, the children did not recognize the voice and did not see the chrome boots on the wolf, did not let him in; the wolf changed his clothes, forged his voice, came, knocked again; children opened the door; the wolf all but one who hid in Tawhana; the Wolf meets L., she asks why his mouth is bleeding - ate a bird that wanted to bite in his eye; L. finds only one daughter; cries; Lisa passes by, promises to help the children out if L. cooks her a miracle of meat; found a wolf, invited him to ride on the ice, poured water on the ice, the wolf froze; the fox killed him, she pulled the children out, but went to L. alone; told her to take a dagger and go pick up the children; L. cooked a miracle, but with meat for the children and for the fox with ash; when L. and her daughter went to pick up the children, Lisa took a miracle with meat and left]: Musayeva 1995; Lucky [someone steals a miller's apples, he traps a black-brown Fox, who promises to marry him to the king's daughter; says to the king that his daughter has Arabkhan's fiancé; says that the horse fell from the bridge into the river; the king sends clothes and a horse to the miller; the miller looks around the palace in surprise; the fox explains that A.'s palace is better; the king settles the young in another, richer palace ; when dying, the tsar hands over the throne to A., the Fox becomes a vizier]: Khalilov 1965, No. 25:42-43; aguly [the miller fed the hungry fox, and she decided to thank him in response; went to the king twice and asked the standard to measure gold; each time a gold coin remained in the measure; the king decided that the fox served a rich man; the fox married the king's daughter to the miller; when the king invited the miller to his place, asked the king for clothes for him on the pretext that the groom's clothes were soaked in the rain; after the wedding, the fox told Azhdakha that an army was coming to kill him; Azhdaha ran away, and a miller and his wife settled in his house; when the fox came again, the miller asked his wife to drive her out; the fox persuaded Azhdaha to drive the miller out of the house; they joined with a rope, and when Azhdaha was afraid of the miller and ran into the forest, the fox died]: Maysak 2014, No. M29:477; Tabasarans [the hunter saw a jug in the fire, heard cries for help; pulled out the jug, a snake crawled out of it, began to strangle the hunter; says that they do not expect good from good; the hunter suggests going to the fox forest judge; she wants to see how it happened, tells the snake to climb into the jug; the hunter corked it and threw it into the fire]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 104:251-252; Rutultsy [ Urdukhan notices that his favorite horse is losing weight; watches, sees a new bear climbing and chasing him; then the jackal, boar and fox do the same; W. points a gun; the bear promises to bring honey, the jackal to bring the chicken coop birds, the boar to dig up the plot and remove the stones from it, the fox says it will be useful; the jackal and the boar keep their promises; the bear orders to take honey vessels, leads to the mountain to the tree, Where is honey supposedly; someone asks: Grandpa W., what is this near you? The bear tells me to answer that it is a trap; - Why does he have ears? - These are locks; - Hit the trap between the locks with an ax; W. does so, the bear is dead; the fox comes out, says that the bear wanted W. to get honey (the tree is tall, the bear could not reach it himself), and then was going to kill him; teaches him to make a smoky fire, smoke bees, get honey]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 105:253-254; Kyurins [the fox steals pears from the pear king's garden; caught in a trap; asks not to kill, promises to marry the daughter of the king of Lala; borrowed the measure, left a coin in the crack; the king agrees to give her daughter; the fox says that the groom lost everything when crossing the river; at the feast explains that the groom So he looks around the new dress, because his own was better; on the way to the groom's house, he tells the groom to tie thorns to the tails of animals; says to the divas that an army is coming - dust is visible; one diva hid in the forest, and 6 in an adobe; the fox set it on fire, the divas burned down; one day the fox fell ill, the young wife took her by the tail and threw it into the yard; she promises revenge for ingratitude; she went to bring the diva out of the forest; he is afraid deception, tells the fox to agree to contact him with a chain; the king of pears: why is there only one diva out of seven? the diva ran, the fox died, his mouth was grinned; the diva first thought she was laughing; the king of pears healed happily]: Lionidze, Sultanov 1892, No. 1:165-167; Dargins [poor miller sees the fox eating his flour ; the fox asks him not to kill, promises to marry the padishah's daughter; tells him to come to the river bank undressed - as if wealth has drowned; the padishah believes that the miller is another padishah, sends rich clothes, marries on daughters; young people go to her husband's house; the fox tells the shepherds to answer that the herds belong to the padishah traveling with his young wife; in the palace of Azhdaha tells him that an army is approaching to kill him; ajdaha with children runs away, newlyweds occupy the palace]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 54:247-248; tatami [The fox steals pears from the bald garden; asks not to kill, promises to marry the daughter of the padishah; she marries the princess "Shah pear tree"; tells the bald man to ask his mother for a gold coin, comes to ask the Shah to measure the money, returns it with a gold coin stuck in the crack; borrows good clothes from the rich man, washes , dresses up a bald man; at a feast, explains that the groom eats greedily because he has never seen meat with bones; leads a wedding procession to the Azhdaha Palace; says Azhdakha that seven-headed war is waging war on him ajaha; he and his wife hide in a haystack, Lisa burns him; after the bald man's wedding, he returns to the forest]: Kukulla 1974, No. 47:295-302; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 21 [after eating pears, the bear lay down on the field of a peasant, tells him not to give him away, otherwise he will kill him; the fox asks her to feed her, promises to help; shouts from the hill, did he not see the bear, the king and the army are looking for him; the peasant: did not see; the fox: what is this? bear: say it's a log; fox: then load it on the arba; tie it; cut it with an ax; a peasant hacked a bear], 46 [a daughter is born after a son, she has two teeth; brother watched her sister get up, devour cattle; warns the mother; she does not want to kill her daughter; the brother leaves, gets to the one-eyed maiden; at night, the ram tells you to dazzle the deva with a hot skewer, slaughter the sheep, pull her skin over him; dev lets the sheep between his legs, the young man goes out; the devil promises to adopt him; tells him not to herd on the mountain of the black maiden; the young man kills the one, his deva is grateful; the same with the red deva; with an eagle; she asks to receive she gives birth; the young man hides the male; the eagle gives him both eagles; the young man comes home, sees his sister holding the parents' heads in her hands; she gnaws off her brother's horse in turn, he agrees that he has come to three-, two-, one-, legless, came on foot; sister goes to sharpen her teeth; the mouse wakes up his brother, talks about danger; he leaves a stone in bed, a bag of ash above him, climbs poplar; sister cleans his eyes from ash, poplar gnaws; The fox offers to throw off the young man, touches the poplar with a branch, the gnawed one overgrows; the same with the Bear; the young man calls eagles, they eat the cannibal; three drops of blood fall on a leaf, a leaf says that the young man will regret taking it and regret not taking it; the young man hides him in his bosom, his side dries up; merchants offer to guess what they have in their chests; the young man does not guess, he must give up his eagles; the leaf says that one is cotton wool, the other is beautiful; the young man catches up with merchants, receives chests and eagles, marries a beauty]: 60-62, 182-187; 1988 (2), No. 75 [they steal from a poor miller grapes; he catches the Fox; she promises to make him happy; goes to the king, marries his daughter for a "wealthy man"; brings the miller to the river, tells the king that the groom's money and clothes have drowned; The princess agrees to the wedding; the fox tells the king and his army to follow in the distance and shoot; tells sheep, cow shepherds, and wheat threshers to answer that they work for Samtevan Chabukashvili; tells the devas that an army is coming at them, advises them to hide in a haystack, sets them on fire; the king who comes up takes the burning haystack at the palace for a lamp; at the feast, the MF looks around, the Fox says that's it the jewels are intact - only one yakhont rolled away, here he is; everyone is happy]: 25-28; Chikovani 1986 [the fisherman's son let go of the wonderful red fish, his father drove him away; hid the deer from the hunters; knocked out an eagle that chased a crane; hid the fox from dogs; the girl tells the grooms to hide, marry someone she does not see in her mirror; a fish hides a young man at the bottom of the sea, a deer in the forest, a crane in the sky, planting on back, the girl sees it every time; the fox digs a hole, hides the girl under the ottoman; the girl does not see him, she gets married]: 233-236; megrels [the peasant saw a dragon surrounded by fire; threw him a box on with a rope, he climbed into it, the peasant pulled it out; the dragon became big again, ate the peasant's provisions, the camel, was going to swallow it himself; the tree, the buffalo confirm that there is no gratitude; the fox pretends not to believe that the dragon could get into a small box; it climbs, the fox closed the box, gave it to the peasant]: Stepanov 1898, No. 9:26-29; Armenians: Bagriy 1930 (3) (Shirvan) [wolf asks the old peasant to hide it from the hunter; the peasant tells him to get into the bag, tells the hunter that he did not see the wolf; when he got out of the bag, the wolf wants to eat the peasant; old cat, dog they say that there is no gratitude, they have also been kicked out of the house; the fox says he does not believe how such a big wolf could get into the bag; the wolf climbs in, the fox tells him to beat him with a club; the wolf hardly gnawed bag and, barely alive, ran away]: 119-122; Azerbaijanis [the poor man began to complain about God and ask for death; found a chest, thought it had money in it, there was a snake, wrapped around his neck, gathered sting; agreed to be judged; fox: good is paid with evil; then the poor man promised her chickens; the fox began to clarify the circumstances of the case, asked the snake to crawl into the chest; the poor man was going to drown her; snake: I will make you a shah; the poor man released her again; she gave him a stone, he will heal the Shah, whom the snake will sting, let the poor man ask for the hand of the Shah's daughter as a reward; the vizier offered a hundred gold coins for the poor refused; he did not agree, thrown into prison; a snake crawled out of the crack: I will bite the Shah again; it turns out that the poor man is going to the Shah in a vizier; he is wearing a saddle, a bit in his mouth, he is savvy, the poor man drives with a stick; marries a Shah's daughter, inherits the throne]: Akhundov 1955:298-301; Kurds: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 154 [the man put a frozen snake in his bosom; she warmed up, was going to sting him; dog, horse confirm that people are also ungrateful; the fox wants to know how it happened; the snake lets the man go, he kills her, promises to be eternally grateful to the fox; a hunter appears with dogs; a man points to the bush where the fox hid; they kill it], 155 [The fox invites the miller to fraternize, promises to marry him; tells foxes, wolves, birds to go and fly to the palace; when the Sultan's daughter goes out to see, let the Simurg bird will take her away; the miller got a wife; a month later, the fox lay down at the mill, pretended to be dead, the miller threw him into the water; the Fox called him a deceiver]: 455-457, 457-458; Turks: Bystrov et al. 1962 [The fox steals the miller's chickens; asks not to kill her, first give her silver and then gold coins; asks the Indian padishah to lend her a measure, returns her with silver, gold coins stuck; announces that anyone who wants to taste sherbet from the Indian padishah can go with it and with the "flour padishah"; 50 thousand riders gathered, were caught in the rain, some drowned in the lake; Lisa reports Indian padishah about the loss of property and clothing, the padishah tells the tailors to sew a new one; gives her daughter for a flour padishah; the fox runs forward, tells the shepherds to answer that they are herding camels, cows, sheep flour padishah, otherwise those who go will kill them; burns the palace of divas with them, tells the retinue that it was the palace of the flour padishah; the Indian padishah builds a new son-in-law; the fox pretends to be dead, starchy The padishah tells him to throw away the paadal; the insulted Lisa accuses him of ingratitude; he says he knew she was not dead; next time Lisa really dies, the owner buries her honorably]: 351-356 ; Stebleva 1986, No. 6 [a man saved a snake on a burning tree, it was going to bite it; the ox and the river answer that man and good are incompatible; the man promises chickens to the fox, he says that the snake is not has the right to bite his savior; a person brings dogs instead of chickens, shakes him out of the bag, the fox has barely escaped; promises to always steal chickens from now on], 13 [Keloglan ("bald) worked for a miller, Lisa stole flour, he waited for her, she promised to do him good; she came to the padishah of Yemen, offered him to marry his daughter to Chimenji Padishah's son; told K. to throw fez into the river, said that C. drowned, her clothes were torn, let the padishah send new clothes; K. feels his new clothes, Lisa explains that his servants wear them in his palace; tells K. not to look around anymore; the padishah put K. 300 gold, he scattered them as something insignificant; Lisa tells the Bears that people are coming to them, advises them to hide in the hay, burns them; K. and his wife settle in the Bears house; K. promises Lisa that if she dies, he will order a beautiful coffin; she pretends to be dead, he throws her by the tail out of the house, the tail comes off; the fox reproaches K.; realizing who she married, K.'s wife cries; other foxes laugh at tailless; she leads them to steal grapes, ties them by the tail so as not to eat too much, calls people; the foxes have run away with their tails; now all the foxes are tailless], 70 [people want to burn the snake , the shepherd saved her, put her in a bag, carried it, she wants to sting him; the bull, the tree say that the snake is right, people are ungrateful; the fox wants to know how it happened, tells the shepherd to kill the snake; he promises her chickens; wife advises to bring a greyhound in a bag; the fox rushed into the hole, but the shepherd noticed the tail, pulled out the fox, killed him, made his wife a fur coat]: 25-26, 39-42, 286-287; Kurds [Mirza-Mamud wanted to shoot the fox; she asked her not to kill, but to take her into the house; the same with the wolf, bear, leopard, Simurg bird; MM feeds animals; the fox offers to marry Golizar, the daughter of Padishah Chinmachin; the fox plows on the wolf with as a bear, the princess went out to see her, Simurg took her away; the padishah sent the old woman, she lured G. into a clay coop, brought her to the padishah; the animals defeated his army, returned G. Mirze-Mamudu]: Rudenko 1970, No. 57:205-209.

Iran - Central Asia. The Persians (Hamadan, Azerbaijan and possibly other regions) [a grateful fox (he stole flour, but the miller did not kill him) gets a princess for the poor man; for this purpose she dances in her yard, she goes out to look, the bird takes it away; at the head of an army of wild animals, the fox defeats the king's army; drives demons out of the castle; to test man's loyalty, the fox pretended to be dead; he is not going to him mourn; in revenge, the fox informs the princess of her husband's low origin; the man was guilty and everything was settled; when the fox really died, he was mourned according to all the rules]: Marzolph 1984, no.*545:112-113; Tajiks: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1960 [=Niyazmukhamedov 1945:27-36; Sohibjamol, the daughter of a padishah, runs away with an orphan slave Ahmad; in another city she sews skullcaps, he sells; is hired to serve a padishah; he wants his wife, the vizier offers to give A. difficult assignments; 1) bring seven-colored apples from Iram's garden; the fox brings him there, takes the dogs; 2) bring the lioness's milk in the lion's skin; he frees the lioness's paw that has grown into the ground brings milk; 3) see the padishah's parents in the next world; peri brings A. from the fire to his wife; A. tells the Shah that his parents have prepared medicine for him and are waiting for him; Shah s they burn with viziers, A. and S. go to live in the mountains]: 241-247; Levin et al. 1981, No. 44 (Parkhar, =Farkhor) [the bear tells the dekhanin that he is his companion, demands to divide the harvest; for promising to give her chicken eggs, fox depicts hunter; fox: didn't you see a bear? man to bear: hide in straw; the bear was burned, the fox is waiting for eggs; the farmer's stomach rumbled; he says there are two dogs asking to let the fox eat; the fox runs away], 376 [the old man pulled a snake out of the fire , she wrapped around his neck, was about to kill - three witnesses would confirm her right; water, wood, and a cow confirm that good is paid for evil; the fox first answered the same way, but then began to understand; pretends not to believe that the snake could fit into the old man's bag; the snake climbs into the bag, the fox tells the old man to kill the snake]: 124-125, 146-147, 282-285; Uzbeks (Tashkent) [after the birth of the third son, the king drove his wife away, took a young one; someone kidnaps foals from his beloved mare; the eldest, middle prince falls asleep, Yalmauz-Kampir takes a foal every time; the youngest shot her little finger on his arm; at that But in the evening, the young queen gave birth to a daughter and disappeared; the prince noticed that she did not have a little finger; the father did not listen to him, he drove him away; he stays with the old woman, she has a daughter for marriage; he goes to look for his mother, the old woman gives a comb, a razor and a whetstone; gives the merry wand, where the blade turns, to go there; he found his mother, bought it out of slavery; she died; he went to visit the house; sees his sister in disguise through the crack Yalmauz-Kampir, she goes through the heads of her parents and brothers eaten; the fox tells him to run, remains to beat the drum for him while the YAK goes for poison; the prince runs away, throws a comb (thicket), a razor (mountain), bar (sea; YAK swam, but the fish dragged her to the bottom, and then transported the prince ashore; ordered the merry wand to be protected; the young king finds that old woman's daughter, marries her; when he swims across the sea over the place where the monster-fish crushed the YAK, the storm sinks the ship, but they sail out on fish; feast]: Ostroumov 1990, No. 3:13-20; Wakhans: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 63 (Afghan Wakhan) [bald the miller guards the thief in the vineyard, catches the Fox; she promises to marry him the royal daughter; secretly sweeps the palace with her tail; she is caught, she says that she has come as a matchmaker, the king orders her to be executed, the vizier suggests request forty mules loaded with gold; the fox loads the donkeys with garbage, tells the miller to drive them into the river, explains to the king that the donkeys have drowned; asks for clothes, for the groom's clothes are also gone; The miller looks at the palace's new clothes and the palace, Lisa explains that he was better; after the wedding, he tells him to beat drums and tambourines, tells the one-eyed diva that a terrible dragon is coming; the diva agrees hide in a haystack, the Fox sets it on fire, the diva's palace goes to the miller; after a while, the Fox pretended to be sick; the miller orders her to be thrown outside; the princess left, the Fox forgave the miller, persuaded The princess returned; ordered herself to be burned after her death, the ash turned into a golden ring]: 468-471; Pakhalina 1975, No. 3 (Tashkurgan, 1957) [the fox stole bread from the miller twice; then came to him again and said that she was not the fox that stole it; tried to steal bread again, but the miller noticed it; the fox: "Don't hit me, I I will herd cattle"; the miller agreed; the fox grazed the cattle for five years, then ate them; said to the miller: "You did not close the gate tightly enough at the cattle pen, your cattle scattered, the wolves ate them all"; the miller took half of the sheep's carcass and gave half to the fox; told her to eat meat and make him a sheepskin coat; the fox said that she needed flour for cooking; the miller sent it; the fox coated the skin with a dough, then ate it; told the miller that the skin had rotted; he asked her to make a hat; the fox ate the skin intended for this purpose; the miller asked to make mittens; the fox also ate this skin; the miller said that he would kill the fox; the fox promised to marry him to the king's daughter; went to the king; the king wanted to drive her out, but the vizier advised me to ask her for a big dowry; King Lisa: "Consider that I gave you my daughter , just imagine ten red satin horse packs"; the fox collected the rags, loaded it on ten horses, and drove to the river bank; ripped open the packs with a knife, threw them into the river, and began to cry; the king's people came running; the fox: "They promised that we would wait for you on the river bank, and I went to the river bank - there was no one, so all the packs of red satin from my horses fell and ended up in the water, for me This is a very unpleasant lesson, because I brought these ten packs of red satin to the king as dowry for his daughter, and now all these red satin packs in the water, who should I bill?" ; the tsar admitted that he was responsible for what happened; the fox brought the miller, who married the royal daughter]: 146-149; Sarykoltsy (China): Pakhalina 1966:95-101 [(=Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 64: 471-480); The fox steals pears from three Armytik pears; he smears him with glue; the fox promises to get him the royal daughter; orders him to sell pear trees, buy 400 hats; when she brings the king, throw them into the river; The king believes that Prince A.'s warriors drowned, but he himself is safe and his father will not attack our kingdom; explains to the king that A. is surprised at the new clothes and food, because his groom wore one, the rice was oily; the fox runs forward, tells me to say that herds and herds are not witches in the iron fortress, but King A.; the witch has poker legs, broom hair; the fox says that an army is moving towards her, advises her to hide under a pile of firewood , burns it; A. and his wife live in the castle; Lisa pretends to be dead; A. says that there is a way; Lisa forgives A., leaves, pretends that her lamb is missing, gets the old woman's daughter for it; carries her to in a bag, goes down to the well for a drink; the young man catches up, replaces the girl with a dog, the Fox hides from her in a hole; the young man leaves the pumpkin vessel buzzing in the wind like the dog is still howling; finally, the Fox finds it out , ties the pumpkins to the tail to collect water; the tail comes off; the other foxes ask the little one to shake the mulberries; she climbs the tree on the condition that she ties the tails of the others; ate berries, shouted that A dog approaches, the other foxes ran away with their tails cut off], 106-107 [the judge saves the snake from the fire by letting it crawl into the bag; it wants to kill it; three people, the cow is responsible for paying evil for good; the fox says that the Snake is lying because it will not be able to get into the bag; the snake crawls, the judge beats her to death]; the Yazgulyam [the grandmother told her grandson to herd two goats; the wolf demanded that one be given to him; the grandmother did not order give it away, gave her a bundle of food; the fox asked herself for this food, promised to help; began to scream in a terrible voice: orphan, did you see a wolf? boy: no; who's behind you? boy: a bag of primates; fox: why does it have a tail? wolf: cut off my tail as soon as possible; fox: why ears? wolf: cut off your ears; why legs? wolf: cut off the wolf's legs; after cutting off the wolf's legs, the boy returned to his grandmother]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 68:494-495; Pashayas [The fox steals the miller's son's grapes, asks not to shoot at her; miller He drives his son away, he is starving; the fox promises to marry him to the king's daughter; takes him to the bazaar to eat, puts him on a horse, the young man does not know how to ride; the fox tells the king that she has brought him his son-in-law; asks for paintings He takes the horse away from the young man, puts the young man on a canvas, ties him to the horse, tells him to ride, the king is pleased that his son-in-law can ride; gives his daughter; at the feast the young man wet his pants, the king gave rich clothes; they go back, the young man cries, does not know what to do; the fox brings them to the cannibal's palace; says to the army coming, tells them to hide in a bag; all together they beat the cannibal to death; the miller's son remains in the palace with the king's daughter]: Morgenstierne 1944, No. 19:118-122; parachi (b. Pachagan, Kapisa Province) [a man was walking along the road, came across a sick snake; took it with him, cured it; when he let it out of the bag, she said she could sting him; the man asked why she wanted it do; the snake replied that people always get evil instead of good; first she gave the example of a cow: "A cow gives its owner milk, brings a calf, but in the end it becomes old, that sells it to a butcher"; then she said about the tree: "The tree gives fruit, gives shade. The owner benefits from it. However, in the end, the owner cuts him down with an ax and thus answers good with evil; the man made friends with the fox; she asked the snake what harm the man had done to her; the snake: "He threw me into the bag, then (you) treated (?) me and I have recovered"; fox: "You're lying. You can't fit in this bag"; the snake disagreed and got into the bag; the fox told the man to tie it; he did so]: Efimov 2009, No. IV.2:151-152.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960 [the king's golden apple ripens every year, someone steals it; he promises the kingdom to the son who has caught the thief; the elder sees a golden bird, is frightened, the apple disappears, but he goes in search of the bird; refuses to share food with the fox, stays drunk in the inn; the same middle son; the youngest tears off the bird's pen; shares with the fox; she warns not to enter the inn; he comes in, forgets everything, but the fox comes back and takes him out, leads him to a golden linden tree, teaches him to grab a bird but not to touch the branches; a young man breaks a branch, a troll grabs him, lets him go for promising to bring a horse stolen by another troll; the fox teaches him not to take bridles, the young man takes it, the troll grabs him, lets him go for promising to bring what he stole from him as a third troll the girl; the fox gets her own, they leave, taking the girl, the horse, the bridle, the linden tree and the bird; the trolls chase; the fox puts on clothes made of rye straw, replies that her grandmother's grandmother saw them passing by; trolls refuse to chase, decide to continue sleeping; the young brothers throw him in a barrel into the sea, take everything, but the girl is sad, the horse is losing weight, the bird is silent, the linden tree withers; the fox finds a barrel, saves the young man; When she saw him, the girl said that he saved her, the horse recovered, the bird sang, the linden tree turned green; the older brothers were thrown off the cliff in barrels; the fox asks the king to cut off her head, turns into a prince - brother rescued princess]: 49-55; Dasent 1970 [the bear is going to lift a man's horse, the fox promises to help if a person gives her a sheep; pretends to be a bear hunter; the bear asks to say that he is a stump; the fox tells you to roll a stump on the cart, put an ax into it; the man follows the lamb, the wife tells you to put two greyhounds in the bag instead; they chase a fox]: 266-269 (briefly in Hodne 1984, No. 154:42); Hodne 1984, No. 155 [a man saves a snake; it is going to kill it, other animals agree; the fox adjusts so that the snake agrees to be trapped again; when it comes for as a reward, a person pays her with ingratitude]: 43; the Danes [the lumberjack agreed to release the snake that was pinched by a tree; it was going to sting him, but agreed to ask the people she met if there were reward for good; old horse: gratitude does not exist; man promises two geese to the fox, she says that good is rewarded, has a snack on the snake's neck; the man follows the geese, the wife puts it in a bag two dogs, they bitten to death a fox; she thought that good is still being paid for evil]: Grundtvig 1920:184-186; the Swedes [the serpent asks the man to release him from under the stone, he will get what he deserves calculation; having freed himself, the serpent says that such a calculation is death; the bear, the wolf agree; the fox wants to see how it happened, asks the person to lift the stone, the snake to climb under it, lower the stone gradually; when the serpent replies that it is worse now than before, the fox tells us to leave the snake under the stone]: Suritz 1991:123 -124; the Sami (Norway) [the king's son and the son of a peasant shot their bows, on one of the fallen arrows was a golden pen; the peasant said that his arrow, the king, ordered him to bring the bird; the fox led him to the Sun's daughter Zarya, telling him to take only the bird; but he kissed the girl, who ordered her sister Dawn ("fighting twilight") to be saved, who was kidnapped by giants; the fox led to the giants, went by herself, began to dance with the girl, turned off the lights, quietly handed the girl to the peasant, ran the other way, the giants did not catch up with her; grateful Zarya promised to marry a peasant, but to arrive later; the peasant brought a bird to the king and said that he was going to marry a shining girl; king: if she does not arrive by a certain date, you will be thrown into a barrel of burning resin; at the last moment a ship from Zarya arrives; the king will allow the wedding if the peasant 1) cuts down in a day all trees in the country (Zarya gives an ax - cut down one, all will fall); 2) restore these trees (gives ointment); 3) kills a three-headed dragon in the king's pond (gives a spear); the king allows marriage]: Simonsen 2014:101-110; Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 9 [a man pulled a snake out of the pit; it wrapped around his neck and began to strangle him; a horse, a dog say that people are ungrateful; the fox demands to show how everyone else is it was again in the hole; the man promises her a chicken; the wife persuaded her to shoot the fox instead; the fox is dying: this is how they pay for good; a total of 85 options; in 20 foxes they give a bag of dogs; at 10 she hides from dogs in a hole, but is angry at his tail and throws it away to dogs], 60 [the old people sewed a bag, put various things in it, including soot; a girl Nigella appeared; the old woman was advised to dig up a basement and pour milk there: let C. sit until it turns white; mother came, told me to stick her finger out - it's still black; lauma came, said in a low voice; next time she said in a high voice, C. stuck her finger out , laume brought her home, fattened her, told her daughter to fry; the fox advises asking the witch's daughter to sit in the cart to ride her; she sat down, the fox cut off her head; the witches ate the meat, C. screams from the birch tree that they ate the witch's daughter; lauma found her daughter's head in bed, began to cut a birch tree; while they were resting, the fox blunted her axes; took C. to her parents]: 43-44, 136-138; Lebite 1965:55-57 [the bear is going to pick up the ploughman's oxen; the fox promises to help for a bag of chickens; shouts to the man: the master is traveling with 500 hunters, has he seen bears; man: no; fox: who is in the den; man: a log; a log must have branches cut off; bear: cut off my paws; man cut off; then the same - deck in the den; fox: an ax would be stabbed into the deck; bear: put an ax in my head; man kills a bear; man brings to the bag is not chickens, dogs, the fox hid in a hole; asks all parts of its body how who helped escape; tail: and I kept hanging out so that you would not be grabbed; the fox sticks its tail to the dogs, they they pulled out a fox and bit them to death], 111-114 [an orphan boy inherited horses, bulls, dogs; after feeding them, he sledges down the mountain, sings a song; limes make big sledges, ride and sing too; they make a bag, catch the boy with the sledge, bring him home to fry; the boy cut the bag with a knife, put the sleeping lime instead; it was fried; the boy runs, climbs a tree, the limes begin to cut him ; The fox offers to sharpen axes, blunts them; limes gnaw the trunk with their teeth; the boy calls his animals; horses, bulls, dogs come running, tearing lime, pushing into powder; since then, the snow has been sparkling in the sun - this lime fat glitters]; Latvians: Alksnite et al. 1958:22-23 [the peasant scolded the horse: for the bear to pick you up; the bear comes; the peasant asks for let him plow; the fox agrees to help for the chicken; knocks on trees; peasant: they are hunters; bear asks to hide; peasant: climb into the cart; fox in a rude voice: what is on the cart? peasant: firewood; fox: so take them home; a peasant killed a bear with an ax; a fox and foxes are already at home in the chicken coop; the peasant hacked them all], 24-25 [the bear threatens to kill the farmhand, he promises him a pig; the fox teaches what to do for the promise of a chicken and a rooster; the bear climbed onto the cart where the pig is; the fox comes out of the forest: are you taking a bear, dragged it to court; farmhand: it's a stump; fox: why not tied; bear: tie me up; fox: hit the stump with an ax to check if he is tightly tied; bear: hit lightly; farmhand killed a bear; farmhand gave the chicken and the rooster]; Aris, Medne 1977, No. 545B [Lazy guy and cat. (Also: the guy doesn't kill the fox, she promises to marry him a princess). The cat lures herds of animals to the king (thunder), saying that they are sent by the cat's master, and marries the princess on his behalf. When the guy goes to the palace, the cat runs in front and reports that his master has been robbed. (The fox throws his hats into the river and says his master's servants have drowned.) After the wedding, the king goes to see his son-in-law's property. The cat runs in front and punishes all shepherds to say that they belong to the cat's master. The cat drives the devils (witches) out of the palace, frightening them with thunder. They hide in a tree (in a haystack of straw), where they burn (also: they are killed by lightning). The cat's master, a lazy guy, gets the palace], No. 155 [Old bread and salt is forgotten. A person helps a bear (wolf, snake). The bear wants to eat it. A person goes to search for the truth, but animals he meets tell him that this is already the case - "old bread and salt is forgotten." A fox helps a person]: 259-260, 298-299; Estonians (many records, including a setu) [a person in his heart calls his horse a bear food; a bear came and demanded a horse; a fox promises to help; makes the bear agree to be put in a sleigh in the manner of a log, the man hacked him; instead of the promised chickens or geese, a person brings the fox a bag in which dogs; the fox has difficulty escapes, asks her dicks how they helped her; the tail was of no use; the fox sticks him out of the hole, the dogs tore it]: Kippar 1986, No. 154:112-115; Seto: Mägiste 1990 [wolf hunters overlaid; he asks a man to hide it in a bag; when a man releases him, the wolf is going to eat it; a dog, a horse say that they do not remember good things; the fox pretends not to believe like a wolf could get into the bag; when the bag is tied, the fox tells the man to hit the wolf with a stick; he beat and then nailed the fox; the wolf skin went to the fur coat, the fox on the collar]: 57-62; Sandra 2004 [dying, the king ordered to rule her daughter until her brother grows up; she decided to lime her brother; pretended to be sick, told her to bring hare milk; the hare gave milk; next time a fox; a she-wolf; a bear; a tigress, a lioness; the sister sent his brother to bring bread from the mill where the witch was; he went with all his animals that gave him milk; he took bread, and when he sent the animals to eat too, the witch slammed the doors shut; the sister put his brother in the cellar, the witch must eat it; at this time the animals break the doors one by one; this is reported by the raven, the dove, the swallow; each time the young man asks the cannibal to give him more time; for the last time he asks let the pipe light up; the animals break in, kill the witch; the young man, telling his sister to cry for his return a bucket of bloody tears, leaves with his animals; comes to a city where mourning; the man explains that every year a sea serpent demands a sacrifice, otherwise it will flood the city, the turn of the royal daughter; the animals tore the snake, the princess gave the savior her handkerchief; the coachman crept up, cut off the young man's head, told the princess swear that she will declare him victorious by a snake; animals mourn, a fox tells him to pretend to be dead, a raven with a crow descends, a fox grabs a crow, tells the crow to bring water to connect his dicks, and living water; he brings; the fox tore the crow for testing, glued it together, revived it; then the young man; the animals cast lots, falls on the bear, he brings the handkerchief to the palace, the princess recognizes him; meets savior; the king orders to tear the coachman apart by four bulls; the young man gets the princess; goes to visit his sister; she cries a bucket of blood; puts a witch's tooth in his brother's head, he falls dead; he is put in tower; the hare comes, the tooth pierces it, it dies, the young man comes to life; the fox takes the tooth out of the hare, throws it into the bush, the bush has dried up; the animals tore his sister; the young man became ruler over both kingdoms]: 192-202; Finns: Goldberg 1957:53-59 [the bear fell into the trap of a peasant, persuaded him to let him go, then he was going to eat it; the horse, the dog confirm that good is paid for evil; the fox pretends to want to find out how it happened; the bear remains trapped, the peasant goes home, promising the fox chickens; she comes for the chickens, the hostess hits her with a stick; when running away, the fox says that gratitude really does not exist], 62-66 [The peasant went to buy firewood, scolds the horse: oh, you are a bear's son; the bear tells you to give him the horse; the peasant asks to wait - he will give a cow; the fox asks to let it go from the trap - he will repay kindly; tells the bear not to give the cow to the bear, agrees with the peasant to help him; the bear is furious - where is the cow; at this time the noise in the forest; peasant: this is my son with a gun; fox: next to you under the fir is not whether bear; peasant: this is a stump; fox: so cut off his branches; the peasant cut off the bear's paws; the fox: put the stump in the cart, tie it with ropes; the peasant loaded the bear into the cart, tied it; the fox: in the stump, who is being carried on a cart, an ax must be stabbed; a peasant killed a bear]; Salmelainen 1947:3-8 [Jussi Juholainen's mother, then father died; father tells us to go to three traps and what he finds alive in them, bring home; two traps are empty, in the third is a fox; she invites him to marry, leads to the royal castle, asks the king for a measure so that the owner can try on his gold and silver, brings him back, shoving him in the cells are small silver and gold coins; when Yu came to the castle in the evening, the king ordered him to be placed in the best room, bringing the best food and drinks; the fox asks the king to show his clothing sets - whether they are suitable for the owner; rejects everything but the dress uniform himself, says that the owner wears it on weekdays; gives clothes to Yu, tells him to ask for the princess's hand; after the wedding, the king wants to see the palace son-in-law; the fox says he will go there earlier; on the way he asks loggers, shepherds, horses, cows to say that they do not work for the Caterpillar, but for Yu, otherwise the king will kill them; in the courtyard of the castle there is a tree with gold leaves and birds; the fox tells the Caterpillar that the king is going to kill her, she hides in a flax barn, the fox set it on fire; a feast; then another in the king's palace; the fox said goodbye to Yu and disappeared], 47-52 [hell turned the prince into a fast horse; told the groom guy to live in the stable and not enter the house; when the hell was gone, the horse told the guy to go into the house; there he saw a bottle of blood, a huge sword on the wall, and in the chest in the corner there is a white stone, a green branch and a cup of water; hell understood that the guy came into the house, promised to kill him next time; but as soon as the hell left again, the horse told me to go try to raise his sword and if it is too heavy, sprinkle blood from a bottle on himself; the guy felt a surge of strength, raised his sword lightly; the horse ordered him to take objects from the chest, sit on it, galloped away; hell chasing, the horse tells throw a stone (rocks; hell ran for an ax, cut a passage; fox: if you throw an ax, I'll take it; the devil had to waste time taking the axe home), a green branch (a copper forest; the same episode with an ax and fox), a bowl of water (lake; hell tried to drink it, girded himself with a hoop so as not to burst, the fox ate the hoop, the devil burst); they rode to the king, the father of the enchanted prince; the horse ordered to hide it him in a beech forest; war broke out; the guy rode an old mare and then changed clothes, sat on his horse, hacked down enemies with a sword; was wounded and the princess noticed him bandaging the wound; he talked about all the king; the horse told him to cut off his head, the prince came out of his horse's body; he inherited the throne, and the king married the boy to the princess]; Western (?) Sami [a fox saves a person, and he pays her evil for good]: Qvigstad 1925, No. 155:11.

Volga - Perm. Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 9 [the fox promises to marry Salam-Torkhan to the daughter of bay for chicken; takes a measure from the bay - supposedly to carry copper, silver, gold ST coins; leaves one each time coin; advises to repair the bridge - the groom will bring a lot of good; buy does not repair; the fox breaks the bridge, pretends that everything has drowned; ST looks at the clothes received from the bay; fox: he is used to the best; tells the shepherds horses, cows, sheep say that they are grazing ST herds; tells the merchant that an army is coming, telling her to hide in a well, drowns; ST promises the fox that it will bury her in a gold box; she pretended to be dead, ST ordered to throw it into the hole; the fox reproaches ST, he is ashamed; when he really died, he is buried with honors], 25 [the bear invites the old man to sow turnips together; chooses stems, gets one leaf; on the next year, the old man sows wheat, the bear chooses roots; promises to kill the old man; the fox tells the old man, who promises her chicken; she finds out where the den is, people killed the bear; the old man brought the fox to the village - supposedly for the chicken; lowered the dog; the fox ran to the hole; asks his front, hind legs, ears how they helped escape; asks the tail, he says he moved to be caught; dog noticed a moving tail, grabbed a fox]: 41-45, 71-73; Nasyrov, Polyakov 1900 [Lisa promises Salam-Turkhan ("lying on straw") to marry him to the princess; asks the tsar for a measure to measure gold and silver, every time he leaves pieces of metal in measure; the king agrees to give his daughter for ST; the fox lets ST into the river in a leaky boat, shouts that he is drowning, all property is gone; the king gives ST luxurious clothes, he does not takes his eyes off his clothes, Lisa explains that ST clothes used to be better; ST became the king's son-in-law]: 7-9; Tatars [the bear invites the old man to sow turnips together; chooses stems, gets one top; on the next year, the old man sows wheat, the bear chooses roots; promises to kill the old man; the fox tells the old man, who promises her chicken; she finds out where the den is, people killed the bear; the old man brought the fox to the village - supposedly for the chicken; lowered the dog; the fox ran to the hole; asks his front, hind legs, ears how they helped escape; asks the tail, he says he moved to be caught; dog noticed a moving tail, grabbed a fox]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 25:71-73; Marie (meadow) [(=Aktsorin 1984:133-139); old man Yangelde leans to the river for a drink, Black Water grabs his beard , orders her youngest son to marry the old man's daughter Srebrotoothed Pampalcha; she paints over her silver teeth with resin, runs away; on the way she sees the Faithful Water on horseback in a luxurious outfit; Vodyanaya The old woman carrying wine to the wedding sings; P. laughs, the resin bounces off her teeth, the old woman recognizes her; A. climbs a pine tree, the old woman cuts the trunk with an ax; the hare offers to chop it instead, throws an ax into the lake; an old woman drinks the lake, cuts again; the same episode with the Fox; with the Bear; when a pine tree falls, sister P. lowers her silk swing from the mountain; this older sister is already married to Vodyanoy; she puts the youngest in a bag, tells her husband to take it to his father as if there are cakes in a bag; when he sits down to try cakes, the girl screams, I see; returns to her father]: Sabitova 1992:87-93; Chetkarev 1948 [ the old man bent over to the river for a drink, the waterdevil grabbed his beard, let him go for promising to give a lamb with a silver head; at this time he had a silver-headed son, Pazi; grew up quickly, went to horses, does not stop when meeting girls, men (that's all hell), climbs a pine tree; hell made an ax out of a tooth, an axe out of his finger, began to cut; The bear offers to chop for him, throws the ax into the lake; the devil drinks it, cuts it again; the same episode with the Wolf, the Fox; The squirrel climbs with an ax on the pine tree; the devil makes a new one from another tooth and finger; The squirrel tells P. asks Aktavia to lower iron chain; P. climbed into the sky, left one hair; hell ate it, said it was tasty, but not enough, went into the water]: 8-10; Mordovians (Erzya): Anikin 1909 [poor Damai has only a tub of oil; fox steals oil, Damai caught her and began to beat her; the fox promises to marry him the daughter of the Thunder King; Thunder praises the power and wealth of D.; advises to repair bridges, otherwise D. the hero is heavy; takes D. to Thunder, according to the path tells the shepherds of geese, turkeys, cows, horses to say that they are herding the herds of not the seven-headed Karyas, but Damai; she hardly knocked down the Iron Bridge, told D. to undress and jump into the river; at Thunder, a fox meticulously chooses clothes for D. instead of the supposedly drowned one; tells Karyas to hide behind a woodpile of oak firewood; he notices that he will come to life from the ashes so that the ashes do not dissipate in the wind; the fox cheers Thunder to burn the wood and then scatter the ashes; the fox asked for a chicken as a reward; instead, D. sent it to the yard, where it was torn apart by dogs]: (p.?) ; Evseviev 1964, No. 6 [old man plows; bear: eat your horse; old man: let the pen plow; bear lay under the cart; fox: old man, did you see a bear? bear: tell me you didn't see; fox: what's under the cart? bear: say that a burnt stump; fox: you would pick it up on the cart; bear: pick it up; fox: if there was a stump, you would stick an ax; bear: stick it; the old man hacked it; promises the fox a club with chickens; instead, I brought a dog in a bag; the fox hid in the hole; - Eyes - how did they take care of me? - We watched so as not to fall. - I'll buy you glasses. How did your legs run? - All go ahead. - I'll buy boots. Tail, how is my shore? - I was confused between my legs; the fox stuck it out, the dog pulled it out by the tail, ate it], 55 [the bear invites the old man to plant turnips together; chose the tops; the next year they sowed wheat, the bear chose the roots; tells the old man that when he comes for firewood, he will eat it; the old man has come for firewood; the bear threatens to eat; the fox: did you see the bear? I'm chasing to the service; bear: tell me you didn't see; fox: what's next to you? bear: say it's a stump; fox: if a stump, he would stick an ax; the old man hacked the bear; promises the fox a basket of chickens; put two greyhounds in the basket, took the chicken in his hand; the fox hid from the greyhounds in the hollow; asks their eyes and legs, what did they do; they showed the way, they ran; and the tail? He got confused between his legs; the fox stuck it out, the dogs pulled it out and ate it]: 41-42, 367-370; Chuvash [Kibeney goes to wander, finds a hut, falls asleep on the stove, frightens the robbers who have come, throwing it at they are bricks, remains; every day the Fox comes, K. gives her a chicken; the fox brings gold, clothes and jewelry, promises to marry K.; puts on him the clothes he has brought, takes him in a carriage to the king; the king gives him daughter, young going to K., Fox warns forest animals to go out to greet the newlyweds and the king and queen; reapers, mowers, shepherds reply that the fields and herds are K.; in the palace of the 12-headed serpent tells him that brought a thousand people for a snack, let him hide in an elm hollow so as not to frighten them; tells the tsar to arrange an archer competition, shoot at an elm tree, the serpent is killed; a feast]: Eizin 1993:297-300; Bashkirs : Barag 1989, No. 99 [the bear wants to eat the huntsman, a fox appears; a huntsman bear: say you are collecting firewood, put me on the cart when the fox comes, I will eat it; fox: the firewood on the cart is tied; a bunch you have to tighten it with a peg; the bear confirms everything; the fox: thick firewood is stabbed with a stake; the eget killed by a bear, the lion became the king of animals], 117 [the woodcutter freed the snake from under the stone, it wrapped around his neck, is going to sting; sheepskin coat collar, dog replies that people are not grateful; the fox demands to show how it happened, the snake remains under the stone]: 410-411, 441-142; Khusainova 2014 [the young man and the fox live together; the fox marries him to the daughter of a rich man; to test the loyalty of a young man who promised to bury her under the bunk if she died, the fox pretended to be dead; the young man threw her over the fence; the fox kicked him and his wife out home: 59-60; Komi: Korovina 2012, No. 154 [the fox helps the man get rid of the bear with cunning advice; instead of thanking, the man loads the fox with a bag in which the dog is hidden; released from bag, she immediately tears the fox (chases her); the fox hides in the hole from the chase; asks her legs, eyes, tail, who did what; the tail replies what was in the way, she sticks it out of the hole, and the dogs they pull the fox by the tail]: 76; Plesovsky 1972 [Thomas cuts a tree, the knot flew into Yome's eye, she made F. lazy; his mother asks not to lie on the stove, but to go dig a hole with a fox; F. dug, a fox caught, asks to let her go, promises to reward her; tells the wolf that she visited F., ate; leads the wolves to the king, says that it is a gift from Thomas; then brings a hundred hares and stoats; asks for a measure that contains a pound returns grain, putting two or three coins behind the birch bark; says that Thomas had about a hundred such measures of gold; the king agrees to give his daughter for F.; the fox washed F., divided him naked, and put him on a raft; tells the king that the barque drowned with her servants and property; the bride doubts why the groom looks around; the fox: he does not like the new clothes; after the wedding, the fox warns the shepherd who are herding horses, then cows, sheep, say that they are herding not Yoma's cattle, but Thomas; tells Yoma to run: the king and his servants go, wants to cut Yome's head; Yoma hides in a haystack, the fox set him on fire, Yoma burned; F. and his wife began to live in Yoma's house, her spell ended, F. became hardworking again]: 7-11.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Ethnographic materials 1898, No. 1 (Turgay) [rich Ablai had a daughter, Ai-Khanym, when he was 42 years old, and his son Khudaibergen 10 years later; Zhalmaauz Kempir grabbed A. at the well; refused to take horses, daughter, wife, agreed to let her go for promising to send her son; A. specially left the golden alchik at the well, with whom H. played, migrated; H. sat on the foal, he became argamak; teaches you to approach the LCD on foot, say "here's a red mouse running", grabbing an alchik, running up to the horse and jumping away; the LCD knocked out its tooth, threw it at the horse, he limped on one leg; the same - the second tooth; the horse went quieter, fell; next to an ox with a golden saddle; the LCD could not catch up with him, the abandoned tooth did not hit the ox; H. got off the ox and walked to the holy mountain, where the LCD could not climb; the ox disappeared; the LCD began to dig in the mountain; the fox offered to work for it, buries the dug it herself; H. asks the San Kar falcon to fly to his father to send dogs; Kara-It and Ak-It ("black dog", "white dog") came running; they bit to death LCD]: 1-9; Bosingen 1985 [the tiger went online, asked the man to release him; he released him and the tiger was going to eat him; the tree, the cow are responsible for paying for good with evil; the jackal pretends not to believe as if the tiger could get into the nets; the tiger climbed into them again, the jackal told the man to leave; the hunter killed the tiger and skinned it]: 34-35; Sidelnikov 1958 (2) [Mundybay sees blood in the well, the old man is enough him, tells him to give his son; deliberately leaves the boy's gold and silver grandmothers on the old nomadic; the horse helps the boy grab the money, the old woman throws a braid under the horse's feet, cuts off one first, then everything legs; takes the boy underground, tells the cattle to herd; the cow reports that the witch's strength is in her braid; he asks the braid to drive the heifer, runs away, climbs the birch tree; Mystan pulls out his tooth, digs the ground with it; magpie offers help, takes him away; the same with the other three teeth, they are carried away by a wolf, a fox, a hare; the boy kills the witch with her scythe, frees the prisoners]: 25-28; Tursunov 1983 [bay brought horses to a watering hole, in the water lung, he shoved it, it turned into Jalmaus-Kempir, she grabbed his throat, demanded his son; he promised to leave the boy's golden bat at the place of the night, he would come back for it; the boy takes an scabies two-year-old, he turns into a heroic horse; becomes low, the boy grabs a bat without getting off his horse, jumps away; the LCD pulls out one or the second tooth, throws one or the second tooth, throws, cutting off the horse one, the second a leg, a horse on two legs jumps to the bayterek (poplar), the boy climbs on it; the LCD digs up a poplar using the third tooth as a spade; Lisa offers to work instead of LCD, throws the tooth into the river; so twice (The fox says she is another fox); the LCD digs its fifth tooth; the boy asks crows and ducks to convey the message to his wolfhounds, they refuse; the swallow transmits; the dogs tore the LCD; her daughter went to look for her a boy killed her with arrows, knocking out her eyes]: 143-145; Kyrgyz: Ledenyov 1987:83-88 [Köchpesbay decided to migrate for the first time, as the cattle ate all the grass; his wife had been messing with her luggage for a long time, they moved to the way is only at night; Shukurbek's son forgot the alchik in the parking lot, drove back; the horse says that the witch Zhelmoguz is there now; S. sees the old woman, she does not give an alchik, let S. dismount; he picked up the alchik, galloped away; stopped at the old man; saw J. in a dream, woke up, galloped away with three puppies; fell asleep in the parking lot, woke up as an adult, the puppies became dogs named Sensitive, Sighted and Listening; J. was afraid of dogs, offered peace, let S. live with her; persuaded S. to go hunting without dogs; chased him; S. threw the alchik, he became a poplar, S. climbed onto the poplar; J. pulled out two teeth, turned it into an ax and a saw; the red fox offered to work for J., threw the ax and saw into the river; the same was the white fox; S. asks the crow to call the dogs; they uprooted the tree, ran, drowned J.; S. returned to his father when he was going to wake him up], 219-225 [the wolf begged the man to hide him in a bag from hunters; when he got out, he was going to eat the man and his horse; forty: it would be better if you both died; the hare is terrified runs away; the fox demands to show how it happened, orders the arcana to tighten the bag more tightly]; Uighurs: Kabirov 1963:170-174 [a woman gives birth to a son from her husband; later a daughter from a neighbor, who has one eye in her forehead; the boy sees his sister reach out of the window to the river to get water; tells his mother that it is yalmauz; his mother scolds him, he leaves; takes three puppies with him on the way; grows up, marries; decides visit the house, asks his wife to let the dogs down when they bark; his village is empty, only his sister is alive, who has eaten everyone; while cooking, asks him to play the dutar on the roof with his legs hanging; the mouse tells him to pour into sand hanging boots, running, running along the strings herself; Yalmauz pulls her boots, sand falls into her eye, she chases a young man; he climbs one of the five poplars; yalmauz takes out a tooth, cuts the trunk; The fox offers to cut for her; the Yalmauz falls asleep, the Fox taps, runs away with a tooth in the morning; the same with the Wolf; when the last poplar remains, the dogs break off the chain, rush to the yalmauz, she runs to the lake, drowns; the young man scolds his wife that she forgot to let the dogs down right away; =Kabirov, Shakhmatov 1951:74-77], 286-289 [the wolf begged the ploughman to hide him from the hunters; when they rode off, he is going to eat; cow, apple tree confirm that people are ungrateful; the fox wants to see everything for herself; the plowman covers the wolf with a robe, the fox tells him to kill the wolf with a stone; now she wants to eat the plowman herself; the same hunters appear; the fox: what are they screaming? ploughman: they ask who is standing next to me; fox: say it's a stone; hunters: and you hit a stone with a stone; the ploughman killed a fox].

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars (Tobolsk; from Radlov's collection) [Salamya, the son of a rich man, was orphaned, lay on straw, the fox fed him and decided to marry the princess; borrowed the tsar's silver measure, stole several silver coins, stuck in the cracks; next time, gold coins; made ships and everything on them from straw, the fleet sails to the king, the king meets on the shore, the fox sent a storm, straw scattered, S. got ashore naked; the king sent clothes; after the wedding world, the fox ran forward; tells horse, cow, sheep shepherds to say that they are herding the cattle not of seven-headed Elbig, but Tsar S.; running to E., asks to hide her: Tsar S.'s army is coming, burning everything with fire; E. asks to hide him in a well; taught him how to push a huge stone that will close the hole; and remained in the well; treasures and herds went to S.]: Nasyrov, Polyakov 1900:75-79; Altaians: Katash 1978 [Delbegen came down from the moon to swim, the old woman scooped him up with a bucket; during her life promised her son; migrated; her son Chalma found her; she said that his toys were still in the same parking lot; a plain foal offered to ride it; C. grabbed the toys, C. set off in pursuit; cut off the foal's hind legs, he rode on the front legs; cut off the front legs; C. climbed the tree; the fox invited D. to cut down the tree, threw its ax into the lake; D. drank the lake; C. sent Magpie (refused, You called me glutton), Tit for their dogs; they killed D.; C. returned to his mother, dogs howl at the moon at night]: 84-86; Potanin 1883 [Chelbegen chased Tardanak, he climbed on ironwood, C. began to cut it; the red fox deceived him, stepped his ax, threw him into the lake; repeated the trick, changing the red coat to black hair; the crows fought with C. and killed him]: 774-775; Sadalova 1989 [Diellbegen wants to eat a man; he promises a son instead of himself, migrates, sends his son to wait for D.; D. chases him, cuts off the legs of the horse on which the boy is riding; boy climbs an iron poplar; the fox begs for D.'s ax, throws it into the lake; D. drinks the lake; the boy asks Magpie, the Raven to call his dogs; they refuse, the Goose calls; dogs defeat D.; one is injured, the boy forgets about her, she turns into a wolf; options: the old man goes to fetch water at night, scoops up D., sends his son to the former camp for a forgotten toy; the father promises his son to the owner of the water; he turns into a girl, marries him; an old man in the woods meets D., complains that he has no heir; he promises that the old man's wife will hurt his finger if he squeezes blood, a son will be born; the old man promises that when his son reaches the age of 18, he will give him to D. to be eaten; the boy grows up, his parents tell him to run, he climbs the poplar (the episode with the Fox and the ax in all versions); when dogs fight in D. his blood splashed on the moon; so dogs howl at night when they see spots on the moon]: 83-84; Sadalova 2002, No. 10 [the hunter was going to hit the snake, but it managed to wrap around his neck; says he will kill the hunter; horse, dog agree - people are selfish; fox: how did the hunter want to kill you? the snake lies down where it was, the hunter kills it; says he wants to bow to the fox, instead grabs it, kills it; at home he tells his wife everything, but tells the horse and dog to feed their fill], 17 [the man grabbed felt floating on the river, it turned out to be Diellbegen; the man promised a son for himself; migrated, leaving his son's bow, he followed him; dismounted to pick up the bow, D. chased him, cut off the horse's leg, the boy (Yoskuus-Uul) sat on a roe deer that offered himself; D. consistently cut off all her legs; E. throws D. twice in the face of her giblets, climbs an iron poplar; D. spends time wiping himself off; begins to cut the poplar; the fox offers help, cuts a stone, throws an ax into the water; D. drinks the lake, pulls out an ax, cuts; the fox, pretending to be another fox, repeats the trick, D. pulls out the ax again; The crow, the Magpie refuse to tell the parents of Ë., because he called them names; The goose says that two dogs came running, tore D.; he managed to cut off one finger; the dog tells E. no later than three days bring food; YE. brings in seven, the dog became a wolf], 26 [Lisa asks hunter Yoskyzek not to kill her, promises to marry Karata-Kaan's daughter; asks KK scales to weigh Yo's money.; returns, stuffed a few coins in the cracks; brings an arak, receives the consent of the KK; makes a birch bark horse for Y., smeared with coal, a peony fur coat - from a distance like brocade, it all seems to sink at the crossing; KK sends that it is necessary, they celebrate that; the fox tells Ak-Saal that the KK is going to war against him, let him answer that all the property belongs to Y.; the shepherds answer that they are grazing herd, cows, sheep Y.; 62-coal a stone yurt, celebrated in it for 6 years, Y. became a kaan]: 99-101, 147-153, 249-259; Chelkan residents (recorded during trips made in 1934-1952): Baskakov 1985 (p. Kurmach-Baigol) [dying, the peasant bequeathed a horse to his eldest son, a cow to his middle son, and a cat to the youngest; the cat invited the youngest to follow the bride; he agreed; the cat asked the people working in the field to whom it belongs; they replied: "This is Aza Khan's field, our Aza Khan can turn into any animal, sometimes it can become a horse, if necessary, it can turn into a mouse"; the cat asked the shepherds whose cattle they are they graze; they said that the cattle belonged to Aza-Khan; the cat snuck into the palace, began to praise A.; asked him to become someone; A. took the form of a lion, then a horse and a hare; when A. became a mouse, the cat ate it; even before coming to the palace, the cat and the youngest son took a beautiful girl from the peasant, promising a gold bar in return; after A. was killed, the cat announced to the workers that their khan was now Ochy- Almas; the girl's father came to the palace, the youngest son began to live richly]; (p. Suranash) [the orphan caught a fox; the fox asked him to let him go and promised to thank him; the orphan agreed; the fox came to his house and said that he, an orphan, should take a bride; promised to help; they loaded empty barrels on the arba and went to pick up the bride; on the way, the fox told the orphan to pick kandyk inflorescences; the orphan did it; the fox stuck the inflorescences to his body; then ran forward and gnawed at the supports under bridge; asked the peasant if the bridge was strong; he replied yes; when the arba reached the middle of the bridge, it collapsed; fallen barrels and inflorescences floated on the water; the peasant asked what was swimming there; the fox:" The forty barrels of Araks we were carrying, and the silk clothes of your [future] son-in-law have crept and swam, and your son-in-law is sitting naked under the bridge"; the peasant brought good clothes and put it on the orphan; said:" I will drink my own araku as it was brought by you, I will eat my own food as you brought"; then I brought the orphan into the house; he never wore clothes and therefore looked around himself; the fox to the peasant:" He looks around because the clothes he wears now are worse than what he usually wears"; the farmer brought even better clothes; the fox stuck needles in the orphan's shoulders; when the orphan looked around , pricked his needles; finally stopped looking back; the fox and the orphan took the peasant's daughter and went home; the fox ran forward, came to the snake's nest and said that the golden eagle was flying; the snakes crawled out and crawled into the reeds; the fox set it on fire, the snakes burned; the fox brought the orphan into their hole; it was a beautiful house made of gold; the mother-in-law who came to visit was satisfied; the fox asked the orphan for help and said: "I am not a fox, I am a spirit, you come with me and we will kill my wife together"; when they reached the place where the fox lived, he told the orphan to go into the house and kill his wife; the orphan saw a beautiful woman there, could not kill her and went back; the fox gave him an ax and told the woman to be told that it was her husband's axe; the orphan did so; the woman grabbed an ax and cut her stomach; the orphan went outside and saw two foxes running together; his fox thanked and said that he has now submitted himself to his wife]: 106-108, 129-131; Khakas: Balter 1986 [bai saved the snake from the fire; she wrapped around his neck; the horse, the dog are responsible that evil pays for good; the fox offers the snake to get down to the ground, stand on its tail and then sting; buy killed the snake; shot the fox, but it managed to hide]: 116-118; Katanov 1907, No. 306 [the snake asks to save it from the fire, promises to teach it the language of animals; the man saves, she wraps his neck; the horse, the dog say that people are not grateful; the fox: let the snake come down from the person, stand on the ground next to him; asks the person why he has a gun and a stick; a man killed a snake with a stick, shot a fox; houses cows, horses, birds complain that the man's wife did not feed them; he scolds his wife; she tries everything; he hears the rooster saying that copes with 40 chickens; but the man told his wife everything and died], 579 [the snake asks to save her from the fire; the man saves, she entangles his neck; the horse, the dog say that people are ungrateful; the fox: they do not judge hanging around his neck, but standing; the snake let the man go, he killed her with a cane]: 361-363, 512; Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 2 [the old man went to meet the bear for firewood, wants to eat; on the mountain, the fox shouts: we are 60 man, we're hunting a bear, haven't you seen a bear? every time the bear tells the old man what to say; - Didn't you see it? - What's next to you? - Stump. - Shouldn't we put the tree stump in the sleigh? bear: luggage; - Don't you tie it with a rope (tie it); - If you tied it to a sleigh, shouldn't you hit your forehead with an ax? An old man killed a bear]: 51-53; Tuvans: Vatagin 1971, No. 11 (Dzun-Khemchik District) [the boy raised two golden eagles, received two dogs from his father's friend, began to understand their language; when he returned, he did not find a yurt ; where the mother was sleeping, he found a needle and a fragment of a crest, where the father was a whetstone; a six-headed mangys Kalchaa-Mergen came out from under the ash; cut off the boy's horse's legs; the boy threw a whetstone, a comb, a needle, they became rock, thicket, iron poplar; K. climbed the rock, made his way through the thicket, began to cut the poplar; the young man was sitting at the top; the axe flew to the side, K. fell asleep, the Frog threw his axe into the lake; K. drank the lake, began to cut further; the fox offered to cut for him, hit the axe with the blunt side, threw it into the lake; K. drank the lake again, sharpened his axe; the boy asked the crows to call his golden eagles, they took the boy to wings to his father; he gave him the name Deer-Møge (Heavenly Strongman); Cher-Aldy Khan gives his daughter to the one who wins archery, horse racing, wrestling; D. wins, kills K. marries]: 112-117; Radlov 1907, No. 150 (Saldan) [the old man saw his lungs floating, picked it up with an oarlock, it turned out to be a witch; she is going to eat, refuses to take 1000 horses in return, let him go for a promise to give his son; the old man leaves the boy's red grandmother on the same nomadic, sends him for her; the fox tells him to climb an iron poplar, the witch cuts down the poplar with an ax; the fox invited the witch to fall asleep she clenched her eyes; two ducks complained to the gods, they sent two dogs, they killed the witch; the young man killed his older sister and father, stayed with his mother]: Radlov 1907, No. 150:10-11 (=1907:10-12); Hadahane 1984 [Oskus- ool herding Karaty-Khan's herd, the lamb broke his leg, O. is afraid that K. will kill him; Lisa {Dilgizhek, i.e. "Fox"} promises to marry him to Bilig, Kurbusta Khan's daughter; he rises to heaven across the rainbow, says Kurbusta Khan, that Karaty Khan wants to give his daughter for him; he bathes O. on the ground in warm water, making him handsome; leads him to Kurbustu Khan; says that the groom is wet from the rain, Kurbusta Khan gives him a new clothes; Lisa teaches O. to call himself Chichen-Taji; runs to Karata Khan, says that Kurbustu Khan is angry and will strike with lightning; advises him to hide in a hole with his retinue, fill the entrance with a stone; tells others that the new Khan's son - O.; he goes down with B., lives well; lightning broke the stone and everyone who hid under it]: 18-22; South Altai Tuvans [a rich man leans to the water at a watering hole, a jelbag grabs him for beard; he promises to give her son, leave his bow and arrows in the old parking lot; the father tells me to go there on a horse that does not look at him, his mother on the one that looks and stops; he does so; picks up a bow and arrows, jumps away; the jelbege consistently interrupts the horse's four legs with a leather stick; the horse flies; she cuts the horse in half, cuts the neck, carries the boy's head, throws it on poplar; The fox offers to saw while the jelbege is resting, throws the leather into the sea; she drinks the sea, saws again; the Raven and others refuse, the Eagle brings news to the dogs; they fight the jelbag in in the depths of the sea; first red but then black blood rises; dogs pop up, one leg is broken; the boy leaves her, she becomes a wolf]: Taube 1994, No. 23:206-210; Tuvans [khan's cattle suffers from predators; the khan promises a herd and a flock to anyone who brings five bear skins, ten wolves, three foxes; a shepherd aims at Lisa, who asks not to kill her, promises to help her; speaks to wolves and bears that the hunters are going to kill them, promises to take them to Mount Salvation if they close their eyes; tells them to jump, the animals fall into the abyss; the shepherd brings their skins, the khan will lose him; when the khan leaves the yurt at night, A fox and a shepherd kill him, take his property]: Koptelov 1956:123-126; Buryats (Unghin, Nukut District) [Uliger episode: Khan Sagta Abhay maiden climbs one of four aspens; mangadhai rushes after her, but the aspens rise higher; the mangadhai, having made an ax out of his tooth, cuts an aspen; a fox comes and says, "Sorry for you, old man! Because of an alien girl, you cut off floors on a bush, wiped your soles on the sand. Have a rest, smoke!" ; takes an ax from him and cuts a tree; when the mangadhai turns away, he hits his butt; when he looks, he cuts it with a point; the mangadhai smokes and falls asleep; the fox throws the ax into the sea and runs away; mangadhai, taking out a tooth, does the axe and continues to cut the aspen; Khan Sagta Abhay jumps to another tree; the mangadhai begins to cut it; the wolf comes and says the same thing as the fox (the situation repeats); the mangadhai does again an ax out of a tooth and cuts an aspen; Khan Sagta Abhay jumps over to another; a bear comes and pretends to sympathize with mangadhay (the situation repeats like a fox and a wolf); mangadhai cuts the fourth aspen, is going to knock her down; two dogs Khan Sagta Abhay come running; mangadhai jumps into the sea; dogs are poisoned after him, punishing the hostess: "Give us plenty of food! If we are defeated, the sea will turn red, and if we win, the water in the sea will turn black!" ; Khan Sagta Abhay throws pet meat; the sea turns red; Khan Sagta Abhay cries, throws meat into the sea again; the sea turns black; dogs come out of it slightly alive; explain that the sea turned red when their ears were injured; Khan Sagta Abhay feeds dogs and returns to Khartagay Lomon Khan's palace]: Burchina 2007, No. II.3:113-114; Oirats: Popov, Basangov 1936 [The old woman walked on the water at night, scooped up Telbegen with a bucket; promised to give her son to Chalma; sent him to pick berries with a box full of holes, migrated herself with the old man; Chalma found her way back; then the mother said that his toys remain in the old yurt; a thin horse tells him to take them; an old man sits by the old yurt, saying that he cannot feed the toys; the horse tells him to grab them himself and run; T. throws his ax, cuts off the horse's hind legs, then his front legs; C. climbs a tree; the fox invites T. to cut off for him while T. sleeps, throws the ax into the lake; T. drinks water from the lake; C. asks Magpie to call his dogs, that refuses, because he called it glutton; Tits fly and tell; T. hides from dogs in the lake; they fight him in the mud until night; black blood splashes to the moon, dogs come out alone with a broken leg; dogs howl at the moon at night; spots on the moon - T.]: 32-35; Potanin 1883, No. 111 (burguts, p. Buren-Gol) [the fox promises orphan Boroldai that he will bow to her; tells Mangys that Ter-Khan wants to kill him with lightning, he must send him 50 white khadaks; brings them to T., says Bai Boroldai wants marry his daughter; tells Mangys that T. still wants to throw lightning at him; M. sends an army to the sea, it catches Ertene (a kind of magic tablecloth); the fox carries him to T., meets him, takes a wolf with him, a bear, a tiger, a lion - all these are Boroldai's padarki, T. puts animals on a chain; T. takes ertene, feeds everyone; the fox tells M. that he is afraid to beg T. not to throw lightning again; let M. hide in a hole with his family ; tells the shepherds to answer Ter-Khan that all the cattle belong to Boroldai, otherwise T. will kill them; gives the palace to M. I fight; the fox asks T. to throw lightning into the hole where she has "rotten cattle"; eats the dead]: 379-381; darhats (somon Khujirt, Uburkhangai aimag) [Khan's daughter Khanchin Geseg was a sled horse a foal standing on two legs, flying through the air; the girl wanted to pick up the llama mangas; the foal tells the girl to take the comb of the mother of the dogs Hasar and Basar; the abandoned comb became a thicket, lama mangas got lost in it; the girl flew into the gray yurt to the old woman, tells her not to say that she is a woman, dressed as a man, began to hunt and feed the old woman; became pregnant, gave birth to a child; her gray flying horse grew old, told the child to climb the meat ball he would turn into; the lama mangas began to hit the meat with a sword and climb it; Lisa offered to cut instead of mangas, threw out her sword into the sea; the mangas began to gnaw out pieces of meat with his mouth, reached the top of the obo; the dogs Hasar and Basar ran, the lama mangas threw them into the sea, but they returned; the lama threw himself into the sea; Hasar and Basar they said that if the sea turned red-brown, it means that the lama-mangas defeated them, and if it did not change color, they defeated it; Hasar and Basar fought underwater for a long time, grabbed one leg and the other by the hand, they tore the mangas lama]: Mongolian expedition of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Western August 24, 2006, No. WS 30020; Mongols: Mikhailov 1962 [after losing his father, the young man was left without property, wanted to shoot a fox, she promises to marry him on Khurmaster Khan's daughter; says that Bayan-Bornoy ("accordion" means "rich") wants to take his youngest daughter; that B. is richer than H.; he will give a lion, a tiger, a panther, a bear for the bride; tells the animals that they are called wedding as guests of honor; says H. that B. lost everything at the crossing; H. borrowed clothes; tells the animals to be allowed to confuse them, put them in a cage - then they will not be afraid and invited; and B. will ride a lion; H. is delighted; it is time for B. and his wife to go to his place; the fox tells H. and his entourage to go north (Inderme's 95-headed mangas rules there; the fox tells him that another mangas wants everyone eat - let I. and all his people hide in a hole and pile birch trees on top, wait 21 days; tells his subjects to meet B. - then they will become immortal; in 10 days B.'s wife hears noise from the pit; fox: these are dead people who have become devils, they must be destroyed; H. hit the hole with thunder and killed everyone who was in it; the fox remained a wise adviser]: 72-77; Sanzheev 1931, No. 7 [the young man Zeiben forgot the same the camp has two gold-silver ankles, returned for them on his eight-legged horse, saw a mangyska there, grabbed his ankles; the mangysk pursuer consistently cuts off the horse's 8 legs, his back part, front, head, C. climbed onto the golden aspen; The fox twice offers to cut down aspen instead of mangyska, seals her eyes; C. runs away on a goby, he splashes droppings into the eyes of the mangysk; C. finds a fragment father's sharpener, comb, mother's needle; throws behind, a forest, a mountain, a river appear; C. answers to the mangyska that he crossed the river, tying stones to his feet, the mangyska drowns; the goby tells him to be stabbed, Ts. refuses; tells you to kill a red louse on it, dies immediately; in the morning there is a yurt, a woman and herds on this place]: 96-98.

Western Siberia. Mansi: Lukina 1990, No. 139 [Ekva-Pyris lives with his grandmother; loses an arrow, a woman with an iron body takes him away; he drills a tiny hole, runs away; twice; on the third since the body is copper, the knife breaks, the woman brings E. to her daughters, goes to kick birch bark; E. asks the girls to release him, he will make them a wooden ladle the size of their skull; cuts off their heads; taking hot ash and red-hot scrap, climbs a tree; a woman cuts a trunk; Fox, Hare, Wolverine offer help, axes blunt against a stone, a woman takes another one each time; E. asks a woman to open her mouth to jump into it; throws ash and scrap, finishes off the cannibal with an ax; returns to his grandmother]: 373-376; Popova 2001, No. 7 [grandmother does not tell Ekva Pygrisyu to walk towards the north wind; he goes, sees a boat, shoots ducks, a boat takes it to old Kirp Nölp; carries it in a birch bark body, he cuts a hole with a knife, runs away; it repeats itself, KN carries it in an iron body, he drills a hole, falls out with a needle; the third time, the copper body, the EP knife is broken, KN brings it to his two grandchildren, goes to make birch bark scoops; EP promises KN's grandchildren to make wooden ones, they they release; he asks to put their heads on a log to measure, cuts off, cooks meat, climbs larch; in the corner he ties mice to squeak like children; KN eats grandchildren; Lisa offers KN to help cut a tree, breaks an ax against a stone; the same is Olenikha; EP invites KN to open his mouth to jump there; throws a hot walk; KN dies]: 59-69; Rombandeeva 2005, No. 25 [Ekva-Pygris lives with her grandmother , fires an arrow, goes looking for it; the woman invites him to climb into her birch bark body, promises to look for his arrow herself, takes him away, he drills a hole along the way, gets out; the next day the same with an iron body; on the third day she cannot drill a stone one; a woman brings it to her home, tells her son and daughter to watch, goes for firewood; E. asks them to release it, make it for them shpyr shonah (ladle) drink his blood; cuts off their heads, cooks meat, climbs larch; a woman eats her children; begins to cut larch, the Hare offers to cut for it, dumb the ax on stone; the same Fox; Wolverine; E. invites her to open her mouth, throws hot ash with her, then hot scrap; she dies, E. returns to her grandmother]: 237-245; Nenets (Yamalo-Nenets author. County) [old man Tirnii-Wesako (Universal Old Man) quarrels with an old woman, who is older, diverge in different directions; the old man cuts down a spruce tree to make a boat, it turns out to be the meta of the top of the head of the Yandei plague- Vesako (Old Man of the Lower World), they fight, Y. wins, T. buys his life, promising to give her son, to do this, leave her knife, for which her son will come; at this time, the old woman comes to the lake with with rejuvenating water, drinking, becoming young, bringing the old man (both have now returned home), he drinks, he is also getting younger; he says that he forgot his knife, sends his son; his son was gone before, now he has appeared a young man from under his mother's yagushka (swinging fur clothes); I. takes the young man who has come to the lower world; promises life if he brings him the Daughter of the Wind King; he goes and wants to kill Lisa, she becomes his assistant, drives the Six-Legged Huge Moose to the cedar he told the young man to climb, who jumps the Moose on his back, he carries the young man and the Fox; the Thunder Boy suggests that their dogs ( Bear and Fox) and horses (horse and six-legged elk) got into a fight; Fox kills the Bear, the Elk drives the Thunder Boy's horse; the Fox tells her to exchange her from the Thunder Boy for Syromyatnaya-Korovya-Skin, who carries the hero to the Tsar -To the wind; the partridge lures the servant of the daughter of the Wind, he calls the girl, the skin takes her to the land of the Fox; The fox turns out to be the god Numgypa, the eldest son of an old man and an old woman, the hero's brother, the hero's name Yav-Mal is the main a presonage of fairy tales; he leaves the woman he got to the Old Man of Lower World, who promises to eat him anyway, but lets him go; he comes to the plague of his parents, hears the Old Man saying that he has gone beyond seven heavens, and the old woman is down over the seven permafrost that the youngest son separated them; when he wakes up, he is in the house, his wife is the Daughter of the Tsar-Winds, he is Yav-Mal]: Pushkareva, Khomich 2001, No. 1:89-109; Selkups: Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951 (southern?) [Icha (Itya) falls into the trap of the line, he drags him into his home; in the absence of a devil, I. kills his daughters, runs away, climbs a tree; the devil vomits an ax (he's last year swallowed the whole city); Bear, Fox offer to help cut down a tree, but they deceive the line; I. promises to jump the line into his mouth, he lies face up; I. falls asleep with ash eyes of the line, jumping off the tree kills, burns it; sparks turn into mosquitoes]: 135-139; Prokofiev 1935, No. 1 (northern) [Icha lives with his grandmother; shoots an arrow at a teal, she flies by; tries to take an arrow, sticks with his fist, heel, etc.; the devil brings it to his daughters, goes after the cauldron; I. promises his daughters to make a wooden spoon, kills them, climbs on larch; the devil eats his daughters; cries; vomits an ax to cut larch; Bear, Wolverine, Fox consistently offer to help cut a tree, run away with an ax, the devil vomits a new one every time; I. promises to jump the line into his mouth, he lies face up; I. falls asleep with ash, the line jumps off a tree, kills, burns it; sparks turn into mosquitoes]: 101-102.

Eastern Siberia. Sym Evenks: Vasilevich 1936, No. 42 (Chirombu) [the younger sister forgot her grandmother toys when migrating; the older sister, the younger brother said that they worked and did not know where the toys were; Ostyak said what she poured out behind; the girl saddled the deer, took the dog, came to the old place, where the Bear; he asked the names of the deer and the dog, tied the girl and dog to the tree; the girl says to the Bear three times, that her late parents did not take a bed of urine and feces when they were going to fresh the vazhenka (i.e. you have to cook everything away); The bear goes away to cut away; the crossbills can not untie the girl's fetters, bent beaks; Lisa freed her, for which the girl promised to paint her tail; The bear wants to eat the Fox instead of the girl; she suggests that he put her on his lap, cut it with an ax; The fox dodged, Bear cut his legs, began to eat his own bone marrow; since then, the tip of the fox tail is white, the bear has no bone marrow; the girl went to the river, called her father, mother, uncle; everyone refuses to transport, they say, the girl is a crybaby; she tells the rock to slide down, crush them all; the ostyak carves the scoop, carries the girl in a scoop; the bear asks how the girl crossed; she sings - "lower, taller"; The bear enters water, sinks; tells his heels to become bars, his legs with sharpeners, his back with a soft stone, his skull with a stone for rubbing paints, his shoulder blades as a paint stone, his blood with red paint, his feces with black paint; now it's all there in the mountains; the girl became the wife of an Ostyak; carries water, he pours out every time, says that she wears from feces and urine; the girl asks the birds to carry her away; cranes, swans refuse shamanic birds gasha give her feathers to fly with them; the ostyak tells her to fall, promises to make a dress, a bib, an occipital ornament, a hat, a fringe on her belt; she says she does not need it, does not fall; sits at the door of an old woman; she asks where to hide her from her sons; she refuses to hide in the fringed belt ("smelly"), hides in a needle; sons smell it, promise to eat the girl at sunrise, then at sunset; she she flies away, catches up with gasha, they swear that their mother released her, they shoot, injure her wing shoulder; Gurivul asks her to fall, promises a storage shed, says on how many stands; when on 10 stands, the girl goes down; they have a son; G. is hunting, gasha came; the woman pretends that the child is dirty, goes out with him, hides in the storage shed; gasha gnaws on the stands; they managed to gnaw three, the woman sang three times, the third time G. came, killed two gash, the third ran, leaving a fang; G. comes to people, steps over the fire, everyone laughs; he looks - people have intact teeth; when through the third fire, he sees a toothless man; asks take out his lice, stab gash with his own tooth to death in the back of his head, tells others that his grandfather fell asleep, leaves]: 45-51; Lukina 2004, No. 3.14 [the hunter spat, saliva was picked up by the river, the bear asked Whose saliva are you; the hunter's saliva; and who are his wives? Mischievous and Maludi; the bear came to the storage shed, asked them to drop the stairs; women: you have someone else's voice; bear: lost his voice in foreign lands; they threw down the stairs, the bear tied them up, beat them with cups; became rip off the birch bark to make the body; women: it's dirty here, go away; a fox came to the bear, says "Shaludi, Maludi"; bear: you let them go; fox: no, my paws and ear tips are soot; the bear came back to storage shed, women ran away a long time ago; fox bear: you let them go; fox: hack me, I'll sit on your knee; he cut both his legs, eats bone marrow; cedars started screaming; bear: when I eat myself, cedars barked]: 73-74; Evenki (Podkamennaya Tunguska) [the fox promises to marry the poor man to the prince's daughter; orders to decorate the boat with flowers, from a distance it seems like a rich boat; turned the boat upside down; groom rescued, the prince gave him new clothes, he looks at them with surprise; fox: he was better; the prince gave him a daughter and deer]: Suvorov 1956:41-43; (cf. Evenks of China [a fanged cannibal demon lives on a mountain in a palace of human bones; groups of Evenks came to live nearby; a demon wrote into the river, people and horses who drank water died; old people from five children remained the youngest Altanie; they migrated away to the wooded mountain; when the fire was lit, the face of the old fire mistress appeared in the flames; she said that the son's soul in the birch bark box on Kampferkiefer tree (?) over the river where they left; it must be picked up as soon as possible, otherwise the demon will find it; A. went on horseback; on the way he shot a doe with six horns; when it was fresh, another hunter came up and complained that he did not get anything; A. shared the meat with him; the hunter said that his father was blind, his brothers and sisters were still small; A. gave him the rest of the meat; at the site of the former camp, A. wanted to drink water from the river; white the fox told me not to drink, you will die; talked about the demon who poisoned the river; he has already taken A.'s soul and plays with it; if he throws it into wine, A. will die; A. guessed that the fox is the hunter to whom he gave the meat; in the palace of demon A. knocked the goblet of wine out of his hands, tried to grab his soul, but did not have time; the demon hung A. and his horse on a tree to fry alive; but agreed to return his soul if A. got him a daughter the leader of the tribe from the east mountain; they decided to make a doll; the demon believed, returned A.'s soul, who hung it on his chest; people from the motorcade of the imaginary bride killed the demon's servants, set fire to the palace; the demon saw that there is a doll in front of him, but at that time warriors broke in and hacked him]: Bäcker 1988, No. 26:189-197); central Yakuts: Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 11 (2nd Sittinsky Heritage of Kobyay Ulus)) [wolf wants to eat the old man, but promises not to touch him if he hides him from hunters; the old man hides the wolf in a bag, tells the hunters that he did not see the wolf; the dog and the horse say that the wolf has the right to eat the old man, for people are ungrateful; the fox pretends not to believe that the wolf could fit in the bag; the wolf climbs there, the fox tells the old man to beat the wolf to death]: 143-155; Ergis 1967b, No. 68 (summary of the archival text, the place of recording is not specified; central?) [during a forest fire, a boy saves a Snake; he chases him; he seeks help from trees and animals; a birch tree replies that people are peeling off its skin, another tree that they cut it down, animals say that they kill them; the Fox invites the Snake to show his ability to shrink; he gets into his purse, the boy kills him]: 173-174.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais: Medvedev 1992 [Naiso tells female chum salmon, male chum salmon to swim along the side of the river where he puts nets, caught a lot, and prepared two yucola barns for himself and for dogs; the dream requires yucola, N. went to the barn - it's already empty, the bear ate it; the bear tells me to prepare hay to lay when he kills N.; the fox advises making hay a little man and placing it on the window, say bear, that a crowd of people is coming, let the bear hide in the corner, and then there will be a dialogue: - Naiso, are there traces of my beast here? - Why would an animal come to a person that people kill? - What's in the corner? - Coal. - Take an ax and hit it, if coal, you'll hear a crunch, if there's meat, you'll hear a knock. N. cut the bear, began to eat its meat with the fox; the fox offers to play: put it in a cradle, tie it like a small child, feed it; and then N. will lie in the cradle; the fox tied N., ate everything herself and ran away; N. cries; the mouse gnawed through the ropes, N. gave her a piece of meat; N. loaded a cereal on the sledges, went hunting; towards the fox, asking her to take it instead of a dog; the fox harnessed himself into a sledge; pretended to break her leg , asks to put her on a sledge next to the cereal; in the evening she says that her leg has improved; asks for a knife to cut the herbs for bedding; N. found a knife and the fox ran away; the groats are empty, but in one a fox tooth remained; N. found a ferret, a fox {other}, a hare, put everyone in his bosom, came to the house; animals are camlaat there; bear: N. camlaet well; N. camlaet, sees a fox with a broken tooth; fox: I'll ask your old man's daughter Ka; came to Ka's house, turned into a terrible beast, tells Ka and his wife Ka to give her daughter, brought her to N.; N. lives with his wife]: 282-286; Sem, Sem 2020, No. 51 []: 246-251; Shimkevich 1896 [ the old man says that the cannibal buseu will come, leaves with his wife and grandson; the grandson remembers that he has forgotten a bunch of gold and silver goat grandmothers, returns to fanza; tries to take the money unnoticed, but the old man grabs his horse by the tail; the boy wakes up in an unfamiliar fanza, the old man tells him not to go far; one day he goes away, finds many teenage boys in the barn; the old man cooks them in workers when he marries Jiadankan-fuji, who lives overseas; the boy releases prisoners; the old man sends him for D.; the fox helps him, sables and squirrels fall from the sky; the fox turns into a falcon, lures D.; she agrees to marry a young man if he kills an old man; Lisa gnaws the old man's throat; the young man returns to his parents with two wives, F. and Lisa, who became a woman]: 119-122; Wilta [Buchugdy finds Lisa on the road; she lies that she has broken her leg, asks to put her in a sledge; at rest she goes to buy firewood, during which time Lisa has eaten all the jukola; B. finds her lost tooth; puts her armpit frogs, lizards; comes to the Hares, they shamanize; B. is also shamanite, frogs, lizards fall from his armpit, Hares laugh; B. hears Fox laughs; she asks her to let her go, promises to find a wife; tells the fisherman to give daughter, otherwise the fish will not be caught; the old man gives, B. gets a wife]: Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:371-272.

SV Asia. Coastal Koryaks: Zhukova 1980, No. 13 (Palana) [Mice ride down the mountain, willow puts up his pants, the Mice fall into them, he ties them, tells the tree to bend down, hangs it on the tree to turn sour, tells the tree to straighten out; the fox tells the tree to bend down, releases the Mice; one stubborn, put him on top, the bag is filled with anything; willow found only one mouse at home; the willow believes Lisa that she is sick and hasn't been going anywhere for a long time]: 175-176; Jochelson 1908, No. 56 [children look into the Kamak woman's house; she catches them; Lisa frees them and hides them; Kamak comes for them, Lisa pushes her off a cliff; Kamak asks throw at least one child to eat before death; Lisa wraps a stone in the boy's clothes, throws Kamak in her mouth, killing her; Lisa and Tritonikha find an arrow in the dugout, swallow it, both become pregnant; Lisa gives birth to a boy with five fingers, Tritonicha a girl with three; Tritonikha replaces children; Spider tells a grown boy that Tritonikha is not his mother, advises him to pretend to be weak, for Tritonich to take a parcel of meat from his hands; the bundle falls apart, Tritonich says in her hearts that only Lisa's son could tie her in this way; the young man drives her away, brings Lisa; they live in a dugout, master which Ememkut; it was his arrow; E. brings them to his father, lives with Lisa]: 212-216; kereks [mice roll down the hill; this is the yaranga in which the Kala woman lives; she sews; something blocks the light; she thinks it's her cheek, eats it; then the second cheek is the same; when she sees the mice, she put them in a bag, hung them in yaranga on the upper crossbar; a fox lives next to her daughter Imyna; went wander, hear crying; mice teach: in order for the bag to fall, you must promise to fill it with mouse oil; the fox released the mice, was left alone, which died; the fox filled the bag with shiksha branches; told the mice go home; let everyone migrate, leaving the sheep's carcass in its original place; tells Ymynne to cook alder bark at home; the feces returned with firewood; got an answer from the stone who released the mice; the fox says that she fell ill; gives a tiny alder feces, says that it is a disease, asks me to go to the mountain and throw it away; she came up from behind and pushed the feces off the cliff; eiders are swimming on the ice floes; the fox asks to take her for a ride on a boat; they say that the boat will disappear; seagulls take; the seagull has attached the fox's wings; tells me not to sneeze when the sun rises; the fox sneezed, fell into the sea; swam on a log to the shore; went to bed, taking out her eyes and velv to guard her; the old Kala got out of the abyss, poured water on her sleeping woman; the fox was angry with her eyes for not guarding them well, ate them; went to look for new ones; berry eyes are not suitable, everything around is red; made new ones out of ice floes; shot at a sleeping bear; she offers to cure him with hot stones; the bear is dead; the fox's daughters ate meat; the fox imposed the vertebrae on a rope, tied a sleeping wolf to the tail; shouted that toothy and fanged ones were chasing him; the wolf cut off his tail against the bushes; the grandmother sewed a new one, but it was no longer fluffy; and ordered her daughters to sew parts of the fluffy fox; now the tip of the fox's tail is white and the fox is black; the sea used to be transparent; after the fox fell into it, it became cloudy]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 116:364-371; Chuvans [Families of the Rich reindeer herders go to visit a nearby camp, taking their poor family with them. Both children are left alone. The poor go to play with the rich. They play and make noise without noticing how night falls. Poor children are afraid to make noise: "Don't laugh if someone comes. We're scared." The rich don't stop. Suddenly the ground started to tremble. The children of the rich didn't even notice it. The canopy opened and Devil's terrible head appeared. He opened his mouth to ear and laughed out loud too. The children of the rich died of fear. The devil went into the canopy, found a leaky kitchen, put the poor children in it, and went outside. I found a tree and said to him: "Wood, bend down!" ; hung the children to the very top and went in search of food. A fox came running and said "tree, get down!" , released the children; they ran away. The devil came to the tree and shook him. Berries fell from the leaky kitchen. The hell started eating berries saying "my children's eyes are falling." The hell lowered the tree, saw an empty kitchen, thought someone had eaten his kids, and went looking for it. I found a fox hole and went into it. The fox told him that she was ill, had not got up for several days, and there was no one to take out the pot of urine. I got the hell out of it. Fox: I'm pouring off the cliff. She advised the line to approach the cliff without turning around and raising one leg. That's what he did. The fox crept up behind, threw him off the cliff, the devil broke his head]: Brodsky, Innecay 2018, No. 15:32-34; the Chukchi [kele takes the girl, his house is inside a solid rock; leaving, he says nothing without him to touch and not to look; she made a fire and saw many skeletons; one has a live head, he says that the girl will be the same; the fox looks into the chimney, says to say the same words as kele, the hill will open; helps to run, telling you to take a stone, a branch, a piece of ice with her; the girl throws them, they turn into a mountain, a forest, a river; kele asks the fox to help cross, she offers to swim in a bivalve shell, the sink sinks into water; the fox pretends to be sick, asks the kele to take the night pot off the cliff; she follows, becoming a branch, a berry; she collides the kele, he crashed to death]: Baboshina 1958, No. 59:47-49.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos (Chaplino): Menovshchikov 1988, No. 12 [five girls went to the tundra; Mayyrahpak put them in a camley, hung them on a tree; Bear, Raven refuse to help, Fox tells bend down the tree, frees four girls, could not wake up the fifth; four ran away, filling the camley with berries; M. pierces a knife, thinks that her eyes are falling; the girl agrees not to kill, brings her to her house; two men free her, run with her; a stone thrown by a girl turns into a mountain; she draws a line with her cut little finger, a river appears; M. drinks it, bursts; teapots fall out of it, cups, plates, buckets, other things]: 67-68; Rubtsova 1954 [girls pick berries; the giantess catches them, puts them in her camley, leaves them on the tree; Ermine, the Hare refuse to help; The fox tells the tree bend down, frees the girls; they fill the camley with berries; one girl gets stuck in her sleeve; the giantess takes berries for human eyes; brings the girl home, adopts; two men come the girl runs with them; throws a whetstone, it turns into a mountain; draws a line on the ground, a river appears; the giantess drinks it, bursts; metal tools and utensils fall out of her womb]: 117-120; Asian Eskimos (Chaplino) [a successful whale hunter with 5 daughters; a ceremony must be performed to kill a whale, but the hunter's wife is missing; the following year, the eldest daughter went for roots, she was taken to heaven by an eagle; when he took the last two daughters, he began to feed them; fox: he feeds you to eat, weave a rope from your tendons; look into the pantry: there are sisters already taken away, the eagle has they have sucked fat, but they are still alive; to distract the eagle, the sisters tell them to bring prey from afar - they say, their father did it; the fox lowered the girl on a rope to the ground; when the eagle chased, the girl with her little finger drew a line, a river formed; the eagle dammed the river, getting into the water and spreading its wings, but the girl told the river to freeze, the eagle froze in years, the girl killed him with a knife; the youngest went to find someone, hit to the brown bear; he tells him to be beaten when he wakes up with a scraper handle so as not to bite; sends him to those who play ball over the hill; there she was married by a young man; she gave birth twice, both times a boy; guests have arrived; she won everyone in running and wrestling; returns to the bear for a while, taking a braided rope; then to her parents; then throws the rope up again and climbs to the northern lights; {obviously that ballplayers were flashed}; gave birth twice again; overtook and overcame everyone; then returned {to the ground} and then went under water; got married and stayed there]: Rubtsova, Vakhtin 2019, No. 41:555- 576; St. Lawrence [the girls roll down from the Giantess's dugout; she shoves them into her camley, hangs them on a pole, tells him to straighten up; the birds refuse to help, the Fox tells the pole to bend down, tells him to straighten up girls put moss in their place; the youngest fell asleep, stayed in the camley; ripping open the camley, the Giantess cuts off the girl's finger; agrees to take her in her head; there are mice, beetles, squirrels; The giantess tells them to gnaw, the girl pretends to throw them away; the fox pretends to have blood from her nose, as if all the buckets are full, in fact they contain red clay; the Giantess agrees to empty the buckets at the top of the mountain; the Fox is on her heels like a spirit, pushing the Giantess off the cliff; going to bed, taking out her eyes, telling her to guard; the Giantess comes up, her eyes jump, the Fox is still sleeping; the Giantess bites through her eyes ties bones to the Fox's tail; the fox runs, then realizes what's going on; makes new eyes out of berries, since then slightly cross-eyed; releasing the girl from the dugout, the Giantess puts her in a bag, ties her to it rope; the girl's two brothers release her, put a walrus skull in a bag, run away; the girl throws a whetstone, it turns into a mountain; runs a river across the ground with a stump of her finger; answers the Giantess that crossed on a shell; The Giantess can't; Drink the river! Tells the Giantess to dance, she bursts, she makes iron pans and boilers]: Slwooko 1979:14-20; Northern Alaska inupiate [young man doesn't know who he is; Fox comes, he rubs her face against land, she has a human face; she advises you to go to people; she is the first to come to the village, says that there are many enemies coming; people run in a hurry, it causes thaw, then frost; everyone freezes ; she finds a rich bride, her father thinks the groom is rich once he sent Lisa to marry; the foxes have been doing pranks ever since]: Spencer 1959:395-396.

Subarctic. Upper tanana [two girls follow butterflies, find themselves in the sky; old Chickady tells you to walk along a narrow path, not to walk along a wide path; at the fork, the sisters argue, the eldest makes you go along a wide path; they see a platform with cut dog carcasses barking on it; "Damn" next to it, an old woman lives across the street; at night she whispers to the youngest that the eldest Devil will kill; in the hearth there is a hot iron penis, Damn puts it into the eldest's vagina, she dies, the devil covers her with a blanket; pretends that she is sleeping; the youngest asks for need, the devil offers her palm and head for that, but the girl replies that she does not want to get her father dirty; Damn ties a rope to her; the old woman secretly gives moose fat and a stone scraper; the girl ties the rope to the stump, tells him to answer for himself; Damn pulls a stump by the rope, chases, the girl tells the fat to become a lake; then the scraper is a mountain; The devil goes around the lake, drills a hole through the mountain with an iron penis; by the river, the girl promises Lisa to paint her ocher, she transports it on her tail {it's not clear - stretching her tail like a bridge or the girl sits on the Fox's tail}, since then the foxes have been red; the same at the second river, the girl has been painting the Fox with charcoal, since then black-brown foxes black; The devil goes into the water, but comes back; the girl comes to the mother of the Sun; she hides her in a box of thread and needles; answers the Devil that no one was there; Damn is going to put her hot in her ass iron penis, but she melted the Line when she looked at it; the girl tells the blood line to become cranberry on tall bushes {in Alaska, cranberry is not our cranberries, but similar in taste and appearance red berries on tall bushes}, waist - cranberry on low bushes, penis with mushrooms among cranberries, testicles with salmonberry berries (Rubus spectabilis, excellent raspberries), bones with dog rose hips ( Rosa canina) and bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), the brain is a silver sucker; berries have existed since then; two sons of a Sun woman came, married a girl; she misses relatives on earth; the mother of the Sun tells me to move the stones away from the hearth; the girl sees her mother and relatives below on the ground; the Sun's mother says that if it snows sleet, you should turn his ass up and say "The dog took it.." (the informant does not remember the meaning); lets the girl down on the web; the mother of the Sun is the Spider; (further it is not entirely clear: Wolverine either raped the girl or is trying to do it; Herbal People (Grass Tussock People) hide her); she comes to her mother; it's snowing, she said, "Take the dog.. ", it's sunny]: Kari 1996:23-33.

The coast is the Plateau. Katlamet [The raccoon rejects all types of food offered by his grandmother, wants acorns; eats all supplies; the grandmother hits him with smut, he climbs on the hawthorn; she asks to throw berries at her; he throws her at the mouth is a lump of berries with thorns, it turns into a partridge; the Grizzly asks to paint it just as beautifully; the raccoon pours hot resin on it, runs to the Coyote; he says he has already swallowed the Raccoon; offers them Each grizzly swallows five hot stones; inserts an empty reed, the stones fall out on the other side; the Grizzly dies; in the winter, the Raccoon steals Coyote's supplies; he dresses as an enemy warrior injures him; under the guise of treatment, pulls the Raccoon's intestines out; eats it]: Boas 1901a, No. 17:142-154; kalispel [imperceptibly, the Coyote enters the womb of a giant Rattlesnake; finds inside lots of dying people; cuts off the monster's heart, it turns into a rock ledge; puts two trees to put the monster to close its mouth (they still grow); cuts its tail (now a narrow canyon) through this hole people go out]: Teit 1917 d, No. 2:115-116; clackamas [monsters in the ground and in the river swallow people; the Coyote lights a fire in the womb of both, cuts off their hearts; goes out with by other people; receives wives as a reward]: Jacobs 1958, No. 9:98-105; Curdalen: Reichard 1947, No. 2 [Grizzly shoots Rabbit in the eye, but he puts a bubble on his eye in advance; shoots in the eye Grizzly, who howls in pain; The rabbit comes to the woman, that daughter; the rabbit kills her, is fresh; the daughter's husband has a broken arrow, he realizes that his wife is dead; The rabbit runs, leaves the baked tubers behind him camas, so that the victim's stalking husband stops eating them; asks the Coyote to hide him; he hides a cereal plant in the knee; the stalker has a Grizzly dog; one of the advisers to the Coyote (his excrement) also turns into a dog, the Coyote puts a knife in the back of his head; the Coyote quarrels with the Absorber Stalker, they decide to have their dogs fight, the Coyote dog climbs under the Grizzly, rips his stomach open with a knife; the Absorber swallows the Coyote; there are many people inside who do not seem to understand that they have been swallowed; the Coyote tickles the Absorber's heart, he regurgitates him; the Coyote says he is swallowing people; suggests closing your eyes, regurgitating what has been swallowed; swaps people regurgitated by the Absorber and mice regurgitated by him; the Absorber swallows the Coyote again, he hurts his heart, inserting it into his mouth and the nostrils are hoops; swallowed people come out through them; the Coyote tells the Rabbit to cut the giant's body, throws pieces, saying which one will give birth to which people; when a piece falls, smoke comes, a dwelling appears; blacklegs come out of the leg, they are tall; ne perse is made of ribs, they have good heads (I mean, beautiful hair); belly - pot-bellied grovanter; heart - curdalen, they are evil (mean); wiped their hands on the grass - they will quiet, they are poor]: 68-71; Teit 1917e, No. 6 [unnoticed, the Coyote enters the womb of a giant monster; he has already swallowed many people; the Coyote threatens to kill him, the monster asks for mercy; Coyote turns him into a bird with a big mouth]: 121-122; flethead: Edmonds, Clark 1989 [Coyote and Fox traveled; the leader of the Kalispel tribe (aka Pend d'Oreille) refused to marry the girl to Coyote; he in revenge, he created Spokane rapids, above which salmon do not rise; the Coyote quietly enters the womb of a giant creature; feeds swallowed people with monster fat; cuts off his heart with a knife (it turns into a mountain range); swallowed creatures jump out of their mouths; clenched jaws flatten the Tick; Coyote sees two women, sits between them, they jump up, dancing into the river; Coyote asks to wait, follows them, they drown it; Coyote's companion Fox finds the body, jumps over it, the Coyote comes to life; the fox says Coyote should not have been with these women, they are from the oyster tribe ( Shell tribe); Coyote set fire to the grass, the women burned; now some oysters are black on top because they are burned in the fire]: 29-31; McDermott 1901, No. 2 [volcano is the heart of the monster, lava is blood; (quail in Erdoes, Ortiz 1984:223-225)]: 240-241; ne perse [Coyote is swallowed by a monster lying in the river; finds animal people inside; cuts a monster's heart, he dies]: Aoki 1979, No. 4 [Coyote ties himself to mountains; the ropes burst when the monster sucks it in; the Coyote breaks five stone knives before the heart is cut off; makes various tribes out of members of the monster cut off and thrown in different directions; ne perse made of blood and water]: 27-28; Clark 1953 [huge Beaver; Coyote lets himself be swallowed into a spruce branch; makes Indians chinook from his lower body, clickitat from his legs, causa from the front limbs, rib yakima, ne perse from the head, oriental bison hunters made of blood, hair, mud]: 172-175; 1966 [animal people jump out through various holes in the monster's body; Coyote does tribes (as in Aoki); heart and liver turn into rocks]: 27-30; Phinney 1934 [The Skylark tells Coyote about the Monster; he takes tar and flint with him, kindles a fire under the Monster's heart; when the Monster dies, animal people jump out all the holes in his body; clamped by the sphincter, the Muskrat's tail becomes bald]: 26-29; Spinden 1908, No. 2 [a monster with a deer's body; Coyote makes a fire under his heart]: 14-15; clickite: Jacobs 1929, No. 9 [The Coyote wants to see a water monster; it swallows it; there are many people and animals inside; the Coyote makes a fire, the monster dies; the swallowed ones go ashore]: 225-226; 1934, No. 28 [when a girl comes to marry Eagle, his younger brother Coyote leaves; a monster lives in the Columbia River, swallows boats; the Coyote invites him to swallow each other; the monster does not pay attention to finally swallows his attention; the Coyote cuts his heart with a flintlock knife; previously swallowed people come out; the cannibal Basket advises Coyote to cross the river with the help of her husband; this A crane, he puts its feet like a bridge, pushes those who turn into the water; the Coyote crosses in a boat; tells Basket that he turned white when he was smeared with resin and lay down on hot stones; The basket burns, Coyote turns a crane into a crane; defecates, his two excrement sisters say that a man with one leg and one hand harpoons salmon; Coyote turns into salmon, but One-legged knows what it is Coyote; hits him with a harpoon, pulls him ashore, lets him go; Coyote turns his sisters into two dogs; the boy invites everyone to play off his dogs against his dogs; they are scary and dangerous; Coyote dogs are theirs kill; Coyote goes further, depriving dangerous creatures of power]: 64-74; Tenino [the Coyote chief has five sisters in his stomach, these are blueberries (rather Coyote excrement); every time he asked them advice, they said they would not answer this time, because he would say again that he knew everything himself; the Coyote threatened them to rain, they would get wet; Blueberries agree to give advice; to kill Nash-lah, who swallows boats with people on the river, should take firewood, tar and 5 flint knives with him; Coyote says he thought so himself; Coyote calls NL names, forcing himself to swallow; finds frozen inside hungry people; makes a fire, cuts off and roasts the heart of the monster; N. regurgitates the swallowed, dies. coughing up swallowed; Coyote gives first ancestors (animals) names (you will be an eagle, you will be an explosive snake, etc.); now new people (Indians) will come; NL will live at the bottom but stop swallowing people]: Hines 1991, No. 1:12-15; yakima: Beavert 1974 [in Vinacha, the water by the rock lived like a dog a monster that sucked people in; Coyote's "sisters" say the monster has informants; it's Sandpiper's husband and wife (Scolopacidae); Coyote cuts off their tongues, promises to color beautifully if they keep silent; but the female had time to squeak, the monster came out; the Coyote cut off the climbing plants (with which the monster tied himself?) , the monster fell off the cliff, died, the rock turned red; the Coyote freed the swallowed, painted Sandpipers; the other monsters fled; the Coyote tied himself to the rock; the last monster tore the vines, swallowed the Coyote; previously swallowed freeze; the Coyote made a fire under the monster's heart, he died, the swallowed ones managed to jump out through the ass; the smoke turned many gray and black, the Heron's wings darkened, the Coyote became yellowish, uneven in color; Coyote tells monsters not to live on land; Killer whales and Sharks have gone to sea]: 28-31; Hines 1992, No. 1 [the monster of Istiplach on p. Colombia sucks everyone in; he is afraid of the Coyote; the Coyote hides knives, firewood, etc., takes the form of an old woman, is swallowed; there are many living and dead animal people inside, it's cold there; he makes a fire cuts off his heart with a fifth knife, I. belches everyone; Coyote tells him never to swallow when real people come]: 19-22; Western sachaptine [the monster swallowed people; Coyote offered to draw each other in swallowed; there is a rattlesnake inside, the grizzlies want to kill him; he shamed them for not killing the monster; cut his heart, lit a fire under it; the swallowed ones came out; from the legs of the monster, the Coyote made black-legged, from the others parts - crowe, sioux, cans; washed his hands, from this water - ne perse (short but strong); var.: Coyote prepared fuel and resin in advance; ne perse arose from monster blood]: Farrand, Mayer 1917, No. 4:148- 149.

Southeast USA. Caddo [six out of seven brothers go missing one by one; the youngest with six dogs chases a raccoon; climbs a tree after him; an old woman comes and asks to throw off the raccoon; kills him and one of dogs; this is how he kills six raccoons and six dogs; the seventh raccoon advises to throw him away; while the cannibal is looking for him, the young man goes down, runs home; his six brothers are missing one by one; the chief with made them his slaves with a sharp nose; the Coyote turns into a wooden mortar, goes with the flow; women catch a mortar, crush corn, the flour disappears; the chief realizes that it is a Coyote, puts a mortar on a log to pierce it with his nose; the Coyote rolls off the log, his nose gets stuck; the Coyote tells the slaves to finish off the chief; the brothers return home]: Dorsey 1905, No. 33:59-61.

(Wed. Guiana. European borrowings.? Wapishana [a man raises a baby caiman; he grows up, the man rides it; the caiman swam along the river, intending to eat the rider; the fox pretends not to hear, asks the caiman to swim closer a man jumps ashore; a fox runs ahead, pretends to be dead; a man buries her in the ground, leaves her head outside; so three times; the man realizes that it is the same fox, hits it; the fox says that she saved him in vain; at home, his mother advises a person not to raise caimans anymore]: Wirth 1950:204-205).