M109. Tail in the hole, K1021, ATU 2.
.11.-.13.15.16.21.26.-.41.43.45.47.50.
Thezoomorphic character sits down with his tail (penis) down so that something edible sticks to him, but as a result is left without a tail (penis) or dies. Compare M109A, M109C motives.
Western Bantu language pygmies [tortoise and leopard], nuers [jackal and hyena], shilluk [hare and hyena], murle [jackal and hyena], Kanuri [weasel and hyena], Spanish [fox and wolf], Basques [fox (an octopus grabbed her tail)], Italians ([fox and wolf], Sicilians [fox and wolf], ladins [fox and bear], Scots [fox and wolf], Irish [fox and wolf], Germans, Friezes, Flemish [fox and wolf, but more often fox and bear], Dutch [fox and wolf?] , French [fox and wolf], Walloons [fox and wolf], Tibetans (Ladah) [fox and wolf], Tibetans (Sichuan) [hare and wolf, fox, monkey, crow], Tibetans (Ladah) [fox and wolf], Chinese (Heilongjiang) [fox and bear] , Maonan [fox and tiger], Koreans [hare and tiger], Ancient Greece [fox and wolf], Hungarians [fox and wolf], Romanians [fox and wolf?] , Greeks [fox and wolf?] , Serbs [fox and wolf?] , Bulgarians [fox and wolf], Albanians [fox and wolf], Russians (Tersky Bereg, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Pskov, Vladimir, Tver, Ryazan, Voronezh, Kursk) [fox and wolf], Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Chernigov, Poltava, Kharkiv, etc.) [fox and wolf], Belarusians [fox and wolf], Czechs [?] , Slovaks [?] , Poles [fox and wolf; fox and bear], Abazins [fox and wolf], Balkarians [fox and wolf], Ossetians [fox and other foxes], Kumyks [fox and wolf], (Avars), Rutulans [fox and bear], Lezgins [fox and wolf], Georgians [fox and wolf; fox and other foxes], Armenians [fox and wolf; yula {demonic character} and fox], Turks [fox and wolf], Kurds [fox and wolf; fox and other foxes], Tajiks [fox and wolf], Uzbeks [fox and wolf] ], Turkmens [fox and other fox], Western Sami [fox and bear; fox and wolverine], Eastern Sami [fox and wolf, bear, other animals], Estonians [fox and bear; fox and wolf], setu [fox and wolf], Livons [?] , Lutsie [fox and wolf], counselors [?] , Finns [fox and bear], Veps [fox and wolf], Karelians [fox and bear], Latvians [fox and wolf], Lithuanians [fox and wolf], Swedes [fox and bear], Norwegians [fox and bear], Komi [fox and wolf], Udmurts [?] , marie [fox and wolf], Chuvash [fox and wolf], Mordovians [fox and wolf; fox and bear], Kazan Tatars [fox and wolf; fox and bear], Bashkirs [fox and wolf; fox and bear], karakalpaks [fox and wolf], khakas [ fox and wolf], Mongols [fox and wolf], Oirats [fox and wolf], Mongors [fox and wolf], Nenets [fox and bear], Nganasans [Dyaiku and wolves], dolgans [fox and wolf], central Yakuts [Onohochun Choohoon and wolves; fox and wolf], northeastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts [Oloon Doloon and wolves with foxes], Ilimpic Evenks [fox and wolf], PodkamennoTunguska Evenks [fox and wolverine], Cyrene [fox and wolf], North Baikal (Buryatia) [fox and wolf], Amur [fox and wolf], Ayan [fox and bear] and others {apparently including Sym}, Evens [fox and wolf], Nanai [fox and bear], Negidals [fox and lynx], Udege [fox and bear], Ainu [fox and bear], Japanese [fox and monkey; fox and bear; otter and fox], forest yukaghirs [fox and wolf; fox and bear], itelmen [fox and wolf], Chukchi [fox], Asians Eskimos [fox and wolf], Bering Strait inupiate [fox and wolf], North Alaska inupiate [fox and bear (but mouse injured)], copper [fox and wolf], koochin [fox and bear], Thompson [fox and bear], ( upper chehalis), western sachaptin [fox and bear], potauatomi [raccoon and wolf], marsh crees (eastern) [fox and bear], viandot [raccoon and fox], mohawks [fox and bear], oto [mink and wild cat], caddo [ man and coyote], choctaw [fox and bear], chirokee [fox and bear], navajo [fox and bear].
Bantu-speaking Africa. Western Bantu language pygmies (aka?) [the leopard fried and ate the turtle's baby; the turtle caught fish, told the leopard that it had put its tail into the water for this purpose; the leopard was grabbed by the tail by the crocodile; the turtle refused to help, the crocodile dragged it away leopard into the water]: Trilles 1932:324.
Sudan-East Africa. Nuera [the jackal bakes fish; tells the hyena that he has lowered its tail into the hole, pulled the fish on its tail; the crab grabs the hyena, it runs away in horror]: Cancelson 1968:169-170; shilluk [the hare catches fish, treats a hyena; says to stick one of the body members into the hole; the hyena pokes, is bitten by {fish?} ; when she is well, she sees a hare; he climbs a tree, throws its fruit, runs away while she eats]: Westermann 1912, No. 75:185-186; murle [the jackal refers to the hyena as her maternal uncle; pretends to be his maternal uncle that he is only reluctantly ready to show him a tree with honey bees - because he will beat him anyway; hyena promises not; jackal: find a man wearing a red leather bib and ask him tie you to a tree; the jackal puts on such a bib himself, ties the hyena tightly, hits the bee nest with a stick, the hyena is barely alive; next time the jackal fed the hyena fish: we must rush with trees in the pond, fish will jump ashore; fish have prickly fins, hyena injured; some fruits on top of the tree; hyena climbed; jackal: the trunk must be broken; the hyena fell along with the top of the tree; we must stick it the penis is in a hole by the water, the fish will stick; the fish bit off the hyena's penis, since then it seems to be mutilated; the jackal eats sour cream, sends a hyena to milk the bull; or better kill, then meat and milk; but first you have to kill his mothers to divide everything into two instead of four; the hyena killed the mother, threw the corpse into the river; the jackal hid his own in a forest hut; sent a hyena to carry clay and water to make fish traps; at this time dragged all his mother's meat, and dug his head and horns into the mud - the bull got stuck; when the hyena pulled out his head, the jackal explained that the perfume had taken the rest; while the hyena was herding the cattle, the jackal was feasting with its mother; the hyena opened deception, killed the jackal's mother, ate meat; the jackal wrapped the hot pebbles in fat, told the hyena to open its mouth, threw pebbles into his mouth; the hyena asked for water, but the water was far away, he died]: Lewis 1947:137-141; kanuri [Hyena got meat, brought Laska to fry; Laska sent Hyena to get the fire, she goes to sunset, while Laska hides the meat in the hole; says that two people who came put the meat in the hole; invites Hyena to put her tail in the hole, she will tie meat to it; ties her tail (to something else); the Hyena pulls, the tail comes off; the Hyena met two people, decides that she will now get meat; the man tore off her ear, fried her and ate it; Hyena returned to Laska, made peace with her]: Koelle 1854, No. 5:166-168 (translated into Okhotina 1962:327-328).
Southern Europe. Spaniards: Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 2 (Ciudad Real) [the fox found a basket of fish; the wolf asks where it ate so much; fox: caught fish on its tail; you have to put the tail into the ice-hole, in the morning by a fish will stick to each fur; the wolf's tail froze into the ice], 2B (Leon) [the fox quietly climbed onto the cart, threw the fish, ate; told the wolf that it had caught it by tying a basket to its tail; the wolf tied the basket pulls its tail more and more; noticing that the fox throws stones at it, the wolf breaks off its tail, chases the fox]: 15-16, 17-18; Basques [the fox catches crabs with its tail down into the sea; once she was grabbed by an octopus by the tail, she can't escape, she drowned at high tide]: Barandiaran in Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 2E: 20-21; Italians (Tuscany, Rome, Molise, Campania, Basilicata, Calabria, Abruzzo, Puglia): Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 2:6-7; Italians (Abruzzo) [the wolf believes the fox that it caught fish with its tail down the lake; the water is frozen, the wolf cannot pull out its tail]: Del Monte Tammaro 1971 , No. 1:5; Sicilians [the fox pretends to be dead, the fisherman puts it in the basket, she throws the fish out of it, runs away; the wolf picks up the fish, but the fox eventually eats it all; the fox pretends to be sick and the wolf forced to carry it; the fox tells the wolf that it caught fish in the sea with a basket tied to its tail; the wolf does so, drowns]: Lo Nigro 1957, No. 1, 2:1-2; frets (Oberengadin) [while they were wandering, fox she was supposed to provide the bear with food; finding nothing else, she invited him to fish with his tail lowered into the water; the fox told him to sit longer; the bear rushed and cut off its tail since then short; rushed to look for the fox, but it disappeared]: Dähnhardt 1912:222.
Western Europe. French (many entries) [the fox explains to the wolf how to fish; 1) putting its tail into the ice-hole; 2) tying a basket or bucket to its tail; and then wait until the fish feels heavy; when humans or dogs run up, the wolf is left without a tail]: Delarue, Tenèze 1976, No. 2:274-276; the Dutch [(on the advice of the fox) the bear tries to fish on its tail, the tail is frozen, the bear jerked, the tail has come off, since then the bears have been short]: Dähnhardt 1912:222; Germans (Pomerania, East Frisia, Schleswig-Holstein) [on Fox's advice, the Bear or Wolf tries to fish with its tail, the tail freezes]: Uther 2004 (1), No. 2:17-18; (cf. Germans [The fox offered the Bear to steal a keg of wine; tie it to its tail; people rushed in pursuit, the keg came off with its tail, since then the bear has a short tail]: Balzamo, Kaiser 2004, No. 60 : 117-118); Flemish: Meyer 1968, No. 2 [the fox invites the wolf or bear to put its tail into the ice-hole; it remains without a tail]: 21; Van den Berg 2000, No. 81 [the fox caught fish sitting by the ice-hole; persuaded the bear to fish by lowering its tail into the ice-hole; the bear tore off its tail, now its tail is short]: 98-99 (briefly in Dähnhardt 1912:221-222); wallons [the wolf is hungry; the fox makes an ice-hole, tells the wolf to stick its tail into the water; the tail froze; the peasant saw the wolf and began to beat him; the wolf cut off his tail, looked for the fox, saw it on the other side of the ditch; the fox spat in the wolf's eyes and it fell into the water] : Laport 1932, No. 2:25; Scots (Western Highlands) [Wolf and Fox stole a plate of porridge; Wolf ate almost everything alone; then Fox convinces Wolf that the moon's reflection on ice is cheese; you must sit down at night on the ice, the cheese will stick to the tail; when the tail is frozen, the Fox calls the peasants; the wolf has escaped, since then its tail is short]: Campbell 1890, № 17a.9:280-281 (quail in Dähnhardt 1912:221); Irish : Jackson 1936 [The fox persuades the Wolf to fish with his tail down the ice-hole]: 285; Suilleabháin, Christiansen 1963, No. 2 [The tail-fisher]: 33.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Sichuan): Potanin 1914 [The hare makes a fire on the ice, invites the Wolf, Fox, Monkey, and the Raven to sit with him; leaves, supposedly, for firewood; the fire has gone out, the tails of the animals are frozen, came off]: 428-429; Ting 1978, No. 2 [link to Sichuan Tibetan folklore publication]: 8; Tibetans (Ladah) [The fox persuades the Wolf to fish with his tail in the ice-hole; the tail frozen in the ice pulled away when the Fox tried to free the Wolf this morning]: Francke 1925:431 (retelling in Bødker 1957, no. 187:29).
China - Korea. Koreans: Choi 1979, No. 25 [retelling Ząng 1952 and other sources; in winter, the Hare invites the Tiger to put its tail into the water to fish; the tail freezes into the ice, people kill the Tiger]: 11; Zunng 1952 , No. 69 [=Pack 1991:338-340; The Hare offers Tiger to bake pebbles; puts 11 in the fire, says he put 10, leaves, telling him not to eat until he returns, each of them 5; Tiger decides to swallow the eleventh pebble, thinking that the Hare has paid off; burns, gets sick for a long time; next time the Hare invites the Tiger to look at the sky with his mouth open, he will drive sparrows there; sets fire to the thickets, the Tiger almost burns; The hare tells the Tiger to fish on its tail, not open its eyes; at night the tail freezes, people kill the Tiger in the morning]: 157-160; Maonan [The fox answers Tiger that he is no less ferocious than he is; suggests put the tails into the well; Fox's tail is hot, he takes it out, and the tiger's tail froze into the ice, comes off]: Lu 2008, No. 4:379-386; Chinese (Heilongjiang) [bear asks where the fox got the fish; that replies that she put his tail into the ice-hole and caught it; the bear lowered its tail, it froze, came off, since then the bear's tail is short]: Coyaud 2012, No. 14:50-51.
The Balkans. Ancient Greece [the fox replied to the wolf that he could catch fish himself: let him bring a frying pan, tie it to its tail, enter the river; fill the pan with stones, say that there are a lot of fish, it is necessary bring assistants; reports in the village that there is a wolf in the river; he is beaten, he has cut off his tail, runs away; tells the sick wolf that he will be cured if he takes the skin off a live fox; the fox overhears, comes, speaks What I found out about the remedy: you have to peel off the skin from the tailless, but leave it on your head and paws so that he can escape alive; the unfortunate wolf runs away, the fox laughs]: Gasparov 1991, No. 49 (35): 249-251; Hungarians [the wolf calls the fox to steal chickens; the fox invites the wolf to climb into the chicken coop, calls the dogs itself; while the wolf is being fought, the fox runs away, carrying the rooster; after eating it, lubricates his head with blood and lies in clay; doubts whether the wolf's beatings are so terrible: even her bones rattle (these are dried up clumps of clay stuck to her hair]: Kovács 1983, No. 3:249-250; (cf. Greeks [The wolf offers Lisa to steal a lamb; the fox says this is not enough, suggests fishing far into the sea; ties the Wolf a clay pot float to his neck, a pumpkin float to his neck; Wolf catches fish, the Fox tells you to let go every time, go further, catch a larger one; the water fills the pot, the Wolf sinks; the fox eats the hidden lamb]: Megas 1978, No. 1-3); Bulgarians [on advice Foxes, Wolf is fishing with its tail lowered into the water near the mill, into a jug, etc.; the tail is frozen, the Wolf ran away, tearing off his tail]: Daskalova-Perskovska et al. 1994, No. 2:39; Albanians [The fox threatens the bride tell "something bad" about her, takes her golden monisto; tells Wolf that she caught a monisto in the pond with his tail lowered into the water; Wolf's tail clings to the snag, he cuts it off, chases the Fox to her Nora, she says that the Wolf grabbed not her leg, but the root; The wolf lets go of his leg]: Serkova 1989:262-263; Romanians, Greeks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 2:17-18.
Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Vladimir, Tver, Voronezh, Kursk, etc.), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Chernigov, Poltava, etc.), Belarusians [Wolf at the ice-hole : On Lisa's advice, the Wolf lowers its tail into the ice-hole to catch fish; the tail freezes; the Wolf flees from people (men, women with rockers) by cutting off its tail]: SUS 1979, No. 2:52-53; Russians ( Terek coast) [the man caught and carried the fish, the fox lay down on the road, he picked it up for his wife's collar, she threw off the fish, jumped off herself; teaches the wolf to put its tail into the ice-hole; Clear, the wolf's tail is frozen, freeze! Women came and beat the wolf to death]: Balashov 1970, No. 142:391; Russians (Zaonezhye or Pinega, p. Gusevo, 1927, A.M. Markova, 40 years) [An old man buys a barrel of herring in town, picks up a dead fox from the road, puts it on a cart. She finds herself alive, throws the fish out of the barrel and jumps off by herself. The old man tells his wife that he brought her herring and collar, but he does not find either one or the other on the cart. The fox brags about its prey to the wolf, says that she caught the herring sitting on the ice, lowering its tail into the ice-hole. The wolf follows her example, pulls its tail, thinks that it is heavy because it has a lot of fish; when village men come running when they see the wolf, the wolf runs away and tears off its tail. The fox smeared her head with sauerkraut, complains that she was beaten and her brain is running out, the wolf is carrying her, she says "a beaten unbeaten man is lucky"]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 46:113-114; Russians (Vologodskaya) [ the wolf has a pole hut, the fox has an icy one; it melted in the spring; the fox asks to let her go first to the farmstead, then on the porch, on the floor; knocks its tail as if her name is; I must take the child; she died the pot herself oils; the child was named Cob; next time - Scrapers; the wolf was looking for oil in vain, the fox ran away; lay down on the road; the man was carrying fish, picked up the old woman on the collar; the fox threw off the fish, advised put the wolf's tail into the ice-hole; people came running, the wolf cut off its tail; the fox caught up: take me, I got sick; The beaten unbeaten is lucky]: Efremov 1970, No. 3:158-160; Russians (Pskov): Ploshchuk 2004, No. 1 [ the woman sews a fur coat; says to her husband: I would go to buy a fox collar; there were no collars at the bazaar, the husband bought fish; the fox lay down on the road, the man picked it up, the fox threw the fish out of the bag, jumped; says to the wolf, what she caught on the tail in the ice-hole; the wolf's tail froze, a woman came to the ice-hole, hits the wolf with a rocker arm, the fox in the hut, eats pancakes all smeared; tells the bear that her brains are out - she ran off pine tree; the bear also tried to hit - it was not the brains that flowed, but the blood; the fox tells the hare where she picked the pancakes; he was caught in the hut; {further inserts are clearly of literary origin}], 2 [while the grandfather was cutting firewood, granddaughter Irinka was looking for mushrooms, got lost; she came to the hut on chicken legs, lamb horns, there's a bear, a nose to the ceiling; will you live with me? - I won't, I'll go look for my grandfather; in the next huts there is a wolf, a fox, a hare; finally I came to my grandfather; we went for fish, a fox on the road, my grandfather picked it up on his collar; no fox or fish at home; dropping the fish, the fox taught the wolf to catch it on its tail in the ice-hole; the pike bit off its tail; the wolf caught up with the fox, tore off its tail, put it towards him; the fox came to his grandfather; he forgave her, made it a new tail]: 59-61, 61-62; Russians (Ryazan) [grandfather rides firewood from the city where he bought fish and flour; the fox pretended to be dead, he picked it up; she threw all the fish on the road, jumped off by herself; tells the wolf that in the ice-hole caught it on the tail; you should say "Catch, fish, big and small"; the wolf's tail froze, the wolf's baby with a rocker arm, he tore off his tail, ran away; the fox at that time smeared his head with a test: she was beaten more, brains released; the wolf agrees to drag it on himself; the fox says: the beaten unbeaten man is lucky; the grandfather came to his wife: no fish, no fox on his collar; (the same sketchy, No. 5-9:7-9)]: Samodelova 2013, No. 4:5-7; Russians (Voronezh) [The wife asks her husband to bring her a shirt from the city. He forgets it, buys goose and fish. On the way back, she remembers his shirt, sees a dead fox on the road and takes his wife on the collar. On the way, the fox eats the goose, picks up the fish and runs away. The husband says that he bought a single file, his wife hears that the shirt is narrow, she burns her old shirt. The husband brags to his wife that he brought her a hotel, but she finds neither a fox collar, nor a goose, nor a fish, and scolds her husband. The fox treats the wolf with the last fish and invites him to catch more in the ice-hole. He plants it tightly on ice, ties a basket to his tail, says out loud "catch, catch big and small fish", says to himself "freeze, freeze, wolf tail". Women come for water, beat the wolf with a cold, the fox runs into the house, smears her head with bread (dough), tells the wolf that the beatings have leaked her brain out of her head. Animals draw lots, the wolf gets to carry the fox, it says "the beaten unbeaten man is lucky", the wolf hears and eats the fox]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 25:125-127; Poles [the fox says to the wolf or bear that caught fish with its tail down the ice-hole; the wolf (bear) decided to try it, the tail froze; either ran away with his tail cut off, or people stabbed it with stakes]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 2:52; Ukrainians ( Kharkovskaya) [Grandfather's rooster finds a wheat ear in the litter, the woman's chicken finds the top, the grandfather grinds flour from the grains of the ear, the woman rubs the poppy seeds with honey and flour, cooks a pie, puts it on the window to bake on sun (poor, don't have a stove). The fox persuades the wolf to steal the cake, notices that it is not ready yet and offers to sleep first while the wolf sleeps, she eats the delicious filling, replaces it with feces (in the text "guess what"), then accuses him. He swears to "eat the earth," she suggests lying in front of the sun and waiting for wax on one of them's body, the wolf falls asleep, she steals wax from the apiary, smears it, the wolf admits that he ate honey, though and doesn't remember it, promises to give her her first loot. The fox lies in the way of the merchants, gives off a strong smell of "what is urine", they decide that she is dead, puts it on the cart, she gnaws through the cart and throws the fish on the road, runs away by herself. The wolf asks for a treat, she suggests catching fish herself, explains that you need to put the tail into the ice-hole, saying: "catch a fish.." The fox says "frost and frost, wolf host" nearby, says that it helps. He convinces him to sit longer when the frost gets stronger, shouts "pull", he cannot, stays on the ice, the fox reports about the wolf in the village, the residents come running and hitting him, he leaves his tail in the ice-hole and runs away. He jumps into a drawn sleigh and escapes. The fox in an empty hut is smeared with dough, lies down on the road, says, beaten so badly that her brain has leaked out of her bones. She asks the wolf to let her into the sleigh, after much persuasion, he lets her in, hears the sleigh crunching, she says as if she is biting a nut, the third time the sleigh breaks, the wolf goes to the forest for firewood to fix the sleigh , the fox eats the horse's insides, puts live sparrows there, and covers the hole under the tail with straw. The wolf decides that the horse has eaten too much straw, pulls it out, birds fly out, and the skin falls. The fox convinces the wolf that he cannot walk, he harnesses himself into the repaired sleigh and carries it, she says "the beaten unbeaten man is lucky", gets better when the wolf asks her again]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 4:7-9; Ukrainians (ca. 1878, г. Poltava, Kabishchany) [The fox freezes in her hut, runs to the village, goes into the hut, asks to let her warm up, she is left, she steals a poppy pie and runs away, replaces the filling with garbage, exchanges for a bull. (requires that they do not start eating until it disappears). The fox builds a sleigh and harnesses the bull, the wolf asks to let him down, she refuses to break the sleigh, the wolf asks to put his leg, then the other - every time the sleigh creaks, he says it's the nuts he crunches eats. The fox agrees, but when the wolf puts its last leg, the sleigh breaks down. The fox is angry, sends him to the forest to chop wood, explains that crooked and even sticks are needed, the wolf brings crooked ones. She goes looking for herself, the wolf eats the bull, puts sparrows under her skin and runs away. Lisa comes back and discovers his fraud and wants to repay. She lies down on the road, fishermen pick her up, think she's dead, she throws the fish they catch off the cart, jumps herself and eats her own food, the wolf asks for a treat, she explains how to catch him himself - put the tail into the hole. When the ice begins to bind the wolf's tail, it calls the villagers, they come running and kill the wolf]: Rudchenko 1870, No. 4:6-9; Slovaks, Czechs, Luzhitans: Uther 2004 (1), No. 2:17-18.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abazins [A fox steals chickens from a 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 lower their tails into the water, and a lot of fish will be caught by morning; tails froze into the ice, the old man killed the wolves, sewed a fur coat; gets along with Lisa]: Tugov 1985, No. 1:18-19; Balkarians (western 1972) [the wolf went hunting, and the bear and fox stayed waiting for him; they caught the badger; when the fox was sharing it, they hid a piece of fat; bear: what are you chewing? fox: his eye, it's sweet; the bear picked out his eye, it didn't seem sweet to him; fox: which eye did you eat? bear: left; fox: over the right; the bear went blind; the fox led him to the wolf, knocking with a twig; brought him to the edge of the cliff, the bear crashed; the wolf came; the fox (crying): the bear wanted to catch a fly and fell; the wolf ordered the fox divided the meat; the fox left the wolf's bones; then slipped a stone, the wolf broke its tooth; the wolf chased the fox, tore off the tip of its tail; the fox to other foxes: put the tails into the water, the fish will stick; tails froze and came off; the wolf began to look for that fox, but could not find it: all the foxes were short]: Malkonduev 2017:602-604; Ossetians: Byazirov 1958, No. 2, 3, 6 in Uther 2004 (1), No. 2:18; Byazyrov 1951, No. 49 [(=1972:265-267); The fox invites the Bear to go bake a cheesecake for the cubs for now; she throws the cubs into the cauldron, tells the Bear that the cubs are playing at a distance; runs away, eats cheesecake, teaches Wolf to go to the Bear to wish her daughter-in-law to give birth to a boy, then the Bear will give him a cheesecake; the Bear beats the Wolf; the Fox pretends to sew up her ass to be full for a year ; The wolf asks to sew it up for him; after eating the lamb, he suffers until the rope bursts; the fox weaves the basket, says that he will roll down to the herd in it, put sheep in it; the wolf asks to lower it in the basket; the fox calls shepherds, they beat the Wolf; the fox tells the other foxes that it caught fish with its tail into the water; the fox tails are frozen, they have become short; the wolf makes a bridge out of stubble, the Foxes walk along it, from the fallen he promises deal with it; The fox falls, but says that she jumped for fish, escapes]: 290-293; Kumyks [Bear, Pig, Hare, Jackal, Wolf, Rooster distribute duties (Wolf - Hunter, Hare - Shepherd, Rooster - mullah, etc., only the Fox is without a post); The fox says every time - why do we need a mullah (etc.), the Rooster (Hare, etc.); she and the Wolf remain; the Fox saw the fat tail, called the Wolf, he fell into a trap, she ate the fat tail, left, fell out in the ash, the Wolf escaped, did not recognize Lisa, she says she is licking the millstone, the Wolf stuck his tongue, the mill wheel tore it off; in winter, the Fox says he is fishing by lowering it the tail in the ice-hole; the Wolf's tail froze into the ice; women came and killed both the Fox and the Wolf]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 22:101-104; (cf. Avars [Shudukai (the name is not etymologized) has five daughters; she goes for spoons, while the Wolf asks to open the door; daughters recognize a rude voice; next time Wolf imitates the voice of S., children they open the door, he swallowed the two smallest ones, ate all the porridge, hid one daughter in ash, the second in a chest, hung the third from the ceiling; the fox promises to help, invites the Wolf to ride down the mountain when he rolls down, pours water, Wolf's tail froze; S. beats Wolf, two swallowed girls come out of his nostrils]: Atayev 1972, No. 4:15-16); Rutultsy [women invite Lisa to dance at the festival, that agrees if they give her outfits; runs away with outfits; tells the Bear that she was given it as a reward for dancing; The bear explains that he can't dance; Lisa advises putting her tail in the water, pulling it out clothes; the tail is frozen; people came, the Bear barely ran away; the fox weaves the basket, says she is a different Fox; the bear wants to learn how to weave, the Fox braids it inside the basket, throws it into the river]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 30:119-120; Lezgins [(Lezgin Tales, p. 43); The Fox tells the Wolf that she bought her beautiful outfit at Falcon Spring with her tail down; you must keep it all night saying desires; says that the Bear thus bought a Circassian, a silver dagger, boots; the Wolf's tail froze, came off; the Wolf climbed into his hole after the Fox, got stuck; the fox came from the other end, began to eat Wolf; Wolf offers to approach him from the front; Lisa answers, Winter is still ahead and I'll get there]: Gamzatov, Dalgat 1991:362; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1976, No. 1 [The fox jumped on the arba, quietly threw off the fish caught by the peasant; advises the Wolf to fish with its tail in the ice-hole; calls people, the Wolf breaks off its frozen tail, runs away], 9 [a leaf falls on the Fox, she runs, screams to the Wolf, that the sky is falling, the Wolf believes that he is also running, then the Bear, the Goat, the Ram, the Rooster; at night, the Fox says that she is the oldest, and the Rooster is the youngest; the Rooster was eaten; then the Ram, the Goat, the Bear; the Fox secretly from the Wolf eats prepared bear fat; runs away, the Wolf chases, gets stuck between two trees; one day he sees a Fox, cuts off her tail with an ax; the fox tells other Foxes that she is fat because she has lost it tail; teaches you to lower the tails into the water, they are frozen and come off; the Wolf does not know how to recognize the Fox now - they are all tailless; stretches a rope bridge so that his offender is like the fattest and heaviest, fell into the river; she falls, the Wolf wants to slaughter her; she promises to decorate it, drives him around her neck with a hot ax, the Wolf dies], 12 [The fox promises the Bear to cure the cubs from scab, tells them to bring the chicken and go to pray; cooked the bears, took the chicken; sends the Wolf to the Bear; he howls in grief, hits the Wolf; the fox pretends to be another Fox, weaves the basket, says that he will roll down the mountain to the chickens; The wolf asks to let him down, bruised, beaten under the mountain by shepherds; the fox pretends to sew his ass with a rope so as not to need food; the wolf asks him to be sewn up; suffers, tears his whole ass relieving herself; the Wolf tore off Lisa's tail; she pretended to be dead on the road; she was picked up by the wedding train; she tells the bride to give her rings, otherwise she will ruin the air and think about the bride; runs away, again pretends to be dead, steals a fat aunt from a merchant; comes in bracelets and with her aunt to 40 foxes, sends her tails to catch fish in the lake; tails are frozen in the ice; brings dogs, foxes run away, Having cut off her tails, the Fox mingled with them, now everyone is tailless; the Wolf drives everyone to the bridge, prays for the liar to fall into the water; the Fox falls, the Wolf grabs her, magpies fly in; the fox explains that she made them colorful; The wolf wants to be colorful too; the fox roasts it on a spit]: 32-33, 41-44, 46-49; (cf. Chikovani 1954 [a leaf fell on the fox, it ran, tells the wolf that the sky is falling, the wolf also ran; bear, goat, ram, rooster with them; stopped at the mill; fox: I am the eldest, the wolf is older (etc.) and the rooster is younger; everyone rushed at the rooster, ate it; so take turns with the rest of the animals, the wolf remained; the lard was drowned, the fox advises not to eat right away, it eats it itself, the wolf opens the pot, the fox runs away, the wolf is for her, stuck between the trees; later he freed himself, saw a fox, cut off its tail with an ax; the fox to other foxes: fat, tearing off their tail; they also want, the fox advises to lower their tails into the water, the river will freeze, the tails will come off; the wolf stretches out a rope bridge, whoever stole the lard will fall; the guilty fox falls, the wolf wants to kill it, it promises to decorate it; cuts off his head]: 404-406); Armenians: Bunyatov et al. 1900, No. 11 [The fox tells the newlywed to give her jewelry, otherwise she will reveal her sin; tells the Wolf that she took out the jewelry with her tail in the water; tells people that the Wolf is being beaten; the fox falls into the trap, pretends dead; the man throws her away, she runs away; tells the Wolf that he has pulled too much gold, shows a trap of meat; the wolf is caught, killed; the fox threatens the Pigeon to cut down a tree, he drops the chick, then the second; the Raven tells the Dove that the Fox is lying; the fox pretends to be dead, catches the Raven; she asks not to be thrown off the cliff; next time, not to throw it into the lake as if it would be eaten by worms and leeches; both once the Raven flies away; hunters kill the Fox]: 139-144; Gullakyan 1983 [the fox, on Yula's advice, lowered its tail into the ice-hole - the tail froze and came off]: 189; Turks (Ankara, Kars) [the fox pretends to be dead, a man carrying fish in a sleigh picks it up; a fox drops the fish and runs away; tells the wolf what he caught with his tail down; the wolf lowers its tail, the fox makes the water freeze; the fisherman rushes To beat the wolf, he runs away with his tail cut off; the fox falls through the chimney into the sauerkraut with the dough, smears, tells the wolf that it was terribly beaten; the wolf agrees to carry it]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 5:30; Kurds: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 162 [the dogs tore off the fox's tail; it was handed into the hands of the people accompanying the bride; the bride dressed her up; hearing the dog barking again, the fox ran away; told the wolf that she had exchanged the tail on clothes and jewelry; put the tail into the ice-hole, wait for the jewelry to be brought; the tail is frozen], 169 [the shepherd tells the old woman that the fox rides her donkey every day; the old woman smeared the blanket resin, the fox tail stuck, came off; the old woman agrees to return the tail if the Fox brings milk from the mother of the Zanglo and Hanglo goats; the goat demands onja grass in return; the fox brought grass, the goat gave milk, the old woman sewed her tail, other foxes ask where it is so beautiful; fox: you have to sit on the ice, keep your tails in the ice-hole; the tails come off]: 467-468, 474-475.
Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens [Isfahan and Khorasan foxes became friends; saw a fat tail in the trap; Isfahan advises Khorasan to step, her paw gets stuck, Isfahan eats a fat tail; advises pretend to be dead, teases the hunter herself; he takes the Khorasan fox out of the trap, puts it on Isfahan, both ran away; before raiding the chicken coop, Khorasan offers to hold the tails in the water so that the ice intended and looked scarier; she moves her tail herself, and the Isfahan tail froze into the ice; Khorasan eats chickens, runs away; the owner of the chicken coop beat Khorasan to death]: Fur Fair 1980:44-48; Tajiks (Sokh, Ferghana Valley) [the wolf lowered its tail into the water to fish; the fox advised me to lower it deeper, promised to help pull it out; at night the tail froze, the fox called people, the wolf cut off its tail, ran away] : Levin et al. 1981, No. 217:226; Uzbeks [the old woman baked a cake, began to argue with the old man which of them should break it, but the cake rolled, invited the herdsman to eat it, rolled away him, then to the dekhkanin, then to the Fox; she pretends not to hear the song, grabbed a cake that came close, ate the middle, put clay in it, brought it to the shepherd, received a lamb as a gift, led to for himself; went to mow the hay; at this time the Wolf ate the lamb, put his head on the threshold, legs four corners, went through the chimney; the Fox sings his song, asks the Lamb to open it, he is silent; The fox made a hole in the house- a hot coal trap, invited Wolf, who fell into a hole, burned, barely got out; the Fox came to treat him under the guise of a healer, advised him to run in the thorny thickets, the Wolf became even worse; under the guise of another healers Lisa advised me to ride in the ash, he is a little alive; under the guise of a third (urban, not from the mountains, not from the valley), she ordered to cut through the ice on the river, sit down, water himself with cold water until morning; the tail froze to ice; Wolf died]: Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:11-15 (=Sheverdin 1984:131-134).
Baltoscandia. Estonians: Jakobson 1954 [The fox pretends to be dead, the man puts it on the sleigh, she throws the fish off it; tells the Bear to put its tail in the ice-hole; when the dogs run in, Bear ran away with his tail cut off; now without a tail]: 111-114; Kippar 2010, No. IV.2 (Pärnu) [The fox stole a horse and cart from a drunk man; the Hare, the Wolf, the Bear ask to put them on the cart; the swamp insists that drove on; the horse breaks the gullies; the Hare, the Wolf, the Bear bring the unusable; The fox brings suitable ones, but sees that his comrades are eating up the horse; decides to take revenge; smeared with goose blood, promises the Hare that he will have the same beautiful fur coat, you have to get into the haystack; sets fire to the haystack, the Hare burned; pretends to be dead, the man is carrying fish, picks up the Fox, she throws the fish off the cart, jumps off herself, carries a bag with fish, answers the Wolf that it is necessary to put the tail in the ice-hole, the fish will be caught; the tail is frozen, the Fox called the dogs, they tore the Wolf to pieces; smears the block with honey, advises the Bear to put his paws inside, knocks out a wedge; people killed the Bear]: 69-72; Estonians, Setu [this text is recorded in the north of Tartu County (Maarja-Magdalena), but Setu has especially many options throughout Estonia; the fox sees how lucky a person is fish on a sleigh; pretends to be dead, the man picks it up, she slowly drops the fish, jumps off, eats fish; tells the wolf what she caught with his tail down the ice-hole; tells him to drag it, the wolf cannot; the fox: there are so many fish that you have to go to people for help; people run after the fox, see the wolf, he does not think to be afraid, but he is beaten, he breaks off his tail, runs away; the fox stole chickens, smeared sour cream on his head; says the wolf that dogs were lowered on her; jumping over the fence, she broke her head, her brains leaked out, the wolf agrees to drag her on him; to meet the hare; having found out what was going on, he also decided to help, went behind, holding fox tail; fox says, "The beaten unbeaten man is lucky"; tells the wolf that he complains of pain and hunger; the hare promises to help; seeing a woman with a basket of buns, he pretends to be dead; a woman comes up, a hare jumps up, the woman drops the basket in fear, the wolf takes her away; the fox says a hunter is coming; the wolf and the hare run away, the fox eats buns]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 1:11-14; Lutsie (zap. 1927) [old lady answers the hare that he is looking for a shepherd for his three geese; towards a wolf; an old woman: how do you sing? wolf howls; old lady: no, you will scare all geese; the fox sings a song, the old lady is happy; the fox ate the goose, the feathers are under the threshold; says that she is called for christening, to the attic herself, there is a barrel of oil; what was the name? fox: Beginning; ate another goose; again for christening; called Half; ate the third, again for christening, ate butter, called the hostess to the cold bath and told everything; her mistress with a broom - she stuck, with Since then, the fox has a tail; it pretended to be dead, the fisherman carried the fish and picked it up; the fox threw it all off, eats, tells the wolf that it caught, putting its tail into the well; the tail froze, the fox called the people, they ran to beat wolf, fox head in sauerkraut, full, head in the test; tells the wolf that the brains have leaked; the beaten unbeaten is lucky; the wolf: how beautiful the woodpecker is; the fox: I'll do the same, get into the haystack; set fire to the haystack, the wolf burned; the fox carries bones in a bag, tells the man that she exchanged the money for his horse; open the bag when you go beyond that blue forest; the fox killed the horse, eats; says that if anyone gets to this horse meat faster than her, then she will cry; cancer caught on the fox's tail; when she runs up, he is already eating horse meat; the fox has tears from her eyes; old woman: you will recover if you eat the meat of a 9-year-old bear; the fox walks, knocks on the Christmas trees, on each bear, she asks how old she is; 3, 6 are not needed; 9; well, turn around; the bear turned, fell, the fox eats it; the fox tells the people she meets that she is going to repent of their sins, asks what sins they have; the cat ate sour cream, the hare poisoned the sheep, the wolf ate the sheep, the bear lifted the horse; the fox: we cross the hole on the perch; the cat crossed, the rest fell; whose voice is weaker, we will eat it; ate the hare, then the bear; the fox hides under giblets himself, tells the wolf that he eats his own; the wolf pulled out his own, died; the fox ate the wolf, spring has come; the fox to the woodpecker: you can't pour sawdust, eat your chicks; the woodpecker poured, the fox got out; the fox demands for the woodpecker to make her laugh; the husband carries bread, the wife carries porridge with eggs; the woodpecker pretends to be knocked down, they rushed to catch, the fox ate everything; asks for water; the woodpecker punched a hole in the beer keg; asks her to mock; father and sons are threshing grain; woodpecker on their heads; sons wanted to hit the woodpecker, killed their father; the fox laughs; climbed into a hole, asks body members what they did; everyone helped, only the tail behind the bushes clung; she stuck it out to the dogs, they pulled out the fox and tore it]: Annom et al. 2018:289-298; Finns: Konkka 1993 [the farmer was carrying a cart of fish; the fox pretended to be dead; he picked it up, she threw it off fish and ran away; tells the bear that she caught it with its tail in the ice-hole; the bear's tail froze, the fox called people; the women began to beat the bear, the tail came off, since then only a stump; the fox ate oil from buttermilk, covered with cream, since then the breast has been white; the hostess threw a pestle at it, which touched the tip of its tail, since then it has been white; the fox tells the bear that her brains are out; the bear put the fox on himself back, she says, "A healthy patient is carrying"; replies that she is talking; the bear threw off the fox, but she asks to be taken to die in the haystack; the bear fell asleep in the hay, the fox has set it on fire since then the bear is brown; the wolf tells the fox that he jumped on the horse, grabbed the tail and bit; the fox grabbed the horse by the tail, it carries it, the hare laughs, the lip burst; the fox: sooner the jaw breaks than the tail horse snack]: 165-169; Rakhimova 2000 [the fox has white porridge, the bear has black porridge; the fox: I drip fat from under the tail into the porridge; the bear burns its tail, the fox advises to put its tail into the ice-hole, calls people; the bear ran away with his tail cut off; the fox smeared her head with yogurt, tells the hunters that she was beaten, her brains ran out; at night, an unrecognized person comes to the same house, she is given the remains of yogurt]: 167; Karelians : Concca 1959 [about the same as Onegin 2010, No. 4:95-97, Kalevalsky District; the tit bred three chicks; the bear broke the nest, but the chicks escaped on the birch tree; the tit took him to court; the judge ordered him to depriving him of half of the tail; the fox calls the bear to him, says that it caught the burbot by lowering its tail into the ice-hole; the bear began to fish, the tail froze, in the morning the women began to beat him with rocker arms; the bear ran away, having cut off its tail, it has no tail since then]: 123-125; Lavonen 1992 (Kalevalsky District, Western 1937; from Karelian Folk Tales 1963, No. 4) [fox, bear, hare sowed bread, began to harvest; bear reaps, then threshing, fox and hare lounging; fox: you'll get a bunch bigger, and we get a smaller one; the bear doesn't mind; the fox lay down on the road, the old man was carrying fish, picked up a fox; she threw off the fish, jumped off herself; the wife scolds old man: he could not catch it, he also says about the fox; the fox offers to divide the bread; the bear received a large pile of chaff, the fox and the hare got the grain; the fox says that it caught fish by dropping it into the ice-hole tail; the bear lowered its tail, it froze, people began to beat the bear, he ran away; the fox is lying, his head is covered in sour cream; says that it was so beaten that her brains leaked out; the hare looks at it, laughs - his lip burst]: 178- 179; Makarov 1963, No. 88 (Tver) [an evil old woman drove her husband to bring fish and a collar for clothes; the old man bought fish, picked up a fox lying on the road; the fox threw the fish out of the sleigh and jumped off herself; the wolf believes that she caught fish on her tail; her tail froze, the women began to beat the wolf, the tail came off; the fox climbed its head into the sauerkraut; tells the wolf that she was beaten; the wolf offers to take her on his back; fox: a beaten unbeaten man is lucky; wolf: what? fox: I say that a broken man is lucky]: 187-188; Veps (materials by E. Lönnrot and A. Alquist) [the man was driving with fish; saw a fox pretending to be dead; put it in a fish barrel; the fox threw all the fish into the snow on the way and ran away; the man came home, told his wife about the fish and the fox; opened the barrel - it was empty; the fox picked up the fish and began to eat; the wolf asked where it got it; the fox replied that she put its tail into the ice-hole and caught it; the wolf tried to do the same; the tail froze; came women began to beat the wolf; he tore off his tail, ran away; at this time, the fox climbed into the house, ate the dough from the pan, knocked it over his head; when he returned to the forest, met the wolf; he began to reproach her; the fox said she was also beaten and her head was almost broken]: Ujfalvy 1875, No. 9:49-51; Livs, counselors: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 2:214-215; Western Sami: Kohl-Larsen 1982, no. 31 [the fisherman caught fish, carried it in a sack on a sleigh {or rather Pulk, a boat that deer can drag through the snow like a sleigh}; the fox pretended to be dead, the fisherman picked it up, put it in a bag of fish; the fox gnawed a hole, threw the fish and jumped out on her own; ate; tells the bear that she caught fish by herself with her tail in the ice-hole; bear: I have a long tail, I will catch more than you; the fox advises the bear to hold the tail in the water is longer - it will catch more; in the morning the fox calls people to beat the bear; he cut off his tail, went to kill the fox; it hid under the pine tree, the bear took it out; the fox: who kills the prey where it grabbed it her; the bear carried the fox; the fox points to the colorful birds: she painted them; the bear asks to paint it; the fox tells us to collect a large pile of brushwood: let the bear sit on it and endure it; set it on fire brushwood; the bear burned down; the fox collected the bones in a bag, carried it; the man met; the fox rattles its bones: in the bag she has the inheritance of her deceased parents - gold and silver; the fox seems to reluctantly agree to change a bag for six deer that a person has; warns that if he opens the bag before he is behind the fifth or sixth mountain, it will contain only charred bones; the man opened the bag behind the fourth mountain; I did not find the foxes anymore; and she brought the deer to her friends; these are wolverine, wolverine, ermine, frog and mouse; they began to kill the deer with arrows; the wolf let his own behind, the deer still have bone in this place ("wolf shot"), not connected to the rest of the skeleton; the mouse is also behind, between the hooves, so now bloating like a brush (gleicht einem Pinsel); the frog is below (there is also a bone, with the rest of the skeleton not tied); the ermine hit the heart, there is also a bone ("ermine arrow); after dark, they began to cook deer; the fox slowly took its stomach, puffed it, stepped aside, began to hit it and shout: let go, don't kill, it's the wolverine, the ermine and the hare that killed the deer; everyone thought that people were coming and ran away; the wolf jumped over the fire, burned; the ermine's tail turned black; the hare climbed under the cauldron, his ears turned black with soot; this is how these animals got their color]: 166-174; Lagercrantz 1961, No. 256 (Nesseby, Varanger Fjord) [the fox lay down by the road; the man was carrying fish, put the fox into the sleigh; she slowly threw the fish and jumped off herself; the bear asks where the fox got the fish; the fox: put its tail into the ice-hole; the tail froze, the fox began to call people, the bear ran away, tearing off its tail; pulled the fox out from under the tree; fox: the birds are so colorful, you could also be like this; the bear believes that the fox painted the birds, agrees to any suffering; the fox tied the bear to a wooden one platform, lit a fire, roasted the bear alive; put the remains in a bag, carried it to meet a man, asks what's in the bag; fox: silver inherited from my parents]: 42-44; Klaus 1995 [ The fox pretends to be dead, the man with the caravan picks it up, throws it on the first sledge, it slips off; stays lying only when thrown on the last one in which salmon; throws salmon off the sledge, runs away; He replies to the Bear, Wolverine, the Hare that she caught fish in the ice-hole; ties one salmon to the tail, says that it has pecked; shouts that a man is coming, others jump up, their tails are cut off ( Wolverine is in the middle); The fox hides under the roots of a pine tree, the Bear tries to get it, she says that he did not grab her leg, but the root, and when the Bear grabs the root, the Fox pretends to grab it by leg; yet the Bear took out the Fox, carried it, she sees the Motley Woodpecker, says that she painted it at one time; the Bear also wants to be specked, promises to endure; the fox ties him up, leaves him in a hole with with burning brushwood; the bear is burned, the fox carries his bones in the bag, hits one in the bag, replies to the passerby that her parents are in the bag; the shepherd agrees to buy it, gives a reindeer team in exchange; The fox hired Stallo, the Wolf and the Mouse, told them to slaughter the deer, told Flea and the Hare to cook the meat; went to wash her stomach, hit them against a stone, shouting that it was not her who killed, but the workers; Stallo and others they were afraid that the owner of the deer had come, ran away; the fox threw hot guns at the Hare (hit the tips of her ears) and Flea (burned her tail), they ran away; that shepherd came, Lisa said that everyone had eaten it workers and relatives, one of them is Laska; the shepherd threw his head at him, the tip of his tail turned black; the fox on the shore calls the fish to transport it to the other side; consistently rejects all (listed), takes the help of salmon; calls it to the shore, grabs it, carries it to fry in an empty plague; the roast hisses, the Fox thinks that people have come, jumps out; realizing what's going on, hits salmon, splashes of fat burn her eyes; the fox goes asking the trees if they would lend her eyes; two species of pine do not give, the birch gives, the fox runs away, the birch has time to hit her tail, since then the tip is white]: 3-10 (similar text published in Norway in 1856 in Simonsen 2014:79-84; not getting an eye from birch or aspen, the fox changed with a wolf, so the wolf's eyes seemed to be burned); Poestion 1886, No. 1 (Karasjok, North Sami dialect) [seeing a man with a sledge caravan, the fox pretended to be dead; the man put it on the first sledge, the fox slipped off; shifted it to the second one, etc.; finding himself in the last one where she was the fish, the fox threw it off and jumped on its own; tells the bear that it caught the fish with its tail in the ice-hole; when the tail froze, the fox began to call people; the bear cut off its tail, ran away; the fox also ran away hid under the root, asks her dicks how they helped; leg: ran fast; ear: listened sensitively; nose: sniffed well; tail: showed to run here; bear pulled the fox by the tail, carries to eat; walks past a spotted woodpecker; fox: that was the time when I painted birds! the bear also wants to be colorful; fox: to do this, you must tie you first; the fox tied it and burned it, put the bones in a bag, they rattle, the person he meets with deer pulled into sledges believes that gold and silver in the bag; gives deer for a bag; fox: you can open it by passing five or six mountains; wished a person's skis to break; they break; for the remaining deer to break their legs; broke; when the fox came to the deer received for the bear bones, the fox called his assistants to kill them: bear, wolverine, ermine, mouse, fox, snake, snake, snake, frog; the bear shot in the chin (now deer spot - "bear arrow"); wolf - in the back leg (there is a "bear arrow" spot); wolverine - in the back of the head ("wolverine arrow" spot); ermine - in the throat, mouse - in the hoof, even in the ass (everyone has the same), fox - at the base of the ear (there is now a "fox arrow" bone), in the intestines (a sign on the interior fat), the frog is in the heart (there is a "frog arrow" cartilage under the fat); so they killed all the deer; the fox went to wash the intestines, disappeared behind the stone, screamed as if she had been captured; the animals were frightened and ran away, leaving only an ermine and a mouse; at that time a deceived man came up; fox: it was my assistants who swapped gold with bones ; the man hit the tip of the tail with a pot hook over the fire, the tip turned black; the mouse hit the smut so it turned black; the fox came to the man who made the boat; I also want like this; in response, a man threw a fox into the river, it climbed onto a stone; each fish offers to transport it ashore, the fox rejects each; the pike is slippery, I can't resist; the perch - the dorsal fin scratches ; trout did not fit either; salmon; fox: swim closer; the fox grabbed it, threw it ashore, made a fire on its own, began to fry salmon; the branches are cracking, the fox thinks people are coming; then I realized; threw a stone at the salmon, fat splashed into her eyes, the fox went blind; she goes, asks the trees if they have an extra pair of eyes; the birch refuses to give, the aspen agrees to borrow for a while; the fox took it forever her eyes; aspen only hit her tail, it turned white]: 7-15; Eastern Sami [fox eats dried fish by the ice-hole; wolf, bear, then other animals come up; she tells everyone that I caught it on the tail; in the morning two women came with a bucket and a rocker arm; the animals began to rush; the bear and the hare cut off their tails; the mouse tore off all his hair; the wolverine, the marten, the fox saved the tails, they did not they were very cold; the ermine could not tear off its tail for a long time; the woman hit it on the tail with a burnt rocker arm, since then the tip has been black]: Yermolov 1959:56-57; Latvians [The fox found fish, said The wolf that she caught with her tail down the ice-hole; told the women that there was a wolf in the ice-hole; the Wolf cut off her tail, Lisa smeared her head with dough, said that it was the women who broke her skull; the Wolf suggests taking the Fox to her burrows, she repeats that a beaten man carries an unbeaten man]: Aris 1971:56-58; Lithuanians [Lisa asks the man to give her a ride, slowly throws the herring out of the barrel, runs away; the Wolf asks where she got the fish; The fox teaches you to put its tail into the ice-hole; in the morning he calls people, the Wolf runs away with his tail cut off; the fox steals sausages, tells the Wolf that he eats his guts; The wolf rips his belly, dies]: Lebite 1965:12-14; Norwegians [The fox tells the Bear that she caught fish with its tail in the ice-hole; the longer you sit, the more you catch; the tail is frozen, the bear rushed, now without a tail]: Dasent 1970:172; (briefly in Dä hnhardt 1912:222); northern Swedes [the fox climbed onto the fish seller's sleigh; when he noticed her, hit her, she pretended to be dead, he picked it up, she threw off the remaining fish and ran away; said the bear that she caught with its tail down the ice-hole; the bear has been waiting for a long time, rushed, tore off its tail, now it is short]: Stier 1971, No. 44:179-180 (briefly in Dähnhardt 1912:222; apparently the same, but detailed in Balzamo 2011, No. 54:92-93).
Volga - Perm. Udmurts: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 2:214-215; Komi [fox and hare live in an ice hut; they have prepared a barrel of butter; at night the fox gets up, says she is called for christening; eats oil; when he returned, he replies that the boy was named the Beginning; the next night, Half; then the End; the hare found an empty barrel, accused the fox, she ran away; climbed onto the sleigh in which the man was carrying fish, She threw everything off, jumped; tells the wolf that she caught it in the ice-hole, lowering her tail into the water; the wolf's tail froze, the woman came, killed the wolf, sold the hare's skin; the hare's hut melted, the fox met him and ate it]: Fokos-Fuchs 1951, No. 20:192-198; Komi [on the advice of a fox, the wolf lowers its tail into the ice-hole to catch fish; the tail is frozen; the wolf flees from people (men, women with rockers) by cutting off its tail]: Korovina 2012, No. 2:73; marie [people were carrying fish on a sleigh; saw a fox pretending to be dead; threw it on a sleigh; the fox climbed under the fish, made a hole in the sleigh, threw the fish away and jumped on its own; at home the man's wife went out - no fox, no fish; the fox gathered the fish to the haystack and eats; tells the wolf that she caught it with its tail down the ice-hole; the tail froze; in the morning the wolf thinks that a lot of fish have stuck; the woman saw the wolf, called her husband; he began to beat the wolf, he ran away with his tail cut off; when he met the fox, the wolf says: there are so many fish that he could not pull it out; the fox tells the wolf to climb into the haystack, it will bring him sheep; set fire to the haystack; when the wolf's hair caught fire, he jumped out and ran; fox: run into the rosehip bush; the wolf peeled off to death, the fox had meat again]: Beke 1938, No. 71:629-632; Mordovians: Evseviev 1964, No. 12 [the old man carries a basket of fish, the fox pretended to be dead, he put it in the basket, she threw the fish away and ran away; tells the wolf he caught it by tying the basket to its tail and lowering it into the ice-hole; in the morning, the wolf's tail froze, the women began to beat the wolf, he cut off his tail, ran away; the fox smeared his head with dough, says that she stole chickens, beat her, her brains out; asks to take it to the haystack, eat it there; climbed from the wolf to the haystack]: 62-63; Paasonen 1941 [the old woman sent her husband for fish; he caught it, carried it home in the basket; the fox smeared her head with dough, lay down on the road as if dead; the man put it in the basket, she threw away the fish and ran away; eats fish, answers the bear that it eats its eyes; the bear pulled out one eye and ate it; fox: I deceived you, caught a fish in the lake; the bear tied a basket to its tail, lowered its tail into the ice-hole (Wuhne); the tail froze, a Russian woman came for water, killed a bear with a rocker arm]: 273-275; 1947 [the old man was carrying fish in a sleigh; the fox pretended to be dead, the old man picked it up; she threw away all the fish and she jumped by herself; began to eat; told the wolf that she had tied a basket to the tail, put its tail into the ice-hole; the wolf did so; the women came, began to beat him, he cut off his tail, ran to look for the fox to eat; she climbed into the house, smeared her head with dough; told the wolf that she had been beaten worse - her brains out; the wolf felt sorry for taking her to the forest on his back; the fox pretended to be dead again; the crow came down, the fox caught her ; the crow advises you to eat it, put oil and honey in the basket together and throw it; she began to eat butter and honey while sitting on a tree]: 836-839 (the second similar option on S. 839-842); Chuvash [Fox pretended to be dead, the man picked it up, she threw the fish off the cart, told the Wolf that she had caught it with her tail down the ice-hole; in the morning people began to beat the Wolf, he ran away, leaving his tail frozen in the ice; the fox promises bring him a herd of sheep, tells him to hide in a haystack, sets him on fire; leads Wolf to drink beer underground, he got drunk, sang, killed; Lisa was dressed up, asked to dance, she ran away with her outfits]: Eisin 1993:35- 37; Kazan Tatars: Nasyrov, Polyakov 1900, No. 8 [the man carried a purse with fish; put the caught fox there; it gnawed through a hole, poured out the fish, began to eat; the bear believes that the fox tied body to tail and lowered it into the ice-hole; the bear's tail froze; a woman came, beat the bear with a rocker arm, he ran away with his tail cut off; the man came home, told his wife to throw the old fox fur into the fire; opened a purse, there is no fish or fox]: 66-67, 104 (Mishari Tatars; recorded by N.F. Katanov) [the fox steals fish from the cart in the usual way, makes the wolf catch it with its tail from the river]; Kazan Tatars [The fox steals fish from the net; tells the Wolf that she caught it, put its tail into the ice-hole; the tail is frozen; the man who put up the net killed the Wolf; the Fox laughed]: Zamaletdinov 1992:17-19 (=2008a, No. 1:23-24); Bashkirs : Barag 1989, No. 82 [The wolf asks the Fox to feed him; she pretends to be dead, the fisherman throws her into his sleigh, she throws away all the fish, runs away; the Wolf is happy; the fox explains that she has caught fish on her tail; The wolf lowered its tail into the ice-hole, the tail froze; in the morning, the women hit the wolf with rocker arms, the tail came off; the Fox asks Quail to make her laugh; he sits on the reaper's head, her husband hits him on the head with a flail, tore him off wife's head; Fox laughs; asks to scare her; Quail filled her eyes with resin, brought her to the village; dogs are chasing her, Quail laughs]: 386-387; Nasyrov, Polyakov 1900 [materials by N.F. Katanov; fisherman I came across a dead fox, put it in a bast bucket to the fish; the fox threw the fish away and ran away; at home, the fisherman hurried to burn his old malachai, but did not find the fox; old woman: you should have put the fish not in the bucket, but in canopy; the fisherman found a needle, put it in the canopy, it was lost; wife: should have been stuck in clothes; the fisherman found a braid, attached it to his chest - etc.; the fox told the bear that it had caught fish on its tail; tail the bear froze, the woman began to beat him with a rocker arm, the bear ran away with his tail cut off]: 104.
Turkestan. The Karakalpaks (Takhtakupir District) [camel, tiger, wolf and fox conspired to be friends and went to the desert; the fox persuaded the tiger to offer the camel to be meat for their sustenance and said that when the bread was ripe, they would give him money for it; the camel agreed; when he was slaughtered, the fox ate the better pieces and the wolf giblets; the fox told the tiger that the wolf ate everything; the tiger followed him chased; the fox hid the meat in a hole, told the returning tiger that the camel said: "You will not give my money in the fall" and ran away; then secretly returned for the hidden meat; a tiger came and asked where she got it gut; the fox replied that it had pulled out its back intestine and was now eating it; the tiger said he wanted to eat hers, asked for it to be pulled out; the fox agreed to help only after the tiger had tied its four legs; she stuck her face into his back intestine and ate it; the tiger howled, the fox pulled out its face, said it had released his gut; while she was eating, the tiger died; the fox lay down on the road, pretended to be dead; the old woman's son put it in the arba; the fox began to throw off the shepherds (breams) lying there; the old woman's son drove home, told his mother that he had brought a fox on her hat; then he saw that there was neither a fox nor a fish in the arba; the wolf asked foxes, from where she got the shepherds; the fox replied that she put its tail in the ice-hole and caught it; the wolf went to the ice-hole, lowered its tail there, froze; in the morning he was noticed by aul women; brought men, killed the wolf; the fox also ate his meat]: Baskakov 1951:37-39; (cf. Kazakhs [a childless old woman milked a goat, she knocked over the bucket, the old woman tore off her kuyirshyk {tail?} , he turned into a son; rode a camel to get salt; hid from the weather under a leaf, the camel ate grass, swallowed it; the camel was brought home, the old people heard K.'s voice, stabbed the camel, the Wolf ate giblets; when he approaches the herd, K. screams from his belly, calls the shepherds; The fox advised him to sweat, sit on the ice, sit until morning; The wolf froze, the travelers killed him, ripped off his skin, quietly took K .; stopped for the night; K. blew out the fire, ate everything; others began to blame each other; went to bed; K. put the slaughtered ram between the guests, tied braids to the master's daughters, put braids on the owner's heads cauldron, a tripod hung above the door, filled nails into the ground at the door; shouted that wolves were coming; the owner hit the cauldron, tripod, sat on nails, screamed; the guests accuse each other that the other had turned into a ram, a girl - that another is holding her braids; everyone is fighting; K. burst with laughter]: Marchenko 1993:81-84).
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakasy: Katanov 1907, No. 141 [the fox pretended to be dead, the old man put it in the sleigh, she threw it off, took the bag of fish; tells the old man that the Wolves are coming, we must hide in the hole; tells the wolves where the old man ate him; says she caught fish with her tail down the ice-hole; the wolves lowered it, the tails froze, the man killed them], 380 [=196:127-130; The fox threatens the yellow-breasted bird to knock down a tree, everyone a year makes her give her four chicks; scoters tell the bird to tell Lisa that she has neither a knife nor an ax; the fox catches two Turpans; they promise to take it wherever it wants; they throw it off at sea, she climbs onto a rock; leaning against a rock, asks the maral to take care of her, he crashes against a rock; wolves take her meat; she lowers her tail into the water, runs, rattling to her tail with ice; wolves lower their tails, they freeze; one runs away with his tail torn off; the fox lures him to people, kills him; the fox tells the quail that it has not eaten before, it promises to feed it; distracts the beggar the old man, who throws the bag and the stick, the fox eats the provisions from the bag; the quail promises to make fun of her; sits on the horns of a cow, then on the old woman's back, the old man hits the ax, kills the cow, then the wife, the fox laughs; the quail promises to scare the fox, brings the dogs, they tear off the fox's tail; the fox grabs the quail; she says that if the fox has good thoughts, it will throw it over its back; the fox does so the quail flies away; but then the fox pretended to be dead, caught and ate the quail]: 256-257, 392-395; the Mongols [the fox brought the property of the deceased lama; gave the crow a rosary: read on the tree, you will be full; boots for the wolf: put on, you will go to the rams, you will be mistaken for a person; the bear - musical cymbals; the crow caught on the branches with its rosary, choked; the wolf was killed; the bear was afraid of the roar, ran away; the fox found a bunch of treats, blood-stained her eyes, told the tiger that she had eaten her eye; the tiger asked him to pull out one eye, the fox let him eat sweets, the tiger liked it; he asked to pull out the other one, the fox gave it to him to eat it, the tiger did not like it; the fox: so my second one is bitter, I will not pull it out; leads the tiger to the edge of the cliff for the night, asks me to move, the tiger fell, grabbed the caragan with its teeth; fox: are you, father? the tiger wants to answer, lets go of his grip, falls, breaks; the fox sends the old men to pick up the tiger, undertakes to watch the child, cooks it, puts her head as if the child is sleeping, fed the old people; the old man he rushed to cut the fox, she dodged, he killed his wife; he also killed a bull; he killed himself out of grief; the fox ate bacon, told the seven wolves that fat falls from the sky, if you put the tail into the water, the tails froze; the fox requires the magpie to throw off the cubs, otherwise it will gnaw through the poplar; when the last one is left, the goose explains that the fox will not be able to gnaw through the poplar; the fox went to look for a goose, saw a bull drinking water on I didn't drink for a month or a month; I waited for his scrotum to fall off, starved to death]: Potanin 1883, No. 168:552-554; the Oirats (Xinjiang) [the motif corresponds to the fairy tale "The Wolf and the Fox" from the collection "Betege" caγān boqširγ", published in 1981 in Urumqi in the series "Xinjiang Oirat Folklore" {no details; original verification required}]: Ubushiyeva, Damrinjav 2020:13; Mongors [Lisa does not share rabbit meat with the Wolf, he is angry; she invites him to stick his tail in Yellow River to catch fish; the tail freezes, people see the Wolf, he breaks out with his tail off; since then, the wolf's tail has been lowered down] : Stuart, Limusishiden 1994:176-177.
Western Siberia. The Nenets [The Bear had a fluffy tail; the fox pretends to be dead, the fishermen pick it up, she throws all the fish off the sledge; tells the Bear that she caught it on its tail; the Bear's tail froze, comes off; he is now without a tail]: Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:91; nganasany [Oeloko (Dyaiku) comes to Yakut Karagan-Toyon's hut; at night he pretends to let down, listens to K.'s son come, kills him, leaves the corpse as if the young man stabbed himself, goes to bed again; in the morning he goes after the shaman wolf to revive the dead; she comes with seven sons; O. attaches a lit tinder to the udder of the vazhenka; the deer run, the wolves follow them, O. remains in the house with the Wolf; O. throws her into the fire, then drowns her in a barrel; everyone thinks that she herself was burned and threw herself into the water; O. buries her; tells the wolves to freeze their tails in cut the ice-hole; if you pull out your tails, the mother will come to life; kills wolves, only one escapes; now wolves are afraid of people]: Long 1938:116-119.
Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [The fox convinces Myselov's bird that the deer and the camp are strangers; he kills a deer from his own herd, kills his wife and children; later he sees that Lisa did not kill her children, only bit their ears; the Mouselov lures the Fox onto thin ice; she falls through, gets to the fish mother, promises to heal, acting as a shaman, tells her to put a stick and then get up on the ice; says that the patient will scream; ate fish and ran away; sits on a woman's sledges, eats a bag of meat, replies that the area is called Polsumy, Donyshko; The bear wants to eat it, she promises get fat after sleeping; both lie down on the edge of the mountain; at night, the Fox lies down on the other side of the Bear, asks him to move, he falls; tells the man that he eats his penis; he cuts off his own, dies; the fox comes to his two wives, hides his face; in the dark, they try to cut the Fox with an ax, but cut the belly of a pregnant woman; tells Wolf that he gets fat by lowering his tail into the ice-hole; the wolf's tail freezes, is torn off; other Wolves say that a Fox came, breaking her tooth on a sharp deer stomach; a lot of Fox sits by the fire; the Wolf smeared his ass in ash, began to dance ridiculously; everyone laughed, one closed her mouth, her Wolf tore up]: Popov 1937:28-33; Yakuts: Ergis 1967a, No. 81 (place of recording is not specified; central?) [Onohochun Choohoon arranges Baai Hara Haan's son and Oloon Doloon to fight, kills the first in turmoil, promises to revive him for half his wealth; puts on the dead man's clothes, comes to to his parents and brothers and sisters, who drive him away, PTS hangs the deceased as if he hanged himself because he was driven away; promises to bring a shaman who will revive him; when she is ready to reveal the truth, she screams that horses trample on other horses, drowns a shaman in a bag of koumiss; promises to save her wolf children from revenge if he is given all the wealth; ties a blood bubble to the neck of a dead shaman; when wolf cubs jump around, warns them to be more careful, spurs the bull, the deceased falls, PTS pretends that she has just died; to revive her, the wolves must lower their tails into the ice-hole; the tails are frozen in ice, wolves are dead], 82 (Verkhoyansky) [about as in (81), =Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976:167-174; Shaman fox, she has wolf sons, fox daughters; one wolf, one face ran away with their tails cut off, they come from them current; for promising to settle the case with a drowned shaman, Oloon Doloon marries the owners' daughter]: 7-9, 13-16; 1967b, No. 4 (the recording place is not [Fox pretending to be dead (the man throws her into his sleigh) steals fish from the cart. After listening to the fox, the wolf lowers its tail into the hole, hoping to fish. People come, the wolf breaks its tail and runs away. When meeting a wolf, the fox smeared his head with a suorat (varenets) and pretends to be beaten. A beaten wolf carries a fox], 5 (recording location not specified; central ones?) [The fox and the wolf have decided to spend the winter together. The fox, lying to the wolf, ate all the oil supply. Then she made the wolf put its tail into the hole. When the people arrived, the wolf barely ran away, cutting off its tail. The wolf cursed the fox, and since then they have become enemies]: 162; the Ilimpic Evenks (cf. 1907) [The fox and the bird Kovshichan went up the river; at night the Fox turns the shuttles, K. does not notice that they are now swimming down the river; they see the herd, K. does not understand that he is slaughtering his own deer; after learning about This is what the Fox lures to the fragile ice; the fox sinks to the bottom to the ulcers, they say that their mother is sick; the fox undertakes to shamanize, treat, says that the disease will scream; eats eggs, runs away; is hired as a shepherd, kills deer; the old man shouts to his wife to beat the Fox; she hears poorly, the Fox explains that her husband tells her to tie a bubble of fat to the Fox's tail; runs away; tells the Wolves that he has caught fat in the river, with his tail down; wolf tails freeze, Wolves tear them off; Fox gnaws bones, breaks a tooth; Wolves in the plague will make people laugh, one hoots an owl, mutters a hare; the fox covers his mouth, Wolves beat him; The fox offers The bear should lie on a cliff ledge, closer to the wall; at night he lies between him and the wall, asks him to move, the Bear falls; the fox eats bear meat; the girls carry supplies, the Fox is called to show the way, along the way eats everything; hides on larch, girls make a fire; the Fox asks the Fire not to burn it to the end, becomes small as it is now]: Vasiliev 1936, No. 5:258-262 (quail in Bulatova 1985:154-160); Ilympic Evenks (p. Chirinda, western 1985) [The hare sees glare in the ice-hole, takes it for fish, lowers its tail into the water so that they cling, the tail freezes; the old woman hits with a poker, but only touches the tips of her ears; the hare ran away, cutting off his tail, since then he short, and the tips of the ears are black]: Yermakov 1988:19-20; Turukhan Evenks (Erogachen) [The fox stole oil from the Russians, told the Wolf that she caught it on the tail in the ice-hole; at night, the wolf's tail froze, came people, Wolf ran away with his tail off]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 20:22; Evenki (Podkamennaya Tunguska) [the man filled the box with resin, called the fox to eat honey, it stuck; pretended to be dead; the man's children were at home they say that the fox is alive, they do not believe them; the parents went to buy firewood, the fox promises the children to cook dinner, they untied it, she ran away; asks the wolf to tie her to a tree and feed her; the wolf also asks to be tied the fox tied him to the tree; the fox tied him and ran away; the kuksha freed him; the fox stole the roll, says the wolverine that it caught it on its tail in the ice-hole; the tail froze, the women beat the wolverine with rocker arms, the tail came off; from then Since a wolverine with a short tail, looking for a fox]: Suvorov 1956:53-54; Evenki (Podkamennaya Tunguska) [the man filled the box with resin, called the fox to eat honey, it stuck; pretended to be dead; children at home the man is told that the fox is alive, they do not believe them; the parents went to buy firewood, the fox promises the children to cook dinner, they untied it, she ran away; asks the wolf to tie her to a tree and feed her; the wolf also asks tie him to a tree; the fox tied him and ran away; the kuksha freed him; the fox stole the roll, says the wolverine that it caught it on its tail in the ice-hole; the tail froze, the women beat the wolverine with rocker arms, the tail came off; since then, a short-tailed wolverine has been looking for a fox]: Suvorov 1956:53-54; Cyrenian Evenks [The fox teaches Volkov to fish with his tail down the ice-hole; when the hunter approaches, they run away cutting off his tails]: Pinegina et al. 1952:20-21; Baikal Evenks [The bear was bitten by mosquitoes, the Fox leads him to sleep on the edge of the cliff; at night he changes places, asks him to move, the Bear falls, crashes ; The fox tied the sausage to her tail, wrapped her guts around her neck, replied to the Wolves that she caught it by lowering its tail into the water; when it froze, you have to drag it; the wolf tails froze, the Fox hit, one tail came off]: Titov 1936, No. 22:189; Pinegina 2019 (northern Transbaikalia, 1951) []: 42-43; Evenks of Buryatia (Severobaikal) [The fox was hired by the old man to herd deer, ate most of it; the old man chased her, shouts to his wife to hold it; she does not hear well, Lisa explains that the old man ordered her to be given fat for a good job; tells the Wolf to put the tail into the ice-hole, meat or fat will stick; the tail is frozen; the Russians women began to beat the Wolf with rockers, the tail came off; the fox pretended to be dead, the Russian man picked it up, found at home that the fox threw the fish off the cart and ran away]: Voskoboynikov 1958:46-47; Amur Evenks [The fox invites the old man to find his missing deer and herd them; eats the deer; the old man shouts to his wife to hold the Fox, Lisa says that the old man tells her to tie an ornament to her tail - a knife; runs away with a knife; invites the Bear to roll off the ice, sticks a knife at the bottom; tells the Bear that he will pull out a splinter, pulls out his intestines, eats it; tells the Wolf that the jewelry will be on the tail if lowered it into the water; The Wolf freezes, the Fox eats it; drives the Hare into the loops, eats it; invites the old man to carry the meat of the moose killed by that moose; takes away all the meat]: Bulatova 1980:98-102 (=1987, No. 6:123-126); Ayan Evenks [The fox tells the Flying Squirrel to eat her cub, otherwise he promises to climb the tree; the Flying Squirrel gives all four cubs one by one; when he finds out what is going on, the Owl takes the Fox, throws it at island; she asks bears, seals, seals to line up from island to mainland to count them; when she reaches the shore, she comes to live with her older brother; calls to herd deer, eats them all; advises The bear get fat by lowering its tail into the water; the tail froze, came off]: Levin, Vasilevich 1936, No. 2:221-224; Evens: Bogoras 1918, No. 5 ("Kolyma Evenks") [Fox (fox) puts the top in the ice-hole; The bear asks to give him half of the catch; she advises him to sit on the boards and watch the top; the Bear freezes to the wet boards, the Fox brings his children to eat the Bear; now the Wolf demands half; The fox advises him to put his tail into the ice-hole; the Wolf bites off the tail frozen in the ice, chases the Fox; she pretends to be half-blind, says that he was deceived by another Fox; the Wolf catches up and kills another fox]: 32-33; Novikova 1987:7 [the fox stole fish from the barn, tells the wolf that it caught it in the river with its tail lowered; the wolf's tail froze, the old man killed him], 8-17 [the fox demands that the cedar shed its eggs, threatens cut down a tree; Garandya bird {Petrova 2013:186: a fairy-tale bird that looks like a huge eagle} explains that a fox can't do it; the fox tries to grab Garandya, she takes her to the island; the fox speaks seals that are going to count who is more; let the seals line up first, the fox runs ashore down their backs; invites the old man to herd his deer; eats them, fills their skins with grass, leaves them stand; the old man sees the deception, shouts to the old woman to hold the fox, she explains that the old man tells her to feed her yucola, berries and nuts; yet the old woman grabs the fox's tail; the fox says she grabbed the fox the burned place runs away; the fox says that she is another fox, invites the old man to drag the sledge; says that she is tired, sits on a sledge, the old man drags it; the fox eats the dried berries, leaves his tooth; says he will go for firewood, throws away the ax; the old man tells his wife to sew hairy pants, call all the animals to the yurt; he dances ridiculously, everyone laughs, he sees a toothless fox; the exit is closed, the old man tells him to beat the fox, and the old woman hits everyone; since then, the hare's ears are black, the ermine has the black end of its tail; the fox asks her not to hit - it will come in handy; invites the moose to race, pushes them to the shore, they fall, they drown; the old man offers to hunt wolves, the fox tells the wolf that it has caught fish on its tail, the wolf's tails freeze, the old man killed them, ripped off their skins; the fox leads the bear to the old man, who wounds him with a bow; the fox promises to heal, stretches the liver, the bear dies; the fox offers the old man to tie it, feed it; then ties the old man, leaves; the wolf, the bear refuse to untie it - the fox did not order; the mouse untied; the fox was caught by an old man's crossbow]; Robbeck 2005 [the elk wants to have the same beautiful hair as the fox's; she advises lying in wormwood for a long time; the moose tail is frozen, he hardly got up, but the tail came off; since then, an elk without a tail]: 196.
Amur - Sakhalin. Negidals [Lynx asks why the Fox is hammering the ice-hole; she teaches you to put its tail into the water; tells you not to frighten the fish with conversation; she leaves quietly; Lynx's tail froze, she tore it off]: Khasanov, Pevnov 2003, No. 65; 131-132; Naikha Nanai: Aurora 1986, No. 15 [Crucian carp and Raven mow reeds, Raven offers to compete, whoever collects the sheaf faster, wins, wants to eat Crucian carp, that hides in the lake; the bear drinks the lake; the crow does not know which crucian carp is; the other Fox scratches the Bear's ass, the water flows out; the fox at the ice-hole has lowered its tail into the water, says it will recover this way; the tail The bear froze to the ice, he tore it off; The fox pretends to smear glue his eyes; The bear forcibly erased the glue; The fox offers to ride down the mountain, puts a spit, the Bear ran into, died; Hares, Foxes ask the old man is a cauldron, an ax, a knife, they forget to leave meat for him; they brush their teeth, throw the collected goods into the cauldron; the old man is not offended, calls everyone to him, closes all exits, kills hares and foxes together with his wife; alone a fox, one hare ran away through the hearth, their ears turned black], 16 [without an episode with a dirty tail; The foxes urinated into the cauldron, brought it to the old woman; she closed the exits, interrupted the fox; (hares and the old man do not participate)]: 71-73, 75-77; Bikin Nanais [Crucian and Crow mow reeds, Raven offers to compete, who will assemble the sheaf faster, turns off the other's eyes; wins, Crucian carp hides in the lake; Bear drinks the lake, but the Fox scratches the Bear, the water flows out; the fox cooks glue, tells the Bear that he will cure their eyes; the Bear asks him to anoint his eyes, has difficulty ripping off the glue; the fox cuts the ice, says that in the ice-hole sleep warmly, advises the Bear to put its tail into the water; the Bear's tail froze to the ice, he tore it off; The fox offers to ride down the mountain, puts a spit, the Bear ran into, died; Foxes ask the old woman for a cauldron, a knife , a meat board, forget to leave meat for him; they brush their teeth, bring the collected goods to the old woman; she kills two foxes with a knife, makes a hat and mittens; the girl offers to help bring water, takes away the hat and mittens; Heron, Eagle do not bring, the bird lets the girl and her sister catch itself, put her hat and mittens under the fox, she brings them to the old woman; entangled in the branches, died; the old woman put her to bed, she became a girl]: L.Sam 1976, No. 1:120-122 (=Sem, Sem 2020, No. 34:142-148); Udege people [someone steals fish from a trap; he finds Badger teasing him; throwing a jail, well done hits himself in the leg; finds a Badger's house, sets fire to, kills Badger and cubs (badger fur with gray hair since then); Lisa says they will come in a jay (there is no such word), they will kill everyone; both train in shooting, the Fox pretends to be wounded, offers to leave on sledges, eats all the fat on the way, runs away; hides in the Zaitsev house; well done, hides birds under his clothes, shamanite, releases, Hares, followed by the Fox hiding, laugh; Lisa promises to bring the old man's daughter Kanda; leads; well done asks his wife to sew a dress for Lisa; Lisa tells the Roe deer that they should sleep on the ice, there will be a dress; Roe deer they freeze, well done, they get a lot of meat; the same with the Raisins; the Bear's tail froze into the ice-hole, the tail has come off; the fox has changed clothes with the Tiger, since then the tiger is striped, and the fox is red]: Feeder 1998, No. 30: 148-164.
Japan. Aina [The Fox and the Bear carry each other; the fox pushes the sledges off the cliff, eats Bear meat; ties a bear bubble to its tail; two deer rush to see what it is; the fox slips out, they kill each other with horns; the fox advises the Hare to put its tail into the ice-hole, then a bubble will also appear at the end; the tail freezes into the ice, since then the Tailless Hare]: Pilsudski 1991b, No. 7:76; Japanese : Markova 2000, No. 72 [The bear advises the Monkey to put its tail into the river to catch fish; the tail has come off; since then, monkeys have a short tail and a red snout]: 268-269; Ikeda 1971, No. 1 [4 entries from Kanto to west Kyushu; the fox pretends to be dead, the fish seller picks it up, throws it on the cart, the fox steals the fish and runs away; tells the monkey or bear that it has caught fish with its tail down in ice-hole; the story explains why a Japanese monkey (bear) has a short tail or does not have one at all], 2 [Otter, Bear or Badger suggest that the Monkey or Fox fish with its tail, the tail freezes]: 11, 12-13; Seki 1966, No. 33 (all of Honshu) [the otter invites the fox (monkey) to visit, feeds it with fish; the fox does not invite back - it does not know how to fish; the otter teaches you to put its tail under the ice; the fox is either left without tail, or an otter drags it by the tail under the ice]: 25.
SV Asia. Itelmen [Kuth brings fish home; Lisa pretends to be dead, K. puts it on a sledge; Lisa dumps fish, runs away; K. Mitya finds an empty sledge; the episode repeats, K. ties the Fox to the sledges; waits at home for the picked up Fox to thaw away, she runs away again; the fox tells Wolf that she caught goltz by dropping her into the ice-hole tail; Wolf tail freezes into the ice, it tears it off; The wolf sticks his head in a fox hole, gets stuck, the Fox eats the Wolf's face; Wolves dig a hole, kill the Fox]: Jochelson 1961, No. 22:160-161 (translated in Menovshchikov 1974, No. 173:516-518); forest Yukaghirs: Iokhelson 1900, No. 8 (b. Corcodon) [The fox invites the Moose to roll down the mountain, leaves the knife, the Elk rips its belly; the Fox wraps his scrotum around its tail, tells the Wolf what she caught in the river; the Wolf's tail freezes into the ice; he asks the mice to gnaw off, only the little mouse agreed; the wolf tore off its tail, gave the mouse plenty of meat to eat the meat of the deer he killed], 26 (p. Yasachnaya) [a fox was trapped; the old man put it on a sledge where the fish was; the fox threw the burbot on the road; tells the wolf that it caught fish with its tail down the ice-hole; when leaving, the fox tells the wolf that in the morning the old man will beat him on foot; the wolf asks the mouse to gnaw off his tail; the old man began to beat the wolf on foot, he tore off his tail, ran away; thanked the mouse]: 20-21, 68-70; Kurilov 2005, No. 19 (p. Ridiculous Verkhnekolymsky District) [Kyrcheana went to the race; when he saw him, the wolf put his tail into the ice-hole, froze his tail; K. hit him on foot, the wolf ran away, cutting off his tail; K. saw a fox lying on the road; that asked to take her to the forest; he put her on sledges, put the fish there; the fox threw her into the snow, ran away; began to eat fish, the lynx came, passed off his daughter as a fox; all their clothes were lying in the yard, her fox She ate everything; the lynx said that the fox was a bad son-in-law, drove her away; passed her middle daughter off the wolverine, told her to hunt deer; the wolverine jumped on the deer from the tree, could not kill; the fox tore the deer's throats , killed one, told the wolverine to rip him off; waited a long time at home for her return; returned to that place - the wolverine buried the meat in the snow and left; returned in the evening; the lynx said that she was a bad son-in-law, drove him away]: 261-263; Spiridonov 1996 [when the fox meets a hungry bear, promises him food; made an ice-hole on foot, ordered him to lower his tail and sit until morning: a lot of fish will be caught; in the morning the tail froze, asks those passing by to gnaw it off; the wolverine, the hare, the ermine refuse; the mouse gnaws; the old man comes up, beats the bear, but he rushed and tore off his tail; so that the bear does not recognize it, the red fox smeared with soot and mud, became black-brown]: 47; Chukchi [the fox lowered its tail into the ice-hole, began to fish; the tail froze; wolf, hare, bear, ermine, europea, wolverine, fox successively pass by with argish; everyone the fox asks to gnaw its tail, but everyone replies that he has no time - he will fall behind the argish; the mouse replies that it is weak, but agrees to gnaw for at least a month; when free, the fox says that it will be all its life gratefully and promises mice two reindeer carcasses]: Brodsky, Innecay 2018, No. 4:18-19.
The Arctic. Asian Eskimos: Menovshchikov 1985, No. 13 [the fox found a fish on the shore; told the wolf that it had caught it in the sea with its tail down; the wolf sat all night, the tail froze, the wolf tore it off, went looking for a fox; she is in a hole, narrowed her eye; says that she is one-eyed and deceived by another fox; the wolf goes to look for his offender, is weak, dead; the elk asks the fox where the moss is good; she directs him to a cliff, an elk fell and crashed; the fox took its moose giblets, met a bear, says it pulled out its giblets; the bear agrees that the fox will pull out his guts; died, fox meat for the whole winter], 14 [fox found two fish on the shore; tells the wolf that it stretched out its gut and there were fish in it; the wolf pulled out its gut and died; the fox told another wolf that it had caught fish with its tail down the ice-hole; the tail the wolf froze, he pulled, the whole skin peeled off; he found a fox, she narrowed her eye, says she was one-eyed, and the wolf was deceived by her brother], 137 (recorded from an Asian Eskimo living on the river. McKenzie) [the fox asked the wolf to put its tail into the ice-hole to catch fish; the tail froze; the wolf bit it off, chased the fox; the fox put the leaves in front of her eyes, pretending to be blind, and said that she was another fox; met an elk, led him to a steep cliff, the elk slipped and crashed; after eating it, the fox met a bear wounded by arrows; promised to heal by pressing a hot stone to the wound; the bear died, the fox ate it]: 42-43, 44, 333-334; Rubtsova 1954:309-310; Baboshina 1958 [A bear kills a fisherman, eats fish; tells Lisa that he caught it with his tail down the ice-hole; the hare helps her escape]: 46-47; Sergeyeva 1968 [The fox teaches the Wolf to fish with its tail down the ice-hole; The mouse heard, tried, the tail froze; the Raven laughs, flew after the Ermine; The mouse ran away with its tail off]; 61; Jenness 1924, No. 14 (from an Asian Eskimo married to a woman from the mouth of McKenzie) [The fox advises the Wolf to fish on the lake with his tail lowered into a crack in the ice; the wolf has to gnaw off its tail; the fox puts leaves over his eyes as if she is snow-blind, pretends to be another fox; calls Moose to a steep cliff, where there is supposedly a lot of food; he slides, breaks, the Fox eats it; the bear is injured by hunters; the fox undertakes to heal him, pierces him into the wound hot stone tip, Bear exhales, Fox eats meat]: 43-44; Bering Strait inupiate [The fox goes after the partridges, the bear promises to bring a man; the wounded returns; the fox promises pull out the arrow, presses hot stones into the wound herself, feeds the foxes with bear meat; tells the Wolf to fish with his tail down into the water; he froze off; the fox pretends to be another fox, the wolf dies The fox eats it; tells the Black Bear that the Brown Bear killed her son; they fight, both die, Lisa eats bear meat]: Jenness 1924, No. 16:44-45 (translated into Menovshchikov 1985, No. 138:334-337); inupiat Northern Alaska (Kobuk) [The fox caught fish in the river, tells the Bear that she caught it where sea ice filled with water; the Bear went there, froze; the crow offers Lisa a knife to cut it; The fox knows that The crow will give it away, leaves; returns when the Bear is dead, eats bear meat]: Curtis 1976 (20): 260-261; copper [The wolf asks the Fox how to catch salmon; he replies to put it in the water the tail; the tail froze, I had to tear it off; when the Wolf met the Fox, he said it was another Fox, and he was blind to the snow; the Wolf believed]: Rasmussen 1932:234 (=Rasmussen 1935:200).
Subarctic. Kuchin [The Bear had a long tail; the fox advises putting its tail into the ice-hole to catch crayfish; when you stick a lot, jump up quickly; the bear tail came off]: Camsell 1915, No. 12:256.
The coast is the Plateau. Thompson [Fox fools Coyote, his tail froze into the ice (Var.: Coyote fools Fox)]: Teit 1917b, No. 37:62; (cf. Upper Chehalis [somewhere in Alaska The bear was sitting on the ice, his tail froze , now short]: Adamson 1934:43); Western sachaptin [The fox lowers its tail into the river, clings to the tail (edible?) rhizomes; the Coyote's tail froze into the ice, the Coyote died, the Fox revived it]: Farrand, Mayer 1917, No. 11:171.
The Midwest. Potauatomi [A raccoon steals food from two blind old women; a wolf asks where he is full; a raccoon tells you to put his tail into the river, tie stones, the fish will cling; the tail freezes into the ice; old women kill Wolf, thinking he's a thief]: Skinner 1924:358-359; Swamp Cree (Moose Cree, West Bank Hall. James) [in winter, the Fox replies to the Bear that she caught fish with its tail in the water; as soon as the fish is enough, it must be pulled out; the Bear does not pull out the tail right away, but waits; the tail is frozen; when the Bear is torn, he tore it off and the Bear has had a short tail ever since]: Ellis 1995, No. 48:289.
Northeast. Viandot [Raccoon advises Fox to catch crayfish with its tail down; tail freezes, Beaver frees Fox]: Walker 1995, No. 1:3-15; Mohawks: Rustige 1988 [Fox steals fish from a fisherman; tells the Bear that he caught it by lowering its tail into the ice-hole; the Bear's tail freezes into the ice; after hearing people and dogs, the Bear runs away, tearing off its tail, now its tail is short]: 48-50; Smith 1983 [The fox gets a cart with fish, throws fish, advises the Wolf to do the same, fishermen beat the Wolf; advises the Bear to fish with its tail in the ice-hole; the tail is frozen in the ice; the Fox leads the Dog and the Cat to fight Bear (European)]: 77-78; Iroquois (the group is not specified; probably European borrowings.) [The Indian was carrying fish in a sleigh, the fox pretended to be dead, the man picked him up, he dropped the fish and ran away; he told the wolf; the wolf lay down on the road, the man beat him; the fox told the bear that he had caught fish on his tail; the bear lowered its tail into the ice-hole, it froze; the bear stood up with its tail cut off; the fox said that the bear was to blame]: Judd 1904, No. 12:112-114.
Plains. Oto [Mink is fishing, tells Bobcat that he caught it with his tail down; the Cat's tail freezes into the ice, he breaks it off]: Anderson 1940:35-38.
Southeast USA. Caddo [Coyote asks a man how he caught a big fish; he advises putting his tail in the water; at night, the water freezes, the man kills the Coyote]: Dorsey 1905, No. 75:91-92; teal [y The bear had a fluffy tail; the fox says he was fishing with its own tail; the Bear's tail freezes into the ice, torn off]: Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick 1966, No. 2:400-401; choctaw [The fox explained to the Bear that caught the fish with its tail down the ice-hole; the tail froze, the bear rushed, since then without a tail]: Mould 2004:202.
The Great Southwest. Navajo [The fox caught fish, told the Bear it was on its own tail; he lowered his tail into the river, his tail froze at night, the Bear got up, tore off its tail; agreed not to kill the Fox when he gave him fish]: Baylor 1976:8-9.