M109A. A person sitting on the ice is waiting for food from the sky .29.33.34.36.

One zoomorphic character advises another to sit on the ice for a long time - usually until food falls from the sky. The person who sits on the ice freezes to him.

Balkarians [fox and wolf], (Avars [fox and wolf]), Kazakhs, Tubalars [fox and wolf], Chelkans [fox and wolf], Tofalars [fox and wolf], Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans [fox and wolf], Khalha Mongols [fox and wolf], (Evens [fox and bear]).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Balkarians [{the book does not have pages 40-42 where this text begins}; (the fox deceived the wolf, ruffled him when he ate a dead bear, lost its tail); other foxes believe that the short one on purpose got rid of her tail; she advised me to wet her tails and sit on the ice; hunters came, the foxes cut off their tails, ran away; the first fox accidentally peeled its hair, turned black; says to the wolf that all foxes are short, and black is the main one above them; the wolf also wanted to go black, tried to jump over the fire, fell and burned down]: Baranov 1897, No. 9:42 (?) -44; (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).

Turkestan. 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 ram, girls - that the other is holding her braids; everyone is fighting; K. burst with laughter]: Marchenko 1993:81-84.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tubalars [The fox invites the Bear to light a fire and warm up; tells him to move, he falls off a cliff, she eats lard and meat; runs away from the Wolf between the trunks of the talnik, the Wolf gets stuck; regurgitates bear fat and meat in front of nine Wolves, advises to put their tails into the water, at night food will fall from the sky; tails freeze into the ice, the Old Man, whose cow and horse they ate, kills them; his youngest daughter agrees to marry Fox]: Baskakov 1965:67-70; Chelkans [The fox tells Magpie to dump one, then the second chick, threatens to climb the willow, eat everyone; The bear explains that the Fox cannot climb a tree; the Fox invites the Bear to bed on the edge of a cliff, pushes him down; feasts; invites Wolves to compare vomiting; she has meat and fat, they have grass used instead of onuch; teaches Volkov lower the tails into the water, meat and lard will fall from above; the old woman hits the Wolves frozen in the ice, they run away without tails]: Kandarakova 1988:151-154; tofalars [The fox says she is afraid of hunters The bear is like hazel grouses when they take off; the fox offers him to fill the hole with people, promises to fill the other with hazel grouses; the bear returns wounded; the fox undertakes to heal him on a rock by the fire; asks move away from the fire, it falls, breaks, the Fox eats meat; tells the Wolves to sit on the ice and howl, God will send a bear; the Wolves have frozen tails; the man killed everyone with an ax, drove them on a sleigh]: Sherkhunaev 1977:237-240); Tuvans: Plotkina, Grebnev 1955 [The fox found lamb antlers, threatens to butt the talnik, drink the river, Magpie throws his chick every morning; so four; Bear explains that the Fox is deceiving; the fox lures the Bear into its hole as if it were meat; the Bear was stuck, the Fox ate it from behind; told the Wolves that if you put the tail into the ice-hole, meat comes from the sky; told the old man and the old woman that the wolves were in the ice, the old man killed them]: 76-81; Katanov 1907 [The fox ("one fox son") ate lard; seven wolves came; the fox replied that lard came down from above for those who love to howl; the wolves stayed sitting on the ice; the fox came to the old man and the old woman, who agreed to adopt him; the fox began to herd seven yaks; the wolf tails froze to the ice, the old man killed them]: 101-102 (=2011:233); South Altai Tuvans: Taube 1994, No. 47 [The fox pretends to be a poor orphan, childless old people take him as sons, let their seven goats herd; every day alone disappears; the fox explains that the goats are left on the rock; the old man finds skins full of grass there; shouts to his wife to kill the Fox, who hears hard; the fox explains that her husband tells her to bake a cake for him, Fox, in butter; hits death, the old woman's tail in the face, runs away; the old man's heart is bursting; the Wolf sees the Fox regurgitating fat; he explains that it is necessary to lower the tail into the water, oil will fall from the sky; the tail is frozen, Fox brought the old man to kill the wolf, he took the Fox as his son; the fox killed the old man's horse, the old man hung it in the chimney, went to get firewood; the old man's children began to lick the fox's urine and feces, thinking it was fat; Fox said that sugar would flow from his mouth, asked him to bring a knife to cut off their sugar, killed both boys, cooked; the old man recognized his sons, fell into a boiling pot out of grief; the fox told the birds that he was a llama; one hundred birds take turns coming up for blessing, he bites each one's wing, killing them; jumping on a bunny, being trapped by a hunter], 48 [The fox tells the Mountain Goat he wants to eat what he has between his legs; he replies that the Fox is stupid; the fox offers to crush him against the rock, dodges, asks the Goat to close his eyes, otherwise it's scary, the Goat breaks, the Fox eats his scrotum; belches in front of seven wolves; they are amazed, they have not seen anything like this; The fox teaches you to sit with its tails down the ice-hole, the food will fall from the sky; the wolves have frozen, the fox sends an old man to them; Wolves answer the old man that die if you hit between the tail and the ice; fall, he puts them in a bag; rests seven times along the way; each time one wolf gets out of the bag, puts a stone in his place; the old man's wife hurries to his response , swallowed a needle and a thimble, says that there are stones in the bag; the old man accuses his wife of eating wolves, rips open her stomach, there is only a needle and a thimble; the fox sees an old jelbag woman, she lies on one ear, covered herself with others; asks to light a fire, lies down by the cliff; at night the Fox asks him to move, otherwise the fire will burn his fur; the jelbege falls off a cliff, breaks]: 266-268, 268-269); Khalkha-Mongols : Egupova 2012 ["Mongol Ardyn Ulger" ed. P. Horloo. Ub., 1969:27; a fox asks a poor young man to hide her from hunters; helps her get rich; to get wolfskin, asks for a bell; tells the wolf to sit on the ice at night, an old man will come and will give it; the wolf is primerz, the young man killed him, sold his skin; the wolf wants to compete, the winner will eat the other; the fox offers to squeeze the juice out of the white stone, extract water from the ground, uproot the growing tree; teaches the young man to crush an egg, dig up a tree in advance, bury a vessel of water; the lion ran away in horror, told the tiger, that wolf; the fox tells the young man to say: "Cook the tiger's thigh, the lion's brisket and give it to the wolf ; when the tiger comes, wear his legs"; the tiger ran away, the wolf died trapped; the fox promises to find a wife for the young man; comes on his behalf to Hormust to marry his daughter; H. demands dowry: four of the strongest creatures - a tiger, a lion, a snow leopard and a wolf; the fox tells all four that X. divides his property and gives it to everyone; tells X. to prepare an iron tower; leads animals there, supposedly for treasure; says H. that she was going to cook a feast; she came to the 12-headed mangas herself, says that she married Khan Hormusta's dagina; mangas looks through the spyglass: the bride is really going; the fox: hide in a hole for three days, so that the bride would not be afraid; says Hormusta that mangas is hiding in his possessions, H. killed him with lightning; the young man began to live with his daughter H. in the former mangas possessions]: 3-8; Potanin 1883, No. 168 [the fox brought the property of the deceased llama; gave the crow a rosary: read on the tree, you will be full; boots for the wolf: put on, go to the rams, you will be mistaken for a person; the bear - musical plates; the crow caught on the branches with a rosary , choked; the wolf was killed; the bear was afraid of the rumble, ran away; the fox found a bundle of treats, smeared blood on his eyes, told the tiger that it had eaten its eye; the tiger asked him to pull out one eye, the fox let him eat sweet, the tiger liked it; he asked me to snatch the second one, the fox let him eat it, the tiger did not like it; the fox: so my second one is bitter, I won't tear it out; leads the tiger to the edge of the cliff for the night, asks move, the tiger fell, grabbed the caragan with its teeth; fox: is this 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 I did not drink for a month or a month; I waited for his scrotum to fall off, died of hunger]: 552-554.

(Wed. Eastern Siberia. Evens [The fox (fox) puts the top in the ice-hole; the bear asks for half of the catch; she advises him to sit on the boards and watch the tops; the Bear freezes to the wet boards, the Fox brings his own 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 his deceived by another Fox; Wolf catches up and kills another fox]: Bogoras 1918, No. 5:32-33).