M109B. The broken unbeaten is lucky, ATU 4.

.11.13.-.16.22.27.-.32.36.

A weaker character convinces the stronger one that he feels even worse than that one. Usually, the stronger one agrees to carry it on himself.

Suto-chwana [fox and hyena], ambundu [monitor lizard and hyena], Nubians (bilin), Berbers of Morocco, Berbers of Algeria, Italians (Piedmont, Molise, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Latius, Puglia) [fox and wolf], Sicilians [fox and wolf], Sardinians, Catalans [fox and wolf], Aragon [fox and wolf], Basques [fox and wolf], Spanish [fox and wolf], Portuguese [fox and wolf], French, Germans (Grimms, Schleswig- Holstein, Pomerania, Mecklenburg), Shans [hare and tiger], Burmese [rabbit and tiger], Hungarians [fox and wolf], Serbs [fox and wolf], Croats, Slovenians, Serbs [fox and wolf], Greeks, Bulgarians [fox and wolf], Macedonians [fox and wolf], Macedonians [fox and wolf] fox and wolf], Poles [fox and wolf], Luzhitans [fox and wolf], Czechs, Slovaks [fox and bear], Russians (Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Ryazan, Voronezh, Kursk, Smolensk, Perm) [fox and wolf], Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Kharkiv) [fox and wolf], Belarusians [fox and wolf], Turks [fox and wolf], Lurs [fox and wolf], mountain Tajiks (Hovaling) [fox and wolf], Finns [fox and wolf] wolf], Karelians [fox and wolf], Veps, counselors, Estonians [fox and wolf], Setu [fox and wolf], Lutsi [fox and wolf], Latvians [fox and wolf], Lithuanians [fox and wolf], Swedes [fox and wolf], Mordovians, Chuvash people [fox and wolf] k], Marie, Kirenian Evenks [fox and bear], Yakuts [fox and wolf].

Bantu-speaking Africa. Suto-chwana [{European borrowings?} ; The fox shows Hyena a crack in the cattle pen; after eating meat, she gets out before she gets fat; Hyena eats everything, cannot get out; the owner of the cattle hits her with a stick, she hardly ran away; the fox pretends that beaten harder, Hyena agrees to drag her on her back; Lisa sings "The Dead Man Is Lucky Alive"; Hyena hears, the Fox rushes into the cave, pretends to support the ceiling, otherwise the arch will collapse; Hyena agrees to hold it until the Fox brings the stake; the monkeys explain that the cave will not collapse; the fox holds honeycombs in her hands, pretends to read, advises Hyena to take the book too, the bees bit Hyena's face]: Olderogge 1959:40-42 (in another translation Pozdnyakov 1990:72-75); ambundu [the monitor lizard led the hyena through a gap in the pen to kill cattle; both ate, the monitor lizard crawled back, the hyena got stuck, the owner beat it; the monitor lizard pretended to be even worse, asked the hyena to carry him home; says: the patient is healthy; the hyena hears, chases the monitor lizard, he pretends that the ceiling of the cave will collapse, asks for a hyena hold, run away by himself; monkeys explain to the hyena that the monitor lizard deceived her; the monitor lizard invites the hyena to pray according to the book; books in the pit; the hyena jumps there, is bitten by bees]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:304-305.

Sudan-East Africa. Nubians: El-Shamy 2004, No. 4:1-2; (cf. bilin [The Fox and the Elephant went to work in the field; the Fox ate the bread the Elephant had brought, said that it had been taken away by a raven; pretended to be sick; the Elephant put the harvested grain in his ears, carried the Fox; he ate the grain from one ear, asked to put himself in another, ate it from there; The elephant hears a crunch, the Fox replies that the Elephant will understand everything when he returns home; runs away]: Reinisch 1883, No. 5:210-212).

North Africa. Algerian Berbers, Moroccan Berbers: El-Shamy 2004, No. 4:1-2.

Southern Europe. Spaniards (Ciudad Real) [the fox offers the wolf to steal food from the shepherds; let him come to them, the shepherds and dogs will chase him, while she will carry the pot away from the bread jails; the wolf is terrible beaten; the fox took the cauldron and ate everything; pieces of bread stuck to her head; she says she was hit so hard that her brain came out, unable to walk; the wolf put her on his back; she sings slowly what happened; the wolf threw her on the rocks, she crashed]: 22-23: Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 3-4:22-23; Aragon [the fox pretends to have leaked her brains (smears her head with oil, dough, etc.); then usually about a wolf agreeing to carry a fox on his back]: González Sanz 1996, No. 3:63; Catalans [the fox ate garlic soup, smeared it on its head and convinced the wolf that her brains had run out; he agreed to carry it]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 3:22; the Portuguese [the fox persuaded the wolf to steal the sheep from the shepherds; the shepherds chased the wolf, while the fox ate the bread turya and smeared it on her head as if her brains were running out; the wolf agreed to carry her on his back]: Cardigos 2006, No. 3:20; the Portuguese [fox dogs: come to us, an order has been issued for peace between the animals; fox: now, I'll just ask the rooster if he knows about the order to keep us company; fox hunter: if you want chickens, come to me in the evening; released dogs on the fox, and the rooster screams: show them the order; running away from the dogs, the fox picked up stones so that they could climb into the barn; called the donkey: climb there, there's grain; the donkey ate and got stuck; the fox to the crow: do you want meat? the donkey got stuck there; the raven came down to peck at the donkey's ass; the fox met the wolf: distract people and I would steal their basket of rice; the fox ate rice, rice on his head; wolf: so tired, running away, barely alive; fox: a They broke my head, so my brain came out; they say to the old man: let's have a party; the wolf went for the lamb, the fox for the chicken, and the hare for parsley; the hare came back first, the old man killed him with a stick, and the wolf with the fox poked his spit in the ass; they thought that the old man had a hot finger; at night, the fox showed the wolf the reflection of the moon in the well: look what a cake, you need to drink water; the fox was just pretending, and the wolf drank and burst; then the fox became friends with the heron; she spread flour in the jug, ate it, and the fox could not stick its face; the heron invited the fox to attend a feast in heaven, told her to sit on her back; raised it high, threw it off; fox: if I stay alive, I don't go to the festival in heaven anymore; hey, boulder - part; when I fall on a rock, I crashed]: Coelho 1879, No. 7:13-15; Portuguese (Coimbra) [crane invited the fox to dinner with corn porridge; the fox did not get anything because the porridge was in the jug; the next time the fox invited the crane, poured the porridge on the stone and licked everything herself; pretended not to be able to to walk, the wolf agreed to carry it on his back; she says: she ate porridge and food on horseback; next time the wolf read the words and threw the fox into the well; she pretended that there was a lot of good things in the well; let the wolf will sit in the bucket, go down and look for himself; the wolf came down, and the fox went up to another tub and continued to sing his song]: Coelho 1879, No. 8:16-17; Italians (Piedmont, Lombardy, Tuscany, Molise, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Latius, Puglia): Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 4:9-10; Italians: D'Aronco 1953, No. 41 (Tuscany) [wolf and fox came to the same house to steal; the wolf ate so much that he can't get out and was beaten with a stick; the fox pretends to get it too, the wolf agrees to drag it on his back; the fox pushes the wolf into the well]: 45; Keller 1981 (Ticino) [the fox offered the wolf get into the house where the shepherds leave milk; the fox left in time, and the wolf kept drinking milk and became fat to the point of not being able to get out; he was beaten terribly; the fox smeared dogwood juice, as if in blood; the wolf believed that she got even more, agreed to carry it; the fox says, "The beaten unbeaten man is lucky"; they found a sheaf of millet; the fox took ears, and the wolf took straw; each began to cook in his at home; the wolf's brew ran away and did not like the taste; he came to the fox and asked how it got so tasty; fox: you have to put the tail into the cauldron; at home, the wolf scalded its tail, it peeled off; fox quietly went to the door to spy and laughed]: 156-159; Sardinians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 4:20-21; Sicilians [the wolf and fox went to the farm to steal food; the wolf was beaten, the fox ate cottage cheese the masses (ricotta), smeared her head, told the wolf that she was beaten so much that her brains came out, the wolf agreed to take her on himself; or the fox pretends to be sick, the wolf carries her, and she says "Il malato porta il sano"]: Lo Nigro 1957, No. 3, 4:3-4; Aragon [the fox pretends to be crippled (smeared with oil and says the brain has leaked out), the wolf agrees to carry it on its back]: González Sanz 1996, No. 3 -4:63-64; Basques: Barandiaran 1961 [the fox took the wolf into the house to steal, the wolf was beaten, the fox ran away with dough (or rather a mass of milk and flour); the wolf says his ribs were broken, fox - that his brains came out; the wolf agrees to lead the fox on his back; realizing the deception, he rushed at the fox in the hole, he grabbed its tail, it screams that it is the root, the wolf let go, the fox hid deep ]: 142-144; (N. Zutter, summary) [the wolf sees the reflection of the moon, wants to eat it; the fox advises drinking water, water pours out of the wolf from behind, the fox offers to shut his ass; the peasants beat the wolf; the fox pretends to be her too beaten, brains out; the person he meets says that the fox is worse than the wolf; he agrees to carry the fox on his back; the fox hides in the hole; the wolf grabs her leg, but the fox says he grabbed it root, the wolf lets her go].

Western Europe. Germans (Grimms, Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania): Uther 2004 (1), No. 4:20-21l; Germans (Mecklenburg) [the wolf was beaten badly in the village; the fox pretended to be beaten even harder; wolf agreed to carry the fox on his back; she says "The patient is healthy"; the wolf hears something, but does not distinguish words, continues to drag the fox]: Bartsch 1879, No. 24:517.

Burma - Indochina. Shana [the hare and the tiger agree to cut the grass for the roof; the hare pretends to have a fever, the tiger agrees to carry it on their backs; the hare sets fire to the grass carried by the tiger, runs away; the cow runs away advises the tiger to run uphill, the flame is only hotter; the buffalo advises running down to the lake, bringing the tiger there on his back; since then, tigers hunt cows and do not touch buffaloes; the fire causes the tiger's skin turned striped, and the buffalo's neck shows the place where the tiger held its paws; the hare sits next to the bee nest, says he is guarding the grandfather's gong; allegedly reluctantly allows the tiger to hit the gong, he runs away, or his grandfather will come and punish him; the tiger has been bitten by bees, since then the tigers have brown spots on their faces; (other episodes follow, missed in the text); the hare falls into a hole, the tiger jumps after him, the hare climbs the tiger, jumps out, the tiger stays in the hole]: Milne 1910:242-245; Burmese [The Golden Tiger and the Golden Rabbit go to cut the cane; the Tiger takes meat with them, the Rabbit takes manure; while the Tiger goes to cut the cane; the Tiger takes meat with them, the Rabbit takes the manure works, eats his supplies; convinces that the meat itself has turned into manure; in the evening he says that he is sick lying in the sun, the Tiger agrees to carry it on his back; the rabbit sets fire to the reeds, runs away; When he meets the Tiger, he says that he is a different rabbit, advises rubbing the blisters on the stump, the Tiger is worse; next time he advises him to lie in the sand; even worse; the Rabbit leads the Tiger to the well, pushes him down, Tiger dies]: Aung 1957:25-27.

The Balkans. The Hungarians [really beat the wolf, the fox pretends to be beaten, the wolf agrees to carry it on his back; on the way she says "The beaten unbeaten man is lucky"; the wolf asks again; the fox:" An unbeaten man is lucky"; in the end, the wolf understands what's going on, throws a fox]: Kovács 1987, No. 4:250; Croats, Slovenes, Greeks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 4:20-21; Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 3 and 4 [the fox smears its head with porridge (jelly, milk, etc.), tells the wolf that she is terribly beaten; the wolf agrees to carry it on himself, she repeats "Wear it well"]: 40-41; Klyagin-Kondratyeva 1951 [the wolf is going to eat two oxen; they suggest running to him from both sides in a race, the one who runs first in the morning, the other now; they butt him on both sides, the wolf is slightly alive, laments that he has decided to leave the oxen until tomorrow; the mule says that he has a letter under his hoof, the wolf is kicking; the wolf: why did I need to read the letter; donkey: jump over me three times, sin will be forgiven; the dogs saw a wolf jumping, the donkey escaped; the pig offered to play the bagpipes first, screamed, the swineherd ran with the dogs; the fox calls the wolf to the village for a wedding, he is beaten; she ate the porridge herself on to the mill, smeared herself, said that her brains were flowing out; the wolf carried the fox on his back, she says that the patient is healthy; the wolf guessed, the fox disappeared into the hole, the wolf grabbed her leg, the fox said that he grabbed the root, let the wolf go; the wolf died of hunger and grief]: 231-235; the Macedonians [the wolf came to two rams; they offered him to eat the one who reached him faster; hit with horns on both sides, the wolf is barely alive; the mule says that the royal decree prohibiting him from harming him is written behind him; the wolf leans down to look, the mule kicks him with both hooves; the donkey suggests first, than to eat it, jump over it three times; the wolf jumps, the owner of the donkey notices this, runs to the rescue; the pig asks permission to play the pipe first; screams at all possible, the owner comes running; the fox assures that the wolf was invited to the wedding; people beat the wolf; the fox ate porridge, smeared her head with the remnants, tells the wolf that her brains have been knocked out; the wolf agrees to carry it to her hole, she says "a beaten unbeaten man is lucky", hides in a hole; the wolf grabs the fox by the leg, which asks why he holds the root; the wolf lets the fox go; dies of grief and beatings]: Martin 1955:172-180; Serbs [The fox makes clay cakes, anointed it with honey, offered to exchange it for a turkey; she was refused; the same with a pig, a calf; the grazing horses agreed to give the foal; the fox tells me to eat cakes only after she hides behind the mountain; people did not catch up with the fox; she loves and cares for her foal; tells her to unlock only in response to her singing; The wolf overheard, the foal did not open to the rude voice; the next time the Wolf spoke in a thin voice, ate the foal; the fox pretended to be dead, the peasant picked her up, she stole cheese from the wagon, told the Wolf that the cheese was in the river (it's a reflection of the moon) advised him to go out the river; holding his ears, nose, mouth, rides the Wolf on horseback, saying that she is sick; in the attic she opens holes in the Wolf's body, water pours on the guests below, the Fox runs away, the Wolf is beaten; the Fox tells The wolf jumps over the haystack, it falls to the very bottom]: Karadzic 1854, No. 50:264-270 (=Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:242-244, =Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:104-107).

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Voronezh, Kursk, Smolensk, Perm), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Kharkiv), Belarusians: SUS 1979, No. 3:53; Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [Grandfather's rooster finds a wheat ear in the litter, the woman's chicken finds a 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 baked in the 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; Russians (Zaonezhye or Pinega, p. Gusevo, 1927) [The old man buys a barrel of herring in the city, picks up a dead fox from the road, and puts it on the 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 his tail, thinks that it is heavy because it has a lot of fish; when the village men appear, the wolf runs away with its tail off. The fox smeared her head with sauerkraut, complains that she was beaten and her brain leaked, the wolf is carrying her, she says "a beaten unbeaten man is lucky"]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 46:113-114; Russians (Vologodskaya) [ the wolf is a pole hut, the fox is icy; 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; we 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 broken unbeaten is lucky]: Efremov 1970, No. 3:158-160; Russians (Ryazanskaya) [grandfather rides on 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 she caught it in the ice-hole; you should say, "Catch, fish, big and small"; the wolf's tail froze, the wolf's babt 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, her brains were released; the wolf agrees to drag it on to himself; the fox says: the beaten unbeaten man is lucky; the grandfather came to his wife: no fish, no fox on the collar; (the same sketchy, No. 5-9:7-9)]: Samodelova 2013, No. 4:5-7; Russians (Voronezh) [Wife asks her husband bring her a shirt out of town. 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; Slovaks [The Fox and the Bear came to dance, a fight began, the Bear was beaten, the Fox disappeared, lay in the fire pit, pretended to be beaten even harder, all her bones stick out; The bear felt sorry for her, carried her on her back, she says, Beaten unbeaten lucky; The bear threw it off, the Fox hid in the hole, the Bear pulled her out with a snag, hooked her leg; the fox says he grabbed the root; the Bear let go, hooked the root; left]: Gorbov 1949:181 (=Bogatyrev 1955:180-181); Luzhitans: Romanenko 1962 [the moon is reflected in the well, the Fox tells the Wolf it's cheese; the Wolf drinks water, the Fox plugs it; they go to the house for gatherings, Lisa takes out the plug to get rid of the guard dog, fills the house with water; the fox ate sausage, and the Wolf was beaten; the fox smeared herself in lingonberries like blood, said she couldn't walk, the Wolf carried her, she sings The beaten unbeaten man is lucky; when the Wolf realized, threw the Fox into the river]: 120-122; Veckenstedt 1880, No. 45.2 [the fox and the wolf climbed into the pantry; when the owners appeared, the fox escaped and the wolf ate so full that got stuck and beaten; the fox ate the rooster and smeared blood at that time; said she was so beaten that she could not walk; the wolf carried her on his back; the fox says "The beaten unbeaten man is lucky"; the wolf does not realized that she was muttering there]: 423; the Poles [the fox adjusts that the wolf was beaten badly; pretends to be even worse; the wolf agrees to carry her on his back; along the way she says, "Damaged Lucky unbeaten"]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 4:53; Czechs: Uther 2004 (1), No. 4:20-21.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Turks (Ankara, Kars) [the fox pretends to be dead, the man carrying the fish in the sleigh picks it up; the fox drops the fish and runs away; tells the wolf that it caught with its tail down; the wolf lowers the 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.

Iran - Central Asia. Lura [the wolf stole a goat and a doodle burka from the shepherd; put it on; replies to the wolf that the burka was sent to her from Hamadan; if the wolf wants one, let him bring 40 sheep; then asks for two more; Seeing the rider in the burka, he tells the wolf that he took the burka intended for him; the wolf rushed at the rider, who seriously wounded him with a sword; the fox smeared with wolf blood, lay down as if dying; the wolf carried her; the fox hums: I saw a dead man carrying a woman; rushes into a hole; the wolf tore off half of the fox's tail, promised to identify the tailless one; the fox led the other foxes to the mountains, tied it by the tails to the tree, said that a lion was coming; all the foxes cut off their tails; when she sees a wolf, she says that he confuses it with someone else - they are 40 brothers and all tailless; offered to put it in a chicken basket and let it down mountains into a herd of sheep; braided the basket, lowered it; the shepherd beat the wolf for a long time, threw the frozen lake on the ice, the wolf died]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 9:44-46; mountain Tajiks (Khovaling) [the wolf went to steal to one village, a fox to another; the wolf was beaten, the fox dragged the bag with the roll, ate some, threw some on her head, told the wolf that her skull had been demolished, her brains had flowed out; the wolf offered to carry it; the fox says "healthy rides the sick"; the wolf chased the fox, which climbed into the mill gutter, the wolf climbed after it, got hit by a wheel, died]: Levin et al. 1981, No. 11:114-115.

Baltoscandia. Estonians: Jakobson 1954 [The fox put her head in a barrel of yogurt, all smeared; when she saw Wolf, she said she was stealing chickens, the owner hit her on the head with a pole, and had to anoint the sick places of yogurt with clay; the Wolf agreed to take her on his back; she sings "The beaten unbeaten is lucky"; leads the Wolf to that keg, the Wolf's head gets stuck, the owner falls on him, the Wolf into the forest, with it is difficult to throw off the keg and the owner, the owner is happy that he was not taken to hell]: 98-102; Estonians, Setu [this text is north of Tartu County (Maarja-Magdalena), but options throughout Estonia Seto has a lot; the fox sees a person carrying 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 that she caught it, dropping it tail into the ice-hole; tells you to drag, the wolf cannot; 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 his tail, runs away; the fox stole the chickens, smeared her head with sour cream; tells the wolf that dogs were lowered on her; jumping over the fence, she smashed her head, her brains leaked out, the wolf agrees to drag it on himself; towards the hare; when she finds out What's the matter, he also decided to help, went behind, holding a fox tail; the 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, pretends to be dead; the woman comes up, the hare jumps up, the woman drops the basket in fear, the wolf takes her away; the fox says the hunter is coming; the wolf and the hare run away, the fox eats buns]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 1: 11-14; Finns [the fox lured the wolf into the hut for supplies, closed the door outside; the hostess beats the wolf, he jumped out the window; the fox says that her brains have leaked, the wolf agrees to carry it on him, she sings "The sick drags the healthy, the buxom laughs"; the wolf grabs her, she asks her to tell her where the wind is blowing; pretends not to hear, the wolf screams, "From the West", opens his mouth, the fox runs away]: Rakhimova 2000:168-169; Lutsie (West 1927) [the old lady replies to the hare that she is looking for a shepherd for her three geese; towards the wolf; old lady: 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 beaten, 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; Latvians [The fox found fish, told the Wolf she caught it with her tail down the ice-hole; told the women that cut the wolf ice-hole; The wolf cut off her tail, Lisa smeared her head with a test, said that it was the women who broke her skull; the Wolf suggests taking the Fox to her hole, she repeats that the beaten unbeaten carries]: Alksnite et al. 1958: 43-45 (=Arys 1971:56-58); Lithuanians [the wolf agreed to carry the fox on his back, and she says on the way: "The beaten unbeaten man is lucky"]: Balys 1936, No. 4:4; Karelians (Tver) [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 on its own; the wolf believes that it caught fish on its tail; tail freezing, 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 be lucky on his back; fox: the beaten unbeaten is lucky; the wolf: what? fox: I say that a beaten man is lucky]: Makarov 1963, No. 88:187-188; counselors, Veps: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 4:215; Swedes [the fox pretends to be sick, the wolf takes her to to herself, and she sings about what is happening; often a wolf understands and throws a fox]: Liungman 1961, No. 4:5-6.

Volga - Perm. Chuvash [the fox found a dead sheep; advised the wolf to climb into the straw ricks, the sheep will come to pinch; when it cracks, hide deeper, then grab the sheep; sets fire to the ricks, the wolf is burnt; the fox lying in the mud, called herself black brown; she was sick, the wolf carried her on her back, she says that the patient is carrying healthy; jumps, slips between two oaks, the wolf is stuck; the fox hits him with a rod, says that a good fur coat would come out, and a stupid wolf would burn it; the fox washed herself, appeared as a red fox; the wolf asks what news; fox: at the bazaar, the order was read like a black-brown wolf the fox took the measure]: Chuvash tales 1937:64-66; 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; says to the wolf that caught it, tying the basket to its tail and lowering it into the ice-hole; by morning, the wolf's tail froze, the women began to beat the wolf, he cut off his tail, ran away; the fox smeared her head with dough, says that she was stealing chickens, she was beaten, brains out; asks to take it to the haystack, eat it there; climbed from the wolf to the haystack]: 62-63; Mordovians, Marie: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 4:215.

Eastern Siberia. Cyrene Evenks [The fox tells the Bear that she is sick, asks her to carry it; slowly eats all the dried meat from his bag, runs away; the Bear puts rotten things in his pants, collects foxes, shamanites; when swirled, rotten pants fell in different directions; The foxes burst out laughing with their mouths open; The bear saw that one had broken teeth - on his meat; he had been hitting her to blood, since then the fox has been red]: Pinegina et al. 1952:18-19; the Yakuts [The fox pretends 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]: Ergis 1967b, No. 4:162.