M112B. Animals build a road, ATU 55. .21.27.28.31.
Animals that now do not see the sun (mole, shrew, earthworm) refuse to build a road together with everyone else and are punished for this.
Lushey, Romanians (Bukovina), Poles, Ukrainians (Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Podolia), Belarusians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Karelians (North Karelia in Finland), the southern coast of Finland ( Finns or Finnish Swedes).
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lushey [people came out of the underground cave; the chief domesticated the buffalo and married God's daughter; he gave his father-in-law a gun as a gift, it's thunder; for the wedding, the chief asked all the animals to pave the way to God's house; everyone happily agreed, and only the night monkey and the earthworm refused; since then they have not been able to look at the sun, and if they look, they will die; where that cave is known, but they do not enter it; gongs and people's voices can be heard there]: Shakespear 1909:390.
The Balkans. Romanians (Bukovina) [God ordered animals to build roads and paths; the mole refused because he lives underground and does not need roads; God punished him: let the mole die if he goes to surface or if its wormpile ends up on the road]: Dähnhardt 2010:323.
Central Europe. Ukrainians (Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Podolia), Belarusians [Animals arrange roads: an animal that did not take part in the work is punished (punishes a fox, or another beast or God)]: SUS 1979, No. 55:59; Poles [God called animals to build roads for people's needs; The mole said he didn't need roads; God told him to move underground; when he found himself on surfaces, the mole dies]: Dähnhardt 2010:323 (same brief in Krzyżanowski 1963, no. 2504:181, two entries).
Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [Perkunas told the animals to build roads on the ground; The mole said that he would make his own way, he would not work for others; P. told him to die as soon as he crossed someone else's road; now, when the mole crawls out onto the road, turns its belly upside down and dies]: Lebite 1965:401; Latvians [God has gathered all the animals to build roads; the mole refused because it lives underground; God he was punished: as soon as the mole crosses the road, he dies; therefore, there are many dead moles on the road]: Brivzemniaks 1887, No. 35:39-40; Karelians (North Karelia in Finland) [all animals are building a road, the shrew refuses; God punished her and she dies if she tries to cross a road]: Dähnhardt 2010:323; Finns or Finnish Swedes (Nyland) [all animals have decided To build a road, the shrew said she did not need roads; they decided that if she wanted to cross the road, she would die]: Dähnhardt 2010:324.