M114C. Cover it from the rain with your body .23.29.-.31.33.34.

The character wonders how the other's clothes (firewood, etc.) were dry after the rain - he covered it with his body (hid it in a vessel).

Tamils, Kalmyks, Abazins, Ossetians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Uzbeks, Lithuanians, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Teleuts, Mongols of Ordos.

South Asia. Tamils [according to custom, the sister's daughter should go to her younger brother; but the sister is rich and the brother is poor, so she is looking for another groom for her daughter; the young man herds his sheep; when it rains, he takes off himself clothes, put them in a pot and then put them back on; the ascetic is amazed; the young man promises to explain how he managed not to soak his clothes if the ascetic tells him his magic words; the ascetic gives him three pebbles; if you throw first, the sister's daughter's wedding ceremony will be interrupted; if the second, everyone will die; if the third, everyone will be fed; when the young man threw the first stone, everyone understood who should rightfully get the girl; leaving Second, the young man hung the wedding necklace around the bride's neck; leaving the third, continued and completed the feast]: Beck et al. 1987, No. 4:12-14.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Jimbinov 1962 [khan wants to find an intelligent wife for a fool's son; it rained, two girls ran home, the third covered dung with beshmet and drove the calves away from the cows (so that they would not suck milk); beshmet got wet, but I'll dry it by the fire; khan: how many dung are there in the bag? girl: as long as your horse stepped from the palace to our kibitka; the khan orders to make koumiss from bovine milk, sew the kibitka with ashes; the girl covered the kibitka with matting and burned it, put up a pole ( it means that someone is giving birth in the house); Khan: How can a man give birth? girl: in the khanate, where koumiss is made from bovine milk, maybe; the khan orders to ride a two-headed horse not along the road or along the steppe, upon arrival, sit not inside the kibitka or outside; daughter tells her father to come on a stallion mare, ride along the side of the road, sit outside at the doorstep with kibitki felt over his back; the khan ordered him to come next time with a bag for gold and an arcana for horses; the bag will not be filled in any way, You can catch as many horses as you want with an arcana; girl: a bag of human eyes, you have to add sand to fill it; a lasso from a human vein; to shrink it, you have to burn one end; khan married son on this girl; fell ill; told his son to catch up with the tumbleweed, ask him where he would spend the day and night; the wife ordered to answer: we must ask the ravine and the wind; the khan tells his son to bring a horse with two heads that look in different directions; wife: bring the stallion mare, the foal's head is pointing back; the khan died quietly]: 149-152 (=Vardugin 1996:471-473); Egorov 1978 [Khan Tsetsen married his son, took he was hunting; when he saw a deer lying down, he said: "Run quickly, catch the deer by the horns"; the son ran, the deer rode away; the khan killed the deer with an arrow, beat his son with a whip; the son told his wife everything, who decided that the old man went crazy; went hunting again, the khan asked his son to cook meat in a wooden cauldron; the son hollowed out a pot from a piece of wood, poured water, crumbled meat and started a fire; the cauldron burned down; the khan beat his son ; he told his wife everything, who said that the old man was crazy; the khan asked his son to catch a horse with one head south and the other north; the son caught two horses, tied them by the tails, and brought him to the khan; the khan beat his son, sent his daughter-in-law to his parents; began to look for a new wife for his son; met with girls who were collecting dung and were caught in the rain; they scattered the collected goods and covered them heads in empty leather bags, ran home; behind was a girl who took off her robe, covered the bag with a dung attached to her back, and led a calf with her; the khan asked her, realized that she clever; told her father to make koumiss from bovine milk; the next day she rode again; the girl put her father to bed, told him to moan; the khan asked koumiss from bovine milk; the girl says that the father gives birth, so he hasn't cooked it yet; khan: "Do men give birth"; girl: "Does milk come from a bull"; khan decided to marry her son, told her father to come to the palace; the girl gave When he met the khan, the old man's purse offered him gold; began to fill his purse, the purse stretched out, covered the entire treasury; they got married, the khan took his son hunting; noticing a deer lying down, said: "Hurry up catching the deer by the horns"; the son did as before; the beaten man returned home, the wife explained: "Shoot soon"; went hunting again, the khan asked to cook meat in a wooden cauldron; son he did as before; the beaten man returned home, his wife explained that he should pick up the phone from the khan, fill it with tobacco, light it and give it to him; the khan asked to catch a horse in the herd with its heads facing one south and the other north; the son did as before; the beaten returned home, the wife explained that it was necessary to bring a mare who was about to necklace; the neighboring khan sent Khan Tsetsen a wooden whip handle with with the same ends in thickness so that he can determine where the roots were and where the top were; daughter-in-law: "If we dip this stick into the water, the root, since it is denser than the top, must go deeper into the water"; neighboring khan sent the same mare and foal to have Tsetsen determine who they are; my daughter-in-law said they should not be fed for three days, and then both should be filled with oats smaller than one horse in size, and observe: whoever of them will shovel and move oats to the other while eating with their lips is the mother; the neighboring khan sent two identical snakes to determine which one is male and which one is female; daughter-in-law: "We must keep them in the dark, and then put some wide velvet on the way at the entrance so that they can crawl on it. As soon as the snakes are on the velvet, the female one will immediately curl up and lie quietly, and the male one will crawl around the sleeper, with her head raised high, as if guarding her dream"; the neighboring khan invited Tsetsen to visit; he came, chained him to a cart, given bread and water; Khan Tsetsen: "Write a letter to your own so that your whole kingdom will be chained here to one soul, and there I will find that wise man myself {who solved riddles}"; Tsetsen wrote to his wife: "The kingdom of our neighbor Khan turned out to be a real paradise. There is no suffering, no death, no illness; there is also no winter, but everything smells like spring; there is no summer either, and everything is cool in autumn. People here live on allowances in all four seasons and do not know what work is... I sleep on a soft feather bed. I eat fatty lamb and drink strong aromatic tea, dress in blue velvet. There are no limits to my pleasure, entertainment and fun... It all happens 24 hours a day. There is no way to leave this country even for one minute. When you receive this letter, all your heart and soul come here. Remember: you, my old lady, are trusting; there is an unfortunate piebald foal in my herd, but it is gratifying that there is a piece of fragrant oil in my chest... Everybody wander. I miss you a lot"; a letter was sent with a messenger to the Tsetsen Khanate; daughter-in-law: "Everything he writes must be understood in the opposite sense. Tea and mutton are water and crackers; feather bed is earth, blue velvet is sky. Fun around the clock - suffering around the clock. And the fact that there is no way to be away even for one minute means that he is shackled... "You, my old lady, are trusting" is a warning not to believe the letter; "An unfortunate piebald foal in the herd" is the khan talking about a son who still does not understand anything, "a piece of butter in a chest" - it's me... The call "all wander here" means "go to war against the neighboring khan and free me"; they went to the neighboring khanate, told the khan that they were happy to wander to him; he freed Tsetsen, asked feast; by morning, the daughter-in-law brought the army, found the enemies sleeping, captured them]: 19-31; Abaza [Khoja was walking with the cauldron, it began raining, Khoja undressed, hid his clothes under the cauldron, they remained dry; Seeing Khoja dry, the oncoming rider gave his horse and money for the magic cauldron; got wet to the skin; returned to Hoja; he said that the rider did not ask what to do with the cauldron; he told what he did himself, galloped away]: Tugov 1985, No. 171:361; Ossetians: Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [devil gives the poor man five goats on the condition that he returns them and part of the offspring in three years; neither black, nor gray, nor hornless, nor Do not cut horned! poor man: I agree, but don't come to me either on Sunday or Monday.. (etc., all days of the week); hell came on Wednesday night, had to share the offspring; it began to rain, the poor man took off his clothes and put it under the stone; the wet devil came running: why are your clothes dry? poor man: give back the goats, I'll tell you a secret; hell gave the goats, the poor man advised me to take off their clothes in the rain, cover them with his body; the devil burst with anger]: 346-347; Byazirov 1972, No. 36 [hell gave the poor goats for three years, divide the offspring in half; but the shepherd should not slaughter neither black, nor gray, nor hornless, nor long-horned, nor white, nor variegated goat; shepherd in response: you will come to me neither on Sunday nor at Monday (etc.); three years later, hell came on Wednesday night; they began to divide goats, they could not divide one; she is a stranger; since then, that night, a kid has been slaughtered in honor of the "strangers"; the hell took the rest of the goats; during the rain the poor man took off his clothes and sat on them; damn wet, asks how the shepherd stayed dry; he promises to tell a secret in exchange for goats; gets goats and tells how he sat on his clothes; the shepherd's goats swam easily across the river, and the malik sheep are afraid to enter the water; he tells the shepherd to give four sheep for one goat; the shepherd has become rich, has stopped honoring God; in the last cold days of March he shouted to him: "Marti Burti, everyone my herd is whole, I haven't lost my kid's ear!" March took three days to borrow from February, froze half of the herd; since then, the last days of March have been cold, and February is shorter than the other months; the witch Tarangel promised to destroy the shepherd's herd to the end; She brought a wolf on a rope, said he was the patron saint of Falwar cattle; the shepherd gave 15 of the best sheep and goats for him; the wolf bit to death the whole herd; since then people have been praying to Falwar to save the cattle]: 248-251; Dzutsev 2011 [after the death of his father, Jibukka grew up, went on a journey; went into a hut, was going to eat, the old devil suggested to a dispute: who would carry the horse; he could hardly carry 10 steps, was tired, D. carried the horse easily between his legs (i.e. rode it); who will drive the sheep without getting wet during a thunderstorm; Z. took off his clothes, hid it under his arm, had to give the line half of the sheep; hell suggests bringing his handkerchief a beautiful sister living in the sky; D. freed the deer stuck in the crevice, who threw it with horns, D. flew to the rope hanging from the sky and climbed into the sky; poured tobacco on the face of the sleeping girl, she began to sneeze, took out her handkerchief, dropped it when she fell asleep; the girl tells me to make a fire; from under the bed, a tied waig teaches him to cut off his little finger, blood splashes, only then will the fire catch fire; D. killed Waiga; old lady: his brother will come; D. defeated him, Waig ordered him to cut off his little finger, drop blood on the skulls of the dead, they will come to life; after reviving the dead, D. stabbed Waiga; Waiga's sister fell in love with D., they went down to land, wedding]: 144-149; Armenians [the bald man was hired as a laborer; the owner has already given two daughters, gives the youngest; during the rain, the bald man buried his clothes and covered him with a stone, then put them back on; Satan asks how he did it; the bald man does not speak; Satan: put your hand on the pig; hand stuck; had to say; at the same time Satan uttered words that the bald man remembered; at the wedding, the groom stuck to bride; then mother-in-law to groom; other people; mullah's wife naked; the owner had to pass off his daughter as bald, then he broke the spell]: Ioannisian 1968:74-77; Azerbaijanis [Timur took Molla Nasreddin to hunt, taking a lazy oath; it rained, everyone galloped away, MN hid his clothes under himself, came back dry; replied that his pacer had carried him out of the rain; next time T. sat on this oath himself and got wet; MN: Why didn't you hide your clothes?] : Tahmasib 1984:57; Turks [Timur gave Khoja Nasreddin an unfit oath and took it with him to hunt; it began to rain, everyone jumped home and got wet, and HN took off his clothes, sat on them and they remained dry; said that you wouldn't get wet on such a warhorse; next time the padishah himself took his oath and got wet to the skin; when he returned, he began to reprimand Hodge; he explained what an intelligent man should do] : Gordlevsky 1957, No. 89:54; Turks [during the rain, Keloglan's boy took off his clothes and sat on them; Hoxha asks to reveal the secret of how he managed to keep his clothes dry, gives a magic remedy for this, thanks to which everyone sticks to each other; or three brothers go for firewood; the elders do not share food with the poor and disappear; the younger Keloglan divides, gets a goose to which everyone sticks; among others stick to a mullah, a mufti, on a donkey; the witch, crossing the river, raises her dress above her head and remains in this position; the princess, who never laughed, laughed when she saw such a procession, K. got her as his wife]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 182:208; Kurds [Jich asks the padishah to take him hunting; he gave him the worst oath; it rained, everyone jumped home and got wet; Jih took off his clothes, sat on it, came back dry; told the padishah that he had mistakenly given him his speedy horse; the next time the padishah sat on the oath he gave Jiha; it rained, everyone jumped home, the padishah did not kept up with them and got wet]: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 190:496.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Ottomans 1958 [the mother is forced to put food in her lazy son's mouth; she spread the apples so that he got out of bed to collect them and went out the door for the first time; her mother locked her; gave her son an egg, a handful of flour, a skein of wool yarn and a horn; the lazy man went, got caught in the rain; took off his clothes, sat on them, and when the rain stopped, put on the dry one; the diva asks why he is not wet; lazy: and I am Satan; divas offers to crumble a stone with his hand, the lazy man sprinkles flour; squeeze oil out of the stone; the lazy man crushed the egg; the diva ran away; the lazy man came to the castle of the king of divas; he pulled out his hair and showed that the lazy man showed a skein wool; the diva shouted, the lazy man blew the horn, came out louder; near the village, a lazy man climbed a tree above the spring; the black slave took the reflection for her own, thought she had turned white; the lazy man laughed, said that he Satan came from the dead; the slave asks whether their dead man was taken to heaven or hell; lazy: to hell and he does not have enough money; the slave ran to the mistress and she gave the money to her late husband; the lazy man took also a horse to get to hell; when they found out what was going on, the woman's sons jumped after the lazy man; he told the man washing the demand that the guards were jumping after him; gave him his horse, and began to wash him tripe; the horsemen jumped after that man, and the lazy man brought home the money]: 104-108; 1987 [the bald man asks Satan to reveal to him the main name of the Creator - the most powerful spell; in response he promises to open his mystery; having learned the name of the Creator, he tells how to keep clothes dry during the rain: dig a hole with a shovel, put clothes there and cover it with a wooden bowl; using a spell, a bald man forced at the wedding everyone to stick to each other and released everyone after the bride was given to him]: 80-82; Marzolph 1984, no.*571 [the king promises a daughter to the poor man, and then refuses to find a more suitable groom; hell promises teach the poor man to cast a spell if he tells how he managed to keep his clothes dry during the rain; the poor man took off his clothes and put it under the saddle; during the princess's wedding, the poor man says the hell the spell and everyone present sticks to each other; removes the spell after the king cancels the wedding and marries the poor princess]: 124; Rosenfeld 1956 [Bo-Ali asks the Shah for a daughter; he expelled him from his possessions; he met horsemen looking for a doctor named Bo-Ali to cure another Shah; Bu-Ali cut a vein in his forehead, blood flowed out, his headache went away, the Shah rewarded him; he the cauldron goes to his mother and the cauldron was brought as a gift; it started raining, Bu-Ali hid his clothes under the cauldron; Satan appeared: how did you manage to stay dry? Bo-Ali exchanged Satan's imaginary magic cauldron for a magic book; it says how to glue people or animals together; Bo-Ali glued together and then divided the sheep with the shepherd for testing; the shah gives his daughter for a rich fool; Bo-Ali made everyone stick to each other; the old woman points to Bo-Ali as guilty; Bu-Ali released those who stuck together for promising the Shah to give him his daughter; wedding]: 197-202; Uzbeks [padishah hunted; Nasratdin Afandi received an unmarried horse; it rained, the horsemen rushed home; NA hid his clothes under the saddle, returned in dry clothes; said that his the horse, the winged Dul-Dul, rose beyond the clouds; the next time the padishah got on this horse and got wet; NA: don't be angry, do you have to be wise to hide your clothes?] : Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:347-348.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [during the rain, the woman took off her clothes and covered them with a basket; the clothes remained dry; the devil wanted to know the woman's trick; the woman promised to discover her trick if the devil opened her own; hell told me how people can be bewitched and cured; left angry when he found out that the woman had no secret]: Kerbelite 2001:62.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Daurenbekov 1979 [poor Zhirenshe-Sheshen is smart; asks women about the brod; Karashash: the one to the right is far and close, and to the left is the opposite; the JSH understood, went to the right; other horsemen went left to a nearby ford and almost drowned; it started raining, all the women brought a wet dung, and K. dry covered it with her body; K.: Father will slaughter a ram for you, and not get two sheep; Father K . asked the ram from the bay, he did not give it, he slaughtered the only sheep that was waiting for the lamb; in the yurt, the ZhSH and K. talk with gestures, the father gave her; the khan tells the ZhSH to serve him, intending to take his wife away; orders catch up with the tumbleweed, ask him where it was heading; JSH: the tumbleweed replied that the wind knew where, where the ravine came from; the khan orders him to come day, night, walk, or on horseback, stop at night palace, not outside; K. advises to come at dawn on a goat, stop under the gate bar; Khan gave sheep, orders them to hug like sheep; K. tells them to slaughter sheep in autumn; came in the spring khan; K.: the husband went to milk the hand quail, he will return soon; when K. grew old and died, the JS also died]: 365-369 (= Zhanuzakova 1977:263-268); Potanin 1883, No. 101 (Bayanaul District, Pavlodar oblast) [it rained, the girls threw firewood, rushed into the yurts; Aldar-Kose's daughter covered the bundle with her hem and stayed sitting on it; Jerenshe Sheshen decided to marry her son, but did not ask for a name then and looked for it; began to ride with his son and beat him: he does everything as you tell him; everyone is surprised, and the AK daughter says that's right; he married her son; DS decided to face AK; he walks near the hill: Khan ordered find out where the middle of the earth is, and the measured stick stayed at home; DS let the horse go get the stick; when leaving, AK says: the middle of the earth is a blue hill (now it is a saying, "jerdyn ng orthasy kök tube"; AK and Satan killed the beast together, the elder will get the loot; Satan: When God created light, I was seven years old" AK cries: my son was born that year, now he would be big like you; Satan gave the loot to AK ]: 364-365; Kyrgyz: Brudny 1954 [on the way, Jerenche-Chechen (LC) asks Telemirza's son to cook food on the horse's mane; then shorten the path; T. tries to set fire to the mane, level the hillocks with catmen; LC: you should have got food and eat without getting off; entertain with conversation; LC is looking for an intelligent wife for T.; during the rain, the girls ran away, and Karachach covered the brushwood with a robe: the firewood remained dry and his mother would not to scold; Zhch married her son; Zhanybek Khan came with his questions, K. answered; he tells the LC to come neither on foot, nor on horseback, nor on the road, nor across the field; K. teaches to ride a goat along the steppe between two roads; tells you to pull tendons out of the stone and sew boots out of sand; K., under the guise of another woman, asked Zhanybek Khan about the same, he replied that this was impossible; then Zhanybek Khan captured LC and his son; JC sent a letter: burn crops before winter; throw a black blind goat into the lake; make a goat with straight horns the leader of the herd; I have a knife with a sharp blade, and there is also a worthless one, don't forget about it; K. : kill enemies, kill and throw Zhanybek Khan into Lake, replace him with his younger brother Berdibek, me with a sharp knife, my husband, a worthless one; everyone did it]: 37-47 (=Brudny, Eshmambetov 1968 : 87-97, =Ledenev 1987:15-22); Brudny, Eshmambetov 1977 [Khan called Apendi to hunt; when it rained, A. took off his clothes, put him under him, and the other horsemen jumped home and got wet; A. said that his the nag was the fastest; next time the khan exchanged horses with A.; it rained, A. rushed into the city, and the khan got wet again; A. explained what was going on]: 266-267; Uighurs (Kashgar) [the padishah wants to test his son, goes hunting with him, offers to catch a gazelle; the son rushes after the gazelle; the padishah hit the gazelle with an arrow, beat his son for stupidity; the vizier advises marrying his son to an intelligent girl; the padishah and the vizier see girls fleeing the rain; everyone was covered with empty bags, Gulinur alone took off her clothes, covered a bag of dung; the padishah asks where G. lives; in a hut with 60 windows; the padishah realized what was wrong with holes; tells Father G. cook a katyk from bovine milk; in the evening G. says that the order has not been executed: the father is giving birth; the padishah decides to marry his son to G., tells her father to come for gold; S. tells him to take not a bag, but his own eye, it will fit more; after the wedding, the padishah tells his son to bring meat cooked on a stick; the stick burned down, G. tells him to bring his father a barbecue; the neighboring padishah sent a planed stick, tells him to answer where there was a butt, and where is the peak; G.: the butt will fall in the water; distinguish a mare from her adult foal; G.: the mother will shovel her daughter's oats, and take the daughter for herself; the neighbor captured the padishah, ordered to write a letter for his army to surrender; the padishah writes: "I am visiting a neighbor. His kingdom turned out to be a true paradise. There is a yellow silk canopy above me, I sleep on a soft feather bed, eat fatty pilaf, drink strong tea, and the khan drinks red wine. We have fun day and night, we have no strength to leave this kingdom. After receiving the letter, come with the entire treasury, and slaughter three lambs who come from the steppe. There is an unfortunate black foal in the herd - don't take it with you. And be sure to grab a smart fox." The padishah's wife believed that everything was so; G. orders to kill the messengers, led the army, freed the padishah]: Kabirov 1963:28-34.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Teleuts [Eren Checheng wants to marry a stupid son to a smart girl; it's raining, all the girls are on their bunches {?} ; one undressed, covered the firewood with her clothes, covered her breasts with her hands; EC: why? I will have to start a fire at home immediately; my father and mother saw my genitals, but no one saw my breasts; EC married her son; Yara Checheng decided to take my daughter-in-law, ordered me to make boots out of stone; daughter-in-law collects sand: I want to make a rope; YACH: is it possible? daughter-in-law: and stone boots? YACH: let the bull give birth to a calf, treat the bull with milk; the daughter-in-law tears the grass: the father-in-law gave birth to a child, grass must be laid; YACH tells you to arrive neither in a shirt, nor naked, nor on a horse, nor on foot, nor by road, stop neither in the yurt nor outside; the daughter-in-law tells you to put on a net, ride between two furrows on a stick, step into the yurt with one foot; YACH threw EC into the hole, sent seven ambassadors to his son with his letter; EC: I'm lying on 6 layers of white silk, covered with seven silk blankets, playing checkers, drinking sweet light wine; I have 7 rams at home; kill 6, prick out the seventh's eye, break your arm, let him read the letter daughter-in-law; daughter-in-law: wine - tears, silk - snow, checkers - stars, 7 rams - ambassadors; six were killed, the seventh's eye was gouged out, he led them to the YCH, they killed him, EC took his place]: Potanin 1883, No. 100:362-363; The Mongols of Ordos [the Mongols {Ordos}, Mostaert 1947, No. 2e, have it covered by the Mongols {Ordos}, Mostaert 1947, No. 2e]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953:209.