M119. Shown repeatedly, ATU 37.

.11.-.14.23.30. (.59.64.)

A character repeatedly shows another the same object or creature; another believes that there are as many objects or creatures as the character has shown them. Usually, a character takes care of another's cubs, eats them or dies due to their negligence, or is hired as a shepherd and eats another's cattle. When checking, he shows the parent (herd owner) of the same uneaten cub (or the same sheep), who believes that all cubs (animals) are intact. In ATU, this is story 37, but it includes two other stories as options, and sources are listed for all three together.

Lingala, Sakata, Mongo, Kongo, Chokwe, Kuba, Gogo, Swahili, Nyanja, Ndau, Nyoro, Zulu, Xhosa, Suto-chwana, Tswana, Owambo, Hausa, Manden, Kassonke, Moshi, Kasena, Mofu-Gudur, (tiv) Zande, Nzakara, Sakho, Somalis, Algerian Arabs, Santals, Sarykols, (pemon, tenetekhara).

Bantu-speaking Africa. Lingala [The turtle is hired by the Leopard to take care of his seven children; the Eagle persuades her to eat the children, carry the Leopard the same thing again; the Eagle hides the Turtle in a tree; The leopard goes to the sorcerer, who tells the turtle to be named Minong, she responds; the Eagle takes it to another tree, but she responds again; he refuses to save it again; the Leopard pulls out the Turtle; that says she should be killed in the middle of the river; jumps from a boat into the water]: Vinogradov 1984, No. L4:51-56; Congo: Laman 1968 [Nsuma antelope gives his dog and its two puppies to the Leopard; brings palm wine to the puppies; the leopard has already eaten one, showed N. the other twice; the next time he killed and ate N. himself, the dog and the second puppy]: 128; Struyf 1936 [Leopard has ten cubs, followed by them the servant watches; the Gazelle comes in, offers to fry and eat one cub; the servant shows the Leopard one cub; so they ate everyone; the leopard chased, hit the stump, and the servant was hidden under him, The leopard killed him]: 33; Stangley 1893 (north of the lower reaches of the Congo, no specific subgroup specified) [the jackal and the dog are the leopard's servants; she warns them not to gnaw bones; the dog violates the ban, bone flew off and killed the cub; the jackal ran away; the dog brought the same cub to the leopard twice; then saw the leopard dead; the dog ran away, climbed into the hole; the leopard left the monkey to guard the way out; the dog threw sand into her eyes, ran away; the monkey threw nuts into the hole; the leopard lit the fire, the nuts burst, the monkey explains that these are parts of the dog's body; the leopard does not feel the smell of burnt meat, finds nuts, wants to kill a monkey, she climbed a tree; the dog began to live in the village]: 151-177; Sakata: Colldén 1979, No. 175 [The turtle is hired to take care of Leopardy's eight children; Mombende teaches the Turtle to eat the young one at a time, showing the same thing many times; hides when everything is eaten; saves them from the Leopardy eight times, then leaves them; The leopard grabs the Turtle; she advises not to kill it on land, where it is strong, but on the water; he brings it in a boat to a deep place; she is going to cut off the Turtle's head; she hides it under its shell, the knife bounces off, The leopard hurts herself, dies], 178 [the dwarf antelope Mboloko is hired to take care of eight Leopardich cubs; eats, showing one cub several times; feeds them with their parents' meat; hides in the hollow of a dry tree; the leopard brings it like firewood; when the tree is lit, M. overturns a pot of boiling water on the Leopard, runs away; he dies; the Leopard dies of shame, failing to kill M.]: 346-348, 351-352; cube (a story recently borrowed from lulua) [Kaseshi's antelope serves Leopardiha; kills one of her three children, cooks, eats with Leopardiha; when she asks K. bring her children to feed, K. brings one twice; the next day he kills the second child, brings the last three times; the third one kills the last; says that they ate leopards, runs away; Leopard pretends to be dead, but K. is careful; Leopardich eventually kills K.]: Frobenius 1983:271-272; mongo [Turtle makes a flute out of the bone of a burnt Bat; Turtle's father-in-law The crocodile stole the flute; the Turtle sleeps at the Crocodile, eats all the eggs, leaving one; in the morning he shows it many times to the Crocodile; the Crocodile's children scream about it, he can't hear it; the Turtle runs away]: Hulstaert 1970:520-525 in Retel-Laurentin 1986:168-169; gogo [the lioness tells the hare to keep an eye on her four lions; the hyena makes the hare give her a lion cub; when the lioness returns, the hare brings her one the cub twice; when the last one is eaten, the hare runs, the lioness chases; the giraffe, the buffalo, the rhino, the elephant offer to scare off the lioness, but the hare does not believe that they can do it, only three remain cuckoos; they give a voice, the lioness gets scared and leaves]: Arewa 1961, No. 855A: 58-59; Nyanja [The hare undertakes to take care of three lion cubs; every time they cry from hunger, she tells Leo that cubs want another animal's meat, eggs, poultry, etc.; eats everything themselves; on the shore he eats lion cubs one by one; A lion from the other side asks to show him lion cubs, the hare shows the same thing; eating last, runs away; teaches Monkeys to sing "We ate a lion cub"; a lion kills Monkeys]: Holland 1916:124-126; Swahili [a lioness and a cow live together; a calf accidentally kills a lion cub, a cow and a calf are running away ; different types of antelopes do not dare to hide them from the lioness; the rooster says that the cow in his house is his, that he killed eight lions; carries the same dry skin seven times; soaks the eighth time - the skin the last lion is fresh; the lioness ran away and has been killing cows ever since]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 100:233-236; nyoro [The hare was babysitting two Leopardich cubs; dropped one, he died; frightened, put them side by side as if they were sleeping; the Leopardich told her to feed the young; the hare gave one, carried them away, brought the same thing; ran away; the Leopardich found the dead cub; the hare swam across the river, lying in clay; The leopard didn't recognize him, he said they were hunting leopards, they killed nine, but they wanted more; Leopardich ran away]: Roscoe 1923a: 335-336; (cf. buheba [The turtle drew lines on a dry leaf; the crocodile invited her to paint his eggs as well; the turtle asked her to be locked in the house so that no one would peek; ate the eggs, told her not to be in the house for a couple of days look; when Iguana was transporting her across the river, they shouted from the shore to return; the Turtle explained that they were asking her to row faster; escaped]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 77.2:188-190); ndau [Lev knows that the Hare is cunning, takes him as a teacher for his three children; the hare gives them bones, says that then they will have strong teeth; deciding that, when they become cunning, lions will kill other animals, offers lions jump over the fire, pushes one, then the other into the fire; Leo shows one lion cub twice, three times; after killing the latter, he pretends that the house was attacked by the Baboons; Leo exterminates the Babuins, who survived they explain that they are innocent; running away from Leo, the Hare stood under the rock, ordered to hold it, otherwise it will fall; next time the Hare says that he is the grandson of that Hare, the Leo runs on; then the Hare provokes Leo jump after him into the quagmire, he was hardly pulled out; The hare lures the Lion into an empty deck, the Lion gets stuck]: Boas, Simango 1922, No. 7:175-179; chokwe [The lioness asks the Rabbit to babysit; Rat persuades her to eat the lion cub; the lioness marks the lion cub she fed with a white line; the rabbit erases the line, carries the same cub again; ties the rope to a tree on the other side of the river, pulls it; when the last cub remains, Rabbit unties the rope and ends up on the other side; The lioness has been killing everyone ever since, the man kills rats]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1975:280-287; Zulu : Callaway in Okhotina 1962 [Uhlakanyana nurses the baby Leopard; pretends to let her mother take turns feeding her cubs, actually offering the same thing; puts stakes, Leopard attacks them, dies; W. eats the second cub, lives in Leopardykha's house]: 371-373 (=Klipple 1992:21, short retelling, name Uthlakanyana; =Koropchevsky 1874:39-41, name: Uglakanyana; =Kotlyar 1975:136-137, a brief retelling; the name means "little cunning"; he is a caress); braid [a long story about how the chief's wife gave birth to a little man Hlakanyana with the face of an adult, he is cruel deceives many people and animals; eats meat, smears others, kills them; when he is chased by warriors, turns into an old woman, he is not recognized, he sends his pursuers aside; changes different objects and animals on increasingly expensive ones; going with a person, he consistently offers to throw away his spoons, knives, awls; when those who come are fed, H. tells his companion that it is his fault, since he does not have a knife, not a spoonful; invites the old woman to rejuvenate her and cook it first, then her; he sits in warm water, and when it is hot, he puts the old woman there; feeds her sons meat, dressed in her clothes; when her sons chase him, turn into stone by the river; they throw a stone across the river in their hearts, H. runs away; asks the Iguana for a flute, runs away with her, turns into a reed by the river; the Iguana in her hearts throws her across the river, H. runs away; invites Leopardiha to take care of her four cubs, eats one by one, shows the same thing several times, runs away]: McCall Theal 1882:84-110; Suto-chwana: Dornan 1925 [Hare (Hare?) invites Porcupine to take care of her 7 children; kills one at a time, says she cooks meat that someone gave; show the last cub to the mother seven times, as if she takes out the other one each time; killing Seventh, says that a stranger killed the cubs; Buffalo, Steinbock wonder, confirm the Hare's words; The elephant says that the baby was killed by a nanny; the hare runs away, tells Springbok to sing "the cubs were eaten by a stranger"; The porcupine cuts the springboks with a hatchet, the Hare escapes]: 310-312; Olderogge 1959 [retelling the same or very similar text from Brown in Klipple 1992:22; the hare invites Hyena to look after her 9 cubs; kills one by one, says he killed an antelope; takes Hyena to feed the same cub many times; running away from Hyena, pretends to be the owner of the hollow, says that he did not see the Hare; then with a rock on the river bank; the Hyena throws a stone across the river, tells him to catch up with the Hare; on the other side, the stone becomes the Hare; the Hyena dies in grief]: 38-39; Tswana: Junod 1927 [The hare invites Leo to teach him three lion cubs; tells them that they must eat bones to become strong, eats meat themselves; they must jump, easily jumps over the fire, the lion cub falls into the fire, the Hare eats it; shows Leo one lion cub twice; eats the second, shows one three times; after killing the last, he scratches himself, pretends that enemies came, killed the lion cubs, he, the Hare, barely escaped; suggests Leo not watch, if he hears a noise, he will kill enemies when they approach; collides a boulder, killing Leo]: 233-234; Lebzelter 1933 [The Wolf has 12 children, the Hare serves as a nanny; when the cubs are grown up, fat, everyone kills one, eats one, gives Wolf many times to feed the same cub; she is surprised that the wolf cub is full, Hare explains that she feeds the cubs with what she finds around her; after eating the last one, she runs away, shouting to Wolf that she ate her children; by the river turns into stone; the Wolf shouts that if she sees Hare on the other side, she will kill her with this stone, throw him across the river; there The hare regains its appearance, thanks the Wolf; she rushes into the river, drowns; the hare laughs]: 74; ovambo (ndonga) [the jackal must take care of the lioness's cubs; eats them one by one repeatedly showing her mother the same thing; after eating the last one, she runs away; the lioness digs a hole with a jackal, but it contains only the jackal's hair; he shouts to her that he ate her children]: Klipple 1992:26.

West Africa. Hausa [The spider glues his stomach, comes to the Ravens for coal, lies down so that the pieces of figs collected by the Ravens stick, carries them away; so many times; the Ravens agree to take the Spider to the island where the fig tree is; he fills the bag with figs, the Crows leave it on the tree; he jumps into the water, the Crocodiles agree to help him if he is their relative; they bring porridge out of the mud; the Spider drills a hole in the vessel, puts a hole above the hole, pretends to eat; when they see an empty vessel, the Crocodiles believe that he is their relative; in the evening he tells young Crocodiles that if they hear a crash at night, it is the guest who blew the winds; in fact, he bakes eggs in the crocodile ash, it bursts; in the morning he takes out the remaining egg 101 times, each time he washes off the mark; the Crocodile takes the Spider across the river; he is shouted that he ate the eggs; The crocodile He does not hear well, believes when Spider explains that he is being asked to hurry from the shore]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 68:163-166; manden [the girl's father promises it to the one who will come faster; fastest an antelope, but the chameleon hides on her back, touches the girl first, gets a wife; she gives birth to a son, then a daughter; the mother tells them to take food to their father; they call their father, the chameleon answers; the children do not believe that he their father, they laugh; (in anthropomorphic form) their father tells them to always be together; they hear the chameleon again, they kill it, the mother drives them away; they go to the lioness, kill, cook one of the three cubs, they feed the lioness; she asks to bring her cubs to breastfeed; the boy brings one twice; explains that he has already eaten beans, so he does not want to suck; the same with the second; fed the lioness and the last, hid in a hole, threw her children's skulls to the lioness, put a bag over her, sold the lioness bag to merchants - supposedly a big dog; told her not to open it right away; at night the merchants opened it, she ate them, she ate them, only one old woman was left; the children climbed the tree, lowered the lion's rope, she got up, they threw the rope, the lioness crashed to death; the tree was high, you can't get down; the bird put the children on its wings; boy: the bird stinks, I'll cut off the wing; the girl doesn't mind: you have to be together; the wings are cut off, the bird has fallen, the children have crashed to death; the turtle revived the boy, he does not want his sister to be revived, but the turtle and revives it; sister: let's eat the turtle! went to buy firewood; the brother tells the turtle to leave, but the sister catches it; they come to the blacksmith and ask him to cook a turtle; he has swollen testicles, the children offer to cure it, burn it, run away; they come in a peanut field, a boy tells a story, people understand that this is about how he maimed a blacksmith; the blacksmith puts the boy in a bag, walks away for a while; he tells the blacksmith's children that there are peanuts in the bag; they untie the bag, get inside instead of the boy, the blacksmith throws the bag into the fire; the boy screams that he burned his children, runs away; comes with his sister to the village, gets a wife; sister: let's kill her; brother does not I may disagree, they kill a girl, run away, climb a tree; two old men come, a sister pees, they think it's raining; their brother poops, they notice them, they cut down a tree with axes, it starts to fall, two lizards restore it; the sister kills one lizard, the tree is cut down again, but the second lizard restores it again; the sister kills the second lizard, people cut down the tree, brother and sister go up to the sky, since then they have been producing rain and thunderstorm]: Frobenius 1922b, No. 95:170-177; cassonke [after the three brothers went hunting, the fourth was born; immediately grew up, very strong, went to search brothers; they tell us not to kill red antelopes, he killed, it's {premature?} night; seeing the lioness, the brothers congratulated her on the birth of lion cubs, the lioness is happy; began to hunt with her brothers, and the youngest remained to watch the lions; kills one at a time, gives the lioness to feed the rest twice, then three times; the brothers run away, the lioness catches up, the big bird picks up the fugitives; the younger brother says that the bird stinks, breaks its wing, everyone has fallen; comes to the woman, secretly spoils her field, then shoves her head into a hot porridge; comes to the girls whom her mother told to fry hares; fried the girls, called her mother; hired a blacksmith; when he fell asleep, he put a hot rod in his groin; the blacksmith recovered, made honey couscous, began to walk and ask the boys which of them was the worst - couscous would give him; the bad one began to talk about his atrocities, the blacksmith put him in a bag with couscous, brought it home to fry; while he was making a fire, his two daughters tried couscous, decided that his father was hiding it from them; the voice from the wineskin promises the most delicious; the girls opened the wineskin, the boy planted they went there, the father burned his daughters; when he heard the blacksmith moaning, the boy began to rise into the air and laugh]: Monteil 1905:158-165; mosi [The hare asks the Elephant to raise his daughter; eats her, regularly tells Elephant how well she is growing; the same with Behemoth's child; tells both that the child has outgrown the parent, does not want to leave the shelter, gives everyone different ends of the same rope to the other, Allegedly, a child is tied; by evening the Elephant overcomes the Behemoth, both intend to take revenge on the Hare; he hires to babysit seven crocodiles, cooks beans for them, cooks crocodiles; he takes those who have not yet been cooked feed mothers; because they are no longer seven, she wears them twice; explains that they are so used to beans that they no longer want breast milk; feeds Crocodile beans and her children's meat, puts them on the sand clay figures; runs away, saying that the Crocodile ate; climbs into the corpse of an antelope, tells Elephant first, then Behemoth and Crocodile that it was the Hare, saying kafo, made her rot alive; now animals run away in horror when the Hare approaches]: Frobenius 1986:43-47 (=1922b, No. 98:224-228); casena [Hare, Chameleon, Leo, Monkey, Hyena cooked food; one of them secretly ate it; Chameleon suggested that everyone ask the river to carry it; the hare also has to jump into the water, the water brings him to the Crocodile; he agrees to leave him if the Hare nurses his children; The hare unnoticed feeds them one by one Crocodile, shows him the same cub; cuts his finger, says that he spices the food with his blood; after feeding the latter, he runs away, jumps on the bump, the Crocodile did not notice him; The hare returned to his friends, confirming that he did not eat food secretly, since he was alive; to recapture Chameleon's bride, he tells how he dived for fish to feed his friends; before the storm he led everyone for fruits; Chameleon was blown away by the wind, the Hare took the girl for himself]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:33-36; mofu-gudur [Squirrel {most likely an earth squirrel, Xerus inauris} comes to heaven, invites a woman to sow her field, grow crops; eats seeds, sows wild cereal; when the harvest is near, she says that she needs to harvest on her land, receives chickens as a reward, begins to descend on a rope; birds threaten cut the rope, making Squirrel give each chicken; she does not want to give the last, the Heron cuts the rope, the Squirrel falls on a tree in the middle of the river; throws the fruit, it sinks, the leaf swims; the squirrel jumps, falls between two crocodiles, says that his aunt sent him to them; the Crocodile makes Squirrel a babysitter; he eats them one at a time, shows the Crocodile the same cub; eating the latter, smears himself with ocher and charcoal, as if he has blood and bile, asks the Crocodile to take him home; she puts Squirrel on her back, sending her daughter to watch the children; the daughter shouts that the Squirrel ate cubs, Crocodile mother can't hear well, Belka explains that her daughter tells her to run faster; hides in a termite mound; Crocodiles ask Djalo to get Squirrel; he gives Jalo flying ants, Jalo likes taste; The squirrel tells you to open your eyes and nostrils, throws soldier ants, Djalo goes blind, the Squirrel runs away; Crocodiles catch him, he suggests breaking branches to fry him; climbs a tree, screams that they are going fulbe, Crocodiles hide in the grass, the Squirrel creeps up, smashes their heads]: Sorin-Barreteau 2001, No. 11:79-87; (cf. Tiv [The Hare and the Leopard go fishing; the catch is small, the Leopard sends the Hare for food; he kills and brings a baby Leopard every time; on the way back he tries to escape, but the Leopard does not let go him; seeing the only cub left at home, the Leopard calms down; the Hare asks for help from the Lizard; he invites the Leopard to lean over the hole in the anthill, the Hare throws the Leopard around his neck loop, suffocates]: Abraham 1940:70-72).

Sudan - East Africa. Zande [Ture, a spider) sets fire to the bush to hunt; chasing a rat, he finds himself in the middle of the fire; rushes into the river, brings him to the top of Thunder; T. calls Thunder his mother's uncle; to him they are allowed to spend the night in a room where Thunder eggs are stored; T. hangs bark by the fire, bakes and eats thunder eggs every day; when they burst, he replies to Thunder that it is bursting bark; leaves one egg at a time red, black and white {they were not shown to Thunder, but this is implied, cf. nzakara}; Thunder accompanies T. home; the girl screams that T. ate all the eggs; Thunder asks again, T. explains that she tells T. to be brought to the river faster; after crossing the river and destroying the bridge, T. laughs at Thunder]: Arewa, Shreve 1975, No. 16:214-216; nzakara [Toûlé (spider) stays overnight at Crocodilics; says that he always sleeps upstairs, that certain wood should burn in the hearth; eats Crocodile eggs at night; when they burst in hot ash, says that it is firewood cracking; leaves one egg is red, white and black; in the morning she shows them many times to the Crocodile, who believes that all the eggs are intact; tells the Crocodile that his sister is dead, asks him to be transported across the river; when they are in the middle of the river, the Crocodile's son screams that T. ate all the eggs; the crocodile grabs T. by the leg, who says he grabbed a piece of wood; T. runs away; since then, crocodiles have been living away from people, attacking on them]: Retel-Lautentin 1986, No. 26:169-172; sakho [Jackal and Hyena have cows; Jackal's house has 10 doors; Hyena asks the Jackal to show the calves; he carries the last one, says it's the first calf cows; so consistently leaves each door, carrying the same calf and naming the next cow; at night he grabs a dry skin and knocking it screams that the robbers have attacked; Hyena rushed Look, fell off a cliff, crashed; Jackal went to all the cows]: Reinisch 1889, No. 28:220-222; Somalis [The Jackal guarded a herd of sheep and goats of blind Hyena; ate them; when Hyena counted them, he failed the same goat or sheep; to prevent Hyena's relatives from killing him, he stuck the severed tails into the ground, shouted that the earth had swallowed the herd; the Hyenas began to drag their tails, thought they were cut off]: Kapchits 1997, No. 25:30-31.

North Africa. Algerian Arabs [a lame, sick rooster, donkey, goat, and dog stayed at the camp when the Bedouins migrated; the rooster found a hole of grain, first hid it from others, then had to show it; everything weaned; the donkey felt a desire to scream, the lion heard, came; the donkey asked permission to bring his comrades to eat; the goat plunged the lion into the side of the horn, the rooster pecked his eyes, the dog grabbed his throat; the lion died, the meat was given to the dog, and the skin was made; another lion came; the rooster to the goat: bring a carpet for the guest; the goat brought the lion's skin; the rooster: what rags did you bring, you don't respect the guest, bring a different skin; the goat took away the skin and brought it the same; dog: this one is not good either; the goat came with the same skin for the third time; donkey: this one is better, but it is softer to eat; the goat took the skin but did not have time to return: the lion ran away; since then, even though the donkey has voted, lions did not come again]: Bushnaq 1987:242-244

South Asia. Santala [the Raja put his son to study, and the jackal took the boy's book; began to read "Ibor obor iakoro sotro"; the crocodile asked his five children to learn to read; to do this, dug a hole from the jackal the pond where he placed the children; but they can't learn; the jackal decided to eat them, take them into the hole one at a time; the crocodile came to learn about the success; the jackal took them out of the water five times and showed them to the crocodile the same cub; but the crocodile still had doubts; the next day he watched the jackal teach his children; when he saw him hit the cub, the crocodile killed the jackal and took his own last child]: Bompas 1909, No. 117:331-333

Iran - Central Asia. Sarykoltsy [the fox invites the peasant to work in the mill, and she will herd cattle; eats sheep every day; consistently shows his nose, ears, neck, etc. into the gap in the fence last the remaining sheep; then says that the wolf has picked up the sheep, offers to sew a sheepskin coat, eats flour, runs away; the peasant finds only the horns and legs of sheep; the fox made friends with the quail; asks her to feed; the woman carries the husband has lunch, the quail distracts her, the fox gets lunch; she asks her to laugh; the quail sits on the ox's horn, the woman shouts to her husband that it is the same quail, the husband throws a stone, the quail flew away, and the ox is killed; throws again - the cauldron is broken; once again - the wife is killed; the fox laughs; asks to make her cry; the quail tells me to go to the royal gate, dogs are let down on the fox, she hardly disappeared into the hole; grabbed the quail; he asks her name, she opens her mouth, the quail flew away]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 76:503-506 (=Pakhalina 1966:185-186).

(Wed. Guiana. African borrowing. Pemon {arecuna?} [The jaguariha took Rabbit to nurse her children; when they were a little older, he killed and ate one, stuffed a scarecrow, showed it to the Jaguariha; the same to the others; when the jaguariha came, the Rabbit gave her the last one to feed, explained that the rest were full, showed stuffed animals; the jaguariha believed, left, the Rabbit ran away]: Armellada 1988, No. 49:125-128).

(Wed. Eastern Amazon. African borrowing. Tenetehara [The rabbit tells the jaguar that there will be a storm, the jaguar asks to be tied to a tree; the rabbit leaves, the jaguar consistently asks birds and animals to release him; everyone is afraid, the howler monkey unties, the jaguar tears off part of her tail; at night, the Rabbit helps the jaguar cultivate the site; the jaguar asks him to take care of his three children; the Rabbit kills one or the other, feeds the jaguar with their meat, each time he shows the remaining jaguar again; he suspects deception, the Rabbit runs away, hides in a hole; the Jaguar leaves Vulture to guard her, goes to dig a hole for the tool; the Rabbit throws There is dust in his eyes, Vulture did not notice how the Rabbit ran away; the jaguar digs a hole, wants to kill Vulture, he flies away; the Rabbit comes to the water to drink every night, the Turtle hides, grabs his leg; The rabbit says that she will only be able to call a jaguar if she lets her leg out of her mouth; runs away; asks Ants to take him to a source in the calebas; the calebas turns over, the Rabbit runs away from the jaguar; smears with honey, falls out in the dust, going to the spring, tells the jaguar that he is Cirrupira (forest spirit}; runs away from him, the jaguar ripped off the thorns, died]: Wagley, Galvão 1949, No. 33:157-159).