M120. Cannibal Nanny, ATU 37, Th. K931.
.11.-.14.21.-.24.28.29.31.-.34. (.42.45.) .46.49.50. (.59.)
Azoomorphic character undertakes to take care of another's children (raise them, teach them, treat them), but is not really going to do so, usually eating them.
{ATU 37 combines four different motives: "cannibal babysitter", "mourner eats dead", "imaginary shepherd eats herd animals", "fox and bird decide to raise their own children." This association is impractical, as the motives overlap only in some parts of Europe}.
Lingala, kongo, kuba, sakata, gogo, tete (nyungwe?) , Lamba, Nyoro, Nyanja, Safwa, Kimbundu, Chokwe, Venda, Zulu, Xhosa, Suto-chwana, Tswana, Mosi, Dagari, Songhai, Tenda, Sarah, Nandi, Masai, (Hadza), Berbers Beni Snu (NW Algeria near the Moroccan border), Kabila, Algerian Arabs, Northeastern Tibetans (Amdo), Tibetans (Ladah), Eastern Tibetans (Sichuan), Lavrung, Meitei, Arakan, Assamese, Bengalis, Santals, Soras, Tetum, Toraja, Ukrainians (Kharkiv), Poles, Ossetians, Dargins, Avars, Rutulans, Lezgins, Kurins, Tabasarans, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Latvians, Estonians, Setus, Finns, Karelians, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Uighurs, Mongols, (eyak, Montagnier), Sarsi, Blackfooted, Arapahoe, Assiniboine, Santi, Iowa, Grovantre, Omaha, Oto, Southern Utah, Uncompagre Utah, Tiwa (Taos)
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 [Nsuma antelope gives his dog and its two puppies to the Leopard; brings palm wine 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, watching them servant; 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 under him was a hidden servant, the Leopard killed him]: Laman 1968:33; Sakata: Colldén 1979, No. 175 [The turtle is hired to take care of Leopardich's eight children; the Mombende bird teaches the Turtle to eat its young one at a time, multiple times showing the same thing; hides when everything is eaten; saves from the Leopardich eight times, then leaves it; the Leopard grabs the Turtle; she advises not to kill it on land, where it is strong, but on water; brings in a boat to a deep place; about to cut off the Turtle's head; she hides it under its shell, the knife bounces off, the Leopardich hurts herself, dies], 178 [the Mboloko dwarf antelope is hired to take care of eight Leopard cubs; eats, showing one cub several times; feeds them with their parents' meat; hides in a dry tree hollow; the leopard brings it like firewood; when the tree is lit, M. knocks it over a cauldron of boiling water on the Leopard, runs away; he dies; Leopardicha dies of shame, failing to kill M.]: 346-348, 351-352; gogo [the lioness tells the hare to watch her four lions; the hyena makes give her a lion cub; when the lioness returns, the hare carries her one cub twice; when the last one is eaten, the hare runs, the lioness pursues; the giraffe, the buffalo, the rhino, the elephant offer to scare off the lioness, but the hare does not believe they can do it, only three cuckoos remain; 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 Leo's cubs; every time they cry from hunger, tells Leo that the cubs want another animal's meat, eggs, poultry, etc.; eats everything himself; on the shore he eats lion cubs one by one; a lion from the other side asks to show him the lion cubs, the hare shows the same thing; after eating the last one, he runs away; teaches the Monkeys to sing "We ate the lion cub"; the lion kills the Monkeys]: Holland 1916:124-126; nyoro [The hare was a nanny for two Leopardich cubs; dropped one, he died; frightened, put them side by side as if they were sleeping; Leopardicha told her to feed the cubs; the hare gave one, took it away, brought the same thing; ran away; Leopardich found a dead cub; the hare swam across the river, lying in clay; the Leopardich did not recognize him, he said they were hunting leopards, they killed nine but wanted more; the Leopardicha ran away]: Roscoe 1923a: 335-336 ; ndau [Leo 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, invites lions to jump over the fire, pushes one, then the other into the fire; Leo shows one lion cub twice, three times; after killing the last, he pretends that the house was attacked by the Baboons; the lion destroys Babuinov, the survivors 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, Leo runs on; then the Hare provokes Leo to jump after him into the quagmire, he was hardly pulled out; the Hare lures Leo into an empty deck, Leo gets stuck]: Boas, Simango 1922, No. 7:175-179; chokwe [The lioness asks the Rabbit to be babysitter; The 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 the tree on the other on the bank 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 since then, the man kills rats]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1975:280- 287; Zulu: Callaway in Okhotina 1962 [Uhlakanyana nurses the young Leopard; pretends to let the mother take turns feeding the cubs, actually offers the same thing; puts stakes The leopardich attacks them, dies; W. eats the second cub, lives in the Leopardicha's house]: 371-373 (=Klipple 1992:21, short paraphrase, 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 leader's wife gave birth to a little man Hlakanyana with the face of an adult, that brutally deceives many people and animals; eats meat, smears the mouths of others, they kill 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 her 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; cube [ Antelope eats baby Leopardich]; aunt (nyungwe?) [the lioness leaves the hare to play with her four children; they agree to eat the fallen one; the hare falls but says that they cannot return home without it; the lion cub falls, the hare kills him with a knife and eats him; lioness: meat for children, bones for a hare; the hare takes meat for himself, leaves bones to the lions; this is how she kills all the lion cubs; says that they were eaten by monkeys; persuades them to say "I killed a lion, ripped off his skin"; lioness kills monkeys; then the hyena goes to the lion's lair, the lioness thinks that she ate the children, kills her; the hare calls the lioness to swim; they take off their skins, dive; the hare pierces the lioness with a thorn, she dies]: Mohl 1905, No. 8:24-30; safwa [the hare takes to keep an eye on six lion cubs; fights a hyena; when it wins, it bites off a piece of hyena meat; when the hyena defeats, it eats the lion cub; the returned The hare says that the lion cubs have been taken away by humans; lures many animals into a trap, tells the lioness that they killed the lion cubs, the lion eats the caught ones, gives the hare only bones; the hare tells the trumpet birds chickens and termites make sounds, lions are scared; eats trumpet birds]: Arewa 1961, No. 855C: 61; lamp [The hare becomes Leo's trusted servant; kills one cub every day, is fresh, eats, leaves the skin to dry in the bushes, wanders through the thorns to look peeled; the returning Lions are told that one cub was taken away and beaten; so with all the lions; persuades others animals discuss the incident, Lvov leads, they tore the zebra and others]: Doke 1927, No. 31:70-75; kimbundu [the monkey invites the rabbit to babysit the lioness and eat the cubs {this topic is only marked, but apparently there are some options}; she wants to eat them, they promise better prey, offer to pretend to be dead; animals gather in the house, the lioness kills them; the monkey and the rabbit offer bring brushwood to fry meat on fire; in the forest they promise meat to the snake, bring a lioness, who kills it; all three carry firewood, the snake has it on its head and tail; the monkey sets it on fire, the snake burns; everything the meat goes to the rabbit and the monkey]: Nekrasova 1975:84-86; Venda [by Stayt; The rabbit nurses a woman's child for three days, kills the fourth; she ties a calebass to her back instead of a child; the husband finds out refers his wife to her parents]: Klipple 1992:22-23.
West Africa. Mosi [The hare asks the Elephant to raise his daughter; eats her, regularly tells the Elephant how well she is growing; the same with Behemoth's child; tells both that the child has outgrown the parent, not wants to get out of hiding, gives everyone different ends of the same rope, a child is supposedly tied to the other; by evening the Elephant overcomes the Behemoth, both intend to take revenge on the Hare; he is hired to babysit seven crocodiles, cooks beans for them, cooks crocodilates; takes mothers to feed those who have not yet been cooked; because they are no longer seven, they wear them twice; explains that they are so used to beans that they no longer want their mother's milk; feeds the Crocodile beans and the meat of her children, places their clay figures on the sand; runs away, saying that the Crocodile ate; climbs into the corpse of an antelope, speaks first to the Elephant, then to the Behemoth and The crocodile that it was the Hare, saying kafo, made her rot alive; now the animals run away in horror when the Hare approached]: Frobenius 1986:43-47; dagari [the hyena and the elephant jumped across the river and Der fell into water; asks the crocodile not to eat it, he would rather take care of her children; cooks beans every day, killing a crocodile; when the mother wants to see them, she climbs a tree, saying that she herself is theirs ate; asks to bring a large basin to jump into it, and the crocodile will eat it; while she goes behind the pelvis, she hides behind a tree with a stick; kills a crocodile with a stick]: Métuolé Somba 1991:45-46; tenda [The Hare and Firefly decided to travel; they killed a goat on the way; the hare says every time that it is better to divide the meat later, but here he was born (then he began to walk; etc., stages of life; apparently for to take all the meat for himself); night has come, the Firefly turned off his lantern, changed the meat in the bag with bones, left; The hare meets the Panther, who hires him to look after the children; Their hare kills, says Panther, that the beans are tasty because he has put some bark; the last cub tells the mother about what happened; the hare changes signs with the cub, at night the Panther strangles the cub; Información suplementaria We are talking about the Hare; she gives birth to bunnies at the top of a palm tree; goes to buy food; when she hears her mother's voice, the Bunnies throw off her rope; the Panther asks to throw off the rope, the bunnies feel that this is not the mother's voice; then imitates the voice of the Hare, the children drop the rope; the Panther climbs, they call her mother, ask her to climb onto the leaf they cut off; the Panther falls, breaks to death; from her baby's skins The hare makes a bag to carry the kids; says Panther (the other?) that the bag is made of Serval's skin, and Serval is made of Panther's skin; The Hare and the Bunnies are hiding in a termite mound, the Panther and Serval climb after them; the Hare and the Bunnies come out unnoticed, close the holes in termite mound, strangle pursuers with smoke; eat (the bird breaks a hole into the termite mound again)]: Ferry 1983, No. 34:173-180; Songhai [jackal's children are sick; the jackal comes to the female warthog, she has two little pigs; he says they are the last ones who did not come to him to teach the Koran; took one, ate it; he ate it; the same with the other; then he tells their mother that the Elephant is ill and all the animals have come to him to express sympathy, but she is not there; says that he first goes to scout the situation himself, or suddenly the elephant thinks that the female warthog is laughing at him and kills her; tells the elephant and the audience that the cure for the disease is this is warthog bile; the warthog was caught, gutted; jackal: surround everything tightly around the elephant, otherwise the medicine is bitter; when the bile was in the elephant's trunk, he began to roll in pain, suppressed everyone, and then he died himself; there was plenty of meat, the jackal's children ate and recovered]: Calane-Griaule 2002:266-268.
Sudan - East Africa. Sarah (mbai) [Su tells the goat to give him one kid, he will take him to school; does not tell the kid to take a spoon with him - hardly anyone will give us food; there is porridge, Su sends the kid for a spoon , eats everything by himself; tells him to jump over the fire, the kid falls into the fire, Su ate it; said that the kid died of smallpox; the goat gave another; he slowly takes a spoon with him, eats porridge with Su; did not fall into the fire; then Su put up the bag; catching a goat in it, says that he died of smallpox; but the kid jumped out; to catch Su, the donkey tells the goat to feed him sweets; approaches Su's house, defecates; Su's wife tried it - sweet; Su also hit the donkey to make it sweet, but his hand got stuck in the anus; then the second hand, then his legs; the goat beat Su to death with a stick]: Fortier 1967, No. 19:275-277; nandi [The hare offered the woman to babysit her child; she left the meat to cook, the Hare ate it; cut the child, put it in the cauldron, left the beetle in the mortar; it scratches, woman thinks it's her baby; the woman and her husband ate the baby, the Hare ran away]: Hollis 1909:101-102; Masai [in words "Rock, open up!" The hare opens the door in the rock where the Lioness keeps supplies; the Hyena sees that the Hare's lips are shiny; does not lag behind until he says where he gets the meat; after eating, the Hare leaves, the Hyena stays on; instead" Stone, open up" says "Stone, close"; the Lioness enters, agrees to make Hyena a servant to take care of the lion cub; tells her to break the bone when she goes across four rivers; a bone fragment kills the lion cub; The hyena puts a hornet in his nostrils to think that it died from bites; carries his mother's lion cub three times, eating one leg each time; then eats everything; the Lioness ties the Hyena to the tree, leaves for whipping sticks; Hyena tells another Hyena that she is tied because she does not want to drink the oil in which flies; the other tells her to be tied first; The lioness discovers the deception, ties her again Hyena, hits to death]: Hollis 1905:212-215 (quail in Radin 1952, No. 29:120); (cf. haza [the lioness gave birth to two sons; the hare and the antelope came to visit, stayed; the hare offers the lioness to eat the dump, which she did; the lioness left, the dog came running, demanded that the hare gave her the lion cub, he gave it back; when the lioness came, the hare let her feed one cub - the other, supposedly unwell; then admitted that he gave it to the dog; ran away]: Col-Larsen 1962:100-104).
North Africa. The Berbers of Beni-Snou (NW Algeria near the border with Morocco) [a partridge nestled on a rock; the jackal demands to give him the chick; successively ate everyone, the last one left; upon learning of this, the stork grabbed the jackal and threw him into the sea; he got ashore; replies to the woman that he trembles because he was repeating the surahs of the Koran; the woman asks him to teach her children; the jackal eats them one at a time; answers the woman that children went for brushwood; disappeared into the hole; the woman grabbed his tail; the jackal asks why she is holding the root; the woman let go of the tail, the jackal has disappeared]: Destaing 1907, No. 3:251-252; kabila [Jackal pretends to read; the Wild Pig asks him to be the teacher of her seven children; he eats a pig a day, flies flock to his skin, buzz; the pig comes, the Jackal tells her to listen, she believes that The buzzing of flies is the muttering of her children; comes 8 days later, the Jackal runs away through the other turn; the pig sees the piglet skins, chases the Jackal, he hides in the hole, the Pig grabs his leg, the Jackal asks why she holds the root; The pig releases his leg, but grabs the Jackal by the tail, tears it off; tells all pigs to look for the tailless; the Jackal leads other jackals to the fig tree, advises them to become attached to calls the peasant by the tail to eat safely, all jackals cut off their tails; they eat pepper, and the Jackal only pretends to eat; the pig tells them to drink water, everyone dies, the Jackal runs away]: Frobenius 1921b, No. 2:7-11; Algerian Arabs [jackal: I have a hundred pranks; hedgehog: I have one and a half; they climbed into a grain hole and ate so full that they can't get out; the hedgehog asked the jackal to take out his fleas, bit him in the neck, jackal I stretched my head up, the hedgehog got out of the hole; the hedgehog: I still have half the prank: pretend to be dead; a peasant came and threw the jackal out of the hole; he met a pig and promised to teach her piglets the Koran; but let them be with him all week; the jackal ate a pig every day; put a swarm of bees in a leather bag, and when the pig came up and heard a buzz, she thought it was the piglets reading the Koran; when The piglets ran out, the jackal invited the pig to come in, let the bees out, they began to bite the pig, and the jackal finished it off and ate it too]: Bushnaq 1987:239-241.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Northeastern Tibetans (Amdo) [a rabbit and a yeti woman live together, dig wild tubers, both have a son; the yeti takes the largest tubers from the rabbit; the latter does not want to give the yeti kills her; the rabbits report this to the rabbit; he offers the son of the yeti to lift the millstone, licks the flour under him; the son of the yeti also wants flour, the rabbit crushed him to death with a millstone; runs away; the shepherd hides it among sheep, but at the sight of a fire-breathing yeti, he tells him to run further; the same herd; the wild yak hides it in his nostril, pierces the yeti to death with horns; the rabbit does not want to go out, the yak blows it out; the rabbit promises to praise yak; calls his nostril golden; hiding in a hole, shouts that he has crap there; yak tries to butt a hole, sprained his back and dies; the rabbit stays with a married couple; they They ask how he can herd their cattle, take care of the child; he first gives absurd answers, then says how he will caress the child; he cooks him, hangs his intestines, puts him to bed pigeon; returning parents ate their child; the rabbit comes every day and screams about it; they smeared the stone with glue, the rabbit stuck; asks if they want to kill him kindly (crush him head with a stone) or maliciously: make a fire around, pour dust into the ears, hit each other with sticks on both sides; they want maliciously; dust got into the eyes of the couple, they killed each other with sticks, glue from the fire melted, the rabbit ran away; but the tail came off, so the rabbits have it short]: Kajihama 2004, No. 21:82-88; Tibetans (Ladah) [(brief retelling in Bødger 1957, No. 80:19); Fox cites The bear to the Lion, he allows them to wash and eat the goat's stomach; the Fox persuades the Bear to eat meat, and when the Lion asks who ate the meat, look at the ground; the lion thinks that the Bear ate the meat, killed him; the next day, the Fox went to wash his stomach, ate it, said that the "water lion" had taken his stomach away; the lion went to the river, saw his own reflection, rushed at him, drowned; the fox caught the body, put on Leo's skin, came to the Lioness; she leaves two lion cubs in his care, he kills them; runs away; the Lioness cries; the Fox kills the cubs, runs away from the Wolf to the edge of the cliff, cooks glue; says to the Wolf who comes that whoever glues his eyes will see the world of men and the world of gods; advises you to keep your eyes in the sun; the wolf falls, hardly rubs his eyes; next time the Fox weaves the basket, says he is not the Fox, who sealed the Wolf's eyes; the one who climbs into the basket will get a lot of food there; the Fox pushes the basket with the Wolf down the mountain; for the third time, the Fox again says that he is another Fox, advises the Wolf to load bags with with sand, ties them up, sits on top himself, screams and makes noise, supposedly for people to run and bring food; people run away, the Fox runs away, the Wolf is prevented from running by bags, he is killed; more about how the Fox steals the llama, gives Wolf and Bear unnecessary things, keeps food for himself]: Francke 1925:420-425; Eastern Tibetans (Sichuan) [every day the bear goes to get firewood and decides to find someone keep an eye on his children; when he finds out that the bear carries bread in the bag and is ready to share, the crow, the kite and the hare, whom the bear meets one by one, offer their services; each bear asks how he will nurture his children; the bear does not like the voices of the crow and the kite, but likes the voice of the hare; the hare cut off the children's heads, put them in a row on the bed, covered them with a blanket, smeared their faces with milk, the rest cooked, offered to the bear; he ate and saw his child's finger; pulled off the blanket; the hare ran, the bear chased; the shepherd hid the hare in a bag, the bear threatens to eat it, shepherd released a hare; the same man who dug the zhumu is edible crow's foot roots (Potentilla anserina); then the hare asks the tiger to hide it, the tiger hides it in his ear; began to fight the bear and killed him; while the hare was sitting in his ear, he ate zhuma, which he took a little from the man who dug it; replies to the tiger that he ate his eyes; the tiger asks for a try, the hare gives zhum; the tiger allows him to pick one eye out; the hare hid it, and instead gave him zuma again; the tiger allows him to pick up the second eye; the hare promises to drive the blind man through flat and soft places; after that, the hare lets the tiger eat his eyes, that dissatisfied - watery; the hare brought the tiger to the edge of the abyss, made a fire, told him to move, the tiger fell, but managed to grab his teeth at the tree; hare: don't say: mm," but say: ah! the tiger said, with his mouth open, fell and crashed; the hare told the merchant that he had killed the tiger, let him take off his skin; tells the thief shepherd that the merchant left his goods unattended; tells the wolf that the sheep are shepherds left without supervision; tells the crow that the wolf cubs were left without supervision, let him turn off their eyes; sends an old woman who was spinning her hair to take a crow's nest for firewood; advises the wind to carry away the old woman's hair; when the hare saw a merchant, a shepherd, a wolf, a raven, an old woman chasing each other, the hare began to laugh and his lip burst]: Potanin 1914, No. 20.5:430-433; Lavrung: G.yu lha 2011:369-373 [at Chernaya The bears and the Rabbit has a daughter; both go to dig edible roots; one day the Bear returns alone; answers the Rabbit's daughter that she will eat her if she does not stop asking her where her mother is; she overhears how the Bear talks to her daughter, realizes that the Bear killed the Rabbit; invites the Bear's daughter to shoot at each other, puts a stone on her chest, and she puts paper on her chest; an arrow bounces off Rabbit's daughter's chest, kills the Bear's daughter; Rabbit's daughter runs; the shepherd hides her in the sheep's ear; she throws ash in the face of the Bear who arrives in time, runs on; the same with the horse; then hides in Tiger's ear, he swallows the Bear; Rabbit's daughter chews roots, replies to Tiger that he eats her eye; gives a spine, then takes out Tiger's eye, he says that his eye is not so tasty, asks take out the second one; asks him to drive him slowly along a bumpy road and quickly along a smooth road; Rabbit's daughter brings Tiger to the edge of the cliff, makes a fire, asks him to move, the Tiger falls, crashes; comes into the house tells the owners that a tiger lies under the mountain, promises to look after the baby and the cows; kills them, fills the baby with ash, the cows with straw; the hostess spanks the baby, tries to milk the cows, they fall apart; Rabbit's daughter invites the hostess to stand with a stone at the top of the stairs, the owner with a bow below, throw a stone at her and shoot at the signal; they kill each other], 375-381 [The Bear and the Rabbit go to dig roots; The bear eats them immediately, the Rabbit collects them; the Bear suggests looking for insects from the Rabbit, which warns not to touch the dark growth on her head, her life in it; the Bear pulls out cuts his body, cooks him at home; Rabbit's daughter spies; invites the Bear's daughter to play while standing under a threshing stone; throws him at her, runs away; seeing her dead daughter, the Bear rushes in pursuit; yak shepherds hide Rabbit in the yak's nose; the big yak butts the Bear, she runs away in blood; Rabbit's daughter first tells Yak that his eyes and nose are golden, then that they are crappy; runs away through a hole in the wall Yak gets stuck; Rabbit's daughter invites the woman to look after her child, let her and her husband go to get a yak carcass; cooks the baby's legs, arms, puts her head in bed as if the baby is sleeping; spouses eat the baby's meat; the husband smears the stone with glue, the Rabbit's daughter sticks; asks to pour ash into her ear before she dies, catches the person's eye, runs away]; meitei [the Kundopa fox often sang on on the bank of the Naga River; the naga king wanted K. to teach his two sons to sing and teach them; K. and his wife and son ate them; when they came 10 days later, the naked found neither sons nor K.; he became him watch; once chased K. through the reed thickets, grabbed the tail; K.: this is not a tail, but a reed root; naked unclenched his grip, K. broke out: This is not a root, but a tail]: Singh 1985:400-401; meitei [cat asks the rooster if his children have grown up; rooster: they begin to take care of themselves; cat: send them to study; rooster: thank you uncle; after eating cockerels one by one, the cat asks where the rooster is with they spend the night with chicken; the rooster calls a new place every time, and they sleep in a different place; the rooster's friends egg, fish, crab, bee, needle, pumpkin and turtle promised to help; the cat enters the house, it's dark inside; wants to fan the fire in the hearth, the egg bursts his eyes; the cat began to wash, the crab grabbed his hand; began to wipe himself off - the needle pricked him; the cat tried to run out, the pumpkin hanging on the lintel fell, broke his back; then he hit the pestle; the turtle finished off the cat by falling on his head; the rooster and the chicken live well]: Oinam et al. s.a.; meitei [the fox promises to teach children a boa constrictor astrology; when they come, each fox once grabs and eats the last one; when everything is eaten, the boa constrictor hid in the fox's hole to eat it; the fox felt it and, walking to the hole, says loudly: hello, home! The boa constrictor decided that the house should respond and says: I'm here, come in! the fox ran away; then the boa constrictor pretended to be a drowned cow; the fox from the shore: swim, drowned cow, here! The boa constrictor swam; the next time the boa constrictor grabbed the fox's tail; the fox: it's not the tail, but Toura; the boa constrictor believed and released the fox's tail; the fox ran away]: Oinam et al. s.a.
Burma - Indochina. Arakan people [the cat put his head in the pot where the fish was; the old man threw a stone into it; the pot broke, the corolla remained around the cat's neck, the cat ran away; says to the rooster and the chicken that his neck is rosary and he teaches children; they gave him chickens; then the same thing: a duckling, a bow chick named Ye Cho and a crow named Mee Gaun; the cat says he will teach each one in a hollow; ate a duckling; a chicken says that the duckling learned and flew away; ate the chicken; EC and MK guessed the deception, grabbed the cat's eyes, since then the cats's pupils are across]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 66:203-205.
South Asia. The Assames [the fox stole the brahmana's book, sat on the shore as if reading; the crocodile asked her to teach his three children; for this he brings fish to the fox; every time the crocodile wants to see crocodiles, the fox says they are walking or something; realizing that the fox has eaten them, the crocodile hides by the shore and grabs the fox by the leg; she says that he grabbed the stick (ratan) it wanted measure the depth; the next time the fox began to poke water from the river and the crocodile grabbed her tongue; the fox groaned: I'm the one who washed my children's dirty diapers; the crocodile released it again]: Goswami 1960:81-82; Bengalis [the jackal organized a school, the crocodile taught his seven children; the jackal ate them; the crocodile hid in the water, grabbed the jackal by the leg; he put a bunch of reeds on him: both my legs are on Spot, you grabbed the reeds; the crocodile released the jackal's leg; the next time you pretended to be dead; the jackal: the crocodile is alive, for the dead must move its tail and ears; the crocodile does so; the jackal ran away, the shepherds saw the crocodile and drove it away; the jackal began to eat eggplants from the bush, stabbed his nose; asked the barber to pull out the thorn, which cut his nose; for which the jackal took away his iron tool; the potter dug clay, the jackal gave him an instrument to test, he accidentally broke it, got a pot; the participants in the wedding procession accidentally broke the vessel, the jackal got a bride for it; followed the clergyman for weddings, leaving his wife and drummer's wife; she cut vegetables and accidentally cut the girl in half; the jackal demanded her husband's drum in return; climbed a tree, began singing about his adventures; fell into the canal the crocodile ate it]: Bradley-Birt 1920:186-190; Santals [the Raja put his son to study, and the jackal took the boy's book; began to read "Ibor iakoro sotro"; the crocodile asked him to read and write five children; to do this, he dug a pond from the jackal hole, 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 the same cub out of the water five times and showed the crocodile; but the crocodile still had doubts; the next day he watched the jackal teach his children; when he saw him hit a baby, a crocodile killed a jackal and took his last child]: Bompas 1909, No. 117:331-333; sora (Hill Saora) [a crocodile in a pond eats those who fit, people can't use water; the old man and the old woman began to drink through a long pipe; the crocodile decided that he would not be able to eat them, offered to cultivate the field together; they sowed root crops; the crocodile replied that he would take fruits and roots the man got it; the crocodile offered to plant rice, chose the roots, lost again; sent his seven sons to study; the man locks them, eats one every day, then runs away with his wife; the crocodile hides in clear water, the man says loudly that he will drink muddy; then vice versa; the crocodile comes ashore, pretends to be dead; the man tells his wife that dead flesh should swaying; a crocodile died in the sun, a man and his wife ate it]: Elwin 1954, No. 17:288-289.
Malaysia-Indonesia. Toraja [the bat is looking for a doctor for a sick daughter (or a daughter for her mother); she does not like the voice of a buffalo, a horse, a pig, a goat, two species of birds; she likes the voice of a cat; a cat eats a sick one ]: Adriani 1898:359; tetum [The crocodile offers the Monkey (male, younger) to be friends, asks for the meat of a land animal; The monkey kills the deer, brings the Crocodile; he catches fish, gives Monkey; suggests that she send one of her sons to him, let him study with his son for a week; eats the Monkey's son; asks the Monkey to come to treat his supposedly sick wife; Monkey does looks like she took medicine with her (some root); in the sea, the Crocodile admits to eating the Monkey's heart, liver and blood; she says she left it all at home; the crocodile takes her back, she jumps on a tree, a crocodile tries to jump after it, his teeth get stuck in a tree trunk; a monkey and his remaining children eat his heart and liver]: Hicks 1974:60-63.
Central Europe. Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [yatlyk {some bird} asks who is ready to baptize his chicks, a fox summons him, sends him to the forest, promises to baptize himself, and eats the chicks. Yatlyk returns when one chick is still alive, and the fox says everyone but him has been baptized. Yatlyk sees that the fox is eating up the last chick and cries. He asks the greyhound puppy (horta) to catch the fox, which agrees in exchange for food. Yatlyk takes the dog to the market, jumps in front of the women who have laid out pies and sour cream, they drive him away, while the dog eats their goods. The dog asks for a drink, the yatlyk takes him to the barn, jumps in front of the milkmaids, the dog drinks. Yatlyk leads the dog to the fox, which chases it when they run across the road, the man throws it at the fox with a stick, but hits the dog, which dies. Yatlyk cries, gets angry at a man, bites his mare, a man throws a stick at a bird, hits a horse, she dies, an yatlyk bites a window in the man's house, he throws a stick at him - breaks the window, the yatlyk sits down on the child's head and bites, the person throws a stick, kills the child. The man cries, the yatlyk feels sorry for him and flies away]: Grinchenko 1895, No. 155, 145-147; (cf. Russians, Ukrainians [Nurse fox (crying): eats bear cubs (dead old woman); it is impossible to determine the presence of a motive on the index, the ATU 37 plot includes two different ones]: SUS 1979, No. 37: 57); Poles [the fox undertakes to babysit the bear; eats it; the bear grabbed her tail, tore it]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 37:53.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [The fox invites the Bear to go bake a cheesecake for the cubs, she will play with them; throws them into the cauldron, says that the cubs are playing at a distance; the fox runs away, eats a cheesecake, teaches the Wolf go to the Bear to wish her daughter-in-law to give birth to a boy, then the Bear will give him a cheesecake; the Bear beats the Wolf; the Fox pretends to sew up her ass to be full for a year; the Wolf asks to sew up and to him; after eating a lamb, he suffers until the rope breaks; the fox weaves the basket, says that he will roll down to the herd in it, put sheep in it; the wolf asks to lower it in the basket; the fox calls the shepherds, they beat the Wolf; The fox tells other foxes that it caught fish with its tail down into the water; the fox's tails are frozen and short; the wolf makes a bridge out of stubble, the Foxes walk along it, he promises to deal with the fallen one; the fox falls, but says she jumped for fish, escapes]: Byazirov 1951, No. 49:290-293 (=1972:265-267); the Kyurins [the fox found the book, pretended to read; the wolf left her cubs for training; the fox asked lamb skins for children's fur coats; the wolf brought 40 rams; the fox ate the cubs, then began to eat sheep; in the spring she answered the wolf that the children had gone for a walk; settled in a mill, pretended to be another fox; the wolf wants to learn how to be a miller; the fox tells you to put his head under the millstones, lets water, the wolf is scalped; the fox runs away, weaves the basket, pretends to be another fox; the wolf asks him to teach; she braided him in the basket, lowered the mountain to the shepherds, they killed him]: Uslar 1868:22-23, =1896, No. 7:316-319; Lezgins [zap. 1940; the fox pretends to be reading a book, the wolf asks her to be a teacher for his cubs; the fox asks for lamb skins to sew fur coats for his children, the wolf brings sheep; the fox eats both sheep and cubs; runs to the mill, pretends to be another fox; the wolf asks to teach him the craft of a miller, the fox tells him to put his head under the wheel, the wolf loses its scalp; the fox weaves baskets, says she is another fox; the fox braids the wolf inside the basket, rolls down the mountain to the shepherds]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 25:109-111; Tabasarans [the fox answers the wolf that he is reading the Koran; the wolf asks his children to read; the fox tells him to first bring 10 sheep to sew fur coats for children, come for children in the spring; eats sheep and cubs; runs away, pretends to be a miller as if she is another fox; the wolf asks him to teach him how to work at the mill, the fox tells him to put his head under the millstone, the wolf is almost killed; the fox weaves the basket, again says that she another fox; a wolf asks to teach him, a fox puts him in a basket, braids him, lets him down the mountain to the shepherds, dogs have killed the wolf]: Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:12-13; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1976, No. 12 [Fox promises the Bear to cure the cubs from scab, tells him to bring the chicken and go to pray; cooked the cubs, took the chicken; sends the Wolf to the Bear; he howls with grief, beats the Wolf; the Fox pretends to be different A fox, weaves a basket, says that he will roll down the mountain to the chickens; the wolf asks to be lowered, bruised, beaten by shepherds under the mountain; the fox pretends to sew his ass with a rope so as not to need in food; The wolf asks to sew him up; suffers, tears his whole ass to relieve himself; the Wolf tore off Lisa's tail; she pretended to be dead on the road; she was picked up by the wedding train; she tells the bride to give it to her rings, otherwise it will spoil the air, but think about the bride; runs away, pretends to be dead again, steals a fat fish aunt from the merchant; comes in bracelets and with his aunt to 40 foxes, sends them to catch fish by dipping tails into the lake; tails froze into the ice; leads the dogs, the foxes ran off with their tails cut off, the Fox mingled with them, now all tailless; The wolf drives everyone to the bridge, prays for the liar to fall into the water; Fox falls, the Wolf grabs it, magpies fly in; the fox explains that she made them colorful; The wolf also wants to be colorful; the fox roasts it on a spit]: 46-49; Azerbaijanis [the fox invited the stork to the guests, spread the porridge on a tray; the stork invited the fox, put the porridge in a jug; offered to ride the fox; when the ground was not visible, threw it down; the fox fell into the school yard, stole the notebook, came to the hole, pretended to read; tells the bear to call her mullah baba, promises to learn the cubs; bear: the meat is yours, and the bones are mine (in the sense of learning); the fox ate the cubs, replies for several months that they are not allowed show, otherwise they will become unaccustomed to reading; then throws the bear a bag with their bones; the bear is stuck in a hole, the fox came out from the other side, went behind the bear and "began to crumple it"; the bear asks the ploughman, Did he see; he: saw; the bear promises to bring rams for silence; but he told his wife; the bear heard, promised to kill the plowman; the fox promised to save him if he gave her two chickens; teaches her what to say; tied a broom to her tail; bear: what's the dust? - The king's son was prescribed bear meat, the army is looking for a bear. - Where can I hide? - Get into the bag, they will think that wheat; the fox and the plowman beat the bear with sticks; the fox has come for the chickens; the plowman's stomach grumbles: a few years ago he ate a hunting dog puppy, now wants to go out; the fox ran away]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:505-512.
Baltoscandia. Latvians [The crow offers Lark to send her children to study; eats; the dog Pogitis tells Lark to lure the Raven again with a song, pretends to be dead; The crow descends to peck for carrion, P. it's enough]: Aris 1971:82-83; Estonians, Setu [a bear is looking for a babysitter or a mourner; a hare, a wolf and a fox come; the fox's voice is more pleasant; she eats the cubs, runs away ]: Kippar 1986, No. 37:57; Finns: Shustrova 1994 [The bear is looking for a babysitter for the children; rejects the Wolf, the Hare, because they sing poorly; takes Lisa, who sings well; the fox does not care about the cubs, answers that she sang songs to them; the next evening Bear hears hungry children crying; Fox runs away]: 406-407; Goldberg 1957 [the wolf's wife died after giving birth to three cubs; the wolf is looking for a babysitter; rejects hazel grouse, partridge , hare - I don't like the voice; I'm happy with the fox singing; she stays in the hole, tells the wolf to bring meat, eats them and cubs; when the wolf wants to look at them, asks to release it first, runs away, climbs under a stone ; the wolf has time to grab her paw; she asks if the wolf knows what he grabbed; the wolf lets go of his paw, the fox hides]: 44-48.
Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars [Fox, Badger, Camel, Wolf, Horse decide to eat the younger one; Camel: Allah created him with Adam; Fox: she taught children in Noah's boat; Wolf: guarded this boat ; Badger: treated people in it; The horse says she has a receipt under her hoof, kicks the Wolf, runs away; The camel agrees to be eaten when the Badger promises to resurrect him in the spring; The fox persuades The badger eat the heart, the Wolf chases the Badger, the Fox eats the best meat at the time; tells Wolf that he teaches the children; the Wolf trusts her two cubs; she asks him to come back in six months, eats cubs ; pretends to be a miller, offers the Wolf to lick the flour, lets water, the Wolf hit the wall; the Fox invites the Wolf to learn how to weave the basket, wraps it around, people take it]: Zamaletdinov 1992:22-26 (= 2008a, No. 5:31-35); Bashkirs: Barag 1989, No. 89 [the camel and the donkey ran away from their owners; they were caught, the tired donkey was brought on a camel; the camel had to work even harder; he runs away, meets a fox, a wolf, a tiger; suggests that it be eaten because it does not have the strength to spend the winter; the fox offers the tiger to eat its insides, and if the wolf protests, slaughter it; eats the brain, the tiger eats the heart; explains to the wolf that the camel had no brains, otherwise he would not let himself be slaughtered; the tiger is silent, the wolf chased him; the fox hides meat; says that she is another fox, reads a book, offers to teach cubs; eats them; says again that she is another fox, weaves a basket, promises to teach the wolf and let him get inside; hunters come, the fox ran away, the wolf forcibly escaped from the basket; the fox says she the miller, advises the wolf to climb into the grain structure above the millstones; the wolf hardly jumped out; since then he has been afraid of the fox; (=Yukhma 1990:115-118)], 92 [The eagle grabbed and carried the Fox; she praises his eagles, offers to take care of them; eats them and runs away; The eagle finds her when she hunts ducks; takes her away again; Lisa says she wanted to punish the ducks that ate eagles; promises that she will climb the mountain herself in nest; The eagle does not believe it, pecked out her eyes, threw it down]: 398-401, 402-404.
Turkestan. Uighurs [the bear has two cubs, the rabbit has one hare; the bear invited the rabbit to sit with the cubs and she will bring prey; on the first day the bear left, the rabbit took one bear cub with her and walked across the river across the log bridge to call a bear cub; he fell into the river and drowned; the rabbit bear said that the bear dabbled and ran to the river by himself, climbed onto the bridge and fell; the next day, the rabbit took the second bear, the same thing happened to him as the first one; when she heard the rabbit tell that the bear was to blame, the bear chased her; running past the yak, the rabbit begged to save her, as he allowed her to hide under his hair between his horns; told the bear that he had not seen the rabbit, but she had already noticed her; they began to fight and yak killed bear; asked the rabbit to get out of the shelter and sing praise to him; the rabbit hid in the hole and sang about how she deceived the yak; he tried to get it, but the horns were stuck in the ground and the yak died; the rabbit met a family of shepherds with a child, they grazed sheep; said that she killed a yak and promised to look after the herd and child; when they went for the yak carcass, she drove the herd to the cliff, and the child threw her into a boiling pot; the shepherd and his wife tried to kill her, the rabbit was saved again; continued her evil pranks; so people cursed her - let her be underground; since then, the rabbits have been living in holes and when they come out, vultures peck out their eyes]: Zhou Yang et al. 2001a, No. 260:370-372
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols [the fox brought the property of the deceased lama; gave the crow a rosary: read on the tree, you will be full; boots for the wolf: put on, go to the rams, you will be mistaken for a person; the bear - musical cymbals ; the crow caught on the branches with its rosary, choked; the wolf was killed; the bear was afraid of the rumble, ran away; the fox found a bundle of treats, bleed its eye, told the tiger that it had eaten its eye; the tiger asked him to pull out one eye, the fox let him eat sweets, the tiger liked it; he asked him to pull out the second one, the fox let him eat it, the tiger did not like it; the fox: so my second one is bitter, I won't pull it out ; leads the tiger to the edge of the cliff for the night, asks him to move, the tiger fell, grabbed the caragan with his teeth; fox: are you, father? the tiger wants to answer, lets go of grip, falls, breaks; the fox sends old people to pick up the tiger, undertakes to watch the child, cooks it, puts her head as if the child is sleeping, fed the old people ; the old man rushed to cut the fox, she dodged, he killed his wife; he also killed the bull; he killed himself out of grief; the fox ate fat, told the seven wolves that fat falls from the sky if you put the tail and tails into the water frozen; the fox requires the magpie to throw off the cubs, otherwise it will gnaw through the poplar; when the last one is left, the thick explains that the fox will not be able to gnaw through the poplar; the fox went to look for a goose, saw a bull that I drank water for a month and did not drink for a month; I waited for his scrotum to fall off, died of hunger]: Potanin 1883, No. 168:552-554.
(Wed. NW Coast. Eyak [Orlitsa has two children, the Raven offers to shake them, kills the eagle, returns Orlitsa; while she is indignant, he claws the second; the Eagle hits the Raven on the head with the first eagle, The raven shouts that the eagle died himself]: Krauss 1970 in Romanova 1997, No. 8:31).
(Wed. Northeast. Montagnier [Mesapus (big hare") follows the bear trail, meets the old Bear; she says she can no longer walk, waiting for other Bears; M. kills her, puts on her skin; when Bears come and hide some of the meat; others are surprised that the Bear leaves the parking lot; at night M. trembles from the cold, but in fact out of fear; for three nights in a row, M. slowly kills one of the cubs; then hangs bear skin on a tree, runs away; Bears tell him to die at the hands of someone weaker than him; M. comes to two lynxes; tells him to light a fire and scratch it; dissatisfied that the trot does not scratch well; he kills him; Lynx parents come, cook, eat M.'s head]: Basile, McNulty 1971:1 in Brassard 1980:188-190).
Plains. Sarsi [The old man comes to ten women, says he killed a deer, sends them for meat, let the children stay with him; one quietly left her child out of the tipi; the old man cut off the children heads, put them in bed as if the children were sleeping, cooked meat; the women returned without finding the deer, the Old Man said he was already cooking it; left; they found heads, chased; the old man disappeared into the hole, flew out a fly, came up unrecognized, poked a stick in the hole, blood at the end, the women believed that he killed the murderer of their children]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 8:10; blacklegs [The old man comes to two old women; they ask get him meat; he leaves, rubs his ass against the snow to leave traces of blood in the snow; tells the women to go pick up the carcass of the beast, while he cooks their two babies, puts their heads back in the cradles, as if the children are sleeping; when they leave, he screams that the women have eaten their own children; they are chasing the Old Man; after changing their appearance, he tells them that he has driven the Old Man into a hole; pretends to fight with him, scratches his face asks women to go down the hole and get the supposedly murdered Old Man out; strangles women with smoke]: Josselin de Jong 1914:27-28; Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. 17:33-34; arpahoe: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 49 [Naha n çan saw the reflection of plums in the water, began to dive, then saw plums on the tree; threw plums at the Bear's tipi; she went to pick plums, he cut off her children's heads and meat at that time cooked, said they were cubs; one of the older children said he looked like a sister; N. ran away, shouted from a distance that the Bear was eating her children; lured the Bears into the hole, changing their appearance, strangled them smoke; after cooking and eating bear meat, he fell asleep; at this time, coyotes and wolves took the meat away], 50 [as in (49); Naha n çan brought plums to the women babysitting the children; sent them for plums, cooked children, ran away; these women were Bears; N. covered his eye with clay, turned into One-Eyed Sioux]: 101-103, 103-105; Assiniboine [four Stoney Indians came to Sitko n ski; S. He sent his two sisters to pick berries for the guests; in their absence, he killed their two young sons, greased their faces, left; hid in a hole; when the women climbed after him, he came out from the other end strangled sisters with smoke]: Lowie 1909a, No. 36:124; Dakota (santi?) [a person (Winnebago calls him The crazy man) sees plums in the water, dives, ties stones to his body, almost drowns, swims out, sees plums on a tree; throws plums at a tipi where two Bears live; they have one older boy, the rest are babies; the man sends the Bear and the boy to the plums; cuts off the babies' heads, puts them in the cradles as if the children are sleeping, bakes meat, tells the Bears that he killed and baked two coyotes; the boy notices that the meat looks, smells, then tastes, then tastes, then the bones look like his sister; the man leaves, sings that the Bears ate their children; they chase him, he asks Badger (or Grizzly) to dig a hole, says that when the burrower's ass is ugly, he quits his job, but the hole is ready; the man gets out from the other end, smears himself with lime, covering one eye (that's why arpaho is called this White Man trickster), and the Sioux in Pine Ridge is a spider; he approaches the Bears, climbs a hole to catch their offender, screams, scratches himself, gets out saying he killed the villain; offers the Bears pull it out; carves fire; replies that it was flint, then smoky, then fiery, then hot birds flew by; bakes the meat of the dead Bears; women tell this story to children when they become cross; you can't cross like bears]: Meeker 1915:84; grovanter [Nix'a n t sees the reflection of berries in the water, dives, then sees them on a tree, collects them, throws female bears into the hole; then like arpahoes; bears eat their children, send the girl for brushwood; N. calls to go by himself, brings brushwood, throws them out of the tipi; runs away, shouting to the Bears that they are eating their children]: Kroeber 1907b: 70; Omaha [Ictinike runs away, returns with a change of appearance; promises women to kill I.; after killing mice, shows women bloody axe]: Dorsey 1890:562-563; iowa [Ishji 'nki gives four women plums; while they go to pick up plums, he cooks their baby; feeds them meat; leaves, returns, changing his appearance; kills mice, shows women a bloody club, says he killed I.]: Skinner 1925, No. 29:488-489; from [Ishthínke sees a plum reflection in the water, dives; then he picks up plums on the shore, realizes that they grow on branches; comes to two women, offers to watch their babies while they go after plums; kills, cooks, eats one, head puts him back in the cradle; women thank him for his care, he leaves; when he hears crying behind him, he steals the clothes of the bathed man, leaves him his own; comes to the women unrecognized, promises to catch up with I.; comes to people shooting at the target; asks to let him shoot, runs away with a bow and arrow; those women, a bather, a stolen archer come to the next camp where I. came; he was cut into pieces by throwing them into boiling water]: Curtis 1976 (19): 175-196.
Big Pool. Southern Utah: Givön 2013, No. 19 []: 167-172; Lowie 1924, No. 31 [Coyote sees berries reflected in the water, dives, then notices that the berries are on the tree; shows them to the Bear, sends her to pick them berries, volunteering to look after the child; kills him, eats him, leaves some meat to his mother, disguises the remains as a sleeping cub; shouts from a distance that the Bear is eating her son; hides in a hole; changes appearance as if his eyes were watery]: 55-56; Utah's uncompagre [Coyote came across partridge chicks (Sage Hen), wrote to their eyes, they complained to their mother; she suddenly took off in front of the Coyote, he fell into the stream; got out, hung up his clothes to dry; saw the reflection of the berries, tried to get them out of the water, then saw them in the tree; I came to the Bear, she asked her to look after her baby, and also ran for with berries; the Coyote cut off his head, cooked him, put his head in the cradle with the log; told the Bear that he had killed the deer; when he walked away, shouted that she was eating her child; hid in the hole, went out from the other side , covered one eye with resin, returned unrecognized to the Bear, lit fire at the hole, pointed to a cloud in the distance, it supposedly was smoke from another exit, which means that Coyote could not be caught; so twice, the second time he killed the Bear by hitting with pogamoggan]: Smith 1992:21-23.
The Great Southwest. Tiwa (Taos) [Coyote tells the bear couple that there are lots of ripe berries nearby; promises to look after the little bear while they and their older children are picking berries; kills a bear cub, cooks meat; feeds it to the Bears, saying he killed a deer; leaves to urinate, runs away, stands under a rock as if he is holding it, otherwise the world will fall; asks the Bears to hold it, runs away]: Parsons 1940a, No. 76: 138-139.