M120B. A nurse with a nice voice.

.15.21.24.27.-.31.32.

The character looks for a nanny (nurse, crying, shepherd, husband) and consistently rejects those whose voice he does not like. She chooses the one whose voice is beautiful, but the choice is unsuccessful (usually the nurse eats the child, the sick person, the sheep, etc.).

Spaniards, Lepcha, Tibetans (Sikkim), Eastern Tibetans (Sichuan), Torajas, Hungarians, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Pskov, Voronezh), Agul, Norwegians, Karelians, Estonians, Setus, Lutsies, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Latvians, Mordovians.

Southern Europe. Spaniards [a woman is looking for a shepherd to herd goats; rejects a wolf - a big mouth, she will eat everyone; the fox has a small mouth, a woman likes it; the fox honestly herds at first, but she is tired of the monotonous food which her mistress feeds her; together with the wolf they ate all the goats, the wolf carried the skins; the woman caught them, the fox began to boil them with boiling water, fry the wolf alive]: Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 37:68-69.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Sikkim) [a wife named Fat always cooks fatty foods for her husband Meaty; he spies, sees her rolling in the pan to fill it; after sending his wife, the husband lies down on himself frying pan, fried; the wife is looking for a llama to perform a rite on him; Dove, Magpie, Raven do not know Lamsky words, the woman drives them; the Kite utters Buddha's epithets, the woman hands him her husband's body; when returns, the Kite replies that he ate the body, mistaking it for a treat; she throws a cup of sour milk at it; since then, there is a white spot on the kite's head]: Krapivina 2001:41-47; Eastern Tibetans ( Sichuan) [every day, the bear goes to buy firewood and decides to find someone to monitor his children; when he finds out that the bear is carrying bread in the bag and is ready to share, the crow, the kite and the hare that the bear meets one by one, they 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 it in a row on the bed, covered it with a blanket, smeared his faces with milk, cooked the rest, offered the bear; he began to eat and saw his child's finger; pulled off the blanket; the hare set off to run, the bear chased; the shepherd hid the hare in a bag, the bear threatens to eat it himself, the shepherd released the hare; the same man who dug the zhumu is edible roots of a crow's foot (Potentilla anserina); then the hare asks for the tiger to hide it, the tiger hides it in his ear; began to fight with the bear and kill him; while the hare was sitting in his ear, he ate a little bit of it from the man who dug it; replies to the tiger that he ate his eyes; the tiger asks give him a try, the hare gives a zum; the tiger allows him to pick one eye out; the hare hid it, and instead gave him zhums again; the tiger allows him to pick out the second eye; the hare promises to drive him blind flat and soft places; after that, the hare lets the tiger eat its eyes, which is dissatisfied - watery; the hare brought the tiger to the edge of the abyss, lit a fire, told him to move, the tiger fell, but managed to grab his teeth for the tree; hare: you 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; lepcha [flea - husband, louse - wife; bought oil, but nothing to make a fire on; whoever brings firewood first will eat oil; when the louse reached the place, the flea was already jumping back; but every time it jumped, its ligament untied and eventually a louse came back faster; the flea hit the louse so much with burning smut that it had to look for a clergyman; the flea does not like the voice of a toad, a pheasant, likes a turtle; she came and pecked the louse; the flea frightened I jumped on a person, tried different places on his body, but eventually moved to a dog]: Stocks 1925, No. 18:374-375.

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.

The Balkans. Hungarians [the old woman is looking for a shepherd to herd ducks; rejects the bear (his voice will scare the ducks away), the wolf (the same), is fascinated by the fox's song; she feeds her toasted bread every day, and the fox every day eats a duck; when she notices the ducks are missing, the old woman fired the fox and hears her singing a song about ducks buried in her stomach; the old woman hits the fox, chases away]: Kovács 1987, No. 37*: 254.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [a pea fell underground, sprouted through the house to heaven; the old man put the old woman in a bag, took it in his teeth and climbs; old woman: soon? old man: soon; the bag fell, the old woman broke; the old man goes to make money, asks the people he meets how to drink; rejects the cat (meow, meow), the dog (oh, oh), takes the fox (Uly, poles, yes old woman/The old woman was good/The old woman was spun the pain, the balls were tight. /And she was gone; {it must be assumed that the fox ate the old woman, but it is not directly said}]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:17 -18; Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Sumy Posad) [a pea fell underground, sprouted through the house, to the sky; the old man put the old woman in a bag and climbed; the old woman moved, fell, died; the grandfather went look for a mourner; asks people she cries; rejects a wolf, a dog, a cuckoo, a cow; takes a fox ("Smile poles, Smile poles, the old woman was kind, she was spinning and rolling, snout swabs through the bed"); ate the old woman and ran away]: Razumova, Senkina 1974, No. 52:261-263; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Mezen, Vozhgory, 1928, Mikhail Leshukova, 35 years old) [An old man and an old woman sow a life in the underground, it grows as high as a barn, they climb the stairs to the roof, the old woman falls and dies. The old man is looking for a "washer" and a "mourner", he does not like how a hare (meow, meow) and a wolf (oh, oh) cry, he likes how the fox mourns and brings her to the hut. She eats the old lady while the old man makes the coffin. The old man discovers his wife's bones and buries them]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 90:220-221; Russians (Pskov) [the chicken found a pea, the cockerel found a bean; the grandfather and woman ate the pea in half, and the bean was planted under the floor; Bob sprouted through the house, grew up to the sky; the grandfather climbed to heaven, and there was everything you want from eating and drinking; goats came, the grandfather hid under the trough, the goats feel the "non-Russian spirit"; left a one-eyed goat to guard; "! Sleep, peephole!" ; next time - two-eyed; "Sleep the peephole, sleep the other one!" ; the third time he had three eyes, the grandfather forgot to put his third eye to sleep; the goats began to beat him, the grandfather promised to bring them his wife; the woman sat in his grandfather's pants, the grandfather climbed, his pants broke, the woman fell out and crashed; the grandfather went to look for a mourner; rejected the wolf, the bear (I don't like the voice), took the fox (like the voice); the fox gnawed all the bones and disappeared]: Ploshchuk 2004, No. 21:87-89; Russians (Voronezhskaya, 1971, p. Novo-Zhivotinskoye, Ramonsky District) [The old man's wife dies and is looking for someone to cry for her. He doesn't like the bear crying, he likes the fox crying. He leaves her at the old woman's feet and goes to make the coffin. When she comes back, there is neither a fox nor an old woman (the fox ate the old woman)]: 24-24: Kretov 1977, No. 9:24.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Aguly [Chuchumai began to look for someone to make her husband; meets forty, asks to sing - she does not like singing; meets a person - the same; meets a mouse, liked singing, C. came to the mouse to live; husband- the mouse went to get oil, got stuck in a jug, screamed, C. did not hear; finally got out and ran into the hole; C. cried for a long time, and we came back here; to the one who told me an apple, who listened, half an apple]: Ganiyeva 2011, No. 130:307-308.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians [a woman is looking for a shepherd, asks a bear, a wolf what they will call the sheep, she does not like their voice (one growls, the other howls); the fox likes the voice; the fox eats all the goats on the first day , on the second day - sheep, on the third - cows; comes and talks about it; the woman runs to check; at this time the fox ate butter and sour cream; the woman comes back, throws the rest of sour cream into the fox, since then fox tail tip white]: Asbjíørsen 1960:106-107 (=Dasent 1970:69-70); Finns [Bear's wife has died, he is going to look for a mourner; rejects Wolf, Hare - voices do not fit; Fox laments well, accepted; asks to move the body from the stuffy hut to the pantry; The bear no longer hears crying, comes to find out what is going on; the fox says that he has almost finished everything; the bear tries to hit the fox with a spoon, hits the tail, since then the tip of the fox tail is white]: Salmelainen in Concca 1991:287-291 (=Dähnhardt 1912:247-248, =Goldberg 1957:19-22); Karelians [the man's wife died; he's walking look for a mourner, invites those you meet to try, rejects Wolf, Fox, Hare, satisfied with the Bear; she eats the deceased]: Concca 1959:90-91 (=Evseev 1981:230-231); Karelians [old man and old woman they sowed turnips on the roof; turnips began to grow; the old woman was afraid that she would crush the house, climbed to collect it, fell on the harrow; the old man went to look for mourners; a chicken, a hare, a fox, a wolf, a bear met; each replies that he knows how to lament; the old man left them by the body, they ate the old woman and ran away; the old man took the kitten, the scoop and the ax and left; in the hut, the man jumps from the stove into the pants held by his wife; for a hundred rubles the old man taught me how to wear pants; elsewhere, a man carries light into a windowless hut with a bag; the old man cut through a window for 200 rubles; in third place, rats eat people at night; the old man sold the kitten; the old man returned home, and a man came out of his hut and ordered him to leave; the old man cried, Onego arose from tears, flooded the house]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 19:101-103; Veps: Kippar 2002 [baba suggests sow turnips on the roof; regularly sends his grandfather to find out how she is growing; when it's time to pull it out, the grandfather puts the woman in a bag and holds it in his teeth as he goes up the stairs; the bag falls, the woman breaks; the grandfather is looking mourner; rejects a bear, a dog (they don't like their voices), takes a fox (sings well); she eats the deceased, runs away]: 88-92; Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 19 [the old man and the old woman sowed turnips on the roof; turnips began to grow; the old woman was afraid that she would crush the house, climbed to collect it, fell on the harrow; the old man went to look for mourners; a chicken, a hare, a fox, a wolf, a bear met; everyone replies that they can lament ; the old man left them by the body, they ate the old woman and ran away; the old man took the kitten, the scoop and the ax and left; in the hut, the man jumps from the stove into the pants held by his wife; for a hundred rubles the old man taught me how to wear pants; elsewhere, a man carries a bag of light into a windowless hut; an old man cut through a window for 200 rubles; in third place, rats eat people at night; the old man sold the kitten; the old man returned home and left his hut the man ordered to leave; the old man cried, Onego arose out of tears, flooded the house]: 101-103; Finns: Shustrova 1994 [The bear is looking for a babysitter for the children; rejects the Wolf, the Hare, because they sing poorly; takes the Fox, who sings well; Lisa does not care about the cubs, replies that she sang songs to them; the next evening the Bear hears hungry children crying; Lisa runs away]: 406-407; Goldberg 1957 [the wolf's wife died, having given birth to three cubs; the wolf is looking for a nanny; rejects hazel grouse, partridge, hare - I don't like the voice; happy with the fox singing; she stays in the hole, tells the wolf to bring meat, eats and cubs; when the wolf wants to go to them see, asks her to be released first, runs away, climbs under a stone; the wolf manages to grab her paw; she asks if the wolf knows what he missed; the wolf lets go of his paw, the fox hides]: 44-48; set : Järv et al. 2015 [a boy lived with his grandmother, planted a bean in the bathhouse, he grew to the sky; the grandmother climbed, fell, crashed; the boy climbed to the sky to bring coffin boards; to meet the bear, suggests himself in mourners, the boy tells him to sing, the bear growls, the boy: not good; the same wolf, fox; liked the hare's voice; the hare gave him boards, both climbed down; the hare cut off the bean with his claws, both fell on land]: 62-63; Mälk et al. 1967, No. 8 [grandmother is looking for a shepherd for geese; asks everyone how he will sing when calling geese; rejects Hare, Wolf, Bear; takes Lisa, she has a good song; first one goose is missing, then the others; Lisa says she will bring tomorrow; says her name is to baptize the child; when she returns, she says they called the Beginning; then Half; the End; the grandmother calls Lisa to sauna, whips with a broom, one goose jumps out, Lisa runs away; it turned out that she ate all the butter too]: 29-34 (=Mägiste 1990:17-26; =Normann, Tampere 1989:7-10); Estonians, setu [bear 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 bears, runs away]: Kippar 1986, No. 37:57; Lutsie (West 1927) [the old lady answers a hare looking for a shepherd for his three geese; towards a wolf; an old woman: how do you sing? wolf howls; old lady: no, you will scare all geese; the fox sings a song, the old lady is happy; the fox ate the goose, the feathers are under the threshold; says that she is called for christening, to the attic herself, there is a barrel of oil; what was the name? fox: Beginning; ate another goose; again for christening; called Half; ate the third, again for christening, ate butter, called the hostess to the cold bath and told everything; her mistress with a broom - she stuck, with Since then, the fox has a tail; it pretended to be dead, the fisherman carried the fish and picked it up; the fox threw it all off, eats, says to the wolf that it caught, putting its tail into the well; the tail froze, the fox called the people, they ran to beat wolf, fox head in sauerkraut, full, head in the test; tells the wolf that the brains have leaked; the beaten unbeaten is lucky; the wolf: how beautiful the woodpecker is; the fox: I'll do the same, get into the haystack; set fire to the haystack, the wolf burned; the fox carries bones in a bag, tells the man that she exchanged the money for his horse; open the bag when you go beyond that blue forest; the fox killed the horse, eats; says that if anyone gets to this horse meat faster than her, she will cry; cancer caught on the fox's tail; when she runs up, he is already eating horse meat; the fox has tears from her eyes; old woman: you will recover if you eat the meat of a 9-year-old bear; the fox walks, knocks on the Christmas trees, on each bear, she asks how old she is; 3, 6 are not needed; 9; well, turn around; the bear turned, fell, the fox eats it; the fox tells the people she meets that she is going to repent of their sins, asks what sins they have; the cat ate sour cream, the hare poisoned the sheep, the wolf ate the sheep, the bear lifted the horse; the fox: we cross the hole on the perch; the cat crossed, the rest fell; whose voice is weaker, we will eat it; ate the hare, then the bear; the fox hides under giblets himself, tells the wolf that he eats his own; the wolf pulled out his own, died; the fox ate the wolf, spring has come; the fox to the woodpecker: you can't pour sawdust, eat your chicks; the woodpecker poured, the fox got out; the fox demands for the woodpecker to make her laugh; the husband carries bread, the wife carries porridge with eggs; the woodpecker pretends to be knocked down, they rushed to catch, the fox ate everything; asks for water; the woodpecker punched a hole in the beer keg; asks her to mock; father and sons are threshing grain; woodpecker on their heads; sons wanted to hit the woodpecker, killed their father; the fox laughs; climbed into a hole, asks body members what they did; everyone helped, only the tail behind the bushes clung; she stuck it out to the dogs, they pulled out the fox and tore it]: Annom et al. 2018:289-298; Latvians [grandmother is looking for a shepherd for ducks; rejects the wolf - sings badly; takes a fox - sings well; roasts scrambled eggs; the fox eats the ducks, each time says that the wolf took it; in the bathhouse she admits that she ate everyone; the old woman throws a broom at her, since then the fox's tail has been fluffy]: Alksnite et al. 1958:32-34.

Volga - Perm. Mordva (Erzya) [the old woman swept, found herself turnips, tells the old man to plant; where? - In the attic; the old man took a horse, a plow, plowed the attic; the old man every time reports how much turnips have grown; the old woman asks to take it; the old man climbs the stairs, holding a bag with the old woman in his teeth; the old woman asks how far away; old man: close; the bag fell, the old woman was killed; the hare, the bear, the wolf towards them, the old man does not like their voice, does not take them in mourners; the fox liked it; she poured water on the coffin: she will see, how many tears I shed; the old man paid the fox to mourn, buried the old woman, let the dogs down on the fox]: Evseviev 1964, No. 56:373-375.