M127B. The pitcher on the tail, ATU 68A. .14.17.27.-.34.

The character attaches a vessel or part of it to the body, lowers it into the water, and the vessel drags it with him.

Tunisian Berbers, Iraqi Arabs, Greeks, Macedonians, Czechs, Slovaks, Russians (Vologda, Voronezh, Moscow, Tula), Ukrainians (Ternopil, Kharkiv, Kherson, Yekaterinoslavskaya, Chernigov), Belarusians, Adygs, Georgians, Armenians, Turkmens, mountain Tajiks (Parkhar, Gissar), mountain Tajiks (Darvaz), Yagnobs, Sarykol residents, Uzbeks, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Setu, Finns, Komi, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Tuvans (?).

North Africa. The Berbers of southern Tunisia [the wolf lifted up the camel; the owner of the herd hung the gnawed tree and set a trap; noticing the trap, the wolf invited the hyena to eat meat, the trap slammed shut; the wolf ate, then advised the hyena to pretend to be dead; the hyena managed to cut off the wolf's tail; the owner freed the hyena from the trap, believing that it was dead; the hyena ran away; so that the hyena would not recognize it by its severed tail, the wolf asked 14 other wolves to tie jugs to their tails and lower their tails into: whoever brings him water in the jug will give him meat; screamed that horsemen were approaching; the wolves rushed, cutting off their tails; The hyena began to reproach the wolf for trapping her; he shows that all wolves are tailless]: Stimme 1900, No. 21:68-69.

Western Asia. Iraqi Arabs [translated to Lebedev 1990, No. 2:26-29; the fox invited a stork, poured soup into a flat plate; promised to teach her how to run, put it on her back, ran over the thorns; at the stork feathers grew, he offered the fox to teach her how to fly, threw it from a height, she fell on the shepherd; he ran away, the fox put on his sheepskin coat; told the lion that he was sewing sheepskin coats; he asked her to sew, she demanded 300 sheep skins; dug a hole, hid her skins there, hid herself; the lion hung a jug at the exit, it was buzzing in the wind, the fox thought the lion was guarding it; got out; offered the lion to feed him, brought him to the mule; the lion said that his valley, the mule, said that the record of his ownership of the valley was on his hoof; the lion leaned down, the mule killed him, the fox ate the lion]: Weissbach 1908, No. 28:139-145.

The Balkans. The Greeks (Epirus) [the shepherd replies to the Bearded that he cannot give him cheese because the dragon eats everything; the beardless took cheese in his hand, put on iron shoes, poured coals on the floor; when the dragon came, squeezed water out of the cheese, saying that it was a stone, stepping on the coals, knocked the fire out of the ground; the dragon promised to leave the shepherd alone and make friends with Beardless; they began to hunt; the boar chased the Beardless on the tree, the boar plunged its fangs into the trunk and got stuck; the Beardless told the dragon to carry the caught pig; the dragon offered to fight, Beardless has an eye on his forehead; explains what he is looking, throw the dragon at east or west; he was frightened; invited him to his place; Beardless left a bag of straw on his bed, the dragon chopped it, in the morning Beardless says that the flea bit; said he could not be killed or to wound, promised to make the dragon the same; ordered him to climb into the barrel, closed it, cooked it; the dragon's mother fished out only the boiled cocks of her son; the grateful shepherd gave Beardless a sheep; on the way she was stolen by a fox, hid in a hole; Beardless left an empty pumpkin in front of the entrance, which was buzzing in the wind; on the fourth day, the fox could no longer stand the thirst, went out, saw that it was just a pumpkin, tied it to its tail and went drown in the sea; fell and drowned]: Hahn 1864 (1), No. 18:104-109; Macedonians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 68A: 63; the Greeks [the fox and the wolf stole the lamb; the fox said it was not enough for two, we must go catch fish; tied a clay pot to the wolf's neck and a dry pumpkin to her belt; tells the wolf to go deeper - there will be more fish; the water filled the pot, the wolf drowned; the fox came back and ate the lamb]: Megas 1970, No. 1:3.

Central Europe. Czechs, Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), â„– 68A: 63; Russians (Vologda, Voronezh, Tula), Ukrainians (Ternopil, Kharkiv, Kherson, Chernihiv), Belarusians [The fox drowns the jug: she cannot pull her head out of the jug; tries to drown it and drowns by herself]: SUS 1979, No. 68B=AA*64:61-62; Russians (Vologodskaya) [the fox put its head in the jug with with oil, the hostess came in, the fox jumped out, the jug could not be removed; she put her head in the ice-hole to make the oil freeze, drowned with the jug]: Smirnov 1917, No. 29a: 167; Russians (Moscow) [the peasant took in the field is a jug of milk; the fox stuck its face, drank milk, but cannot take it out; decided to drown the jug; it was filled with water, the fox drowned]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 8:37; Ukrainians ( Yekaterinoslavskaya) [the man dropped the pumpkin, the wind was buzzing in it, the fox was angry that it frightened her, threw it around her neck, went to drown it, she almost pulled it into the water; there is a violin and a trap on the road; the fox goes around violin, trapped, caught]: Pankeev 1992:13.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygi [the old woman took a jug of milk into the field; The fox hears the wind buzzing in it, frightened; then comes up, puts her head in the jug, drinks milk, but cannot take off the jug; persuades him get down, then, angry, decides to drown; the jug is filled with water, the Fox sinks]: Kapiyeva 1991:76-77; Georgians [the fox sticks its face into a pot of yogurt, then tries to drown the pot and drowns herself]: Kurdovanidze 2000, No. 68B: 16; Armenians [wolves ask the fox to sew their fur coats; he demanded a hundred skins, ate them slowly with the cubs; in the spring, the wolves were tired of waiting, grabbed the fox; he said that fur coats in a hole, hid; starved to eat his own foxes; when thirst became unbearable, he went out; it turned out that the wolves hung a pumpkin at the hole, which was hitting the rocks in the wind, and the fox thought they were wolves they gnash their teeth; the fox tied the pumpkin to its tail, stood above the water, the pumpkin filled with water, the fox dragged it; he asked the wolves to pull it out, the wolves told him to drown]: Nazinyan 2014:153-154.

Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens [The fox sees the caravan, hides in a hole; three days later, the caravans left, throwing a broken jug into the hole; the wind is blowing in it, Lisa is afraid to go out; when she went out and saw that it was broken a jug, promised to punish him; found meat in a trap, offered Wolf, he got caught, the Fox ate the meat; decided to punish the jug by drowning it; tied it to the tail, the jug pulled it to the bottom, she jerked, the tail came off; to meet the Wolf with a crippled leg; Lisa said that she was not the one who lured him into the trap - she had no tail]: Fur Fair 1980:60-63; Tajiks: Levin et al. 1981, No. 49 (Parkhar, =Farkhor) [ the dekhanin brought a jug of food to the field, the fox put her head in, ate, could not pull her head out; she went to drown it, drowned with the jug], 92 (Gissar district)) [the wolf decided to take away the fox's fur coat, but the fox she promised to sew him too, told him to bring tail rams; then said that one sleeve was broken, bring more; so several times; the wolf could not get into the fox's hole, left a jug at the entrance, the wind was blowing in it, the fox was afraid to go out; finally went out, tied the jug to its tail to collect water, the tail came off; the fox tells the wolf that it was not the one who deceived him, it had a tail, and the others were tailless; leads the fox to the vineyard, quietly ties their tails to the vine, calls the owner, the foxes ran away, cutting off their tails; the wolf was afraid of the tailless foxes, and they chose that fox as their leader]: 151, 167-169; mountain Tajiks : Semenov 1900 (2) (Darvaz) [Budon's bird frightened Lisa, she grabbed her, she promised to feed her; B. flew in front of the woman, who tried to catch her, leaving a cup of food; Lisa ate everything, leaving her she covered her litter in the cup with another cup; the wife brought food to her husband, who found only fox droppings, beat his wife; Lisa asks her to laugh; B. flies into that woman's house, sits on the bed, her husband throws at B. a stone, kills a child; B. sits on the edge of the cauldron, a woman throws a bucket at her, hits her husband's forehead, killing him; Lisa and B. laughs; B. lures two dogs; The fox hides in a hole, gets out through another move, finds a pumpkin, says that it frightened it, ties it to its tail, lowers it into the river, the current drags the pumpkin, it gurgling under water; B. tells Lisa that she filled her pantaloons with stones and hangs it on neck, dived; The fox did so, drowned]: 20-22; Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 35 [the fox asks the quail to feed her, she takes her to the vineyard; asks to make her cry; the quail brought the dogs; the fox hid in a hole; someone tied a pumpkin in front of the hole; a pumpkin rattled in the wind, the fox thought it was dogs; finally got out; tied the pumpkin to the tail, carried it to drown; the pumpkin was filled with water, the fox was barely got out; two deckhans thought the fox was dead, put the fur on the bunch of thorns he was carrying; the fox scratched, the dekhanin thought the fur would be thorns; he thought that the fur would be a collar and hat for his wife, but the fox ran away; asks the quail to mock her; she distracted the attention of the woman carrying milk, the fox drank milk; the husband scolded his wife in the field, the fox laughed; the quail flew into the woman's house, sat on the edge of the cauldron; the wife told her husband that she did not bring milk because of her; threw it into the quail with a ladle, which got into the cauldron, the cauldron cracked; the fox saw everything through the hole in the roof]: 136-137; Yagnobs [the fox threw her fur coat on her head the wolf, his head falls into his sleeve, the wolf runs, the fox catches up, says he can sew, the wolf asks him to sew a fur coat; the fox asks for 20 rams, eats it, throws his skins into the river, then asks for 10 lambs, too eats, runs away; hides in a hut, the wolf hangs a leaky vessel above the entrance, says he urinates; the fox believes that only after 3 days he comes out hungry; ties the jug to its tail, lowers it into the river, the river carried it , her tail comes off; 4 foxes hit her, she pretends to be dead; gets up, offers to beat the one whose tail breaks off, and she herself will tie the chapar to her leg; puts stones on the chapar for others, goes to the mountain to see shouts that a hunter is coming, the foxes run away with their tails cut off; the fox pretends to be dead, two apricot sellers pick it up, she points her finger in the back, he thinks at the companion, they fight, the fox steals donkeys from apricot; invites the wolf to go eat a fat tail, supposedly there is no owner; when the wolf is full, leaves the house, screams that the owner is coming, people beat the wolf half to death; the same with the vineyard; with fried cakes; fox leads the wolf to the well she dug, brushwood and fat tail from above; the wolf fails, dies]: Andreev, Peshereva 1957, No. 39:181-184; Sarykoltsy [The fox steals pears from three Armytik pears; he smears him with glue; the fox promises to get him the royal daughter; orders him to sell pear trees, buy 400 hats; when she brings the king, throw them into the river; the king believes that Prince A.'s warriors have drowned, but he himself is safe and his the father will not attack our kingdom; explains to the king that A. is surprised at his new clothes and food, because his groom wore one, the rice was oily; the fox runs forward, tells him to say that herds, tabyna, are not witches in an iron fortress, and Tsar A.; the witch has poker legs, broom hair; Lisa says that an army is moving towards her, advises her to hide under a pile of firewood, burns her; A. and his wife live in the castle; Fox pretends that died; A. says that there is a way; Lisa forgives A., leaves, pretends that her lamb is missing, gets an old woman's daughter for him; carries her in a sack, goes down to the well for a drink; the young man catches up, replaces her the girl is a dog, the Fox hides from her in a hole; the young man leaves a pumpkin vessel buzzing in the wind like the dog is still howling; finally, the Fox finds it out, ties the pumpkins to the tail to collect water; the tail came off; the other foxes ask for a short shake of the mulberries; she climbs the tree on the condition that she ties the tails to the others; she ate berries, screamed that the dog is approaching, the other foxes ran away, cutting off their tails] : Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 64:471-480 (=Pakhalina 1966:95-101); Uzbeks [someone hung a calebas in front of a deer den; he hears a knock, is afraid to go out; when he goes out, he sees a calebass, ties it to the tail, lowers it into the water, the calebass has suffered, the deer's tail has come off; other deer promise revenge; the tailless one offers to grind the grain on the threshing floor and carry it away; you must contact with your tails - if a hunter will come, it is easy to untie it; when they see a man, the deer flee, cutting off their tails, now all deer tails are short]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 51-53.

Baltoscandia. Latvians: Alksnite et al. 1958:54 [The fox crept up on the geese, suddenly heard a whistle, it was the wind whistling in an empty jug; she put her face in the handle, went to drown the jug; it was filled with water, pulled the fox to the bottom], 55-57 [The cat knocked over the pot of milk, decided to go to pray for sins; he is greeted, the Hare, the Fox, the Wolf, the Bear decide to go with him; the cat puts a perch through the hole - who will walk through it, the sins will be removed; the cat crossed, the rest fell down; they decide who to eat - who has the weakest voice (the Hare), the roughest (the Bear); the fox eats the bear's intestines, says his own; The wolf rips his stomach, dies; threatens the Starling that he will eat his chicks if he does not fill the hole with branches; climbs along the branches; tells herself to feed herself, teaches herself to waddle on the way in front of an old woman carrying a cake; the old woman runs for starling, Fox eats a cake; give a drink: distract a man carrying a barrel of beer; cheer up: men threshing, let the starling sit alone on his head; others hit with a flail, the starling flew away, the man fell; starling hid in the nest; the fox went, sees an empty jug, decided to drown it, put it around her neck, drowned]; Lithuanians [the woman took a jug of milk into the field; the fox kept eating out, stuck; first asks for her jug let go, then carry to drown; it was filled with water, pulled the fox to the bottom]: Lebite 1965:23 (similar text in Kerbelite 2014, No. 27:67-68); setu [the fox caught the beetle, found fire by the stream and fried it; then she found a bottle, it was buzzing in the wind; tied it to its tail, ran, the bottle from behind was buzzing; the fox began to think who was scaring her so much; decided to drown the bottle; lowered it into the river, the bottle was filled with water, dragged the fox, the fox drowned]: Kippar 2010, No. V. 7:91; Estonians [the fox hits its head into a jug or ties the jug to its tail; decides to drown it; the jug is filled with water and the fox sinks itself]: Kippar 1986, No. 68B: 73; Finns: Uther 2004 (1), No. 68A: 63.

Volga - Perm. Komi [the fox can't pull its head out of the jug, tries to drown it and drowns on its own]: Korovina 2012, No. 68B: 75.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [the woman brought a jug of milk into the field, began to reap; the fox drained milk, her head got stuck; asked the jug to get off, then decided to punish him, drown it; put the jug in the river, he pulled it to the bottom]: Bosingen 1984:107; Kyrgyz [Lisa found an expensive robe; promises Wolf to sew one if he brings her rams; the fox ate them, disappeared into the hole, the Wolf managed to tear off her tail; The fox invited other foxes into her hole; said that the Wolf was waiting at the hole, we must tie each other by the tails, go out together; while the Wolf chooses the best one, you can run away; when you see the Wolf, the foxes rushed everyone cut off their tails; the Wolf continued to watch the Fox; hung the neck of a broken jug at the hole; the wind howls, the Fox thinks the Wolf is still sitting; when she went out, she put her head in her neck, went to the river to have him drown; poked into the water, her neck dragged to the bottom, she drowned]: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1981:279-280; Uighurs (Guma) [the man went to cut a tamarisk, took a jug of milk with him; the fox put it in his head got stuck; went to the ditch to soak the jug; he was filled with water, the fox drowned]: Jarring 1951, No. 4:54-55.