M130B. The traitor is killed instead of the victim .21.23.24.33.
Aherbivore falls into the trap of a hunter. The predator does not want to release him because he hopes to eat giblets, but the bird helps to free himself. The hunter tries to kill the bird, instead kills the predator.
Burma's Naga, Meitei, Sinhalese, Khmer, Javanese, Kazakhs, Dungans.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. The Naga of Burma [the fox was afraid of the tiger, began to serve him, he is happy; but she wanted to live her life and eat the meat of large animals at the same time; invited the deer to go to the clearing, where there is more herbs; there is a trap, the deer is caught; the crow tells you to pretend to be dead; it will signal when the hunter opens the trap; the deer ran away, the spear thrown by the hunter fell into the fox that was waiting in the bushes when it will be possible to eat giblets]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 9:49-50; Meitei [deer and crow are both widows; when flying away, the crow tells the deer to call her if something happens; the fox lured the deer into a trap to eat; but the deer hung too high above the ground; when the deer screamed, a crow flew in and taught me what to do; the deer pretended to be dead, the hunter took it out of the noose, it ran away; furious the hunter decided to kill any animal he found; he came across a fox waiting to live and pierced it with a spear]: Oinam et al. s.a.
Burma - Indochina. Khmer [the wolf offers friendship to the deer; leads to a trap for the deer to be caught and then eaten; leaves the deer in a trap; the crow advises to pretend to be dead; run as soon as it is croaks; the hunter takes out the deer, the crow croaks, the deer runs, the hunter throws the knife, hits a wolf who was sitting in the bushes waiting for reindeer meat]: Marunova 1972:185-186.
South Asia. Sinhalese [in drought, a deer finds a pond, brings a hare, fox, crow there; they all agree to help each other; a deer falls into a hunter's trap; a fox can easily gnaw through the ropes , but does not want to do so, hope to eat giblets; the crow distracts the hunter until the hare gnaws through the ropes; the deer runs away; the hunter throws an ax at the crow, falls into a fox hiding near the trap]: Disanayaka s.a.: 23-37.
Malaysia-Indonesia. Javanese [Wild Cat envies Kanchil the deer; brought him to the garden where the trap fell into him; Snipe advised him to pretend to be dead, stained his face with droppings; the owner of the trap decided that Kanchil died a long time ago, cut his noose, Kanchil ran away; the peasant threw him with a sickle, but hit the Wild Cat, waiting for Kanchil to die, cut it to pieces]: Ostrovsky 1956:121-126.
Turkestan. The Kazakhs [fox, kulan, magpie promised to help each other; the kulan was trapped, the jackal refused to release him, it would be better to eat his meat; the magpie advised him to pretend to be dead; his hunter took it out, he ran away, the hunter shot, hit the fox and killed]: Kaskabasov et al. 1979, No. 59:122-123 (=Bosingen 1984:36); Dungans (Gansu) [the raven noticed that the wolf was trapped, said to the deer, that broke the trap with horns; the next time the deer fell into the trap; the wolf answered the crow that he would now eat reindeer giblets; the raven agreed with the deer: it was as if he would come to peck the deer's eyes, the hunters would believe that the deer was dead, taken out of the trap; the deer ran away, the hunters shot the crow, which pretended to fall into the reeds; there the hunters came across a wolf, killed it, and the raven flew away]: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 40: 213-214.