M134. Wolf Tower, ATU 121.
.12.-.17.23.26.-.34. (.38.)
Animals stand on top of each other to get something. The lowest one pops up, everyone falls after him.
Mosi, Kordofan, Nubians, Aris (Ubamer), Bilin, Berbers of Algeria (Mzab), Arabs of Morocco, Egypt, Spaniards, Catalans, Portuguese, Germans (West Prussia), Walloons, Flemish, Dutch, French (Upper Brittany), Bretons, Syrian Arabs, Kashmiris, Uttar Pradesh (Hindi), Rajastans, Marathi, Kumaoni, Nepali, Assamese, Santals, Malayals, Tamils, Koreans, Hungarians, Russians (Pskov , Leningrad, Moscow, Ryazan, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Ugric Russia, Galicia, Hutsulshchina, Grodno, Kiev, Kherson, Poltava, Chernigov), Belarusians, Terek Cossacks, (Nogais), Persians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Finns, Estonians, Karelians, Norwegians, Mordovians, Udmurts, Kazakhs, Khalkha Mongols (Japanese).
{The Mari text in Beke 1938, No. 73, referred to by Uther 2004 (1), is a different story (close to our motive K77b1}
West Africa. Mosi [Nyaka (little antelope) promises a daughter to whoever brings buffalo milk, leopard skin, elephant tusk; The hare gives Buffalo sweet porridge, says it's baobab juice, Buffalo pierces the horns into the baobab, gets stuck, the Hare milks it; invites the Leopard to swim, leaving his skins on the shore; sprinkles pepper into the leopard's skin, says that his bag also burns, invites both to rinse, takes them away; pretends to see something beautiful in the sky; tells elephants that their eyesight is weak because their eyes are small in relation to their bodies; offers to climb on each other's backs so that the upper one can see and he took out what he sees, the Hare; the elephants form a tower, the Hare puts his smut under his lower leg, he moves, the tower falls, the upper one broke off the tusk when it fell, the Hare took it away; the bird began to scream about it, Hare explained to the elephants that she scolded them; the elephants ran to catch her, the Hare brought N.'s tusk; he replied that the descendant of two creatures as clever as he and the Hare would become smarter than God; therefore, he did not give the Hare a daughter]: Frobenius 1986:47-50 (=1972:110-114); (cf. Ashanti: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010 [the sky was low; people cut off pieces and ate; the old woman cooked fufu, crushed cassava, touched the sky with a pestle, it moved away; the old woman told the children to put their stupas alone to another, get to the sky, cut off a delicious piece; one stupa was not enough; Ananse's spider offered to take the stupa out from below, place it upstairs; the tower collapsed, the sky remained high]: 37-38; Baumann 1936 [approximately like aquapim; termites destroyed the lower mortar]: 258; Livingston in Fraser 1985 [the old woman insulted God, he went to heaven; people began to build a tower pestling on top of each other; one was missing, wise man offered to take out the lower pestle, put it upstairs; the tower collapsed; var.: ants gnawed at the lower pestle]: 165; Scheub 2000 [Aberewa woman (this is the name for the spirit of the earth Asase Yaa) cooked meals for the children, hitting with the end of the pestle on the sky Nyame ("sky", "God"); N. was tired of it, he retired from Earth; A. decided to be close to him again, put many steps one on top of the other; she needed the last one, she asked the child give it to her, he didn't find it, she told me to give one of the lower legs, then the tower collapsed]: 5; aquapim [people decided to get to the god Nyankupon, started building a tower out of stupas; one was not enough, they pulled out the lowest one to put it upstairs, the tower collapsed; people ran away and spoke different languages in fear; (Baumann: the last motive, most likely under the influence of the missionaries)]: Baumann 1936:258) .
Sudan-East Africa. Kordofan (language not specified) [the mouse advises the lion not to brag about strength: the person is stronger than him because he is smarter; the lion sees the lumberjack and offers to measure his strength; man: I left my strength at home, come on tomorrow; lion: no, now; man: let's come to me then, how am I going to fight without strength; the lion agreed to wait for the man to go for strength and agreed to be attached (man: what if you run away?) ; man: now I will only use the weak power that is here in the bushes; I whipped and began to whip the lion; then went home for great strength; the mouse to the lion: I will free it if you remain my friend; the lion swore friendship and the mouse gnawed through his belts; the lion came to the man's house; he: eat first; the lion: no, we'll fight first; man: here is the city and I command; the lion has begun to eat, the man went out and supported the door boiled water and poured it on the lion through a hole in the roof; the scalded lion knocked down the door, rushed into the forest, wanted to swallow the mouse: these are your tricks; mouse: the man is coming; the lion ran to the land of lions and stayed there; the man, fearing a lion, moved to another village, just on the edge of the lion forest; when he saw lions, he climbed a tree; the lions were going to leave him alone, but scalded he explained how the man dangerous and what did he do to him; let the lions climb one on top of the other; man: well, now I'll pour boiling water on you all; the scalded lion rushed to run, everyone else fell; scalded fell into a deep hole and the rest are behind him; the lions asked them to be spared; the man demanded that 4 lions be with her at all times and obey orders; then helped them get out; so the poor lumberjack became the king of lions; he concluded an alliance with the king of the city and his beasts helped defeat the king of the countryside; then he made an alliance with him and conquered the king of the city; he blamed everything on the vizier; the king of lions ordered the vizier to make a rope out of sand; Vizier's daughter: ask for sand threads; the lion king married this girl, she taught him to read and write and he became an excellent ruler; loyal lions stayed with him]: Frobenius 1923, No. 10:91-97; Nubians: Kronenberg, Nubishe, No. 57:261-262 in El-Shamy 2004, No. 121:44; Sudanese Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 121:44; Ari (Ubamer) [monkeys were people, workers of the Leopard; that told them to build a fence, hammering stakes into the rock; Rabbit came and said he had sewed up the ground; Leopard: can the land be sewn up? Rabbit: and driving stakes into a rock? The leopard killed the Rabbit, the monkeys asked whether to bury him in the ground or in the sky; the Leopard: in the sky; the monkeys stood on top of each other, the Rabbit's body was at the highest; the lowest one was hard, it moved, everyone fell into forest, turned into monkeys of various species, the rabbit was blown away by the wind]: Jensen 1959, No. 5:184; bilin [baboons bury his mother; the fox says he buried his own in the sky; to get there, let him alone he would climb on his back, the others one on top of the other; the fox jumped out, the baboons fell, broke; the fox filled their vessel with their brains, smeared honey on top; gave the son of noble parents to try honey, ordered them to say parents that he would not eat anything but fox honey in the sky; the father called the fox, who sold him a pot for a bull and a cow, ran away; began to live with the lion, he chose a bull; when the cow was a fox calved, the lion ate the calf, then put it in the bull's ass, said that it had given birth to a bull; the antelope confirmed that it had given birth to a bull; the fox gave birth to the boar, which said it had given birth to a cow; in the end, the fox agreed that he had given birth a bull, but when the lion picked up the cow, the fox picked up the meat on the tree; the lion asked him to throw it off, the fox wrapped the hot stone in the meat, the lion swallowed it and died; the hyena asked her to share the meat; the fox gave it bones, said the lion came to life, the hyena ran, fell into the river and drowned]: Reinisch 1883, No. 3:202-208; (cf. Somalis [to get to the Celestial Camel (an unidentified constellation of the southern sky), people climbed Mount Golis (on Eastern Somalia), standing on top of each other, reached the sky; at the top grabbed the camel by the tail, but remembered that he had forgotten to lead the camel's rope; the request to take the rope was passed down, the lower one leaned to pick it up, everyone fell, the tail of Heavenly Camel came off]: Hanghe 1988, No. 2:111; =Kapchits 1997, No. 2:16, retelling in Kotlyar 2009, No. 69:83).
North Africa. Arabs of Morocco: Loubignac 1952 in El-Shamy 2004, No. 121:44; Algerian Berbers (Mzab) [a lioness teaches her son not to approach a person, he is dangerous; a young man goes in search of a man; the horse answers that he is not a man, he rides it; a donkey and a camel give similar answers; everyone says that the person is shorter than them, the lek promises to eat it; dog: man is my master; brings a lion to a man; that replies that he is not human, but as soon as he finishes the work, he will take the lion to him; asks for help to make it faster; split the stump, asks the lion to put his paws in the crack, pulls out an ax; hits the lion with a stick; says that he will eat him, not his lion; the lion begs for mercy; the man released him a little alive; the lioness cured his son; the lion gathered other lions, the man climbed the tree, the lions climbed alone on another; person: well, carry a stick; the beaten lion rushed, everyone else fell; the lion advises the rest of the person not to touch]: Reesink 1977, No. 10:133-137; Egyptian Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 121:44 .
Southern Europe. The Spaniards (Murcia) [wolves reach each other in the tree; it threatens to jump and climb into the bottom's ass; the lower wolf runs away, all the wolves fall]: Hernández Ferná ndez 2013, No. 121:63; the Portuguese [to get a man hidden in a tree, wolves stand on top of each other; a man's wife carries boiling water; the lower wolf, which has already been scalded, rushes away the rest fall]: Cardigos 2006, No. 121:35; the Portuguese [the wolf is going to eat the lumberjack; he brought him into his house promising a sheep; scalded it with boiling water; the wolf met a man again in the forest; man climbed a tree; the wolf called the others, they climbed on top of each other; man: wife, bring boiling water! the scalded wolf rushed to the side, all the wolves hit and crashed]: Dias Marques 2019, No. 68:109-110; the Portuguese (Coimbra) [the man has a wife Maria, their godfather is a wolf and a godfather is a fox; they ask for a wolf drag them lambs and sheep, and the fox - chickens and ducks, because we must arrange a party for all the neighbors; they brought what they need and ask: why do you need a boiling pot and a hot ramrod? the man poured boiling water on the wolf, and the wife pricked out the fox's eyes with a ramrod; one day a man came across a wolf in the forest and climbed a tree; he gathered the other wolves to stand on each other's backs and take it out man; when the wolves almost grabbed him, the man shouted: Mary, drag the cauldron! the scalded wolf was downstairs, rushed to the side, the others hit, caught the scalded one and ate it; no more people went to the forest]: Coelho 1879, No. 9:17-18; Catalans [man hides from wolves on tree; wolves stand at each other to get it; man throws something, the lower wolf rushes after the abandoned one, everyone falls]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 121:39.
Western Europe. French (Haute-Brittany): Ménard 1908, No. 79 [the fox brought the wolf to the ram; he was so full that he could not crawl back; the owner put hot iron under his tail; escaping {tearing off tail?} , the wolf decided to take revenge; when he met the fox, he chased it, it jumped on the rock; the wolf called the other wolves, they stood on top of each other; fox: put hot iron behind the kutsema; the short one rushed in fear, wolves hit, ran away]: 91-92 (=Dähnhardt 1919:495); Lopyreva 1959, No. 6 [the fox and the wolf caught fish, the fox tied the catch basket to the wolf's tail, the tail came off; promises that the blacksmith will forge the tail stronger; the blacksmith burned the place, the wolf ran away; the fox led him to steal the sausages, offered to hang them on the oak tree so that others would not eat; he eats, the wolf could not climb; the wolves stood on top of each other to get the fox, the Short one is below; the fox screams - let the blacksmith give the wolf a tail; The short one ran in horror, others fell, caught up with him and killed him]: 9-10; the Bretons [in the winter, the hungry wolf chased the fox, and in the summer she decided to take revenge on him; invited him to the sheepfold; crawl through a narrow gap; in the morning the fox ran away; the wolf, having eaten three sheep, got stuck; he was tied up, put a red-hot rod under his tail and let go; the fox climbed the rock; the wolf called the other wolves to stand on top of each other; they almost reached out the fox, but it shouted: put iron down the tail; this wolf, the lowest, rushed run and did not appear in these places again, while others got hit and maimed]: Sébillot 1910, No. 62:221-223; the Walloons [the wolf went to Jean and Catherine's hut; Jean understood who was outside the door, ordered pour boiling soup over the wolf; soon I met him in the forest and climbed a tree; the wolves stood on top of each other; Jean: leu, Catherine! the scalded wolf rushed, everyone fell and ran away; on the way back, Jean was grabbed by Wegelagerer, and since he had no money, they put him in a barrel; the wolf saw him through the hole and tried to reach him; Jean grabbed his tail, the wolf rushed, ran away, the barrel fell apart]: Dähnhardt 1910:495; Walloons []: Carnoy 1883, No. 1:157-162; the Dutch [brothers Hans and Balten lived in a forest hut; a wolf appeared; at that time B. was making soup; when the wolf rushed to G., he shouted, "Lei, Balten!" , and B. scalded the wolf with hot soup; later the wolf came across G. again in the forest; he climbed the tree, and the wolf, bringing 12 comrades, told them to climb one another, he himself was downstairs; when the last wolf almost reached G., who shouted, "Lei, Balten!" , the scalded wolf jumped and all the wolves fell; the scalded man's skin was torn off as punishment and bit off his ear; a year later G. went to the bazaar, sold the pig, and when he returned, he was attacked by robbers, took him away the money was put in a barrel; G. felt for a hole to put his hand in; at night the same wolf came up; G. grabbed his tail and shouted, "Lei, Balten!" ; the wolf dragged the barrel until it fell apart; G. returned home]: Soer 1979:58-62; the Flemish [the wolf attacked a man in the house, who shouts, "Lei, Catherine," the wife pours boiling soup on the wolf; later the wolves surrounded the man, he climbed a tree, they stood one on top of the other to get him, the scalded wolf is below; the man screams, "Lei, Catherine," the scalded wolf runs away in horror, all the wolves fall ]: Meyer 1968, No. 121:25; Germans (West Prussia): Uther 2004 (1), No. 121:87-88.
Western Asia. The Arabs of Syria [animals tell the lion that man is stronger than him; he goes looking for a man; an antelope, a bull, a camel each replies that he is not a man, he is stronger; the man under the tree says that Now he needs to plow, not fight, let the lion come tomorrow; the lion has come and the man is cooking glue; screaming, Allah! He knocked him over a lion; the scalded lion ran away, called the other lions to kill the man; he climbed onto a palm tree; the lions climbed one on top of the other, scalded below; the man shouted, Allah! scalded rushed to run, lions fell]: Abu Risha 2015:26-28.
South Asia. Kashmiris [the villagers want to restore the collapsed mosque, but a genie comes to it; a young man picked up a hammer and a board with nails and went to the genie; he offered to scratch it; this is a common trick: The skin is tough, the genie is dissatisfied, he will kill the man; the young man scratched him with a board of nails; then poured in a corrosive liquid; the genie ran away; the genies came to the village; the young man climbed onto the poplar with a bag of ash; the genies decided to stand on top of each other, one-eyed below {apparently one-eyed is the victim of the young man}; the young man poured ash on the genies and shouted that he would get to the one-eyed man; he rushed to run, that's it fell, ran away and never came back; the young man got an elder's daughter]: Sadhu 2002, No. 9:27-29; Uttar Pradesh (Mirzapur, Hindi) [a goat and a tiger are friends; a goat has four goats and a tigress has only two tiger cubs; she is jealous and decides to eat two kids; asks a goat to send one to her for the night; three are scared, one volunteered to go; when the tigress fell asleep, he swapped places with the tiger cub and the tigress ate it; the next night he put a stone in his place; the tigress broke her teeth; complained to the one-eyed tiger; the one-eyed kid says that he eats four kids with his mouth open once; the kid tells how four kids will grab his paws and cut off his head; the one-eyed kid was frightened, brought six more tigers; the kid climbed a tree; the tigers climbed alone to reach it another, one-eyed below; kid: mother, carry a lump of earth to knock out the one-eyed eye; he jumped back, the tigers hit, ran away in horror]: Rouse, Crooke 1899, No. 37:160-165; Rajastans (Jaipur) [people either goats hide in the tree; tigers stand on top of each other to get to them; the lower one runs away, everyone falls]: Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 121:29; Marathi [blind and deaf live together; one is afraid lightning, other thunder; they come to Rakshasa's houses while not; Rakshas comes, the blind man is not afraid of him; says that he himself is bakshas, and bakshas is the father of Rakshasa; Rakshas asks to show his face, blind puts the donkey's face through the door; the torso - rolls the laundress's cauldron on the floor; voice - lets ants into the donkey's ears, he ornet; the Rakshas leaves, the blind and deaf load treasures on the donkey, goes home; the Rakshasa brings six others, the blind and deaf climb the tree, the Rakshasa stand on top of each other to reach them; the blind man falls, clings to the ears of the upper rakshasa, thinking it is a branch; all the rakshasa they fall; the deaf shouts to hold tight; the Rakshasa run away; at home, the deaf tries to deceive the blind man by taking most of the treasures; both fight, the blind saw the light from the blows, the deaf found hearing; they became friends]: Frere 1868, No. 18:228-237; Kumaoni [walking through the forest, a man saw 7 tigers and climbed a tree; the tigers stood on top of each other; out of fear, the man was so sweaty that sweat ran down from him in a stream; tigers grabbed this trickle, and the man cut it with a sword, the tigers fell and crashed to death]: Upreti 1894:54; Nepalis [the poor man goes wandering, comes to the empty palace of giants- cannibals, locked from the inside; answers the returning giants that he is their grandfather, who will eat them; they ask to show how big his head is, he shows a sieve for the grain; hair - lowers the rope; toothpick - throws them a large wooden pestle; lice - throws a chicken; a man dumps a jar of cottage cheese, says he has coughed up; to see it in the upper floor window, cannibals stand on top friend; the person asks himself out loud: should I start eating from the top or from the bottom? perhaps from the bottom; the lower one bounces off in horror, everyone falls, runs away, the man gets the palace]: Sakya, Griffith 1980:163-165; the Assames [the poor woman has several cows, the roof is leaking; going to bed, she says: God grant that a long-legged man does not attack" (referring to the rain; this is what a thief and a tiger who have come to steal a cow and who do not know each other hear about each other; in the dark, the thief touches the tails of cows: whoever jumps, that healthier; the tiger bounces, the thief pulls its tail, sits on it; the tiger is sure it's Long-legged, runs away; the thief also thinks he grabbed not the cow, but the Leggy; grabs the tiger by the tail, falls down, the tail comes off; the tiger thinks it's not Long-legged, but the Tail Breaker; realizing that he is holding a tiger's tail, the thief climbed the tree; the tigers decided that the Tail Breaker must be killed, otherwise shame; they noticed the thief in the tree, climbed one on top of the other to get him; the tailless tiger is below; the thief turns to him, he rushed away in horror, the tigers fell, thought they were attacked by Tail Breakers , ran away; the thief no longer stole]: Borooah 1955:61-66 (=Goswami 1960:84); Santals [Guja's older brother works in the field, Kara's younger brother is at home; they went to the forest to dig roots; G. told K. to see if the sun was high; he replied that one was setting, the other was rising; the night found the brothers in the forest; they saw the fire, came to the Tiger's cave; they began to bake roots, the Tiger was given coals, he thought the roots were not tasty; G. invited K. to eat the Tiger's tail; the Tiger ran, they tore off his tail, baked it, ate it, climbed the tree; the short Tiger brought the others; they dived for a long time when they saw the reflection brothers in the pond; finally they saw them in the tree; the brothers said they climbed on each other's shoulders; the tigers also became, the short tiger was the lowest; G. shouted to K. to give him an ax to hit the short; the little man jumped back, all the tigers fell, ran away; the brothers came to the village, spent the night in the old woman's house; she said that every night a demon takes away one of the inhabitants, today is her turn; at night the old woman began to bite them hands; then the demon came, the brothers killed him with arrows, threw his body away, put his claws and tongue in a bag; the king promised a daughter and half a kingdom to whoever killed the demon; the manager found the body, told the old woman to cleanse the room - he would bring the princess; the king did not believe it, because the applicant could not prove that he had killed; ordered all the men to get together; the brothers received a princess and half the kingdom, the manager was beaten and expelled]: Campbell 1891:19-22; Malayali [the squirrel is jealous of a fox that grows better in its garden; one day, the fox has pumpkins and fell ill, asking the squirrel to guard its garden; she dragged all the pumpkins onto the tree; the fox recovered, did not find pumpkins, and went to look for a squirrel; the peel fell on the tree; it gathered the other foxes, who began to climb one another to get a squirrel; the squirrel sent an ant to bite the lower one the fox; he bit, the fox rushed away in pain, the rest of the foxes fell]: Beck 1987, No. 54:190-191; the Tamils [after going out for a walk, deaf and blind took the donkey, the tub with linen, put it in a snuffbox ants; hid from the thunderstorm in the palace of the evil spirit; the spirit began to knock on the door; they slammed their pelvis, put ants in the donkey's ear and it screamed; the spirit went away, and the friends took the jewelry and left; the spirit called the help of six other spirits, they followed; the deaf saw them; the blind man told them to throw the jewels and climb the tree; the spirits climbed on each other's shoulders; the blind man fell on the upper one, thought it was a branch, pulled his ears; the spirits ran away; sharing the prey, his friends got into a fight; from the blows, the deaf began to hear, and the blind man saw the light; divided everything equally]: Kudinova, Kudinov 1995:230-232.
China - Korea. Koreans: Uther 2004 (1), No. 121:87-88 (deaf reference to Choi 1979).
The Balkans. The Hungarians [it was cold and the wolf asked the pig to let him in; he finally allowed the wolf to put his back legs, then his front legs, head through the door, and in the meantime prepared the bag; the wolf found himself in a bag, the pig began to pour boiling water on him; the wolf gnawed a hole, ran away; returned with the other wolves; the pig climbed the tree during this time; the wolves stood one on top of the other to get it; the pig screams: bald with boiling water! the scalded wolf rushed away, the wolves fell, their necks were broken]: Kovács 1987, No. 121:269-270.
Central Europe. Russians (Voronezh, Leningrad, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Ugric Russia, Galicia, Hutsulshchina, Grodno, Kiev, Kherson, Poltava), Belarusians [Wolves climb on tree: to get prey (man) they stand on top of each other; a person frightens the lower wolf, he runs away and everyone falls]: SUS, No. 121:70-71; Russians (Western place is not a decree.) [the wolf tells Christ what it wants to eat; he tells the mare to eat; she replies that it is impossible - let her look at her hind legs and lie down; then Christ tells me to eat the ram; he offers to jump He runs into his mouth, knocks him down; Christ tells him to eat the tailor; he asks to let him measure whether he will fit into him; the tailor came up from behind, grabbed the tail, beat him for a long time, ran away, climbed a tree; wolves decided to stand on top of each other, curgoose below; tailor: Kurgoose will get the most; he rushed to run, the wolves fell, caught up and tore the kurgoose]: Afanasiev 1958, No. 56:80-81; Russians ( Pskov) [the wolf wants to eat the tailor; he promises to sew a fur coat for him, and to do this, first take a measure; beats; the wolf calls other wolves, the tailor climbed a pine tree; the wolves stand on each other's backs, beaten below; the tailor sniffed tobacco and coughed; the wolf thought they were shooting, rushed to the side, the wolves fell and killed that wolf]: Ploschuk 2004, No. 9:71; Russians (Moscow) [wolf to the tailor: I'll eat you; tailor: I'll die you first, otherwise I won't fit; I'll measure from the tail; tail in my left hand, arshin in my right hand; beat the wolf until the tail comes off; the short wolf gathered 10 wolves, the tailor climbed the tree; wolves climbed one on top of the other, short ("curgoose") below; tailor: you're the first; the short one rushed, the wolves fell down, ran away]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 10:41-42; Russians (Voronezhskaya, 1974, Podkletnoye village, Semiluksky district) [The old woman asks her husband to sew her a fur coat. The old man goes to earn money for his skins, walks around villages, sews fur coats, hats and mittens. On the way back, a man comes to the lake to get drunk, a wolf appears and wants to eat the man. Then he warns that he is dirty and says he'd better wash himself first and wipe himself off with a wolf's tail. While the old man wipes himself off, he wraps his tail around his arm, and then hits the wolf with arshin. The wolf runs away and brings his pack. The grandfather climbs the tree, the wolves stand on top of each other and almost reach him. The grandfather threatens that the "naked wolf" will remain the most, the one whom the grandfather beat, he jumps out from under the wolves and everyone who stood on him falls. The grandfather returns home, comes with his wife to the tree, takes off the wolves and sews his wife a fur coat, hat, etc., dresses like a lady]: Kretov 1977, No. 12:26-27; Russians (Ryazanskaya) []: Samodelova 2013, No. 23:24; Eastern Ukrainians (ca. 1878, Gadyachesky District, Poltava Province) [The poor wolf comes to God, asks for food, seems sinless, God sends him to eat the Popov mare. The wolf explains to the mare that God allowed him to eat it, and she advises to eat it from the tail, because as long as he eats it, it will still graze. The wolf agrees, comes in from behind, while the horse runs away. The wolf comes back to God, who sends him for a well-fed ram. The predator explains to the ram that he can eat it, which invites the wolf to open its mouth so that it can jump into it himself, accelerates and hits the wolf with horns in the forehead, which falls into the yar. The wolf comes back to God, who indicates the place where the person dropped the lard, the wolf wants to drink first so that the lard does not seem too salty, while the person returns and takes the lard. God sends the wolf to eat a pig, she invites the wolf to participate in the election of the village chief, carries him when they find themselves in the village, the pig screams supposedly to be chosen, people see him, they run and beat him, he runs away. God sends a wolf to eat a tailor, who wants to measure the wolf, misses its tail, tears it off, the wolf gathers relatives, they drive the tailor to a tree, stand on top of each other to get it. The tailor asks to be allowed to smell tobacco before he dies, he is allowed, he sneezes, the lower wolf hears not "achhi" or "arshin", decides that the tailor measures the uppermost wolf, he crouches and the wolves fall, they chase the bottom and tear them apart. The tailor returns home]: Rudchenko 1869, No. 1:1-4; northern Ukrainians (Chernigov, Nezhinsky, etc.) [the wolf came to the tailor to sew a sheepskin coat; he agreed, but we must try it on; grabbed the wolf by the tail, began to beat him with arshin; the wolf rushed, tore off his tail; brought other wolves; the man climbed the oak tree; the wolves climbed one on top of the other, short below; the tailor, as he said about arshin, is so short-tailed to run, and the rest follow him]: Malinka 1902, No. 43:326-327; northern Ukrainians (Chernigovskaya, Borznensky u.) [the priest's tailor went to work in the city; at this time the wolf asked God for food; he said that the wolf would meet the popov - this is his food; the wolf met the mare, asked whose it was; the mare replied that Popova ; the wolf said he would eat it; the mare replied that she was in town and brought the papers; invited the wolf to look at them; while he watched, she galloped off; the wolf thought, "What a fool I am: am I a pan or a writer, why Should I look at papers?" ; then he saw the ram, asked whose it was; the ram replied that he was a priest; the wolf warned that he would eat it; the ram said that he would climb the mountain and jump into the wolf's mouth; as a result, he accelerated and hit him in the forehead ; the wolf began to think, "What a fool I am, am I pan or something, since I wanted light bread"; met pigs, asked whose they were; the pigs replied that they were popovs; the wolf warned that he would eat them; they asked for permission sing a song; while they were singing, people came and drove the wolf away; he met the tailor, asked whose it was; the tailor replied that he was priests; the wolf said he would eat him; the tailor asked for permission to finally wash his face with his tail wipe off {the intention to measure the wolf is not said}; wrapped the wolf's tail in his arms, "yak letting go of three arshini"; then ran away, climbed an oak tree; the wolf called for help from other wolves; they stood on top of each other; He was tailless downstairs; when the wolves almost reached the tailor, he smelled tobacco; smelling, he sneezed: "Achhi!" ; the wolf from below thought that the tailor was shouting: "Arshin!" ; ran; other wolves hit; caught up with the tailless and tore it]: Rudchenko 1869, No. 2:5-6.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Terek Cossacks (no place of recording) [the short wolf is going to eat the tailor; he promises to sew a fur coat for him; the wolf agrees; the tailor tells him to turn his back to measure; the wolf grabs for the rest of the tail and hits with an iron arshin; the wolf runs away; complains to other wolves; they chase the tailor together; he climbs a tree; wolves stand on top of each other to get it; a short wolf stands in at the very bottom; the tailor threatens; the short wolf gets scared, begins to toss and turns; the rest of the wolves fall; rush at the short; he breaks out; complains to St. George to the tailor and wolves; says he is hungry; St. George tells me to eat the Popov pig; the wolf finds it; the pig: "It's better to grab my ear and go to the village together - there you will be appointed judge and feed you piglets"; the wolf agrees; in the village he is beaten; he complains again to St. George; he tells me to eat the Popov sheep; the ram: "Just stand under the mountain and open your mouth, and I'll run into it - you will swallow me"; the wolf agrees; the ram runs away and hits him in the forehead; the wolf complains to St. George; he replies that he is tired of the wolf and tells him to eat the Popov horse; the horse: "But you'd better skin me first, and then pop me: grab my tail and pull me!" ; the wolf grabs her tail; the horse hits him with its hind hooves; the wolf dies]: Baranov 1899, No. 1:197-200; (cf. Nogais [when the Sheitans try to climb to heaven, they stand on top of each other, forming a living staircase; struck by lightning thrown by angels, they fall, making thunderous sounds]: Aleynikov 1893:5; Azerbaijanis (Shemakha) [when angels notice that devils, rising on each other's shoulders, are approaching the sky and want to overhear them, they take the first star they come to hand and they throw the devil, who scatter in different directions, many die]: Efendiev 1893:206).
Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Osmanov 1987 [older brother Ahmad is smart and hard-working, younger Temri is stupid; takes a year to work for the owner for A.; when the child cries, held his mouth with his hand, the child died; He turned the chickens, threw them on the roof; poured oil on the ground; removed the door from the hinges, brought it to the owner (who told him to wait for him under the door); to get rid of T., he agrees to give him 20 meters of rope, karnai, spades, shovels, wineskins with rotten yogurt; came to the fortress of divas; throws a rope: this is my hair; emptied my wineskins - a spit; threw a hoe - a piece of nail; began to blow into the karnay - voice; the divas climb on each other's shoulders to see who's on the roof; T. says that someone is next to him: roll a pebble of a thousand manas; the lower diva was afraid that the stone would fall on his leg, jerked, everyone hit and beat; T. cut off their heads, people are surprised]: 90-92; Romaskevich 1934a, No. 14 (Jews of Isfahan) [smart brother is rich, married; stupid bought a bull, took him to the mountains, asks if the mountain will buy a bull; takes the echo for the answers of the mountain, leaves the bull; comes, asks where the money is; found chervonets under the stone; seeing that the stupid man returned with a profit, the rich went with him; guli came up; the stupid climbed plane tree, smart stayed downstairs; guli climbed one on top of the other; stupid to the clever: stab out the lower one's eyes with a knife; he ran, the guli fell; the wife is unhappy that her husband did not kill his brother, but he explains that his brother saved; stupid bought a goat, a horn, a wineskin of sour milk, goes to the steppe; ghoul: I am a ghoul; stupid brother: and I'm a ghoul over the guli; ghoul throws a spit the size of a dish, a stupid brother pours out a wineskin of milk; ghoul pulls out a huge louse, a stupid brother sticks a goat at him; the ghoul makes an indecent sound, the stupid brother blows the horn, its sound is louder; the ghoul tears and comes back]: 81-83.
Baltoscandia. Latvians: Alksnite et al. 1958 [the wolf wants to eat the old man; he asks the wolf to allow his tail to measure the coffin candle; wraps his tail around his arm, hits him with a club, the tail comes off; they have come running other wolves, the old man climbed the spruce tree; the wolves climbed on top of each other; the old man suggested that he eat it alone, cut off his tail too, throw it down; the short man thought that the tail was for him, all wolves have fallen; wolves have not bent their necks since then]: 26-27; Aris 1971 [the man curses the horse to be eaten by the wolf; the wolf appears, demands the horse; the man asks to let him finish plowing; leads the wolf into the house - it is necessary scald the horse so that the wool comes down; splashes boiling water into the wolf's eyes; in the morning the wolf on the arable land wants to eat the man; he asks for permission to climb the tree to pray; the wolf calls others, they stand on each other friend; the man screams for his wife to carry boiling water; the scalded wolf was downstairs, scared, the wolf tower fell apart]: 34-36; Estonians [The wolf lived with people, slept in a sheepfold, but was still forever hungry and intended to steal something; the woman said she would give him warm bread, gave him a hot stone herself; he burned his mouth, ran into the forest, complained to the Forest Father, who allowed him to live in the forest himself take care of food; when leaving, the Wolf can bite the first person to meet him; a beggar, a woman persuaded them not to eat; the tailor asked permission to first try on the Wolf whether he would fit into his stomach; quietly tied his belt to a tree, beat him with a measuring stick; the wolf escaped, ran away, called the other wolves; the tailor climbed the tree, the wolves climbed on top of each other, beaten below; the tailor shouted to him that now he will get more, the wolf jumped out, the others have fallen; now wolves are afraid of people, but they are killing sheep, i.e. that belt was made of sheep wool]: Jakobson 1954:148-152; Estonians (Jõgeveste; all of Estonia sporadically, but not on islands) [the wolf is told he can eat whoever comes to meet him if it is human; boy: I'm just a beginner; old man: I'm an ending person; man: me you can't eat it before I bring arshin from the forest to see if I'll fit into your belly; when I come back, he strokes, praises the face, eyes, stomach, ass of a wolf (what a cute face, what will grab me; what tummy, where I'll hit; etc.; takes the wolf by the tail and hits him with the stick he brought; completely skinned him, and when the other wolves came to his howl, he climbed onto the spruce tree; the wolves climbed one on top of the other to get the man, beaten at the bottom; man: and you, beaten, are you here? he rushed in fear, rushed away, the others fell, ran after him]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 29:71-72; Lithuanians [the tailor met the wolf; said he would get into his mouth himself, but for that purpose must measure it; stepped on the tail, began to beat him with a stick; the wolf escaped, brought dozens of wolves to kill the tailor; he climbed a tree; the wolves stood one on top of the other, torn below; the tailor screams naked will give the most; that wolf ran, the rest fell and ran away]: Kerbelite 2014, No. 8:42-43; Norwegians (Prinsessene 1967, No. 27), Finns: Uther 2004 (1), No. 121:87-88; Karelians (Tver Karelians) [the wolf asks St. George, what does he have; he sends him to kill the mare, but not to touch the foal; mare: do you have permission? wolf: from St. George; mare: and I have it from St. Mykola, look at it; the mare raised its tail, the wolf came up, she kicked him; the wolf came back to St. George, he allowed him to pick up the ram; the ram: I'll jump into your mouth myself; hit you with horns; for the third time St. George offers to eat a tailor with an iron arshin; he demands that the wolf first allow him to be measured; grabbed his tail, beat him with arshin; the tailor left and climbed the tree; the wolf gathered others wolves, called the bear; the bear was below, the wolves stood on top of each other; the tailor sneezed, the wolf was frightened, the animals were gone]: Makarov 1963, No. 40:55-58.
Volga - Perm. Mordvians: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 121:219; Udmurts [the wolf wants to eat geese, they say they are dirty, they must wash themselves, they swim away; pigs ask for permission to sing first a song, men run to the scream; the ram advises you to open your mouth, butts, knocking out the wolf's teeth; the horse advises you to cling to his tail, the wolf's last teeth have broken; tailor: I don't know if I can fit in your stomach let me try you on; measures and hits you with arshin; climbed a spruce tree; the wolf brings other wolves, they stand on top of each other, that wolf is at the very bottom; the tailor sneezed, the wolf remembered the arshin, rushed, all the wolves hit]: Kralina 1960, No. 24:74-76.
Turkestan. Kazakhs: Bosingen 1985 [a lamb, a goby and a kid meet a wolf, hide in a crevice, butt, the wolf runs away; the wolf tells his comrades that the blacksmith hit him with ticks; a lamb, a goby and the kid climbs the poplar; the wolves stand on top of each other, the kid screams the goby to hit the lower wolf on the ribs, he bounces, all the wolves fall; friends find fox skin, bring it to the yurt where they sit a bear, a wolf and a fox; a fox sings how they will gut the visitors, a kid - how they will remove the skin from the owners; when they see the fox skin, the wolf, the bear and the fox run away]: 20-22; Daurenbekov 1979 [Sheep and Goat are herd leaders]: 20-22; Daurenbekov 1979 [Sheep and Goat are herd leaders old man; he is sick, the shaman tells them to be slaughtered; the Ram and the Goat run away; the Ram suffers from the rain, the Goat from the snow; when they see wolves, they hide in a wolf hole; when the Wolf enters, they hit him, he runs away; Ram and The goat climbs the poplar, 12 wolves try to undermine it unsuccessfully; then they become one on top of the other, lame below; the Goat tells the Ram to beat, the lame wolf is frightened, the wolves fall under the cliff into the water, drown; The goat finds the head of a wolf killed by a hunter, puts the ram between the horns; they approach the wolves sitting by the fire, say they will tear their heads off, show the wolf's head, the wolves run in fear, complain A bear; a sheep and a goat hide in a pine tree, a bear with wolves under it; a sheep falls horns on the Bear, killing him, the wolves run away, the name is Tiger; the Sheep and the Goat first swim to the island and then to the other riverbank; they hide in a shovel; Wolves are looking for which one, but mowers come, return the Sheep and the Goat to the old people, everyone is happy]: 245-252 (=Bosingen 1985:187-195).
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khalha Mongols: Benningsen 1912 [poor Baljushi decided to leave; without a horse, he went to steal a bull from a neighbor at night, groped for the animal and jumped on it; it turned out to be a tiger; B. tried grab hold of the tree, but pulled it out, and there was a snake in the branches of the tree; the khan died in the city; divination showed that the new one should come on a tiger and hold a tree with a snake on top; B. was made khan; orders to kill the snake and cut off the tiger's tail; B. does not want to be a khan; decides to commit suicide by going against six cannibal tigers; climbed a tree; not six, but seven tigers climbed one on top of the other to get it, tailless below; B. called out to him; thiot ran in horror, the others fell and crashed; in the cave there is an ogre fox; B. decides to commit suicide by going to fight the fox; falls asleep, leaving the bow in front of the cave; the fox gnawed through the bowstring, sprung the bow and killed it; the beautiful shepherdess saw B., caressed it; he made it his khatun and decided not to kill himself]: 76-77; Potanin 1883, No. 91b [the old people have a cow; the tiger decided to eat it and the thief to steal it; the thief decided that there were two cows, sat on the tiger, he ran; the thief grabbed the tree, but uprooted it; drove into the khan's yard, a thief mistaken for a llama who tamed the tiger; he ordered the tiger's tail to be cut off, promised to save the khan from six tigers; climbed a tree; the tigers stood one on top of the other, short below; man: it's you, short, you're not enough got it? the little one jumped back, all the tigers fell and crashed]: 355; the Mongols (Ordos) [Saihan-hoo ("beautiful boy") went west; decided to spend the night between the cows; jumped on the cow to steal; rode on all night long; in the morning it turned out to be a tiger; tried to grab a branch, tore it off, but it turned out to be the head of the Abyrga-Mogay snake; in the city every new king dies the next day; lama: will be king who came in a tiger that drives him with a snake Abyrga-Mogay; people stole S. from the tiger with a noose, he grabbed the tiger's tail and tore it off; S. became king; someone spoils bread on arable land; S. went and saw a tree, Under him, the tigers stood on top of each other to eat apples; the lowest tiger without a tail; S. called him short, he fled, the others fell and crashed; Father S. and then became impoverished; caught a goose, broke his leg, the goose promises three lands; S. let him go, the goose disappeared into the sea; an old man came out of the water: this is not a goose, but Losun Khan; we must ask him for a black black donkey; this donkey is littering gold; his Chinese changed; then L. gave a broken kettle, he cooks any food, the khan took the kettle; the third time the old man received bones, they ask who to beat; old man: except for the black donkey and the broken one, beat everyone; bones everyone was killed; the old man took the donkey and the teapot back]: Potanin 1893, No. 21:181-184.
(Wed. Japan. The Japanese (31 options from Tohoku to northern Kyushu) [at night, wolves attacked a person in the mountains, he climbs a tree; wolves stand on top of each other to get to a person, but cannot reach; they send for the leader, the "blacksmith's grandmother"; this is a huge cat with a pot on his head instead of a helmet; the cat climbs over the wolves, the pot protects his head, but the man manages to cut off his paw; the animals run away a bloody trail leads to the blacksmith's house; a man comes there, the blacksmith's old mother is lying in bed, her arm is injured; the man shows her severed paw, she grabs it, runs away; it turns out that the cat ate the mother a blacksmith, took her form; an imaginary mother is killed, the body takes on a feline shape, the bones of a real mother are found under the floor]: Ikeda 1971, No. 121:29-30).