M136D. Shattered dreams, ATU 1430.

.13.-.17.21.23.26.-.33.38.

A person dreams of becoming rich little by little and forgets that this has not happened yet. As a result, he loses his initial source of future well-being (breaks a jug, frightens the hare he is about to shoot, etc.) or wantonly harms himself or others.

Malgashi, Kabila, Arabs of Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Catalans, Spaniards, Portuguese, Maltese, Italians (Piedmont, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Rome, Campania), Sicilians, Irish, British, Dutch, Friesians, Germans (south?) , Flemish, Thousand and One Nights, Arameans, Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Yemen, northern Oman, Tibetans, Ancient India, Biharis, Punjabians, Himachal plowmen, Kumaoni, Bengalis, Santals, Gondas, Oriya, Telugu, Malayals, Tamils, Sinhales, Koreans, Slovenes, Serbs, Croats, Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Greeks, Russian written tradition, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Voronezh, Samara Krai), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Galicia, Poltava, Kharkiv), Belarusians, Poles, Slovaks, Crimean Tatars, Georgians, Persians, Mountain Tajiks, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Counselors, Swedes, Norwegians, Chuvash, Mari, Mordovians, Udmurts, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Japanese.

Sudan-East Africa. Malgashi (sakalava) [the father asks his son to help plant a vast field with sugar cane; the lazy son tries to dissuade him; - Why do you need him? -We'll make rum and sell it. - And what are we going to do with the money? - Let's buy cattle. - And who will herd them? -You will. - If I see a cow falling behind, walking to the side, etc., I'll throw it with a stone, let him knock it out; the father starts hitting his son - that's for spoiling my cows]: Haring 1982, No. 2.4.1430:353-354

North Africa. Kabila, Tunisian Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1430:804-805; Moroccan Arabs [the young man bought oil and decided to keep it until the price rises; then he will sell it, buy it with this money, sheep and cows, and then marries; he was so excited that he accidentally raised his hand, the pot of butter fell and crashed; at home he told his mother that he would trade; halfway back to ask why people die; the mother is angry and says that if his hands and feet become cold, this is a sign that death is approaching; the son left again; feeling that his arms and legs are cold, he lay down on the ground and thought that he died; wolves came and ate the donkey; then he got up and returned home; his mother brought him to the priest and he promised the young man that he would live a long time]: Alarcón y Santón 1913, No. 8:132-134; Arabs Egypt [a farmer decides to start a business, bought 800 eggs and a basket, went by boat to sell eggs in Cairo; while the boat is sailing, he thinks how he will use the proceeds to buy colored cloth and sell it women in his village, he will buy a buffalo, she will calve, he will hire an assistant, command it; straightened his legs and pushed the basket off the egg into the Nile]: Bushnaq 1987:284-285.

Southern Europe. Catalans [the poor man has a hen hatching several eggs; he dreams of chickens hatching and growing up, rushing themselves; selling eggs will buy goats, and selling goat milk will buy a cow and will heal like a king; ends with all plans failing]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 1430:243; Spaniards [family members discuss who will get more oil from olives that don't exist yet]: Herná ndez Fernández 2013, No. 1430:217; Portuguese [1) poor parents calm hungry children by discussing the virtues of roast lamb; rich neighbors hear and do not understand why these people, who have such a sumptuous meal, they are also begging for something; 2) a girl builds castles in the air looking at a jug of butter; a jug has broken; or a young mother is making plans for her to sell eggs, will get money for them, etc.; eggs broke just when a woman wanted to address her young son with the words "Your Excellency"]: Cardigos 2006, No. 1430:302-303; Maltese [a peasant girl dreamed: she would buy a hen, exchange chickens for a goat, sheep or cow, get 10 calves, sell them and buy a house; she was so excited that she fell, broke the contents of the basket, and your nose]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 1430:555; Italians (Tuscany), Sicilians [story known]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978:555; Italians (Piedmont, Umbria, Lazio, Rome, Campania): Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 1430:514-515

Western Europe. Irish, British, Dutch, Friesians, Germans (south?) , Flemish: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1430:218-220.

Western Asia. Aramei [when the wife becomes pregnant, the husband begins to plan his son's future; the wife responds as the poor man slowly collected a jug of honey and oil and thought he would sell honey and fir trees, When prices rise; if they buy goats, they will breed, with this money they will buy a bull, cows, a manor house, a house, slaves, a beautiful woman will give him a son, and if he is mischievous, he will beat him with a cane; swung and hit the jug with his cane, honey and fir trees spilled]: Belov, Wilsker 1972:308-309; Arabs in Syria, Iraq, Yemen: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1430:804-805; northern Oman ( Nitzvah) [the neighbor gave the poor man oil and honey; he poured everything into a jug, hanging it above his head where he slept; plans to sell the contents and buy goats; they will bring the goats and he will exchange them for a donkey; then will buy a house and slaves, marry, he will have a son; inspired, the poor man touched the jug with his hand, he fell on it, overturned, he was covered in oil and honey]: Reinhardt 1894:331-333 (retelling Nowak 1959, No. 463:370); "One Thousand and One Nights": Liungman 196:297, Mifsud-Chircop 1978:555; Palestinians [story known]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978:555.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans: O'Connor 1906, No. 6 [a foolish young Muslim was sitting in a meadow sniffing yellow flowers; passer-by: your soles turned yellow, which means you are about to die; a Muslim dug for himself the grave and lay down in it; a man was passing by, carrying a jug of butter for the king; after learning his story from a Muslim, told him to get up better and help carry oil, for which he promised chicken; on the way, the boy became think about how the chicken will lay eggs, raise new chickens, etc., eventually get a house and marry; slipped and broke a jar of butter; the man dragged him to the king; smiling told the guy, the king laughed and gave him a bar of gold; when the young man came to the house, he saw a dog carrying a purse full of money in its mouth; his mother, fearing that the money would be taken away from them, put sugar on the roof, said son, that sugar was falling from the sky; while the son was collecting sugar, the mother took the dog's money; agreed to marry; the young man promised to come to the bride's house in the evening; rides a horse and sees a shadow, takes it for a spirit- pursuer, consistently throws up all his garments, jumps off his horse, hides in the shade of the poplar, where the shadow disappears; climbed onto the poplar, fell asleep; the travelers picked everything up, sat under the poplar share; the young man shouts from the tree: and to me; they ran away, the young man went down, dressed and sat on his horse; during the wedding ceremony, the young man put the best pieces for his mother in a jug; put his hand deep into his hand, she was stuck; had to say that he did not want to eat anymore; wife: knock a jug on a white stone on the street; it turned out that he hit his father-in-law on the head; thinking that he had killed a man, the young man ran away; in some yard lay down first on honeycombs and then on wool; in the morning he decided that he had been turned into a sheep as punishment for murder; joined the flock; at night the thieves came to steal the sheep, found the biggest one, the young man; on the shore the rivers wanted to slaughter the sheep, the young man shouted that it was not necessary; the thieves ran away, the young man returned to his wife; a few years later he went to work; the owner said that at night the lamp would not be held by a servant, but by a cat; if this will not happen, the guest will take all his property, and if so, he will give everything to the owner; so this man regularly robbed travelers; after losing, the young man remained a servant in the house; the wife dressed as a man, went in search; agreed with her husband that he would release the mice; the third time the cat rushed after the mouse, dropped the lamp; husband and wife received wealth, returned home]: 30-42 (retelling in Parfionovich 1976:110-121 (hero name Lodup); Shelton 1925, No. 42 [Once upon a time there was a beggar with tangled hair, dirty, dirty, dirty, with a dirty face and hands, dressed in rags, who fed on what he begged for villagers. One lucky day he managed to beg for an entire bushel of barley. He brought the barley home, put it in a bag, and tied the bag to the beams that crossed the ceiling of his little hut to prevent the rats from reaching it, then went to bed on his rolled up rags. He began to calculate how rich he would be if he received a bushel of barley every day. He could afford to get married. If he had a wife, a son would be born, and he wondered what he would name his boy. By morning, the moonlight fell on his bed, woke him up and gave him a brilliant idea. He will name his son Däwä Dräbä, which means moonlight. This made him so happy that he jumped out of bed and began dancing around the hut, waving his beggar staff in glee. But alas, he swung his staff too hard, hit a large bag of barley with it, which fell on him and killed him, and Däwä Dräbä's father died]: 166.

South Asia. Ancient India (Panchatantra) [story known]: Liungman 196:297, Mifsud-Chircop 1978:555; Punjabi [the woman has a fool son named Lall; she persuaded her sister to agree to marry him her daughter; L. goes to her future mother-in-law's house every day; others laugh at it; when a girl at the well laughed at L., he pushed her into the well; when he found out, his mother secretly pulled the corpse out, She lowered the corpse of a goat into the river, threw the corpse of a goat into the well; scattered sweets, told her son that it was raining from sweets; they were looking for the missing girl, L. says he drowned her before it rained with sweets; climbs into the well, asks if the girl had horns; four legs; tail; shows the goat's head to the girl's father - is this your daughter? the fool was released; the aunt refused to give her daughter to L.; the soldier hired L. to carry a jug of oil; he imagines how he would get rich with the money he received for his work, stumbled, breaking the jug; soldier: this is the king's oil; leads L. to the king; towards the mule; the owner of the mule: stop him; L. killed the mule with a stick; the owner of the mule also goes to the king; they stopped to rest in the hut where the old man and the old woman; the old woman jokingly: L., tell me when they captured Lanka and defeated the 10-headed god; L. cut off the old man's head with an ax, set fire to the hut: like this; the old woman also goes to the king; on the way, L. gives a few cowries to the owner of the oil shop so that lubricate his hair; oil has spilled; hostess: fortunately; L. thinks that if he spills all the oil in the shop, he will be much more happy, makes a pogrom; the owner of the shop also goes to the king; L. explains to the king that if he received a payment from a soldier, he became rich, married, etc. - so he himself lost much more than a soldier; explains what happened next; the king decides in favor of a fool]: Swynnerton 1892, No. 23:18- 22; chemical plowmen [the young man carried a jug of butter on his back and thought; selling butter, buying a goat, selling goats, buying a cow, selling milk, saving money, buying a couple of buffaloes and land, plowing a field, I will get more money, I will build a house, I will get married, there will be many sons and daughters; and when my wife calls for lunch, I will snap at her: when I want, I will come myself; while the man pulled his head and the jug fell; The man began to cry for his family and all the pets he had lost; he was brought to Raja; when he found out what was going on, he laughed and told the young man to pay for oil]: Dracott 1906:68-69; Kumaoni: Minyaev 1966, No. 9 [the merchant bought butter from Coolie for two paises and ordered him to take the pot to his shop; coolie carries the pot, argues; I will buy chicken for two paisa; sell chicken, buy a goat; there will be goats, sell them, I will buy a cow; I will sell milk, buy a buffalo; there will be a lot of milk, I will sell milk and sour cream; I will save money, build a house; as I build a house, I will marry; children will be born, they will say: Father, let us eat; and I'll say: keep quiet, leave alone; coolie shook his head, the pot fell and broke; merchant: why did you break my pot; coolie: why did he ruin me and my family; the king listened to them, laughed and drove the coolie away]: 42; Upreti 1894 [the poor man was given 4 anna and told to take a jug of butter; along the way he thinks: I will buy chicken, sell eggs and chickens, buy goats, sell offspring, then a cow (the same), buffaloes (the same), get married; children they'll call me for dinner, and I'll say no, no! he pulled his head, dropped the jug, the oil spilled; the owner began to swear, and Cooley replied that he had lost a lot more - his family; spoke about his failed plans]: 57-58; Bihari [the weaver saved 10-15 rupees, told his wife that he would buy a buffalo, drink milk and eat cottage cheese (tyre); wife: and I would send them to my family; weaver: this creature wants to give everything to my father's house before I get it; the wife is gone to my parents; my husband followed and met my wife's brother; when he found out what was going on, he beat him: so it was your buffalo who knocked down my fence every day; the man screamed that he did not have a buffalo; wife's brother: so how then does my sister send everything home; the man took his wife by the hand, brought him home and they no longer quarreled]: Grierson 1903b:83; Bengalis [Sachúli is a fool, a widow's son; mother asks how make women laugh; mother: throw a pebble at them; S. threw stones at three girls at the well; two left, he killed the third on the spot; when he saw her mouth grinned, he thought she was laughing; called her mother; she found out the daughter of a rich man; took her jewelry, threw the corpse into the well; the father promises a reward to whoever will return her daughter; S.: my mother pushed her into the well; the mother managed to pull the corpse out, threw the sheep into the well; S. went down to well, asks if the girl had eyes; mouth; long face; tail; four legs; pulls out a sheep; when S. returned, the mother threw the corpse into the well again; beat her son; gave him bread, he left; brought a broken camel loaded with jewelry; the mother let go of the camel, hid the jewelry, scattered sweets, told her son that it was raining from sweets; S. says that it was raining from sweets passed the day when his mother got the jewelry; but people found nothing in S.'s house; S. climbed a tree, cut down the branch he was sitting on to break; a passerby says that S. will die if will fall; S. makes him say when he will die; passer-by: seeing a red thread on his clothes; once he saw, dug a grave, lay down to die; a man carries a jug of butter, looking for a porter; S. took up carry; thinks how much money he will earn, get rich, marry; stumbled and spilled everything; he met four fairies in the forest, they frightened him, gave him a samovar pot; he was replaced in the tavern; the fairies gave a chest in which any clothes are; the fairies gave a rope that will tie the person to point to and a baton that hits itself; S. tells them to tie and beat the owners of the tavern, they returned everything]: Stokes 1879, No. 7:27-34; oriya [when the widow's son was 12, he began to herd the village goats; a brahman came and asked who could carry his jug of butter; everyone was in the field; the boy brought his mother meet the goats and carried a jug, for which he was promised two coins; on the way, the boy began to think about how Anna would buy a hen for two, the chickens would breed, he would buy a pig, she would also bring piglets, he would buy goats and sheep, then a cow, then a horse and I will ride it; the boy rushed forward, the jug fell and crashed; the brahmana gave him a slap in the head; boy: you lost 20 rupees and I lost much more; brahmana explained that God gives and takes away; left; the boy told his mother everything; she says that as long as you do not see water, you will not be thirsty; until you crave wealth, you are king; it is better for the poor to remain poor; boy abandoned plans to get rich]: Tauscher 1959, No. 17:48-50; Telugu [the merchant gave the brahman a pot of flour; he began to think: I would sell flour, buy a kid, his offspring would multiply and sell goats, it will be possible to buy cows, buffaloes, etc., so in a few years I will have 3,000 head of cattle; I will buy a house, get married, my wife will have a son; I won't spoil my wife too much, so sometimes when she comes with my caresses, I'll shove her off with my leg; the brahmana jerked his leg, hit the pot and smashed it; the fly woke up in the mud and all plans fell apart]: Pantulu 1905, No. 21:48-49; Malayali [after performing the ritual , the young brahmana was rewarded with a lot of rice flour; he put it in a vessel and carried it; he would sell flour, buy a kid, he would grow up, he would buy a calf, there would be a cow, bring two calves, they would also grow up, from selling milk, he will raise money for the wedding; his wife will give birth to a boy and one day start hitting and scolding him; and I'll take a stick and hit her in the head! hit the jug with a stick, flour fell on the road]: Menon 1995:62; Sinhalese [young man and father saw Kitul palm (Caryota urens, used to make molasses); father says seeds are needed collect, plant, grow new palm trees, make molasses, sugar, sell and buy a nice pony; young man: I'll ride it; father: are you going to break my pony's back: And so hit my son, that he fell to the ground unconscious]: Parker 1910, No. 26:197-198; Tamils [the mirror seller dreamed: he would sell mirrors, buy bracelets, then diamonds, marry a princess; but if the family has a problem, I I will strictly allow it; stamping his foot on a bag of mirrors, the seller broke them]: Blackburn 2005, No. 90; Santals [the owner put the jugs of butter in the basket and hired a young man to carry it for two coins; he I dreamed of buying chickens with one coin, they would breed, the money from selling chickens and eggs would be able to buy goats; they would breed, then you could buy cows, then buffaloes, then land for processing, then getting married and having children; I'll come home from the field, and my wife will serve water in a jug, and the children will ask me to hurry to wash their hands to sit down to eat, and I'll shake my head and say no, not yet! The young man shook his head, the basket fell and the jugs broke; the owner demanded two rupees for oil and one Anna for pots; the young man objected: he himself lost immeasurably more; when he heard of his failed plans, the owner of the oil said they were even; both left laughing]: Bompas 1909, No. 39:140-141; gondas [the merchant bought two pots of molasses in the village, went to the old woman, gave her son two coins and asked him to carry it for he is molasses; carrying pots, the young man makes plans; to buy a chicken with two coins, she will lay eggs by selling chickens, buying a goat, and when her offspring multiplies and there is a whole herd, it will also be possible to become a merchant; from - A partridge flew under his feet, the young man stumbled, the pots broke; the merchant scolded him, remembering the money paid for molasses; the young man objected that the merchant had lost 23 rupees, and he himself lost thousands; after hearing the story about chicken, etc., the merchant gave the young man 100 rupees; on the next market day, the young man approached the owner of a barely alive buffalo and paid 100 rupees for it; the owner said in vain that his cattle cost only 10 rupees; while dragging the buffalo, the young man saw the jackal; it was already dark; he told the jackal that he seemed to like the buffalo, so he would give it to him and take it back the next market day; the young man went home and the buffalo died and the jackal ate it; when the young man returned, he thought the jackal might be hiding in an anthill; after digging up an anthill, he found two pots of money there; he healed well with his mother]: Elwin 1944, No. X.I: 276-278 .

China - Korea. Koreans [when the potter started his own business, he dreamed of getting rich and rushed to dance; as a result, he pushed the frame behind him to carry the pots; the pots fell, broke, all dreams have fallen apart]: Choi 1979, No. 630:276; Chinese: Ting 1978, No. 1430 [dreaming of future wealth, the wife breaks the object that started it all because she thinks that when she is rich, her husband will take another one; either two people quarrel over hunting prey that doesn't yet exist], 1681* [a fool finds coins, or he has a jug, eggs, barley for sale; he plans how he will get rich as a result, but breaks someone else's jug and is forced to give back the coins he finds; breaks his jug (barrel); kills chickens; or falls into a gutter; killed by a fallen bag].

The Balkans. Bulgarians [husband and wife (and their children) are immersed in dreams of wealth that does not yet exist and are beginning to argue about how they will share it; the consequences are often sad]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1430:463; Greeks, Macedonians [story known]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978:555; Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, Hungarians, Romanians, Macedonians, Greeks , Transylvania Germans: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1430:218-220.

Central Europe. Russian written tradition [the Bulgarian-Russian version of the Greek Stefanite and Ikhnilat, which is a rework of Kalila and Dimna (Synodal List of 1478): the poor man had a vessel with honey and butter, standing next to his bed; at night he thought, "I'll sell butter and honey for money and buy ten goats, and they'll have the same number of kids in five months, and in five years I'll have them four hundred, I will buy a hundred oxen with them and use them to sow fields, I will be immensely enriched with the fruits of that harvest and other fruits, build gable golden-domed houses, buy many slaves, take a wife , who will give birth to me a child, and I will give him the name Pankalos, that is, Good, and I will raise him properly. But if I see that he is negligent, I will beat him like this with this stick"; taking a stick nearby, the man hit the vessel and smashed it; his wife told him to sit with his little son; when she left, her husband the ruler called to him; a snake crawled up to the remaining child; weasel noticed her, jumped and pierced her teeth into her; the husband returned, saw that the weasel was covered with blood from the snake, and thought that she had eaten baby; he immediately hit the caress on the head and killed; when he entered the house, he found the baby whole and the snake torn to pieces; repenting, he cried bitterly]: Likhachev et al. 2003:266-269; Russians (Arkhangelskaya , Karelia, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Galicia, Poltava, Kharkiv), Belarusians [Shattered dreams: a person dreams of gradually getting rich by selling a hare , which he aims at (selling a jug of milk, a tub of honey, stealing turnips), but fascinated by his dreams frightens a hare (overturns, breaks a jug, a tub, attracts the watchman's attention)]: SUS 1979, No. 1430:300-301; Russians: Arkhangelskaya 2008, No. 116 (271) [the young man went to the forest, began to aim at the hare and think; "I'll sell my skin, I'll marry my skin, there will be two children, Vanka da Mashka; children they will grow up and amuse them, I will calm them down: "Vanya da Maha, pamper them to the fullness!" ; screamed, the hare and ran away]: 259; Sadovnikov 1884 (Samara Krai) [one Mordvin went hunting and saw a hare; he began to think: "I will kill this hare, sell it, buy land with the proceeds, build a house, I'll start peasants, mayor; I'll go out on the porch and shout: "Warden!" He was the only one who shouted it, and the hare killed. There was no hare, no land, no house, no mayor - only Mordvin was left. "Oh," he says, "if I knew, I'd better blurt it out!" And Mordvin went home empty-handed]: 166-167; Russians (Karelia, Zaonezhye) [The old man lived poorly. The old woman groaned at him and offered to trade. The old woman said that there is nothing to sell, but you can make falcons and sell them in town. The old man took his purse and was about to go to town, but the old woman asked what he would buy when he sold it. She offered to buy "a lazy son-in-law, a filly or a stallion," but the old man, folding the cookie, bent down and knocked over the pot of falcons. The pot broke, there is nothing to sell]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 13:74-75; Russians (Voronezh) [the peasant decided to become a hunter; sees a hare and thinks: I'll kill, sell the skin, buy a pig, it will bring 12 piglets, those are every 12; I'll get rich, I'll marry the king's youngest daughter; I'll buy a horse, expensive furniture, I'll come, tell my wife to take her legs out of the stirrups, curse her - you just sell pots, go away; waved his hand, the hare ran away, the man became peasants again]: Korolkova 1969:; Poles [the man dreamed how he would get rich by selling a can of honey, a bucket of milk, a basket of eggs, or getting a sleeper under with a hare bush; with excitement, he spills milk, breaks eggs, frightens a hare, etc.]: Krzyżanowski 1963, No. 1430:62; Slovaks: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1430:218-220.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [after buying a hundred eggs, the poor man goes and calculates how many chickens will hatch from them, how many, when they become chickens, they will lay eggs, etc.; jumped for joy, the basket fell and all eggs broke]: Kondaraki 1875:119; Georgians [man or woman finds a crust of butter; makes plans: with the proceeds from the oil sold, it will be possible to buy chickens, piglets, calves; drops the jug with excitement]: Kurdovanidze 2000, No. 1430, No. 1430:91.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians (Farce, one entry) [the girl dreamed: after selling yghurt, she will buy eggs, raise chickens, sell, buy sheep, the shepherd will quarrel with another shepherd; she was so excited that she dropped the pot with yogurt and it crashed]: Marzolph 1984, No. 1430:214; mountain Tajiks (Darvaz) [the opium merchant ran out of goods; a Balkh merchant asks to take sour milk home; the merchant went, he dreamed: "I won't bother with opium, I'll buy chicken for this world (coin), the chicken will lay thirty eggs, sit, thirty chickens will hatch from the eggs. Each chicken will become a chicken, it will carry. The number of chickens will reach a thousand varnishes, and I will get rich. Then I'll sell chickens and buy sheep. I will sell all the chickens, get more than one thousand rubles, go to the market, buy sheep, there will be many sheep, several thousand. Then I'll get married... Should I take a daughter of a shah, a merchant's daughter, or a poor man's daughter? I'm going to marry the Shah's daughter!" So he sends matchmakers to the Shah, who agrees, gives him a daughter and takes a big dowry... When we arrived home, my husband says to his wife: - Shah's daughter, cook, then we'll have fun. The girl clicked on the maid and ordered her to cook and bring food. They brought food and ate. The husband says to his wife: - Bring water to wash your hands. My wife does not want to: - I am the daughter of the Shah, I will not give you water. - Why is this? I'm your husband! And my wife: - You're an opium merchant, I'm not going to get water! - Oh scoundrel, bring water! - Scoundrel myself, I won't bring it! He screamed, "Hey, hangman! She called: - Hey, servant! The husband jumped up and hit his wife. Two torturers came, uncovered their swords and carried him over his head, but the blow hit not on the head, but on the pot. That Balkh merchant was just on his way home from the bathhouse, saw a broken pot, asked: "Why did you break the pot? The opium merchant replied: "The Shah's hangman wanted to hit me on the head with a sword, missed and hit the pot, and he crashed... Instead of money, the merchant gave him two cuffs so much that the poor man barely took his feet away]: Semenov 1900 (1), No. 9:44-46 (=Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 56:158-159).

Baltoscandia. Latvians [husband and wife build castles in the air, but everything collapses]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 1430:352; Lithuanians [husband and wife dreamed: they will catch and sell a hare, they will buy a pig; selling piglets, they will build a house; or at the beginning, a pot of milk; after selling it, they will buy eggs, which will hatch chickens; in joy, they scare the hare, they break the milk pot, etc.]: Balys 1936, No. 1430:130; Swedes [the young man sees a fox and begins to think what will happen when he catches it, etc.; ends up with the fox running away; either the couple dream of selling honey and buying a goose, then starting to quarrel; or the girl dreamed about a jug of milk or a basket of eggs]: Liungman 1961, No. 1430:296-297; Norwegians [the guy sees a sleeping fox and thinks about what kind of rye field he will have if he shoots a fox; the fox wakes up and runs away]: Hodne 1984, No. 1681*: 289; Karelians, Veps, Counselors: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 1430:255; Estonians, Finns, Danes, Icelanders: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1430:218-220.

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi [the man saw a hare and dreamed; "I'll catch this hare now, eat the meat, and sell the skin and buy a pig. A pig will grow up to become a pig, and a pig will bring twelve piglets. I'll raise those piglets too, then I'll slaughter them and I'll have a whole barn of meat. I will sell meat, and with the proceeds I will put a new house with a spacious canopy and a carved porch - that will be great!" Seeing a new home in his thoughts, the man happily repeated loudly: - That will be great! The hare heard the man, got scared and ran away]: Sidorova 1979:214; Marie, Mordovians: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 1430:255; Udmurts [old people have no children; after eating they lay down relax; the old woman sees children playing through the window; begins to say to the old man; "Would it be nice, old man, if you and I had children? if we had a son Ivan and a girl Alena, if we were not so lonely old, they would walk around us, work for us, go out to sow bread in the spring, and collect whole threshing floors in the fall. The first boy in the village would be Ivan. The prettiest girl in the village would be Alena. We would marry Ivan the bride and come home with a young woman. Handsome, you're my Ivanushko!" the woman screamed, forgetting that they did not have children yet and, imagining that Ivan was already entering the hut, rushed off the floor, fell to the floor and killed herself to death]: Pervukhin 1888:39; Kazan Tatars [smoker opium in Bukhara was hired as a porter; he was told to take a pot of katyk; on the way, a person thinks: "I will get ten pennies from him, buy chicken for these ten pennies, this chicken will lay me a lot of eggs, some eggs I will sell, put some under the chicken, it will sit the chickens, I will have a lot of chickens, I will sell them, I will buy a sheep, I will have a lot of lambs from this sheep, I will also sell them, I will buy a mare, I will have a mare foals. This will make me have a lot of chickens, sheep and mares. I will sell some of them for gold, and I will have a lot of gold, mares, and sheep. And then what do you do? I'll have to think about it. Wait a minute, whose daughter am I going to marry?" Here he thought about the daughter of a Bukhara bay: "I will marry the daughter of a bai so and so," he decided. He says: "Although he buys, he only has a lot of gold, and I have a lot of gold, mares, and sheep. It won't fit me. He only has gold, and no sheep or mares." Then he says about another rich man: "I'll take this bay's daughter," he says. "No, although he also buys, he only has a lot of gold, and he has no other good." I also thought, "Whose daughter should I take?" - says. "Wait a minute, but I'll marry Khan's daughter, he has a lot of gold and goodness. Okay, I'll take Khan's daughter, become her husband, she'll give me pilaf with meat, and I'll need to wash my hands. Khan's daughter will consider it shameful to pour water on me so that I can wash my hands and call the maid. I'll say, "You're my wife, pour water yourself." She won't pour water, she won't listen. He will think: "My husband is a commoner, and I am a khan's daughter, this is humiliating to me," he will say. Well, I'm going to slap her in the face so that sparks will fall from her eyes. She'll go and tell her dad about it. Her father will get angry, pull out his sword and come to cut off my head. As he swings his sword, I shove my head in the other direction," he said and pulled his head, the pot he carried on his head fell to the ground, shattered, and the whole roll spilled; The owner of the katyk, seeing that's it, yelled. The opium smoker began to explain that he had taken the Khan's daughter and shared a bed with her. They served meat, I needed to wash my hands. The khan's daughter was ashamed to pour it on my arms and called the maid. I got angry and hit the khan's daughter on the cheek. She went and told her dad. Her father came with a sword to tear my head off as he swung his sword, pulled my head and dodged. Why should I let Khan cut off his head for your cat? Then the owner of the katyk hit the opium smoker on the head and left. Two other smokers went to the bazaar. Buying opium is not enough for food, buying food is not enough for opium. They bought a roll, a cake, and sat on the bank of the ditch. They began to argue who to bring water. They made the following agreement: "Whoever speaks first will bring it." We stayed until noon. A garden guard came up and brought a friend. They ate the roll and smeared the rest on the faces of these two. The dogs began to lick him, and one opium smoker was bitten by the dog on the nose. He shouted: - Shove! The second one jumped up and said, "Oh, bring water! He replies: - Now why do we need water, you say to no avail, they have invented an unnecessary agreement - the whole roll has already been eaten by others, what are we going to eat?] : Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 125:433-435; Bashkirs [A young man went hunting, saw a hare and dreamed: - If I shoot this hare, sell it, buy a goat, this goat will bring me four kids, each of them will grow up, bring four kids, and I'll have twenty-five goats. I'll sell these goats and get married. Oh, what happy days await me! While he was indulging in these dreams, the hare was gone]: Barag 1992, No. 414 (480): 260.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [A Kaltakbas (a man with his head constantly shaking) found one single egg, put it in his palm and began to think: "I'll give this egg to a Bai beauty, she'll give me a yarochka, I'll give it I'll let her into a herd, she'll carry it there, she'll become pregnant, I'll exchange a pregnant sheep for a one-year-old heifer, the heifer will walk, become a cow with a calf, I will help out an undead mare for her, she will bear it, become a stud mare, I'll exchange her for a camel with a camel, give it to Taibolat, he'll marry me his younger sister, I'll go to my wife's relatives for a dowry festival, young aunts saying, "Let's go , son-in-law", they will take me to the wedding yurt, my young sister-in-law, with their breasts that have just begun to grow, will start caressing and hanging around my neck, many girls will start howling, screaming, singing songs, I'm not at any of them I won't look, in the evening I'll find a selected brisket (according to custom, my son-in-law was treated to brisket), they'll lay the bed, close the yurt outlet, I'll climb behind the satin shymyldyk (shymyldyk is the curtain that was fenced in the yurt newlyweds bed) under a blanket of thin silk, I'll take off both my boots and my pants, I'll sit down ready, my aunts will bring my fiancée in, shouting "Up!" I'll wrap my fiancée around my bride..." - then Kaltakbas shook in addition to his head and arms, the egg fell from his palm to the ground and crashed]: Babalar Sozi 2011, vol. 92, No. 19:186-187; Karakalpaks [one the man, having eaten opium, decided to visit his plot and saw a hare lying in the grass; thought: God would give a gun, load it and shoot this hare; he would take the meat to the bazaar, help out the least three tangas; I would buy four chickens with the proceeds; thought and said: no, I would buy opium for half the money, two chickens for the other half, smoke opium, and save and raise the chickens; for for three years I would have 50-60 chickens; one day I would sell eggs, eat them the other, get fat; some of the chickens could be sold, my purse would be filled with money, I would buy a good heifer, two years I would keep it, in two years there would be 5-6 cows; I would keep the most profitable one for myself, sell the rest, add the proceeds to the money I earned selling chickens, I would have even more money than earlier; I would buy a stallion, and with the rest of the money he would sweat, saddle, harness, bridle, a leather blanket for a sweat, a kamcha with a meadowsweet handle, I would dress myself, become an important person; I would gallop, whipping the stallion and shouting; the hare ran away and the opium smoker was left with his mouth open]: Aimbetov 2014a: 454.

Japan. The Japanese (Tohoku to Kyushu, but only 6 records) [fools go; one says that if they find the money, let the finder take it all; the other: no, they should be divided equally; they they quarrel; or older spouses hear a neighbor pushing rice for urine; quarreling over who gets three and who gets four cakes if they are given seven; an butter seller walks by; when trying to reconcile quarreling, his pitcher falls and breaks; the southwestern version of Kyushu {about Nagasaki District} is about a dreamer who eventually smashes his jug of vinegar]: Ikeda 1971, No. 1430:241.