M140. Fox on sledges, ATU 1. .12.-.16.22.27.-.39.
The character pretends to be dead, sick, or weak, picked up, and eats food carried by others-usually by throwing it out of a cart, sleigh, sack, etc.
Banen, Bari, Pokot, Masai, Berbers Beni Snou (NW Algiers near Morocco), Algerian Berbers (Zouavas), Catalans, Portuguese, Spaniards, Aragon, Basques, Italians (Piedmont, Umbria, Abruzzo, Calabria, Basilicata, Molise), Sicilians, Corsicans, Scots, Irish, French, Friesians, Flemish, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania), Khmu, Palaung, Burmese, Khmers, Tyams, Serbs, Bulgarians, Slovenes, Albanians, Hungarians, Romanians, Greeks, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Vologda, Novgorod, Pskov, Gorkovskaya, Smolensk, Ryazan, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians (Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Poltava, Kharkiv, Chernigov), Belarusians, Luzhitans, Poles, Slovaks, Ossetians, Georgians, Turks, Vakhans, Baluchis, Estonians, Setu, Lutsi, Veps, Karelians, Finns, Western and Eastern Sami, Swedes, Lithuanians, Latvians, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Mari, Mordovians, Komi, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Khakas, Mongors, Mansi, Dolgans, Ilimpic Evenks, Kirenian Evenks, Amur Evenks, Evenks, Evens, Negidals, Nanais, Orochi, Udege, Wilta, Nivhi, Japanese, Forest and Tundra Yukaghirs, Itelmen, (Iroquois).
West Africa. Banen [the termites began to fly out, the elephant and the dwarf antelope went to catch them; the elephant got full ears; the antelope said it had injured his leg, asked him to put it in his ear; ate termites, leaving only her wings; asked to be transplanted into the other ear - the same thing; ran away; caught; asks her to tie her with a thin rope, otherwise she cannot be killed, thrown off a cliff; tears the rope and runs away, and the elephant fell down off a cliff and crashed]: Dugast 1975:326-340.
Sudan - East Africa. Bari [a woman tells her daughter to feed her grandfather, she forgets, her mother sends her for fruit; she climbs a tree owned by animals; animals stop under a tree and decide to eat the girl in the morning; the hare offers to save her for promising to give him chickens; takes him home, gets chickens, eats, collects blood, smears the face of a sleeping hyena; in the morning not everyone believes that she ate the girl; the hare offers to breed in the hole is fire, jumping over, the fallen one is guilty; everyone jumped and fell, the hare did not jump, ran away; together with the fox began to steal fruit from the tree; the owner made a sticky figure of the girl; the hare, then the fox beat her , stick; the owner beats them, the fox screams, is killed; the hare is silent, pretends to be dead; the owner carries them in the basket along with the fruit; the hare eats the fruit, pretends to be dead again; the man puts the fox and the hare cook in the cauldron; the hare jumps up and runs away]: Meinhof 1921a, No. 78:310-312; pokot (female) [the elephant carries a vessel of honey on its back; the hare says it has erased its legs, the elephant agrees to carry it on its back; the hare eats honey; asks the elephant to give him pebbles to drive away the birds, puts them in a vessel to keep it heavy; asks the sand to wipe off the sweat; sprinkles sand on pebbles, covers them with honey residues, asks an elephant let it down; the elephant did not notice the deception]: Beech 1911, No. 7:41; the Masai [the elephant carries wineskins with honey to his wife's relatives; the hare asks the elephant to transport it across the river, eats honey, putting stones in its wineskins, which the same elephant asked him to give, runs away, hides in a hole; the elephant grabs his tail, ripping off his hair, then by the leg; the hare says it is the root, the elephant grabs the root and tries to pull it out for a long time; the hare runs away, the elephant is chasing him again; the hare tells the shepherds that the elephant is chasing them, the shepherds are running, the elephant thinks they are also running after the hare, runs after them, the hare has run away; the same with women; with antelopes; tells other hares that the elephant is chasing hares whose tail is not peeled off; hares ripped off their tails, the elephant could not find its enemy]: Kipury 1983, No. 17:72-74.
North Africa. Berbers Beni-Snou (NW Algiers near Morocco) [a donkey carried bread and milk to workers; the jackal asked for a ride; sitting on a donkey's back ate supplies; said that the spilled milk was an abscess burst; then said that he had had enough rest, ran away; the workers began to demand compensation from the donkey; at night he pretended to be dead at the jackal's house; the jackal's wife noticed, woke her husband up; they decided to drag the carcass into the house; the jackal tied his tail to the donkey's tail and pulled, and the wife pushed; the donkey jumped up, dragged the jackal to the workers; they ripped off his skin alive; seeing the bloody jackal, his wife, not recognizing her husband, asks: did you see Ali bin Youssef in red clothes? jackal: it's me]: Destaing 1907, No. 4:254-256; Algerian Berbers (Zouavas) [husband tells his wife to send a donkey to the workers with a load of bread, dates and milk; towards the jackal, says he injured his leg, donkey let him climb on his back; the jackal took out milk, a drop fell on the donkey's back; jackal: it's a trickling wound on his leg; then ate bread and dates; jumping off, the jackal screams to the donkey: I fooled you]: Basset 1887, No. 4:11-12.
Southern Europe. Catalans [The fox shares with the Wolf a plan to eat the cheese that a man carries on a cart; lies down on the road, pretends to be dead; the man picks it up, the Fox drops the cheese to the Wolf, jumps off himself; advises Wolf to repeat the trick; but learned by experience, man beats Wolf]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 1:21; Portuguese [fox pretends to be dead, fish merchant carries sardines, picks up a fox, throws to sardines, he throws them away, jumps off, eats them; then the Fox usually invites the Wolf to teach him how to fish; ties a rope to his neck and the other end to a basket of stones; The wolf dives for sardines, the Fox throws a basket into the water, she pulls the Wolf to the bottom; or the Wolf and the Fox stock up supplies - sheep carcass or butter; the fox says his name is to be the godson of the newborn, comes back, saying that the child was named The beginning; then Half, the End; if the sheep's carcass was stored, the Fox leaves the tail, invites the Wolf to pull; the tail "breaks off", the Fox says he knows nothing; suggests identifying the culprit - who has sweaty ass, he ate; pees under the sleeping Wolf; either gives him shoes and prints traces in the closet; or offers to jump on the axle of the cart, whoever has a heavier belly will run into it; The wolf jumps, the axis pierces it]: Cardigos 2006, No. 1:19-23; Italians (Piedmont, Umbria, Molise, Campania, Basilicata, Calabria): Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 1:5-6; Italians (Abruzzo) [fox pretended dead, lay down on the road; the fisherman picked her up, put her in a basket of fish; she eats fish, some throws a wolf following her]: Del Monte Tammaro 1971, No. 41:5-6; Sicilians [the fox pretends to be dead, the fisherman puts it in the basket, she throws the fish out of it, runs away; the wolf picks up the fish, but eventually the fox eats everything; the fox pretends to be sick and the wolf is forced to carry it; the fox tells the wolf that it has caught fish into the sea, tying a basket to its tail; the wolf does so, drowns]: Lo Nigro 1957, No. 1, 2:1-2; Aragon [the fox pretends to be dead, picked it up, thrown into the cart by a man carrying sardines; she steals them; the wolf tries to repeat the trick in vain]: González Sanz 1996, No. 3-4:63; Spaniards: Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 1 [fox steals pears from passing carts; lies to a wolf as if she pretended to be dead and she was picked up; the wolf lies down on the road, people ripped off his live skin; he chases the fox, it runs through the thorny thickets, the wolf gets stuck in them, dies], 47C+74F+5 [the fox offers the wolf to eat a cow; ties it to a cow; the cow runs away, dragging it with itself; the fox pretends to be dead, picked up by a man carrying a wineskin with honey on a donkey; the fox gnaws through its wineskin, eats honey, all smeared, lying in the fallen leaves, came to the river to drink; the wolf does not know what kind of animal it is; the fox says her name is Fallen Leaves; runs away, the wolf is chasing her, she hides in a hole; the wolf grabs her leg, the fox says he grabs the root, the wolf lets it go]: 11-13, 79/150-151/28-29; Corsicans [the fox pretended to be dead, the fish merchant picked it up; threw all the fish on the road, then picked it up and ate it for many days]: Massignon 1984, No. 90:198-199; Basques: Uther 2004 (1), No. 1:16-17.
Western Europe. The Scots (Western Highlands) [two foxes agree that one will pretend to be dead on the road; she is picked up by a person carrying the fish in the basket, throws it into the basket; the fox throws the fish, the other picks it up, then the first one jumps out too and they eat fish together]: Campbell 1890, No. 17a.19:286; Flemish [the fox pretends to be dead, the fisherman picks it up, puts it in the basket or cart, she throws fish away, runs away]: Meyer 1968, No. 1:21; the French (Gascony) [people carry cheese on the cart, the fox lies down on the road as if dead, they throw it into the cart; she bit the cheeses, grabbed one and ran away; teaches the wolf to repeat the trick; he was beaten; the fox crept up to the cart, brought cheese to the wolf; led him to the lake, said that the reflection of the moon is also cheese; advises him to drink water; and not to pour out from behind, plug your ass with a peg; the wolf continues to drink; the cloud has covered the moon; the fox says that the wolf swallowed the cheese without noticing; the wolf feels bad, the fox advises him to jump 9 times over the fire; the wolf falls into the fire, people beat him; the fox advises lying in the sun; people hit the wolf again, the peg falls out, the water pours out; while chasing the wolf, the fox steals the cauldron of porridge; finds wine, leads the wolf there, he gets drunk, starts singing ; the fox runs away, people wake up, they hit the wolf, he gets stuck in a hole, forcibly escapes, peeling off his skin]: Arnaudin 1967, No. 5.1:66-82; Irish [Fox pretends to be dead, steals fish from the wagon peasant]: Jackson 1936:285; Friesians, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania) {Uther's definition includes different plots, but European traditions still think the standard story with a fox picked up by a fisherman}: Uther 2004 (1), No. 1:16-17.
Burma - Indochina. Khmu [Bear and Squirrel friends; picking nuts, Squirrel pretends to have a stomachache, Bear offers to carry her in a sling; she refuses, agrees if in the basket; eats on the way the nuts collected by the Bear runs away; when both work in the Bear's field, the Squirrel imitates the cicada, says it's too late, they come back; when they work in the Squirrel field, they stay late; says that stays overnight, makes a bundle of leaves, asks the Bear to take the gift to her children; she hides in a bundle herself, the Bear brings it to the children Squirrels, they find his father in the bundle; the Bear tries to repeat the trick , barely covers itself with leaves, the Squirrel is going to shoot through the leaves with a crossbow, the Bear runs away; bamboo mats must be taken to the field, the Squirrel hides in them, the Bear brings it along with the mats; When back, the Bear tries to repeat the trick, the Squirrel throws a heavy pestle into the mats; the bear invites Squirrel to the barn to eat bananas, traps, cooks meat; calls the children Squirrels, says they ate father]: Lindell et al. 1978, No. 9:89-93; palaung [a man carries bananas in two baskets; a rabbit jumps out onto the road, asks for permission to go with him; the man says the rabbit will fall behind, puts him in basket; he eats bananas, wraps the droppings in their skins; asks to leave out of need; when he returns, he sits in another basket; after eating bananas, he runs away]: Zapadova 1977:336-337; palaung (Yunnan) [The hare ate grass and branches, wanted to try something else. I saw bees in the tree. A tiger came up. Hare: "There is a manga (several connected gongs) on the tree that I inherited from my grandfather, and I'm guarding it. The tiger said, "Is this manga sound good?" "Certainly excellent! The best in the world!" The tiger got even more interesting, he asked the hare to hit him once, but he said, "No, grandpa will be angry." The tiger started asking again, and the hare pretended to have mercy: "I'll go ask my grandfather if he allows me, I'll scream at you and you can hit you three times." The hare ran to the mountain and shouted: "Tiger, hit!" , - he hit, bees flew out of the hive and bit him. He wanted to bounce, but the hare had tied him to a hive before. Seeing the tiger's suffering, the hare ordered to hit harder. The tiger knocked the hive down to the ground, and the bees bit it. The tiger decided to take revenge. The hare wet his fur and rolled over the flower petals, getting stains. When I met a tiger: "I did not deceive you, that hare was white and I was spotted." The tiger agreed. The hare untied the tiger and asked him to eat the honeycombs in half. He took half of it for himself with honey and gave the tiger his honeycombs. The empty honeycombs pricked the tiger's mouth, and the hare ate. He showed his mouth full of honey: "Look, my mouth is full of porridge." Now the hare has decided to try beef. I met another tiger and said he offered to become friends. Let the tiger get a cow and we'll celebrate our friendship!" The tiger bit to death the cow and they started butchering it. The hare broke off its horn and gave it to the tiger to eat, which screamed from abdominal pain. Hare: "Don't scream, the meat will go bad." The tiger listened and suffered in silence. The hare cut the meat and let the tiger go for water, the pumpkin must be full, otherwise the meat will deteriorate. Wild pigeon: "The tiger has a leaky pumpkin." The tiger mistook sincerity for a mockery and threw a stone at the pigeon. The hare hid the meat, divided the leftovers into two parts, and gave the bad one to the tiger. This meat was salty and bitter, but the hare said that it went bad because the water was not up to the brim. The next day, the hare saw people returning from picking bananas, lay down by the road, pretending to be dead. People put it in a basket full of bananas. The hare ate them, jumped out and ran away. I fell into a hole and couldn't get out. The tiger asked what the hare was doing in the pit. Hare: "Today the sky will fall, my grandfather told me to hide." Pointed to the movement of the clouds, the tiger believed that the sky was trembling. He promised not to touch the hare and jumped into the hole. The hare began to poke the tiger in the side with a stick. He began to swear, and the hare promised not to poke again. Same thing over again. For the third time, the tiger threw the hare out of the hole. I told people there was a tiger in the pit. People slaughtered a tiger and cut meat. The hare set fire to the grass near the village and said that the village was on fire. They ran to the village, and the hare ate meat. I climbed a tree, people started cutting it.. Hare: "I won't die if I fall out of the blue. People cut down the tree so that it fell towards the cave, and the hare disappeared into it. People closed the entrance. An old man lived in the cave with a manga (combined gongs). People told the old man to hit the manga three times when he caught a hare. Hare to an old man: "I'm going to die soon and I only want this golden cup, will you give it to me?" The old man leaned over the hare, the hare bit his ear, the old man backed away, tripped over the barrier that blocked the entrance to the cave, it broke, the old man fell on the rocks and crashed to death. The hare hit the manga three times. People hurried to the cave, but the hare was gone. I ran to the edge of the field, where there are lots of snails. "We're going to honor the snail king." The hare began to laugh: they were too slow. The snails offered to compete in running. The hare reached the end of the field, called out to the snails, but answered from the beginning of the field: "We've been here for a long time, you're behind!" The hare ran back and forth until he died of exhaustion]: Chen, Wang 1989d: 529-533; Burmese [the rabbit pretended to be dead, the old woman picked it up, put it in a basket of bananas; he ate them, ran away; people gathered to perform sacred dances, the rabbit shouted that there was a tiger in the well, people ran there, he ate all the bananas; he was chased, he hid in a dry well; they lowered the rope there, find out deeply Lee; the rabbit rolled it up and then soaked it with saliva; people thought there was water in the well, they left; the rabbit got out; one day he pretended to be dead again, so that the old man would pick it up, put it in a basket of bananas; but the old man killed him with a stick]: Aung 1957:29-30; Khmers [the hare pretended to be dead; the banana merchant picks him up, puts him in his basket; the hare eats bananas, runs away; the snail tells the hare that water is belongs to her, let the hare not drink from the pond; hare: if you swim across the pond faster than I run it, you're right; the snail places other snails along the shore, they respond to the hare; since then, hares only drink dew; the hare promises to cure the crocodile from skin disease if it transports it to the other side; jumping ashore, insults the crocodile and runs away; climbed into the buffalo's belly; under the sun, the skin has dried up and shrunk; the hare asks the person to pour water on the carcass; jumps out, shouts that he will not thank his savior; the crocodile pretends to be a log; the hare: if you are a log, then swim against the current if the crocodile went with the flow; the crocodile went with the flow; crawled ashore, pretended to be dead, the hare came up, the crocodile swallowed it, the hare began to fiddle with his intestines, the crocodile had to regurgitate it; the hare sat on resinous stump and stuck; does not tell elephants to drink water from the pond, he himself, the hare, is a watchman put by Indra; the elephant grabs the hare and throws it aside, the hare is released again; he is trapped by a gardener, begged the toad to release him - he will save her from warts; once free, insults the toad; next time the toad released the hare for promising to give her daughter for her son; the hare runs away again; says that ate five elephants and wants to clear his throat with tiger liver; the monkey assures the tiger that the hare is not dangerous; the tiger agrees to return by contacting the monkey with its tails; hare: and you are leading this black tiger to debt payment bill? the tiger ran, dragging the toad; when he saw the grimace of a dead toad, he thought it was laughing at him; the hare was trapped again, pretended to be dead, the peasant took it out, he ran away; the peasant caught him again; the monk predicts that today the farmer will have normal food; he thinks that the predictor is bad: he has a hare and a fish at home; a hare teaches a fish to pretend to be asleep; it will be thrown into the water, it will swim, master will try to catch it at the top under which the hare; both escape]: Gorgoniev 1973:115-126 (=Marunova 1972:165-170); tyams [tiger, hare, otter, chicken, elephant are cutting straw for construction at home and in turn they cook (tiger meat, otter fish, chicken - eggs); when it is the hare's turn, he cooks his excrement with more spices; pretends to be sick; everyone has eaten, he sings indistinctly, others understand that they ate hare excrement; everyone went for sliced straw, loaded it on an elephant, the hare says that he is very ill, he is allowed to sit on the cart, he sets fire to straw, tells the tiger and the otter lead the elephant against the wind; finally, the otter led the elephant to the river; the tiger went to look for the hare, wrapped around the boa constrictor; the hare says it is a belt of flowers, reluctantly agrees that the elephant wear it, asks a thorn; a boa constrictor stabs, he spreads rings, wraps around the tiger, the tiger has hardly gnawed at the boa constrictor; the hare pretends to have a drum, the tiger also wants to knock; this is a nest of earth wasps, the tiger is bitten; the hare climbs a tree, it makes a noise in the wind, the hare says it is a musical instrument, the tiger also wants to play; the hare tells the tiger to stick its tongue between the branches, the tongue is pinched; the hare calls people, the tiger runs away, cutting off his tongue; the hare jumped into a dry well, says that the sky is falling; asks the tiger for a wand; the tiger also climbs into the well, the hare tickles it with a stick, the tiger throws it away; the hare calls people; they run away looking at the tiger, the hare eats cooked holiday cookies, runs away; the hare is caught on the road, pretending to be dead; the woman picks it up, puts it in a basket of sweets; the hare eats everything, runs away; the elephant and the tiger competed to see who would make a louder sound; the elephant lost and now the tiger would eat it; the hare promised to save the elephant; when the tiger, the hare came up, having prepared a betel in advance, as if attacking the elephant, he fell covered in red spots; the tiger thought it was blood, ran away in fear; the turtle told the tiger to get a vine, she would lead him, tied by the vine, to eat a hare; the hare rushed to them, the tiger ran away, dragged him a turtle, it hit a stump, bleed from its mouth; the tiger thought it was a betel and started chewing]: Landes 1987:50-60.
The Balkans. Serbs [Lisa makes clay cakes, anointed with honey, offered to exchange it for a turkey; she was refused; the same with a pig, a calf; the grazing horses agreed to give the foal; the fox tells me to eat cakes only after it hides behind the mountain; people did not catch up with the fox; she loves and cares for her foal; tells her to unlock only in response to her singing; The wolf overheard, the foal did not open it to a rude voice; the next time the Wolf spoke in a thin voice, ate the foal; the fox pretended to be dead, the peasant picked it up, she stole cheese from the wagon, told the Wolf that the cheese was in the river (it's a reflection of the moon) advised him to go out the river; holding his ears, nose, mouth, rides the Wolf on horseback, saying that she is sick; in the attic she opens holes in the Wolf's body, water pours on the guests below, the Fox runs away, the Wolf is beaten; the Fox tells The wolf jumps over the haystack, it falls to the bottom]: Karadzic 1854, No. 50:264-270 (=Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:242-244, =Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:104-107); Bulgarians [the fox lies on the road, pretends to be dead; an old man carrying fish picks it up; she throws the fish out of the cart, runs away]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1:39; Albanians [the fox tells the wolf she is called for christening; eats half of the honey stored by the wolf, says that the child was named Zanafilla (~ "beginning"); next time, Maroscha (~ "end"); at the end of winter, the wolf discovers that there is no honey, hits the fox and throws it away; the priest carrying a bag of wafers picks it up for the fur; the fox gnawed through the hole, threw in the wafers, jumped out by herself; eats the wafers, replies to the wolf that they are given in the church, if you say "amen"; the wolf comes to the church, says "amen," he is beaten; the fox explains that the wolf has a rude voice, tells him to bring ticks, pulls out his teeth, he goes back to church, speaks in a thin voice, he is beaten again; fox: this is because you beat me then]: Lambertz 1952:198-201; Slovenes, Hungarians, Romanians, Greeks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 1:16-17.
Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Novgorod, Gorkovskaya, Smolensk, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians (Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Poltava, Kharkiv, Chernigov), Belarusians [The fox steals fish from the cart (sleigh): pretending to be dead, she lies down on the road; the man puts it on the cart; she throws the fish and jumps off the cart]: SUS 1979, No. 1:52; Russians (Zaonezhye or Pinega, p. Gusevo, 1927) [The old man buys a barrel of herring in the city, picks up a dead fox from the road, and puts it on the cart. She finds herself alive, throws the fish out of the barrel and jumps off herself. The old man tells his wife that he brought her herring and collar, but he does not find either one or the other on the cart. The fox brags about its prey to the wolf, says that she caught the herring sitting on the ice, lowering its tail into the ice-hole. The wolf follows her example, pulls his tail, thinks that it is heavy because it has a lot of fish; when the village men appear, the wolf runs away with its tail off. The fox smeared her head with sauerkraut, complains that she was beaten and her brain leaked, the wolf is carrying her, she says "a beaten unbeaten man is lucky"]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 46:113-114; Russians (Vologodskaya) [grandfather caught and carried a bag of fish; picked up a fox on the road; she threw out the fish and jumped off herself; grandpa babe: brought a collar; neither fox nor fish; the fox told the wolf that she had caught fish with his tail down the ice-hole; wolf frostbitten her tail]: Kuzmina 2008, No. 2:41; Russians (Pskov) [the woman sews a fur coat; says to her husband: I would go to buy a fox collar; there were no collars at the bazaar, the husband bought fish; the fox lay down on the road, the man picked her up, the fox threw the fish out of the bag, jumped; tells the wolf that she caught it on the tail in the ice-hole; the wolf's tail froze, the woman came to the ice-hole, hits the wolf with a rocker arm, the fox eats all pancakes smeared; tells the bear that her brains are out - she hit a pine tree with a run; the bear also tried to hit - not her brains flowed, but blood; the fox tells the hare where she picked the pancakes; he goes to the hut, his grabbed; {further inserts of clearly literary origin}]: Ploshchuk 2004, No. 1:59-61; Russians (Ryazanskaya) [grandfather rides on firewood from the city where he bought fish, flour; the fox pretended to be dead, he is hers picked it up; she threw all the fish on the road, jumped off by herself; tells the wolf that she caught it in the ice-hole; you should say "Catch, fish, big and small"; the wolf's tail is frozen, the wolf's baby with a rocker arm, he tore off his tail, ran away; the fox at that time smeared his head with a test: she was beaten more, her brains were released; the wolf agrees to drag it on him; the fox says: the beaten unbeaten man is lucky; the grandfather came to wife: no fish, no fox on the collar; (the same sketchy, No. 5-9:7-9)]: Samodelova 2013, No. 4:5-7; Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [Grandfather's rooster finds a wheat ear in the litter, the woman's chicken - the top, the grandfather grinds flour from the grains of the ear, the woman rubs the poppy seeds with honey and flour, cooks a pie, puts it on the window to bake in the sun (poor, do not have a stove). The fox persuades the wolf to steal the cake, notices that it is not ready yet and offers to sleep first while the wolf sleeps, she eats the delicious filling, replaces it with feces (in the text "guess what"), then accuses him. He swears to "eat the earth," she suggests lying in front of the sun and waiting for wax on one of them's body, the wolf falls asleep, she steals wax from the apiary, smears it, the wolf admits that he ate honey, though and doesn't remember it, promises to give her her first loot. The fox lies in the way of the merchants, gives off a strong smell of "what is urine", they decide that she is dead, puts it on the cart, she gnaws through the cart and throws the fish on the road, runs away by herself. The wolf asks for a treat, she suggests catching fish herself, explains that you need to put the tail into the ice-hole, saying: "catch a fish.." The fox says "frost and frost, wolf host" nearby, says that it helps. He convinces him to sit longer when the frost gets stronger, shouts "pull", he cannot, stays on the ice, the fox reports about the wolf in the village, the residents come running and hitting him, he leaves his tail in the ice-hole and runs away. He jumps into a drawn sleigh and escapes. The fox in an empty hut is smeared with dough, lies down on the road, says, beaten so badly that her brain has leaked out of her bones. She asks the wolf to let her into the sleigh, after much persuasion, he lets her in, hears the sleigh crunching, she says as if she is biting a nut, the third time the sleigh breaks, the wolf goes to the forest for firewood to fix the sleigh , the fox eats the horse's insides, puts live sparrows there, and covers the hole under the tail with straw. The wolf decides that the horse has eaten too much straw, pulls it out, birds fly out, and the skin falls. The fox convinces the wolf that he cannot walk, he harnesses himself into the repaired sleigh and carries it, she says "the beaten unbeaten man is lucky", gets better when the wolf asks her again]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 4:7-9; Poles: Knoop 1916, No. 5 [parents have a tiny boy the size of a gadfly; when his father plows, the boy sits by the ox in his ear and shouts; the rich man saw this, offered 100 for the boy thalers; the father realized that the boy was expensive, refused to sell it; he gave it to the landowner for 300 thalers; he began to carry the boy in his pocket; once he found a bag of money on the road, put it on the wagon; the boy he got out quietly, made a hole in his bag, slowly threw the money away, hid it in a hole, returned to his father; his father became rich]: 208; Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 1-2 [the fisherman was carrying fish; picked up a pretended one on the road the dead fox, put it on the cart; the fox threw the fish and ran away on its own; tells the wolf that it caught the fish by itself, putting its tail into the ice-hole; the wolf decided to try, the tail froze; the wolf either ran away with its tail cut off, or people staked the wolf]: 51-52; Luzhitans, Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 1:16-17.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians (Irons) [a man was riding an arba with a load of fish; the fox pretended to be dead, the man picked it up; she dropped the fish and jumped off unnoticed; at home, the man told his wife that he had brought fish and fox skin on a fur coat; but the arba was empty]: Miller 1887, No. 3:176-177; Georgians [The fox promises the Bear to cure the cubs from scab, tells him to bring the chicken and go to pray; cooked the cubs, took it away chicken; sends the Wolf to the Bear; he howls in grief, hits the Wolf; the fox pretends to be another Fox, weaves the basket, says that he will roll down the mountain to the chickens; the Wolf asks to lower it, bruised, under beaten by shepherds by a mountain; The fox pretends to sew up his ass with a rope so as not to need food; the Wolf asks to be sewn on; suffers, tears his whole ass to relieve himself; the Wolf tore off the Fox's tail; she pretended to be dead on the road; she was picked up by a wedding train; she tells the bride to give her rings, otherwise she will ruin the air and think about the bride; runs away, pretends to be dead again, steals fat from the merchant fish aunt; comes in bracelets and with her aunt to 40 foxes, sends them to catch fish, dipping her tails in the lake; tails are frozen in the ice; brings dogs, foxes ran away, cutting off their tails, the Fox mingled with them, now that's it tailless; The wolf drives everyone to the bridge, prays for the liar to fall into the water; the Fox falls, the Wolf grabs her, magpies fly in; the fox explains that she made them colorful; The wolf also wants to become colorful; The fox roasts it on a spit]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 12:46-49; Turks (Ankara, Kars) [the fox pretends to be dead, the man carrying the fish in the sleigh picks it up; the fox drops the fish and runs away; says the wolf that it caught by lowering its tail into the water; the wolf lowers its tail, the fox makes the water freeze; the fisherman rushes to beat the wolf, he runs away with his tail cut off; the fox falls through the chimney into the sauerkraut with the dough, smears, tells the wolf that she was beaten terribly; the wolf agrees to carry it on himself]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 5:30.
Iran - Central Asia. Vakhans [the fox fraternized with the bear; a bird was flying in the sky; the fox: "Look, bear, a bird is flying in the sky and does not say hello to me!" ; bear: "Why should she bow to you, fox?" ; fox: "After all, I gave her these wings!" ; bear: "If you have wings for her, I'm your brother, since you know how to do it, then make me fly the same way!" ; fox: "Go, bring me branches from the forest, I'll make you the same wings"; when he picked up branches, told me to bring a stone slab; the bear brought it, lay down on the top of the mountain; the fox attached branches to his back, and She tied the stove to his belly; then told him to rush down; the bear jumped and crashed; the fox clutched the back of the bear with its claws, started eating it; bear: "You, fox, would start with the earlobe, it's very sweet meat!" ; fox: "I started from this side, and I'll get to my earlobes too"; after milking the bear's meat, I climbed into its skin and fell asleep; the skin hardened; the fox prayed: "Oh God, free me from this skin, I'll be like this thankful!" ; it rained, the skin got wet, the fox got out; pretended to be dead on the road; the merchant who was passing by picked it up and tied it over the pack of apricots; the fox made a hole in the bag, began to pour apricots out of it; rope weakened, the fox got rid of it and ran away]: Pakhalina 1975, No. 1:135-136; baluchi [the fox climbed a tree and is ready to fall; a man came up: if you don't sacrifice something to God, you'll fall down; the fox promises 10 nuts if the man rescued her; the man left, the fox went down carefully; met the man, called him god, he said he was human; the fox saw the caravan, pretended to be dead; she was stuck to the saddle ; she ate raisins, then poked her face in the ass of a donkey, who bit another; donkeys began to fight, merchants followed them; the fox took a bag of raisins, ate on top of the mountain, scattered some of them as a sacrifice to God; looked into the well - there is something white there; the fox thought it was fat tail, rushed down, broke against a stone]: Zarubin 1949, No. 6:59-61.
Baltoscandia. Estonians: Jakobson 1954 [The fox pretends to be dead, the man puts it on the sleigh, she throws the fish off it; tells the Bear to put its tail in the ice-hole; when dogs run in, Bear ran away with his tail cut off; now without a tail]: 111-114; Kippar 2010, No. IV.2 (Pärnu) [The fox stole a horse and cart from a drunk man; the Hare, the Wolf, the Bear ask them to put them on the cart; the swamp insists that drove on; the horse breaks the gullies; the Hare, the Wolf, the Bear bring the unusable; The fox brings suitable ones, but sees that his comrades are eating up the horse; decides to take revenge; smeared with goose blood, promises the Hare that he will have the same beautiful fur coat, you have to get into the haystack; sets fire to the haystack, the Hare burned; pretends to be dead, the man is carrying fish, picks up the Fox, she throws the fish off the cart, jumps off herself, carries a bag with fish, answers the Wolf that it is necessary to put the tail in the ice-hole, the fish will be caught; the tail is frozen, the Fox called the dogs, they tore the Wolf to pieces; smears the block with honey, advises the Bear to put his paws inside, knocks out a wedge; people killed the Bear]: 69-72; Estonians, Setu [this text is north of Tartu County (Maarja-Magdalena), but Setu has especially many options throughout Estonia; a fox sees a person carrying fish on a sleigh; pretends to be dead, the man picks her up, she slowly dumps the fish, jumps off, eats fish; tells the wolf what she caught with her tail down the ice-hole; tells her to drag, the wolf cannot; fox: there are so many fish that you have to go to people for help; people run after the fox, see the wolf, he does not think to be afraid, but he is beaten, he breaks his tail, runs away; the fox stole chickens, smeared sour cream on his head; tells the wolf that she is on her they let the dogs down; jumping over the fence, she smashed her head, her brains leaked out, the wolf agrees to drag her on him; towards her; when he found out what was going on, he also decided to help, went behind, holding a fox tail; a fox says, "The beaten unbeaten man is lucky"; tells the wolf that he complains of pain and hunger; the hare promises to help; seeing a woman with a basket of buns, he pretends to be dead; the woman comes up, the hare jumps up, the woman in the basket drops in fear, the wolf takes it away; the fox says the hunter is coming; the wolf and the hare are running away, the fox eats buns]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 1:11-14; Lutsie (West 1927) [the old lady answers the hare what she is looking for a shepherd for his three geese; towards a wolf; old lady: how do you sing? wolf howls; old lady: no, you will scare all geese; the fox sings a song, the old lady is happy; the fox ate the goose, the feathers are under the threshold; says that she is called for christening, to the attic herself, there is a barrel of oil; what was the name? fox: Beginning; ate another goose; again for christening; called Half; ate the third, again for christening, ate butter, called the hostess to the cold bath and told everything; her mistress with a broom - she stuck, with Since then, the fox has a tail; it pretended to be dead, the fisherman carried the fish and picked it up; the fox threw it all off, eats, tells the wolf that it caught, putting its tail into the well; the tail froze, the fox called the people, they ran to beat wolf, fox head in sauerkraut, full, head in the test; tells the wolf that the brains have leaked; the beaten unbeaten is lucky; the wolf: how beautiful the woodpecker is; the fox: I'll do the same, get into the haystack; set fire to the haystack, the wolf burned; the fox carries bones in a bag, tells the man that she exchanged the money for his horse; open the bag when you go beyond that blue forest; the fox killed the horse, eats; says that if anyone gets to this horse meat faster than her, she will cry; cancer caught on the fox's tail; when she runs up, he is already eating horse meat; the fox has tears from her eyes; old woman: you will recover if you eat the meat of a 9-year-old bear; the fox walks, knocks on the Christmas trees, on each bear, she asks how old she is; 3, 6 are not needed; 9; well, turn around; the bear turned, fell, the fox eats it; the fox tells the people she meets that she is going to repent of their sins, asks what sins they have; the cat ate sour cream, the hare poisoned the sheep, the wolf ate the sheep, the bear lifted the horse; the fox: we cross the hole on the perch; the cat crossed, the rest fell; whose voice is weaker, we will eat it; ate the hare, then the bear; the fox hides under giblets himself, tells the wolf that he eats his own; the wolf pulled out his own, died; the fox ate the wolf, spring has come; the fox to the woodpecker: you can't pour sawdust, eat your chicks; the woodpecker poured, the fox got out; the fox demands for the woodpecker to make her laugh; the husband carries bread, the wife carries porridge with eggs; the woodpecker pretends to be knocked down, they rushed to catch, the fox ate everything; asks for water; the woodpecker punched a hole in the beer keg; asks her to mock; father and sons are threshing grain; woodpecker on their heads; sons wanted to hit the woodpecker, killed their father; the fox laughs; climbed into a hole, asks body members what they did; everyone helped, only the tail behind the bushes clung; she stuck it out to the dogs, they pulled out the fox and tore it]: Annom et al. 2018:289-298; Veps [an old man with a cart of fish returns from fishing; sees a dead fox, picks it up; while he gets home - neither fish nor fox]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 195:216; Veps (materials by E. Lönnrot and A. Alquist) [the man was driving with fish; saw a fox pretending to be dead; put it in a fish barrel; the fox threw all the fish into the snow on the way and ran away; the man came home, told his wife about the fish and the fox; opened the barrel - it was empty; the fox picked up the fish and began to eat; the wolf asked where it got it; the fox replied that she put its tail into the ice-hole and caught it; the wolf tried to do the same; the tail froze; came women began to beat the wolf; he tore off his tail, ran away; at this time, the fox climbed into the house, ate the dough from the pan, knocked it over his head; when he returned to the forest, met the wolf; he began to reproach her; the fox said that she was also beaten and her head was almost broken]: Ujfalvy 1875, No. 9:49-51; Karelians (Kalevalsky District): Lavonen 1992 (Western 1937; from Karelian Folk Tales 1963, No. 4) [fox, bear, hare they sowed bread, began to clean it; the bear reaps, then threshes, the fox and the hare are lounging; the fox: you'll get a bunch bigger, and we get a smaller one; the bear does not mind; the fox lay down on the road, the old man was carrying fish, picked up a fox ; she dropped the fish, jumped off herself; the wife scolds the old man: she could not catch it, she also says about the fox; the fox offers to divide the bread; the bear received a large pile of chaff, the fox and the hare got the grain; the fox says that it caught fish with its tail down the ice-hole; the bear lowered its tail, it froze, people began to beat the bear, he ran away; the fox is lying, his head is covered in sour cream; says that she was beaten so much that her brains leaked out; the hare looks at it, laughs - his lip burst]: 178-179; Onegin 2010, No. 1 [the old man caught burbot, goes home skiing; the fox pretended to be dead, the old man picked it up, put it with the fish; says to his wife, what burbot and fox brought; wife looks into the basket - no fox, no fish]: 83-84; Finns [the peasant was carrying a cart of fish; the fox pretended to be dead; he picked it up, she threw off the fish and ran away; says the bear that she caught with its tail in the ice-hole; the bear's tail froze, the fox called people; the women began to beat the bear, the tail came off, since then only a stump; the fox ate butter from the buttermilk, smeared with cream since then, the breast has been white; the hostess threw a pestle at it, which touched the tip of its tail, since then it has been white; the fox tells the bear that her brains are out; the bear put the fox on his back, she says," A healthy patient is lucky"; replies that he is talking; the bear threw off the fox, but she asks to take it to the haystack to die; the bear fell asleep in the hay, the fox set it on fire, since then the bear has been brown; the wolf speaks to the fox that jumped on the horse grabbed the tail and bit; the fox grabbed the horse by the tail, it carries it, the hare laughs, the lip burst; the fox: sooner the jaw breaks than the tail of the horse's snack]: Concca 1993:165- 169; Western Sami: Klaus 1995 [The fox pretends to be dead, the man with the sledge caravan picks her up, throws her on the first sledge, she slips off; only stays lying when thrown at the last one, in which salmon; throws salmon off the sledge, runs away; the Bear, Wolverine, the Hare replies that she caught fish in the ice-hole; ties one salmon to the tail, says that it has pecked; shouts that a man is coming , others jump up, her tails are cut off (Wolverine has it in the middle); the fox hides under the roots of a pine tree, the Bear tries to get it, she says that he did not grab her leg, but the root, and when the Bear grabs root, the Fox pretends to grab her leg; yet the Bear took the Fox, carried it, she sees the Motley Woodpecker, says she painted it at one time; The bear also wants to be specked, promises endure; The fox binds him, leaves him in a hole with burning brushwood; the bear is burned, the fox carries his bones in the bag, hits him one in the bag, answers the passerby that her parents are the inheritance of her parents in the bag; the shepherd agrees to buy it, gives a reindeer team in exchange; the fox hired Stallo, the Wolf and the Mouse, told them to slaughter the deer, told Flea and the Hare to cook meat; went to wash her stomach, hit them against a stone, shouting that it was not her who killed, but the workers; Stallo and the others were afraid that the owner of the deer had come, ran away; the fox threw hot guns at the Hare (hit the tips of her ears) and Flea (burned her tail), they ran away; That shepherd came, Lisa said that everything was eaten by her workers and relatives, one of them was Laska; the shepherd threw his head at him, the tip of his tail turned black; the fox on the shore called the fish to transport them her to the other side; consistently rejects everyone (listed), accepts the help of salmon; calls him to the shore, grabs him, carries him to fry in an empty plague; the roast hisses, the Fox thinks that people have come jumps out; realizing what was going on, she hits the salmon, a splash of fat burned her eyes; the fox walks, asking the trees if they would lend her eyes; two species of pine do not give, the birch gives, the fox runs away, the birch tree has time hit it on the tail, since then the tip is white]: 3-10; Kohl-Larsen 1982, No. 31 [the fisherman caught fish, carried it in a bag on a sleigh {more precisely, Pulk is a boat that deer can drag through the snow like a sleigh}; fox pretended to be dead, the fisherman picked it up, put it in a bag of fish; the fox gnawed through the hole, threw the fish away and jumped out on its own; ate it; tells the bear that it caught the fish itself with its tail down the ice-hole; the bear: I have a long tail, I'll catch more than you; the fox advises the bear to hold its tail in the water longer - it will catch more; in the morning the fox calls people to beat the bear; he cut off his tail, went to kill the fox; she hid under the pine tree, the bear took it out; the fox: who kills the prey where he grabbed it; the bear carried the fox; the fox points to the colorful birds: she painted them; the bear asks to paint it; the fox tells you to collect a large pile of brushwood: let the bear sit on it and endure it; set fire to brushwood; the bear burned; the fox collected the bones in a bag, carried it; towards the man; the fox rattles with bones: in her bag the inheritance of the deceased parents is gold and silver; the fox seems to reluctantly agree to change the bag for six deer that a person has; warns that if he opens the bag before he is behind the fifth the sixth mountain, it will contain only charred bones; the man opened the bag behind the fourth mountain; he did not find any more foxes; and she brought the deer to her friends; these are wolverine, ermine, frog and mouse; steel kill a deer with arrows; the wolf let his back, the deer still have a bone in this place ("wolf shot") that is not connected to the rest of the skeleton; the mouse is also behind, between the hooves, there is now bloating like brush (gleicht einem Pinsel); the frog is below (there is also a bone, not connected to the rest of the skeleton); the ermine hit the heart, there is also a bone ("ermine arrow); after dark, they cook the deer; the fox slowly took its stomach, puffed it, stepped aside, started hitting it and shouting: let it go, don't kill it, it's the wolverine, the ermine and the hare that killed the deer; everyone decided that people were coming, and ran away; the wolf jumped over the fire, burned; the ermine's tail turned black; the hare climbed under the cauldron, its ears turned black with soot; this is how these animals got their color]: 166-174; Lagercrantz 1958, No. 332 (Lyngen, coast of northern Norway) [the fox pretended to be dead; the man was carrying fish, picked up a fox, put it on the cart; it dropped all the fish, jumped, picked up the fish and ran with it into the forest; the man came home - the cart was empty]: 14; 1961, No. 256 (Nesseby, Varangerfjord) [the fox lay down by the road; the man was carrying fish, put the fox in the sleigh; it slowly threw away the fish and jumped on its own; bear asks where the fox got the fish; the fox: put the tail into the ice-hole; the tail froze, the fox began to call people, the bear ran away, tearing off its tail; pulled the fox out from under the tree; fox: there are so colorful birds, you would could also be like this; the bear believes that the birds were painted by a fox, agrees to any suffering; the fox tied the bear to a wooden platform, lit a fire, roasted the bear alive; put the remains in a bag , a man met him, asks what's in the bag; fox: silver inherited from my parents]: 42-44; Poestion 1886, No. 1 (Karasjok, North Sami dialect) [seeing a man with a caravan the sledge, the fox pretended to be dead; the man put it on the first sledge, the fox slipped off; shifted it to the second one, etc.; once on the last one where the fish was, the fox threw it off and jumped on its own; says a bear that caught fish with its tail down the ice-hole; when the tail froze, the fox began to call people; the bear cut off its tail, ran away; the fox also ran away, hid under the root, asks its dicks how they are helped; leg: ran fast; ear: listened sensitively; nose: sniffed well; tail: showed to run here; bear pulled the fox by the tail, carries it to eat; passes by the spotted woodpecker; fox: That was the time when I painted birds! the bear also wants to be colorful; fox: to do this, you must tie you first; the fox tied it and burned it, put the bones in a bag, they rattle, the person he meets with deer pulled into sledges believes that gold and silver in the bag; gives deer for a bag; fox: you can open it by passing five or six mountains; wished a person's skis to break; they break; for the remaining deer to break their legs; broke; when the fox came to the deer received for the bear bones, the fox called his assistants to kill them: bear, wolverine, ermine, mouse, fox, snake, snake, snake, frog; the bear shot in the chin (now deer spot - "bear arrow"); wolf - in the back leg (there is a "bear arrow" spot); wolverine - in the back of the head ("wolverine arrow" spot); ermine - in the throat, mouse - in the hoof, even in the ass (everyone has the same), fox - at the base of the ear (there is now a "fox arrow" bone), in the intestines (a sign on the interior fat), the frog is in the heart (there is a "frog arrow" cartilage under the fat); so they killed all the deer; the fox went to wash the intestines, disappeared behind the stone, screamed as if she had been captured; the animals were frightened and ran away, leaving only an ermine and a mouse; at that time a deceived man came up; fox: it was my assistants who swapped gold with bones ; the man hit the tip of the tail with a pot hook over the fire, the tip turned black; the mouse hit the smut so it turned black; the fox came to the man who made the boat; I also want like this; in response, a man threw a fox into the river, it climbed onto a stone; each fish offers to transport it ashore, the fox rejects each; the pike is slippery, I can't resist; the perch - the dorsal fin scratches ; trout did not fit either; salmon; fox: swim closer; the fox grabbed it, threw it ashore, made a fire on its own, began to fry salmon; the branches are cracking, the fox thinks people are coming; then I realized; threw a stone at the salmon, fat splashed into her eyes, the fox went blind; she goes, asks the trees if they have an extra pair of eyes; the birch refuses to give, the aspen agrees to borrow for a while; the fox took it forever her eyes; the aspen only hit her tail, it turned white]: 7-15; Eastern Sami [the fox goes to eat fish in the barn; the owner came in, she pretended to be dead, he threw it into the keryozha (sleigh) with fish, on the way she threw out the fish, ran away; the man chased the dogs; the fox disappeared into the hole, asks her ears, eyes, legs what they did (listened, watched, ran); tail: prevented them from running; fox put it out of the hole to the dogs, they pulled the fox by the tail, tore it]: Lviv 1916:85-86; the northern Swedes [the fox climbed onto the fish seller's sleigh; when he noticed it, hit it, it pretended to be dead, he picked it up, she threw off the remaining fish and ran away; told the bear that she had caught it with her tail down the ice-hole; the bear waited a long time, rushed, tore off its tail, now it's short]: Stier 1971, No. 44:179- 180; Lithuanians [the fox asks the man to give her a ride, slowly throws the herring out of the barrel, runs away; the wolf asks where she got the fish; the fox teaches you to put the tail into the ice-hole; calls people in the morning, wolf runs away with his tail cut off; the fox steals sausages, tells the wolf that it eats its guts; the wolf rips his belly, dies]: Lebite 1965:12-14; Latvians: Alksnite et al. 1958 [fisherman carrying fish on wood, fox lay down on the road, the fisherman picked it up, threw it on the wood, she threw the fish, jumped off and ran away]: 42; Niedre 1952 [the fisherman was carrying fish; the fox pretended to be dead, the fisherman put it on the cart, she threw the fish, advised the wolf to fish on the tail in the ice-hole; when the wolf's tail froze, she called the dogs; the wolf ran away with his tail cut off; the fox smeared her face with a test, said that her brain had been knocked out, the wolf agreed to take her to back into the chicken coop; the fox asked to throw her rooster, he screamed, the wolf was beaten, and the fox got the rooster; the fox offers the wolf to build an ice hut, and builds a bast house; in the spring the wolf's house melted; the fox asks the wolf to push it into a hole and bury it there; the wolf falls into a hole, is killed, the fox laughs]: 19-22.
Volga - Perm. Bashkirs: Barag 1989, No. 82 [The wolf asks the Fox to feed him; she pretends to be dead, the fisherman throws her into his sleigh, she throws away all the fish, runs away; the Wolf is happy; the fox explains what she caught fish on the tail; The wolf lowered its tail into the ice-hole, the tail froze; in the morning, the women hit the wolf with rocker arms, the tail came off; the Fox asks Quail to make her laugh; he sits on the reaper's head, her husband hits him with a flail head, tore off his wife's head; Fox laughs; asks her to scare her; Quail filled her eyes with resin, brought her to the village; dogs are chasing her, Quail laughs]: 386-387; Nasyrov, Polyakov 1900 [materials by N.F. Katanov ; the fisherman came across a dead fox, put it in a bast bucket to the fish; the fox threw the fish away and ran away; at home, the fisherman hurried to burn his old malachai, but did not find the fox; old woman: you should have put the fish in the wrong bucket, but in the canopy; the fisherman found a needle, put it in the canopy, it was lost; wife: should have been stuck in clothes; the fisherman found a braid, attached it to his chest, etc.; the fox told the bear that it had caught fish on its tail; tail the bear froze, the woman began to beat the bear with a rocker arm, the bear ran away with his tail cut off]: 104; Kazan Tatars: Nasyrov, Polyakov 1900, No. 8 [the man carried a purse with fish; put the caught fox there; that gnawed at the hole, poured out the fish, began to eat; the bear believes that the fox tied the body to the tail and lowered it into the ice-hole; the bear's tail froze; a woman came, began to beat the bear with a rocker arm, he ran away, cutting off tail; a man came home, told his wife to throw old fox fur into the fire; opened a purse, there was no fish or fox]: 66-67, 104 (Mishari Tatars; recorded by N.F. Katanov) [the fox steals fish from an ordinary cart in a way that makes the wolf catch it with its tail from the river]; Chuvash [The fox pretended to be dead, the man picked it up, she threw the fish off the cart, told the Wolf that she caught it, putting her tail into the ice-hole; in the morning people they began to beat the Wolf, he ran away, leaving his tail frozen in the ice; the fox promises to bring him a herd of sheep, tells him to hide in a haystack, sets him on fire; leads the Wolf to drink beer underground, he got drunk, sang, killed him; dressed up, asked to dance, she ran away, taking her outfits]: Eisin 1993:35-37; Mordovians: Paasonen 1941 [the old woman sent her husband for fish; he caught it, carried it home in the basket; the fox smeared her head with dough, lay down on the road as if dead; the man put it in the basket, she threw the fish and ran away; eats fish, answers the bear that she was eating his eyes; the bear pulled out one eye and ate it; fox: I deceived you, fish caught it in the lake; the bear tied a basket to its tail, lowered its tail into the ice-hole (Wuhne); the tail froze, a Russian woman came for water, killed the bear with a rocker]: 273-275; 1947 [the old man was carrying fish in a sleigh; a fox pretended to be dead, the old man picked her up; she threw all the fish and jumped off herself; began to eat; told the wolf that she had tied a basket to her tail, lowered its tail into the ice-hole; the wolf did so; the women came, became To beat him, he cut off his tail, ran to look for the fox to eat; she climbed into the house, smeared her head with dough; told the wolf that she had been beaten worse - her brains out; the wolf felt sorry for her from taking her to the forest on his back; the fox pretended to be dead again; the crow came down, the fox caught it; the crow advises putting oil and honey in the basket together with it and planting it; began to eat butter and honey while sitting on a tree]: 836-839 (second similar option on S. 839-842); marie [people were carrying fish on a sleigh; saw a fox pretending to be dead; threw it on a sleigh; the fox climbed under the fish, made a hole in the sleigh, threw the fish away and jumped herself; the man's wife went out at home - no fox, no fish; the fox gathered the fish for the haystack and eats; tells the wolf what she caught with her tail down the ice-hole; the tail froze; in the morning the wolf thinks that a lot of fish have stuck; woman saw the wolf, called her husband; he began to beat the wolf, he ran away with his tail cut off; when he met the fox, the wolf says: there are so many fish that he could not pull it out; the fox tells the wolf to climb into the haystack, she will bring him sheep; set fire to the haystack; when the wolf's hair caught fire, he jumped out and ran; fox: run into the rosehip bush; the wolf peeled off to death, the fox has meat again]: Beke 1938, No. 71:629-632; Komi [ the fox and the hare live in an ice hut; they have prepared a barrel of butter; at night the fox gets up, says that she is called for a christening; eats butter; returning, replies that the boy was named Beginning; the next night - Half; then the End; the hare found an empty barrel, accused the fox, she ran away; climbed onto the sleigh in which the man was carrying fish, threw everything off, jumped; tells the wolf that she caught it in the ice-hole, putting it into the water tail; the wolf's tail froze, a woman came, killed the wolf, sold the skin; the hare's hut melted, the fox met and ate it]: Fokos-Fuchs 1951, No. 20:192-198; Komi [the fox agreed with the wolf that pretend to be dead when the fisherman passed by; he put it in a bag, she made a hole, threw away all the fish and ran away; they ate the fish with the wolf; the fisherman wanted to give the fish and fox to his wife, but the bag was empty]: Uotila 2006, #44:201.
Turkestan. Kazakhs [every day the fox takes the old man's fish; then he walks with an ax, the fox does not dare to approach; the fox lay down on the road, pretended to be dead, the old man was carrying fish, picked up a fox, it ate the fish and ran away; the old woman beat the old man; dhow goes, pulls trees; the old woman told the old man to tell dhow he was looking for a rival; buried the fish intestines; the old man suggested: whoever removes the earth's brain is stronger; dhow stamped - nothing, old man - buried intestines came out, dhow recognized him as the strongest; goes to visit the old man; the old woman teaches the old man what to say; old woman: give nothing to the guest; old man: cook the head of the first dow or the chest of the latter, or the dhow itself; dhow ran away]: Potanin 1916, No. 39:143-144 (=Kaskabasov et al. 1979, No. 70:137); Karakalpaks (Takhtakupyr district) [camel, tiger, wolf and fox conspired to be friends and went to the desert; the fox persuaded the tiger to offer the camel to be meat to feed them and said that when the bread was ripe, they would give him money for it; the camel agreed; when his slaughtered, the fox ate the best pieces and the wolf giblets; the fox told the tiger that the wolf ate everything; the tiger chased him; the fox hid the meat in a hole, told the returning tiger that the camel said: "You're not give me my money in the fall" and ran away; then secretly came back for the hidden meat; a tiger came and asked where her gut came from; the fox replied that she had pulled out her back intestine and was now eating it; the tiger said that wants to eat his own, asked him to pull it out; the fox agreed to help only after the tiger had tied its four legs; stuck its face into his back intestine and ate it; the tiger howled, the fox pulled out its face, said that she had freed his gut; while she was eating, the tiger died; the fox lay down on the road, pretended to be dead; the old woman's son put her in the arba; the fox began to throw off the shepherds (breams) lying there; the old woman's son arrived home, told his mother that he had brought her a fox on her hat; then he saw that there was neither a fox nor a fish in the arba; the wolf asked the fox where she got the shepherds; the fox replied that she put its tail in the ice-hole and caught it; the wolf I went to the ice-hole, lowered his tail there, froze; in the morning he was noticed by aul women; they brought men, killed the wolf; the fox also ate his meat]: Baskakov 1951:37-39.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas [the fox pretended to be dead, the old man put it in the sleigh, she threw it off, took the bag of fish; tells the old man that the Wolves are coming, he must hide in the hole; tells the wolves where the old man is, his ate; says she caught fish with her tail down the ice-hole; the wolves lowered, the tails froze, the man killed them]: Katanov 1907, No. 141:256-257; the Mongors [The hare pretended to be dead, picked him up the seller of sweets; in the basket The hare ate sweets, put the rest in his ears, spoiled, ran away; tells the Wolf that he is eating his eye; the wolf asks him to pull out his eye; The hare tells him not to scream, otherwise the eye will become bitter; feeds the Wolf sweets; The wolf agrees to lose his second eye; yells in pain; The hare puts his eye in his mouth, it is not so tasty; leads him to bask by the fire on the edge of the cliff; asks him to move; The wolf falls, crashes]: Stuart, Limusishiden 1994:124-125.
Western Siberia. Mansi [The fox sees the old man making a boat, there is a boy next to him; the fox advises putting the boy under the boat, the old man cut the boy with an ax; people put the Fox in the boat because he knows the land; he finds a bunch of sturgeon gills, eats; says that the reach is called a bunch of sturgeon gills; then a bunch of rolls, Half a loaf of bread; stuck to the shore, the Fox ran into the forest, turned into a boy; the old man brought it home to an old woman; at night the boy knocks on the window, says that his child's name is to baptize, eats the fat in the barn in the barn in the neck; says that the child was named Neck; then Seredinka, Bottom; the boy offers to lie down with the old man on the stove, on whom the fat will come out, he ate; the boy wiped himself with dust, smeared the old man with fat; and now the Fox lives happily and safely]: Lukina 1990, No. 194: 501-502.
Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [The fox convinces Myselov's bird that the deer and the camp are strangers; he kills a deer from his own herd, kills his wife and children; later he sees that Lisa did not kill her children, only bit their ears; the Mouselov lures the Fox onto thin ice; she falls through, gets to the fish mother, promises to heal, acting as a shaman, tells her to put a stick and then get up on the ice; says that the patient will scream; ate fish and ran away; sits on a woman's sledges, eats a bag of meat, replies that the area is called Polsumy, Donyshko; The bear wants to eat it, she promises get fat after sleeping; both lie down on the edge of the mountain; at night, the Fox lies down on the other side of the Bear, asks him to move, he falls; tells the man that he eats his penis; he cuts off his own, dies; the fox comes to his two wives, hides his face; in the dark, they try to cut the Fox with an ax, but cut the belly of a pregnant woman; tells Wolf that he gets fat by lowering his tail into the ice-hole; the wolf's tail freezes, is torn off; other Wolves say that a Fox came, breaking her tooth on a sharp deer stomach; a lot of Fox sits by the fire; the Wolf smeared his ass in ash, began to dance ridiculously; everyone laughed, one closed her mouth, her Wolf torn to pieces]: Popov 1937:28-33; Western Evenks (Ilimpic): Vasilevich 1936, No. 1 (Tura) [The bird invites Lisa to jump on the ice of the lake; the fox fails; at the bottom, the mother falls ill; Fox offers to cure, tells the guys to get out, eats Magpie; invites Burbot to race; each time the other burbot in front is responsible; the fox rides a sled with an old woman, eats fat; tells the old man to bring the deer to the fodder; he kills them himself, eats them; the old man shouts to the old woman to kill the fox; the fox explains that he tells her to tie fat on her tail; runs away; the old man let the dog go The fox in the hole, the old man lit the fire, the Fox told the fire to leave her tail even a sleeve long; he left]: 7-8; Vasiliev 1936, No. 5 (Western 1907) [The fox and the bird Kovshichan went up the river; at night the Fox turns the shuttles, K. does not notice that they are now swimming down the river; they see the herd, K. does not understand that he is slaughtering his own deer; after learning about This is what the Fox lures to the fragile ice; the fox sinks to the bottom to the ulcers, they say that their mother is sick; the fox undertakes to shamanize, treat, says that the disease will scream; eats eggs, runs away; is hired as a shepherd, kills deer; the old man shouts to his wife to beat the Fox; she hears poorly, the Fox explains that her husband tells her to tie a bubble of fat to the Fox's tail; runs away; tells the Wolves that he has caught fat in the river, with his tail down; wolf tails freeze, Wolves tear them off; Fox gnaws bones, breaks a tooth; Wolves in the plague will make people laugh, one hoots an owl, mutters a hare; the fox covers his mouth, Wolves beat him; The fox offers The bear should lie on a cliff ledge, closer to the wall; at night he lies between him and the wall, asks him to move, the Bear falls; the fox eats bear meat; the girls carry supplies, the Fox is called to show the way, along the way eats everything; hides on larch, girls make a fire; the Fox asks the Fire not to burn it to the end, becomes small as it is now]: 258-262 (quail in Bulatova 1985:154-160); Kirensky Evenks [The fox tells the Bear that she is sick, asks her to carry it; slowly eats all the dried meat from his bag, runs away; the bear puts rotten things in his pants, collects foxes, shamanites; when dizzy, rotten from pants fell in different directions; the foxes laughed with their mouths open; the bear saw that one had broken teeth - against his meat; he had been hitting her to blood, since then the fox had been red]: Pinegina et al. 1952:18-19; Amur Evenks (b. Urmi) [man shot fox; fox: why did you hurt my leg, tie me on a sledge; man: what clicks? fox: licking the wound; stopped, the fox went for firewood, did not return; the man saw that all the food was eaten]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 6:12; Evens: Bolshakova, Chaiko 2015 [the fox offers the old man to herd his deer; before migrating, the old man tells his wife to feed the fox, and he goes after the deer; there are only skins full of moss; the old people themselves dragged the sledge of fish across the ice of the river; the fox volunteered to help, pretends that she tucked her leg, put her on a sledge, she slowly eats fish; says that the gorge is called Half; the next is the End; the old people have come to the place - no fox, no fish, just a broken fox tooth; an old man tells the old woman to sew his pants and call all the animals to say goodbye as if he were dying; holes in his pants, dust inside, old man; the old man jumped, dust fell down, everyone laughs, and one fox covers his mouth; the old woman grabbed the fox by the tail; she tells her to hold it by the tip of its tail, otherwise the sun will hide it; the fox has escaped, only a piece of hair remains, since then the tip of the fox's tail is white]: 41-45; Danilov, Danilova 1991 [ Omcheni goes to the sea to catch chum salmon, his younger brother foxes promises to herd deer; tells O. and his wife Hatak how fat the deer have become; O. tells him to bring a horse deer; the fox brings one old one three times, the other is fat; O. goes by himself, sees that all the deer are killed and eaten; the fox runs away, invites the Yakut to push his sleigh on the ice of the river; asks what the tracts are called, the Yakut answers; the fox pretends that broke his leg; the Yakut put it in his bag, the fox threw away all the food stored there, ate it, broke his tooth, the tooth remained in the bag; the fox says that his leg has recovered, goes to prepare firewood, throws away the ax, runs away; the Yakut he stuffed a rotten man in his pants, came to the fox house, began to shamanize, the dust fell down, everyone laughed, the guilty fox is afraid to open his mouth so as not to show a broken tooth; the Yakut grabbed him and beat him]: 23-26; Novikova 1987:6-7 [the old man puts the fish in a hole, the fox steals the fish, falls into a trap, pretends to be dead; the old man puts it on the sledges, is going to make his wife a collar on his fur coat; the fox ran away], 8-17 [the fox demands from the cedar to shed its eggs, threatens to cut down a tree; the Garandya bird {Petrova 2013:186: a fairy-tale bird that looks like a huge eagle} explains that a fox can't do it; the fox tries to grab Garandya, that takes her to the island; the fox tells the seals that it is going to count who is bigger; let the seals line up first, the fox runs ashore on their backs; invites the old man to herd his deer; eats them, she fills her skins with grass, leaves her standing; the old man sees deception, shouts to the old woman to hold the fox, she explains that the old man tells her to feed her yucola, berries and nuts; yet the old woman grabs the fox by the tail; the fox says that she grabbed the burned place, runs away; the fox says she is a different fox, invites the old man to drag the sledge; says she is tired, sits on a sledge, the old man drags it; the fox eats dried berries, leaves his tooth; says he will go for firewood, throws away an ax; the old man tells his wife to sew hairy pants, call all the animals to the yurt; dances ridiculously, everyone laughs, he sees a toothless fox; way out closed, the old man tells the fox to beat, and the old woman hits everyone; since then, the hare's ears are black, the ermine has a black end of its tail; the fox asks her not to hit - it will come in handy; invites the moose to race, pushes them to the shore, they fall, drown; the old man offers to hunt wolves, the fox tells the wolf that he has caught fish on the tail, the wolf's tails freeze, the old man killed them, ripped off their skins; the fox leads the bear to the old man, who wounds him with an onion; the fox promises to heal, pulls out his liver, the bear dies; the fox offers the old man to tie her, feed it; then ties the old man, leaves; the wolf, the bear refuse untie - the fox did not order; the mouse untied; the fox was caught by the old man's crossbow].
Amur - Sakhalin. Negidals [The fox offers a person to help drag a sledge with fish; pretends to break his leg; asks to put it by bags of fish; replies that they have passed the Nachalnaya, Srednyaya, Konechnaya rivers ; limping, goes to the taiga for firewood, throws an ax, spoiling it; in a bag a man finds a broken fox tooth; puts small birds and animals in his pants; shamanite foxes in the house, birds and animals flutter out and they jump out; everyone laughs; one Fox covers her mouth; asks the hunter to spare her, promises to bring him a wife; the old man drinks water from the ice-hole, the Fox bends his head to the water; lets him go for promising to give his daughter; brings it to man]: Khasanova, Pevnov 2003, No. 64:129-131; Orochi [The fox pretended to be dead, the hunter picked it up, put it on the sledges; she threw away all the fish and ran away; hides with the elderly; hunter Dances ridiculously, Lisa laughs; the hunter grabs her, takes her to the island; she tells the Nerps she wants to count them; runs away from the island over their heads]: Bereznitsky 1999, No. 9:147; Nanais: Kile 1996, No. 5 [The fox suggests that the mergen put her in a sledge; says that her leg is in a crack, asks to be placed on a sledge between the tues, eats moose and fish oil, breaking a tooth, runs away; mergen finds a tooth; puts it in squirrel legs, raccoon, hare, ferret; comes into the house, starts a shamanic dance, animals fall out, everyone laughs, mergen recognizes the fox by a broken tooth, grabs; she asks her to let go, promises to get it a pig that old Ka has been feeding for seven years; hires to feed a pig, eats it; Ka kills it, takes off its skin, throws the carcass away; the fox causes rain, snow, hail, comes to life; borrows an ax, makes three skewers, sticks it in, where the bear rolls down the mountain, he dies; asks the mergen to give a ride to the carcass; shares the meat with the mergen with the ax, and the mergen with the sledge gives what is stuck between his teeth; he takes off her skin, cuts the carcass into pieces, the Fox did not come to life]: 77-85; Medvedev 1992 [Naiso tells female chum salmon, male chum salmon to swim on the side of the river where he puts nets, caught a lot, prepared two yukola barns for himself and for dogs; the meeting demands jukola, N. went to the barn - it's already empty, the bear ate it; the bear tells us to prepare hay to lay when he kills N.; the fox advises making hay a little man and put it on the window, tell the bear that a crowd of people is coming, let the bear hide in the corner, and then there will be a dialogue: - Naiso, are there traces of my beast here? - Why would an animal come to a person that people kill? - What's in the corner? - Coal. - Take an ax and hit it, if coal, you'll hear a crunch, if there's meat, you'll hear a knock. N. cut the bear, began to eat its meat with the fox; the fox offers to play: put it in a cradle, tie it like a small child, feed it; and then N. will lie in the cradle; the fox tied N., ate everything herself and ran away; N. cries; the mouse gnawed through the ropes, N. gave her a piece of meat; N. loaded a cereal on the sledges, went hunting; towards the fox, asking her to take it instead of a dog; the fox harnessed himself into a sledge; pretended to break her leg , asks to put her on a sledge next to the cereal; in the evening she says that her leg has improved; asks for a knife to cut the herbs for bedding; N. found a knife and the fox ran away; the groats are empty, but in one a fox tooth remained; N. found a ferret, a fox {other}, a hare, put everyone in his bosom, came to the house; animals are camlaat there; bear: N. camlaet well; N. camlaet, sees a fox with a broken tooth; fox: I'll ask you marry an old man's daughter Ka; came to Ka's house, turned into a terrible beast, tells Ka and his wife Ka to give her daughter, brought her to N.; N. lives with his wife]: 282-286; Sem, Sem 2020, No. 37 []: 158-164; Orochi [ Davect tells the bird to inflate its fur, she makes excuses why it does not cross the river to him; his older brother turns to him; he hits it, she flies up a tree; his arrow gets stuck; he climbs a tree, sticks to it; Sandunga takes D. out of the trap, brings him home, hangs him over the hearth, goes for firewood; D. tells S.'s little sons to release him; show where their father's spear is; injures his leg, blood flows on the ice; S. licks it, his tongue freezes, D. kills him with a spear; sets fire to Nerp's house, they die, he takes their fish supplies; Lisa asks to take her in a sledge, eats the fish, runs away, hides at the old woman; D. screams like an owl and like a hare, the Fox laughs; asks not to kill her, leads D. to marry the old man's daughter Ka; brings a deer; eats him herself; D. follows in her footsteps; Fox resorts to wife D.: my older brother told me to tie fat salmon to my tail; D. The fox did not catch up]: Aurora, Lebedev 1966, No. 2:129-130; Udege people [someone steals fish from a trap; he finds Badger teasing him; throwing a jail, well done, hits himself in the leg; finds Badger's house, sets fire to, kills Badger and cubs (badger fur with gray hair since then); Lisa says they will come in a jay (there is no such word), they will kill everyone; both train shooting, The fox pretends to be wounded, offers to leave on sledges, eats all the fat on the way, runs away; hides in the Zaitsev house; well done hides birds under his clothes, shamanite, releases, Hares, followed by the Fox hiding laugh; Lisa promises to bring old man Kanda's daughter; leads; well done asks his wife to sew a dress for Lisa; Lisa tells the Roe deer to sleep on the ice, there will be a dress; Roe deer freeze, well done gets a lot of meat ; the same with the Raisins; the Bear's tail froze into the ice-hole, the tail came off; the Fox changed clothes with the Tiger, since then the tiger has been striped and the fox is red]: Kormushin 1998, No. 30:148-164; Wilta [Buchugdy finds Lisa on the road; she lies that she has broken her leg, asks to put her in a sledge; at rest she goes to buy firewood, during which time Lisa has eaten all the jukola; B. finds her lost tooth; puts frogs and lizards under her arm ; comes to the Hares, they shamanize; B. is also a shamanite, frogs and lizards fall from his armpit, Hares laugh; B. hears Fox laughs; she asks her to let her go, promises to find a wife; tells the fisherman to give his daughter, otherwise the fish will not be caught; the old man gives it, B. gets a wife]: Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:371-272; nivhi [the fox was moving on the ice, the ice floe came off, the fox asked the seal to convene all the seals, she will count them ; ran over the seals, was the last to squeeze out her eyes; the seals shouted to her that she would fall into the trap; she fell into the trap of a man, says she sings, the man put her on sledges carrying fat; she pretended to be sick, ate all the fat, ran away; fell into the trap again, the man killed her]: Pevnov 2010, No. 7:126-130.
Japan. Japanese [4 entries from Kanto to west Kyushu; the fox pretends to be dead, the fish seller picks it up, throws it on the cart, the fox steals the fish and runs away; tells the monkey or bear that it has caught fish putting its tail into an ice-hole; the story explains why a Japanese monkey (bear) has a short tail or not at all; in Tohoku, a bylich-style story: a man carrying fish meets a girl with pleasure agrees to give her a ride on a horse; the girl disappears with the fish, it was a fox]: Ikeda 1979, No. 1:11.
SV Asia. Forest Yukaghirs (p. Ridiculous Verkhnekolymsky ulus of Yakutia): Zhukova, Prokopyeva 1991 [my grandfather caught fish and went home; on the way he saw a fox pretending to be dead; my grandfather put it on a sleigh; the fox collected all the fish and jumped; my grandfather came home, saw a broken tooth on the sleigh; found a place where foxes gathered; stuffed bark under his clothes and went into their hut; began to dance, and became out of the holes in her clothes dust fell; the foxes laughed; one of the foxes giggled and covered her mouth with her paw; the grandfather grabbed her and took her away], No. 16:157; Kurilov 2005, No. 19 [Kyrchen's wife; seeing him, the wolf put his tail into the ice-hole; he froze; K. hit the wolf on foot, the wolf ran away with his tail cut off; on his way home, K. saw a fox lying on the road; she asked to be taken to the forest; K. put it on the sledges; she threw all the fish off the sledge, ran away; the lynx passed it off as the fox's daughter; at night, the fox gnawed at the clothes in the yard; the lynx drove the fox away, passed off the daughter as a wolverine; she could not kill wild deer; the lynx killed, ordered to be ripped off; but the wolverine buried the meat; lynx : you're a bad son-in-law, leaves]: 261-263; tundra Yukaghirs: Kurilov, Varlamova 1986 (p. Andryushkino, Nizhnekolymsky District) [=Kurilov 2005, No. 15:247-253; old man Samteney was sledding a bowl of fat; the fox volunteered to help and, when the old man turned away, climbed the sledge and hurriedly gnawed fat; in as a result, he broke off his front tooth; when the fat was over, the fox left; the old man got home, the old woman noticed that the fat was gone; the old man went to check his snare, pretended to be wounded and asked for a fox to run up bring the shaman; arctic foxes and hares came to the old man's house, the hare shaman kamlal; the old man jumped up and said he needed to wear shamanic clothes; came out of the plague, stuffed dry moss into his pants and in several places stabbed them; when he returned, he began to cry; moss fell out of his pants, everyone sitting laughed loudly; only one of the arctic foxes laughed, covering his mouth with his paw; the old man began to beat him, he pretended to be dead and when the old woman opened the door, he jumped out]: 19-26; Sangi 1989 [old man Tyartekan loads fat on the sledge, the fox tries to help; eats fat, runs away; finds his tooth on the sledge; calls to him all the animals, the shamanite, his pants fall, the fox laughs with everyone else, it is clear that his mouth is missing a tooth; T. hits him]: 427-428; Sangi 1989 [old man Tyartekan loads fat, fox on the sledge calls to help; eats fat, runs away; T. finds his tooth on a sledge; calls all the animals to him, shamanite, his pants fall, the fox laughs with everyone, it is clear that he does not have enough tooth in his mouth; T. beats him]: 427-428; itelmen [Kutkh brings fish home; Lisa pretends to be dead, K. puts it on a sledge; Lisa dumps fish, runs away; wife K. Mitya finds an empty sledge; the episode repeats, K. ties the Fox to the sledges; waits at home for the picked up Fox to thaw away, she runs away again; the fox tells Wolf that she caught goltz by dropping her into the ice-hole tail; Wolf tail freezes into the ice, it tears it off; The wolf sticks his head in a fox hole, gets stuck, the Fox eats the Wolf's face; Wolves dig a hole, kill the Fox]: Jochelson 1961, No. 22:160-161 (translated in Menovshchikov 1974, No. 173:516-518).
Wed. Northeast. Iroquois (the group is not specified; probably European borrowings.) [The Indian was carrying fish in a sleigh, the fox pretended to be dead, the man picked him up, he dropped the fish and ran away; he told the wolf; the wolf lay down on the road, the man beat him; the fox told the bear that he had caught fish on his tail; the bear lowered its tail into the ice-hole, it froze; the bear stood up with its tail cut off; the fox said that the bear was to blame]: Judd 1904, No. 12:112-114).