M144. King's Drum, ATU 49A. .21.-.26.

One character manages to convince another that dangerous and inedible objects are attractive and tasty (a hornet's nest is a drum, a snake is a flute, crap is a delicacy, etc.).

Kachari, Toto, Megalaya (Khasi or Garo), Lhota, Angami, Kachin, Burmese, Shans, Palaung, Kawa, Vieta, Cham, Ho, Assamese, (Northern India, Santals), Javanese, Dayaks of the Sea, Tidong, Bahau, Mangarai, Toraja, Sangihe, Galela, Aceh, Lampung, Sunda, Malays, Pangasians, Sambal, Tagals, Lisu, Chinese (Yunnan).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Kachari [The monkey invites the Hare to distract the attention of the person carrying bananas; the man leaves the bananas, runs after the Hare, the Monkey takes the bananas, but leaves only the skins to the Hare; the Hare says guards the king's sugarcane; pretends to reluctantly allow the Monkey to try, the cane turns out to be a burning, sour plant; the same: the king's drum (hornet's nest); the king's rod (snake); stretcher king; this time the Monkey falls into the swamp; asks the Tiger to pull it out, promises that he will be able to eat it; asks to let it dry first to clean off the dirt; runs away; the Tiger pretends to be dead; The monkey puts its tail, paw, then head in his mouth; the Tiger covers his jaws]: Endle 1911:113-115; toto [the fox offered the hare to take away the traveler's pot of cottage cheese; let the hare pretend as if limping, the man will leave the pot, run after the hare, and the fox will pick up the pot; they did so, but the fox ate the cottage cheese and said that the pot was empty; the hare pretended to eat aronnica leaves (poisonous); said it was royal sugarcane; the fox asked for it to be given to her; her throat began to burn; the hare began to comb his hair at the well, said it was a royal mirror; hare: you have to go to the mirror with run; the fox fell into the well; told the goat that the water was very fresh, let it also come down; the goat jumped into the well, and the fox jumped on his back and got out of the well; the hare pretended to hit a drum, which is a hornet's nest; this is the king's drum; the fox began to beat, bitten to death]: Majumdar 1991, No. 12:239-241; Lhota [Apfuho and the tiger hollowed out large vessels out of wood; to drag them across the river, A. advised the tiger to keep its vessel open side up; the vessel got wet and heavy; A. put more stones in it, the tiger almost drowned, went to kill A.; he says he was told guard the drum (this is a hornet's nest) so that no one dares to hit it; the tiger asks for permission to hit; A. says he will go ask the owners; idali shouts: they allowed it; hornets bit the tiger until deaths]: Mills 1922:177-178; angami [the monkey says he would like to be a jackal and the jackal would like to be a monkey; they agree to bring the best food everyone can get; the jackal brought his own, and the monkey ran to the tree and did not give the jackal fruit; the jackal points to the wild tarot, says he is guarding the master's sugarcane; the monkey asks for permission to try; eats, her throat is reduced and mouth; the monkey points to the wasp nest, tells the jackal not to eat it; or let him try, but she will move a while; the jackal is bitten by wasps; the jackal points to the overgrown pond - he guards the clothes mister; does not allow the monkey to guard either; then the monkey jumps off the tree, sinks]: Hutton 1921:277-278; Kachin [Man-Bya and the tiger went hunting; MB hid in a supply bag carrying tiger, ate everything on the way; they killed a deer, carried it on a pole; MB carried a smooth end, and the tiger was prickly; MB tells the tiger not to scream in pain - the meat will go rancid; MB sends a tiger with a leaky bamboo vessel for with water, at this time he roasts venison, added bile to the tiger's share; says that the meat is bitter because the tiger screamed; the tiger built a house for himself, and MB slept under a tree, came to the tiger to hide from the rain; said tiger that his own house is not completed, but there are diamonds and gold on the roof; the tiger saw the moon and stars and believed, agreed to change houses; stayed on the lawn; MB says he does not dare to sit on cow cake, and whoever can will get wiser; the tiger sat down and smeared; MB says that the snake is a royal staff, it's better not to take it; the tiger takes, is stung; the hornet's nest is the gong that gives victory; the tiger is bitten; MB jumps into the hole, tells the tiger that the sky is falling, we must hide; he gets out of the hole himself, covers it with brushwood, sets it on fire; the tiger jumped out, horses and cows are advised to run to the mountain, buffaloes to jump into river; the tiger escaped, but since then on the skin of a strip; villagers gave MB of poisoned vodka; before his death, MB put bees in the flute, sealed it; a sound is heard, people think that MB is alive and playing; they also drank this vodka and died]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 39:129-134.

Burma - Indochina. Shana [the hare and the tiger agree to cut the grass for the roof; the hare pretends to have a fever, the tiger agrees to carry it on their backs; the hare sets fire to the grass carried by the tiger, runs away; the cow runs away advises the tiger to run uphill, the flame is only hotter; the buffalo advises running down to the lake, bringing the tiger there on his back; since then, tigers hunt cows and do not touch buffaloes; the fire causes the tiger's skin turned striped, and the buffalo's neck shows the place where the tiger held its paws; the hare sits next to the bee nest, says he is guarding the grandfather's gong; allegedly reluctantly allows the tiger to hit the gong, he runs away, or his grandfather will come and punish him; the tiger has been bitten by bees, since then the tigers have brown spots on their faces; (other episodes follow, missed in the text); the hare falls into a hole, the tiger jumps after him, the hare climbs the tiger, jumps out, the tiger stays in the hole]: Milne 1910:242-245 (about the same in Barnes, Griggs 1903:58-66); Burmese [the bear believed the rabbit that the noise of the branches is the sound of a waterfall, which the rabbit's grandfather left to him; the bear wants to see the rabbit's inheritance, he agrees to show only the bell; this is a nest of bees; the rabbit allows you to ring the bell when he himself will go some distance; the bitten bear ran away and the rabbit ate the honey]: Nikulin 1988:433-435; palaung [rabbit (hare?) tells the Bear that he inherited a great inheritance from his grandfather; agrees to show only a wish-fulfilling bell; it is a bee's nest; the Rabbit warns the Bear not to ring the bell without it permits; allows, running away; Bear hits the nest, bitten by bees]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 141:323-325; 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 an empty honeycomb. They stabbed the tiger's mouth and the hare ate. He showed his mouth full of honey: "Look, my mouth is all over in 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; kava [the tiger chased the hare; the hare stood by a pile of cow droppings; each time he answers the tiger that he is not the same for the tiger was chasing was white and he was gray; he says that the pile is his chair, that you can't sit down, his parents scold (then the same thing every time); the tiger sits in manure; the nest of earth bees is water; the tiger sits in the manure bitten; a pile of straw is clothes; a tiger throws straw at himself, a hare sets it on fire; a tiger is looking for water, a cow sends it to the mountain, a buffalo to the valley; the tiger is burned, striped; promised to eat all the cows; the cow went to complain, the judge allowed the tiger to bully one cow a year; the quail was sent to notify the tiger while he was flying, forgot what to say, said that the tiger's case was resolved; the tiger realized that he was allowed kill every cow; and cows ruin quail nests; buffalo who saved the tiger received two necklaces that hang around his neck]: Lin Lin, Ustin 1959:173-175; Viets: Bystrov et al. 1962 [Tiger tells the Monkey to get off the tree; the Monkey says that she is a monkey climbing trees, promises to feed him fruit; you must eat strong and green, and the soft ones inside are all wormy, they must be thrown to the ground; The tiger eats unripe fruits, the Monkey on the ground is ripe; the Tiger tasted the ripe ones, chased the Monkey; she climbed a tree with a swarm of bees; said that she is a Monkey beating the drum; tells The tiger tie himself with vines to the trunk, hit the drum with a stick; the Tiger is bitten; the monkey by the river says that she is a monkey collecting mollusks, offers the Tiger to drive the fish with its tail from under the stone, drops a stone on his tail, opens the dam; the Tiger ran away, but the tail broke; the monkey falls into a hole where lime was; tells Tiger that the sky is falling; the Tiger threw himself into the hole, the Monkey tickles him, he threw it away upstairs; people poured straw into the pit, burned the Tiger]: 107-111; Nikulin 1970a [The hare eats honey on the tree, the Tiger comes up; the Hare asks that the Tiger, before eating it, allow him to hit the drum; hits bee nest, bees flew out, buzzing; Tiger likes the buzz, he wants to hit the drum too, bitten, the Hare ran away; next time the Hare hits bamboo trunks, tells Tiger he plays the zither, advises the Tiger to hit not with its paws, but with its tail; the bamboo pinched the Tiger's tail, half came off; the hare fell into the hole, tells the Tiger that the sky is falling to the ground; the Tiger also jumps into the hole; the hare tickles him, the one with him Throws away anger; hunters kill Tiger]: 31-35 (=197:24-26); Landes 1886, No. 45 [The Hare and the Tiger went to cut the grass for the roof, the chicken stayed cooking, laid the egg into boiling water, fed the Hare and the Tiger ; the next time the Chicken and the Tiger went to work in the field, the Hare stayed cooking, spoiled him in boiling water, the Tiger beat him; when the Tiger went with the Hare to get grass, he asked him to lie down to hit the Tiger the grass, set fire, since then the Tiger has been striped; the hare invited the Tiger to stick its tail between the bamboos, there will be a beautiful sound; offered to hit the hornet's nest - this is a drum; bamboos cut off the Tiger's tail, the Tiger is bitten wasps; The hare tells the Tiger that the sky is falling, tells him to hide in the well, called people, they killed the Tiger; the hare ate sweet potatoes, he was caught, he pretended to be dead, he was thrown away; the hare asked to transport the Crocodile across the river, promised to give him to his sister; he has no sister; next time the Crocodile grabbed the Hare; he offered to say "Ha", then he will be frightened; the Crocodile opened his mouth, the Hare ran away]: 115-117; tyamy [ tiger, hare, otter, chicken, elephant cut straw to build a house and take turns cooking (tiger meat, otter fish, chicken eggs); when it is the hare's turn, it cooks its excrement by adding more spices; pretends to be ill; everyone has eaten, he sings indistinctly, others understand that they have eaten hare excrement; everyone went for sliced straw, loaded it on an elephant, the hare says that he is completely bad, he is allowed to sit on the cart, he sets fire to straw, tells the tiger and otter to lead the elephant against the wind; finally, the otter brought the elephant to the river; the tiger went to look for the hare, which is wrapped in a boa constrictor; the hare says it a belt of flowers, reluctantly agrees to be worn by an elephant, asks for a thorn; the boa constrictor stabs, he opens rings, wraps around the tiger, the tiger can hardly chew it; the hare pretends to have a drum, the tiger wants knock too; this is a nest of earthen wasps, the tiger is bitten; the hare climbs a tree, it rustles 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 with his tongue cut off; 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 to look at the tiger, the hare eats cooked holiday cookies, runs away; the hare is caught on the road, pretends to be dead; his woman picks up, puts it in a candy basket; the hare eats everything, runs away; the elephant and the tiger competed to see who will make a louder sound; the elephant lost and now the tiger will eat it; the hare promised to save the elephant; when a tiger came up, a hare, having prepared a betel in advance, as if attacking an elephant, which fell covered in red spots; the tiger thought it was blood, ran away in fear; the turtle told the tiger to get the vine, it would lead him, tied to the vine, there is a hare; the hare rushed to them, the tiger ran away, dragged the turtle, it hit the stump, bleeding from its mouth; the tiger thought it was a betel and began to chew]: Landes 1987:50-60.

South Asia. Ho [a pregnant jackaliha asks her husband to prepare a house for the family; he asks him for good food every day and tells him how she digs a hole; does nothing himself; when the jackalikha gives birth, she leads family in the tiger's cave; a tiger comes up; the jackaliha makes the cubs voice and starts talking loudly, as if addressing them: gluttons ate the liver of seven tigers! Now I'll kill another one for you, he just came up; the tiger runs away, the monkey stops him and leads him back with his tails tied; jackalikha: I told you to bring seven tigers - why only one; the tiger ran, dragging the monkey, but the rope, fortunately for her, untied; sitting on a tree, the monkey tells the tiger that he is preparing an ointment for bruises; the tiger asks for it; rubbed, and the ointment burns badly; in next time there is a bee nest next to the monkey; the monkey says that this is her drum, with which she will go to play for the king; pretends to only reluctantly agree to let the tiger try; she departs away; the tiger is barely alive from the bites; next time the monkey says it is healing its wounds under the healing rays of the sun; she came down from the tree and the tiger climbed there; the monkey started the fire with friction, the tiger burned down]: Halder 1918, No. 29:339-342; Assames: Borooah 1955 [the fox and the monkey agree to shout by the road to scare the travelers; they ran away with supplies; monkey: they can come back, I'd better climb on a tree, eat your part, then you eat yours; you eat everything, throwing only a banana peel, a milk bottle, a sucked sugarcane stalk; the fox leaves; the monkey sees it at the hornet's nest; the fox says that the king appointed her to be the guardian of his drum; pretends to be very reluctant to allow the monkey to hit the drum lightly; steps aside; the monkey is almost bitten to death, fox says this is revenge; in the thickets of burning grass, she tells the monkey that it is the king's sugar cane, which she was entrusted to protect; the monkey burned its mouth; the fox sits by the well, the hole of which cobwebed; says it is the princess's palanquin; the monkey sat down, fell into the well and drowned]: 6-13; Goswami 1960 [the fox and the monkey stole bananas; the monkey carried them to the top of the tree, threw the fox only the peel; the fox sat down and waits at the black arum {some poisonous plant}; replies to the monkey that he is guarding the king's sugarcane; does not advise trying; the monkey rushed to eat it, burned his mouth; the next time the fox sits by the hornet's nest is the royal drum; the monkey hits the drum, all bitten; the third time, a cobweb-woven well; the king's bed; the monkey lay down, failed, died]: 82; ( cf. Northern India, Mainpuri, Hindi [a Banya man (merchants, money changers) ran into robbers in the forest; broke dry branches, explained that there is so little firewood in the city that any piece of wood costs money; the robbers collected branches, but it turned out that nothing could be helped for them; they were going to take revenge; at night, a man intentionally asks his wife loudly if she had brought a bag of wood hanging on a tree into the house in gold; the robbers climbed a tree, there's a hornet's nest, wasps bit them]: Crooke 1895, No. 31:30; Santals [a pair of kites carry people away; two brothers Kara and Gooja kill kites by shooting from below a nest; where they fell, a hole formed in the ground; K. and G. killed and ate the tiger, climbed the tree, taking the tiger's stomach with them; the wedding stopped under the tree; the brothers dropped their stomach on the raja, others thought that his stomach had burst, ran away; the brothers took their property, lifted them up a tree; K. took the drum, let bees into it; people returned, the brothers threw a drum at them, and they were called Rajami]: Zograf 1971, No. 26:108).

Malaysia-Indonesia. The Javanese [when they saw the tiger, the kanchil fanned a bunch of buffalo crap: this is food for the king, he was entrusted with guarding it; reluctantly agreed to give food to the tiger, but let him eat it when the kanchil will depart so that he is not accused; the tiger eats the crap; the canchil, pointing to the snake: I am guarding the king's belt; the tiger puts it on, is bitten; densely growing bamboo stems: the king's horn, the tiger sticks his tongue, is wounded; wasp nest: king's drum, tiger bitten]: Bezemer 1904:87-89 (retelling in Dixon 1916:186-188, translated to Ostrovsky 1956:17-24); Bahau [plandok (dwarf deer) tells the tiger that the Raja put he is guarded by his front belts (oruts); these are snakes; pretends to go to the Raja and he allowed the tiger to try on his belt; the tiger died from snake bites; the plandock tells the bear that he is guarding the Raja drum (this is bee nest); the bear asks for permission to hit the drum, the plandock pretends that the Raja allowed it; the bees bit the bear to death]: Evans 1913:474; dayaki of the sea [kanchil (dwarf deer) is coming fish with a turtle, a deer, an elephant and others; caught a lot, the elephant remains to smoke the fish; the forest demon Gargasi comes, eats everything, the elephant is afraid to intervene; the same happens one by one with the rest of the fishermen; K. remains the last, puts four poles wrapped in rattan, tells the demon that this is a remedy for back pain, binds him; K.'s companions come, kill the demon; take the fish, leaving nothing to K. and the turtle; K. brings a toad, she gives a voice, he shouts that a female Gargasi is coming, everyone runs away, the fish goes to K. and the turtle; the animals are looking for K. to kill; the elephant and the boar see him next to the snake; K.: I was entrusted with guarding the Raja belt; they ask me to let me wear it; K.: I'll go ask the Raja; shouts from a distance that the Raja allowed; the elephant took the snake, was bitten fatally, the boar ran away; the deer and the cow K. says he is guarding the gong raji; this is a hornet's nest; K. goes away again, supposedly to ask the raja, shouts, "You can", the deer hits the "gong", is bitten to death; fleeing from the cow, K. chewed the red ones leaves and lay down with his tongue out; the cow thought he was dead and left]: 131-135; the Milanau district, probably a tidong [plandock (dwarf deer) fell into a hole; says to the boar he came down because now the sky will fall; the boar jumps into the hole; the same with the deer; the plandock asks the deer to climb the boar, climbs the deer himself, jumps out of the hole; the deer and the boar began to dig the hole wall, got out, went to look for a plandock ; he climbed a tree where the bees nest, says he is a different plandok, guarding the royal gong; the deer wants to hit the gong; the plandock says he will move away first so as not to become deaf from the sound; the bees bit the deer to death; the boar chases the plandock, which stopped at a tree around which the boa constrictor is wrapped around; says he is guarding the royal belt; allows the wild boar to put it on carefully; the boa constrictor strangled and ate a wild boar]: Bezemer 1904: Ling Roth 1896:347-348 (=Gomes 1911:259-261); mangaray [the mouse sees a tiger, says it is guarding the owner's food (it's a bunch of bison manure); pretends to have a hard time agrees that the tiger should try it; the tiger chews manure, he does not like it; the mouse says it is guarding the owner's belt (these are snakes); the tiger puts on a belt, is bitten by snakes; meets a black tiger, asks for help kill the mouse; mouse: I'm the wrong mouse; striped black tiger: you think I'm an idiot; tigers got into a fight and killed each other]: Burger 1941, No. 13:272-274; toraja [nggasi, Tarsius fuscomanus) arranges seven monkeys to carry him from the mountain, puts stones in his place, runs away; says that the swarm of bees is his grandfather's drum; pretends to reluctantly give in to the insistence of the monkeys try to hit the drum; monkeys are bitten; same with "grandfather's belt"; it's a snake, it bites monkeys to death]: Adriani 1898:345; minahasa (pakeva) [the monkey tells the antelope that the bees nest is this is a princely drum; allows you to hit, the antelope is bitten]: Adriani 1898:351; Sangihe, Galela, Aceh, Lampung, Sunda Islands [a story with a nest of bees or wasps and co the snake-belt is known]: Adriani 1898:350-351; Malays [the story with the bee nest is known]: Adriani 1898:350.

Taiwan - Philippines. Pangasinan [turtle and iguana fish in an old man's pond; the owner caught a turtle, tied it to a rope; the turtle tells the iguana that the old man wants to marry her daughter; the iguana has changed with a turtle in places; the old man tried to kill the iguana, but she ran away; the turtle tells the iguana that he listens to her grandfather playing the flute upstairs; the iguana sticks his head between two bamboo trunks, in a gust the wind pinched her, the turtle disappeared]: Rybkin 1975, No. 52:148-149; sambal [the monkey promises the crocodile to show him a place where he can always catch monkeys; he transports it across the river, she runs away; the crocodile pretends to be dead, grabs the monkey; she says she has become His Majesty's cook, she is tasked with guarding bright red bread; the crocodile releases her for permission to taste bread; it's hot pepper, crocodile burned his mouth]: Rybkin 1975, No. 199-200; tagals [monkey, dog and buffalo live in the forest, cook in turn; bungisngis (a giant with a huge lower lip) hits a buffalo, everything eats; the same with the dog; the monkey dug a hole under the hearth, b. fell into it; but the dog and the buffalo wanted to see it, he killed them, jumped out, the monkey ran away; points to the bee's nest: king appointed her to ring the bell; leaves - supposedly to find out if it is time to ring; b. pulls the nest, is bitten; the monkey promises to give him the belt presented by the tsar; this is a boa constrictor, he strangled the giant]: Rybkin 1975, No. 127:280 -281.

China - Korea. Chinese (Yunnan) [The hare ate grass and branches and 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 all over in 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 let the tiger eat it, which screamed from the god in the stomach. 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 and people started cutting it down. 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; the fox [the hare called the tiger to dig a wild yam; the tiger dug up a lot and the hare almost nothing; told the tiger that the yam should be washed in the stream, looking at the sky and trampling the tubers with his feet; the tiger yam swam to the hare; he said that the yam had eaten the acorn, offered to burn it and look with his eyes wide open; the acorn burst into the tiger's eyes; the hare went after With advice to the supreme god Vusa, he ordered to wash his eyes with tree juice; the hare to the tiger: pepper and salt; the tiger went by himself, V. said that the hare was deceiving him; from now on, tigers will give birth to 9 cubs a year and there are hares; the hare suddenly asked the tiger what V. had told him; he mistakenly replied that the tigers would give birth to one cub at the age of 9 and eat their young; the hare came to the tiger and said that he was another hare; suggested cutting dry grass to cover the roof; put all the grass on the tiger, set it on fire; a cow, a horse are advised to run to pasture, a buffalo to lie where buffaloes drink; since then, tigers are striped and do not attack buffaloes; the hare says that the hare has run far away and he is another, guarding his grandfather's gold and silver bench (cow cake); the tiger wants to sit on it; the hare pretends to go ask his grandfather permits; grandfather: you have to sit down sharply; the tiger sat down with a sliver pierced him; next time the hare says he is guarding his grandfather's gong (hornet's nest); "grandfather" tells him to hit hard, the tiger hit him, the wasps bit him] : Dessaint, Ngw√¢ma 1994:293-300.