M150. A deceiving shepherd.

.11.-.13.15.27.29.-.31.34.36.37.39.

Having begun to herd the herd, the character eats animals trusted to him.

(Chwana), Hausa, Somalis, Sakho, Spaniards, Harsusi, Mehri, Rengma, Hungarians, Karachays and Balkarians, Kurds, Persians, Wakhans, Sarykol, Setu, Lutsi, Latvians, Norwegians, Western Sami, South Altai Tuvans, Western Evenks (Ilimpic, Turukhan, Yerbogachen), Baikal Evenks (Buryatia), Far Eastern Evenks (Amur, Ayan), Evens, Nanais, Orochi, Chukchi, Itelmen.

(Wed. Bantu-speaking Africa. Chwana [check it out!] : Arbousset and Daumas. Exploratory Tour..., p. 63 in Tremearne 1913:216).

West Africa. Hausa: Schön 1862 [the fox offers the mullah to work for him - he will clean the cat, ask for a large basket; every day he kills a ram or goat, hides the carcass under a dung, pretends that carries out a dung; the mullah's daughter discovered the deception, they tied the fox to a tree, beat her until evening, left it overnight; at night, the fox tells the hyena that if she changes places with her, she will be fed in the morning; hyena frees the fox, allows itself to be tied; in the morning, the hyena began to be beaten, it escaped, chased the fox, which disappeared into the hole]: 172-175; Tremearne 1913, No. 16 [the spider offers the mullet to herd his cattle; pretends who takes out the garbage in a large basket actually takes out a dead goat every morning; the mullah waits for him, tied him up, beat him; the spider tells the hyena that he was tied to make the goat meat eat; the hyena changes places with him; the mullah hit the hyena for a long time, finally it ran away]: 214-216.

Sudan - East Africa. Somalis [The Jackal guarded a herd of sheep and goats of blind Hyena; ate them; when Hyena counted them, he let the same goat or sheep down; to prevent Hyena's relatives from killing him, he stuck the cut off tails into the ground, began to scream that the earth had swallowed the herd; Hyenas began to drag their tails, thought they were cut off]: Kapchits 1997, No. 25:30-31; sakho [Jackal and Hyena have cows; Jackal's house has 10 doors; The hyena asks the Jackal to show the calves; he carries the last one, says it is the calf of the first cow; this is how he comes out of each door successively, carrying the same calf and naming the next one a cow; at night he grabs a dry skin and knocks it screams that the robbers have attacked; the Hyena rushed out, fell off a cliff, crashed; Jackal got all the cows]: Reinisch 1889, No. 28:220-222; (cf. Masai: Hollis 1905:114 in Tremearne 1913:216).

Western Asia. Harsushi [fox, wolf, leopard, hyena, vulture and raven went hunting; the vulture flew away, the fox and raven found nothing, the hyena found a basket of dates, the wolf stole the kid, the leopard killed the leopard camels; they gathered around the fire to cook meat; the hyena went to bed, told her to wake her up when everything was ready; the fox ate both dates and meat intended for the hyena, shoved bones and bones into her ass; in the morning told the hyena that she had already eaten everything herself, told her to relieve herself, bones and bones were under the hyena; the fox asked the hyena to carry it to the acacia, and then she would carry it; she jumped and started screaming that the hyena was tired; hyena: the fox was tired; but others rushed to the hyena and ate it; the fox offered to jump off the cliff - this is what their fathers did when they were circumcised; the fox and the leopard jumped safely, and the wolf broke his leg, he was eaten; the fox offers to jump off a high cliff, jumps; the leopard crashed; invites the fox to start eating it; the fox: eats when the leopard dies; eating the leopard, the fox told the donkey that she was dying of thirst; she allowed her to go inside through her ass - she had water in her stomach; the fox drank water, ate the donkey's insides, she died; the fox wanted dew to fall, then she will fill one wadi with blood, the other with milk; the dew has fallen out, the donkey's ass is softened, the fox has come out; tells the woman and daughter that they are called to be circumcised, and she is ready to guard their herd; the fox milked the goats filled the wadi with milk; stabbed them, filling another wadi with blood; arranged the carcasses as if the goats were grazing; the woman and the girl returned without finding anyone; the girl saw the goats slaughtered and shouted to her mother hold a fox; woman hears hard; fox: she screams that robbers are coming, let the woman give her the necklace, she will bury it and hide it; daughter screams again; fox: she tells you to give yourself to me; woman in rabies, the fox runs away, carrying jewelry; hangs it on a dry tree, relieves itself by throwing sand at excrement; tells the caravan that the tree makes jewelry; he gives his herd for the tree; warns that if he copes with the need near the tree, it will not give jewelry; the caravan waits three days, catches up with the fox; they come back, the fox tears off its excrement, says that this caravan is not held on; the fox brings its camels to places where there are many others; she is told that its camels may be trampled by local camels and horses; but the fox refuses to take its own; its camels are dead, she has received a big ransom for them]: Stroomer 2004, No. 2:5-17; Mehri: Stroomer 1999, No. 3 [a man went into the cave to drink water, it rained, the stone fell, blocking the exit; when a man promised to fill one Wadi with blood, another with milk, the stone rolled back; he came to a woman who was eating goats; said that they were giving necklaces for free, let her leave him her jewelry, he would guard them, and he would run for new ones; the man milked the goats, poured milk into the wadi, stabbed and poured blood; left only one goat; hung the necklace on a tree, relieved himself under it; told the caravans that every week the tree produces wood jewelry; but you can't relieve yourself nearby; the caravans gave him camels and luggage, waited; accused the man of deception; he showed the crap sprinkled; the caravans began to accuse each other each other, stabbed each other], 99 [exactly like Harsushi]: 7-11, 279-288.

Southern Europe. Spaniards [a woman is looking for a shepherd to herd goats; rejects a wolf - a big mouth, she will eat everyone; the fox has a small mouth, a woman likes it; the fox honestly herds at first, but she is tired of monotonous food, which her mistress feeds her; together with the wolf they ate all the goats, the wolf carried the skins; the woman caught them, the fox began to boil them with boiling water, fry the wolf alive]: Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 37:68-69.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Rengma [a similar anthropomorphic trickster in Sema (Iki), Eastern Rengma (Ichu), Western Rengma (Che in the South and Iki in the Northern Group), Angami (Mache), Lhota (Apfuto); Che was hired to herd cattle his grandfather; killed and ate cows; said that some of the cows were just calving, etc.; finally, grandfather came to the pasture, chased Che, who hid in the grass; grandfather began to mow it, but here on the edge The pasture pheasant screamed, grandfather thought it was Che, rushed there, and Che ran away]: Mills 1937:248-249.

The Balkans. Hungarians [the old woman is looking for a shepherd to herd ducks; rejects the bear (his voice will scare the ducks away), the wolf (the same), is fascinated by the fox's song; she feeds her toasted bread every day, and the fox every day eats a duck; when she notices the ducks are missing, the old woman fired the fox and hears her singing a song about ducks buried in her stomach; the old woman hits the fox, chases away]: Kovács 1987, No. 37*: 254.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karachays and Balkarians [animal patron Apsata asked Supreme God Tairi for permission to take the wolf as a shepherd; the fox persuaded the wolf to cut part of the herd; A. drove the wolf away; the wolf's eyes do not blink, so only he sees devils; carries and eats newborn devils]: Tekeeva 2013:78; Kurds [the old woman has five goats, the fox asks to take her as a shepherd; first she herds honestly; then drinks all the milk; then invites the wolf to slaughter goats together; the goats Kol, Shin, Chal, Ams, Hasht disappear successively; the old woman gouges out the sleeping fox's eyes with hot skewers, kills her]: Jalil and others 1989, No. 171:477-478.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [when he went to Mecca, the man left the jackal as a shepherd; he ate all the sheep with the wolf; when the owner returned, the jackal began to talk about terrible events, after each of which he sacrificed a sheep; the owner wants to kill the jackal, he ran away with his tail]: Marzolph 1984, No. 37*: 40; Vakhans (Tashkurgan, 1957) [the fox stole bread from the miller twice; then came to him again and said that she was not the fox that stole it; tried to steal bread again, but the miller noticed it; the fox: "Don't hit me, I I will herd cattle"; the miller agreed; the fox grazed the cattle for five years, then ate them; said to the miller: "You did not close the gate tightly enough at the cattle pen, your cattle scattered, the wolves ate them all"; the miller took half of the sheep's carcass and gave half to the fox; told her to eat meat and make him a sheepskin coat; the fox said that she needed flour for cooking; the miller sent it; the fox coated the skin with a dough, then ate it; told the miller that the skin had rotted; he asked her to make a hat; the fox ate the skin intended for this purpose; the miller asked to make mittens; the fox also ate this skin; the miller said that he would kill the fox; the fox promised to marry him to the king's daughter; went to the king; the king wanted to drive her out, but the vizier advised me to ask her for a big dowry; King Lisa: "Consider that I gave you my daughter , just imagine ten red satin horse packs"; the fox collected the rags, loaded it on ten horses, and drove to the river bank; ripped open the packs with a knife, threw them into the river, and began to cry; the king's people came running; the fox: "They promised that we would wait for you on the river bank, and I went to the river bank - there was no one, so all the packs of red satin from my horses fell and ended up in the water, for me This is a very unpleasant lesson, because I brought these ten packs of red satin to the king as dowry for his daughter, and now all these red satin packs in the water, who should I bill?" ; the tsar admitted that he was responsible for what happened; the fox brought the miller, who married the royal daughter]: Pakhalina 1975, No. 3:146-149; Sarykoltsy [the fox offers the peasant to work in the mill, and she will herd cattle; she eats sheep every day; she consistently shows the nose, ears, neck, etc. of the last sheep left through the gap in the fence; then says that the wolf has lifted the sheep, offers to sew a sheepskin coat, eats flour, runs away; the peasant finds only the horns and legs of sheep; the fox makes friends with the quail; asks her to feed her; the woman brings her husband lunch, the quail distracts her, the fox gets lunch; she asks her to laugh; the quail sits on the ox's horn, the woman shouts to her husband that this is the same quail, the husband throws a stone, the quail flew away, and the ox is killed; throws again - the cauldron is broken; once again - the wife is killed; the fox laughs; asks make her cry; the quail tells her to go to the royal gate, dogs are let down on the fox, she hardly escaped into the hole; she grabbed the quail; he asks her name, she opens her mouth, the quail flew away]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 76:503-506 (=Pakhalina 1966:185-186).

Baltoscandia. Seto: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 8 [grandmother is looking for a shepherd for geese; asks everyone how he will sing when calling geese; rejects Hare, Wolf, Bear; takes Lisa, she has a good song; first one goose is missing, then the others; Lisa says she will lead tomorrow; says her name is to baptize the child; when she returns, she says they called the Beginning; then Half; the End; the grandmother calls the Fox to sauna, whips with a broom, one goose jumps out, Lisa runs away; it turned out that she ate all the butter too]: 29-34 (=Mägiste 1990:17-26; =Normann, Tampere 1989:7-10); Lutsie (Western 1927) [old lady answers the hare that he is looking for a shepherd for his three geese; towards a wolf; an old woman: 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, says to 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 beaten, 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; Latvians [grandmother is looking for a shepherd for ducks; rejects the wolf - sings badly; takes a fox - sings well; roasts scrambled eggs; the fox eats the ducks, each time says that the wolf took it; in the bathhouse she admits that she ate everyone; the old woman throws a broom at her, since then the fox's tail has been fluffy]: Alksnite et al. 1958:32-34; Norwegians [a woman is looking for a shepherd, asks a bear, a wolf what they will call the sheep, she does not like their voice (one growls, the other howls); the fox likes the voice; the fox eats all the goats on the first day, on the second is sheep, the third is cows; comes and talks about it; the woman runs to check; at this time the fox ate butter and sour cream; the woman returns, throws the rest of sour cream into the fox, since then the fox has the tip the tail is white]: Asbjíørsen 1960:106-107 (=Dasent 1970:69-70); Western Sami [the old lady saw a wolf and asked him to herd her sheep, for which she would be well fed; then she saw a wolf picked up two sheep; grabbed him with a pole on the back; the wolf ran away; the same with the wolverine, the old woman drove her away; with the fox (bitten to death the lambs); the fourth was a dog; she kept the sheep and stayed with the man]: Kohl- Larsen 1982, No. 23:145-150.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians [Soldatas decided to sow barley; the bear comes as an uninvited assistant, turns stumps, mows the entire field in a day; when dividing the harvest, chooses straw; in winter, grateful S. brought bear sheep; could not wake up for a long time, and then the bear chased him to eat; dog S. says bear hunters are coming; bear Soldatas: tell them that I am a log; dog disguised as hunters: Why don't you cut a log? S. hacked a bear]: Garf, Kuchiyak 1978:119-123; Khakas [the old man went for firewood, the bear wants to eat; on the mountain, the fox shouts: we are 60 people, we are hunting a bear, have you seen a bear? every time the bear tells the old man what to say; - Didn't you see it? - What's next to you? - Stump. - Shouldn't we put the tree stump in the sleigh? bear: luggage; - Don't you tie it with a rope (tie it); - If you tied it to a sleigh, shouldn't you hit your forehead with an ax? An old man killed a bear]: Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 2:51-53; South Altai Tuvans [The fox pretends to be a poor orphan, childless old people take him as sons, let their seven goats herd; each one day disappears; the fox explains that the goats are left on the rock; the old man finds skins full of grass there; shouts to his wife to kill the Fox, who hears hard; the fox explains that her husband tells her to bake for him A fox, a cake in butter; hits an old woman in the face with its tail, runs away; the old man's heart is broken; the Wolf sees the Fox regurgitating fat; he explains to put his tail into the water from the sky oil will fall; the tail froze, the fox brought the old man to kill the wolf, he took the Fox as his son; the fox killed the old man's horse, the old man hung it in the chimney, went to buy firewood; the old man's children began to lick urine and feces Fox, thinking it was fat; The fox said that sugar would flow from his mouth, asked him to bring a knife to cut off their sugars, kills both boys, cooks; the old man recognizes his sons, falls into a boiling pot with grief ; The fox tells the birds that he is a llama; one hundred birds take turns to be blessed, he bites each of them, kills them; jumps on a bunny, is trapped by a hunter]: Taube 1978, No. 2:11-14 (= Taube 1994, No. 47:266-268).

Eastern Siberia. Western Evenks: Vasiliev 1936, No. 5 (Ilimpic, Western 1907, Quail in Bulatova 1985:154-160) [The fox and the bird Kovshichan went up the river; at night the Fox turns the shuttles, K. does not notices that they are now swimming down; they see the herd, K. does not understand that he is cutting his own deer; when he learns about this, he lures the Fox to the fragile ice; the fox sinks to the bottom to ulcers, they say that their mother is sick; The fox undertakes to shamanize, heals, says that the disease will scream; eats eggs, runs away; hires as a shepherd, kills deer; the old man shouts to his wife to beat the Fox; she hears poorly, the Fox explains that the husband tells her to tie a bubble of fat to the Fox's tail; runs away; tells the Wolves that he caught fat in the river with her tail down; wolf tails freeze, Wolves tear them off; the fox gnawed bones, broke a tooth; Wolves laugh in the plague people, one hoots in an owl, mutters a hare; the Fox covers his mouth, the Wolves beat him; the fox invites the Bear to lie on a cliff ledge, closer to the wall; at night he lies between him and the wall, asks him to move, Bear falls; the fox eats bear meat; the girls carry supplies, the Fox calls to show the way, eats everything on the way; hides on the larch, the girls make a fire; the Fox asks the Fire not to burn it to the end, becomes small as it is now]: 258-262; Vasilevich 1934 (Yerbogachen) [the fox offers the wolf to herd his deer, come in a month; ate everyone, broke a tooth; ran to the wolf's house, ordered them to tie it to her lard around her neck, a bell on her tail, ran away with her tied; went to her relatives; the wolf came, jumped over the fire, burned his tail, the foxes began to laugh, the wolf saw a broken tooth, offered to look for lice, stabbed the fox, the other foxes ran away]: 11; 1936, No. 2 (Turukhansky: Ingarigda - Podkamennaya Tunguska) [The fox offers Wolverine to get his deer, eats it; explains to Wolverine's wife that her husband orders as a reward tie a bell to her tail; the fox invites Kuksha to swim and attack other people's plague; while Kuksha sleeps, Lisa leads the boat up and then down again to their own plague; unsure, Kuksha kills own children; Lisa fell through the ice, tells Kuksha to give snags, he foolishly gave it, Lisa got out, Kuksha failed, drowned]; Baikal Evenks: Voskoboynikov 1960a, No. 2 (Irkutskaya region) [The fox offers to be the daughter of the old people; the old man lets her herd a cow, she bit it; the old man shouts to his wife, Hold the Fox! ; she hears poorly, Lisa says that the old man told me to give her a bag of bacon; gets into the boat, sails away with her bag; the woodpecker promises to catch up with Lisa; asks her to transport him across the river, makes a hole in the boat; The fox sends him for resin, he brings knots; he goes by himself, the Woodpecker will tar the boat, sails away, returns his property to the elderly; the old man shackled his beak, the old woman sewed a red riding hood; he sat on a knot, ripped himself apart belly, the old woman sewed it up, it remained red]: 41-42; Voskoboynikov 1958 (North Baikal - Buriyatia) [The fox hired the old man to herd deer, ate most of it; the old man chased her, screams to his wife hold; she does not hear well, Lisa explains that the old man told her to give her fat for a good job; tells Wolf to put her tail into the ice-hole, meat or fat will stick; the tail is frozen; Russian women have become beat the Wolf with rockers, the tail came off; The fox pretended to be dead, the Russian man picked it up, found at home that the fox threw the fish off the cart and ran away]: 46-47; Far Eastern Evenks: Bulatova 1980 ( Amur, =1987, No. 6:123-126) [The fox invites the old man to find his missing deer and herd them; eats deer; the old man shouts to his wife to hold the Fox, Lisa says that the old man tells him to tie her to the tail decoration is a knife; runs away with a knife; invites the Bear to roll down from the ice, sticks a knife at the bottom; tells the Bear that he will pull out the splinter, pulls out the intestines, eats it; tells the Wolf that the jewelry will be on the tail, if you put it into the water; the Wolf freezes, the Fox eats it; drives the Hare into his loops, eats it; invites the old man to carry the meat of the moose killed by that moose; takes away all the meat]: 98-102; Levin, Vasilevich 1936, No. 2 ( Ayan) [The fox tells the Flying Squirrel to throw her cub to eat, otherwise he promises to climb the tree; the Flying Squirrel gives all four cubs one by one; when he finds out what is going on, the Owl takes the Fox, throws it at island; she asks bears, seals, seals to line up from island to mainland to count them; when she reaches the shore, she comes to live with her older brother; calls to herd deer, eats them all; advises The bear get fat by lowering its tail into the water; the tail froze, came off]: 221-224; Evens: Bolshakova, Chaiko 2015 [the fox invites the old man to herd his deer; before migrating, the old man tells his wife a fox feed, and he goes for the deer; there are only skins full of moss; the old people themselves dragged the sledge with fish across the ice of the river; the fox volunteered to help, pretends to twist her leg, put her on a sledge, she slowly eats fish; says 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; the old man tells the old woman to sew his pants and call everyone animals say goodbye as if he were dying; there are holes in his pants, dust inside, old man; the old man began to jump, dust fell down, everyone laughs, and one fox covers his mouth; the old woman grabbed the fox by the tail; she tells me to hold by the tip of its tail, otherwise the sun will hide it; the fox 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 fishing for chum salmon, his younger brother is a fox promises to herd deer; tells O. and his wife Hatak how the deer have become fat; O. tells them to bring a reindeer; 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 to break his leg; the Yakut put him in his bag, the fox threw it all away the food stored there ate, 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 stuffed a rotten man in his pants, came to the fox house, began to shamanize , 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 1987:8-17 [the fox demands that the cedar throw her eggs, threatens to cut down a tree; Garandya {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, she takes her to the island; the fox tells the seals that he is going to count who is greater; let the seals line up first, the fox runs ashore on their backs; invites the old man to herd his deer; eats them, fills their skins with grass, leaves 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 she grabs the burned place, runs away; the fox says that she is another 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 the 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; the exit is 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, they drown; the old man offers to hunt wolves, the fox tells the wolf that he has caught fish on its 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 hurts him from onions; the fox promises to cure, pulls out the liver, the bear dies; the fox offers the old man to tie it, feed it; then binds the old man, leaves; the wolf, the bear refuse to untie it - the fox did not order; the mouse untied; the fox was caught by an old man's crossbow], 17-21 [the hare has 10 bunnies; the fox demands to give one cub every day; the hare complains to the eagle; he advises asking the fox to fight first with tree; she butts, her horns of their grass are broken; the fox asks who taught the hare to answer this way; when she learns that the eagle grabs him sleeping; the eagle broke the fox's leg, threw it on the island; she cries, burbot asks what is going on; the fox asks all the burbot to come to the surface, she will count them; considering that she crossed their backs to the shore; asks the old man to give her a ride in a sledge; he asks what are the names rivers; Elementary; Middle; Final; the fox took an ax, went for firewood; threw the ax, ran away; the food bag was empty, it had two fox teeth; the old man called birds and four-legged animals, stuffed it in his pants rotten and moss, lit it, smoke came through the holes, everyone laughed, the old man recognized the toothless fox, began to beat it; she asked not to beat her, promised to marry Kagankan's daughter; entered K.'s yurt, ordered him not to beat her, promised to marry Kagankan's daughter; entered K. daughter, otherwise she will make K. unable to sleep and walk; brought the girl to the old man as his wife; hired to herd the old man's deer; when the old man comes to see, the deer has only bones; the old man screams to his wife to caught the fox by the tail; the fox explains that he asks to tie a piece of fat to its tail; the bear says he is afraid of hazel grouses, the fox is afraid of crossbow; the bear went in front, the arrow hit his stomach; the fox volunteered to treat, pulled out her guts, the bear died; once caught a crossbow herself]; Robbeck 2005 [the fox invites the old man to herd deer for him if he feeds her oily fish in the evening; stole the deer, killed and hid it, ate fish; the next day the old man did not find deer; since then, the fox has been afraid of man, it has been hunted]: 185.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais [Lisa suggests that the mergen put her in a sledge; says that her leg is in a crack, asks to put her on a sledge between the tues, eats moose and fish oil, breaking off her tooth, runs away; mergen finds a tooth; puts a squirrel, a raccoon, a hare, a ferret in his legs; comes into the house, starts a shamanic dance, the animals fall out, everyone laughs, the mergen recognizes the fox by a broken tooth, grabs it; she asks her to let her go , promises to get a pig, which old man Ka has been feeding for seven years; hires to feed a pig, eats it; Ka kills a fox, takes off its skin, throws away the carcass; the fox causes rain, snow, hail, comes to life; borrows an ax, makes three skewers, sticks where the bear rolls down the mountain, he dies; asks the mergen to give a ride to the carcass; shares the mergen meat with the ax, and the mergen with the sledge gives what is stuck between with his teeth; he skins it, cuts the carcass into pieces, the Fox did not come to life]: Kile 1996, No. 5:77-85; Orochi []: Aurora, Lebedeva 1966:129-131.

SV Asia. Chukchi [The fox is hired as a shepherd, kills the herd; the owner shouts to his wife and daughter to kill Lisa; they can't hear well, Lisa says he tells her to feed her fatty meat; the daughter waves her hand ( OK, let's feed you! ); the owner understands, OK, let's kill! ]: Baboshina 1958, No. 54:139-140; itelmen [Koryak invites the fox to herd its deer; it eats deer, leaves the skeletons standing, several of them alive; Koryak believes that all deer are alive; falls into the fog, fell, crashed, the fox took the deer for itself, began to have fun all the time]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 198:580.