M151. Hello home! ATU 66A, 66B
.11.-.13.15.17.21.-.24.27.29. (.52.)
A dangerous character pretends to be dead or missing or pretending to be an inanimate object. The potential victim says out loud that the deceased (object or place - house, hole, log, etc.) must do or say this and that. This is what the character does, impersonating himself.
Laadi, Ganda, Nyanja, Swahili, Comorians, Mongwe, Punu, Tenda, Nubians, Malgashi (Antankarana), Spaniards, Syrian Arabs, Tibetans, Ranks (Meitei), Burmese, Khmers, Panchatantra, Punjabi, Marathi, Konkani, Uttar Pradesh (Hindi), Chhattisgarhi, Bihari, Bengalis, Oriya, Sinhales, Santals, Oraons, Haria, Sora, Sangihe Islands, Bulgarians, Kumyks, (Totonaki: European or African borrowing?).
Bantu-speaking Africa. Laadi (laari) [The crocodile pretends to be dead; the hare brings his children, says that if the crocodile is dead, it must move its paw and open its eyes; the crocodile does it, the hare and the hare leave ]: Koutekissa, Koutekissa 2003:162-164; ganda [The hare persuades the Leopard to steal cattle; makes noise as if people are coming; the leopard runs away, the hare eats meat; so several times; the leopard understands deception, trying to watch the Hare in his house; he greets the House until the Leopard answers; the Hare opens the door, the Leopard rushes and attacks the knife; the hare is surprised Leopard's nonsense]: Kizza 2010:166-168; nyanja [woman asks for Tiger (Leopard?) do not eat her, but take her son in the evening; at home, to make her son wise, she placed him in a pot without water, put him on the fire; when the Tiger came, the boy became a mouse, the Tiger did not notice him (or failed to grab); the next evening, the mother tells her son to go to the terrace, because a mouse has fallen into his trap; the son says loudly that he will leave if he hears the trap shut three times; the Tiger emits three times such a sound; the boy says he will not work because he has set only one trap; the third time the mother tells Tiger that she will tie him with straw and ask her son to bring in an armful; the boy says he will pick up an armful If she gets up and lies down three times; the Tiger does so, the boy refuses to approach the straw; the fourth time the mother sends her son with a basket to collect the fruits where the Tiger hid, but the son turns into a bee; then hides in the tree, the Tiger cuts him down, the bird flying by tells the tree to recover every time; the boy calls his dogs, the Tiger eats them one at a time, falls asleep; the boy kills him]: Holland 1916:122 -124; Swahili [the hare sees a bee nest on the baobab, tells the rat that the tree belongs to his father; they smoke bees with torches; the lion, the owner of the tree, comes up; the hare climbs inside the torch, tells the rat throw the torch and then go down by itself; the hare runs away, the lion kills the rat; the same with the turtle, but it shouts to the lion that the hare is inside the torch; the hare advises the lion to kill it by twisting the tail, runs away ; the turtle advises putting it in the mud and rubbing it until the shell comes off; the lion rubs its fingers and the turtle slipped away; the lion hides in the hare's house; the hare notices traces; greets the house loudly and wonders why he does not answer; the lion says hello, the hare runs away]: Bystrov et al. 1962:58-62; Comorians: Haring 2007, No. 52 [the animals sentenced the Hare to death, the Elephant went to catch the scoundrel; the Hare suspects a trap when he comes to the house, calls it; the Elephant answers on behalf of the house; then the Elephant pretends to be dead; the Hare says that the dead man must move his ear or leg, the Elephant moves; finally, the Elephant has caught A hare, he was imprisoned; the elephant needs a Leo, he sent the Hare to bring him because they are friends; they tried to tie and kill Leo in vain, he easily broke his fetters, killed those who came up]: 102-106; Hatubou 2004, No. 15 [ The raven, sitting on the baobab, complains to the Hare that his wife abandoned him with seven children; the hare demands to throw off the chick, otherwise he will climb the tree and ruin the entire nest; so every day there is a chick left; The vulture explains that the Hare will not be able to climb the tree; the hare has climbed inside the dead bull; the Vulture sees this, tells the bull, if it is really dead, to raise its front leg; The hare raises, The vulture laughs; the hare hides in the Vulture Cave; he says that the cave has always welcomed him, but now he is silent; the hare shouts, as asked, "Hello, Your Holiness Vulture!" ; Vulture laughs; The hare goes to the forest, learns new tricks from three genies]: 67-75; mpongwe [the rat comes to the leopard, says that no one loves him, offers to be his friend; just in case the case always sits at the exit from the house; the leopard trusts the rat, which tells the animals who the leopard is going to attack every time; the sorcerer tells the leopard about it; the leopard pretends to be dead asks his wife to pretend to mourn him, call his friend a rat; the rat says that if the leopard is really dead, he must raise his paw and move his body; he does; the rat says what is coming soon is about to leave; the leopard rushes at him, the rat hides in the hole, the leopard manages to grab its tail; the rat: you hold the root; the leopard releases its tail; (the adventure continues , text No. 6)]: Nassau 1912, No. 1:13-17; Punu [the crocodile tells the children to mourn him; the partridge and the children come to say goodbye to a friend's body, but refuses to enter the house, let the body be taken out into the yard; says that if a crocodile is dead, it must move its tail and legs, open its eyes; the crocodile does so, the partridge leaves]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:306-307.
West Africa. Tenda [woman has been pregnant for several years; complains that there is no one to harvest fruits for her; Tyara answers from the womb, comes out, immediately becomes a big boy; his grandmother does not tell him to go to hers village, where a bird takes people away; he attaches a bag of ash to it from behind, follows the trail; everyone hides, T. cuts off the bird's head, puts it in a bag; the chief says he killed the bird, but he cannot show his head (the heads of a rooster, goat, ram, cow do not fit); the leader sends T. to a granary that has the shape of a deep vessel in the ground, pours molten bullets and hot oil on top; T. puts a pumpkin vessel; sends sorrel to search; T. calls sorrel, hears an answer, refuses to go (sorrel cannot respond, it is a trap); T. tells the Sun not to shine so as not to melt oil; the moon does not grow so that the hyena does not eat it by the goat; they refuse, T. hides them in a bag, it's a long night; T. tells everyone to hide, releases the Sun; Guinea fowl sticks her head out, now she is burned; The Turtle and the Snail did not hide, now their bodies are hard, dry; when the sun went down, T. released the moon; the Monkey grabbed it; the moon shows the Monkey grabbing the moon to look at it]: Ferry 1983, No. 49:286-295; kuwaa [the leopard made a dam and caught a lot of fish; the spider took a firefly with him and robbed the dam; each time he left the firefly fewer fish; when he gave nothing, he took him not to his house, but to the leopard's house; the spider managed to escape, built a hut in the forest; the leopard found it and hid inside; seeing the leopard's traces, the spider, without coming close, began to say hello to the hut; then he said out loud: it's strange that the house does not answer if the enemy has climbed there; the leopard began to speak on behalf of the house; the spider laughed and ran away]: Pinney 1973:133-135.
Sudan-East Africa. Tigre [Leo found a bull, Hyena found a pregnant cow, they brought them home; when it was time for the cow to give birth, Leo stayed with the animals, put the placenta in the bull's anus, told Hyena that the calf a bull gave birth to him; the fox promised to help Hyena; he came with a wineskin to ask Leo for milk, said that his father had given birth to a boy; if the bull could give birth, so could a man; the lion rushed at the Fox, he ran away; the lion hid in his hole; coming up to her, the Fox said out loud that the house always wished him good evening; Leo: Good evening! The fox ran away; the lion left and gave Hyena the calf back]: Littmann 1910, No. 9:9-10; Nubians: Reinische, Nuba, 213-218, No.III-6 in El-Shamy 2004, No. 66B: 30; Malgashi (Entankarana) [crocodile pretends to be dead; his children call the guinea fowl to mourn him; they sing that if a crocodile is dead, he must move his leg, open his mouth and eyes; he does, guinea fowls run away]: Klipple 1992:47.
Southern Europe. Spaniards: Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 66B (many versions) [a fox steals food from a lion; a lion is advised to pretend to be dead; a fox comes up and says that a dead lion releases intestinal gases three times; the lion does this, the fox runs away]: 133-134; Hernández Fernández 2013, No. 66B (Murcia) [the wolf and the fox agree on how to catch rabbits; the fox pretends to be dead, the rabbits gather for a funeral, but one says that a dead fox must move its paw; the fox does so, the rabbits run away]: 60.
Western Asia. Syrian Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 66B: 30.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans: Coyaud 2012, No. 26 [deer complain to the fox that a huge turtle grabs them when they come to the river to drink; the fox advises that deer come to drink not in one place, but different at the same time, the turtle will be confused - who to rush at; the turtle decided to take revenge; when the fox came to the river, grabbed its leg; fox: a stupid turtle grabbed a snag; a turtle let go of her leg; next time she pretended to be dead; fox: if the turtle is really dead, it must press its paws; the turtle presses; next time it hides under the rock where the fox lives; the fox: sacred rock, is anyone in the house? the rock is silent; the fox: so the one who came is afraid to tell you; the turtle: never today; the fox is more cunning than a turtle]: 71-72; O'Connor 1906, No. 20 [the turtle became friends with the monkey when it got fruit for it from a tree; the turtle's wife does not like that her husband spends all his days with the monkey; says that she is sick, only the heart of a monkey will cure her; the son brings this message to his father; the turtle invites the Monkey to his place, is lucky across the lake, reports the purpose of their journey; the monkey replies that one heart is not enough, offers to gather several monkeys; runs away when on the shore; the turtle hides in the dark monkey cave; the monkey calls the cave; wonders out loud why the cave is silent; then the turtle repeats the monkey's words; the monkey laughs and leaves]: 141-146; meitei (ranks) [woman constantly spins and weaves, got rich; the thief decided it was time to rob her; entered silently; the woman pretended not to notice him; turns to the lamp and wonders out loud why she does not answer today - that means that there was a thief in the house; when the woman turned to the lamp again, the thief mumbled something, as if from the face of a lamp; the woman screamed and told the lamp a story about the thief in the house; the neighbors ran away and the thief grabbed]: Singh 1985:310-312 (same in Oinam et al. s.a.); meitei [the fox promises to teach children a boa constrictor astrology; when they come, the fox grabs and eats the last one every time; when everything is eaten, The boa constrictor hid in the fox's hole to eat it; the fox felt it and, walking to the hole, says loudly: hello, home! The boa constrictor decided that the house should respond and says: I'm here, come in! the fox ran away; then the boa constrictor pretended to be a drowned cow; the fox from the shore: swim, drowned cow, here! The boa constrictor swam; the next time the boa constrictor grabbed the fox's tail; the fox: it's not the tail, but Toura; the boa constrictor believed and released the fox's tail; the fox ran away]: Oinam et al. s.a.
Burma - Indochina. The Burmese [when they saw the fat Crocodile, the Raven offered to take him from the shallow river to the big one; when they moved far from the river, the Raven told the Crocodile that he would now die and he would eat it; the carter felt sorry for the Crocodile, brought it on the arb to the river; in the water, the Crocodile grabbed the buffalo by the leg; the Rabbit shouted for the carter to hit the Crocodile with a whip, he let the buffalo go, the carter escaped; the crocodile waited The rabbit pretended to be a log; the rabbit said logs float downstream and crocodiles went upstream; the crocodile swam downstream; the next day the Rabbit said the opposite; but the Crocodile did not swim upstream , but stayed there; the Rabbit came up to him, ended up in the Crocodile's mouth; said that the Crocodile could not laugh; the Crocodile said "haha," the Rabbit jumped out, pulling out the Crocodile's tongue; gave it to the Cat; he found it in place of the tongue, a new plant called Cat Language]: Aung 1957:21-24; Khmers: Marunova 1972:165-170 [=Gorgoniev 1973:115-126; the hare pretended to be dead; the banana merchant picks him up, puts it in its basket; the hare eats bananas, runs away; the snail tells the hare that the water belongs to it, let the hare not drink from the pond; the hare: if you swim across the pond faster than I run it, you're right; the snail places other snails along the coast, they respond to the hare; since then, the hares drink only dew; the hare promises to cure the crocodile from skin disease if it moves it to the other side; by jumping ashore, insults the crocodile and runs away; climbs into the buffalo's belly; under the sun, the skin has dried up and shrunk; the hare asks the man to pour water on the carcass; jumps out, screams that he will not thank his savior; crocodile pretends to be a log; hare: if you are a log, swim against the current, if the crocodile goes with the flow; the crocodile swam with the flow; crawled ashore, pretended to be dead, the hare came up, the crocodile he swallowed it, the hare began to fiddle with his intestines, the crocodile had to regurgitate him; the hare sat on a resinous stump and stuck; does not tell elephants to drink water from the pond, he himself, the hare, is the watchman put by Indra; the elephant grabs the hare and throws it aside, the hare is released again; trapped by a gardener, begged the toad to release it - he will save it from warts; once free, insults the toad; next time the toad freed the hare for promising to give its daughter for her son; the hare runs away again; says he ate five elephants and wants to clean his throat with the tiger's liver; the monkey assures the tiger that the hare is not dangerous; the tiger I agree to come back by contacting the monkey's tails; hare: are you leading this lousy tiger to pay off the debt? 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 her with the top under which the hare; both escape], 167-168 [a pregnant crocodile asks her husband to get her a monkey heart; the crocodile lies on the shallows on which the monkey has always run over to the island for the fruit; the monkey asks the shallows why it does not protrude from the water; the crocodile replies that it is no taller than yesterday; the monkey laughs, invites the crocodile to open its mouth, close its eyes; runs down his back to the island].
South Asia. Panchatantra [The jackal saw in his footsteps that a lion had climbed into his cave; asked the cave why she did not tell him "I'm expecting you"; the lion growled "I'm waiting for you"; the Jackal understood everything and left]: Syrkin 1962:343-344 (=Salganik 1992:87-88); Punjabi: Zographer 1964 [The crocodile grabs in the Jackal River; he does not move his paw, asks the Crocodile to grab his leg, or his legs are bogged down; the crocodile thinks that grabbed the root, releases the Jackal; the next day, the Jackal says loudly by the river that fish swam yesterday, bubbles were blowing, and today the water is smooth, perhaps it should not be drunk; the crocodile begins to breathe and blow bubbles, Jackal realizes that there is a Crocodile in the water, does not drink; The crocodile hides in a bunch of mango fruits; the Jackal says that mangoes used to jump into his paws; The crocodile throws mangoes, the Jackal realizes that he hid there; The crocodile hides in the Jackal's hole; he says that his hole used to sing on its own; The crocodile sings; the Jackal makes a fire at the entrance, the Crocodile dies]: 75-78 (=1976:38-40); Siddiqui, Lerch 1998 [ The jackal sees plums across the river; praises the beauty of the Crocodile, promises to marry her, asks for a plum for the wedding world; she brings it; he supposedly goes to the hairdresser, disappears; the crocodile realizes that deceived; the Jackal comes to the river, the Crocodile grabs his leg, he screams that he is drowning, asks him to let go of the root, grab his leg; runs away; she hides in his hole; he says out loud that his wife always sings when he comes; Crocodile sings; says out loud that she must have died, but why doesn't she move her tail then; Crocodile moves her tail; Jackal laughs and runs away]: 55-60; marathi [ The jackal comes to the river to eat crabs, the crocodile grabs his paw, the jackal asks why he grabbed the reeds; the crocodile releases his grip; next time the jackal says that crabs gurgle; the crocodile starts to gurgle; then hides under a bunch of figs: jackal: why don't figs roll? the crocodile moves; hides in the jackal's hole; the jackal asks why the house does not welcome him; the crocodile greets him; the jackal: thank you house, now I'll bring firewood to cook dinner; burns the crocodile in the hole]: Frere 1868, No. 24:309-314; konkani [the fox was picking crabs, caught by the tide, the crocodile offered to transport it across the river; when the fox was on the other side, he called the crocodile names; one day she grabbed his hand, but the fox laughed and said that the crocodile had grabbed the root; she unclenched her mouth; the fox decided to pick figs rather than crabs; the crocodile hid under a pile of fallen foxes noticed her trail; the next time she climbed into the fox's house; he noticed the trail again; wondered out loud why the house did not welcome him; the crocodile greeted him; set fire to the hut and the crocodile died]: Rodrigues 2020:183-185; Uttar Pradesh (Hindi) [The jackal sees melons and cucumbers in the farmer's field across the river; promises a wife to the crocodile if he takes him across the river; both got to the melons; after eating, the jackal began to howl; the peasant ran, began to beat the crocodile, the jackal ran away; the crocodile also reached the river; the jackal tied the old buffalo bones with a woman's shawl and put them on the shore; the crocodile believed that the bride was ready for him, but she was very timid and would not fit herself; the crocodile moved the jackal back, then went to the bride, found the deception; grabbed the jackal by the leg when he approached drink; jackal: why do you grab the root? the crocodile let go of his leg and actually grabbed the root; one day the crocodile pretended to be dead; the jackal to his wife: the dead usually blow the wind; the crocodile did it; the jackal ran away]: Beck et al. 1987, No. 86:257- 259; chhattisgarhi (Bilaspur) [the elephant invited the jackal to ride it to find something to eat; he noticed a sugar cane field; the jackal was full and thirsty; the elephant offered to look, I could not see whether cranes (they are where the water is), but the cranes are not visible; then he offered to get into his belly, there is water; warned him not to look up; the jackal climbed through his nose, got drunk, saw his heart, liver, etc. began to eat; the elephant died, the jackal continued to eat it from the inside; the carcass dried up, the jackal could not get out; Mahadeo and Parbati walked by; M. said he was M., asked who was inside; jackal: and I am Sahadeo, M.'s father; if you M., then cause a downpour; the rain soaked the carcass, the jackal ran away; M. decided to take revenge, hid in the water, the jackal came up, M. grabbed his leg; the jackal said that he was holding the root, M. let him go; pretended dead; jackal: the corpse must let out gases; M. did it, the jackal ran away; M. made the figure of an old woman out of wax, a basket of sweets in his hands; the figure hit him with his hand, then another, he stuck; M. tied a jackal in his yard, whipping him every day; another jackal came; the first said that he was being fattened here, the other swapped seats with him; M. began to beat him; when he found out that he was mistaken, M. let the jackal go and made him his guard; when the jackal howls at night, he serves for M.]: Gordon 1908:61-64; bihari [the jackal and crocodile were friends but had a fight; the crocodile grabbed the jackal's leg when it went to the water; jackal: why are you holding the root? the crocodile hid in the jackal hole; he smelled it, began to think out loud: my house had always welcomed me before; the crocodile gave a voice; the jackal began to live under a pile of dry leaves; the crocodile got in; the jackal said the leaves should rustle; the crocodile rustled; the jackal set fire to the leaves and the crocodile died]: Grierson 1903:236-237; Uttar Pradesh (Hindi) [fish {by Meaning, of course, a crocodile} ended up on the shore and persuaded a man to get off his horse and take it to the river - deeper; was going to swallow a man; a wild apple tree (crab-apple) and an elephant say that There is no gratitude; the jackal pretends to want to understand everything thoroughly; tells the person to take the fish to where it was and leave it; later the fish finally reached the water and when the jackal went for a drink, grabbed his leg; jackal: why did you grab the root? the fish let go of its leg; one day it went ashore and climbed into the jackal's lair when he was not there; the jackal came up, suspected something was amiss, called out: lair, lair! the fish decided that his lair should respond to the owner and responded; the jackal said he would return now, collected dry leaves and made a fire at the entrance; the fish roasted and the jackal ate it]: Rouse, Crooke 1899, No. 16: 165-171; Bengalis [the jackal organized a school, the crocodile taught his seven children; the jackal ate them; the crocodile hid in the water, grabbed the jackal by the leg; he put a bunch of reeds in him: both mine feet in place, you grabbed the reeds; the crocodile released the jackal's leg; the next time you pretended to be dead; the jackal: the crocodile is alive because the dead must move its tail and ears; the crocodile does so; the jackal ran away, the shepherds saw the crocodile and drove it away; the jackal began to eat eggplants from the bush, stabbed his nose; asked the barber to pull out his thorn, which cut his nose; for this, the jackal took away his iron tool ; the potter dug clay, the jackal gave him a tool to test, he accidentally broke it, got a pot; the participants in the wedding procession accidentally broke the vessel, the jackal got a bride for it; went for it a priest for the wedding, leaving his wife and drummer's wife; she cut vegetables and accidentally cut the girl in half; the jackal demanded her husband's drum in return; climbed a tree, began singing about his own adventures; fell into the canal, the crocodile ate it]: Bradley-Birt 1920:186-190; oriya [the crocodile decided to catch the jackal; pretended to be dead by sending his crab friend to come to mourn him; jackal: dead crocodiles move their tail; the crocodile moves, the jackal leaves]: Mohanti 1975:39; Oraons [a poor brahman (Priester) caught a turtle to kill and eat; she asked to let her go, promised transport across the river; in the middle of the river is going to drown; the tree replies that it should be so; the jackal (a fox in the text, but means a jackal) pretends to hear hard, asks him to swim closer, tells the brahman jump ashore; the turtle promises revenge; the jackal comes to the water, the turtle grabs his paw, he says it has grabbed the root, the turtle lets go of its leg; tells the children to go to the jackal to say that the turtle is dead; the jackal comes up and says the deceased should have his eyes open; the turtle opens his eyes, the jackal breaks its head with a stone]: Hahn 1906, No. 33:62-64; Haria [the crocodile agreed transport a man across the river; in the middle of the river he was going to eat; the man suggested that the fox should judge who was right; the fox told both to go ashore; the man ran away, the crocodile promised revenge on the fox; hid at the shore, grabbed the fox by the leg; fox: grabbed the root instead of my leg; the crocodile released the fox's leg; next time he comes to the river, the fox says: it's strange why crabs don't swim on the surface ; the crocodile sticks out his nose, the fox ran away; the next day, the fox wonders why the crabs in the water do not make gurgling sounds; the crocodile gurgling; the crocodile collected the fruits of the tree and hid under them; the fox: It's strange, the fruits are always scattered, but here in a heap; the crocodile started throwing fruits; hiding in a fox hole; fox: hello, hole! It's weird that Nora doesn't say "What?" to me. ; the crocodile answers; the fox promises to bring crabs to the burrow, brings dry grass, makes a fire, the crocodile suffocates]: Roy 1937:438-441; sora (Hill Saora) [the crocodile in the pond devours those who come up , people cannot use water; the old man and the old woman began to drink through a long pipe; the crocodile decided he could not eat them, offered to cultivate the field together; they sowed root crops; the crocodile responded that will take the fruit, the roots went to man; the crocodile offered to plant rice, chose the roots, lost again; sent his seven sons to study; the man locks them, alone every day eats, then runs away with his wife; the crocodile hides in clear water, the man says loudly that he will drink muddy; then vice versa; the crocodile comes ashore, pretends to be dead; the man speaks to his wife that dead flesh should sway; the crocodile died in the sun, a man and his wife ate it]: Elwin 1954, No. 17:288-289; the Sinhalese [the crocodile asks the crab to sprinkle flowers on it, call the jackal; jackal: dead crocodiles wave their tail; crocodile waves, jackal runs away; crocodile falls to the bottom, jackal enters the water, is grabbed by the paw; jackal: why should crocodiles grab tree roots? the crocodile releases the jackal's paw; since then jackals and crabs are enemies]: Parker 1910, No. 75:380-381 (translated to Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 21:58-59); Santals: Bompas 1909, No. 103 [while parents are hunting, The jackal comes to the baby leopards, takes all their meat; the leopard chases him, gets stuck in a crevice and dies; the jackal lives with the leopard and her children; she chased the deer at him, he got scared climbed an anthill, then explained that the deer had been driven in the wrong direction; the next time the deer was driven by a jackal with the baby leopard, the leopard was killed by deer; the jackal pretended to take the meat to victim to a dead leopard; cannot tear his deer skin; the leopard tears the carcass, the jackal eats up; the leopard offers the jackal to carry him across the river, but he rejects help, the river takes him away, he asks the crocodile to pull him out; asks him to open his mouth and close his eyes, throws a stone into the crocodile's mouth, runs away; the jackal went to the river for a drink, the crocodile grabbed his leg, the jackal says he grabbed the root, the crocodile let him go; hid in the straw on which the jackal used to lie; the jackal hung a sheep bell for himself; the crocodile laments out loud that a sheep is coming; the jackal heard, set fire to straw, a crocodile died]: 340-344; Bodding 1925, No. 7 [the goat hears his owners agree to slaughter him, runs away, comes to the leopard cave, bleats, the leopard has never seen a goat, hears "Back, Back", runs away; the jackal says he has eaten a lot of goats, leads the leopard back with its tails tied together; when he sees a leopard, the goat gets up, the leopard runs away in horror, dragging the jackal; he comes to the leopard cubs and tells them that their parents owe him, they give him all the food; the leopard is surprised why the children are losing weight; when he finds out what was going on, the leopard ambushed him, ran after the jackal, got stuck in his hole, died; the jackal came to the leopard, she took it by her husband; she chases deer at him, the jackal says she did not catch a single one because she drove crooked; now he is driving, the leopard has killed a deer; jackal: I drove right; secretly ate the liver; the leopard refused to cross the river; the river carried the jackal; he asks the crocodile not to eat it, promises to bring meat, asks him to open his mouth and close his eyes, throws sharp stones into his mouth; the crocodile grabbed the jackal by the leg, he says he grabbed the root; the crocodile hid under the straw; the jackal tied a goat bell to his neck, jumped around; the crocodile: leaves, stupid goat, I'm here in ambush; the jackal set fire to straw, the crocodile burned]: 93-99.
Malaysia-Indonesia. Sangihe Islands [a monkey and a crocodile have agreed to gather their relatives to see who has more of them; the lake is teeming with crocodiles; the monkey points to the tracks: there are so many of us, and Our house is on the other side; the next day the monkey entered the river to collect clams, the crocodile grabbed her leg; the monkey: you grabbed the root; the crocodile unclenched its jaw and the monkey jumped ashore; when he comes to the house, he suspects that a crocodile is hiding in it; he wonders out loud why the house does not welcome her; the monkey came to the cave in which setan; he offers a bet: stay awake for three days;]: Vries 1935, No. 84:328-330.
The Balkans. Bulgarians [the fox pretended to be dead to catch the hare; when the hare saw it, the hare loudly says that the dead fox must have its eyes open; the fox opened its eyes, the hare ran away]: Daskalova-Perkovska and dr. 1994, no. 66B: 52.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kumyks [the wolf and the fox have three chureks; the fox offers to lure the badger - there will also be meat; calls the badger to the fair; suggests: who is the most truthful will eat all three chureks; wolf: I don't drink; badger goes aside, he can't even hear about drinking; eats a chorek; who is older will eat the second chorek; the wolf does not know when Alibek-Haji appeared; fox: I was a bride then, my fiancé went to war; badger cries: my two adult sons died in that war; the second chorek eats; the third will be eaten by the person who saw the most interesting dream; the badger ate the churek at night; the wolf and the fox say they dreamed of a wedding; badger: me They didn't treat me there, I came back and ate a chorek; the wolf and the fox are hiding in the badger's hole; he sees traces, asks his "brother" why he doesn't greet him; the wolf answers; the badger ran to the shepherd, who laid a hole with a stone]: Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:13-15.
(Wed. Mesoamerica Totonaki (Papantla) [The rabbit found an abandoned milpa; agreed with a cockroach, a rooster, a coyote, a hunter to give them the harvest, asks for money in advance; set a time for everyone a little later than another; a cockroach came, then a rooster, ate a cockroach, a coyote a rooster, the hunter shot a coyote; the rabbit led the hunter across the suspension bridge, cut off the vine, the hunter fell and died; to cross the river back, the Rabbit told the Crocodile that he wanted to die, but let him take him to the other side first; jumps off and run away; the snake invites the Crocodile to pretend to be dead, tells the Rabbit that The crocodile is dead; The rabbit says loudly that the dead should release gases noisily; The crocodile does it; the Rabbit says that where it is seen that the dead do this, he leaves; with the Snake no longer Talking]: Levy 2012:401-466).