M151A. Supports rock, ATU 1530, J2273.1.
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The character pretends to hold a rock, tree, etc., which is supposedly ready to fall and crush everyone. See Dixon 1916:189. The data is incomplete. In America, the motive is probably of late African descent.
SW Africa. Gottentots -nama (a subgroup of the Koran, Kimberly) [The Jackal asks the Leopard to hold the supposedly falling rock while he comes down for a support; the Lions tell the Leopard that nothing will happen to the rock]: Maingard 1962:80-81; Hottentots [in drought, the lion calls the baboon, leopard, hyena, jackal, hare and turtle to dig a well; the jackal refuses to work, and when the well is filled with water, he comes to drink and swim; the baboon remains on guard; the jackal promises to give him honey, he allows himself to be tied; the jackal bathes, does not give the baboon honey, hits him with a stick; next time the turtle smears the shell with glue, hides into the water, the jackal thinks it's a stone, sticks, tries to beat, bite the turtle, sticks even more tightly; the turtle brings the jackal to the animals, the lion sentences him to death; agrees to let the jackal himself proposed the type of execution; the jackal: shave the tail, grease it, the hyena will take the tail and, untwisted, hit its head against the stone; the tail slips out of the hyena's hands, the jackal runs away, the lion chases; the jackal pretends what keeps the rock ready to fall; asks the lion to hold, goes to bring the pole himself; disappears]: St. Lys 1916:59-63.
Bantu-speaking Africa. Suto-chwana [The fox shows Hyena a crack in the cattle pen; after eating meat, she gets out before she gets fat; the Hyena eats everything, cannot get out; the owner of the cattle hits her with a stick, she hardly ran away; The fox pretends to be beaten harder, the Hyena agrees to drag her on her back; the fox sings "The dead man is lucky alive"; the Hyena hears, the Fox rushes into the cave, pretends to support the ceiling, otherwise the arch will collapse; Hyena agrees to hold until the Fox brings the stake; The monkeys explain that the cave will not collapse; the fox holds honeycombs in her hands, pretends to read, advises Hyena to take the book too, the bees have bitten Hyena snout]: Olderogge 1959:40-42
West Africa. Vai [the deer prefers the leopard; the hare: this is my slave and my horse; tells the leopard that the deer is afraid of him; to prove that he is kind and docile, let him take him, the hare, home on his back, then the deer would marry him; when the leopard came to the deer the next day, she shamefully drove him away; the leopard chased the hare, which ran into the cave and pretended to hold him the ceiling from falling; ran away, but the leopard remained standing; two shells explained to the leopard what was going on; the hare and his brother opossum (giant rat) caught them, skinned them, tied them to a tree, and their skins put on themselves and went to the leopard, stayed overnight; at night the rat ate their skins; when the leopard broke in, the hare ran away, and the leopard managed to tear off part of the skin from the tail of the possum, now it is bicolor; deer married a clever hare]: Pinney 1973:143-147; Vute [Tukur (dwarf antelope) came to Mekir (a mythical beast); he is blind; T. quietly eats all the meat he cooks from M.; M. grabbed him T. promised to make his eyes stand out; cooked a brew, poured M. into his eyes, he died; once Tukura ate the Leopard; Guinea fowl began to laugh; T. praised the beauty of her plumage; the Leopard wished to be just as beautiful ; T. told him to get into the basket, braided it; braided it, dropped the fruit on the Leopard; then threw the fruit away; the leopard thought that T. himself had jumped in that direction, and T. ran in the opposite direction; The leopard did catch up with him; T. lay on his back and pretended to support the clouds or they would fall; then T. hid in a stump, but the Leopard pulled him out by the ears; T.: I'm dirty, I must be licked first; Leopard began to lick, T. ran away]: Sieber 1921, No. 14:171-173.
Sudan - East Africa. Zaghawa [the fakir went down to the water; the jackal flopped in front of him, he got scared and ran away; the jackal went to the donkey, the Koran, and the fakir's clothes; he explains to the lion how to study to be a fakir; of course, but it's worth a try; kill a big bull, make a wineskin out of the skin, stuff it with thorns and get inside; the jackal rolls his wineskin, the lion is barely alive; the jackal ate the bull, changed the donkey for 6 rams and left; the lion asked termites gnaw through their belts; then ate them all; went to look for the jackal; in the first village they say that the jackal drove 5 rams and carried one skin; then 4 and 2; etc.; when the lion caught up with the jackal, he asked permission to leave out of need; began to scream that the rock was falling on him, let the lion hold; the lion stayed to hold the rock, the jackal ran away; the old man to the lion: let the rock not fall; the jackal in the hole, the lion grabbed his tail; jackal: why are you holding the root; the lion let go; the jackal got out through the other exit, came from behind, helped expand the hole to catch that jackal; lion: look, cows! the lion turned, the jackal warmed him with a stick, disappeared into the hole; the lion's throat: what are you doing? lion: there are two jackals in the hole; the lion left his throat to guard the hole, went to smoke jackals for the fire; the jackal to the throat: the watchman must keep his eyes wide open; threw sand into her eyes, ran away; the lion wants eat a turtle, but it teaches you better to put it on your paw and say: be the size of a camel! I'll be there and you'll eat me; the lion put its throat on its paw, it flew away]: Tubiana, Tubiana 1961, No. 13:79-86; zande [leopard duker: you can't attack, I'm too powerful; climbed under a fallen tree; Duker: One more step and I'll let go of this tree, it'll crush you; walking around, the leopard is gone]: Evans-Pritchard 1965:72.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Sherdukpen [the porcupine sends his nephew to get water, who says that the water is muddy; the porcupine goes by itself; the bathing elephant replies that it will only leave if the one who asks more than him; the porcupine gives his nephew has his needle, tells him to show the elephant as if it were hair; the elephant is frightened; the porcupine leaves the elephant to support the tree; the big stone; the elephant believes that they will fall now, the porcupine leaves quietly; the tiger does not dare to attack him, because he believes that the porcupine has a bag of poison; the porcupine offers the elephant to dig a hole, wins easily; offers to race, puts his own at a distance relatives; the elephant hears the voice of a porcupine in front of it every time, falls dead from exhaustion]: Borgohain, Roy Chaudhury 1975:72-73.
Burma - Indochina. Khmu [a childless woman wants to go to the monks to ask for a child; everyone refuses to transport her across the river; Olna builds a sand stupa by a tree, asks the tree to give her three children take revenge on those in power, monks and elders; gives birth to three children, dies; the eldest is Aay CaaLaay ("liar"; A.); he was adopted by husband and wife; he feathered a bunch of crap, asked for an adoptive father catch a bird, he smeared himself; the same with the adoptive mother; they left it to be eaten by the tiger; A. asks the tiger not to eat it - he will show where to steal the pig; they carry the pig on a stick; A. let the tiger carry it part of the trunk, where the thorns, ordered not to moan, otherwise the food will become bitter; the tiger moans; A. shows the star, sends the tiger there for fire, at this time he makes a fire, cooks meat, lays it for himself, in a part for the tiger put bitter fruits; the tiger returns without fire, A. sends him to make spoons for leaves, poured white on the leaves himself so that the tiger thinks it was from birds (and looked for it longer); the tiger eats bitter meat is because he moaned on the way; A. prepares pig testicles, says he cut off his genitals; the next day the tiger agrees to have A. cut off his testicles; when A. climbs a tree, the tiger sees that everything is in place; A. throws the fruits away while the tiger picks them up, manages to go down and run away; tells the girls that a tiger is coming, they threw their clothes, A. put them on, the tiger did not recognize him; the same with women and children; with men who cut straw; every time A. asks to show the wound, pokes hot smut at it, splashes hot juice, stabs it with straw; jumps into a hole; tells the tiger that the sky is falling, let him jump; just let him not push him up, or the sky will crush him; stabs the tiger with a needle, he pushes A. out of the hole, A. stoned him; tells the peasants that a tiger has fallen into the hole; they ran to the hole, A. burned the village, hiding meat and rice; says that wherever his spear and arrow go, there is meat and rice; shows that people believe, throw spears, but find nothing else; they catch A., hang them in the basket on a tree to later knock a tree into the river; a man with a gong was walking by, his eyes hurt, A. convinced him to change places - his eyes would recover; people knocked down a tree, the man drowned; A. says that in the river met his deceased parents, they asked him to take whatever he wanted, he took the gong; everyone jumped into the water and drowned except an old woman with an empty calebass; A. smashed the calebas with a stone, the old woman also drowned; A. told the governor that his wife fell off the roof, and to his wife that her husband had been wounded by a boar; they ran to look for each other, collided with their foreheads; the governor expelled A. three blows to the slit gong, and A. measured three lengths of the gong, built a house there; the governor's children relieved themselves at A.'s house; A.: let them poop or pee, but not both; governor: try it yourself! A. emptied his bladder, tied his penis, put a pile in the governor's house; he ordered to go where the earth turned upside down; A. built a house on the field where they plowed with a plow; the hunchback came, carrying the vessel to back; A.: Look, there are two suns in the sky; she looked, the vessel fell and broke; people filled bamboo vessels with intestinal gases, came to A. not knowing it was him; he fed them buffalo manure and arranged them to open their vessels under their noses]: Lindell et al. 1978, No. 3:50-62; ahem [trickster boy fools a tiger; one episode: says the sky is falling]: Lindell a.o. 1977, No. 45:44; Vietnamese (Central Vietnam) [boy Quay ("merry man, entertainer") serves wealthy Chua Lang; he orders to kill the terrible Elephant; K. says there will be an earthquake, the sky will fall, pretends to tie himself; the elephant asks to tie him; first tears his fetters, the second time unable; K. kills him; crows flock to peck at the elephant, climb into its womb, K. covers the wound with a leaf; sits on an elephant, takes off on it; TL wants to fly, K. advises him to pick a leaf over the sea; crows fly out, the elephant falls, TL sinks]: Karpov, Tkachev 1958:84-89; bru [liar Tan says his the deer climbed the field; everyone rushed to catch, there was no fallow deer, T. was driven into the forest; T. to the monkeys: I will climb the tree, drop the fruits, and you will cut off the trunk so that the fruits along the slippery trunk fall into a bunch; slippery monkeys can't climb; T. eats ripe fruits, throws green fruits to monkeys; T. ran across the river, shouted that the flood was beginning, advised the monkeys to tie stones to their backs; the monkeys went along the reed bridge, T. brought it down, they drowned; T. collected them, began to fry them; a tiger came, T. threw him a few monkeys; the tiger agrees to carry T. on his back if he catches monkeys; towards him boar; T. tells the tiger to hide; tells the boar that the tiger wants to attack him, so it's better to attack him himself; after the fight, the tiger killed the wild boar; T. suggests taking the tree to carry the carcass: he will take the top, and the tiger by the butt; thorns dug into the tiger's neck; by the river T. sends a tiger to fry a wild boar for fire, points to the setting sun - this is the fire in my grandmother's house; a day later the tiger returned - there is no wild boar; T. says he brought fire from his grandmother himself; instead of meat, he gave the tiger a pipe - the meat went rancid because of your scream; the next day T. invites the tiger to eat its ears, gave the boars; cut off the tiger's ears; he saw that T.'s ears are in place, chased him; T. fell into a hole; says that his ears have grown; that the sky is falling; pokes a stick in the tiger's ears, tells him to throw the turtle out of the hole - the sky will flatten it; then asks him to eat it here, just don't throw it away; the tiger threw burning guns into the pit, since then the tiger has been striped; he came to the village, lied again about the doe, climbed onto the roof; threw pepper into the audience's eyes, ran away; stood on the old woman's shoulders to get honey from the hollow for her; he eats everything himself; the old woman bent down; T. hung his head in the hollow; people set fire to the tree; T. went up to the moon with the tree, seen there]: Nikulin 1976: 212-220.
South Asia. Ancient India (Panchatantra) [the bird thinks the sky will collapse if it doesn't support it]: Bødker 1957, No. 969:96; Sindhi [the jackal is about to eat the hare; he promised to give it to him sweet water; put a piece of wood in the water with bees in it, the water became sweet; the jackal began to drink, the hare ran away, the jackal followed; on a steep slope, the hare says that the mountain is falling; the jackal believed, the hare ran away]: Schimmel 1995, No. 34:216-217.
Central Europe. Northern Ukrainians (Chernihiv Oblast, Nezhinsky District) [A birch tree hung over the rye field; The joke stood under it - as if he was holding it; says that he saved Popovskaya's rye; let the pop hold it now, and I'll run for help to support the birch tree; went on a popova wagon; elsewhere he asks Mr. to read the broken cart, on which he allegedly carried a barrel of wine; he also took the horses away - allegedly went to the village for a new cart; P. wanted to fool the Chumaks near the shank, but they they put him in a bag and carried him to drown; but they went away in a tire; P. shouts that he did not want to reign; the Jew agreed to take his place, drowned]: Malinka 1902, No. 66:351-352.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians [poor Samkyanyk asked the prince for a knife; he promised to kill him if he lost it; S. lost his knife, called the children, they tore the grass, found a knife, but night came, they came to the old woman- cannibal; S.: I can only fall asleep if you take care of me, as my mother took care of me - she brought water in a sieve, cooked and fed me; the old woman went to get water, S. woke up the children, told them to run, himself stayed; the sieve swelled, the old woman brought some water, cooked it; the old woman found S., put it in a bag, went to get an iron stick; S. put a dog in his bag, the old woman killed the dog, again found S. and went to get a stick (he put a rooster in the bag the same thing); ran away, promised the shepherd to cure his eye, smeared him with lamb droppings, ordered him to sit until sunset, took the herd away; the old woman came and explained to the shepherd that he was deceived; then S. tied oxtails to sticks and drove them into the ground: the ground caught the bulls; sent the owners behind shovels, at which time she hid the bulls among her sheep, said that the earth had swallowed bulls; the old woman said that S. was a deceiver; S. pretended to hold the cave vault, asked seven people to hold them, he would bring seven stakes on their horses; the pursuers explained to people that S. was a deceiver; S. returned to his prince, mixed his herd with his own, taught the prince to order him to forbid guests to go out into the yard at night; the pursuers came, they were fed, they fell asleep, S. stained them from behind with the contents of lamb intestines, and put the gut next to the old woman; at night everyone runs away with shame, the old woman thinks that her gut has come out of her, all the wealth remains with the prince; envious people advised the prince to send S. to deliver the adaui; C . ordered to make a strong cart, came to the adaua covered in black, ordered him to climb into the cart, locked the door, brought the adaus to the prince; ordered him to open the cart, and he climbed onto the rock and jumped off it; the adaui jumped off it and then crashed]: Shakryl 1975, No. 72:326-333.
Baltoscandia. Veps [deceived boyars and coachmen prop up a pine tree, and a man on a lordly tarantas goes to the estate for money and lures it from the lady]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 173:214.
Volga - Perm. Tatars [the bragger suggests that the smart one outsmart him; he replies that he must go home for a bag of tricks, but he cannot - the birch tree is crooked and will fall; the bragger remains to support birch, clever did not return]: Yarmukhametov 1957:170; Bashkirs [Shaitan suggests measuring strength; Aldar asks for help to finish the work first: put your fingers in the crack of the log to knock out the wedge; says that his name is Byltyr ("last year"); others ran to Satan's howl; they began to scold him: he pinched him last year, and now he yells; A. asks Satan to prop up the crooked shore, leaves himself; says Satan, that the bag of tricks is left at home, must first take the firewood; Satan is surprised that the sleigh is coming by itself (from the mountain); A. gave the sleigh to Satan, cleaning the bottom, the sleigh went, Satan fell; (other episodes, in whom A. is deceived by Satan)]: Barag 1992, No. 12:45-50.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Oirats (darhats) [The Bat became a lover of the Koch-Tsehtse bird; she asked why he arrives late at night and leaves early in the morning; LM replied that he was Khan Gardy's senior nobleman, should to judge cases; the CC did not find him between the birds, and the Golden Eagle was sitting at the top of the tree; LM said it was him, but in a different guise; KC did not believe it, flew in the next day, saw him clinging to a rock; LM replied that he held the stone, otherwise it would have fallen off and killed many people; the CC did not believe it and divorced LM]: Potanin 1883:175.
Plains. Coyote ties a rope to a rock, pretends to carry it; asks Bear to replace him; Bear is ashamed that he cannot move rock from the place; when Coyote cries that Bear is duped, Bear kills him]: Dorsey 1904b, no.68:268-269.
Southeast USA. Rabbit pretends to hold up a tree. Creek [dupes Wolf]: Swanton 1929, no.72 [The supporter will receive hogs as food], 73 [if the tree falls the earth will pass away]: 65, 67; Hitchiti: Swanton 1929, no. 30 [dupes Wild Cat], 37 [dupes man; The earth and the sky will be wiped out]: 108, 113.
California. Chukchansi yokutz [Coyote is going to eat Stink Bug up; Bug is leaning against a rock, says he is holding up the world; asks Coyote to take his place while he looks for food for him; fully exhausted, Coyote leaps away from the rock, it remains solid]: Rogers, Gayton 1944, no.12:199-200; chumash [Rabbit steals melons; man makes a tar doll, Rabbit gets stuck; man is going to boil him alive; Rabbit tells to Coyote that they want him to marry the man's daughter; Coyote takes Rabbit place; escapes with his tail scalded; Rabbit pretends to hold up the wall of a ravine; Coyote takes his place, Rabbit promises to bring them two hens, runs away; Coyote is exhausted, leaps away, the bank does not fall; Coyote district fishes' attention with his dance, catches fish, roads, goes away for a moment; Hawk steals the fish putting tails back into the coals]: Blackburn 1975, no.108:311-315.
Big Pool. Utah (encompadre) [Lizard dupes Coyote: pole; If I drop it the earth would crack]: Smith 1992:34.
The Great Southwest. Navajo [Scunk steals corn; the owner makes a tar dummy, Skunk hits it, gets stuck; tells Coyote that he is caught to be married to the master's daughter; Coyote takes his place; the master pours boiling water on him; master's wife is sick, they think Coyote has magic power, let him loose; Coyote chases Skunk; Skunk pretend to hold up a rock with crows sitting on it; is crows fall, something will happen; Coyote agrees to take his place; is exhausted; rock does not fall]: Hill, Hill 1945, no.17:333-334; Apache (San Carlos) [Rabbit dupes Coyote: rock (sky is falling! ]: Goddard 1918:74; Lipan [two versions; Lizard tells Coyote that if he lets go the stalk he holds, the sky will fall; stalk is moved by the wind; Lizard says he runs for help, lets Coyote to hold it; Coyote thinks the sky falls on him, hides in a ditch]: Opler 1940, no.31:149-150; Chiricahua [as in Lipan; Lizards holds an old tree]: Opler 1942, no.9:36-37; Hopi [Grasshopper dupes Coyote: wall of a hut]: Voth 1905, no.79:212-213; Keres [rock]: Boas 1928a [Fox dupes Coyote]: 269; Espinosa 1936, no.12 (Laguna) [Rabbit dupes Fox]: 84; Tiwa [rock; Coyote is duped] : Espinosa 1936, no.49 (Isleta) [by Rabbit], 54 (Sandia) [by Fox], 56 (Taos) [by Fox]: 117, 120-121; Parsons 1940, no.76 (Taos) [sending Bears to pick up berries, Coyote kills and cooks their son, gives Bears to eat its meat; Bears pursue him; he pretends to hold the rock; If this falls to the ground, the world will end; runs away]: 138-139; teva (New Mexico) [Fox pretends to hold up the mesa; Coyote beliefs seeing clouds moving; jumps off after loosing his forces]: Parsons 1926, no.61:158-159; Cocopa [rock; Fox dupes Coyote]: Crawford 1983, no.3:105; series [coyote I was going to eat the rabbit; he said he supported the cave vault, otherwise the world would collapse; the coyote got scared and ran away, the rabbit also ran away]: Moser, Marlett s.a..
Mesoamerica Rock. Central Mexico Nahuatl [Opossum dupes Coyote; pretends to hold on his back a cliff that supports the world; asks Coyote to help him, goes away; Coyote is exhausted, deserts the cliff]: Boas, Haeberlin 1924, no.4:353-354; Tlapanec [Opossum dupes Jaguar]: Schultze Jena 1938, no.4:129; Popoluca [Rabbit dupes Coyote; no details]: Foster 1945b: 230; Veracruz Nahuatl [ Coyote asks Rabbit to throw him chicozapote fruit; Rabbit throws heavy unripped fruit, it sticks in Coyote's throat; Rabbit pretends to hold a mountain, asks Coyote to stand for a while instead of him, does not return; Coyote is exhausted]: Munch 1983a: 290-293; Trique [Fox comes, Rabbit pretends to support the rock or the world will be crashed; Fox agreements to help, Rabbit goes away to drink, escapes; Fox is tied, let the rock fall but nothing happens]: Hollenbach 1980, no.8. 21:461-462; Mazatec: Incháustegui 1977 [Rabbit says to Tigrillo that the moon's reflection in water is cheese; Tigrillo jumps into water; goes to catch Rabbit who stands at some rock and pretends to support the world; puts Tigrillo on his place, goes away, does not return; Tigrillo chases him again, he escapes to the Moon and is seen there]: 38; Portal 1986 [Opossum hides in a mamey tree; throws an unripe fruit into Jaguar's mouth, he is almost killed; the following time Opossum pretends to hold the rock which would crash the world; asks Jaguar to help, escapes while he holds it]: 45; Huave [Rabbit dupes Coyote; sits under a stone; If I go away, world will be destroyed]: Radin 1929, no.8:17-18; Chatino [Rabbit dupes Coyote; no details]: Boas (Notes on..): 235-239 in Foster 1945b:230; Zapotec [Rabbit dupes Coyote; no details]: Radin 1943:18-22 in Foster 1945b:230; Chol [ Opossum asks Jaguar to hold the cliff till he himself goes to bring food; hides in a tree; Jaguar abandons the cliff, is in search of Opossum, sees his reflection in water; drinks water till dies]: Gar&Arc# 237; a 1988:50; Chuj [?] : Kunst 1915:353-357; Kekchi, Mopan [Rabbit dupes Ocelot; root of the sky]: Thompson 1930:179; southern lacandons [rabbit fools the cougar; convinced him that the sky is falling, showing moving clouds]: Boremanse 1986:256-257; northern lacandons [episode series: each time with a new puma ("lots of cougars"); the new cougar can't help the previous one, but goes to kill the rabbit; the rabbit asks for help to split the log: the cougar is strong, let him put his paws in the crack; takes out the wedge; various animals pass by and say that they have no hands to help the cougar; the rabbit turns into beautiful woman; says he is afraid of a cougar, because he has claws (scratches), teeth (bites), eyes (too big); the cougar has pulled out her claws, teeth, eyes; the cougar sees a rabbit on a hill in a cave; rabbit: I hold the cave and the whole land; if you kill me, everyone will die; help me keep it while I go to eat; by the end of the day, the cougar let go of the rock, but nothing happened; the rabbit pretends to drink the lake otherwise it will spill and flood everything; asks the cougar to drink; she is no longer able; she came across a thorn, her belly burst and she died; the rabbit tries to prove to the cat that he did not see him when he came from behind; cat rushes at rabbit; rabbit: you're right; my descendants will be little rabbits]: Cook 2019:405-422; tseltal [Opossum pretends to flatten its testicles with a stone, gives Puma fruit disguised as testicles; Puma agrees to flatten his own, dies, Opossum calls two more, they eat Puma meat; invites two Puma, who understand that they ate their older brother; Opossums hide in a tree near a body of water, Cougars see a reflection, try to drink water; Possums run, hide under a rock; Cougars do not recognize them, agree to hold the stone for a while; Possums run away; Cougars jump out, the stone does not fall; The opossum muddies the river, tells the person that it is deep, offers to move it to the other side; at this time, the other takes his wife; the man and wife return, seeing that the river is shallow]: Stross 197:19-23.
Guiana. Taulipan [man pretends to support a thick bent tree; says to Jaguar that all trees are going to fall, asks him to hold them; returns with a vine, ties Jaguar to a tree trunk, escapes; then pretends to support a cliff; leaves Jaguar at his place, promises him to bring a log for support]: KG 1924, no.49:140.
Ecuador. Cagnari [Rabbit, Fox: rock that can fall and destroy the world]: Zaruma 1993:291-292.
Western Amazon. Napo [Rabbit dupes Puma; pretends to support a rock; if it falls, world will come to an end; Rabbit goes away; Wolf decides that let them die all, jumps off, nothing happens]: Mercier 1979: 204.
The Central Andes. Hakaru (district of Tupe, Yauyos prov., Lima dep. [Fox wants to kill Guinea Pig; he promises to lead her to a cave where fatter guinea pig lives; escapes in a hole, comes from another end; asks Fox to support the rock which is falling down while he goes to look after logs; Fox remains alone supporting the rock]: Farfán 1952, no.3:83; Cusco [Raton tells Fox that the wall will fall, asks for support; charter, the Fox runs away, the wall does not fall]: Payne 1984:81; Aymara (Chucuito) [envious of the fox, the rat pretends to support the scaola, which will otherwise crush the whole world; the fox agrees to hold it, the rat runs away; tired to the point of exhaustion, the fox runs away, but the rock doesn't fall]: Mendoza 1980:95-96.