M152A. Related together, ATU 78
.10.11. (.14.) .16.17.21.-.24.26.27.29.30.33.34.
A strong predator (cannibal giant) and a weak predator tie together with the same rope to feel more confident. The strong flees and drags the weak with him.
Hottentots, Ovimbundu, Hehe, Swahili (Berbers of Morocco), French (Gascony), Palestinians, Tibetans (Central Tibet, Amdo, Sichuan), Lepcha, Bodo, Meitei, Burmese Naga, Burmese, Arakan, Khmer, Vietnamese, Thai, Cham, India (written tradition), Kumaoni, Kashmiris, Punjabi, Gujarati, India (translated from Hindi), Konkani, Assamese, Bengalis, Oriya, Santals, Ho, Kondas, Andhra Pradesh (probably Telugu), Malayals, Sinhales, Javanese, Lisu, Chuan Miao, Chinese (unrecorded), Chinese (Sichuan, Beijing, Henan, Zhejiang), She (Fujian), Hungarians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Kalmyks, Stavropol Turkmens, Balkarians, Ossetians, Avars, Kyurins, Georgians, Talysh, Kurds, Persians, Baluchis, Turkmens, Tajiks, Mountain Tajiks (Karategin), Rushans, Bartangans, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Salars, Khakas , Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Buryats, Khalkha Mongols.
SW Africa. Hottentots [the leopard saw the ram for the first time; it bleated, the leopard was frightened; the jackal explained that the ram should be eaten; the ram and the cub go out to meet; the leopard was frightened again, the jackal tied him with a belt; ram: thank you jackal for leading the leopard, or the cub wants to eat; the leopard ran, dragging the jackal with him]: Olderogge 1959:10-11 (=Pozdnyakov 1990:65-66; =Klipple 1992:73).
Bantu-speaking Africa. Hehe (translated from Swahili) [the hare sees a leopard building a house; comes when the leopard is gone, continues to build; the leopard is happy and surprised that the house is being built by itself, brings his wife; the hare to A bunny stings at home, he yells, the hare says not to cry - we'll eat a fat leopard soon; the leopards are running away; the baboon laughs at them, but the leopard agrees to return only if they contact the baboon with a rope; hare: my friend baboon is already leading the leopard on a rope; the leopard runs away, dragging the baboon, he dies; the hare gets the house]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 82:202-205; ovimbunda [leopard saw the ram, which fell on its feet, the leopard ran away; the hyena explained that the ram was not terrible, they went to eat it; the ram's wife told him to go out to meet him with the child; when he saw the ram, the leopard asked for a hyena tie them with a rope; a ram: a hyena brought us a leopard for lunch; the leopard ran and dragged a hyena with him]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:303-304; Swahili [the leopard builds a house, and when it's not there, the hare finishes work; the leopard goes for his wife and belongings; when the hare sees him, he tells the bunny to scream and demand leopard meat; the hare to the bunny: don't scream, you'll scare off the leopard; the leopard runs away in horror; the baboon laughs, agrees to tie its tail to the leopard's tail and go to the hare: it's not scary; the hare is to the bunny: my friend the baboon leads the leopard; the leopard ran, dragging the baboon with him, he died]: Zhukov , Kotlyar 1976, No. 82:236:202-205.
(Wed. North Africa. Berbers Beni-Snou (NW Algiers near Morocco) [a donkey carried bread and milk to workers; the jackal asked for a ride; sitting on a donkey's back ate supplies; said that the spilled milk was an abscess burst; then said that he had had enough rest, ran away; the workers began to demand compensation from the donkey; at night he pretended to be dead at the jackal's house; the jackal's wife noticed, woke her husband up; they decided to drag the carcass into the house; the jackal tied his tail to the donkey's tail and pulled, and the wife pushed; the donkey jumped up, dragged the jackal to the workers; they ripped off his skin alive; seeing the bloody jackal, his wife, not recognizing her husband, asks: did you see Ali bin Youssef in red clothes? jackal: it's me]: Destaing 1907, #4:254-256).
Western Europe. The French (Gascony) [the owners want to get rid of an aged donkey; he goes into the forest, meets a lion; the lion does not know what kind of animal it is, frightened by its roar; the wolf tells the lion that he is many of them ate; the lion agrees to return only by contacting the wolf with its tails; when he sees them, the donkey roars again, the lion flees, drags the wolf, he dies; the lion first thinks that the wolf is laughing, and then that he died of fear; they hunt; the lion catches rabbits, and the donkey lures magpies and the crows with oats, knocks them down, throws them into the bushes from where they can't fly; the lion believes that the donkey killed the game in flight; they find iron timber; lion hardly picks up; donkey roars - to warn his brother behind the forest: he will throw a bar through the forest, let his brother be careful; the lion tells not to throw; the lion offers to jump across the river; himself jumps over, the donkey falls into the water, the lion pulls him out; the donkey pretends to be angry: he was fishing; the lion and the donkey parted]: Arnaudin 1967, No. 12:146-160.
Western Asia. Palestinians [the old woman's roof is leaking, dripping from the ceiling, she says out loud that she is not afraid of a leopard or a lion, but she is afraid of a "dib-dib dib dib"; a leopard who comes up hears; thinks she knows what there are oak (bear) and dib (ox), but dib deeb does not know; a water merchant who lost his donkey came up, mistook the leopard for a bull, beat it and rode it, and he thought it was a dib deeb; in the morning the merchant realized that he was riding a leopard; clutching branches, he climbed a tree; the leopard met a fox; it led him back, agreeing to contact the leopard with its tails; a fox peasant: why did he make it so wait a long time, bring the leopard here; the leopard ran, dragging the fox, it died]: Hanauer 2009:256-260.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans: Krapivina 2001 [Zhijingma has 7 sheep, he took care of them; a raven flew into the yurt to drink milk, could not fly out, died; C. laughed so much that his liver burst and he died; 7 sheep decided carry his body to Lhassa; they came across a wolf; promised to come to him with the lambs on the way back; the wolf missed them; on the way back, 7 sheep and 7 lambs met a hare; asks why some people cry, and others laugh; sheep: we know that the wolf will get it, but the lambs don't know; the hare tells the sheep to carry it, picks up a ring that is threaded into the yaks nose, a bed of black goat hair, a piece of paper; Having reached the wolf's area, the hare orders to cover the ring with litter, stands at it and, looking at the paper, supposedly reads out the emperor's decree: whoever harms the sheep who went to Lhassa should cut their heads; wolf runs away; the bear leads him back, ties the wolf by the tail so that he is not afraid; the hare: why did he bring a skinny bear, and not a fat bear, as promised; the bear ran, dragged the wolf with him, he died]: 115-123; O'Connor 1906, No. 13 [the jackal family has found the tiger's lair; the jackal tells his wife and children to eat the meat left by the tiger calmly; when the tiger comes up, he says loudly: let the children not cry, they will soon receive tiger cubs; tiger runs away; monkey explains that jackals should not be afraid, leads the tiger back with its tails tied; jackal to monkey: why only one tiger, you promised two or three; the tiger rushed to run The monkey was torn into thorns]: 76-79; Shelton 1925, No. 2 [an old tiger named Tsuden was hunting; the frog was scared of him, but climbed on the bump and asked where he was going; tiger: I'm hungry and I guess you eat; frog puffed up: I'm the king of frogs and I can jump any distance; we'll compete to see who jumps across the river; quietly grabbed the tiger's tail and when he jumped across the river and began to search the frog in the water, called out to him; the tiger is amazed; the frog offers another test - to compare vomiting; the tiger has not eaten anything for a long time and only regurgitated some water, and the frog regurgitated the tiger's hair (she's only that she was holding on to the tiger's tail); said that just yesterday she killed and ate the tiger; the tiger ran away; towards the fox; when she heard the tiger's story, she laughed and said that she could easily press down the frog with her paw; tiger I agree to come back, but only if they contact the fox with their tails; frog fox: you did not repay the debt and did not bring meat; are you taking this dog to me for lunch? the tiger fled, dragging the fox with him; if they don't die, they still run]: 21-25; Tibetans (Amdo) [they are going to slaughter the sheep, but at the last moment it gives birth to a lamb and has time teach him how to behave (to be in the middle of the herd, not on the edge); the sheep was slaughtered, the lamb collected its bones, went to Lhasa; when he met a fox and a wolf, asked them to eat it on the way back when he met a fox and a wolf will grow up; in Lhasa he sculpted a small stupa out of crushed bones; walking back, he said that Buddha gave him his horns; to learn more about them, let the wolf and fox tie together with the same rope; the wolf, the wolf and the fox butt they drag each other, the fox kills the wolf]: Kajihama 2004, No. 4:17-20; Eastern Tibetans (Sichuan, Tarsando City) [the sheep has a lamb; when she sees the wolf, she was frightened; the hare promised to save her; rode on horseback he told the lamb to pick up felt, a cloth and a piece of paper; when he drove up to the wolf and did not get off the sheep, he told the lamb: the bed is white, the red carpet was spread out! he spread out the pick up, and the hare got off the sheep and sat down on it; ordered to file a royal decree (piece of paper); began to read: deliver a hundred skins from each breed of animals; only 99 were delivered from wolves, one was missing ; after saying these words, the hare stopped as if to take a break; the wolf ran towards the fox, says that the hare deceived the wolf, agreed to contact the wolf with its tails so that the wolf would not I was afraid; when he saw the fox, the hare reads on: the foxes required a hundred skins, only 99 were delivered; the wolf and the fox ran together, the wolf in front, dragging the fox, its hair came off; wolf: it's already sickening to drag her, and she also takes off his fur coat; when he sees that the fox is grinning its teeth (it is already dead), the wolf: still laughs!] : Potanin 1914:429-430 (reprinted in Komissarov 1997:239-240); lepcha [tiger and toad are friends, taking lice out of each other; tiger suggests comparing vomiting to see who ate what the last ones ate days; doesn't take into account that both swallowed what they licked; the tiger regurgitates pieces of leaves and clay, the toad regresses the tiger's hair; the tiger is scared (the toad eats tigers!) , runs away, meets a jackal, he wants to look at the toad, agrees to go only if the jackal is tied to him with a rope; toad jackal: it's been three years since you promised to bring me tigers, and Now you only lead one thing; the tiger rushes to run, dragging the jackal, he dies; jackals and tigers have not lived together since then]: Stocks 1925, No. 9:366-367; Bhutan [the tiger asks the frog to brush his hair from insects; fell asleep; the frog stuffed put tiger hair in its mouth and ass, asked the tiger what he was eating; tiger: big animals, but if very hungry, small ones, even frogs; frog: and I eat small, but if very hungry, even tigers; opened her mouth, there is tiger hair; the tiger has run away; the fox leads the tiger back, and so that he is not afraid, she tied their necks with a vine; frog: thank you fox brother; I I'm hungry, and you came to me with breakfast; the tiger ran away, dragging the fox, it suffocated; the tiger looked around, the fox grinned: stop laughing! the tiger went to live away from the frog]: Choden 1994:41-44; bodo [In March, a fruit fell on a resting deer from a Dilennia indica tree; a deer ran and knocked down a weaver's nest from a branch; the weaver took off and sat on the stork's head; he flew up in fear and sat on the tiger's back; the tiger ran and then lay down, pressing down the crab's hole; the crab grabbed the tiger by the tail; the tiger ran again, met the jackal; he advised figure it out and led the tiger back, tying him with a rope; the tiger sat back and the crab pinched it again; the tiger rushed and ran, dragging the jackal with him; the jackal lost his life, stains on the skin of the tiger and the jackal was his blood; the animals were going to judge the tiger for the death of the jackal; they began to unravel the case and reached the Dilennia indica tree; he was punished: let the fruits of the tree be hot in March, when the sun was hot fall at the slightest breath of the wind]: Beck et al. 1987, No. 97:289-290; Meitei [the owner has many horses; the tiger has climbed into the stable; hears the hostess calming the child: the cat has come; the dog has come came;... the tiger came; the child did not react; tapta came (an onomatopoeic word associated with the sound of rain on the roof); the child paused; the tiger decided that tapta was some animal stronger than him; A thief came in; the tiger mistook him for a tapta, and the tiger thief for the best horse, put on a bridle and rode it; when it was dawn, the thief realized that there was a tiger under him, saw a tree, jumped and climbed into the hollow; the tiger ran away, I met a fox; she asked him to be brought to the place where the tapta was; let them tie with a rope to drag each other if necessary; when they saw someone in the hollow, both ran, but the fox could not keep up with the tiger; he dragged her and she died]: Singh 1985:286-289; Burma's naga [elephant and tiger argue whose voice is louder; the tiger suggests that the winner can tie and eat the loser; his the voice is louder; the elephant asks to let him go for 7 days; the frog promises to help; when the tiger is ready to jump on the elephant, the frog jumps on the tiger's face and covers his eyes with sand; the tiger has fled; the monkey says that the frog should not be afraid, ties itself to the tiger and leads back; the frog again sprinkles sand into the tiger's eyes; he, dragging the monkey with him, ran and fell into the abyss; tree branches, on the monkey tried to climb has been hanging down to the ground ever since; elephants never step on frogs]: Zapadova 1977:239-242.
Burma - Indochina. Burmese [Tiger and Elephant argue which of them is worse; Tiger's roar shuddered, but not when the Elephant sounded; the Elephant is preparing to die; the Rabbit promises to save him; tells everyone to shout "Mighty The rabbit has defeated the Elephant and is now looking for the Tiger"; The rabbit rides the Elephant, eats bananas, says it's the Elephant's brains; the Monkey and the Tiger are waiting, tied their tails; The monkey says they're just bananas; The rabbit Monkeys: Why did you bring such a skinny tiger? The tiger runs, dragging the Monkey, their tails are cut off]: Aung 1957:14-17; the Arakan people [the tiger tells the elephant that he dreamed that he was eating an elephant heart; the elephant recognizes the tiger's right to eat it, but asks for a delay of 7 days; the frog tells the elephant to lie down and inflate its stomach; at the sight of the tiger: the elephant is not enough, here's the tiger, really skinny; the tiger ran away; the jackal tells him to return, they tied their tails; the frog: thanks to the tiger for bringing his son; the tiger and the jackal ran, but because they were tied up, they crashed to death]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 64:198-200; Khmers [the hare pretended to be dead; his banana merchant picks it 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 of skin disease if it transports it to the other side; by jumping on shore, insults the crocodile and runs away; climbed into the buffalo's belly; under the sun, the skin has dried up and shrunk; the hare asks the 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 , the crocodile 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 a watchman put by In6dra ; the elephant grabs the hare and throws it aside, the hare is released again; trapped by a gardener, begged the toad to release him - he will save it from warts; once free, insults the toad; in next time the toad freed the hare for promising to give his 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 ; tiger agrees 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 it with the top under which the hare; both escape]: Gorgoniev 1973:115-126 (=Marunova 1972:165-170); Viets: Cadière 1955 [the elephant suggests to the tiger: whose voice will scare the birds, that would kill another; the birds were afraid of the tiger's voice; he promised to come to eat an elephant in 3 days; the hare promised to help, told the elephant to lie down; when he saw the tiger, he said that the elephant was for food, but there was not enough dessert; the tiger runs away; monkeys lead him back, and so that he is not afraid, they contact them with a vine; hare: mean monkeys, you promised me three fat tigers, and you lead one skinny one; the tiger runs away, dragging monkeys; seeing them muzzles grinned after death, the tiger thinks they are laughing at him, ate everyone]: 242-243; Gil 1906 [the toad tells the tiger to get out, mocks him; the tiger offers to compete: who will be faster on across the river; the toad grabbed his tail, the tiger waved it, the toad flew to the other side, in front of the tiger; who could eat more; tiger: wild boar and dog; toad: and I'm a tiger; the tiger is terrified ran away; the monkey leads him back, the tiger tied his tails to her for courage; toad: your grandfather owed me a lot of tigers, ten would not be enough, and you only drag one; the tiger dragged the monkey; looking around and Seeing her mouth grinned after hitting a tree: and laughs again!] : 82-88; Thai Vietnam: Nikulin 1976 [the tiger suggested to the elephant: Whose voice is louder will eat the other; the tiger's voice is louder, the elephant went to say goodbye to the family; the mole promised to help; sat on the elephant's back; at the sight tiger: I didn't have time to eat one, and the other is here; the tiger ran; the monkey tells me to come back, let the tiger tie her by the neck; mole: owes 9 tigers and brought one! the tiger ran away and killed the monkey]: 241-243; Degeorge 1925 [the tiger asks the toad if it can drag a tree to build a house; in response, the toad offers to jump long; clings to the tiger's tail, he believes what she is in front; asks what the toad eats to be so strong; suggests regurgitating what she has eaten; the toad asks the tiger to regurgitate first; this is meat; the toad regurgitates something green, white red; says that white is elephant tusks, red is tiger pupils; the tiger runs away; the monkey convinces him to come back, offers to tie him with a rope; toad: monkey, you promised me nine tigers, why only one? the tiger runs, dragging the monkey; the dead monkey grins as if laughing; the tiger is furious; ate a monkey]: 972-973; tyams [tiger, hare, otter, chicken, elephant are cutting straw to build a house and they cook one by one (tiger meat, otter - fish, chicken - eggs); when it is the hare's turn, he cooks his excrement with more spices; pretends to be sick; everyone has eaten, he sings indistinctly, others they understand that they ate hare excrement; everyone went for sliced straw, loaded it on an elephant, the hare says that he is very ill, he is allowed to sit on the cart, he sets fire to straw, tells the tiger and the otter lead the elephant against the wind; finally, the otter led the elephant to the river; the tiger went to look for the hare, wrapped around the boa constrictor; the hare says it is a belt of flowers, reluctantly agrees that the elephant should wear it, asks for a thorn; stabs a boa constrictor, he spreads rings, wraps around the tiger, the tiger hardly gnawed at him; the hare pretends to have a drum, the tiger also wants to knock; this is a nest of earth wasps, the tiger is bitten; the hare climbs on 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, cutting off its tongue; the hare jumped into a dry well, says that the sky is falling; asks the tiger for a wand; the tiger also climbs into the well, the hare tickles it with a stick, the tiger throws it away; the hare calls people; they run to look at a tiger, a hare eats cooked holiday cookies, runs away; lies down on the road, pretends to be dead; a woman picks him up, puts him in a basket of sweets; the hare eats everything, runs away; an elephant and a tiger they competed to see who would make a louder sound; the elephant lost and now the tiger would eat it; the hare promised to save the elephant; when the tiger came up, the hare, having prepared a betel in advance, as if attacking the elephant, he fell all in red spots; the tiger thought it was blood, ran away in fear; the turtle told the tiger to get the vine, she would lead him, tied by the vine, to eat a hare; the hare rushed to them, the tiger ran away, dragged the turtle, she hit a stump, bleed out of her mouth; the tiger thought it was bethel and started chewing]: Landes 1987:50-60.
South Asia. India (written tradition) [recorded in Sanskrit Suka Saptate]: Elwin 1944:409; Kashmiris [tiger plowman: God gave me your two oxen; the plowman persuaded him to take it better a dairy cow, but my wife decided not to give anything and started shouting: I hope there is a tiger in the field, because I haven't eaten tigers for two days since I killed three the day before yesterday; the tiger ran away, the jackal took him back; so that the tiger less afraid, the jackal offered to contact with his tails; wife: cute, jackal, that you are driving a fat tiger, but why not two; the tiger ran, dragging the jackal over the rocks, he died]: Steel Temple 1884 in Elwin 1944:409; Kumaoni: Minaev 1968, No. 2 [a lion comes to the jackal's lair; the jackal climbed the mountain, taught his wife what to do; she scrapes puppies, the jackal asks why the children are screaming; she replies that yesterday's lion have already been eaten, but there is no fresh one yet; the lion runs away, the monkey shames him; the lion agrees to return, if the monkey goes with him, she leads him on a rope; everything repeats: the wife replies to the jackal that the children of yesterday's lion they don't eat, but they don't have enough fresh food yet; the lion runs away, dragging the monkey with him, which suffocates]: 30-31; Upreti 1894 [the goat went into the forest, met the jackal, said he killed several lions; the leopard ran away; the jackal began to prove that it was just a goat, offered to tie a rope and go together; goat: thank you jackal, I was just looking for a leopard; the leopard fled, dragging the jackal, both crashed when they fell into abyss]: 12; India (translated from Hindi): Zograf 1962 [the jackal and his family settled in a lion's cave; a lion comes up; jackal: son, where did this lion's meat go? if it's over, go kill the other; the lion leaves; the monkey explains that the jackal should not be afraid, offers to contact his tails; they approach the cave; the jackal to the son: go kill both; the lion rushes away Tearing off the monkey's tail]: 68-70; Beck et al. 1987, No. 85 [the jackal occupied the fox's house and does not let her in; she complained to the lion; tied him with a rope; seeing the fox and lion approaching, the jackal agreed with his wife: children should cry and want lion meat; he says that his friend the fox promised to bring a lion - here they are; the lion rushed to run, dragging the fox]: 255-256; Punjabi [the tiger demands an ox from the peasant, he asks to agree to a cow; his wife tells the tiger that she will bring a horse now; she dresses as a witch, picks up a sickle, comes on horseback; says to her husband: you said that four tigers, one is not enough for me; the tiger runs away; the wolf overheard the peasant's conversation with his wife, told the tiger that he was deceived; the tiger agrees to go with his tails tied to the wolf; the farmer's wife turns to the wolf: you promised to bring four tigers, and there was only one; the tiger ran, dragging the wolf with him, he died]: Zograf 1964:88-94; Gujarati [the king chased lions, they fled; when the jackalikha was ready to give birth, the jackal took over the lion's lair; and then the lion comes; the jackal agrees with his wife that she will call him the lion killer; the lion runs away; the monkey laughs at him, tells him to return; the lion agrees only after they tie their tails; the jackal loudly thanks the monkey for leading him a lion; the lion ran, dragging the monkey, and she was pulling the lion, both crashed to death on the rocks]: Hertel 1921, No. 66:292-293; konkani (Mulvani dialect, Maharashtra) [the fox, his wife, and cubs decided to settle in the tiger's lair; when he came to the entrance, the fox gave his wife a sign and she pinched the young; then asked loudly what happened; the fox replied that they wanted tiger meat; when he heard this, the tiger got scared and ran away; told the monkey about the incident; the monkey laughed at him; offered to go to the lair together; the tiger He only agreed to return by tying the monkey's tails; when they came to the lair, the fox said: "This monkey's father promised to give me 12 tigers for saving his life. Apparently he sent one of them along with his son"; the tiger thought that the monkey had deceived him and ran away; the monkey eventually died]: Gangeyee 1975, No. 5:30-33; the Assames [after bumping into a tiger, The goat promises to eat it; the tiger runs away; the fox persuades the tiger to come back, and so that it is not afraid, they tie its tails; goat: did you go get another one? well done! the tiger runs away again, dragging the fox with him; the fox died]: Goswami 1960:95-96; the Bengalis [goat and goat and goat with goats left people into the forest; climbed into the hollow, the goats began to bleat; a tiger came up; a goat: Five tigers, three bears, elephants, etc. that you ate are not enough; but here comes another tiger, now you will get it; the tiger is running away; the monkey explains that there is nothing to fear, just in case offers to contact with its tails; goat to monkey: bastard, only one tiger all day, I'll eat you with it; the tiger runs away with its tail off, the monkey hides in the depths of the forest, because everyone laughs that its second tail is a tiger]: McCulloch 1912, No. 28:305-311; Santals: Bompas 1909, No. 122 [the goat hid in the leopard's hole, gave a voice, the leopard got scared and walked away; the jackal led him back, and for courage they tied their tails; when they went to the hole, both got scared and ran, the jackal's whole tail was ripped off]: 339-340; Bodding 1925, No. 7 [the goat hears the 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 is terrified runs away, dragging the jackal; he comes to the baby leopard, tells them that their parents owe him all the food; the leopard is surprised why the children are losing weight; when he finds out what's going on, the leopard ambushed him he rushed after the jackal, got stuck in his hole, died; the jackal came to the leopard, she took him as her husband; chases deer at him, the jackal says he didn't catch a single one because she drove crooked; now he chases, the leopard was killed by a deer; the jackal: I drove the right way; secretly ate the liver; at the river crossing he refused to let the leopard carry it; the river carried the jackal; he asks the crocodile not to eat it, promises to bring it meat, asks to open his mouth and close his eyes, throws sharp stones into his mouth; the crocodile grabs the jackal by the leg, who says he grabbed the root; the crocodile hid under the straw; the jackal tied a goat to his neck bell, started jumping around; crocodile: leaving, stupid goat, I'm here in ambush; the jackal set fire to straw, the crocodile burned down]: 93-99; ho: Halder 1916, No. 10 [the man bought a big goat to sacrifice; left to graze; during the rain, the goat climbed into the cave where the tiger's lair was; the tiger came and asked the goat who he was; goat: I have already eaten your offspring, now I'll try your meat; tiger ran away; the jackal called him a coward and led him back, and so that the tiger was not afraid, he tied his tail to the tiger; goat: luck - two instead of one for dinner; the tiger ran, dragging the jackal; he died, and the tiger left these places and the goat got the cave]: 283-284; 1918, No. 29 [a pregnant jackalikha asks her husband to prepare a house for her family; he asks him for good food every day and tells him how she digs a hole; He does nothing himself; when the jackaliha gives birth, brings the family to the tiger's cave; a tiger comes up; the jackaliha makes the cubs voice and begins to speak loudly, as if addressing them: gluttons, devoured seven tiger liver! 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 herself 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]: 339-342; condas [the fox told the tiger that a delicious goat lived in the cave; in front of the cave they saw a bear trembling with fear; he said there was a monster in the cave; the fox laughed and suggested that the tiger tied one end of the rope around her neck and the other to its tail; when the tiger entered the cave and saw a goat with a beard shaking (also out of fear), he got scared and ran, dragging a fox with him; fortunately the rope broke; a Muslim met the tiger, screamed in fear, the tiger and frightened him, mistaking him for a terrible goat; the tiger king heard and came to find out what kind of competitor he had; saw the hare; he said that the goat had sent him to scout; the king of the tigers ordered him to go with him; the hare leaned to the well and said that the king's rival was there; when he saw his reflection, the tiger rushed into the well; the bear and the fox began to descend the rope to help him; the hare cut off the rope, they also died; the hare told the sick and old goat that there was rejuvenating water in the well; she came to the well, fell there; going home {to that cave?} , the hare saw a Muslim; he threw a stone at him; the hare showed him the corpses in the well: this is what he did to save the Muslim's life; he was frightened; the hare got rid of all enemies and lived happily ever after]: Schulze 1922, No. 4:37-39; oriya [the goat is behind the herd, climbed into the cave, the tiger comes up; the goat asks who he is; the tiger: I am a tiger, the king of beasts; goat: I am a fig, king of kings; the tiger runs away; the jackal leads he back, for courage, offers to contact him with his tails; goat: I told me to bring me 12 tigers, why only one; the tiger ran, dragging the jackal over the rocks, he died; in the morning the shepherd found a goat]: Mohanti 1975:115-116; Telugu (? Andhra Pradesh) [Animal allows himself to be tied to another for safety]: Jason 1989:22; Malayali [the jackal came to the village and married a dog; when she was about to give birth, he decided that it was safer to give birth in the forest ; they have occupied the tiger's cave; the tiger is coming, you can already hear a roar, the dog is trembling with horror; jackal: don't cry, honey, the tiger will definitely come back and we'll have a good dinner; the tiger is gone and met another jackal; that talked about the jackal and the dog and took the tiger back; the first jackal to the dog: look, honey; I put my relatives all over the forest and one of them is already leading the tiger; the tiger ran away, the jackal persuaded him to come back again, this time with his tails; the first jackal is a dog: well, my brother won't miss him now; as soon as the tiger looks into the cave, I'll kill him right away; the tiger and the second jackal ran together, both crashed and died] : Menon 1995:14-16; Sinhalese [while the leopard was hunting, a female dwarf deer climbed into its cave and gave birth to two deer; the leopard got wet in the rain and went to the cave; the deer began to beat the children. for them to scream and cry: well, where is the leopard! She replied: everything has already been eaten, from where I will get the fresh one for you; the leopard has run away; the jackal tells him not to be afraid - let him tie himself to his neck with a rope for courage; deer to the children: don't yell, the jackal is already leading fresh leopard; jackal: I told you to bring 7, and you only drag one leopard; the leopard rushed away, dragging the jackal; when I looked around, I saw the jackal smiling with his teeth exposed (he had long been strangled with a noose around his neck and died hitting rocks)]: Parker 1910, No. 31:213.
Malaysia-Indonesia. Javanese [the monkey tells the tiger that he is friends with buffalo in vain - it is better to eat it; doe, deer, bull, rhino, kentus refuse to help; the kid knocks down a rotten banana trunk, the tiger tells that the kid is strong; the monkey convinces him that this is not the case, the tiger agrees to go with her tails; the kid asks the monkey why it leads only one tiger; the tiger runs away, tearing it apart bushes and thorns to pieces for a monkey; since then, monkeys have been drawn by lot to the tiger every day, and the kid is friends with the buffalo]: Ostrovsky 1956:65-81.
China - Korea. Chinese (Sichuan, St. Huaying) [an old man and an old woman in a hut, they have a cow; in the evening it started raining, the wind blew; the tiger wanted to eat a cow, waited for dark; a thief hid nearby; an old woman: "In this weather, tigers descend from the mountains, to eat a cow, you have to be wary of thieves!" ; old man: "What tigers, what thieves, I'm only afraid of a leak!" ; tiger: "I'm the king of animals, can the leak be stronger than me?" ; frightened, decided to run; the thief saw a black shadow running away and thought it was a cow, jumped on it; in the light of lightning, he realized that he was sitting on a tiger; jumped onto a tree; the tiger met a monkey in the mountains; she I began to doubt: "Why haven't I heard about leaks before? let's tie our tails and see; if it's a man, I'll catch him and let you eat him, and if it's a leak, I'll blink, you'll pull me out and run away"; when the monkey climbed the tree, the man peed, the drops hit the monkey in the eye; the tiger saw a blinking monkey and thought that there was a ferocious "leak" on the tree; rushed to run, dragging the monkey; looked at the cave: the monkey's head was broken, his mouth was grinned; the tiger: "How do you like it don't be ashamed to laugh!"] Zhou Yang et al. 1998b, No. 358:472-473; Chinese (Beijing) [an elderly childless couple without children lived in the mountains; they had a donkey; one day it rained, the old man did not go to the market; next door lived a thief who decided steal a donkey; at night, the thief entered the yard, but saw that the lights in the house were still on, and lay down on the roof to wait until the owners fell asleep; at the same time a tiger came to eat the donkey; both were looking for a donkey, but did not see it in the yard; heard voices from home; old man: "Look how raining!" , wife: "It's okay, let's skip two days while we have what to eat and warm up." Old man: "I'm afraid of nothing but a leak"; the thief and the tiger only heard "I'm afraid of a leak"; they thought it was a terrible animal - stronger than a tiger; the thief fell from the roof onto the tiger's back and thought he fell on" a leak"; wrapped around the tiger more tightly; the tiger thought that he had been grabbed by a "leak"; the faster he ran, the thief wrapped around it; when he saw the tree, the thief jumped on it, and the tiger ran away; when he heard his story, the monkey told me to take her to that tree; the tiger was afraid; the monkey: "Then I'll tie the rope at one end to myself and the other to your tail"; the thief saw a tiger approaching: "How terrible this "leak" is, even he brought a monkey with him - he would come to me, throw it down, and he would eat me"; he peed himself in fear; urine got into the monkey's eyes, she lowered her head and blinked; the tiger decided to run; through which at that time I remembered that my monkey brother was attached to him, called him, but there was no answer; when he came up, he saw that the monkey was dead and there was not even hair left on his body]: Zhou Yang et al. 1998d, No. 454:674- 675; Chinese (Henan, St. Luoyang) [At night, the tiger went to the peasant house; was going to steal a cow; heard a man say: "Hey! I saw a tiger on the mountain today, so I was scared!" ; woman in response: "I'm not afraid of tigers, I'm afraid of pot leaks!" ; the tiger thought that the pot leak was stronger than him; at that point, the thief who was about to steal the bull thought that the tiger standing by the pen was a calf; tied a rope around his neck and took him away; the tiger thought his caught a "pot leak"; outside the village, the thief saddled the tiger, he ran; but in the moonlight he found that under it was not a bull, but a tiger; grabbed a branch and climbed a tree; the tiger met a monkey, everything said; she did not believe it and asked to show her the "pot leak"; just in case, she tied herself to the tiger's tail with a rope; when he saw the tiger, the man fell right on the face of the monkey, which screamed; the tiger rushed to run; when he looked around, he saw that the monkey was left with only bones tied to its tail; thought it was eaten by a "pot leak"]: Zhou Yang et al. 1998b, No. 324:373-375; Chinese (Zhejiang, wu . Xiangshan, Huangbi'ao County, Dalin, 1987) [a husband and wife lived in a cave in the mountains; it was raining one dark night; a tiger came to the barn and heard a conversation; "Oh, I'm not afraid of the sky, I'm not afraid of the earth, everyone I'm not afraid of wolves, tigers and leopards, but I'm afraid of leaks"; the tiger decided that he was talking about a ferocious beast; a thief came up to steal a cow; the thief mistook the tiger for a cow and jumped on it, and the tiger thought his saddled the "leak"; realizing who was under him, the thief jumped and climbed the tree; the tiger came across a monkey; she told her to show her the "leak"; she was also afraid, so he took the vine and tied it at one end to the tiger's scrotum and the other to his neck; "If I start blinking, drag me and run away"; the thief peed himself in fear, urine fell into the monkey's eyes, she blinked, the tiger ran; when he looked around, he saw that his eyes the monkeys are closed and the mouth is smiling; "You smile, my scrotum is crippled"; wanted to hit the monkey, but noticed that it was not breathing]: Zhou Yang et al. 1997, No. 477:576-576; Chinese (the recording location is not indicated) [in the evening, in the hut, one person tells another that he is not afraid of either the tiger or the devil, but only if the drip-drip from the roof drips; the tiger heard, thinks that the drip-cap is worse than him; ran into the village, climbed into an empty hut; when he came up, he saw a thief with a lantern, thought it was a drip-cap; the thief climbed into the same hut and mistook the tiger for a cow; in the morning he saw a tiger, climbed a tree; the tiger tells the monkey he met with a drip-cap, he is now in a tree; the monkey ties his paw to the tiger's paw, climbs a tree to prove that there is only a human; and if he drip-cap, he shakes his head; the thief let his pants in fear the monkey began to shake off, the tiger thought he was nodding, rushed to run, dragging the monkey, which killed herself; went to look for the deer without knowing what it looked like; asks the deer what its name is; deer: Honorable tiger, I want to eat tiger meat; tiger: what do you have under your belly? deer: wine kettle - I'll eat reindeer meat, then drink wine; tiger: what's on my head? a bamboo cart, I put half-eaten tiger meat in it; out of fear, the deer peed himself and shouted that the drip-cap had come; the tiger ran away]: Riftin 1972:45-47; she (they speak shehua, not she of the Miao-yao family; Fujian, wu. Fuan, She Kantsuo Nation District, village. Nanping) [the monkey and the tiger were friends; it was raining, the tiger came to the poor house to steal a pig; the shack was under a rock canopy and when it rained, there was a danger that the rock would collapse; the pigs began scream; wife: "I don't understand, is there a tiger outside?" ; instead of the word "tiger", the husband heard "heavy rain" and said: "I'm not afraid of heavy rain, I'm afraid of falling"; the tiger decided that the "collapse" was stronger than him; at the same time, the thief came to steal the pig and opened the bag , the tiger hit him and carried it; when he opened the bag and saw the tiger, the thief climbed the tree; the monkey agreed to climb there if he and the tiger contacted the tiger with a vine; the "collapse" peed in fear, urine drops fell the monkey in the eye, she blinked; the tiger ran, dragging the monkey; when he turned around, he saw the monkey covered in blood; since then, the monkeys have no chin and cheeks, the monkey and the tiger are no longer friends; the elderly are not approve marriage between people with tiger eyebrows and monkey eyebrows (according to traditional Chinese physiognomy)]: Zhou Yang et al. 1998b, No. 389:530-531; fox [tiger offers elephant: who will publish more a loud sound, he would eat another; the tiger's roar was louder, the elephant started running; the toad told him to dig a hole, hide so that only the tip of his trunk was sticking out, sat down in this place; told the tiger that she had already eaten it the tiger, which can become big; the tiger offers to jump: whoever is farther will eat the other; the tiger jumps twice, the toad clung to its tail both times in front; the tiger offers to voice; the voice of a toad louder; suggests comparing vomiting; the tiger regurgitated the grass (he did not eat anything else that day), the toad - small fruits; told the tiger that these were the pupils of his ancestors, which it swallowed; the tiger set off to run ; monkey: let's go back; the tiger agreed only after they had tied their tails; heard the toad scream again, the tiger started running; he thinks the red and white on the monkey's face are betel and rice, which she chews; ran until the monkey's tail came off; since then, the tigers' tails are long, the monkeys are short]: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994:302-306; Chuan miao [the toad invited the tiger to fight, clung to his tail; says she can jump 10 times as far as he does; the tiger ran away; the fox tells me to come back, offers to contact him with a vine; toad: you think you alone are not enough for lunch brought a brother? stand still, I'll come right now; the tiger ran, dragging the fox, it died]: Graham 1954:223-224.
The Balkans. Hungarians [a donkey says to a lion (bear, wolf) who has never seen him before that he is a shepherd's transporter, king of rams; the lion demands that the donkey show his strength in action; launches its claws into the ground, water splashes; the donkey lets out a stream of urine - it extracts water with less effort; donkey: if I throw one ear back, then I'm angry, and if both, I'm terribly angry and then more strength; the lion runs away, meets a wolf; that leads him back to lift his donkey together, they tied with a rope woven from branches; seeing that the donkey has thrown both ears back and roars, the lion flees, dragging the wolf with him; seeing the grin of the dead ox, lion notices: you're funny and I'm scared]: Kovács 1987, № 118A*: 268-269; Bulgarians [the deceiver tells the dragon (the devil) that his house is covered with dragon (damn) skin (what's on his wall) an ax hangs to kill people, etc.); the dragon or devil meets the fox (priest); she exposes the deceiver and leads him back, and so that he is not afraid, they tie with a rope; when they see the deceiver, the dragon (hell) again runs away, dragging a fox (priest) with him, it dies]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1149A*: 389; Greeks [shoemaker Lazarus loved honey; flies flew in and he slammed 14 with one blow; ordered a sword with the inscription "14 in one blow" and went on a journey; after walking for two days, he fell asleep at the well; the Dragon came for water, read the inscription on his sword, decided to fraternize with the hero, brought him to him, where others dragons; he was given a huge wineskin, telling him to bring water; L. began to dig in the well, pretending to bring it in its entirety; when they sent him to bring the tree for firewood, he tied the forest with a rope. to bring it all at once; the dragons agreed to beat L. sleeping with batons at night; he overheard, lay down elsewhere, said in the morning that mosquitoes were biting; the dragons asked if L. wanted to return to his wife and children, they would give him gold; L. told one of them to carry gold; warned the children to shout "We want dragons!" as soon as they envy the dragon. ; the dragon ran away; the fox: yes, I'm stealing their chickens; if you're afraid to go alone, tie yourself to my tail and let's go; L. shouts to the fox: you promised to bring all the dragons, but you're only dragging one! the dragon rushed away, the tied fox crashed against the rocks]: Hahn 1864 (1), No. 23:173-176.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Basangova 2002 [the wolf led the hungry elephant to get the sheep; he is afraid, asks them to tie their necks with ropes; hearing the dogs barking, the elephant ran, dragging the wolf, he suffocated]: 211-212 (=2017, No. 32:83); Vatagin 1964 [like Basangov; the elephant ran away, so elephants don't live here]: 159-260; Jimbinov 1962 [grandfather in a quarter, a beard in 4 quarters buried a goat's brain, invited seven muses to bet: who will get to the brain of the earth; the Muses admit defeat, invite them for gold; they give them an iron tourniquet, send them for firewood; the old man begins to tie all the trees to supposedly bring everything at once; begins dig in a well to bring it whole; when the meat is ready, he sends mousse for salt, throws the meat into the river, says he has eaten everything; the same with the soup; at night, the old man covers a stone, mousse with his fur coat they try to stab this place with daggers, in the morning the old man says that the lice have bitten; negotiates with his wife to say that there are no supplies, and he will advise you to take Musa's giblets; the husband came and heard he started to run; the fox leads Musa back, tied with his tails; old man: my beloved yellow son leads Musa to death; the mousse killed the fox; the same with the wolf (gray son); the old man made fur coats from the skins of a wolf and a fox]: 57-60; Stavropol Turkmens [when they get to the divas, Jesus the hero (Ica-Behlewan), using various tricks - pulling trees in the forest, devouring an entire calf, squeezing brains out of the ground (jer meillici), extracting the earth's stomach and intestines, digging up an entire well of water - misleads divas about their strength; the divas could not kill I. with either boiling water or a hammer and decided to get rid of giving him a bag of gold and letting him go home; the hero pretended to throw a heavy bag right from the forest into his house, but he was offered to go on the back of a diva; this diva was surprised at his lightness hero, but begged "not to impose weights", as soon as the hero began to poke him in the back with an awl; having taught his wife to intimidate the diva when he appeared in the house, I. fled; the diva wanted help the fox, but she also died from the hero's cunning]: Samoilovich 1914 {a or b?} , No. 16:; Balkarians [wives kicked the cowardly husband out the door; when he learned that the fox was running, he fainted; when he regained consciousness, the husband decided to show that he was not a coward; meets emegen, who sewed cracks in earth, invites him to go for wealth; emegen wants to compare their strengths, throws the rock far; man squeezes juice out of a piece of cheese, emegen believes it is a stone; man squeezes ayran out a buried wineskin, emegen cannot squeeze water out of the ground; emegen leads a man to his cave; a man says he has vowed to eat little, otherwise a ram would not be enough for him; emegen poured a bag into a man gold; man: according to our custom, the giver must carry the gift himself; the person runs up to the house before emegen; wives are taught to shout from afar to make a kebab with emegen meat; emegen runs away in horror ; the fox assures that the man is a coward, offers to contact with his tails; wives are taught to thank the fox for bringing emegen; emegen killed the fox, ran away, the man got gold]: Baranov 1897, No. 2:13-18; Ossetians: Dzagurov 1973, No. 24 [poor Tsupara has 7 chickens; a fox comes to live with him, asks not to be afraid for chickens; promises to marry Aldar's daughter; Aldar asks dowry: a hundred pieces from each breed of animals; in The fox shouts to the forest that war is coming, let the animals run after it, hide in a hole that she points; gathers the animals to Aldar's stable; painted C.'s rags with flowers, from a distance it seems that the clothes shine; on the bridge, he pushes him into the water, asks Aldar to send new clothes to his son-in-law; at the house, Aldar C. looks around himself, the fox explains that the groom's own clothes were better; when the young went home, the fox resorts to seven Waigs, says that troops are coming, asking permission to hide under the straw; the Waigi are hiding themselves, the fox has set fire to the straw, the Waigi have burned down; the fox drives their mother away, the young settle in them palace; the fox asks C. now to marry the bride for her as well; C. refuses - he has no money for this; the fox tells the Waig mother that a bad man has settled in her palace; the Waig mother does not believe; the fox offers to put a rope around her neck, leads to C.; that fox: I told you to bring a male, not a female; the Waig mother hit the fox on the ground and ran away], 47 [the husband became lazy, stopped leaving the house; wife put the soup outside, and when her husband left, locked the door; he asked for a bag of ash, cheese and an awl; sees how on the other side of the Waig River you put stones in your mouth and spit out dust; the man put son, blew out ash; squeezed another piece of cheese - water flowed; told Waig to carry it across the river; what, light? my weight is tied to me with iron chains; Waig asks me to let go a little; the man stabs him with an awl, the waig tells me to lift the weight back; at night, the Waigi cut down the deck on which the person was supposed to sleep, but he was supposed to sleep in advance lay down in another place; the same when they threw stones on the roof and collapsed it; the Waig carried the treasure into the man's house; the fox led him back; the fox man: I told him to bring the ram, and you lead the goat again; Waig grabbed the fox by the tail and killed it; the man made a collar out of skin]: 51-53, 193-196; the Avars [young Rakukirsh ("rummaging through the ash") is idle; the mother said they are giving out sweets outside the door, and locked the door behind him; he asked for a bag of ash, an awl and a head of cottage cheese; came to the river, on the opposite bank of the sledge; R. made a hole in the bag with an awl, followed by a stream of ash; the sledge was surprised offered to squeeze water out of the stone; R. squeezed it out of the cottage cheese; R. suggested that the sledge should carry it across the river; he is surprised that R. is light; R.: I'm holding on to the sky; sledge: let go; R. plunged an awl into the sledge, he screamed - let R. hold on to the sky again; the sledge asks R. to turn the bread over in the pan, she falls, R. stays under it; explains that his stomach is sick, he begins to warm it; digs a barrel of wine dug into the ground, saying that it makes no sense to walk with a scoop; one sledge sneezed, R. flew to the ceiling beam; says to the sledge: how dare you sneeze in my presence, I'll hit you with a rod (points to the beam); sledges scared, left; the fox tells the first sledge that R. is an insignificant man; he agreed to return with his fox tied to his belt; R.: liar, you should have brought all nine sledges, not one; sledge ran away, dragging a fox with him; R. and his mother settled in his house]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 74:600-602; the Kyurins [the fox steals pears from the pear king's garden; caught in a trap; asks not to kill, promises to marry daughter of King Lala; borrowed the measure, left a coin in the crack; the king agrees to give her daughter away; the fox says that when crossing the river, the groom lost everything; at the feast explains that the groom looks around a new dress that his own was better; on the way to the groom's house, he tells him to tie thorns to the tails of animals; tells the divas that an army is coming - dust is visible; one diva hid in the forest, and 6 in an adobe; the fox set it on fire, the divas burned down; one day the fox fell ill, the young wife took her by the tail and threw it into the yard; she promises revenge for ingratitude; she went to bring the diva out of the forest; he is afraid of deception, for the fox to agree to contact him with a chain; the king of pears: why is there only one diva out of seven? the diva ran, the fox died, his mouth was grinned; the diva first thought she was laughing; the king of pears healed happily]: Lionidze, Sultanov 1892, No. 1:165-167; aguly [the miller fed the hungry fox, and she responded decided to thank him; went to the king twice and asked for a measure to measure gold; each time a gold coin remained in the measure; the king decided that the fox served a rich man; the fox married the miller the king's daughter; when the king invited the miller to his place, she asked the king for clothes for him on the pretext that the groom's clothes were soaked in the rain; after the wedding, the fox told Azhdakha that an army was coming to kill him; Azhdaha ran away, a miller and his wife settled in his house; when the fox came again, the miller asked his wife to drive her out; the fox persuaded Azhdaha to drive the miller out of the house; they joined with a rope, and when Azhdaha scared of the miller and ran into the forest, the fox died]: Maysak 2014, No. M29:477; Georgians [the lazy man does nothing but blow ash, nicknamed Zoloduv; on Easter, his daughter-in-law did not let him into the house; he left, taking a bag of ash, an awl and cheese from her; when he saw a deva across the river, he pierced the bag, the ash rose in a cloud, the devil was frightened; Z. invited the deva to squeeze water out of the stone, squeezed it out of the piece of cheese himself; ordered the deva to move himself across the river; Dev is surprised that Z. is light, he replies that he is holding on to the sky; Dev asks to let go of the sky, Z. stabs him with an awl, dev asks him to hold on to the sky again; in the house, Deva Z. knocked over a stone frying pan, told the devas that his stomach was warming, let them now remove the pan; the devas sent Z. to the yard for wine, he could not pick up the scoop, he pretended to bring the whole vat; one dev sneezed, Z. flew to the ceiling, grabbed the beam: how dare you sneeze in front of me, I'll take this whip and hit it; the devas ran away in horror, the fox says that this Z. ruined his chicken coop, leads the deva back, that tied himself to her with a rope in fear; Z.: you drag one deva, but promised 12; dev ran away, dragged him, crippled the fox]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 128:251-253 (Dirr 1920, No. 2:6-9); Talyshi [mother left the cowardly son alone in the field; he went on a journey, picked up an egg and horsehair; met a deva; he clenched the stone so that water flowed; the young man crushed the egg; the deva pulled his hair out from under his arm the young man showed his horsehair; the dev ran away in horror, the young man returned home; the fox told the devil that the young man had deceived him; led him with a rope; asked the young man to kill the deva; the young man went out with a gun, dev ran away, breaking the rope]: Bayramalibekov 1894:21-22; Kurds: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 180 [the donkey left the owner, found a good valley; when he saw the lion, he roared and said that he was Levoed; offers a lion drive eagles at him; one sick eagle accidentally fell next to a donkey; a donkey gave it to a lion, the lion thought he was hunting in the air; both went swimming, the donkey almost drowned, but shook the fish out of his ears gave it to the lion; the lion thought that he was a donkey and a hunter in the water; the fox told the lion that the donkey had deceived him, offered to tie his tails and lead him; the donkey roared, the lion rushed to run, dragging the fox with him until it died]: 489-490; Farizov, Rudenko 1959 [Kezerkanun was afraid of a fox; to lure him out of the house, his wife ordered her son to throw pies from the roof, sent K. to pick up and locked the door; K. asked for a bag with flour and awl, went on a journey; came to the house of 7 devas, called himself a hero; having buried an egg, offered to test his strength - who stomps so that yellow clay splashes from under his heel; going for firewood, pretends to tie a rope around all the trees in the forest to bring them at once; inflating his wineskin, pretends to fill it with water from the river and immediately drinks (the devas are afraid that he will drink their river); K. overheard that they wanted to hack him with an ax, put a block of wood on his bed instead of himself, complains of insect bites in the morning; the devas give K. treasures, carry him to his house; dev is surprised that K. is light; K.: I don't want to fall all the weight; dev: try it; K. pierces an awl in the deva's back, he asks him not to fall down anymore; at home, K. loudly asks his wife to let the mace deal with the deva, he runs away; the fox says that K. is afraid of her, ties to Dev with a rope and leads him back; K.: holds the deva, I will help now; dev runs, dragging the fox, she died]: 73-78.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians [when dying, the old man gives his eldest son a drum and his youngest zurn; he went on a journey, picked up a oxtail, a sparrow, a wineskin; comes to the garden; there are divas Zangala, the young man replies that he divas Jangala; shows a oxtail, Z. believes that J.'s hair; decides to throw stones, the young man releases a sparrow; whoever pours out more urine, the young man pours water out of his wineskin; whoever shouts louder, the young man plays zurne; divas run away, killed a sleeping young man, took the treasures; the fox assures diva Z. that the young man is a man, he has a oxtail, a sparrow, a zurna; connects to the diva with a rope and leads him back; the young man plays Zurne, a diva runs away in horror, dragging a fox; she died]: Osmanov 1987:281-283; Baluchi [the tiger wants to eat the ploughman; he asks for permission to harvest first; the farmer's wife disguises himself as a man clothes, shouts in a rude voice: the king sent to hunt tigers, did you see any traces? tiger: who is this? peasant: king's vizier; tiger: hide me; wife: what's under the covers? peasant: burn a piece of wood for coal; wife: cut off a piece of it for me; tiger: cut off my ear; wife: cut off more; tiger: and second; what pieces, bigger; peasant cut off the tiger's tail; wife: must cut off half; the tiger runs away; the jackal: there is no vizier and no army, let's tie with a rope, let's go back; wife: promised to bring 14 tigers, but you're leading one crazy and tailless; the tiger ran away, dragging the jackal, he died]: Dames 1892, No. 5:522-524 (=Porozhnyakov 1989:86-88); Turkmens: Kekilov, Kosayev 1962 [Aldarkose went for brushwood; the fox offered to collect firewood for him if he gave her his churek; having received a chorek, she ran away; after running after the fox, A. picked up a pheasant, a pheasant's eggs, a turtle, a dead donkey's tail; he came across devas; they suggest comparing lice, A. shows a turtle; fleas releases a pheasant; hair - donkey tail; squeeze oil out of the ground - tramples on pre-buried pheasant eggs; the devas offered him food, left the cauldron full of meat; A. ate, threw the rest of the meat into the hole, said that he still hungry; at night A. put his fur coat on a bush and hid himself; the devas threw stones at his fur coat, A. was unharmed; he was sent for firewood, given an ax (which he could not lift); A.: I collect firewood without an ax; became to tie the trees to pull everything out at once, the devas ask not to do it; at night, the devas poured a pot of boiling water on A.'s fur coat; A.: it rained warmly at night; the devas rushed at A., (the wind lifted him up from their nostrils under the ceiling of the cave; A.: I think which one of you would break your anger; dev raised A., his eyes are wide: I see where to throw one of you; one dev carried A. and the hum of gold that the devas gave him; surprised how easy is man; A.: holding on to heaven; dev: let go of the sky; A. stuck an awl in the back of his head; wife at home: only the heads of the devas are left for lunch, which one to serve - black or white? the devas rushed to run; the fox led them back, offered to tie them with a rope so they wouldn't be afraid; A.: why are you leading only two devas, your father owed me 40; the devas ran again, dragging the fox, it was torn apart to shreds]: 88-93; Stebleva 1969 [Aldarkose (Bezborody) went to look for a job, met a deva; he said that if A. hadn't greeted him, he would eat him; wanted to fight; A. offered to squeeze him out of the water handfuls of sand; A. squeezes an egg along with the sand; dev takes him to his house, wants to kill him at night by throwing a piece of rock at him; A. puts something in an empty bed for himself, thanks him in the morning for Dev covered him with something from the cold at night; Dev is afraid ready to give A. a jug of gold, A. says that the guest must carry his gift himself; at home he agrees with his wife to say: we are the old devas already eaten, it's good that you brought a new one; dev ran away; the fox explains that A. is weak, undertakes to go with Dev together, let him put a rope around her neck so she can't run away; A. screams that the fox's father owes him three devas, and they lead only one; dev ran, dragging a fox; parts of her body remained in water, fire, on every blade of grass]: 36 (=Fur Fair 1980:12-18); mountain Tajiks [ the caravan threw the exhausted donkey and camel; the camel asks the donkey not to sing, he sings, the lion comes; the donkey offers to get his brains out of the earth's head, pulls out a hidden pot of sour milk, says what the lion eats, he runs away; the wolf leads him back, the lion is afraid, the wolf ties himself to him with a rope; the donkey screamed in fear, the lion rushed to run, dragged the wolf, he died]: Semenov 1900:21-22 (=1903, No. 1:98-99, =Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 34:135-136); Rushans [Afandi took an egg, went to the forest for firewood; the divas are going to eat it; he suggests that they squeeze oil out of the sand; they can't, he took it in a fist an egg and a handful of sand, the yolk flowed; the divas brought it to their place, laid it on the suf; A. put a block in his place, climbed the tree himself; the divas cut the block at night; A. in the morning: fleas bit; A. loaded treasures for the lame diva, took him to his home; ahead of him, ordered his wife to say: we ate those four divas in front of you, and we ate the leg that was left in the evening; the divas rushed to run, his man stopped, said that he beats A. every day; let them contact and go back to A.; A. man: you are a healthy diva, not a lame one; the divas ran, dragged the man, he fell to pieces]: Sokolova 1959, No. 3:12-14; Bartangans [donkey met lion; he hadn't seen donkeys yet; donkey: my name is Chandon-Sher ("several lions"); lion: my name is Cher; the lion got scared; the lion suggested he would drive wild ones goats from the mountains, and catch donkeys; donkey: better the opposite; the donkey saw the goats and roared; they rushed down and the lion killed them; now the lion went to chase the goats; the donkey lay down, the magpie began to bite in his ass, he pulled ass and caught forty; lion: where are the goats; I don't know, but I caught forty backwards; lion: let's cross the river; donkey blown down; lion: why did you go down; donkey: but I caught a fish (it fell out of him ear); the lion got scared and ran; wolf: it's just a donkey; the lion agrees to return only after they tied his neck with a rope; the donkey roared, the lion fled, dragging the wolf, he crumbled into pieces; donkey rushed home]: Sokolova 1960, No. 5:29-32.
Turkestan. Kazakhs [the donkey invites the camel to pretend to be exhausted when the owner is lucky to put their luggage on them; both fall to the ground, but the camel could not stand the beating and got up; the owner loaded him with a donkey and drove on; the donkey went, met the tiger, screamed, the tiger ran in fear; the wolf told him it was just a donkey; tied one end of the lasso around the tiger's neck and the other on his own, led him to the donkey; he yelled again, the tiger fled, tearing off the wolf's head; the donkey pretended to be dead, the magpie came down, he held it between his knees, beat her tail; she flew to the tiger, which was completely frightened; the donkey is still has been living on the lawn since]: Bosingen 1985:55-57; Karakalpaks [the donkey suggests that the camel fall along the road when they are carried with salt, pretend that they cannot work; the owner left the donkey, took everything salt on the camel; a lion came out to the donkey, agreed to compete, whose cry was louder, frightened of the donkey, ran away; the wolf assures that the donkey should be eaten, offers to contact his necks and return; the donkey roared again, the lion ran away, dragging the wolf along the thorns; he told another wolf about the incident; this wolf came to the donkey, the donkey offered him a ride on his back first, rode into town, the wolf was killed]: Volkov, Majorov 1959:68-70; Xinjiang's Kyrgyz, Uighurs [Animal allows himself to be tied to another for safety]: Reichl 1986 in Uther 2004 (1), No. 78:70; salars (Ujirem, Xunhua-Salar autonomous county) [a white hare was cooking glue at the foot of the white mountain; a wolf came and the hare said to him: "If you put this glue on your eyes, you can eat a lot of sheep!" ; then he smeared the wolf's eyes; the wolf went to catch the sheep, the shepherds beat him; the hare settled under a red rock; the wolf did not recognize him; the hare made a saddle and said: "With this lower back saddle you will be able to eat a lot sheep"; the wolf demanded this saddle, the hare put it on his lower back; the shepherds beat the wolf again; the hare decided to pick poisonous grass on the river bank; told the wolf who came that he could not pull it out; the wolf tore the grass and flew into the river; the hare met a lamb that the wolf wanted to eat; they found a white string, then a black one, a piece of white felt and a piece of paper; when they met the wolf, the hare told the lamb spread a white and black nightmare and give him a letter; began to read: "The wolf, so-shakoy, is largemouth, in different places all the wolves died, but you are the only one left," and told the lamb to bring a white and black chains for the wolf; the wolf ran away, told the fox about what had happened; she offered to go together; they tied their tails and went to the lamb and the hare; the hare said to the wolf: "Sell me what you promised. Is that your yellow cow?" ; the wolf and the fox ran away; the hare came to the tiger, asked if he had an enemy in his house; then he pointed to the river and said: "That (that is, the enemy) will now eat you in the river!" ; the tiger rushed after the one in the river and fell into the water; the hare and the lamb went to the bear's house; the hare told the bear that someone was coming; he was frightened and said that his silver was hidden behind stove, and gold was under the cane; the hare told him to throw himself into the river; the bear did this and died; the hare dug up gold and silver, got his wife for the lamb; the lamb was not a lamb, but a young man]: Tenishev 1964, No. 13:30-32 .
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas [a goat meets a wolf; says that its forked hooves are a meat fork, her beard is her hair; the wolf is afraid of the monster, the bear teaches him not to be afraid, tied the wolf to him with a rope; rushed at the goat, pulled the wolf, he gave a voice, the bear decided that the wolf was laughing at him, pulling the rope harder, the strangled wolf grinns his teeth, both got tangled in a rope, died]: Ungvitskaya, Mainogasheva 1984: 219); Tuvans: Samdan 1994, No. 17 [the wolf comes to the goat left in the abandoned camp; asks what is on his head; - Pointed sabers kill a bear and a wolf; what is below? - Put a bag on the kidneys and glands of a bear and a wolf; what is below the mouth? - Wipe the handkerchief after the bear and the wolf are eaten; the wolf runs away, the bear tells him to return, they tie with a rope; the bear asks the same questions when he hears the answers, runs, dragging the wolf on a rope, that suffocated; the kid took the dead wolf, came to the plague of the seven wolves; sings that seven wolf skins are enough for a fur coat; wolves take turns coming out, disappearing; the last two go out, see the wolf killed, run away]: 359-361; Hadahane 1984 [wolves ate goats and seven goats, there are copper horns left; asks the wolf to come eat it when he grows up and becomes fat; replies that he has swords on his head, under his chin wipe off the handkerchief, eating bear meat and lupus; the wolf ran away, does not believe the fox that the goat is not terrible; does not believe the bear; the bear tied it to his leg and led him to the goat; the goat shouts to the bear that he is he needs it; the bear ran, the tied wolf suffocated]: 92-94; South Altai Tuvans [the old man herded 7 black cows, saw three black mangys; they suggest throwing a stone; old man: there (i.e. . in the sky) a place where he can get stuck; the old man buried his gut with blood, suggests playing the game "Crush the belly of the frozen earth"; when the old man beats, blood flows; brought the mangys, agreed with his wife: where the back of the middle mangys, where is the ham of the last one? Mangys undertakes to bring water in a huge wineskin instead of the old man; he blew the winds, the old man is thrown away, he clung to the stump; "I want to shut up your ass with them"; the mangys are gone, the wolf tells them to come back, they are pretending put a leash around his neck; old man: wolf, hold the mangys tight; the mangys ran, dragging the wolf, he's dead, his teeth grinned; mangys: he's still laughing!] : Taube 1978, No. 58:282-285 (=Taube 1994, No. 31:240-244); Khalha Mongols [the tiger invites the old man to face off; the wife teaches him to cut a tree in the forest, then invite him to fight with big trees; the old man pushed the tree, it fell; the tiger could not knock down the tree; he offered to squeeze his brain out of the stone; the old woman gives her husband sheep cheese; the tiger calls to him, leaves it overnight; the old man puts a copper mortar over his head, the tiger broke his sword against her; the tiger sent for water, the old man pretends to bring the whole well; the tiger gave a bar of gold, the old man asks the tiger to take it to his house himself; the tiger brought a bar, went back; the old man loudly to the old woman: catch up with the tiger, tear out the guts, fill them with meat; the wolf explains to the tiger that the old man is not afraid, offers to tie with a rope, leads back; old man: wolf, you owed me Tiger, are you paying back the debt? the tiger ran away, dragging the wolf]: Mikhailov 1962:17-20; the Mongols of Inner Mongolia [the wolf takes one ram from the old man every day; the old man meets a tiger, he offers to face off; they agreed to meet in the same forest; the old man cut down the trees in advance, easily knocked them down in front of the tiger, could not knock down his tiger; squeeze his brain out of the stone; the old woman gives the old man a piece of cheese ("yogurt"), the tiger believes that the old man squeezed his brain out of the stone; leads to himself, sharpens his spear; the old man puts a stone mortar in his place, at night the tiger breaks his spear against it; in the morning he is amazed at the strength of the old man; asks for water; the old man begins to dig in the well; the tiger gives the old man gold and agrees to carry it himself; the old woman says that their meat is left with yesterday's tiger's throat and the back of the day before yesterday; the tiger runs away; the wolf says that the old man is not scary, leads the tiger back with a rope; the old man to the wolf: are you leading the tiger you owe? tiger runs, dragging a wolf; dead man grins on his teeth; tiger: still laughing]: Coyaud 2012, No. 64:137-140; Buryats: Barannikova 2000, No. 12 [the bear sees a goat for the first time, asks what it is, pointing to horns; goat: peaks to pierce a bear; the same is the scrotum: a lead whip braided with veins to hit a bear in the face; bangs: when I hunt a bear, I cover my eyes from the sun; beard: wipe my mouth after bear fat; bear: whose son are you? goat: goats with bone peaks; the bear has run away; the she-wolf leads him back to eat the goat; the bear is afraid, the she-wolf ties herself to him; the goat boldly meets halfway, the bear runs, drags the she-wolf, she is dead ], 14 [the lion is going to eat the old man; the old man to his wife: bring the brisket of yesterday's lion and today's sacrum, let's give it to this lion; the lion runs away, meets the wolf, he leads him back, tied by the necks; the old man: you, a lion with a short tail, must be killed; a lion runs away, drags a wolf, he is dead]: 65-69, 75; Gomboev 1890, No. 7 [leopard to man: stronger is the one who knocks down a tree with a blow of his fist; a man sawed a tree in advance; the leopard takes him to his home, sends him for water with a huge vessel; the man begins to dig the well, says he is going to bring it in its entirety; the leopard brings water himself; at night, the person puts it instead a foot and a pestle; in the morning: who stabbed me at night? the leopard gives the man a bag of gold; man: you will bring your gifts yourself; negotiates with his wife; the leopard comes, the wife asks what to cook for the guest; man: the sacrum of the leopard before the killed, the gut after the killed; the leopard threw gold, ran away; the wolf leads him back (apparently tied to the leopard); the man to the wolf: where did he bring this powerless man from? The leopard runs away, dragging the wolf; the wolf is dead, its mouth is open, the leopard thinks the wolf is laughing]: 61-63.