Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

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M152E. Whose voice is louder. .22.24.26.38.

A tiger (lion) and another animal compete whose roar is louder. The tiger roars louder, but eventually loses.

Burma's Naga, Burmese, Viets, Cham, Zyaray, Vietnamese Thai, Malays, Lisu, Ainu.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Burma's Naga [elephant and tiger argue whose voice is louder; tiger suggests that the winner can tie and eat the loser; his voice is louder; the elephant asks to let him go for 7 days; the frog promises help; when the tiger is ready to jump on the elephant, the frog jumps up on the tiger's face and covers its eyes with sand; the tiger flees; 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; the tiger, dragging the monkey with him, ran and fell into the abyss; the branches of the tree the monkey tried to climb have since hung down to the ground; 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; Arakan people: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 63 [the elephant declared war on the lion, but he defeated him; the elephant asked for a delay of 7 days earlier how the lion will eat it; the frog promises to help; tells the elephant to dig a hole, fill it with mud and climb there; the lion has come and drowned in the mud; the frog: let everyone go into their own domain], 64 [the tiger speaks an 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 a tiger: the elephant is not enough , here's the tiger, really skinny; the tiger ran away; the jackal tells me to come back, they tied their tails; frog: thanks to the tiger for bringing his son; the tiger and the jackal rushed to run, but since they were tied up, they crashed to death]: 196-198, 198-200; Viets (south of northern Vietnam) [the elephant suggests to the tiger: whose voice scares the birds will kill another; the birds are afraid of the tiger's voice; he promised to come to eat the 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 just not enough dessert; the tiger ran away; the monkeys led him back, and so that he was not afraid, they contacted them with a vine; hare: mean monkeys, you promised me three fat tigers, and you're leading one skinny; the tiger runs away, dragging monkeys; when you see their faces grinned after death, the tiger thinks they're laughing at him, ate them all]: Cadière 1901:188-189 (=1955:242-243); tyams [tiger, hare, otter, chicken, elephant cut straw to build a house and take turns cooking (tiger meat, otter fish, chicken eggs); when it's the turn hare, he cooks his excrement with more spices; pretends to be ill; everyone has eaten, he sings indistinctly, others realize that they have eaten hare excrement; everyone went for sliced straw, loaded on the 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 otter to lead the elephant against the wind; finally, the otter brought the elephant to the river; the tiger went to look for the hare The boa constrictor wrapped around him; the hare says that this is a belt of flowers, reluctantly agrees to have the elephant wear it, asks for a thorn; the boa constrictor stabs, opens rings, wraps around the tiger, the tiger has difficulty chewing it; the hare does It looks like he has a drum, the tiger wants to knock too; it's a nest of earthen wasps, the tiger is bitten; the hare climbs a tree, it makes a noise in the wind, the hare says it's a musical instrument, the tiger wants it too to play; the hare tells the tiger to stick its tongue between the branches, the tongue is pinched; the hare calls people, the tiger runs away with his tongue cut off; the hare jumped into a dry well, says that the sky is falling; asks the tiger for a wand; the tiger too climbs into the well, the hare tickles it with a stick, the tiger throws it away; the hare calls people; they run to look at the tiger, the hare eats cooked holiday cookies, runs away; lies down on the road, pretends to be dead; a woman picks him up, puts him in a candy basket; the hare eats everything, runs away; the elephant and the tiger competed to see who will make a louder sound; the elephant has lost and now the tiger would eat it; the hare promised to save the elephant; when the tiger came, the hare, having prepared a betel in advance, as if attacking the elephant, fell covered in red spots; the tiger thought it was blood, ran away in fear; the turtle told the tiger to get a vine, she would lead him, tied to a vine, eat a hare; the hare rushed to them, the tiger ran away, dragged the turtle, it hit the stump, bleed from his mouth; the tiger thought it was a betel and began to chew]: Landes 1987:50-60; zyaray [the elephant lost an argument with the tiger {probably whose voice is louder} and should be eaten; the hare promises to help him out; sits on his back and screams: already full elephants, and now tiger cubs! the tiger heard and ran away]: Nikulin 1970a: 247-248; Thai Vietnam [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 down an elephant on his back; at the sight of a tiger: one did not have time to eat, and the other is here; the tiger ran; the monkey tells me to return, let the tiger tie her by the neck; mole: owes 9 tigers, and brought one! the tiger ran away and killed the monkey]: Nikulin 1976:241-243.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Malays [an elephant and a tiger bet that whoever makes a monkey fall off a tree can eat another; the roar of an elephant made the monkey fall to the lower branches, and the tiger's roar to his feet; an elephant asks for a delay of 7 days; a dwarf deer tells the elephant to pour molasses, pretends to eat it, shouts that there is not enough meat, a fat tiger is needed; the tiger runs away; the orangutan explains that it is just dwarf deer, leads the tiger back; deer: you promised to bring two tigers, why one; the tiger runs away, wants to kill an orangutan, but he jumps up a tree]: Skeat 1901:41-48.

China - Korea. The fox [the tiger suggests to the elephant: whoever makes a louder sound will eat the other; the tiger's roar is louder, the elephant starts running; the toad told him to dig a hole, hide so that only the tip of the trunk stuck out, sat down in this place; told the tiger that she had already eaten the tiger herself, what could be getting big; the tiger offered to jump: whoever went would eat the other; the tiger jumps twice, clinging to its tail the toad is both times in front; the tiger offers to speak; the toad's voice is louder; suggests comparing vomiting; the tiger regurgitated the grass (he did not eat anything else that day), the toad - small fruits; told the tiger it was the pupils of his ancestors, which she swallowed; the tiger ran; the monkey: go back; the tiger agreed only after they had tied their tails; heard the toad scream again, the tiger ran; he thinks the red and white on the monkey's face is the betel and the rice she chews; ran until the monkey's tail came off; since then, the tiger's tails are long, the monkeys are short]: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994: 302-306.

Japan. Ainu [tiger fox: Whose roar is louder will become the ruler of the world; the tiger roared, and the fox hid in the hole at that time; told the tiger that his voice could hardly be heard: let it roar louder; the tiger roared like this that it burst, so there are no tigers in the country of the Ainu]: Chamberlain 1888, No. 14 (2):.