M167A. Tiger scared of Twilight. .17.21.-.23.26.34.38.

A strong predator takes an incomprehensible word for the name of a creature that is stronger than him and flees.

Palestinians, Tibetans (Sichuan), Meitei, Shans, Burmese, Khmers, Viets, Oraons, Ancient India, Marathi, Northern India (Hindi), Assames, Bengalis, Tamils, Malayals, Sinhales, Koreans, Chinese (no place of recording), Chinese (Sichuan, Jilin, Beijing, Henan, Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu), Yi, Khalha Mongols, Japanese.

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 (Sichuan) [a widow with a daughter and a maid, they have a bull, a tiger is rampant in the neighborhood; the widow tied a tiger outside the house: let the tiger eat the bull but not touch them; the widow baked for her daughter a cake in butter and for the maid on the water; it burst miserably; widow: if a tiger came, he would also be afraid of "fluff"; the tiger was standing outside the house and thought there was someone worse than him; at that time the thief came to steal a bull, threw a rope around the tiger's neck in the dark; the tiger thought it was fluff; the thief led the tiger and then rode it; in the morning he saw that it was not a bull under him, grabbed a branch, and the tiger set off run; but it was not a branch, but an ogre snake; when the thief grabbed it, it split in two; when he learned that the thief had saved the country from the tiger and the snake, the king married him to his daughter; the ruler of Dende attacked ("soft earth"); the son-in-law asked for an 80-fathom iron chain and a wheel with swords instead of spokes, but decided to run himself; he sat on his horse, carried the horse; the rider shouts in horror "Drop me on soft ground!" ; Dende's army fled, the people became convinced of the king's son-in-law's courage]: Potanin 1914, No. 17:414-415 (reprinted in Komissarov 1997:192-194); Meitei [the owner has many horses; the tiger climbed to the stable; hears how the hostess calms the child: the cat has come; the dog has come;... the tiger has come; the child does not react; tapta has come (an onomatopoeic word associated with the sound of rain on the roof); the child paused; the tiger thought that the tapta was some animal stronger than him; the thief came in; the tiger mistook him for a tapta and the tiger thief for the best horse, threw on a bridle and rode it; when dawn, the thief realized that Under him, a tiger saw a tree, jumped and climbed into the hollow; the tiger ran away, 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, they both ran, but the fox could not keep up with the tiger; he dragged her and died]: Singh 1985:286-289 (about the same in Oinam et al. s.a.).

Burma - Indochina. Shany [Town Tway and Town Maun are thieves; a mother frightens a crying baby with a tiger, he does not react; frightens thieves by naming their names - he falls silent; a tiger who climbs into the pen hears it, decides that TT and TM were stronger than him; the thieves also came, TT mistook the tiger for a fat cow, dragged him on a rope, the tiger was frightened, did not give a vote; when dawn, the TM walker saw the tiger ran away; TT continued to drag tiger; when he saw who he was dragging, he ran without letting go of the rope, tied the tiger to the fig tree, climbed it; the bear from the hollow: what are you doing here? TM: I'm from a tribe of freaks, looking for something to profit from; bear: what kind of animal are you, show me your tail; TM holds out a knife, the bear hurts its paw, decides that the tail bites, rolls to the ground, sees a tiger, starts running; the tiger cut off the rope, also started running, the rope whipped; since then, the tigers are striped, the bears have scars on their paws, the fig trees lean to one side (the tiger bent when it was torn); TT and TM decided do honest work]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 199:558-560; Khmers [blind and lame run away from their owners in a boat; they row all night, sitting facing each other; in the morning the owners see their boat on the shore; a lame man puts a blind man on his back, they run away by land; they are told that a tiger tiger is rampant in the country; the blind man replies that they are not afraid of the tiger, much less afraid of the local tiger; the tiger he hears and understands that a terrible Tiger is somewhere nearby; the blind and lame went into bread and began to breed bulls; a tiger also climbed there; a blind man mistakes the tiger for a bull, thrusts it to him a rope through his nostrils, the tiger runs away in horror; the blind and lame chase him in vain; the honey collector gives them manure instead of honey; the blind hears a knock, thinks it is a collector, but there is a woodpecker on the tree; people are forced give the yakka princess (cannibal giant); blind and lame come to the yakka house; the yakk comes, demands that the comedian show his liver, heart, hair; the blind man throws the basket, the turtle, the ropes, the yakk in runs away in horror; at night, Yakka's wife comes in, the blind man cuts off her head with a sword; sharing jewelry, friends fight; from blows the blind saw the light, straightened up lame; the former blind man gets the princess and the kingdom, does former lame chief adviser]: Gorgoniev 1973:78-88; Burmese [night watchman looks at a leaky roof: If a thief or tiger wanders in, I know how to deal with them, but here's Devo {some game words}; the thief and the tiger both heard it, it rained, the thief jumped on the tiger's back, he ran, jumped along the way, hid in the hollow; the monkey led to the tiger's hollow, the thief poked both, they ran , screaming the Rider Girl Twitching at the tail and the Rider Girl pushing into the back; the rabbit led them back, but the thief who climbed to the top of the tree fell in fear, the rabbit, the monkey and the tiger rushed to run]: Maung 1957:10-12; the Viets [the monkey, the turtle and the tiger became friends; to keep them up, the tiger tied them to the tail; went to the house; heard the husband answer to his wife: he is not afraid of the tiger, but under the fire to be; the tiger thinks that "eave" is a terrible animal; at this time a thief came up; when he saw the tiger, he climbed a fruit tree, trembled with fear, the fruits fell, and the tiger thought that he was "eaving" at him attacked, ran away, dragging a turtle and a monkey with him; the monkey was killed by hitting a turtle shell, left with a grinned mouth; the tiger accused her of laughing]: Landes 1886, No. 78: 195-196.

South Asia. Ancient India (Panchatantra) [King Bhadrasena has a daughter, Ratnavati; Rakshas could not kidnap her, but came to enjoy her, and the princess felt chills at that time, etc.; the princess talks about To this friend, who uses the word "vikala" ("evening"), Rakshas understands this as the name of his opponent; taking the form of a horse, he hides in the stable; at night, the horse thief chooses this particular horse; Rakshas thinks it is the right one Vikala, flees; the horse thief realizes that this is not a horse, but a rakshasa, grabs the root of a fig tree on the way; the monkey shouts to Rakshasa: why are you running, man is your food; the thief grabs his teeth monkey tail; she decides that the horse thief is stronger than the Rakshasa, wrinkles his face in pain; Rakshasa to the monkey: Vikala grabbed you, run]: Syrkin 1962:444-446 (retelling in Goswami 1960:112); Marathi [in a thunderstorm at night, the tiger comes to the old woman's hut; she mutters: let it be an elephant or a tiger, and this eternal dripping from the ceiling is the worst; the tiger thinks that "eternal dripping" is the beast that is worse than him; the tipsy potter searches for his donkey, sees an animal near the hut in the lightning light, grabs the tiger by the ear and scolding him; the tiger thinks he has been grabbed by "eternal dripping", allows the potter to ride it; a potter outside his house ties the tiger to a pole, goes to bed, in the morning the wife sees that it is a tiger; the Raja arrives, makes the brave commander-in-chief; the enemy attacks, the Raja gives the potter the best horse, the wife ties him to the horse, so as not to fall; the horse rushes to the enemy camp, the potter tries to hold on to the tree, uproots; enemies flee, leaving a letter offering peace; the potter is generously rewarded]: Frere 1868, No. 16:206-214; northern India, Jalaun County, Hindi [laundress has 4 donkeys, one missing; wife tells me to be wary of tigers; husband: don't care about tigers, but it's bad what flows (I don't mid a tiger, a am more afraid of a wetting; tapakwa); the tiger hears and thinks that tapakwa is some kind of demon; went into the stall, saw an animal, hit it with a truncheon, sat on it and went to look for the missing donkey; in the morning I saw that he was riding a tiger, jumped and hid in a cave; the tiger told the hare about his terrible adventures; the hare called others, they came to the cave; whoever has the longest tail, let him stick it inside; man tore off his tail, the hares ran away; that missing donkey towards the tiger; tiger: I am a tiger; donkey: and I am one and a quarter (apparently a play on words); when crossing the river, the water carried a donkey, the tiger pulled it out; donkey: I rushed into the water to catch fish; the tiger ran away, the owner saw the donkey and returned it to the stall]: Crooke 1895, No. 257:104; Oraons [merchant to son: don't go, in the twilight yard (Bikal); the tiger hears, fears that Twilight is stronger than him; the thieves stole a bag of silver, went to the barn, there was a tiger, they loaded it thinking it was an ox; in the morning they saw it, ran away, the tiger got stuck in the ravine, began to scream, the shepherd took off his bag; the tiger: put the money in a basket of leaves, say that you are carrying beef, never remember the name Twilight, otherwise I'll eat it; the shepherd's wife is going to her parents; shepherd: don't go, in the yard of Twilight; the tiger took the shepherd, he asked to wait for the sun to come out and it would soften; the shepherd's wife dressed strangely, took the drum, came; tiger: who is this? shepherd: Twilight; tiger: hide me; wife: shepherd, have you seen tigers? ; what's on earth? shepherd: a bunch of rags; wife: hit her with a rock; shepherd bales gently; wife: stronger; shepherd killed a tiger]: Elwin 1944, No. 19. 1:410-411 (translated to Zograf 1971, No. 11:52-53); Assames [from a poor woman a few cows, the roof is leaking; when she goes to bed, she says: God grant that a long-legged man does not attack" (referring to the rain; this is heard by a thief and a tiger who come to steal a cow and who do not know each other; in the dark, a thief touches the tails of cows: whoever jumps is healthier; the tiger bounces, the thief pulls its tail, sits on it; the tiger is sure it is Long-legged, runs away; the thief also thinks he grabbed not a cow, but Long-legged; the tiger grabs the tail, falls down, the tail comes off; the tiger thinks it's not Long-legged, but the Tail Breaker; realizing that he was holding a tiger's tail, the thief climbed the tree; the tigers thought that The tail runner must be killed, otherwise it's a shame; they noticed a thief in a tree, climbed one on top of the other to get him; the tailless tiger below; the thief turns to him, he rushed away in horror, the tigers fell, decided that they were attacked by Tail Breakers ran away; the thief no longer stole]: Borooah 1955:61-66 (=Goswami 1960:84); Bengalis [the old woman lives in a hut at the edge of the forest; her husband was picked up by a tiger; once in rain and thunderstorm, when the roof was flowing, the old lady says out loud: this drip-cap would take me to the grave; the tiger overheard and thought that Cap Cap was a terrible beast; at that time the potter was looking for the missing donkey and mistook the tiger for a donkey, and the tiger thought he was grabbed by a Cap cap; the potter drove a tiger to his home, strained and tied him to a pole; in the morning his wife saw a tiger tied up...]: Mode, Ray 1967:320-327; The Tamils [Clever and Skillful decided to steal the sheep; the shepherd, when he left, put a stick in his place, put clothes on it and said out loud: if any bhuta (evil spirit, dev) - or kuta - comes, drive him away; (there is no word kuta, but they say bhuta-kuta, "multicultur-multur"); Skillful did not understand the deception, but Clever understood; at the same time, bhuta came for the sheep; he decided that Kuta was someone stronger than him, just in case chipped in with a sheep; the thieves chose her because it is heavier than others; bhuta let Skillful body pain, and Clever offered to rip open the sheep's belly and cut it in half; bhuta ran away, talked about his experience others bhuta; they laughed at him and went to the thieves' house; Skillful in horror, and the Clever agreed with his wife: I will ask you what to eat; you will say that vegetables, and he has already eaten three bhuts with his killed son; The bhuta ran away in horror; later the friends went through the forest and spent the night in a banyan; the bhuta had just gathered under him; the Skillful One fell in fear, and the Clever shouted for him to grab the biggest bhuta; they ran away] : Natesa Sastri 1884-1888, No. 7:91-98; the Tamils [Clever and Skillful decided to steal a sheep; the shepherd, when leaving, put a stick in his place, put on clothes on it and said out loud: if any bhuta (evil spirit, dev) - or kuta - will come, drive him away; (there is no word kuta, but they say bhuta-kuta, "culture-multur"); The skillful did not understand the deception, but the Clever understood; at the same time, bhuta came for the sheep; he decided that kuta was someone is stronger than him and just in case chipped in with a sheep; the thieves chose her because it is heavier than others; bhuta let Skillful body pain, and Clever offered to rip open the sheep's belly and cut it in half; bhuta ran away, told others bhuta about his experience; they laughed at him and went to the thieves' house; Skillful in horror, and the Clever agreed with his wife: I'll ask you what to eat; you will answer that vegetables, and the killed son He had already eaten three bhuts himself; the bhuta ran away in horror; later his friends went through the forest and spent the night in a banyan; bhuta had just gathered under him; the Skillful One fell in fear, and the Clever shouted for him to grab the largest bhutu; they ran away]: Natesa Sastri 1884-1888, No. 7:91-98; Sinhala: Parker 1914a, No. 160 [=Volkonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 13:48-49; gamarala (village elder) tells his son tightly close the door to the pen: leopards and other animals (botiyo cats - "bonapard leopards") may come; the leopard heard and began to think who Botia was; at night he climbed into the pen and hid among the calves; At the same time, the thief climbed in, tried which calf was heavier, chose a leopard, mistook it for a calf, carried it; the leopard did not move, believing that Botia was carrying it; the thief realized who he was carrying, he also pretended that everything was fine, began to think about how to escape; when he saw the abandoned house where the monks lived, the thief shoved the leopard down the slope and locked himself in the house; the jackal, hoping to profit from leopard meat, advised him to stick his tail into the hole - the door would open; the thief wrapped his tail around a pole; the jackal called the people, they skinned the leopard, and the jackal got the meat], 161 [the man looking for the missing person A donkey and a leopard, unaware of each other, come to the old woman's house in the dark and hear her say that she is not afraid of an elephant, a bear, a leopard, or Yak (an evil spirit), but only Dabukka (a drop of rain); the leopard is terrified - who is it? The man mistook the leopard for a donkey, started hitting it and rode it; the leopard thinks it is Dubucca; when it dawn, the man realized he was riding a leopard and hid in a tree hollow; the jackal became persuade the leopard to come back, tied himself by the waist and the other end of the vine by the leopard's neck; climbed into the hollow, the man knocked out his teeth, both ran away; the bear led them back, put his face in the hollow, the man pulled out his hair; all three ran away again]: 393-394, 396-398; Malayali [the old woman's house is collapsed, the plot is overgrown, it has wild animals; old woman: I'm not afraid of tigers and leopards, but I'm afraid of uttal (rain, spilling through the roof into the room); the leopard heard, worried who he was, but then fell asleep; at night, the horse owner went to look for it, came across a leopard and sat on horseback, believing it was the missing horse; pulled his ears; the leopard thought he was wearing it, rushed into the forest; realizing who he was riding, the man grabbed the branch and hung; saw the leopard and fox approach; the leopard began to scream to the whole forest: save yourself, uttal is coming! the man fell, rolled down the slope and fell into the hole; the fox: it's not uttal, but urulicha (a rolling) - save yourself who can; the monkey wanted to see who was in the hole; and the man couldn't get out; leopard advised the monkey to put its tail into the hole; the man grabbed it; the leopard dragged the monkey, the tail broke off, the monkey howled: this is not urulich, but valuri (tail-peeler); in the morning the man got out - the forest was empty]: Beck et al. 1987, No. 81:248-251.

China - Korea. Koreans [a tiger came to a house in the village; a mother tries to calm the child; - Shut up, a tiger is standing outside the window; then - Don't cry, you see, there's dried persimmon on the shelf; the tiger thinks persimmon is the name a terrible creature, went to the barn to steal a cow; a thief just climbed in, mistook the tiger for a cow in the dark, sat on it; the tiger thought it was dried persimmon, rushed to run; at dawn the thief saw who was sitting on a tiger, jumped and ran away; the tiger thought he was saved; in one version, the thief hid in the hollow, a bear came up, the thief cut off his penis, fried it and ate it; the tiger asked for it; the man heated to a red stone, gave it to the tiger, he died; the thief gave bear and tiger skins to the king, received an award, became an honest man; or he brought the bear to the owner of the cow, he gave him a cow as a reward, the thief improved]: Choi 1979, No. 50:21-22 (part one in Pack 1991:346-348); 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 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; the Chinese (Jilin) [it is believed that the tiger is afraid of the animal Gaoenju; one day, when it got dark, he went down the mountain and entered the courtyard of a house; heard a child crying; one of the parents tried to scare the child and said, "Stop crying, look - there's a big tiger!" The tiger heard this and wondered how did this family know I was here? The baby continued to cry; the adult began to frighten him again and said: "Don't cry, look - Gaoenjiu has come!" As soon as the child heard Gaoenjiu come, he immediately fell silent; the tiger thought Gaoenjiu was even more ferocious than he hid in the barn; that evening a thief crept into the house and opened the door to the barn; the tiger thought that Gaoenjiu had come to eat it; when the thief touched him, he trembled, and the thief thought the calf was timid and sat on horseback; the tiger ran to the Changbaishan Mountains; in the moonlight, the thief realized that he was going to tiger; at dawn he grabbed a branch and climbed a tree; the tiger sat down to rest on a tree; the thief climbed into the hollow; the hare saw someone hiding in the hollow, and the tiger caught his breath sitting under the tree; when the tiger told him everything, the hare laughed: he is a man, look into the hollow; the tiger saw a man but could not reach it; the hare advised to put a tail into the hollow; the man will grab his tail and the tiger will pull him out; but the man only tied his tail to a tree with his belt; got out and beat the tiger with a stick; he also wanted to kill the hare, but he pretended to have planned everything to help the man; ran away]: Chen, Wang 1989c: 429-325; Chinese (Beijing) [an elderly childless couple without children lived in the mountains; they had a donkey; one day it was raining, the old man did not go to the market; next to him was a thief who decided to steal a donkey; at night the thief entered the yard but saw that the lights were still on in the house and lay down on the roof to wait for the owners to fall 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 the house; the 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's 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; she (speaking in shehua, not on 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; 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 (Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu) [someone says out loud that he is afraid of a hole in the roof through which rain is falling; a tiger who hears this believes that there is a predator worse than him; at which time the thief came to steal a calf and accidentally grabbed for the tiger; he is afraid to move because he thinks it is the same animal; the tiger runs away or dies]: Eberhard 1937, No. 10:18-19; yi (Sichuan, wu. Yutian, village Tuanze, 1986) [a tiger came to carry the horse away at night; at that time a child was crying in the house, his mother persuaded him: "Stop crying, or the tiger will come"; child: "I'm not afraid of tigers, I'm afraid of boiling water; tiger decided that boiling water was worse than him, decided to run; at that time a horse thief was hiding nearby; mistook the tiger for a horse and jumped on its back: the tiger thought that boiling water had jumped on him; when dawn, the horse thief saw who was riding a tiger, grabbed branches and climbed a tree; the tiger met a black bear; he asked him to be brought to the tree to see what kind of "boiling water" it was; when he went to the tree, the tiger realized for himself what it was an ordinary man is sitting; a bear climbed a tree, a man peed himself in fear, a black bear caught his eyes, he fell from a tree; the tiger asked the bear to guard the man, and he went for help; brought a wolf, fox, rabbit, mouse and bee; the latter two were unused, they were offended by the tiger and decided to help the person; tiger, bear, wolf, fox and rabbit tried one by one get to a person, but urine came into their eyes every time and the bee stung; the mouse gnawed at the roots, the tree fell and crushed all the animals on the tiger's side]: Zhou Yang et al. 1998b, No. 634:839-840; Chinese (no recording location specified) [in the evening, one person in the hut tells another that he is not afraid of a tiger or a damn thing, but only if the drip-cap drips from the roof; the tiger heard and thought that the drip-cap was worse than him; ran away to 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 speaks The monkey who met the cap is now in the tree; the monkey ties its paw to the tiger's paw, climbs the tree to prove that it's just a human; and if it's a drip-cap, it shakes its head; the thief he let him in his pants out of fear, the monkey began to shake off, the tiger decided that he was nodding, rushed to run, dragging the monkey, she died; went to look for the deer without knowing what it looked like; asks the deer what his 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? 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.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khalkha-Mongols ["Mongol Ardyn Ulger" ed. P. Horloo. Sub. 1969:141; old people have a cow, a tiger came and ate it; it rained the next night; old woman: the tiger will eat us now; old man: the tiger is nonsense, but the drops that fall on the barn door are much worse; tiger thinks that Drops is a creature that is stronger than him; at this time, a thief snuck in place of a cow, fell on it; the tiger ran, the thief lost consciousness in fear]: Yegupova 2012:15.

Japan. The Japanese (all, including the north of Ryukyu) [the wolf (in Tohoku, and the tiger in Kyushu and Ryukyu) hear older spouses say at night when it rains that they are more afraid of a leaking roof than a wolf; that it is a terrible beast or cannibal named Leaking Roof; at this time, the thief climbs to take the horse away, jumps on the fleeing wolf, thinking that it is the horse that is running away; the wolf thinks he has been grabbed The leaking Roof; realizing that there is a wolf under him, the thief jumps or falls into a hole; the wolf tells the monkey about his adventure; she goes to the pit, lowers her tail into it to find what is there; the thief grabs tail; the monkey pulls, since then its ass and face are red; then comes the rabbit, lowers its ears, the thief pulls them, they have been long ever]: Ikeda 1971, No. 177:44-45.