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M171. Mena: pea to horse, ATU 170, 1655, 2034F.

.11.-.17.21.-.24. (.25.) .26.-.34.36.37.

The character stays at the house and in the morning declares that the insignificant item or animal he brought is missing; or he or other characters are using or spoiling what the deceiver gives them. Each time the character gets something more valuable in return and, repeating his trick several times, gets a really valuable item, an expensive animal, a person. (All texts of the M171A and M171C motifs are also included in the M171 motif).

Ganda [hare], tswana [hare], sukuma [boy], safwa [hare], tsonga (?) [hare], tonga [hare], luba (?) [boy or girl], mongo [girl], bulu [boy], rundi [girl], Swahili, vute [boy], kpelle [human], guro [spider], kachi [spider], baule [spider], eve [spider], ashanti [spider], mosi [boy], hausa [ boy], beta [boy], dogon [boy], songhai (zarma) [boy], mofu-gudur [poor man's wife], sarah [someone Sou], tigre (?) [fox], Masai [hare], sandave [boy], Malgashi [rogue], Tunisia [deceiver], Morocco, kabila [jackal; boy], Libyan Arabs [human], Egyptian Arabs, Spanish [dog], Aragon [man], Catalans [human], Portuguese [cat; monkey], Sicilians [human], Sardinian, Italians (Lombardy [human], Veneto, San Marino [fox], Tuscany [fox], Umbria, Rome [human], Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Puglia, Calabria) , Maltese [human], Friesians [farmhand], Germans (Hanover, Pomerania, Silesia), Irish, Scottish, French (Lorraine, Normandy, Upper Brittany, Languedoc, Provence, Flanders) [lazy], Bretons [human] , Walloons, Syrian Arabs [bird], Arameans [bird], Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jibbali [Abu Nuwas], Tagin [first ancestor], Shans [man], Lao [man], Punjabi [ mouse], Uttar Pradesh [mouse; monkey], Sindhi [rat], Himachali plowman [hare], Nepali [jackal], Rajastani [mouse], duruva [jackal], Bengalis [jackal; monkey], oriya [jackal], Kannada [monkey], Tamils [ monkey], gondas [mouse], muria [jackal], Maldives [heron], Bali [human], (ilokan [monkey]), Chinese (Qinghai) [human], (Chinese (Hebei) [fox]), Koreans [boy], Hungarians, Montenegrins [wolf], Albanians, Greeks [rooster], Bulgarians [human], Slovaks, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Pskov, Ryazan) [fox], Russians (Tersky Bereg, Vologda, Ryazan) [old woman], Ukrainians (Kiev, Kursk) [fox], Kalmyks [poor], Stavropol Turkmens [poor man], Abazins [Khoja], Ossetians [lazy; fox], (Ingush [Tsazik]), Nogais [rooster; Aldar-Kose], Kumyks [Fox], Dargins [bird], Lezgins [ sparrow], Rutulans [bird], Georgians [fox; sparrow; half chicken], Armenians [sparrow], Azerbaijanis [bird], Turks [man; sparrow], Kurds [sparrow], Persians [fox; sparrow], Tajiks [sparrow], Sarykoltsy [fox], Latvians [fox], Lutsi [fox]. Estonians [fox; person], Setu [fox], counselors [fox], Finns, Norwegians [boy], Lithuanians, Veps, Karelians [old lady], Marie [girl], Udmurts [fox], Komi-Zyrians [fox], Komi-Permyaks [old man], Bashkirs [fox; old man], Kazakhs [Aldar-Kose], Karakalpaks [Kose], yellow Uighurs [boy], Tofalars [man], Khakas [guy], darkhats [deceiver], Buryats [deceiver], Mongols of Ordos [ deceiver], Dagurs [orphan boy], Dolgans [deceiver], Northwestern Yakuts [deceiver], northeastern (Indigiri) Yakuts [deceiver], Nanai [boy], Tundra Yukaghirs [deceiver].

Bantu-speaking Africa. Ganda [the elephant and the hare set up a field on the hare's land; the hare each time invites the elephant to do another job, promising that he will take on the next one and then be sick; the elephant sold the grain; the hare asked for a little bit and got a handful; he carried it, showed it to the guinea fowl, she pecked, the hare began to say that the grain belongs to the elephant, the guinea fowl gave him an egg; he came to the people who threw stones to knock down the plums; put the egg on a pile of stones, it was broken; the hare: it is a guinea fowl egg (etc.); he was allowed to take the plum; the rhino bird exchanged the plums for two beautiful feathers from its tail; when the hare crossed the river, the feathers fell and sailed away; the river gave water in exchange; there was no water in the forge, the blacksmith gave an ax for water; the butcher who broke the knife gave the cow's head for the ax; the hare put his head between the hummocks, shouted to the shepherds, that his cow had fallen into the swamp; the shepherds began to pull, his head "came off"; they understood everything, but asked the hare to tell stories, gave him a beautiful white cow in the morning; he brought her to the elephant and they again became friends]: Baskerville 1922:60-65 (retelling in Klippe 1992:310); sukuma [the boy gave his grandmother honey, she ate it, he demanded that it be returned, the grandmother gave the grain; he gave it to two chickens, they pecked grain, gave them an egg; the shepherds played ball, he gave them an egg instead of a ball, the egg broke, the shepherds had to give their staffs; the boy asked the elephants to break their staffs, if they were so strong, they broke; they gave them in return knife; the shepherds gutted the bull, the boy gave them a knife; quietly hid it, demanded back, got a oxtail; stuck it in the swamp, began to scream that his bull had drowned; people pull, pull out his tail; the boy demands compensation for the dead bull; each of the hundred people gave him an ox, that hundred oxen]: Basset 1903, No. 104:266-268; safwa [the hare gave the fisherman a fish, he ate it, the hare demanded back; the fishermen gave him oil, the hare gave oil to the frogs, they hid; the hare caught one, put it in the chickens, the rooster pecked it, the owner gave the rooster; in the same way a goat instead of a rooster, an ox for a goat; the hare cut off his ears and tail, people pulled for them, ears and tail seemed to come off; the hare got a cow from each and got rich]: Kootz-Kretschmer in Arewa 1961, No. 4266A (1): 246; bulu [brothers brought a lot from the raid prisoners, and one a cockroach; he was laughed at; he replied that the cockroach was his own; at home he released a cockroach, and the rooster pecked him, the guy took the rooster; on the street, the rooster was eaten by a civet, her boyfriend killed; the leopard stole the carcass, the guy caught up with him, killed him, pulled his skin over the drum; the groom borrowed a drum for the wedding, tore his skin, he had to give it to the owner's bride; when married, the guy had many children, married his daughters and became rich thanks to a cockroach]: Krug 1912, No. 10:113-114 (retelling in Klipple 1992:311); mbama (mindum) [very brief retelling; grandson lets his grandmother bake a rat, she gives him a rat yam; the blacksmith ate coal, the boy gave him yams, got a knife; etc.]: Paulse 1976:151-152; Rundi [the king gave the girl cloth; the thickets tore her, gave firewood in return; she gave firewood to the blacksmiths, and they gave it her knife; the butchers changed the knife for meat; her grandmother ate meat, gave sorghum, gave her an egg for sorghum; the girl broke the egg, got dirt, exchanged it for river water; those suffering from thirst drank water, barking in return a pole; a man climbed it into a tree, gave the girl sorghum, she gave it to the birds; girl: what will you give in return? birds flew away]: Arewa 1961, № 4269 (2): 247-248; tswana [the story is popular with all bands, there are several options; the hare invited the antelope to sow peas; she refused: I prefer wild ones beans; someone steals peas, a hare catches an antelope, takes away its hoe; gives honey pickers, they break it, give honey in return; lets women mix honey with the dough, let them leave it to him, but they ate it all dough to the hare; gives dough to the goat boys, they ate everything, give the hare a goat; the hare gives the goat to men, gets an ox; gives it to the people who cultivate the field, they ate the ox, gave nothing in return, beat the hare; he climbed a tree in the middle of the village, made all the water and beer disappear, demanded that 5 old women be given him for water, and was chosen as chief]: Junod 1927:243-246; tsonga {? ; most likely those in Transvaal and southern Mozambique, since they are clearly the same story as Tswana (chwana); in the Thanga publication, Ethnologue does not record such a group} [the hare suggested that the antelope sow peas; she refused: I prefer wild beans; someone steals peas, a hare catches an antelope, takes her hoe away; offers it to clay diggers, their hoe breaks, he gets a pot in return; gives honey pickers, the pot is broken, the hare gets honey; gives the women who kneaded the dough gets the dough, gives the boys who herd goats, gets the goat, gives it to the cowherd shepherds, they ate the goat, left no meat for the hare, they beat him; he climbed a tree, made all the water and all the beer in the village go into the ground; people began to die; the hare told to pull the straw, no one could; he pulled it out easily, water and beer returned; he demanded five old women, drowned them; he was made provincial chief]: Abrahams 1983, No. 10:71-73; Tonga [the animals were thirsty, dug a well, the rabbit refused to work; met the crane, they agreed to pick berries together; while the crane is gone, the rabbit ate everything, accused the crane, he had to give his pen; on the road, the men dance, throwing assegai, the rabbit offers a pen, took one, the feather was taken away by the wind, he was given it to the jail in return; he gave it to the fishermen, the big fish took it away, he gave it to fish; he gave it to those who had only porridge to cook; he gave him sorghum bicolor in exchange; he gave it to eat yogurt, they ate everything, gave yogurt; slipped on the anthill, the milk spilled, he collected the flying ants; he came to the well guarded by the lion; the lion agreed to be bound if the rabbit will give him flying ants; the rabbit got drunk and swam, muddling the water; after learning what happened, the animals shot the rabbit with a cannon]: Torrend 1921, No. 6:169-172; luba (probably; accurate data on There is no recording) [Kenda Viella (male and female in the text) received corn from the rooster's father and mother; while making love, the rooster pecked the corn, left the pen; KV gave it to the blacksmith, it fell into the fire, the KV demanded the pen back, received the hoe; lent it to those who made the ropes, the hoe broke, received the rope in return; gave them to the basket weavers, they used them, gave the basket; gave it to those who breathed grain, they made a hole in the basket, gave grain; KV gave grain to guinea fowls; they pecked grain; KV died, but everyone she met kept a good memory of it]: Lambrecht 1963, No. 4464 (4): 341-342; mongo [(brief retelling); the girl caught the bird, gave it to her grandmother, she ate it, gave it to her granddaughter yams; etc.; last episode: after receiving the fish, the girl gave it to her father's other wife, and she gave it nothing instead]: Hulstaert 1965:639-647; Paulme 1976:152; Swahili: El-Shamy 2004, No. 170A: 71-72.

West Africa. Vute [a young man catches a bird with glue, his grandmother cooked it, gave him a machete; he gave it to people who cut down stakes to make a dam; people broke a machete, gave it clean water in return; young man He gave them to people who caught ants to drink; they gave him ants, he gave them to birds, the birds gave fruit by knocking them off the tree; the hunters ate the fruit, gave the boar a leg; the young man roasts it at the old woman's place, she eats meat and gives him salt; he lets the wind carry salt, which turns to another wind that helps the princess blow durra; the princess gives the young man durra; he gives durra to pigeons, and those to him oilseeds seeds; he squeezed oil, gave it to people who embalmed the deceased; got the body for the oil, brought it to another village, leaned it against a tree; walks into the house, asks the girl to call his wife; she says that touched his wife and she fell; the young man pretends to resent that his wife was killed, gets a girl as his wife]: Sieber, No. 44:217ff in Klipple 1992:311-312); beta [{retelling, from which details incomprehensible}; god Kamina demands Zakole to bring him his parents' hearts; he brings animal hearts (margouillats); comes to a man who makes something out of bamboo; sits on bamboo bed, pricked, takes bamboo; gives it to the blacksmith, who burned bamboo, Z. demands it back, gets a hoe; gives it to farmers who did not know iron, gets yams; comes to people who they eat only butter; teaches them how to fry yam, gets oil; gives it to an old man, takes away an amulet that gives them a long life, the old man dies; with the help of an amulet, crosses the river, carries away sand; gives it to manufacturers jewelry that was cleaned with ash receives jewelry; gives it to the participants in the wedding procession, gets a comb; {with it?} enters the recently deceased, takes her leg away; in his village he pretends to marry, a woman's leg is visible on the doorstep; the boy comes in, smells dead; people burned down his house, Z. ran away]: Paulme 1976:138- 140; kpelle [an orphan pulls an egg from a bird's nest, allows a potter to grind the vessel with a shell; the egg has broken, she gives the vessel to an orphan; the orphan lends it to the manufacturer of the poisoned the arrow, the vessel is broken; the orphan gets an arrow, gives the chimpanzee, who broke it, gave it the chimpanzee skin in return; the orphan gave it to the blacksmiths to make furs; the blacksmiths tore the skin, gave the orphan a hoe; he gave it to the workers, who cultivated the field with a wooden hoe; they broke the iron one, gave the orphan rice; in exchange for rice, the stream gave the orphan a jar of oil; the tree branches turned the vessel over, the tree gave branches; the orphan gave them to people fry the fish; they gave him the head of an ox, he threw it into the swamp, asked the traveler to help pull the ox out; the head "came off", the traveler gave the orphan an ox, he brought it to the king {it follows that this cow}; the orphan cow has calved, the king says that his bull has calved; orphan: give me a knife, for my brother gave birth and the umbilical cord must be cut; king: how can a man give birth? orphan: how can a bull calve? an orphan takes a calf]: Westermann 1924, No. 38:177-178; guro [the lion chief offers corn grain, demands that a man be brought in exchange for it; only the Spider takes up the matter; fed the grain to the rooster, groaned to the owner that it was the chief's grain, got a rooster; in another village he twisted the rooster's neck and threw it to the rams, said that the rams had trampled the leader's rooster, got a ram; for a bull's ram; for a bull's body a girl who had just died, promising to resurrect her; at night he brought her body to where young men were frolicking with the girls, accused one of them of killing the leader's daughter; when he saw the man brought by the spider, the chief is ready to give a generous gift to the spider; he refuses and asks in return for him to be the hero of all stories; and so it happened]: Tououi Bi 2014:189-192; steals [Ananse (spider trickster) asks god Wulbari give him one corn cob, promises to bring a hundred people in return; consistently changing one supposedly missing item to another: he feeds the cob to chickens, gets a bag of grain, for it is God's cob , changes grain for chicken, kills it, everyone believes that the leader killed the chicken, gives 10 sheep, A. buys a dead young man for 10 sheep, passes him off as his sleeping son V., tells the children to beat him to wake him up, accuses him of murder, takes a hundred young men as witnesses to what happened; boasts that he is smarter than V.; he is offended, tells A. to bring "something"; A. takes a pen from each bird, climbs a tree, no one understands what it is; everyone says that A. would have guessed; V. explains that he sent him away and that "something" means the sun, moon and darkness; after learning the secret, A. slowly gets off the tree, brings what he needs; first darkness is complete darkness, then the moon comes out, finally the sun; those who look at it straight are blind; that's why blind people exist]: Cardinall 1931:15-21 (=Belcher 2005:111-116, Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 9:41-46); baule [god suggests exchange one grain for a slave; only the Spider promises to do it; tells the peasant that his chicken pecked his magic grain, gets a chicken; then he gets a goat for the chicken (the goats trampled it in the barn) for a sheep's goat (he broke a goat's leg), for an ox (he was cared for by oxen), for an ox for a dead boy; says that he sleeps and leaves the owner with the children; in the morning one of the master's children, wanting to annoy his brother, says that he strangled the guest's child; this boy was given to Spider, who brought him to God; God wanted to reward a golden woman, but Spider took a vessel of fairy tales; dropped it, the fairy tales dissipated, he said to speak of him]: Himmelheber 1951b: 66-70 (translated into Himmelheber 1960:67-72); eve: Schönhärl 1909, No. 17 in Klipple 1992 [the princess was kidnapped; the king promises her and half the kingdom who will return it; Eyevi asks the king to give him a melon, promises to return his daughter; ate half a melon, took the other half with him, stayed in the house, put a melon with chickens, took it at night, said that a rooster ate the melon, got a rooster; etc.: for the rooster of an ox, for the ox of a horse with a golden saddle, for a dead man's horse; brings him to where the captive princess is; asks to turn off the lights - his son can't stand the light; let his son sleep in the same place Where are the girls; they promise to beat an imaginary young man if he opens a vessel with a disgusting smell; the corpse stinks, he is beaten; E. says that his son was killed, gets the kidnapped princess; brings her to his father, marries]: 312; Spiess 1918, No. 17 [The spider asks the king for small coins, promises to buy 50 people with them; came to another king, threw coins, the rooster scattered them, the Spider demanded to give him a rooster; in another left a rooster with cows at home, they trampled him, he got a cow; met a funeral procession, exchanged a cow for a deceased child; went to the place where 50 people spent the night, said that if from his mouth to mouth the child will smell bad, he must be pushed; in the morning he accused him of killing the child as if it were King Quazo De's child, received 50 people; at home he asked the king for a calebasa with fairy tales, now each has about Spider]: 104-106 (translated in Olderogg 1959:172-174); ashanti [the spider asks the heavenly god for a seed, promises to give an entire village in return; guinea fowl pecked a seed, the spider received guinea fowl in return; then a sheep; a cow; a slave's corpse; the spider makes it look like children have killed the heavenly god; he gets children, people follow them, he brings everyone to the heavenly god; asks for and gets a place as a reward under the ceiling]: Rattray 1930, No. 68:256 (retelling in Klipple 1992:313); mosi [father gives each of his two sons half a calebasa of cotton seeds; the youngest sells his own, buys chicken; cooked, carried it, it was exchanged for a horse by a man whose wife wanted chicken; the young man exchanged the horse for a spitting snake, carries it in a sack; leaves it with the merchants; they open the bag, the snake crawls away, the young man receives salt in return donkeys, loincloths; a young man stops by an old woman, drinks from forbidden calebas and goes blind; to regain his sight, he gives everything he has received from merchants; comes to other merchants; they open Calebas and go blind; for curing them, they give them much more than the first merchants; a young man comes to the country where the king's mother died; buys her body, drags it demonstratively; the king buys the body mother for the kingdom, handing it over to a young man; the new king invites his father, gives him wealth]: Tauxier 1917, No. 83:48ff in Klipple 1992:314-315; hausa [of the three sons of rich Ahmadu, only the youngest Auta agrees to limit its share in the inheritance with a stick and a shoe; A. meets the hunter, who asks for a stick, knocks the bird off the tree, gives it to A., and the stick remains on the tree; A. consistently changes poultry for ash (the person who opened the fire had nothing to fry on it), ash for calebass with porridge (the woman asked for ash as a seasoning instead of salt), porridge for a hoe (fed those who dug the ground), a hoe on a knife (blacksmith forges it into knives), a knife for white cloth (the weaver wanted to cut the fabric), the cloth on the dead girl (those who buried her needed a shroud); however, they gave the corpse, A. put it in cloth, asked the royal wives to give water to his wife, the body fell, A. accused the women of murder, the king gave him his two wives; A. settled in the forest, and sent his wives back; the Frog, the Monkey, the Horse came to live with him, Camel, Donkey, Three Species of Ants, Mule, Snake, Bird (crown-bird), White-breasted Raven; they filled his house with gold, silver and slaves; The Spider reports this to the king; The White Leper advises how Exterminate A. in order to seize his wealth; 1) divide mixed grain of many varieties (ants divided); 2) get the fruits of a palm tree growing in the middle of the lake (Frog and Monkey get it); 3) bring a millet leaf (there is no millet during the dry season; the crow brought it from the north, Crown-Bird from the south); the Snake offered to crawl into the belly of the royal daughter; let A. say that the medicine is the liver of the White Leper; his killed, the princess drank the infusion, the snake went out unnoticed; the young man took the gifts but returned to the forest; the snake asked her to put a piece of meat on the anthill on Sundays; The frog ate the meat, the Snake bit her and A., both died]: Tremearne 1913, No. 80:380-392 (retelling the first half in Klipple 1992:315-316); Dogon [a woman gave birth to a son without buttocks; he comes to God; he demands to bring his parents' hearts; the boy brings his father's heart, gets one buttock; to get the second, he also brings his mother's heart; God warned not to wipe himself with straw; the boy broke the ban, his buttocks fell off; he demands compensation from Straw, she gives a grasshopper; he asks the blacksmith to fry the grasshopper, who did not follow and the grasshopper burned down; the boy got a hoe, let the shepherds dig a well that had only sticks; they broke their hoe, they gave a wineskin of water; he gives it to girls who carried firewood and were thirsty gets firewood; a woman in labor burns her buttocks to warm the water to wash the baby, the boy gives her firewood, he gives him a pot with oil; boy asks Wood why it is white; Wood: I need to be lubricated; he gives him oil, gets a necklace; gives it to the Bird, which flies away without giving anything in return]: Paulme 1976:140; songhai ( zarma) [Muusa Testo-out of flour received a cake from his father, but dropped it in a puddle; demanded the cake back from the puddle, which gave him water; after taking water into his mouth, poured it on a dry tree, it gave him dry bark; he gave it the woman should burn it in the fire to bake pancakes; demanded back, she gave him a pancake; he gave her son a blacksmith, demanded it back, the mother of the child gave him a tool in return to pull out the splinters; M. gave it to the shepherd, the instrument was gone, the shepherd gave her a cow; M. brought her to the wedding, the cow was eaten, M. demanded the cow back, he was given a camel; M. got a wife for the camel; stayed where she lived]: Calame-Griaule 2002 : 97-100; mofu-gudur [poor and rich young men go to marry, the rich promises the poor to pay for his bride; both receive the chief's daughters, but the rich refuses to pay; the poor shoots birds, the heron wants to peck them, he catches it, she gives him herds, grain; the rich man's wife envies her sister, puts warthog testicles in her food, she dies; the old woman revives her with leaves; asks the leader for the reward is only leftovers of porridge from the cauldron; goes, falls into the water, catches catfish, gives it to the children; when they ate it, says that the leader gave it to her, he should have turned into a chicken, let them give it now chicken; so she exchanges larger and larger animals, butter, dressed skin; covered the dead with skin, the old woman demands to give it to her instead of the skin; leaves him alive; sends the girl to give it to her son water; says she killed him, gets a girl married to her son]: Sorin-Barreteau 2001, No. 20:141-155; hausa [of rich Ahmadu's three sons, only the youngest Auta agrees to limit his share inherited with a stick and a shoe; A. meets the hunter, he asks for a stick, knocks the bird off the tree, gives it to A., and the stick remains on the tree; then A. consistently me a bird for ash (the one who spread fire does not had something to fry on it), ash on a piece of calebas with porridge (the woman asked for ash as a seasoning instead of salt), porridge for a hoe (fed those who dug the ground), a hoe on a knife (the blacksmith forges it into knives), a knife on white cloth (the weaver wanted to cut the fabric), the cloth on the dead girl (those who buried her needed a shroud); put the corpse, wrapped it in cloth, asked the royal wives to give water to his wife, the body fell, A. accused the women of murder, the king gave him his two wives; A. settled in the forest, and sent his wives back; the frog, the Monkey, the Horse, the Camel, the Donkey, the Ants of three species, the Mule, the Snake, the Bird (crown-bird), the White-breasted came to live with him The crow; they filled his house with gold, silver, and slaves; the Spider reports this to the king; the White Leper advises how to destroy A. in order to take possession of his wealth; 1) share the mixed grain of many varieties (ants separated); 2) get the fruits of a palm tree growing in the middle of the lake (the frog and the Monkey get it); 3) bring a millet leaf (there is no millet in the dry season; the crow brought from the north, Crown-Bird from the south); The snake offered to crawl into the belly of the royal daughter; let A. say that the medicine was the liver of the White Leper; he was killed, the princess drank the infusion, the snake came out unnoticed; the young man took the gifts, but returned to forest; The snake asked her to put a piece of meat on an anthill on Sundays; the frog ate the meat, the Snake bit her and A., both died]: Tremearne 1913, No. 80:380-392.

Sudan-East Africa. Sarah [Ki-ndam-ndoti and Sou set traps; S. was trapped by an agama lizard, and K. was trapped by a dove; S. came early and changed prey; they began to fight, K. knocked down S., but decided that did it too rude and gave him a pigeon; S. gave it to the old lady to cook it; took it out of the cauldron and ate it, then demanded that the old woman give her axe; he gave it to teenagers who with sticks they dug up earth bees; the ax broke, the teenagers gave S. feathers; he gave feathers to the dancers to decorate their heads, the feathers were worn out, the dancers gave a drum; S. gave it to the funeral participants who knocked on the calebass ; they began to beat the drum until they made a hole; gave S. the dead; S. put him at the well, asked the girl to give his friend water, the corpse fell, S. accused the girl of murder, her parents gave it to him; ( Each episode is followed by a listing of all previous exchanges)]: Fortier 1967:313-317 in Paulme 1976:145-147; tiger ("Eritrea", but most likely to the tiger) [The fox stole the chicken, brought it down my hole and ate for several days. When I was hungry again, I went looking for new food and found a hat on the road. She put on her hat, went to the nearest hut and knocked. The farmer asked, "Who's there?" , the fox replied that the royal ambassador. She gave the farmer a hat to look after her. After eating, she went to bed and hid her hat at night. In the morning, the farmer begged the fox to forgive him for losing his hat. The fox said, "Give me a chicken, then I won't say anything to the king." It's the same at the next house, I let me hold the chicken, ate it at night, and got a lamb in the morning. It's the same in the next house, but in the morning a farmer found the remains of a lamb and realized that the fox had eaten it. The fox asked for a sheep, and the farmer gave her a bag and said he put the sheep in the bag to make it easier to carry. There was actually a dog in the bag. Happy fox went home with a sack. At home, I said to myself: "I'm so full that I don't want to eat anything right now. Let the sheep get caught in the meadow and get fatter, then I'll eat it." When she opened the bag, the dog jumped out, and the fox barely managed to escape into the hole. I started to blame my eyes - "no, we helped you see the hole", my nose - "no, I always help you smell food, and this time the bag was tied, I couldn't know anything", my legs "no, we ran fast", the tail was "I I didn't bother you, I just followed you." Aha! The fox let the dog bite off half of its tail. The dog brought the tail to its owner, who was happy and said: "Now I know which fox I'm going to hunt next time." But the fox said to all the other foxes, "I have an important message for you! The village has a new manager, and he is chasing all the long-tailed foxes. So I cut off half my tail. If you value your life, do the same, otherwise it will be bad." All the foxes did just that. And the peasants, who went hunting soon after, were very surprised to see that all foxes had short tails]: Kahsay 1994:1-31; Masai [the hare found the arrowhead, exchanged it for a piece from the hunters fat, fat exchanged from others for a necklace, invited the antelope to try it on, she put it on and ran away; the hare asks the hunters to shoot her, they refuse; fire - burn the hunters, water - fill the fire, elephants - drink water, trees fall on elephants, termites to gnaw trees, donkeys to trample termites, hyena to bite donkeys; she agreed, after which everyone complied with the hare's requests, or rather gathered perform, and eventually the antelope returned the necklace to the hare]: Kipury 1983, No. 19:77-79; sandave [the grandson brought the bird, the grandmother ate it, gave it millet in return; guinea fowl ate it, gave it feathers in return; feathers for the knife ; the knife was broken, instead of a chicken; a chicken for a goat, a goat for an ox; the boy cut off the ox's tail, put it in the swamp, called people, they "tore off" the tail, gave cattle in return]: Dempwolff, S. 156 in Arewa 196:246-247; sandave [the boy caught a sparrow, gave it to his grandmother, she ate it, the boy demanded the sparrow back, received a bowl of millet; gave it to guinea fowls, demanded back, received feathers from them; let the hunters operate arrows, received a knife; he slaughtered an ox, got a rooster; at the night he was placed with goats, they cared for the rooster, the boy got a goat; a goat to the cows, received a calf; a calf to oxen, received an ox; cut off the tail, hid the ox, stuck the tail into the crack in the rock, call people to pull the tail of the ox that had gone into the stone; the tail came off, everyone gave the boy free will]: Arnold 1984:206-208; malgashi: Haring 1982, № 1.3.2034 [Mahaka argues with a noble man that he will turn sakoririka (some insect) into an ox; puts S. in a bamboo stick, stops in a village, leaves a stick in a chicken coop where the chickens are pecked S.; receives chicken as compensation; then receives duck for chicken, turkey for duck, sheep for turkey, ox for turkey]: 155-156; Razafindramiandra 1988, No. 32 in Uther 2004 (1), No. 170: 119-120.

North Africa. Tunisia [Once Jha found a grain of wheat, he went to a woman who was grinding flour and gave her the grain, she thanked it and put it along with the rest of the grains. When she ground all the grains into flour, Jha asked her to give him his grain; she had no choice but to give him some of the flour. So the flour turned into bread, then sheep, then camel, then Jha exchanged the camel for a dead old woman, and then accused her of being poisoned by the people who fed him with their food so that he would not made a fuss, they married him to their beautiful daughter, who gave birth to him a daughter. At the end of the tale, he sings a lullaby in which he talks about everything that happened to him]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 38 in Korovkina MS; Moroccan Berbers, Egyptian Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 170:70-71 ; kabila: Frobenius 1921b, No. 6 [the jackal asks the woman to pull the thorn out of his leg; she pulls it out; the jackal demands his thorn back, the woman cannot find it, she has to give an egg in return; The jackal spends the night in the house, asks to put an egg under the owner's chicken for the night, breaks the egg at night, smears the chicken's beak with yolk, the owner has to give the chicken instead of the egg; in the next house: chicken to goats, kills a chicken, smears it with blood on a goat's face, gets a goat; also: a goat for a cow; a cow for a horse; people bury an old woman, a jackal exchanges her body for a mare; comes to the newlyweds house, asks to put it on night his sick mother on the bed next to the bride; cut the throat of the corpse; in the morning accuses the bride for stabbing his mother, the groom's father gives the bride a jackal; he carried her in a sack; he stayed in the house, it turned out to be the girl's parents' house; the jackal went for a drink, the girl called her father, he released her, put two dogs in the bag; the jackal carried him, stopped, began singing about how he changed the thorn for an egg and etc., opened the bag, the dogs tore it, returned home]: 19-24; Rivière 1882, No. 6 [the boy asked the old woman to pull the splinter out from him; she pulled it out and threw it away, the boy demanded a splinter back, the old woman had to give the egg; asked another old woman to put the egg under the hen; ate it at night, the old woman had to give her the chicken; then she gets a goat; a ram; a calf; a cow; an old woman; killed her, got girl]: 95-97; Libyan Arabs [the woman, taking her son and daughter, went to look for a city where there is no death; in one city she did not see the sick, stayed; the son married; then left his wife and moved on; mother told her daughter-in-law that she was not feeling well; she told people that they killed their mother because sick people were being killed in this city; the mother asked me to give her heart and lungs to her son; the sister left and met someone in the wasteland then a man, he went underground, there is a city, married; they have a son Muhammad; pointing his finger, he sees what is two days away; the woman's brother, i.e. Uncle M., comes; M. tells him what his mother wants kill him, and his father may turn into a snake; a snake will bite him when his sister asks for dates; M. takes dates himself; next time the snake hides in straw, the son sets fire to straw, his snake father dies; his snake father dies; mother wants to poison them, the son quietly turns the plate, the woman takes poison in her mouth, falls dead; M. and his uncle go to the ground, walk on different roads; M. warned not to be hired as an employee for who has red hair and blue eyes; his uncle did not listen; he was told to herd cattle while dragging the owner's mother on his back and catching 7 birds for his children every day; M. comes, replaces him; beats him an old woman, makes her herd cattle, catch birds, threatens to kill if she tells her; plugged her throat with a piece of meat, she died, he said she choked herself; gave six children scorpions instead of birds, those died; said that the birds fluttered out, and the children's souls followed them; the father took the bird from the remaining child; M. slaughtered the sheep, pretended to be attacked by robbers; cut off the tails of the cows, stuck them in the sand by the sea, He covered the last cow with sea grass - the cows failed; in front of everyone's eyes he pulled the last one out of the grass; the contract was: whoever gets angry first can tear off a strip of skin from ear to buttock; The judge ordered this to be done; M. and my uncle stopped in the Bedouin tent; M.: the dog can eat my leather belt; the owner: then you will take the dog; M. fed her a belt, took the dog; killed the dog in another tent , planted a piece of meat on the horns of the ram, took the ram; the next time he killed the ram, fried the liver, put it next to the owner's daughter; the father gave it to M.; the next time he agreed with the girl that he would cut her a little forehead, she will pretend to be dead, and he will accuse the owner of the mare of killing and take it away; M. gave the girl and two-thirds of the money to his uncle, and he left]: Stumme 1898, No. 4:104-120.

Southern Europe. The Spaniards (Ciudad Real) [the dog found the tail, gave it to the barber, came back, demanded the tail back, the barber said that the tail had rotted and he threw it away, had to give it back in return; fisherman cleans the fish with a cane, the dog gives him a knife; then demands back, the fisherman threw the knife away, gave the fish; the dog brings it to girls' school; comes back, demands the fish back, the mentor says it goes bad, the dog gets the girl, gives it to the drum workshop; returns for her; she is told that the girl was taken by her parents; the dog gets a drum in return, climbs the mountain, hits drum, tells about what happened]: Camarena, Chevallier 1997, No. 170A: 313-315; Aragon [a person finds a pea or bean; spending the night in different houses, he makes him change it to chicken, a pig, a cow, a bull; a woman kills a cow to cure her blind daughter with her blood and liver; a girl sees the light, she has to be given for a cow; a man carries her, makes her sing, her aunt recognizes her voice, the girl is released] : González Sanz 1996, No. 311C: 76; Catalans (Mallorca included) [the man found millet, put it in a bag; enters the house, leaves the bag there, the chicken pecked the grain, he gets the chicken; in the same way, elsewhere, a pig - a bull - a girl; he leaves the bag in someone's house, the girl sings, people recognize her voice, replace her with a dog (or stones); the person either drowns when he climbs up with a bag into a well, or a dog rushes at it]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 1655:265-266 (example text on this story in Salvator 1896:13-21); the Portuguese [barber cut off the monkey's tail; she demands in return razor; then sequentially: a razor for a sardine, for flour, for a girl, for a shirt, for a guitar; a monkey plays the guitar and talks about what happened]: Cardigos 2006, No. 2034C: 386; Portuguese ( Coimbra) [the cat went to the barber to trim his beard; he also advised him to shorten his tail; on the way home, the cat decided that the barber had no right to keep what was cut off; because he could not return it the tip of its tail, the cat took the knife; when he saw a fish merchant who did not have a knife, the cat gave her his own, and then came back and demanded it back; in exchange for the knife, the merchant gave him fish; the miller ate bare bread, the cat gave him fish; demanded back, but the fish had already been eaten, the miller gave him a kul of flour; the girls did not have flour; the cat gave his kul and then demanded that it be returned; if they did not give it, he took the girl; gave it to the laundress in an assistant, she did not return, the cat took his shirt; the violinist did not have a shirt, the cat gave it, the violinist did not return it, the cat took the violin; climbed a tree and began to play singing about how it was]: Coelho 1879, No. 11:19- 20; Italians: Cosquin 1887:206 (Rome) [Busk, p. 388; a beggar begs a woman; she gives a pea; he sleeps in the house, warns that the chicken does not bite the pea; the chicken pecked her, he gets a chicken; then a pig; a calf; in the fourth house, a sick girl wants a calf's heart, kills a cow to get it; the girl's mother promises to give it back, puts it in a bag; but the beggar left the bag until tomorrow the girl was also replaced by a dog; when the beggar opened the bag, the dog bit him; the version from Tuscany is the same, but the dog bit off the beggar's nose], 206-207 (Lombardy: Mantova) [Visentini, no. 10; man deliberately adjusts to make the deposit go to waste; bean, chicken, pig, horse, girl, replaced by a dog]; Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 170 (San Marino, Tuscany), 1655 (Veneto, Toscana, Umbria , Campania, Molise, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria): 31, 127; Sicilians [a clergyman sweeps the floor, finds a coin, buys roasted peas, left one pea for preservation in the bakery, her the chicken pecked, he got a rooster, gave it to the miller for preservation, the rooster was eaten by pigs, the servant received a pig, gave it to a friend whose daughter is marrying, the hostess stabbed and ate the pig, he received the bride, gave her for preservation, the owner found her, replaced her with a dog, the servant opened the bag, the dog bit his nose; he asks the dog to let his hair heal the bite: dog: give bread; baker: bring firewood; woodcutter: give me an ax; blacksmith: give me coal; coal burner: give me a cart; cart craftsman gives a cart, further along the chain]: Crane 1885, No. 79:250-252; Sardinians: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1655:359-360; Maltese [a person left a pea for storage, a chicken pecked it, he got a chicken, etc.: rooster - goat - cow - horse - girl (and other options); he leaves the girl with his neighbor in a bag; he leaves the girl in a sack; that one is hers releases, fills the bag with potsherds]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 1655:683-686 (variant in Stumme 1904, No. 25:70-71).

Western Europe. Freeza [the boy hired a farmhand and asked for one pea for a year of work; offered the girl: if her rooster bites a pea, it will be lost, and if not, he will take the rooster; rooster he fell asleep, the boy began to groan and cry, for this was his year's earnings; in the end, the girl's father gave him a rooster and told him to clean up; suggested that the rooster butt the goat; the goat hurt the rooster, The boy screamed again, got a goat; the girl asked for some goat hair, put her hands in, they stuck to the goat; a farmhand stuck to the girl, then many other people; the procession came to town, she was seen by a princess who never laughed; the king promised her hand to whoever would make her laugh; when she saw the procession, the princess burst out laughing, and then everyone was detached from each other; the king gave it to the boy daughter and throne]: Mürk 2014:5-12; French: Cosquin 1887, No. 62:202-205 (Lorraine) [during the harvest, a lazy man hired to work but did nothing; the owner gave him a pea - more than that deserved it; the lazy man stayed for the night, the chicken pecked the pea, the lazy man demanded chicken, otherwise he would go to Paris {complain}; left the chicken in the stable in the next house, but there was a pig there, she ate a chicken, a lazy man got a pig; the next time he left a pig in the stable, the foal killed it, the lazy man got a foal; in another house, the hostess's daughter took the foal to drink, which fell into a hole and drowned; the lazy man got the girl, put her in a bag; in the next house, the bag was taken for preservation, but the owner was not allowed in; it was the house of the girl's godmother; she called her, the woman released the girl, changed dog; the lazy man carried the bag, sat under a pear, untied it, the dog bit it], 205 [1) Upper Brittany, by Sébillot, I: 64; stopping for the night, the man left the hostess a grain of wheat; his a chicken pecked; threatening to sue, a man received a chicken; a chicken on a cow; in a third house, a cow kicked the maid, who hastily killed her; the man took the girl in a sack, left it for storage to the woman, and this was her godmother; she calls her daughter to eat soup, the girl from the bag: I want it too; the girl was replaced by a dog; when he hears barking from the bag, the man runs away in horror; 2) Upper Normandy, Fleury, p. 186; Merlicoquet picked up three spikelets of wheat; when he spent the night, the owner's chicken pecked the grains; he got a chicken; then a horse; the girl went to water him, the horse drowned; M. left the bag with the girl for storage, it turned out to be a house her godmother, who replaced the girl with a dog and a cat], 205-206 (Lozer in Languedoc) [all Turlendu has is a pea; staying overnight, warns her not to go missing; the chicken pecked a pea, T. got a chicken; then a pig; a mule; due to the girl's maid, the mule fell into the well; after receiving the girl, T. put her in a bag, left her in another house; there she was replaced by a dog; when T. opened bag, she bit off his nose], 207 (French Flanders) [Jean du Gogué went to Hergnies to eat goose meat; he was given a sheaf of wheat; then the usual sequence: rooster, cow, girl (who killed a cow when it whipped her tail in the face); the girl was replaced by a dog; J. carries a bag, asks if the girl will become his wife; growl out of the bag; the dog jumped out, J. climbed the willow, she broke down, ran over a dog, a golden goose was in the willow trunk], 208 (Provence) [Janoti asks his mother to give him a pea, goes on a journey; the usual sequence is chicken, pig, ox; gravediggers they give him a woman's fresh corpse for an ox; he left it near the castle as if a woman was washing something; says that his wife stayed to wash; they sent a girl for her, the corpse fell into the pond, J. got the girl; after marrying her, J. becomes an important gentleman]; the Bretons [orphan boy Pierre-le-Niais went on a journey, picked up spikelets of wheat, stopped for the night, threw spikelets the chickens, who pecked the grain, P. demanded chicken in return; left the chicken in the pigsty in the next house, the pigs ate it, he got a pig; instead of a pig, a horse; the servant drove the horses to pasture, and The maid went on business on P.'s horse, not knowing that it was not their horse; the horse ran away; P. told the maid that he would pick it up in return, put it in a bag and carried it away; stayed in another house, and the godmother lived there maids; while P. was eating dinner, she replaced her with a dog and puppies; P. carried the dog, it twitches, P. threatened to drown the maid in the pond; opened the bag, saw the dog, thought that the maid was in collusion with the devil, and gone]: Luzel 1887 (3), No. 2:400-406 (almost the same in Sébillot 1910, No. 21:91-94); the Germans (Hanover) [the man carried a bag of peas to the bazaar; stopped at a friend; the chickens pecked the crash; received instead of chickens, the man left them in the pigsty the next night, the pigs ate them; the next time he got horses instead of pigs; the man stayed with the officer; his little son wanted to climb on the horse, the horses ran away; the man put the boy in the basket and left him at the baker, went for a drink himself; the baker had just had a son, he baked cakes, the boy from the basket asked to give it to him; the boy changed with a dog; the man came back, carried the basket, wanted to start hitting the boy; but the dog tore off his head]: Colshorn, no. 30 in Cosquin 1887:206; Germans (Pomerania) [Stupid Hans (GG) served 7 years old as a farmhand; asked for a calculation, but nothing heavy so that his pocket would not break; the owner calmed him down, gave him barley grain tied in a handkerchief; GG stopped at the inn, where the owner asked leave him valuables for preservation; when he learned that the GG had a salary for 7 years, he untied his handkerchief, but found only grain; he was immediately pecked by a rooster; in the morning the owner was forced to give a rooster for the grain; the next time he got a stallion for a rooster, because the owner left the rooster in the stable, and the stallion trampled him; the stallion has a golden mane and tail; if the owner orders, the one who tried to pull out the golden hair will jump on the horse and it will stick; the next night, the owner's eldest daughter came up to the stallion, who screamed, GG woke up and told the girl to stick; then along the way, a clerk, a pastor, a peasant woman with a maid, her daughters, stuck; The prince bought a stallion in the city; he wanted to marry a princess who never laughed; the king promised her to someone who would make her laugh; when she saw them stuck, the princess smiled; the king would give her daughter for the prince, but in unless someone really makes her laugh in three days; GG is ready to return 1,000 thalers to the prince, but get the horse again; the old woman told me to pick up a dung beetle, ant and mouse at the crossroads, harnessed them into a tiny wagon and told GG to whip them; the whole city went out to watch, the princess laughed until she dropped; king: GG won, but 3 days later; let both go to bed with the princess and who she will choose in the morning, he will not marry her; GG ate almonds and sugar, and slipped a dung beetle to the prince; the princess turned to GG; the king married her]: Jahn 1891, No. 43:233-238; Irish, Scots, Germans (Silesia), Walloons: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1655:359-360; Irish: Uther 2004 (1), No. 170:119-120.

Western Asia. Syrian Arabs [the bird found wheat grain, left the miller to grind; when he returned, the miller replied that he had ground it along with the other grains, gave the bird a handful of flour; she gave it to the baker, who threw it into the common sauerkraut, the bird received two cakes, gave it to the merchant for storage, his children ate the cakes, the bird received two bundles of beets, gave it to Umm Hassan, the chickens pecked the beets, the bird received the chicken, gave Umm Ali, his ram killed the chicken, the bird got the ram, gave it to Umm Mohammed, his cow trampled the ram, the bird got the cow; the bird came to the wedding, the cow was eaten, the bird demanded to the bride, they gave it to her, she took it to her nest]: Kuhr 1993:262-264; Aramaeans (Maaloula) [the bird picked up wheat grain, left it where people are; the boy threw it away; the bird said it was hers grain is the mother of wheat, demanded a handful of flour; left it with neighbors, the boy woke up flour, the bird received a cake in return; the dog ate the cake, the bird got an egg; the cat broke it, the bird received chicken; the marten ate it, the bird got the goat; the wolf ate it, the bird got the cow; the peasant killed the cow, the bird got the buffalo; it was slaughtered, the bird got the bride; lit the lamp and when it became to go out, the bird sang that a grain of wheat brought to the bride]: Bergsträsser 1915, No. 30:99-100; the Palestinians [the rooster found wheat grain, asked for grinding, demanded back both grain and flour, got more flour; asked me to bake a cake, demanded a cake and flour, got two; in the same way, an onion for a cake, a kid, a camel, a buffalo, a girl for an onion; he sang a song about how he got the bride]: Spoer 1931:155-156; Iraqi Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 170:70-71; Jordanian, Kuwaiti Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 170A: 71-72; Yemen: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1655:901-902; Saudi Arabia [the fool found a small coin, bought a few peas, gave them to save the woman; the rooster pecked them, the fool got a rooster; elsewhere the woman decided to slaughter the rooster she had given to save, Firewood fell on him, crushed him; the fool got a stove; the buffalo broke the stove; got a buffalo, gave it to the wedding house for preservation; the guests ate the buffalo; the fool got a bride, exchanged her from a black man on the drum and started hitting it]: Juhaiman 1999:95-99; jibbali [someone gave Abu Nuvas grains, he came to the girl, asked her to fry, demanded back, got a ram; brought him to the house where the cow, tied him to a cow, she trampled him, he was given a goby; he exchanged a goby for a donkey, a donkey for a camel; people bury an old woman, he said that it was his mother, let the camel be slaughtered; demanded her back; the people left, the NA took the old woman, came to the Sultan, said that his mother remained at the door, the maid carried her food, the corpse fell, the NA said that his mother was killed, the sultan gave him jewelry, the NA took them away, buried an old woman]: Müller 1907, No. 2:4-7.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tagin [Abo-Teni married Fire, but when he approached her, he burned her genitals, a worm appeared in the wound; AT took a worm, came to the village of chickens and roosters in search of his wife; the rooster pecked the worm, AT got angry, told the rooster to go with him; in search of his wife, he came to the dog village, the dog ate the rooster, AT ordered her to give the puppy to his servant; the same in the village of goats (the puppy was cared for, AT took the kid); in the village cows (the kid was cared for, AT took a goby); in the village of buffalo mitans (took a mitan's calf); a tree fell on the calf; AT took a tree, brought Mumsi, the sister of the Sun Woman; the children climbed the tree without damaging him, and when M. got in, it broke down, AT told him to marry him for it; she told him to build a house and everything he needed; they sat down by the hearth: she would marry AT only if the smoke floated in her direction; happened; M. brought the seeds of all pets and plants, the farm was full; M. gave birth to a son, is losing weight; sent her husband to her parents for food - she cannot eat any other food; they put it in the basket the boy and the knife took an oath from AT not to open it on the way; but he looked inside; the boy promised to tell M. everything; AT saw what M. would do with the basket; she stabbed the boy and ate it raw; AT refused to live with the cannibal; M. took her son and returned to his parents; then AT married Chigo-Chuma; she has only one breast; she gave birth to a son, who refuses to take the breast, tells him to be brought to the cheni tree, he will drink juice; after 5 days the boy became fat, and after 12 days he went to live in a cave; this is a Ninur craftsman who made the first swords, spears and valuable utensils]: Elwin 1958a, No. 14:177-180.

Burma - Indochina. Shany [the poor fisherman caught only a frog, walked through the village, was invited into the house, he said he was afraid that the rooster would bite the frog; he was promised to give the rooster if this happened; at night he I fed the frog to the rooster; in another house: I'm afraid your dead man will eat my rooster; smeared the deceased's mouth with cock blood, buried a rooster, got a dead body; in the third house: I'm afraid your elephants will trample a patient who is with me; puts his body to a white elephant, gets an elephant, becomes rich]: Milne 1910:239-241; lao [a poor young man with two friends went to Tuck Kasula ("city of wisdom"); y they had gold with them, and his mother could give him only two of her hairs, which he sealed in wax; friends stayed for the night, the chicken took the hairs away, the young man demanded chicken for them; elsewhere an elephant stepped on this chicken, the young man got an elephant in return; stopped with him under a tree and heard advice that his friends bought for gold: if you want to know, go to bed, if you want to see, go and see ; the young man sold advice to the judge for gold; he went to bed and heard his four wives preparing to betray and kill him; shackled them; went to watch the servants work; one of them, without recognizing the master, said that stole his property, but broke his fingernail and is now looking for it, for if the fingernail remains on the ground, the owner will be unhappy; he has found the nail; the judge has forgiven him]: Fleeson 1898:115-118.

South Asia. Duruva [the jackal caught on the turf, called it to swim, tied it to him, the turf fell apart in the river; he demanded fish for it; the fish jumped out; the jackal put it on a stump, the fish somewhere disappeared, he demanded that the stump fall apart; carried a bunch of chips, stayed in the house, the hostess used them for kindling, the jackal received cakes in exchange for cakes; for the kid's cakes; the kid was eaten on at the wedding, the jackal got a bride for him, brought him to him, began to sing and dance, the girl hit him on the forehead with a pestle, killed him]: Zographer 1976:35-37; Uttar Pradesh: Rouse, Crooke 1899, No. 32 (Mirzapur) [ the woman baked cakes, the monkey agreed to bring fuel; began to dance around the cakes, got one; in the potter's house she gave it to the boy, got a pot; and then to his wife a shepherd, who shared butter, received butter; (each time the monkey sings, describing the sequence of his acquisitions); let the shepherd spread it on bread, got a cow; the king has an ox on the way, he drags the wagon himself; the monkey gave the wagon, got the queen; gave it to the man who sewed the button himself, because his wife died; began to dance again, but there was no longer a suitable object, chose a drum; after receiving it, she began to hit and ran away into the forest]: 132-138; (cf. Uttar Pradesh (Mirzapur, Hindi) [the mouse has no girlfriend; finally, a lump of land became friends with her; she took him to swim in the river and he vanished into the water; the river gave a fish; the mouse put the fish on a pole to dry it, it was carried away by a hawk; the table gave a piece of wood; they went to buy sweets and while the mouse was eating, the hostess threw a piece of wood into the fire; gave it a cake; it was eaten by a goat; the shepherd gave a kid; they went to the shop where musical instruments were sold, the owner of the goat slaughtered and cooked; gave a drum; women pushed rice, made a hole in the drum, gave a girl; the girl and the mouse sowed wheat, but when the girl became reap, she didn't notice the mouse and cut it in half with a sickle]: Rouse, Crooke 1899, No. 24:101-104); Stokes 1879, No. 17 (Lucknow) [when climbing into the garden, the mouse pricked its tail against a barbed fence; asked the barber pull out the thorns - even if he cut off the tail; he did so; the mouse grabbed the razor and ran to a country where there are no knives; the man tore the grass with his hands; the mouse gave a razor, it broke, the mouse took the cape man; sees a person without a cape cutting sugar cane on the ground, it gets dirty; the mouse gives a cape, the man returns it in holes, the mouse takes away the sugar cane; gives it to the person who does sweets without sugar; demands back, takes all the sweets; gave them to the shepherds, demanded them back, tied the shepherds and took the cows; the Raja marries her daughter, but there is no meat; the mouse gives the cows, then demands Raja's daughter takes them back; gives it to tightrope walkers and jugglers, who warn that the girl will fall, the mouse insists, the girl fell and died, the mouse took the wives of tightrope walkers and jugglers and all their property; So fat that she did not crawl through the door; told the carpenter to cut off her excess meat; the pain was terrible; she was advised to rub her grain; she died in pain; the wives returned to her husbands]: 101-107; Punjabi [the rat found a dry root, gave the person who tried to make a fire received a piece of dough in return; the potter is besieged by hungry children, the rat gave dough, got a pot; gives buffalo milkers who expressed milk into their shoes, gets a buffalo; gives it to the wedding participants, gets the bride; she cannot get into the rat's hole, wants to eat, gets a grain and a pea; collects in the morning for a wild plum girl, sends to sell; she walks around town singing that she is a princess and a rat's wife; the queen hears, the daughter comes back; the rat demands his wife back; the rat is invited, put on a chair, under he had hot coals; her tail peeled off, she ran away]: Steel, Temple 1984, No. 2:17-26; Sindhi [the rat gave the peasant a log, he fed her, she demanded the log back, but it had already burned down; the rat forced her to give her the pot; she gave it to another person and asked for water in which the potatoes were cooked; the rat demanded that the pot be returned; they went to the cadia, who ordered the ox to be given to the rat; the rat gave the ox to the groom at the wedding, asked her to give her milk; demanded that the ox be returned, the kadiy agreed that the groom should give the rat the bride; the bride began to beat the rat with shoes, her stomach burst; returned to to the groom]: Schimmel 1995, No. 38:226-229; himachali plowmen [the rabbit asks the barber to shave him; he accidentally cut off the rabbit's ear; he took his razor in return; gave a razor to a woman who tore her hands grass, took her cape (chudder); exchanged the cape for butter (ghee); asked another woman to make sweets for him with this oil, took them away; gave sweets to the plowman, offered to smell, took the horse and the bull away; invited the wedding participants to put the bride on a horse, took her away; she invited the rabbit to comb his hair, stunned him, returned to her husband]: Dracott 1906:59-60; Nepali [jackal's wife gives birth; he came to the goat to ask someone from her family to help with childbirth; only the youngest goat agreed; when she came to the jackals, she saw that she was going to be eaten there, ran back; the goats fenced off their house with thorns; the jackal poked in his face; asked the blacksmith to remove the splinter, he cut his face, the jackal demanded a knife in return; came to the potter, offered to cut the clay, the knife broke, the jackal got paid he was a pot; came to a woman who milks a cow into a vessel of leaf, gave a pot, the cow broke it, the jackal took a cow in return; the peasant plows, the wife pulls the plow; the jackal let the cow harness in a plow, that hurt her leg, he took a peasant's wife; people bake cakes, the jackal offered his woman to bake them; she was burned with butter; the jackal began to eat cakes, went on, the children stole cakes, the jackal took drum, climbed a tree, started hitting the drum, fell and crashed]: Heunemann 1980, No. 19:142-145; Rajastans [mice played kabbadi; one had too long tail, it was caught all the time; she went to the carpenter, he shortened her tail; when he saw the bloody stump, the other mice advised her to put the tail back; the mouse went back to the carpenter; he said that the tail had been thrown away and must have been carried away by the crow; allowed take a piece of wood instead; the mouse saw the old woman burn her arms and legs to bake cakes (chapati); gave her that piece of wood, and when it burned, she demanded to go back; the old woman allowed her to take one cake; the potter eats clay cakes, the mouse gave him hers; demanded back; he cannot return what has already been eaten, allowed him to take the pot; the woman heats the milk and then cooks the butter in the same a vessel; the mouse gave her her own; but when the woman began to make oil, the pot burst; the woman gave a calf in return; the man carried a bunch of mouse tails, the mouse exchanged it for a calf; brought it to the carpenter, told choose a suitable tail and attach it to it; he did it; the mouse ordered the rest of the tails to be protected: the mice would still need it; with a suitable tail length, the mouse went back to play and both teams asked it join]: Dinesh 1979:27-30; Bengalis: Bradley-Birt 1920 [the jackal set up a school, the crocodile taught his seven children; the jackal ate them; the crocodile hid in the water, grabbed the jackal his leg; he put a bunch of reeds in him: both my legs are in place, you grabbed the reeds; the crocodile released the jackal's leg; next time he pretended to be dead; jackal: the crocodile is alive, for the dead must move with his tail and ears; the crocodile does so; the jackal ran away, the shepherds saw the crocodile and drove it away; the jackal began to eat eggplants from the bush, pricked his nose; asked the barber to pull out the thorn, he cut his nose; it was the jackal who took away his iron tool; the potter dug clay, the jackal gave him a tool to test, he accidentally broke it, got a pot; the participants in the wedding procession accidentally broke the vessel, the jackal got a bride for him; went to pick up a clergyman for the wedding, leaving his wife and drummer's wife; she cut vegetables and accidentally cut the girl in half; the jackal demanded her husband's drum in return; climbed on a tree, began to sing about his adventures; fell into the canal, the crocodile ate it]: 186-190; Devi 1915 [the monkey pierced its tail; she came to the barber and asked him to pull it out; he did not find a thorn, but cut off the entire tail; the monkey grabbed and carried away his razor; offered to the man who tore the grass with his hands; he cut off the grass, blunted the razor, and the monkey took the blanket in return; the man carried sugar in the leaky bag; the monkey gave blankets to make a new bag; said that a man ruined her blanket and took away a new bag along with sugar; gave sugar to a woman who made sweets, took away sweets; two people they carried a little girl in the palanquin; the monkey gave them sweets and took the girl to his wife; began to assure the girl that she was not a monkey since she did not have a tail; they went to the brahmana; at this time, the girl's mother found her and took her home; the monkey kept screaming that the girl was her fiancée; the mother invited the monkey into the house and sat her in a chair with needles sticking out of it; the monkey ran away with a howl]: 53-56; Siddiqui, Lerch 1998 [The jackal asked the barber to pull the thorn out of his nose; he accidentally cut off the tip of his nose, for which he gave his knife to cut off his nails; the potter dug the clay with his bare hands, the jackal gave him a knife, which immediately broke down, the potter gave the clay jug; a wedding procession was passing by the jackal, a rocket hit the jug, which crashed; the jackal was given to the bride; the jackal left the bride with the drummer's wife, followed the priest perform a wedding ceremony; the bride dozed off, fell into the fire and burned; the drummer's wife hid her body, climbed onto the roof herself; the jackal threatened to burn her daughter, the drummer's wife gave the jackal her best drum husband; the jackal climbed a tree, began to beat the drum and sing about how it was; fell and crashed to death]: 130-135; oriya [the hare drowned, his friend the jackal demands compensation from the river, she gives fish; fish took the crane, gave them an ax in return; the jackal cut wood, the baker burned them, gave them cakes; the boys ate them, gave them an ox; in the village of lepers, they ate the ox, gave them a drum in return; the jackal began to beat the drum, telling about what happened, the tiger wants to eat it; the jackal asks for permission to finish measuring rice first; throws rice into the jackal's eyes, runs away, swings on the vine; the tiger wants too; the jackal climbed higher, found a vine, the tiger crashed to death]: Mohanti 1975:17-20; kannada [the monkey pricked its tail, asked the barber to pull out the splinter, he accidentally cut off the entire tail, the monkey demanded a razor for him; gave Cut the potter's razor into the clay, the razor broke, the monkey got the pot; let the peasant water the cucumbers, he dropped it and broke the pot; the monkey got a cucumber; gave it to a peasant who ate bare bread , demanded back, got an ox; gave the acrobats, the ox was soon dead, the acrobats gave a drum in return; the monkey began to beat the drum and sing about everything that happened]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 39:109-111; Tamils [the monkey stabbed the tip of its tail, asked the barber to pull out the splinter, who accidentally cut off the tip of its tail, the monkey demanded it back, the barber gave the razor; the monkey invited the woman to cut her firewood, the razor was dull, the monkey received a bunch of firewood in return; gave firewood to the woman who baked cakes; when they burned down, she demanded back, received a basket of cakes; exchanged it from the pariah for a drum, I climbed a tree with him, began to beat the drum and sing about what had happened]: Natesa Sastri 1884-1888, No. 14:182-184; (cf. Tamils [the sparrow found the picture, gave it to the old woman for preservation, the rice was lost, he received a handful of rice in return; decided to make payasam sweets; to get everything he needed, says to each of passing under a tree that his mother has just died; people throw what they carried, run home; so the sparrow got firewood, a bronze vessel, cane sugar; started eating payasam when it is still hot, burned his mouth and fingers, threw the vessel into the well in his hearts; then pulled it out, a little payasam remained on the vessel wall, the sparrow licked - how tasty it was; then he drank all the water in the well and plugged his anus with hay; I came to spend the night with the old woman, who told him a place in the yard under a canopy; at night the cow saw a bunch of hay and ate it; the water poured out of the sparrow, washed away the cow, the house and the old woman]: Beck 1987, No. 88:262-263); gondas [the wagtail invited the mouse to live with her; she refused, but when it rained and the hole was flooded, the mouse came to the wagtail; warmed up and fell asleep; the wagtail began to think about what to feed the guest; in she ended up cutting off the mouse's ear and tail, cooked it, fed it; in the morning the wagtail bought ear rings; the mouse also went to buy it, but was told that it only had one ear; the mouse chased the wagtail, that crossed the river, but the mouse could not; tried to swim on a lump of earth, it blurred; then a fish transported it; the mouse pulled it ashore, put it on a stone to dry, fell asleep; the shepherd saw a fish, cooked and ate; the mouse demanded compensation and received a goat; tied it to a tree and fell asleep; the participants in the wedding procession saw a goat, stabbed it, ate it; the mouse received a bride for the goat; brought her to himself, i.e. into the wagtail's nest; began to sing, describing the episodes of the exchange; the bride killed the mouse and returned to her place; at this time the wagtail made a new nest, laid two eggs: one 4 tops long and the other 5; He hears voices from the eggs: it will be nice to eat our mother; the wagtail was frightened and flew to another tree; when he found out what was going on, the tree told me to sit eggs; let him follow his example: people break branches, fruits are plucked, but the tree is alive; the same twice more (banyan tree; fig tree); the fourth time the wagtail flew far, far away and the eggs died]: Elwin 1944, No. XXIII.10:468-470; muria [frog and the jackal went fishing, went into the water; the jackal told the frog to throw the caught fish ashore, tied the fish to the peg; the hawk took the fish; the jackal: bring firewood in return, otherwise I'll kill it; the hawk brought a bunch of firewood ; the jackal brought firewood to the house where they baked bread, received bread in return; in another house he received a drum for bread; once another jackal stole a drum from him; one jackal tells another {it is not clear which one} to tie and pour boiling oil over him, so he will go to Mahapurub; the second one did, the first died]: Elwin 1944, No. XXIII.6:465-466; Maldives [the heron dropped its droppings at the edge of the water; it was washed away by a wave, but the heron demanded it back by the sea; as compensation, the sea gave tuna; the heron left the tuna on the roof, people cut it, dried the meat; the heron demanded tuna, received dried tuna meat; then instead tuna meat - meat pies; a skein of rope; two drums; the heron sat on a branch and began to beat one of the drums; the branch broke, the heron fell, the drums fell on it and killed it; the old woman gladly took it drums to yourself]: Romero-Frias 2012, No. 2:3-6.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Bali [the widower came to the widow, left the stick; when he returned, she was eaten by worms and the worms were pecked by a rooster; the widower demands a rooster, but agrees to leave it with the widow for now; the rooster was eaten by a pig, a widow She sold the pig, bought rice with this money, ate the rice; at each stage, the widower comes, demands his own, but agrees to leave it with the widow for now; in the end he demands it herself, marries]: Hoikas-van Leeuwen Bomkamp 1983, No. 48:227-238.

(Wed. Taiwan - Philippines.

Ilocan [obvious Irenean borrowing; see Portuguese]: Cole 1916:183-184)

China-Korea. Chinese (Qinghai) [two brothers share a single ox, the eldest pulls the head, the youngest by the tail; the youngest has only a louse in his hands; he goes to his maternal uncle, where the rooster pecks the louse, the uncle gives his nephew a rooster; his maternal grandfather has trampled a rooster by oxen, the young man receives an ox in return]: Frick 1954, No. 12:522; (cf. Chinese (Hebei) [late in the evening, the fox, holding the chicken, came to the bear's house; said that she was hunting, did not find shelter, decided to spend the night with him; when the bear fell asleep, the fox ate what it had brought the chicken, and took the feathers to another place; in the morning the bear fed the fox; she called him to visit; pretends to be looking for the chicken she had brought, but found only a bunch of chicken feathers; cried - I didn't think you had thieves ; the bear gave her the chicken from his poultry house; soon the fox came back to the bear with the chicken; it happened again; when the fox came with the chicken for the third time, the bear realized that he was being fooled; pretended to be sleeping, and saw everything; in the morning he threw a fox into a mountain stream]: Bai Gengsheng 2007a: 809-810); Koreans [the young man goes to Seoul to take exams; stays at inns, lets him save his property, it goes missing, he gets something else; millet grain - mouse - cat - horse - bull; the owner sold the bull to the court, the young man asked the one who ate the meat; the court married his daughter to him]: Choi 1979, No. 223:74-75 (=Pack 1991:247-248).

The Balkans. Hungarians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 170:119-120; Greeks [the rooster found the thorn, gave it to the baker, he threw it into the oven, the rooster demanded it back, took the pies, gave it to the butcher, who fed them to the sheep, the rooster took the sheep, brought him to the wedding, stabbed him, then demanded it back, took the bride, took him to a cave in the mountains; the groom and his father found a cave and shot the rooster, fried it, ate it]: Dawkins 1916:521-523 ; Montenegrins [the wolf announced that he no longer eats meat and went out to the meadow; a goose came up to him, he ate it; the man asked why; the wolf: why is he looking at the saint]: Eschker 1992, No. 60:233; Hungarians, Albanians, Bulgarians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 1655:359-360; Bulgarians [a man picked up a bean, gave it to a woman who cooked beans; demands to return his bean by all means, gets instead of a rooster; the pig ate the rooster, the man got a pig; then for the bull's pig; towards the funeral procession, the pop frightened the bull, the man got a dead woman instead of the bull; came to the wedding, accused in the murder of his wife, he demanded a girl in return; he was put a dog in a bag instead of the girl; when he untied the bag, the dog bit off his nose]: Daskolova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1655:554; Germans Transylvania: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1655:359-360

Central Europe. Slovaks: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1655, 2034C: 359-360, 528; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Pskov, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Kiev, Kursk) ["For the rolling pin - jig": the fox spends the night with its rolling pin in the hut; in the morning it demands a jig for the allegedly missing rolling pin, then a lamb by the side, etc.]: SUS 1979, No. 170:82; Ukrainians: Sonnenrose 1970: 240ff in Uther 2004 (2), No. 1655:359-360; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [the woman found a bast, asked to spend the night, put her bast on the chickens; in the morning she says that she had a chicken; so, changing one to another, got a goose, a ram, a goby; the bull harnessed and went; hares, foxes, ermines asked to take them; the woman sings: "Juh, yuh, yuh, not a goby, spring tail, strangers sleigh, crooked, yoke is not her own, go, don't stop!"] : Balashov 1970, No. 128:363-365; Russians (Vologda) [the old woman asked to go to the hut, she had a bast with her; in the morning she said that there was a chicken; she was given a chicken; elsewhere a lamb for a chicken, then for a calf lamb; reached the cow]: Kuzmina 2008, No. 28:73 (options No. 29, 30:73-76; Russians (Novgorod) [the orphan came to the hut with a bast, put her bast not to her bast, but to the straps; the next morning she says that she had a strap, took the strap; in another village she put the strap on the rams; took the ram; then the lamb; the cow; the horse; went to the firewood, the hare with her; sang a song about what happened to her; they met a fox on the way, took it with them; the fox began to sing the same song; then the wolf; the bear; when the bear sat down, the gulf burst; the girl sent the animals one by one for the gullies; the hare brought a knot, a fox a stick, a wolf a young tree, a bear a tree; the girl went for the gullies; while walking, the animals ripped off the horse's skin, ate the meat, and filled the skin with snow, sewed it up, put the horse standing; the girl was left with horseskin]: Smirnov 1917, No. 76:298-300; Russians (Pskov) [the fox spent the night with the peasant, begged for bast shoes; the next night, asked to put her bast shoes to the chickens, buried it, in the morning demanded a chicken; then a duck; a ram; a goby; firewood to the goby; went; the hare asks for permission to sit with her sleigh; then the wolf; when the bear sat down, the gullies broke; the hare brought thin, the other fox too, the wolf - the shaggy forest, the bear - with roots; the fox went by itself; during this time the animals ate the goby, filled it with hay; the fox: whoever ate the bull will fall into the hole, let's jump; everyone has fallen; fox: let's voice, who doesn't let's hold out, we'll eat it; we started with a hare; the fox and the bear remained; the fox hid its intestines under it, now it pulls it out and eats it, says it's its own; the bear pulled out its own, died, the fox eats it; but we can't get out; the thrush threatens to eat his children if it does not pull him out of the hole; the thrush put on chopsticks, the fox got out; the fox tells her to drink; the man brings a barrel of wine to the wedding; the thrush sat on the barrel, the man hit, the thrush flew away, the barrel crashed, the fox got drunk; now laugh; two brothers are threshing, the thrush sat on one's head, the other hit, the thrush flew away, the fox laughed; now evaporate; the fox steams, the thrush says the dogs are coming; the fox in the window, then into the hollow, asks the legs - how did they run? ears; eyes; tail; tail - dogs dank her tail and ate her]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 33:73-75; Russians (Ryazan) [gave mercy to my grandmother - a bast; she asked for a better chicken; they gave her; they gave her; asked for an overnight stay; let her chicken with geese; in the morning she says that she had a goose; next time she changed a goose for a lamb; a lamb for a calf; made a gully, rides a goby, sings how she changed one to another; the hare, fox, wolf, bear are asked to be put in a sleigh; the gullies broke, the old woman went to make new ones, pulled her skin over the branches, ran away; the grandmother came up, the scarecrow fell; went to change her bast again to chicken, chicken for duck, etc.]: Samodelova 2013, No. 55:59-61; Ukrainians []: Berezovsky 1979, No. 263:299-304.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks [poor old man Kedya rode a red sheep, found an old bone, hit the ram on the nose, smeared the bone with blood, came to the party; he was offered to throw the bone into the common cauldron; K. meat in the cauldron can eat it; the owners: if he eats it, we will give everything; the bone is gone, K;. ate, he was offered to let the ram into the flock for the night; K.: the sheep will eat it; at night he stabbed the ram, smeared the sheep's faces with blood, got the whole flock; slaughtered, put meat, skins and giblets in three piles, smeared blood on the faces of seven camels; argued with the owner that the camels were not white, but red, got camels; answered the young man that the place was called "a bunch of meat, a bunch of skins, a bunch of giblets"; he argued that there are no such places, he has to give his horse to Doha]: Jimbinov 1962:159-160; Stavropol Turkmens [the poor man found a bone, wrapped it in a rag, ordered his friends not to take meat; turned it around, accused the owners of having stolen the meat, received a young lamb in return; left it in the pen, stabbed it at night, smeared the lips of the master's sheep with blood, said they ate his sheep, got 9 sheep, exchanged them for a dead girl, put kibitki at the bars, the hostess pulled her sleeve, she fell, the poor man accused the owners of murder, received a herd of horses and young daughter]: Bagriy 1930 (2): 95-96; Abazins [Khoja picked up an old lamb shoulder; came to the shepherds, asked permission to put the meat he had brought into the common cauldron, put his shoulder blade under the meat, said that the shepherd's meat ate his meat, got it by the shoulder of a ram; left it in a pen with other sheep, stabbed him at night, smeared the lips of ten of the best sheep with blood, and received 10 sheep for eating his sheep; changes them for a dead woman to be buried; put the body at the princely gate, three princesses take turns inviting her into the house, the youngest pulls her sleeve, the deceased fell, Hoxha says his wife was killed, gets married to the prince's youngest daughter]: Tugov 1985, No. 124:339-342; Ossetians: Byazirov 1960, No. 4 [the lamb works and the fox is idle; the lamb overtakes the fox, gets grain, and the fox gets screenings; the fox overtakes the fox spends the night with his dropout in the hut; in the morning he demands a chicken for eating grain; spends the night with shepherds and demands a sheep for a crushed chicken in the morning, etc.; finally, gets his daughter a priest]: 312; Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [ the lazy man put one and a half grains of wheat in his bag, stayed in the same house, the chickens began to peck at the bag, the lazy man said that they pecked his grain, gave him the chicken; in another house he left a bag of chicken to the sheep , they began to trample on the chicken, the lazy man got a ram in exchange; he also changed the ram for a bull; in Aldar's house at night he stabbed the bull with a dagger to his youngest daughter, Aldar gave it, the lazy man carried it in his bag; shepherds they replaced the girl with a puppy; the lazy man wanted to kiss her, but the puppy scratched him]: 360-362; (cf. The Ingush [60 Aarhustoyans and Tzazik have a bull; the Otkhustoyans killed the bull Ts; he put his bones in a bag, came to people who are rowing gold with a shovel; doubts whether his bag with gold; in the morning he says that gold has been replaced with bones; he is given a bag of gold; he tells the Aarhus that he sold the bones; they slaughtered the bulls, sold nothing, came to beat C.; he shouts - hit, only mother do not touch; they killed his mother to spite him; he placed the body dressed as a bride in front of the widow's house, who has three daughters; he went into the house, said that he had left his bride by the river; the girl came up to her, she fell into the river; the widow gave her eldest daughter to Tsazik; he says he traded the dead old woman for a girl; the Aarhustoyans killed their mothers, went to change them, drove them away; C. asks not to throw him into the river, putting him on a board; with him they did so; C. swims, agrees to the shepherd's offer to save him, but let him give him one ram; at night he stabbed a ram, smeared the faces of all 60 sheep from the shepherd's herd with blood, he gave it to him; C. said that he had received the sheep from his mother of water; the Aarhus people drowned; their wives chased Ts, and he told the Jewish merchant that women wanted to be his wives; the Jew exchanged clothes with Ts; he was killed, and Ts took the goods]: Sadulaev 2004, No. 123:325-329); Nogais: Kapaev 2012 [Aldar-Kose found an old dog shovel; staying in the same house, he put his shovel in the common cauldron, saying that he put it there was meat; when this bone was served to him at dinner, he became indignant that the owners had eaten the meat; he was given lamb; in another house he slaughtered and buried a lamb, smeared seven sheep with blood, the owner gave seven sheep; in the third AK exchanged the owner's dying daughter for 7 sheep; came to feast at the khan's wedding, the girl died, AK said that she had been strangled, the khan gave the girl alive; then changed her to a white ox with an arba; drove around to he sang a song about what he did]: 27-28; Nogai 1979, No. 4 [the woman was baking bread in the tandoor; a thorn pierced the rooster's leg; he asked the woman to pull it out and throw it into the tandoor; the thorn burned down, the rooster demanded to return it, grabbed it and took the cake; lets the shepherd eat it, demands it back, takes the sheep; gives it to the khan, who gives it to the daughter; the sheep was eaten, the rooster demanded that it be returned or given to him to the bride; khan twisted his neck, ate the rooster]: 14-16; Kumyks [the fox asked the woman to remove the thorn from her leg; the woman threw a thorn into the fire; the fox demanded bread in return, the woman did not give it, the fox grabbed bread, ran away; she also exchanged bread for chicken, chicken for lamb, lamb for girl, left the girl's bag by the cliff; the shepherds found him, released the girl, put the puppies in her place; the fox hugged bag, puppies screamed, fox fell off the cliff in fear, crashed]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 113:276-278; Dargin residents [the bird asked the woman to take out the thorn; she pulled out and threw a thorn into the fire; the bird demands a thorn back, gets three loaves; gives bread to shepherds, demands back, gets a ram; sold a ram at the bazaar, bought a cow; sold a cow, brought a bride; sold the bride, bought an accordion; flew up a tree, began singing about what happened to her]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 112:273; Lezgins: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 110 [Vorobykha asked the old woman to remove the thorn from his leg; she took it out, threw it at fire; the sparrow demanded the thorn back, the old woman gave seven lavash; the sparrow gave them to shepherds who were drinking milk; then demanded back, they gave her seven sheep; she flew to the wedding, danced with the bride, and the sheep were slaughtered, served kebabs; Sparrow demanded either to return the sheep or give them to the bride; received the bride, exchanged her for saz, began to play; a hawk appeared, Sparrow dropped her saz, he crashed; since then, the Sparrow has been flying and singing; the fox threatens to knock down a tree, a forest; a sparrow throws a chick; for the third time, the Pigeon advises saying that a peasant with dogs will come and he will cut down a tree; Fox Grabs the Pigeon, he asks what day it is, Lisa replies that Wednesday, the Dove is flying away]: 268-271; Khalilov 1965, No. 2 [the sparrow asked the old woman to take the thorn out of his leg; she took it out, threw it at fire; the sparrow demanded the thorn back, the old woman gave him seven lavashes; he gave them to shepherds who were drinking milk; then he demanded back, they gave him seven sheep; flew to the wedding, danced with the bride, and the sheep slaughtered, barbecued; the sparrow demanded either the return of the sheep or the bride; got the bride, exchanged her for saz, began to play; a hawk appeared, the sparrow dropped the saz, he crashed; since then the sparrow flies and sings]: 12-13; Rutultsy [the bird has pricked her leg; none of the women want to pull out the thorn - the child will cry; Gulsenem pulled it out in the bakery, threw it into the fire; the bird demanded a thorn back, took the bakery in return, gave it to the shepherd; the chick broke it, the bird got the chick; the bird gave it to ashuga, who stabbed the chick, gave it to his chngur; the bird began to play it, sing a song about what will marry the girl]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 111:272; Georgians: Glushakov 1904, No. 9 (Imereti) [the fox found a handful of millet, stayed with the man, asked to put her millet in the chicken coop; his chickens ate, the fox demanded chicken in return; then sheep for chicken, goat sheep, bull goat; stabbed the bull at night, put the knife in the newlywed's pocket; Lisa took the newlywed, carried it in a bag; people fried the sheep, Lisa asked me to feed her too; the girl from the bag: and me! people hid the girl, put a dog in a bag, she tore the fox]: 63-65; Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 25 [the fox picked up ears, asked to spend the night, put ears in the chicken coop, the chickens pecked the grain, she got a rooster for grain; spent the night with a shepherd, stabbed a rooster on sheep's horns at night; a sheep on a bull; stabbed a bull, a knife in the pocket of her youngest widow's daughter; got a girl, put it in a wineskin, stopped at ploughmen; they sent the fox to bring water with a sieve, replaced the girl with a dog; she scratches, the fox opened her wineskin, the dog tore it]: 65-68: Chikovani 1954, No. 93 (Kartley) [the poor half chicken stabbed his leg, asks the baker to pull out the thorn, he pulled it out, threw it into the oven; P. demands the thorn back, threatens to smash everything, the baker gives him bread; he shares bread with the shepherds, demands it back, gets a ram; gives slaughter a ram at a wedding, demands back, gets a bride in return; sees a flute playing, exchanges a pipe for a bride, playing the flute, sings about what he exchanged for]: 402-403 (=1986:35-36) ; Kurdovanidze 2000, No. 170* [does the sparrow give the old lady a splinter {which she pulled him out?} ; the old woman throws it into the fire, the sparrow demands the splinter back and gets a piece of bread in return; gives bread to the shepherds, they ate it, the sparrow gets the sheep; then the bride for the sheep, and the chonguri for the bride ( plucked musical instrument); dropped it from a tree and the chonguri crashed]: 22; Armenians [the sparrow stabbed his leg, asked the old woman to pull out the splinter, returned to demand the thorn back; when he found out that she threw a thorn into the tonir, demanded it and received lavash; gave it to the shepherd, who was sipping milk without bread, demanded a lamb; offered to slaughter it to the audience at the wedding, demanded it back, took it away in return bride; told ashuga to look after the bride; when he returned, he began to demand saz in return, took him away, began to sing and play]: Tumanyan 1984:116-118; Azerbaijanis [Jik-jik-khanum pricked her leg, asked the grandmother to pull out the thorn, she threw the thorn at the tandoor, the bird demanded the thorn back, took the churek; offered it to the shepherd, and when he ate it, she demanded it back, took the ram; gave it for the king's wedding, when he was eaten, demanded him back, took his bride, exchanged him for saz from ashuga; began singing about how everything happened; a nut fell from the tree and killed her]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:466-469; Turks : Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 19 [sparrow (raven, rooster, Keroglan) asked the woman to pull out the splinter, she threw it into the oven, he demanded to give him the stove; then he got a calf (sheep) for the stove; a calf stabbed at a wedding; he got a bride for him; the shepherd changes it to a flute or drum], 35 (one entry) [the man found a wooden shoe, stayed overnight in the house, putting his shoe in the chicken coop; he took it quietly, said that the shoe was eaten by the chickens, got the chicken; in the next house he got a sheep for the chicken in the same way; the horse next for the sheep; put it in a cart, picked it up on the way, picked it up a fox, a bear and a wild boar; went to find material to fix the cart {will I glob?} , at this time the animals ate the horse, made a scarecrow and filled it with earth; the man quilts the scarecrow and the horse comes to life]: 37-38, 51; Poynter 1916 [the sparrow stabbed his leg, asked the baker to pull out the thorn, he pulled it out and threw it into the fire; the sparrow demanded the thorn back, got bread; gave it to the shepherds, who crumbled the ground into milk; demanded it back, took the lamb; gave the lamb to those gathered for the wedding who wanted cook a dog; demanded back; got a bride; exchanged her for a drum, flew up for a willow over the river, began to beat the drum and sing about his business; fell and drowned]: 311-313; Kurds [the old woman cannot light a fire in a tandoor; the sparrow asks to pull the splinter out of his paw, put it on a dung, the fire will ignite; demands to return the splinter or give the cake; gives it to the shepherd to chop it into milk; demands for a cake of 7 sheep and lamb; offers his herd to people who are celebrating the wedding; demands and receives a bride for them; changes it for a shepherd's pipe; since that day everyone has been chirping about it]: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 188:494-495.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Marzolph 1984, No. 170 (Farce) [the fox stays in the house, eats the animal it has brought with it, lays bones on the animal in the house; and so one animal after another {from The content of the paraphrase is not entirely clear; apparently closer to the Georgian version than to the Tajik version}]: 53-54; Rosenfeld 1958 [the sparrow stabbed its paw, and the old woman cannot make a fire; the sparrow asks her to pull it out he had a thorn, burn it, and for that give him a cake; but while the sparrow was eating the grains, the old woman gave his cake to the dervish; then the sparrow took all its dough; brought tortillas to the shepherds with the condition that they would not eat without him; but they ate everything and he took their sheep; at the wedding they wanted to slaughter the dog, because there were no sheep; the sparrow gave a ram, but he did not leave pilaf and he took the bride away; flew in where the groom is and the bride is not; gave it back to him on the condition that after the wedding his bride would be returned to him; she was not given to him and he took the drum; sat on the fence, began to beat the drum and sing, talking about everything that had happened; prevented the old woman from praying; she cursed the sparrow, the wind snatched his drum, it fell and crashed]: 66-69; Romaskevich 1934a, No. 19 (Jews of Isfahan) []: 104-106; Tajiks (Maydon Gods, Samarkand oblast) [the sparrow asked the old woman to pull out his thorn, bake it in a tandoor; demanded it back, took 10 cakes by the thorn; the man eats meat with mutton manure, the sparrow gave him bread, took the ram; ordered to another to slaughter his ram, took his daughter-in-law for it; a man was looking for a daughter-in-law, the sparrow gave her; demanded her back, the old woman said that after the wedding, the daughter-in-law was sent (to her husband); the sparrow asked received dutar for his daughter-in-law]: Levin et al. 1981, No. 101:173; Sarykoltsy [The fox steals pears from three Armytik pears; he smears it with glue; the Fox promises to get him the royal daughter; orders to sell pears trees, buy 400 hats; when she brings the king, throw them into the river; the king believes that Prince A.'s warriors have drowned, but he himself is intact and his father will not attack our kingdom; explains to the king that A. is surprised new clothes, food, because his groom wore this, the rice was oily; the fox runs forward, telling him to say that herds and herds are not witches in the iron fortress, but King A.; the witch has poker legs, broom hair; The fox says that an army is moving towards her, advises her to hide under a pile of firewood, burns her; A. and his wife live in the castle; Lisa pretends to be dead; A. says that there is a way; Lisa forgives A., leaves, pretends that her lamb is missing, gets an old woman's daughter for him; carries her in a bag, goes down to the well for a drink; the young man catches up, replaces the girl with a dog, the Fox hides from her in a hole; the young man leaves a pumpkin vessel is buzzing in the wind like a dog is still howling; finally, the Fox finds it out, ties the pumpkins to its tail to collect water; the tail comes off; the other foxes ask the little foxes to shake the mulberries; she climbs to the tree on the condition that she would tie the tails of the others; she ate berries, shouted that the dog was approaching, the other foxes ran away, cutting off their tails]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 64:471-480 (=Pakhalina 1966: 95-101).

Baltoscandia. Counselors [the fox spends the night in the house, leaves its bast in the chicken coop, the chickens are disheveled, she gets a chicken; this is how she changes the chicken for a sheep; a calf; a horse; a fox harnesses it, rides a sleigh, gets into a sleigh wolf and bear, then a hare; the gulf is broken; everyone brings material to make a new one - it's not good; the fox goes to choose the pole by itself, the animals ate the horse, filled the skin with bones; the fox repairs the sleigh, the horse is not seats; the fox tells you to jump over the hole, the guilty one will fall; all three fell, the fox stayed]: Kippar 2002:80-83; Estonians: Cosquin 1987 [Jannsen, no. 1; at night, a man leaves his bast in the chicken coop; tore his bast at night, took the rooster in the morning; then a lamb, a bull, a horse (he kills them at night); then about a fox, a wolf, a bear]: 208; Mälk et al., 1967, No. 31 [the fox found an apple, stopped for the night, threw an apple into the stove, in the morning she demanded a chicken for it; the next time she threw the chicken into the oven, ate it, burned the feathers, demanded that a pig be given for the missing chicken; for a calf for a pig; for a calf the owner's daughter; the owner puts the dog in the bag instead of the daughter; the fox tells the girl to sing, growling in response; the fox ran away, the dog returned home]: 74-75; Estonians, Setu (mostly setu, but there are records from Läänemaa and Virumaa) [they threw bast shoes at the fox, she picked it up, asked for an overnight stay; at night she tears her bast, says that the rooster tore, gets a rooster; then for a bull's rooster; an ox; a horse; takes it to the forest]: Kippar 1986, No. 170:134-135; Karelians (Olonets District) [the old woman asked to spend the night, asks where to put her bast shoes; she is offered to put her bast shoes, she asks chickens; in the morning she says that she had a chicken with her, gets it; in the same way, she changes the chicken for a calf, a calf for a cow, a cow for a horse; a mouse, then a fox, a wolf, a bear are asked to take them in a sleigh; the gulf is broken; each of the animals brings the wrong thing from the forest (a crooked stick, a knotty log, etc.); the old woman walks by herself, the animals ate the horse, crucified her skin on poles, ran away; the old woman hit horse, it fell apart; old lady: here my paw is gone]: Concca 1959, No. 9:51-53; Veps: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1655:359-360; Lutsie (West 1933) [the fox decided to get rich; put it in a bag a pea, stopped for the night; the rooster pecked a pea, the fox sued, the owner was told to give the fox a rooster; then the same thing: a pig ate for a rooster - for a sheep pig; for a bull; for a stallion's bull; with came to the winter forest as a horse; a fox: straight trees, crooked trees - become a sleigh; a sleigh fell from the sky; a hare, a wolf ask to take them; when the bear sat down, the sleigh broke; the hare brought a twig, the wolf - a crooked oak; the fox went on its own; told the hare to scream if the wolf and the bear tear the horse; the bear to the hare: you will shout, we will eat you too; the fox lowered a new sleigh from the sky, harnessed the horse, but instead there was a scarecrow; the fox brought down a new sleigh from the sky, harnessed the horse, but instead of it there was caught up with her companions: whoever jumps across the river is not to blame; the hare jumped, the wolf and bear fell into the water and drowned; the fox pulled them out and began to eat]: Annom et al. 2018:299-301; Latvians: Alksnite et al. 1958 [(apparently, similar texts are referring to Arys, Medna 1977, No. 1655:365); the fox stopped for the night, was fed peas, took one pea with her; put one pea with her; put it in the next hut on the window, the rooster pecked a pea, she demanded that the rooster be given to her; so she changed the rooster for a ram (let the rooster into the barn, the ram hurt him), a bull, a horse; tells the trees to become a sleigh, a sleigh fell from the sky, the fox harnessed the horse, went; a hare, a wolf, asked her; when the bear sat down, the sleigh broke; the fox tells me to bring the pole to be repaired, everyone brings the wrong thing (a thin twig, a whole tree); the fox goes by itself, tells the hare to watch out so that the wolf and bear do not eat the horse; they threaten the hare, eat the horse, fill the skin with straw, leave; the fox has fallen a new sleigh from the sky, but there is no horse; she caught up guilty: whoever jumps across the river is innocent; everyone jumps, drowns; the fox jumps on its own drowns]: 58-62; Aris 1971 [the fox stays in the house, wraps its bast around the rooster's neck, says he ate her bast, gets a rooster; then a ram; a cow; a horse; gets a sleigh and a harness to the horse; a hare, a wolf, a bear are asked for a ride; the gulf is broken; the hare brings a twig, the bear is a snag, the fox goes by itself bring a suitable pole, the rest ate the horse; the fox: whoever falls off the perch, crossing the river, ate it; the hare, the wolf, the bear stumbled, but crossed, the fox fell into the water, asks the starling to sketch into the river brushwood, gets out; asks her to feed; the starling distracts the old woman, she puts a bag of bread on the ground, the fox has eaten bread; asks for a drink; the old man carries a barrel of water, the starling sits on the plug, the old man tries to hit him, the plug falls out, the water pours out; make him laugh; the starling sits on the back of his head, his son tries to hit the starling with a flail, hits his father; the fox laughs]: 46-51; Norwegians [the young man inherits (buys) a seed; it was pecked by a chicken, he received a chicken as compensation; for a ram's chicken, for an ox, an old woman's corpse for an ox; the young man adjusts it as if the princess bit hers; she has to marry him]: Hodne 1984, No. 1655:288; Lithuanians, Finns: Uther 2004 (1), No. 170:119-120; 2004 (2), No. 1655:359-360.

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs: Barag 1989, No. 97 [the fox found a lamb's hoof, stops for the night, throws away its hoof unnoticed, gets a chicken for it; then a goose; a goby; hides animal meat, from a goby makes a scarecrow, tells the wolf and the bear to bring a sleigh with a yoke; the goby is out of place, the wolf and the bear rush at him, there is only hay inside]: 408-410; 1990, No. 181 [the old man asked to spend the night, put it in the goose got up at night and broke it, said that the geese had broken, got a goose; left a goose in another house, broke his neck, got a bull; left a bull with horses in the third house, broke his neck, got a bull with horses in the third house, broke it a ridge, got a horse; found a frozen girl on the road, stayed at the house, accused the girls of killing his wife, got the girl, put her in a bag, stayed in the house; people found the girl, replaced her with lamb; old man: my dear crooked road is gone]: 414-417; Komi [the fox spends the night with his rolling pin in the hut; in the morning he demands a jig for the allegedly missing rolling pin, then a lamb by the side, etc.]: Korovina 2012 , No. 170:77; Komi-Permyaks [the old man stopped for the night, said that he had his bast with him, put it in the chicken coop; in the morning he said that he had a chicken, took the chicken; next time to the sheep, took the sheep; the cow; the horse; the bear ordered him to be put in a sleigh; then the wolf; the gulf broke; the wolf brought a spruce paw, the bear a stump, the old man went by himself; at this time the wolf and the bear ripped open the horse's belly, they ate giblets, stuffed them with straw; the old man came, got into a sleigh, wanted to go, but saw that the horse had straw in its stomach]: Genetz 1897, No. 2:42-44; Marie [the girl was orphaned, went on a journey, praised the reaper, she allowed her to take the spikelet; the girl stopped in the hut, the chicken pecked the spikelet at night, the hostess gave the chicken; in the next hut, the duck pecked the chicken, a ram, a bull, a mare; the girl returned home; in winter she harnessed a mare, went to the field, sang how she changed her spikelet for chicken, etc.; squirrel, hare, fox, wolf, bear consistently praise the song, girl allows you to sit in a sleigh; the gulf is broken; the girl consistently sends animals to bring a new one from the forest, each brings the wrong thing; she goes by herself; the animals ate the mare, made a scarecrow, ran away; the girl whipped the mare with a whip, the scarecrow fell]: Tudorovskaya, Eman 1945:90-94; the Udmurts [the fox found a bast, asked to spend the night, put her bast in the chicken coop, hid it at night, demanded for the missing bast chicken; then the goose, the ram, the oxen; the fox slaughtered them all, hid the meat, stuffed the ox skin with straw, stole the yoke and sleigh, invited the wolf and the bear; pretends to be chasing an ox, and he out of place; she left; the wolf and the bear attacked the ox, but there was only straw under their skin]: Wichmann 1901, No. 24:118-119.

Turkestan. Kazakhs (eastern Kazakhstan) [Aldar-Kose found a lamb shoulder, asked the old woman for permission to put it in the cauldron; since there was no meat on the shoulder blade, said the cauldron ate it, the old woman gave the meat shoulder blade; A. left it in the lamb pen, ate the meat at night, greased the lamb's mouth, got a lamb; let it go to the rams, killed it, smeared blood on the sheep's mouths, took 8 rams; exchanged them for the dead girl and horse; the girls decided that A. brought the bride; A. pricked the horse with an awl, the body fell, he accused the girls of frightening the horse, got one of them as his wife]: Potanin 1916, No. 10:71-73 (=Daurenbekov 1979:297-299, =Zhanuzakova 1977:218-220); Karakalpaks (Karauzyak District) [Kose found a skull on the road; came to one house and put this head in a cauldron; after took one sheep from an old woman from that house {without details}; saw a man drive nine rams into a pen and asked him to drive a sheep taken from the old woman; the man did so; at night K. slaughtered his the sheep, and put the meat in a bag; then accused the man of eating it; the man offered K. one ram; K. took nine; met a man carrying a dead girl; exchanged her for nine rams; drove with her body behind a donkey; one of the padishah's daughters pushed the dead girl, she fell to the ground; K. accused the girl for killing his wife; went to the padishah's house, said he said the same thing; the padishah offered gold, but K. refused and took the girl {apparently the daughter of the padishah}; went, putting her in front of him and saying: "For a dry jaw (bone) - bone with meat, for a bone with meat - a lamb, nine sheep for a lamb, a dead girl for nine sheep, a live girl for a dead girl, a beautiful blonde."]: Baskakov 1951:115-116; yellow Uighurs [u the boy's mother died; he caught a mouse, the owners replied that they did not have a cat; the cat appeared, ate the mouse, he got a cat in return; elsewhere the dog bit the cat; the horse kicked the dog; the young man went on a horse; the Chinese buried the old woman; he took her out of the coffin, took her; asked the beautiful woman to bring her water for a drink; he pushed the old woman off the horse, said that the girl frightened his mother in her sleep, she was killed; received instead of a girl]: Malov 1967, No. 103:102-103; Dagurs [the orphan boy still has a cup of melissa porridge; he went to look for a better life, asked for an overnight stay; asked the owner before going to bed if he would eat his mouse porridge; the owner told me not to worry; in the morning it turned out that the porridge was almost eaten; the owner gave the orphan a mouse; the orphan went on, stopped for the night again; the owner's cat ate his mouse, he got a cat; in the next house the cat was caught by a dog, an orphan took the dog; during another night she was cared for by a cow, an orphan left with a cow; in a new place it was killed and eaten, the orphan complained to the owner; he got angry, gave his daughter in return; an orphan married her]: Todayeva 1986:97-98.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tofalars: Katanov 1891 [=1907:641-642; a thin man found a discarded shoulder blade (bone); hit himself on the nose, smeared his shoulder blade with blood; came to the ulus, asked permission to cook meat; blood got off her shoulder blade, the man said that the cauldron had eaten his meat; the hostess gave him a horse with her back mutilated; he resurrected a woman who had died of frost, hugged him like a wife; came to the ulus, did not tell the girls to frighten his horse , because his wife is sick; one girl farted, the horse stood on its hind legs, threw off the frozen woman; the owner gave his daughter to the man for her; she gave birth to a child, the man rocked him, told him in a song how everyone else happened; stabbed against a pipe digger and died]: 51-52; Rassadin 1996, No. 27 [like Katanov; after hearing the truth, the wife killed her husband with an ax]: 59-61; Khakas [guy rushes skiing in light clothes; rich man on horseback, he believes that the skis carry him themselves, gives him a horse, fur coat, hat for them; gets on skis and falls; the guy found a sheep's skull, came to the shepherd; he allowed him to put a sheep's head in the common cauldron and bring seven sheep into the cat (they are not there, the guy just pretended to be with the sheep); the guy pretends to be afraid that the cauldron will eat the sheep's head; takes the skull out of the cauldron - it has no meat; the guy pretends , as if he fears that the owner's sheep will eat his sheep; at night he tears his mouths as if they are bloody, throws shreds of wool over the cat; the owner gives his seven sheep; the guy exchanged them for a girl, who was being taken to bury; came to another camp; when the horse threw off his dead body, he pretended that his beloved wife had crashed; he was given the owner's daughter, he stayed there; one day his father-in-law hears his son-in-law sings a song describing his exploits; he was beaten, driven away]: Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 39:553-565; darkhats [Burkhan-Bakshi sent Andzyn-Khurumchi to deceive people to be smarter; AH found a swallowed a sheep's shoulder blade, smeared it with blood from his nose, came to one house, asked if the cauldron was eating meat, put a shovel to cook, the owner believed that his cauldron had eaten meat, gave the pot; in another house, AH broke The cauldron, put the fragments in front of the master's sheep, got a sheep; in the third he stabbed a sheep, smeared the lips of a thousand sheep with blood, gave the meat to the dogs; the owner gave a thousand sheep]: Potanin 1883, No. 49.4:244-245; Buryats : Barannikova et al. 1998, No. 29 [old man Tabhalaikhan gave the wolf a bull, a cow, a son and a daughter; finds a bare shoulder, asks the old woman to cook, says that her cauldron ate the meat from the shoulder blade, gets a cauldron; in in another house he passes the cauldron off as a sheep, in the morning he says that the owner's sheep ate its black sheep, gets it; in another house he smears the faces of twenty white sheep with the blood of his black sheep; gets them; finds a dead woman; says his wife is shy; the corpse falls, he says his wife is dead; gets the owner's wife; exchanged sheep for 70 red cows, began to live well with his wife]: 125-129; Dugarov 1990 [similar in main episodes option]: 170-174; Mongols (Ordos) [Palasang found three hemp seeds in the field; to get drunk, he took off his head, scooped water from the well with it; when he went to another well, remembered that he had forgotten head, came back, it was already covered in the web, P. put it back; stopped at the house, warned the mouse not to eat his hemp seeds; the owner hid them in the chest; at night P. chewed them himself, received them mouse; so from house to house: instead of a mouse, a cat's place for a dog, instead of a mule dog; made it seem like the mule was afraid of the funeral procession, the mule ran away, P. got a coffin, an old woman in it, put her on the edge of an abyss; her owner's daughter pushed her a little to see if the old woman could speak; the old woman fell into the abyss, P. got a girlfriend, began to live well]: Mostaert 1937, No. 30 in Solovyov 2014.

Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [Kaamyyylaak picked up frozen blood on the ice, came to the house, let him cook like his own meat, in the evening they did not find meat in the cauldron for the guest, he says he would die, he was allowed to pick up the deer; K. tore it up, planted male deer on the antlers, began to grieve in the morning, gave him these deer; K. dug the old woman's corpse in the cemetery, drove up to the camp, shouted to the children not to come, and then his old woman will be frightened and die; they broke the ban, the owners gave two girls in return; he told them to climb the larch, came to the rich man, he asked whose wealth was, K. says that his, calls to ask tangar (tantar) {deities}; the girls from above shout that K.: he drove the rich man away]: Efremov 2000, No. 21:305-309; Yakuts: Ergis 1967b, No. 292 (summary of two archival texts, the recording locations are not specified; northwest or northeast?) [Haamykaan makes stems of meat from snow mixed with water, cooks it in a cauldron, and it melts. Accuses the owners of stealing. Frightened owners give him a deer. He comes to other residents, kills a deer and blames its owners for its death. Frightened, they give him two reindeer. On the way, after digging up two dead women, he spent the night with an old woman who lived with two daughters. Then, accusing them all of murdering his wives, he takes the old woman's daughters and they become his wives. H. takes deer from a wealthy owner. The offended go to complain to the spirits of the upper and lower worlds. Wives, hidden in advance on the tree and under its roots, shout that the herd of deer belongs to H. One day, H. saw two beautiful women in the water, rushed to them and drowned. The girls he married brought the deer home and began to live richly], 293 (executive summary of two archival texts, no place of recording; northwestern or northeastern?) [Iidei-Buudai (Var.: Myyra-Maara) lived with sister Nalber; in order to live better on his own, he kills his sister; stegly made meat out of thick snow and painted it with blood from his nose; stayed overnight in a yurt, "meat" melted, information security demanded that the owner give him a heifer; comes to another, cuts a heifer at night, gets a child in return; the third owner kills his child, accuses the owners, takes two children from them; Ways meets1 wedding procession of Har Haan's son, IS claims that his fiancée, by the predestination of the highest ayyas, is intended for him to be his wife; debators turn to the higher ayyas, the children hidden by the IS scream from under the bushes: all the wealth and bride belong to information security; since then, information security has healed richly]: 241; northern Yakuts reindeer herders: Gurvich 1977 [deceiver Caday smears the bone with blood from his nose, gives it to the hostess cook under the guise of a deer's thigh; accuses the owners of eating meat, gets two annual deer in return; in another house he orders to tie the master deer so that they do not care for him two; kills his own at night, gets two females in return; digs a woman's body out of the grave, comes to a house where two girls are; accuses them of killing his wife, gets them as his wife; on the way, he puts a girl on a tree, another under a tree; looks at his reflection in the ice-hole, decides that he is rich there, rushes to take away his property, dies]: 180; Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 31 (Indigirsky, Abysky ulus) [old man Cheerekeen found a horse skull, covered it with snow, which he mixed with blood from the nose, comes to people; pretends to be afraid that their cauldron is stealing; only bone is removed from the cauldron, the owners are forced to give the cow, otherwise HC promises to let dogs - bear and wolf; brings her to another house, says he is afraid that dogs will eat the cow; rips open the cow's belly, throws giblets between dogs, winds up the intestines on the horns of master cows, gets two cows; in the next house he changes them for a deceased child; in another house he hung the baby's intestines on cow horns, scattered his arms and legs between the dogs; HF received in return girl with boyfriend; when he comes to ayya's house, teaches them what to say; eats aiya food; when he comes, says this is his house; asks the lower and upper predictors to confirm; hidden girl with boyfriend confirm; ayyy runs away, HH after him, ran into a branch, hung and died; ayyy made the guy a friend, married the girl]: 327-339.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanai (Naikha) [the boy found a bean in the garbage, baked a cake, stopped at the old woman's rats; the old woman's rats gnawed a cake, he got a rat for it; then he exchanged the rat for a cat, a cat for a dog, a dog on a horse; found a beauty who had just been buried, put her on a horse; explained that his companion was deaf; the owner's daughter pushed her, the corpse fell into an ice-hole, the boy got a wife; she gave birth to a son; I heard my husband slaughter the child, describing in the song how he got his mother; hanged herself]: Aurora 1986, No. 33:202-204 (similar version in Beldy, Bulgakova 2012, No. 27:229).

SV Asia. Tundra Yukaghirs (p. Kolymskoye, Nizhnekolymsky District) [my father has bad children; he tells them to part and do what they love; the elder brother likes to make, the middle brother likes to hunt, the younger brother likes to deceive; smeared his shoulder blade with blood from nose, rolled in the snow, came to people, asked if his meat would steal their cauldron if they cooked a shovel in it; owners: then we'll give two deer; there was only a bone in the cauldron, the trickster got deer; came to people whose two boys died; undertook to bury them with deer; came to large families: if your dogs bite my children, give yours; fed the corpses to dogs at night; put one on a tree, He hid the other in the snow; told the rich man that half of the deer were his; he agreed to ask the gods of heaven and earth; the hidden boys answer; the trickster returned home; no one loves him]: Kurilov 2005, No. 41 : 351-359.