M171A. Mena: Gets a girl, ATU 1655.

.11.-.17.21.23.-.34.36.

A character (often zoomorphic) gets a girl (boy), consistently exchanging smaller values for larger ones.

Bulu, Vute, Guro, (beta), Eve, Krachi, Hausa, Songhai (Zarma), Sarah, Kabila, Arabs of Libya, Egypt, Spaniards, Aragon, Catalans, Portuguese, Maltese, Italians (Lombardy, Tuscany, Rome), Sicilians, Sardinians, Irish, Scots, French (Lorraine, Normandy, Upper Brittany, Languedoc, Provence, Flanders), Bretons, Walloons, Friesians, Germans (Hanover), Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Bahrain, Arameans, Palestinians, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Tagin, (Lhota), Himachali Pahari, Punjabi, Singhs, Duruwa, Uttar Pradesh, Nepalis, Bengalis, Gondas, Bali, Koreans, Serbs, Hungarians, Albanians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Abazins, Ossetians, Nogais, Dargins, Lezgins, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Sarykols, Estonians, Norwegians, Veps, Karelians, Finns, Latvians, Lithuanians, Bashkirs, Maris, Udmurts, Komi, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Mongols of Ordos, Dagurs, Yakuts, Northeastern (Indigiri) Yakuts.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Bulu [the brothers brought many prisoners from the raid and one a cockroach; he was ridiculed; he replied that the cockroach was his own; he released a cockroach at home, and the rooster pecked him, the guy took it rooster; a civet ate a rooster on the street, the guy killed her; the leopard stole the carcass, the guy caught up with him, killed him, pulled his skin on the drum; the groom borrowed the drum for the wedding, tore the skin, he had to give it to the owner bride; after getting 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).

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 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; guro [the lion chief offers corn grain, demands that a man be brought in exchange for him; only the Spider takes up this business; fed the grain to the rooster, galloped to the owner that it was the leader's grain, got a rooster; in another village he twisted the rooster's neck and threw rams, said that the rams trampled the chief's rooster, received a ram; for a sheep a bull; for a bull, the body of a girl who had just died, promising to resurrect her; at night he brought the body to where they frolicked with the girls young men, accused one of them of killing the leader's daughter; when he sees the man brought by the spider, the leader is ready to generously give the spider; he refuses and asks in return that he become the hero of all stories; so and it happened]: Tououi Bi 2014:189-192; (cf. beta [{paraphrase from which details are not clear}; god Kamina requires Zakole to bring him his parents' hearts; he brings the hearts of agam's lizards; comes to a man who has something makes it out of bamboo; sits on a bamboo bed, pricks it, takes bamboo away; gives it to the blacksmith, who burns bamboo, Z. demands it back, gets a hoe; gives it to farmers who did not know iron, gets yam; comes to people who eat only butter; teaches them how to fry yams, gets butter; gives it to an old man, takes away an amulet that gives a long life, the old man dies; with the help of an amulet he crosses the river, takes away sand; gives his jewelry makers who cleaned them with ash receive jewelry; gives it to the participants in the wedding procession, receives a comb (since they use jewelry at the wedding); {with it?} penetrates 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); Eve [the princess was kidnapped; the king promises her and half the kingdom to whoever will return her; 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 an ox rooster, for a horse with a golden saddle, for a dead man's horse; brings it to where the captive princess is; asks turn off the lights - his son can't stand the light; let his son sleep in the same place as the girls; they promise to beat the 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 a kidnapped princess; brings her to his father, marries]: Schönhärl 1909, No. 17 in Klipple 1992:312; curls [Ananse (spider trickster) asks god Wulbari to 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, because it is God's cob, changes grain for a chicken, kills it, everyone believes that the leader killed the chicken, gives him 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 what A. would have guessed; V. explains that he sent him away and that "something" means the sun, moon and darkness; having learned the secret, A. slowly gets off the tree, brings what he needs; first darkness is complete darkness, then comes out the moon is finally the sun; those who look at it directly are blind; that's why blind people exist]: Cardinall 1931:15-21 (=Belcher 2005:111-116, Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 9:41-46); hausa [of three sons of a rich man Ahmadu only the younger Auta agrees to limit his 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 to ash (the fire did not have anything 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 (the blacksmith forges it into knives), a knife for a white cloth (the weaver wanted to cut the fabric), the cloth for a dead girl (those who buried her needed a shroud); however, they had no money to pay, they gave the corpse, A. put wrapped in cloth, he asked the royal wives to give water to his wife, his 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 came to live with him, Monkey, Horse, Camel, Donkey, Three Species of Ants, Mule, Snake, Bird (crown-bird), White-breasted Crow; they filled his house with gold, silver and slaves; The Spider reports this to the king; White Leper advises how to destroy 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 Bely's liver The leper; he was 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 to put a piece of meat on her anthill on Sundays; The frog ate the meat, the Snake A. also bit her, both died]: Tremearne 1913, No. 80:380-392 (retelling the first half in Klipple 1992:315-316); songhai (zarma) [Muusa Testo-iz-Muki received a cake from his father, but dropped it into a puddle; demanded a cake back from the puddle, which gave him water; after taking water into his mouth, poured it on a dry tree, it gave it dry bark; he let the woman burn it in the fire to bake pancakes; demanded it back, she gave it to him a fritter; he gave it to the son of a blacksmith, demanded it back, the child's mother gave it a tool in return to pull out the splinters; M. gave it to the shepherd, the tool was gone, the shepherd gave her a cow; 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.

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.

North Africa. 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; the Arabs of Libya (Tripoli) [the woman, taking her son and daughter, went to look for a city where there is no death; she did not see the sick in one city, stayed; the son married; then left his wife and moved on; the 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 her in the wasteland a man, he went underground, there is a city, married her; 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 that his mother wants to kill him, and his father can 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 serpent father dies; the mother wants to poison them, the son quietly turns the plate, the woman takes poison in her mouth herself, falls dead; M. and her uncle go to the ground, walk on different roads; M. warned not to hire 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; Egyptian Arabs: El- Shamy 2004, No. 1655:901-902.

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 the well, or the dog rushes at it]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 1655:265-266; the Portuguese [the barber cut off the monkey's tail; she demands a razor in return; then sequentially: a razor for a sardine, for flour, for the girl, for the shirt, for the guitar; the monkey plays the guitar and talks about what happened]: Cardigos 2006, No. 2034C: 386; the Portuguese (Coimbra) [the cat went to the barber to trim his beard; that 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; since he could not regain the tip of his tail, the cat took the knife; when he saw the 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 the 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 her to the laundress as an assistant, she did not return it, the cat took her shirt; the violinist did not shirts, 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 things happened]: Coelho 1879, No. 11:19-20; Sicilians [church servant sweeps the floor, finds a coin, buys fried peas, left one pea for preservation in the bakery, it was pecked by a chicken, he got a rooster, gave it to the miller, the rooster was eaten by pigs, the servant received a pig, gave it to a friend whose daughter is getting married, the hostess stabbed and ate a pig, he got a bride, gave it for preservation, the hostess found her, replaced her with a dog, the servant opened the bag, the dog bit his nose; he asks the dog to give the hair to heal the bite: dog: give bread; baker: bring firewood; woodcutter: give me an ax; blacksmith: give me coal; coal burn: give the cart; cart master gives the cart, then along the chain]: Crane 1885, No. 79:250-252; Sardinians: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1655:359-360; Italians: Cosquin 1887:206 (Rome) [Busk, p. 388; a beggar begs a woman; she gives a pea; he sleeps in the house, warns not to be pecked by a chicken; a chicken pecks it, 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 and the girl was replaced by a dog; when the beggar opened the bag, the dog bit it; the version from Tuscany is the same, but the dog bit off beggar nose], 206-207 (Mantova) [Visentini, no. 10; a person deliberately adjusts to make the deposited goods go missing; bean, chicken, pig, horse, girl, replaced by a dog]; Maltese [ a man left a pea for storage, a chicken pecked it, he got a chicken, etc.: putukh - goat - cow - horse - girl (and other options); he leaves the girl with his neighbor in a bag; he releases her fills the bag with potsherds]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 1655:683-686 (variant in Stumme 1904, No. 25:70-71).

Western Europe. Irish, Scottish, Walloons, Friezes: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1655:359-360; French: Cosquin 1887, No. 62:202-205 (Lorraine) [lazy man hired during the harvest work, but did nothing; the owner gave him a pea - more than he deserved; the lazy man stopped for the night, the pea was pecked by a chicken, the lazy man demanded a chicken, otherwise he would go to Paris {complain}; in the next house left the chicken in the stable, but there was a pig, it ate the chicken, the 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 at home, 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 godmother's house the girl's mother; she called her, the woman released the girl, changed her dog; the lazy man carried the bag, sat under the pear, untied it, the dog bit it to death], 205 [1) Upper Brittany, according to Sébillot, I: 64; stopping for the night, the man left a grain of wheat to the hostess; he was pecked by a chicken; threatening to sue him, the man received a chicken; a chicken for a cow; in the third house, a cow kicked the maid, and she hurried her killed; 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 she heard barking from the bag, a man runs away in horror; 2) Upper Normandy, Fleury, p. 186; Merlicoquet picked up three spikelets of wheat; when he slept, the owner's chicken pecked the grains; he got a chicken; then a horse; the girl went to him to drink, the horse drowned; M. left the girl's bag for storage, it turned out to be her godmother's house, who replaced the girl with a dog and a cat], 205-206 (Lozer in Languedoc) [all Turlendu has is a pea; stopping for the night, warns that she does not go missing; the chicken pecked a pea, T. got a chicken; then a pig; a mule; through the girl's maid's fault, the mule fell into the well; after receiving the girl, T. put her in a bag, left it in another house; there she was replaced by a dog; when T. opened the bag, she bit off his nose], 207 (French Flanders) [Jean du Gogué went to Hergnies to eat goose meat; he was given a sheaf wheat; then the usual sequence: a rooster, a cow, a girl (who killed a cow when it whipped her tail in the face); the girl was replaced by a dog; J. carries the bag, asks if the girl will become him wife; growl out of the bag; the dog jumped out, J. climbed the willow, she broke down, ran over the dog, there was a golden goose in the willow trunk], 208 (Provence) [Janoti asks his mother to give him a pea, goes wandering; the usual sequence is a chicken, a pig, an ox; gravediggers give him a woman's fresh corpse for an ox; he left it near the castle as if a woman is washing something; says his wife has stayed to wash; they sent a girl for her, the corpse fell into the pond, J. got the girl; after marrying her, J. became an important gentleman]; the Bretons [orphan boy Pierre-le-Niais went wander, picked up wheat spikelets, stopped for the night, threw spikelets to the chickens, they pecked the grain, P. demanded chicken in return; he left the chicken in the pigsty in the next house, the pigs ate it, he received 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 in return he will pick it up, put it in a bag and take it away; stayed in another house, and the godmaid lived there; while P. was having dinner, she replaced her with a dog and puppies; P. carried the dog, it twitches, P. threatens to drown the maid in pond; opened the bag, saw the dog, thought the maid was in collusion with the devil, and left]: Luzel 1887 (3), No. 2:400-406 (almost the same in Sébillot 1910, No. 21:91-94); Germans (Hanover) [the man carried a bag of peas to the bazaar; stopped at a friend; chickens pecked the rumble; having received chickens in return, the man left them in the pigsty during the next night, the pigs ate them; the next time he received horses instead pigs; the man stopped at 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 was just born son, he baked cakes, the boy from the basket asks for him too; the boy was replaced by 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.

Western Asia. Aramei (Maaloula) [the bird picked up wheat grain, left it where people were; the boy threw it away; the bird said that its grain was 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 got the chicken; the marten ate it, the bird got the goat; the wolf ate it, the bird ate it, the bird ate it, the bird got a cow; a peasant killed a cow, a bird got a buffalo; she was slaughtered, the bird got a bride; lit a lamp and when it went out, the bird sang that the wheat seed had brought the bride]: Bergsträsser 1915, No. 30:99-100; 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 and gave it to 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 cakes, the bird received two bundles of beets, gave it to Umm Hassan, the chickens they pecked beets, the bird got the chicken, gave it to 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 wedding, the cow was eaten, the bird demanded the bride, she gave it to her, she took it to her nest]: Kuhr 1993:262-264; Palestinians [the rooster found wheat grain, asked for ground, demanded it back and grain and flour, got more flour; asked me to bake a cake, demanded a cake and flour, got two; in the same way, for a cake, an onion, a goat's onion, a camel, a buffalo, a girl; sang a song about how got the bride]: Spoer 1931:155-156; Saudia [the fool found a small coin, bought a few peas, gave them to the woman for preservation; the rooster pecked them, the fool got a rooster; elsewhere a woman decided to slaughter the rooster given to her to save, firewood fell on it, crushed it; the fool got a stove; the buffalo broke the stove; got a buffalo, gave it to the house where the wedding was; the guests ate buffalo; the fool got a bride, traded her from a black man for a drum and started hitting him]: Juhaiman 1999:95-99; Iraq, Bahrain, Yemen: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1655:901-902.

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, 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; (cf. lhota [Apfuho (trickster at lhota) killed someone else's dog, came to a woman, put the dog on the kitchen table, shouted that the dog was eating rice; the woman ran in and hit the dog; A. said she killed someone else's let him give the dog a pig for it; lit torches along the path: people are already following the dog; the woman gave the pig; the woman's daughter heard her leaving, A. called her mother a fool, but A. denied: I only said "ooh "; the woman agreed]: Mills 1922:177.

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 tortillas, 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 had 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; Stokes 1879, No. 17 (Lucknow) [when climbing into the garden, the mouse pricked its tail against a barbed fence; asked the barber to pull out the thorns, even if he cut off his tail; he did so; the mouse grabbed the razor and fled 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 carried the man's cape; sees a person without a cape cutting sugar The cane is on the ground, it gets dirty; the mouse gives the cape, the man returns it in the holes, the mouse takes the sugarcane; gives it to the person who makes sweets without sugar; demands it back, takes all the sweets; gave them to the shepherds, demanded them back, tied up the shepherds and took the cows; the Raja marries her daughter but there is no meat; the mouse gives the cows, then demands them back, takes the Raja's daughter; gives it to tightrope walkers and jugglers, they warn that the girl will fall, the mouse insists, the girl fell and died, the mouse took the wives of the tightrope walkers and jugglers and all their belongings; she was so fat that she did not crawl through the door; told the carpenter cut off her excess meat; the pain is terrible; she is advised to rub her grain; she died of pain; her wives returned to their husbands]: 101-107; (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); Punjabi [the rat found a dry spine, gave it to the person who tried to make a fire received in return a piece of dough; the potter is besieged by hungry children, the rat gave the dough, got a pot; gives buffalo milkers who expressed milk into their shoes gets a buffalo; gives it to the wedding participants, gets a bride; she can't get into the rat's hole, wants to eat, gets a seed and a pea; in the morning she collects wild plums for the girl, sends it to sell; she walks around town singing that she is a princess and the wife of the rat; the queen hears, the daughter comes back; the rat demands his wife back; the rat is invited, put on a chair, there are hot coals under it; her tail has peeled off, she ran away]: Steel, Temple 1984, No. 2:17-26; 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 the grass with her hands, 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 away the horse and the bull; invited the participants in the wedding procession to plant the bride on a horse, took her away; she invited the rabbit to comb him, stunned him, returned to her husband]: Dracott 1906:59-60; Sindhi [the rat gave the peasant a log, he fed her, she demanded a 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 to cook the potatoes in; the rat demanded that the pot be returned; they went to the cadia, who told give the rat an ox; the rat gave an 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 her shoes belly burst; returned to the groom]: Schimmel 1995, No. 38:226-229; 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 they were going to eat it there, ran back; the goats fenced her house with thorns; the jackal poked around, stabbed his face; asked the blacksmith to take out the splinter, who cut his face The jackal demanded a knife in return; came to the potter, offered the knife to cut the clay, the knife broke, the jackal got a pot for it; 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 exchange; the peasant plows, the wife pulls the plow; the jackal put the cow in the plow, which injured her leg, he took the peasant's wife; people bake cakes, the jackal offered to bake it woman; she was burned with butter; the jackal began to eat cakes, went on, the children stole the cakes, the jackal took the drum, climbed a tree, started hitting the drum, fell and crashed]: Heunemann 1980, No. 19:142-145; 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 by the leg; he put a bunch of reeds in him: both my legs are in place, you grabbed the reeds; the crocodile releases the jackal's leg; the next time you pretended to be dead; the jackal: the crocodile is alive because the dead must move its 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, stabbed his nose; asked the barber to pull out his thorn, which cut his nose; for this, the jackal 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 it; went for it a priest 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 a tree, began singing about his own adventures; fell into the canal, the crocodile ate it]: 186-190; Devi 1915 [the monkey's thorn 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 his razor and carried away; offered to the man who tore the grass with his hands; he cut off the grass, blunted the razor, and the monkey took a blanket in return; the man carried sugar in a bag of holes; the monkey gave blankets make a new bag; said that a man ruined her blanket and took a new bag with sugar; gave sugar to a woman who made sweets, took away sweets; two people carried a small one in a palanquin a girl; 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; the monkey ran away with a howl]: 53-56; Siddiqui, Lerch 1998 [the jackal asked the barber pulled the thorn out of his nose; he accidentally cut off the tip of his nose, for which he gave his knife to cut his nails; the potter dug clay with his bare hands, the jackal gave him a knife, which immediately broke, the potter gave the clay jug; a wedding procession was passing by the jackal, the rocket launched 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 to commit 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 husband's best drum; The jackal climbed a tree, began to beat the drum and sing about how things were; fell and crashed to death]: 130-135; gondas [the wagtail invited the mouse to live with her; she refused, but when it rained and the mink was flooded, the mouse came to the wagtail; after warming up, fell asleep; the wagtail began to think about what to feed the guest; eventually cut off the mouse's ear and tail, cooked it, fed it; in the morning the wagtail bought rings in her ears; the mouse also went to buy it, but was told that it had only one ear; the mouse chased the wagtail, which crossed the river, but the mouse could not; tried to swim on a lump of earth, it blurred; then a fish carried her; her mouse dragged her ashore, put it on a stone to dry, fell asleep; the shepherd saw the fish, cooked it and ate it; the mouse demanded compensation and received the goat; tied it to a tree and fell asleep; the participants of the wedding procession saw a goat, stabbed it, ate it; the mouse got the bride for the goat; brought her to her, i.e. to the wagtail's nest; began to sing, describing the episodes of the exchange; the bride killed the mouse and returned to for itself; at this time, the wagtail made a new nest, laid two eggs: one 4 tops long and the other 5; 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 him to lay eggs; let him follow its example: people break branches, pluck fruits, but the tree is alive; twice more (tree - banyan tree; fig tree); fourth time The wagtail flew far, far away and the eggs died]: Elwin 1944, No. XXIII.10:468-470.

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.

China - Korea. Koreans [a young man goes to Seoul to take exams; stays at inns, gives up his property, it goes missing, he gets something else; millet grain - mouse - cat - the horse is a 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. Bulgarians [a man picked up a bean, gave it to a woman who cooked beans; demands to return his bean by all means, gets a rooster in return; a pig ate a rooster, a man got a pig; then a bull for a pig; towards a funeral procession, the pop frightened the bull, the man received a dead woman in exchange for a bull; came to the wedding, accused his wife of murdering, demanded a girl in return; he was put in instead of a girl in the dog's bag; when he untied the bag, the dog bit off his nose]: Daskolova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1655:554; the 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 them to the butcher, who fed them to the sheep, the rooster took the sheep, brought them to the wedding, stabbed them, then demanded back, took the bride, took them to a cave in the mountains; the groom and his father found a cave and shot a rooster, fried, ate]: Dawkins 1916:521-523; Serbs, Hungarians, Albanians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 1655:359-360.

Central Europe. Ukrainians: Sonnenrose 1970:240ff in Uther 2004 (2), No. 1655:359-360; Slovaks: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1655:359-360.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abazins [Khoja picked up an old lamb shoulder; came to the shepherds, asked permission to put the meat he had brought in a common pot, put his shoulder blade under the meat, said that the shepherd's meat ate it meat, got a ram by the shoulder; leaves it in a pen with other sheep, stabbed them with blood at night, smeared the lips of the ten best sheep with blood, received 10 sheep for eating his sheep; changes them for a dead woman who they carry to bury; put the body at the princely gate, the three princesses take turns inviting her into the house, the youngest pulls her sleeve, the deceased fell, Khoja says that his wife was killed, and marries 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 sheds; the fox sleeps with its 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, his daughter gets a priest]: 312; Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [the lazy man put one and a half grains in his bag wheat, stayed in one 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, lazy received a ram in exchange; he also changes a ram for a bull; in Aldar's house at night he stabbed a bull with a dagger to his youngest daughter, Aldar gave it, the lazy man carried it in his bag; the shepherds replaced the girl with a puppy; the lazy man wanted her kiss and the puppy scratched him]: 360-362; Nogais: Kapaev 2012 [Aldar-Kose found an old dog shoulder; staying in the same house, he put his shoulder blade in the common cauldron, saying that he had put meat in it; when he was served this bone at dinner, he became indignant that the owners had eaten meat; he was given lamb; in another house he slaughtered and buried a lamb, smeared seven sheep with blood, the owner gave 7 sheep; in the third house, 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 it around and 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 her out and throw it into the tandoor; the thorn burned down, the rooster demanded return it, grabs it and takes 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 is eaten, the rooster demanded that it be returned or given to him to the bride; the khan turned his neck, the rooster was eaten]: 14-16; Dargins [the bird asked the woman to take out the thorn; she pulled it out and threw the thorn into the fire; the bird demands the 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 her bride, bought an accordion; flew up a tree, began singing about what happened to her]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 112:273; the Lezgins [the sparrow asked the old woman to take the thorn out of his leg; she took it out, threw it into the fire; the sparrow demanded the thorn back, the old woman gave him seven lavashes; he gave them to the shepherds, who drank milk; then demanded back, they gave him seven sheep; flew to the wedding, danced with the bride, and slaughtered the sheep, served kebabs; the sparrow demanded either the return of the sheep or the bride; received the bride, exchanged her for saz, began to play; a hawk appeared, the sparrow dropped the saz, he crashed; since then the sparrow has been flying and singing]: Khalilov 1965, No. 2:12-13; Georgians: Glushakov 1904, No. 9 (Imereti) [fox found a handful of millet, stopped at the man's house, asked him to put her millet in the chicken coop; the chickens ate it, the fox demanded chicken in return; then sheep for the chicken, the goat's sheep, the bull's goat; the bull was slaughtered at night , put the knife in the newlywed's pocket; Lisa took the newlywed, carried it in a bag; people fried a ram, Lisa asked to feed her; 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, 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 a splinter, she threw it into the oven, he demanded to give him the stove (tandoor); then he got a calf (sheep) for the stove; the calf was stabbed at the wedding; he got a bride for it; the shepherd changes it for a flute or drum]: 37-38; Poynter 1916 [the sparrow pricked his leg, asked the baker to pull out the thorn, he pulled it out and threw it into 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 to cook a dog ; demanded back; got the bride; exchanged her for a drum, flew up for a willow over the river, began to beat the drum and sing about his deeds; fell and drowned]: 311-313; Kurds [the old woman cannot light a fire in tandoor; the sparrow asks to pull the splinter out of his paw, put it on the dung, the fire will ignite; demands to return the splinter or give the cake; gives it to the shepherd to chop it in milk; demands 7 rams for the cake and lamb; offers his herd to people who are celebrating their wedding; demands and receives a bride for them; changes her to a shepherd's pipe; since that day everything has been chirping about it]: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 188:494-495.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [the sparrow stabbed its paw, and the old woman cannot make a fire; the sparrow asks her to pull out his thorn, burn it, and for this give him a cake; but while the sparrow was pecking the grains, his cake the old woman gave the dervish; then the sparrow took away all her cooked dough; brought tortillas to the shepherds on the condition that they would not eat without it; but they ate everything and he took their sheep; at the wedding they wanted To slaughter the dog, for there were no sheep; the sparrow gave him a ram, but he did not leave pilaf and he took the bride; flew to where the groom was and the bride was not; gave it back on the condition that after the wedding the bride would be returned to him; they did not give it to him, and he took the drum; he 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, he fell and crashed]: Rosenfeld 1958:66-69; Sarykoltsy [The fox steals pears from three Armytik pears; he smears it with glue; the fox promises to get him the royal daughter; tells him to sell pear 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 at his new clothes and food, because he has this was worn by the groom, the rice was oily; the fox runs forward, telling them to say that the herds and herds are not witches in the iron fortress, but King A.; the witch has poker legs, broom hair; the fox says that she is moving at her the army, advises to hide under a pile of firewood, burns it; 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 gone, 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 buzzing in the wind, as if the dog howls; finally, the Fox finds it out, ties the pumpkin to its tail to collect water; the tail comes off; the other foxes ask the little one to shake the mulberries; she climbs the tree on the condition that she binds the tails for the rest; 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. Estonians (Paldiski) [the fox found an apple, stayed overnight, threw the apple into the stove, demanded chicken for it in the morning; next time she threw the chicken into the oven, ate it, burned the feathers, demanded give a pig for a missing chicken; a calf for a pig; a master's daughter for a calf; the owner puts a dog in a bag instead of a daughter; the fox tells the girl to sing, growl in response; the fox ran away, the dog returned home]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 31:74-75; Norwegians [a young man inherits (buys) a seed; it was pecked by a chicken, he received a chicken in compensation; for a sheep chicken, for a ram an ox, an old woman's corpse for an ox; the young man adjusts as if the princess bit her; she has to marry him]: Hodne 1984, No. 1655:288; Finns, Veps, Karelians, Latvians, Lithuanians: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1655:359-360

Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [the old man asked to spend the night, put his road in the goose, got up at night and broke it, said that the geese had broken, got a goose; left a goose with bulls in another house, broke his neck, got a bull; left a bull with horses in the third house, broke his spine, got a horse; found a frozen girl on the road, stayed at the house, accused the girls of killing his wife, got a girl, put him in bag, stopped at home; people found a girl, replaced her with lamb; old man: my dear crooked road is gone]: 1990, No. 181:414-417; Marie, Udmurts: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1655:359-360.

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.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols (Ordos) [Palasang found three hemp seeds in the field; to get drunk, he took off his head and scooped water from the well with it; when he went to another well, he remembered that he had forgotten his head and came back, she had already come back covered in a web, P. put it back; stopped in the house, warned the mouse not to eat his hemp seeds; the owner hid them in the chest; at night P. chewed them himself, got a 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 the abyss; the 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. 30a in Solovyov 2014; Dagurs [ the orphan boy had a cup of melissa porridge left; he went to look for a better life, asked for an overnight stay; before going to bed, he asked the owner if the mouse would eat his 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, the orphan took the orphan the dog; during another night she was cared for by a cow, the orphan left with the cow; in a new place she was killed and eaten, the orphan complained to the owner; he became angry, gave his daughter in return; the orphan married her]: Todayeva 1986:97-98.

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts: Ergis 1967b, No. 292 (summary of two archival texts, no place of recording; northwestern or northeastern?) [at least four records; Haamykaan makes stems of meat from snow mixed with water, cooks it in a cauldron, 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 the IS; since then, the IS has healed richly]: 241; northwestern Yakuts (Abysky ulus) [old man Cheere Cheerekeen found a horse skull, covered it with snow, which mixed with blood from the nose, comes to people; pretends to be afraid that their cauldron is stealing; only bone is taken out of the cauldron, the owners are forced to give the cow, otherwise HC promises to let dogs - bear and wolf - in; brings her to another house, says that she is afraid that dogs will eat the cow; rips open the cow's belly, throws giblets between dogs, winds guts on the horns of the master's cows, gets two cows; the next house changes them for a deceased child; in another house, he hung the child's intestines on cow horns, scattered his arms and legs between the dogs; HCH received a girl and a boyfriend in return; when he comes to Ayyya's house, he teaches them that talk; eats ayyy food; when he comes, says this is his home; asks the lower and upper predictors to confirm; hidden girl and boyfriend confirm; ayyy runs away, hh after him, ran into on the female, hung and died; ayyy made the guy a friend, married the girl]: Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 31:327-339.