M171B. Meatless shovel. 29.33.-.36.39.

The character pretends to bring meat on the shoulder bone, lets the owners cook. Taking a bare bone out of the cauldron without meat, he accuses the owners that the meat was stolen.

Kalmyks, Nogais, Abazins, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Tofalars, Khakas, Darkhats, Buryats, Ents, Nganasans, Dolgans, Northwestern and Northeastern Yakuts, Tundra Yukaghirs.

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]: Dzhimbinov 1962:159-160 (about the same in Egorov 1978:36-38); Nogais [ Aldar-Kose found an old dog shoulder; staying in the same house, he put his shoulder blade in the common pot, 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; they gave him a lamb; in another house he slaughtered and buried a lamb, smeared seven sheep with blood, the owner gave seven sheep; in the third house, AK exchanged the owner's dying daughter for seven sheep; came to feast at the khan's wedding, the girl died, AK said she was 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]: Kapaev 2012:27-28; Abazins [Khoja picked up an old lamb shoulder; came to the shepherds, asked permission to put the meat he had brought into the common pot, put his shoulder blade under the meat, said that the shepherd's meat ate its meat, got it by the shoulder of a ram ; leaves 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 to a dead woman to be buried; put the body at princely gate, three princesses take turns inviting her into the house, the youngest pulls her sleeve, the deceased fell, Khoja says that his wife was killed, gets married to the prince's youngest daughter]: Tugov 1985, No. 124:339-342.

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); Karakalpaks (Karauzyak District) [Kose found a skull on the road; came to one house and put this head in a cauldron; then took away an old woman from that one sheep at home {without details}; saw a man drive nine rams into the pen and asked him to drive the sheep taken from the old woman; the man did it; at night K. slaughtered his sheep and put the meat in a sum of money; then accused the man for eating it; the man offered K. one ram; K. took nine; met a man carrying a dead girl; exchanged her for nine rams; went, holding her body behind a donkey; one of the padishah's daughters pushed the dead girl, she fell to the ground; K. accused the girl of killing his wife; went to the padishah's house, told him the same thing; padishah offered gold, but K. refused and took the girl {apparently the daughter of the padishah}; went, sitting her in front of him and saying: "For a dry jaw (bone) - bone with meat, for a bone with meat - lamb, for a lamb - nine sheep, for nine sheep a dead girl, for a dead girl, a live girl, a beautiful blonde."]: Baskakov 1951:115-116.

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 eaten 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. 49.4b: 244-245; Buryats [old Tabhalaikhan gave the wolf a bull, a cow, a son and a daughter; he finds a bare shoulder, asks the old woman to cook it, says that her cauldron ate the meat from the shoulder blade, gets a pot; in another house he gives the pot to a sheep, in the morning he says that the owner's sheep ate his 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 that his wife is shy; a corpse falls, he says that his wife is dead; gets the owner's wife; exchanged sheep for 70 red cows, began to live well with his wife]: Barannikova et al. 1998, No. 29:125-129.

Western Siberia. Entsy: Porotova 1982:151-152 [Deah asks his grandmother for good clothes, puts them on a stump, invites him to race; the stump moves, runs away, taking Deua's clothes; he found it a deer he covered his shoulder blade with snow, smeared blood from her nose, let the old woman cook meat; people gathered; the old woman took out the bone - there was no meat on it; Dea grabbed the onion and threatened people: their meat was eaten; people ran away, leaving his clothes; Dea took them], 156-158 [same more]; nganasany [1) 1973, Demnime Kosterkin, Ust-Avam (?) , Gorbacheva and Chesnokov; Dyaikyu (D.) runs, sees the mountain. I climbed the hill. He sees the plague. I went to the plague. I found a deer shovel. I picked it up. I got snow. I stuck it to my shoulder blade, broke my nose, smeared snow on my shoulder blade, it turned out like a piece of meat. I went to the plague. I went into the plague. The old lady in the plague is going to cook meat. The water boils in the boiler. D.: "I don't eat someone else's meat. Let the old lady cook my meat." The old lady threw meat into the cauldron. Soon the meat was cooked. The old woman began to pull out the meat, and there was one bone - the shoulder blade. D.: "Your pot ate my meat." He was given a new piece of meat. Then he went and stuffed some reindeer. He came and said, "I've killed a lot of reindeer. Go sledge the reindeer, go get the deer." People went, found nothing; 2) Momde was recorded by Alexander Cheleevich in 1982 from old reindeer herders, p. Volochanka; They say that in the old days, Dyaikyu's boyfriend and his grandmother lived, had a deer rib bow and an arrow with iron tips, went hunting and hunted many partridges, and fished on a bark boat wood. One day she says to her grandmother: "It's bad for us to live without reindeer. We need to get deer from our neighbors. Let's go to them." D. made a canopy on the sleigh, put his grandmother under the canopy, harnessed himself into a sleigh and dragged it, and stopped in the tundra. D.: "Let's stop here. Then I'll go alone and you stay here. Don't go anywhere. Take a knife and stick it in your clothes near your throat and sit like that. When people arrive, let them think you're dead." Grandma stuck a knife in her clothes near her throat and sat down with her head knocked over. D. covered his grandmother with a canopy and went to the camp. I went into the middle plague, there are a lot of dudur people there. The plague owner: "Where does the guest come from Who is this?" D.: "I walk with my grandmother along the tundra, live hunting, I don't need anything." All the duduru were happy and asked him: "Oh, Dyaikyu! They're talking about you all over the tundra! Where is your grandmother? Why did you leave your grandmother behind?" "I left it here not far away, in a beam. She doesn't like going to visit. But she's not sitting around. She makes me new clothes." Girl: "We should call her to the chum." D. to two dudur girls: "Be careful! Grandma is sitting under the canopy. She is shy and she can stab herself with a knife out of fear." The Duduru girls ran to Dyaiku's sleigh with a gurba. They opened the canopy: my grandmother is sitting with a knife in her throat. They got scared of the girl, came running and said to D.: "Your grandmother stabbed herself with a knife out of fear! Don't ruin us, D.! Tell us how we can pay off?" D. cried: "Oh, how will I live without my grandmother! They killed my grandmother, hurt me! I'll go from you to the tundra and get fresh meat." And he went to the tundra, saw an abandoned camp, found a deer-eaten shovel there, collected blood-splattered snow, stuck it - it turned out to be a shovel with meat. He returned to the Duduru camp with this shovel: "I killed a lot of deer. I'll pack it tomorrow. I brought some for dinner. Put this spatula in the pot and cook it. I'm going to eat my own meat." The hostess Duduru threw the shoulder blade brought by the deer into the cauldron where the meat was cooked. Now it's time to get the meat out of the boiler. The hostess pulled out all the meat and a clean shoulder blade without a single piece of meat. D. saw a bare bone and was angry: "What kind of people did I come to? They killed my grandmother! Your pot ate my meat! God will punish you!" Duduru fell to their knees: "D., don't ruin us! Ask for whatever you want! D.: "Give me fifty reindeer and I'll leave you. I'm going to bury my grandmother alone." Dudura caught fifty deer, harnessed them into the best teams, escorted D., came to his grandmother and laughs: "Oh, how I deceived the dudur! Now let's go to our summer seats." Throughout the winter, D. and his grandmother were argishili and by summer they arrived on the bank of a large river, they put a chum. One morning, D. says to his grandmother: "I'll take a boat along the river." I got into a boat made of tree bark. After three turns of the river, a man in a boat meets him. He stopped in the middle of the river and asked: "Where are you sailing from? What is your name? Do you want to eat?" - "I am D., I live with my grandmother, not far from here my chum is on the shore. Where are we going to eat?" - "Oh, I've heard of you! We'll eat here." The man pointed to the water, leaned down and whispered something. The water near the boat began to boil and a table with different meals and two cups of hot tea came out. A stranger and D. ate and drank hot tea. After that, D. said to the person: "Thank you for the treat. Come visit me tomorrow." D. returned home and told his grandmother how a stranger treated him to food and hot tea on the water. In the morning, D. to his grandmother: "I invited that person to visit today. I'll also serve you on the water. I'll put you and the table in the water, and when we get there, I'll say, "Grandma, give it!" - you get out of the water with the table." My grandmother nodded her head in agreement, and she thought: "It is better to drown than to live with such an unlucky grandson." D. tied a stone to his grandmother and lowered the table into the water near the shore. At noon, a guest came to the camp. D. met him: "You treated me on the water. And I'll treat you on the water." D. and the guest man sailed to the place where his grandmother with the table was sunk, leaned to the water and loudly called: "Grandma, serve it!" But the water did not boil and my grandmother did not swim out. D. shouted again and then again, but there was no grandmother and no table. Poor D. screamed for a long time, so long that he lost his voice. The guest waited and waited for a treat and sailed to his side. And D. took the pole and started driving it down the bottom, only in the evening he pulled his dead grandmother out and was very surprised that she did not want to live. He buried D.'s grandmother, grieved and decided to swim across the river and look for people there. I swam across the river by boat and then went on foot. He goes and sees: there is a stump ahead. He kicked this stump and his foot stuck. He hit him with his second leg and the other one stuck. I rested my hands and my hands stuck. In the evening, Shigie the ogre came: "Ha-ha! There is no such thing as my hereditary trap without prey!" He tore D. off the stump and carried him home under his arm, hung him on a hook at home near the fire, and went to bed. D. was hanging, the fire blew him up, and he wanted to urinate. She saw the cannibal and said: "Why did you hang it by the fire? The whole hearth will flood!" She took off D. and put it on the ground. He lay there all day, afraid to move and waiting for Shigie the Ogre to wake up and cook it in a large pot. In the evening, the cannibal went outside. As soon as she sat down, D. ran up, fell under her feet and cried in the voice of a baby child. The cannibal is frightened, calling the old ogre: "Get out faster! We had a baby! Bring a pillow!" Sigie the cannibal comes out and grumbles: "What kind of children can be these years?" The child was brought into the plague, swaddled and sat rejoicing. A day later, D. says in the baby's voice: "Go! (Dad!) Let me talk!" - "No, it's too early to tell you. You'll tear your lips." - "Why don't you let your only son speak! You won't even have a dumb baby anymore!" - stood up for D. the cannibal. "OK, let him talk." A day later, D. again: "Dad, I want to walk!" "No, it's too early for you. You'll break your legs." Ogre: "Why don't you let your only son go! After all, you'll never even have a lame child again!" - "Okay, go, just be careful." D. got up and started running. First I ran through the plague, and then ran outside. On the street, I saw that the cannibal has a lot of deer and a large supply of food. On the third day, D. says to S.: "Dad, let's slaughter an advanced deer. I want meat." - "Why slaughter a good deer?" Ogre: "Why don't you want to slaughter a good deer! After all, you won't even have a skinny child anymore!" - "Okay, stab it." D. stabbed the deer and refreshed him: "Let's transport the meat to the other side. Then I'll bring you fresh meat every day." - "Why transport it? You can roll over on a boat and drown." Ogre: "Why do you oppose your only son! After all, you're not going to have another kid anymore!" - Ogre: OK. D. loaded all the meat into the boat and sailed to the other side. After crossing, he unloaded the meat, made a hole in the boat and sank it, shouted the ogre Shigie: "I'm not your son at all! I'M D.! I'm leaving you forever! Live together!" He took as much meat as he could and went without looking back at his plague. He lived without caring about anything until he ate all the meat, and when there was no meat left, he went to look for new camps and other duduru people]: MAE RAS archive, Op.2 D.992, F.K-I; handed over to M. Momzikova.

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 it up a deer; K. tore it up, planted male deer on the antlers, began to grieve in the morning, they gave him these deer; K. dug the corpse of an old woman in the cemetery, drove up to the camp, shouted to the children not to come, or even him the old woman will be frightened and die; they violated 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 he was calling him 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, places records not specified; northwest or northeast?) [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 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.

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.