M173A. Returns for the second boot, (ATU 1525D) .12.15.-.17.21.23.27.-.32.34.39.

The character throws one of the paired items in the other's way. The traveler passes by, but when the deceiver drops the second item, leaves the property and returns for the first one. At this time, the deceiver steals property.

(In ATU and some regional indexes, the episode is not separated from other types of deception based on distracting the victim's attention.)

Hausa, Portuguese, Catalans, Aragon, Corsicans, Frisians, Germans (Swabia), Irish, Emirates, Tibetans, Kashmiris, Punjabians, Bengalis, Serbs, Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Greeks Cypriots, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Moscow, Tula, Ryazan, Oryol, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles, Ossetians, Georgians, Lurs, Persians, Latvians, Icelanders, Norwegians, Karelians, Veps, Udmurts, Chelkans, and Chukchi.

West Africa. Hausa [the peasant carried two chickens, the jackal pretended to be dead; the peasant looked at him and moved on; the jackal ran ahead and lay down on the road again; the peasant decided to leave the chickens and go get the first one a jackal, then he'll have a lot of meat; the jackal took the chickens]: Laptukhin 1964:50.

Southern Europe. The Portuguese [to steal a ram, the thief 1) throws one shoe (sock) on the road first, then another; 2) imitates the cow's mooing; 3) tapping each other with stones makes a sound like sheep are butting]: Cardigos 2006, No. 1525D: 311; Catalans (Mallorca included) [the thief decides to steal a sheep; leaves a sword sheath on the road; the traveler does not pay attention to them; then leaves sword; then the traveler ties the sheep and goes to pick up the sheath; the thief steals and hides the sheep, begins to bleat; the traveler thinks that the sheep has returned to the herd and buys another; the thief meets again; when asked He did not see the sheep, replies that he saw this and there and he volunteered to kill the second sheep while the owner goes for the first one; he takes her away too]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 1525D: 247; Aragon [various versions for example, a crook distracts the victim by leaving his boots on the road]: González Sanz 1996, No. 1525D: 245-246; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 92 [{the second part of the long story}; stealing from robbers are their treasures, the young man tells the contractor to build a palace in front of the king's palace; king: if you manage to build a palace, try to steal the bulls my peasants without violence they will be taken to the slaughterhouse; on the way of the drovers, the young man depicts a gallows; runs ahead and again depicts a hangman; two argue: the same or the other; they leave a pair of bulls and go back to see; a young man took the bulls, led them to the king; the king: steal from others; the young man smeared himself with goat's blood and lay down on the road, next to the sheath of a dagger; runs forward, lies down again, and a dagger next to him; the peasants leave the bulls, go behind the sheath; taking his dagger and sheath, the young man takes two pairs of bulls and brings him back to the king; now the king tells him to sneak into his chambers and steal the blanket from the bed; the young man makes a scarecrow, climbs the stepladder and sticks it out the window; then drops it; the guards run out to watch, the young man climbs the stepladder into the room and carries the veil; the king is both angry and happy], 105 [the bride gives the groom 24 Frank and tells me to buy a baptized goat for the wedding meal; Ghjuvanbuccu stole the goat, sold it to the fiancé; ran ahead, left a sword sheath on the road; the groom left the goat, went for a sword {which J. . left earlier?} ; J. took the goat away; the bride gave 24 francs again; J. sold the same goat to the groom again, told him to stop along the way; ran ahead, bleat in the bushes; the groom thought it was the first goat left the second one, J. stole it again; the third time J. sold the goat again; then agreed with the butcher who was riding in the wagon, dressed up as a scientist, took the book and got into the wagon; offered the groom should take his goat, and let him take a shortcut along the path and wait; after the groom returned for the third time without a goat and without money, the bride canceled the wedding; (more about how J. deceives king)]: 204-205, 239-242.

Western Europe. Freeza [a skillful thief who steals sheep decides to live honestly, is hired as an employee; tells the owner about his past; he invites him to show his thieving skills; the butcher worker buys a sheep from the owner, leads him to the city; the thief throws one boot in front of him, and then another; after passing by the first and seeing the second, the worker leaves the sheep and returns for the first boot; the thief takes the sheep back to the owner, the worker returns, buys the same sheep again on loan; the thief who hides in the forest bleats his sheep, the worker thinks it is the missing one, leaves the second sheep, the thief takes it back to the owner; the butcher wants to kick the worker out without paying, but the thief brings the sheep and explains how it happened]: Mürk 2014:51-55; Germans (Swabia) [father sent three sons into the world; one weaver, the other a tailor, and Martin is a shoemaker; met a robber, expressed a desire to learn how to rob and steal; the chieftain demanded proof of the seriousness of the proposal; before sending his sons out of home, the mother gave each with a piece of meat, a knife, a fork and a spoon; when he saw a traveler leading a calf along the road, M. ran forward, threw a knife sheath on the road, then a fork, a spoon, and finally a knife; the traveler did not pick up empty sheath, but when he saw the knife, he tied the calf and went back to pick up the rest; M. untied the calf, stabbed him in the pond, left his head to be visible, began to fade like a calf; the owner went to his voice undressed, climbed into the water to pull the calf out; M. left the shelter, took away the traveler's clothes and money; the chieftain praised M. and took him into the gang; soon M. became the most dangerous robber; after 5 years M. went as they agreed to meet the brothers; he recognized them, but they did not; at that time the whole gang was captured, and for the capture of M. they announced a reward; when M. found out about this, he sold his horses and crew, bought a crappy cart, loaded a barrel of vodka on it, dressed in rags; when he arrived at the bridge where the hussars were standing, M. pretended to be drunk, knocked over the cart; asked the hussars to help clean everything up; he got drunk in gratitude; The next day, the chieftain was asked who could arrange this, and he replied that M.; to catch him, let the king hold a ball and scatter gold coins on the floor; M. would definitely try to seize them; M. came, told the servant to heat the resin and lubricate his boots; coins stuck and M. collected them after each dance; now the chieftain invited the king to arrange a tournament and award a big reward to the winner; M . will surely win; M. won and became engaged to the princess; but since she fell in love with M., he had to agree to a wedding and then M. inherited the throne]: Meier 1852a, No. 55:194-200; the Irish [episode known]: Cosquin 1887:276.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [a young man Rin-dzin lives with a hermit and cooks for him; suffers from lack of meat; brought a sheep, threw a noose around her neck, put a rope on the second floor to the hermit and told her to pull it, if the sheep rushes; and he himself supposedly tells the owner of the herd; began to poke the sheep with a point, the hermit pulled, the sheep suffocated; R. said that it died of natural causes, so it could be eaten; but the shepherd found out about this, the hermit drove R. away; on the way, R. met another young man whose craft was stealing; he proposed a plan: the owner of the house died, he had a daughter, but he also had a son who had long since left; he himself introduce himself as a son, and let R. enter the room where the deceased is lying, hide and, when asked if his son who has come, will answer what is true; everything went well, the thief received the bag gold as a share of the inheritance and disappeared; in the morning R. asked the girl where her brother was; borrowed a horse and rode after him; knowing that the thief was armed, R. galloped by, tied a horse, and threw him alone on the road the boot, and then the second; when he saw the second one, the thief left the bag of gold and went after the first one; R. took the gold, rode away]: O'Connor 1906, No. 16:124-132.

South Asia. Kashmiris [(an episode from the adventures of two thieves); the night thief does not understand where his friend went; sees a shoe on the road; after walking more, he sees the second; leaving the pony, he follows the first; at this time The day thief got on a pony and rode off]: Knowles 1988:300; Punjabians: Swynnerton {which publication?} , 49 in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 1525D: 145; Bengalis [two thieves, old and young, chose to lead an honest life; were hired as workers; one was told to water the plant and the other to herd a cow; both they suffered: the water immediately went under the roots, and the cow ran through foreign fields; but each replied to the other that they had been resting all day; they changed responsibilities and understood everything; decided to dig up the plant and find out where the water goes; the young man came across a pot of gold coins, told the old one that there was only a stone; at night the old one got up, dug up two slides, buried it by the pond; the young man got up and began to look; from this side the frogs jumped into the water; he realized that gold was buried here, dug up, took the cow and drove it to his native village; not finding gold, the old one bought gold shoes with the money he had with shoelaces; threw one, then the other, on the road along which the young man was walking; when the young man went to get the first shoe, the old one took the cow away; in the village, the young man met the old one at the doorway of his house, offered split the money; he agreed, but there was only one extra coin left; the old one promised to exchange it; agreed with his women that when the young man came for change, they should say that the old one was dead; the young man pretended to believe, dragged the body on a rope to the place of burning; er forgot to take the fire; climbed a tree and hung the "corpse"; robbers came; hangman: good sign; robbers quietly they slaughtered everyone in the old house, took away the property; when they wanted to light the burial fire of the old one, he jumped up, and the young one jumped off the tree; the robbers ran away, the thieves got the treasure, they healed well] : Day 1912, No. 11.1:160-171.

Western Asia. Emirates [the Bedouin ordered shoemaker Hussein a pair of slippers but refused to pay; H. threw slippers on the road; then the second; the Bedouin followed the first one, while H. took his camel away]: Taibah, MacDonald 2016:82.

The Balkans. Serbs [a man leads two rams on a rope; a nephew offers his uncle to steal them; throws a shoe on the road; a second one runs ahead; the man leaves the sheep and returns behind the first shoe; the thief takes the sheep away; when the meat is ready, the tribesman suggests that the first to eat the one who scares the other will be the first; the uncle shouts "Wow, wow"; the nephew steps aside, taking it with him a sheep's skin, hits it with a stick so you can hear it, and shouts: I didn't steal it, it was my uncle; my uncle ran, my nephew got it all]: Karadzic 1854, No. 46:248-251; Hungarians [the thief wants to teach two sons to his craft; one only looks at the bird's nests; the other throws a boot on the road; the man was driving a goat, passed by; the thief threw it up again; the man tied a goat, went to get the first boot; the thief took both the boot and the goat; the man was going to eat; the thief began to bleat in the bushes; the man went there, so he took his bag of food; the thief son pretends to be beaten, frightened his father; he recognized the superiority of his son]: Ortutai 1974, No. 34:390-392; Romanians [(final episode); the older brother remembered to meet the younger ones; the middle brother became a carpenter, the younger became a thief; he sees shepherds; walks along the road, intentionally He dropped the knife sheath and then the knife itself; the shepherds did not pick up the sheath, but when they saw the knife, they returned for the sheath; at this time the thief took both the knife and the ram led by the shepherds]: Bîrlea 1966:496-497; Bulgarians [Sly Peter or Nastradin Khoja leaves one shoe on the road first and then the other; when a person stumbles upon a second, he leaves his camel (calves, sheep) and returns for the first one; or the same with the knife case and the knife; after taking the camel away, the deceiver hides and gives a voice; the owner thinks it's his camel, goes looking, and the deceiver takes the second one]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No.*1525D _1:479-480; Greek Cypriots []: Legrand 1881:205-216

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Tula, Ryazan, Oryol, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians, Belarusians [A clever thief deceives passers-by (accomplices) : throws one boot on the road, then another; when the travelers come back for the first one, their horse takes them away; seduces them to swim and takes away their clothes; shouts, "I'm not the only one who stole, my uncle helped", scaring them away accomplices, taking all the loot, etc.]: SUS 1979, No. 1525D: 306; Belarusians [Stepan steals a stallion, a box of money, a wife from Mr. to steal his wife; to steal his wife, he throws his boot on the road, and then second; the coachman stopped the wagon, followed the first, S. stole the wagon from the lady; tells Mr. that he sold it to hell; he orders to return it; S. pretends that he will build a church on the lake where the devils live, viet from the vine, carry the devils ashore; the devil offers challenges; who hangs more (S. blindfolded the line, hit the stake); who will throw an iron mace higher (S. is waiting for the cloud to pass, there are 12 brothers- blacksmiths will eat a mace; the devil asks not to throw it); the devil gave the lady; S. tells his pansky sons that his wife helps him get rich: you need to rinse her with a knife under her left armpit, bad blood will flow out; negotiates with his wife, tied a bubble of blood under her clothes; the panychi stabbed their wives, carried S. to drown in a bag; the lake froze, went to make an ice-hole for an ax; S. shouts that he does not want to be king; the clerk gets into the bag instead of him, S. takes three horses; the panychi ask them to drown them in order to get their horses; drowned]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:197-201; Ukrainians (Kharkiv, p. Nizhnyaya Syrovatka, Sumy University, 1885) [The son and father are walking along the road, they see a man carrying a goat in his hands, the son promises to steal it. He takes off his boot, smears feces, leaves it on the road, the traveler picks it up but does not want to wash the paired one, then picks up another boot, also left by his son, ties the goat to the willow and returns for the first boot, while the son takes the animal away. At home, Anton wants to get the first piece of the goat he has cooked, his father refuses him, he runs out of the house, shouts that his father stole the goat, he is allowed to eat first. Anton raises the goat's head above the bush, gives a goat's voice, and the owner of the goat finds out the loss, Anton admits that he stole the goat and is called to steal the horse. Pan tells the workers to protect the horse, they fall asleep at night, Anton transfers the first from the horse to the matitsa, the one who held his feet gives pegs in his hands, those who held the mane - yarn, leaves the bridle, takes the horse . Pan demands that Anton steal oxen and send them to the field with workers all day long. Anton shows up and shouts as if he sees a miracle, invites half of the employees to look at it, the other half to watch the oxen, the other half does not wait for the first to return and leaves. Anton takes the workers into the forest, returns quietly, takes the oxen, puts the tail in front of everyone in their mouths, leaves them alone with their tails in their mouths - the workers decide that the ox has eaten the herd. Pan realizes the trick, demands that he steal his wife. Pan surrounds his wife with workers, falls asleep next to her. Anton ties braids to the workers, throws up a "kendyukha", spills kvass, glues the workers' hair with resin, puts a deck instead of his wife, and takes his lady away. Pan wakes up, girls scream for "", accuse each other, workers argue about who got dirty (?). Anton says he gave the hell his wife for 3 carts of pennies, and the man promises to give him a box of pennies if he returns it back. Anton weaves a rope by the pond, says to the line from the lake that he wants to measure the swamp in order to build a monastery, drive the devils out. He promises not to do that if they give up Mr.'s wife. The devil offers to resolve the dispute by running around the lake, Anton exposes the hare (like a son), wins, gets a wife, kicks the lord out, takes his place and lives with his wife]: Grinchenko 1895, No. 175: 214-218; Poles [a guy stumbled upon a group of thieves in the forest; they are ready to take him in if he proves that he can steal himself; he kidnaps a ram (ox, goat), throwing him alone on the road first, then a second shoe (or a sword and sheath, etc.); the owner comes back for the first one and the guy takes the ram away; the guy plays a hangman, then runs ahead and repeats the trick; people come back to check if it's the same or different (and the guy steals the property they left behind); or the thief imitates the mooing of cows, cuts off the heads or tails, and takes the carcasses for himself; or throws sheep into the water, and when the owner rushes to pull them out, steals his clothes]: Krzyżanowski 1963, No. 1525D: 74.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [the witch advises to watch on the thief when he goes to rob a certain house tomorrow, but the thief found out and took the other road; left the dude, and later another; the rider drove by The first, seeing the second, tied a horse and returned for the first one, the thief stole the horse; in the morning the man was riding an arba, tied a goat to it, and a kid ran behind; the thief quietly took the kid away; the crook tied the goat to a tree, went to look for a kid, the thief took both the goat and the kid; the thief climbed into one house, began to take off the smoked meat, the beam fell, the thief was chased, he fell off the roof, crashed to death]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 96:407- 408; Georgians (Kakheti) [the royal servant decided to learn a craft and chose to steal; the king ordered him to steal a horse, put one guard on a horse, and ordered the other to hold the reins; servant brought them food and drink, they fell asleep, he took the horse away; stole the bulls; the servant put his dirty boot on the road, clean by the water; the thieves did not take the dirty one, but when they saw the clean one, they went for the first boot, leaving bulls; the servant took them away; steal the king's wife; the thief dressed the deceased in his dress, put them at the gate; the guards started shooting; the king thought that the servant was killed, removed the guards, the thief took the queen away; the devil asks him sell; the servant asks for a hat of gold; the thief dug a hole, made a hole in his hat; the devil poured gold until the hole is filled, took the queen away; the king promises the thief of half the kingdom if he returns the queen; hell offers to compete in the run, the thief exposes a cousin, this is a hare, he hides the other in his bosom; who shouts louder; the thief tells the devil to cover his ears with cotton wool, blindfold, hits the line on the head with a club; fight; The thief exposes an old uncle, a bear, who has destroyed the line; the thief received the queen, gold and became king himself]: Chikovani 1954, No. 50:259-261.

Iran - Central Asia. Lura [episodes of the story of two deceivers, a merchant's son and a shoemaker; a shoemaker finds out which wealthy people have recently passed away; both come and say that the deceased owes them 5,000 coins and 5 mules; tells the merchant's son to hide in the grave and confirm this; having received mules with the money, the shoemaker led them, and the merchant's son threw one shoe on the road first and then the other; when the shoemaker left mules and went after the first, the merchant's son hid the mules]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 4:25-28; Persians (Isfahan, Fars) [one thief robbed another; he throws one shoe on the road first, then second; when the first thief goes to pick up the first shoe, the second takes what the first one stole from him]: Marzolph 1984, no. 1525D: 215.

Baltoscandia. Icelanders [Árnason, p. 609; the "gray man" stole sheep as the king; he promises to forgive him if a man manages to steal a bull that his servants take to the forest; the man depicts hangman; then runs ahead, depicts again; the servants leave the bull and come back to check whether it's the same or the other; the man takes the bull; the same episode for the Norwegians]: Cosquin 1887, No. 70: 276; Latvians [the thief takes off his boots, throws one on the road, then the other; steals a bull (ram) from a man; seduces him to swim and steals his clothes]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 1525D: 355; Karelians: Concca 1959, No. 25 (Olonets District, 1936) [the poor man asks the rich man for a loan, but he only gives pain if the poor man sells him his bull for cheap; the poor man's son promises to return the bull: he throws it on There is one road, then the second boot; seeing the second, the rich man ties the bull to the tree, follows the first one, the boy takes his boots and takes the bull away; also receives flour]: 112-113; Onegin 2010, No. 59 (Kalevalsky district) [thief Cliimo sees a man leading a bull along the road; threw up one boot, then the second; when he saw the second, the man left the bull and returned for the first one; K. hid the bull and took his boots; cut off the bull's head, stuck it on pole into the swamp; the man saw a bull's head across the lake, undressed, swam there; K. stole his clothes; the man guessed who deceived him, brought K. to the king; the king agrees to let K. go if he can deceive; let him steal the horse from the pasture; the king puts up guards; K. dressed up as a rich gentleman, brought the soldiers a barrel of wine, they got drunk, and K. left in the best stallion; the king asks to steal a feather bed from the bed on which he sleeps with his wife; K. poured dough between them, they accuse each other of getting the bed dirty, going to wash, at which time K. stole everything; the king asks to steal the chest of money, he himself will sit on it; K. drowned the drunken man, brought him to the king; the king shot, thinking that it was K., carried to throw the corpse into the river, K. took the chest; (then K. deceives the priest)]: 487-492; Veps [from one the brother has three sons, the other is childless; the uncle takes turns taking each of the nephews with him to determine their inclinations; one drew attention to the good pines, the other to the birch tree, in the place of which it would be possible to arrange arable land, the third Vanya sees a bull and offers to steal it; threw his boot on the road, the man passed by; when he saw the second boot, he returned to pick up the first one, and V. took the bull away; at home he says that He will eat it alone; he began to cook a bull outside the village and shout: I did not steal it, my uncle stole it; my uncle ran away, the deceiver went to the whole bull]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 26:123-124.

Volga - Perm. Udmurts: Kralina 1960, No. 83 [rich Zio asks Aldar Ivan to deceive him; he says that he left his purse with lies at home; tells Z. to prop up a birch tree instead of him so as not to fall, he leaves himself on his goat; stabbed the goat, threw his skin into the lake; Z. undressed, climbed into the water for his skin; AI took his boots, threw one on the road, then the other; Z. does not take his boot, but when he sees the second, returns for the first; the second one, meanwhile, disappears; AI teaches his wife to say that he cuts wood in the forest and, if necessary, send a hare for him; Z. buys a hare, tells his wife to send a hare for him, the hare ran away and disappeared; AI shoved coins down the horse's tail; Z. buys it; AI put a bubble of blood under his wife's clothes in advance, stabbed her with a knife in the presence of Z. to make her work; blood gushed, AI beats his wife with a whip, the wife jumped up alive; Z. buys a whip; kills his wife; carries AI in a bag to drown; while he went to look for a pole to push the bag away into the water, AI got out, put stones into the bag; AI left, three years later returned with the herd, said that three cows were being given by the needle at the bottom; Z. asked to throw him in a bag into the water, drowned], 84 []: 236-245, 245-252.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Chelkans [thief Parlanak drives his elder, middle nephew, but younger Kizelek deserves him; P. stole eggs from under the crow, but K. cut off his sole at that time; K. leaves a shoe on the road, and then the other; the person leading the bull passes by the first one, but when he sees the second one, he tied the goby and went back; at this time K. stole the bull, began to cook, sent P. for firewood, at which time he ate all the meat himself; made a stuffed goby, put it on stakes in the lake; the owner took off his shoes, went to the bull, K. stole his shoes]: Sadalova 2002, No. 39:377-383.

SV Asia. Chukchi [a man brags about his cunning; another throws a torbazok on his way, which passes by, but when he sees the second torbazok, he returns; the second person steals his deer]: Tyn'etegyn 1959:37-38.