M179. Bast and ice huts, ATU 43. (.12.) .23.27.28.31.32.35.
Two zoomorphic characters live side by side, one's house is destroyed, he asks the other to shelter him. He usually gets in and drives out the owner, strong animals fear the invader, and the weak or small ones banish.
(Kera), Konkani (Goa), Kannada, Tamils, Bulgarians, Slovenes, Greeks, Russians (Teresky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Karelia, Vologda, Pskov, Vladimirskaya, Gorkovskaya, Ryazan, Voronezh, Tambov), Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina, Kursk), Belarusians, Finns, Estonians, Setu, Lutsi, Latvians, Mordovians, Udmurts, Komi, Southern Selkups.
(Wed. West Africa. Kera [when the rainy season started, the swallow asked the lizard to build a house; lizard: do I have my father's hole under the tree? under a termite mound? the holes were flooded, the lizard asked the swallow; the swallow asks about her father's hole; the lizard ran away, caught flies, asked the swallow to open the door slightly, put flies in her hand; she let her in; the lizard became bask by the fire; the swallow went for firewood; the lizard set fire to the house]: Jungraithmayr 1981, No. 29:150).
South Asia. Konkani (Goa): Davidson, Sarah, & Eleanor Phelps 1937, No. 16A [childless king and queen want a child-even a monkey; when the monkey was born, the king ordered her to be killed; she pretended to be dead, and when the servants went to bury her, she ran away; married a female monkey; climbed a tree, promising her wife to throw her berries, but ate everything herself and threw only bones; the wife did nothing said, but collected the seeds and took them with her; the same with the apple tree (she throws only the cores of the fruit to his wife); with honeycombs (throws only wax); after that, the female monkey left her husband, built a house out of wax and bones, began to live in it; and the male monkey made a house out of crap; after the rain it blurred, but the wax house resisted; the male begged the female to let him see her; once promised to invite guests, and the female told cook; instead, he drove everyone away screaming as if robbers were coming; then the female went to call the guests herself; at this time the male ate everything and climbed onto the roof; the female set fire to his tail, the male fell and burned ], 16b [the she-wolf asks the tree what it is called; finally receiving the answer, she asked the wolf to climb and pick up the fruits; he ate everything himself, and threw only bones to the she-wolf; the she-wolf left the wolf and built a house for herself out of wax; the wolf built a house for himself out of crap; after the rain, the crap spread and the wax withstood; the wolf asked the wolf to let him in, she told him to sleep in the yard; after preparing food, sent the wolf to invite relatives; he scared everything away: a tiger was nearby; the she-wolf went to invite guests herself; at this time the wolf ate everything and fell asleep on the roof; bringing relatives and seeing the wolf sleeping, the she-wolf set fire to his tail and the wolf burned down]: 39-41, 41; kannada [the crow had a manure house, and the sparrow had a stone house; the rain made the crow's house blurred, she asked the sparrow to let her in; she finally let it in; at night the crow ate all the peas and filled the bag with its crap; flew away in the morning; the sparrow invited her to eat delicious food, heated the tiles and invited the crow to sit on it; the crow no longer came]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 58:161-163; Tamils [the sparrow's house is made of stone and the crow has clay; after the rain, the crow's house fell apart, she asked the sparrow to let her in; she hid the food, but the crow found her at night, ate everything, and flew away in the morning; the sparrows pretended to be upset by the disappearance of the crow: come back, I made a delicious breakfast; when the crow returned, the sparrow offered her apply oil and swim, scalded it with boiling water; put her body in a bag and sold it to the tiger for good money to eat]: Blackburn 2005, No. 74.
The Balkans. Bulgarians [a fox (woman) makes a house out of wood (wax), and a wolf (grandfather) makes a house out of ice (salt); the ice (salt) house has melted, the wolf (grandfather) asks for shelter, the fox refuses]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 43:48.
Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Vologda, Vladimir, Gorkovskaya, Voronezh, Tambov), Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina, Kursk), Belarusians [Bast and Ice Hut: Fox builds an ice hut for himself, a wolf (bear, hare) builds a bast hut; in spring, the fox's hut melts; she tries to take possession of a bast hut]: SUS 1979, No. 43:57 (same episodes with fox and bear in No. 114:352-354); Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [Bast and Ice Hut (Fox Thief): The wolf has a "clumsy" hut and the fox has an ice hut; in spring the ice hut melts; the fox ensures that the wolf lets her live first the porch of his hut, then into the yard, into the hut itself, etc.; having deceived the wolf, the fox steals oatmeal and butter from him]: SUS, No. 43*: 57; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pinega, 1927, village. Poganets, 7-8 year-old schoolgirl Anisya Khramtsova) [The old man and the old woman live poorly, they buy a goat for three pennies, and a girl leads her to herd it. Upon returning, the goat replies to the owner that it did not eat enough ("as she ran across the bridge, grabbed a maple leaf, ran over the rake, grabbed a drop of water"), he drives the girl away. The same thing happens to his wife, and he drives her away with him. He decides to kill the goat and cook it, it runs away. The goat runs into the bunny's forest hut, threatens to "trample it with horns, mix it with a tail." The bunny sits and cries by the road, he is offered help consistently by a cow, a horse, a bear - they all run away from the hut, frightened by the threats of a goat. Bunny doubts that a rooster can help him, but he is not afraid of a goat, says "I'm in red boots, in a red sundress, I mow, mow, mow, mow your head", the goat gets scared, runs out of the hut, falls and dies]: Karnaukhova 1934, No. 71:154-156; Russians (Arkhangelsk) [fox and wolf]: Efimenko 1874, No. 4:223-234; Russians (Vologda) [the wolf has a pole hut, the fox has an icy one; it melted in spring; the fox asks to let her go first to the farmstead, then on the porch, on the floor; knocks her tail as if her name is; we must take the child; she died a bottle of oil herself; the child was named Cob; next time - Scrapers; the wolf is looking for oil in vain, the fox ran away; lay down on the road; the man was carrying fish, picked the old woman on the collar; the fox threw the fish, advised the wolf to put its tail into the ice-hole; people came running, the wolf cut off his tail; the fox caught up: take me, get sick; The broken unbeaten is lucky]: Efremov 1970, No. 3:158-160; Russians (Pskov; a dialect partly close to the Belarusian language) [the goat built a snow hut , and the hare from the twigs; in the spring, the goat hut melted, the goat drove the hare out of his hut; the fox, the wolf, the bear cannot drive the goat out ("I hurt my horns and notice my tail"); the rooster drove the goat away ("I'll tear my head off") ]: Ploschuk 2004, No. 19:85-86; Russians (Vladimirskaya) [the hare has a bast house, the fox has an icy house; in the spring the fox's house melted; she asked to see the hare; he let him go, left the house, the fox does not let him back; the rooster: I want to chop the fox, the fox, get out of the house; the fox through the window, the hare returned to the house]: Ivanov, Kargin 2004, No. 859:430; Russians (Ryazan) [grandfather sends his grandmother to herd the goat; when he returns, the goat replies that he does not drank and did not eat; the grandfather beat his grandmother; the grandson - the same; he went - the same; the grandfather began to rip off the goat alive; the goat ran away, occupied the "hare kennel"; the wolf is afraid of the goat, cannot drive it away; the rooster threatens the goat with a scythe, the goat ran away]: Samodelova 2013, No. 56:61-63.
Baltoscandia. Seto: M채giste 1990:35-40 [the wolf lived in an ice house, the sheep in the moss house; the wolf's house melted; the wolf asked the sheep to let him even put his paw through the window; then the second one; nose; ears; jumped inside, refuses to go; every evening the sheep waits for the wolf to fall asleep; hides; at night the wolf gets up to eat it, but does not find it; on the fourth night, the sheep went out into the forest, smeared red berry juice, returned ; says that she has already eaten other wolves and will eat this one; the wolf ran away in horror], 43-48 [the wolf has an ice house, the goat has a woolen goat; the wolf's house has melted; he came and asked the kids to unlock; goats: it's not mother's voice; the same the next day; on the third, the wolf thinned his tongue, the goats believed, unlocked, the wolf swallowed both, ran away through the window; the goat gathered the wolves, everyone replied that the kids did not eat; that There is no wolf - his stomach hurts; the goat ordered him to be brought in, hit him on the head with a hammer, ripped his stomach with a knife, the goats jumped out alive; the other wolves remained to sew up their stomach]; M채lk et al. 1967, No. 11 [goat I made a stone hut for myself, and the wolf is icy; in the spring it melted; the wolf first asks to go to the threshold, then further, takes the hut, drives out the goat; she complains to the old woman; the old woman tells me to go to the swamp, do honeysuckle stick, smear it with viburnum juice, go around the hut and shout: once I killed other wolves, I'll kill this one too; the wolf ran away, the goat returned to his home]: 37-38; Estonians: Jakobson 1954 [the wolf built a house made of ice, a hare made of moss; in the spring, the wolf's house melted, he asked the hare to let him go, drove him out of the house; the hare brought a cat, a dog and a rooster; the demands of the cat and dog did not affect the wolf; the rooster shouts that I ate one yesterday, the other is eating now, there will soon be a place for a third; the wolf is scared, ran into the forest]: 133-135; Normann, L채tt 1968 [the goat built a stone house for himself, the wolf is icy; asks him in the spring let go (first nose, paw, then chases the goat away); the old woman teaches me to walk around the house with a stick, say: I killed a hundred wolves, I'll kill this one; the wolf got scared and ran away]: 114-115; Lutsie (West 1893) [sheep made a wool house for the winter, and the wolf made an icy house; in the spring, the wolf house melted; the wolf asks the sheep to let his nose warm; then his ears, etc., until he is all in the house; climbed onto the stove and calls the sheep to to herself; she dissuades herself from doing business, then hides, the wolf does not find her; so for several days, the sheep hides elsewhere each time; then went to the forest, smeared with red berry juice, came and sings: many I bit to death the wolves and I bit to death this too; the wolf got scared and ran away]: Annom et al. 2018:302-313; Latvians: Alksnite et al. 1958 [the hare had a birch bark house, the fox's house was icy; in the spring the fox's house melted; the hare let the fox in, the fox kicked him out; the wolf and the bear are frightened by the fox's threats, they run away; the rooster threatens the fox himself, the fox runs away, the rooster and the hare remain in the hut]: 50-51; Niedre 1952 [the fisherman was carrying fish; the fox pretended to be dead, the fisherman put her on the cart, she threw the fish, advised the wolf to fish on the tail in the ice-hole; when the wolf's tail froze, she called the dogs; the wolf ran away with its tail cut off; the fox smeared its face with a test, she said that her brain was knocked out, the wolf agreed to take her on his back to the chicken coop; the fox asked to throw her rooster, he screamed, the wolf was beaten, and the fox got the rooster; the fox offers the wolf to build an ice hut, and she builds a bast house herself; in the spring, the wolf's house melted; the fox asks the wolf to push it into a hole and bury it there; the wolf falls into the hole, kills himself, the fox laughs]: 19-22.
Volga - Perm. Mordva (Erzya) [the fox made a snow house, the hare a bone house; the fox's house has melted, she occupied the hare's house, kicked him out of the house; the cow, the bull, the horse, the stallion, the chicken can't drive the fox out; the rooster screams, what is carrying a gun and a sword, the fox ran away, the hare returned]: Evseviev 1961, No. 9:52-53; Udmurts: Potanin 1884, No. 10 [the hare built a house from a fire pit (stiff parts of the spindle stem), and the fox out of ice; in the spring, the fox's house melted; she asked for the hare, he did not let him in; then she climbed to the stove with a log and drove him out; called the crane to visit, treats him with peas; the fool bites, the peas are rolling; I returned home, put sour cream and butter in a narrow tub, called the fox, decided that the fox would not reach it; and she climbed into the tub and ate it]: 235; Wichmann 1901, No. 20 [the hare and fox were built on the hut: a fox made herself an icy one, and a hare out of shavings (Sch채ben); in the spring, the fox's hut melted; she asked the hare to let it in and kicked it out of the house, throwing splints at the hare; the hare brought the wolf, the fox threw it at him splint, the wolf ran away; when the hare brought the rooster, he drove the fox out]: 109-110; Komi: Gren 1924 (Zyryans) [the fox built its house out of ice, the hare out of wood; when the fox's house melted, she began to ask to the hare; he let her go, but she ate the bunny and drove the hare out; the brave rooster screamed away the fox]: 48; Korovina 2012, No. 43 [the fox is building an ice hut for himself, the wolf (bear, hare) is building a bast house; in the spring the fox's hut melts, it tries to take possession of the bast hut], 43* [the wolf has a clumsy hut and the fox has an ice hut; in spring the ice hut melts; the fox makes sure that the wolf lets her live first on his porch huts, then to the yard, to the hut itself, etc.; having deceived the wolf, the fox steals oatmeal and butter from him]: 74; Lytkin 1961, No. 3 [the fox has an ice hut, the hare has a bast; in the spring the fox hut melted, she asked for a hare warm up, drove him away; the hare goes and cries; the bear promises to help, but is frightened (fox: how I rush, how they jump, shreds will fly); the same wolf; dog; rooster: walking on my heels, carrying a sickle on my shoulders, I want a fox slaughter; the fox ran away, the hare and the rooster live together]: 210-211; Uotila 2006, No. 36 [the fox has an icy house, the hare has a boardwalk; in the spring, the fox's house melted, she asks her bunny sister to let her go; eats one for the other three bunnies; the hare runs away, the fox follows her, and so they are still running]: 185-187; Wichmann 1916, No. 39 [the fox has an ice hut, the hare has a shank; in the spring the icy melted; the hare agreed to let go the fox, she kicked her out of the house; the bear could not drive the fox away, and the rooster drove her away]: 113-114.
Western Siberia. Southern Selkups (Verkhneketsky District) [the hare made a house out of wood, the fox made of ice; in the spring her house melted, she asked for a hare, drove him out of the house; the hare is crying, the dog went to help, barked, the fox ran away, the dog and the hare began to live in the house]: Porotova 1981:142.