M182A. Animals stick to the horse, (ATU 159) .17.28.29.31.32.

A person coats resin on a bull, a horse (usually makes a figure that comes to life), or an object; wild animals or demons stick together. Cf. Motive K133.

Arameans (Arabs of Iraq), Russians (Arkhangelsk, Novgorod, Pskov), Ukrainians (Poltava, Kharkiv, Chernigov), Belarusians (Abkhazians?) , Kumyks, Rutulans, Armenians, Turks, Finns, Karelians, Estonians, Seto, Lithuanians, Maris, Bashkirs.

Western Asia. Aramei [the old woman has a donkey; every time she grazes, a fox comes and rides it from morning to evening; the donkey comes back tired; neighbors advised to smear resin on the donkey's back; shepherd brought the donkey to the old woman and she and her daughter began to beat the fox with a stick; fox: hit as much as you want, but don't lock her in the raisin pantry; eats raisins; she is beaten again; she asks not to be locked in the chicken coop; eats chickens; the rooster crows, the old woman tells him to peck out the villain's eyes; the fox ate the rooster, and when the old lady opened the chicken coop in the morning, she ran away]: Belov, Welsker 1960:326-328; (cf. Iraqi Arabs ( Mosul) [three children saw a witch approaching; Hadeidan asked God for a hot iron palace, Rovshan for feathers, Archishan for straw; the witch easily destroyed palaces made of feathers and straw, swallowed children, could not destroy the iron palace; her aunts advised to send a donkey for the boy to ride it, and then smear the donkey's back with resin; H. stuck, advised not to eat him right away, to fatten him first ; the witch went to invite her aunts to eat, told her daughter to slaughter and cook H.; he offered the witch's daughter to help sharpen the knife, stabbed her, fed the meat to her mother and guests, ran away; the witch went to to her relative, died]: Yaremenko 1990, No. 32:167-169).

Central Europe. Russians (Novgorod), Ukrainians (Poltava, Kharkiv, Chernigov), Belarusians ["Goby Resin Barrel": animals (bear, wolf, fox) stick to it; they pay off a person and for their liberation they bring him horses, cows, sheep]: SUS 1979, No. 159:79; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [the old man made a bull, stuffed it with straw, smeared it with resin; goby: let me into the forest take a walk; the fox stuck in the forest, the goby brought it to her grandfather; the fox begged her not to kill her, brought a herd of geese and chickens; the wolf did the same (a herd of rams); a bear (a herd of cows); they began to live happily ever after. They ate simply, but lived up to a hundred years]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:11-12; Russians (Pskov) [the man pricked resin, sculpted a bull, put it in the garden; the bear, then the wolf, the fox, the hare stuck; the bear promised roll a barrel of honey, a wolf to bring a herd, a fox to bring geese, a hare to "bring a head"; everyone fulfilled their promises; the man and the woman began to live happily ever after; and I was there, and I drank honey, flowed down my mustache, into my mouth missed]: Ploshchuk 2004, No. 11:72-74; Ukrainians (Poltava, c. 1878) [Poor woman asks her husband to view their straw bull, the next day she takes him to the grave to graze, falls asleep for yarn . The bear asks the bull who he is, he replies that the bear wants to patch up the bull's torn side, gets his teeth stuck in straw and drags him into the forest. The grandmother wakes up, sees a bear and a bull, says that the bull brought the bear, sends his grandfather to pick him up, the grandfather puts him in the cellar. The next day, everything is repeated with the wolf, then with the fox, with the hare. The grandfather sharpens the knife, says that he takes off the bear's skin, he promises to bring honey, he is released, the wolf promises to bring sheep, the fox - geese and chickens, the hare - earrings and ribbons. In the morning, grandparents and women receive all the gifts promised by the animals, they sell sheep, buy oxen, get rich, the goby melts in the sun]: Rudchenko 1870, No. 7:13-16.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kumyks [Chaltuk-Ahmed notices that his horse is wounded; he catches a wolf, a bear, a wild boar, a fox that scratched it at night; the wolf promises to bring sheep, the boar to plow the field, the bear - show a hollow of honey; the fox does not promise anything, but asks to let her go; the wolf, the boar keeps the promise, the bear leads the CHA to the tree, begins to strangle; the fox calls CHA, shouts that hunters are coming, they need bear skin; the bear asks him not to betray, to say that he has a block in front of him, not ears, but branches, asks him to hit him easily with an ax; CHA hits with all his might, kills a bear, collects honey together with the fox]: Kapiyeva 1974:126-128; (cf. Abkhazians: Bgazhba 1959:95ff in Uther 2004 (1), No. 159:112; this plot does not exist in the 1983 and 2003 reprints of this book; it is possible that it does not exist in the first edition either; cf. "Tajiks"); Rutultsy [Urdukhan notices that his beloved horse is losing weight; watches, sees a bear climbing and chasing a horse at night; then the jackal, boar and fox do the same; W. points a gun; the bear promises to bring honey, jackal to bring poultry chicken coop, wild boar to dig up the site and remove stones from it, the fox says it will be useful; the jackal and the boar fulfill their promises; the bear orders to take honey vessels, leads to the mountain to a tree that supposedly has honey; someone asks: Grandpa W., what is this near you? The bear tells me to answer that it is a trap; - Why does he have ears? - These are locks; - Hit the trap between the locks with an ax; W. does so, the bear is dead; the fox comes out, says that the bear wanted W. to get honey (the tree is tall, the bear could not reach it himself), and then was going to kill him; teaches him to make a smoky fire, smoke bees, get honey]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 105:253-254; Armenians [devils are cheerful, but afraid of iron; the wife of a man named Barik saw in in the garden on one damn daughter's dress; at home she saw that it was covered with oil stains; then Barik smeared resin on the backs of the horses; the hells began to ride and could not come off alone; B. put it around her neck an iron ring, kept a maid for three years; she had to order the opposite of what was required, because she did the opposite; one day B.'s mother bathed her and she asked her to spread the ends of the ring for a while ; disappeared]: Zelinsky 1882, No. 3:42-44; Turks [the man left a sick black horse in the field, anointed his back with resin so that the wounds do not fester; the fox, then the wolf, the bear, try to ride a horse, they stick; the horse comes home, the owner is going to kill the animals, they ask them to let them go, promise gifts; the wolf brings the stolen sheep; the bear leads to a chestnut tree, but is going to kill a person; There is a "hunter" voice (this is a fox): who is sitting on a person; man: this is my fur coat; "hunter": you have to pick up my fur coat, put it in a bag; the bear allows himself to be killed; this is how the fox repaid kindly]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 40:53-54.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 22 [18 options; grandfather poured resin on a bunch of firewood; a fox came: as soon as I hit you with my leg, you will fall; hit and stick; the same hare, wolf, bear; old man sharpens a knife ; the fox promises to bring geese, the hare promises to bring hares, the wolf the sheep, the bear to bring honey; the old man let the animals go, they have fulfilled their promises], 23 [just like in Lebit, animals deceive the elderly]: 60-61, 61-64; Love 1965 [the poor man's wife complains that they don't have a bull; the old man makes the figure of a bull, smears it with resin; the bear wants to eat it, the goby sings a song, invites him to jump over it, the bear sticks; the same with fox, hare; a goby brings animals home, an old man sharpens a knife, animals ask them to let them go, promise gifts; a bear brings a cow's head instead of a herd of cows, a fox brings a long-plucked goose instead of a herd of geese , the hare is a bush of hare cabbage; the old woman grieves, the goby has fallen apart]: 48-51; (cf. Kerbelite 2014, No. 95 [nine brothers leave home, the eldest puts a gold ring on his sister Onutte's finger; O. grows up, her mother lets her look for her brothers; The hare asks to take him with him, sits down with her in a cart; laume is swimming in the sea, the name is O., they say that there is a river of milk behind them, and wine is oozing from the shore; the hare explains that it is a river of tears, and blood is pouring from the shore; Laume stretches out his back leg in anger; the same with another laume, she throws the Hare off the cart; the third makes O. swim with her; turns her into a louse, herself into a flea, whoever jumps out of the water first wears beautiful clothes, and the other wears an old one leather; O. puts on clothes, but O. still has the ring; they come to 9 brothers, O. sends them to watch the horses; O. talks about what happened to his skate, the older brother hears it, tells O. wash his hair, sees the ring; O. washes, dresses beautifully; the brothers put a horse in the doorway, smear it with resin, the name is Laume, she sticks with one hand, leg, other, stomach; the horse is whipped, she Laumer-baby storygo is thrown against a rock, half falls into the water, half on land; so the skull]: 213-217 (=Schleicher 1857 in Espinosa 1930:148-149); setu [the poor man has a goby, all covered with resin; the owner gave him hay, went to the bathhouse himself; wolf: why do you eat my hay? jumped on a bull and stuck; the same bear, fox, hare; the owner is going to cut everyone's throat; the wolf promises to bring sheep, the bear to bring the hive to honey, the fox to get chickens, the hare promises to bring cabbage; everything is done promise, the poor man got rich]: Mägiste 1990:65-70; Estonians (mostly Setu's plot, but there's one recording from Harjumaa) [animals riding a goby stick to him when his back is smeared with resin; the old man let them go, and for this everyone brought roast: squirrel - nuts, hare - cabbage, fox - chickens, wolf - sheep, bear - honey]: Kippar 1986, No. 159:120-121; Karelians (Kalevalsky district) [ the old woman tells her husband to slaughter the bull; he asks him better to pear his back, take him to the forest; the bear stuck, the bull brought it to the old man, he killed the bear; then the same fox; the hare; the man also stabbed the bull, took off his skins, sold at a high price, healed well]: Onegin 2010, No. 8:108-110; Finns: Uther 2004 (1), No. 159:112.

Volga - Perm. Marie [the old man makes the figure of a bull, covers it with resin; the goby grazes in the meadow, sings a song, invites the bear to sit on it; the bear sticks, the goby brings it to the old man, he puts the bear in underground; the same wolf, fox; old man sharpens a knife; for a promise not to cut it, a bear brings two horses, a wolf a cow, a fox a festive outfit; for this purpose she comes to dance, dress her, she runs away with an outfit and gives it to an old woman]: Aktsorin 1984:260-264; Bashkirs [daughter asks to buy her a calf, her father makes tar; the girl grazes it in the meadow; the bear wants to eat it, sticks, asks him to let go - will bring meat and honey; the calf lets go; the same wolf promises to pay off with meat; the hare - a chest of gifts; bears brought honey, wolves brought meat, hares - a chest of gifts; the old man and the old woman invited guests]: Barag 1989, No. 118:443-444.

(Wed. Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 159:112 with reference to Levin et al. 1981, No. 27 - this is not there).