M183. Race: one against many, ATU 275C, 1074. .11.-.17.19.-.32.34.-.36.39.40.43.44.46.47.49.

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Numerous relatives of the character, who all look the same, together perform an impossible task for one, and competitors believe that only one task has been completed. Usually, a fast-footed and slow character agrees to race (jump over an obstacle). The slow one puts others at the finish line or across the distance who look like him and respond fast on his behalf. The quick-footed does not notice the substitution, admits himself a loser.

Congo [tortoise and crab], kamba [tortoise and hawk; tortoise and man], bondei [tortoise and falcon], safwa [frog and deer], ndau [turtle and elephant], tsonga [turtle and hare], mpongwe [monkey and big animals], Cameroon [turtle and dwarf antelope], conde [turtle and elephant], quiri [turtle and elephant], chwana [turtle and antelope], tangale [frog and antelope], wute [turtle and antelope] and thunderstorm], wai [turtle and deer; snail and deer], igbo [frog and deer], banena [turtle and antelope], mangbetu [chameleon and elephant], pokot [turtle and hare], loor [earth and hare], nuers [frog and ostrich], shilluk [frog and water goat], malgashi [frog and boar], Western Sahara [hedgehog and eagle], kabila [turtle and jackal; hedgehog and jackal], Beni Snu Berbers [hedgehog and jackal], Berbers Zouave [hedgehog and jackal] and jackal], Tunisian Berbers [hedgehog and wolf], Algerian Arabs [hedgehog and jackal], Portuguese [hedgehog and hare; toad and fox (most versions); turtle and fox], Spaniards [hedgehog and hare (everywhere), turtle and hare (Murcia)] Catalans [toad and fox; hedgehog and fox], Italians (Basilicata) [toad and fox], Maltese [hedgehog and jackal], French [snail and wolves; snail and hare (Nivernay), snail and fox (Gascony, Upper Brittany) , toad and fox (Rhône-Alpes)], Germans (Schleswig-Holstein) [hedgehog and hare], friezes [hedgehog and hare, snail and greyhound], British [hedgehog and fox], Welsh [hedgehog and devil], Iraqi Arabs [hedgehog and fox], Reef Islands [crab- hermit and needle fish], Fijians [crab and crane], Yap [hermit crab and garfish], Palau, Ponape, Kusaie, Truk, Kapingamarangi, Tibetans [snail and hare], Khasi [snail and deer], chiru [snail and tiger], sherdukpen [porcupine and elephant], garo [dwarf deer and snail], banar [turtle and tiger], bru (wankieu) [snail and tiger], Khmer [snail and hare], palaung [snails and hare], Viets [turtle and tiger], Thais [ tortoise and bird; snail and hare], shana [snail and hare], Burmese [snail and horse], palaung [snail and hare], palaung [snake and hare], Santals [ants and elephant], assams [?] , baiga [fox and wind], Sinhalese [turtle and lion], Simalur [snail and monkey], Mentawai [crab and monkey], Malays [snail and drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)], Bahau [hermit crab and dwarf deer], tetum [shark and monkey], toraja [tarsier and deer], Javanese [snail and dwarf deer], lampung [? and dwarf deer], aceh [? and dwarf deer], galela [kingfisher and mollusk], tagals [turtle and buffalo], tingian [snail and buffalo], apayao [snail and deer], visayas [snail and deer], Chinese (?) [turtle and raven], Hungarians [hedgehog and hare; turtle and hare], Poles [hedgehog and hare], Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina, Transcarpathia) [hedgehog and hare], Belarusians [hedgehog and hare, hedgehog and lion], Adygs [hedgehog and deer], Ossetians [hedgehog and deer], Dargins [turtle and hare], Lezgins [turtle and fox], Turks [turtle and fox], Bakhtiyars [turtle and fox], Latvians [man and devil; hedgehog and hare], Estonians, Setu [hedgehog and hare], Finns [man and devil], Karelians [ man and devil], Swedes [woman and devil], Kazan Tatars [hedgehog and fox], Bashkirs [hedgehog and hare], Tuvans [burbot and fox], Buryats [burbot and leopard], Nganasans [burbot and fox], northwestern (Essey) Yakuts [burbot and leopard] and fox], Western Evenks (Podkamennotunguska) [burbot and fox], Baikal Evenks (northern Buryatia) [burbot and fox], Japanese (Tohoku, South Honshu, Kyushu) [fox and tiger], forest yukaghirs [burbot and fox], (Chukchi [mouse and hare]), Asian Eskimos [goby and wolf], kutene [frog and antelope (deer)], menomini [turtle and hawk], oto [turtle and elk], arikara [turtle and coyote], natchez [turtle and deer], hichiti [ turtle and wolf], alabama [turtle and wolf], koasati [turtle and wolf], screams [turtle and rabbit; and wolf; and deer], chiroki [turtle and deer], goshiyute [frog and coyote], utah [frog and coyote], zunyi [gopher] and runners], kuna [tortoise and jaguar], warrau [tortoise and jaguar], macushi [tortoise and jaguar], emerillon [tortoise and "beast"], napo or canelo [snail and deer; turtle and deer; turtle and jaguar], mestizos Tabatinga [turtle and deer], Lower Amazon [turtle and deer], (eseeha [bakers and deer]), araucans [frog and fox].

Bantu-speaking Africa. Congo [the turtle negotiates with the crab to race, puts its wife at the finish line; the crab loses, since then it has been walking sideways and has no head]: Dähnhardt 1912:67-68; kamba: Hobley 1910 [brief retelling in Arewa 196:72-73; the old man will give his daughter to the first to bring sea salt from the coast; the grooms are an osprey and a turtle; the turtle asks for a delay of 10 months; during this time reached the shore and returned, bringing salt; put other turtles in the way; the osprey flies, calling out to the turtle, every time he hears a voice in front of him; turtle man: you won, but the osprey will take revenge and will eat you; turtle: I'll hide under water; turtles have spent most of their lives in the water ever since]: 114-115; Hunting 1962 [retelling in Arewa 196:73-74; the turtle and the boy came to see a girl; she promised to go out for the first to come; the turtle arranges the other turtles all the way to the girl; gets a wife]: 249-251; bondei [the chief promises to give his daughter to the winner in the run; the turtle negotiates with the hare to place 10 turtles at a distance; the falcon cannot distinguish them, believes that the turtle is ahead of him; the turtle gets the girl; at night he removes its shell and becomes a young man; the wife throws the shell into the fire , stays with her handsome husband]: Abrahams 1983, No. 12:75-78; safwa [the deer and the frog agree to race; the loser will give his child to another; the frog puts at a distance other frogs; the deer is forced to give the frog a deer, which gives it to the leopard to eat]: Arewa 196:73; ndau [the elephant speaks contemptuously of the turtle's growth; it promises to jump over it ; hides another turtle on the other side of the elephant; the elephant believes that the turtle jumped over it]: Boas, Simango 1922, No. 9:181; tsonga (Maputo district) [the hare laughs at the turtle's slowness; she offers to compete, puts her relatives at a distance, they answer the hare, he admits defeat]: Dähnhardt 1912:50; mpongwe [the gorilla king will give his daughter for someone who will be able to drink a barrel of rum; even an elephant is unable to do so; the little monkey asks permission to move away from the keg after each sip; instead of her, another relative pops up, a barrel in eventually drunk, the monkey gets a wife; the animals attack the monkey, which escapes by climbing a tree; since then these monkeys have been living in trees]: Nassau 1912, No. 14:65-68; Cameroon (ethnicity not specified) [the dwarf antelope laughs at the turtle's slowness; it offers to compete, puts its six children at a distance, the antelope loses]: Dähnhardt 1912:50-51; fang [the turtle and the antelope agree to race; the turtle places the other turtles along the distance, the antelope loses]: Dähnhardt 1912:53; tanga [the turtle comes to the antelope ; says that she is older than her and will be ahead of her in running as proof; puts other turtles along the distance; the antelope falls dead of fatigue, the turtle revives her with a witchcraft; everyone won]: Nassau 1912, No. 5:96-99; Conde [the turtle tells the elephant it can jump over it; the turtle's wife is waiting on the other side of the elephant, the turtle pretends to jump, and the wife answers the elephant; then the turtle puts its relatives and children at a distance, the elephant runs, but the turtle's voice is always in front of him]: Dähnhardt 1912:51-52; quiri [the elephant goes to the sea, the coast agrees to compete with a turtle, which puts its relatives at a distance, wins]: Dähnhardt 1912:51-52; chwana [turtle and antelope (Steinbock) agree to race; the turtle places other turtles along the distance, the antelope loses]: Olderogge 1959:34-35 (=Dähnhardt 1912:52-53).

West Africa. Tangale [the frog invites Antelope to race, arranges its relatives along the running route, the exhausted Antelope dies; the Frogs do not have a knife, they ask the Hare to cut the meat, he cuts, but takes the best for himself; goes for fire; frogs pretend to die after eating meat; the latter reports this to the Hare; he throws fire and meat, runs away; frogs feast]: Jungraithmayr 2002: 44-50; Vute: Sieber 1921, No. 25 [the thunderstorm invites the turtle to race; it has placed other turtles at a distance; at its hail, the thunderstorm hears an answer in front of it every time; the thunderstorm has fled from last of her strength, but realized that she would not be able to catch up with the turtle], 26 [the antelope threw away the turtle's basket; she advises not to brag about her speed, suggests racing tomorrow; placed it at a distance other turtles; the antelope admits defeat, gives the turtle a skin {what?}] : 194, 194-196; Vai: Ellis 1914, No. 16 [the deer and the snail agree to race; the loser will be a slave to the winner; the snail places other snails along the distance; each river has a deer meets a snail, asks to move it to the other side; there is also a snail at the finish line; the deer ran away and since then does not want to meet snails]: 199-200; Krill 1966 [the lion king of animals offers to compete in running; no one wants to, because it is known that the deer will win anyway; at the last moment, the turtle agrees to compete; places other turtles along the distance; after learning about the loss, the deer faints and timid since then]: 32-37; Igbo [the frog invited the deer to compete in the run, placed other frogs along the distance; they called out to the deer in front of him each time; the deer drove itself to death] : Basden 1921:274 (=Feldman 1963, No. 140 in Permyakov 1972:44); banen [the bushback antelope despises the turtle for not knowing how to run; the turtle offers to run in two days, arranges its own relatives along the distance; the bushback fell dead from fatigue, his brother killed a turtle; before that, the bushbacks were black {and now brown?}] : Dugast 1975:320-324; banen [the big bushback antelope and the dwarf antelope argued who would eat and drink more; the dwarf hid her relatives nearby; after eating another portion, went out to relieve the need, another came instead; bushbok lost]: Dugast 1975:236-238.

Sudan-East Africa. Mangbetu [the chameleon and the elephant agree to race; the chameleon places other chameleons along the distance; clings to the elephant's tail; the elephant is barely alive from fatigue, admits itself defeated]: Dähnhardt 1912:74-75; pokot (female) [the turtle and the hare are racing; the turtle has put its brother at the finish line; he replied to the hare that he is already waiting for him]: Beech 191:38 (paraphrase in Arewa 196:72); lure [the earth replies to the hare that it is not standing still, but moving; the hare offers to race; each time the earth answers from under his feet; zakyaz admits defeat]: Dähnhardt 1912:94-95; nuers [the frog tells the ostrich that it runs faster than him; after setting a day, he puts the other frogs at a distance; the ostrich hears the frog's voice in front all the time himself, died of exhaustion]: Huffman 1971:96-97; shilluk [the frog invites the water goat (antelope) to race; puts other frogs at a distance; the water goat died of fatigue]: Westermann 1912:192; malgashi (Tulear province) [the frog offers the boar a competition: who will swim faster; the frog puts other frogs along the distance; the boar drowned and drowned; his relatives wanted to kill the frog, but it disappeared into the water]: Haring 1982, no. 2.3.1074:342.

North Africa. Western Sahara [The Hedgehog and the Eagle agree to run/fly in a race; the Hedgehog puts other hedgehogs at a distance in advance; the Eagle admits defeat, asks for permission to see the Hedgehog's head; he tells him to be lifted into the air, then he will see; the Eagle sees the Hedgehog's head, throws it, the Hedgehog breaks]: Aris, Cladellas 1991:146-147; kabila: Dähnhardt 1912 [the jackal and the turtle agreed that the winner of the race can eat another; the jackal runs in open areas, the turtle runs in the forest, puts other turtles at a distance; the jackal loses, runs away in fear]: 66; Frobenius 1921b, No. 4 [the jackal and the hedgehog decided to grow beans together; they prepared a pot of butter and a pot of honey - they will return from work in the evening and eat; jackal: a neighbor has a child, we will have to go give him a name; went where they were the pots were hidden, ate oil and honey, filled the pots with earth, anointed them with the remains of oil and honey on top; when he returned, he replied that the child was named bis auf dem Boden; during harvesting and processing The jackal adjusts so that the hedgehog does all the work; suggests dividing: beans, hedgehog straw; the hedgehog is indignant; the jackal asks (his) brothers, they say: whoever gets to the barn faster will get grain; the hedgehog leaves his brother there; when the jackal runs up, the hedgehog (i.e. the hedgehog's brother) says he has already reached; the animals award beans to the hedgehog; both argue who ate the butter and honey; man: go to bed with shards under him; ate by someone who would have them smeared with oil and honey; in the morning the jackal got up and changed the shards; the hedgehog accused him, the jackal tried to hit and bite him, got all punched; decided not to go with the hedgehog anymore contact, the harvest went to a hedgehog]: 13-16; the Berbers of Tunisia [the wolf and the hedgehog cultivated the field together; began to argue who would get the harvest; the hedgehog offered to race, placed their own at a distance seven children, the wolf believed he had lost]: Stimme 1900, No. 19:67-68 (narrated in Dähnhardt 1912:68-69); the Berbers of Beni Snou (NW of Algeria: border with Morocco) [the hedgehog and the jackal grew barley together; The jackal is going to appropriate the entire crop; offers to race, the winner will get all the barley; the hedgehog placed his hedgehogs at a distance, hid the latter in addition under barley; the harvest went to a hedgehog]: Destaing 1907, No. 2:240-250; Shawi Berbers (eastern Algeria), Algerian Arabs [hedgehog and jackal planted onions, jackal took roots, hedgehog tops; next time they planted wheat, the hedgehog took the roots, and the jackal - grain; then the hedgehog offered to give the wheat to whoever wins the run; placed other hedgehogs along the distance; the jackal admitted defeat]: Dähnhardt 1912:69; Berbers Zoove [hedgehog and jackal planted onions, jackal took roots, hedgehog tops; next time they planted wheat, the hedgehog took the roots, and the jackal took the grain; the hedgehog is dissatisfied; the jackal offers to give wheat to someone who can quickly reach the heap of grain; hid the hedgehog in her brother, the jackal admitted defeat]: Dähnhardt 1912:69-70.

Southern Europe. The Portuguese [toad and fox (most versions), turtle and fox, or hedgehog and hare agree to race; a toad (turtle, hedgehog) finishes its relative]: Cardigos 2006, № 275C: 51; Spaniards (everywhere including Galicia) [the hare offers a hedgehog to race; the hedgehog puts the hedgehog at the finish line, the exhausted hare admits defeat, is forced to give 5 duro and a bottle Vodkas]: Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 275D: 409-411; the Spanish (Murcia) [the turtle (or hedgehog) and the hare agree to race; the turtle (hedgehog) places other turtles (hedgehogs) along the distance the hare believes he lost]: Hernández Fernández 2013, No. 275C: 82; Catalans [toad and fox; hedgehog and fox]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 1074:209; Italians (Basilicata) [toad and fox]: Cirese, Serafini 1975, № 1974; the Maltese [hedgehog and jackal planted turnips; the hedgehog invites the jackal to choose the tops or roots, he chooses the tops, gets the tops; next time the jackal chooses the roots, gets wheat roots; the jackal complains, but the judge was another hedgehog; he invited them to race - whoever gets to the mountain and back faster will get everything; the jackal agrees; the hedgehog arranges his three brothers; The jackal runs and sees the hedgehog in front of him all the time; the harvest went to the hedgehog]: Stumme 1904, No. 33:86-88 (retelling in Dähnhardt 1912:70, in Mifsud-Chircop 1978, no. 9B: 1).

Western Europe. French: Arnaudin 1967, No. 9 [the snail tells the fox that it is going to go elsewhere; the fox doubts that it will get there; the snail agrees to race with it, puts another snail at the finish line; the fox ran the distance several times; then understood the deception, ate both snails]: 120-124; Dähnhardt 1912 (Rhône-Alpes) [fox and toad cultivated the field together; fox: who was first will run around the field, get all the wheat; a toad with three other toads are placed in the corners of the field, the fox believes it has lost]: 72; Kabakova 1998 (Niverne) [the hare speaks disdainfully of the snail; she says that he will overcome the field faster than him; they agree to race; the snail puts another snail at the finish line, the hare loses; then suggests who will reach Paris faster; the snail attaches to the wagon , gets to the appointed place; the hare comes running, it is already there; out of grief, the hare goes to drown; at the sight of his frogs jump into the water in fear; the hare came in a good mood and laughed so much that his lip burst]: 56-57; Lopyreva 1959, No. 25 [=Delarue Tenèze 1976, No. 32:186; the wolf stepped on the snail, she offered to race; the wolf stepped on the wasp's nest, the wasps promise to drown the wolves; the snail placed girlfriends along the river, they constantly respond to wolves, are considered winners; wasps began to sting wolves, they rushed into the river and drowned]: 87-88; Dähnhardt 1912 (Upper Brittany) [fox laughs at With the slowness of the snail, she offers to race, places other snails along the furrow in the field; the fox falls dead from fatigue]: 72; Germans [the hare speaks contemptuously of the hedgehog's legs, he offers to race; tells his wife to stand at the other end of the field, answer for him when the hare runs there; the hare loses]: Grimm, Grimm 1987, No. 187:543-545 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:421-423); Germans (Schleswig-Holstein): Uther 2004 (1), No. 275c: 158-159; friezes (many records) [hedgehog (snail) and hare (greyhound) agree to race; the hedgehog puts his wife at the finish line, the hare runs to those until he falls dead]: Kooi 1984, no. 275A*: 306; the British [the hedgehog and the fox race, the hedgehog puts his wife at the finish line, the fox believes it has lost]: Dähnhardt 1912:71; Welsh [ Davies said the line that he could not overtake the hedgehog; decided to run along the furrow; D. put two hedgehogs at opposite ends of the furrow; the exhausted devil gave up]: Watkins 1932:426.

Western Asia. The Arabs of Iraq [the hedgehog and the fox cultivated the field together; to take the entire crop, the fox offers to give it to the winner on the run; the hedgehog puts five other hedgehogs at a distance, the fox admits defeat]: Weissbach 1908, #27:137-139 (retelling in Nowak 1969, No. 19:59-60).

Melanesia. Reef Islands [needlefish laughs at the hermit crab: it barely crawls; it offers to race; puts other hermit crabs at a distance; when the needle fish calls out to an opponent, it every time she hears the answer ahead; died of fatigue, she was thrown ashore, hermit crabs ate her]: Nss 2006:29-31; the Fijians [crane and crab decided to race; the crane flew, and the crab placed other crabs at a distance; the crane fell into the sea out of fatigue and drowned]: Dähnhardt 1912:64.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Yap [needlefish argues with the hermit cancer who is faster; he puts another cancer at the end of the race; the fish swims to the finish line, but the hermit cancer is already there; when it swims back, dies of fatigue]: Mitchell 1973, No. 11:39-41; Ponape [garfish and crab argue who swims faster; decide to swim to Kusaie Island; crab places Triton mollusks at a distance; when ways garfish calls out to the crab, they answer instead of him each time; garfish pleaded defeated]: Hambruch 1927, No. 44 in Permyakov 1971:34-35; Palau, Kusaie, Truk, Kapingamarangi ["Race won by deception: relative helpers" is known in much of Micronesia with minor variations]: Mitchell 1973:247.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [the frog found a pot of gold on the mountain, but the hare said he was the first to see it; offered to race from the foot of the mountain to the pot; the frog put the other two in the middle and in at the end of the race; the hare believed he had lost; the frog does not know how to bring the pot down; the duck offered to do so if the frog gives half; after receiving its share, painted the chest with gold, since then it is golden in this type of duck]: Shelton 1925, No. 30:123-125; khashi [animals speak contemptuously of the snail, the deer flaunts in front of everyone; the snail invites him to race, arranges lots of snails along the distance; from fatigue and despair, the deer regurgitates its gallbladder; therefore, deer don't have a gallbladder]: Rafy 1920, No. 15:81-84; sherdukpen [porcupine sends nephew for water, he says that the water is muddy; the porcupine goes by itself; the bathing elephant replies that it will only leave if the one who asks more than him; the porcupine gives his nephew its needle, tells the elephant to show it as if it were hair ; the elephant is frightened; the porcupine leaves the elephant to support the tree; the big stone; the elephant believes they are about to fall, the porcupine leaves quietly; the tiger does not dare to attack him because he believes that the porcupine has a bag of poison; a porcupine invites an elephant to dig an underground passage, wins easily; offers to race, placing its relatives at a distance; the elephant hears the voice of the porcupine in front every time himself, falls dead from exhaustion]: Borgohain, Roy Chaudhury 1975:72-73; garo [the dwarf deer speaks contemptuously of a snail that has no legs; it promises to reach the goal faster than him; puts other snails at a distance; they respond to the deer, he hears a voice in front; fell into the abyss and crashed]: Rongmuthu 1960:134-135; chiru [the tiger and the snail agreed to race; the snail has placed other snails along the distance; while the tiger is running, snails call out to him and he hears a voice in front of him; the tiger is so tired that it has fallen dead to the ground; snails have crawled onto the tiger's corpse since then his skin is striped]: Grierson 1904a:233.

Burma - Indochina. Banar [the turtle agrees to race with the tiger; places 12 other turtles across 12 hills; the tiger admits defeat]: Nikulin 1976:165-166 (=1990:283-284); bru (vankieu) ) [When approaching the stream, the tiger speaks contemptuously of the snails; the snail promises to overtake him, negotiates with other snails; the tiger runs along the stream, but the snail's voice always sounds in front of him; the tiger runs along the stream, but the snail's voice always sounds in front of him; exhausted, took several snails in his mouth, but a sharp shell pierced his gum; the man picked it out with a knife; since then, tigers have not swallowed snails or attack Vankieu people]: Nikulin 1990:271-273; Palaung (Yunnan) [The hare ate grass and branches and wanted to try something else. I saw bees in the tree. A tiger came up. Hare: "There is a manga (several connected gongs) on the tree that I inherited from my grandfather, and I'm guarding it. The tiger said, "Is this manga sound good?" "Certainly excellent! The best in the world!" The tiger got even more interesting, he asked the hare to hit him once, but he said, "No, grandpa will be angry." The tiger started asking again, and the hare pretended to have mercy: "I'll go ask my grandfather if he allows me, I'll scream at you and you can hit you three times." The hare ran to the mountain and shouted: "Tiger, hit!" , - he hit, bees flew out of the hive and bit him. He wanted to bounce, but the hare had tied him to a hive before. Seeing the tiger's suffering, the hare ordered to hit harder. The tiger knocked the hive down to the ground, and the bees bit it. The tiger decided to take revenge. The hare wet his fur and rolled over the flower petals, getting stains. When I met a tiger: "I did not deceive you, that hare was white and I was spotted." The tiger agreed. The hare untied the tiger and asked him to eat the honeycombs in half. He took half of it for himself with honey, and gave the tiger his honeycombs. The empty honeycombs pricked the tiger's mouth, and the hare ate. He showed his mouth full of honey: "Look, my mouth is all over in porridge." Now the hare has decided to try beef. I met another tiger and said he offered to become friends. Let the tiger get a cow and we'll celebrate our friendship!" The tiger bit to death the cow and they started butchering it. The hare broke off its horn and gave it to the tiger to eat, which screamed from the god in the stomach. Hare: "Don't scream, the meat will go bad." The tiger listened and suffered in silence. The hare cut the meat and let the tiger go for water, the pumpkin must be full, otherwise the meat will deteriorate. Wild pigeon: "The tiger has a leaky pumpkin." The tiger mistook sincerity for a mockery and threw a stone at the pigeon. The hare hid the meat, divided the leftovers into two parts, and gave the bad one to the tiger. This meat was salty and bitter, but the hare said that it went bad because the water was not up to the brim. The next day, the hare saw people returning from picking bananas, lay down by the road, pretending to be dead. People put it in a basket full of bananas. The hare ate them, jumped out and ran away. I fell into a hole and couldn't get out. The tiger asked what the hare was doing in the pit. Hare: "Today the sky will fall, my grandfather told me to hide." Pointed to the movement of the clouds, the tiger believed that the sky was trembling. He promised not to touch the hare and jumped into the hole. The hare began to poke the tiger in the side with a stick. He began to swear, and the hare promised not to poke again. Same thing over again. For the third time, the tiger threw the hare out of the hole. I told people there was a tiger in the pit. People slaughtered a tiger and cut meat. The hare set fire to the grass near the village and said that the village was on fire. They ran to the village, and the hare ate meat. I climbed a tree and people started cutting it down. Hare: "I won't die if I fall out of the blue. People cut down the tree so that it fell towards the cave, and the hare disappeared into it. People closed the entrance. An old man lived in the cave and had a manga (combined gongs). People told the old man to hit the manga three times when he caught a hare. Hare to an old man: "I'm going to die soon and I only want this golden cup, will you give it to me?" The old man leaned over the hare, the hare bit his ear, the old man backed away, tripped over the barrier that blocked the entrance to the cave, it broke, the old man fell on the rocks and crashed to death. The hare hit the manga three times. People hurried to the cave, but the hare was gone. I ran to the edge of the field, where there are lots of snails. "We're going to honor the snail king." The hare began to laugh: they were too slow. The snails offered to compete in running. The hare reached the end of the field, called out to the snails, but answered from the beginning of the field: "We've been here for a long time, you're behind!" The hare ran back and forth until he died of exhaustion]: Chen, Wang 1989d: 529-533 (retelling the same or similar text in Riftin 2007:56-57); Khmers [the hare pretended to be dead; his banana merchant picks it up, puts it in its basket; the hare eats bananas, runs away; the snail tells the hare that the water belongs to it, let the hare not drink from the pond; the hare: if you swim across the pond faster than I run it, you're right; the snail places other snails along the coast, they respond to the hare; since then, the hares drink only dew; the hare promises to cure the crocodile of skin disease if it transports it to the other side; by jumping on shore, insults the crocodile and runs away; climbed into the buffalo's belly; under the sun, the skin has dried up and shrunk; the hare asks the man to pour water on the carcass; jumps out, screams that he will not thank his savior; crocodile pretends to be a log; hare: if you are a log, swim against the current, if the crocodile goes with the flow; the crocodile swam with the flow; crawled ashore, pretended to be dead, the hare came , the crocodile swallowed it, the hare began to fiddle with his intestines, the crocodile had to regurgitate him; the hare sat on a resinous stump and stuck; does not tell the elephants to drink water from the pond, he himself, the hare, is the watchman put by Indra; the elephant grabs the hare and throws it aside, the hare is released again; trapped by the gardener, begged the toad to release him - he will save it from warts; once free, insults the toad; in next time the toad freed the hare for promising to give his daughter for her son; the hare runs away again; says he ate five elephants and wants to clean his throat with the tiger's liver; the monkey assures the tiger that the hare is not dangerous ; tiger agrees to come back by contacting the monkey's tails; hare: are you leading this lousy tiger to pay off the debt? the tiger ran, dragging the toad; when he saw the grimace of a dead toad, he thought it was laughing at him; the hare was trapped again, pretended to be dead, the peasant took it out, he ran away; the peasant caught him again; the monk predicts that today the farmer will have normal food; he thinks that the predictor is bad: he has a hare and a fish at home; a hare teaches a fish to pretend to be asleep; it will be thrown into the water, it will swim, master will try to catch it at the top under which the hare; both escape]: Gorgoniev 1973:115-126 (=Marunova 1972:165-170); Viets (central Vietnam) [the tiger tells the turtle to get off the road, it is faster than it; the turtle offers to race, places 12 others on the hilltops; they respond to the tiger, who falls from exhaustion]: Cadière 1955:242 (summary in Dähnhardt 1912:62); Thais: Coyaud 2009, No. 9 [At the stream, the hare asks the snail if it can walk; in response, the snail offers to race, places other snails at a distance; believing that the snail was ahead of him, the hare crooked grimace so that the lip bursts]: 82-83; Gubernatis in Hartt 1875 [Kruth is going to eat the turtle; it agrees if the bird reaches the other side of the lake first; let it fly and it, the turtle, swim ; places many other turtles on the lake, the bird loses]: 14; shana [the hare offers the snail to race; the snail: I'm afraid of your humiliation; the hare: if I win, I'll kill all the snails, and if I lose, I won't go to the water for a drink anymore; the snail places other snails from the mouth of the river to the source; the hare admits defeat, no longer drinks from the river]: Milne 1910:222-223 (=Kornev 196:139-140); Burmese [the snail offers the horse competition conditions: run while you have enough strength, call out to each other 200 meters later; places other snails along the road; the horse died of fatigue, its snails eaten]: Aung 1957:7-8; padaun [the hare laughs at the snake - he is small and slow; offers a competition in running; if he loses, he will not swim, drink or build dwellings; the snake puts on the distances of their relatives, their voice is always in front of the hare; since then, the hares have not drunk, swim or build dwellings; with tension, their ears stretched out, their eyes rolled out of their orbs, the tail snuggled and became small, the hind legs became longer than the front legs]: Zapadova 1977:333-336; palaung [snail and hare]: Esche 1976 in Taube 1978:365

South Asia. Santala [the elephant speaks contemptuously of black and red ants; they offer to compete in running; no matter how much the elephant runs, it sees two ants in front of it; it has fallen dead from fatigue]: Bombas 1909:328 (translated to Permyakov 1972:58); Assamese []: Lewison 1939 in Bødker 1957, No. 380:47; baiga [fox and wind agreed to race; the wind rustled in the branches; fox gave a voice, and then the other foxes shut up the relay; (the wind admitted defeat)]: Elwin 1939, No. i: 482; the Sinhalese [the turtle invites the lion to jump across the river; leaves another turtle on to the opposite bank; the lion is jumping and the turtle is already there; the same is back; jumped until it drowns]: Parker 1910:244 (retelling in Dähnhardt 1912:67).

Malaysia-Indonesia. Simalur [the monkey is sure that the snail will not be able to reach the upper reaches of the river; the snail offers to compete in running, places other snails at a distance, which are responsible for it every time finding himself in front of a monkey; a snail tells the monkey not to brag anymore]: Koehler 1964:133-134; Mentawai [a brown monkey lures other monkeys into a trap; races against a crab that puts many crabs instead]: Loeb 1929, No. 14:184-188; Malays [drongo bird (Dicrurus macrocercus; king crow, cf. Milne 1910:224) offers the snail to race to the mouth of the river: if he loses, he will become its slave, if he wins, he will be the master of the river; the snail places other snails along the bank, they respond to the flying one drongo, now drongo is a snail slave]: Skeat 1901:33-35; Bahau [hermit crab invites dwarf deer (plandok) to race; places relatives similar to him at a distance; breathless plandock sees that he has been overtaken, died of tension]: Evans 1913:475-476; tetum [monkey and shark sowed corn; shark suggests dividing the crop in half; monkey - let the one who comes running first gets everything; the shark hides the other four sharks at a distance; the monkey wins confidently, but a shark is waiting for it at the finish line; it has the entire harvest]: Hicks 1974:64-65; toraja [ tarsiers (nggasi, Tarsius fuscomanus) invites the deer to race; puts its relatives at a distance; when the deer comes running, nggasi is already there]: Adriani 1898:362-363; Javanese [ the dwarf deer mocks the snail's slowness; it offers to race, places other snails along the shore, the deer admits defeat]: Dähnhardt 1912:62; galela [ the kingfisher asks the clam (Seeschnecke) why it is crawling so slowly; the mollusk offers to compete in running; puts its relatives at a distance; the kingfisher flies but hears a voice all the time opponent ahead]: Dähnhardt 1912:284-285; Lampung, Aceh [the dwarf deer loses the competition to another character]: Adriani 1898:363

Taiwan - Philippines. Tagala [buffalo (carabao) speaks contemptuously of the turtle; she invites him to race; the turtle places 7 other turtles at a distance; the buffalo believes that the turtle is ahead of him , tries to crush it, but only injured a hoof on the shell, now it is split]: Eugenio 1994, No. 249:402-403; Tinghian [buffalo tells the snail that it is moving very slowly; the snail offers to run racing; buffalo runs, other snails, new each time, calls out to him in front of him; buffalo ran until he died]: Cole 1916:89; apayao [deer laughs at slowness snails; she offers to race; moves along the river, and the deer cuts turns, but every time it hears the voice of the snail in front; asks to stop, comes to the snail, hits it with its hoof, it splits, the deer dies; therefore, the deer hooves are split; {it is not said that the snail places relatives along the distance, but apparently this motive should have been}]: Wilson 1947b: 100-101; visayas [ the deer laughs at the snail's slowness; it invites it to race; places other snails in each well, each tells the deer that it has been waiting for it; the deer furiously broke its head against wood]: Maxfield, Milington 1903:315.

China - Korea. The Chinese (?) [The turtle offers the crow a competition: who is faster on the other side of the river; leaves another turtle on the opposite bank; the raven flies up - the turtle is already there]: Dähnhardt 1912:67; fox [the frog invites the tiger to jump over the stream, quietly clings to its tail, finds himself with him on the other side; they agree to run to the top of the mountain; the frog spreads along distances from other frogs, the tiger died of tension]: Zapadova 1977:167-168.

The Balkans. Hungarians [hedgehog (bear, turtle) agrees to race with a hare; places other animals of his species along the distance, the hare falls from exhaustion]: Kovacs 1987, № 275A: 298; (cf. Kovacs 1987, № 275D [the hare invites the fox to race; if it wins, it can eat it; the fox insists on running down the slope, sits on the hare on horseback; below the hare jumps, the fox falls down, the hare runs up the slope], 398E [the hedgehog and the roe deer agree to race down the slope; the roe deer comes first, but turns over below and breaks its neck]: 298).

Central Europe. Poles [hedgehog and hare racing, hedgehog puts another hedgehog at the finish line, the hare believes he has lost]: Dähnhardt 1912:71; Ukrainians (Hutsulshchyna, Transcarpathia), Belarusians [Hare and a hedgehog: they compete in the run; the hedgehog makes a substitution by sending his wife or brothers to the end of the field in advance and therefore wins]: SUS 1979, No. 275A*; Belarusians [the owner drove the old horse away; he eats grass, a lion came up; to show his power, he squeezed the stone so that water dripped from it; horse: it's not difficult, it's raining on the stone, and I'll squeeze fire out of the stone (hits its hoof); the lion hits the stone with its paws, hurt himself; the lion left, met the wolf, said that the one who eats grass on the hill took away his royal dignity - he was stronger; the wolf wanted to see who it was; the lion lifted the wolf by the head show the horse, out of that; lion: died from one species; went and stepped on the hedgehog; offers a hedgehog to race: if I catch up, I'll kill; when the lion comes running, the hedgehog says that he has been waiting for him for a long time ( put other hedgehogs); after that, the lion left our land and lives in France]: Fedorowsky 1902, No. 34:31-32.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygi: Aliyeva 1978, No. 78 (bzhedugi) [=Huth 1987:302-305; the hedgehog lived in a dry stump, the old man threw it into the fire, the hedgehog promised to make 3 kurmens (sacrifices) if the old man saved her; old man I did not know about it, but threw out the stump and filled it with water, because the stump was smoking; the hedgehog led the bear to a tree with bees; then offered to jump on it, dodged, the bear crashed on a stump (these are two kurmen: bees and bear); the hedgehog offers the deer to race, places hedgehogs at a distance; the deer died of tension; the crow wanted to carry the meat, the hedgehog warned not to do so - the entire crow genus will disappear; the crow opened its mouth, the meat fell out]: 350-352; Kerashev 1957 [the hedgehog invites the deer to run between two mounds; puts a friend at the other mound; the deer ran between the mounds until it burst]: 311- 312; Maksimov 1939 [as in Kerashev; the deer left ashamed]: 91-93; Ossetians [two hedgehogs lived in a hollow; they cut down the tree, threw it into the oven, hedgehogs promised to thank God with a dish of light deer and honey on bear breasts; the stench began, the hostess threw away the log; the hedgehog offers the deer to run to the mound: the loser can be slaughtered and eaten; another hedgehog is sitting near the mound; the deer was slaughtered, shown the bear where the honey is; offered to put the honeycombs on their chest and fall; the bear crashed]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 13:39-41; Dargins [the turtle and the hare argued who would run faster through the forest and return; the hare lay down to rest, and the turtle, though slowly, was the first to cover the distance]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 32:121); the Lezgins [the turtle and the fox sowed the field together; the fox: let the whole harvest be whoever wins the run; the turtle arranged along her friends' distance; when the fox came running, the turtle was already at the finish]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 31:120; the Turks [the turtle, the crayfish and the fox decided to cultivate the field together; the fox shies away from work, and then offers to give the harvest to the fastest one; loses both times: the turtle places other turtles along the distance, and the cancer clings to the fox's hair]: Dor 2002, No. 19:61-62; Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 4 : 29.

Iran - Central Asia. Bakhtiyary [the turtle sows a bowl on its back; the fox: "God help"; the turtle reaps, the fox again: "God help"; comes for its share; the turtle refuses to share; the fox claims that her words they helped grow the crop; let whoever reaches the threshing floor get the grain; the turtle hides his brother in the threshing floor; the fox overtakes the turtle, but takes Brother Bowl-on-back for him; the fox leaves with his head down]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 46:304-305

Baltoscandia. Latvians: Arys, Medne 1977, No. 1072 [Racing - another person stands at the final destination]: 340; Pogodin 1895 [the hedgehog offers the hare to race - the winner will snatch 10 from the other needles or mustaches; the hedgehog puts his brother at the finish line; they run back and forth, each time the hedgehog says that he is frozen while waiting for a hare; since then, hedgehogs have bunny antennae above their lips]: 442-443 (=Alksnite et al. 1958:86-87); Swedes: Dähnhardt 1912 [hell is going to make Tita Grå his maid if she doesn't beat him on the run; she puts her sister Grå Lora at the finish line, damn admits defeat; the plain they fled on has not grown green since then]: 94; Stier 1971, No. 54 [same girl's name Kitta Grau]: 194; Finns [peasant Matti must race with the devil; puts his brother or wife dressed in men's clothes at the finish line, hell admits defeat]: Dähnhardt 1912:94; Karelians [the peasant must race with the devil; puts his own at the finish line brother or wife dressed in men's clothes admits defeat]: Dähnhardt 1912:94; Estonians, Setu (various districts, including Setu) [hare and hedgehog agreed to race; hedgehog brought his wife, the hare does not distinguish between them and admits defeat]: Kippar 1986, No. 275A*: 167-168.

Volga - Perm. The Tatars [the fox and the hedgehog decided to race; the hedgehog put the hedgehog at the finish line; the fox ran back and forth, but every time she sees a hedgehog in front of him]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 12:50; Bashkirs [hedgehog offers the hare to race; puts the hedgehog at the finish line, wins the coin and milk]: Barag 1989, No. 103:414-416 (=Yukhma 1990:122-123).

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans [the fox was black; offered the burbot to compete in running upstream; the burbot placed other burbot along the coast, each answering the fox that he was ahead of her; the fox was ashamed blushed and remained red]: Taube 1978, No. 5:20 (=Vatagin 1971, No. 34:193-194, =Permyakov 1972:35); Buryats [used to come to the banks of rivers and lakes to eat fish; burbot offers compete in speed; puts other burbot at a distance; when the leopard calls out to him, every time he hears the answer ahead: I'm here; I saw burbot at the last backwater; ran away, dead tired, and since then the pore does not fit the water]: Eliasov 1959:117-120.

Western Siberia. Nganasana [the fox invites the burbot to race; he agreed with the other fish; when the fox called burbot on the run, she heard his voice in front of him every time; died of fatigue]: M. Momzikova, presentation at EUSP on November 26, 2015 with reference to Dolgikh.

Eastern Siberia. Western Evenks (Ilimpic, Tura) [The bird offers Lisa to jump on the ice of the lake; the fox fails; at the bottom, the mother falls ill; the fox offers to cure, tells the guys to get out, eats Magpie; invites Burbot to race; each time the other burbot in front is responsible; the fox sleds with the old woman, eats fat; tells the old man to bring the deer to the fodder; herself kills, eats them; the old man shouts to the old woman to kill the fox; the fox explains that he tells her to tie fat on her tail; runs away; the old man lets the dog go, the Fox goes down the hole, the old man lit the fire, the Fox fired leave her tail even a sleeve long; he left it]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 1:7-8; Suvorov 1956 (Podkamennaya Tunguska) [burbot invites the fox to swim and race; arranges other burbot along the coast ; from running, a blackskin fox sparkled, turned yellow]: 64-65; Baikal Evenks: Pinegina et al. 1952 (Kalarsky: northern Transbaikalia) [The fox promises to cut down a tree if the bird does not throw off her chick; Hazel grouse explains that the Fox has nothing to cut; The fox catches the Hazel grouse, shows it to the bird; that, Here are the Geese flying, boast of their prey, the Fox opens its mouth, the hazel grouse flies away; the fox agrees race with Burbot; he places his relatives along the river, Lisa loses]: 17-18; Voskoboynikov 1958 (Bount, Buryatia) [= Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:170-171; fox offers burbot run to the top of the river: she would call out to him at every cape, and let him answer; the fox hoped to cut the distances between the capes; the burbot placed other burbot everywhere, the fox lost; the river since then pores are called Burbot]: 41-42; Baikal Evenks (north of Transbaikalia) [the fox tells the bird to throw down the chick, threatens to cut down a tree; then the second; third; hazel grouse taught the bird to tell the fox that nothing to cut; having found out who the adviser was, the fox caught the hazel grouse and returned to the bird; geese were flying at; the fox bird: show off prey to the geese; the fox opened its mouth, the hazel grouse flew away; the fox went to the river, laughs at burbot: does not know how to run; burbot promises to overtake her; agreed with relatives, placing them at a distance; the fox always hears the voice of burbot in front of him; having reached the upper reaches of the river, she is completely exhausted]: Pinegina 2019:26-27; Northwestern Yakuts (summary of two texts, one of which is archival; at least Essean; roughly the same in Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976:32-34) [Lisa and Burbot competed on the run; Burbot won by placing his friends at the finish line; the pike said so; the judges told him to cut, his tail narrowed; Burbot: people will come soon, they will not find meat in their bones, what will they eat? the judges ordered Taemenu to give Burbot some of the meat and change his liver; since then, burbot has a large liver]: Ergis 1967b, No. 64:173.

Japan. The Japanese (Tohoku, South Honshu, Kyushu) [a tiger from Korea (China) summons a fox to compete; she places her relatives along the distance; the disgraced tiger returns home; so in Japan There are no tigers; the tiger makes its smaller copy, gives the new animal three mustaches, sends it to Japan; that's why cats have three long mustaches]: Ikeda 1971, No. 1074:226.

SV Asia. Forest Yukaghirs [the fox sees burbot sleeping in the river, calls him lazy, his head is larger than himself; the burbot offers to compete in speed; the fox agrees, thinking that the burbot will swim along to the curves of the river, and it will run straight; but every time the burbot calls out to the fox, it hears his voice in front of her; the fox was ashamed of its defeat and left; in fact, other burbot was responsible for the burbot; c Since then, the fox and burbot became enemies and the fox eats all fish]: Spiridonov 1930:207-208 (=1996:49, =Zhukova, Chernetsov 1992:54-55); Chuvans [Burbot persuaded the fox to race. I called my Burbot friends, they called her here and there. The fox, thinking it was one burbot, ran back and forth, tired and died]: Brodsky, Innecay 2018, No. 7:13-15; (cf. Chukchi [the mouse invites the hare to race, making a circle; while the hare is running, it calmly comes to the designated bump; the same again; the hare believes that the mouse ran faster than him]: Tyn'etegyn 1959:84- 85).

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos [after agreeing with other bulls, the goby offers the wolf a race: he will swim and the wolf will run along the shore; when the wolf runs and asks, "Goby, where are you?" , he hears a voice in front of him every time; the wolf is completely exhausted]: Menovshchikov 1985, No. 15:44-46.

The coast is the Plateau. Kutene: Boas 1918, No. 29 [the antelope runs the fastest; the frog has put other frogs at a distance; the antelope has admitted defeat and has had to give up its clothes]: 43; Linderman 1997 [Frog Chief: The antelope chief is faster than me, but I'm smarter; offers to race, the bet is clothes; puts other frogs along the distance; the antelope admits defeat]: 13-22; Chamberlain in Dähnhardt 1912 [frogs and deer]: 57-58

The Midwest. Menominee: Bloomfield 1928, No. 90 [girl promised best runner; Turtle places her younger brothers at a distance in holes in ice; grabs a girl at the same time as Hawk; going cut it in half with a knife; Hawk lets her go, Turtle gets wife]: 281-293; Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II25 [girl's father demands 1) kill a white deer, 2) bring a copper rope, 3) win running competition; the Turtle completes tasks; while running, puts his relatives along the way; the Hawk is slightly ahead at the finish line; wants to cut the girl in half, then the Hawk refuses her; The turtle gets a wife]: 399-403.

Plains. Oto [The Biting Turtle reluctantly agrees to go camping with the Spotted Turtle; they reject the Hare, take Skunk, Squirrel, Mortar, Crest; when they approach the enemy camp, Stupka asks to be left in the bush, the Crest is closer to the dwellings; the Spotted Turtle is immediately grabbed, they want to throw it into the fire; she asks to be allowed to sing first; says that the fire will spread throughout the camp; if it is cooked, it will flood the whole camp with boiling water; pretending to be afraid of being drowned in a pond; she is thrown three times nearby, she laughs; when far away, people think the turtle has drowned; she screams that the water is her home; the chief tells the Big Belly to drink water; the turtle asks the Squirrel for help; she shoots from a tree, water pours back from the hole in the monster's stomach; the Skunk, hiding in the bushes, stunned the woman with the stench, took her off scalp; the girl picked up the comb, he took the hair off her and her father's head, she threw it away; The squirrel screams that the Comb got the scalp; the girl tried to pick up the Mortar with a pestle in it; the pestle stuck, she pulled, the mortar hit her forehead; the squirrel shouted that Mortar had scalped; hiding at the bottom, the Biting Turtle almost dragged the boy by the leg; the squirrel offered to return home; The elk doubts that such slow-walkers could get scalps; the Spotted Turtle invites him to race; the Turtle places other turtles when the Elk comes to the finish line, the Turtle is already sitting there]: Curtis 1976 (19): 164-166; Arikara [the coyote brags about running fast, the turtle says it can overtake him; places other turtles along the distance, each telling the coyote that she is here; the coyote admits defeat, falls dead from fatigue]: Dorsey 1904d, No. 56:143 (=Thompson 2000, No. 90:258-259).

Southeast USA. Negro borrowing? Natchez [the turtle invites the deer to run across seven hills; places other turtles on the hills, each with a white feather attached to its head; when the deer reaches the top of one, he sees that a turtle with a feather on its head is already on top of the other; the deer does not believe that the same turtle is at the finish line: the eyes are red; the turtle: blushed with dust and fatigue]: Swanton 1929, No. 24:252; hichiti [wolf and the turtle agreed to race; the turtle placed other turtles on four hills, waited for the wolf at the finish line; reaching the next peak, the wolf sees that the turtle is in front of him; After running the distance, admits defeat]: Swanton 1929, No. 28:201; alabama [wolf and turtle agree to race; the turtle offers to run over four hills, attaches to a white feather on his head, secretly attaches it to other turtles; when he reaches the next peak, the wolf sees that the turtle is already on another; when he sees a turtle at the finish, the wolf tore it; the ants glued it together]: Swanton 1929 , No. 28:201; koasachi [the wolf invites the turtle to race; the turtle offers to run over four hills, promises to attach a white feather to its head, attaches it to other turtles; running to the next peak, the wolf sees that the turtle is already on another; at the finish, the turtle laughs, the wolf bites and throws it aside]: Swanton 1929, No. 28:201; screams: Swanton 1929, No. 56 [rabbit and turtle agreed to race; turtle: I will have a white feather in my head; puts three other turtles on the hill; when the rabbit sees the turtle at the finish line, he ran away], 57 [the turtle and the deer agreed to run racing; the turtle put three other turtles at a distance; each time the deer called out to the turtle, it answered in front of it], 58 [as in (57); there is a white feather on the turtle's head], 59 [ the turtle invited the wolf to race; placed other turtles at a distance, each with a white feather on their heads; when he ran to the finish line, the wolf saw a turtle there], 60 [the deer asks the turtle why it so slow; turtle: I can overtake you; put other turtles at a distance; a deer on the run calls out to the turtle, it is always ahead; the rabbit counted the victory for the turtle]: 53, 53, 54, 54, 54-55; chiroki [the rabbit negotiates with the turtle to race; the turtle puts its relatives at a distance, the rabbit falls from fatigue, loses]: Mooney 1900, No. 20:270-271; blacks South Carolina [the turtle negotiates with the deer to race; puts other turtles at a distance, the deer admits defeat]: Hartt 1875:12-13).

The Big Pool. Gosiyute [the coyote invites the frog to race, puts his clothes and bow and arrows on the line; the frog puts other frogs along the distance, the coyote admits defeat; then the frog tells the coyote how she spent it, but there's nothing you can do about it]: Smith 1993:40-41; Utah: Lowie 1924, No. 29 (Southern Utah) [coyote ("wolf") and the frog agree to race around the hill ; the frog places the other frogs along the distance; the coyote knows nothing, admits defeat]: 54; Smith 1992 (Uncompahgre) [the coyote invites the frog to race; it puts it along the distances of other frogs; the coyote admits defeat]: 24-25.

The Great Southwest. Zunyi [Zunyi runners always lose to K'iákime runners; they turn to the wise gopher; he asks to schedule the competition for the fourth day, provided that he himself runs down the hole under with earth; agrees with his brother to dig a hole at the finish line, decorate the head with the same red feather; the runners from K'iákime believe that the gopher has overtaken them; since then, Zunyi runners have turned to Gopher for help]: Cushing 1901:277-284.

Honduras-Panama. Kuna [The turtle invites the jaguar to compare their bowel movements with his eyes closed; replaces; the jaguar offers to race, the Turtle puts its relatives at a distance, it turns out winner]: Chapin 1989:89

Guiana. Warrau [the turtle tells the jaguar it is no worse than him; suggests comparing excrement, replacing it; offers to race, puts other turtles at a distance; invites each other color; the jaguar did it badly, the turtle painted the jaguar beautifully; stole the necklace from the sleeping jaguar; he offers to fight; the turtle asks for a delay; disappeared]: Roth 1915, No. 160:223-224; macushi [the jaguar invites the turtle to race; its relatives placed at a distance are responsible for the turtle; the turtle claims to hunt tapirs; the jaguar suggests comparing them excrement; The turtle shows the star to the jaguar, at this moment it replaces the secretions; the jaguar believes; the turtle is the first to hunt tapirs; says tapira that it can only drink from a vessel; this vessel is the tapir's penis; the tapir lets her take it in her mouth, the Turtle bites it off; pierces poisoned arrows into the already dead tapir; throws poison into a portion of the jaguar, which dies; the turtle sings that she has a necklace from the teeth of the jaguar; the jaguar's wife wants to kill her; the turtle replies that he will die only in the water; swims away; next time she tells the jaguariha that a tapir is running down the slope; lowers a stone instead of a tapir, the jaguariha is killed]: Soares Diniz 1971, No. 15:88-92; Emerillon [the turtle asked the beast (biche) for a daughter; he agrees if the turtle does not fall behind in the run; the turtle agreed with the others, placed them on distances; the beast gave the turtle a daughter]: Renault-Lescure et al. 1987, No. 3:151.

Western Amazon. Napo or Canelo: Orr, Hudelson 1971, No. 24 [the deer speaks contemptuously of the snail's slowness; it offers to race, places other snails along the distance; deer tries to jump over the river, falls into the water; the snail wins], 25 [same: turtle and jaguar; the jaguar never found out how the turtle orchestrated it], 26 [same, turtle and deer; deer fell dead from fatigue; another deer started running, but the turtle was ahead again]: 73, 75-77, 79.

NW Amazon. Tabatinga (mestizos?) [The turtle and the deer agree to race; the turtle tells the deer to run through the open area and it will run through the forest; places other turtles along the distance; the deer falls dead from fatigue, the turtle wins]: Pimentel in Hartt 1875:10-11.

Eastern Amazon. Lower Amazon (Santarem area, recorded as lingua geral) [the turtle replies to the deer that it is looking for water, that it runs faster than it; they agree to race in the morning; the turtle arranges at a distance from other turtles; insists to run in the bush rather than in open areas; the deer constantly hears the turtle's voice in front of him, falls dead from fatigue]: Hartt 1875:7-10.

(Wed. Bolivia - Guaporé. Eseeha [bakers and deer agreed to compete to see who would swim across the river faster; the deer was the first to jump across the river; bakers: no wonder you have long legs]: Hissink, Hahn 1988:180).

The Southern Cone. Araucans (Argentina) [frog and fox race (fox rides horse); the frog puts other frogs at the end of each of the four stages of the distance, each time the fox hears the frog's answer ahead, admits defeat]: Dähnhardt 1912:58-59.