M186. Speed competition: fish and animal.

.34.-.37.39.40.

The animal (fox, wolf, leopard) runs along the coast, and fish (burbot, goby) swims in the water. The animal calls out to the fish, and it is always ahead (usually places other fish at a distance, but in the non-gidal version, the competition motif is omitted).

Tuvans, Nganasans, Buryats, Western and Baikal Evenks, Northwestern (Essey) Yakuts, Negidals, Forest Yukaghirs, Chuvans, Asian Eskimos.

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 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 (Kalar, northern Transbaikalia, 1944) [the fox tells the bird to throw off the chick, threatens to cut down a tree; then second; third; hazel grouse taught the bird to tell the fox that it had nothing to cut; after finding out who the adviser was, the fox caught the hazel grouse and returned to the bird; geese were flying; fox bird: show off prey to geese; fox opened her mouth, the hazel grouse flew away; the fox went to the river, laughs at the burbot: he does not know how to run; the burbot promises to overtake her; agreed with relatives, placing them at a distance; the fox hears the voice of burbot all the time ahead of her; having reached the upper reaches of the river, she was completely exhausted]: Pinegina 2019:26-27 (=Pinegina et al. 1952:17-18); Baikal Evenks (Baunt, Buryatia) [=Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:170-171; the fox offers the burbot to run to the top of the river: she will call out to him at every cape, and let him answer; the fox hoped to cut the distances between the capes; burbot placed other burbot everywhere, the fox lost; the river has since been called Nalimya]: Voskoboynikov 1958:41-42; northwestern (Essey) Yakuts [fox and burbot competed in the run; burbot won by placing their friends at the finish line; pike oh She said this; the judges ordered 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 Tamenu to give Burbot some of the meat and change his liver; since then, burbot has a large liver]: Ergis 1967b, No. 64:173 (~Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976:32-34).

Amur - Sakhalin. Negidals [the fox tells the flying squirrel to eat the cub, threatens to hurt it; the flying squirrel gives four cubs one by one; the owl grandfather explains to the flying squirrel that the Fox's horns are herbal; the flying squirrel no longer gives the cubs, the fox rushes at the owl grandfather, who carries it above the ground, throws it into the sea; the fox tells the seal that he sings the songs that her parents sang when her parents matchmaking, that her people as numerous as stars; asks how many relatives the seal has; counts the seals leaning out of the water, runs across to the mainland over their bodies; meets burbot; the fox runs along the shore, the burbot swims; his fox calls out; he first responds through one bend {i.e. ahead}, then two; the fox came to the place where the old woman left the bird cherry to dry; the fox ate the bird cherry, fell asleep; the old woman came and killed the fox with a knife, took off her skin, made a hat; the wolf offered to guard the hat while the old woman feeds the puppies, takes the hat away; the crow offers to return it, the old woman asks how she will talk to the wolf; carr carr, old woman does not like it; bird: black man, old woman agrees; the bird flew into the winter road, there are hares, foxes, wolves, crows, ferrets and an old man with an old woman; cross mother camlaet; bird: chwick; old man: this is good shaman, let her wear our hat; the bird put it on and flew away, brought it to the old woman; she gave her a handmade knife for her nose, a needle in her paws]: Cincius 1982, No. 24:132-135 (Quail in Sanghi 1989:274-277).

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.

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.