M188. The jackal in the dyeing room. 21.-.23.29.30.33.34.
A character is honored after accidentally taking on an unusual appearance - getting dirty with paint or sticking on an object that he cannot remove.
Tibetans, Meitei, Arakans, Ancient India (Panchatantra), Sindhi, Kashmiris, Punjabi, Himachal Pakharis, Assamese, (Gujarati), Burmese, Laki, Lezgins, Georgians, Tajiks, Kazakhs, Khalkha Mongols, Oirats.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans: Schiefner 1906, No. 36 [the jackal fell into a vat with indigo; told others that his name was Śataga, that the king of the gods Śakra made him king of animals; sent him to tell his mother that his the closest ones were lions, tigers, elephants, and the circle further away were jackals; the mother refused to come, and the messenger said that the "king" was just a jackal; when the blue jackal rode an elephant, others howled and blue howled too; the elephant threw him off, trampled him]: 336-338; Parfionovich 1976 [=Komissarov 1997:454-455; the fox fell into a vat of blue paint; said that his name was Minó ("messenger"): Heaven sent him to be king animals; the elephant began to carry M. on his back; M. sent for his mother, but she refused to come; the messenger said that M.'s mother was a fox, so he was an ordinary fox; the foxes drove him away]: 188-190; the Meitei [the collected work Funga Wari, Vol. 3 by N. Bemni Singha; a thief cat; one man waited for him, hit him with a stick and put a heavy necklace around his neck; towards a holy man with a staff; decided that holy man cat]: Oinam et al. s.a.
Burma - Indochina. Arakan people [the cat put his head in the pot where the fish was; the old man threw a stone into it; the pot broke, the corolla remained around the cat's neck, the cat ran away; says to the rooster and the chicken that his neck is rosary and he teaches children; they gave him chickens; then the same thing: a duckling, a bow chick named Ye Cho and a crow named Mee Gaun; the cat says he will teach each one in a hollow; ate a duckling; a chicken says that the duckling learned and flew away; ate the chicken; EC and MK guessed the deception, grabbed the cat's eyes, since then the cats's pupils are across]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 66:203-205.
South Asia. Ancient India (Panchatantra): Bødker 1957, No. 830:84; Sindhi [the jackal asks the dyer to paint it with blue paint (indigo); injected acacia thorns into his ears, came to other jackals, He called himself a sultan, sat on a throne of cow cakes by the pond; allowed the goats to drink only after they sang the Sultan on the golden throne with precious pendants in his ears; the same with other animals; the old ram asked him to get drunk first and then let him say praise; sings that the smelly jackal is sitting on a throne of crap with thorns in his ears; the jackal rushed at him, but the ram pointed to approaching dogs and the jackal ran into the bush]: Schimmel 1995, No. 30:203-204; Kashmiris: Knowles 1885 [the jackal fell into the dyeing room and fell into a vat of blue paint; afraid of appearing to others, he lived on hill; the beasts mistook him for an unusual creature and crowned him king; but when the other jackals howled, this one sang along and was exposed]: 192-193; 1888 [the jackals chose the old jackal as king, painted him in blue, they put a mat around his neck for a twist; a tiger appeared, the jackals ran away, and the king got stuck in a hole because the mat did not fit; the tiger dragged him to him, tied him by the rope; the jackal managed to escape; They wanted to make him king again, but he said that it was enough to be king once for one life]: 160-161; the Punjabi [the jackal fell into a vat of paint; tells other jackals to call him a peacock; they asked him to let go of his tail or sing beautifully; he could neither; he was told that although he was not a jackal, he was not a peacock either, they drove him away]: Swinnerton 1884, No. 31:185-186; himachali ploughmen [The jackal climbed into the dyer's shop, covered himself with blue paint; the beasts did not recognize him, made him king; at first there were jackals by his side, and the howl of the painted jackal could not be heard behind their howl; but the painted jackal drove away for something else, surrounded himself with foxes and wolves; they heard a howl, realized it was a jackal; he was bitten and driven away]: Dracott 1906:198-199; the Assames [the fox ate intended for goddess Lakshmi pies left on a brass platter with a hole in the middle; stuck her head into the hole, can't take off the dish; so she can't hunt; tells two cubs that their parents must be from her they hide: their father owes her money; eats the meat left to the tiger cubs; so many times; the tiger stays watching, rushes after the fox, gets stuck at the fork in the tree; the fox to the tigress: you see what has happened with your husband; the tigress becomes a fox servant, carries meat; at the crossing, the fox almost drowns, the tigress takes her ashore; the fox: whoever asked me to be pulled out of the water, I was going to collect a debt from the river owner ; the tigress drove a deer at the fox, the deer stepped on the fox, tearing its fur coat; the fox: laughed so much that the deer was small that the skin burst; the cubs grew up; all the foxes began to howl; this fox stepped aside and too howled; the cubs realized it was just a fox, they tore it apart]: Borooah 1955:24-30; (cf. Gujarati [the cat climbed into a jar of oil in his head and could not be pulled back; the king broke the vessel to free the cat, but the neck remained around his neck and the cat ran away; in the field, sorghum told the mice that he was now a holy man, began to preach; slowly grabbed and ate mice; then they noticed the topic, hid]: Hertel 1921, No. 68:298-299).
Burma - Indochina. The Burmese [the cat put his head in a pot of fish, the owner threw a stone at it, the pot broke, and the corolla remained around the cat's neck; he walked and told the people he met that this was a sign of his wisdom, let them give it children; a duckling, a chicken, a crow and a bow chick went with him; at night, the cat eats a duckling, then a chicken; the other two guessed it, attacked him, since then the eyes of the cats are not along, but across]: Nikulin 1988:459-462.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Lucky [the jackal climbed into the dyeing room, smeared himself with different colors, decided to be the king of animals; the bear promises to serve him faithfully, the fox offered gifts, the lion agreed to be a watchman; the jackals began to howl , the "tsar" answered; the fox invited the lion to eat it - howls like a jackal]: Khalilov 1965, No. 11:28-29 (=Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:27-28); Lezgins [the jackal fell into a vat of blue paint; the fox promises it feed; says that the blue jackal is the son of the lion king of India; all animals carry him meat; the jackal believed that he was a prince, scolded his fox vizier; apologized; howled; the wolf realized that it was a jackal, ate it]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 89:228-230 (=Kapieva 1991:312-315); Georgians [the fox got into a dye pot, declared herself queen; let other foxes bring her a mouse a day; requires a mouse and from the fox on the other side; she offers to swim across it; the paint has come off in the water, the fox has become the old fox]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 6:38.
Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks (Sumbula) [the fox fell into the chimney, fell into a blue hum, grabbed the rosary hanging in the house, came to the chickens, told the rooster that he was going on Hajj; a rooster, then a quail, Hoopoes join him; he leads his companions into his hole, accuses him of improper behavior (the rooster wakes up in the middle of the night, the quail flies from under the feet of Muslims), eats it; the hoopoe says that it is in his favor There are two witnesses; the fox releases him, he brings a hunter with a dog to the hole; the dog killed him, the hunter took off his skin]: Levin et al. 1981, No. 14:116-118.
Turkestan. Kazakhs [the fox climbed into the dyer's shop, all smeared; the animals thought it was a king sent from heaven, served it for many years; in another country, all the foxes rested in one night; when they learned about this, the painted one also died of grief; the tiger understood its fat, tore his corpse furiously, and took the throne again]: Kaskabasov et al. 1979, No. 72:144.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Khalkha Mongols (The Mongolian Collection of Short Stories from Paňcatantra is a manuscript written in the literary Khalkha-Mongolian language with Western Khalkhas dialectisms and acquired by A.V. Burdukov in Northwestern Mongolia; the text seems to go back to the Tibetan original, which was a revision of one of the Panchatantra versions): Vladimirtsov 2003, No. XIII: 195-197 [fox (jackal) finds a blue paint vessel thrown by a dyer; climbs into it, turns blue; says to predatory animals: "I am a fox named Jir {gem}. I was sent from deva saying: go down, control predatory beasts and don't let them live in bad trouble!" ; believing, predatory animals give her great honor and respect; if she goes somewhere, she rides on the back of a lion; the blue fox becomes arrogant, begins to humiliate animals; sends her to her the messenger's mother to bring her food; the mother is dissatisfied with her son's arrogant behavior; the messenger and other foxes suspect that the blue fox is an ordinary fox; they say this to other predators, but they are not they believe; foxes offer to arrange a test: all foxes should bark, sitting upright, in the first spring month, on the day of the constellation Bus, and wool will come out of the fox that does not do so; with the onset of that the blue fox barks of the day; the animals understand that it deceived them, kill it]; 99, 104 [parallels to this story are found in the Chahar woodcut "Precious Jewelry" - a comment on the shastra entitled "Drop, nourishing people" (XIX), the Mongolian manuscript "Shastra - "Precious Jewelry" - commentary on (essay) "A drop that feeds the born" (XIX), "Interpretations" on Subhāsida (No. 17) and "Comments" for "A Bouquet of White Lotuses" (No. 37); the Chinese version has only minor details (Cinq cents contes et apologues. Extraits du Tripiţaka chinois et traduits en français, par Edouard Chavannes. P., 1911. T. 1-3. No. 389)]; Oirats (Xinjiang) [the motif corresponds to the fairy tale "How the Fox Was King" from the collection "Betege caγān boqširγo", published in 1981 in Urumqi in the series "Oirat Folklore Xinjiang" {no details; original verification required}]: Ubushiyeva, Damrinjav 2020:16.