M192A. Dried belts. 12.-.14.29.

The character agrees to be put on freshly skinned or wrapped in damp belts. Skins or belts cause pain or death (usually because they dry out and shrink).

Sousa, Hausa, Mukulu, Songhai, Tigre, Berbers Beni Snou (NW Algiers near Morocco), Algerian Berbers (Kabils, Ouargla), Azerbaijanis

West Africa. Susu [The lion orders to kill the elderly: only by getting rid of this burden will the animals be able to defeat the birds; Hyena supports, the Jackal is against, but does not dare to object, the Hare hid his father; gave him sew a robe from pieces of fresh skins; Hyena was appointed military leader, the Hare put a robe on her; the cloak has dried up, has clenched Hyena's body, no one can help her; the Hare takes an oath from Leo that he will not touch her his father, leads him; Hare's father tells Hyena to get into the water, the skin will get wet, Hyena can take it off; the four-legged flee from the birds; the Jackal pretended to be dead, caught a bird, she explained that the birds they only make noise; animals and birds began to live separately; the hare was chosen as leader]: Nikolnikov 1976:80-83; hausa [the jackal has a fluffy tail, he invites the lion to accompany him; the lion is jealous of the spotted guinea fowl coloring; jackal: I painted them, and I can also paint you, king of beasts; tells you to bring the bull and skin it in the form of a belt, stand under the tree on your hind legs, allow yourself to be wrapped; the jackal leaves the lion wrapped in a belt, carries the meat; the belt dries up, the lion's suffering is terrible; the hyena says he will follow the jackal, the warthog has freed the lion; he recovered, killed, ate the warthog, goes to look jackals; guinea fowls reply that they saw him carry meat to Sambo's animal owner; when they learn how terrible he is, the lion asks the guinea fowl to tell the jackal that he forgives him]: Mariko 1984:111-113; mukula [raven called an earthen squirrel to visit; told his mother to mix millet with sand; calmly pecked on grains, and the squirrel tried to gnaw it; called a crow to visit, told his mother to cook broth; slurped with a spoon, and the raven burned its beak; invited the squirrel to ride it; lifted it into the air and threw it; it fell on the back of a donkey led by a learned doctor (marabou); rode a donkey; tells the lion that she had gone on a pilgrimage; promises a lion treat him; let him make belts and buffalo skins; tied the lion with belts - let him try to tear him, then he will be cured; the lion cannot tear; the squirrel put a sliver in his ass and left; after 7 days ants they gnawed through their belts; the lion went and fell into the well; no one wants to help; finally, the rhesus monkey pulled it out; the lion is going to eat it - he was starving for 7 days; the monkey jumped on the tree, but fell and broke his neck]: Jungraithmayr 1981, No. 38:180-184; Songhai [Mohammed the Jackal and the Great Evil lion met; the lion coughs, the jackal promises to cure him; tells him to lift the cow; made belts out of the skin, tied him tightly lion to the tree; began to fry meat; told the lion to open his mouth, hit him with a stick; left; ants and termites agreed to gnaw through the belts if the lion did not eat them; when free, the lion licked the termites; found jackals; Jackal-M. has no tooth, he made an imaginary tooth out of the peel of a tuber; laughed, his imaginary tooth fell out, the lion chased the jackal, he whizzed into the hole, the lion grabbed his leg; jackal: why did he grab the root? the lion let go of the jackal's leg; the lion tells the hyena to dig out the jackal; but she bit off the lion's genitals and ran away; the jackal promised the lion to return it; went to the hyena and began to say that he had a daughter's wedding, lots of food; halfway through he said he was tired; the hyena agreed to carry it, even gave stirrups; each of the hyenyatas enters the house, where the meat, the lion's eye notices, comes out quickly; when the hyena itself enters, the lion gutted it, filled him with ash and covered his ass with a piece of lung; they ran, the younger hyeno pulled out the plug, and everything fell out of the hyena]: Calame-Griaule 2002:197-202.

Sudan - East Africa. Tigre [the monkey and the baboon got into a fight; the monkey could not defeat the baboon and decided to act cunningly; invited the lion to sew up the cracks in the cave; lion: how? monkey: with baboon tendons; the lion killed the baboon, brought tendons; the monkey told the lion to wrap them around his neck to dry; the tendons dried, the lion died of suffocation]: Littmann 1910, No. 8:8-9.

North Africa. Berbers Beni-Snou (NW Algeria near Morocco) [it has snowed, the lion is cold; the jackal tells the cow to be lifted up, he will make the lion sandals out of her skin; tells them to go out in them not when it rains, but when it is sunny; the skin dried up, the lion roars in pain; the hedgehog moistened the sandals with water, they were removed; the jackal disappeared; when the lion met him again, the jackal said it was not him; the lion: but the chopped tail: the jackal: I'll give you a hundred tailless jackals; the jackal told the other jackals to cling to the tail, and then raised the alarm; the jackals cut off their tails; at night, the lion jackal lay at the edge of the cliff; the jackal got up, lay down on the other side of the lion, asked move; the lion thought he had moved away from the edge and fell down; the jackals ate him]: Destaing 1907, No. 5:257-259; kabila [the lion's legs hurt, he limped; the jackal offered to lift the cow: if cover their feet with cow skin, they will recover; the lion lay on his back, the jackal covered the lion's legs, ate the cow; the skin is dry, the lion's legs are unbearably sick; the heron: the hedgehog's blood will cure you; the hedgehog: five drops, but must be mixed with the heron's brains; the lion summoned both, tore off the heron's head, the hedgehog gave 5 drops of its blood; the partridge brought water, poured it on the lion's paws, the cow's skin got wet, it was ripped off; the lion caught the jackal tail, tail come off; jackal to other jackals: the lion wants to kill the long-tail jackal, let everyone cut it off and go safely to the lion; this is how the jackal escaped]: Frobenius 1921b, No. 11:31-33; the Berbers of Algeria ( Quargla) [the jackal asks the hedgehog how many tricks he has; he replies that one and a half; the jackal has a hundred; they climbed into the garden to steal onions; the hedgehog ate to crawl back, the jackal ate full and could not get out when the owner appears; asks the hedgehog to give him half the trick; the hedgehog advises him to pretend to be dead; the owner's little son stabs the jackal twice with a thorn, he twitches, but the father does not believe his son that the jackal is alive; throws him over the fence; the jackal ran away, taking his shoe away; told the lion that he and all his relatives were famous shoemakers; if the lion wanted shoes, let him bring two fat camels; with his skin The camel jackal wrapped not only the lion's legs, but also the lion's body; the skin is dry, the lion is suffering unbearably; the jackal ran away, but the lion tore off his tail; screams that he identifies him as tailless; the jackal brought other jackals steal that bow and tied their tails to a palm tree; the owner came, they all cut off their tails; the lion could not identify the jackal; offered all jackals to eat black pepper, whoever says "I" is guilty; jackal: I'm not said 'Ay']: Basset 1897, #68:12-17.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Azerbaijanis [a lion offers a hungry fox to eat, he pretends not to dare; except that if he ties a lion with his guts, let him sleep in the sun; the intestines are dry, the lion cannot tear them, roars in pain and threatens the fox; the jackal gnawed through the fetters; the lion hardly found the fox, killed it]: Nabiev 1988:248-249.