M193. She's going home .12.13.15.21.23.30.

To avoid predators (suitors) on the way back, the character climbs inside a pumpkin, a round cauldron, etc. and rolls along the road, or walks disguised as unrecognizability.

Mamprusi, Zande, Portuguese, Italians (Tuscany), Mustang, Bhutan, Sindhi, Punjabi, Oriya, Baiga, Tajiks, Persians, Shina.

West Africa. Mamprusi [a good wife goes through the forest to her parents for food; climbs into a pot, covers herself, rolls along the path, the animals run away in horror; returns to her husband in the same way; angry the wife is afraid to scratch the pot, climbs into a clay vessel, the lion breaks it, the animals have torn the woman to pieces]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1966, No. 38:67-68.

Sudan - East Africa. Zande [two girls fish but eat it alone, and bring various rubbish to their parents, wrapping it so that it is not immediately clear; an angry mother asks for water monsters ("swallowers") punish her daughters; monsters grab them and warn them not to try to escape, otherwise they will eat them; oracles advise you to look under the barn; there's a drum; you have to get into it, it will roll to where the girls' father is; the boy's ways see a rolling drum, they want to hit it; a voice from the drum tells them not to do it; the boys missed the drum, he rolled to the girls' parents and they didn't quarrel with them anymore]: Evans- Pritchard 1965:75.

Southern Europe. Portuguese: Cardigos 2006, no.*122F [a woman has a daughter married, a woman goes to visit her; along the way, a wolf, a lion, a panther and other animals are going to eat her, she asks to do it when she goes back; the daughter puts the mother in a pumpkin (or in a beehive), she rolls home; the first two animals ask if the woman's pumpkin has seen, she answers them from a pumpkin; the third beast understands the deception, the woman either saved or eaten]: 37; Coelho 1879, No. 6 [the old woman went to look for a godson for her next grandson; the wolf meets her; the old woman asks her not to eat - after the christening I will bring you sweet rice; the same with others wolves; the man agreed to be a godson and told the old woman to climb into the pumpkin; she will roll past the wolves and they will not notice the old woman; the wolf asks the pumpkin if she has seen the old woman; she answers from a pumpkin what I didn't see - roll, roll, pumpkin! the same with the second wolf; but others broke the pumpkin and ate the old woman]: 11-13; the Portuguese [the fox went to her daughter's wedding, ate full, but on her way back, she was sad, because on the way there she met a wolf and promised to let him eat it when she goes back; the daughter gives a pumpkin; when she goes up to the wolf, let him sit in it and roll; the fox rolls and sings: run, run, pumpkin; outsmarted the wolf; he is ferocious, and the fox is cunning]: Dias Marques 2019, #57:95-96; Italians (Siena) [geese are flying to lay eggs, one falls behind on the road: must lay it now; laid the egg under the oak tree, it's gone - the fox ate it; so twice; then asked the blacksmith to forge an iron house for her, for which she gave her basket of eggs; the fox cannot get inside; then the fox invites the goose to go to the fair in the morning; the goose leaves early; when he returns, sees a fox, hides under a purchased pot; the fox takes it for an altar, leaves a coin on it; next time the fox invites you to the Sunday market; the goose hides in the melon; when the fox bites off a piece, the goose spits in the fox's mouth, which thinks that the melon is bitter and does not eat; the melon rolled down the slope, and when it broke, the goose got out and returned home; then the fox brings the geese to the house a lot of food; then asks let it in; the goose says that because of the food outside the door, it is impossible to open it; lowers a rope with a loop through the window; the fox puts its head in it, the goose tightened the loop, then lets go of the rope; the fox suffocated and crashed; when the goose sisters flew back in autumn, they stayed with her, also ordered iron houses for the blacksmith and began to live in them]: Calvino 1980, No. 94:347-352.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mustang [two brothers of a ram ask the old man and the old woman not to slaughter them: the meat is still hard, the blood is like water; they will go north, eat salt, come back, then cut them; the old people ask not to go: tiger and bears along the way; but the rams go; the vulture wants to eat them, they say the same thing as old people; before going back, the youngest puts a flat stone wrapped in grass on the elder's horns; tiger: not Have you seen sheep wrapped in grass-stone? the ram replies that they will pass later; the same when they meet bears; at home, old people do not want to slaughter sheep, but they tell them to do so, and wrap their hearts in cloth, put them in a chest; 15 days from there a boy and a girl go out; because the old people did not open the chest quickly enough, one eye of the children was smaller than the other]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 43:238-239; Bhutan [once a month Mekhay Doma girl takes food to elderly parents who meditate far away in the mountains; a boar, then a monkey, a leopard want to eat it; she tells everyone that it is better to do it when she goes back - her parents will get fat; the mother made a barrel, put MD in it, let it roll down the road; each of the animals asks the barrel if she saw MD; MD from the inside replies that it is a barrel and should roll ; after passing the boar, the barrel hit the stone and split; the animals grabbed MD; the leopard went to get water, the monkey went for brushwood, and the wild boar was left to guard; while looking for roots, MD dug a hole and hid; the leopard and the monkey killed and began to cook the wild boar; the ground under the fire became hot, MD rushed, knocking over the cauldron; the leopard and the monkey ran away in fear; MD ate meat, and brought what she didn't eat home]: Choden 1994:79-81.

South Asia. Sindhi [buffalo shepherd asks a bald goat where she is going; goat: eat wheat to grandparents; shepherd: marry me, I'll give you wheat; the goat agrees, but first wants to visit her grandparents; the same with a camel, with a goat shepherds; the goat stays with her grandmother for a year, then wants to return to her mother, ask her to be placed in a large pot; the pot is rolling, goat the shepherd asks if he has seen the goats, the pot replies that he is on his way to his mother; the same goes to the other two; at home, the goat tells the mother everything, and the three applicants come to the door; the mother went out with a baton, the grooms ran away]: Schimmel 1995, No. 39:229-232; Punjabi [the lamb goes to his grandmother, and explains to everyone he meets who is going to eat it that it is better to do it on the way back - he will get fat; it is a jackal, a vulture, a tiger, a wolf, a dog, an eagle; to go back, a lamb sits in a drum made of his brother's skin and rolls, saying that the lamb has fallen into the fire; but the jackal recognizes the voice pulled the lamb out of the drum and ate it]: Steel, Temple 1984, No. 6:69-72; konkani (Mulwanee dialect, Maharashtra) [an old woman goes to visit her daughter; meets a fox, he intends to eat it; she convinces him to wait for her to return from her daughter (now she is too thin, she will become fatter); the fox agrees; the situation repeats first with the lion and then with the tiger; the woman is visiting her daughter, tells her what happened; her daughter gives her a big pumpkin; a woman climbs into it, goes home; a tiger and a lion do not recognize her and let her in; a fox reveals the lie and tells her to pray; a woman replies that her family honors Agni; throws ash into the fox's eyes; he falls into the fire, burns; the woman returns home safely]: Gangeyee 1975, No. 11:55-60; Oriya [son of a goat and son of a monkey - friends; the kid goes to work; tells the tiger, bear, jackal that he will get fat at the king, it's better to eat him on the way back; enters the temple, swallows gold coins, locks the door; answers everyone that he is the Diamond King, he can kill everyone; the king leaves, the goat comes out, smears mud, wraps himself in leaves, answers the jackal and others that he went to the palace to sew leaves; safely gets to at home; tells the monkey's son that his mother put a piggy tail to his head and he went to the palace to dance, he was given gold, his mother beat him at home, the gold fell asleep; the monkey's son goes, he is driven away, he found, swallowed one silver coin, his mother began to beat it, the coin fell out, the mother decided that there would be more, beat it to death]: Mohanti 1975:42-44; baiga [elderly spouses killed a pig that ruined their crops; while her wife was cooking it, she ate everything herself; cut off her buttock, served her husband under the guise of pork, and covered the wound with clay and manure; but the cat told her husband everything; he beat his wife and she ran away to Rakshasi, asked for help to reach her {whose?} mother, because there are tigers and bears on the way; Rakshasi fed her food that emits abundant gases, gave her a vessel of ash; every time a predator came up, the woman sat in a pot and let the winds and ash dazzled the predator; but one day the wool protected the bear's face and the bear ate the woman; when she died, she managed to say that she had a plump old man at home; the bear went there and ate the woman's husband as well]: Elwin 1939, No. 12:508-509.

Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks [a padishah's son meets a jackal who wants to eat him, the guy asks him to hunt first, and then they will eat together; this is how he consistently meets a wolf, bear, tiger, etc.; returning back, he climbs into the pumpkin and rolls in it along the road; answers every animal that he is a poor pumpkin, he did not see the guy; rolls into her own gate, and there is a stepmother who celebrated her wedding daughters; she hit a pumpkin with a secach and killed a boy]: Levin et al. 1981, No. 113:182-183; Persians (Mazendaran, Isfahan, Fars) [a woman goes to visit her married daughter; animals (wolf, lion, panther, others) want to eat it; she promises everyone that they will eat it on the way back; the daughter puts her mother inside a big pumpkin, the pumpkin rolls home; the first two animals let the pumpkins pass, the third finds out what's inside woman; she either manages to get away from the beast or he eats it]: Marzolph 1984, no.*122F: 47-48; tire [parents have a worse and bald son; they sent him to the mountain pasture to his grandparents to have him there he recovered on milk, cheese and butter; on the way, the fox, then the wolf, the bear, the leopard are going to eat it, but he tells everyone that it will be better to do it when they are tired and go back; first tries not to eat anything; grandparents calm him down; then he is tired; they put him in the drum, it rolled; the leopard, then the wolf, the fox asks if he saw the bald boy's drum; the drum ( that is, the boy inside him) replies that he did not see and asks for a push to roll further; when the fox pushed the drum, it hit the stone and split; the animals ran, the fox sent them for the kitchen to cook the boy with utensils and also left, but the bear stayed to guard him; went to pick blackberries; the boy hid in a hole and sprinkled himself with dust; the animals returned, saw that the boy was gone, they killed the bear, cooked it, ate it; they threw out the rest of the curry, it fell on the boy, he cried out; the animals thought there was an evil spirit nearby and ran away; the boy returned home]: Radloff, Shakil 1998:56-58.