M198B. The Imaginary Fortuneteller, ATU 1641.
.14.-.17.21.-.23.26.-.34.38.
A person who does not know how to find missing persons and expose thieves successfully does so, thanks to a happy coincidence.
Berbers of Morocco, Arabs of Egypt, Algeria, Spaniards, Portuguese, Catalans, Italians (Lombardy), Sicilians, (Maltese), Bretons, French (Normandy, Lorraine), Irish, British, Germans (Grimms, Austria), Friesians, Dutch, Flemish, Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Qatar, Yemen, Arameans, Arabs (written tradition), Tibetans, Meitei, Arakans, Mons, Viets, Kashmiris (Ocean of Tales), Kumaoni, Northern India (Hindi), Assamese, Bengalis, Santals, Mundari, Oraons, Tamils, Sinhales, Chinese (Guangdong), Koreans, Chuan Miao, Slovenes, Serbs, Croats, Romanians, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Albanians, Greeks, Gagauz, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Russians (Teresky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Moscow, Kaluga, Ryazan, Gorkovskaya, Penza, Tambov, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Transcarpathia, Hutsulshchina, Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Adygs, Abazins, Ingush, Nogais, Terek Cossacks, Kumyks, Varnishes, Lezgins, Tabasarans, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Lurs, Persians, Tajiks, Tajiks Sistan, Uzbeks, Estonians, Livonians, Western Sami (Sweden), Latvians, Lithuanians, Veps, Karelians, Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Icelanders, Mari, Udmurts, Kazakhs (Turgay), Kyrgyz, Uighurs (Lobnor), Tuvans, Mongols, Japanese, North Ryukyu.
North Africa. The Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [the maid in the harem is named Grasshopper, her husband is Bird; she sees the gazelle swallowing the pearl necklace of the Sultan's daughter; she said that her husband is a skillful fortuneteller; he pretended to be a fortuneteller, pointed to the gazelle; the bird chased the grasshopper, the sultan covered them with a hat; the vizier advises to check the fortuneteller; he, shaking with fear: you, Grasshopper, would not have been caught without the Bird; The Sultan was delighted; then the viziers advised to bury three vessels: with honey, butter and resin; the fortuneteller muttered the saying: the first is honey, the second is oil, the third is resin; the robbers robbed the treasury; the fortuneteller asks for 40 days to find the culprits and live like a sultan; the wife is with him; the first robber went on reconnaissance and hears: we will kill the first one today, and tomorrow the second (the fortuneteller means rams); tomorrow : we will kill the second and the third tomorrow; the robbers indicated where they hid the gold and added more so that the fortuneteller would not give them away; the Sultan appointed him Grand Vizier; the robbers fled the city; let's leave them to eat iron, and we will eat dates]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1928:74-80; Egyptian Arabs [the bankrupt merchant and his wife left the country; decided that his name would now be Grasshopper and hers Sparrow; became draw something in the sand in front of the royal palace; the tsar thought it was a fortuneteller, hid the grasshopper and sparrow, told him to guess; the merchant aloud: "Without you, Grasshopper, Sparrow would not be in trouble"; the tsar decided that he guessed right and left it at court; ordered to find the missing on pain of death; the merchant asked for 30 days; the wife brought 30 pebbles, threw one out the window every day; the first pebble hit the one under the window one out of 30 robbers who robbed the treasury; every next day, one more robber comes under the window, and the merchant says: here are 2 out of 30; 3 out of 30; etc.; robbers confess and give it to the fortuneteller treasures so that he does not give them away; the king and the other kings compete - whose fortuneteller is better; three vessels are buried - milk, honey, resin; the merchant to his wife: "The first time cost like milk, the second - like honey, and now there will be resin"; the fortuneteller was awarded]: Cosquin 1887:192-193; Algerian Arabs (Saoura, western Algerian Sahara) [the sultan demands to catch 40 thieves; if Asfour {a local analogue of Haji Nasreddin} will not expose them, he is executed; A. has Gerad's wife ("grasshopper"); A. asks for 40 chickens and 40 servings of barley, each serving for one of the allotted 40 days; every evening he says: one less ( two more, etc.); the robbers think that they are talking about them and in a week they go to A. to agree; the Jew suggests testing A.'s insight, puts a grasshopper and gris-gris {talisman?} , suggests saying what's inside; A.: if it were not for the Grasshopper (referring to his wife, all this would not have happened to Asfour; then the Jew fills the barrel with some resin, some honey, some milk - what's in it? A. utters a poem that mentions resin, honey, milk, wins the dispute]: Scelles-Millie 1963:260.
Southern Europe. The Spaniards [poor Grillo ("grasshopper") decided to become a dreamer; stole a sheet, told the woman where to look, she gave a loaf and sausage; the same with the horse he received a ham; the king sends for G. the ring is missing; K. asks for three days, lives and eats in the palace; a servant comes; K.: here is one (referring to the past day, and the servant is one of the thieves, thinks he is about them); the same second; third; thieves ask them do not give away; they give money and say that they fed the ring to a turkey; the king gave G. richly; while walking he clenched a grasshopper in his fist; G.: the end has come to you, Grasshopper; the king decided that G. guessed, married G. his daughter]: Malinovskaya 2002:214-217 (summary in Hernández Fernández 2013, No. 1641:248); Cosquin 1887 [Juan Grasshopper was summoned to the palace: let him find the missing royal silver in three days; In the evening of the first, a servant enters, at which time the fortuneteller cries in distress: one of the three is already; three servants are guilty; the grasshopper has been appointed royal fortuneteller; one day the king turns and reaches out his hand: what's in my fist! "Caught, Grasshopper"; the king is delighted]: 191; the Portuguese [a peasant named Cricket (or Mouse) finds a missing horse (ox) because when a servant enters, he accidentally, referring to something else, says "this is the first" (then "second", etc.); the servants confess to the theft, thinking they have been exposed; to test the guesser, the king asks what he has in his hand; the farmer exclaims "Poor Cricket! " referring to himself, and the king thinks he has guessed it; (and similar options)]: Cardigos 2006, No. 1641:337; the Catalans [the king, wanting to test the young man, hides his horse or something else; he accidentally finds; three servants stole the queen's ring, the king orders to find it in three days; on the first day, one of the servants brings food to the young man, who says, "Here, the first"; the same on the second, on the third day; the servants confess ring theft]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 1641:261; Italians: Cosquin 1887 (Lombardy: Mantova) [Pitré, no. 167; the king lost his ring; a peasant named Gambara ("shrimp") pretended to be astrologer; suspects that the ring was kidnapped by servants; hides his wife under the bed; when the servant comes in, she says, "Here's the first one"; etc. The servants confessed that G. told them to feed the ring to the turkey; to test fortuneteller, the king invites him to say what was served; he: "Where did you go, Gambara"; the king thought he guessed it]: 190 (=Calvino 1980, No. 25:74-75, =Kotrelev 1991:35-36); Gubernatis in Braga 2002 [there's even an expression: "Guess it, Cricket!"] : 271; Sicilians: Benfey 1875 in Cosquin 1887 [a peasant named Grasshopper decided to become a fortuneteller; the officer saw him, hid the grasshopper and demanded to guess what was there; the peasant: "In which hands you hit it, Grasshopper!" ; an amazed officer took him on duty; he accidentally correctly predicted that his wife would give birth to a son and daughter; when the Queen's diamond ring was stolen, the Grasshopper was summoned; he talks to himself while dries wet clothes by the fireplace; the servants who stole the ring understand his words as incriminating them; ask them not to be handed over; the grasshopper ordered the ring to be fed to the black goose and told the king where it is]: 189; Crane 1885 [the king promises a reward to whoever finds the lost ring; an illiterate peasant named Cancer said he was an astrologer; he was left in a room with a large book and writing supplies; he pretends to be reading and writing; thought that servants who brought food could be thieves; when his wife visited him, he hid her under the bed and told the servants at the entrance to say: this is the first; this second; etc.; the servants confessed, gave money and asked them not to give it away; Cancer told them to feed the ring to the turkey; they stabbed the turkey, found the ring; at the feast, the king offer to answer what they had served (these are crayfish ); imaginary astrologer: Poor Cancer, you made history! The audience did not know his name was Cancer and praised him]: 314-316; (cf. Maltese [the text is very different from the definition - both ours and the ATU plot]: Midsud-Chircop 1978, No. 1641:666-667).
Western Europe. Bretons (ceded in 1879) [at the widow's door, a beggar answers the widow that he is coming from Paris; she hears that he is from paradise (Paradis); she asks how her late husband is doing; beggar: cold, he was placed at the very entrance; widow asks to give her husband clothes; when the current husband returned and found out what was going on, he followed the deceiver; he offered the mason to work for him, supposedly to keep warm; the husband asks if he did not see whether such a man's mason; when he found out where he had run, left a horse to the mason and rushed after him; the swindler rode away; at home, the wife said that her husband was even more stupid than she was; the swindler sold the horse and the clothes he gave a woman came to the castle; called himself a fortuneteller; the owner offers to find the missing ring; the imaginary fortuneteller demands that he be fed for three days for this; every evening he says out loud: here is one; here is the second; he I mean the days, and the three servants who stole the ring thought it was about them; the servants returned the ring, asked not to give them away; the man fed the ring to the turkey; said that the ring was pecked by a turkey; the owner asked the guest to stay to demonstrate their abilities to the guests; brought the box - what's in it? Man: Poor Lora, so you're caught; and there was a rat (le rat) in the box; the guests applauded]: Sébillot 1910, No. 27:112-116; the French (Lorraine) [they think he's a psychic, although this is not the case; when the lady's ring was missing, the king told him to find it; the man asked for three good dinners for it; when the servant brought in dinner, the man said, "That's the first one!" The servant, who was one of the thieves, thought it was him; the same with the second and third the following days; the servants asked them not to give them away; the man told them to feed the ring to the rooster; announced that it was in the stomach rooster; to test the guesser, the king covered the grasshopper with a bell and told him to say what was under him; "Here you are, grasshopper," said the man (that's a local proverb); the king is happy, otherwise shot a man]: Cosquin 1887, No. 60:187-188 [almost identical story in Normandy]; the Irish [an imaginary fortuneteller is summoned to a gentleman whose jewels were stolen; he asks for lunch and three quarts of ale; when the first servant brings the first quart, the fortuneteller says, "Here's the first one"; the servant thinks it's about him; etc. as in the other ways; the master's friend wants to test what's on the platter under the lid; that one: I ran, the fox, and now I got caught; and there was a fox]: Cosquin 1887:190 (apparently this text is in Kennedy 1875:116-119, it has page gaps); the British (Briggs 1970f. AII, 46f), Germans (Austria), Friesians, Dutch, Flemish: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1641; 344-345; Germans [Doctor Know-All; seeing a rich doctor, a poor peasant by named Cancer, asked what it takes to make money with this craft; doctor: buy an alphabet with the image of a rooster, sell oxen and buy a good suit, put a sign above the door "I am Doctor All Knows"; Cancer became this way to earn money; money was stolen from a noble man; Cancer was called; he asked for permission to take his wife with him; they served lunch; the servant brought the first course, Cancer to his wife: here is the first (having I mean food, and the servant thought he meant the first thief); the second servant brought the second course - the same; the same with the third; the fourth brought the dish covered with a lid; the owner demanded that Cancer demonstrate his skills as a fortuneteller; he sighed: Poor Cancer! and there were crayfish; the servant reported this to his accomplices; the thieves showed Cancer where the treasures were hidden and paid for it; Cancer pretended to learn everything from his book; the fifth servant at that time hid and became eavesdrop; leafing through the book, Cancer looks for an image of a rooster and says: I know you're here, come out; the servant thought it was about him; Cancer showed the owner where the money was hidden and received a generous reward]: Grimm , Grimm 2002, No. 98:332-333 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:271-272).
Western Asia. Syrian Arabs: Abu Risha 2015 [a lumberjack named Asfour ("bird") has a wife named Jaradeh ("grasshopper"); she accidentally saw a duck on the lake grab and swallow the king's ring when he took it off to wash himself; told her husband to dress as a dervish and come to the palace as a clairvoyant; the ring was in the duck's stomach, A. was awarded; the king asks if his wife would give birth to a son or daughter; J. advises tell her husband that sometimes he thinks that a girl will be born, and sometimes a boy; the queen has given birth to twins - a son and a daughter; the king calls A. to the bathhouse; he decides to kill the king, knocks him to the floor and drags him out of one rooms in another; at that moment the roof of the building collapsed; the king believes that A. saved his life; once decided to catch a grasshopper to test A.'s insight; at that moment she tried to grab the grasshopper the bird, the king covered both with a turban; A.: if it were not for the Grasshopper, the bird would not have been caught; he means his wife and himself; the king gave A. half his kingdom and promised not to use him as a clairvoyant anymore]: 61-64; Kuhr 1993 [husband's name was Lark, wife Grasshopper; wife told her husband to find a job, he became a teacher; wife decided to set up school at their home; husband criticizes the plan; then his wife advises him to pretend to be a fortuneteller; the king's treasures were stolen; the vizier suggests contacting Sheikh Lark; the wife tells the king to ask the king for 40 camels to write down the names of the thieves with their blood; we will eat a camel every day; the chieftain sends eavesdrop on thieves one by one every evening; Lark says - here's the first (second, etc.); he means camels, and thieves think it's about them; on the 40th evening, the chieftain comes, and at night the thieves bring treasures; Lark reports that the case has been solved; the vizier is jealous, suggests determining what is in closed cauldrons in the bazaar; the wife was led to answer: the first is innocent as white milk, in the second bitter as aloe ; there was milk in the first pot, aloe in the second; then the king put a grasshopper in the box, asking what was there; the wife tells her husband to tell their story as a last resort; say: if it were not for the grasshopper, I would he was not in this position; the king understood that the Lark had guessed about the grasshopper; the Lark asked not to give him gold, but to allow him to be a teacher again; he and his wife went away]: 357-363; Aramaians [the wife advises the lazy husband to get a book and mumble something during the funeral, he will be given money; the king's ring, which he gave the master to repair, accidentally fell into the imaginary shoe to the soothsayer, who became known as Molla Idris ("know-it-all"); I. pretended to find the ring, thanks to his book, was awarded a king; 40 thieves robbed the royal treasury, the king ordered I. to reveal it in 40 days crime, otherwise executes; I. bought 40 nuts to eat one a day; thieves eavesdrop; I. tells his wife to serve a nut, says "This is one of forty" (then "second", etc.); thieves think it's about them; the jewels were returned, I. was awarded; afraid of exposure, is going to pretend to be crazy; when the king comes naked and with his head soapy, grabs the king by the beard and pulls him out; the bathhouse is collapsing; I. pretends to learn it from the book when he washed himself at home, so he ran like this; but in a stir, the book fell on a hot stove and burned down; the tsar did not bother I. anymore]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:259-243 (=1972:420-424); Iraqi Arabs [lazy Ahmad does nothing, but only goes through the rosary; his mother advises wearing a turban and sitting outside the mosque; Ahmad is mistaken for a dervish and he predicts every woman what she wants; when the Sultan lost his ring, he sent for A.; A. was horrified to see what would happen while sitting at the mosque, but the servant who stole the ring turned to him and asked him to save him; A. ordered him to feed the ring to a domestic duck, pointed it to the Sultan and was awarded it; when the Sultan's treasury was robbed, A. asked himself 40 days; on the first evening the servant brought food and A. said: this is the first of 40; he meant the past day, and the servant, who, along with 39 comrades, participated in the robbery, decided that he had been exposed; the same happened to the following; on the 39th day everyone came and begged for forgiveness; A. told them where they should bury the stolen treasures; the Sultan generously rewarded A. and let him go to his mother; she married him]: Bushnaq 1987:350-353; Arabs (written tradition) [a weaver nicknamed Usfur has a wife and 4 daughter; he saw a stargazer, told his wife, who also told him to pretend to be a guesser; the princess asked her to guess; W.: this woman is happy, she will give birth to twins neither on earth nor in heaven; at night the princess gave birth to twins in a hut on poles, where she accidentally went; she sent the sage a thousand dinars, a mule and a robe; the king orders to find the 10,000 dinars stolen from the treasury; W. undertook to find thieves in 10 days, and thieves was 10; W. wife: now one out of ten; two out of ten; he means days, and thieves eavesdrop and take it personally; guilty; W. ordered thieves to bury money on the Maidan; reports money to the tsar after he promised to beat the other stargazers; the lame duck swallowed the king's ring; the boy saw it, but kept silent; when he saw W. peering at the image of the duck, the boy thought that W. was all knows and was guilty to him; W. ordered the duck to be slaughtered, a ring was in its goiter; the beaten stargazers invite the king to test W. again; the king caught the sparrow and the dragonfly he was chasing held in his hand; W.: if it were not for the dragonfly, the sparrow would not please the king (meaning his wife and himself); King Ruma sends his stargazer to compare him with W.; they talk with signs, the king rewarded both; W. says that he is not a stargazer - his wife forced him; the tsar rewarded him]: Osmanov, Yusupov 196:11-35; Palestinians, Arabs of Lebanon, Qatar, Yemen: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1641:886-887.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [when his son was 15, the widow sent him into the world; he chased the fox in the hole; he tied the dog to the horse, covered the way out of the hole with his hat; the fox jumped out, taking his hat away, the dog for her, horse after dog; the young man fell asleep under a tree, hears the crows talking: when he went to a village in the east, he would find his happiness; going east, the young man met a beggar, told him about the disappearance; beat him; came to the wedding, he was driven away; in another house he spent the night in a pile of dung; pigs came, he cut off one head; noticed how the hostess dropped the turquoise decoration; threw a rag over him; the maid put the rag and the ornament with her into the crack in the wall; they began to look for jewelry; the young man promised to find it; took the pig's head and pretended to lead him to his goal; finding his turquoise again, the hostess gave the young man new clothes, money, food and drink]: O'Connor 1906, No. 22:158-165 (mostly similar text in Komissarov 1997:186-190); Meitei [Temba is poor, stubborn, ugly; decided to marry the minister's daughter; snuck into her room and pretended to be dead; he was carried out; the father accused the daughter, gave it to T., but did not give money; T. decided to become a soothsayer; let 10 fish into the pond, told the women who passed by , as if he knew how many fish there were in the pond, and showed 10; stole utensils from the Minister, buried them in the garden; indicated where the stolen goods were; the minister recognized T. as his son-in-law, awarded; the neighboring owner sent two servants say that his boat is missing; T. out loud: this incident will bring everything down! The servants who stole the boat thought the soothsayer meant them, were guilty, asking them not to be extradited; another owner called T. to cause rain; T. heard the frog croaking and realized that it was raining It will soon go; said he was praying to the god of frogs; on the evening of the third day it rained; T. is rich and happy]: Oinam et al. s.a.
Burma - Indochina. The Arakan people [Ngatama and Ngachhae, two crooks, decided to cooperate; Ngachhae took the cow away, and Ngatama pretended to be clairvoyant and told the owner where it was; they fed like this for a long time, and then Ngatama was summoned by the king; to test him, it was decided to leave one seed in the tavern and ask the sage how many seeds it contained; Ngatama decided to flee, fell into the river, and the water brought him to the ship, where the advisers were discussing their plan; the next day, Ngatama replied that there was only one seed in the pub; knowing that they were beyond suspicion, both rogues spread the rumor that gold and silver owners would it is safer to demolish everything to Ngatama; when sharing, they quarreled and decided to ask the Banyan spirit; Ngachhai put his father in the hollow in advance, who replied on behalf of the spirit that the treasure belonged to Ngachhai; Ngatama guessed it all, shoved straw into the hollow to set it on fire; then the crooks divided the prey equally]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 68:208-212; monk [son-in-law is lazy, but keeps himself clairvoyant; his wife's parents fry cakes; by hissing dough in a frying pan, he determined how many of them, and his mother-in-law thinks he is sleeping; everyone is amazed; a neighbor asked to find a cow, an imaginary fortuneteller accidentally stumbled upon her in the forest; the king orders to find the precious necklace forgotten by the queen on the shore; the fortuneteller, terrified, rushed to the ground under the banyan, where the thief had just buried the necklace; hiding on the branches the thief hears the exclamations of the fortuneteller; "You can't hide from the king", etc., takes them to his address; the thief is guilty; the neighboring king sends his fortuneteller to compete; the winner will receive 7 ships jewels; the fortuneteller rushes into the sea and boards the ship; the arrived sage thinks he is talking to the poor man, reveals the secret: guess what's in the gold box, which is in silver, and the one under seven layers of velvet; this is a hundred-sided ruby; the fortuneteller gave the right answer and received 7 ships of jewelry]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 165:373-379; Viets [without earnings, a person decided to become fortuneteller; he was lucky; after that he was demanded to the king: a golden turtle disappeared from the palace; while he was carried in a palanquin, the fortuneteller lamented aloud: he had made his stomach and his back would suffer (this is a proverb ); two porters named Belly and Back (Bung and Da) were thieves; confessed to what they had done, begging the fortuneteller not to extradite them; he forgave them generously and received a generous reward from the king]: Cosquin 1887:192.
South Asia. Kashmiris ("Ocean of Tales") [poor brahman Hariçarman serves a rich man; offended that he was not invited to his master's daughter's wedding; takes the groom's horse into the forest, tells his wife to say that hers the husband is a fortuneteller; "finds" a horse; the king tells him to find the missing treasures; in the evening in the room he says out loud: What did you do, tongue, for a good piece; a servant named Language heard, confessed What he did, H. shows the king where the kidnapped is hidden; the courtiers want to check the fortuneteller; suggest guessing what is under the lid; there is a toad; the fortuneteller calls himself the Toad (as his father called him when he was a child) and says he's gone in that pot now; everyone thought he was right]: Cosquin 1887:194-195; Kumaoni [grandmother's fool: if mother-in-law asks what I ate, how do I answer? grandmother: say that hichadi (spiced chowder) and repeat along the way; a fool sees a person's birds pecking rice, says "hee, chadi" (eat, bird!) ; the man beat him, tells him to say, "go, fall into the net"; he says this to thieves; those: you must say "come and get it"; he says this to the participants in the funeral procession; those, I must say, "whatever Who did not happen to"; he said this to the participants of the wedding procession; everyone beat him; hid in his father-in-law's house; saw what the children were eating; at home he said: I know everything who ate what; the news of his knowledge spread; The king summoned him, hid a grasshopper in his fist, told him to say what was there; fool: Oh, Pilagant, your death has come! ("pilaganta" means "grasshopper" and was also the name of a fool); the king tells us to find the missing necklace; P.: Oh, Chunia, oh, Munia! and that was the name of the maid thieves; they said where the necklace was, the king rewarded the fool]: Minaev 1966, No. 29:78-80; northern India, Sultanpur, Hindi [Raja hired a Farsi teacher, he died, and Raja ordered to be his son's teacher, who knew nothing; the nickname was Tadda ("fool"); Raja lost his ring, he locked T. up, ordering him to find the ring by morning; T.: "Come, sweet dream!" ; and that was the name of the maid who stole the ring and eavesdropping; thought that the fortuneteller found out everything, said that the ring was under Raja's bed; T. received the reward; then the Raja camel disappeared, and T. accidentally saw it and indicated where he was; wanting to test the fortuneteller, the Raja clenched a worm called tadda in his fist, ordering him to guess what was in his fist; T. aloud: "Tadda, Tadda, your hour has come"; to avoid revelations, T. decided to kill the Raja; at night he dragged him into the garden to slaughter there; at this time the roof of the palace collapsed, the Raja gave T. half of the possessions;]: Crooke 1895, No. 427:159; Assames [peasant by named Foring ("Grasshopper") went to get rice; one man checked the rice; when he finished, F. pretended to have colic, began rolling on the ground, the grains stuck to his clothes, he brought them to his wife; wife baked cakes, but ate most of them; said that whoever gets up first in the morning should eat a third and the other two thirds; F. got up, was surprised that there were so few cakes, and calculated how many they were there, said it to his wife; she was shocked by his intelligence, told her neighbors; the cow disappeared, and F. just saw her; pretended to determine where the cow was, thanks to the ability of a predictor; his fame spread, his name was Sarabjan ("The Soothsayer"); the king asks to find the missing precious necklace; the king's wife Madoy and younger Hadoy, stole the necklace by H.; doy (cottage cheese) was brought to S.'s palace , he exclaimed Ham doy! ("Alas, Doy"), and H. heard and decided that she was exposed, admitted that S. told her to put the necklace in its place; said that the necklace was in the box; his fame became immense; one day the king clutched a grasshopper in his fist and asked S. to guess; S. thinks out loud: once he guessed it, two, three, and now you, the Grasshopper, are caught; the king did not know that the real name of the imaginary soothsayer was Grasshopper, and rewarded him again]: Borooah 1916:75-83 ( about the same in Goswami 1960:98-99); Bengalis [when a poor brahmana asked his wife for tortillas, she drove him out; the hermit forced him to learn to read and write; when he returned and went to the house, the brahman I heard the sound of cakes fried in butter; when he came in, he told his wife that he had mastered the arts, although she did not believe it, otherwise he would offer me cakes; my wife believed in her husband's visionary abilities; the laundress asked find the missing donkey; after speaking out time (the goddess is not in good spirits), the brahmana waited for the donkey to come by himself; when the Raja's daughter lost her diamond necklace, the brahmana was summoned; left alone, he mourned her recklessness when addressing Mother Juggodamba (one of Durga's names); the gardener's wife who stole the necklace bore this name, heard it, thought the astrologer knew everything, asked not to give it away; brahman told her to put the necklace in a large clay vessel and put it in the pool; in the morning the vessel was not found, the brahmana was chained, but he continued to insist; when the pond was drained, the necklace was in a small vessel at the bottom; the brahmana was made the head of the wise men, the Raja and Rani put flowers at his feet]: Bradley-Birt 1920:196-199; Santals [three jugs of money were stolen from the Raja; he promises half the money who found it; the thieves were two servants who were assigned to take care of arriving clairvoyants; a local crook went to his father-in-law's house, but carried away by a random woman, approached him in the dark and overheard a conversation about ready for dinner to the rooster; when he came in, the son-in-law explained that he had come so late because he had received a revelation: they had prepared a rooster; the father-in-law was amazed and stabbed the second rooster for his son-in-law (the first one was not intended); after that, the imaginary fortuneteller was called Raja; the servants were called Find and Fail; the fortuneteller: I will find it or not, but they bring food; the servants decided that he knew everything and were guilty; the imaginary fortuneteller was awarded]: Bompas 1909, No. 68:206-208; mundari {too brief, but apparently this is still the right motive} [the woman went to get water; the king's servants are looking for a doctor for the sick prince; the woman said her husband could do a lot; her husband was brought to the palace and locked up with the sick; he somehow recovered; the king generously rewarded the imaginary doctor]: Grierson 1906:93; Oraons [ the old man is unhappy that when he comes from the field, his wife just starts cooking; looked and saw that during the day she was cooking for herself; pretends to recognize it by his hand; the old woman told everyone that her the husband is clairvoyant; the Raja's daughter lost the necklace - she left it on the lake shore and carried it away by a crow; the old man was told to find it; he went into the bushes, saying: Oh, my boot ("belly"), you will soon be slaughtered with a stick; girl, the one who found the necklace was called Boti; she said where it was; the Raja rewarded the clairvoyant; during the drought, the Raja called the fortunetellers again; the old man hears a rat telling the rats that Monday it will rain and it will rain on Tuesday; as it happened, the Raja gave the old man even more generously]: Elwin 1944, No. XXVI. 5:489-491 (Zograf translation 1971, No. 79:289-291); Tamils [two brahmana brothers, younger astrologer; the elder's wife tells her husband to learn at least something; he bought cookies in the form of eyes, mouths and tongues, ate them and told his wife that he had learned astrology; the laundress lost his donkey; wife: ask mine husband; husband went and accidentally found a donkey; Raja lost his necklace; he was stolen by maids named Tongue, Nose, Eye; the astrologer was given 8 days; at the end of the term: and why did I eat cookies tongue, nose, eye? the maids gave him a necklace; he put the necklace in a certain place and told the Raja to check it out; Raja made the fortuneteller chief astrologer]: Blackburn 2005, No. 6; Sinhalese [poor man came to live in another village; he was jokingly nicknamed knowledgeable; everyone went to sell something at the bazaar, he had nothing, so he carried coconut husks; accidentally noticed a team of cowhide entangled in the branches in the forest; on it was the name of the owners; in the village, the person pretended to find out about the loss due to his unusual abilities; received half the value of oxen; elsewhere, staying overnight, utters a phrase, words which can be understood as a female name; a maid with that name gave the money she had stolen; the fortuneteller became famous, the king summoned him to the palace and ordered him to find the stolen treasures; the fortuneteller gathered hang himself, but unsuccessfully: "The rope is short and the height is insufficient"; the thief hears this and understands the phrase as containing his name; brings the stolen goods and begs not to tell the king; to check again fortuneteller, the king clutched fireflies in his fist: what is there? the fortuneteller hit his head in despair against the tree: oh my God, like a hundred fireflies (meaning sparks) out of his eyes; next time he caught a bird; fortuneteller: the birds are flying, the power of Appu (the name of the fortuneteller) is over; the king gave the fortuneteller a house and official positions; he set fire to the house and said that his books had burned down, and with them an opportunity to guess]: Parker 1910, No. 23:179-185.
China - Korea. Chinese: Eberhard 1941, No. 120 (Guangdong) [while her husband is away, the wife cuts and eats one of the chickens every time, hides the bones and feathers in ash; the neighbor saw this, told her husband; he hid himself convinced; told his wife what the oracle would do; took the pot, knocked, said where the bones and feathers were; the wife went to her parents; her brother was plowing, he left the ox and plow, went with her; the husband saw and hid the ox in the forest, the plow in the pond, turned to the oracle again; his fame spread; the emperor ordered to find out who had kidnapped his "lion" (a gold-haired palace dog); when the messengers led the fortuneteller, he first said that the wife was giving birth, they came back, the wife did not give birth; then that the house was on fire was the same; sitting in a palanquin, the fortuneteller mutters "die early, late to die"; the servants who carried the palanquin took it personally confessed to the theft, said where the dog was; the fortuneteller again "guessed" with his pot; the emperor offered any reward; the fortuneteller: burn 100 carts of turtle droppings; hardly collected and set fire; The jasper emperor in heaven smelled, killed the emperor]: 206-208; Fielde 1893 (Guangdong) [the husband is unable to earn anything, his wife sends him to look for work in other parts; he has nothing finds, comes back and sees how his wife brought various food from the bazaar; when she sees her husband, the wife is outraged that he has come again without money, but the husband says that he has found an amazing sense of smell; demonstrates this After saying what kind of food was in the house now; the rumor had spread, the emperor called on the man to find the missing jewelry; he began to mumble out loud, Oh nightmare, oh horror! Two courtiers, who had similar names, thought they were exposed; show where the jewelry is hidden and give a reward; the emperor offers service, but the man only asks for a portion of toffee for his wife; she again considers him an idiot; the Empress wants to test the fortuneteller's abilities, hides a kitten in a basket, wrapped it in cotton wool, asks him to say what is there; the man out loud, referring to himself: the cat died in basket! The Empress opens the basket - the kitten turns out to be suffocating; after that, everyone decided that man is a god, his place in the sky; he was thrown so high that when he fell, he fell into many particles that have turned into ants; so ants immediately feel where to eat food]: 21-26; Koreans: Garin-Mikhailovsky 1904 [two comrades: Tori (stone) and Tutebi (toad); Tutebi was the son of noble parents and capable, and Tori is the son of simple and stupid; to help a friend, Tutebi hid his father's favorite sword and said that his friend was a guessman; told Tori where the saber was; Father Tutebi rewarded Tori; the Chinese emperor lost his state seal, and he asked the Korean emperor to send a guessman; he decided to test Tori: what's in this box? - Oh, Tutebi! "Tori said with a sigh of reproach; there was indeed a toad in the box; as he approached Beijing, Tori sat down to rest under a tree; a bird sat in the tree and sang, "chi-choo, chi-chu"; since then Tori has been repeating: "Chi- chu, chi-chu"; when he was brought to the emperor, he was so sure of his death that when asked "where is the state seal", he only answered: - Chi-choo, chi-choo; one of the courtiers fell to his knees and admitted that It was really he who stole the seal, his name was "Chi-chu"; the Chinese emperor left Tori at court; Tori asked to go home, the emperor did not let go; Tori said that his ability was in his nose, cut him off; the emperor wanted to execute him, but let him go home]:; Cho 2001, No. 35 [the boys Dori (stone) and Dukubi (toad) are friends; Dory is rich and has figured out how Dukubi can also get out of poverty; he he will hide his father's silver spoon, and Dukubi will pretend to be clairvoyant and find it; Dukubi became famous; the Emperor of China lost his seal, he summoned Dukubi from Korea; he asked for 100 days; on the 99th day , while he was washing his hands, a willow leaf with a hole fell into the pelvis; Dukubi exclaimed Yu-Kun-Yup (Iwa-Dyra-Liszt); a giant came in and was guilty: he was the one who stole the seal and his name was Yu-Kun-Yup; the seal on the bottom of the pond; the next day the pond was drained, the seal was found; but the courtiers doubted; the chief minister asked what was inside the stone vessel; Dukubi: Oh, innocent Toad, you're trapped thanks to the Stone; the minister raised a stone the lid and showed the toad; generously gifted Dukubi, he lived a prosperous life]: 65-68; Chuan Miao [while the husband is in the field, the wife secretly eats rice, which she cooks for both of them, and when cooking meat and vegetables, hands after The restroom does not wash; the husband accidentally noticed it; pretended to go to bed and sleep; told his wife that he had previously dreamed about her; the wife believed that her husband knew everything she did without him ; once a pig went missing from his father-in-law; the husband found a pig in the grave, she gave birth to piglets; said that he saw it in a dream; the boss's seal was stolen, the fortuneteller was called; he tells his wife to hang it on the roof a large rice pestle; in the chief's house, he begins to mutter that things are bad: the pestle climbed to the roof; then tells his wife to set fire to the house; says that the fire from heaven has come down to him, ran to the house, extinguished it; then the fortuneteller mutters at random about white and yellow cranes; White and Yellow are the names of the servants who stole the seal; they ask not to give them away, they will put a seal on the magpie's nest; fortuneteller: the seal has climbed on wood, spends time with magpies; to check the fortuneteller for the last time, the boss wrapped the baby in cloth and asked what he was holding; the fortuneteller muttered about red and blue (colors fabrics), which sounds like a word for a boy; the fortuneteller's reputation is finally established]: Graham 1954:271-272.
The Balkans. Romanians [when the king promised a reward for his lost ring, the carpacz (a shoemaker who repairs old shoes), nicknamed the Fox, called himself a sorcerer and promised to find the ring; the king agreed to give him a roast turkey for 30 days; the servant brought a turkey; karpacz: first came, 29 more remains, the last will be the fattest; the servant told the manager in horror; he was the main thief , and 29 servants helped; on the third day, the steward came by himself; karpacz: the king sent us the most important thing; the steward was guilty; Karpacz ordered him to be brought with the turkey every remaining day a purse of gold; let the steward feed the ring to his beloved king cat; when a ring was found in the cat's stomach, the king gave the sorcerer a palace; the neighboring king asks to send a sorcerer to find the precious cross; on the way, Karpacz sings: where are you, poor man, going, now you will be lost, the king will break up with you severely; the messenger was a thief, decided that the sorcerer was singing about him, was guilty, gave 10 bags of gold, and Karpacz ordered to feed the cross to the king dog; the cross was found in the dog's stomach; the messenger decided to take revenge; he caught the fox, put it in a bag, let the sorcerer guess what was in the bag; karpacz: poor Fox, you got into trouble; the king thought the sorcerer had guessed it; when he returned, Karpacz set fire to his palace and said that the sacred books had burned down, so the king let him go]: Mirener 1958:27-37; Romanians [king in accompanied by three counselors, sees an old ploughman with a boy; asks questions, the old man answers; - Is Dahl wide? - Up between ox horns. - Did you wake up recently? - I fell asleep 7 times and woke up (got married) 7 times. - Can you milk three oxen? - If the pen is good; the king tells each of the advisers to answer one of the questions; everyone pays the old man in gold to suggest an answer; they decided to take revenge on the king by stealing the ring they had access to 40 people; a poor gypsy must find thieves in 40 days; he asks to be served a roast goose and a jug of wine every day; Der Zigeuner ist dünn angezohen und spricht vor Kälte seine Hose mit "spazier" an; adviser Pafiru decides that he has been exposed and negotiates with the gypsy: the ring was swallowed by a dog in the palace; the queen's pearls were stolen; the same (swallowed by a goose); for the third time, the advisers hide a fox in a bag: does the clairvoyant find out; he says he ate a lot of geese and chickens but has not yet fallen into the bag; the counselor decides he guessed it]: Bîrlea 1966:468-469; Hungarians [two crooks Bumblebee and Mokhnach deceive each other; they see gallows; they are executed fortunetellers who could not find the missing royal ring; Bumblebee points his finger at books, says white, here's black, here's red; three servants with similar names who stole the ring think the fortuneteller has exposed them; the Bumblebee says, "this is the first one," referring to the waiting day and the lunch they brought him; the thieves take over again; the servants they returned the ring, paid the money, and the Bumblebee told them to feed the ring to the royal peacock; the queen caught the bumblebee: what's in her hand? Bumblebee about himself: here, Bumblebee, got caught; Queen decided he guessed right; again: who is in the hole; Bumblebee: no matter how the fox dodges, but gets caught; Queen: yes, there is a fox; Bumblebee: you can't guess more than three times; Bumblebee and Mokhnach came to the forest, saw the robbers loading treasures; they pretended to be dead rebels, the robbers ran away, friends shared the treasures and parted]: Ortutai 1974, No. 32:372-382; Gagauz people [stole an expensive whip from the king, which 40 people knew about; the poor old man promised to find it; tells him to bring him bread every day; each time he says: "One brought, 39 left" (etc.); thieves they think that he is talking about them; they asked not to give them away; the old man orders to grease the whip with bacon, throw it to the royal dog, she will eat it; the dog was killed, the whip in its stomach, the king gave the old man gold; from the Turkish Sultan the silver ring has disappeared, he sent for an old guessman; he is being transported accompanied by two horsemen; one of them stole a ring, his name is Chakshyr ("pants"); on the way, the wagon got stuck in the mud, the old man soaked trousers, took off drying, says "chakshyr, chakshyr - you are swinging today, tomorrow you will be in front of the Sultan"; the thief admitted that the old man orders to feed the ring to the royal dog; received gold again; leaves; Turks think hold it; put a fox in a bag, asked to say what was there; old man: "they have used the fox now" (proverb); the Turks have come back]: Moshkov 1904, No. 69:128-130; Bulgarians [drunkard's wife advises her husband pretend to be a fortuneteller (or pop and Sly Peter decide to become fortunetellers); first, the fortuneteller steals cattle and determines where it is hidden; the king demands that he find the missing ring (diamond, gold), otherwise he executes; the fortuneteller counts the days out loud (hours, how many times the rooster shouts), and thieves take it as applying to them, confess and tell where the stolen person is; the fortuneteller tells the king that the ring and the like is swallowed by a goose, in a flower pot, in a well, etc.; the last test: the fortuneteller must say that the king has a fist (in a bag, etc.); the fortuneteller allegorically laments, referring to himself ( the first time the fox jumped, the second, and the third time it got caught; or, if his name is Beetle or Grasshopper, then "caught, Beetle (Grasshopper)", and the fist is just a beetle or grasshopper); the fortuneteller sets fire to his house to say: his books have burned down and he can no longer guess; the king generously rewards him]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1641:539-541; Slovenes, Serbs, Croats, Macedonians, Albanians,
Greeks: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1641:344-345Central Europe. Slovaks [my husband bought a calendar, drank money, decided to become a fortuneteller - supposedly he proofreads everything in the calendar; the owner of the missing oxen came; the fortuneteller points to a crooked letter - the bowlegged stole it; a rumor passed through the village, the bowlegged returned the oxen, paid the fortuneteller to eat; he was getting rich; the owner of the castle lost her ring; the footman came carrying the first course; the fortuneteller: that's the first one! and the footmen were thieves; That's the second one! The third fortuneteller tells him to carry money, and feed the ring to the turkey; the lady paid generously, gave the fortuneteller's wife a dress; the pan decided to test: what's in a closed bowl; the fortuneteller's name was Cancer; he: Cancer, Cancer, bad it's your business! everyone thought they had guessed - there was cancer in the bowl; the peasant healed very well]: Bogatyrev 1955:132-137 (=Gorbov 1949:134-139, =Shustova 1994:99-104); Czechs: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1641:344-345; Poles (many records) [a peasant named Cricket buys a cloak or a drunk pretends to be a priest; he is told to find thieves in three days; on the first day, the first servant comes to be among the thieves, and takes Cricket's words, "That's the first one,"; to verify the fortuneteller's abilities, he is given a closed bowl and asked to answer what's inside; he exclaims, "Poor Cricket," and there he was cricket]: Krzyżanowski 1963, No. 1641:111-112; Russians (Tersky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Kaluga, Ryazan, Penza, Tambov, Voronezh), Ukrainians ( Eastern Slovakia, Transcarpathia, Hutsulshchyna, Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava), Belarusians [Witch Doctor: finds a horse that he hid himself (together with his assistant) and becomes famous must find the missing jewel (pearl, ring) from the king (master), accidentally mentions the names of thieves who turn themselves in to him; jewelry is returned to the owner; must guess what tsar in a fist ("The Tsar Caught a Bug in the Fist") or in a bowl ("A crow flew into tall mansions")]: SUS 1070, No. 1641:339-340; Russians (Tersky Bereg) [the old man bought the old woman cards to guess, and stole it himself woven cloth spread out; directed the woman to his old woman - she is guessing well; she laid out the cards: the canvas was stolen, but my old man would find it; he "found"; the same with the cow; the rumor of the fortuneteller reached the king , he summoned the old woman to him: the queen lost her ring; the old woman was brought, the king told her to serve her crow meat - will she find out; old woman: The crow flew into the wide mansions! the king is delighted; the king tells two workers to heat the bathhouse; one is called Belly and the other is Ridge; the old woman: what happens to the belly is the ridge; they beg not to give them away: the ring will be returned; they promised to feed his lamb ; the old woman spoke about the lamb, a ring was found in his stomach; after rewarding the old woman, the king put chicken eggs in the carriage: will he find out; the old woman was brought to the carriage; she said: The chicken sat on old eggs; the old man sees that an old woman in an old carriage is being taken {apparently decided that she was not a good fortune teller} and strangled himself; the old woman began to live richly]: Balashov 1970, No. 140:387-392; Russians (Olonetskaya) [wife orders to her husband to steal the neighbor's cows, pretends to be a sorceress, tells me where the cows are, the neighbor gives a pound of flour; the Tsar has lost his gem, he sends two footmen named Belly and Ridge for a guesser; they stole it; to check the guesser, they put eggs in the carriage; when the old woman sits down, she says: it was like a chicken to sit on eggs; she came with the old man, asked for a separate room; old man: The crow flew into high mansions, will we get something? Old woman: both the belly and the ridge; the footmen heard, brought a stone and more money; she says that the stone in Moscow will get {and he is with her} in a week; a week later there was a stone; Tsar Zedro awarded old woman]: Onchukov 2008, No. 193:358-359; Russians (Vologodskaya, Kirillovsky Ul.) [the old woman advises her husband to steal a cow, tie it in the forest, they will look for a cow, and the old man will pretend to be knowledgeable; after that, the master asks to know who the lady will give birth to; the old man: he will lead from the shop to the door - girl, from door to shop - guy; master: I know this myself; the lady gave birth to twins: a boy and a girl; the king lost his ring, the old man was summoned and put in the kitchen; he aloud: both to the ridge, then to the belly; and from two cooks, one called Krebto and the other Belly; they were guilty; the old man ordered to feed the ring to the goose, and they found it there, the king rewarded him; towards the boyar with a beetle in his hand: what do I have? old man: a bug hit the boyar's hands; in the carriage, the old man and his wife were put on a pillow, and the coachman gave a damn under her; and his wife's name was Domna; old man: sit down, Domna, on thick crap; the coachman was guilty, asked not tell]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 55:209-210; Russians (Moscow) [maid and janitor stole; old woman to her husband: steal a horse, and I'll tell you where; there was a rumor that the old woman is a guesser, gentlemen called for help, dressed like a lady; she aloud: Oh, the crow, which mansions she flew into; the maid's name was Raven, she overheard, guilty to the old woman; she showed that the stolen goods were under the porch]: Vedernikova, Samorodova 1998, No. 93:234-235; Russians (Gorkovskaya) [a man nicknamed Bug stole canvas from Aunt Daria; said he knew how to bewitch; brought canvas, got money; stole three from his master;" found it", received the money again; the king lost his wedding ring; the bug was put in a separate room; he decided to run away after the third roosters; in the morning he sang alone; J.: thank God there is one; a thief under the door overhears, rushes to his comrades; after the third roosters, J. opened the door, and the thieves fell at his feet and gave him the ring; J. fed the ring to the dog and shouted not to be missed; the dog was stabbed to death, the ring was found; the tsar is walking around the garden: guess what's in his hand; "Still, you're caught, Bug"; a bug in his hand; the tsar awarded J. and let him go]: Eremina et al. 1979, No. 26:209-210; Russians (Lipetsk, Krasninsky r-n, s. Sotnikovo) [Brothers Ivan and Gregory live poorly, does Ivan work as a groom for his master? offers his brother to steal the stallion, because dogs know him. The brothers cannot decide how much to sell the stallion for (if they ask a lot, they will say they stole it), they tie him to a tree in the forest. Ivan tells the master that he was good and knows where the stallion is, but he does not know who stole it. He brings a stallion, the master gives one hundred rubles and writes in the newspaper that Ivan is a Russian healer. A count from another country learns about him, calls him to come, find the stolen goods and thieves. Ivan agrees, asks to provide him with a room with wine and treats and not to disturb him. Thieves find out about the arrival of the healer, are afraid of him and sneak up on the house. The thief takes the rooster's cry as a sign that the healer recognized him and runs away. The rooster screams three times, and the thieves decide that the healer recognized them all, can't stand it and come to him themselves, tell him where they hid the loot, ask him not to give them away. Ivan finds the stolen goods, the count promises to give him half of the estate, but doubts. He asks Ivan the last riddle, catches a fly and asks what's in his fist. Ivan thinks that the count has guessed that he is not a real witch doctor and says "How long does a fly fly fly around the world, but a master in his hands." The count gives him half of the estate]: Kretov 1977, No. 44:107-108; Russians (Voronezhskaya, p. Bolshaya Vereyka, 1936) The old woman tells her husband that she does not know how to do anything and arranges a holiday. She treats the children and encourages them to steal and hide the loot, and she also finds them missing for a fee for the owners. The children go to the villages with songs, hide 7 bags and 2 clamps, and advise the owners to go to the sorceful Salmoney. She tells us where their property is located, and she is thanked with bread and rubles. She then suggests where to find the missing horse. The king learns about the old woman's gift and invites her to figure out who robbed him. The old woman realizes that she can't figure it out for herself. Thieves: a maid, a cook and a footman hide the stolen goods in the stable in the tarantas, where the king orders the old woman to be brought in, and they reveal their crime to the coachman. Sitting in the tarantas, the old woman says "Well, grandma, sit on eggs", the coachman is afraid that she has guessed it and gives her a basket of eggs hidden in a tarantas as a royal gift. Thieves watch the old woman look for criminals from the book; in fact, she prays because she thinks she will not be able to help the king and she is executed. As she prays, the gyrfalcon screams three times. Thieves think it's a sign pointing to each one of them. The footman roasts a crow instead of a duck for the old woman to see if she can guess the substitution. The old woman admires the magnificent decoration of the royal palace: "a crow flew into which mansions." The footman confesses to her that he stole the royal goods, tells her where it is hidden and asks for help. The old woman rejoices, shows the king his disappearance, explains that the king is a sleepwalker and has taken his belongings to the stable for manure himself, and he admits that this happens to him. The queen invites her servants to beat the king, as she warned him in advance that no one would dare to steal from him. He rewards the old woman, she returns to her husband. They decide to live honestly and not to bewitch anymore, burn the book that the old woman used to divest. They live richly and cheerfully]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 13:84-90; Russians (no place of recording) [a man nicknamed Bug stole a woman's canvas and hid it in straw; boasted that he could bewitch; the woman came, he repaid her for a pound of flour and a pound of butter; told her where the canvas was; then took the stallion away from his master and tied it to a tree in the forest; paid for a hundred rubles, told her where the stallion was, and eventually became famous; the king lost wedding ring; he ordered the man to be brought in and told him to find out where the ring was by morning; man: "I'd better wait until midnight and run away wherever my eyes looked; this is how the third roosters sing, and now I'll set the craving!" ; the ring was stolen by a footman, a coachman and a cook; the footman went to eavesdrop on what was going on in the man's room; the roosters sang, the man said: "One is already there, we have two left to wait"; the footman took it personally he was frightened; then there were similar situations with the coachman and the cook; all three ran into the man's room, begged for mercy and gave him the ring; the man threw it under the floorboard; when the king came, he said that the ring rolled under her; the king rewarded him, went to the garden; picked up the beetle, came back and asked the man, "Well, if you're a witch doctor, then find out what I have in my hand?" ; the man, frightened, said to himself: "What, Bug, is in the hands of the king!" ; the tsar rewarded him even more and let him go home]: Afanasiev 1985 (3), No. 381:96-97; Ukrainians: Gnedich 1916, No. 1497 [A man by last name (nickname?) A bug comes to the doctor (paramedic), complains of sore teeth, he opens his mouth, "wipes his spoon with cotton wool", writes a prescription "Go to yourself" (?). On the way back, the pain goes away, the man decides that he can be a healer, sells the estate, invites patients to see. A master comes to him, whose horses have been stolen, repeats the actions of a paramedic, the patient is given a laxative at the pharmacy, he takes it, goes, opens the door - from there horses (? Where from? From the bathroom? It is not clear), the master pays the witch doctor half the cost of horses. The sick father comes to the healer, he wipes his spoon, orders him to go home, at home he finds his recovered daughter, and the healer is rewarded. The pan, whose cash register was stolen, wants to check the healer, brings a beetle in his fist, asks the healer what is there, he replies that he does not know that the Bug (i.e. he) fell for Mr.'s trick ("If I fall into the pen, don't virvesya"). Pan takes the healer to him, believing that he will find the stolen goods, he says that he will stab himself when he hears the third cry of the rooster - he is afraid that he will fail, it is the thieves who find out about him and take turns coming to his window, They hear him count cock screams - they decide that he thinks they are thieves. They come to him and confess where the money is hidden - "in gnoi." In the morning, the witch doctor points to the manure and gets half of the stolen goods], 1507 [Poor people say they can do magic, steal a rooster from their husband's brother, and tie them to a barn. The brother asks to figure out where his rooster is, the poor man puts a candle over a bucket of water, wax drips, he caresses, reads a book and guesses where the bird is, he is rewarded with 3 pounds of flour. The poor man's wife steals oxen and ties them in the forest, the brother again asks the poor man for help - he points out the place, warns him to hurry, because the robbers have left for a short time. They give him 10 pounds of flour. Years of poor witchcraft go by. A man from a foreign county asks for help finding his box, the poor man is afraid that his deception will be revealed, he will be brought to Mr.'s house. The sorcerer imitates a divination, thieves are afraid of exposure, reveal to him where the money is hidden, ask him to share it, he agrees. In the morning, he tells Mr. where the money is hidden and gets 2,000. Pan catches a beetle in his hands and asks what it is, the sorcerer replies "Got caught the Pan Bug in his hands," he lets him go. The sorcerer burns down his old hut with his book - he says he can no longer bewitch. He is building a new house]: 25-26, 32-33.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars (Yevpatoria) [in the bathhouse, the padishah's wife dropped her diamond earring; the poor man's wife noticed that she had been carried into the sewer; told her husband to pretend to be a fortuneteller; they found the earring; when the padishah's things began to disappear, they turned to the fortuneteller again; he asked for 40 days, put 40 beans in the box; when they ran out, he would be beheaded; in the evening, the fortuneteller says that one out of 40 has come; the thief listens outside the window, decides what's wrong with him; the next day, two; the thieves are guilty; while hunting, the padishah caught a grasshopper and asked the fortuneteller what he has in his hand; old man: the grasshopper jumped once, twice, and the third was caught; the old man did not wonder anymore]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 64; Adygi: Aliyeva 1978, No. 37 [the mullah lost his horse; for some reason he decided that the woman he met, called Butterfly, could to guess; gave her beans; she said at random that the neighbors had the horse; so it turned out; the fortuneteller was called to the khan, who had lost his ring; the maid immediately confessed herself; they agreed that she he will put the ring under the threshold; the khan decided to test the fortuneteller: what is in his fist? woman: poor Butterfly, you've come to a disastrous place for you! Having received the gold, the woman tried to get away as soon as possible]: 270-271; Kapiyeva 1991 [old man Pchau ("grasshopper") agreed to tell the mullah where his horse had gone; he accidentally guessed; the prince's wife lost her ring called P.; the maid who stole the ring was frightened, asked P. not to give it away; he told her to feed the ring to the goose, said that the goose had swallowed the ring; another prince was coming to visit and wanted to test P.; P .: unfortunate Grasshopper, you can't jump out now; the prince unclenched his fist, there is a grasshopper; P.: but I can't guess anymore; my grandfather rewarded this gift and said that he was only for three occasions]: 68-72; Abaza people [ poor widower Grasshopper saw a saddled horse without a rider; tied it in a secluded place; the nobleman asks if he saw the horse; K. promises to tell, indicated the place the next day; the nobleman is good paid, K. became famous; the girl asked to find the ring; the thief appeared by herself; K. ordered to feed the ring to the goose, said that the goose had swallowed the ring; the prince promised to expose the deceiver, clenched his fist the grasshopper, ordered to say what was there; the old man: he jumped once, jumped twice, and the third, Grasshopper, was caught; the old man meant himself, and the prince thought that the grasshopper was in his fist; the prince, as promised, gave K. half of the property]: Tugov 1985, No. 116:327-329; Ingush [Umi, Hampus and Ahi are thieves; H. and A. decide to make W. sheikh; stole the cow, W. told the victim where it is; the same with the horse; buffalo; y stepdaughter has lost money, he threatens to impose on everything if the money is not found; people advise you to contact W.; on the third night, the soldier who stole the money was guilty himself, asks not to give it away; W. says stepfather, where the money is hidden, stipulating that the padchah should no longer make such requests and should not demand the name of the thief; after becoming rich, W. does not want to be a sheikh anymore; H. came up with: during prayers should be shouted that the roof of the mosque is falling down, everyone will run out, but the roof, of course, will not collapse; the title of sheikh will be removed from W.; but the roof really collapsed; H. decided that W. should remain sheikh]: Malsagov 1983, No. 73:226-231; the Nogais [a poor man named Shegertki ("grasshopper") stole a horse from Bay Akmak; came with fortunetellers and indicated where the horse was; A. gave S. ten horses; a gold ring was stolen from the bay; Three brothers who stole the ring found out about Sh's arrival; the first one came to eavesdrop on Sh.'s conversation with Bai; the first rooster sang, S.: first came! the same second (second rooster), the third; the brothers asked not to give them away; S. ordered to give the ring to the goose and break his leg; Sh. Bayu: the ring was stolen by a lame goose; bai gave S. gold; A. spoke about Sh. Bayu Koybagar; if S. guesses, K. will give half of the property to A., if not, A. will give it to K.; K. caught a grasshopper: what do I have in my hand? Sh.: The first time Grasshopper jumped and escaped, the second time he escaped, the third time he was caught; he means himself, and the khan thinks he gave half of his wealth to the grasshopper]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 41:197-198; Terek Cossacks (art. Ardon) [the thief ties the stolen bulls in the forest; agrees with the mother that he will bring the owner to her, and she will pretend to be a sorceress; they do this several times; the mother is known as a good sorceress; the landowner, who was stolen money, turns to her for help; sets the condition: to guess the thieves within three days; the sorcerer comes to him; on the third day, grooms who stole the money come to her room; the rooster screams, the sorcerer says: "Yeah, thank God there is one"; the first groom bounces off the wall and repeats: "There is one"; the sorceress hears another cock scream and says: "Yeah, thank God, there is another"; the second groom:" I guessed the other one too!" ; there is a cock scream again; the sorcerer: "Here's the third one!" ; third groom: "Trouble, I guessed it too!" ; decides, together with the other two, to confess to the theft; they tell the landowner that the money is hidden in the manure; the landowner digs it up and arranges a feast; at the table one master catches the bug and turns to the sorcerer: "Find out what is in your hand"; noticing his prank, the sorcerer replies: "Oh bug, bug! You're sitting in Mr.'s hand!" ; the master puts chicken eggs under her seat; she notices this too; says, "So I'll sit on my eggs and be like a quochka!" ; guests reward her with money]: Gusev 1893:352-354; Kumyks [the shepherd Grasshopper's wife wants him to become a kadeem; Khan jokingly makes him a kadiem for a week; tells him to find the missing camels; at night K. decided to run, accidentally came across those camels, said that he found out everything from books; then the khan lost his treasury; the thieves, believing in K.'s gift, came to him with a request not to extradite them; he ordered the treasury to be taken to the cave, again said that he had learned about the cave from books; the former kadiy advises Khan to check K. again; he saw the grasshopper, grabbed it a third time, held it in his fist, said that the grasshopper escaped twice, and I got caught on the third, asked K. what was in his fist; K. repeated the khan's words, referring to himself; K.'s fame became immense, the theft stopped]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 37:173-175; Lucky [the wife of the poor man The name Locust was beaten in the bathhouse; she began to beat her husband - be a fortuneteller; the jeweler lost a jewel from the ring of the padishah's daughter; S. tells me to look for houses, the jeweler found a stone among the garbage, paid 50 coins ; the padishah's treasury disappeared, the Locusts were told to find it in 40 days; he tells his wife to buy 40 dates, give one a day; the chieftain sent the youngest to eavesdrop; after eating the first date, S. says that he came the most small, 39 left; so every day for a thief; on the 40th day, the chieftain came, admitted; S. ordered to bury the treasury on the mountain under a stone; the padishah gives S. half of the treasury; the padishah tests again: caught and clenched the locusts in his fist; S.: your end has come, Locusts; the padishah decided that S. guessed right, stopped making S. guess over trifles]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 39:185-188; Lezgins [shepherd Tsitsali's wife (" grasshopper") is dissatisfied that Kadia's wife is respected, but not; tells her husband to learn to read and write; accidentally saw how the padishah's camel drowned; the Shah gathered scientists, only C. said that the camel was in the river, received gold; stole the treasury of the padishah; the thieves themselves came to C.; C. padishah: the treasury was stolen not by people, but by evil spirits, dig in the cemetery; the padishah made Ts. Kadiem; while walking he grabbed a grasshopper and asked what in his hand; C.: Now you're dead, Tzitz! the padishah decided that C. guessed right]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 38:178-181 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 74:233-236; Tabasarans [Ahmed's wife complains that she is not respected, tells him to become a mullah or a kadir; spread the rumor, that her husband had received a gift; he was called Mullah the Grasshopper; the padishah's treasury was robbed, A.'s wife tells him to ask for 40 days of respite; baked 40 chureks, gives one every evening; each of the 40 robbers comes to eavesdrop; "Here is the first one"; "Here is the second"; A. counts chureks, and the robbers think they are; the leader decides to confess; A. reports that the treasury is buried in a forest in a clearing; the padishah took the mullah to the palace; one day he knocked down the golden crown from him - there was a snake in it; another time he kicked the padishah, who flew to the side and at that time the wall collapsed; while walking, the padishah caught and held a grasshopper in his fist; mullah out loud: the first time you were not caught, the second time you didn't figure it out, and the third time you, the Grasshopper, got caught; the padishah thought the mullah had guessed it; one night a man came to the mullah: I am your happiness, I set it all up; but when I destroyed the wall, my hump began to grow as a result of being hit by a stone, and I would soon die; after that, the mullah could not guess anything and was kicked out]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 40:192-195; Georgians [the king lost his diamond; wife lazy: the husband is a good fortuneteller, but he must be beaten; the lazy person is told to find a diamond; to test it, the king tells you to say that there are grasshoppers in the box; lazy: ride, grasshopper, woe to you, wife, why killed; the king hears about the grasshopper; the wife brought her husband pies: nine, the tenth ate on the way; nine embezzlers eavesdrop, think about them; ask them not to destroy them; the imaginary fortuneteller tells them to feed diamond goose; tells the king to slaughter the goose; thieves did not remain in debt]: Kurdovanidze 1998 (2), No. 145:289-290; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [Chekulchek ("dragonfly") was completely impoverished, wanted to drown himself; Iki-Gully's wife ("two flowers") advised me to collect and sell firewood, buy a book, gave her headdress (women's headdress) to let C. become a fortuneteller; he accidentally noticed the boys playing ashigami {= alchiki?} and one rolled between the stones; pretended to be guessing, "found" ashig; among the players were the prince and the children of the vizier, C. brought to the king; he ordered to find the missing horse; C. thought that he had come to the mares in the herd, it turned out; then accidentally found the royal wife's ring, which she dropped in the bathhouse; the king wants to test the fortuneteller; they picked two flowers, wrapped them in paper; C.: it's all because of you Iki-Gully; dragonfly: Oh, C., they didn't catch the first time, the second, the third, and the fourth time they caught it! those who caught the dragonfly confirmed that they had caught it on the fourth attempt; the king ordered C. to read prayers in the mosque; to avoid exposure, C. grabbed the king by the throat, intending to kill him, and pulled the mosque out the door collapsed; C. said that Gabriel came and ordered the king to be saved; the king helped C. to death]: 481-489; Nabiev 1988 [40 robbers robbed the treasury of Shah Zangimer; the Shah orders to execute all citizens, if not thieves they will find, give the person who finds as much gold as he weighs; the old man agrees to be a guesser, must answer in 40 days; the wife does not know how to count; he tells her to buy 40 watermelons - they are every evening they will eat one; the old man says blindly: here comes alone; the next evening: the second; this is heard by the robbers who eavesdrop, they think about them; the chieftain is the fortieth, asks not to give it away, indicates where gold; in order not to pay what was promised, the shah lets go of a skinny, lame, white camel, tells him to find it; the old man realized that the camel was released intentionally and could not go far, finds it; the shah hides a fly in his fist asks what is there; the old man sees a thread of web stuck to the Shah's hand, gives the right answer; the old man asks the robbers to kill the cruel khan; they did it, gave the throne to the old man]: 129-132; the Turks [ Seeing the wife of a court stargazer in the bathhouse, the poor man's wife tells him to take this position himself, otherwise he will leave him; the owner of the bathhouse teaches what to do; the person is illiterate, but sits in front of the bathhouse with a pen and with paper, like a fortuneteller; the hostess stole the ring from the stargazer's wife, hid it in the trash, said to the imaginary Hajj; he says where the ring is awarded; now the Sultan Khanim has lost his ring; the sultan tells me to find until morning; the slave brings the ring, asks not to give it away; the imaginary hoja tells me to feed the ring to the goose; in front of everyone she points to the goose; sultan: what do I have in my hand? Hoja: jump once, grasshopper, jump twice, get caught third! a grasshopper in the Sultan's hand; the man was made a court stargazer]: Tsvetinovich 1959:228-231; Kurds: Rudenko 1970, No. 15 [the wife advised the old man to earn money by becoming an imaginary fortuneteller; he first he sees how the alchik of the padishah's son rolled into the crack, then how the vizier's daughter picked up and hid the pearl of the padishah's daughter; both times she pretends to guess right and receives a reward; 7 thieves robbed the treasury; the old man sits at home, sees two of his seven chickens crawl through the hole into the room, says that two have already arrived; this is heard by two thieves who climbed onto the roof to eavesdrop; then the others come listen, while the other 5 chickens came; thieves confess to what they did, ask not to give them away, the padishah gets their treasures back; standing on the ivan, the padishah and his wife go down to the old man, for they it seemed that he was calling them; at that time Ivan collapsed, they believed that the fortuneteller had saved them; another padishah sent a box in which he put earth and a rose, demanding to guess what was inside; old man: Oh, Gole! ("ah" is land, "gole" is a rose, as well as the name of the old man's wife; everyone thought that the old man was right; he said that his saint forbade him to guess more, released with a rich reward]: 40-43; Shamilov 1967 [about the poor man they said he was a good guesser; the padishah told him to find thieves who robbed the treasury in 40 days; 40 thieves take turns eavesdropping on how the poor man counts the days and thinks it's him about them; the thieves are guilty the poor man told them to return the gold, and asked the padishah for a reward: let him go]: 99-103.
Iran - Central Asia. Lura [the firewood collector's wife advises him to become a fortuneteller; he accidentally finds the missing ox, a goat; the king's wife in the bathhouse took off the ring and shoved it into the gap in the wall, and forgot where exactly; the fortuneteller came, saw that the queen's clothes were open and her genitals were visible; exclaimed: a hairy slit; the queen remembered that she had wrapped the ring in a piece of hair, immediately found it; the king's treasury was robbed; the fortuneteller's wife tells her husband to ask the king to wait 40 nights and provide food for this period; thieves take turns eavesdropping; every night the fortuneteller takes one grenade from the shelf and says, "this is the first", "this is the second", etc.; thieves think he means them; 40 thieves came to the fortuneteller; the leader named the place where the treasures were hidden and promised the fortuneteller a lot of money for silence; since nothing was missing, the king too made the fortuneteller rich]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 7:39-40; the Persians [the poor man's wife laments that she is beautiful and there is no money, while the ugly wife of the chief fortuneteller is solemnly led to servant bathhouse; tells her husband to sell a spade and a shovel, buy old books; the merchant's camel with the money loaded on him is gone; the poor man points the direction at random, the servant finds a camel; the merchant made him chief a fortuneteller; 40 thieves have robbed the treasury; the wife orders to ask for 40 days of delay, buy 40 dates, eat one each day; a servant enters, the fortuneteller eats the date and says that this is the first of 40; the servant takes what has been said personally, he is one of the robbers himself; this is the case every day; the robbers ask not to extradite them, indicate where they buried the treasury; the fortuneteller and his wife think how to get rid of the duty; wife: the merchant will go into the bathhouse, break in and drag him out, you will be mistaken for a madman; he did so, after which the bathhouse collapsed; next time his wife ordered to steal the merchant with a chair; he was under the chair scorpion; the merchant called the fortuneteller to hunt, clenched a grasshopper in his fist, offered to guess what was there; fortuneteller: this time you were caught, grasshopper (name in mind yourself); you won't go against God's desire]: Christensen 1971, No. 6:60-68; Tajiks [the poor man went to the maktab, took the book and decided he had become a mullah; his wife advised me to sit at the crossroads and pretend to read (my husband could not read); saw a crow who pulled a stolen bull to the cave, and then the owner of the bull; the man pretended to find out what had happened in the book; the owner gave cloth, the wife made a turban out of it for her husband; the next time he said to the caravan, where are his camels; the shah's treasury was robbed, all the fortunetellers were summoned; the man and his wife were locked in waiting for him to identify the thieves; the wife gives three grenades one after another; the husband eats, says that here's one; thieves hear, think they're talking about them; thieves asked them not to extradite them, the fortuneteller told them to take the treasury to where he was; the Shah decides to test the fortuneteller for the last time, asks what he has in fist (there is a grasshopper); the man speaks out loud: he jumped once, jumped twice, and got caught the third; the shah thinks he is talking about a grasshopper, made him the eldest sheikh; when he enters the mosque, he does not know what to do; became shout, Allah is great! and left the mosque; people followed him, after which the roof collapsed; the Shah richly rewarded the fortuneteller and his wife and they returned home]: Amonov 1972:260-265; Tajiks Sistan [the poor man found a donkey in the middle of the ditch, tied his legs with a white rope, then sat down and began to read the book; told the man that he was a fortuneteller; he asked him to find his donkey; the poor man say that he was in a ditch, his legs were tied with a white rope; the fortuneteller became famous, the king called him; 40 thieves robbed the treasury; the king orders them to be found in 40 days; the fortuneteller asks to bring a date every day; the wife brought the first, the fortuneteller says that one already exists; he meant a date, and the thief overheard, thought it was about them; the chieftain was convinced that it was; the robbers returned the treasures; the king paid the fortuneteller, the vizier was jealous; when hunting, he advises the king catch a grasshopper and ask the fortuneteller what he had in his hand; the poor man decided to confess: once the grasshopper jumped, the second, and the third one was caught; the king understood that the fortuneteller found out that he had a grasshopper in his hand]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 12:149-152; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2): 289-300 [=Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:276-288, =Rogov 1980:276-288, =Sheverdin 1984:100-112; fortuneteller died; girlfriend his wife asked for his book for her illiterate husband; he accidentally indicated where the missing horse was; the owner paid a quarter of the price; the fortuneteller was told to find the missing royal treasury; he asks for 40 days of time, for each day a jug of food; the chieftain of thieves sent a spy; he hears the fortunetellers say (about the jug brought to his wife): Well, here's one; when the chieftain, the fortuneteller, came said to his wife, who brought a large jug: Today a big one has appeared; the chieftain sends a thief to tell him which cave the treasury is buried in; the king generously rewarded the fortuneteller; once he caught locusts and began to ask what he had in hand; fortuneteller: Caught like locusts; no longer guessed fortunetellers, lived well with his wife], 378-380 [the old woman decided to make her illiterate husband a domulla, i.e. a soothsayer; a neighbor asks to cure the child, husband He read a prayer, the child stopped crying; the padishah lost his ring; the fortuneteller was locked in the room; a vizier named Vaijan listens to the fortuneteller lament: Wai, jan, now you're caught; thinks he about him, asks him not to be given away; the fortuneteller tells me to bring the padishah's chicken, fed her a ring; when the ring was found in the chicken goiter, he received an award].
Baltoscandia. Norwegians [the coal miner bought his old dress from the pastor, pretends to be a fortuneteller; the king has lost his ring, he tells the fortuneteller to find it in three days, otherwise he executes him; every day one of the servants brings dinner, and the fortuneteller says, "That's the first one!" (Second, Third); the servants thought it best to confess, asked not to give it away; the fortuneteller told them to feed the ring to the pig; to test the fortuneteller, the king goes to the seashore, puts a crab in a silver vessel and covers it with a lid, tells you to guess what's in the vessel; "Poor crab!" , exclaimed the fortuneteller, referring to himself; then accidentally predicts that the Queen will give birth to a son and daughter]: Asbjrnsen in Cosquin 1887:189; Swedes [a peasant named Grasshopper (or Cancer, Krabba) pretends to be a fortuneteller; invited to the house where the theft took place; three servants come in turn, the fortuneteller says, Here, one (etc.), the servants believe they are exposed, confess; he is paid like thieves , so does the owner of the kidnapped; the latter wants to test the fortuneteller again, asks what is in his fist (under the lid of the vessel); he sighs, Poor Grasshopper, referring to himself, but others believe that he guessed it]: Liungman 1961, No. 1641:321-323; Danes: Kristensen 1881ff II, No. 21, 33; 1896f I, No. 15 in Uther 2004 (2), No. 1641:344-345; Latvians [the old man promises to find the missing master a ring, tells him to feed him for three days; after the first day, eat one! the old man meant that they were fed all day, and the servants said that he had already identified one thief; also after the second day; on the third day, the servants asked them not to be extradited, because they thought that the old man had exposed them; they gave them to him good money, the old man hid the ring; to do this, he fed him to a turkey and bread; told the master that the ring had swallowed the turkey; received an award; but the master decided to try it again; put a cricket under the mug - what's there; old man out loud: oh, cricket, you hit your pole; the master thought the old man was a great sorcerer]: Alksnite et al. 1958:465-466; Lithuanians: Löbite 1965 [the widow fell ill and the master drove her away; in order to take revenge, she took the lordly bulls and tied them in the forest; spread a rumor that she could find bulls; received a reward for her faithful divination; the king lost money, he sent for a widow; she was locked in in a separate ward; she laments: dawn will take care of it, the whips will whistle; the servant who stole the money overhears, thinks it's about him, confesses to promising not to give it away; the widow said that the money is in the pond, it's there and they found it; the king decided to test the widow: everyone was served chickens at the feast, and the widow a crow; the widow exclaims: crow, crow, how did you get here! the king rewarded her, but when he sent her home, he put eggs in the cart; widow: I'll sit like a hen on eggs! the king is convinced that there is no other such witch in the world]: 338-340; Cosquin 1887 [the peasant declared himself an omniscient fortuneteller; accidentally found a horse; healed the princess; the king gives him three days to find the stolen money; three servants who took the money eavesdrop on his window; he says, "Here's one," referring to the past day, and they think it's about them; give him the money and he gives him back their king]: 191; Karelians (Kalevalsky district) [the princess lost her rings; recommended her witch grandmother; sent a wagon for her, the tsar hid a chicken egg in his pillow; the coachman must check, guess whether the witch is talking about this; the grandmother says that she spins like a chicken on eggs; asks to leave her alone in the room; says: "What Mishka, Grishka, Occe, then Vacce" ("both forehead and stomach"); four servants they overheard their names Mishka, Grishka, Occe and Vacce, they got scared and brought rings; after receiving the award, the grandmother asked the king not to call her again for divination]: Onegin 2010, No. 61:498-499; Western Sami (Sweden): Qvigstad 1925, No. 1641; Livonians, Estonians: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1641:344-345; Veps: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 1641:259
Volga - Perm. Marie: Chetkarev 1955:141-145 in Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 1641:259; the Udmurts [the pop is impoverished; agreed with the poor man that he would steal the horse from the rich man, hide it, and the pop would depict clairvoyant; the same with a bull; the merchant's money was stolen, he calls a fortuneteller; sends a kibitka with a bed in him and eggs under it; if it's a hunter, he'll say something; pop: I'm sitting like a crow on eggs; the coachman reports that the pop guessed it; the priest was locked in the room, leaving food and drinks; drinking a glass, the pop stomps and exclaims: one (second, third) eat! Three thieves overheard, threw money through the window; the merchant thought it was the pop who stole the money and killed him by hitting him on the head with a bottle]: Kralina 1960, No. 95:279-281.
Turkestan. Kazakhs: Ethnographic Materials 1898, No. 2 (Turgay) [two brothers are rich, and the youngest has only one argamak; brothers tell shepherds to drive around herds; the shepherd reports that the argamak has visited the end, but let the poor man not betray him, but say that he saw it in a dream; the poor man became famous as a clairvoyant; the khan lost a bag of gold, the brothers said that the poor man could find the thief; intending to flee, the poor man asked for a yurt to be placed at a distance; the same thief came to rob the yurt, the poor man grabbed him; the thief confessed and asked not to give him away; the poor man indicated where the gold was; the next time the khan's horse was stolen; the poor man decided to run away, came across a horse tied by a thief; one day a grasshopper jumped into the khan's cup with koumiss; the khan caught him on the third attempt and ordered him to say what was in his fist; poor man: once he escaped deaths, two, the third - caught; the khan killed the grasshopper and was going to reward the poor man; he told everything; the khan awarded him, the brothers made him servants]: 9-12; Sidelnikov 1958 [=Zhanuzakova 1977:236-240; The poor man has a good horse; the poor man asked two rich men to allow the horse to be allowed into their herd by autumn, and he himself was hired as a laborer; one man told him that the rich had driven his horse almost to death, advised him to pretend to be a clairvoyant - they say, he guessed the condition of the horse best; the people forced the rich to give the poor 10 best pacers in exchange; the khan lost a gold bar, the rich said that the clairvoyant will be able to find him; the poor man asks to put him on a kibitka for the night, hoping to escape unnoticed; the thief who stole the ingot accidentally came across a kibitka, the poor man grabbed him and he told him where he was buried ingot; khan richly endowed the clairvoyant with cattle; the khan demands to find the stolen horse; the poor man runs into the gorge; the thief accidentally brought the horse there and fell asleep; the poor man rode this horse to the khan; he wants test the clairvoyant for the last time; grabbed the grasshopper, suggests saying what is in his fist; poor man: once he left, left twice, and found the third death; the khan decided that it was about a grasshopper, let the poor man go home with gifts; rich brothers died of grief]: 399-405; 1962 [old Buck ("frog") spent the night with others in the rich man's house; the owner lost his goods; the companions decided to laugh at B. they said that he was a fortuneteller; at night, B. accidentally overheard the thieves talking, indicated where the stolen goods were and who the thief was; Biy demands to say where the missing camel was; B. accidentally finds the corpse - the camel is stuck in the mud; Khan's son caught a frog on the third time and hid it under his hat, demands to say what is there; B.: Oh, Baka, the first time he died, the second time, and you won't leave the third time; the people glorified B.]: 316-322; Kyrgyz [Khan Omorbek has lost his treasury; he promises half of his wealth to whoever returns it, but executes everyone if the treasury is not found; people asked Alymkul for help; he took 40 apricots and asked leave him in the room for 40 days; every day one of the 40 robbers overhears; A. eats an apricot: here is the first (the second the next day); the third robber asks not to give them away, says where he is buried treasury; khan is happy, but does not want to pay; asks to know where the horse went; the shepherds told; the khan catches a fly, tells him to say what is in his hand; A. aloud: once saved, the second, and the third as a fly; khan invited A. to the bathhouse; the khan thought, hit his head against the lintel, the roof collapsed and failed the khan]: Brudny 1954:95-99.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans [Agaraldai began to drive the fox out of the hole, she ran away, taking his hat, and the dog pulled the horse on the arcana; A. asks everyone if they saw a fox in a felt hat; a flock of geese flew up, a goldfish fell to the ground, A. released it into the lake; he came to Karaty Khan, whose youngest daughter was missing, guessed that it was a goldfish, called himself a fortuneteller, brought the khan to the lake, where his daughter was playing with fish; K. asks to know where his horse went; A. sits in a yurt waiting to be exposed, but the thieves were afraid that the fortuneteller would find out everything and were guilty to him; A. orders to tie the horse to Black Rock and points out Khan, where is the horse; khansha falls ill, A. decides to run so that he would not be told to guess again, but accidentally saw a black wizard come out of the yurt, turned into a hawk, flew into the mouth of a black ox; the ox was killed, the hawk was burned, the khansha recovered; neighboring Kuduktu Khan is at war; A. is put on a horse, an arrow hits the horse, he rushes, the enemy is frightened and ran, A. managed to climb a tree so as not to be trampled; K.- Khan was told to herd calves]: Kalzan 1964:86-93 (=Taube 1978, No. 57:276-282); the Mongols: Mikhailov 1962:35-38 [Tsartsa-namgil ("tsartsa" is a locust family) did not master monastic wisdom, he was expelled; The llama advises to closely monitor what is around; C. repeats the bird's cry "Tsva-ah, uwa-ah", the antelope's cry "Joron, Joron", the squeak of the mice "Buvs, buvs"; Chinese merchants tried to ask which piece C. wants meat, for this purpose they raised their thumb up, lowered their little finger down; C. did not understand anything, but remembered the gesture; Khan tells C. to find the missing ring; C. tells him to leave it for three days, giving plenty of food; they eavesdrop on him; he repeats what he heard from birds, etc., this is understood as a sign of his wisdom; C. is full, says: all the same, your stomach comes to an end; the pregnant maid who stole the ring returns asks her not to betray him; the lamas ask how big the world is, etc., and C. moves his thumb and little finger, everyone is surprised by his wisdom; the khan caught locusts on the third time, clenched them in his fist, asks Ts to say what does he have; Ts.: the first time the khan did not catch locusts, the second and caught the third; C. means himself, the khan was a locust; made C. a court sage], 111-113 [the wife drives the lazy husband to take a walk to Western mountain; he finds a peritoneum full of oil; went again; saw the fox hide in the hole, covered the hole with a hat; the fox jumped out, carrying his hat, followed by a horse with a gun tied to the saddle and a dog; lazy went to the khan's palace; saw how the khansha, washing her face, put a ring on the ground; then the cow filled it with manure, and the maid covered the fence with manure; the lazy man appeared under the guise of a llama, said where the ring was; after Khan tells him to find pearl beads; the lazy man decides to commit suicide after eating fat half-baked pork and undercooked barley; at night he ran out into the yard several times; the maids who stole the necklace decided what he guessed, confessed, asking not to give them away; the lazy man pointed out where the necklace was buried; the hansha fell ill; the lazy man decided to commit suicide in the same way, heard demons, a copper-red pig, talking in the yard and black bull, ordered to kill the bull; khansha recovered; as a reward, the lazy man asked for three horsehair carts, because his wife liked to twist hair ropes; his wife scolded him, sent him back; this time lazy brought a herd and brought expensive things].
Japan. Japanese (from Tohoku to North Kyushu) [a jealous husband is used to saying he can see through everything; after knowing beforehand that his wife is cooking good food for herself and his guests, he comes and pretends to senses where the food is hidden in the house; the wife talks about his abilities; he tells his wife to burn down the house and, far from it, pretends to smell smoke; the rich man bets with him and loses; the master sends a palanquin for the fortuneteller to find the missing jewel or find out the cause of his daughter's illness; on the way, hiding under the temple floor, the fortuneteller hears a conversation thieves or foxes responsible for theft or illness; or the perpetrators come to him when he pretends to be performing a ritual to identify thieves; when the master asks which fortuneteller wants the reward, he asks not to be called more clairvoyant; receives money as a reward]: Ikeda 1971, No. 1641:261-262.