Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

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M199g2. Spiny pole. 21.22.

The deceiver makes it so that the tiger with whom they carry meat on the pole holds the end of the pole with the thorns and suffers from pain.

Kachin, ahem, bru.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Kachin [Man-Bya and the tiger went hunting; MB hid in a supply bag carried by the tiger, ate everything on the way; they killed a deer, carried it on a pole; MB carried the smooth end and the tiger was prickly; MB tells the tiger not to scream in pain - the meat will go rancid; MB sends a tiger with a leaky bamboo vessel to fetch water, while he roasts venison, adds bile to the tiger's share; says that the meat is bitter because the tiger screamed; the tiger built a house for himself, and MB slept under a tree, came to the tiger to hide from the rain; told the tiger that his own house was not completed, but there were diamonds and gold on the roof; the tiger saw the moon and stars and believed it, agreed to change houses; stayed on the lawn; MB says he does not dare to sit on a cow cake, and whoever can will get wiser; the tiger sat down and smeared himself; MB says that a snake is royal staff, it's better not to take it; the tiger takes, is stung; the hornet's nest is the gong that gives victory; the tiger is bitten; MB jumps into the hole, tells the tiger that the sky is falling, we must hide; he gets out of the hole himself, he falls asleep with brushwood, sets it on fire; the tiger jumped out, horses and cows were advised to run to the mountain, buffaloes to jump into the river; the tiger escaped, but since then on the skin of the strip; villagers gave MB of poisoned vodka; Before his death, MB put bees in the flute, sealed it; a sound is heard, people think that MB is alive and playing; they also drank this vodka and died]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 39:129-134.

Burma - Indochina. Khmu: Lindell et al. 1977, No. 5 [the couple has a son Aay Caa Laay ("liar"; A.); while his parents are working in the fields, A. stuck a bunch of crap with feathers, asked his father to catch the bird, he smeared himself; his parents left it to be eaten by the tiger; A. asks the tiger not to eat it - he will show where to steal the pig; they carry the pig on a stick; A. let the tiger carry the part of the trunk where the thorns are, told him not to moan, otherwise the food will become bitter; the tiger moans; A. points to the sunrise, sends the tiger there for fire, at which time he makes a fire, cooks meat, saves it for himself, puts it in the tiger's part bitter fruits; A. prepares pig testicles, says he has cut off his genitals; the next day the tiger agrees to have A. cut off his testicles; A. runs away; tells people who cut straw that a tiger is coming; puts on the clothes they threw, the tiger does not recognize him, he pokes his wound with a sickle; elsewhere he sprays hot juice there; runs and falls into a hole; tells the tiger that the sky is falling, even if he jumps off; stabs The tiger with a needle, who pushes A. out of the pit, calls the peasants; they ran to the pit, A. burned the village, hiding meat and rice; says that wherever his spear and arrow fall, there is meat and rice; the old woman has a golden stick, A. exchanges it for wooden food, which supposedly creates food (it is hidden in advance); A. runs away, carries brushwood to the house for a long time, the unrecognized says that this pile was brought by A.'s son; people: if the son is so strong, then A. we must be afraid]: 41-46; 1978, No. 3 [a childless woman wants to go to the monks to ask for a child; everyone refuses to transport her across the river; she builds a stupa by a tree out of sand, asks a tree to give her three children to take revenge on those in power, monks and elders; gives birth to three children, dies; the eldest is Aay CaaLaay ("liar"; A.); he was adopted by husband and wife; he feathered a bunch of crap, asked the adoptive father to catch the bird, he smeared himself; the same with the adoptive mother; they left it to be eaten by the tiger; A. asks the tiger not to eat it - he will show where to steal the pig; they carry the pig on a stick; A. let the tiger carry the part of the trunk where the thorns are, told him not to moan, otherwise the food would become bitter; the tiger moans; A. shows the star, sends the tiger there for fire, at that time he makes a fire and cooks meat, lays for himself, put bitter fruits in the tiger part; the tiger returns without fire, A. sends him to make spoons for leaves, poured white on the leaves himself so that the tiger thinks it is from birds (and longer He was looking); the tiger eats bitter meat - this is because he moaned on the way; A. prepares pig testicles, says he has cut off his genitals; the next day the tiger agrees to have A. cut off his testicles; when A. climbs a tree, the tiger sees that everything is in place; A. throws the fruits away while the tiger picks them up, manages to go down and run away; tells the girls that the tiger is coming, they threw their clothes, A. put it on, the tiger did not recognize him; the same with women and children; with men who cut straw; every time A. asks to show the wound, pokes hot smut at it, sprinkles hot juice, stabs it with straw; jumps into a hole; tells the tiger that the sky is falling, let him jump; but let him not push it upstairs, or the sky will crush it; stabs the tiger with a needle, he pushes A. out of the hole, A. stoned it; tells the peasants that A tiger fell into the hole; they ran to the pit, A. burned the village, hiding meat and rice; says that wherever his spear and arrow go, there is meat and rice; shows that people believe, throw spears, but find nothing else; they catch A., hang them in a basket on a tree to then knock the tree into the river; a man with a gong was walking by, his eyes hurt, A. convinced him to change places - his eyes would recover; people knocked down a tree, a man drowned; A. says he met his deceased parents in the river, they offered him what he wanted, he took the gong; everyone jumped into the water and drowned except an old woman with an empty calebass; A. smashed the calebass with a stone, the old woman also drowned; A. told the governor that his wife had fallen off the roof and his wife that her husband had been wounded by a boar; they ran to look for each other, collided with their foreheads; the governor expelled A. at a distance of three blows to the slit gong, and A. measured three lengths of the gong, built a house there; the governor's children relieved themselves at A.'s house; A.: either poop or pee, but not both; governor: try it yourself! A. emptied his bladder, tied his penis, put a pile in the governor's house; he ordered to go where the earth turned upside down; A. built a house on the field where they plowed with a plow; hunchback came, carrying the vessel to back; A.: Look, there are two suns in the sky; she looked, the vessel fell and broke; people filled bamboo vessels with intestinal gases, came to A. not knowing it was him; he fed them buffalo manure and arranged it so that they opened their vessels under their noses]: 50-62; bru [liar Tan says that a doe has climbed into his field; everyone rushed to catch, there is no fallow deer, T. was driven into the forest; T. to the monkeys: I will climb a tree, drop fruits, and you will cut off the trunk so that the fruits pile up on the slippery trunk; you can't climb slippery monkeys; T. eats ripe fruits, throws green fruits to monkeys; T. ran across the river, shouted that the flood was beginning, advised the monkeys to tie stones to their backs; the monkeys crossed the reed bridge, T. brought it down, they drowned; T. collected them, began to fry them; a tiger came, T. threw him a few monkeys; the tiger agrees to carry T. on his back if he catches monkeys; towards him a boar; T. tells the tiger to hide; tells the boar that the tiger wants to attack him, so it's better attack yourself; after the fight, the tiger killed the wild boar; T. suggests taking the tree to carry the carcass: he will grab the top, and the tiger by the butt; thorns dug into the tiger's neck; by the river T. sends a tiger to fry a wild boar for fire, points to the setting sun - this is the fire in my grandmother's house; a day later, the tiger returned - there is no wild boar; T. says he brought fire from his grandmother himself; instead of meat, he gave the tiger a pipe - the meat went rancid due to your scream; the next day T. invites the tiger to eat its ears, gave the boars; cut off the tiger's ears; he saw that T.'s ears were in place, chased him; T. fell into a hole; says his ears grew; that the sky falls; pokes a stick in the tiger's ears, tells the turtle to be thrown out of the pit - the sky will flatten it; then asks him to eat it here, but not to throw it away; the tiger threw it away; T. threw burning guns into the pit, since then the tiger was striped; came to the village, lied again about the doe, climbed onto the roof; threw pepper into the eyes of the audience, ran away; stood on the old woman's shoulders to get honey from the hollow for her; he eats everything himself; the old woman bent down; T. hung his head in the hollow; people set fire to the tree; T. went up to the moon with the tree, can be seen there]: Nikulin 1976:212-220.