M199H. A giant's ripped open belly, (ATU 1088).

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The character hides a bag under his clothes, imperceptibly putting food in it. After ripping the bag off, he pretends to cut his stomach. The enemy decides to do the same and, having cut his stomach, dies. Cf. M91A motif, "Blood Bubble". In ATU's definition of plot 1088, the motif of a giant's ripped open belly is optional.

Beni Snou Berbers (Algerian-Moroccan border), Basques, Catalans, Spaniards, Galicians, Portuguese, Italians (Veneto, Marche), Sicilians, Maltese, French, British, Irish, Germans (Switzerland, Austria), Slovenes, Swedes, Norwegians, Latvians, Western Ojibwa.

North Africa. The Berbers of Beni Snou (border between the Holy Army of Morocco and Algeria) [the hedgehog and the jackal went to steal onions; the jackal filled his belly, and the hedgehog watched if he could crawl back through the narrow hole; when leaving, the hedgehog advised the jackal pretend to be dead; the fakir came in, he left his clothes behind the fence; threw away the jackal, thinking he was dead; the jackal put on his fakir's clothes, ran away with the hedgehog; met the shepherds; while the hedgehog entertained them playing the drum, the jackal stole goats; the jackal agrees to take those who are silent and leave the hedgehog who bleat; the jackal has taken many; now the hedgehog offers him to pick up the bleating; the jackal brought the goats into the cave began to cut and eat them; the hedgehog set fire to the clothes left by the shepherds, joined the jackal; asked for only one gut; puffed it, began to hit the walls of the cave, the jackal was afraid of the noise and ran away; the hedgehog filled fat wineskin stolen from shepherds; jackal: it was you who ate all the fat; hedgehog: let's open our bellies and see who sat down; ripped his wineskin, and the jackal ripped his stomach and died; the hedgehog got it all; another jackal came asked for something to eat for him too; they found a saddle: who would it suit? the hedgehog is under the saddle and you can't see, the jackal came up; the hedgehog saddled him, rode the jackal; towards the dog; the hedgehog hid under a pile of horse manure, and the jackal was torn by dogs]: Destaing 1907, No. 2:246-249.

Southern Europe. Basques: Barbier 1931, No. 4 [three brothers go to look for work; mother warns not to be hired by a red-bearded man; red-bearded; older brothers refuse, younger agrees; who is first he will get angry, the other one will peel off his back to make sandals; the guy is told to bring the straightest and most crooked firewood from the forest, he does everything (the curves are the vine); herd pigs, and in these places Tartar lives; the guy took a bird, a son, a skein of thread; T. offers to compete; who will throw the stone next (the guy released the bird); who will crush the stone by throwing it (the guy throws a piece of cheese, that flies into small pieces); you have to separate the guy's pigs, etc.; guy: all of them with two ears and one tail are mine; running away from T., the guy wrapped his pork intestines and then threw them, shouting that it's easier to run; T. tore out his guts and died; the guy cut off the tails of the pigs, put them in the swamp, and really drowned a few; the red-bearded began to pull - the tails come off, the guy pulls out pigs; the guy ripped off the skin of the red-bearded man's back, returned home rich]: 81-84; Webster 1879 [Errua ("madman"), leaves home, is hired by the owner; whoever of them will be dissatisfied with the other, the other rips off the skin from the back; the owner orders 1) to bring the crooked branches to the firewood (E. cuts down the vineyard), 2) drive the cows to the pasture without breaking the fence in which there is no passage (E. cuts the cows into pieces, pushes into the cracks of the fence), 3) herd pigs on the mountain where the cannibal Tartaro lives; T. offers to compete, 1) who will throw the stone further (the old woman advises releasing the bird), 2) who will throw the piece next iron (a bar of iron; say: from here to Salamanca; T. does not tell you to throw it, because his parents are in Salamanca), 3) pull out and drag an oak tree (E. ties the entire forest with a rope, T. is afraid where he will herd pigs) ; in the house of T. E. goes to bed next to him for the night; puts the dead man lying under the bed in his place; T. hits him with iron, in the morning E. complains that fleas have bitten; E. must separate pigs from T. pigs; E. says he will take those with one mark and two markings; all pigs turn out to be so; in the village of E. sells all but two pigs, cutting off their tails; cuts one, hides giblets under clothes; in full view of people He stabs a knife in his stomach, people believe that his intestines have fallen out, he runs after the last pig; people tell T. that E. released his guts to run faster; T. rips his stomach open, dies; E. drives the pig into the mud, puts his tails in the mud, tells the owner that the pigs have fallen into the mud; the owner sends him for a spade; E. beats the hostess, she yells, he shouts to the owner - "One or both"; the owner replies that both; E. beats the maid, brings a spade with a hoe, hits the owner with them, he can't stand it, E. rips off his skin from his back; var.: E. burns T.'s eye with a hot spit; presses with a crunch nuts, says they are Christian bones; whoever brings more water, E. is going to carry the entire spring, T. is scared]: 6-11; Spaniards (Murcia) [a person quietly throws food on the ground; or pretends that rips his stomach open to get rid of swallowed food; the other rips his stomach off for real and dies]: Hernández Fernández 2013, No. 1088:178; Catalans (including Mallorca) [who eats more; the person quietly puts food in a bag hidden under his clothes; runs away; rips open the bag in front of the peasant, says that he ripped open his stomach to run faster; the giant catches up; a peasant talks about what he saw; a giant rips his stomach open, dies]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 1088:210-211; Galicians [clever brother herding sheep, saw a giant crush his hand a stone, ran home in horror; a stupid man took a piece of oil from his mother, squeezed it, the giant hired him; offers a competition: who will punch a hole deeper in the rock; the man knocked out a hole at night with a chisel and sealed it with paper; pretended to break a hole, and when the giant tried it, he broke his fingers; who would knock down more pines with one blow; at night a man cut down pines and knocked down 7, and a giant 3; who will eat more potatoes; a person puts potatoes in a bag hidden under his clothes; who runs faster; a man pretends to rip his stomach open in order to run faster, asks a woman to give him a knife, rips open the bag, the potatoes fall out; the giant also asks for a knife, ripped open his stomach and dies]: Contos 1972, No. 76:74-77; Portuguese [a man quietly puts food in a leather bag, and The giant believes that he can actually eat a lot; then the person rips the bag open, and the giant, imitating him, rips his stomach open and dies]: Cardigos 2006, No. 1088:260; Italians: Calvino 1980, No. 97 (Marche) []: 357-360; Widter et al. 1866, No. 2 (Veneto) [the peasant's son is strong and lazy, his nickname is Massafadiga; his father told him to go find food himself; M. was hired as a worker for a giant; he asks for help to bring water from the well; M. begins to dig in the well, pretending to bring it in its entirety; the giant agrees with his wife to roll a large stone on the sleeping worker at night; M. overheard, lay down at the door; shouts for the giant to calm the boys - they throw stones; the giant leads M. to his hunting hut, chases two bears at him; when they broke in, M. jumped out and locked the door; said to the giant who took the bears by the ears and brought them into the house; and to finish them off and bring them home, let the giant do this himself; the giant sent M. to his wife for a pickaxe; he says that the owner asks for the key to a chest of gold; the wife screams to the giant: right? he: yes, give it back; M. took the gold and rushed to run; on the way he bought a sheep from the shepherd, slaughtered him, threw his giblets on the ground, asked the shepherd to tell the giant that M. had cut out his guts in order to run faster; Hearing this, the giant ripped his stomach open and died]: 13-16; Sicilians: Crane 1885, No. 19 [a shoemaker hits cheese with a shoe, killing 500 flies and injuring 400; comes to the king, says he killed 500 and injured 400; comes to the king, says he killed 500 and wounded 400; the king tells him to kill the cannibal giant; the shoemaker meets the giant; clutches a piece of alabaster, the ogre believes that it is marble, leads to him; asks for a jug of water, the shoemaker pretends to is going to bring the whole well, the cannibal goes to fetch water himself; at night, the shoemaker puts a pumpkin in his place, the cannibal hits it, thinking that it is the head of a shoemaker; he says that the flea bites; the cannibal offers to eat a pot of pasta; the tailor ties his bag, puts pasta in it, pretends to cut his stomach, the pasta falls out; the cannibal cuts his stomach, dies; the shoemaker shows the king of the murdered ogre, gets the princess]: 95-96; Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 18 [starting as in the Milanese version; the shoemaker meets a giant; clutches a piece of alabaster, the cannibal believes it's marble, leads to for himself; the cannibal asks for a jug of water, the shoemaker pretends to bring the entire well, the cannibal goes to fetch water himself; at night, the shoemaker puts a pumpkin in his place, the cannibal hits it, thinking that this is the head of a shoemaker; he says that the flea bites; the cannibal offers to eat a pot of pasta; the tailor ties a bag, puts pasta in it, pretends to cut his stomach, pasta fall out; a cannibal cuts his stomach, dies; a shoemaker presents a murdered ogre to the king, gets a princess] (retelling in Crane 1885, No. 19:95-96): 118-122; the Maltese [man and giant compete to see who eats more and who runs faster; a person puts food in a bag under his clothes; on the run, cuts a bag and food falls out; a giant cuts his own belly and dies]: Mifsud-Chicop 1978, No. 1088:445.

Western Europe. The French (Lorraine) [Pierre was hired as a worker for a peasant; whoever gets angry will beat the other; P. was angry, beaten, returned with nothing; his brother Jean fell; sold the horse cart; left the other in the forest; sold threshed bread; when sent to the pasture to guard the piglets; when he meets the ogre, he puts the porridge in his pocket on his stomach, then pretends to rip open his stomach; the cannibal asks rip open his stomach, dies; Jean cut off the tails of the piglets, put them in the swamp, sold the piglets, said that the piglets drowned in the swamp; the owner tries to drag the pig by the tail, falls on his back; Jean is sent guard geese, sell them; the hostess goes to see where Jean puts the geese; he takes a gun, shoots at a "beast" who allegedly dragged geese, killing the owner; the owner is angry, Jean hits him and leaves]: Lopyreva 1959 , No. 24:83-86; the British (Cornwell) [peasant son Jack promised to get rid of the giant who lived on the island; Jack dug a trap hole, the giant failed, he killed him and brought treasures; the giant Blundebore promised revenge; brought Jack to his castle, followed another giant, Jack threw ropes around their necks and killed them; freed the girls; spent the night with a double-headed giant; at night he put on the bed was a log; the giant beat him with a club; in the morning Jack said that at night the rat hit his tail; the giant offered to eat a puddy bowl of pudding, Jack put the pudding in a bag under his clothes; in the morning he ripped it open; the giant tried to do the same, his guts fell out, he died; the prince bought the dead from the lenders, and Jack hired the prince to serve; told the three-headed giant that a king with a thousand warriors was coming to him, locked it, and when he released it, he was rewarded with an invisible jacket, a hat that tells everything, speedboat shoes, a sword that cuts everything; the prince marries the princess; she tells me to find her handkerchief, otherwise he executes her; a spirit friend carries her to Lucifer; the invisible Jack follows, takes a handkerchief, the prince shows it in the morning; the princess demands to show the lips she kissed the next morning; Jack cut off Lucifer's head, an evil spirit left the lady and she married the prince; Jack kills other giants, frees prisoners; saws the bridge supports, the stalker giant falls into the ditch, D. finishes him off; the giant Galligantua turned Duke's daughter in a doe; D. blows a horn, shatters turned into birds and animals; marries the Duke's daughter]: Jacobs 1890, No. 19:99-112 (translated to Shereshevskaya 1957b: 124-134, =Kharitonov 2008:191-197); Irish [tailor Jack ate porridge, spooned flies, killing 70; ordered a sword with the inscription "70 with one blow"; came to the king; he cannot build a castle, someone breaks at night, kills builders; Jack climbed a tree; when three giants came, threw stones unnoticed, they began to fight, for everyone thought that one hurt the others; two killed each other, Jack cut off their heads, and the third believed it Jack killed them; brought them to his mother; offers to bring them a bull, Jack pretends to want to take the whole herd; going for firewood, he ties the forest with a rope as if he wants to take everything at once; a giant He throws an anvil, catches it himself; Jack pretends to throw it far away, where his mother lives, the giant feels sorry for the anvil, tells him not to throw it; when they start eating, Jack placed it under his clothes a leather bag and then ripped it open with a knife, the meat fell out; the giant decided to try it too and slaughtered himself; his mother ran away; the king generously rewarded Jack]: Danaher 1967, No. 32:91-97; Germans (Switzerland) [the giant met the tailor; he said he was stronger than him, squeezed a piece of cheese, water flowed, the giant believed that the tailor had clutched a piece of flint; the dragon demanded girls, the king was forced to give his daughter; the king promises daughter to the deliverer; the tailor and the giant went to the dragon's lair; the tailor began to pull him out with mites, and the giant prepared a hammer; the dragon swallowed the tailor, but the giant killed the dragon with a hammer and took it out the tailor from his belly; the king does not know who to give his daughter to; the tailor offers a competition: who will eat more; he quietly puts food into a tied bag, wins; giant: how do you manage so much eat; tailor: you have to rip your stomach apart; ripped the bag; the giant ripped open his stomach and measures]: Sutermeister 1869, No. 40:81-84; Germans (Austria) [the tailor slammed 9 flies, wrote on a piece of paper" nine with one blow," put it under his hat; the king's servant noticed that the king told the tailor to kill three giants; they suggest throwing a stone into the sky (the tailor releases a bird), crumbling stones (the tailor squeezes out cottage cheese water); who will eat more (the tailor puts pasta under her clothes); in front of the woman she pretends to cut her stomach to shed her pasta, they prevent her from running; the woman told the giants they were stabbed; the tailor brings their tongues to the king, receives an award]: Cerf 1992:247-250.

The Balkans. Slovenes [a giant (from those who lived before modern people) undertakes to argue with the maid who will eat more oatmeal; the maid hides her wineskin under her clothes and lowers the porridge there; eat more, both rip their bellies open (the maid actually rips open their wineskin); realizing that he has been deceived, the giant kills the maid]: Kropej 2012:133.

Baltoscandia. Swedes: Suritz 1991 [the shepherd met the giant; squeezed the cheese pretending to be a stone; also threatens to squeeze the giant himself; the giant: who will throw the ax higher; the shepherd quietly hid the ax in bag, he never fell to the ground; the giant offers to cut down the oak tree, tilted it, the shepherd grabbed, he was thrown up; he tells the giant that since he can't jump like this, let him cut it himself; undertakes to carry it a giant carries a tree, and the shepherd sits on the branches; wonders why the giant is tired; goes with him to threshing in the dark, cannot lift his flail, hits the ground with a stick; the giant asks to take the bulls to the stall ; there is no door; the shepherd cut them into pieces and pushed them out the window; at night, the shepherd put a pot of milk on his bed, the giant hit this place; in the morning the shepherd: the flea bit; who will eat more: the shepherd put everything in a bag on his stomach; ripped it open, the porridge fell out; the giant ripped open his stomach, died]: 77-79; Stier 1971, No. 31 [the giant sees the shepherd squeezing water out of soaked bread; thinks he squeezed it out water made of stone, but he himself cannot; takes the shepherd as a worker; offers to thresh; the shepherd pretends to use the beam of the house as a flail, the giant stops him, threshes him himself; sends him for water, the shepherd pretends to bring the whole well; the giant tells him to tidy up - the big one into a large hole, the small one into a small one; the shepherd slaughters all his cattle, puts them in two holes; hears the giant and his wife they agree to kill him at night; puts blood on the bed, lies under the bed himself; the giant hits him with an ax, splashes blood, and the shepherd is alive in the morning; the shepherd offers to drill a hole in the penis wood, drilled in advance, disguising the hole; the giant poked his penis to no avail; they compete to see who will eat more porridge; the shepherd quietly puts the porridge in the bag, the giant admits that no longer can eat; they compete to run; the shepherd cuts the bag, the porridge falls out, he explains to the giant that he is now light, overtakes him; the giant cut his stomach and died; the shepherd took possession of his property]: 123-127; Norwegians: Suritz 1991 [three brothers were hired as employees at the royal castle; the youngest is Pinkel, the elders are jealous of him, said that P. could bring 1) a trolich's golden lantern; P. sailed trolls to the island, poured salt into the porridge through the chimney; the trollich sent her daughter for water, she took a lantern; P. pushed her into the water, took the lantern; 2) the golden goat of the trolls; P. jammed the door of the trollich's house, she did not bother, left the door open for the night, P. wrapped wool around the goat's neck, took him away; 3) the trollich's golden coat; P. came and invited the trollich not to cut it, but to feed him to death porridge; quietly fills the bag under her clothes with porridge; pretends to fall, the bag burst, the trollich decided that P. burst, ran after her daughter, leaving her fur coat in the house, P. took the fur coat away]: 99-102; Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960 [the father sends his eldest son to the forest for firewood; the troll says that his forest, the young man runs away in horror; the same with the middle son; the youngest, who has always been sitting in ash, squeezes the cheese like a stone the troll is frightened; brings the young man to him; he offers to eat porridge for a bet; puts his portion into the bag; rips off the bag, the troll believes that he has ripped his stomach apart; rips off his stomach, dies]: 81-83); Latvians [the fish tells the childless widow to cook and eat it; the maid ate the piece, the giblets by the mare; each gives birth to a son, the son of a mare is the strongman Kurbad; all three go to free the house from evil spirits; first at night K. killed a three-headed giant on the bridge, a six-headed giant on the second night; on the third night he was nine-headed, his heads grow back, he drives K. knee-deep, then to his armpits into the ground; the brothers sleep, they can't see that the water in the bucket became blood; K. threw pastals (shoes) at them; the brothers came running, began to burn their severed heads; K. hears insects talking in the cracks: killed our husbands; let one wife will become a bed, the second a spring, the third a cannibal snake; K. does not allow him to lie down, get drunk, cuts a bed, a spring; the king lost three daughters when they were washing in the bathhouse; K. pinched a line in the door there, he gave a pipe (10 dwarfs would come out to do the job), said that there was a stone in the swamp, a hole under it, stolen there; K. threw off the stone, ordered the dwarfs to bring a rope; the brothers were afraid, K. went down, cut off a feature of the head; in the princess's silver, gold, diamond castles; they gave K. strong water, and the six-headed drank weak water instead of it; the sisters turn their locks into diamond, gold, silver eggs, give K. K. sent the girls upstairs; the wife of the 9-headed giant cut off the rope and covered the hole with a stone; K. comes to the old man, who says that the cannibal sucked his eyes and beats the giant bird's children with hail; K. killed the ogre, poted the old man's eyes with a potion, he saw the light; covered the chicks from the hail; the bird promises to carry K. across the sea, tells him to prepare meat; K. cut off the last piece from his caviar; K. reveals eggs, lives with the youngest queen in a diamond castle; the wife of the 9th head must be killed; K. came to the forge, where Debess Kaleis forged a golden crown, a silver belt and a diamond ring for the daughter of the Sun; forged for K. the horse to catch up with the witch, ordered not to look back; K. looked around, thunder and lightning, the horse was gone; K. fell asleep, the witch changed the vessels with strong and weak water, K. drank, lost strength for a year; went to hell with the worker, whoever gets angry, cut three strips of meat from the back; 1) herd hares, 2) cows; dwarfs collected everyone from the pipe; K. beat off each cow's leg; hell has to answer that he is not angry; 3) horses (then same; cut off their lips); 4) plow how much the white female will run (beat the female, she lay down); 5) clean the stable (the dwarfs cleaned); 6) bring firewood on the mare (the mare is the mother of the devil, K. threatens to cut her belts with sides, the mare is lucky); 7) slaughter the sheep that looks at you (everyone looks, stabbed everyone); 8) eat a pound of dumplings; K. puts the dumplings behind his shirt, and the hell ate his pound, it's bad with his stomach; K. pretends that he ripped open his stomach, the dumplings fell out; 9) the devil leads K. to the forest to cut an oak tree; K. brings a hare, his younger brother; the devil cannot catch up with him; agrees to carry the felled oak together; hell carries, K. rides an oak tree; killed a devil; pulled out his mare's eyes; put a pot of sour cream instead of himself for the night, hell with his mother think they broke K.'s head; hell and mother run away to the witch, K. hid in his belongings, here again; at night they decided to drown K. in the river, K. swapped places, the devil drowned his mother; K. killed the devil; the strength returned, K. killed the witches, threw the ogre into the fire, killed the ogre eagle; enemies attacked; the witch poured bile on K.; K. killed her and the ogre, but died himself]: Nierde 1952:116-146.

The Midwest. Ojibwa [people disappear one by one; the boy remains with his grandmother, she says that there is windigo (an ogre giant) in the forest; the boy goes there, the giant tells him to eat as much as he does; the boy quietly drops food into a suede bag tied to his chest; rips it open with a knife, saying he has ripped his stomach open; Windigo rips his stomach open and dies]: Coleman et al. 1971:14-16.