M199n. Fill a leaky hat with gold, ATU 1130.
.15.16.23.27.-.29.31.32.
The man offers the demon to fill his hat, bag, etc. with money. The demon does not notice that there is a hole in the hat and gives the person much more than he intended to give.
Spaniards (?) , Germans (Grimms, Schleswig-Holstein), Dutch, Frisians, Walloons, Irish, Tea tribes of Assam, Slovenes, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Luzhitans, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Pskov, Moscow, Tula, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians (Galicia, Volyn, Chernigov, Kiev), Georgians, Danes, Swedes, Finns, Karelians (?) , Veps (?) , counselors (?) , Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Udmurts, Mari, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs.
Southern Europe. Spaniards: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1130:42
Western Europe. The Germans [the rich peasant suddenly realized that he was living unrighteously; when the poor man came to borrow grain, he gave him twice as much as he asked for, but on the condition that he spent three nights after his death his grave; three days later, the rich man died and the poor man came to the cemetery; a retired soldier came up and agreed to spend the night with him; at midnight, the devil came for the deceased; offered a purse with money to the watchmen are gone; soldier: fill my boot with gold; hell went for the money, and the soldier cut a hole in his boot; hell brought gold three times, but the boot was empty; hell wanted to take it away, but the rooster sang]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 195:566-569 (=Grimm, Grimm 1997:435-438); Germans (Schleswig-Holstein): Uther 2004 (2), No. 1130:42; Dutch, Friesians, Walloons, Irish: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1130:42.
South Asia. Tea tribes of Assam [late in the evening, a beggar named Ondaa returns home and must go through the cemetery; demons are gathered there at this time; the powerful female demon Taapate asks how he is dared to appear here; O. says he is more powerful than all of them and demands that T. pay his old debt; T. is so frightened that she believes everything; O. tells her to fill 7 pots hung from gold at night it to the ceiling; the pots are full of holes; T. poured gold until she grew from the floor to the bottom of the vessels; O. got rich]: Ondaa 2020.
The Balkans. Slovenes, Hungarians: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1130:42.
Central Europe. Czechs, Slovaks, Luzhitans: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1130:42; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Pskov, Tula, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians (Galicia, Volyn, Chernigov, Kiev), Belarusians [hat (bag) of money: devils frightened by a person cannot pay him off; they fill a hat with money, but it has a hole and above a deep hole (bag) exorbitantly large)]: SUS 1970, No. 1130:265; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Ust-Tsylma, Lower Pechora, Pozdeeva, wife of P.R. Pozdeev, a storyteller of epics, remembers the content; 1907) [The man sat in the lake the trick to make money. He put the rope into the water, a demon appeared, asked not to wrinkle the lake, and gave the man money for it. The man framed a hat with holes for money. The demon spared the money and offered the man to throw his club up, the demon threw it high, the man cannot raise the club, so he says he will wait for the cloud to leave so that he can throw it into the sky, the demon is frightened , "he starts to scold." Then the demon offers to give money to someone who can sing on a sled longer. The man is not lucky for long while the demon sings, when the demon was carrying the man, listened and did not stop for a long time, the man's song turned out to be longer. The demon offers to pierce the birch tree with his fist, the man found a birch tree with a hole in advance, covered it with bark and easily pierced, the demon could not. The demon and the man went to the village, when asked by the demon what is glowing in the village, the man replies that it is demons who survive, the demon gets scared, runs away, falls and dies]: Onchukov 2008, No. 32:140-141; Russians ( Vologodskaya) [Ivan began to twist ropes by the river; imp: what are you doing? Ivan: I'll wrinkle the sea, let me make you devils; the elder imp suggests running first; Ivan sends a blue old man instead of himself - a hare; whoever throws a stick higher; Ivan: when I throw it, out of sight; to fight; Ivan sends his grandfather, 75 years old, a bear; devils are ready to give gold; Ivan stretched a hat with holes over the pit; the imp gives gold and a ring that makes wishes come true; the king demands to build for night house, church, crystal bridges - everything is done; after the wedding, M. found a ring, ordered herself to be moved far away to the fiftieth kingdom; Ivan goes in search, from one baba yaga to another; they - sisters; the third hides Ivan in a chest, M. comes; Ivan, who ate three prospirs on the way, broke three iron canes, realizes that M. loves him; Baba Yaga gave a ball, a sword, a tablecloth; for Ivan buys these items three times a night with Masha from her nieces; they gave her a drink twice, she sleeps, the third time she does not drink; after throwing a ring, Ivan and Mary are at home, the tsar is happy to have them returned]: Smirnov 1917 , No. 35:192-196; Russians (Moscow) [if the employee does not get along, the owner will cut the belt from the back and with a hammer in the head; if he gets along, then with the owner; the owner sent to bring the bear, the worker brought it; owner: harness into a cart and collect debt from the water in the pool; on the shore, the worker began to weave ropes; imp: and to squeeze the shores and destroy your pool; water imp: ask what he needs; worker dug a hole, above it a hat with a hole: a gold hat; an imp: race; the worker put a hare out ("boy with a finger"); now fight (the bear threw the imp into the air); who will throw the stick higher; The worker quietly threw her into the bushes, said that the stick had not returned from heaven; the imp filled the hole with gold, the worker brought it on a cart drawn by a bear; the owner was confused what to do with the burka; let him go to the horse; the bear ate the horse; the owner and his wife are running; the worker climbed into the bag with the crackers; got out at rest; made peace with the owner, began to live like relatives]: Khudyakov 1860, No. 27:107-110; northern Ukrainians (Volyn, Zaslavsky district) [the older brother got a shovel from his parents, the middle brother got a cat, the youngest a bast; each went to seek uses for his inheritance; the elder found people who separated the grain from the sex with their hands, sold a shovel for a hundred rubles, returned, soon ran out of money; the middle one found a village where people's mice were eating; sold the cat for a hundred rubles, returned, too, the money soon ran out; the youngest came to the lake, began to wet and weave a bast; hell asks what he's doing; guy: hang a net of devils; devils pay off; the guy put a hole hat over the hole, the devils all wear gold, but they can't fill the hat; Satan wants compete; the guy invites him to race with his child (this is a hare), carry the mare 4 times around the lake (he jumps himself, but the hell carries); hell: who will throw a heavy mace higher; the guy looks at sun: this is my brothers' forge, they need iron; hell asks not to throw it away, gives money]: Malinka 1902, No. 2:265-267
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Georgians (Kakheti) [the royal servant decided to learn a craft and chose to steal; the king ordered him to steal a horse, put one guard on a horse, and ordered the other to hold the reins; servant brought them food and drink, they fell asleep, he took the horse away; stole the bulls; the servant put his dirty boot on the road, clean by the water; the thieves did not take the dirty one, but when they saw the clean one, they went for the first boot, leaving bulls; the servant took them away; steal the king's wife; the thief dressed the deceased in his dress, put them at the gate; the guards started shooting; the king thought that the servant was killed, removed the guards, the thief took the queen away; the devil asks him sell; the servant asks for a hat of gold; the thief dug a hole, made a hole in his hat; the devil poured gold until the hole is filled, took the queen; the king promises the thief of half the kingdom if he returns the queen; hell offers to compete in the run, the thief exposes a cousin, this is a hare, he hides the other in his bosom; who shouts louder; the thief tells the devil to cover his ears with cotton wool, blindfold, hits the line on the head with a club; fight; The thief exposes an old uncle, a bear, who has destroyed the line; the thief received the queen, gold and became king himself]: Chikovani 1954, No. 50:259-261.
Baltoscandia. The Swedes [hell promises a person, if he goes with him, to fill his wallet or hat with gold; the man made a hole {and the devil failed to fulfill his promise}]: Liungman 1961, No. 1130:264; Danes: Kristensen 1899, No. 484 in Uther 2004 (2), No. 1130:42; Finns [two older brothers are smart, the younger Tuhkimo {"Cinderella"; there is no gender category in Finnish} - lazy; the elder received from his father shearing scissors, the middle one a cat, the youngest an armful of oak bark; the eldest came to the place where sheep were cut off their hair with an ax, sold scissors for silver; the middle came to people who were tortured by rats and mice; the guy sold the cat worth its weight in gold; T. began to soak the bark in the forest lake; answers the son of the water that he was going to weave a seine and catch water from the lake with his family; the waterman sends his son to fight with T. and overtake him on the run; he puts his older brother (bear) and his youngest brother, a hare; whoever throws a club higher; T. pretends to throw it into the cloud, the son of the water did not allow it - this is his father's property; the water pays off; T. makes a hole in his hat and puts it on a hollow stump; tells the son of water to take all the gold to his home himself; on the way, the curtain is my mother's birdo; then the old punt is the mother's shoe; then the millstone is the godwit {=spinner?} mother; sending the water's son back, T. department the objects he saw on the way; he barely survived with a millstone around his neck]: Salmelainen in Concca 1991:252-259; Karelians, Veps, counselors: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 1130:242; Estonians [(many entries)]: Aarne 1918, No. 1130:72; Latvians [a farmhand digs a hole, holds a hat with holes in it; hell can't fill it]: Arys, Medne 1977, No. 1130:341; Lithuanians [when dying, the father left his eldest son a millstone, the middle cat, the youngest a handful of hemp; each went to seek happiness; the eldest came to the old woman, she has 12 sons -robbers; she hid it in the attic, and there's a blow above the table; the robbers share the gold, one says: let the thunder hit you! the guy threw the millstones, the robbers ran away, the guy took the money; the middle one came to the owner, who was tortured by rats; sold the cat for gold; the youngest at the lake shore began to twist ruffles of bast shoes out of hemp; answers the line that he has ruffles to pull the lake together; agrees not to do so if the devil gives him a hat full of gold; holes in his hat and dug a hole; the devil has poured three bags of gold on him]: Lobite 1965:262-264.
Volga - Perm. Udmurts: Kralina 1960, No. 43 [someone steals peas from his priest; pop guards, finds a child in peas; Mikhailo Popov grows unusually strong, maims other children; pop sent him to bring sheep out of the forest with wolves and lock them to the sheep; M. brought the wolves, they ate the sheep; the same is to bring bulls (brought bears); the men advise sending M. to the lake, collecting the devil's rent; the devil suggests running racing, M. sent a hare instead of himself; throw weights; M.: I'll throw it on the cloud; hell asks not to throw; devils give money; M. tells me to pour into the hat in which he made a hole, filled a big bag; hell offers to fight, M. sends a bull instead of himself, i.e. a bear; M. harnessed a bear and a devil into the cart, brought money to his ass; M. left them to work at the mill, went on, met, took Usinya as a companion ( twists Kama with his mustache), Gorynya (shakes the mountain with his little finger); they take turns cooking; a man with a fingernail, beard hits the cook from his elbow, goes underground again; when M. stayed, he beat the peasant, pinched his beard, he cut off his beard, went down the hole; only M. decided to go down on a rope; the girl sews a paper dress, walks with M., rolling her hut into an egg; the same is a girl with a woolen one; with a silk dress; that man of theirs grandfather, went to grow a beard; Usynya and Gorynya picked up the girls, did not raise M.; M. wants to kill the cat; the duck; they ask not to kill; then they transport M., pretend to throw him off; M.: I'm not you killed; so three times; cat: I have no strength, I want to eat; M. cut off meat from caviar, gave it to the cat; on earth M. exchanged clothes with an old man; came to Usyn and Goryn, drove them away, began to live with three girls]: 108-118; Wichmann 1901, No. 1 [a little man came out of the lake and asked what the Votyak was doing on the shore; he replied that he was weaving a rope to throw it into the water and pull everything out; the water man promised gold; the man did in there was a hole in the hat, the water began to pour gold into the hat, there was not enough gold; the water one suggests throwing an iron bar across the lake; the man pretends to throw it on the cloud, the water took the bar and threw it back into the water; took a horse out of the lake, dragged it on his back around the lake; the man rode the same way on horseback; went home and told the waterman to carry the bag of gold himself; when he saw the millstone, the man says that this is my mother's spindle; the harrow is my mother's comb; the plow is my mother's hoe; the water picked it up and carried it all; at the house the man told him to wait, he would tie his servants (i.e. dogs); negotiates with his mother; she loudly replies that there is no food, only the head of a big devil and the legs of the little ones; when he heard this answer, the waterman ran away, tore off the door, and the dogs cut off his clothes]: 54-55; Marie; Beke 1938, No. 11 [man soaked his bast, began to weave a rope by the lake shore; the imp asks what he is doing; the man: I'll tie the lake and take it away; the imp runs every time to ask his grandfather what to do; he advises to call a person to race (a person puts his younger brother, a hare); whoever throws a double-pound club taller (the person pretends to throw it on the cloud); the devils promise to pour full gold hat; a man holes in the hat and holds it above the hole; when the hole is full, he tells the imp to help carry gold; along the way he says that the millstone is a spinning rod, the harrow is a comb, the plow is his grandmother's chopper, the imp can pick them up; bringing them to the lake, the imp almost drowned; it's good that his grandfather saved him]: 39-41; Chetkarev 1948 [old Miron was fishing, an imp came out of the water; M. says he winds a rope pull all the devils out of the lake; the imp told my grandfather, who sent him to offer M. to race around the lake; M.: I have a younger brother Ahat in the bush - go to him, shout, gasp, he will run ; the imp did not catch up with the hare; M.: who will carry a mare around the lake; the imp hardly picked it up and brought it, and M. rode on horseback; M. pretends to take money, fill his hat, hole it, money they filled the kul, the imp carried the kul M. to the house; M. tells you to take a millstone and a harrow - a spinning rod and a comb for his grandmother; M. agreed with his wife; wife: nothing to cook dinner from; M.: I'll cut off your head and legs devil; devil ran away]: 168-170; Chuvash: Sidorova 1979 [the old man knocked down a birch tree, an imp came out from under the stump; the old man tells him that he will carry a tree on his shoulders, that he is not afraid of devils; devils tell the imp invite the old man to visit them; they put hot iron for him at night; he pushed it away, said in the morning that fleas had bitten; in the morning the old man pretends to stay for a long time; the devils give him gold; the old man dug a hole, put a bag in it, made a hole in his hat; the devils think they have poured a hat of gold, and the old man has taken a full bag; the imp carries the old man home with his gold; the old man sees a millstone: let's grab an old woman's ring; at home, the old woman knows what to say: the imp cooked the last rib; the imp ran away, the devils did not bother the old man anymore]: 152-155; Eisin 1993 [dying, the father bequeathed to three sons an old wooden spatula, a broken pestle, a piece of wet; the first teaches those who blew their hands to blow grain, the second to grind millet with pestle rather than fists, both give wealth; the third at lake viet from wet rope, answers the imp that he is going to catch everything in the lake; the devil advises the imp to call the man to race; he offers to compete with his younger brother, the bird; the bird flew away , the imp is shameful; fight - go fight with my old grandfather, it's a bear, the imp is just alive; pick up a heavy brush; the man pretends to throw his brush to get stuck between the sky and earth, sorry for the imp's brush, does not allow him to throw; carry a horse around the lake - a man jumps, an imp carries; devils agree to fill a person's hat with money; there is a hole in it, money falls into the framed a big bag from below; the man got rich]: 306-309; Kazan Tatars [when dying, the father gave his eldest son an ax, a medium shovel, the youngest got wet; the eldest came to a village where there are no axes; servants carry bayu sunlight in the sieve; the elder brother cut through the windows, got a lot of money; the middle brother also came to the place where the grain was blowing with his hands, began to work with a shovel); the younger one weaved a rope, promised to hang the peary their lake to the sky; tied the ends of the rope, the pearies do not find an end; offer to run around the lake; the young man caught two birds with one stone, let him go, the other is his "two-month-old son" overtook Pary; pari grandfather offers to fight, the young man exposes his "grandfather", i.e. the bear; the peary suggests throwing an iron staff; the young man pretends to throw him on the cloud; the peary suggests filling his hat with silver; wearing it the hole, the pearies filled the hole]: Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 69:282-285; the Bashkirs [orphan Kalmakkul was hired as a farmhand for bay; no payment is needed, but in two years he will click on his forehead; and a deal not to be angry; asks which sheep to slaughter; buy: who will run up to the stern; everyone ran up, K. slaughtered everyone; to get rid of K., buy sent him to the forest to look for the missing stallion; K.'s horse was eaten by a bear, but K. himself harnessed him into the cart: here, he brought the stallion; buy tells him to put him to the rest of the horses, the bear lifted them up overnight; K. must guard bags of bread in the yard; he lay down on the hayloft, and put a block of wood instead of himself; bai and his men cartilaged under this place and threw the body (i.e. a block) into the basement; in the morning K. allegedly left the basement; K. was sent to the lake to collect two gold hats from the devils; K. sat on the shore, pretended who weaves a rope to hang the lake to the sky; the devils offer to compete in running (K. releases his younger brother, a bunny); fight (offers a grandfather, a bear instead); who will throw a weight higher; K. pretends to throw her into the clouds; K. made a hole in his hats, inserted two bags hidden under water into the necks; brought home two bags of gold; when he saw K., buy and his wife decided to flee; K. hid in a bag of breadcrumbs; at night he swapped places with his wife, who pushed his wife into the water; K.: just two years old; Bai snapped his forehead with a gun]: Barag 1992, No. 2:23-26.