M38d5. Cereals talking to each other, ATU 293E* .15.27.28.31.

Two or three types of cereals talk to each other, act together, etc.

Spaniards, Portuguese, Basques, Bulgarians, Greeks, Russians, Latvians, Estonians, Seto.

Southern Europe. The Spanish [the peasant sowed wheat, barley and rye; they were ripe; first he began to reap wheat; she asked not to do so, but to reap barley, which costs nothing; when he began to reap barley, he asked for rye to reap better - it costs nothing; rye, in turn, asked to reap barley and wheat; all three began to quarrel and vilify each other; God punished them: man squeezed everyone, wheat and rye People ate and gave barley to mules]: Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 293E*: 436-437; Basques [like the Spanish; wheat and corn; wheat, corn and grapes]: Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 293E*: 437; Portuguese: Cardigos 2006, No. 293E* [wheat, barley and birth came to church; wheat prays, barley laughs, rye ruined the air]: 53; Correia 2018, No. 134 [].

The Balkans. Bulgarians (1 entry) [Barley invites Wheat to go looking for gold; Wheat: your beard is long, but your mind is short: when we are ripe, you are a golden wall"]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 293E*: 90; Greeks: Megas 1978 in Uther 2004 (1), No 293F*: 170

Central Europe. Russians [Barley and wheat: barley invites wheat to where gold will be born ("We'll be there"; {probably not the North}); wheat objects: "Gold will fall by itself"]: Sakharov 1841 (2 ): 104 in SUS 1979, No. 293E*: 100.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [Barley: "We'll go where the gold is." Wheat: "We are gold ourselves!"] : Aris, Medne 1977, No. 293E*: 269; Estonians (Läänemaa, Viljandimaa, Setumaa) [barley calls oats a chaff head; he replies that if sown on fertile land, he would make the owner has a blue shirt (the set has a sign of well-being)]: Kippar 1986, № 293F*: 179.