M39a3. Did he have horns? ATU (1381B), 1600.
.14.-.17.21.23.27.-.32.34.36.
Afool kills a man, throws him into a pond, well, etc. A clever man throws a goat there. A fool searches for a corpse in the pond, asks if the victim had horns, etc. Everyone is obviously crazy, and the murder charge has been denied. {The Buryat and Yakut versions may be recent Russian borrowings. The ATU 1581B definition also includes an episode where a human corpse was replaced with a goat carcass, but most of the texts that have been verified do not contain this motive}.
Tunisian Arabs, Kabiles, Sicilians, Italians (Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria), Sardinians, Spanish, Irish, Scots, Germans (North Rhine-Westphalia), Lebanese Christian Arabs, Mustang, Kumaoni, Punjabi, North India (Hindi), Nepali, Hindi (Bhopal), Bengalis, Gondas, Kannada, Kota, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Romanians, Greeks, Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Pskov , Moscow, Tula, Kursk, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Volyn, Podolia, Chernigov, Yekaterinoslavskaya, Kharkiv), Belarusians, Abkhazians, Adygs, Ingush, Armenians, Turks, Persians (Kerman), Tajiks, Pashtuns, Norwegians, Swedes, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Counselors, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Kazan Tatars, Mordovians, Udmurts, Buryats, Central (?) Yakuts.
North Africa. The Arabs of Tunisia [Juha and her mother sleep under her veil; early in the morning, the mother hears the scream of a muezzin, gets up, throws a veil over herself, and D. remains lying in the cold; then he killed the muezzin, cut off her head, brought it home and threw it into the well; when she found out, the mother stabbed her camel, threw her head into the well, made sausages from the meat and scattered it; told her son that it was raining sausage; D. brought him to the mosque, said that he cut off the muezzin's head; he was told to take it out of the well; he asked if the muezzin had horns, pulls out the camel's head; replies that it all happened on the day when it was raining sausage; people left him alone]: Stumme 1893:131-132; kabila [the widow sent her son to sell the cow; he hears the cuckoo's cuckoo's cuckoo, offers her to buy a cow, understands "ku-ku" as positive answer, he will return for the money tomorrow; the next day he is again "ku-ku"; again tells his mother that the money will be tomorrow; finds a treasure, takes only a few coins - the price of a cow; the mother asks for withdrawal everything takes her to this place; having prepared pancakes and boiled eggs in advance, she threw them on the way home, explaining that God was sending them; the guy went to tell me that they had found the treasure, and the mother at that time hid the money; son: the treasure was found when pancakes and eggs fell from the sky; everyone was convinced that the guy was a fool; then the guy pushed the man at the edge into the well; the mother threw the goat there; the guy was told go down to the well; he says whoever he found has horns, wool, and split hooves; when the guy took out the goat, people again believed he was just a fool]: Reesink 1977:148-150.
Southern Europe. Sicilians [when she goes to church, the mother reminds Giufá to pull the door with her when she leaves; he removes the door from his hinges, drags him along; the mother asks to bring someone who sings at night (i.e. a rooster); J. meets a singing shepherd, kills, brings; the mother orders to throw the corpse into the pond; secretly hides the corpse of a goat from her son, throws the corpse of a goat into the pond; when the case is investigated, J. pulls out the goat, asks the shepherd's daughter, did her father have horns and hair; her mother tells J. to feed and lay her sister, but that the porridge is not hot; he feeds hot, the girl dies, he thinks she is sleeping, she puts her to bed]: Gonzenbach 2004a [ 1870], No. 22:146-148; Italians [var.1: Giufá heard the whistle; the mother explained that it was the signalman announcing that morning had come; J. killed him; the mother brought the body, threw it into the well, and from above threw the lamb; relatives began to look for the murderer; J. said he threw the body into the well; he was lowered there on a rope; he asks the victim's son if his father had hair, a tail, four legs, horns; he He still orders to pull out the body; after making sure that there is a ram in the well, J. has been cleared of suspicion; Var.: Mother sends J. to shoot a cardinal bird with a red head; J. killed the cardinal, further as in var.1; var.3: mother fed J. chicken soup; J. had not eaten it before, asked what it was; mother: night singer; J. killed a man who came to sing outside the door; further like in var.1]: Crane 1885, No. 101:294-296; Italians (Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria), Sardinians: Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 1600:351; Spaniards: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1600:328
Western Europe. Irish, Scottish, German (Nordrhein-Westfalen): Uther 2004 (2), No. 1600:328
Western Asia. Lebanese Christian Arabs ("The stories are written in the dialect of the Christians of Beirut") [Jihi's mother told him, "Tie up (rob) the road, and bring some money"; he bought a rope tried to bandage the road; the mule drivers took the rope; J. told his mother: "I tied up the road, and they took the rope"; mother: "What the rope?" ; J.: "The rope with which you told me to tie up the road"; the mother explained that she told him to kill a rich man; J. returned to the road, met the judge, killed him; then brought the body to his mother; she killed the goat ; the sultan promised a reward for information about what happened to the judge; J. admitted to him that he killed the judge and threw him into the well; his mother threw a goat into the well and buried the judge; the sultan sent soldiers along with J.; the mother warned that her son was crazy; the warriors told J. to get the body out of the well; J. went down to the well, grabbed goat ears and asked, "Did the judge have long ears?" ; then he felt for his horn and asked, "Did the judge have horns?" ; the warriors thought he was crazy]: Huxley 1902, #109:257.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mustang [mother tells Bu Tshuktura's son to bring firewood; he climbs a tree, cuts the trunk below; a woman says a tree will collapse and he will kill; SC: What is dead? Woman: if the body is cold; the shopping center brings firewood, freezes, thinks he is dead, lies in a hole covered with his skin; his mother sends him to play with other boys; a big dog meets him, gives a bag with in silver coins for giving her bread; the business center brings her mother's bag; at night she throws fritters on him from the roof; when a merchant comes to look for his money, the business center says that the dog brought silver; mother denies; business center: it was when it rained from the pancakes; the merchant leaves; the mother sends the business center for water, the princess also comes there; the business center does not want to give way to her, drowns in the lake; the mother pulls out the corpse, throws a goat into the river, throws the corpse of a goat into the lake; they look for the princess, the business center talks about everything, climbs into the water for her body, asks if the princess was covered with hair, if she had horns; people left; the son's mother from home no longer released]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 35:202-205.
South Asia. Kumaoni [mother's son: how can I fall in love with a young woman? mother: throw a pebble at her at the well; if she does not laugh, throw more; the fool killed the girl with a stone; the mother threw her body into the pond, there is also a goat; the fool himself says that he had love with the missing person; looking for a pond; did she have a pair of ears? four legs? horns? pulled out a goat; the people laughed and nailed it]: Minaev 1966, No. 15:50-51; Nepalese [mother sends Tanan-Lata to the market for meat, he gives meat to the dog every time; one day she brings him a purse with with money; TL tells the mother that the dog paid honestly; the mother hides the money, tells her son to wait in the yard for milk cookies to fall from the sky; the shopkeeper, who has lost his money, asks everyone , TL tells everything, he comes to his mother; the mother says he knows nothing; the son insists: cookies fell from the sky that day; the shopkeeper realizes that he is a fool in front of him, he leaves them; the mother sends her son Find the bride at the well in the morning; throw a pebble at her, if she smiles, then she agrees; TL threw, the girl closed her sari; TL threw a big stone and killed the girl; told the mother that she had a smile from ear to ear; mother: we must throw the body into the well; she buries the girl herself, drowns the goat in the well; the father of the missing person asks everyone, TL says, he is told to get the corpse; he asks if the man's daughter had a tail, four legs, scrotum; he answers yes, thinking it's about the braid, arms and legs, breasts; when TL pulls out the goat, the girl's father leaves]: Sakya, Griffith 1980:207-210; Punjabi [the woman has a son- a fool named Lall; she persuaded her sister to marry him to her daughter; L. goes to her future mother-in-law's house every day; others laugh at it; when one girl at the well laughs at L., he pushed her into the well; when he found out, his mother secretly pulled the corpse out, lowered her into the river, threw the corpse of a goat into the well; scattered sweets, told her son that it was raining from sweets; they were looking for the missing girl, L . says he drowned her - before it rained with sweets; climbs into the well, asks if the girl had horns; four legs; a tail; shows the goat's head to the girl's father - is this your daughter? the fool was released; the aunt refused to give her daughter to L.; the soldier hired L. to carry a jug of oil; he imagines how he would get rich with the money he received for his work, stumbled, breaking the jug; soldier: this is the king's oil; leads L. to the king; towards the mule; the owner of the mule: stop him; L. killed the mule with a stick; the owner of the mule also goes to the king; they stopped to rest in the hut where the old man and the old woman are; the old woman jokingly: L., tell me when they captured Lanka and defeated the 10-headed god; L. cut off the old man's head with an ax, set fire to the hut: like this; the old woman also goes to the king; on the way, L. gives a few cowries to the owner of the oil shop so that brush off his hair; oil has spilled; hostess: fortunately; L. thinks that if he spills all the oil in the shop, he will be much more happy, makes a pogrom; the owner of the shop also goes to the king; L. explains to the king that if he received a payment from a soldier, he became rich, married, etc. - so he himself lost much more than a soldier; explains what happened next; the king decides in favor of a fool]: Swynnerton 1892, No. 23:18- 22; Hindi: Crooke 1892-1893, No. 576 [Shekh Chilli complains to his mother that the girls at the well don't laugh back at him; mother: and you throw a pebble at them; she was the only one at the well the next day girl; SCH started throwing stones, but the girl did not laugh, so he pushed her into the well; the mother asked loyal people to pull out the body and drown the goat; the SC himself said that he had drowned the girl; he was told to get the body; He asked: Did she have long ears? four legs, long hair and horns? people think he means jewelry, etc.; the goat was pulled out; women finally laughed]: 155; Taylor 1895 (Bhopal) [Sekchilli foolishly hit a friend and he died; S.'s mother hid the body, left a goat into the well; people noticed something in the well, told S. to get it; he grabs his ears - here they are; I feel his chest - shows horns; and long hair; when the goat was pulled out, suspicions of murder with S. filmed]: 404; Bengalis [Sachúli is a fool, a widow's son; asks the mother how to make women laugh; mother: throw a pebble at them; S. began to throw stones at three girls at the well; two left, the third he killed on the spot; when he saw her grinned mouth, he thought she was laughing; called her mother; she recognized the daughter of a rich man; took her jewelry, threw her corpse into the well; the father promises a reward to whoever would return her daughter; S.: my mother pushed her into the well; her mother managed to pull out the corpse, threw a sheep into the well; S. went down to the well, asked if the girl had eyes; mouth; long face; tail; four legs; pulls out the sheep; when S. returned, the mother threw the corpse into the well again; beat her son; gave him bread, he left; brought a broken camel loaded with jewelry; the mother let the camel go, hid the jewelry, scattered sweets, told her son that it was raining with sweets; S. says that it rained on the day when his mother got the jewelry; but people found nothing in S.'s house; Xu climbed the tree, began to cut the branch he was sitting on to break; a passerby says that S. will die if he falls; S. makes him say when he dies; a passerby: seeing a red thread on his clothes; once he saw dug a grave, lay down to die; a man carries a jug of butter, looks for a porter; S. undertakes to carry; thinks how much money he will earn, get rich, marry; stumbled and spilled everything; met four in the forest fairies, they were frightened of him, gave him a samovar pot; they changed it in the tavern; the fairies gave him a chest with any clothes in it; the fairies gave a rope that would tie the person to point to and a baton that She beats herself; S. tells them to tie up and beat the owners of the tavern, they returned everything]: Stokes 1879, No. 7:27-34; gondas [Raja's daughter was swimming in the river, the fool saw her, threw a pebble, the girl did not pay attention ; hit her head with a third pebble and killed her, took her jewelry; the mother told her son to go to bed, killed the goat and threw it into the water; baked small cakes, told two boys to throw them off the roof when her son would go out in the yard; waking her son up and telling him that it was raining from the cakes; the Raja gathered everyone and began to ask; the fool described how he killed the girl; Raja: when was it? fool: when it was raining out of flatbread; the Raja let him go {the narrator obviously forgot about the goat episode}; the fool went to another city and sold jewelry; price: sleep with him for a week and cook food, but if at least one fly is in the food, the girl will not receive jewelry; one young woman agreed; on the last day, the fool threw a fly into the food, took the jewelry, left, met the merchant, the woman's husband; promised to give jewelry if he allowed him to pull out part of his mustache and did not cry; the merchant cried, the fool left; cut off pieces of meat from the dead deer (sambhar); one sick merchant was recovering and wanted meat , the fool gave his wife what he cut off, a hard piece stuck in his throat; the fool advised his wife to hit her husband on the back with a pestle, he died; promised wise advice if a woman gave him a horse, loaded with money; let him pretend that her husband died of illness; hearing a woman's lamentations, everyone believes he is; the merchant is buried; the fool got rich and married]: Elwin 1944, No. 9.1:268-271; kannada [when dividing the property, Hucca ("fool") asked the brothers for a bull; they gave him an old skinny one; after the bull kicked him, H. went to sell it; no one bought it; passing by the creaky tree, H. decided that it was talking to him and sold the bull to a tree; the next day it came for money - neither bull nor money; came again, cut down the tree, gold and silver, hidden by the robbers in the hollow, fell down; H. went to pick up the brothers; on the way back they went to the brahman; H. said they were carrying gold and showed it; the brahmana shoved coins into his pockets, H. killed him; the brothers threw the body into the well; The elders later came without H., pulled out and reburied the body, and threw a dead goat into the well; when the brahmana began to look for him and H. said that he had killed him, a goat appeared in the well; the brothers still had the gold ]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 30:81-84; cat [Ajav and Ajayn have four sons; A. and A. took a pig and a jackal into the house and told them to cultivate the field; the wife noticed that the pig was working and the jackal caught crabs and spoils the job; when the jackal returned, pretended to praise him for his work, sat him on a hot ladle, the jackal ran away; squeezed pus into the pot, the wound closed; covered the pus with leaves, said it was melted oil, exchanged oil from the young man for an ox; the young man brought the pot, opened it, the father broke the pot against his son's head; the jackal drove the ox, he fell into the ravine, soon died; the jackal ate it, climbed inside, the carcass slipped lower, the jackal could not get out; the young man came to fresh the ox; the jackal: bring the rooster and bring the dog, you'll get the reward; the young man did it; the jackal: tie the dog to your leg, let the rooster go, pull the carcass; The young man freed the jackal, who took the rooster, the dog pulled the young man, both fell into the ravine, the others pulled them out; when the jackal was inside the carcass, the young man put his hand to grab his tail; grabbed his leg; jackal: you grabbed the root of the tree; the young man let the jackal go; the jackal bit him; so that the young man does not go crazy, I need jackal teeth; the jackal met Ajayn, wants to eat; woman: I'm thin, I'll be back in a week, full, bring other jackals; she came, ash in the basket, told the jackals to bend down, clenched the bellows they had brought, ash in the eyes of the jackals, made medicine from their teeth; the young man was married; they said: hit with a stone, hit with a club ( figuratively); he killed his wife with a stone, a club; his mother drowned the corpse in a pond, drowned a goat there; the young man's uncle, the father of the victim, came; the young man climbed into the pond; asked: did your daughter have horns? udder? etc.; uncle is gone, the fool drowned; No. 17:252-271 ~ (16), but only the jackal story; there is no episode of "not a leg, but a root"]: Emeneau 1944, No. 16:233-251.
The Balkans. Bulgarians [stupid and clever brother find a treasure; contrary to the warning of a smart man, a stupid person tells the ass about it and then kills him; the corpse is thrown into the well and there is a goat (ram); looking for a hit husband; a fool asks if he had horns, goat legs, etc.; kill and get hit; the murder remains unsolved]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1600:529; Greeks [smart brother suggests it is foolish to divide the sheep: who will go into the old barn - smart, and the new one - stupid; the sheep went into the old barn; the foolish got two oxen; he stabbed one, distributed meat to the dogs; drove the other to the mountains ; he thought that his caress was laughing at him; he left his ox; the next day he came {for money}; chased caress, found a pot of gold under the stone; the clever man sent the foolish man to weigh the gold for the scales; the scale manufacturer smeared them with honey, then found coins stuck to the honey; looks into the chimney; the clever throws weights at him and kills him; throws several sheep into the well and on top; people lowered them into the well, and on top a fool's well; he asks if the victim had black or white hair; the brothers were left alone]: Dawkins 1916:327-329; Macedonians, Romanians: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1600:328.
Central Europe. Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Pskov, Tula, Kursk, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Volyn, Podolia, Chernigov, Yekaterinoslavskaya, Kharkiv), Belarusians [Murderer Fool: Brothers put a goat in the place where the corpse was and thus save a fool from suspicion of murder]: SUS 1979, No. 1600:334; Russians (Terek Bereg) [two brothers smart, third fool; they decided to marry him; they sent him to the bazaar to buy what he needed for the wedding; he bought it; he gave the meat to the crows, the millet to the birds, the table - let him go, he has 4 legs; the brothers went by themselves; he at this time poured the braga on the floor, began to swim in it; went to the forest, the birch tree creaks, he hit it with an ax - why does it creak, money fell out of it; the brothers sent him to the ass to ask for a measure for money; father: no measure; he He killed him, buried him in manure; his brothers killed and buried a ram, and lowered his father's body into the lake; he was looking for a husband; fool: I buried him in a manure heap; he was told to dig; he was with horns, legs and legs fur? brothers: what to take from him; they never married a fool]: Balashov 1970, No. 139:385-387; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Mezen, Vozhgory) [summary of the record: a fool goes to sell a bull and a bag of salt; salt water in to the river, sells a bull to a birch tree, in its creak he imagines "three hundred"; finds a treasure under a birch tree; buys pots, puts them on stumps, etc.; kills a deacon; brothers bury a goat; he is dug up instead of a clerk, the murder is hidden]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 16:363; Russians (Vologodskaya, Kadnikovsky y.) [Roly the fool ran after the dog, she found a treasure in the forest; the father brought the treasure home; V. told the ass, his father scolded him; V. tore off his ass, "threw it on the tower" at home; the father stabbed the goat, changed the head of his ass goat; they came to look for them, V. threw a goat's head to them; "No, Vanka, not this one, this one is not our parish"]: Burtsev 1895, No. 40:173-175; Russians (Pskov) [someone steals turnips; Grishka, Mishka fell asleep; Ivanyushka the fool killed the thief; the brothers hid the body in the attic; the widow is looking for a husband, I. the orbo tells her everyone; the brothers secretly took the body and replaced the dead goat; the sergeant sends I. to the attic; I.: Aunt, Did your uncle wear wool? Did he have horns? And how many legs are four? I. himself believed that he killed a goat]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 15:30-32; Russians (Moscow) []: Vedernikova, Samorodova 1998, No. 96:239-243; Russians [fool Tararushka is the widow's son; she tells me to cry on his father - at least he would have rubbed an onion; T. hits himself on the nose with an onion, the men beat him; mother: should the men have said: beer and wine; he says to two fighting; mother: who were the men? T: carriers; mother: you must say "can't bear it"; T. says at the funeral; mother: you need to "canon and palm"; T. speaks at the wedding; mother: you need to "break your fast, let your children get your beard dirty" ; T. says to the man who is carrying manure; Mother: He should have been with a stick; T. hits dogs with a stick, they bite him; mother: he just had to spit; T. spat on his grandfather, he beat him; mother: should have "Hello, grandpa!" T. says to the bear, he is barely alive; his mother tells him to sell the canvas; T. sells a birch tree; then he found a pot of gold there; his mother tells her to ask his neighbor for measure; the neighbor calls to measure gold himself, tells him to whistle, if anyone goes; the neighbor himself comes out, T. killed him with a club; his mother said she would put the body in the attic, buried it herself, put a dead goat there; T.: I killed; he is told to get the body; he is consistently asks if the victim had 4 legs, hair, horns; the audience dispersed]: Kuznetsova et al. 2005, No. 1.15:96-100; northern Ukrainians (Chernigov, Nezhinsky y.) [the three brothers began to share, the youngest took one ox; went to sell; the counter says that the ox is nothing, but the horns are superfluous; Ivan broke them off; the other: would tear the skin off his feet; ripped off; legs were extra; in the forest cut off, the ox fell under the birch tree; I.: Oh, damn it, money is under you! took off his skin from the ox, sold it, bought a shovel, began to dig under the birch tree, dug up a treasure; the brothers offered to share, sent I. to the ass for a measure; I. admitted that it was necessary to divide the money; told the brothers; they told the priest stop (until they hide the money); I. killed him; the brothers hid the body in the cellar; they are looking for the priest in vain; at the wake, I. drinks for the priest in the cellar; the brothers managed to put the goat there, and put the priest in under the stove; the brothers share again, I. chose the stove and told it to cover it there, leaving a small hole; the cat jumped there; promised to serve; tells the wolf that he is going to complain to the king; the wolf also wants complain; the cat advises to take 5 other wolves; the cat to the king: Ivan Pechersky sent animals to his fur coats, marries your daughter; the same with bears; the cat tells the king to fix the bridge: tomorrow the individual entrepreneur will go; when the individual entrepreneur will go went, the cat took out his hat, threw it into the water, said that the IP army drowned; the cat pulled out the IP, the king gave him clothes, the IP looks back at his shoulders; the cat: he had the best; they go back, the cat is in front of the ogre, tells hide in the hollow of a pear, otherwise the king goes and kills; tells the king to shoot a pear; IP lives well with the royal]: Malinka 1902, No. 39:318-322.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians [a tax collector came, a stupid brother killed him with a stick, drowned his body in a pond, told a clever man about the incident; he hid the corpse and threw a goat into the pond; the king began to investigate the case; fool said that he killed the collector, began to fumble in the pond, asking if that horn had a lot of hair; the fool was dragged ashore, the case was closed]: Shakryl 1975, No. 55:277-279; the Adygs [two smart brothers, the third Kuizhiy is a fool; when dividing the property, he got two bulls; he decided that the tree wanted to buy them, and would give the money in a year; a year later the tree is silent, K. hit it with an ax, the treasure fell asleep; K. took Efendi's measure of gold; Efendi offered to give him the gold to save; K. killed him, threw his body into the attic; the brothers replaced the corpse with a dead goat; K. told everyone that Efendi was not missing, and he killed him and threw him into the attic; he climbed there, asked if Efendi had a beard, horns, if he had 4 legs, threw a goat to the audience; they parted]: Aliyeva 1978, No. 55:318-320 (=Huth 1987:276-278); Ingush: Sadulaev 2004, No. 90 [Tsagen saw one man throw the earth out of the hole; asked him what was going on; he said he was looking for gold and agreed to take Ts. in a share; Ts went to the mullah, asked for a shovel and admitted why it was needed; the mullah also wanted to look for gold, came with C. to the hole; the man who dug it said to C.: "I told you not to bring anyone else here"; C. killed the mullah with a shovel; the body was buried in a hole; relatives began to look for the mullah; C. said he knew where the missing person was buried; a man who was with C. opened the corpse and buried an old goat instead; C. I came with the mullah's relatives to the place where the corpse was buried, began to dig it up; I came across horns and asked: "Did the mullah have horns?" ; in order for C. to dig up the corpse faster, the relatives replied: "Yes, yes, they were. Dig it up quickly and pull it out"; C. saw a beard: "Did the mullah have a beard?" - "Yes, yes"; C. saw the tail: "Did the mullah have a tail?" - "Yes, yes, it was"; C. pulled the goat to the surface; relatives thought C. was joking and left], 91 [a mullah who lived near the Tsagen Mosque was woken up every morning, calling on believers to pray; C. took an ax, went to the mosque and cut off the mullah's head; put his head in a bag and went to bed again; C.'s wife stabbed the goat, pulled out the mullah's head and threw it away, and instead put the goat's head in her place and went to bed too; C. I slept well, went outside; when I heard screams and cries, he entered the mosque and said: "I killed Mullah and I cut off his head"; "Go, Tsagen, don't joke," people said; "Yes, I'm not joking, if you don't believe me, then I'll bring his head right away and show it to you" - "Go and get your head then"; C. brought the bag, untied it, saw the horns and asked: "Wa, people, wasn't our mullah horned?"] : 232-234; Armenians [mother tells her youngest sexual son to sell a cow; he stabbed a cow for crows in a gorge, told them to pray for his mother, took a lizard as a witness: crows must create prayer and then pay for the cow; the mother ordered the cow to be brought; the fool demands money first from the crows, then from the lizard under the stone, the fool lifted it up - there is a treasure under it; the fool took a handful, brought it home; the elder brother took the rest; the elder demanded that the gold be divided, sent the older brother to take the measure; at this time the younger one drowned the headman in a well; at night, the elder secretly buried the headman, threw him into the well goat; people gathered, a fool climbs into the well and asks: did the headman have a tail? beard? people shout yes - drag it; and there's a goat; people parted]: Nazinyan 2007:178-180; Turks [when sharing his father's inheritance, the fool brother chose an old camel and offered lizards to buy meat; those they twirl their heads; the fool thought that the lizards agreed, stabbed the camel, put each leg on a separate stone; in the morning he came for the money, the lizards disappeared into the hollow, the fool hit the tree with an ax, it fell, gold coins fell asleep; the fool brought gold to his brothers and brought kadia; he began to divide: one coin for himself, one to his brothers; the fool volunteered to carry his bag of gold, but Kadiy carried it himself, fell down the stairs, broke his leg, the fool threw it into the well; the clever brothers threw a goat on top; the fool shouted that he had stabbed the cadia and threw his body into the well; when he went down, he asked if Kadia had ears, four legs, and wool; the fool was left alone; he began to herd the goats, climbed on a pear, threw them on the ground, the goat was all eaten, only one had two pears left on its horns; the fool ate one, gave the other to the goat, and stabbed the rest of the goats; The brothers were seized, they ran away; at night a caravan of merchants came up; the fool stabbed the donkey, began to cook, told the merchant to eat, otherwise he would cut off his head; the merchant paid off with gold; the brothers stayed in the same house, pushed a fool not to eat much; he did not eat at all, and then came to the hostess for bread; she drove him away, he fell down the stairs and crashed to death]: Stebleva 1986, No. 60:256-259.
Iran - Central Asia. The Persians (Kerman) [two brothers are merchants, the third is a fool; they send him to a sick mother; driving flies away from his mother, he stones her to death; the brothers want to share the property in three weeks after the funeral, the fool demands his share immediately; the brothers take everything except the spinning wheel, the cow, the calf, 15 sheep and the stone; at the wake, the brothers decide to stab the fool's calf; they send a fool for guests, no one comes; a fool invited everyone on the condition that he would pay him for the calf; a dog came, eats meat; a fool demands payment from her for a calf, throws a poker at it, it fell into a lintel, the pot fell out with gold; the fool continues to chase the dog: I do not need a pot of gold, but 7 coins for a calf; the brothers took the gold; after the funeral, the fool drove the cow to the pasture, offered the lizard to buy it; The lizard nods; the fool asks for 15 coins, the lizard nods again; come in 15 days? nods again; the fool left the cow by the mink, the predators ate it; after 15 days, the fool demands money from the lizard, climbs into a hole, there is a door and 7 vessels with precious stones; the fool takes 15 coins for the cow; tells the brothers; they take the remaining treasures; the fool takes his shadow for a man, asks if the shadow wants to buy sheep; the shadow is silent and follows him; the fool lets the sheep go; leaves an inheritance; stays for the night on a hill above a stream; a traveler also stopped there, he has money in his bags; he makes figures out of chaimal (sweets), calls one God, the others Satan, the Prophet, Ali; before eating them, he attributes a flaw to everyone; the fool threw a spindle at him - leave it to me too! the traveler is confused; the fool throws bigger things - a shovel, a door; the traveler runs away in horror, the fool gets everything; he finds the last figure - God; "Oh God, I saved you!" ; returns home with bags; at night, the brothers discuss: they are rich, they could become kings if someone killed the king; the fool promises to do this, cut off the sleeping king's head, brought it to the brothers; they put it in torbu goat's head, they tell the fool that this is the head of the king, he threw it into the well looking for a murderer; the fool confesses, climbs into the well, asks if the king had horns and a goat's head; brothers: we talked that he is crazy; at night, a fool hears his brothers preparing to kill him; waits for them to fall asleep, kills both himself; chooses a new king, the bird sits on the fool's head three times; he becomes a ruler and getting smarter]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 12:70-78; Tajiks [father died, elder son sent the youngest to buy what he needed for the funeral; he bought nishals, anointed the bedding, people stuck, threw them gold coin, torn off the bedding; the eldest sent to sell the bull; the youngest offers the bull to the crow; he screams every time, Carr! ; the youngest comes for money, the bull was eaten by wolves, there is no money, he picked up a stone to throw at the crow, a treasure under the stone; when the elder was digging up the treasure, a man passed by; he killed and buried it; knowing that the youngest will spill out, asked to inform the padishah tomorrow; buried seven goats in the same hole, scattered cakes in the yard; told the younger that they were falling from the sky; the youngest replied to the padishah that the dead man was under goats, and this happened when cakes fell from the sky; the youngest took away the girl's pot of roll, tore off the donkey's tail, took the frog and millstones; towards the thieves, he offers to bet; katyk is snot, the frog is a louse, the millstone is my father's bracelet; {the tail is not mentioned}; the brothers took the thieves' property]: Osmanov 1989:456-459; Pashtuns [mother advises a stupid son to find a bride; need a little shake the girl and fall in love; the fool waited at the well; when a pretty girl came up, he pushed her into the water and she drowned; when she found out, the mother drowned the goat in the same well; the son readily told the girl's parents about what he had done; going down to the well, asks the girl's father if she had hair and horns; he mockingly replies that they were; when the goat was pulled out, people felt sorry for the poor fool and parted; then other episodes with the fool and his mother (not quoted)]: Thorburn 1889:207-208.
Baltoscandia. The Swedes [the mother tells the fool to sell the cow, take what they give; the man spits, the fool clamps it in his hand; the priest asks the fool to help build a wattle fence, promises a pie; the spit spread over poles, a fool demands him back; the priest thinks it's about money, denies that he took it; the fool killed him with a stake; his mother buried the corpse, killed the goat and told her son to bury it; he thinks he buried the priest, for both black; the mother cooked the flour soup, spilled it on the roof so that it would drip through the crack; told her son that it was raining out of flour soup; they began to look for the priest; the fool said he had buried him; he was black; did he have horns? it was when it was raining out of flour soup; they dug a goat; the fool was released; the mother decided to marry him; tells her son to clean the house, four or five logs in the room; put cabbage and greens in the pot; be sweet and spread the feathers; the fool only got water in the room to go up to the fourth or fifth log, but it poured out the window; the mother painted the pig green so that it would not look so dirty ; the fool put him and his dog named Cabbage in the cauldron; smeared himself with syrup and feathers; the bride believed that the groom was just a joker because his mother was rich; but she understood everything before the wedding night; went out into the yard, and the groom tied a rope to her; she tied her to the goat, ran away; the fool pulled the goat, shouted that the bride was shaggy and horned, and beans were falling out of her bed; in the morning the fool set himself on fire and threw himself into the river]: Schier 1971, No. 70:229-233; Norwegians [a fool killed a priest and reported that he did it on the day when it was raining from milk and porridge; it was his mother who poured milk into the chimney; she changed the priest's body with a goat carcass; pulling out the carcass, the fool asks: did your priest have horns?] : Hodne 1984, No. 1600:283; Karelians (southern Karelia) [mother teaches Ivan to take off his hat when she goes to marry; I. takes off his hat in front of the horse, she is frightened, broke her plough, the man beat I.; mother: it was necessary say - what you sow, let it grow twice as much; I. shouts this to the funeral procession; mother: should have said "Holy God, holy strong"; I. shouts it to the wedding; mother: should have danced, I. dances on fire; mother: it was necessary to pour water on the fire; I. poured on a pig that was fired by a man; mother: should have said "there will be food for Easter"; I. says this to a man who eats bread and water; I. decides for himself someone beat, killed the priest; the mother put a ram in that place, taught him to ask if the priest has four legs, if he has horns, whether he is hairy; Ivan was released]: Konkka, Tupitsyn 1967, No. 79:450-452; Veps [after the death of their parents, three brothers got three bulls; Roly the Fool took him to sell, tied him to a dry rotten pine tree, sold it to her, but he is responsible for her that he will give the money on Christmas; the brothers offer V. sell their bulls as well, he leads them to the same pine tree; on Christmas they come there, the brothers scold V., and he beats a tree, uprooted a golden treasure under the roots; on the way back they met the priest; that he would find the treasure in his footsteps, killed him, hid him in the chapel; V. comes to his shirt, asks if they remember the priest they killed; the brothers lowered the priest's body into the ice-hole, and put him in the chapel killed goat; people took V. to the chapel; he asks if the priest had a beard, hooves, horns; people spat and returned to remember the priest; brothers live richly]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 52:180-182; Latvians [brothers bury a goat in the place where the corpse was, and thus save the fool from suspicion of murder]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 1600:362.
Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars [his mother sent her stupid son to the bazaar; he bought a table, spoons, salt and some things; when he saw him, the pigeon stopped drinking water; the fool thought that because the water was unsalted, he poured out salt into the water; the spoons began to rattle; the fool decided that they were planning to kill him, threw it away; the horse was tired, the fool left the table on the road - let him go, he has 4 legs; the next ra his mother tells me to say hello if he meets a person, if he meets a person counting money, count with him; a fool saw dogs crossed, greeted him, counted his fingers; dogs tore his clothes; mother: they must be beaten; the fool took a stick, killed the old man, left it in the flour cellar; the mother killed the goat, changed the body; the fool told the victim's wife and children where the body was; he was told to get the body; he asks if the old man had horns; people gone]: Nasyrov, Polyakov 1900, No. 2:13-14; Mordovians, Udmurts: Kecskeméti, Paunonen, No. 1600:259.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Buryats (Baikal region) [someone is ruining a vegetable garden (Russian word), only the youngest of three sons, Bayan Bayama, catches a thief - a fox; she promises to marry the khan's daughter; decorated BB's leaky clothes with flowers , as if rich, led to the khan, ordered to stumble on the bridge; the khan's daughters see flowers from a distance, everyone wants to marry BB; the khan gave new clothes to replace the supposedly missing; the fox tells the khan not to be surprised at food and clothes, BB is surprised, Lisa explains that BB is better, richer; Khan requires 5 animals of all kinds; Lisa tells hares, foxes, wolves, bears that Khan drank arak, everyone wants to see khan, he plants them into cages; on the way back, the shepherds of sheep, cows, horses are told to say that they are not shepherds of Shurgalzhan Khan, but Bayan Bayama, because an invincible enemy is coming to Sh., advises S. himself and his wife to hide in a hole in the underground; Khan father-in-law throws a hot stone on them; his middle brother's wife named Oër reproaches him that BB is rich, but he is not, even if he brings the heads and legs of the animals; O. sleeps under with a tree, hears a conversation between a magpie and a crow; Kharasgai Khan's daughter fell ill after dropping the ring into the manure, they covered the wall with this manure, we must find it, the girl will recover; the guards themselves stole from the treasury of Bulzhamur Khan money; O. treats the girl, gets money, but wants only two carts of heads and legs; the wife explains what he really wants from both khans half a day; he gets it; his older brother Tenegu's wife sends it the husband sells a towel; he "sells" his stump; then shoves gold and silver under the stump, buys unnecessary things from the merchant for them; the wife orders to return the gold; T. kills the merchant, takes everything, throws his head under the porch; the wife replaces her with the head of a goat; the merchant's son comes, T. asks if his father had horns; the merchant's son thinks that T. is crazy, leaves ]: Barannikova 2000, No. 28:103-125.
Eastern Siberia. Yakuts (the place of recording is not specified, a link to a publication in the Yakut language and to the archive; most likely central) [the old woman has a fool's son Christopher; once he went to the forest, tied a bull to a stump and began to demand money from him for the bull; (without receiving money), hit the stump with an ax and found a treasure under it; kills a priest who demands his treasure, which he kept under a stump; instead of a dead priest, puts a calf; police officers are looking for a priest; H. asks if the priest had a long tail, horns, etc.; the police found a calf in the basement, beat H.]: Ergis 1967b, No. 328:251.