M39a3a. Oiled soil .13.16.30.-.32.
Afool sees cracked objects (stumps, earth, ice), sympathizes with them and oils them.
Beja, Amhara, Walloons, Mountain Tajiks, Veps, Lithuanians, Chuvash.
Sudan - East Africa. Beja [the wife sends her husband to her parents for oil; on the way back, he sees the cracked ground and oils it; the wife decided that they will now have to leave; they have come to the pond; wife: let the sun cook; poured honey into the water; began to knock down honey, but it dissolved in water]: Reinisch 1893, No. 5:59-60; amhara [two stupid people got married; wife became pregnant, came to her parents; those they gave her a calebas full of oil and told her to rub her stomach; on her way home, she saw that the ground in her father's field had cracked, and lamented and covered the cracks in the ground with oil; when it was over, She went home; when her husband found out what had happened, began to praise her; when her son was born, the husband went to his wife's parents and asked her what the child's name was; they replied: "You are stupid, son. Why are you in a hurry?" ; it seemed to him that his parents offered to name the child Stupid; when he returned home, he repeated, so as not to forget: "Stupid, You Stupid, You, Stupid, You"; slipped on the straw and forgot his son's name in fear; thought that the straw stole him, began to beat her; the owner of the straw said he was stupid; the husband came home, gave his wife the name of his son; when the child was three days old, his parents instructed him to herd the bull; the child cried; the father tied his hand to the bull's tail; the bull went to a watering hole, then wandering down the slopes; the child was left with one hand; the father thought his son was offended; found his body, saw what was in his mouth Ants were crammed and thought he had stolen someone's chickpeas; he started hitting the body with a stick, then went home and told his wife what had happened; when he learned of the death of her grandson, the mother-in-law exclaimed: "You'll both be lost!" ; the husband told his wife to leave; when they stopped for lunch by the lake, the husband told his wife to dilute the fried beso barley flour with water; she poured all the beso into the lake; the husband ordered him to take it back; she rushed into the lake, began to drown; the husband thought that his wife was eating there alone and threw a stone at her head; the water turned blood; the husband thought that his wife was mixing baso with pepper, jumped into the water and drowned]: Gankin 1979, No. 160:203-207.
Western Europe. Walloons [Jean's mother sends Jean to sell oil and buy a pig; on the way he saw holes in the road, decided that they would grow up in the hot sun and oil them; there is a crucifix on the hill; Jean asks if Jesus would buy his leftover oil; took silence for consent, left oil; bought a pig, told him to go home by himself; his mother beat Jean]: Carnoy 1883, No. 7:189-191.
Iran - Central Asia. Mountain Tajiks (Vanj, 1957) [The girls Lyak and Park decided to cook soup; put the meat in the cauldron, locked the door, left the key in the lock and went for a walk; they met the rider, said, "Go straight, you'll find our house, it's locked on the lock, but the key is in the lock, if you enter the house, you will see the cauldron, there is meat in the cauldron, just don't touch anything!" ; the rider found a house, took the meat, and threw old shoes into the cauldron; L. and P. bought lamb, a piece of homespun canvas, butter and a pot for it at the bazaar; saw that the poplar was swaying from the wind; L.: "Come on We'll tie a poplar with this canvas, maybe it will come in handy someday"; we tied the poplar with canvas, moved on; saw a crack in the ground; P.: "Let's fill the crack with oil, the ground must have cracked from the cold!" ; filled the crack with oil, moved on; at home they found that there was no meat in the cauldron and full of old shoes; when a fly sat on the edge of the boiler, they threw it into it with a hammer; the cauldron split, the fly flew away, then sat on a pole supporting the house from the inside; L. and P. threw a hammer at it, the pole broke, the house collapsed; decided to go elsewhere; "They went, we were here"]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 52:155-156.
Baltoscandia. The Veps (Pondala, 1957) [from an inventory of texts stored in the archives of the Karelian Scientific Center: a fool is at home, rolls around the hut in a trough; his brothers send him shopping; he buys butter, flour, chairs, a table; on the way back to make the horse eat and drink, pours flour into the ice-hole; lubricates ice cracks with oil; throws away the table and chairs: they have four legs each, they can walk by themselves; the brothers want to run away from the fool, but this is for them fails]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 176:215; Lithuanians [the adventures of a fool; throws meat to dogs; lubricates the road with oil and pours beer on it; puts pots on stumps; throws money to frogs - Let them count; throw his shadow's food; puts his left shoe on his right foot and vice versa; sometimes he manages to make the princess laugh; he refuses her and gets paid instead]: Balys 1936, No. 1642 : 145.
Volga - Perm. Chuvashi (Western 1913) [of the three brothers, the youngest Peter is bald; after the harvest, when it is necessary to prepare beer, he is sent to the bazaar to buy malt, bowl spoons, butter, salt, and a table; he bought everything, it is difficult for him to carry what he bought on foot; sat on the table, told him to become a horse; the table is in place; P.: if you don't want to run on four legs, you'll run on three; then two, one; finally broke the table; thinks that the spoons in your pocket are teasing him." Bald", threw them away and trampled them; mixed the malt in the river; decided that the beer was good, but there was little salt, threw salt into the water; the gate posts cracked from the heat, P. sympathized with them, oiled them; the brothers scolded P. , they bought everything themselves, told P. to invite guests; he tells men to come, women to stay; he is sent for women, P. tells them to leave their children; they send them for children; P. loaded them on the cart, the children cry , he killed them, crushed them with oppression, put a piece of snow in everyone's hands; said that the children were in the bathhouse, he gave them a piece of sugar; Bald was beaten; the brothers decided to run away from him, he hid in the kul where they they put the crackers; the brothers sat down, decided to eat, P. jumped out; had to return, P. improved]: Chuvash tales 1937:152-155.