M39a3b. A fool takes care of stumps. .28.31.32.34.
Thefool decides that stumps need hats, puts pots on the stumps.
Russians (Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Moscow), Lithuanians, Mari, Kazan Tatars, Kumandins.
Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Mezen, Vozhgory) [summary of the record: a fool goes to sell a bull and a bag of salt; salt water in the river with salt, sells a bull to birch, 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; it is dug up instead of a clerk, the murder is hidden]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 16:363; Russians (Vologodskaya) [two brothers are smart, they work, the third Ivan is a fool, only catches flies; his mother sent him to take a pot of dumplings to his brothers; I. sees his shadow, thinks that some person is throwing dumplings, threw everything away, then the pot, it broke; his brothers beat him, forced the sheep to herd, went to the village for lunch; the sheep began to wander away, I. gouged their eyes; his brothers beat him again; for the holiday they sent him to the city to buy spoons, a table, food; when he went back, he ordered the table to go by itself - he has four legs like a horse; he fed all the food to the crows - let the sisters eat; put it on the burnt stumps pots and korchagi ("hats"); the horse does not drink from the river - apparently, he does not want to be without salt, poured salt into the river; the horse still does not drink, I. killed it with a log; carried spoons, they rattle, he thinks they are "Ivan the Fool" is teasing; he trampled on them; the brothers sent I. to collect what he threw away; he made a hole in the korchagi, put everything on one batog; at home he hears that the beer is wandering; he thinks it is teasing him - released and began to swim in the trough; the brothers sewed the fool into the kul, carried him to drown; left and went to inspect the ice-hole; the master rides on the top three; I. shouts that they want to make him a voivode, but he does not know how to judge; the master ordered him to be sewn into the kul; drowned; I. arrives at the bottom of the distance; the brothers ordered them to be drowned; I. drove home to finish drinking beer and remember the brothers]: Gura 1965, No. 13:219-220 (=Burtsev 1895, No. 20:115- 119); Russians (Moscow) [third brother is a fool; put a trap near the cellar; my mother got caught, died; a fool to my brothers: what kind of bird I caught; I took me on a sled to bury, on the bridge to meet the wagon train, the sled fell; fool: the sovereign's yarn was killed! the merchants paid off with money; the brothers sent them to buy spoons, pots, millet, and a table for the funeral; the fool put pots on the stakes (they stand without hats), poured millet into the daws (grandmother's children wanted to eat); the gate they creak (hungry, poured millet into the last two pots, put spoons); threw the table - let him go; you have to give the horse a drink, there is no deck near the well; passer-by: hooks to make it lower; fool first cut off the horse's front legs, and then the back legs; put the braga, she murmurs; the fool thinks he's teasing; he poured everything out, swims around the room in a trough; a fool is sent to a wake; he calls men without wives and children; sent for wives; then for children; he gathered them, decided that they were black, threw everything into boiling water, put on shirts - now white; this fool did leprosy like this]: Vedernikova, Samorodova 1998, No. 95:237-239.
Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [the adventures of a fool; throws meat to dogs; greases the road with oil and pours beer on it; puts pots on stumps; throws money to frogs - let them count; throw food in their shadow; He 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. Marie [mother to son: go to a wedding and funeral before getting married; at the wedding he took an arc with bells and stands, he was mistaken for a thief, beaten; mother: you have to sing and dance; he dances on fire; you have to fill the fire, say "Get water into the eye of the fire"; he does this when a pig is burning; you must: let the meat be tasty and not translated; he says so at the funeral; the mother is dead, the son took it she in a car in the cemetery, fell asleep on the way; the merchant ran into a car, thought he had killed the woman, gave her money and buried her; the fool built a house with this money, married; carried pots from the bazaar, put them on stumps - those in cold without hats]: Aktsorin 1984:228-229; Kazan Tatars [will be guests; the old man sent his son to the bazaar to buy flour, salt, eggs, butter, spoons, plates; he found nothing, returned the money; the same average son; younger Taz bought everything, goes home through the forest; regretted the stumps without hats, placed a hundred plates on a hundred stumps; the horse got drunk, but does not drink anymore; so the water is unsalted - he poured salt into the lake; to feed the horse, poured out five pounds of flour, mixed it with water, the horse liked it; the wheels creak - smeared it with three pounds of oil; and then threw the cart and drove the horse away when it stumbled; threw spoons to the crows; when he reached the house, fell into the well; the corpse was pulled out, the guests were abandoned]: Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 149:462-463.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Kumandins [two brothers sow bread, send a third fool to herd sheep; sheep run away, he gouges out their eyes; next time they don't want to cross the river; they're probably afraid to soak their shoes, he took it off - cut off their legs; he is sent to the city to buy cups, spoons, pots, salt, a table for the holiday; on the way back he sees burnt stumps - the brothers freeze without a hat, put pots on the stumps; the kites scream - puts oats into their cup; the table has 4 legs - let him go; the horse does not drink water in the river - does not want without salt, the fool pours salt into the river; the horse still does not drink, he kills him; the brothers put the fool in a bag, they carried to drown, left while they were looking for an ice-hole; the sick son of the priest rides, the fool says he is in a bag to recover; the son of the priest climbs into the bag, the fool leaves on his horse; tells the brothers that caught at the bottom; brothers ask them to drown, the fool got rich]: Baskakov 1972:185-188.