M39a4b. Frog strands. 17.29.30.
Afoolish woman thinks that frogs will make yarn or cloth for her, or buy yarn and throw the material into the water.
Iraqi Arabs, Varnishes, Georgians, Turks, Persians.
Western Asia. The Arabs of Iraq [the shoemaker's friend is a shepherd, gave him two sheep skins; the husband tells the stupid wife to find someone who will conjugate wool to make clothes; she hears frogs croaking, calling them relatives, throws sheepskins into the water, promises to come for yarn in a month; the husband goes with her, sees rotten sheepskins in the water, beats his wife, leaves her outside for the night; a cat, a dog comes; a woman thinks that their husband sent them for her, refuses to go; a camel comes up, she agrees; but the husband just felt sorry for his wife and let him in with the camel; the camel is loaded with gold; when the wife fell asleep, the husband killed and buried the camel, He cooked some meat, hid the gold; when the wife went out and then returned, the husband threw the cooked meat at her and she believed that the meat was falling from the sky like rain; at that time the husband pretended to be sleeping; The Sultan sends to search for the missing treasures; the wife said that they had the camel; the husband was summoned to the Sultan; when he left, he told his wife to keep her eyes on the door; when the Sultan charged him with stealing treasures, the husband asked to call his wife; she came carrying a door on her back; the wife says that it all happened when meat fell from the sky, and the husband sent Pussy, Woof-Woof and Gorba for her; the couple was released; the shoemaker divorced wife, dug up treasures, went to another city and healed well]: Stevens 2006, No. 1:1-6.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Lucky [daughter eats 6 choreks until she sweeps the room; once there were only three, she began to cry, mother to the merchant: she weaves five canvases until the room was swept, but the wool was only enough for three; merchant took the girl as his wife; left her hair and left; the wife is sitting, stinging her hair, dipping her fingers in oil and honey, the devils laugh; they brought the son of the padishah, who has an abscess in his throat; the young man laughed, the abscess burst, the padishah ordered the woman to be given cloth; the husband was happy, he bought more wool; she threw everything into the pond and told the princesses of the lake (i.e. frogs) to weave; the husband drained the pond, found a jug of gold; the wife exchanged the bale of cloth for two rag dolls, her husband drove her away; she went to the cemetery, and a camel with the padishah's treasury came there; she brought him to her husband; he told his wife that today women are being put in cradles because green the sun and it will rain red, and then a hail of halva; pachah people are looking for a camel, the woman tells everything; talks about the cradle, rain and hail, she was considered crazy, the merchant got the jewelry; the old woman promises a pachaha to find a camel; tells a woman that camel meat needs to cure her son; the merchant pushed the old woman into a hole with camel meat; locked his crazy wife and married another]: Ganiyeva 2011, No. 75:609-614; Georgians [a foolish wife invites frogs to knit her socks; they croak; she takes this as consent, throws yarn into the pond; when she comes for socks, she finds a golden reel in the pond; explains that the frogs did not knit her socks and she took their gold; she exchanged the reel for several dolls and one flip flop; her husband beat her and drove her away; she sees a dog, a rooster, thinks that her husband sent them for her, decides not to go; when the camel came with her luggage, she went, bringing the camel; the husband sees that the camel is loaded with jewelry; he put his wife in a tone, covered it with leather, poured grain on top and let geese go; she thinks that hail is coming; the husband killed the camel, hid the luggage and meat; the wife says that she brought a camel, her husband was captured, he tells the king that he knows nothing; the wife says she brought a camel when he was walking hail and knocked out the king's eye (he was crooked); the king drove her away]: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 146:290-292; Turks [the shepherd's stupid wife tells the frogs to weave her cloth; they croak, the wife thinks frogs agree, throws them expensive yarn; came to get cloth and pay for work; frogs jumped into the water; the woman decided to ruin their homes, started picking with a stick, found a jug of gold; paid to the potter to take his goods to her house; interrupted the pots to decorate the house; her husband drove her away; she tells the cat that she will not go home; when she sees a camel, she decides to go and brings the camel with her; this a padishah's camel loaded with gold; the husband hides gold, invites his wife to play newlyweds; it is customary to pour hot peas (leblebi) on them, he sprinkles it on his wife; the camel is searched, the wife says that I saw a camel, "on the night when the leblebi falls, when I became a newlywed"; Kady told the couple to clean]: Stebleva 1986, No. 59:254-256.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Romaskevich 1934a, No. 13 (Jews of Isfahan) [a mad woman went out at night to sell yarn; she came across a frog in a stream, threw her yarn, promised to come for a fee; she came, took a stone, brought it home; my husband saw that it was a gold bar, put it aside; in his absence, the milkman came to sell milk; woman: no money, will you take the stone? she brought the ingot, the milkman took it away; the wife made koloboks out of flour and milk, left one in front of the door to unlock it to her husband when he came; the husband had to remove the door; when he found out everything, he kicked his wife out; she sees a cat, a crow, takes them for her husband's messengers, refuses to return; a camel came with the Shah's treasury in packs; the wife called him an aunt, brought him; the husband killed, stripped the camel, hid everything; the wife about tells everyone; husband: ask her when it was; wife: when was the cool rice soup with wheat and the bloody rain; she was left alone]: 77-80; Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 21 (Kerman) [mother wishes marry one of the seven daughters as a weaver; tells the girls to work very quickly and, when the weaver comes, shout to her every minute that the work has been done; the weaver marries the eldest daughter; asks his wife to cook pilaf; the girl does not know how, but does not admit it; goes to the roof and loudly asks if she cooks; the neighbors answer; the girl says she thought so; neighbors advise putting stones in rice; finding in pilaf stones and dirt, the husband sends the girl to her mother; the mother passes off her second daughter as a weaver; the same with her (neighbors advise you to salt halva); the third daughter, on the advice of her neighbors, puts rags in the food, the fourth gives things to a passerby, the fifth fills the cracks in the roof with oil and honey; having given her sixth daughter, her mother advises her to buy cotton - let her work and not do anything stupid; the girl takes the frog's croaking for asking her to give her cotton - it will spin; asks again, takes croaking for an affirmative answer; the husband demands the cotton back; the girl tells the frog to give it back; dips her hand in water and pulls out a gold bar; the husband does not sends his wife home; the next day she buys halva for gold, sculpts figures out of it, gives them names, tells them to serve her; the husband knocks; the girl orders the figures to open the door; the figures do not they open; the husband sees the figures, divorces his wife; takes the last, younger sister; asks her to make vinegar; she asks neighbors for advice; neighbors advise eating all the grapes; the wife eats and falls asleep; her husband takes her sleeping to the desert; when she wakes up, the girl sees a crow, a cat and a dog; takes the sounds they make as a message from her husband; refuses to return; she is overloaded the king's camel with jewels; she follows him and comes to her husband; her husband blindfolds her mouth, closes her in the oven, forbids her to go out, says that blood rain and a cloud of felt are coming soon; hides jewelry; buries a camel and pours its blood through felt into the oven; the girl says that she brought the royal camel to her; her husband is taken to prison; he says that the wife is crazy; in The proof asks her to ask her what happened that day; the wife replies that while she was sitting in the oven, it was raining bloody; her husband is released]: 124-134.