M39G. Crying for an unborn child, ATU 1450.

.15.-.17.23.27.-.32. (.36.)

The girl weeps, imagining the dangers that threaten her future child; remembering an incident that could end badly; jealous of the fiancé she does not have; distracted from urgent matters, considering the name of the future child instead of meeting the groom.

Catalans, Portuguese, Spanish, Italians (Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Rome, Molise, Campania, Puglia), Sardinians, Bretons, French (Upper Brittany), Walloons, British, Irish, Alsatians, Germans (Mecklenburg, Grimms, Austria), Frisians, Dutch, Iraqi Arabs, Punjabi, Albanians, Slovenes, Serbs, Hungarians, Romanians, Greeks, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk) , Olonetskaya, Vologda, Pskov, Smolensk, Moscow, Ryazan, Gorkovskaya, Tambov, Kursk), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Bukovina, Kharkiv), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Abkhazians, Adygs, Circassians, Balkarians, Ossetians, Avars, Georgians, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Finns, Karelians, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Western Sami, Mari, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, (Vilyuans {and others?} Yakuts).

Southern Europe. Catalans (Mallorca included) [mother (or husband) sends her daughter to the cellar for wine, she's still gone; mother goes to see what's going on; daughter cries and looks at an ax stuck in the wall; she thinks that When she gets married and has a child, they will send him to the cellar and the ax will fall on his head]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 1450:244; Portuguese [a girl goes down to the cellar for wine and gets hysterical, when she thinks an ax hanging from the ceiling will fall on her unborn child; wine pours to the floor at this time; mother and father start crying with her daughter; seeing this, the groom who comes leaves]: Cardigos 2006, no. 1450:304; the Portuguese [the farmer married his daughter; at the wedding he asks his wife to go down to the cellar for wine; she has been gone for a long time; he comes down after him and sees his wife standing and looking at the one hanging under an ax on the ceiling: our daughter will have children, they will start playing and the ax will fall on their heads; both spouses are crying; the bride comes down and crying too; the guests came to see, and the groom went to look for the country where they live the same idiots; in one place people run, climb trees and walls: a terrible beast wanders, no one can kill it; it turned out to be a turkey; the guy killed him, receiving a lot of money for his feat; elsewhere, children and women put screens in the sun's rays: they catch sunlight and carry it to their homes; the guy made window holes in their houses, got the money again; in another place, a woman adorns a pig: my husband is dead and now I am looking for someone to give him this pig and a purse with money as a gift on his birthday; after taking the money, the guy went back; in one place there are a lot of floundering people: do not know where whose legs are; the guy showed them and received the money again; returned to the bride and told them to remove the ax from the ceiling; everything is fine]: Coelho 1879, No. 41:94-96; Spaniards (Murcia) [the groom came to visit; the bride went down to the warmer for wine; she began to cry when she saw an ax stuck in the wall: when she had a child, the axe could fall on him; the parents cried with her; the boy leaves, deciding return only if you find the same fools; then a series of meetings with fools (No. 1384:208-209 {not described})]: Hernández Fernández 2013, No. 1450:218-219; Italians (Veneto, Tuscany , Umbria, Lazio, Molise, Campania, Puglia), Sardinians [in principle, the plot plot of ATU 1384 may vary, but in most cases it starts with our M39G motif; most likely this motive known in various parts of Italy]: Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 1384:307; Italians (Rome) [at the wedding, the father asks the bride to go down to the cellar for wine; she took the plug out of the barrel and began to fill bottle and think: she will give birth to a son named Cicco Petrillo, he will grow up and suddenly die; she cries; and the wine is pouring; the mother comes down, cries with her daughter; the same father; the groom goes to look for three other similar ones fools; if he does not find it, he will not return; a man tries to shovel the nuts he brought in the boat with a pitchfork, he did not think of a shovel; another brought the oxen to the river and tries to give them water with a spoon; woman sitting on a mulberry holding her husband's pants: he's dead, in paradise, she's waiting for him to come down from heaven and hit his pants with her feet; the groom is back to his bride]: Calvino 2017, No. 105:493-495; Italians (Abruzzo) [ the groom came to visit, the bride went down to the cellar for wine; began to cry, imagining that when she got married, she would give birth to a child and he would die; the parents also began to cry; the groom left and decided not to contact]: Del Monte Tammaro 1976, No. 1450:161

Western Europe. The Bretons [mother tells Jeanne to cook soup for her fiancé Jean, tells her to put everything she needs (Péadra); she throws a puppy with this name into the cauldron; the mother sends her daughter for water; taking a jug, she begins to think about what to call her future children, because all the names have already been sorted out; which means that she will not be able to baptize the children; she began to cry at the well; the mother came and began to cry with her; Jean decides go to other places; sees a girl trying to row peas with a pitchfork; elsewhere, another girl explains that the horse's wounds were ordered to be treated with soot, so she is dragged on ropes to a pipe on the roof, they lower and then raise; elsewhere he sees a woman cutting meat off the baby's buttocks to fit into his pants; then Jean returned to Jeanne, thinking that she was far from being the dumbest; one day Jean said they have three good pieces of bacon: for Christmas, for Carnival and Easter; people with these names come one by one and Jeanne gives them everything; Jean tells his wife to take the door with her (I mean close it), she takes it off her hinges and carries it; both come to the forest, climbed a tree; robbers gathered under the tree; Jeanne peed herself, they think it's raining; then they fell with the door; took it robbers' treasures and lived well]: Luzel 1887 (3), No. 1:381-399; the Irish [Darby came to marry Joanna; set the table and J. went down to the cellar for a beer; she was gone for a long time; her father followed her - not either returns; the groom comes down and sees that everyone is crying; the stone does not hold well in the ceiling; when the boy is born, grows up, goes down to the basement, the stone will fall and kill him; Darby repaired the vault; after the wedding Darby ordered the pudding to be made by 2:30 - he had an urgent business; 10 minutes before the deadline, J. went down for a beer; heard a scream: the dog took away the pudding; J. ran after her, forgetting to close the tap at the barrel; the dog did not catch up, and the beer spilled out; then she soaked lunch in beer; after J. gave the swindler three cows, the husband went to look for the same idiot; one woman wears sunlight into a windowless house with a sieve ; a man has cut through a window; elsewhere a man is sitting covered with a bag, and the wife is going to punch a hole in the fabric with a hammer to make her head enter: this will be the collar of the shirt; the man has cut through the collar with scissors; other women try to take the cow to the roof of the house to eat the grass that grows there; the man mows the grass for them; then comes to the widow; replies that he is coming from the Garden (the name of his farm); she realized who is from paradise and asks if he saw her husband there; offers to bring him clothes, money, etc.; Darby decided that this woman was more stupid than his wife, went back to J. and is happy with her]: Kennedy 1875, No. 1:9-14; French (Haute-Brittany) [mother tells a stupid daughter named Hanne to cook soup for the groom's arrival, put lard and so on in the cauldron, and then stew the cabbage; H. puts a dog named in the cauldron Other; the mother explains the mistake, tells the broth to be kept on fire so that it thickens ("contacts"); the daughter puts hemp fibers in the cauldron for the ligament; after the groom arrives, the mother sends H. to the cellar for apple wine; She opens the tap in the barrel, puts up the mug and begins to think: when she starts giving birth to children, what should they be called, because all the names have already been sorted out; the wine continues to pour; the mother, then the father, go down to the cellar, They begin to think with their daughter; when they see what is going on, the groom promises to return if he finds three fools like him; the reapers cut off a spikelet, take them home, then run back to the field; the young man gave them a sickle; one took him by the blade, cut himself, thought that the animal was biting, he began to beat him; a woman carries sunlight in a wheelbarrow to warm the baby's house, but the light disappears in the shade; the young man advises to take him out in a wheelbarrow child in the sun; in the castle, the servants do not know what to do with the crap left by the wolf, the owner suffers from the smell; the young man teaches to throw away the crap; returns to the bride and marries her; everything is fine]: Soupault 1959, No. 45:299-302; Walloons [at 37 the stupid daughter is not yet married; finally the groom comes; the mother sends her daughter to the cellar for a beer; she is gone for a long time, the mother has come down herself; the daughter thinks how will name the unborn child; the mother also begins to think about it, then the father; the groom leaves, promising to return if he finds even more fools; the peasant tries to load nuts into the cart with a pitchfork; the other tries to drag a pig to an oak tree to eat acoles; a man jumps into his pants from a tree; the groom comes back and married a fool, they have many children]: Laport 1932, No. 1450:107-108; the British [to his daughter The farmer's groom came; the bride went down to the cellar for a beer, saw an ax stuck in the beam, began to think: we would get married, raise a son, he would go down to the cellar for beer, an ax would fall on him; she began to cry; mother, then father joined; the groom promised to return if he met people more stupid than the bride and her parents; sees the hostess dragging a cow to the roof where tall grass grew; tied her by the neck, she lowered the rope into the pipe, tied it to herself; the cow slipped off, suffocated in the loop, the hostess got stuck in the pipe and smeared with soot; in the hotel, the guy hangs his pants on the cabinet handle and tries to jump in with both legs; by the pond people are trying to catch the drowned moon; the gentleman returned to the bride and married her]: Shereshevskaya 1957:195-199; Germans (Mecklenburg) [the groom came to the girl; she I went down to the cellar for a beer, opened the tap (by the barrel) and thought and began to cry: she would marry, have a child, he would slip on this staircase and crash to death!] : Bartsch 1879, No. 22:515-516; Germans: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 34 [Hans's fiancé comes to Elsa's house; her mother tells her to go down to the cellar for a beer; she opened the tap and, while the beer is pouring into the jug, she noticed a pickaxe on the wall; began to cry: I will marry G., a child will be born, go for beer, the pickaxe will fall on him and kill him; E. is followed by a worker, then her mother, then a father, they also cry; yet G. married her; E. went to the field fell asleep; G. quietly threw a poultry net with bells over her; when E. woke up, she decided it was not her; ran home, asked if E., G. answered yes; she left and disappeared]: 119-122 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:107-110); Liungman 1961 [Europe's earliest version recorded in Germany in 1585]: 297; Alsatians [mother sent her daughter to bring them and her husband food, but none of her; came home , the daughter cries; if she marries a weaver and gives birth to a child, he will watch the father work and the father accidentally pricks his eye out with a weaving shuttle; the mother also begins to cry; the father leaves, promising to return , if he found even more fools; accidentally came across a basket of eggs at the bazaar, the merchant began to swear; he replied that he had just come from heaven; merchant: did not see my first husband Joseph; man: his deeds bad, nothing to wear at all; agrees to take clothes for J.; the woman brings the deceiver into the house, feeds and drinks, gives her the best suit; when the new husband returned home and his wife told him everything, he beat her with a stick]: Lefftz 2006, No. 26:261-263; Germans (recording undefined; Austria), Dutch, Friezes: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1450:225-226.

Western Asia. Iraqi Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1450:811

South Asia. Punjabi [in the weaver quarter, a girl sweeps the floor, thinks; it would be nice to marry in her neighborhood to be close to relatives; but if I give birth to a son and he dies, how will they grieve my aunts, sisters, friends; began to cry; aunts, sisters, girlfriends, and then men also screamed; when the elder found out what was going on, the elder laughed with his people and the crowd parted]: Swynnerton 1892, No. 83:348- 349 (=1884:163-164).

The Balkans. Albanians [the farmer's daughter thinks that her father will marry her, she will give birth to a boy named Mazlum, who will start walking, a pumpkin will fall on him, kill him; a girl, then her mother and brother cry; husband cut the pumpkin into pieces and went to look for the same fools; the old man lives in a windowless house, picks the wall with a knife; the man made a hole in the roof; the bride must enter the gate on horseback, the gate is low, people think whether to shorten the bride or the horse; the man bent the rider's head, received money as a reward; the groom jumps trying to hit two legs with both legs; the man shows how to wear pants; returns to her family]: Serkova 1989:300-303; Bulgarians [when she sees an ax hanging on the wall, the girl begins to cry, imagining how she will give birth to a child and the ax will fall on him; mother (mother-in-law, etc.) to she is joined; usually the episode is related to the plot of ATU 1384 (pp. 450-452): amazed by the stupidity of his daughter (daughter-in-law, sister, mother, wife), a man goes to look for those who are even more stupid; when he finds them, he decides return to the family; a huge number of records]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1459:466-467; Hungarians [the peasant has a wife and daughter; a young man came to the screenings; a daughter went down to the cellar for wine ; began to think: she would marry, a son would be born, she would buy him a short fur coat, the boy would climb into the cellar, a log would fall on him, kill him, who would have a short fur coat; the daughter cries, the mother, then the father to her join; the groom goes to look for three of the same fools; one person tries to throw nuts on the roof with a pitchfork (the guy took them to measure, received money as a reward); the other wears light into the house with a trough (guy cut through windows); a woman shoves chickens under her hen (guy: the hen will hide them herself at the sight of a kite); the guy came back, married a girl, bought a short fur coat, but the boy did not kill himself]: Vazhdaev 1962:91-94 ; Slovenes, Serbs, Romanians, Greeks: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1450:225-226.

Central Europe. Russians (Murmansk, Olonetskaya, Pskov, Smolensk, Ryazan, Tambov), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Bukovina), Belarusians [Stupid bride: sad for her unborn child ( could accidentally drop it into the river, hurt it, etc.)]: SUS 1979, No. 1450:302; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pinezhsky district, village. Tsimola) [Doronia goes around the world to look for who is smarter than his elderly parents (looking at him, they imagine how he will die playing with splints and logs, grieving in advance that they will not have grandchildren). He meets men who pull a cow to the bathhouse, where grass has grown on the roof. D. mows the grass and brings it to the cow, the men reward him for his intelligence. D. sees three people driving a horse into a yoke, putting the yoke on the horse. He sees a man trying to jump and get into his hanging pants, hands him pants and realizes that his parents are smarter. He returns home and soon dies. A passerby tells the old woman that he saw Doronia from the dead - he was thin and ragged. The mother gives D. a fur coat, boots, a horse, flour and cereals. The old man scolds the old woman for her credulity]: Ozarovskaya 2009, No. 39:327-329; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pinezhsky district, village. Poganets, 1927, schoolgirl aged 7-8) [One of three daughters goes downhill to bring water from the river. The river predicts that her son Ivanushko will be born, he will go across the bridge to visit, fall into the water and drown. The girl sits down and cries on the beach. She is followed by her second and third sisters, they are predicted to do the same, and they also sit ashore and cry. The mother comes for them, then the father, hears the prediction, sits down to cry. The eldest son can't wait for water, sees relatives crying, gets angry and puts them in a barn and promises to let them out if he can find more stupid people. The son leaves, sees the old man carrying the sun into a windowless hut with a box - he cuts through windows for a hundred rubles, harnesses the man a horse for a hundred rubles, teaches the man to wear pants (before his wife held pants, he I jumped into them from the floor, but past them). The son returns home, lets his sisters and parents go]: Karnaukhova 1934, No. 72:156-157; Russians (Vologda) [the daughter of poor parents came to the river, began to think about how to marry her, once a dowry no; mother, then her father joins her; brother leaves, promises to return if he finds someone worse than them; one day he sees a man driving a cow around the church; so all day; the man explains that my father died, refused the cow to go to church, so I drive around, see where the stairs are, I can't see everything; the guy returned home]: Gura 1965, No. 54:278-279; Russians (Pskov) [the grandfather was smart, and the woman was stupid, the daughter is even more stupid; one day she cries: I will marry Anton, and he will go across the river to you and drown; my grandfather has left such fools; in one village they cut down a hut, the log is short, they stuck axes in him and they try to stretch; elsewhere, women carry light into the house with a sieve, the grandfather advised to cut through the windows; in the third village, a man drives a horse into a hanging collar; in the fourth, a man tied a cow by the neck and lifts him up to the roof of the bathhouse to eat grass; in another hut, people jump into their pants from the stove; jelly is on the table, and milk is under the bridge: they run from the hut under the bridge; the man returned to his fools]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 24:61-62; Russians (Moscow) [well done to the girl: if you give birth to a son Luton, he will suddenly drown; the girl is crying, followed by her mother; the girl's brother went to look for big fools; 12 men are fighting - who lie on the edge; the guy put everyone with his heads to the bump; men and women are reaping their teeth; the guy forged a sickle in the forge, clenched two sheaves and stuck the sickle in the sheaf; men: Uh, the worm has risen; the sickle became a rope in drag the river, two were drowned; the guy bows to the lordly pig: Your Chutskaya pig of my mother's own sister, I ask you to have a feast; the lady gave the pig and ordered to harness the best horse; the master chased a deceiver; he promises to catch up with the thief if the master lends him a horse and a whip; beat his master, brought home two horses, a cart, a pig; stayed with his sister and mother, for he found people more stupid than them]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 85:217-218; Russians (Gorkovskaya) [Lutonyushka's son grew up, parents are stacking firewood, the old woman dropped her log and wept: if L. were married, a son would be born, she would kill with a log; the old man also cried; L. went to look for smarter people around the world; in one village, a wife sewed her husband a shirt without a collar and hits her head to pass through the fabric; in another, the wife holds her pants and the husband jumps in they are off the povet; in the third, the hostess drives the chickens from the hen: how will she feed the children, since there are no tits; in the fourth, they drag a cow to the roof of the bathhouse so that the grass can rise; in the fifth, the men pull the log in both directions, and briefly; in the fifth they reap an awl; L. went to the blacksmith, brought a sickle; squeezed the rye, left; men: that's how much the worm had risen; tied the sickle by the rope, dragged it to drown; L. returned to teach people in his village]: Eremina et al. 1979, No. 2:158-161; Russians (Kursk, Fatezhsky District, 1939) [Tonya washes clothes by the river to take possession of it, a passer-by soldier predicts that her son will drown in water, she is crying runs away. At home, she tells her mother and brother Fedor about what happened, her brother is angry at her sister's stupidity and travels to see if there are people more stupid than his sister. In the first village, he sees people dragging a cow to the roof to eat the grass that grows there, and he advises plucking the grass. In the second village, he sees people running around to dip every pancake in the melt in the cellar, and he suggests moving it into the house. In the third village, he bows to the landowner, asks for permission to bring his pig and children to her sister's wedding (says that his pig is the landlord's sister), he allows and gives the wagon. They explain to him that he has been deceived, he catches up with Fedor, who hides animals in the forest and goes out on the road, promises to catch the fugitive on his wagon. By evening, the master realizes that he has been deceived again, asks the coachman to hit him for his stupidity. Fedor returns to his rich mother and sister]: Aristov, Pavlov 1939:61-62; Ukrainians (Kharkovskaya, p. Nizhnyaya Syrovatka, Sumy University, 1885) [Grandfather and grandmother are crying - they imagine that their son Ivan was born, grew up, climbed onto a stupa, fell and crashed. The son laughs, locks them in the cellar, promises to let them out if he finds more stupid people. She sees a woman beating chickens and chickens - she doesn't know what to feed them, the guy feeds millet, she thanks him. He sees a man jumping from the roof into the pants his wife keeps for him downstairs, the guy explains how to wear them (the man did not wear pants until he was 60). The son sees his grandfather dragging a bull to the roof of the hut to feed the grass that grew there. He cuts the grass with a scythe, gives it to the bull. The guy realizes that his parents are not too stupid, he comes back and frees them]: Grinchenko 1895, No. 171:203-205; Poles [matchmakers came, the girl went for a beer; began to cry: here she will marry, will give birth to a child and he will die; face's parents are crying; the groom went to look for someone more stupid; (hereinafter referred to as the episodes); decides that the bride is not the dumbest yet, comes back and marries her]: Krzyżanowski 1963, No. 1450:53; Slovaks, Czechs: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1450:225-226

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [girl Esma was lying and noticed a hammer; began to cry: she would marry, give birth to a boy named Asan, a hammer would fall on his head; his mother calms down: we'll stab a bull, we'll collect it neighbors, let's pray three times in the morning; the father of the family left, promising to return if he finds someone more stupid than his wife and daughter; at the spring, the girl asks where he is going; the man is irritated: from the dead; girl: not Have you seen my mistress's brother? When she learned that her brother was begging for alms at the gates of paradise, the hostess gave the man three gold coins for his brother; the owner returned and rode after the deceiver; he changed clothes with the bald miller: a rider was approaching, who blows the head of everyone bald; answered the rider that he had not seen anyone, but he pointed to the tree where the miller had climbed; the rider left his horse, clothes, boots, gold chain, climbed; the man took everything, rode away; at home, the owner told his wife that he had decided to give the traveler a horse so that he could quickly transfer the money to her brother; and the man returned to his wife and daughter, they bought a bull and a cow with three gold coins, and began to live well]: Emirsuinova et al. 2013:55-61; Abkhazians: Khashba, Kukba 1935:94-96 [=Shakryl 1975, No. 47:250-252; the widow's son went to buy firewood, and she and her daughter fell asleep; someone shot accidentally, the bullet fell behind daughters; mother started screaming: if her daughter were married and had many children, they would lie behind her and a bullet would hit them; daughter and neighbors would also cry; brother went to look for people who would be more stupid than his mother and sister; people take their cattle to the attic because they want to give salt to animals, and she is in the attic; the man explained to bring salt to animals, not vice versa; the girl's hand is stuck in jug, everyone cries: we'll have to bury the girl with the jug; the man broke the jug, got half the wealth], 179-182 [=Bgazhba 1983:309-310; the girl was collecting water under an apple tree, someone shot at an apple, a bullet bounced into the jug, it crashed; the girl began to cry: if I were married and with a child, a bullet could kill him; the girl's mother began to cry with her; to plow, the owner brought a stranger a bull paired with his own; while he was picking up his own, the family slaughtered and cooked what was brought; the man went to search the world for those who were more stupid than his wife and daughter; the cow is dragged to the attic because there is salt; man began to laugh, the owner decided to reward him if he could feed the cow with salt without lifting it to the attic, and if he failed, cut off his head; the owner gave two hundred rubles instead of the promised hundred rubles; men have a hand stuck in a jug, he is already considered dead; a man broke a jug, a feast was held in his honor; the old man has one eye and an ear cut off; he once argued with his wife: whoever speaks first is he would go for the calves; the riders came in, gouged out his eye and cut off his ear; the old woman came in, screamed, lost the bet; the man thought that there were people more stupid than his wife and returned home]; Circassians [daughter-in-law, daughter, the woman herself weep, imagining that their healthy or non-existent husband (son, brother) has died; the owner of the house Mashuko goes to look for someone who would be more stupid than these women; in one place people drag the hill instead of moving closer to him; a woman buys a leaky jug from M. because it is easy to wash on both sides; believes that M. came from the dead, sends him an arba with oxen, a donkey and property for the deceased daughter; when he learns what happened, the woman's son follows him; M. guides him along the side road, volunteering to hold the horse; hides it, cutting off the tip of its tail and sticking it into the ground; a person believes that the horse has failed; the question is: who is more stupid?] : Kapiyeva 1991:424-428; Adyghi [carrying water and walking under a tree, the woman thought that if she had a child and the tree fell, it would kill him; began to cry; her mother and sister to her joined; the husband went to look for someone more stupid than them; the khan's maid asks where he is coming from; the man replied that he is from the dead; hansha asks if he saw her son who had recently died there Ahmeta; man: he is not allowed to go to heaven, they demand 60 gold; after receiving the money, the man left and soon saw a rider behind him; told the bald plowman that this rider wanted to kill him because all bald people were being killed; let him climb a tree; when the khan rode, the man said that the one he was chasing had climbed a tree; the man helped the khan follow him and rode on his horse; when he returned, the khan told his wife that decided to pass it on for my son and horse]: Kerashev 1957:255-257; Balkarians [three sisters scratched their hair and noticed a rider; each says that if he were the husband of my older (middle, younger) sister, I would scratched her face; they tore their faces and began to cry; the brother decided to leave - until he found someone worse, he returns to her sisters; the woman takes her daughter to hell because her hand is stuck in a jug (man broke a jug, took the girl as his wife); the owner of the cows tries to drive them to the roof so that they can eat salt there (the man scattered salt on the grass, got half of the cows); the shepherd supports the rock so that it does not fall; the man leaned a support against the rock, took some of the sheep; began to live happily with his wife, owning cattle]: Malkonduev 2017:963-964; Ossetians [father went to work to buy a second bull; middle daughter sisters: suddenly the older sister gets married, gives birth to a son, comes to visit us, makes the boy climb a tree, he falls and dies; the sisters began to cry, and together with his mother decided to slaughter at the wake the only bull; the father returned with the bull; went to look for those who are more stupid than his family; 12 horsemen cannot count (each does not count themselves); because he counted them, they gave him a horse; seven are afraid, that the wind will uproot wheat; the man tells them to go home, waits for the wind to subside, calls those people back, they gave him plenty of grain; the man decided to return to his family]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 92:401-402; The Avars [the widow and daughter went for brushwood; the widow began to think: the daughter would marry, give birth to a son, he would also go to the mountains for brushwood, stumble, fall off a cliff; she began to cry, the girl also cried, throwing firewood, both returned to the village; when they found out what was going on, people laughed at them]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:27-28; Georgians (Imereti) [the peasant has a wife and three daughters; the wife sent the eldest to fetch water; on the other side there is a tree; "I will marry, I will give birth to a son, he will climb this tree, fall, break"; the middle daughter is sent, then the youngest, then the mother herself comes, all four of them cry; the husband left, promising to return, if he finds someone more stupid than his family; the widow cries: who will use the property of the deceased; the peasant says that he came from the dead and the deceased really needs these things; the widow gave it back; the brother-in-law rode in pursuit; the peasant tells the plowman that the royal servants cut the heads of bald people; changed with him, and the bald plowman climbed the tree; the brother-in-law climbed after him, and the peasant rode his horse and returned home]: Bogoyavlensky 1894a, No. 5:30-35; Turks [the bride cries: if she marries and gives birth to a child, he may fall off the tree; the man goes to look for even more stupid ones; fools try bring sunlight into the house with a sieve; they cannot pull their hand out of the jug and are going to cut off their hand; they drag a cow to the roof to eat the grass that has grown there; a person tells a woman that she is going to hell, she gives he is eating for his deceased relative; her husband rides after the deceiver; when he sees the chase, the deceiver tells the miller that he is about to be caught, the miller tries to run away, the woman's husband follows him, and the deceiver rode on his horse; the miller sells a crazy bag to fools for a bag of gold; one of them grabs the bag, runs, opens it (it has only air), hits a rock, is left without a head; others find a corpse and together with the wife of the deceased, they discuss whether their friend had a head or not]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 331:365-366; the Kurds [matchmakers came; the girl ran to the well, saw a flower; began to think: I will get married soon, give birth to a son, call Shirin ("sweet", I will come with my son to visit my parents, my son will go for a walk, see a flower, want to pick it, fall into the well; mother joined her daughter; matchmakers in mourning went home without a bride]: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 289:556.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Marzolph 1984, № *1450 [the girl went to bring water to the guest; she does not return for a long time: she thinks what will happen if she marries a person who comes, gives birth to a son, he will climb a tree, fall and break neck]: 214; Osmanov 1958 [daughter-in-law went to the cellar, broke the pot, the goat bleated; she begged the goat not to tell her father-in-law; mother-in-law came and asked the goat to do the same; at that time a thief broke into the house; the owner just returned, beat the thief; when he found out why his wife and daughter-in-law were crying, he decided to get away from such fools; sold the woman a piece of resin, saying that it was "sugar gum", decided that this woman was even more stupid than he was domestic; went into one house; the hostess sent her daughter to bring water to the guest; she remained sitting at the spring and crying: the guest would marry her, she would give birth to a son, he would climb a mulberry tree, fall and break his neck; other women also spoke; the man decided that his family members were no less stupid, returned to them]: 436-438.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [Clever Elza. When the groom comes, she goes to the cellar for a beer, thinks about how to name her first child. The groom runs away]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 1450:353; Karelians [mother dropped her log, cried: if she had a grandson, he would have fallen into a log; son went to look for people more stupid than his mother; people carry them to a new home light with rugs, the guy made windows for them in the house; elsewhere people cooked thick, and sour cream in the barn, running with a spoon from the table and into the barn; the guy brought sour cream to the table; in the barn two men beat a horse, they put her in a yoke; the guy put a yoke on his horse; returned to his mother, convinced that there were more stupid people than her]: Concca 1959:184-185; Swedes [when the groom came, the girl went down to the cellar to bring it beer and began to think what she would call her unborn child; father and mother come to her and start discussing the same topic; the groom left]: Liungman 1961, No. 1450:297; Norwegians [when the groom came, the girl went down to the cellar to bring a beer and wondered what she would name her future child]: Hodne 1984, No. 1450:255; Western Sami: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 1450:255 {so!} ; Estonians, Lithuanians, Finns, Danes: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1450:225-226.

Volga - Perm. Marie [Kazhai went to the forest, the wife was left with the child; a log fell, almost hit the child; the mother screamed - she could kill; K.'s mother, father join; K. leaves, urging him to return if he will find the same fools; in one place, ground rye is collected by grain (K. taught me to blow with a shovel); in another they carry light into the hut with a sieve, take out the darkness with a basket (cut through windows); in the third, smoke is taken out, wrapped in a canopy (made a pipe); in the fourth, they do not carry hay to the cow, but the cow is pulled to the haystack with a noose around his neck; people gave K. money for teaching; he bought horses, tarantas and gifts and returned home]: Tudorovskaya, Eman 1945:97-99; Chuvash [daughter went to get water; a guy passed by the ice-hole without paying attention to the girl; she began to cry: she did not even look with harsh eyes; the mother came and found out in what's the matter, she also began to cry; then the father; the girl's brother went to look for fools like his family; the old man sowed turnips in the attic {probably on the roof} of the hut, threw a noose around the old woman's neck, drags her on the roof to eat turnips is almost suffocated; the guy taught me to put a stepladder to the hut; another jumps from the roof into the pants that his wife keeps below; the guy teaches how to wear pants; 12 brothers sit around a pot of porridge, they have one spoonful; each one takes turns going down to the cellar to scoop up milk; the guy teaches them to bring milk from the cellar; decides to return to his parents]: Sidorova 1979:204-206; Kazan Tatars [the mother asks why the daughter is crying; she says that she will marry and have a child, and the child suddenly dies; the mother also cries; the brother went to look for a person more stupid than them; in one place they carry light into the house with a basket of light (the guy cut through the windows); from the roof of the storage shed, a man tries to jump into his pants (the guy explained how to wear them); returned home because he found people more stupid than his mother and sister]: Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 133:447-448 (about the same in more detail in Nasyrov, Polyakov 1900, No. 7:62-64); Bashkirs [the girl cries: when she marries and a son is born, she will climb a poplar, fall into the river and drown; the mother also cries: we need to arrange wake; father leaves: if he finds more such fools, he will return; six women are crossed, they do not know where whose; the old woman and the girl drag a bull to the roof to get caught; in third place, the woman asks where the man goes; he answers: I walk on the ground and under it too; she thinks he is from the dead; he says he saw her husband there; he herds sheep, many were taken away by the wolf, there is no money to pay for them; the woman gave him money give it to her husband; the man has returned home]: Barag 1992, No. 24:63-64.

(Wed. Eastern Siberia. Explicit Russian borrowing. The Yakuts (a summary of several texts, including archival ones; at least the Vilyuisky ones) [the old man and the old woman dropped the log on the floor; began to cry: if their son had a child of his own, he would be killed log; son went to look for smart people; in one place a man drags a cow to the roof to graze there; the guy lowered the hay down; other people carry darkness out of the house in bags and bring in light; guy decided that his parents were no more stupid and returned home]: Ergis 1967b, No. 333:251-252).