M39g1. Jump into pants, ATU 1286.
.15.16.27.-.29.31.32.
Afool does not pull pants or boots over his feet, but jumps in them from above.
Aragon, Catalans, Italians (Tuscany, Rome), Walloons, French, British, Irish, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein), Dutch, Frisians, Albanians, Slovenes, Serbs, Romanians, Bulgarians, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Pskov, Gorkovskaya), Ukrainians (Galicia, Kharkiv), Turks, Danes, Swedes, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars. (Uther 2004 refers to 1286A in the Chinese index Ting 1978; this is a different story).
Southern Europe. Aragon [people in a certain area don't know how to wear pants]: Gonz√°lez Sanz 1996, No. 1286:113; Catalans (Mallorca included) [fools don't know how to wear pants; their man teaches, receives a rich reward]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 1286:224; Italians (Tuscany): Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 1286:284; 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, began to fill the bottle and think: she would give birth to a son named Cicco Petrillo, he would grow up and suddenly die; she cried; and the wine was pouring; the mother came down, cried with daughter; same father; groom goes to look for three other similar fools; if he does not find it, he will not return; the man tries to pick out the nuts he brought in the boat with a pitchfork, he did not think of a shovel; the other failed oxen to the river and tries to give them water with a spoon; a woman sits on a mulberry, holding her husband's pants: he is dead, in paradise, she is waiting for him to descend from heaven and fall with her feet in his pants; the groom returned to the bride ]: Calvino 2017, No. 105:493-495
Western Europe. The 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 descended by herself; the daughter thinks about the name of the unborn child; 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 the pig to the oak tree to she ate acorns; a man jumps into her pants from a tree; the groom came back and married a fool, they have many children]: Laport 1932, No. 1450:107-108; the British [the groom came to the farmer's daughter; the bride went down to beer cellar, 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; began to cry; mother, then father joined; groom promised to return if he met people more stupid than the bride and her parents; sees how the hostess drags the cow to the roof, where the grass grew; tied her by the neck, lowered the rope into the pipe, tied her to himself; the cow slipped off, suffocated in a noose, the hostess got stuck in a pipe and smeared with soot; in a hotel, a guy hangs his pants on the handle of the closet and tries to jump into them with both legs; by the pond, people are trying catch the sunken moon; the gentleman returned to his bride and married her]: Shereshevskaya 1957:195-199; Irish, French, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein), Dutch, Friezes : Uther 2004 (2), No. 1286:102
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 family]: Serkova 1989:300-303; Bulgarians [stupid mother tells her son to climb a tree or roof to put on pants by jumping in them (or a fool does so); a passer-by teaches how must, receives a reward]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1286:410; Slovenes, Serbs, Romanians: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1286:102.
Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Pskov), Ukrainians (Galicia) [Jump into pants (boots)]: SUS 1979, No. 1286:279; 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). My son returns home, lets his sisters and parents go]: Karnaukhova 1934, No. 72:156-157; Russians (Pskov) [my grandfather was smart, and the woman was stupid, but my daughter was even more stupid; one day she cries: I'll marry, give birth to Anton , and he will go to you across the river and drown; grandfather has left such fools; in one village they cut down a hut, the log is short, they have stuck axes in it and are trying to stretch it; in another place, women in the house with a sieve light they wear it, my grandfather advised me to cut through windows; in the third village, a man drives a horse into a hanging clamp; in the fourth, a man tied a cow by the neck and lifts it 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 (Gorkovskaya) [Lutonyushka's son grew up, parents were 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 the wife sewed her husband a shirt without a collar and hits her head to pass through the fabric; in the other, the wife holds pants, and the husband jumps in them from the povet; in the third, the hostess drives the chickens away from the hen: how does she feed the children it will be, 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, or even briefly; in the fifth they reap an awl; L. went to the blacksmith, brought a sickle; squeezed rye, left; men: that's how much the worm got up; 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; 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, comes back and releases them]: Grinchenko 1895, No. 171:203-205.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Turks [fools don't know how to wear pants]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 331 III.2d: 365.
Baltoscandia. Karelians: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 19 [the old man and the old woman sowed turnips on the roof; turnips began to grow; the old woman was afraid that she would crush the house, climbed to collect it, fell on the harrow; the old man went looking for mourners; a chicken, a hare, a fox, a wolf, a bear met; everyone replies that they can lament; the old man left them by the body, they ate the old woman and ran away; the old man took the kitten, the scoop and the ax and left; in the hut, a man jumps from the stove into the pants held by his wife; for a hundred rubles, the old man taught how to wear pants; elsewhere, a man carries light into a windowless hut; the old man cut through a window for 200 rubles; in the third Rats eat people at night; the old man sold the kitten; the old man returned home, and a man came out of his hut and told him to leave; the old man cried, Onego arose out of tears, flooded the house]: 101-103; Onegin 2010 , No. 54 (Kalevalsky District) []: 468; Veps [the old man and the old woman sowed turnips on the roof; turnips began to grow; the old woman was afraid that she would crush the house, climbed to collect it, fell on the harrow; the old man went to look mourners; a chicken, a hare, a fox, a wolf, a bear met; everyone replies that they can lament; the old man left them by the body, they ate the old woman and ran away; the old man took the kitten, the scoop and the ax and left; in the hut a man jumps from the stove into the pants held by his wife; for a hundred rubles, the old man taught how to wear pants; elsewhere, a man carries light into a windowless hut with a bag; the old man cut through a window for 200 rubles; in third place rats eat people at night; the old man sold the kitten; the old man returned home, and a man came out of his hut and told him to leave; the old man cried, Onego arose from tears, flooded the house]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 19 : 101-103; Latvians [put on pants by jumping into them]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 1286:346; Swedes [a woman tells her husband to jump into his pants to wear them; often in the context of a story about three fools, who are looking for a stupid woman; Danes do the same]: Liungman 1961, No. 1286:282; Finns, Estonians, Lithuanians: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1286:102.
Volga - Perm. Chuvashi [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, found out what was going on, and 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 to the roof to eat turnips, she almost suffocated; the guy taught me to put a stepladder to the hut; the other jumps from the roof into the pants that his wife keeps below; the guy teaches how to wear pants; 12 brothers sit around the cauldron with porridge, they have one spoon; everyone takes turns going down to the cellar to scoop up milk; the guy teaches how to bring milk from the cellar; decides to return to his parents]: Sidorova 1979:204-206; Kazan Tatars [mother asks why the daughter cries; she says that she will marry, give birth to a child, and the child suddenly dies; the mother also cried; the brother went to look for a person more stupid than them; in one place they carry light into the house (the guy cut through the windows); with A man tries to jump into his pants on the roofs of the storage shed (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 more to Nasyrov, Polyakov 1900, No. 7:62-64).