M60b2. To make the bear beautiful, ATU 8. (.12.29.31.43.)

A large predator asks (agrees with the proposal) to make his skin beautiful (variegated). The deceiver burns it (scalds it, burns his eyes, etc.).

Hausa [spider and lion], Ossetians [fox and wolf], Georgians [fox and bear], Western (?) Sami [fox and bear], Estonians [fox and wolf], Setu [fox and wolf], katlamet [raccoon and bear].

West Africa. Hausa [The spider roasts the fish, the Lion takes everything; the Spider promises to make the Lion's skin as beautiful and colorful as that of a partridge; tells you to find a strong tree, ties a Leo to it, pierces it hot nails, leaves to die; The Ant freed the Lion; the Spider put on the antelope skin; the imaginary Antelope replies to Leo that she became thin and weak after the Spider pointed his finger at her; Leo refuses the intention to take revenge on Spider]: Arnott 2000:26-32.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [bear, wolf and fox live together, they have a jug of butter; when they go to the harvest, the fox says she is called for a christening; she ate butter, said that the child was named Dalbylta ("below the edges"); then "narrow-waisted"; "swept clean"; the wolf and bear find one ash in the jug; the fox explains that the ashes have settled on top of the oil; the bear blows, the ash in his eyes, he is blind; the fox offers the wolf go to the bear from the front, herself from behind; the bear rips the wolf's skin off the face; the wolf promises to kill the fox; the fox knocks the threads, answers the wolf that you will sew your ass, you will no longer have to eat; the wolf asks to sew up him; going out of need, he ripped off his ass; the fox is sitting by the fire, in the fire of iron; explains that he wants to paint himself with them; the wolf asks to paint it, is burned; the fox weaves a large basket; says that he will roll down to the shepherds in it, quietly drag sheep into the basket; the wolf asks to put it in the basket; rolls the shepherds, they kill the wolf]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 20:47-50; Georgians [The fox promises the Bear cure the cubs from scab, tells them to bring the chicken and go to pray; cooked the cubs, took the chicken; sends the Wolf to the Bear; he howls with grief, beats the Wolf; the fox pretends to be another Fox, weaves the basket, says that he will roll down the mountain to the chickens; the wolf asks to be lowered, bruised, beaten under the mountain by shepherds; the fox pretends to sew his ass with a rope so as not to need food; Wolf asks to sew him up; suffers, tears her whole ass, relieving herself; the wolf tore off Lisa's tail; she pretended to be dead on the road; she was picked up by the wedding train; she tells the bride to give her the rings, otherwise He will spoil the air, and think about the bride; runs away, pretends to be dead again, steals the merchant's fat fish aunt; comes to 40 foxes in bracelets and with her aunt, sends her tails to catch fish, dipping her tails in the lake; the tails froze into the ice; leads the dogs, the foxes ran off with their tails cut off, the Fox mingled with them, now all tailless; The wolf drives everyone to the bridge, prays for the liar to fall into the water; the fox falls, the Wolf grabs it, magpies fly in; Lisa explains that she made them colorful; The wolf also wants to be colorful; the fox roasts it on a spit]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 12:46-49.

Baltoscandia. Western (?) Sami [The fox pretends to be dead, the man with the sledge caravan picks it up, throws it on the first sledge, it slips off; stays lying only when thrown on the last one in which salmon; drops salmon from the sledge, runs away; to the Bear, Wolverine, the Hare replies that she caught fish in the ice-hole; ties one salmon to the tail, says that it has pecked; shouts that a man is coming, others jump up, tails cut short (Wolverine has it in the middle); the fox hides under the roots of a pine tree, the Bear tries to get it, she says that he did not grab her leg, but the root, and when the Bear grabs the root, the Fox pretends to be him grabbed her leg; yet the Bear took out the Fox, carried it, she sees the motley Woodpecker, says that she painted him at one time; the Bear also wants to be specked, promises to endure; the fox binds him, leaves it in a hole with burning brushwood; the bear is burned, the fox carries his bones in a bag, hits one in the bag, replies to the passerby that her parents are in the bag; the shepherd agrees to buy it, gives it in exchange a reindeer team; the Fox hired Stallo, the Wolf and the Mouse, told them to slaughter the deer, told Flea and the Hare to cook the meat; went to wash her stomach, hit them against a stone, shouting that it was not her who killed, but the workers; Stallo and the others were afraid that the owner of the deer had come, ran away; the fox threw hot guns at the Hare (hit the tips of her ears) and Flea (burned her tail), they ran away; that shepherd came, Lisa said that everyone it was eaten by workers and relatives, one of them is Laska; the shepherd threw his head at him, the tip of his tail turned black; the fox on the shore calls fish to transport it to the other side; successively rejects everyone (listed), accepts salmon's help; calls it to the shore, grabs it, carries it to fry in an empty plague; the roast hisses, the Fox thinks that people have come, jumps out; realizing what's going on, beats salmon, splashes of fat burned her eyes; The fox walks asking the trees if they would lend her eyes; two types of pine trees do not give, the birch tree gives, the fox runs away, the birch has time to hit her tail, since then the tip is white]: Klaus 1995:3-10; Estonians, Seto (the set has especially many records) [On the eve of winter, the fox has a particularly beautiful fur coat; the wolf asks where he got it; the fox promises to make his fur coat beautiful as well; tells climb into the haystack and look at the sky; set fire to the haystack from all sides; the wolf hardly escaped, burned; the fox says it was his own fault: the job could not be finished because you had to look at the sky]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 3:16-17; seto [fox wolf: to be handsome like this woodpecker! fox: get into the haystack, now you'll be colorful; the haystack is set on fire, the wolf burned down; the fox collected the bones in the bag, they jingle like money; bought a horse from the man, told him to open the bag at home, collecting everyone relatives - good luck; a hare, a wolf, a bear consistently ask to take them into a sleigh; the gulf is broken; the fox sends everyone to bring a suitable forest, the animals bring the unusable one; the fox brought it itself, they go on; fox: whoever tries to eat the horse first will bleed out of his eyes; but soon she starved to the horse; the horse was eaten; the fox felt sorry for the horse; fox: I'll go to the village for the headman, let him punish you for eating the horse; returned with the cat, the hare mistook the cat's tail for iron scrap from a distance, the animals hid; the cat saw the tip of a wolf's tail under a pile of brushwood, thought that the mouse, clung, the wolf ran, the cat to the tree where the bear hid; he fell, ran away with the hare; and the fox's eyes began to bleed; healer: you need to grease it with bear fat; the fox comes to the tree on which the bear ruins the hive; pretends to see nothing; it's plaintive: your parents threw me honey a little bit; the bear threw it off generously; the fox: and with joy they walked on the tree with a wheel; the bear tried it, fell and crashed to death; the fox healed its eyes and ate bear meat]: Mägiste 1990:7-14; (cf. Estonians (Pärnu) [The fox stole a horse and cart from a drunk man; the Hare, the Wolf, the Bear ask to put them on the cart; they insist on driving from the swamp; the horse breaks the gullies; the Hare, the Wolf, the Bear they bring the unfit; the fox brings suitable ones, but sees that his comrades are eating up the horse; decides to take revenge; smeared with goose blood, promises the Hare that he will have the same beautiful fur coat, he must get into the haystack ; sets fire to the haystack, the Hare burned; pretends to be dead, the man carries the fish, picks up the Fox, she throws the fish off the cart, jumps off herself, carries a bag of fish, answers the Wolf to put her tail into the ice-hole, the fish will catch; the tail is frozen, the Fox called the dogs, they tore the Wolf to pieces; smears the block with honey, advises the Bear to stick it inside its paw, knocks out the wedge; people killed the Bear]: Kippar 2010, No. IV.2:69-72).

The coast is the Plateau. Katlamet [The raccoon rejects all types of food offered by his grandmother, wants acorns; eats all supplies; the grandmother hits him with smut, he climbs on the hawthorn; she asks to throw berries at her; he throws her at the mouth is a lump of berries with thorns, it turns into a partridge; the Grizzly asks to paint it just as beautifully; the raccoon pours hot resin on it, runs to the Coyote; he says he has already swallowed the Raccoon; offers them Each grizzly swallows five hot stones; inserts an empty reed, the stones fall out on the other side; the Grizzly dies; in winter, the Raccoon steals Coyote's supplies; he dresses as an enemy warrior, injures him; under the guise of treatment, pulls the Coon's intestines out of the Raccoon; eats it]: Boas 1901a, No. 17:142-154.