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M61a4. Tells everyone else is dying. (.22.)

The

character lies to each of the spouses as if the other had a misfortune. They run to each other in panic.

Vieta, ahem.

Burma - Indochina. Vieta [orphan Kuoy lives in my aunt's house; old man: if you lure me out of the house, I'll give you money; K.: you'd better go out the gate and I'll lure you into the house; the old man went out, K. sold his aunt's pig, buried his tail in the sand, said that the pig had gone to the lower world; his aunt told me to dig, the tail "came off"; K. covered a pile of manure in the bazaar, told his uncle that he had caught a turtledove; uncle ran to get the net, came back, everyone laughed; K. tells his aunt that the buffalo raised his uncle to his horns; to his uncle that her aunt fell down the stairs; they ran towards each other; uncle carries K. in the basket drown; he sends him for a learned book necessary in the realm of the dead; tells the leper that he was also a leper himself, but was cured when he was thrown into the river in a basket; the leper changes with K. in some places, leaving him gold coins, he is drowned; K. climbs into the water, holding coins in his hand, tells the dignitary that he has dropped treasures into the water; he climbs into the water, K. leaves on his horse and his clothes; said to his uncle and to the aunt who received everything at the bottom from her parents; they told them to drown, K. did so]: Nikulin 1970:90-95; ahem [a childless woman wants to go to the monks to ask for a child; everyone refuses transport her across the river; she builds a sand stupa by a tree, asks the tree to give her three children to take revenge on those in power, monks and elders; gives birth to three children, dies; the eldest is Aay CaaLaay ( "liar"; A.); he was adopted by husband and wife; he stuck a bunch of crap with feathers, asked his adoptive father to catch the bird, he smeared himself; the same with his adoptive mother; they left it to be eaten by the tiger; A. asks the tiger not eating it - he will show where to steal the pig; they carry the pig on a stick; A. let the tiger carry the part of the trunk where the thorns are, told him not to moan, otherwise the food will become bitter; the tiger moans; A. shows the star sends a tiger there for fire, at this time he makes a fire himself, cooks meat, lays it for himself, puts bitter fruits in the tiger part; the tiger returns without fire, A. sends him to make spoons for leaves , he watered white leaves himself so that the tiger thought it was from birds (and looked for it longer); the tiger eats bitter meat because he moaned on the way; A. cooks pig testicles, says he cut off his genitals; The next day, the tiger agrees that A. cuts off his testicles; when A. climbs a tree, the tiger sees that everything is in place; A. throws the fruits away while the tiger picks them up, manages to go down and run away; tells the girls that a tiger is coming, they threw off their clothes, A. put them on, the tiger did not recognize him; the same with women and children; with men who cut straw; each time A. asks to show the wound, pokes it hot smut, splashes hot juice, stabs it with straw; jumps into a hole; tells the tiger that the sky is falling, let it jump; just let him not push it up, otherwise the sky will crush; stabs the tiger with a needle, that pushes A. out of the hole, A. stoned him; tells the peasants that a tiger was caught in the hole; they ran to the hole, A. burned the village, hiding meat and rice; says that wherever his spear and arrow fall, there is meat and rice ; shows that people believe, throw their spears, but find nothing else; they catch A., hang them in a basket on a tree to then knock a tree into the river; a man with a gong was walking by, his eyes hurt, A. convinced him switch places - his eyes will recover; people knocked down a tree, the man drowned; A. says he met his deceased parents in the river, they offered him to take whatever he wanted, he took the gong; everyone jumped in water and drowned except for an old woman with an empty calebass; A. smashed the calebas with a stone, the old woman also drowned; A. told the governor that his wife fell off the roof and his wife that her husband had been wounded by a boar; they ran to look for each other, collided with their foreheads; the governor expelled A. at a distance of three blows into the slit gong, and A. measured three lengths of the gong, built a house there; the governor's children relieved themselves at A.'s house; A.: let them either poop or pee, but not both; governor: try it yourself! A. emptied his bladder, tied his penis, put a pile in the governor's house; he ordered to go where the earth turned upside down; A. built a house on the field where they plowed with a plow; hunchback came, carrying the vessel to back; A.: Look, there are two suns in the sky; she looked, the vessel fell and broke; people filled bamboo vessels with intestinal gases, came to A. not knowing it was him; he fed them buffalo manure and arranged so that they opened their vessels under their noses]: Lindell et al. 1978, No. 3:50-62.