M62D. A hare in rotten skin. 12.
Thetrickster wears rotten skin, pretends to be another animal, and says that the name (i.e. himself) has caused him to get sick. The animals are frightened, they do not dare to take revenge on the trickster for his tricks. See M62C motif.
West Africa. Fulbe [Hare]: Hampâté Bâ 1994:42-62; Moreira 1948:238-241; felupes [The hare planted pumpkins, dried them, made ratchets, put Hyenas near the rice field; Hyena comes for rice, hears a sound, thinks that a rattlesnake is running away; The hare puts a pumpkin on his head, sits in the river, gurgling, frightened Hyena again; Hyena's wife comes to the river, sees the Hare, grabs his leg; Hyenas think how to execute him; the hare only asks not to be thrown into the grass at dawn, the Hyenas are thrown, he runs away; puts on the wormy gazelle skin, meets Hyena, says that the Damned Hare bewitched her, the Gazelle, even the dew on the grass does not take it; next time the Hare puts the gazelle skin with fur inside, says that all his hair has fallen out; the Hyenas have decided not to mess with the Hare]: Nikolnikov 1976:121-123; manjak [Hare ]: Mendelssohn 1971:20-22; Hausa: Olderogge 1959:217-219; Tyutryumova 1991 [The spider tells Elephant that the Hippopotamus asks him for a hundred baskets of grain, and the Hippopotamus that the Elephant asks for a hundred baskets of fish, he and the other, supposedly, will later send a better horse as payment; each time the Spider lets the porters go and tells his wife and children to take everything to him; gives one end of the rope to elephants, the other to the hippos, each pulls to to themselves, believing that he is pulling the rope of the promised horse; finally they find out that they have been deceived; the Spider put on the skin of a dead antelope; on behalf of Antelope, he says to the Elephant, then the Hippopotamus, that she became like this after as the Spider pointed at her with his paw; the Elephant and the Hippopotamus began to avoid meeting the Spider]: 82-89; Arnott 2000 [The spider roasts the fish, the Leo takes everything; the Spider promises to make the Lion's skin as beautiful and colorful as that partridges; tells you to find a strong tree, ties a Leo to it, pierces hot nails into it, leaves it to die; the Ant freed the Leo; the Spider put on antelope skin; the imaginary Antelope replies to Leo that became thin and weak after Spider pointed his finger at her; Leo gives up his intention to take revenge on Spider]: 26-32; Tremearne 1910, No. 1:203-204; raspberries [the hare borrowed a slave from an elephant and another at the hippopotamus; giving everyone the end of the rope, ordered them to pull it - a slave returned at the other end; the elephant and the hippopotamus realized that they were pulling one rope; the elephant promised not to let the hare into the forest, and the hippopotamus into the river; the hare put on the rotten skin of a beast, began to say that it was the hare who had bewitched him; the elephant and the hippopotamus told him to give him borrowed slaves]: Monteil 1905:49-51; "mande" (bambara or mandingo) [animals dig a well, the hare refuses to work, but is going to come for water; others promise to kill him; put a sticky figure, the hare sticks; he is tied up, chosen the execution option, the jackal they leave him guarded; the hare promises to show him meat, tells him to untie him, he leads him to the steppe, the hare climbs a tree, runs away; puts on a worm-eaten skin, meets a jackal, says that he is sick in a tree with a terrible illness, the jackal rushes away; the hare tells the hippopotamus that he wants to pay his debt - let him tie a strong rope to his leg; tells the jackal that he has found meat - the corpse of a horse in the river; tells him to pull; The hippopotamus is stronger, pulls the jackal into the water and drowns]: Frobenius 1922b, No. 49:106-107; mosi [Hare]: Frobenius 1986:43-47; Dagomba [the hare borrowed a cow first from an elephant, then from a hippopotamus; then he arranged them to pull the velevka; realizing that they were deceived, they decided only to have access to water and grass; the hare put on horns and said that he had a terrible disease, his saliva was poisonous; the elephant and The hippopotamus got away from him]: Cardinall 1931:207; Soninke [Hare]: Daniel 1910:45-46.