M62F. One assistant eats another. .12.13.

The character asks others to come to him (to help him with his work or get a debt). Those called come, each next one is stronger than the previous one and eats it (or the previous one runs away when they see him), the last two die when they fight each other.

Ijo (kalabari) [human], hdi [ground squirrel], kachi [spider], eve [spider], hausa [spider], vute [dwarf antelope], tupuri [ground squirrel], kanuri [weasel], zagawa [jackal].

West Africa. Ijo (kalabari) [Effiong hunter borrowed money from a man named Okun; unable to repay the debt, he asked for money from the leopard, promising to repay it on the same day he was due pay O.; then borrowed from a goat, wild cat and rooster under the same conditions; let everyone come to him and if he is not at home, let him take and eat what he finds; left, sprinkling grain; came the rooster began to bite the grain; the cat ate the rooster, the goat slaughtered the cat and it ran away, the leopard ate the goat, O. shot the leopard; E. began to accuse O. of killing his friend the leopard, threatening to reach the king; O. forgave the debt; E. sold the leopard skin; the wild cat has been hunting roosters ever since to recover lost money]: Dayrell 1910:6-10; hdi [Squirrel {apparently an earthen squirrel, Xerus} sequentially invites his relatives to help him cultivate the field; these are a rooster (promises to come, but asks not to howl a cat), a cat (not to call a dog), a dog (not to call a hyena), a hyena (not to call Zinga; a mythical king animals, logically he should have been the last), Zinga (don't call an elephant), an elephant (don't call a lion); everyone who comes eats the one who comes earlier (rooster cat, etc.); The squirrel dug a hole, made a fire in it, asked the elephant and lion not to fight on his mother-in-law's field, they moved away, fell into the hole, the Squirrel skinned the elephant]: Frajzyngier 2002, No. 5:516-531; eve [the spider borrowed money from the wolf, leopard, lion and hunter; everyone was asked to come for a debt almost at short intervals; everyone is invited to swim first, then says that the next one has come; everyone forgives the duty just to run away and save the skin; the hunter shot a lion, took off its skin, and also forgave the spider's debt]: Spiess 1918, No. 5:120; hausa [the spider borrowed money from a wild cat, dog, hyena, leopard and lion; about each other they are not they knew; the spider told everyone to come to him for a debt, setting a time several minutes apart; when the cat came, the spider hid him under the calebass from the dog; gave the dog the cat in exchange for paying the debt, telling him give one leg as a sign of payment; then the hyena ate the dog and the leopard ate the hyena; the lion and the leopard began to fight, and when exhausted, the spider poured boiling fat on both; the spider kept his legs as proof that he paid back the debt to the lenders]: Fletcher 1912:99-100; trachi [Ananse spider decided to cultivate the field and called workers; each promised to come on the condition that A. would not call another; the chicken does not want to see civet, civet a snake, a snake a stick, a stick a fire, fire a water; but A. confused everything and gave everyone the same time; the civet ate the chicken, the snake bit the civet, the stick began to beat the snake, the fire ate the snake stick, water - fill the fire; only yam grew well]: Cardinall 1931:182; wute [Tukur's wife is unhappy that her husband does not know how to make trap pits like Hawk; made beer; T. asks Beetle to come to work at his site in the morning, promises beer after work; then consistently invites Rooster, Wild Cat, Dog, Leopard, Hyena, Buffalo, Elephant and Lion; the Beetle began to work, but saw the Rooster and asked T. to hide it; T. pretends not to show the Rooster where the Beetle was hiding; finally showed him; when the Rooster killed him and was about to swallow him, T. said it would not be good if they will begin to say that the Rooster ate the guest; gave the Rooster beer, he began to work; all the same consistently with other animals (the Wild Cat killed the Rooster, etc.); the Leo and the Elephant began to fight; T. drove them with plot - let them sort things out not on the durra field; they fell into a cooked hunting hole, T. hammered them with a stick; called his wife to pick up the meat]: Siebert 1921, No. 3:60-66.

Sudan - East Africa. Tupuri [the chief will give his daughter for someone who makes drums out of lion and leopard skins; Squirrel (i.e. earth squirrel, Xerus) invites a caterpillar to go camping (agrees to go if there is no chicken) chicken (I agree that there will be no cat); then consistently a dog, a hyena, a leopard, a lion; everyone comes later than the other and eats it; the lion and the leopard fight, the Squirrel asks not to trample only that his mother-in-law's cultivated field; they fell into a hole dug by the Squirrel, he killed them, let the Monkey carry their skins, he brought them to the chief, got his daughter, the leader drove the Squirrel away; the Monkey's wife will not be pregnant; The squirrel pretended to be a healer, ordered him to bring beer, drowned the Monkey in it, entered his grave, said in the voice of the Monkey that the widow should marry Squirrel; having received his wife, he pretended to be sick; persuaded the healer, he said that Belka would die if she did not seduce her mother-in-law; after spending three days with her mother-in-law, the imaginary patient recovered]: Ruelland, Caprille 1993:45-65; kanuri [affection's wife gave birth, asked her husband to bring a skin elephant; guinea fowl advises caress to call a worm, guinea fowl, cat, dog, hyena, leopard, lion and elephant to weed the field; they come in this sequence, each newcomer eats the other; when an elephant comes, he starts fighting a lion, falls into a prepared trap pit; the weasel takes off the elephant's skin, brings it to his wife]: Koelle 1854, No. 3:158-161; zagawa [a woman will give her daughter for someone who will get lion and panther skins; the jackal takes turns negotiating with a spider, rooster, wild cat, dog, panther and lion for each of them to come to work in the field; everyone agrees, asks do not call the next one at the same time and believes that the jackal will not call him; the rooster pecked the spider, the cat ate the rooster, etc.; the lion comes last, fights the panther, both fall into a jackal prepared by a jackal a hole, he finished them off with sticks]: Tubiana, Tubiana 2004 (2), No. 35:77-82.