M74aa. An imaginary visit .11.13.-.17.27.-.36.

The character (several times) pretends to be his name (that he is going to visit), and eats up supplies himself. See M74A motif.

Chagga, Congo, Kalenjin (Nandi), Tigre (?) , Kabilas, Spaniards, Catalans, Portuguese, Italians (Calabria), Frisians, Flemish, Dutch, Walloons, French, Germans, Scots, Irish, Dhofar (Mehri?) , Slovenes, Croats, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Serbs, Bosnians, Hungarians, Romanians, Greeks, Russians (Teresky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Karelia, Vologda, Vladimir, Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Saratov), Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina, Kharkiv, Kursk, Chernigov), Belarusians, Abazins, Karachays, Ossetians, Avars, Tsezes, Kumyks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Tajiks, Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders, Faroese, Latvians, Lithuanians, Livons, Lutsies, Estonians, Setus, Finns, Counselors, Veps, Karelians, Western and Eastern Sami, Komi, Udmurts, Mari, Mordovians, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Chulym Turks, Altaians, Mansi, Yakuts, Dolgans, Negidals, (Japanese).

Bantu-speaking Africa. Chagga [wife sprinkles eleusina grain {probably Eleusine coracana} to make malt, goes to work in the field with her husband; her husband pretends to be called out, shouts "Now!" , returns home, feeds banana stalks to the goat, turns into a bird, pecks the grain intended for malt, becomes human again, brings the goat to the skin of a cow where there was malt to traces remain, ties the goat back to its original place; tells his wife that the neighbor's goat ate the malt; so several times; the neighbor tells his wife to follow her husband; out of shame he runs away to the steppe; the wife is chasing, the frog it is swallowed and taken to the place where the husband {here is a break in text or paraphrase}]: Gutmann, No. 7:32f at Klipple 1992:16; Congo [in drought, Antelope and Rabbit decide to dig a well; Rabbit offers eat when they finish work; leaves every now and then - supposedly his wife is giving birth; replies that the child was named Incomplete, Half-finished, Finished, eats supplies; explains that Wild Cat ate everything; Antelope does not believes, offers to drink a laxative, Rabbit's tail is wet; Antelope forbids him to use water from an open water body; Rabbit violates the ban; Antelope puts a figure near the pond, smeared it with sticky mass; The rabbit hits her, sticks, the Antelope kills him]: Dennett 1898:90-93 (translated into Kotlyar 1973:42-45).

Sudan - East Africa. Kalenjin (nandi) [the hare called on the rat to hollow out the hollow so that the bees could start; while he was working, he scolded the rat; when the bees had accumulated honey, the rat says it is going home to greet relatives ; she eats honey herself; so three times; when they went to get honey, the hollow was empty; the rat denied everything, but in the end the hare was convinced that it ate the honey and chased it; the rat disappeared into the hole; therefore rats are hiding in burrows]: Chesaina 1997:73-75; Eritrea (tiger?) : Littmann in El-Shamy 2004, No. 15:4-5

North Africa. Kabila: Frobenius 1921b, No. 4 [the jackal and the hedgehog decided to grow beans together; they have prepared a pot of butter and a pot of honey - they will return from work in the evening and eat; jackal: a neighbor has a child, they will have to go to give it a name; went to the place where the pots were hidden, ate oil and honey, filled the pots with earth, anointed them with oil and honey on top; when he returned, he replied that the child was named bis auf dem Boden ; during harvesting and processing, the jackal adjusts that the hedgehog does all the work; suggests dividing: beans, hedgehog straw; the hedgehog is outraged; the jackal asks (his) brothers, who say: who is faster if he reaches the barn, he will receive the grain; the hedgehog leaves his brother there; when the jackal runs up, the hedgehog (i.e. the hedgehog's brother) says that he has already reached; the animals award beans to the hedgehog; both argue who ate the butter and honey; man: go to bed with shards under you; eaten by someone who will have them covered with oil and honey; in the morning the jackal got up and changed his shards; the hedgehog accused him, the jackal tried to hit and bite him, all punched; decided not to mess with the hedgehog anymore, the harvest went to the hedgehog]: 13-16; Rivière 1882, No. 4 [the lion, jackal and wild boar sowed beans; they had a pot of butter; the jackal leaves the field three times, says that goes to his uncle's party; when he sees that the pot is empty, the lion and the wild boar killed the jackal]: 89-90.

Southern Europe. Italians (Calabria, 1 source): Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 15:12; Spaniards: Shishlova 1971:64-69; Portuguese: Cardigos 2006, No. 1:19-23; Catalans: Oriol, Pujol 2008 , NO. 15:6-7.

Western Europe. French: Arnaudin 1967, No. 5.2:82-88; Gennep 1933:518 (Nantes), 520-521 (Languedoc); Walloons [wolf and fox stocked up a pot of sour cream; the fox says her name is for christening; on her return ; the child was named Entamé ("cob"); next time Half; third time Tout léché ("licked"); wolf chases fox]: Laporte 1932, no.*15:26; Flemish [fox lives together with a wolf (and a bear); pretends to be called for a christening, eats oil; animals agree to identify the thief: lie warm; the fox oils the wolf's face and tail, or is caught stealing]: Meyer 1968, No. 16:21-22; the Dutch [mouse and cat have stored fat for the winter, hid them in the church; the cat goes three times, supposedly, to christening; the mouse asks the child's name every time; From the surface; Half empty; Empty; when winter came, the mouse found the pot empty; started scolding the cat and it bit off its head]: Soer 1979:30-31; Scots: Campbell 1890 (3), No. 65:108-111; Germans [cat invited a mouse to live together; they bought a pot of fat, hid it in the church under the altar; one day a cat tells the mouse that it should go to her aunt's christening; she went to church herself, licked the fat on top of the pot; said that the child was named Pocob; then Seredinka; Scraper; closer to spring, the mouse offered to go get the pot; it was empty; the mouse said "Scraper"; then the cat rushed at her and ate]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 2:5-7 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:8-10); Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania), Friezes: Uther 2004 (1), No. 15:15; Irish: Jackson 1936 [Lisa pretends, that she is called for christening and eating oil supplies]: 285; Suilleabháin, Christiansen 1963, No. 15 [to eat butter (honey), the character pretends to be called for a christening]: 34.

Western Asia. Dofar (mehri?) : Rhodokanakis 1908 in El-Shamy 2004, No. 15:4-5

The Balkans. Slovenes: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:249-250; Croats: Dähnhardt 1912:242-243; Serbs [wolf and fox found honey, agreed to leave it until the deadline; the fox pretends to be her name for christening; the bear asks what the child was named; the fox: Beginning; then Polovynash; then Oraebash; when the wolf found out that there was no honey, he and the fox began to mutually accuse each other; the wolf suggests comparing secretions; the fox replaced them; offers to jump over the fire, whoever falls into the fire is to blame; the wolf fell into the fire, burned; the fox lay down on the road, picked it up, she threw the fish off the cart, told the wolf that caught it; smeared her head with bacon; told the wolf that she was even worse than he was; he took it to the ice-hole; she taught her to put her tail into the ice-hole and say, "Catch fish big and small"; the tail froze; In the morning, the fox called people, they killed the wolf]: Zlatkovy 2005:5:19-20; Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 15:42; Klyagina-Kondratyeva 1951:238-239; Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska and others 1994, No. 15:42; Hungarians [fox and wolf find a pot of honey (cottage cheese, plums, etc.) in the hollow; decide to save it for the winter (until they harvest); the fox pretends to be called christening; eats part first, half of the supplies next time, everything the third time; accordingly, reports that the child was named Cob, Middle, End, etc.; seeing an empty pot, a wolf attacks a fox; a man comes to the noise, hits the wolf with a stick, the fox runs away]: Kovács 1987, No. 15:251; the Bosnians [a leaf fell on the mouse, it rushed to run; tells the fox that they shot from the sky, barely escaped; the fox also ran; then the wolf; the bear; climbed into the cave and began to live together; stocked up on honey for the winter; the fox pretended to be called for christening; ate all the honey several times; When they found empty kegs, everyone blamed each other; the fox climbed onto the beech; the bear blew it up and knocked it down, but the tree fell on it and ran over it]: Preindlsberger-Mrazovic 1905:50-54; Macedonians, Romanians, Greeks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 15:15

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Vologda, Vladimir, Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Saratov), Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina, Kharkiv, Kursk, Chernigov), Belarusians: SUS 1979, No. 15:54; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [the fox's hut is icy, the wolf's hut is coniferous; in the spring the fox's hut melted; the fox came to the wolf; asked first for permission to sit under the broom; then under on a bench; on a bench; on the stove; smelled a barrel of butter; said that her name was babble; when she returned, she replies that the child was named Pocob; knocks her tail again as if her name was; Seredyshek; {the name of the third the newborn was not named}; the wolf found that the barrel was empty; the fox offered to lie on the stove; smeared the wolf with oil, washed herself; the wolf believed that he ate the oil]: Balashov 1970, No. 103:330-331 (the same episodes with a fox and a bear in No. 114:352-354); Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [the bear had a hut, the fox did not; the fox asked her to let her go; the bear has accumulated a bucket of oil; the fox knocks on its own and on its own answers; says that her name is to babysit; replies that the child was named Zachinysh; then Seredysh; Scrabysh; the bear found an empty bucket; the fox offers to lie on the stove - they will leak out the oil; the bear fell asleep, the fox smeared him with oil; the bear believed that he ate the oil]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:13-14; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [fox and wolf]: Efimenko 1878, No. 4:223-234; Russians ( Vologodskaya) [the fox and bear have a barrel of honey (or oil) hidden away; the fox lies down on a bench: I can call her to give birth; knocks her tail - her name; ate oil; bear: what was the name? fox: With a cob; then with the middle; Scraped; there is no oil, the bear accuses the fox; she offers to lie down by the stove - the culprit will leak out of oil; she splashed water herself, told the bear that this is not enough]: Kuzmina 2008, No. 3:41-42; Russians (Vologda) [the wolf has a pole hut, the fox has an icy hut; it melted in the spring; the fox asks to let her go first to the farmstead, then on the porch, on the floor; knocks its tail as if her name; we must adopt the child; she died a bottle of oil herself; the child was named Cob; next time - Scrapers; the wolf was looking for oil in vain, the fox ran away; lay down on the road; the man was carrying fish, picked up the old woman on collar; the fox threw off the fish, advised the wolf to put its tail into the ice-hole; people came running, the wolf cut off its tail; the fox caught up: take me sick; The broken unbeaten is lucky]: Efremov 1970, No. 3:158-160; Russians (Vologda, Kirillovsky district) [the old man and the old woman had a magic millstone; the master rode, took him away; the rooster came: return the millstones; the master ordered the rooster to be thrown into the barn; he flew out; ordered to slaughter, fry, serve; the master went to the wind, rooster again: give the millstone; master to the servant: cut his head; the servant cut off his withers, the rooster flew, the master ordered to give the millstones; the rooster could not be carried away; assistants ran in: hare, bear, wolf, fox; the rest went at home, and the fox stayed with the old man and the old woman; says her name is in the gumushki; ate half a roll of butter; What was the name? - Cob; the second time the same (Poscrobushok); asked the old woman to bake pancakes, the old man did not find butter; the fox ran away]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 38:153-154; Ukrainians (Chernigovskaya, Nezhinsky y.) [the grandfather dug a hole, her animals fell, each brought a ransom; the wolf - a hundred horses, a bear - honey, a hare - a bag of money, a fox - geese; the fox stayed with her grandfather; says her name is home; the child was named top; then Seredinka; Scraper; grandfather went to get honey - empty; each of the animals says he did not take it; fox: let's jump off the bench, whoever feathers ate honey; everyone feathered except her; grandfather drove everyone away] : Malinka 1902, No. 36:316-317; Lusatians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 15:15.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abazins: Tugov 1985, No. 4:21-22; Karachays: Rumyantseva 1981:28-34; Ossetians: Dzagurov 1973, No. 20:47-50; Avars: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 13:80-81; Caezes (Didois): Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 39:133-134; Kumyks: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 14:83-84; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 3:33; Azerbaijanis: Nabiev 1988:253-255; Turks: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 6:31.

Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks (Surkhan-Darya): Levin et al. 1981, No. 327:256-257.

Baltoscandia. Latvians: Aris 1971:54-56; Karelians (northern, Tungud parish): Stepanova 2000, No. 108:173; Lutsi (western 1927) [the old lady replies to the hare that she is looking for a shepherd for her three geese; towards the wolf; old lady: how do you sing? wolf howls; old lady: no, you will scare all geese; the fox sings a song, the old lady is happy; the fox ate the goose, the feathers are under the threshold; says that she is called for christening, to the attic herself, there is a barrel of oil; what was the name? fox: Beginning; ate another goose; again for christening; called Half; ate the third, again for christening, ate butter, called the hostess to the cold bath and told everything; her mistress with a broom - she stuck, with Since then, the fox has a tail; it pretended to be dead, the fisherman carried the fish and picked it up; the fox threw it all off, eats, tells the wolf that it caught, putting its tail into the well; the tail froze, the fox called the people, they ran to beat wolf, fox head in sauerkraut, full, head in the test; tells the wolf that the brains have leaked; the beaten unbeaten is lucky; the wolf: how beautiful the woodpecker is; the fox: I'll do the same, get into the haystack; set fire to the haystack, the wolf burned; the fox carries bones in a bag, tells the man that she exchanged the money for his horse; open the bag when you go beyond that blue forest; the fox killed the horse, eats; says that if anyone gets to this horse meat faster than her, then she will cry; cancer caught on the fox's tail; when she runs up, he is already eating horse meat; the fox has tears from her eyes; old woman: you will recover if you eat the meat of a 9-year-old bear; the fox walks, knocks on the Christmas trees, on each bear, she asks how old she is; 3, 6 are not needed; 9; well, turn around; the bear turned, fell, the fox eats it; the fox tells the people she meets that she is going to repent of their sins, asks what sins they have; the cat ate sour cream, the hare poisoned the sheep, the wolf ate the sheep, the bear lifted the horse; the fox: we cross the hole on the perch; the cat crossed, the rest fell; whose voice is weaker, we will eat it; ate the hare, then the bear; the fox hides under giblets himself, tells the wolf that he eats his own; the wolf pulled out his own, died; the fox ate the wolf, spring has come; the fox to the woodpecker: you can't pour sawdust, eat your chicks; the woodpecker poured, the fox got out; the fox demands for the woodpecker to make her laugh; the husband carries bread, the wife carries porridge with eggs; the woodpecker pretends to be knocked down, they rushed to catch, the fox ate everything; asks for water; the woodpecker punched a hole in the beer keg; asks her to mock; father and sons are threshing grain; woodpecker on their heads; sons wanted to hit the woodpecker, killed their father; the fox laughs; climbed into a hole, asks body members what they did; everyone helped, only the tail behind the bushes clung; she stuck it out to the dogs, they pulled out the fox and tore it]: Annom et al. 2018:289-298; Estonians: Jakobson 1987:70-72; Seto: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 8:29-34 (=Mägiste 1990:17 -26; =Normann, Tampere 1989:7-10); Norwegians: Hodne 1984, No. 15:25; Finns [wolf and fox began to cut down the forest to build a field; they have in store a pot of oil; the fox pretends to be called christening, goes to eat butter; says the child was named "Traute einmal"; next time Glaubte zweimal; "Glückte dreimal"; when the wolf went to oil, the pot is empty; the fox offers to lie on a rock in the sun, from which the oil will melt; the wolf fell asleep, the fox smeared his face with oil; the wolf believed that he was to blame; when they burned the fallen trees, the fox stood and said that it did not allow sparks to fly into the forest, and the wolf carried branches; then he said it should make sure that birds did not peck the seeds sown]: Goldberg 1957:9-14; Lithuanians [8 options; the fox came to live with a wolf and a bear {Lithuanian bear zh.r.}, at that barrel of honey; says three times that she is called for christening; the names of the newborns are Verkhushka, Seredinka, Donyshko; to find out who ate honey, suggests comparing bowel movements; put grated bird cherry next to her and to the wolf, and smeared honey on the bear's ass; the bear is puzzled, the fox ran away]: Kerbelite 2014, No. 19:55-56; oriental The Sami [the daughter of the elderly is married to a fox; they gave their son-in-law meat for preservation; he each time replies that the meat is safe, but the daughter has given birth to a son Beginning; Middle; End; Calls for a visit; killed his wife, put it in a sledge, asked the wolf and the bear to drag it; those: what is the fee? fox: drag yes to eat; put a stump, dressed his murdered wife in the clothes; fox, otter, hare, squirrel joined the fox, bear, wolf; the fox calls everyone good people, and the squirrel a bad person; it was eaten; then they ate the hare, otter, fox; the wolf ran away; the fox to the bear: I painted the woodpecker's back; the bear asks him to paint; the fox tied him to logs, burned it, carried the bones in a bag, answers the person he met, what does the bear's memory carry; he changed the memory bag for a fat vazhenka; the fox ate so much that he died]: Tales of the Peoples of the North 1991:45-48; Danes, Swedes, Icelanders, Faroese , Livonians, Warlords, Veps, Karelians, Western Sami: Uther 2004 (1), No. 15:15.

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs: Barag 1989, No. 85:389-393; Komi [fox and hare live in an ice hut; they have prepared a barrel of butter; at night the fox gets up, says she is called for christening; eats butter; returning, replies that the boy was named Beginning; the next night Half; then the End; the hare found an empty barrel, blamed the fox, she ran away; climbed onto the sleigh in which the man was carrying fish, threw everything off, jumped; tells the wolf that she caught it in the ice-hole with her tail lowered into the water; the wolf's tail froze, the woman came, killed the wolf, sold the hare's skin; the hare's hut melted, the fox met him and ate it]: Fokos-Fuchs 1951, No. 20:192-198; Komi [fox and wolf (bear) keep honey (butter) in reserve; the fox pretends to be called a midwife and eats honey; accuses the wolf and, to prove his guilt, spreads it on him sleeping, honey belly, which seems to have drowned out of it]: Korovina 2012, No. 15:73; Kazan Tatars [fox and bear have prepared a tub of butter and honey; the fox pretends to be called three times christening; returning, replies that the child was named Pochatushka, Half, Scraper; when the bear finds the loss, the fox offers to go to bed with his stomach up; smears the sick bear's stomach with oil and honey, he stayed ill]: Yarmukhametov 1957:191-194 (=1970:238-241; =Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 2:25-27); Mordovians (Erzya) [fox and bear sowed wheat, bear chose roots; the following year they sowed turnips - chose the tops; the bear brought honey; the fox looked in the bear's head, with its tail - a knock, a knock; - They call the cronies; she went up to the attic herself, ate honey; said that the baby was named Beginning; in next time - Seredka; third time - Washed, wiped, knocked over; Bear: did you eat honey? Fox: You stayed at home, you ate it; whoever gets up first ate it; The bear got up earlier, believed that he ate it himself, but forgot]: Evseviev 1964, No. 5:36-38; Mordovians [the fox forced the bear to live; she knocks her tail on the window as if her name was to baptize the child; she reached the tub with butter herself and began to eat; when she returned, she said that the child was named Cob; then Half; Bottom; for the fourth time washed the tub, put it upside down: the child was called the Tipper; when he found an empty tub, the bear suggests comparing the litter: whose will be oily; the fox changed the droppings with its tail; bear: it's your feces oily, but I have black]: Yurtov 1883, No. 10:29-33; Udmurts [the fox persuaded the man to take her into the house; leaves three times, says that for the child's wedding {apparently for christening}; when asked what they called child, answers: Beginning; Middle; Scraping; she eats the honey stored by a person herself; the man rode on a sleigh, sings, to meet another fox, asked to put her on a sleigh; they go together and sing; then the wolf; bear; the gulf broke; the fox went, brought a branch; the bear brought a whole fir; then the man went by himself; the animals ate the horse, only bones were left; the man came back, cried, went home on foot]: Wichmann 1901, No. 19:106-108; Marie, Chuvash: Uther 2004 (1), No. 15:15

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Kaskabasov et al. 1979, No. 45:103-105.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Chulym Turks [the chanterelle asks the elderly to live, will be an assistant; says that she will go to visit her pregnant older sister; eats fish stocks herself; says that the child was named Full; in next time Half a thimble; then It's over; the old man shouts to the old woman to catch the fox, the old woman does not hear, asks again, the fox explains that the old man tells her to boil water; pours boiling water on the old woman, she died; the chanterelle hides in the underground, answers the old man that she is at home; when the old man entered the house, the chanterelle is outside; the old man fell, died, the chanterelle got the farm]: Porotova 1980:82-83 (=Lukina 2004, No. 5.13: 123-124); the Altaians [the old man and the old woman went for brushwood, a chanterelle got out of the stump, agreed to be a son or daughter; goes three times to that (holiday) to the eldest, middle, youngest brothers; does not take silk clothes, goes to plain clothes; the old man discovers that all the oil in the pantry under the spruce has been eaten, shouts to his wife to hold the chanterelle; she does not hear, Lisa explains that he tells him to cook food quickly (oatmeal with milk); splashes boiling brew into the old woman's face, runs away]: Sadalova 2002, No. 12:107-113.

Western Siberia. Muncie: Lukina 1990, No. 194:501-502

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts: Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976 []: 50-56; Ergis 1967b, No. 7 [A fox and a crane lived together. The fox eats up the general supply of oil and pretends to be invited by her neighbors to her homeland. Having discovered the fox's cheating, the crane threw it into the fire. She caught fire and ran away. The fox resorts to the foam-free milk lake, the bulls of Hara Haap, his daughters and sons, the richest Hara Hean, to the mice and asks everyone to put out the fire on it. They all refuse to do so and the fox curses them. Only the sky and the cloud sent rain and put out the fire, the fox stayed alive but has since turned red. The fox's curse has been fulfilled. The mice gnawed at Harahaan's belly fat. He beat his daughters and sons, and they beat his bulls; the bulls drank the lake, it became shallow, and all the fish in it died out. Har Haan's children dug up the plant roots stored by the mice, and the mice starved to death], 8 [On the advice of the chipmunk, the bird screamed away the fox. The fox wanted to gnaw through the tree and broke her teeth. When meeting, the fox ties the chipmunk to the shaky, freed it by a chokei bird. At a meeting of foxes, a chipmunk makes them laugh, finds the offender by broken teeth and beats her]: 162, 162-163.