M74ab. The fox is in the boat. 35.-.37.
Whilesailing in a boat, sitting on a sledge, or on the back of someone who agrees to carry it, the character (always a fox) secretly eats supplies, damages property and, in accordance with his actions gives names to various tracts. Fox companions think the names are strange.
Mansi, Eastern Khanty, Nenets (Southern Selkups, Kets), Dolgans, Western Evenks (Erbogachen, Ingarigdov, Tunguska), Baikal Evenks (northern Transbaikalia), Evens, Negidals, Orochi.
Western Siberia. Mansi: Lukina 1990, No. 194 [The fox sees an old man making a boat, there is a boy next to him; the fox advises putting the boy under the boat, the old man cut the boy with an ax; people put Fox in the boat because he knows the earth; he finds a bunch of sturgeon gills, eats; says that the reach is called a bunch of sturgeon gills; then a bunch of rolls, Half a loaf of bread; stuck to the shore, the Fox ran into the forest, turned into boy; the old man brought him home to an old woman; at night the boy knocks on the window, says that his child's name is to baptize, eats the fat in the barn in the barn in the neck; says that the child was named Neck; then Middle, Donyshko; the boy suggests lying with the old man on the stove, on whom the fat comes out, he ate; the boy wiped himself with dust, smeared the old man with fat; and now the Fox lives happily and safely]: 501-502; Rombandeeva 2005, No. 15 (d. Lombovozh) [three brothers decide to go to the land of Tunkys; they took Magpie with them as a matchmaker; the fox blasphemes him, undertakes to show the way to the ground of T.; explains the names of the reaches: "The open birch bark body with dishes", "Printed birch bark body with fat", "Empty birch bark body from under fat"; asks to stick to the shallows, otherwise his claws will dry; runs away, saying that T. has not even heard about the ground; brothers; the brothers got stuck in the coastal mud, Magpie pecked their eyes], 16 (d. Khoshlog) [approximately as in (15)]: 179-187, 187-191; Eastern Khanty (b. Vasyugan) [the fox pretended to be dead, the men threw her into the boat; she replies that the reach is called Hungry Island; the whirlpool - We used to drown our bows here; gnawed through the bowstrings; new reach - To the hungry reach- the forest arrived; it was thrown out of the boat]: Kulemzin, Lukina 1978, No. 70:49 (=Lukina 1990, No. 94:251); Nenets: Startsev 1930 (tundra?) [the fox grabbed the crow by the wing; he told her to eat it whole and offered to go to the mountain; there he told the fox to open its mouth and wait for it to fly; the fox opened its mouth, the raven made a circle, flew into the fox and hit it with its beak; the fox fell into the river; saw the Ostyaks sailing in the boat; the Ostyaks said they were going to fight; the fox sat down with them, and when the Ostyaks fell asleep, turned the boat in the opposite direction; found birch bark bodies began to eat food; one ostyak raised his head and asked what kind of river; fox: "Birch bark body!" ; the ostyak fell asleep, the fox crept up to the arrows and gnawed at all the places at the iron and bone inserts, all the ends of the arrows; another Ostyak asked what river; the fox: "Arrow!" ; the ostyak fell asleep, the fox crept up to the bows and gnawed through them in the middle; the third ostyak asked what river; the fox: "The Luk River"; late at night the boat sailed to the plague; the fox woke people up; each took his bow and arrows; attacked sleeping people; they woke up, the battle began; those who slept in the plague won, then recognized their relatives as dead; one of those who came survived, ran to the fox with an ax; she told him to pick him up the axe was higher for her to put her head on his knee; the Ostyak cut his leg; the fox ran away; the other Ostyaks wanted to shoot, but all bows and arrows were unusable]: 30-31; Tereshchenko 1949 [in a boat Overseas warriors arrive; the fox offers to take it - knows the area; while they sleep, the fox gnawed through the arrow; replies that they are passing the mouth of the river of arrows; gnawed through the bowstring: the mouth of the bowstring; the mouth of the bowstring the ends of the bows; the fox jumps ashore, the warriors' bows are useless]: 131-132; (cf. Taimyr Nenets [the fox asks to take her into the boat: he will be a tolmach to trade with the Russians; pretends to be ill; the merchants docked, fell asleep; the fox untied the boat, sailed away with goods; traded a lot, but was suspected of theft, locked; gave the property to the owners, the fox was skinned]: Nenyang 1997:134-136; southern Selkups (zap. I.N. Gemuev, born in 1980 Ket) [seven Tatar brothers go in a boat down the river; ask the capercaillie if he can speak (Ostyacki); he replies that the sand is biting; so he does not know how to; they ask the fox; she yaps, the brothers decide that the fox could speak, took it with them; she gnawed through her aunts's bows, "put bacon on herself"; said she wanted to go ashore, took the lard, ran to the old man: bran my tail with bacon; old man: what? fox: on your daughter's head; daughter's name Tyaren; the fox pulled out its tail, the old man cut off his daughter's head; the old man put crossbows, once killed a fox, took off his skin, gave the carcass to the dog; sings in her stomach: old man the dog kicked me out, I'm already confused; the dog did it; dog feces sings; crows, magpies, bite me; they pecked, their stomachs were upset]: Baulo, Tuchkova 2016, No. 1; chum salmon: Alekseenko 2001, â„– 144 (=Dulzon 1965, No. 31:105-107) [mouse found a cleinitsa; people: why do you need it? mouse: for boats; people: which river is the estuary? mouse: a glue river; then I also found a needle (needle river mouth), half of the needle eye (needle eye of the river mouth; thimble; people: why do you need it? mouse: will be a rain hat], 145 (western Alekseyenko, 1960, lake. Nalimye) [The fox advises Capercaillie to sleep on the ground; he replies that a man is coming with a dog; the fox immediately ran away; invites people to take her to the boat, jump ashore wherever he says; jumps over the quagmire people get stuck, she eats their faces; finds dry glue in the boat, gnaws, tells the Bear what she got from the bottom, advises them to take off their skin and dive; gnaws their skin; runs away through the thickets, the naked Bear is ripped off, died ; The fox eats fat]: 156-157, 257-259).
Eastern Siberia. Dolgans: Popov 1937 [The fox convinces Myshelov's bird that the deer and the camp are strangers; he kills a deer from his own herd, kills his wife and children; later sees that Lisa did not kill her children, just bit their ears; the Mouselov lures the Fox onto thin ice; she fails, gets to the fish mother, promises to cure, acting as a shaman, tells her to put a stick, then get upstairs ice; says that the patient will scream; ate fish and ran away; sits on sledges to a woman, eats a bag of meat, replies that the area is called Polsumy, Donyshko; The bear wants to eat it, she promises get fat after sleeping; both lie down on the edge of the mountain; at night, the Fox lies down on the other side of the Bear, asks him to move, he falls; tells the man that he eats his penis; he cuts off his own, dies; the fox comes to his two wives, hides his face; in the dark, they try to cut the Fox with an ax, but cut the belly of a pregnant woman; tells Wolf that he gets fat by lowering his tail into the ice-hole; the wolf's tail freezes, is torn off; other Wolves say that a Fox came, breaking her tooth on a sharp deer stomach; a lot of Fox sits by the fire; the Wolf smeared his ass in ash, began to dance ridiculously; everyone laughed, one closed her mouth, her Wolf tore up]: 28-33; Ergis 1967b, No. 15 [In the old days, animals and birds knew how to talk. One day, a fox hit the fire and began to burn. When it reached the tip of the tail, the fire went out. In summer, it grew wool like a flame of fire. The fox used to be gray. The fox became friends with the mousetrap and began to hunt together. She tricked a mousetrap into killing her deer and her family. Myshelov decided to take revenge. In summer they go hunting and approach a wide river. The mousetrap flies over, the fox runs after him and falls into the water. She deceives the fish, promising to cure their mother, but eats it, and climbs up the stick that the fish put in. Lisa meets a woman and asks for a ride to the plague. On the way, she starts eating meat carried by a woman in her bag. "What's the name of this area?" - the woman asks. The fox replies: "Plating." They're going further. "What's the name of this area?" - Polsumy. They're going even further. "What kind of area is this?" - Bottom!" - the fox answers and, having eaten all the meat, jumps out of the sledge. A fox meets a bear, pushes it off a cliff, eats its meat, and ties its fat to its tail. He meets a person, deceives him, he dies. Meets a wolf. Makes him put his tail into the ice-hole to gain a lot of fat. The wolf tore off his tail and decided to take revenge on the fox. The wolf makes foxes laugh and recognizes a liar by a broken tooth. Then he attacked a fox and tore it apart]: 364; Yerbogachen Evenks [Lisa gets into a boat with two women, promises to name the tracts in the estuaries of the rivers they sail by; slowly eating meat , calls the Verkhnyaya, Srednyaya, Nizhnyaya rivers; ordered to stick, ran, people ran after her, she went to a tree, he was set on fire, the fox asks, "At least leave it off the mitten"]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 5:11-12; Ingarigdov Evenks [The fox gets into a boat with three women, promises to name the rivers and mountains they swim past; slowly eating meat, calls the rivers "Vyazka" (the upper ties of the bag in which the meat), Uzdovaya, Lousy; told me to stick, ran, people followed her, she set fire to a tree, the fox asked for fire, "At least leave it off your sleeve"; he left, now the fox has a sleeve-long tail]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 7:12-13; Western Evenki [Lisa invites Kuksha to rob; while she sleeps at the bottom of the boat, leads her back to the Kuksha plague, who kills his relatives, the Kuksha has become small and red with shame; Lisa offers women swim to a place where there are a lot of fish, you have to take flour with you; pretends to sleep, eats flour, tells women to wake her up if I pass the estuaries; says their names: I didn't start, I reduced it a little, Anyway , Half, Left at the bottom, Konchila; ran away, since then Evenki women do not like foxes]: Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:172-175; Western Evenks (Podkamennaya Tunguska) [husbands went fishing , told their wives to bring food to the river five days later; the wives forgot where to go, the fox said she knew; slowly eating locusts; reports the names of the rivers they sail by: A little bit, Half, Vseika; asks to force her, runs away; the fox climbed onto the spruce tree, the women set it on fire, since then the fox's hair has turned yellow]: Suvorov 1956:56-57; Baikal Evenks (northern Transbaikalia) [fox speaks a bear who is sick agrees to carry it, tells him to hold on to the bag; asks what kind of river it is; the fox: untying; then: pre-hoop; empty; offers to spend the night; promises to bring firewood, and herself ran away; the bear put rotten things in his pants, towards the fox; he does not know if it is one or the other; tells me to gather all the foxes, he will teach you how to catch mice; he began to shamanize ridiculously, rotten fell out of his pants, foxes they laughed, but one covers her mouth with her paws because she is toothless; the bear guessed what meat she broke her teeth about; beat to blood, since then the foxes have been red]: Pinegina 2019:30-31; Evenki (Buryatia) [fox invites women to show them a river with a lot of fish; tells them to take a supply of flour with them, fish cannot be caught without it; pretends to be asleep, asks them to wake up when the estuaries of the rivers pass, she will say , as they are called; the fox eats flour; first replies that the river is called Did not start, then Reduced a little, Anyway, Half, Left at the bottom, Finished; tells me to dock, runs away, supposedly she has pain belly; so women don't like foxes; once driven into a tree, she asks not to set it on fire; jumped over the fire, has since turned red]: Voskoboynikov 1958:43-45; Evens: Bolshakova, Chaiko 2015 [the fox invites the old man to herd his deer; before migrating, the old man tells his wife to feed the fox, and he goes after the deer; there are only skins full of moss; the old men themselves dragged the sledge with fish across the ice of the river; the fox volunteered to help, pretends to twist her leg, put her on a sledge, she is slowly eating fish; says that the gorge is called Half; the next is the End; the old people have come to the place - neither fox nor fox fish, just a broken fox tooth; the old man tells the old woman to sew his pants and call all the animals to say goodbye as if he were dying; holes in his pants, dust inside, old man; the old man jumped, dust fell down, everything they laugh, and one fox covers her mouth; the old woman grabbed the fox by the tail; she tells her to hold it by the tip of its tail, otherwise the sun will hide it; the fox has escaped, only a piece of hair remains, since then the tip of the fox's tail is white] : 41-45; Novikova 1987:4-5 [the sable tells women that it will help them come to their barns, let them only take more meat on the road; on the boat he pretends to fall asleep, secretly eat meat; women they ask what are the names of the rivers, past the mouth of which they swim; sable: Elementary, Polovinka, Final; when he finished eating, asks to stick, climbed the larch; women began to cut down the tree, saw tanner; sable: axe - break, leather - break; they broke; they broke; women set fire to larch, the sable asks the fire to spare it; he spared it, but made the sable small, it used to be human] , 17-21 [the hare has 10 bunnies; the fox demands to give one cub every day; the hare complains to the eagle; he advises asking the fox to fight the tree first; she butts, its horns of their grass are broken; the fox asks who taught the hare to answer this way; when he finds out that the eagle grabs him sleeping; the eagle broke the fox's leg, threw it to the island; she cries, the burbot asks what's going on; the fox asks all burbot to swim out to the surface, she will count them; believing that she crossed their backs to the shore; asks the old man to give her a ride in a sledge; he asks what the rivers are called; Elementary; Middle; Final; the fox took the ax, went for firewood; threw the ax, ran away; the bag of food was empty, it had two fox teeth; the old man called birds and four-legged animals, stuffed rotten and moss into his pants, lit it, smoke came through the holes, everything laughed, the old man recognized the toothless fox, began to beat her; she asked not to beat her, promised to marry Kagankan's daughter; she entered K.'s yurt, ordered her daughter to be given, otherwise she would make K. unable to sleep and walk; brought a girl to an old man as a wife; hired to herd an old man's deer; when the old man came to see, deer have only bones; the old man shouts to his wife to catch the fox by the tail; the fox explains what he asks tie a piece of fat to her tail; the bear says he is afraid of hazel grouses, the fox is like a crossbow; the bear went in front, the arrow hit his stomach; the fox volunteered to heal, pulled out his intestines, the bear died; once I fell for a crossbow myself].
Amur-Sakhalin. Negidals [The fox offers a person to help drag a sledge with fish; pretends to break his leg; asks to put it by bags of fish; replies that they have passed the Nachalnaya, Srednyaya, Konechnaya rivers ; limping, goes to the taiga for firewood, throws an ax, spoiling it; in a bag a man finds a broken fox tooth; puts small birds and animals in his pants; shamanite foxes in the house, birds and animals flutter out and they jump out; everyone laughs; one Fox covers her mouth; asks the hunter to spare her, promises to bring him a wife; the old man drinks water from the ice-hole, the Fox bends his head to the water; lets him go for promising to give his daughter; brings it to man]: Khasanova, Pevnov 2003, No. 64:129-131; Orochi [a fox gets into a boat with people, quietly eats fat; determines the name of the stream named "Beginning", "Middle" and "Emptiness"]: Avrorin, Lebedeva 1966:129-131.