M74c. Handsome as a woodpecker. 31.

Having noticed the woodpecker's beautiful plumage, the wolf or bear believes that the fox painted it and asks the fox to make him just as beautiful. The fox burns it alive.

Seto, Western and Eastern Sami.

Baltoscandia. Seto [fox wolf: to be handsome like this woodpecker! fox: get into the haystack, now you'll be colorful; the haystack is set on fire, the wolf burned down; the fox collected the bones in the bag, they jingle like money; bought a horse from the man, told him to open the bag at home, collecting everyone relatives - good luck; a hare, a wolf, a bear consistently ask to take them into a sleigh; the gulf is broken; the fox sends everyone to bring a suitable forest, the animals bring the unusable one; the fox brought it itself, they go on; fox: whoever tries to eat the horse first will bleed out of his eyes; but soon she starved to the horse; the horse was eaten; the fox felt sorry for the horse; fox: I'll go to the village for the headman, let him punish you for eating the horse; returned with the cat, the hare mistook the cat's tail for iron scrap from a distance, the animals hid; the cat saw the tip of a wolf's tail under a pile of brushwood, thought that the mouse, clung, the wolf ran, the cat to the tree where the bear hid; he fell, ran away with the hare; and the fox's eyes began to bleed; healer: you need to grease it with bear fat; the fox comes to the tree on which the bear ruins the hive; pretends to see nothing; it's plaintive: your parents threw me honey a little bit; the bear threw it off generously; the fox: and with joy they walked on the tree with a wheel; the bear tried it, fell and crashed to death; the fox healed its eyes and ate bear meat]: Mägiste 1990:7-14; Western Sami: Klaus 1995 [The fox pretends to be dead, the man with the caravan sledge picks it up, throws it at the first sledge, it slips off; remains lying only when thrown at the last one, in which salmon; throws salmon off the sledge, runs away; the Bear, Wolverine, the Hare replies that she has caught fish in the ice-hole; ties one salmon to the tail, says it has bitten; screams that a man is coming, others jump up, its tails are cut off (Wolverine has it in the middle); the fox hides under the roots of a pine tree, the Bear tries it get it, she says he grabbed not her leg, but the root, and when the Bear grabs the root, the Fox pretends to grab her leg; yet the Bear took out the Fox, carried it, she sees the Motley Woodpecker, says that she painted it at one time; The bear also wants to be specked, promises to endure; the fox ties him up, leaves him in a hole with burning brushwood; The bear is burned, the fox carries his bones in the bag, hits him one at a time a bag, replies to a passerby that her parents are in the bag; the shepherd agrees to buy it, gives a reindeer team in exchange; Lisa took Stallo, Wolf and Mouse as employees, told them to slaughter deer, Flea and She told the hare to cook the meat; went to wash her stomach, hit them against a stone, shouting that it was not her who killed, but the workers; Stallo and the others were afraid that the owner of the deer had come and ran away; the fox threw hot guns at The hare (hit the tips of her ears) and Flea (burned her tail), they ran away; that shepherd came, Lisa said that her workers and relatives ate everything, and one of them was Laska; the shepherd threw his head at him, the tip of the tail has turned black; the fox on the shore calls the fish to transport it to the other side; consistently rejects everyone (listed), accepts the help of salmon; calls it to the shore, grabs it, carries fry in an empty plague; the roast hisses, the fox thinks that people have come, jumps out; realizing what is going on, she hits the salmon, a splash of fat burned her eyes; the fox goes asking the trees, but if they will lend her eyes; two types pines do not give, birch gives, fox runs away, birch manages to hit its tail, since then the tip is white]: 3-10; Lagercrantz 1961, No. 256 (Nesseby, Varanger Fjord) [the fox lay down by the road; the man was carrying fish, put the fox in the sleigh; she slowly threw the fish and jumped off herself; the bear asks where the fox got the fish; the fox: put the tail into the ice-hole; the tail froze, the fox began to call people, the bear ran away, tearing it off tail; pulled the fox out from under the tree; fox: the birds are so colorful, you could also be like that; the bear believes that the fox painted the birds, agrees to any suffering; the fox tied the bear to a wooden one platform, lit a fire, roasted the bear alive; put the remains in a bag, carried it to meet a man, asks what's in the bag; fox: silver inherited from my parents]: 42-44; Poestion 1886, No. 1 (Karasjok, North Sami dialect) [seeing a man with a sledge caravan, the fox pretended to be dead; the man put it on the first sledge, the fox slipped off; shifted it to the second one, etc.; finding himself on The last place where the fish was, the fox threw it off and jumped on its own; tells the bear that it caught the fish with its tail in the ice-hole; when the tail froze, the fox began to call people; the bear cut off its tail, ran away; the fox also ran away, hid under the root, asks her dicks how they helped; leg: ran fast; ear: listened sensitively; nose: sniffed well; tail: showed to run here; bear pulled out fox by the tail, carrying it to eat; passes by a motley woodpecker; fox: that was the time when I painted birds! the bear also wants to be colorful; fox: to do this, you must tie you first; the fox tied it and burned it, put the bones in a bag, they rattle, the person he meets with deer pulled into sledges believes that gold and silver in the bag; gives deer for a bag; fox: you can open it by passing five or six mountains; wished a person's skis to break; they break; for the remaining deer to break their legs; broke; when the fox came to the deer received for the bear bones, the fox called his assistants to kill them: bear, wolverine, ermine, mouse, fox, snake, snake, snake, frog; the bear shot in the chin (now deer spot - "bear arrow"); wolf - in the back leg (there is a "bear arrow" spot); wolverine - in the back of the head ("wolverine arrow" spot); ermine - in the throat, mouse - in the hoof, even in the ass (everyone has the same), fox - at the base of the ear (there is now a "fox arrow" bone), in the intestines (a sign on the interior fat), the frog is in the heart (there is a "frog arrow" cartilage under the fat); so they killed all the deer; the fox went to wash the intestines, disappeared behind the stone, screamed as if she had been captured; the animals were frightened and ran away, leaving only an ermine and a mouse; at that time a deceived man came up; fox: it was my assistants who swapped gold with bones ; the man hit the tip of the tail with a pot hook over the fire, the tip turned black; the mouse hit the smut so it turned black; the fox came to the man who made the boat; I also want like this; in response, a man threw a fox into the river, it climbed onto a stone; each fish offers to transport it ashore, the fox rejects each; the pike is slippery, I can't resist; the perch - the dorsal fin scratches ; trout did not fit either; salmon; fox: swim closer; the fox grabbed it, threw it ashore, made a fire on its own, began to fry salmon; the branches are cracking, the fox thinks people are coming; then I realized; threw a stone at the salmon, fat splashed into her eyes, the fox went blind; she goes, asks the trees if they have an extra pair of eyes; the birch refuses to give, the aspen agrees to borrow for a while; the fox took it forever her eyes; the aspen only hit her tail, it turned white]: 7-15; the Eastern Sami [the fox is so cunning that all the animals are angry with her; the bear, the wolf, the marten, the fox and the hare came to her; fox: let's eat the smallest; eat the hare, then the marten, the fox and the wolf; the bear is going to eat the fox; the fox: not here, carry it across the mountains; pointing to the woodpecker: painted his back well; bear agrees that the fox should also paint it; collects branches and willow branches; is tied with branches, covered with branches, covered with branches, the fox burned him alive; carries bones in the bag; replies to the person that he carries the bones of his uncle and grandfather; the man gives her a vazhenka for them; the fox cannot kill her, calls for help from the bear and the wolf, who gave her stomach; the fox stepped aside, began to shout that she did not kill the vazhenka, but the wolf and the bear; they ran away leaving the meat; began to fry it; fat drips on the hot stone, hisses; the fox hit the stone with meat, the spray burned its eyes; pine, alder, birch did not give it eyes (it fills them with resin in spring; fragile; narrow), oak gave; the fox asks his eyes if they see far; eyes are far away; ears (they hear far); legs (they run fast); tail (I will cling to trees, bushes); the fox got angry at the tail, returned to the lair, spread there was fire, she began to warm up, and put out her tail to freeze]: Yermolov 1959:40-43.