M7C. Fish help: offered and rejected.
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Thezoomorphic character is waiting to be transported across the water. Animals or fish consistently offer help. The character only accepts the latter's help - he was waiting for him to eat.
(Lakher [turtle and elephant]), Estonians [fox and eel], Western Sami [fox and salmon], (coastal Koryaks [crows and sea master's child]), koyukon [porcupine and beaver], (tunic [thunder and crocodile], utah [porcupine and bison]).
(Wed. Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lakher [The turtle asks the Monkeys to throw off its fruit; they raise the Turtle to the tree, leave it; the turtle cries, tears form a stream, animals come to drink from it; two types of deer offer them to jump on their backs; the turtle rejects one first, then the other, their back is very narrow; jumps on the Elephant's back, breaking its spine; eats elephant; Monkeys take turtles bowel movements for meat, they eat; the turtle tells them this; they defecate themselves near the Turtle's house, hide in the basket; the turtle throws the basket into the abyss; one pregnant female has escaped from her current monkeys are happening]: Parry 1932:545-546).
Baltoscandia. Estonians [(=1987:60-63); Lisa bothers the fisherman with stupid questions (why does he make a raft, why will he throw a seine; asks him to make a raft for her), he throws her on a rock in the middle of the water; The fox pretends not to know how to swim, calls the fish to transport it ashore; rejects Pike, Burbot, Ruff; agrees to the Eel's offer, grabs it, throws it ashore; roasts the eel, takes a crack fire for the barking of dogs, gets frightened, then the fire hits, hot coals burn her eyes; the Fox asks Birch, Pine, Spruce to give her eyes, they refuse; Aspen believes that the Fox has forgotten her eyes on the mountain, what she is going for and will return it to Aspen with her own; the fox leaves, singing as she deceived Aspen; she rushed after her, but only stepped on her tail blindly; the tip of the fox tail is now white, and the leaves of Aspen tremble with anger]: Jakobson 1954:91-95; Western Sami: Klaus 1995 [A fox pretends to be dead, a man with a sledge caravan picks her up, throws her on the first sledge, she slips off; only stays lying down when abandoned at the last one in which salmon; throws salmon off the sledge, runs away; the Bear, Wolverine, the Hare replies that she caught fish in the ice-hole; ties one salmon to the tail, says that it has pecked; screams that a man is walking, others jump up, her tails are cut off (Wolverine has it in the middle); the fox is hiding under the roots of a pine tree, the Bear is trying to get it, she says that 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 she painted it at one time; The bear also wants to be in specks, 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 in the bag, answers the passerby that her inheritance is in the bag parents; the shepherd agrees to buy it, gives a reindeer team in exchange; Lisa hired Stallo, Wolf and Mouse, told them to slaughter deer, Flea and the Hare told to cook meat; went to wash her stomach, hit against a stone, shouting that it was not her who killed, but the workers; Stallo and 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 everything was eaten by her workers and relatives, one of them was Laska; the shepherd threw his head at him, the tip of his tail turned black; the fox on the shore called fish, for them to transport it to the other side; consistently rejects everyone (listed), accepts salmon's help; calls it to the shore, grabs it, brings it to the empty plague; the roast hisses, the Fox thinks that People came, jumps out; realizing what was going on, they hit the salmon, the splashes of fat burned her eyes; the fox walks, asking the trees, but if they would lend her eyes; two species of pine do not give, the birch gives, the fox runs away, the birch manages to hit her tail, since then the tip is white]: 3-10; Kohl-Larsen 1982, No. 29 (including Balsfjord, Karasjok) [an old man named Anders melted resin in the cauldron to tar the boat; the fox came up and became say she would do the job better; A. grabbed her tail and threw her into the sea; she swam to a rock, called fish; answered the trout that her back was too slippery; sea perch that he too prickly; praised the salmon; asked to bring it to the very shore, otherwise she would soak her winter shoes - she hadn't changed it yet; she grabbed salmon at the shore and ran to the fire; threw salmon on the coals, but the fire blazed so much that the fox got scared and ran away; the salmon turned into coals]: 162-164; Poestion 1886, No. 1 (Karasjok, North Sami dialect) [when the fox saw a man with a sledge caravan, the fox pretended to be dead; man put it on the first sledge, the fox slipped off; shifted it to the second one, etc.; once on the last one where the fish was, the fox threw it off and jumped off on its own; tells the bear that it caught the fish with its tail lowered into 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, asked its dicks how they helped; leg: ran fast; ear: sensitive listened; nose: sniffed well; tail: showed to run here; bear pulled the fox by the tail, carried it to eat; passes by the spotted woodpecker; fox: that was the time when I was a bird painted! 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 on the tip of her tail, it turned white]: 7-15.
(CF. Asia. Coastal Koryaks [crows (Big Raven, Kutkinnyaku) and fox live in neighboring houses; the raven throws a hook into the sea, consistently catches various types of seals, walruses, salmon, whales, each rejects (too small, tasteless, etc.); after catching the child of the Master of the Sea, he takes fat from his navel, brings him home; the fox does the same, but every time he praises the caught; when it catches the child, it tries get fat out of the navel, but there's almost nothing there; the raven, without turning around, drags pieces of ice on the sledge, they turn into pieces of whale meat, Mitya is happy; the fox drags the pieces of ice, turns around, they stay ice; the fox sends his son to ask the crow for food; he roasts his own meat, it turns into bear meat; the fox covers itself with hot coals and burns]: Jochelson 1904, No. 119:315).
Subarctic. Koyukon: Attla 1983 [The porcupine waits by the river, asks to be transported to the other side; refuses the offers of Muskrat, Otter, Bobrenk, agrees to sit on Beaver's tail; makes a fire, puts on fire pot; The beaver throws her off, but the shore is near and she swims out; the bear tells her to stay away, otherwise it will crush her gallbladder, liver, etc.; she asks every time if she has a gallbladder, etc. .; The bear tries to step on her, she stabs him with needles, he dies]: 67-75; De Laguna 1995, No. 28 [Porcupine needs to go to the other side of the river; rejects Muskrat (not sure if it will stay on her tail) Mink (same), agrees to swim on Beaver's tail; makes a fire, plucks pieces of meat from Beaver's tail; in the middle of the Beaver River can no longer stand it, drops Porcupine, since then the beaver tail has been naked and chipped out; when he got out of the water, Porcupine became a porcupine; he could not run fast - he was stiff; but he climbed a tree; the Bear tried to grab him, but pricked him], 33 [~ (28); rejects Muskrat, Otter]: 220-223, 244-246; Jones 1983 [The old porcupine needs to go across the river; she rejects the Muskrat, the Otter, agrees to sail on the Beaver; makes a fire on his tail, boils the soup; the Beaver drops it into the water, but the shore is near]: 67-71; Jenne 1908-1909 [like Jones; on the other side of the Dicobraz climbs a fir tree; throws down a Bear trying to reach it; dances on his corpse]: 357-358.
(Wed. Southeast USA. Tunic [hero (this is the future Thunder) wants to cross the river; the turtle, the fish offer to transport it, he rejects them; agrees to swim on a crocodile; throws arrows forward, throws food, forcing the crocodile to sail after them; jumping ashore, the crocodile does not have time to swallow it]: Haas 1950, No. 4:41, 57).
(Wed. Big Pool. Utah (Wintah) [following the trail of the bison, Porcupine (D.) asks bison manure how long ago its owner has passed; the deadline is getting shorter; by the river asks to transport it; rejects many bison, chooses the best; says he is afraid to ride on his back, on his horns, in the nose, gets in the ass; kills when the bison replies that he has reached the shore; other bison butt the carcass, but did not reach D.; he is looking for a knife to cut carcass; Coyote (K.) says that whoever jumps over it will cut the carcass; tells D. to wash the meat but not eat it; leaves his excrement as a watchman; they shout that D. eats meat, K. kills him with a stick, leaves; D. comes to life, puts meat on a pine tree, tells it to grow up; throws K. and his cubs off the bison's neck, killing everyone but the youngest; he climbed, ate, K. sent him to relieve himself at the end of the branch, he fell and crashed]: Sapir 1930, No. 1:485-489).