M82A. Tail bells: tied unnoticed .39.40.
One zoomorphic character quietly ties something thundering to another's tail. He runs in panic, believing that he is being chased.
Itelmen [mice and crows], kereks [fox and wolf], Chukchi [fox and wolf], Asian Eskimos [fox and wolf].
SV Asia. Itelmen [Kuth and Ememkut lived with their wives; K. went to see how his mouse granddaughters lived; they fed him, he asked him to look in his head, fell asleep; the mice sewed a duffel bag under his back ; K. went, something is rattling behind him, does not know that it is his droppings in the bag; running up to the house, he will cause Mitya that the Koryaks are catching up with him; M. feels the stench, shows the bag; K. promises to kill the mice; but his mice fed and sedated again, sewed red to his eyes; when he got home, K. thinks it's a fire; the third time the mice painted K.'s face; he sees his reflection in the ice-hole, thinks that there's a girl there, brought it and threw it her a wooden pestle, a trough; they are swimming on the water; threw a stone pestle; decided that the girl accepted the gift, rushed into the ice-hole himself, drowned]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 180:540-541; kereki [fox calls the bear a nephew; suggests going to bed on the edge of a cliff; she lies down at the very edge; when the bear falls asleep, lies on the other side of him and asks him to move; the bear fell and crashed; the fox tells her eldest daughter named Ymynna not to throw away her vertebrae; strung them on a rope and tied them to the tail of a sleeping wolf; shouts that the big-toothed are chasing him; the wolf rushed into the bushes, cut off his tail; the fox tells I. to sew white tips from this tail to all foxes on their tails, since then it has remained so; and the wolf's grandmother sewed a different tail for him]: Leontyev 1983, No. 13:127); Chukchi [Lisa says it's worse just a man, the Bear is like a partridge; the fox catches a partridge, the Bear is wounded with a spear; the fox offers to treat him, puts hot stones in his wounds; eats bear meat; tells the Wolf that she killed the Bear; ties his vertebrae to his tail, the Wolf runs away; pretends to be sick, asks the Wolf to pour blood (this is an alder broth) into the sea; the Wolf drowns]: Belikov 1982:30-34.
The Arctic. Asian Eskimos: Menovshchikov 1985, No. 17 [the fox found a walrus carcass, began to eat; the wolf joined, fell asleep; the fox tied walrus vertebrae to its tail and shouted that enemies had attacked; the wolf rushed to run, hears a rumble behind, completely exhausted; since then, the fox has been trying not to catch the eye of the wolf], 18 [Bear and Fox hunt together, Bear kills Moose; Fox offers to sleep first, hides the fat, says the Raven stole it; the Bear notices the Fox pulling fat from under the kitchen; the Fox explains that it eats its giblets; the Bear kills himself; when he sees another Bear, the Fox turns over the carcass with the uneaten side, says he mourns his comrade; says he is most afraid of people, the Bear replies that partridges; people shoot at the Bear; the Fox promises to cure him by investing him in his wounds hot stones; the bear dies; the story of a friend's mourning is told to the Wolf; he kills a mountain ram, agrees to sleep first; the Fox ties a stone to its tail; the Wolf runs away, Having cut off its tail, the Fox eats a ram]: 51, 51-54.