M91b1. Leather sold, (ATU 1535).

.11.13.-.17.21.-.23.27.-.33. (.34.)

A man is going to sell a pet skin. On the way, he gets big money by deception or by chance. Usually, upon return, a person says that he received money for the skin, after which others slaughter their livestock and try unsuccessfully to sell the skins for money they are not worth. (In India, the hero sometimes supposedly sells not skin, but beef, which is forbidden to brahmanas).

Shone, Amhara, Tigre, Kabila, Tunisian Arabs, Libya, Portuguese, Basques, Aragon, Corsicans, Ladins, Bretons, French, Walloons, Germans (Grimms, Switzerland), Lebanese Arameans, almora (rangkas), Angami, Mikir, Garo, Burmese, Kumaoni, Santals, Ho, Kondas, Sora, Assamese, Oriya (dombo), Kannada, Tamils, Sinhales, Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Luzhitans, Poles, Slovaks, Russians ( Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Tver, Moscow, Kaluga, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Bukovina, Volyn, Galicia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Podolia, Chernihiv, Poltava), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Terek Cossacks, Turks, Persians, Yagnobs, Vakhans, Ishkashim, Munjan, Sarykol residents, mountain Tajiks, Uzbeks, Livs, Latvians, Lithuanians, Karelians, Veps, Norwegians, Swedes, Bashkirs, Kazan Tatars, Chuvash, Mari, Komi, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Khakas.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Shone (jungwe) [the young man earned a piece of gold from the chief, brought it to his mother; she says that the gold should be put in a bag, not carried in his hand; next time he earned a bowl of milk, poured it into the bag; carry on his head; got a dog, brought it on his head; lead on a rope; a piece of meat; it does not need to be dragged through the dust; a young man comes to sell a dog's skin; sees a lover come to one of the leader's wives, reports the chief, who gives 20 pieces of gold "for a dog's skin"; the leader in his village unsuccessfully tries to sell dog skins; angrily asks who taught the young man; the mother; the chief ordered her to be killed; the son leaned his body against wood, asked the beer merchant to give his mother a drink, the body fell, the young man accused the merchant of murder, forced him to pay; the chief killed his mother, went to sell for 10 pieces of gold; no one took it, he killed young man]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 184:442-445.

Sudan-East Africa. Amhara [=Gankin 1979, No. 120:166-168; one of the seven brothers is a dwarf, the others stabbed him to death; he caught mice with mice, climbed a tree, shook off the mice at the merchants, they ran away, he took possession of their property, said he bought them by selling their skins; the brothers slaughtered their bulls, got nothing; they burned the dwarf's house; he collected ash in bags, sprinkled it with teff on top, stopped for the night; he said that Negus flour had been stolen from him, replaced him with ash and teff; the owner put flour in his bags; the brothers burned their houses, went to sell ash, they were beaten; the brothers put the dwarf in a basket, left them at the edge abyss; he replied to the traveler that he was sitting to be cleansed from sins; the traveler swapped places with him, the brothers threw the basket into the abyss, the dwarf returned on the traveler's mule, said mules in the abyss; brothers asked to throw them off, died]: Bystrov et al. 1962:46-49; tiger [Beiho came out of her mother's womb to help her draw water into her wineskin and put it on her shoulders; when born and raised, fill it with blood the animal's esophagus, tied around the mother's neck; her brothers came, B. pretends to be furious at how slowly her mother cooks, as if she was cutting her throat, gushing blood; then telling her to come to life; mother's brothers wives are killed, they do not come to life; the mother's brothers burned down house B; he collects ash, leaves bags of ash in something in the house under the guise of valuables; when he returns, he takes valuables; tells his uncles that he sold ash; they they burn their houses, no one needs ash; uncles kill B.'s cattle; B. dries their skins, lowers merchants down the mountain, who think that enemies have attacked, leave all their property; B. takes him away, tells his uncles that sold their skins; they kill their cattle, no one buys their skins; uncles tie B. to the back of a mount, take them to drown, leave; he tells the shepherd that he was tied because he does not want to be chief; the shepherd was drowned, B. brings his cattle, says he found them at the bottom of the reservoir; his uncles and all his relatives drowned; to seduce the leader's daughter, B. comes to her disguised as a girl - sisters B.; after seeing that the chief's daughter is pregnant, her relatives decide to marry Sister B. (i.e. B. himself in women's clothes); the imaginary bride asks for permission to ride a horse, galloped off; in the guise of a man, B. tells him to return his sister; in return he is given the chief's pregnant daughter, he is happy]: Littmann 1910, No. 16:19-25.

North Africa. Kabila [Teigneux, his father is dead, he has a calf; his uncle has two oxen; he sends him to herd oxen and a calf; oxen are skinny, his calf is getting fat; uncle: look, boar! T. shot - it turned out to be his calf, he killed him; T. took off his skin; when it smelled, he carried it to the bazaar, threw it away on the way, and threw 10 su to a man with 40 reais at the bazaar; began to shout that 40 reais and 10 su had been stolen from him; he was told to give T. all his money; T. told his uncle that he sold the skin, the more smelly the more expensive; his uncle stabbed his oxen; he was driven out of the bazaar with sticks; his uncle took him to the sea to drown; T. walked in front and told the shepherd that they wanted to give him a car, but he was afraid; the shepherd went instead of him, sat by the sea, wearing burnus T., his uncle drowned him; T. brought the herd: bottom; uncle also wants to get sheep; T.: throw a dog into the sea; she drowned; T.: she is the one who eats sheep; uncle threw his wife into the sea; understood the deception, chased T., tied him to a tree in the forest; an old man comes; T.: me too was old and younger; the old man untied him and let himself be tied; taking the old man's mule and money, T. returned to his uncle; they began to live separately without interfering with each other]: Reesink 1977:144-147; Tunisian Arabs [a man sold a calf skin for a coin, marked it; meets two people trying to share treasures; throwing his coin into one of the two chests of gold proves that this is his chest, he takes it; tells relatives that he got gold for their skin; they slaughtered their cattle, went to sell their skins, were beaten]: Nowak 1969, No. 391:729; Libyan Arabs [when Si'Djeha is still very young, he herded cows and his calf among them; he was the most well-fed; one day he returned, and his calf was eaten by neighbors; S. went to sell the skin, got one small coin; drilled it in it a hole and tied a red thread; on the road, two were sharing the gold they had found; S. quietly threw up his coin, said that his gold, the two of them saw the coin, believed, gave S. half of the gold; when he returned, he said that he received money for the skin; relatives slaughtered their cattle; S. advised not to rub salt into their skins; the skins rotted; such sellers were beaten at the bazaar; they put S. in a bag, carried drown; tired, asked the shepherd to give them milk; fell asleep; S. shepherd out of a bag: here I am reading the book of fate; the shepherd asked permission to change places; he was drowned in the sea; S. brought the herd - at the bottom a lot of cattle; we must put the children in bags, throw them into the sea, they will bring cattle in the evening; after that, relatives left S. tied to a tree in the desert; a rider drove up; S. told him that he was a century old old man, and this tree is younger; the rider changed places and clothes with S.]: Bushnaq 1987:266-269.

Southern Europe. The Portuguese [a rich peasant imitates a poor man, loses; manure is sold under the guise of an ointment; a rich man kills a poor man's horse; burns his house, who deceives ash for gold, says that sold ash; enters the house where the hostess receives her lover, the skin with her; pretends that the skin indicates where the food is hidden, the lover {obviously the skin is sold for a lot of money}; the rich man slaughters his cows ( horse), kills his wife (mother) to sell fat as a healing ointment; the poor is carried in a bag to drown, he changes places with the shepherd, {brings the herd - supposedly from the bottom}, the rich man drowns; other motive: animal, supposedly litters gold; hat pays debts; imaginary magic object revives a dead person; a postman hare; a dead body is passed off as a living]: Cardigos 2006, № 1535+1537:316-318; Basques (French Baskonia) [the father bequeathed two bulls to his two eldest sons and the youngest cow named Gillen pec; he stabbed a cow, went to sell the skin; came to his leather uncle; noticed; when the hostess knocked, opened it, and someone hid in the chest; an uncle came, paid for the skin and offered more money; G. refused, but asked to give him the chest; threw it into the stream; the one in the chest screamed paid a lot of money to let G. release him and not tell anyone what happened; the brothers were surprised that G. received so much money for the skin; their mother had just died; G. brought the body to church, said Curie that his mother was deaf; he asked how long the old woman had been in confession, pushed her, she fell; G. demanded payment for the murder, received a lot of money, buried his mother in the cemetery; told the brothers that he sold the body; the brothers killed their wives, but no one bought the dead; at the inn, the brothers put G. in a bag, began to eat dinner; G. began to say that he would not take 2000 ECU; the servant swapped seats with him; G. drove his herd to the river; his brothers asked him where the herd came from; G.: from the bottom; the brothers jumped into the water and drowned]: Cerquand 1876, No. 24:12-16; Aragon [the poor peasant adjusts so that the rich kills his horse (obviously the story of the skin allegedly sold} and his wife; the rich man believes that the poor donkey defecates with gold; in the end, the rich is going to drown the poor, but leaves the bag by the river; The poor shouts that he does not want to be king, the shepherd gets into the bag instead of him, is drowned; the poor man brings sheep, says he got each one for every stone that the rich threw on the drowned bag]: Gonz ález Sanz 1996, No. 1535:123-124; Corsicans [the widow's son Muschinu (the name of the insect pest olive); he sold the cow, took off the skin, filled it with bees; asked to let him sleep; at this time The curé comes to the hostess; the husband comes, the curé jumped out the window; M. says that thanks to cow's skin, he can guess and predict; he knocks on her, the bees are buzzing, he says where food, wine, money are hidden; sells skin for 40 francs; advises to open it in the presence of his wife, but closing windows and doors; bees bit his wife and then her husband to death; M. says at home that he received the money by selling the skin; neighbors stabbed to death cows; came to kill M., but his mother was stabbed to death; M. brings her to a crowded place, as if selling eggs; a rich man pushed her, believes he killed her, paid 1000 francs; M. says that they give for the dead good money; people killed old people, barely escaped from prison; M. was stuffed into a bag, carried to drown, left for a while; he screams that he does not want to marry the princess; the pig merchant takes his place ; he was drowned, M. brought pigs, said he was from the seabed; neighbors and his wives jumped into the water and drowned]: Massignon 1984, No. 106:244-247; Ladins: Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 5 [ the brothers agreed to divide 8 cows; the ones that went to the old stall will go to the eldest and the youngest to the new stall; 7 cows went to the old stall; the youngest slaughtered his youngest, went to sell their skin, no one bought it; on the way back he climbed a tree; there was a gang of gypsies under him; the younger one first wrote (they thought it was from God) and then dropped his skin; the gypsies thought it was hell, ran away; the youngest took it their money; at home he told the elder that he got it for the skin; the elder slaughtered his seven cows, no one bought the skins; the gypsies beat him under the tree; the elder came to kill the youngest; he put up a boiling pot in the middle of the room, began to hit him with a rod; supposedly, this made the cauldron boil; the elder bought a rod; when he came again, the younger one pretended to quarrel with his wife and stabbed her; before that he tied her to her throat a bubble of blood; he blew in the pipe, the woman got up; the elder believed that she had been killed and revived, bought a pipe; when he returned, the youngest lay dead; the elder decided to relieve him, the youngest bit him , the eldest thought that the dead man was biting, ran away; if the youngest did not die, he was still alive], 124 [the man's cow died; he went to sell his skin, the night found him in the forest; he climbed the spruce tree; under it the robbers settled down; the man dropped his skin, the robbers ran away, leaving gold; the wife took a measure from her sister to measure the money; the neighbor smeared her with resin, a gold coin stuck; the neighbor stabbed two oxen, went to that tree; the robbers came again, he shed his skins; the robbers were not afraid, but found a man and killed]: 29-33, 326-327.

Western Europe. Bretons: Luzel 1887 (5), No. 5 [The Grand Monk (BM) has many bulls and the Little Monk (MM) has only one; BM suggests slaughtering whoever comes home first; the only MM bull has returned; MM carried his skin to the bazaar; heard the robbers sharing the money; put on a skin with horns, rushed at the robbers, who ran away in horror, leaving the money; MM said he got it by the skin; BM stabbed everyone bulls, began to ask for a lot of money for his skins, he was driven away; MM's mother died, he took her to town to sell her; put her near a pear tree, the owner shot the thief, MM accused him of murder, received money; then he put his mother's body on his blind horse, the horse crushed the pots, the potter hit the person sitting on the horse, MM accused him of murder, got the money again; BM killed his mother, went to sell; his hanged, the corpse was burned; MM became the Grand Monk of the Abbey]: 426-438; Sébillot 1910, No. 35 [the miller's cow entered the master's meadow a second time and he killed her; the miller went to sell the skin, did not sell it, returned with a skin on his shoulders and horns on his head; the robbers saw, thought that hell, they ran away, leaving gold; the miller asks the master to measure the money; he received it by selling his skin; the gentleman slaughtered all the cows, got nothing for their skins; the miller whips the pot to cook without fire; the gentleman bought a whip, hit the pot in vain; the miller bought a wolf and told the master that it was a ram (chie-brebis); the master bought it, he slaughtered all his sheep; the gentleman put the miller in a bag, carried it to drown it, left it; the miller screams that he does not want to marry the master's daughter; the copperman occupied him the place, drowned; the miller said that he got all the dishes the copperman carried from the bottom; the gentleman allowed himself to be drowned]: 138-141; French: Cosquin 1886, No. 10 [when poor René's cow died, he went to town to sell the skin and carried it with his head; walking through the forest, he frightened the robbers who were sharing the money; when they saw the horns, they thought that the devil was approaching them and ran away; taking the money, R. bought a donkey and fed him a few coins; soon people began to say that R.'s donkey was defecating with gold; the senor bought it for a lot of money; when he realized that he had been deceived, they went to R.; he extinguished it under the cauldron the fire, pretending that the cauldron itself was cooking food: we must put it on the roof and hit it with a stick; the senor came again to sort it out; R. had previously tied a gut in blood to his wife's throat; in front of the senor, ordered his wife refused to dance, he pretended to stab her; when he whistled on the whistle, the wife came to life; the senor bought a whistle, stabbed his wife; together with his servants, tied R. and took her on a cart to drown; they went away for a while, and R. shouted that he did not want to be a priest because he was illiterate; the shepherd took his place, drowned, the herd went to R.; the senor and servants asked them to drown, R. became rich]: 108-111; Sébillot 1894, No. 52 []: 343; walloons [after the wedding, the wife sent her husband to herd the cow; he saw grass on the wall, pulled the cow there to eat the grass, the cow in the noose suffocated; the husband brought it home skin; his wife did not unlock the door for him; he spent the night in a tree and saw seven robbers telling the rock to open: Jean-Marie's door, stop! then they go out, close the door behind them and leave; the man came in, put diamonds in his pockets, and put the gold in his skin and brought it home; they had to pour gold into the chimney - the wife did not want to believe; to find out how much gold they had, the wife borrowed a measure from a neighbor, one louidor stuck; the wife explained that her husband sold cowskin in Amiens for royal drums and received a lot of money; the neighbor stabbed his cows, went to sell his skins, he was driven away like crazy; he had to tell the truth; the neighbor filled the bags with diamonds, but forgot the formula that unlocked the door; the robbers came and killed him, and parts of his body hung them on trees to intimidate; the man found the remains and, calling for help from a shoemaker, secretly buried them; the robbers realized that they were known; the chieftain, disguised as a beggar, went to ask if he had died who recently; the shoemaker told everything; the chieftain put six comrades in bags, loaded them on mules, brought them to the village, asked the young couple for the night; the wife overheard the conversation in the room where they put them bags; first stabbed the chieftain; then touched one bag with her foot, the robber stuck his head out, her husband cut it off; so with everyone; the couple put the bodies in bags, loaded them on mules and drove the mules away; all good]: Carnoy 1883:273-283; Germans (Switzerland, Canton of Valais) [11 rich men and one poor man; the rich broke the windows of the poor man's house; he collected the pieces in a bag, spent the night in the inn, said that his bag has valuables; at night, the owners untied the bag, noticed the shine, decided that there were diamonds, replaced them with gold coins; the poor man came back and said he had sold the shards; the rich broke their windows, went sell the shards, they were ridiculed; they slaughtered the poor man's cow; he went to sell his skin; he was going to spend the night under the spruce tree, but heard voices and climbed onto the spruce tree; under it two robbers hid from the rain, began count the gold; the poor man dropped his skin, the robbers ran, the gold went to the poor man; he bought two cows; told the rich that he sold the skin; the rich killed their cows, they did not sell their skins, they killed the poor man's wife; he brought her in a box, said that there were valuables, sold the box for 250 kroons; told the rich that if he had another wife, he would sell her corpse; they killed their wives, took them to sell them captured and tried for murder]: Jegerlehner 1913, No. 150:134-136; the Germans [the peasant asks the godfather to make a heifer out of wood; the shepherd took her into the herd, but the heifer disappeared, the peasant got alive for her a cow; stabbed it and went to sell her skin; on the way he saw a crow with a broken wing, wrapped it in its skin; went to spend the night at the mill; the miller was not at home; the mill decided that the guest had fallen asleep and came to her pop, they began to feast; when the husband came, she hid her ass and pickles; the husband asks what the guest has in his shoes; he replies that he is a predictor, but predicts no more than four times; the crow stings, he croaks ; wine under the pillow, roast in the stove, salad on the bed, pies under the bed; the miller wants to know the fifth; the guest: hell in the closet; the pop ran away; the miller bought a crow for a lot of money; the elder called peasant: why did he get rich? he replies that he sold cowhide; the peasants slaughtered the cows, but no one bought the skins; they went to drown the deceiver in a barrel of holes; left for a while; the pop began to read the funeral; promised to help to the peasant, since he freed him from the closet; the shepherd drives the herd, the peasant shouts that he does not want to be the head, the shepherd took his place; he was drowned, the peasant brought the herd, said that from the bottom; the elder the first one threw himself into the water when he saw the reflection of the clouds - lambs; behind him the whole village; that peasant got it all]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 61:227-231 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:187-193).

North Africa. Aramei [Johi stabbed two oxen to have a feast for his fellow villagers, but no one invited him in response; D. carried to sell their skins; spent the night near the caravans, began to play the flute; he was asked to come play; D. replied that he was afraid that his bag full of money might be stolen at that time; he was promised to reimburse everything if this happened; at night, D. poured soil out of his bag, which She was there, threw the animals under their feet; in the morning he pretended to complain to the authorities, the merchant filled his bag with money; when he returned, he said that he had received money for the skins; added that the skins should not be salted, only such people are valued; people have slaughtered all their cattle, their skins have rotted and no one needs them; D. ran away, exchanged clothes with the shepherd, drowned him, believing that it was D.; D. brought the herd, said that from the bottom; everyone the men of the village jumped into the water and drowned]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:272-276; Lebanese Arabs [a man sold a calf skin for a coin, marked it; meets two people trying share the treasure; throwing his coin into one of the two chests of gold, proves that it is his chest, takes it; tells relatives that they received gold for their skin; they slaughtered their cattle, went sell skins, beaten]: Nowak 1969, No. 391:729

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Almora (Rangkas) [the man has only a small herd of goats; neighbors pushed them off a cliff, the goats died; the man took off his skins, went to sell; spent the night in a cave on the way; they sat at the entrance robbers; when they heard the crackling and rustling of their skins from the depths of the cave, they ran away in horror, leaving behind the stolen silver; the man returned and took the measure from the neighbor; the neighbor smeared the bottom with resin to find out what he was measuring; saw a coin stuck; the poor man said it was obtained for his skins; a neighbor slaughtered his cattle, but received a penny for their skins; then he burned down the poor man's house; he collected ash in a bag and went to sell; on the way by accident exchanged bags with a man carrying flour; when he noticed a change, he brought flour home; a neighbor burned down his house, tried unsuccessfully to sell ash, repented of what he had done]: Grierson 1909:489; angami [man put ash under the saddle; the other asked to lend the horse to his tired mother; first: but then all my money will turn into ash; the second promises to reimburse everything in this case; when the woman got down, under the saddle it turned out to be ash, her son sold the field and the house; the cunning man told others that he had sold ash; they burned their houses, but no one bought ash; but the cunning man got ash this way; his brother was the leader; the leader's cattle fell into the abyss; the skins were torn off, hung on a tree for the night, they began to dry them over the fire; people gathered to warm up, the branch broke off, everyone ran away, leaving the money; the cunning man took the money, said he had received it, After slaughtering cattle and selling their skins; people slaughtered the cattle but could not sell their hides; then they burned the cunning man's house; they tied himself up to drown, left him for a while; he began to sing; the shepherd liked it; the cunning man promised to teach him if he untied him and let him tie himself; the shepherd was drowned]: Hutton 1915, No. 22:82-83; Mikir [the widow has a son and six brothers; uncles put the peaks higher up the river, and the young man lower and poorly made; but only crayfish hit the top, and his nephew's top is full of fish; so many times; even when he left the top on the shore, a wild dove was caught in it; out of envy, the uncle was killed The nephew's only calf; he took off his skin and hid one leg in the brahmana's house; told him he smelled beef; found meat; fearing shame (cows cannot be killed), the brahmana gave a bag of silver; The young man asked his mother to take a measuring basket from his uncle; they saw that he was measuring money; said that he had sold beef, advised him to sell that brahmana in the village; all the residents there were brahmanas, they beat the brothers; they burned down his house; he sold ash to the villagers, where everyone had sore eyes; advised him to rub it in their eyes; his uncles burned down their houses, came to that village to sell ash; they were beaten and rubbed ash into their eyes; they put their nephew in an iron cage to drown him in the river, but left for a while; the prince came up, the young man said he was caged because he did not want to marry his uncle's charming daughter; prince exchanged places and clothes with him, gave him jewelry; the prince was drowned; his nephew came to his uncles in luxurious clothes, said he had received it from his deceased grandparents at the bottom of the river; uncles told them to drown; when bubbles appeared, the nephew told those standing on the shore that the drowned man had been given beer to vomit; the young man got rich]: Stack, Lyall 1908, No. 2:48-55; garo [Gangbo Nokma is rich and smart; envious the neighbors agreed to burn him in his house, but the MR. found out, took it out and hid everything valuable in advance and took the family out; after the fire, he collected the ash in bags and said he was going to sell it; and threw the ash into the river himself, dug up valuables and when he returned, said that he got them by selling ash; the neighbors burned their houses; in order to take revenge, they slaughtered the GNA's cattle; agreed to give him their skins; the GN dried them, dug them and pretended that He was lucky to sell; told a wealthy farmer that he bought any skins; he asked for water; he sent him to his house; Mr. told the peasant's children that their father told him to give him all the money and jewelry; the children began to call their father, asking again; the peasant: yes, give it back; he thought it was water; in his village, the GNA showed the money: it was obtained for skins; neighbors killed their cows, removed and perforated their skins; over they laughed at them; Mr. offered to buy expensive fabric on credit; showed the owner a rich house - supposedly his own, but actually a stranger; said that his name would not give and his father's name could not give; dressed up in the fabric he bought was like a groom for a wedding; the neighbors put him in a basket, carried him to drown him; left him by the pond and went to eat; the shepherd drove the herd; the GN said that they wanted to force him to marry the king daughters; the shepherd agreed to climb into the basket instead; the GN brought the herd and said it was from the bottom; the neighbors allowed themselves to be drowned, all went to GN]: Rongmuthu 1960:11-19.

Burma - Indochina. Burmese [a lazy man lives with his mother; boys killed his buffalo, ate his meat, tied his skin to a rope; his mother sent her son to sell his skin; on the way he climbed a banyan tree; three under a banyan the robbers began to share their loot; the lazy man fell in fear with his skin, the robbers ran away, he took their money, said he got it by the skin; the peasants slaughtered their buffaloes in vain; tied lazy on the platform to kill him later; he told the rider passing by that he did not want to be the head; he allowed him to be tied, and the lazy man rode his horse]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 122:290-291.

South Asia. Kumaoni: Crooke 1895, No. 198 [Bhawáni is a hard-working man, his half-brother Shankar is lazy and envious; he killed an ox B.; he covered his skin with sand, climbed a tree in the forest, under a tree the robbers stopped, B. shed his skin, the robbers ran away, leaving behind the loot; B. said he sold his skin for a high price; S. slaughtered his oxen, went to sell sandskins, he was beaten; he killed B.'s mother and burned down his house; B. collected ash in bags, took it with his mother's body; a rich man decided to eat together; B. asked for food to his mother, she is silent, the man threw a plate and body at her fell, he paid for the murder; B. told his brother that he sold his mother's body and ash; that S. did not receive money for the skins because he did not choose the right time; S. turned to the pandit for this, burned down the house, killed mother, took him to sell, he was beaten; S. put B. in a bag, dragged him to drown, left the bag by the river; B. tells the shepherd that he is sitting in Shiva's magic bag; the shepherd changed places, drowned; B. brought the herd, said that from the bottom that S.'s mother sent greetings; S. gave B. all his cattle to throw them into the water; drowned]: 82-83; Upreti 1894 [envious neighbors drove a simpleton cows into the abyss, those died; he carried to sell his skins, stopped in a cave; the robbers came there; when they heard the gnashing of their skins, they ran away, the money went to the simpleton; he took the measure to measure the money, smeared the measure with resin, to her a coin stuck; the neighbors killed their cattle, but no one wanted to buy skins; they burned the simpleton's house; he filled the bags with ash, carried to sell; on the road he accidentally exchanged bags with a flour seller; brought flour, asked for measure again; the neighbors burned their houses, received nothing for the ash]: 94-95; Santals [the youngest of the seven brothers planted a vegetable, the fruit became the size of an inch; he warned the wives of the older brothers, that the one who ate him would give birth to an inch tall boy (bitaram); one ate; Bitaram took lunch to his uncles in the field, almost everyone woke up; drove their cattle to the watering hole, they trampled them in the sand; the water washed it away; returning At night, he ran into thieves, frightened them (they thought the spirit was talking to them), hid the gold; sent his father and uncle to pick up the gold; the Raja looked for thieves, saw gold near B.'s house, his father and uncle were put in prison; B. told his mother to give him a basket, beg for a cat, put flour into a bag; he made a saddle out of a bag of flour, rode a cat, told the bees to gather in another basket; Raja ordered B. to be shot, no one got in; B. released the bees, the Raja had to give her daughter and wealth; B.'s wife had a cow as a source of wealth; the Raja's servants killed her but did not find gold inside; B. dried her skin, climbed a tree, dropped his skin on the thieves, they ran away, left the gold; B. asked the Raja to measure the gold, it stuck a little; B. explained that he had sold the skin; the Raja ordered the cattle to be slaughtered, but no one bought the skins; ordered them to be burned B.'s house, B. hid in a hole; collected ash in bags, told the merchant that they contained gold; the merchant exchanged it for bags of golden sand; B. took the measure from the Raja again; said he sold the ash; the Raja burned down the palace, but no one does not want ash; B. was carried to drown in a sack; the guards went away; B. told the shepherd that he was being forced to marry; the shepherd got into the bag, drowned; B. brought the herd; the Raja and his associates sat in bags, B. them drowned; he inherited the whole kingdom]: Campbell 1891:25-33; ho [Gukchomdeya is the youngest of seven brothers; sent to herd sheep; decided that his faces would grind and kill everyone; the brothers gave him giblets; he climbed a tree with them; the king sat under the tree, undressed, began to smear him with rubbing; G. dropped giblets on him; his entourage thought that the king's stomach had burst, fled; the king for them; G. got everything; he told the brothers that he had sold his giblets; they slaughtered their cattle, got nothing; they gave G. a worthless bull; he took off his skin, lifted it up a tree, threw it at the merchants, they ran away G. brought home their oxen, loaded with valuables; said he had exchanged them for leather; the brothers slaughtered their oxen, got nothing; the brothers put G. in a bag and threw him into the river; the shepherd caught him; G. became Shout that the shepherd had broken his bliss; the shepherd ran away thinking that he was watery in front of him; the brothers believed that G. had caught cattle for the days of the river; the brothers allowed themselves to be drowned; G. received all their wives]: Halder 1916 , No. 19:300-303; condas [the woman's eyes are sick; the man promised to bring a healing ointment; the tiger heard, asked the woman and him to lubricate his sore eyes; for this he brought an ox; people ate meat, and on their skin they planted a boy so that the birds would not peck her; people went to the village and forgot about the boy; the tiger decided to help and brought another ox; both skins went to the boy; he carried them to sell; heard them in the forest the voices of the robbers, climbed the tree; the robbers began to divide the loot; quarreled; the leader shouted - for God to defeat (the dishonest); at this time the boy dropped both dry skins; the robbers ran away, the boy got the money; at home he told his mother to take a measure to measure what was in his bag; the mother went to her brother for the measure; he waxed the bottom; when the sister returned the measure, gold stuck to the wax coin; the nephew explained that in the city his skins were directly torn to pieces and put gold in pieces; fellow villagers slaughtered oxen, came to town and shouted that they were selling oxen skins; they were beaten, The brahmanas were indignant; knowing what would happen next, the mother and son left home, taking the money and leaving the pumpkins inside; people set fire to the house; when the pumpkins burst, they thought it had burst the boy and his heads mother; the boy filled two bags with coals, went to the city; there are many carts drawn by oxen on the road; the boy replaced his other; there were money and jewelry in the bags; the boy was in the village again he rebuilt himself, took his uncle's measure again, gold stuck to her again; the guy said he sold coal at a high price; the villagers burned down their houses, went to sell coal, they were driven away; they put the guy in a bag They beat me with batons for a long time and threw it into the water; but he threw it ashore; he started screaming: why do I need my gold now? two horsemen drove up - a merchant and his wife; the guy said that the gold was in the bag; the merchant helped to get out and climbed there himself, the guy threw the bag into the water, persuaded the beautiful woman to stay with him, because he is not only handsome and young, but also very rich; in the village he said that horses and a beautiful woman were given to him at the bottom of the river; all his fellow villagers asked them to drown; the guy healed well with his wife and mother]: Schulze 1922, No. 7:47-54; litter [At the funeral, all villagers must slaughter a buffalo; the poor man went to Dom and borrowed the buffalo; at the end of the rituals, he carried the skin back to Dom; when he saw 4 robbers, he climbed a tree; when the robbers began to argue, sharing the money, threw their skin; the robbers ran away thinking it was thunder; the poor man took the money, leaving his skin behind; the robbers found it, sold it, bought a pig and ate it]: Grierson 1906:225; Assamese [a man goes to sell cowhide; spent the night in a tree; robbers are located under a tree; a man has dropped his skin, the robbers have fled, he took their treasures; he borrowed houses from a neighbor and returned the measure with a coin stuck; believing that the man had earned money by selling his skin, the neighbors slaughtered their oxen, carried their skins for sale; when they returned in shame, they burned down the man's house; he collected carried ash in bags, carried it, met another who carried the royal treasures; they briefly exchanged bags, the man brought gold home, said he sold ash; the neighbors burned down their houses and carried ash to the bazaar; when they returned, they put the man in a bag and threw him into the river; the fisherman caught him; the man began to scold him: he was in the palace of the underwater king; the fisherman asked him to be thrown into the river; after drowning the fisherman, the man brought him home fish; neighbors also want to go under water, allow themselves to be drowned]: Goswami 1960:103; oriya (dombo) [after his father's death, six older brothers gave the lame youngest only two cows; once the youngest was not At home, the son of one of his older brothers came into his house, his wife asked for help milk the cows; he was exhausted from work - these cows gave much more milk than the others; envious brothers killed dairy cows; the youngest went to sell his skins, spent the night in a tree in the forest; thieves sat under the tree, began to share the loot, every time someone was dissatisfied; one says that if it happens again, let him break out thunder; the man dropped his skins, they fell with a crash, the robbers ran away, the man brought home gold, took a measure of money; told the brothers that the skins were now in value; they slaughtered their cows, went to bazaar to the city of brahmanas, began to offer skins; the brothers were beaten to death, the eldest and his wife lived in peace and prosperity]: Tauscher 1959, No. 9:29-32; kannada [brahman asked his neighbor gowda {apparently the village manager} gave a needle; he gave it on the condition that if the brahmana lost the needle, he would take the ox from him; his wife lost it, the brahmana took the ox, but the latter withered and the brahmana took him untouchable; the brahmana asked for a skin; went to sell, spent the night on the road in a tree; the robbers sat under the tree to share the money; the wind shoved the skin down and it, hitting the branches, began to fall; the robbers in They ran away in horror; at home, the brahmana took the govda to measure the money; he waxed the bottom and saw a coin stuck; the brahmana said he had received money for the skin; the govda stabbed his oxen, but for all the skins together received barely a hundred rupees; the brahmana asked the govda to give him discarded coconut shells; burned them, filled them with ash and went to where the other merchants were; said that he had gold sand in his bag; a merchant changed the bags; found it in his ash, and the brahmana found diamonds and pearls; the govda burned down the brahmana's house, went to sell ash, the potter gave him a quarter of the rupee; on the way, the govda lost it and could not pay for the tea ; the hovda and his men put the brahmana in a chest, carried him to drown; they saw deer and chased them; a shepherd came up, the brahmana said he was being taken to the wedding; the shepherd took the brahmana's place in the chest, drowned; brought a large herd, said it was from the bottom; Govda and his men asked them to drown; the brahman himself became a govda]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 54:149-152; Tamils [Raja has five sons; when his wife died, The Raja took the other one and her squirrel son; the Raja also died, five sons are married; four want to drive the squirrel away, but the elder insisted that he be given a plot of bad land, oxen and grain; squirrel He hears the brothers talking and always knows their intentions; he called animals and birds to grow crops; the brothers came at night to steal the grain, but it was already compressed; the brothers burned the squirrel's house; he sold the grain, but pretended to sell coal; to count the money, he took a measure, a coin stuck to it; the brothers burned down their houses, went to sell coal, they were beaten; they killed the squirrel ox; he stole money from the brahman, again took a measure for money, and told the brothers that he had sold meat to the brahmana (beef is strictly forbidden to brahmanas); the brothers slaughtered their oxen, went with meat to the brahmana, who beat them again; the brothers put a squirrel in they were going to burn the bag, but forgot the matches; the shepherd chases the goats; the squirrel says he is sitting in a bag to get rid of the hump; the humpback shepherd climbed into the bag instead of the squirrel; he was burned, and the squirrel six months later brought the herd; said that after being burned, he went to heaven to his parents and they gave it a gift; the brothers asked them to burn; their property, wives and children went to a squirrel]: Blackburn 2005, No. 57; Sinhalese [seven The brothers work in the field, seven sisters come looking for husbands, the brothers take them as wives; the wives left the rice to dry on the mats, told the sister of the seven brothers to watch; she fell asleep, the mats were wet, the wives The brothers were driven away by the girl; she began to live under a tamarind tree; gave birth to a son, and each wife had a daughter; the sister consistently asks the brothers to know the horoscope for her son; everyone refuses, the youngest agrees; the astrologer says that the son will become famous but will bring misfortune to all cousins, but the brother tells his sister that the son will eat her; the sister refuses to kill the boy; he grew up, his name Tamarind Tikka; fills a large pot with a tiny amount of flour or oil; consistently asks his uncle to marry his daughters; everyone drives him, but the youngest knows his horoscope and agrees; TT revives buffalo, his herd is multiplying; envious brothers slaughtered his cattle, said that robbers attacked; TT took off and took off his skins, threw it away, dug up a fresh corpse, came to some people, asked him to spend the night, said his grandfather was with him; the women at home began to drive away the bulls, the "grandfather" fell, the owners gave 7 measures of gold for him; TT tells his uncles that he got gold for their skins; they slaughtered their bulls, no one's skins bought; uncle put TT in a bag, walked away; TT tells the shepherd he is in the bag to heal his lower back; he changes places with TT, TT picks up the herd, uncles throw the bag into the water; TT brings the herd says that from the bottom of the river; the uncles agreed to TT throw them in bags into the water; their wives and daughters rushed to find out why they were being detained; TT received all the property]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 173:388-393.

The Balkans. Hungarians [Kolozh Maly has one horse, Bolshoi has 4; they are harnessed together and the KM field is plowed on Sundays; KB: don't say "my horses", yours is only one; KM says KB killed his horse; KM brought the skin into the city; saw through the window that the woman had a lover; hides; the husband came, the KM went out, went into the house with him, the lover was already in the chest; KM says that he has things in his bag: meat in the stove, wine behind the closet, in the chest is a demon; the owner bought a thing for gold, KM took the demon to drown, he paid off with gold; at home KM sends his son to the design bureau to measure money, they say, sold the skin; KB killed four horses; at night he wanted to kill KM , killed his mother; KM brings the body to the tavern, says that his mother is deaf; she was pushed, KM received gold for the murder; said he sold the dead old woman; the KB killed his mother, he was imprisoned; when he left, carried the KM in a bag to drown; leaving the bag, went to church; the KM tells the shepherd that he is being carried to the kingdom of heaven; the shepherd swapped places, drowned; the KM brought the herd, says that from the bottom; the KB tells him drown; drowned]: Ortutai 1974, No. 27:344-349; Romanians [{p. 481 in pdf is missing; apparently this is the same or one-story text as Sadetsky's Russian translation 1973:229-247}; Pecale fed the heifer, she went all over the village; her fellow villagers decided to kill her and P. gave her skin; he sold the skin for 300 lei and came back; told his neighbors he sold it for 600 guilders; the neighbors slaughtered their cattle and went to sell their skins, they rushed to beat them at the market; they came to P. and relieved his need in the hallway; P. packed everything in a barrel, went on a journey and spent the night with the boyar; said that there was gold in the keg for the king; in the morning he began to shout that gold had been replaced by crap; the boyar ordered the keg to be cleaned and filled with gold; P. told his neighbors that he had sold the crap for gold; they also went to sell, they were beaten; they put P. in the bag and went to drown; they forgot to measure the pole where the water was deeper, ran after it, leaving the bag; the shepherd drives the herd; P.: they want to drown me because I refuse to be the head; the shepherd took P.'s place, drowned ; P. brought the herd, said it was from the bottom; the neighbors drowned]: Bîrlea 1966:481-482; Bulgarians [a poor family stabs their only ox to have a feast for the villagers, but then no one invites the organizers of the feast; or the younger brother borrowed the older horse to plow, he died from work, and the elder returned only the skin; when he went to sell the skin, the poor man accidentally became rich (threw it off the tree under which the robbers sat, they ran away, leaving the loot; or enters the house where the mistress has a lover; pretends that he has an omniscient feature in his horse's skin; on his behalf he indicates where the hostess hid food and drinks, where the "devil" (lover) is hidden; receives money from the owner and from her lover; or sells leather at a wedding for a drum; when she returns, she says that she sold her skin at the bazaar; neighbors slaughter their cattle, but they cannot sell their skins; they throw crap at the man's yard; he collects it in bags, stays with the khan (priest) and says that the royal treasury is in bags; if you open them, gold will turn into crap; the bags were opened, the person was given gold instead of crap; the man's wife died or was killed by neighbors (the younger brother killed the elder's wife); the cunning (older brother) puts the corpse on the donkey and accuses the one who pushed the body (a person in the field, in the garden, in a tavern, at a wedding) into murder; receives a girl or money in return; says that he exchanged the deceased for her alive (sold for money); neighbors killed wives; the cunning man is put in a bag to drown in the sea, left for a while; he shouts that he does not want to marry the princess, the shepherd agrees to take his place; the cunning man brought a herd of sheep, says he got it on bottom; neighbors drown]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1535:491-493; the Greeks [when he died, the father left two bulls to his two eldest sons, and a skinny cow to the youngest stupid Trianniscia; he stabbed her, dried his skin and went, knocking on it like a drum; the robbers shared the loot, thought that the gendarmes were coming, ran away; T. took the money, told the brothers what he had received for the skin; they slaughtered their bulls and became asking for a hundred ducats for their skin, they were arrested; when released, they went to kill T.; at this time, he dug up an old woman who had just been buried, put her on a horse, left him outside the inn, saying that he himself will go to church; when he returned, he began to scandal - his mother was killed; the owner gave him one of his daughters; the brothers put T. in a bag, carried him to drown, left him, and went to church themselves; T. changed with a shepherd { the reason is not specified}, the shepherd was drowned, T. returned to his brothers]: Legrand 1881:178-180.

Central Europe. Luzhitans [the guy grazes the headman's cow and his own; asks what to do if a cow drops a cake on a bird's nest in the meadow; mother: kill her; son: ours too; mother: ours too; he killed his own cow, the mother is desperate; the guy went to sell the skin; wants to stay in the hut for the night; sees a hostess feasting with her lover through the window; knocked; the hostess decided that the husband has returned, hid roast in the oven, wine under the bed, pies in the closet; then the owner came up, the guy came in with him; the bag touches the bag at the table, the cat has a cow's skin, it creaks; guy: yes, shut up; explains what's in the bag he is a predictor; indicates the places where food is hidden; the owner wants to buy a fortuneteller, the guy asks to give him a chest (in which his lover) for him; Dali's chest with a cart, the guy took him home; threatens to drown his lover, received 300 thalers from him; when he learned that the farmhand had received 300 thalers for his skin, the elder stabbed his own, could not sell it; the guy persuaded him to leave him in the sheepfold overnight, let the wolf go there; in the morning the elder came to the boy to take him to prison, but the mother said that her son was dead; the elder went to relieve the need on the face of the deceased; (the story is cut short with reference to similar ones)]: Schulenburg 1882:40-41; Poles: Sumtsov 2015 [two smart brothers, the third stupid; the foolish man took the skin off the cow, brought it to the tavern, where he stayed for the night; saw from the attic what the shinkarka was taking priest, wine, honey, roasts, sweets on the table; the husband has returned; the priest hides in a tar barrel, then in a barrel of feathers; the bedkeeper knocks on the skin with a stick, asks what she says to him; answers the priest, what the skin said - there is sweets in the closet; then there is a point to the stove, to the komora; the hidden treat is back on the table, a devil like a priest runs away, the shinkar buys the skin for an expensive price; (the same story in a fairy tale about a queen who knew no trouble; the priest hides under the stove where the Queen was lying; he took his dress; the lady fell ill in fear; the queen undertakes to treat her; pours boiling water under the stove, expelling the naked priest, who is mistaken for the demon of disease, Samiec, "guest", Belarusians have a knot)]: 76; Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 1535 [the poor man's last cow (horse) died, he carries the skin to the city to sell; (by the road fills it with wasps and bees); or caught and took a crow with him; stayed for the night in a house where his wife receives a lover; suddenly the husband returns, the wife hides treats, hides his lover under bed; the guest creaks his skin or stings the crow; pretends to tell him where the food is hidden; the husband buys the skin and also gives him a chest in which the lover; he pays not to drown him; when he returns, the poor man takes a measure from his brother, a coin sticks to her; the poor man explains that he received the money by selling the skin (or his mother's corpse); the brother stabbed a cow (horse) or killed his mother, tries to sell the skin, or body; puts the poor man in a bag to drown, leaves him for a while; the poor man screams that he does not want to be king; the shepherd changes places with him, is drowned, the poor man brings sheep, says that from the bottom; the brother himself throws into the water, sinks]: 81-82; Slovaks [after the death of their father, two older brothers shared the property, and the youngest was assigned to live in a barn; cannot share the only cow; decide: in addition build two new barns to the old one; whoever cow enters will take it; the cow goes to the old stable to her younger brother; then the brothers slaughtered her, the youngest was given only skin; flies and hornets flew at her; the guy rolled up and sewed his skin to keep the hornets inside, went on a journey; in the evening he knocked on the miller; only his wife was at home, reluctantly agreed to let the beggar into the attic; he hears her kind to her lover, wine on the table, pickles; suddenly a knock on the door; the husband suddenly returned because the cart broke; he is hungry, his wife offers old sour cabbage soup; hides food; tells his lover to climb into a barrel of feathers, but he first climbed into a barrel of resin; when he learns about the beggar, the husband tells him to go down; the guy says he has the truth with him - a skin with perfume buzzing inside; spirits first talk about pies, then wine and roast, then the devil in the barrel; the devil is pulled out, beaten, he pays off, two hundred gold; the guy seems reluctantly agrees to sell the truth for the same hundred gold; when he leaves, his catches up with the mill, gives 200 gold, asks to remove the truth from home; the guy advises to make a hole in his skin and carefully release the hornets; the guy came back, started a farm; told his brothers about fools, ready to buy the truth; they slaughtered their cows, came to the miller, let dogs in and beat them; the brothers destroyed his house; the youngest collected the fragments in three barrels, took them; said to the owner of the inn that he was carrying royal money and he was told to stay only at this inn so that, if anything, he would know where to look; at night, the robbers brought three barrels of money; in the morning they slept, the owner was afraid get up before the robbers left, gave the key to the cellar; the guy took the robbers' money, he was not caught up; he told the brothers that the inn owner does new and old, pays for shards; brothers they smashed what was at home, took them to the inn, on the way the robbers took everything from them, they returned naked and beaten; put the youngest in a bag, carried him to drown; went to the healer for advice: what was the best throw into the river, forward with his feet or head; the guy screamed that he did not want to be king; the shepherd heard, swapped seats with him, drowned, the guy brought the herd, said it was from the bottom; the brothers saw in the water reflection of sheep, jumped head forward; the youngest married and healed well]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 48:244-252; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Novgorod, Yaroslavskaya, Kostroma, Tver, Kaluga, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Bukovina, Volyn, Galicia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Podolia, Poltava), Belarusians [Dear Skin: Poor Man goes to the city to sell cow (cowhide, horse) skin; overnight he finds a lover hidden by his mistress, threatens to give him away and receives a ransom; at home he tells his rich brother that he received big money for "expensive skin", the brother cuts his cattle into his skin and goes broke, wants to drown it for it, but the poor man puts a passerby (most often his master) in the bag instead of himself, and he comes on his horses, assuring him that he got them under water; envious of the poor man, the rich man lets himself drown]: SUS 1979, No. 1535=AA 1535A and 1535*B: 313-314; Russians (Arkhangelskaya: Pinega, d. Obrosovo, 1927, L.E. Zalusskaya, worked as a housekeeper in Arkhangelsk for several years) [Overina's missing mare eats his brothers' good stallions, they demand that he kill her. Overya kills a mare, takes off its skin and agrees to sell it for 40 kopecks. Pop sends Overa to his wife for money, he finds her with her master, she hears the pop coming home and hiding them both underground. Overya threatens to scream and give her master and get caught, and gradually lures him 25 rubles, a pair of master's horses, and a suit in exchange for silence. Overya returns home and tells her friends that she bought a pair of horses with the proceeds from the sale of mare leather. They kill their "hundred-ruble" stallions, but asked so much for their skins that they quarreled with their ass and ended up in the police. Their wives sell cows to buy their husbands and threaten to kill Overu. His wife tells him about it. They dig a hole behind the house, and Overya sits in it with a hot hook. The wife tells her comrades that Overya is dead. They come to the grave, sit down alone and Overya sticks his hook to find out that they are going to rob his wife. She puts her husband in a bag full of dry brooms. The comrades decide that there is money in the heaviest and most "poignant bag" and take it away. He asks to let him go out of the bag, his comrades are frightened, they run after the hooks to drown Overu. He shouts that he has been appointed voivode, although he can neither read nor write, the master hears this and changes places with him. Overya rides a pair of master, and his comrades drown him. They greet Overu alive, he says he got a couple of horses in the next world, they also decide to drown themselves]: Karnaukhova 1934, No. 118:220-223; Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Kolezhma; brief summary text from the archive of the Karelian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences) [a fool passes off the skin of a murdered heifer as a sorceress; at the night, a rich man finds the mistress's lover, receives a lot of money for this; brothers, envious of a fool, they kill their cattle, do not receive money; they want to kill a fool, they mistakenly kill their mother; a fool carries the mother's corpse to church, blames her priest for her death; a frightened pop gives the fool money, asks to keep a secret; brothers take revenge on a fool; they die themselves]: Razumova, Senkina 1974, No. 485:400; Russians (Kirillovsky University) []: Sokolov, Sokolov 1989, No. 44:180-181; Russians (Moscow) [two brothers are hard-working, and Vanka is a lazy man; he ordered a stuffed calf, asked his brother to take the calf into the herd; he does not go, his brother with a whip, his head fell off, V. threatens to sue, his brother gave the cow; V. stabbed her, went to sell the skin, A slaughtered crow picked up the paths; the mill let him spend the night; V. noticed where the food was hidden and that there was a lover clerk in the house; the miller returned, calling the traveler to the table; he said that he was going to sell a wonderful bird ; supposedly, with a hint, the crow shows where the food is; and the devil is in the chest; the clerk runs out in flour and feathers; the miller bought a crow for 300 rubles; V. tells the brothers that he raised money for the skin; they slaughtered the cattle they give one and a half rubles for the skin; the brothers put V. in a bag, went to drown him, went for a drink; the old man drives the herd; V. says that he was cleansed of his sins in the bag; the old man took his place; the old man was drowned; V. brought rams, says that from the bottom of the river; the brothers drowned]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 89:227-230; Russians (Kursk, Mokhovsky District) [To get bread, a man and his wife feed their neighbors their meat cows, but guests don't give bread. A man sells cow leather in the city for three rubles, and on the way back he stays in the house for the night. The man notices that a lover comes to the hostess, she hides him and the man underground when she sees that her husband is returning from the war. The man threatens his lover that he will scream, and so on lures him all the money (450 rubles), then shouts "Robbery" and runs out of the underground, his lover runs after him, both in threshing fluff, his husband takes them for hell. The man tells his neighbors that he sold cow leather for 450 rubles, one of them is trying to sell the skin of his cows, but he is taken to the police and beaten there "so that he knows the value and does not stir up people." The same thing happens to two other neighbors who claimed too high leather prices. They are angry with the man, put him in a bag about to drown him, none of them want to sin, the man advises them to bring a pitchfork and put him in the water on them (so that the sin stays on the pitchfork), in their absence he he sings loudly that he is given a royal position, but he is not literate, a master rides by, changes places with the man (gives three horses, money, half of the estate). Neighbors throw away the bag with the master, see the man in new clothes, who says that he received wealth when he was in the maritime kingdom. Neighbors ask their wives to throw them into the water and drown, the sergeant sees this, beats his wives. The surviving neighbors set fire to the man's house, he stuffs his clothes with straw and puts him by the window. The man asks the carpenters to move his new hut to the village overnight, tells his neighbors that he complained to God about his fate and he offered him to choose a hut in the village and lodged him and his wife there. He chose a simple house because the man is "unenvious" and was brought down from the sky on a wire. Neighbors don't believe the man, but they no longer try to teach him a lesson]: Aristov, Pavlov 1939:63-66; Eastern Ukrainians (Poltava, Romensky y.) [Rich Mikola and poor Mikolka become cronies, the former has stallions, the other has one nag. Mikolka asks to borrow his godfather's horses to plow, people report to Mikola, he is angry, kills the oath, and takes his horses. Mikolka takes her skin to the fair in Sokirivka. On the way, she asks to spend the night, but the sick hostess does not let him in, he climbs into the barn, sees that a pop is visiting her, then her husband comes back, hides the snack on the stove, and her butt in the box. Mikolka asks the owner to let him in, he lets him in. Mikolka presses the skin under the table - says that there are treats on the stove, then that devils are in the house, points to the chest, the owner instantly cuts the "patched" priest with an ax. The owner gives Mikolka a few measures of gold in gratitude for the spell. His wife takes a measure of gold from Mikola, who discovers coins stuck in the measure, and Mikola explains that he became rich selling horse skin. Mikola skins horses, but sells them for 3 rubles and wants to slaughter Mikolka. He realizes the plan of the godfather, puts his mother in his place, takes her to the fair with her head severed off in the morning, attaches her head to her body, asks the kvass to bring her mother kvass, which touches her head, she falls, he asks Mikola not to tell anyone what happened, pays in gold. Goes back to his wife, repeat with a measure. Mikola repeats the godfather's actions again, cuts her mother and daughter, takes him to the fair, and takes him to a madhouse. A month later they let go, want to drown the godfather, puts him in a bag, leaves him at the church. Mikola shouts that he is being sent to heaven in a bag, and a master rides by, ready to switch seats with him. Mikola leaves with her wealth in a carriage, Mikola throws her master into the water. At home, she discovers that her godfather is alive and rich again, Mikolka says that he pulled the cattle by the horns from under the water. Mikola asks his wife to throw him into the water in a deeper place]: Gnedich 1916, No. 1514:37-40; northern Ukrainians (Chernigov, Nezhinsky district) [the three brothers began to share, the youngest took one ox; went to sell; the counter says that the ox is nothing, but the horns are superfluous; Ivan broke them off; the other: would tear the skin off his feet; ripped off; legs were extra; in the forest cut off, the ox fell under the birch tree; I.: Oh, damn it, money is under you! took off his skin from the ox, sold it, bought a shovel, began to dig under the birch tree, dug up a treasure; the brothers offered to share, sent I. to the ass for a measure; I. admitted that it was necessary to divide the money; told the brothers; they told the priest stop (until they hide the money); I. killed him; the brothers hid the body in the cellar; they are looking for the priest in vain; at the wake, I. drinks for the priest in the cellar; the brothers managed to put the goat there, and put the priest in under the stove; the brothers share again, I. chose the stove and told it to cover it there, leaving a small hole; the cat jumped there; promised to serve; tells the wolf that he is going to complain to the king; the wolf also wants complain; the cat advises to take 5 other wolves; the cat to the king: Ivan Pechersky sent animals to his fur coats, marries your daughter; the same with bears; the cat tells the king to fix the bridge: tomorrow the individual entrepreneur will go; when the individual entrepreneur will go went, the cat took out his hat, threw it into the water, said that the IP army drowned; the cat pulled out the IP, the king gave him clothes, the IP looks back at his shoulders; the cat: he had the best; they go back, the cat is in front of the ogre, tells hide in the hollow of a pear, otherwise the king goes and kills; tells the king to shoot a pear; IP lives well with the royal]: Malinka 1902, No. 39:318-322.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [with a scythe advises forty bald cows to herd not together, but in turn; they do not want to herd themselves, but leaves their cow in the herd; the bald ones kill it; the scythe carries to sell the skin, stops at the woman; the vizier enters, the woman hides him, kills him with a scythe, fills him with boiling bacon; the hostess pays gold to remove the corpse with a scythe; he puts it outside the house; the hostess's husband thinks it is a thief, he pierces a knife, fears that he has killed the vizier; takes gold with a scythe, takes the corpse away, throws it off the minaret, people are afraid that they will accuse them, they also give gold to the scythe, he throws the corpse into the sea; says bald that he received gold, selling belts; bald ones cut their cows, make belts, no one buys them; they carry an oblique to drown; he advises going to the forest for sticks to beat him first; tells the shepherd that he is being kept in sack until he agrees to become a padishah; the shepherd changes in oblique places, is beaten and drowned; the bald believe that the scythe has caught the herd at the bottom; tell him to drown them]: Zarubin, Zarubin 1991:41-48; Zherdeva 2020 (Miskhor), No. 38 [same story]; Terek Cossacks (v. Ardonskaya) [Peter has three horses, Petrushka has one; while plowing, Petrushka shouts that his horses are; Peter kills Petrushka's horse; he carries her skin to the city to sell her skin; goes to the hut, asks to let her go spend the night; the hostess allows you to stay in the yard; the owner arrives; Petrushka sees that the hostess's lover is hiding in the chest; the owner invites Petrushka into the house; he says he has horse skin a magician who knows what they have in their house; the owner asks to speak; Petrushka pushes the skin, it makes a noise; Petrushka: the magician said that there is vodka and fried chicken behind the stove; the hostess who cooked them for her lover, replies that she forgot to get them; Petrushka drinks and eats with the owner; pushes his skin again; assures that there is a devil in the chest; agrees to kick him out for the measure of gold; having received an award, rides a master's cart with a chest to the sea; lets his lover go for silver; comes home, sends his son to Peter for a measure; Peter smears its bottom with glue; Petrushka measures money, returns the measure, to on the bottom of which several coins are stuck; Peter asks where the money comes from; he replies that he sold his horse's skin for a measure of silver; Peter rips off his horses, takes them to the city, tries to sell them for the same price; they laugh at him; he comes to Petrushka at night to kill him; kills his mother-in-law, with whom he changed places; Petrushka puts her on a cart and supports her with chopsticks; drives up to the dukhan, drinks; the strangler offers a glass to his mother-in-law, pushes her, she falls; Petrushka accuses him of murder; the strangler gives a measure of silver, buries his mother-in-law at his own expense; Petrushka sends his son to Peter for measure; he sees coins stuck to the bottom, asks where the money comes from; Petrushka replies that he sold his mother-in-law; Peter kills his wife, takes her to the city; after leaving prison, he puts Petrushka in a bag and carries her to drown in sea; walks into church on the way, leaves the bag at the fence; Petrushka says to an old man passing by: "Lord, I'm still young, and I'm being taken to heaven!" ; the old man is jealous, gives Petrushka his cattle, climbs into a bag; Peter throws them into the sea; sees Petrushka with his cattle; Petrushka: "Have you seen bulbs? I'm the one who picked cattle from the sea. Y! There's so much of it out there!" ; Peter asks to throw him into the sea, reaches the shore himself; Petrushka throws him into the water and returns home]: Gusev 1893:358-363; Turks: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 351 III 2a [Keloglan goes to sell cow skin, spends the night in the forest on a tree; frightens robbers gathered under the tree, they leave treasures; found a bag of crap, replaced them with a bag of jewelry carried by the merchant; sells leather Kadia's wife, notices that her lover secretly kills him; she gives money, asks to bury the body unnoticed; he leaves him in front of the cadia's door; now cadia himself pays; K. puts the corpse on the donkey, he stands on the way of the caravan, the "rider" was pushed, K. accuses of murder]: 368; Dmitriev 1967, No. 67 []: 357-363.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians (Kerman, Mazendaran, Markazi) [a man stabbed the only cow in the hope that those invited to the feast would then invite him to his place, but this did not happen; he deceived him a lot for his skin money; neighbors slaughter their cows and are trying in vain to sell their skins for a high price; put the deceiver in a bag to drown; he swapped places with the shepherd; the shepherd is drowned, the deceiver brought his herd, from the bottom; neighbors jumped into the sea and drowned]: Marzolph 1984, no. 1535:221-222.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [six Toothless saw and killed the Cross-eyed bull; K. took off his skin, came with his wife to the fair and taught her what to do; "When a woman is inside, the bull sings and dances, when the woman is outside, she is silent! " The bull is dancing, the merchant bought it, the wife got out of her skin; K. told the Toothless that he sold the skin for a thousand gold; they slaughtered their bulls, went to sell their skins for a thousand gold, they were driven away; they put K. in the bag, carried to drown, left it for a while; K. asked the shepherd to untie the bag, put a stump there, B. threw the bag into the water; K. herds that shepherd's sheep, says he received them at the bottom; B. jumped into the water, barely escaped, left K. alone]: Grishina 1993:43-47; Latvians [Rich and Poor Man. A rich farmer kills a poor farmer's horse (cow). The poor man goes to the bazaar to sell his skin. She stays overnight with the hostess, who receives her lover. When the husband returns, the poor man tells him that the skin can guess and gets paid for it. An envious rich man also wants money, kills his horse but fails]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 1535:357; the Livs [the big Klouz is rich, he has three horses, a small one (Piški Klouz, PK) poor; big K. kills a foal of the Republic of Kazakhstan at night; he goes to sell his skin; sees the forester's house, the hostess does not let her in, because her husband is not at home; RK waits; sees the pastor come; then the husband and wife hides the pastor in the closet; RK is also in; he pretends that the skin tells him where food, drinks, and lover are hidden; the forester buys the skin for gold; big K. kills his horses, hoping to sell their skins for gold; cannot sell, goes to kill RK, but kills his wife; he takes the deceased to the tavern, tells her to give her wine; she does not react, the servant beats her, the RK demands compensation for the murder, receives gold; big K. kills his wife, goes to sell, gets to the police; ties RK in a bag to drown, goes to church; RK shouts that they want to make him king, a Jewish boy climbs in his place, big K. throws a bag into the lake; RK talks about the wonderful pigs he got in the lake; big K. asks to throw him in a bag into the lake, drowns]: Loorits 200 (4): 375; Karelians [rich brother tells the poor what kind of skin a dead horse at the fair is given a lot of money; the poor has completely died the horse, could not sell his skin; put his skin in a bag, went home, the skin creaks; went into an empty house, hid; the hostess receives a lover, tells where she hid the money; the husband comes, the poor man comes down from the oven; creaks his skin, pretends to be prophetic: he tells where the pancakes, pies, roasts, money are; the owner gave half the money; at home a poor man tells a rich brother that he became rich by selling leather; he killed his horses, went to sell leather, he was imprisoned]: Concca 1959:164-166; the Veps [a fool sells calfskin that "knows everything"; his brothers kill their animals but cannot sell their skins profitably; brothers accidentally kill a mother instead of a fool; a fool takes his mother's body to town and presents the case as if he had killed her master; extorts money from him; brothers want to drown a fool, but he escapes]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 26:203; Norwegians: Dasent 1970 [brothers Big Peter (BP) and Little Peter (MP); BP is rich married, MP left, spent money, returned with a calf; he wandered into the PSU field, he killed him; MP smoked his skin, went to sell; wanted to stay with the woman, she refused; MP saw that she had a local pastor; husband came, she hid the pastor in a chest, ale and brandy behind the door leading to the cellar, cupard (egg and milk cream) under the fireplace grill; MP asked to let him in, the owner allowed, MP pretends that talks to the calf's skin and she said where the food and drink were in the house; the owner was surprised and happy; asks to sell the skin; MP sells it for a chest; carries it to the river, thinks aloud that the chest should be thrown into the water; the pastor asks him to be released for money and a gold watch; MP comes back, tells BP that he sold the skin dearly; he kills all the cattle, goes to sell their skins for fabulous money, they laugh at him; he wants kill MP; he swaps beds with his mother; BP cuts off the mother's head; pays the MP for silence; the MP takes his mother's corpse to the bazaar as if she were selling apples; the man asks for the price; without receiving an answer beats a woman, her head falls off; he pays a ransom to the MP; the MP tells his brother that dead old women are now in price; he kills his foster mother, carries to sell, hardly escaped prison; puts MP in a bag, carries drown; leaves; MP shouts that he is on his way to paradise; changes with the shepherd, he wants to go to heaven; BP drowns the shepherd, MP brings the herd home, says he got it at the bottom; BP tells his wife to throw him into the river into the river into the bag; she waits for a long time, goes to help him chase sheep; MP gets all the property]: 336-345; Swedes [the peasant's only cow died, he went to sell his skin, found a pot of gold; borrowed from village chief Meru, a coin stuck to her; the poor man explained that he got the money by selling the skin; the rich village (Dofväter) slaughtered their cows in vain; when they came to the peasant, that his wife was covered in blood; he played the pipe, his wife "came to life"; they bought a pipe, killed their wives; the peasant put coins down the horse's tail, the rich bought a horse believing that it was littering gold; they put the peasant in the barrel was brought to drown, left for a while; he swapped places with the shepherd; the shepherd was drowned in the sea, the peasant brought the herd, said it was from the bottom]: Liungman 1961, No. 1535:304-305.

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs: Barag 1990, No. 153 [Zakir's elder brother has three horses, his younger Shahir has one; Z. took Sh.'s horse and drove him to death; S. went to sell horse meat, stopped in the same house on the way; saw that his wife had hidden her muezzin lover in the chest; he undertook to drive Satan out, opened the chest, received gold from her husband; said that he had sold his horseskin at a high price; Z. killed his horses, received nothing; At night he came to kill S., accidentally killed his mother; S. dressed up the corpse, came to the same house, the daughters took the old woman to drink, S. accused them of murder, received gold; Z. believes that S. sold the deceased, killed her mother, went to sell, he was beaten; Z. carried S. to drown in a bag; left for a stone; S. tells the shepherd that all the sea fish can be seen in the bag, he swapped places; Z. drowned the shepherd, S. brought the herd, said that from the bottom; Z. ordered to drown himself]: 356-359; Kazan Tatars [the carpenter made a wooden bull, left it in the field; the shepherd took it for the real one, drove it with others, he did not go, he hit him, head fell off; the carpenter got a cow for a bull; he slaughtered his houses, took off his skin, carried him to sell, got caught in the rain, picked up a wet crow, spent the night in the mill; when he was already asleep, he heard him come to the hostess clerk; then the miller came; the hostess hid the scribe in a wool pit, and hid the treat; the miller also invited a passerby; the carpenter says he has a prophetic crow; pulls her tail, she croaks, a carpenter says that the crow indicates where the food is hidden; a genie sits in a hole with wool; a clerk jumps out and runs away; a miller buys a crow; a miller tells his wife that he sold the skin for 300 rubles; neighbors they slaughtered cows, laughed at the bazaar; they hired a man and he pushed a carpenter into the river]: Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 103:394-397; Chuvash (Simbirsk Gubernia, 1907) [the rich man hit the poor man's horse, it died; the poor man took off his skin, put it in a bag, went to the same house for the night; before that, he saw through the window how the hostess treated his lover; the husband came, the hostess hid the food in the stove, the lover into the chest; the poor man pushed his bag, he creaked; said that there was a sorcerer in the bag; he pointed to the food in the oven, to the hell in the chest; the owner bought a "sorcerer", and the poor man also took the chest so that the hell wouldn't interfered with the owners; by the river he pretended to drown the chest; the man in the chest paid off; the poor man returned, told the rich man that he sold the horse's skin for 4 scoops of money; took the scales from the rich man, returned it, sticking a coin; the rich man stabbed his horses, went to sell their skins, he was mistaken for a madman; the poor man's grandmother died, he put her in his place, at night the rich man came and hit her with an ax, thinking that it was his offender; the poor man dressed his mother as alive, brought her home, asked for water, the owner's daughter pushed her grandmother, the poor man accused her of murder, received 3 buckets of money; asked the rich man again for the scales, returned it with a coin; the rich man killed his grandmother, went to sell, people almost grabbed him; the rich man carried the poor man in a bag to drown, went to church; the poor man hears the shepherd complaining about life, invites him to get into the bag, steals him the herd, the rich man drowned the shepherd; after learning that the poor man had brought the herd from the bottom, the rich man asked him to drown, the poor man became rich]: Chuvash tales 1937:46-52 (=Eysin 1993:328-333); marie [older brothers killed Kokshavuya's only horse; he went to the bazaar to sell his skin; in the evening he looked out the window of the house, there was a mistress with a priest; K. heard that if her husband returned, the hostess would hide his priest in a chest; K. was sent to hayloft, but the husband came back and ordered him to be returned to the hut; K. promises to expel the devil; whispers to the ass to give all the money, jumped out of the chest naked; the owner paid generously; K. returned, said he helped out money for the skin; the brothers slaughtered horses, took them to sell their skins, received pennies; K. swapped places with his mother, the brothers killed his mother, not him; K. brought her mother as if alive, the barber gave her vodka; K. accused him of murder, he paid; his brothers killed their wives, took them to sell them; they were exiled to Siberia, K. healed well]: Chetkarev 1948:154-158; Komi-Zyryans [Ivan has one cow, his brother Vasily has one cow, his brother Vasily twenty; I.'s cow was picked up by a bear; V. did not share; I. went to sell cow skin, stopped at the priest, said that his bag was "omniscient"; he spies himself, explains that the "omniscient" said where the priest in fasting is prepared fast, the wine that the deacon's lover is in the chest; the pop asks to give the bag, throw the chest with the deacon into the ice-hole; I. lets the deacon go for 500 rubles, asks V. for a pudovnya at home weigh the money; V. slaughtered the cows, asks for 20 pounds of money for their skins, they laugh at him; V. goes to slaughter I. at night, he puts his mother in his place; I. carries the murdered mother, puts him to drink in a tavern, does not drink the corpse, the cabatchik hits him with a bottle, I. accuses him of murder, receives 300 rubles; says V. that he sold the corpse; V. kills his wife, offers him for sale, he is imprisoned; when he leaves, V. carries I. in a bag to drown, leaves him at the ice-hole, goes to church; I. tells the passing butcher that he is put in a bag because he does not want to be the mayor; the butcher climbs into his place; 12 cows of the drowned butcher I. leads home, says V., that he brought them from the dead; the pop asks him to send him to the next world for cows, I. puts him in a bag for 200 rubles; drowns both]: Doronin 2004:214-219.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [the youngest's 9 older brothers were nicknamed Piskun; after his father's death, he got only a lame bull; the bull was stung by a snake; P. pretended to stab him himself, because the skin is more expensive; in one house exchanged the skin for grain; when he heard a lover who came to negotiate with the hostess to kill her husband, he deliberately scattered wheat and collected it before the owner arrived; the wife hid her lover in a stupa; P. says the owner, who has a snake in his mortar, needs to cook jelly; P. poured the hot jelly into his stupa, which swayed, the owner generously rewarded him, and the hostess gave him even more for burying his lover; the brothers stabbed him bulls, went to sell their skins, burned P.'s hut out of revenge; he brought a bag of ash to the khan's wives, said that it contained gold, but it would turn into ash if someone wanted the khan to die; in the bag of ash, his wife filled the piskun bag with gold so that he would not give them away; the brothers burned their kibitki, went to sell ash, mistook them for madmen; they put P. in a bag, carried them to drown; the khan died, the brothers ran there, P. told bay that they wanted to make him the new khan, they changed, his brothers drowned him; P. promised the shepherd to cure him of his sores, told him to sit for a day with a goat's skin over his head, stole his herd; said brothers that his late father gave them to him at the bottom; the brothers saw the reflection of sheep in the water, jumped into the water, drowned]: Sidelnikov 1958:369-377 (=Daurenbekov 1979:324-329, =Kanbak-Shal 1985:9-14); Karakalpaks [after the death of their father, 9 sons from one wife gave their son from another (his name Piskun) only one bull, persuaded him to slaughter him, did not share the harvest; P. and his fellow traveler spent the night in the village, unnoticed put hot oil in his fellow traveler's mouth, accused the owners of murder, got money, bought four bulls, told the brothers he exchanged them for oxskin; the brothers stabbed their bulls, ridiculed them; they killed their mother P.; he carried the corpse on a donkey, let the worker hit the donkey, the old woman fell, P. accused the workers of murder, received a ransom, told the brothers that he sold the deceased; they killed their mother, they were beaten; they they carried P. in a bag to drown, went to visit; P. tells the shepherd that they want to drown him because he refuses to become king; the shepherd changed places with him, the shepherd was drowned, P. brought the herd, said that bottom; at their own request, P. drowned his brothers]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:75-80; Kyrgyz [Aldar has no cattle; he tells his wife to ask her father to cut a calf out of the tree; gave it to a shepherd to graze; when the shepherd drove the herd home, the wooden calf remained; when he returned with A., the calf disappeared; the judge ordered compensation for the loss; A. and his wife received a cow, slaughtered them, sold meat, built a house; they said they sold their skin for 500 rubles; everyone slaughtered their cows, but the Ail foreman sold the skin for 5 rubles, and others even cheaper; Aldar was put in a chest and thrown into the river; he shouts that he does not want to to be a judge; the foreman's son exchanged places with him; A. took his sheep, said that there was a pasture under water; everyone in turn ordered them to be drowned in chests; A. healed well]: Sulaimanov 1998:23-30.

(Wed. Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas [Rymka's widow's son stabbed a cow and went to sell the skin; no one bought it in a day; he went into a rich courtyard; there was bay's wife and her lover; R. said that he was an acquaintance of her husband's woman; the husband arrived; the wife hid the treats, the lover went underground, and R. went there; the husband says he visited shamans and healers, but no one cured him; R. says he must sing, his lover pays him for his silence; R. went out into the yard, took the guest's property, told the owner that he was a shaman; asked the owner to throw gold into a cup of water; says that there is a naked devil in the underground; let the owner tell his wife to cook 10 buckets boiling water; the scalded devil jumped out, the owner hit him with a whip; the owner gave R. three horses in a team; {the narrator probably forgot about the skin}]: Balter 1955:110-114).