M91c4. The pot cooks by itself.

.14.-.16.21.26.28.-.32.34.35.39.

A person removes the pot from the fire, its contents continue to boil, or the person prepares food in advance, puts it in a pot or pit. Another believes that the pot cooks without fire or incredibly fast (or that a stick, if it hits the ground or the pot, creates food), buys a pot (stick).

Algerian Arabs, Portuguese, Basques, Sicilians, Italians (Tuscany), Ladins, Bretons, French, Irish, Tibetans, Chinese, Russians (Vologda), Ukrainians (Chernivtsi, Kiev), Kalmyks, Turkmens, Latvians, Lithuanians, Eastern and Western Sami, Mari, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Teleuts, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Mansi, Forest and Tundra Yukaghirs.

North Africa. The Arabs of Algeria [Si'Djeha rode a mule, which his father left him when he died; four robbers; said that S. could fall off the mule and crash, offered a cole in return and even C . will pay one hundred silver coins to save lives; at home, the mother said that they would soon go around the world this way; then S. put gold coins under the donkey's tail; when he met the robbers, thanked them for the successful deal ; they believed that the donkey was defecating with gold; returned the mule and gave 200 coins; S. advised to lay carpets under the donkey; each of the robbers was ashamed to admit to others that they had been deceived; when the donkey spoiled rooms for all four; S. cooked chicken with couscous, buried the cauldron on the ground floor; when four came, asked his wife's hoe for hospitality, dug, took out food; sold the hoe as a robber for a hundred coins; again all four were deceived; now S. told his wife to cook dinner, left one hare for her, and took the other with him to the field; when four came there, he sent a hare to give his wife a request cook dinner; the robbers came - lunch is ready, and there is a hare next to the woman; S. sold it for a hundred coins; the deceived came again; S. pretended to stab his wife, blood was flowing; allegedly his wife did not give him water; touched it again with a knife, she came to life; the robbers bought a knife for a hundred coins; each killed his wife and was convicted]: Bushnaq 1987:260-264.

Southern Europe. The Portuguese [a poor farmer says he sold manure for the price of an ointment; a rich man tries to do so, then kills a poor man's cow or horse; burns his house; he succeeds by deception get gold for ash; a poor man sells the skin of a cow or horse - supposedly, she guesses where the food is or where the lover hides; the poor man sells an animal that supposedly defecates with gold; a cauldron that, allegedly cooks his own food; a rabbit who allegedly runs to the address and gives instructions; throws up a corpse, others mistake it for a living, thinks he has killed a person; a rich man tries to imitate, burns down a house, killed his wife or mother; put the poor man in a bag to drown; he persuades the shepherd to switch places, brings the herd (says from the bottom); the rich man drowns]: Cardigos 2006, No. 1535:316-317; Basques [the king arrives; the man, having removed the cauldron from the fire, takes it out into the yard, says that he cooks the pot himself; the king buys it for a lot of money; the man negotiates with his wife; let him tie a wineskin to his chest red wine; when the king comes and becomes angry, accuses his wife, stabs her with a knife, wine will flow, which the king will take for blood, and the husband revives his wife by hanging on the whistle; the king buys a whistle, stabbed wife, but she did not come to life; the king orders the man to be put in a bag, drowned; the servants left the bag in front of the tavern; the man screams that she wants to marry the princess; the shepherd swapped places with him, man brought him sheep, told the king that he had found them at the bottom of the sea; the shepherd was thrown into the sea; the man explains that he was choosing sheep, the king would not get them; the king drowned]: Barbier 1931, No. 6:90-93; Sicilians: Crane 1885, No. 105 [Pitré, no. 157; Uncle Capriano became friends with three thieves; agreed with his wife and daughter to pretend they have a rabbit to bring them firewood or food; the robbers bought the rabbit for a lot of money; when they hit, he ran away; K. explains that the rabbit was hit from the wrong side; then K. agreed with his wife to cook food in an old cauldron, and before the robbers arrived, pour it into a new one without putting it on the fire - as if he was cooking himself; the robbers bought the boiler for a lot of money; left the kid to cook in it without making a fire, returned in the evening - the meat is raw, they broke the cauldron; K. convinced them that they had put the cauldron on the wrong hearth, and now they had broken the cauldron themselves; K. made a deal with his wife again, told her to tie a blood bubble under her clothes; he would Pretending to be angry because the wife did not light the candle, would stab his wife, bleed, and then hang on the whistle and the wife would stand up alive; the robbers were amazed, bought a whistle, stabbed their wives; seeing that again deceived, the robbers put K. in a bag, drove him to drown, stayed in the same house; K. shouts that he did not want to marry the princess; the shepherd changed places with him, drowned, K. brought the herd; says to the robbers, that if he were thrown further into the sea, he would have brought more sheep and oxen; the robbers asked them to drown, K. took possession of all the cattle, became rich]: 303-308; Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 41 [ Sciauranciovi ("smelling of anchovies") put coins under the donkey's tail, sold it for a lot of money; at home he poured hot coals into a hole under the floor, put a pot of soup in this place; the signor who bought the donkey came, S. explained to him that the donkey had deteriorated due to a change of place of residence; sold the pot, which he cooks himself; told his wife, when the signor came to swear, send a rabbit for him, as if he understood order; also sold the rabbit; the signor ordered that S. be put in a bag, thrown into the sea; the servants left the bag, went to church; S. shouted that he did not want to marry the princess; the shepherd changed with him; the shepherd changed with him; the shepherd drowned, S. brought sheep, said that from the bottom; signor ordered him to be thrown into the sea, drowned]: 269-273; Italians (Tuscany: Lukesia) [Campriano puts gold coins under the donkey's tail; cichorans believe that the donkey defecates with gold, they buy it; they are indignant; K. says that his donkey's tail is wrong gold coins; the Chichorans believe that the donkey defecates with gold, buy it; they are indignant; K.rmyat, he is accustomed not to weed, but to rough food; promises to pick it up when he runs home; tells his wife to put a pot of boiling beans in the closet as if the pan is cooking itself; h. Buy a saucepan; K. puts his wife under clothes a bubble of bovine blood; when indignant h comes, accuses his wife of selling the wrong pan, stabs her with a knife, she falls into a pool of blood; blows through a cane into his wife's mouth, she "comes to life"; h. buy cane, kill wives, go to jail]: Kotrelev 1991:90-93; Ladins: Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 10 [tenant deceives prince]: 94-99; 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 is still alive], 125 [two brothers inherited only a bunch of potsherds; one threw away his own and put the other in the money belt; when he stayed for the night, he demanded a secure room: he had 2,000 guilders with him; at night he opened the door slightly and threw away his shards; the owner was frightened and gave 2,000 guilders; believing that he would return for the money, the man heated the pan, then put it on the ground and poured the soup; the owner of the inn paid another 2,000 guilders for the pan; for a thousand people he sold him a box containing animals defecating in gold; the owner found only two dead lice there; then sold two wasps - animals of love, to be put under the bed; they bit the couple; the owner put the man in a barrel, took him to drown, stopped to listen to mass; the devil pulled the man out, climbed into the barrel himself, and he got the oxen line; the man told the owner that there were a lot of cattle at the bottom of the lake; the owner and the rest of the inhabitants jumped into the water and drowned]: 29-33, 327-331.

Western Europe. The Bretons [the poor miller owed the master; returning from hunting, he killed his cow; the miller went to sell his skin, spent the night in a tree in the forest; the skin is black and with horns; under a tree The robbers gathered to share the money; the miller skinned them, the robbers thought it was hell, ran away, leaving the money; the miller brought it home in his shoes; sent his wife to the master to measure the money, said he received them by selling their skins; the master ordered all the cattle to be slaughtered, sent servants to sell their skins, they were beaten; the miller tied a gut with blood to his wife's neck, called the master for dinner; said he could kill his wife and revive him by playing the violin; the gentleman asked for the violin, promising to exempt the miller from tax for two years; the gentleman stabbed his wife, could not revive it; the miller boiled a boiler of water, put it in the middle yard, convinced the gentleman that the boiler itself was boiling without firewood; the gentleman gave the miller two more years of tax exemption, took the boiler, but he did not boil himself; the gentleman and his servant put the miller in a bag, carried to drown, left for a while; when he hears that the merchant has come up, the miller shouts that he will not marry the master's daughter; the merchant was drowned, the miller took his horses and goods; tells the master that he has found everything on at the bottom, and if he were drowned away, he would take out the gold; the servant jumped into the pond first; the master thought he was waving to him, jumped after him; both drowned]: Luzel 1870:85-103 (=1887.3, No. 4:414-425); The French (Lorraine [when poor René's cow died, he went to town to sell his 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 decided 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, he went to R.; he extinguished the fire under the boiler, pretending that the cauldron was cooking by itself: I had to put it on the roof and hit it with a stick; the senor came again to sort it out; R. before that tied a gut in blood to his wife's throat; in front of the señor, told his wife to dance, she refused, he pretended to stab her; when he whistled, the wife came to life; the senor bought a whistle and stabbed his wife; together with the servants, he tied R. up and took him on the cart to drown; they left 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, R. went to the herd; senor and servants asked them to drown, R. got rich]: Cosquin 1886, No. 10:108-111; the Irish [small merchant Carrol brings farmers' oil to the market, returns them their money; he was warned that he was on the road robbers; he hid the money in a bag full of oats; the horse ate it; in the house where he spent the night, K. spent the night in the stable, removing coins from the manure; the owner noticed and bought the horse at a price; at home, expecting that the deceived owner will appear, K. agreed with his wife to extinguish the fire under the boiler at the last moment, pretending that he was cooking himself; that man bought a pot; K. agreed with his wife, tied a goose bubble With blood to his wife under his clothes, pretended to be angry, stabbed him, the wife fell as if dead; the guest was afraid that he would be accused of murder; ran away and did not appear again]: Danaher 1967, No. 6:23-28.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [Uncle Danba boiled water, started drinking tea, threw earth at the fire, pretended to cook the pot himself; an angry and greedy merchant came running and asked for a sale; D. advised: if The pot does not boil, hit the bottom with a stick and then with a stone; the merchant hit with a stone, the pot crashed; during this time D. galloped far]: Cassis 1962:58-61.

China - Korea. Chinese: Lin Lin, Ustin 1959 [after agreeing with his wife, the poor man invited the evil landowner; the wife prepared everything in advance, and the poor man said that it was his pot that cooks food in minutes; the landowner bought a cauldron for a lot of money; realizing that they had been deceived, ordered the poor man to be drowned; the servants hung the bag on a tree and went to eat; when he heard the voice of the landowner's son nearby, the poor man began to say that he was sitting in a bag to heal eyes; the landowner's son exchanged places with the poor man, was drowned, and the poor man took his herd; said he received them in the barn of the spirit of the river; the landowner and his two remaining sons jumped into the water and drowned], 388-393 [the peasant caught the hares in advance, painted the duck, told the landowner that it was a magic golden eagle; he bought a duck, let it go to the hare, dragged it with him, the duck died; the next time the peasant pretended to be him He cooks the pot himself, the landowner bought it again; the peasant's wife spread a rumor that he was dead; the landowner ordered to open the coffin, hit the peasant with a rolling pin, he pretended to come to life; the landowner bought a rolling pin, began to beat the patient wife; he was brought to the county chief and beaten to death]: 381-387; Eberhard 1941, No. 121 [a stupid peasant has a cunning son-in-law; when his father-in-law came to visit, the son-in-law, having agreed with his wife, brought it in a pot in advance cooked meat, hit the pot, pretending that the raw meat was instantly cooked; the father-in-law bought the pot for a lot of money; the next time the father-in-law saw his son-in-law litter silver; (he shoved it in advance coins down the tail); father-in-law bought an ox; son-in-law bought sheep and said he got them from a sea dragon; father-in-law wanted them for himself; they swam - one in a tub, the other in a barrel; you have to knock and ask for sheep; son-in-law told me to hit harder, the tub split, father-in-law drowned]: 209-211.

Central Europe. Russians (Vologodskaya) [the jester took a pot and a stick, went to the big road, cooked porridge, scattered the fire; 12 Kolomna residents came, the jester offered porridge, said that it was necessary to knock on a pot and say - he will cook; Kolomna residents bought a pot and a stick; went to the jester to kill for deception; he again sold them a stick that supposedly bakes pies; tied a bubble under his wife's clothes with with the blood of a bull; pretended to be angry with her, stabbed her, the wife fell, the blood flowed; the jester whipped his wife, she got up again; sold the whip and knife to the Kolomna residents, they killed their wife; the jester told his wife to say that he died; the Kolomna residents did not believe it, pulled the living out of the grave, carried him to drown him in a bag; the ice-hole froze, went for an ax; the master was driving; the jester shouts: I can't judge and row in the province; the master with he swapped places, drowned his master; the jester came on the lordly troika, said that he had it at the bottom; Kolomna residents climbed into the ice-hole, the jester drowned them]: Gura 1965, No. 41:265-266; Ukrainians (p. Drachyntsi, Kitsman district, Chernivtsi region) [People are expelling taverns from several villages. They wander around, see the guy, find out that his name is Ivanko. They say they are looking for a place to set up new taverns and offer to join them. First they ask them to guide them, or they're lost. He agrees and takes them into the forest in the evening. It's getting dark. He tells them to sleep. He finds them anthills instead of a pillow. Ants bite them at night. I. advises them to sleep quietly, because they are little wolves, and when they hear big ones, they will only have shoes left. Korchmari calm down and endure. There is no servant in the morning, the taverns think that he was eaten by wolves. I. finds gypsies who cook soup in a smoky pot, buys a pot for four kruzers. He takes a pot, digs up potatoes, brings water, sits down by the road and makes a fire. Starts to cook. There is a noise from the thicket: it is the taverns who quarrel because everyone wants to be in charge. They are happy to see a hire. I. extinguishes the fire, scatters the coals and sprinkles the pot with dust. The water continues to gurgle. Korchmari are surprised. I. explains that this is a magic pot. If you shower it with dust, you can also cook an ox. Korchmari buy a pot for a hundred gold. I. pours out the water, picks up the cooked potatoes and moves on. He sees a cart with a broken wheel, repairs it, sits on the cart, rests. Korchmari, after digging up potatoes, brings water in a pot and sprinkles it with road dust. Water does not boil, breakfast is not cooked. Korchmari are angry and break the pot. They run in the direction where I. They find him snoring on a cart. I. asks what words they said when they put water into the pot. They say they only smacked their tongues. I.: I should have said: "Gulgle, gurgle, gurgle, let us cook breakfast with water and potatoes - as tasty as chicken." Korchmari is asked why he didn't tell them this before. He replies that they didn't ask, they were probably afraid that some unfortunate Kreuzer would have to pay extra, now let them go hungry. Korchmari complain that they can no longer walk. Ivanko tells them to pull the cart up the mountain and says they will be lucky next. He sleeps on straw, and they pull the cart. Pulling out, they wake up I. He jumps to the ground, tells them to sit down, lets the cart down the mountain. Then he leads the taverns to rest. It leads you to the tree, tells you to climb to the top, get attached to the branches and sleep, because the wolves here are the fiercest. In the middle of the night, he cuts off the lower branches, lays them on the ground and goes to bed on the soft. In the morning, taverns ask who broke off the branches. He replies that the wolves chewed. When asked why he didn't erase it, he said he dozed off for a while, then he hooted off, and they ran away. Korchmari: How to get off now. I. advises that the strongest should grab a strong branch, and let the others grab each other's legs and get off like a rope. Korchmari don't find the strongest soon. One grabs a branch and hangs in the air. When they start to descend, the strongest one screams that his hands are worn out. I. advises to spit on the palm of your hand. He spits, all the taverns fall down. When they come to their senses, I. leads them in the field. Buckwheat blooms there. He tells them that this is such a river, ash is foaming, you have to swim across, and there is a hut on the other side where you can relax, so let them rush into the waves. Korchmari, closing his eyes, falls into buckwheat, waving their hands, I. cheers up. At the very least, they crawl through the field and find themselves above the Prut River. They are angry, they put Ivanko in his fur for the mockery. They decide that while they rest in the hut, let the fur lie on the shore, otherwise they have no strength to throw it into the river. I. hears a carriage coming. He starts screaming: "Save me! I can neither read nor write, and they want to appoint me emperor tomorrow." A landowner rides on a carriage. He decides to become emperor, gets off, releases I., and climbs into his fur himself. I. sits in the carriage and rides. Korchmari throw their fur with the landowner into Prut and set off on the road. They see I. on a carriage. He says he got horses in the world they sent him to. Korchmari want horses like them. I. leads them to the bridge, orders them to jump. The tavern that flies down first dives and no longer emerges. The others are scared. I.: He chooses the best horses and the most beautiful carriage there, do they really want them to be left with jaws and taradaiks. They're jumping. I. sits on a carriage, goes on]: Ivasyuk 1968:49-53; 1973:69-73; Ukrainians (Kyiv region) [A man named Shchuts makes himself a small cart, pulls it out onto the road, gets into it and rides down the hill. Merchants are surprised that the cart travels by itself without horses. They're offering Shch. whatever he wants for the cart. Shch. calls a significant price, merchants buy, sit and go without bargaining. The cart stops downstairs. Merchants think that the cart is capricious, they ask him and beat him, but the cart does not move. Merchants come back to ask Shchutz what to do or to collect the money, but he's gone. Shch. takes a pot, yagli (millet dish) and corned beef, goes out onto the road, digs a hole, makes a fire in it, and when the heat is enough, puts it in a pot, showering it with sand around it so that the fire is not visible it was, cooking porridge. Litvins (Belarusians) go, see that the pot is cooking without fire, buying it and moving on. In the evening, they showered the pot with sand, poured millet, filled it with water, foam appears. Stupid Litvins are already galloping in joy that they own such a treasure. They interfere, try it, but the millet is raw and the water is cold, the Litvins understand that they have been deceived and return to Sch. Shch., knowing that they will come to pay for the fraud, comes up with a new trick. He asks the Litvins to come to the table, but his wife does not do it very quickly, he takes a knife, hits his wife in the side with it, and she falls covered in blood. A minute later, Shch. takes off the batog from the perch, hits his wife three times with it, saying: "Resurrection Batozhek - get up, Marushka." The wife gets up healthy and cheerful. The Litvins buy themselves a resurrection batozhek. At home, Litvin, angry with his wife, stabbed her, and his wife falls, swimming in blood. He takes his jars in his hand, hits once, two and three, telling him to get up, but his wife is dead. Litvin, without telling his associates about this, secretly buries his wife, and the resurrection batozhek gives it to another. This is how all the Litvins killed their wives. They decide to take revenge on Sch. When they come to his house, they ask his wife where Shch. is, and she says she is dead. Sch. Anticipating that they would come to him, dug a hole, climbed into it, and told his wife that when they came to look for him, let him announce that he was not in the world. The Litvins come and tell his wife that they killed their wives because of him. Shchutz's wife says it was all a hoax, Shchutz hit a blood bubble tied under her arm, and she pretended to be dead and got up after he said it. The Litvins demand to show his grave. They pull Shch. out of the hole, tie it in a bag, and carry it to throw it into the water. They go for a stone to tie it to a bag. Shch. hears someone coming and starts screaming: "Help me! I can neither read nor write, but they want to declare me king." A Jew passing by, when he hears this, comes to the bag and says that he can read and write, so it's better to let him be king. Shch. asks him to get into the bag, and he'll tie it up without anyone guessing. The Jew comes in, S.h. Ties him up, runs away. Litvins find the stone, tie it to a bag and throw it into the water. S. continues to deceive people]: Nowosielski 1857 (2): 339-343.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Kalmyks [the fox pricked its paw, came to the field of poor Senyak; he tied its paws and pulled out a thorn; three rich brothers came and mistook the fox for a dog; S. exchanged it for a horse: my dog itself brings game; the fox did not return, S. explained that his dog was probably stuck in a hole; put the food and the araku in the hole in advance, covered it with earth; hit this place with a stick, took out the hidden one; exchanged the stick for two horses; hid a gut with blood under his wife's hat; when indignant brothers arrived, S. pretended to be angry with his wife, stabbed him on the head, splashed blood; then "revived" the victim with a whip; exchanged a whip on three horses; the brothers killed their wives, could not revive them; the brothers tied S. to the poplar, went to buy firewood to burn it; S. tells the humpback and half-blind shepherd that being tied to a tree is healed because of these ailments; the shepherd exchanged places with S., his brothers burned him; S. says that a spark from his body fell into the river, he was given a flock at the bottom; now underwater spirits divide horses; brothers poured sand into their trousers , jumped into the water and drowned]: Vatagin 1964:211-216.

Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens [when Aldarkose's son went to sell a cow, 40 merchants assured the boy that it was a goat; A. threw gold donkeys down the drain; 40 merchants bought it for all the gold they had; A. orders to leave the donkey on the carpets in a dark room; A. cooked pilaf in advance; when 40 merchants arrived, he pretended to cook pilaf in an empty cauldron; the merchants bought a cauldron and began to hit it with a ladle until smashed; A. caught two birds with one stone, left one in the house, took the other with him; pretended to send a hare to his wife with an order to cook a shurpa; the merchants bought a hare; next time A. hid it in his bosom the wife had a blood bubble, pretended to be furious, stabbed his wife, and then began to play the pipe; the wife was resurrected; the merchants bought a pipe, killed their wives, first pretended to resurrect them, but then admitted that they were deceived again; A. hid in the grave, taking with him a red-hot iron rod with a tamga at the end; the merchants decided to spoil the grave, each A. gave a brand; told the khan that his slaves did not obey him; seeing the brand, the khan gave the merchants A., who sold them]: Kekilov, Kosayev 1962:63-70.

Baltoscandia. Latvians: Alksnite et al. 1958 [Machatyn cooked porridge in the cauldron, removed the cauldron from the fire, it is still boiling, the master believes that the boiler cooks himself, buys it; M. tied his calves with blood on his back; the master ordered to beat him with a truncheon, blood splashed, the master believes that he killed M.; tells him to throw the corpse into the ice-hole; while they were going to get the ax, M. got out of the bag, put stones in it, drowned the bag; M. throws it at the dogs master of the bump; says that there is a lot of money at the bottom; the master jumped into the ice-hole and drowned]: 463-464; Pollan 2005, No. 7 [the father died, the poor son hit flies by the road, shouted "every seven times"; the king heard says that he cannot kill more than one with one blow; made a young man a commander; but I have a mother; and a cauldron that boils without firewood; the king gave 200 gold; the young man boiled water in the boiler, removed the boiler, under he had coals, you can't see them, the king saw that the cauldron was boiling without fire, bought it for an expensive price; the king did not boil; the queen had waited a long time; the king was back, only his mother was at home; young man: but I'm seven in one blow, and there warriors are coming; the king sees those walking; promises a quarter of the state and a barrel of gold; the young man told the king to put his hat over his eyes when he screams 70 times 7; the king saw only the forest]: 57-59; Lithuanians [the master sees poor Plikpetris digging through manure; he replies that his mare defecates with coppers if it eats straw, silver after hay, gold after oats; the master buys a mare; P. has time put silver and two gold coins under her tail; when he finds them in the manure, the master rejoices, then understands the deception; goes to punish P., sees with fear the boiling pot of cabbage soup left on the rubble by P.'s wife; believes that the pot cooks without firewood; P. puts a bubble of beet kvass under his wife's clothes, tells his wife to scold him for selling the pot and the mare cheaply, in front of his master's eyes, as if he stabs his wife, pours kvass, the master believes that blood; P. says he will resurrect his wife by playing the flute and hitting her with a belt; the wife gets up; the master buys a belt and a flute, cuts his wife, she dies altogether; P. teaches his wife to tell the master that P. is dead, buried in a potato hole; the master goes to spoil the grave, P. thinks that the cow is poking a skewer from below, the master is killed, P. has healed well]: Lebite 1965:320-325; Eastern Sami ( Kildin dialect) [the guy does not listen to his parents, he is idle, they send him to hell; the hell took him away; the eldest son of the old devil (the pass is probably something indecent); the middle son of the old devil offered to throw a sword - who is taller; the guy pretends to be afraid to throw the sword on the cloud, the devil asks not to throw it; the youngest son of the old devil offered to carry a log; the guy sat on him, carrying the hell; old hell tells his son to make a horse out of a log and send the boy back to his parents; after eating with them, he went on a journey; seeing two hunters, removed the boiling pot from the fire and put it on the snow; the hunter believed that the cauldron cooks himself, bought it for a lot; the guy began to live with his grandmother; tied a bubble of sheep blood under her arm; when the hunters come to kill him, let the old woman pretend to contradict, and the guy seems how he would stab her; the hunters bought a knife and two sticks with which the guy allegedly revived the imaginary victim; killed his wives]: Kert 1961, No. 21:75-78; Western Sami: Lagercrantz 1958, No. 373 (Lyngen, coast of northern Norway) [mother died, Matthias put his body on a sledge, went to town, came to a wealthy merchant who poured him vodka; M. said that his old mother was waiting for him outside, could she too pour; the merchant offered the old woman a cup of vodka, she is silent, he hit her, M. accused the merchant of murder, he paid the money; after burying his mother, he came home, cooked porridge, put the pot on Keule {log?} ; the king saw, bought Keule for a lot of money; his wife began to cook porridge - she did not cook; the king came to M., his sister said he was sleeping, went to wake him up; M. stabbed the goat in advance, tied his sister under his apron stomach with blood; entering the room, pretended to be angry with his sister, stabbed him in the stomach, splashed blood; M. took a wand with a hole and began to blow his sister's ears until she "came to life"; king bought a wand, he and his wife killed the child, he did not come to life; the king put M. in a barrel; it was left for three days to be thrown into the ice-hole; M. screams that he was in paradise; the cattle merchant wanted to take his place {and drowned in an ice-hole}; M. brought the herd, told the king that it was from the bottom; the king also wanted to get the herd, sat in a barrel for three days, drowned; M. became king and celebrated a lavish wedding; I was stuffed into a barrel and shot so as not to lie again]: 119-123; Pollan 2005, No. 7 [father died, poor son hit flies by the road, shouted "seven times every time"; the king heard, said that he could not kill more than one with one blow; made the young man a commander; but I have a mother; and a cauldron that boils without firewood; the king gave 200 gold; the young man boiled water in the boiler, removed the cauldron, under it coals, they are not visible, the king saw that the cauldron was boiling without fire, bought for expensive; the king's cauldron does not boil; the queen has waited a long time; the king is back, only his mother is at home; young man: but I am seven with one blow, and there are warriors coming; the king sees those walking; promises a quarter states and a barrel of gold; the young man told the king to put his hat over his eyes when he screams 70 times 7 times; the king saw only the forest]: 57-59; Eastern Sami (Skolts, Neiden) [famous guy deceiver; the king orders him to deceive; he asked him to let him go get his deceptive wand; did not return; the king came to him himself; when he saw him, the guy took off a pot of porridge from the fire, put it among rooms on Pfahl {log?} ; the king believed that he was cooking the pot himself, bought it for a lot of money; the king called the guests - he did not cook the pot; he came to the guy to kill him; boy: you didn't take the log; the king also bought a log; the same; when the king came again, the guy stabbed the goat, tied the goat's blood-filled stomach to his sister; the sister tells the king that his brother cannot be woken up - he will get up and be like a mad man; she went to wake up, the guy did pretending to be angry with his sister, stabbed, blood splashed, the sister fell; then the boy blew into the goat's horn, the sister got up; the king bought a horn, gathered people, pretended to be asleep, telling his sister to wake him up; stabbed his sister, blew the horn in vain; the king put the boy in a coffin, left him on the edge of the cliff, promised to push him down when he screamed; the old woman drove the herd of sheep, the boy screamed how good it was to be in paradise; the old lady took his place; first she screamed for paradise, then screamed; the king came and pushed her down; the boy brought the herd; the king told him to push him off the cliff; the boy did so married a royal daughter]: 1961, No. 295:140-145.

Volga - Perm. Marie [at the Epiphany of the Lord, one person boiled a pot of meat, put it in the canopy; the pop believed that he was cooking the pot himself without fire; after the procession he returned and bought the pot for a lot of money; Popadya does not believe; the pop put the pot in the hallway, the contents were covered with ice; the popadya put the pot on the fire; after eating, the pop furiously broke the pot and went to demand the money back; the seller agreed to return money if the pop returns the pot; the pot cannot be returned]: Lewy 1989, No. 20:36-37; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 86 [Aldar tells Mullah that his horse wastes gold three times a day, puts a coin under her tail, the mullah buys it at a high price; comes to A.; he cooked the meat in advance, pretends to cook the cauldron himself; the mullah buys a cauldron; A. pretends to have a postman rabbit; his wife answers the mullah that her husband went to buy firewood, releases one rabbit, A. returns with the rabbit, the mullah thinks it's the same; the mullah bought a rabbit; the mullah came to beat A.; he pretended to die; from there is smoke in the ground; the mullah thought it was A. was burning in hell and left], 87 [the deceiver rolled on a sleigh; the merchant believed that the sleigh was going without a horse, bought it; next time the deceiver cooked porridge and put it a boiler by the road; the merchant believes that he cooks the boiler himself, buys it]: 338-344, 345-347; the Bashkirs [Khan Turakhan's stallion, they threw out the mares from Khan Yanebakhan 60 versts from T.; Y. accused T.; bald the boy Taz undertakes to resolve the dispute; crossing the river, he puts on boots - not to spoil his legs against the stones; taking his peers, he begins to kill dogs. - They did not come to the rescue when wolves are 60 versts away from them. strangled the sheep; Y. demands a wiser sage, Taz exposes the bull - lives with his mind; then the goat is gray-bearded; Y. gives Tazu the name Erense-sesen; T. adopted him; E. went to look for a bride, caught up with the old man; suggests passing the time, making a cauldron out of the ground; says that the straight road is winding and straight; E. comes to the old man's daughter, says that the stove is good, and the pipe is crooked (the girl has a nose with hump); girl: but the craving is good; explains E.'s words to his father: he offered to start a conversation, bake a grouse in a hole; the straight road turned out to be uncomfortable; the old man asks for 6 identical mares for his daughter, E. sends 6 rays - the main thing is that they are the same; T. tells the girl to sew galoshes out of stone; girl: let her send sand threads; T. sent a bull, let him calve; girl: my father gave birth, cannot go out; E. married a girl; for every word he receives Altyn from Khan (since he helped resolve the dispute with Y.); they want to execute Brother E. for lying: an arrow hit the hare's ear through his leg; E.: the hare scratched his ear; his brother was released ]: Barag 1990, No. 1:14-19.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Teleuts [seeing four merchants, the ploughman Chut cooked food, put the pot on the stove, extinguished the fire, covered it with turf, said that he was cooking the pot himself; the merchants bought the pot; they came back to kill C. mixed manure with money, says that his mare is littering gold; merchants bought a mare; C. promises to return the money if the merchants return the pot and mare, invites him to his place, sends him as if to his wife on an errand a crow caught in advance; C.'s crow's houses and ordered dishes; merchants bought a crow, C. ran away]: Potanin 1983, No. 5:247-249; Tuvans [poor Mergeldey from the upper reaches of Chinge-Khem - skillful builder; answers Karati Khan that his ax is working on his own; he buys, is disappointed, comes back, sees that M. is making tea by putting the boiler on a stump (M. extinguished the fire before that); Khan buys a boiler; then However; M. caught two crows ahead of time, took one to his mother's yurt, kept the other for himself; when K. appeared, he sent a crow, ordering his mother to be protected; K. comes to M.'s mother's yurt, there is a crow; he buys it; sends it to protect the hansha, the crow flies into the forest; M. hides a bubble of bovine blood in his bosom, when K. appears, strikes himself, saying that Khan Hereti threw the knife from the sky; blood is pouring, M. is alive; K. buys a knife, kills himself; M. tells people that the khan appeared before Kurbustu Khan]: Kalzan 1964:5-10; South Altai Tuvans [Mergeldey pretends that the crow is obeying his order to protect his mother; Kharaldai Haan buys a crow for 50 langs of silver, it flies away; M. puts the cauldron on a stump to make tea; H. believes that the cauldron cooks without fire, buys; M. hangs a gut with blood around his neck, stabs himself, then "comes to life" ; H. buys a knife, stabbed three servants to death; H. orders M. to drown; the servants leave the bag on the ice, go to make an ice-hole for the ax; the khan's blind son goes, M. shouts that he saw the light while sitting in a bag; the son of Khan changes places with him; the khan's son is drowned, M. comes and says that there are a lot of cattle at the bottom; H. orders his four officials and himself to be thrown into the water; M. began to rule the valley]: Taube 1978, No. 41:259-260.

Western Siberia. Mansi: Balandin 1938, No. 8 [Ekva-Pyris lives with his grandmother, put the meat pot on two wood cutters, it boils without fire; two sons of Ushin-Otyr-Oiki came and bought a boiler for two sets clothes; they do not boil; next time he filled the body with sables and dried fish, pretended that his dog got it all and brought it himself; the sons of the UOO bought a male dog, he got nothing, their dogs tore it; EP tied a cow's neck with blood to his grandmother's throat; UO stabbed her with a knife in front of her sons, she fell; then he stabbed the knife into the ground, the grandmother got up; the UOO sons buy a knife, cut their wives, they did not come to life; EP takes up money to bury a dead girl; brings her to UO, leaves her in the ice-hole with a knife in her chest; accuses the UO daughters of killing the girl; marries the youngest daughter of UO as a ransom; lives with her; UO's other two daughters guessed the deception; EV hung them by the chin on the palisade; the shaman almost figured out who the killer was; EP releases dogs for dried meat, screams that enemies were coming; everyone jumped out, EP drowned a shaman in a cauldron with fly agarics, explains that he fell himself; UO asks to take the dead away; EP sticks an arrow in the dead shaman's forehead, accuses two people he meets, who give a rich ransom, his younger sister; comes to shamans, who hacked their own son in the dark; EP flies away with a loon, a shaman chases a hawk; EP descends, pierces, becoming a needle, the ice of the lake, the shaman crashed on the ice; EP has become a pike, swims with other pike; horns grow up; a shaman and a shaman catch him to the top, he became a man, crushed them into pieces with an iron hammer; returns to his grandmother with two wives and a long wagon train]: 131-139; Kumaeva 2015, No. 9 [ Ekva-pygris tells the two sons of the City Hero that he cooks his cauldron himself, without fire - just put the cauldron on two raw logs; they bought it, nothing was cooked; E. says that his dog herself brings fur from the forest - you just need to fill its bodies with honey food; they bought a dog, attached food bodies to it; other dogs ate the food, tore the food they bought; E.: the dog should have been released on the outskirts of the village; E. pretends that when he cuts his aunt's neck with a knife, a table with food appears, and his aunt then comes to life; the sons of the City Hero bought a knife, cut their wives necks]: 101-107; Chernetsov 1935 [Ekva-Pyrishch lives with his grandmother and younger brother; calls menkwa to help eat excess supplies; he eats everything, wants to eat his brother; E. invites him to come in the fall; pretends to be dead; menkv comes eats his brother; E. returns, finds menqua, says that he has come to life, took a lot of fur for his brother; tells Usyng-Otyr's two sons that the dog is getting the beast for him, that the cauldron cooks meat itself; takes it for the dog three deer, three more for the cauldron; ties a bag of blood to the grandmother's throat, pretends to kill her, that his knife revives her; sells a knife, they kill their wives with it; E. pretends to be his own sister, W.'s sons marry her, she goes swimming with the girls, jumps into the water when they dive, turns into a pike, swims away, becomes E.; in the fall E. comes, for her supposedly drowned sister, marries two W.'s daughters; girls recognize him, he kills them, hangs them on trees; the shaman eats fly agarics, camlates to know the murderer; E. shouts that enemies are coming, throws the shaman into a boiling pot; says that these are not enemies, but dogs, but the shaman is dead; he is asked to take the deceased to his father; sticks an arrow into the dead, pretends to be killed by hunters; E. gets sables from them; shouts to the shaman's father that the hell has come, he cuts the deceased, E. says that he killed his son; E. flew away with a loon, the shaman's father followed by a hawk; E. turns into a pike, the pursuer catches it; together with his wife he hits with a club, but they only beat each other; E. finishes off the old man, returns home]: 68-80.

SV Asia. Tundra Yukaghirs (Nizhnekolymsky District) [Tebegey, who has a blind wife, replies to a fabulous old man that his ax itself is chipping firewood; he sticks an ax, returns in the morning, an ax on the old one place; T. cooks meat, threw snow at the cauldron, replies that the cauldron itself is cooking; the SS does not cook; pokes his wife with a knife, says that she saw the light; the SS hacked his wife to death with an ax; the SS asks T. what death he wants to die; T. tells him to put him in a bag, drown him in an ice-hole; halfway he says that he has forgotten his sheath, sends the SS to bring them; the passing lamutes shouts that he has already seen the light; a blind old woman sits in the bag instead of him, the SS drowned it; T. comes on deer, says the SS that it's good at the bottom, and his wife is there; the SS orders to drown himself]: Gogolev et al. 1975:234-235; forest yukaghirs: Iokhelson 1900, No. 17 [ when a fabulous old man came to Debeguey, D. pretended to cook his pot himself; the SS took the pot, but he did not cook from him, he broke it; D. says that he also cuts his axe; the same (the SS broke the ax with anger against a stone); the SS wife's eyes began to go blind; D.: plant her in the plague, extinguish the fire, wave with a sharpened knife; when the SS lit the fire, his wife's head in one place, her legs in another; the SS put D. in the bag and ponem drown; D.: bring my belt, you can't die without it; two girls are coming; D.: I'm treating my eyes in my bag; the girls' mother is blind, they put her in a bag instead of D.; SS drowned her; D. came with the girls, said that found wives at the bottom; the SS ordered himself to be drowned, crashed against a rock, fell into the sea]: 34-384; Kreinovich 1982 [Debegey puts fat in the pot, snow on top, puts it on the fire, pretends to cook, turning snow into any food; another person believes him, gives him wealth, his wife; D. takes him away to the mountain; when he returns, explains that he did not cook the pot because the new owner went where he used to go , D.; promises a blind old man Even to heal his eyes, gets deer for it; next time that man puts D. in a bag, prepares to drown; D. says he will not die of water, he must be pushed against rocks; sends a man to bring a forgotten belt and glasses; explains to the blind son of the blind Evenk that he is in the bag to heal his eyes; he unties D., puts his father in his bag; another a person brings a belt, glasses, pushes the bag off a cliff into the river; D. is with Even deer, says that he received wealth from relatives from the river; another person asks to throw it off, dies; =Zhukova, Chernetsov 1992:61-65]: 288-292.