M94a1. Mountain riding: trickster animals.

.35.-.41.43.59.

By stupidity or negligence, a zoomorphic character rolls down a mountain and as a result dies or suffers damage (attacks the edge, falls into the water, etc.).

Western Evenks [fox and bear (elk)], Sym [sable and fox], Baikal [fox and bear (elk)], Amur [fox and bear (elk)], Sakhalin [fox and bear (elk)], Evens [humans], Negidals [fox and bear], Nanais [fox and bear], Udege [fox and bear], Nivkhs [fox and bear; hare and bear], Sakhalin Ainu [fox and bear], forest yukaghirs [fox and elk], Chukchi [ raven and wolf; raven and fox], kereki [raven and wolf], Asian Eskimos [raven and wolf], Northern Alaska and Bering Strait inupiate [raven and fox], Guyanese carinha [turtle and jaguar].

Western Siberia. Mansi: Kuzakova 1994 (southern Mansi - Kondinsky district) [Mos-ne has a boy and a girl, and Por-ne too; both go to tear grass for insoles, P. offers to slide down the mountain, kills M ., after riding it with iron skis; M.'s children see their mother's intestines; run to her sister; P. does not tell another Por-ne to kill M.'s children, she will kill herself when she returns; she accidentally kills P.'s children, thinks they are children M., and M.'s children are hiding; they are running, throwing a comb (forest), a bar (a stone mountain), matches (fire); three P. jumped out from under the stump, one of them became friends with M.'s children; M.'s son pricked his finger with an awl, he was buried; girl P. leaned down for a drink, girl M. began to drown her, she had to give her sable clothes; P. sits in a sledge drawn by black ones, went beyond the mayor (Usyn-Oyr-Oika), M. into a sledge with white deer, married Tonton-Oika; went to remember her brother, found him alive with his wife, they gave a lot of deer; P. hid the sun, the Hare promises that the sun will appear, it has returned]: 110-112); Rombandeeva 2005, No. 41 (Khoshlog village, written by the author from his mother) [Mosne and Porne live, each has a daughter and son; P. calls to collect firewood, invites M. to be the first to ride wooden skis, presses it with his iron skis; daughter M. looks in, sees how P.'s children ask them to eat M.'s eyes, P. promises them the eyes and ears of M.'s children; daughter M. puts her brother in the back, runs, throws a comb (thicket) behind them, flint (flame to the sky), whetstone (mountain); P. could not climb the mountain; daughter M. eats cloudberries, does not pay attention to her brother, who falls into the ground at that time; daughter M. comes to the lake, where daughter P. invites her to swim, takes her clothes, gives her her measles; daughter M. asks for her bag back, his clothes are better than before; Toyton-Toika's son and son Usyn-Otyr-Toika shoot at the arrow, daughter P. mistakenly grabs the TT arrow, marries him, daughter M. marries the son of the WOT; daughter M. goes to a wake for her brother, where she left him; there is a house, a barn; a woman tells dogs to lick ice and snow from their man; daughter M. sees her brother, he married Misna; when she tried to pick him out of the ground, she poked him in the eye, now one eye is gone; M.'s daughter was given a wagon of deer; she arrives where she left her daughter P.; daughter M. replies that she was given an iron chain to encircle the city by her father-in-law, a copper cauldron, white deer; daughter P. says that she was given a bast rope, half a clay pot, a magpie, harnessed the crucian carp, clothes were given from the bark; asks her husband to do an ice-hole, or even a magpie, the crucian carp will die; they went into the ice-hole, the sledges got up; the bast rope breaks; half the pot will not fall far; M.'s little son says that his uncle's arrow in the house bounces off with a ringing ringing, grandfather - with a knock; daughter M.'s husband's father is offended, he is at war against her brother; daughter P. advises to remove the sun and moon from the sky; daughter M. takes off, attaches it to the sledge, it becomes dark, father-in-law cannot go to fight ; says he joked, M.'s daughter brings the stars back to heaven]: 289-301; Northern Mansi (Northern Sosva) [Mos-ne and Por-ne live together, both have two children, a girl and a boy; P. calls M. for grass for insoles, offers a ride down the mountain; kills M. by riding on M.'s back with iron skis; M.'s children find their mother's intestines in the grass, run to her sister; P. tells another Pore -ne kill M.'s children, but she kills the children of P. herself; M.'s children run, throw a comb, a whetstone, matches, a thicket, a mountain, a fire appear; M.'s children sit on the bed, it falls apart, three por-ne appear ; one made friends with them, goes on with them; the boy pricked his finger with an awl and died; P. sat in a sledge with whites (this is the Usyng-Oyr-Oiki sledge), and M. with black deer (Tonton-Oiki sledge), they come to town; M. finds a brother, he is married; the sister gets a wagon train of deer, leaves with her brother, does not wait for P.; she hides the sun; the hare tells the girl that the sun will appear again; grandfather tells P. to let go sun, light again]: Kupriyanova 1960:109-112; Eastern Khanty (b. Wah) [Lisa and Hare live together, both have children; Lisa offers sledding down the mountain, goes first against desire, Lisa runs over, breaks her back; Zaychikha's son and daughter see Lisa feeds meat to their mother's children, offers to eat their children Bunnies; they run, throw a comb, whetstone, flint, they turn into a thicket, a mountain, a fire; the fox lags behind; while the sister eats cloudberries, the brother fails into the ground; (hereinafter referred to as the Moss woman); hits the stump, from there the Pore woman jumps out, offers to swim; puts on M.'s rich fur clothes, gives M. her coryam; in the city of M. manages to pick up the arrow of the son of an Urban Village Old Man, P. has to take the arrow of Tonton-Old Man's son (Tonton-Oika is a poor man, servant, or cunning); respectively, they marry; P. weaves a rope that was enough to wrap half the city, M. - the whole city three times; M. comes to the place where his brother disappeared; there is a house, a bear enters, takes off his skin - this is his brother; sends a herd of deer to his sister]: Lukina 1990, No. 28:101-104; Northern Khanty: Aksyanova et al. 2005, No. 1 (b. Son) [Porne has a daughter, Moshne has a daughter and a son; P. calls M. roll down the mountain, puts a knife on the mountain, carries the corpse home, eats; promises her daughter that she will eat M.'s children; M.'s children run away, throw a firestone (fire to the sky), a comb (forest), a sharpener (river); P. cannot cross it; contrary to the ban, the brother drinks from a puddle, sinks into the ground, his sister only manages to grab his eye; touches a rotten birch stump, a new P. comes out from under it; offers to swim, puts on the girl's clothes, gives her hers; both come to the house, P. marries the son of Washan-Kurtan, an old man, a young M. for Tonton's son; daughters-in-law go home; where his brother has disappeared, M. sees a house, there is a woman ; brother comes, M. gives him his eye; when sending his sister home, brother tells him not to look back; she looked back when her eyes fell, those deer were gone, the rest were following her; argish P. was not carried by deer, but by fish, she lets them go into the lake; at night P. puts a nail in her husband's ear, he dies; M. hears P. singing about it, talks about it; the nail is removed, the man comes to life, P. was torn apart by deer]: 236-239.

Eastern Siberia. Evenki [plot summary: The fox invites the Bear (Moose) to ride down the mountain; rolling first, he sticks a knife (spit) on the slope, which the Bear (Moose) stumbles upon, rips his belly and dies; fairy tales on this story were recorded in almost all areas of settlement of the Evenks: in the Evenki District (in particular, the author's notes in 1952 in the village. Uchami and in the village. Tutanchany, the middle reaches of the Lower Tunguska), to the Katanga District of the Irkutsk Region, in the Puzzle Regions of Transbaikalia, in the Far East and on the island. Sakhalin; dolgans have options]: Lebedeva 1966:189; Amur Evenks [The fox invites the old man to find his missing deer and herd them; eats deer; the old man shouts to his wife to hold them Fox, Lisa says that the old man tells her to tie an ornament - a knife - to her tail; runs away with a knife; invites the Bear to roll off the ice, sticks a knife below; tells the Bear that he will pull out a splinter, pulls out intestines, eats it; tells the Wolf that the ornament will be on its tail if it is lowered into the water; the Wolf freezes, the Fox eats it; drives the Hare into the loops, eats it; invites the old man to carry the meat of the moose killed by him; takes all meat]: Bulatova 1980:98-102 (=1987, No. 6:123-126); Sym Evenks [Konstantin Ilyich Likhachev, August 12, 2009; Lisa stole something from Sobol; he invited her to slide down the mountain to autumn ice; rolled down first; The fox rolled down and fell through; got to the fish; their fish princess was sick; the fox called her to be cured, ate; ordered to be carried ashore; when the fish returned to the princess, there only bones]: Davletshin, Duvakin 2009, personal message, No. 2; Evens [Tylken and Dolgan brothers; while they were little, Kagynkan, the head of the hostile, locked them in an iron house; they grew up, picked him up like cauldron; 1) K. offers skiing down a mountain where knives are stuck; Kagynkan's man dies; 2) jump on treetops, below the tip (same); 3) fight at the pit (same); 4) jump on stumps around knives (same); 5) eat a cauldron of meat (D. eats); 6) K. gives D. his daughter, who has iron nails and teeth; at night she bites him, D. neuridim, beats her himself, kills her]: Novikova 1958:42-48.

Amur - Sakhalin. Negidals [The fox tells the Bear that he makes the sledge ride down the mountain; the bear helps her, rolls down, the sledge breaks; the bear breaks its front legs, back bones and pelvis; since then, bears the front legs are shorter than the hind legs]: Khasanov, Pevnov 2003, No. 67:134; Naikha Nanai: Aurora 1986, No. 15 [Crucian carp and Crow mow reeds, Raven offers to compete who will assemble the sheaf faster, the crucian carp wins, wants to eat, he hides in the lake; the bear drinks the lake; the crow does not know which crucian carp is; the other Fox scrapes the Bear's ass, the water flows out; the fox at the ice-hole has lowered its tail into the water, says he will recover this way; the Bear's tail froze to the ice, he tore it off; the fox pretends to glue his eyes; the Bear forcibly erased the glue; the Fox offers to ride down the mountain, puts a spit, the Bear ran into, died; Hares, Foxes ask the old man for a cauldron, ax, knife, forget to leave meat for him; brush their teeth, throw the collected food into the cauldron; the old man is not offended, calls everyone to him, closes all exits, together and his wife kills hares and foxes; one fox, one hare ran away through the hearth, their ears turned black], 16 [no episode with a dirty tail; the foxes urinated into the cauldron, brought it to the old woman; she closed the exits, interrupted the fox; ( hares and the old man do not participate)]: 71-73, 75-77; Lebedeva 1966 [the bear went looking for a chanterelle; she rolls down the mountain on her own cereal; bear: you are the chanterelle that deceived me; chanterelle: I'm different, yours I passed by; I ride to make the coat shiny; the bear started rolling; the fox stuck a spit, the bear pierced its belly and died; the fox ate it]: 193-194; Bikin Nanai [Crucian carp s The crow mows the reeds, the Raven offers to compete, who will collect the sheaf faster, turns off the other's eyes; wins, the Crucian carp hides in the lake; the Bear drinks the lake, but the Fox scratches the Bear, the water flows out; The fox cooks glue, tells the Bear that he will cure their eyes; the Bear asks him to anoint his eyes, has difficulty ripping off the glue; the fox cuts the ice, says it's warm to sleep in the ice-hole, advises the Bear to lower the tail into the water; the Bear's tail froze to the ice, he tore it off; the fox offers to ride down the mountain, puts a spit, the Bear ran into, died; The foxes ask the old woman for a cauldron, a knife, a meat board, forget to leave it for he is meat; they brush his teeth, bring the collected goods to the old woman; she kills two foxes with a knife, makes a hat and mittens; the girl offers to help bring water, takes away her hat and mittens; Heron, Eagle do not bring, bird lets the girl and her sister catch herself, put her hat and mittens under the fox, she brings them to the old woman; she is entangled in the branches, she dies; the old woman put her to bed, she becomes a girl]: Sam 1976, No. 1:120-122 ; Nanais (Amur District of Khabarovsk Krai) [The fox suggests that the Mergen harness her in a sledge; says that the leg has fallen into a crack, asks to put it on a sledge between the tues, eats moose and fish oil, breaking a tooth, runs away; mergen finds a tooth; puts a squirrel, raccoon, hare, ferret in his legs; comes into the house, starts a shamanic dance, animals fall out, everyone laughs, the mergen recognizes a fox by a broken tooth, enough; she asks her to let go, promises to get a pig, which old Ka has been feeding for seven years; hires to feed the pig, eats it; Ka kills it, takes off the skin, throws the carcass away; the fox calls rain, snow, hail, comes to life; borrows an ax, makes three skewers, sticks where the bear rolls down the mountain, he dies; asks the mergen to give a ride to the carcass; shares mergen meat with an ax, and mergen with a sledge gives what is stuck between his teeth; he skins it, cuts the carcass into pieces, the Fox does not come to life]: Keele 1996, No. 5:77-85; Medvedev 1992 [the fox is old, unable to hunt; bear asks what cranes scream; fox: winter will be harsh, we have to make supplies; bear found someone's knife; fox: this is a talisman, we'll live with it; sticks the knife with its point up, offers to roll down the mountain; the bear ripped himself apart belly; the fox now has a supply of meat]: 74-77; Udege people [Chanterelles ask their grandmother to ride down the mountain; the bear wants it too; they put stakes under the mountain, the Bear dies, they eat it, give it to the grandmother only a tail; she closes them in a yurt, hits them; they jump out a smoke hole, get dirty in soot, become black-brown]: Mozhaev 1955:84-86; nivkhi: Medvedev 1992 [the fox is old, not can hunt; the bear asks what the cranes are shouting about; fox: the winter will be harsh, we need to make supplies; the bear found someone's knife; the fox: this is a talisman, we'll live with him; sticks the knife with the point up, suggests roll down the mountain; the bear ripped his belly; the fox now has a supply of meat]: 74-77; Dachshunds 1975 {C.M. Dachshund could really process Nivkh tales, but could also retell under the guise of the Nivkh tales publications in other groups} [the crow offers the bear to drink the river to eat fish; the hare scratched it from behind, the bear released water, the crow flew away; in winter the hare rolled down the hill; a bear appeared; a hare: I'm another hare, not the one that scratched you; offers to roll down the mountain; the bear rolled, ran into a branch; the hare ran home, climbed through a smoke hole, smeared in soot; a bear ran up; a hare: hares They are not black; the bear believed, went in, sat down at the hearth; the hare ran, met the hunters, said that he had killed the bear and should bring poles to stretch his skin; recovered: no, the bear is alive, sitting in its plague; the hunters went to shoot the bear, and the hare ran for a ride down the mountain]: 2-4.

Japan. Aina [The Fox and the Bear carry each other; the fox pushes the sledges off the cliff, eats Bear meat; ties a bear bubble to its tail; two deer rush to see what it is; the fox slips out, they kill each other with horns; the fox advises the Hare to put its tail into the ice-hole, then a bubble will also appear at the end; the tail freezes into the ice, since then the Tailless Hare]: Pilsudski 1991b, No. 7:76.

SV Asia. Forest Yukaghirs (b. Corcodon) [The fox invites the Moose to roll down the mountain, leaves the knife, the Elk rips its belly; the Fox wraps his scrotum around its tail, tells the Wolf what she caught in the river; the Wolf's tail freezes into the ice; he asks the mice to gnaw off, only the little mouse agreed; the wolf tore off its tail, gave the mouse plenty of meat to eat the meat of the deer he killed]: Jochelson 1900, No. 8:20-21; tundra yukaghirs (Hallerchin tundra, Nizhnekolymsky District) [Umchegen goes to visit his wife's parents, her brothers kill him; W. asks his mother why his father has not returned for a long time, she answers, I don't know; W. He comes to his uncles, sees them playing with his father's skull; they invite the young man to sleep on the blanket on which his father slept, bring water to his pot, eat from his plate; he defies cunning ( details are not a decree.); pushing off the ground with a spear, jumps over enemies, running home; uncles come for him; he offers to ride down the mountain, pierces nails into trees; uncles stumble upon them, die; mother cries, he kills her; becomes a good hunter, gets married]: Gogolev et al. 1975:195-196; Chukchi: Belikov 1982 [The raven rolls down the mountain, taking off before falling into the river; The wolf rolls, falls into water; the Raven pulls him out when he promises him a woman; the wolf leads him over the hill, but there is no woman there; the Raven pretends to be dead, the Wolf swallows him, he pecks his stomach, the Wolf dies]: 28-29; Bogoraz 1900, No. 102 []: 276; Brodsky, Innecay 2018, No. 3 [The raven rolls down the hill by the river; the Fox wants it too, although the Raven warns that he will fall into the water; after falling, the Fox promises the Crow a herd of colorful, black, white deer; each time he replies that he has such a herd; after the Fox promised the bride, the Raven pulled him out; after warming up, the Fox says that he has no bride]: 17-18; (cf. Gribova 1980 (zap. ABOUT. Baboshina) [eiders are swinging on the ice floe; the chanterelle also wants; the eiders warn that it will fall into the water; they swam away; the seagulls agreed to take the fox; the wind blew and the ice floe fell apart; the chanterelle hardly swam to shores; began to dry clothes; guillemots invite you to swing on the ice floe; the chanterelle refused, ran into the tundra]:); Portugalov 2009 [the fox sees the raven rolling from high hummocks, wants it too; the raven warns that he will fall into the water; the fox rolls, falls into the water, asks to be pulled out, promises a herd of colorful deer, white deer; the raven refuses; pulls out when the fox offers to kill the wild together deer; fox lets the crow bite its neck, eats the fat part, bone marrow himself]: 8; kereki: Leontyev 1983, No. 11 [Kukki's raven invites the Wolf to roll down the mountain, he falls into the water; K. pulls out him, after the Wolf promises him a sister to be his wife; he has no sister; K. turns into a piece of fat, swallowed by the Wolf, pulls out his insides; when he pulls out his liver, the Wolf dies; another wolf takes him away daughter K.; K. revives the victim, he returns the girl]: 119-125 (=Menovshchikov 1974, No. 123:389-395); Baboshina 1958, No. 27 [{Baboshina has Koryaks; cf. Leontyev 1983:83-84}; The Raven and the Wolf ride down the mountain, the Wolf falls into the water; for promising to give his sister, the Raven pulls him out; he does not give it; the Raven turns into a piece of meat, the Wolf swallows it, the Raven cuts it from the inside; turns the intestines into wolf bait; the Wolf brothers eat it, die; Volkov's mother gives birth to a new son, he revives the brothers]: 68-70.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos [The raven rolls down the mountain, the Wolf wants it too; does not take off, but falls into the sea; the Raven pulls him out for promising to marry his sister; the Wolf does not have a sister, he makes a girl out excrement; The raven sleeps with her in a warm dwelling, she melts; it turns into a deer carcass; The wolf eats it; the raven cuts his intestines, then his heart; flies out; the Wolf dies]: Menovshchikov 1985, No. 4:30-31; Northern Alaska Inupiate (Anaktuvuk Pass) [The Raven invites the Brown Bear to ride down the mountain, puts a knife below, the Bear dies, the Raven eats it]: Ingstad, Berngland 1987:87; inupiate Bering Strait [The raven invites the Fox to ride down the mountain; he knows that there is a deep pond below; the raven rolls first, flies over the pond, says he jumped; the fox thinks he will jump over the pond, falls into him, drowned]: Keithahn 1958:134-136; Alaska Eskimos (Bering Strait Inupiate?) [The raven invites the Fox to ride down the mountain; he knows that there is an unfrozen muddy puddle below; the Raven rolls first, flies over the puddle, says he jumped; the Fox falls into a puddle; the Fox and the Raven have not been friends since]: Smelcer 1992:64-65.

Subarctic. Upper tanana [Wolverine puts sharp stakes under a steep, icy slope; people slide, fall on stakes; Tsaosha (Beaver) remains the last; pretends to be pierced; Wolverine brings him into his house; looking for a knife; C. jumps up, kills Wolverine and his family; an old woman escapes to a tree; promises that wolverines will not eat people]: McKennan 1959:176-177; Kuchin [Wolverine puts sharp bones under a steep slope, passing, die; someone (name not named) understands deception, pretends to run into bones; Wolverine drags prey home, imaginary dead at every step blows the winds; Wolverine cannot find a knife at home; Wolverine's children notice that the prey's eyes are half-open; a man jumps up, kills Wolverine, his wife and children with a knife; one girl climbed the fir tree, became from there, water the person with urine and feces; the man left her alone]: McGary 1984:313-316; khan? [Wolverine puts sharp stakes under the icy slope; people slide and stumble; The beaver pretends to be pierced; Wolverine brings it to his house; looks for a knife; the Beaver makes the knife blunt; one of the cubs notices that the game has opened its eyes; Beaver jumps up, kills Wolverine and his family with a stone hammer; one cub escapes in a tree, and the current wolverines come from him]: Rooth 1965:274-275, 280-281; helmet [Wolverine puts sharp stakes under the icy slope; people slide and stumble; the Beaver pretends to be pierced; Wolverine brings it to her home; one of the cubs notices that the game has opened its eyes; A beaver jumps up, kills Wolverine and his family with a stick]: Teit 1917a, No. 1:429-430; southern tutchoni: McClelland 1987 [Clever (=Beaver) sees a woman making skin; realizes that the skin is human , kills a woman, she turns into a hole; people disappear one by one; The clever comes to a slippery slope; Wolverine puts a sharp horn at the bottom; The clever hides a bag of blood under his clothes, does pretending to run into a horn; seeing blood, Wolverine brings Smetly home; children notice that the game has opened their eyes; Clever kills Wolverine, his wife and children with a stick; newborn cubs jump out mother's womb, hiding in a tree; The clever makes a fire, they extinguish it with urine; The clever cuts the trunk, they tell the felling to be overgrown; The clever refuses to pursue, tells the cubs to stay small , no longer eat people]: 305-306; 2007, No. 2a [people go missing; Smart Man discovers that Wolverine has placed copper tips under an icy slope; pretends to pierce him; Wolverine brings his home; one of the cubs says that the prey has opened his eyes; Wolverine does not believe; the Beaver jumps up, kills Wolverine and his family with a stick; cuts the female's belly, the cubs jump out from there, hide in tree; deflect arrows; Beaver tells them to eat partridges and steal meat supplies]: 32-35; slevi [Wolverine invites a person to roll off a cliff; he pretends to be dead, smears a stake with blood from his nose; Wolverine takes him home, sharpens his knife; a man kills all wolverines except a cub that has climbed a tree; a man throws his snot against the trunk, the tree turns into a pine tree]: Russel 1900, No. 5:17; tagish [like slevi (no snot/pine motif); Beaver pretends to slip off the slope on a spear; turns Wolverine's children into wolverines]: Norman 1990:108-109.

The coast is the Plateau. Sechelt (sysyatl) [two sisters come to Eagle and Owl living together, both are good hunters; the Eagle marries the youngest, the Owl marries the eldest; the youngest gives birth to a boy, the eldest is a frog, puts him into the lake; husbands disappear; wives go looking for them; the eldest gives the Frog a magic rope, he pulls it, transports them across the lake; wives find husbands dying in the Yeneqemekwon house; she offers roll down the mountain, the abyss under the mountain; the eldest holds on to the magic rope, ending the boy, takes red and white paint in her mouth; J. thinks that the woman has broken, she pulls herself back on the rope; Y . wants to have hair as long as women; women say to coat her head with resin, sprinkle with hot stones; J. burns]: Hill-Tout 1904a: 49-50.

Guiana. Carinha (Guyana) [The turtle rolls rocks into the river; the Jaguar also wants to play; the turtle leads him to another place, quietly sticks stakes into the bottom of the river, the Jaguar rolls on them, dies; The turtle makes a necklace out of his teeth; another Jaguar notices him; the turtle offers to throw it against a tree trunk; it has a shell, it ricochets into the water; the Jaguar thinks it has drowned; meets again, comes with her to a place where the Jaguars drink alcohol; they all shoot at the Turtle, she puts arrows under her shell, they think they killed her; she sticks arrows in the grass; invites the Jaguar who meets her to eat her there; he attacks arrows, dies]: Gillin 1936, No. 10:200-202.