B125B. A man going to a party borrows someone else's organ. .11.13.15.22.23.26.28.31.33.34.
A zoomorphic character goes to a party and asks another to lend him a body part that will make him look more attractive.
Chagga, Somalis, Maltese, Vietnamese, Burmese, North Indian (Hindi), Sinhalese, Toraja, Chinese (Zhejiang), Czechs, Estonians, Kazakhs, Telengits, Altai, Tuvans, Dagurs.
Bantu-speaking Africa. Chagga [a squirrel went to a dance and asked a frog to lend her his tail; did not return it]: Dähnhardt 1910, no. 31: 136.
Sudan – East Africa. Somalis [the jackal had no tongue; he asked the crocodile to lend him his tongue to shout mashharad at a wedding; he did not return it, and now he does not go near the river]: Kapchits 1997, No. 8: 18.
Southern Europe. The Maltese [the peacock had beautiful spurs on his feet, but he did not like the noise they made; when everyone went to the festival, the peacock was ashamed to go because of this; and the cock did not have his current motley plumage; the peacock agreed to lend him some feathers, but on the condition that they exchange legs and that the cock sit behind so as not to obscure the peacock; the peacock gave the cock his spurs and feathers, so that his behind remained naked]: Dähnhardt 1910, no. 32: 134-135.
Burma - Indochina. Viet : Landes 1886, no. 81 [=Coyaud 2011, 3: 39; =Krappe 1930: 62; the buffalo had two rows of teeth, but the horse had no teeth at all; the horse asked to borrow the top row of teeth to go to a festival; promised to return them if the buffalo overtook her; he was unable to overtake]: 202-203; (cf. Nikulin 1990 [a man lured a tiger into a cage and set it on fire; a buffalo began to laugh, seeing the tiger thrashing about; the tiger broke free, its skin remaining striped; the buffalo fell down in fear, hit its jaw on a stone, and knocked out its front teeth]: 123-125; Burmese [the Buffalo had two rows of teeth, the Ox had only the lower row; the Buffalo would lend its upper teeth to the Ox during a meal; one day the Ox did not return them, but went to watch a performance given by a Horse; it had only lower teeth; the Ox began to laugh, showing two rows of teeth; the Horse asked to lend her the upper ones to make the audience laugh better; it ran away; since then it has been laughing, I-ho-ho; the Buffalo repeats "these are mine", the Ox - "this is true" (onomatopoeia in Burmese)]: Aung 1957: 48-50.
South Asia. North India ( Hindi ) [on its way to a dance, a partridge borrowed the peacock's beautiful legs and did not return them; or the peacock lent the flamingo its legs and beak; or the jay and the parrot exchanged legs]: Dähnhardt 1910, no. 31; 133; Sinhalese [on its way to a festival, a peacock borrowed the bright plumage of a thrush (pitta coronata) and did not return them]: Dähnhardt 1910, no. 31: 133.
Malaysia – Indonesia. Toraja [when going to a festival, a hornbill borrowed a necklace from a green pigeon and did not return it; since then it has had white spots on its neck]: Dähnhardt 1910, no. 30: 133.
China – Korea. Chinese (Zhejiang) [the rooster had horns; he lent them to the dragon so that he could make an impression in the sky; the dragon did not return them; in the morning the rooster crows, demanding his horns back]: Eberhard 1937, no. 1: 13.
Central Europe. Czechs [the hoopoe had no crest; on his way to a wedding, he borrowed it from the cuckoo and did not give it back]: Dähngardt 1910, no. 42: 139.
Baltoscandia. Estonians [The Forest Master took the Copperhead's eyes; promised to return them if she crawled back and forth through the axle of a wheel; the Copperhead crawled one way, the wheel was carried away; got one eye back; the Nightingale was also one-eyed; asked the Copperhead for an eye for the night to go to a wedding; did not return it, was left with two eyes; the blind Copperhead destroys nightingales' nests]: Jakobson 1954: 42-43; Karelians (Finland) [the jay went to a wedding, borrowed a beautiful outfit from the cuckoo, but did not return it]: Dähnhardt 1910, no. 43: 140.
Turkestan. Kazakhs [a deer asked a camel for his horns to go visit, and a horse asked for his tail; each says that he will give the horns (tail) when the camel grows a tail (horns); the camel drinks, looking around, because it is waiting for the return of debtors]: Bennigsen 1912 (city of Kobdo) [{is this the original for Sidelnikov?}]: 19-20; Sidelnikov 1958(1): 172; 1971(1): 137.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Telengits [the camel had horns like a maral, a tail like a horse; the maral lent the horns, the horse lent the tail to go to a wedding; both did not return; therefore, when the camel drinks, it looks back - are they coming to return them]: Yadanova 2013, No. 19: 169 (= Oinotkina et al. 2011, No. 50: 161); Altai [the camel had maral horns and a horse's tail; the maral was going to a wedding and asked to lend him the horns; but did not return them; now, when the camel drinks, it looks back {is the maral bringing the horns back}; the horse went to the wedding and lent the tail (ditto)]: Oinotkina et al. 2011, No. 50: 161; Tuvans : Vatagin 1971 [The Maral goes to a festival, at the watering hole asks the Camel to lend him his horns; the Horse goes to the races, asks to borrow his tail; both do not give it back; since then the Camel rarely drinks, the Maral loses his horns every year (they are stolen), the Horse does not like to meet the Camel]: Khadakhane 1984: 109-110 (=Taksami 1988: 205-206); Skorodumova 2003 [the Camel had horns and a bushy tail; the Deer borrowed his horns to go to a meeting of animals, the horse borrowed his tail, both did not return them; when the Camel drinks, it spins, seeing its reflection, and looks back to see if a deer and a horse are coming; the deer's horns fall off every year because they are strangers]: 52-53; dagurs [the horned camel despised the hornless deer; On his way to visit the tiger, he asked to borrow his horns; the camel lent them; the deer wanted to return them, but saw wolves by the river and went into the forest; the camel still doesn’t want to look at its reflection in the water, but looks up and around to see if a deer is coming]: Kevin et al. 1994: 83-84.
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