C30D. Not spilling a drop of urine. .11.22.23.
The character agrees to have his locus contaminated with excrement, but only on the condition that not a drop of urine is spilled. This proves impossible to fulfill.
Comorians, Khmu, North Indian (Hindi), South Indian (Telugu?).
Bantu-speaking Africa. Comoros [animals choose Elephant as chief; decide to dig a pond to collect rainwater; Hare refuses to work – water is enough for him; Donkey, then Sheep remain as guard, Hare promises them sweet water, ties them up, uses the pond; Tortoise smears glue on his shell, Hare climbs into the pond, gets stuck, is brought to the Elephant for trial, imprisoned; tells the guard that the mountain is falling, asks to hold him, runs away; caught again, put in a hut where everyone brings their excrement; Hare proves that there was no agreement to bring urine, released]: Haring 2007, no. 51: 101–102.
Burma - Indochina. Khmu [a childless woman wants to go to the monks to ask for a child; everyone refuses to take her across the river; she makes a mortar out of sand near a tree, asks the tree to give her three children to take revenge on those in power, monks and elders; gives birth to three children, dies; the eldest is Aay Caaŋ Laay ("liar"; A.); he is adopted by a husband and wife; he sticks feathers into a pile of shit, asks his adoptive father to catch a bird, he gets dirty; the same with his adoptive mother; they leave him to be eaten by a tiger; A. asks the tiger not to eat him - he will show him where to steal a pig; they carry the pig on a stick; A. gave the tiger the part of the tree trunk with thorns to carry, told him not to moan, otherwise the food will become bitter; the tiger moans; A. shows a star, sends a tiger there for fire, while he himself makes a fire, cooks meat, puts some aside for himself, puts bitter fruits in the tiger's part; the tiger returns without fire, A. sends him for leaves to make spoons, himself poured white water on the leaves so that the tiger would think that it was from birds (and would search longer); the tiger eats bitter meat - this is because he groaned along the way; A. cooks pig's testicles, says that he cut off his genitals; the next day the tiger agrees to let A. cut off his testicles; when A. climbs a tree, the tiger sees that he has everything in place; A. throws fruits far away, while the tiger picks them up, manages to climb down and run away; he tells the girls that a tiger is coming, they throw down their clothes, A. puts them on, the tiger does not recognize him; the same with the women and children; with the men who were chopping straw; Each time A. asks to see the wound, pokes it with a hot firebrand, sprinkles it with burning juice, pricks it with straw; jumps into a pit; tells the tiger that the sky is falling, let him jump too; only let him not push him up, otherwise the sky will crush him; pricks the tiger with a needle, it pushes A. out of the pit, A. stoned him; tells the peasants that a tiger fell into the pit; they ran to the pit, A. burned the village, hiding meat and rice; says that wherever his spear and arrow hit, there is meat and rice; shows, the people believe, throw spears, but find nothing else; they catch A., hang him in a basket on a tree, so that later they can fell the tree into the river; a man with a gong was passing by, his eyes hurt, A. convinced him to change places - his eyes will recover; the people felled the tree, the man drowned; A. says that he met his deceased parents in the river, they offered him whatever he wanted, he took a gong; everyone jumped into the water and drowned except for an old woman with an empty calabash; A. smashed the calabash with a stone, the old woman drowned too; A. told the governor that his wife fell from the roof, and told his wife that her husband was wounded by a wild boar; they ran to look for each other, bumped heads; the governor banished A. to a distance of three blows of a slotted gong, and A. measured out three gong lengths, built a house there; the governor's children relieved themselves near A.'s house; A.: let them either poop or pee, but not both; governor: try it yourself! A. emptied his bladder, tied his penis, made a pile in the governor's house ; he told them to go to where the earth turns over; A. built a house on a field where they were ploughing; a hunchbacked woman came, carrying a vessel on her back; A.: look, there are two suns in the sky; she looked, the vessel fell and broke; people filled bamboo vessels with intestinal gases, came to A. not knowing that it was he; he fed them buffalo dung and arranged it so that they opened their vessels under their noses]: Lindell et al. 1978, No. 3: 50-62.
South Asia. North India ( Hindi ) [proverb: Yāt won a dispute with the king and was given the right to defecate on the king's bed; ministers: the king's word is unshakable, but you must not urinate (the meaning of the proverb is the same as "pound of flesh")]: Kryptadia 1888: 394; South India ( Telugu ?) [The Delhi padishah tests the resourcefulness of the adviser Krishnadevaraya, the emperor of Vijayanagara; he sent a dancing girl, counting on K. fulfilling any request she made; she demanded permission to relieve herself on his throne; when she was preparing to desecrate the throne, the adviser Appaji made it a condition that not a single drop of urine should fall on the throne; the dancer had to abandon her intention]: Ibragimov 1978: 144-145.