I92b. Treasures Under the Rainbow. .15.16.24.27.28.32.
Where the ends of the rainbow reach the ground, there is treasure.
Portuguese, Catalans, French (Vosges, Aquitaine), Irish, Germans (Baden-Württemberg, Upper Palatinate, Tyrol, probably Bohemia), Malays, Bulgarians, Greeks, Czechs, Russians (Novgorod), Ukrainians (Hutsuls, Yekaterinoslav), Udmurts, Mordvins.
Southern Europe. Portuguese [at the base of the rainbow is a "golden cockerel"]: García Mouton 1984: 185; Catalans [rainbow - Arc de sant Martí (also Arc de Bará); St. Martin and the demon competed to make the best bow; St. Martin's was bright, made of glass and fire, while the demon's was pale; a bright rainbow foretells good fortune, a pale one - illness and disaster; where the rainbow touches the ground, treasures are buried; anyone who passes under the rainbow will change sex]: Amades 1930: 114-115.
Western Europe. French (Vosges) [if a basket is placed under one of the bases of the rainbow, it will fill with gold]: Sauvé 1889: 141; French (Aquitaine: Lower Quercy) [at the base of the rainbow are gold coins]: García Mouton 1984: 185; Germans : Grimm 2019(2) [the rainbow ends in a gold plate or buried treasure on the ground; gold coins fall out of the rainbow; the pieces of gold on the ground are “rainbow saucers”, the sun has scattered them through the rainbow]: 206; 2019(3), no. 598 (Baden-Württemberg: Pforzheim) [“Where the rainbow touches the ground, there stands a gold plate”]: 141; Moshkov 1900 ["In Germany, the common people think that at the place where the end of the rainbow rests, there remains a golden key or gold money"]: 208; García Mouton 1984 [a golden key or treasure is buried at the base of the rainbow]: 185; Germans (Bavaria: Upper Palatinate) [gold is found at the end of the rainbow]: Schönwerth 1858, no. 12: 129; Germans ("Tyrol, Czechoslovakia") [if you throw a metal object to the base of the rainbow, it will turn into gold; if you throw a cap or boot over the rainbow, it will fall full of gold]: García Mouton 1984: 185; Irish [a gold watch at the base of the rainbow]: García Mouton 1984: 185.
Malaysia – Indonesia. Malays [where the end of the rainbow hits the ground, there is buried treasure]: Skeat, Blagden 1900: 15.
Balkans. Bulgarians [at the place where the rainbow sucks up water, it leaves a silver cup; whoever finds such a cup will know the future, and whatever he wishes will come true]: Moshkov 1900: 208; Greeks [at the base of the rainbow lies a Byzantine gold coin, bringing happiness to its owner]: García Mouton 1984: 185.
Central Europe. Czech (? "Tyrol, Czechoslovakia") [if you throw a metal object to the base of the rainbow, it will turn into gold; if you throw a hat or boot over the rainbow, it will fall full of gold]: García Mouton 1984: 185; Czech (? Bohemia) [where the rainbow rests on the ground, there is a treasure]: Wuttke 1900: 198; Russian (Novgorod) [manuscript of F.F. Pardalotsky "Folk omens, superstitions and prejudices, conspiracies and fortune-telling. Taken from the life of the people in different localities of the Novgorod province" (1878): the rainbow is called a snake; it lowers its sting into the water, collects water, and then releases it; for this reason it rains; at the ends of the rainbow there is a cauldron with ancient gold coins]: Zelenin 1915, No. 24: 869; Ukrainians (Hutsuls) [where the rainbow rests on the ground, you can find gold chobots and a silver ring that make a person invisible and give the gift of clairvoyance]: Belova 2009b: 388; Ukrainians (Ekaterinoslavskaya, Aleksandrovsky and Novomoskovsky uyezds) [the rainbow draws water from the earth to the sky; if you run to that place and find it, it will give you a sack of coins (“groshey”) or drag you away with it]: Manzhura 1890: 148.
Volga – Perm. Udmurts : Gataullina 2008 [if you run to the rainbow, it will give you a golden cup and spoon]: 52; Moshkov 1900 (Sarapulsky uyezd, Vyatka province) [the rainbow drinks water from lakes, ponds and rivers to replenish the loss of water in the sky; you can reach it if you walk 200 steps without breathing, and if a person manages to reach it, he can get many golden things there: crosses, ladles, plates, etc.; one person tried to reach the rainbow and stopped 10 steps short; he saw what seemed to be gold burning there, but at that time he almost fell because he had not breathed for a long time; he sighed, and everything disappeared at once]: 199; Mordvins (Moksha, Gorodishchensky district, Penza province) [if you approach the rainbow, you will receive a silver cup and spoon]: Moshkov 1900: 199.