J47a1. Goats are the owners of food. .28.31.

The character enters a house where goats live. He secretly eats the food he finds there, but is eventually discovered.

Russians (Novgorod, Pskov, {Smolensk, Bryansk}), Belarusians, Ukrainians (Rivne), Estonians, Setos.

Central Europe. Russian (Novgorod) [a rooster found a bean, a hen a pea; they brought it into the house; they grew to the floor, a man and an woman cut through the floor; they grew to the ceiling; they cut through the ceiling; they grew to the sky; an old man made a ladder; they climbed up with sacks; the woman decided to go back; she fell, broke into small pieces; the grandfather goes into the forest to make a coffin; a wolf comes towards them, offers to bark; he ate half of the woman; then a fox ate more; a bear; so they ate the woman, there is nothing to bury; the grandfather climbed to the sky, there is a goat there; he ate everything; the goat left the goat to guard the goat; the grandfather threw the goat down; then the second one; he threw the goat; he gathered beans, peas; he climbed down, the step broke, the grandfather broke]: Vlasova, Zhekulina 2001, no. 13: 31-32; Russian (Pskov) [the hen found a pea, the rooster found a bean; the old man and the old woman ate the pea in half and planted the bean under the floor; the bean grew through the house and reached the sky; the old man climbed into the sky, and there was everything you could want to eat and drink; the goats came, the old man hid under the trough, the goats sensed the "non-Russian spirit"; they left the one-eyed goat to guard; "Sleep, little eye!"; the next time - the two-eyed goat; "Sleep, little eye, sleep the other!"; the third time - the three-eyed goat, the old man forgot to put the third eye to sleep; the goats started to beat him, the old man promised to bring them his wife; the old woman sat in the old man's pants, the old man climbed in, the pants tore, the old woman fell out and was killed; the old man went to look for the mourner; he rejected the wolf and the bear (he doesn't like the voice), he took the fox (he likes the voice)); the fox gnawed all the bones and disappeared]: Ploshchuk 2004, No. 21: 87-89; (cf. Russian (from the words of a native of the Smolensk province; data for the Smolensk and Bryansk provinces, given the absence of peas in the neighboring Russian ethnic territory and the presence of Belarusians, are not included in the southern Russian tradition) [an old man and an old woman were eating peas, one pea rolled away, grew through the floor and roof to the sky; the old woman climbed up, in the sky there was a hut, walls made of pies, an oven made of pancakes, cheese tables, gingerbread benches, in it there was butter, cottage cheese and honey; the old woman ate her fill, hid under the stove; three goats came, did not find the old woman, they left the goat with two eyes to guard; old woman: sleep, little eye, sleep, the other, close, ear, close, the other; the goat fell asleep, the old woman ate her fill again and hid; the next time the goats left the one with three eyes and ears; the old woman put everyone to sleep; then they left the goat with four; the old woman forgot about the fourth eye and ear; the goats still let the old woman go and gave her some food to take with them, but not to set foot in it again; at home the old woman praised the hut to her husband; all three climbed in: he, she and her granddaughter; the old man coughed, the stem broke, they fell and no one saw them again]: Chudinsky 1864, No. 9: 54-58; Russian(Bryansk) [a bean rolled under the table, grew through the roof, and reached the sky; an old man climbed up the stalk; there was a hut in the sky: walls made of pancakes, benches made of kalachi, a stove made of cottage cheese; the grandfather ate his fill and dozed off; seven goats came: with one, two, etc. - seven eyes; they didn’t notice the old man, they fixed the damage to the house, and left the one-eyed one to guard; the old man quietly climbed out, went down to the ground, and brought the old woman an edible piece; the next day the old man climbed in again, put the goat to sleep: sleep, little eye, fall asleep; he ate his fill and brought it to the old woman again; he did the same with each goat; but when he was putting the seven-eyed one to sleep, he lost count; she butted him and threw him to the ground; he woke up at home on the stove, his sides were hurting]: Glebov 2016, No. 82: 124-126; Belarusians [a pea fell from the table of an old man and an old woman, sprouted, the old man took apart the roof, the stem grew to the sky; the old woman sent the old man to look at what was in the sky; he climbed in and hid in the hut where there was a stove, benches, a table made of butter and cottage cheese; the old man ate his fill and hid; the goats returned; the next day they left the one-eyed one to guard; the old man: sleep, little eye; then the two-eyed one, the old man put her to sleep too; when the three-eyed one, the old man forgot about the third eye; the goats wanted to butt the old man, but then they told him to graze them and milk them]: Vasilenok 1958: 53-54; Ukrainians (Rivne) [an old man and an old woman live in the forest; At Christmas the wolf comes caroling, asks for a sheep; they do not want to give it, the wolf threatens to eat them, they had to give it; the wolf returned, asks for a heifer (the same); the third time he takes the woman; he brought her to his place, sat her on a stump, and began to milk the heifer; the woman whispers: let the stump grow; it grew; the wolf went to the blacksmith to make himself iron teeth to gnaw the stump; at this time the woman orders the stump to become low again; she jumped to the ground and came to a house in which everything was made of cheese and butter; the woman ate her fill and hid in a trough; the goats came; they fixed what was broken and left the goat to guard; the woman whispers that one eye of the goat fell asleep; and the second; she got out, ate cheese again and hid again; the goats returned, killed the two-eyed goat, the next day they left the three-eyed one; the old woman forgot about the third eye, went out, the goat grabbed her; the goats agreed to leave her alive if she would serve them; over time, the goats stopped being afraid that the old woman would run away; then she took some cheese and butter and left; climbed onto the roof; through a hole she sees the old man eating porridge; threw a piece of butter; the old man decided that it was some kind of rubbish, poured out the porridge; put in new one, eats again; the old woman threw butter again; the old man has no more porridge, so he began to eat the one into which the butter fell; he realized that it was tasty; dada: didusyu, take me off; they live amicably and acquire wealth]: Berezovsky 1979, No. 260: 292-296.

Baltoscandia. Estonians (southwestern Estonia, Tõstamaa) [a husband and wife decided to reach the sky, they planted peas and beans, they grew to the sky; the husband climbed the bean stalk, the wife the pea stalk; halfway there the wife laughed and fell, and the husband reached the sky; there are houses and everything inside is made of sugar; the man took a bite here and there, hid under the stove; seven goats came, the one-eyed one stayed to guard, the man began to sing, "Sleep, little eye!", the goat fell asleep, did not notice anything; the same with the two-eyed goat, the man put both eyes to sleep; when the three-eyed one, the man forgot about the third, the goat saw him, the goats rushed and pushed him out of the sky; he fell on his wife, both came to life and have been living well ever since]: Järv et al. 2015: 57-58; Setu [a boy lived with his mother, planted a bean, in five days it grew to the sky; the boy climbed to the sky, came to a house with a sugar oven, walls made of buns, benches made of pancakes, etc.; the boy tried everything and went to bed; seven goats came; when leaving, they left the one-eyed goat to guard – who was in the house; the boy sings “sleep, little eye”, the goat fell asleep; the next time a two-eyed goat – the same thing (“sleep, little eye, sleep, the other)”; the same with a four-, five-, six-eyed goat; when the seven-eyed one, the boy forgot to put the seventh eye to sleep, came out from behind the stove, the goat caught him; the goats allowed him to go down and return with his mother; he put her in a sack and climbed up, but the bean stalk had already dried up and he had to go back]: Normann, Tampere 1989: 119-123