K77b2. Goat's weapon. .11.14.16.17.26.-.29.31.34.

To the questions of the predator, the goat (she-goat, ram, etc.) answers in the sense that parts of its body are weapons and other objects intended to kill the questioner, or the goat is actually armed.

Limba, Arabs of Sudan, Kabyles, Germans (Westphalia), Arabs of Syria, Lebanon, Hungarians, Macedonians, Lusatians, Abazins, Adyghe, Kabardians, Ossetians, Balkars, Ingush, Kumyks, Dargins, Setos (Western Saami), Khakass, South Altai Tuvans, Tuvans, Transbaikal Buryats, Mongols, Dagurs.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Limba [A goat found himself in a swamp, began to call for help, a leopard responded; seeing a goat's beard, he asked what it was; Goat: my talisman - whoever I direct it at will die; Leopard ran away, Goat got out of the swamp himself]: Pozdnyakov 1990: 171-172.

Sudan – East Africa. Arabs of Sudan (jaaaliyin) [a hyena lived on an island, and a wolf and a donkey lived on the shore; the ox went to graze on the island; the donkey asked to take him along, promising not to cry out; but having eaten his fill, he began to cry out; a hyena came out, asks the ox what is on his head, pointing to his ears and horns; the ox: my shields; my spears; the hyena walked away from the ox, asks the donkey; the donkey: my ears; the hyena bit off one, the donkey ran away; refused to go to the island again: he will bite off the other ear]: Hurreiz 1977, no. 1: 75.

North Africa. Kabyles [a jackal asks three goats where they are going; they answer that they are going to him; he ate the eldest, the middle one; he asks the youngest what he has between his legs – furs! And in his hands? Pincers! Where are you going? To eat you! The goat gored the jackal]: Rivière 1882: 149.

Western Europe. Germans (Westphalia) [a goat met a wolf in the forest; advised him not to eat her – her mother was coming after her; the wolf decided not to spoil his appetite and wait for the mother goat, she had more meat; goat: a billy goat is coming after me; the wolf waited for the billy goat; asked what he had on his head and between his legs; billy goat: two pistols and a bag of gunpowder and bullets; the wolf ran away]: Kuhn 1859a, no. 16: 250-251.

Western Asia. Arabs of Syria : Abu Risha 2015 [a fat kid meets a wolf; answers his questions honestly, is eaten; the skinny kid says that with his horns he can rip open the wolf's belly; with his teeth he will tear out his eyes - let him come close; the frightened wolf runs away]: 42-43; Kuhr 1993 [there lived three kids: a lame one, a crooked one and a healthy one; the lame one came to a meadow, a jackal asks what is on his head (horns), what is below (eyes), what is between his legs (scrotum), is he afraid (yes); the jackal ate him; the same with the crooked one; the healthy one: he came here to drink, spears on his head, lanterns below, a hammer between his legs; he is not afraid of the jackal, he will chase him; the jackal ran, the kid gored him]: 253-255; Arabs of Lebanon [there lived three goats: Siksik, Mikmik and Jureybon ("little bastard"); a hyena asks S. what he has on his head; horns; and on his back; fur; why is he shaking; he is afraid of her; she swallowed him; the same with M.; when J. asks, he answers that he has a sabre on his head, a shield on his back, he is shaking with anger and with impatience to squeeze the hyena's soul out of its eye sockets; the hyena ran away in terror, and S. caught up with it, ripped open its belly with its horns and freed its swallowed brothers]: Bushnaq 1987: 233-234.

China - Korea. Chinese (location not specified) [in the evening in a hut one man tells another that he is afraid of neither a tiger nor the devil, but only if drip-drip drips from the roof; the tiger heard, decided that drip-drip is more terrible than him; ran to the village, climbed into an empty hut; approaching, he saw a thief with a lantern, decided that it was drip-drip; the thief climbed into the same hut and mistook the tiger for a cow; in the morning he saw the tiger, climbed a tree; the tiger tells the monkey that he met drip-drip, who is now in the tree; the monkey ties his paw to the tiger's paw, climbs the tree to prove that there is only a man there; and if drip-drip, he shakes his head; the thief pissed in his pants with fear, the monkey began to shake himself, the tiger decided that he was nodding, started to run, dragging the monkey, who killed herself; went to look for a deer, not knowing what it looked like; asks the deer its name; deer: Honorable tiger, I want to feast on tiger meat; tiger: What's under your belly? deer: A wine kettle - I'll have some deer meat as a snack, then I'll drink the wine; tiger: What's on your head? A bamboo cart, I'll put the uneaten tiger meat in it; the deer wet himself out of fear and cried out that drip-drip had come; the tiger ran away]: Riftin 1972: 45-47.

The Balkans. Hungarians [every day three kids went into the forest, where they fed on berries; a wolf meets the first one: where are you going? - To the forest. - aren't you afraid that I'll eat you? - I'm very afraid; my brother is behind me, he's fatter; the same with the second; the third advises to wait for their father; the old goat: why should I be afraid of you; I have a pair of pistols on my head and a bag of gunpowder on my stomach; the wolf got scared and ran away]: Dégh 1965, no. 28: 196-197; Macedonians [a man sent his daughter to pasture a goat; in the evening he left her in the pen and saw that she was eating coal; goat: I'm eating because I was not fed; the man killed his daughter; the same with his son; his wife; he took the goat himself, at home he received the same answer from her; he cut the goat in half and she ran away; a wolf came towards him; goat: my eyes are like horseshoes, my teeth are like hoes, my behind is like a bowl; the wolf got scared and ran away; the same with the fox; a bumblebee sat on the goat {or fox?} behind; the fox climbed an apple tree and dropped an apple on the bumblebee; (a few more absurd episodes)]: Mazon 1923, No. 27: 117-119.

Central Europe. Lusatians [one goat had one belly, another two, the third three; the first two answer the wolf that they have horns on their heads, udders on their bellies, the wolf swallows them; the third says that she has a pitchfork on her head, a club on her belly, and dogs growling in her belly; the wolf got scared, jumped over the fence, ran into it, the goats jumped out of his belly]: Romanenko 1962: 137-138.

Caucasus – Asia Minor. Abaza [three goats are grazing, the eldest one goes home first; seven wolves: what do you have on your feet? goat: chuvyaki; why are you moving your tail? goat: I'm afraid; he was eaten; the same with the middle one; the youngest: on my feet – chuvyaki, on my head – what they use to gouge out the wolves' eyes, I move my tail because seven dogs will jump out of me; the wolves ran away, the little goat came home]: Tugov 1985, no. 16: 35; Adyghe [the first to leave the meadow is a sheep; it answers the wolf that it is afraid of him, he ate it; the same – a goat; old goat; wolf: why is your tail trembling? goat: two hunting dogs are following me; wolf: hold them back; [the wolf runs away]: Alieva 1978, no. 69: 337-348 (=Kerashev 1957: 286-287); Kabardians [an old man named Don has 8 goats and a male goat; the first goat has one stomach, the second has two, etc., and the male goat has nine; the goats leave the pasture one by one as their stomachs are full; the wolf asks if Don is brave, each goat answers that she is not brave, the wolf eats her; the male goat praises Don's courage and strength; he answers that he has sharp horns on his head to rip open the wolf's belly, teeth in his mouth to gnaw the wolf, hooves on his feet to crush the wolf; the wolf ran away, the male goat told everything at home; they found the wolf, ripped open her belly, the goats came out alive]: Kardanov 1961: 88-92; Kabardians [a female goat left the pasture alone; At the bridge the wolf: where are you going? – Home from the pasture. – Why is your tail shaking? – I'm afraid of you; the wolf ate it; a goat comes along and replies that his tail is shaking from impatience to rip open the wolf's belly; two hunting dogs are following him; the wolf: hold back the dogs; he ran away]: Alieva, Kardangushev 1977: 31-32; Balkars : Malkonduyev 2017: 585-586 (zap. 1927) [a kid, a lamb and a calf went to the mountains in the spring; in the fall it became cold and the calf decided to go down first; at the bridge the wolf asks why he doesn't say hello; tells him to look back, slaughters him and eats him; the same with the lamb; the kid began to move his tail; the wolf: what are those on your legs? – The sticks that beat my enemies by themselves. – And what are those things on the head? – Swords that cut by themselves, with them I cut the bellies of wolves that stop travelers on the road; the wolf got scared and ran away, and the kid went home], 735-736 [approximately the same as on pp. 585-586]; Ossetians: Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [Kobli has 5 goats: one-bellied, two-bellied, etc.; one-bellied wolf: what's on its head; goat: tips for K.'s pitchfork; under its feet? food for the kids; the wolf eats it; the same with the others; five-bellied: on its head are spears for the wolves, between its feet are stones to beat the wolves; K. comes to the wolf's den; loudly tells the traveler to tell his wife: when a son is born, when he grows up, send him with a shovel to dig up the wolf's den; the wolf believes that K. will stay for years, jumps out, K. leads him on a rope; says that he is selling to Falvara (the patron saint of animals), whoever buys it will get rich; the rich man buys it, the wolf slaughters all his goats and sheep]: 21-24; Dzagurov 1973, No. 4 [poor Gazza, he has 7 goats - one-bellied, two-bellied, etc.; the wolf of the first: what is on the head (horns) - tips for G.'s pitchfork; what is between the legs: udder with milk; the wolf eats the goat; and the same with the next ones; seven-bellied: G. is a wolf hunter, on the head - iron sticks to kill wolves, between the legs - stones to kill wolves; the wolf left the goat alive, she came home, said that the other goats were eaten; G. shot the wolf]: 21-25; Ingush [the youngest goat has one belly, the middle one has two, the eldest three, knives at the hooves, sabers on the body, needles instead of a beard; each one meets a wolf, he offers to fight, swallows the first two goats; the eldest pricks with a needle, cuts with a knife, rips open the wolf's belly with a sabre, the swallowed ones jump out]: Malsagov 1983, no. 139: 282; Sadulaev 2004, no. 19 [approximately as in Malsagov 1983, no. 139]: 51-52; (cf. Kibiev, Malsagov 1965 [two eldest goats are cocky and boastful; in the evening they take turns walking towards the house, a wolf comes towards them, the goat agrees to fight, the wolf swallows her; the same with the middle goat; the youngest goat gored him, the two eldest ones jump out of the belly]: 20-21); Kumyks [the Goat has kids Mida, Dida and Gida; she does not tell them to return home alone; each one leaves, a Wolf comes towards them; asks what is on the head, etc., receives the answer that it is coming from the pasture, has wool on its body, horns on its head, fear in its heart, eaten by the Wolf; the Goat goes last, answers that she is the black death, they are coming from the black death, there are thin lumps of wool on its body, a pitchfork on its head, the death of the Wolf in its heart; she ripped open its belly, the kids jumped out alive]: Ganieva 2011a, No. 46: 152-153; Dargins [the wolf asks the eldest kid, he answers: he is going to eat some grass, his legs are below, horns are on his head, his heart is trembling with fear; the wolf swallowed him; the same with the middle one; the youngest: steel legs below, golden horns on his head, the heart tells him to thrust them into the wolf’s belly; the wolf runs away, the goat rips open his belly with its horns, the swallowed older brothers come out]: Khalilov, Akhundov 1989: 39-39.

Baltoscandia. Setu [in a clearing there are three haystacks; one goat has one belly, the second has two, the third has three; a wolf to the first goat: why are you trembling? - Out of fear of you; the wolf swallowed her; the same with the second goat; the third: I am trembling because I want to rush at you; (the same answer to further questions); rushed, tore the wolf's belly with her horns, the other two goats jumped out alive, went to their haystacks]: Kippar 1997, No. 104: 112-113; (cf. Western Sami (Varanger) [a fox went to see what was good for food; a fawn replied that it not only jumped but also slept; when it fell asleep, the fox ate it; since then it attacks fawns if they are without their mother; a calf replied that its intestines stick out and then retract when it wants to eat fox meat; since then the fox avoids the calves; a hare: my eyes are big, but I am afraid of everything; the fox ate it; a goat: not only do I have big balls, but I have a strong spirit; the fox now avoids goats]: Kohl-Larsen 1982, no. 28: 160-162).

Southern Siberia – Mongolia. Khakass [a goat meets a wolf; says that her cloven hoof is a meat fork, her beard is hair; the wolf is afraid of the monster, the bear teaches him not to be afraid, ties the wolf to himself with a rope; rushes at the goat, pulls the wolf, the latter barks, the bear decides that the wolf is laughing at him, pulls the rope harder, the strangled wolf bares his teeth, both get tangled in the rope, die]: Ungvitskaya, Mainogasheva 1984: 219; South Altai Tuvans [a family migrated, forgetting a young yak, a ram, and a kid; the kid suggests calling the ram the Main Prince, himself – the Middle Prince, and the yak – the Tail Prince; the wolf came, the kid climbed a larch, the yak and the ram couldn’t, they hung on the branches; the goat answers that he has swords on his head, something under his chin to wipe blood off, the red penis of the little goat is a bayonet, the ram's scrotum is a sack into which the wolf is stuffed; the little goat falls, the goat shouts at him to grab the wolf, the wolf runs away, falls into a trap, the old man chained to it runs away, three friends finish off the wolf; they come to the fire of seven wolves; they see the killed wolf, run away]: Taube 1994, No. 53: 273-274; Tuvans : Samdan 1994, No. 17 [the wolf comes to the little goat left at the abandoned camp; asks what is on his head; - Pointed sabers to kill the bear and the wolf; what is below? - A sack to put the kidneys and glands of the bear and the wolf; what is below the mouth? – A handkerchief to wipe the mouth after eating a bear and a wolf; the wolf runs away, the bear tells them to come back, they tie themselves with a rope; the bear asks the same questions, and after hearing the answers, runs away dragging the wolf on a rope, which suffocates; the kid took the killed wolf, came to the tent of seven wolves; sings that seven wolf skins will be enough for a fur coat; the wolves come out one by one, disappear; the last two come out, see the killed wolf, and run away]: 359-361; Khadakhane 1984 [the wolves ate the kids and seven goats, and the kid with copper horns remained; asks the wolf to come and eat him when he grows up and gets fat; replies that he has swords on his head, and a handkerchief under his chin to wipe his face after eating bear and wolf meat; the wolf ran away, does not believe the fox that the kid is not scary; does not believe the bear; the bear tied him to his leg and led him to the goat; the goat shouted to the bear that he was the one he needed; the bear ran, the tied wolf suffocated]: 92-94; Transbaikal Buryats: Barannikova et al. 2000, No. 6 (Eravninsky district, eastern Buryatia) [friends Zherebchik, Bychok, Barashek, Kozlik see a Bear; he asks about the purpose of the horns, beard, scrotum; Kozlik says that he will butt them with these, wipe their mouth, put the scraps in a sack; all four roar and bleat, the Bear runs away in fear; the Wolf assures that there is nothing to be afraid of, ties the Bear to himself by the neck so that he follows him; the friends roar and threaten again, the Bear drags the Wolf, he dies, the Bear runs away], 12 (no information about the place of recording) [the bear sees a goat for the first time, asks what it is, pointing to the horns; the goat: peaks to pierce the bear; the same - scrotum: a lead whip braided with sinew, to beat a bear on the muzzle; forelock: when I hunt a bear, I cover my eyes from the sun with it; beard: to wipe my mouth after bear fat; bear: whose son are you? goat: goats with bone peaks; the bear ran away; the she-wolf leads him back to eat the goat; the bear is afraid, the she-wolf ties herself to him; the goat boldly goes to meet him, the bear runs, drags the she-wolf, she died]: 53-57, 65-69; Dugarov 1990 [Paglai left the cat to guard the thigh; the cat ate it; P. beat it; the cat suggested that the goat and the ram run away: since the thigh was eaten, P. will slaughter one of them; in the forest, a cat told a goat and a ram to butt heads, they struck a spark, made a fire; a bear comes; the cat says that his brother wants to measure strength with the bear; the goat comes out; the bear asks the cat what his brother has on his head; the cat: what the skins of killed bears are dried on; under the chin: what the brother wipes his mouth with after eating bear meat; the bear was about to run, the ram poked him in the heart with his horns, the bear died; the cat called P., he stocked up on bear meat for the winter]: 360-361; the Mongols [a bull, a young camel, a lamb, a kid, a foal lived under a stone; the tiger asks what the kid has under his belly; the kid: two batiks; on his head? - two spears to stab with them; the tiger ran away, the wolf led him back, and so that the tiger would not be afraid, tied him to himself; The goat rushed at the tiger, the tiger rushed to run, the wolf died; seeing the bared mouth and scratches from the claws in the snow, the tiger thought that the wolf wrote down how it was, tore him apart while he was dead]: Potanin 1883, No. 169: 554-555; Mongols (Ordos) [a man orders a camel, a stallion, a young ram to answer the tiger that they are a camel, etc. khan; they are afraid, the camel says that he is a baby camel, etc.; the tiger ate them all; when he approached the goat, he answers that he is a heavenly gun, an earthly cannon; on his head are two knives for killing tigers; under his belly is a bag of salt for salting tiger meat; the tiger runs, the goat after him, slips on the ice, droppings fall out of him; goat: oh, if it weren't for the scattered beads, I would have eaten the tiger]: Potanin 1983, No. 26: 194-195; dagurs[a black bear sees a grazing goat, the goat pretends not to be afraid of him; the bear does not know what kind of animal it is, the goat pretends to be surprised - it is a mountain goat; the bear points to its horns, the goat replies that they are double-edged swords; the tail is an axe; the beard is a napkin to wipe bear fat from the mouth; the bear runs away; the fox explains that the fears are in vain, offers to go together and eat the goat; seeing them, the goat shouts to the fox: thank you for bringing the bear even earlier than you promised, today we will eat bear paws and drink wine; the bear kills the fox, runs away; the goat returns from the pasture to its owner]: Bender, Su Huana 1984: 183-186.

Western Siberia. Nganasany [a bear, a wolverine, and a wolf live in a tent; rich people left a sleigh; a fox found a wolverine skin in it; told a cow to scrape it and show it if the wolverine and others came; say that the wolverine has a skin that matches the one they already have, it would be good to skin it off; {the wolverine ran away}; the cow climbed a tree; she wanted to relieve herself, the branch broke and she fell; {the wolverine, the wolf, and the bear ran away}; (further according to Lekarenko); an eagle (living with a cow in the same tent) grabbed the cow by the ear, carried her for a long time, and left her in a poor hut; a Russian came and stole the cow, since then she has been living with the Russians]: M. Momzikova, presentation at EUSP, 26.11.2015 with reference to Kurumaku Tughlakov, Jean-Luc Lambert 1991 and (the last episode) Sundampte Chunanchar, A.P. Lekarenko 1927.

( Cf. Great Southwest. Seri [a puma caught a rabbit; he said his back was yellow because he had caught many pumas and was carrying them on his back; he shouted to the other rabbits to throw the puma's head out of the cave; they threw out the cactus; the puma got scared and ran away]: Moset, Marlett sa).