M152F. We'll eat the one whose voice is quieter. .28.31.

The animals agree to eat the one with the quietest voice.

Russians (Tula, Ryazan, Samara, Voronezh), Estonians.

Central Europe. Russians (Tula) [there is a mitten; a fly-queen: who lives in the tower? no one, climbed into the mitten; then a little hare-stepanchik, a fox - a match from behind, a wolf - a gray tail, a fat-legged bear; they sat for a while, got hungry; the bear: whoever shouts louder than the other, leave him alone, and whoever doesn't shout enough, eat him; the fly hid, and the hare didn't make it, they ate him; then the fox; then the bear ate the wolf; the bear went to look for the fly, and she came out and began to live and live]: Erlenwein 1882: 7-8; Russians (Ryazan) [the fox put the cat in a sieve, went for hay; sings "On the cat in the sieve, to the meadows for hay"; the hare asks to take him too, sings the same song; then the wolf; the bear; fall into a pit; the fox offers to eat the one who does not pull out his voice; they ate the hare; the wolf; the fox puts some meat under himself, and then pretends to pull out and eat his intestines; the bear did so and died; the fox ate it for a long time, got fat; then got out (the informants do not remember)]: Samodelova 2013, No. 13: 10-12; Russians (Samara) [the old people did not have a horse, only a cat; they need to go for firewood; the old man harnessed the cat to a sieve and went; the hare asks to put him in too; then the fox, the wolf, the bear; the old man asked the cat to jump over the pit, they will fall into the pit; the animals decide to eat the one who does not pull out his voice; they ate the hare; then the wolf; the fox hides the bones under himself; tells the bear that she is eating her own eyes; intestines; the bear tore out his; died; the fox ate him; threatens the nightingale to ruin his nest if he doesn't pull her out; the nightingale dragged "drazga" into the pit, the fox got out; orders her to be given something to drink, something to eat, something to make her laugh, something to teach her to fly; the woman was carrying pies and beer; the nightingale sat on the arc, the woman hit him with a stick, broke the arc, the horse ran away, the woman after it; the fox ate and drank; the nightingale on the threshing floor, sat on the peasant's bald head; his foolish son killed his father with a flail, the fox laughed; the nightingale put the fox on his back, she orders her to fly higher; the nightingale threw her off; "God grant it to the table!"; fell on a stump and killed herself]: Sadovnikov 1884, No. 53: 176-178; Russian(Voronezh, earlier 1860, west in Voronezh district by K. O. Aleksandrov-Dolnik) [A boar goes into the forest for acorns, meets in turn a wolf, a bear, a hare and a fox. The animals ask the boar to take them with him, he warns that they will not be able to jump over a pit that they will encounter on the way, they insist, go with the boar and fall into the pit. The animals are starving, the fox offers to eat the one who "can't pull his voice", the hare lags behind first, he is eaten, another time the wolf. The fox hid the wolf's meat and eats slowly. The bear asks why she is not starving. The fox advises to put her paw under her ribs to find out how to eat, the bear does so and dies. The fox threatens a thrush, building a nest in a tree above the pit, that she will eat his children if he does not feed her. The thrush brings her a chicken, then water, then throws sticks so that the fox can climb out of the hole. She demands that the thrush make her laugh, he orders her to run after him, brings her to the village, shouts "Grandma-grandma, bring me a piece of lard", the dogs come running to the noise, tear the fox apart. Further about the blue caftan and honey]: Tonkov 1949, No. 2: 155-156.

Baltoscandia. Estonians [The Cat knocked over a pot of cream and went to repent of his sins; he is joined by the Hare (he ate oats in the field), the Fox (she stole geese), the Wolf (he slaughtered a cow), and the Bear (he ate a horse); the Cat suggests crossing a pit on a pole, and whoever crosses will have their sins washed away; the Cat crossed, and the others fell into the pit; the Fox suggests eating the one with the weaker voice (they ate the Hare), or the louder voice (the Bear); the Fox suggests to the Wolf that whoever knocks a stone out of the edge of the pit with his head will eat the other; the Wolf broke his head and died; the Fox threatens the Starling to eat his chicks if he doesn’t help her get out – fill the pit with branches; having gotten out, he orders her to be fed; the Starling distracts the woman, the Fox eats the porridge from the pot she left behind; to make drunk (a starling flies around a barrel of beer, the owner hits the plug, the fox drinks the pouring beer); to make laugh (a father and son are threshing, a starling flies around the father's head, the son hits him, they quarrel, the fox laughs); to make jump; a starling calls the hounds, the fox hides in a hole; asks its limbs how each helped to escape; the tail only clung to the bushes; the fox, as a punishment, stuck it out of the hole to the hounds; the hound ate both the tail and the fox]: Jakobson 1954: 119-129