A38C. Sun Cape .41.43.44.

The sun exchanges or spoils a cape made of animal or bird skins from a boy or girl. As a result, a boy or girl improves his status or takes revenge on the Sun.

Tagish, Comox, Halkomel, Thompson, Lillouette, Menominee, Winnebago, Ojibwa, Western Swamp Cree, Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake), Eastern Cree (Ruperts House), Atticamek.

Subarctic. Carcross [when starved, the chief's mother gives her grandson a spoonful of candlefish fat; upon learning of this, the chief orders him to migrate, leaving the boy without fire; the eldest of the chief's two wives hides the coals for him in a shell; he makes a fire, makes a bow and arrow, hunts birds and animals, makes a cape of bird and mustelids; the sun goes down, asks for a cape, changes it to its own; if you shake it right corner, some creatures do their plans at night (you don't need to look at them); they build a house for the boy, make wooden boxes, fill them with candlefish fat; the boy sends the Raven to take the dried fish to his grandmother, The crow eats everything herself; sends the Seagull, she brings it; the leader sends slaves to find out what happened to the boy, throw the corpse into the fire; the boy feeds the slaves, orders his grandmother to be sent to him; the leader notices that the slave's daughter eats something, the slave lies that they are mollusks, not candlefish; everyone comes back; the boy invites the chief's grandmother and elder wife into the house; the chief stays at the entrance with the slaves; the youngest wife The chief exchanges food from the boy in exchange for his child]: McClelland 2007, No. 78:384-390.

The coast is the Plateau. Thompson [the boy is lazy, naughty, naughty; people leave the camp, leaving him alone; the Raven and the Raven leave dried fish for him; his grandmother hides under a basket of tinder; he shoots birds, grandmother makes four blankets out of skins; The sun used to walk naked, took refuge only at night when he slept in his house; The sun bought blankets, their colors (especially the blue color of the blue jay feathers) are still visible now; the young man becomes a good hunter; fills the Raven and Raven storerooms with meat; gives less to others]: Teit 1898, No. VII: 51-52; (cf. Thompson [The wind blows hard, the youngest of the three brothers catches him in a snare; frees him for promising not to blow so hard; (hereinafter referred to as a European fairy tale - a young man gets the leader's wife)]: Teit 1898, No. 34:87-88); lillouette [the grandmother makes clothes for the young man from bright feathers; the Sun asks for it for herself, gives her own in return; in her former clothes, the Sun was pale as the Month; now bright]: Teit 1912b, No. 2:296-298; comox (tlaamen) [girl rejects Tlaococt 'a; he turns into a dog, chews tar; girl sends a maid for tar; T. wants the girl to swallow resin; she gets pregnant; father tells her to leave her alone; the Raven takes the fire, her grandmother Jackdaw hides the fire in the sink for her; the girl gives birth to seven puppies, one of them female; collects shells; hears children singing; hangs her clothes on the pole, catches the children by surprise, throws dog skins into the fire; the daughter manages to pull the skin over one hand; makes her older brother a shirt; he falls asleep in the sun; the Sun offers to change shirts; when the young man lowers the end of the shirt received from the Sun into the water, salmon appear; the tribe is starving; the Jackdaw comes, gets fat; the brothers are witching, the Raven cannot catch fish; the older brother is the ancestor of the Tlaamen]: Boas 1895, No. X: 92-94 (=2002:227-228); chalkomel [the boy begs for food from his neighbors; upon learning of this, the offended father tells everyone to leave, taking food and clothing, leaving the boy alone; blind his grandmother hides roots and coals in his sink; he hunts birds, makes a cloak out of skins; the Sun changes it to its own; when the edge of the Sun's cloak is lowered into the water, a lot of herring appears; people come back, young man becomes chief]: Boas 1895, No. III.1.3:19-20 (=2002:93-95).

The Midwest. Menominee [The sun burns an orphan boy's cape; he gets pubic hair from his sister, makes a snare, catches the Sun; it gets dark; the mouse will gnaw through the fetters]: Hoffman 1896 [boy himself puts a snare; The Sun calls the Mouse for help]: 181-182; Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II11 [Polar Bears live underground; they drag a man and his wife under the ice; son, daughter, their pet Eagle remain; boy sends the Eagle to put a snare on the path of the Sun; then lets the Eagle carry the Mouse to the sky; she gnaws through the snare], II12 [the boy lives with his mother; sends the Hawk to put his snare; the mother gives a knife; the son himself cuts his fetters when the Sun is barely alive]: 357-361; Winnebago: Erdoes, Ortiz 1984 [Brother makes a bow and arrow, who shoots bullfinches, Sister sews clothes for him from birdskin; he lies down on the trail, the Sun burns clothes, they shrink, he has to tear them to get out; Sister makes a snare out of reindeer tendons, Brother catches the Sun in them; animals send Sonya, she succeeds gnaw her tendons; The sun is released, but Sonya becomes small and half-blind]: 164-166; Smith 1997 [animals destroy people; Grandmother moon and granddaughter live alone; grandmother makes her granddaughter a blue cape feathers; while the girl sleeps, the Sun shines and the cape shrinks; the animals look and laugh; the girl climbs a pine tree, shoots arrows into the Sun until it disappears; the mouse rises to her, agrees that the girl will let go of the Sun and the animals will be hunted]: 166-168; Ojibwa [The sun burns the dwarf's cape, who catches the Sun in a trap; the dwarf's sister tells him to release Sun; the Mole manages to do this]: Jones 1916, No. 22:376; northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [The sun burns Jacabaish 'a (Tkney-in-eye) clothes; he catches the Sun in a trap, does dark; Squirrel, Wolf, Mole can't get close because of the heat; The mouse gnaws through the fetters, freeing the Sun]: Ray, Stevens 1971:107-110; Eastern Cree (Ruperts House) [Tcik√°pis boy asks his sister what their parents, killed by Katcitos, looked like; she replies that her father had dark hair and her mother had blond hair; T. calls all the animals one by one, asks what they do when they meet people; everything they say that they run away, that people are not eaten; K. replies that he eats people, that he is as strong as a pine tree; T. blows a pine tree to pieces with an arrow; catches up, kills an animal with an arrow; finds the hair of his mother and father in his stomach, brings it to his sister; tells the big fish to swallow it; sitting in the stomach, invites her to see what it is there; this is his sister's hook, she catches fish, finds her brother in her stomach, he laughs; his sister does not tell go to giants who hunt beavers in winter; T. takes their beaver away; makes the teepee stone at night, the giants are powerless to do anything; T. goes to the cannibal; her two daughters do not mind if he is hers she will kill, for her mother killed all their lovers; T. pushes her into a boiling pot; climbs a tree into the sky; does not want to give way to the Sun, he steps through it, burning his cape; T. puts it on the path trap; The sun is caught, it is getting dark; T. cannot approach the Sun because of the heat; sends the Shrew to close his fetters; goes down for his sister and his two wives, and climbs back into heaven with them]: Skinner 1911:100-102; Western Swamp Cree [sister does not tell younger brother to shoot squirrels by the water; he violates the ban, climbs into the water for an arrow, tells the fish to swallow it; sister catches it on hook, finds a living brother; the sun has burned his cape, he puts his snare, the Sun does not rise; the young man cannot open his snare because of the heat; insects, the mouse can't, the Mole succeeds, he goes blind; the sister says brother that the Bear killed their parents; brother breaks a tree, a stone with an arrow, the Bear rushes to run, is killed by an arrow; the brother hangs a birch bark bundle of bear-hair in the dugout, does not tell his sister to look; from sounds can be heard in the woods; brother says sister must have looked and cried]: Cresswell 1923:404-405; atticamek [Tcikabis could make trees grow tall and then fall again; loved it so climb trees; one day he climbed a grown tree into the sky, went along the path, the Sun told him to give way, he refused, the Sun stepped over him, scorched his clothes; C. returned to earth to his sister, he made a snare, put it in the sky on the path, the Sun was caught, it became dark; only the Mouse could overcome the heat, gnaw through the snare, and it became light again]: Davidson 1928a: 282-283.