A38D. The sun ruins the cape .44.49.

Because the Sun has caused damage to the character (spoiled, burned his cape, fur on his skin, etc.), he traps him or kills him.

Menominee, Winnebago, Ojibwa, Northern Ojibwa, Eastern Cree, Attikamek, Panamint, Western Shoshones, Southern Payut (Shivwitz), Utah (Moapa).

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; atticamek [Tcikabis could make trees grow tall and then low again; liked to climb trees like this; once he climbed a grown tree into the sky, walked 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, made a snare, put it in the sky on the path, the Sun was caught, it became dark; only the Mouse I was able to overcome my fever, gnaw my snare, and it was light again]: Davidson 1928a: 282-283.

Big Pool. Panamint [while the Rabbit is sleeping, the Sun counts his vertebrae; the Rabbit goes to kill him; asks different bushes how they burn; one replies that only his leaves are burning; under him is the Rabbit digs a hole; arrows fired into the Sun burn; the Rabbit hits him with a fire drill; the earth heats up, the Rabbit hides in its hole, only his neck is burned; when the earth cools down, the Rabbit makes a new sun out the hearts of the old, a month from his kidney; Squirrels scream that the Rabbit killed the Sun, hide under a rock; The rabbit breaks the rock, kills the Squirrels with a stick; comes to the children, cooks porridge from seeds, feeds the children; offers to climb the juniper; bends over and lets it go, the children fly off and crash to death; people rush to kill the Rabbit, he hides under a rock, runs away; the old woman weaves waterproof basket; The rabbit gets inside; then offers the old woman to climb, braids the hole, rolls down the mountain, the old woman dies; the old woman cleans the prickly pear fruits from small thorns; they do not fall into the Rabbit eyes; he blows into the eyes of an old woman, she goes blind and dies from thorns; two women throw a rock on the Rabbit, he is alive; he throws it on them, they die; he comes into the house, paints his face red, people are frightened; at night she burns everyone with the house, pulls one woman out; she tries to burn it when he climbs under a rock, he is unharmed; burns her under a rock; Mountain Sheep says that the Rabbit that killed the Sun is coming ; he throws them the potion to smell, ask them to throw them back, they fall off the rock after them, break; at home, Rabbit's mother says that the rock crushed his food; he throws the rock, pulls out the seeds]: Zigmond 1980, No. 72:233-236; Western Shoshones: Steward 1943a (Saline Valley, California) [While Rabbit was sleeping, the Sun stuck to him with a stick; The rabbit goes east to kill him; the Sun comes out of the sea, sits on tree; The rabbit began to look for a tree that does not burn (make arrows?) ; shot the Sun with a bow, hid in a hole; The sun fell, the earth caught fire; when the earth cooled down, the Rabbit took out the Sun's gallbladder, threw it into the sky, it became the new sun; The rabbit goes home, people laugh at him, he kills all those who laugh]: 277-278; Smith 1993 [The sun is close to the ground, unbearable heat; every day he kicks the Rabbit's back with his hot stick, the spots are still visible; The rabbit makes a bow, arrows with poisoned with flint tips; goes east to the sea; The sun comes out of the water, cleans its head from lice on a tree on an island; the arrows fired burn; the rabbit hits the Sun with a quiver stick, which it wets with its saliva; hides in a hole, burned, stains remain; causes the North Wind to cool the earth with snow and hail; in the dark, it pulls the corpse of the Sun out of the water, refreshes; throws the gallbladder into the sky, it becomes the new sun, the kidneys become the Month; gives names to 12 months starting in July; tells the Sun to shine during the day, the Month at night; the sea will be salty because the Sun is in he fell; hot springs are the tears of the Sun when he was killed; the old woman replies to the unrecognized Rabbit that he is waiting for the Rabbit, who kills people by killing the Sun; offers to jump over the fire, does not have time push the Rabbit there, he pushes it, burns it; another old woman says that when the Rabbit comes, she will place it in a vessel that weaves and crush it; he gets inside, not crushed; when the old woman climbs, presses her to death; the third old woman replies that she will bring down a hanging stone on the Rabbit; the rabbit offers to try, remains alive, the old woman is crushed; he comes to the field; the sister sends younger brothers shoot rabbits that spoil crops; the rabbit deflects their arrows, comes to the house where the sister paints her face with red paint, the brothers do not dare to enter; in the evening he washes off the paint, brothers come in, everyone roast rabbits; at night he ties the brothers' hair, rapes his sister to death, burns everyone in the house; Marmots laugh at the Rabbit; he makes a fire at all holes, strangles Surkov with smoke to death; comes to his two aunts; puts one of the Sun's buds in the place where they kept their food; they call him a tribesman, he's happy; the Sun's bud turns into a rock; the Rabbit moves it, gets food; two Wild Cats sit by the fire; their fire is white stone, there is no other, and it is dangerous to take firewood; the Rabbit tells them to take it, the Tree rushes at them, but the Rabbit throws the Sun's bud at him, it freezes; he tells the wood serve as fuel, do not rush at people; the same with water, now it's fashionable to drink it; Rabbit meets two Sky Boys; they feed him something white, hard and tasty; you have to lie face to the sky, sing, eat will descend from the sky; The rabbit is frightened, throws the kidney of the Sun into the descending food, tells that the food be on earth, be a sugar-bearing plant; the boys flew to heaven; they do not become stars, but live in a heavenly hole; The rabbit saw two girls, became a little boy, they picked him up; at night he feels their breasts; the next night he becomes a man, copulates with them; during the day he turns the swamp over with people, those die; girls come back, he copulates with them until their insides come out of their mouths; turns into a rabbit]: 167-178; southern payut (Shivvitz) [The rabbit notices that his the shadow has become short, and the skin is all pierced; decides to take revenge on the Sun; comes to two boys, asks them to light a fire; they are afraid that the trees (wood) will take away their parents; the Rabbit sends them for firewood, but trees go to them; the rabbit tells them to go to it, throws the magic stone, which crumbles small; now it is safe to make a fire; makes the seeds available; before that they were crushed by a boulder; promises the boys that they will not suffer if the ground catches fire; meets girls, tells them to blow chaff in his eyes, blows towards him; now blows into their eyes, they die; man does arrow, replies that the Rabbit is coming, he will kill him; the Rabbit offers to put a hot stone on each other's chest; he is protected by another stone, kills that man; the woman does (obviously weaves) vessel basket, says that the Rabbit goes and kills people; suggests weaving them so that they take turns inside the basket; easily gets out, walled up the woman in the basket, kills her; girls on the rock laughs; he throws his pebble at them; asks them to throw them back; they all fall after them and crash; eats up the Coyote field; the villagers kill many rabbits, but not the Rabbit; he hides in a hole, everyone they climb after him, he gets out, collapses the ground on the hidden ones, they die; the Bear digs a hole, says he will hide in it from the Rabbit; the Rabbit offers to hide one by one, kills the Bear; everything trees respond that they will burn in a fire, but shrubs will only burn from above; Rabbit breaks the Sun with a stone, hides in a hole; trees burn, the Rabbit runs farther and farther, makes a hole under the bush; gradually burns; when his eyes burst, water spills, cools the ground; Rabbit's body gathers again; he comes to those boys, his brothers, they are safe]: Lowie 1924, No. 15:142-147; Utah (Moapa ) [(=Powell 1881:52-56); Ta-vuats sleeps with his back to the sun, burns; goes for revenge; on the way he kills various people (animals) waiting for him to come but do not recognize him; all the trees respond that they burn, the smallest one hides T. under his roots; T. breaks the Sun to pieces, the world lights up; T. goes out to the unfrozen ground, burns; his tears cool the earth; since then the sun has risen and set]: Powell 1971:78-80.