B24. Turning into wild pigs. 61.-.64.68.70.71.
People who come into conflict or break the ban turn into wild boars or bakers.
Sekoya, Karijona, Munduruku, Spike, Tenetekhara, Rickbacza, Kayapo, Kariri.
Western Amazon. Sekoya [everyone but the shaman and his sister eat fish from the forest pond (not from the river); the shaman sees spirits weaving fruit baskets (=human eyes); juri-juri spirits are taken out by sleeping eyes, the shaman turns the blind into wild pigs; people make a fire at the huri-khuri hollow, throw pepper into the fire; all spirits died except a one-year-old child in the roots of the tree; he was brought to the village; through For six years he sucked the child's brain; the child's mother wanted to kill him, but huri-khuri climbed onto the roof, the wind clicked and flew away with it]: Cipolletti 1988, No. 14:103-106.
NW Amazon. Carijona [curare collectors sent one of them on the way back to kill the tapir, told him to leave his heart, liver and lungs behind; people found these parts tied by a rope and lowered into water; they told the captive Uitoto to cook; he hears the brew gurgling: eat me, eat me! (these words are like gurgling to carijona; the brew refers to whitoto because he, as a prisoner, was not supposed to eat meat and the pot wanted him to try at least broth); Wheatot told people, but he was accused of not wanting to give people meat; he did not eat himself; he wanted not to give it to a five-year-old boy, but he demanded and the prisoner gave him a piece; in fact, the man sent forward was not killed the tapir, and the demon put his own liver and lungs; when the people settled down for the night, Wheitoto tried to wake them up in vain; then he took the boy to put them on the roof of the canopy; getting closer oooh! - the voice of a demon who came with his wife; there was a hole in the demon's chest; he pulled out people's eyes, shoved them inside through the hole, and the liver reappeared; a piece was missing; then the demon found the boy He also pulled out his eyes; the demon's wife cut off the meat from the legs of the people, since then there were only bones; in the morning people woke up blind; Uitoto tried to put the fruits of the milpeso palm tree in their eye sockets, but they were too big; the fruits of the "baker's eye" came up; people saw the light, but when, swimming in a dolblenka, they began to approach the house, they began to turn into bakers; they ruined their own garden, abandoned the pillars of the little ones; on the backs The baskets in which the curare were carried turned into large anteaters, and the blowpipes into snakes; people killed one baker, others ran downstream, now Bralisia; from those, the current bakers came from; There are creatures in Brazil that are bakers above the waist and humans below, without hair; they are very ferocious]: Schindler 1979, No. 4:71-77.
Central Amazon. Munduruku [Karusakaibe lives in the village of Huakupari; sends his son Korumtau to his sisters for meat; they do not give it; K. tells him to fill their house with feathers; fumigates home, screams, Eat your own food! they hear, Copulate! , turn into wild pigs; K. kills pigs one at a time; turns into a tapira, lets people shoot at themselves, carries away pierced arrows, turns into a human again; Daira persuades Korumtau shows where the pigs are, they let everyone out at once; they chase Korumtau, kill him; K. covers the pigs with a hill; the rest run away into the forest; to cross the river, they put an anaconda across; she how to pull the shores closer together with a rope]: Murphy 1958, No. 1:70-73.
Eastern Amazon. Spiking [Kumãφári sent his young son to the people to ask for fruit; they replied that K. should come by himself; K. became angry and scattered the feathers of four mutum birds around the village; it blew at night, the village turned into a rock, and people into wild pigs; feathers around the village, people turn into wild pigs; in the morning he took his son to hunt; opened the rock, throwing three seeds, the pigs came out, he killed as much as needed; one day, in K.'s absence, his cousin (Vetter) came; K.'s son warned him to throw only three seeds, he threw down a whole bunch; many pigs cut down a palm tree, where K.'s relative and son hid, both killed, ran away; K. revived both of the drops of blood, told the relative to be the owner of wild pigs now, turned them into a wild boar; now he is a little man who rides a boar, rules the herd]: Nimuendaju 1920:1013-1014; tenetehara [Tupan came with his adopted son to the village of the boy's relatives; they did not take care of him; T. ordered for the boy to collect feathers, pour them around the village, set them on fire, people in the village turn into wild pigs and bakers; Marana ýwa T. made the boy the owner of wild pigs]: Wagley, Galvão 1949, No. 6: 134.
Southern Amazon. Rickbacz [daughters-in-law do not give a man the meat that their husbands bring; he once again sends his young son for meat, he is given only feathers; the man makes a hut out of these feathers, invites him inside his married sons, fumigates them with pepper, sons turn into jaguars, their wives into wild pigs; the youngest son has legs full of sand fleas; the father leaves him at the fork in the tree, opens the entrance slightly to the hut, kills a pig that has come out; while his father was away, a man came and asked his son to show where the father kept the game; the boy agreed if he carried him; he opened the way out, the pigs and jaguars went out and ate That man; the boy was put on his back by the pig, carried him; the father found him, but when his mother took the tick out of his ear, he died]: Pereira 1994, No. 11:117-121 (=1973, No. 1:34).
Eastern Brazil. Kayapo [O'oimbre sent his son to the village to the boy's mother's relatives to ask for food; they refused, ordered them to find the hunters and ask them for their needs; at night, O. threw him into a large house where people slept bird feathers, closed the exit with a stone slab; the boy asked his mother to take him out to pee, but soon began to scream like a vice; everyone turned into bakers; in the morning Takakö (he is brother-in-law of O.) took his son, came to the house, opened the door slightly, threw two seeds that bakers love, killed the bakers who came out, closed the door; in the morning T.'s son stayed at home with his leg injured; O. carried him and forced him to show where T was . the bakers got it; opened the door wide, the animals escaped, tore it, the boy climbed the tree, they knocked it down, tore it too]: Wilbert 1978, No. 95:249-250; kariri [Tuppart sends the Great The father lives among the Kariri; people ask him for pig meat; he turns their children into wild pigs; pigs go up to heaven on a huge tree, people chase them, kill many; old man Great Father sends red ants to gnaw through the trunk; toads try to protect the tree, but ants bite them (the origin of warts on the skin of toads); the tree is fallen down; people start shooting arrows at the tree to make it again lift it up, but only half it, and then it fell again; they go down the rope, it turned out to be too short; people fall and break their legs; this is how joints appeared; when people return home, there are plenty of people they ate the meat of their children turned into pigs; they asked the Great Father to return, but he did not want to, gave them Batzé tobacco instead; therefore, when appropriate, they make offerings tobacco]: Martin de Nantes 1671-1688 in Lowie 1946:559; in Wassen 1933:125-126.