Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

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Ethnicities and habitats

b28d1. Knives turn into antlers .42.43.

Without understanding who is in front of him, the man promises to kill the Transformer. He turns his weapon into deer antlers and himself into a deer.

Quakiutl, Nootka, Makah, Quileout, Quinolt, Comox, Chalkomeloem, Lummi, Twana, Puget Sound, Snookhalli, Upper Chehalis, Lower Chinook.

NW Coast. Quakiutl [people know Kanekilah is coming; everyone is busy preparing the weapon they are going to kill him with; unrecognized K. asks for a closer look at this weapon; uses it to transform the character; Deer: I sharpen these shells to slaughter the Kanekilah Organizer; Kanekilah turns him into a deer, sprinkled with crushed shells; from Mink's spears, the Raccoon makes it one tails; makes four blind women sighted, turns them into ducks; a man and a woman have genitals on the forehead, K. places them in the groin; leaves a person with many mouths on his body only one mouth; turns Oldest to stone; turns Perch into perch]: Boas 1910, No. 16:201-209; Nootka [people know the Converter is coming; everyone is busy preparing the weapon they are going to kill him with; unrecognized P. asks for a closer look at the relevant object; uses it to transform the character]: Boas 1895, No. XIII.1 [=2002:245-246; two Transducers descend from the sky; the inhabitants of the earth they know that they will turn into humans and real animals, gather advice; Deer ("son of a deer"): I'm not afraid I'll kill them; took two shells, put them on a stone; two came up and asked what he was doing; Deer: I'm getting ready to kill P.; they ask them to look at the shells, stick them in his head, tell him to shake his head, the shells turned into horns, the character into a deer, he ran away; P. came to the village, turned everyone in animals and birds; the Otter had a long spear, Beaver had a long wide knife, now their tails; after the animals became animals, a couple of people appeared in each village; let the tribes speak in different languages, some will be strong and others weak; P. gave people berries, shells, fish - everything they need for life; taught them how to get food, use medicinal herbs and turn to Heaven, where P. are]: 98; 1916, No. 6 [converter - Young man from snot, see motif L38; spear to tail: otter, raccoon, beaver, marten; two stone hammers in paws: bear; two knives from shells to horn: deer], 910-911; Clutesi 1967 [The deer sharpens two shells to make knives; answers the unrecognized Transformer that he will kill the Transducer with them; he asks for shells, puts the Deer on his head, turns his deer, shells in ears]: 93-97; Sapir, Swadesh 1939, No. 10 [tail club: beaver; knife in ears: deer; spear to tail: otter, raccoon, wolf, mink; claws (weapons) Puma, Eagle in claws puma, eagle]: 46-51; poppies [one episode only; Quati: I'll sharpen these shells to slaughter whoever comes to change our appearance; The converter turns him into a deer]: Densmore 1939:213.

The coast is the Plateau. Quileut [Queti goes when he meets different people; everyone sharpens their weapons, says they are going to kill the world transducer; he praises weapons, turns those he meets into deer (knife - ears), beaver (club - tail), otter (spear - tail); creates tribes; turns dogs into Macae Indians]: Andrade 1931, No. 27:83-85; Clark 1953:122-124; Farrand, Mayer 1919 [Kweeti travels; first meets the White Man, tells him to have only one wife; Beaver sharpens the stone tip, replies that he is waiting for K. to kill him; K. puts a point to his ass, turns it into a tail; Deer sharpens the shells, replies that K. is waiting for him, he makes his ears out of his shells; on the Kvitz River, K. spits on his hands, throws mud spools into the river, they turn into Quetzush Indians (made of mud); Hoh Indians walk in their arms, holding nets between their legs; K. puts them on their feet; in Kvileuti turns wolves into people, tells them to fish; in Ozette creates Indians from two dogs; in Nii Bay he teaches people to fish]: 251-252; quinalt [Misp meets people walking upside down and having other oddities; puts people on their feet, gives tools; The deer replies that he sharpens knives- kill Misp's shells; he turns him into a deer, shell knives into ears]: Farrand 1902, No. 1:83-85; comox [Kumsnō'otl ("our big brother") came down from heaven; in humans all over his body mouths, he laughs like a hundred people, K. turned him into stone; the cod sorcerer into cod; the monstrous octopus swallows everyone; K. covered himself with hot stones, the octopus rushed at him, burned himself; K. cut scattered it into pieces, they turned into current octopuses; paints birds, makes the crow black (see motif B82); makes water flow in different directions in the strait at high tide, not always into one; The deer sharpens two shells, replies that he is waiting for K. to come, he will kill him; K. asks for shells, pierces the deer into the head, turns the shells into horns, the Deer into a deer (the last episode in section XIX.1.25:428)]: Boas 2002, No. VIII.1:177-180; chalkomel (cowichan) [Kels descends to earth; travels, turning people into animals (raven, seagull, blue jay, etc.) ) and stones; the man sharpens the shells; replies that he makes the tips to kill K.; he turns him into a deer, his shells into ears; a group of people fry fish in the sun; K. teaches them how to make fire by friction]: Boas 1895, № IV.1:45-47 (=2002:135-138); Lummi [the young man replies to Shelas that he is preparing a weapon to pierce Shelas; he takes a weapon to see, pierces the young man's wrists turns him into a deer]: Stern 1934:109; twana (skokomish) [Kais, the Sun, creates the world and people; they behave badly; he goes down, turns them into animals and stones; the deer replies that makes a knife out of the shell to kill K.; he turns him into a deer; the second race is destroyed by fire, two men and their wives are saved; the third by rain flooding the ground; a man with children escapes on the mountain; Later, a cold winter was also sent to punish people]: Boas 1895, No. VI.1:56-57; Puget Sound [two sisters dig the roots of a fern, stay overnight on the prairie; one wants a white husband, the other a red star; when they woke up, they were in the sky; the white star is an old man, the red star is young; husbands do not tell me to dig deep roots; the older sister is pregnant, the youngest is sitting by the smoke hole, so as not to see her cry because she had an old husband; when the boy grew up, he dug a hole, from there the wind, the husbands immediately felt it, but the women managed to close the hole; weaved the rope and went down with the baby; while everyone is swinging on a rope, and an old toad woman is watching the baby, the salmon stole the boy (this is the next Month); the mother found a rotten tree in the cradle, moistened the diaper, squeezed it five times, a second boy (the future Sun) has appeared; the yellow woodpecker goes to search for the Month, cannot pass between the interpreting rocks; the same another woodpecker, a raven, an osprey; the blue jay has flown by; the month promised to come later; put a stick between the rocks so that the blue jay could slip back; Married for a month to a woman who is one of the salmon; his son does not want to let him go; Month: a new generation is coming and you (i.e. salmon) will food; The month first made a mistake, told the salmon to go down, only then told them to go up; meets people fighting; What are you doing? - We fight; he turned them into birds and stones; turned little slaves into snipes; fishermen and people in the swamp into two types of ducks; people on the beach into oysters; people know that the Month changes the nature of people they meet, they want it kill; others argue about day and night, some want light and darkness every day, bear wants day and night to last for a year; now the bear sleeps all winter; the deer makes the tip of a spear; Month: what are you doing? - I want to kill the Transformer; Month: If you're a deer, they'll eat you; Norka argues with the Month who is who; Norka could not change the Month, and he turned it into a stick; he's Mink again; The Month cut him - the current minks turned out; four women drag each other by the hair; - We train to pull onions; The month turned them into 4 types of edible plants; made a man on the lake a beaver; carrying salmon - otter; Wild Cat roasts salmon, fell asleep; He ate everything for a month, the leftovers are in his face, now it has stripes, he has become a cat; 5 brothers are playing: fire, fire! It's all on fire; the trail: here, my grandson! but the quiver of the Month is burnt; across the river, old man Echo; only repeats: bring a boat! The month has passed by itself, began to fight Echo; bird: take the Echo giblets that hang on the wall of the dugout; the Echo echoed; the blue heron uses its head as a hammer, because stones and sticks alive; The Month made them with stones and sticks, made the Heron of Herons; The month gathered everyone to determine who should shine during the day and who should shine at night; tried the yellow hammer, but there is little light; the raven, the coyote, woodpecker is dark; hummingbirds are better, but the day is very short; younger brother The sun offered to be the sun for the Month, but it is too hot, the water is boiling; the Sun has begun to shine during the day, the Month at night; the old toad woman is now visible at night on the disc of the Month; the rope on which they swayed was up to the sky; Month: you can climb; but the Rat gnawed it, the Month turned it into a rat; the rocks on the mountain were transformed people; the Indians were relatives Months]: Ballard 1929 [Husbands learn about a ban violation when they feel the wind blowing from a hole]: 68-71;; snookually [Doquibel meets the Deer; I make a spear to kill Doquibel! ; he turns him into a deer]: Haeberlin 1924, No. 6:379; upper chehalis [Xwαn makes two girls out of salmon milk; my wives address them, they run away; the old woman shakes at Swing a baby, girls kidnap him, replacing him with a rotten deck; his mother conceived him from a blue stone, he is a Month; she squeezes his diapers, makes his brother's urine the Sun; Blue Jay goes to west, slips under five barriers that fall and rise; Month is the husband of the women who kidnapped him; they gave birth to him bushes and trees, the youngest is the mother of all fish; when Soyka finds the Month, makes arrows, the fragment hits Soyke's eye; the month says goodbye to its fish children; on the way to earth turns monsters into objects (mat trowel, wind barrier, head of cabbage); various Herbs they say they want to kill the Month, he turns them into herbs; the Deer makes a spear to kill the Month, he makes ears out of it; a woman puts passers-by on a swing, rocks them, people break against a rock; Woodpecker helps her; The month is unharmed, shakes the woman, she breaks; five women breathe fire; stone, wood, water cannot cover the Months (burn, split, boil), the path covers; another woman lies, with her legs open; The month knocks out her vaginal teeth and splits her in half with a hammer and a moose horn wedge; The month rises to the sky to shine during the day, but is too hot; the weak Sun Brother should have shone at night but is afraid of ghosts; The month becomes the month, the Sun becomes the sun]: Adamson 1934:158-169; lower chinook [the girl is taken away by the Bear; she gives birth to a son and daughter; her four brothers they come to the Bear's house one by one; his son asks to remove his lice, kills young men; the younger fifth brother does not shoot at the pheasant on the way, does not enter the bear house; together with the Bear's daughter, burns the Bear and his son in their house; Bear's wife revives brothers; dives into a lake, turns into a monster; Bear's daughter is married by Chief Blue Jay; she never laughs; promises to laugh if he stands in in the forest on all fours; laughs, devours all men; her husband's legs below the knees disappear; she keeps him in a basket; gives birth to two sons; does not tell them to go down the river; they go, find the bones of people who their mother regurgitated; they find a basket with their father; he says that their mother has become a monster; brothers turn her into a dog, put her father under water; go on a journey; they see a double-headed swan on the lake { possibly a swan with heads at both ends of the body}; the younger one shoots, swims to the bird, disappears; the eldest throws hot stones into the lake; the water boils away; he rips open the bellies of all monsters; in the latter finds a brother holding a swan; revives him; a man is dancing with an oar, while fish jump into his boat; brothers taught him how to fish with a net; another person shoots in the rain because his house has no roof; his brothers taught him how to make a roof; they wash dirt off his skin, mold people out of it, blow on them, people came to life; a man sharpens knives, promises to kill those who fix things; his brothers turned him into a deer by tying him his knives to his head are horns; a woman throws people into the abyss on sharp flints; brothers throw her, cut her body to pieces, throw them in different directions; Indians who live where their feet fall have strong legs; those who live where their hair has fallen have long hair; etc.]: Boas 1894a, No. 1:17-21.