B41. Talking dog.
.11. (.12.) .13.19.21.23.-.25.36.-.38.41.44.46.-.50.52.56.
Due to the fact that the dog disseminated some information, argued with the owners, spoke at the wrong time, it was speechless.
Bulu, Sakata, (kuba, ikom, banen), meen, masai, bilbil, walman, mountain arapesh, kiwai, lake. Kutubu, keraki, masingle (?) , Admiralty Islands, New Britain, Fr. Rossel, (Samoa), Mishmi, Lepcha, Dulong, Rengma, Koya, Maria, (sora), Timor, Tsow, Baikal Evenks, Nanai, Orochi, Ainu, Japanese, Taltan, Menominee, Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake), Sarsi, Blackfoot, Mandan, Seminoles, Caddo, Kawaiisu, Uncompagre Utah, Zunyi, Yuma, Nahuat Puebla, Jacalteci, Tsotzil, Tseltal, Chol (?) , chontal, popoloka (?) , sikuani.
Bantu-speaking Africa. Bulu [The dog comes to visit Pangolin; he asks her and his son to hatch seeds for him; the dog asks why the pangolin son puts the peeled seeds not in the basin, but in his mouth; the son is here But he falls dead; every time the Dog tells others what happened, he also dies; the dog decides not to speak from now on]: Krug 1912, No. 18:120; sakata [The dog always gossiped; when he saw the owner at the table, told me what a glutton he was, although the owner ate little; people asked Elima to shut her mouth; dogs have not spoken since then]: Colldén 1979, No. 92:260; (cf. cube [Woot did incest with his sister Mwele, ran east; night came; M. sent a dog to him; W. gave her a piece of meat wrapped in motley skin; the day will come when the skin turns white and if it turns black, the night will never end; he has forbidden the dog to eat meat; the dog couldn't resist eating and was speechless]: Scheub 2000:262).
(Wed. West Africa. Ikom [Chief Leku has Achor's wife; Akoba young woman is beautiful, uses the services of many men, does not want to marry; promises to marry someone who falls into a far-away calebass; L. hits, she has to marry him, but gets tired of doing housework; she decides to kill him; asks him to go to the forest for fruit, leaving the hunting dogs at home; when he climbs a palm tree, she cuts the trunk with an ax; L. sends a bird for his dogs; a palm tree falls but he moves to another; Achor causes the river to flood, but dogs cross, tear Achor apart; L. makes five bundles with pieces her body, lets five dogs carry; Akoba does not understand how he could carry so much, he has to tell; she goes for firewood, makes five bundles, tells the dogs to carry; they brought and died from fatigue; since then, dogs have not talked or complied with the owners' requests]: Dayrell 1913, No. 6:11-12; banen [a man lost an ax in the forest; his dog found an ax and gave it to him, telling him not to talk about that the dog is talking; at home, the man told everything and the dog announced that he would no longer talk]: Dugast 1975:350).
Sudan - East Africa. Mehan [people came to a new place where there was no fire; the dog swam back across the river, set fire to its tail, came back with its tail above the water; once lay in ash and snored; another dog said to the chief that she only eats and snores; the chief stabbed the ox, gave the dog a bowl of blood; she knocked it over; the chief hit her in the face, dogs have not talked since]: Jensen 1959, No. 2:413; Masai [the sky was close to the ground; the dog was called Lenanu ("something of her own and loved") lived with God in heaven, enjoyed his love and respect; God told her not to tell people about the sheep ("gentle one"); the dog said advised me to ask God for a sheep; for this, God turned Lenanu into a dog, ordered him to live on earth and serve humans, eat crap; the dog asked for scent, agility, etc.; and the person received sheep]: Kipury 1983, No. 7:37-39.
Melanesia. Bilbil [when the dog saw the owner go to his wife, he was ashamed, called the dog to eat, cut off the tip of its tongue; dogs have not spoken since]: Dempwolff 1911, No. 10: 102; walman [Mur man and Posami woman make love in a boat; drop a bone spoon into the water; on the shore, the spoon owner asks the dog where the spoon is, the dog tells what In circumstances, the spoon is gone; P. feeds the dog with a brew of their inedible tubers as punishment, it is speechless]: Becker 1971, No. 50:807; mountain arapesh [(two options); Dog sees his wife cheating to her husband, wants to tell him; his wife hits him with tongs to shift the fire, since then the dogs have not talked]: Mead 1940, No. 5:362; lower arapesh [while the husband is hunting, the dogs in the garden are pretending sleeping, they see how the wife meets her husband's younger brother; they bring her bone knife lost in the garden, she demands to give it back, they ask how it happened that the knife was lost in the garden; they do not believe her explanations, she hits them with a bamboo poker; when her husband comes, they only howl speechless; she cut her wife's throat with a stone ax; she was buried, a long yam grew, there was no long yam before]: Fortune 1942, No. 35:220-221; kiwai [dogs were like humans, but on four legs; the owner met his wife in the woods; in the evening, dogs began to laugh at home, talk about what they saw; the owner with hearth tongs clenched their jaws, they don't talk anymore]: Landtman 1927:443; oz. Kutubu [the man has two little boys, when hunting they turn into dogs, then back into humans; one day, after hunting, a man sat down to relieve himself, the boys passed by loudly showing off their success; he shouted to them, Hush, they were forever dogs, brown and black, lost their speech]: Williams 1941, No. 2:135; keraki [Kambel and his wife Yumar have son Gufa; while K. is on at the station, G. sees a naked sleeping mother, converges with her; soon K. comes, realizes that someone was before him; hides; sees G. making love to his mother again; gives him a special type of tarot, he dies; the Natekari dog reproaches K. for killing; K. pierces her tongue with a cassowary pen; when he tries to talk about what happened, he only barks; since then the dogs have not spoken; G. comes to life and comes back; K. covers with palm leaves, a trap pit, G. falls into it, K. falls asleep; Y. goes, K. goes to heaven, after her; he is the Month; according to some options, his wife Y. - The sun, he pursues her forever]: Williams 1969:312-314; masingle [Núe found the first coconut palm, gave the walnut to the dogs; they started begging for more, he hit them in the face, they don't talk anymore]: Landtman 1927:443; Admiralty Islands (Papitalai) [ dogs spoke; when leaving, the man left the dog to guard the house; two thieves came, burned the dog's face; when the owner returned, the dog could not speak; the dog's face has been black since]: Meier 1908, No. 3 : 200-201; New Britain: Kleintitschen 1924 in Frazer 1930 [initiated men had fire; the dog left them, came to women, told how to get fire by friction; the woman said that he can marry her; a man bewitched the Dog to make him speechless]: 51-52; (cf. Brown 1910 [dogs used to run on two legs and eat people; the dog was given hot grains in the way, fell on its four legs and stayed; the grains on the paw pads are still visible]: 244); Fr. Rossel [on Loa Island, the Ye spirit lived with his sister, accidentally caught the fire with grass, the smoke of which makes you want, Ye raped his sister; the dog began to bully him, he watched her speech inarticulate , killed his sister with witchcraft to cover up the crime]: Anell 1989:19.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Kaman [childless couple took care of the dog like a son; while her husband was away, the wife met her lover, the dog told her husband about it; the wife said he was lying, the husband believed, cut the dog language, dogs have not spoken since; feeling remorse, the wife said that from now on the dog will live in the house and eat the same as its owners]: Elwin 1958a, No. 17:379-380 (=1958b: 421); lepcha [Guru Rimpoche created the world; created the first humans; they were brother and sister but married, gave birth to mung (dangerous spirits); the gods told them that such incest was forbidden; brother and sister denied everything, but the dog exposed them, told them what she saw; the sister beat the dog with a stick, and since then the female and the male have not been able to separate for a long time during copulation; the gods decided to separate brother and sister; gave them animals; brother carried his own in a basket to Tibet, these are pets; my sister had a basket with holes, the animals ran away and became wild]: Sieger 1967, No. 1:172-173; dulong [dogs could speak; the owner sent The dog and the Pig work in the field; the Pig worked, and the Dog slept, and in the evening, when the Pig went to rest, left its footprints on the field; the first to return to the owner, said that it was the Pig who was still sleeping, and she, the Dog, works; the owner checked, grabbed the Dog by the tongue, pulled it out so that the Dog would no longer speak or deceive]: LaPolla 2001:21-27; rengma [at first all creatures did not die and talked; animals asked them not to be killed, trees asked not to be cut, and the number of all creatures reached the limit; then God left only dogs and humans speechless; dogs told hunters where Game is hiding, animals are in danger of being destroyed; God ordered the dog to be pulled out, making it impossible to speak]: Mills 1937:268-269 (retelling in Elwin 1958b:392).
South Asia. Maria (Bison-horn Maria) [dogs see the souls of the dead and knew how to speak; when the soul returned to the grave for a while, the dog reported that people were catching the soul, the person came to life; Mahapurub was afraid that there will be no one left in his kingdom, speechless dogs; but they still see souls now, bark]: Elwin 1949, No. 14:215; koya [the guy met a girl in the forest, was refused, killed her; afraid that the dog He will talk about it; called animals, fed them honey; promised that if animals move their tongues backwards, it would taste even better; as a result, the animals were speechless]: Elwin 1954, No. 4:339; (cf. sora (Lanjhia) [the women had teeth in their vaginas; everyone went to a dog wedding and Sarkigudi's bitch asked the hostess to change her vaginas so they wouldn't get close to her; then night and day swapped places , the woman's vagina is left without teeth, and the dogs are speechless and the dog's vagina tightly clamps the dog's penis]: Elwin 1949, No. 24:385-386).
Malaysia-Indonesia. Timor [the dog could speak; after catching a deer, she scolded the owner that he did not come to her aid, that he fed her bones; when angry, the man feeds her yams, she was speechless]: Pascoal 1967:219.
Taiwan - Philippines. Tsow [dogs could talk; they smelled it after people copulated and commented on it; then people gave them a tincture of yellow hashish and they were speechless]: Tu 1959, No. 9:541.
Eastern Siberia. Baikal Evenks (north of Transbaikalia) [three tangar brothers; the youngest two made animals and birds, the eldest made snakes and creatures; the younger ones made their way underground, invited the elder to ride sledges, he rolled away to the lower world; the younger ones began to do more than animals and birds, but did not have time; dogs spoke like a human being and helped people trade; then the tangara took away the speech of dogs - animals and birds became more]: Pinegina 2019:177; (cf. Western Evenks (Cyrene) [two brothers lived in the upper world; the elder told the duck to dive to the bottom of Lake Baikal to get sand; the youngest put a leaf on the sea, land on it; from the wind, the leaf crumpled, mountains turned out; the youngest made a dog and a man, covered it with a strong shell, told the Dog not to give his older brother the keys to the barn where the man was; the elder promised to do the dog's warm skin, received the key from it, ripped off the man's shell, left it only on his nails; for this, the youngest left the dog speechless]: Pinegina, Konenkin 1952:49-50; Yakuts [The dog serves God key holder; opens the forbidden box where the plan of hell lies; after the second time, God deprives her of the ability to speak, takes half of her mind, tells her to become a friend of man; The dog kills the Wolf, the Bear with an arrow; a man dodges, she becomes his servant, loses her bow]: Sivtsev, Efremov 1990:33-34).
Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais [old man's wife: the earth cannot contain people, there is too much water; old man: we must pave the way to another land and make the sun shine more; people have died from the increased heat of the sun; the crow hid behind the stone, leaned out for a drink, turned black; part of the jackdaw's body remained closed, now it is black and white; the water has evaporated, it is now possible to draw on soft stones; the animals received a picture on the body and they began to distinguish between them; the dog understood people and talked herself; the woman hit her mouth against the couch, since then dogs have not talked; the river flowed in both directions; woman: people's children in the upper reaches will become lazy, their children too, let the river flow only from top to bottom; a man has tempered the heat of the sun; people have settled; the Aktankan family comes from a woman and a tiger; people have learned everything]: Sem, Sem 2020, No. 16:104-108; Orochi [dog says she has news, people ask me to tell her; I found a delicious piece of feces; my older sister is ashamed, she hits the dog with a ladle; the dog has been dumb ever since]: Aurora, Lebedeva 1966, No. 8:134.
Japan. Ainu: Chamberlain 1988, No. 3 [the dog left the hunter in the woods, ran to his wife, said that the owner was picked up by a bear and he told him to marry the widow; the wife realized that the dog was lying and left him dust in their open mouths, after that dogs stopped saying: 8 (=Dähnhardt 1910:232)]; Etter 1949 [gods compete to see who to rule the world; 1) withstand the frost; 2) sit on fire; 3) don't laugh while listening funny stories; Kirumi wins; only smiles slightly when the gods imitate copulation, says that such a smile does not count; hides millet seeds in a cut under her skin, brings them to the ground; dog says K. is going to carry the seeds; K. throws ash into her mouth; dogs haven't talked ever since]: 65-67; Kindaiti Kyosure 1931:36, Kayano Shigery 1985:116 in Sadokova 2001 [after losing in the third Upon trial (don't laugh), Okikurumi decided to run to the ground, taking millet with him; tied a bag of grains to his leg; the dog blocked the way, shouted that O. had stolen a handful of millet and was going to go down to people; O. put a handful of ash in her mouth, telling her to become dumb; since then, dogs have only barked and millet grows on the ground]: 194; Japanese [dogs could speak; one dog deliberately brought the owner to the forest to be eaten by a bear; he came to his wife, said that a bear killed her husband, his husband bequeathed his wife to him, a dog, before his death; the wife objected, then became furious, threw a handful of dust into the dog's face; dogs have since been speechless]: Chamberlain. "Things Japanese" at Casal 1959:78.
Subarctic. Taltan [dogs could speak; after a successful hunt, they said that their owners did not kill anything, and vice versa; the man furiously clogs the dog's mouth with excrement; dogs have not talked since]: Teit 1919, #24:243.
The Midwest. Menominee [the dog could speak; God (Powers) decides that in this case it will be enslaved {not clear}; the dog becomes dumb, but understands human speech]: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. 15: 447; Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [see motif B3A; after recreating land, Visakajak gives animals habits; The raven climbs without waiting in line, eating carrion for it; the dog wins the race competition, He lives with a person for this; dogs are speechless not to be sent messages]: Ray, Stevens 1971:25-26
Plains. Sarsi [the woman went to buy firewood, met a young man; when she returned, her two dogs told her husband that he beat his wife; the next time the woman covered the dogs with mud in their mouths, told them to it is to eat and keep quiet; since then dogs have not talked]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 34:43; blacklegs [wife meets lover; dog reports this to her husband; husband beats wife; wife beats dog, makes him incapable talk]: Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. 6:133; mandan [dogs told husbands about their wives' nighttime adventures; someone cuts dogs from ear to ear; dogs have been silent ever since]: Beckwith 1938, No. 46a [Coyote cuts]: 300; Bowers 1950 [Son of the Month cuts]: 204; Kiowa [Saynday comes to the dog village, they scream without letting him speak; for this he leaves them speechless]: Marriott, Rachlin 1975:67-68.
Southeast USA. Caddo [dogs were always chatting, telling at home what the owner did when hunting; one owner stretches his dog's tongue, puts a stick in his mouth; since then, dogs have a long tongue, a wide mouth (and they haven't talk)]: Dorsey 1905, No. 48:82-83; Seminoles [husband often leaves, returns at night; the wife sends the dog to watch him, she finds the owner with her mistress; when she returns, the husband says that dogs will be speechless from now on]: Gallagher 1994:63.
California. Kawaiisu [two options; man has sex with his wife; Dog sees it, says, What a muck! A coyote or a woman stitches his mouth, leaving him speechless]: Zigmond 1980, No. 57:189.
Big Pool. Uncompagre Utah [the dog sees the owner copulating with a girl; talking about it at home; the man beats him; the dog is offended, falls silent forever]: Smith 1992:40.
The Great Southwest. Zunyi [The dog tells the owner that his wife is sleeping with the son of the rainmaker; other dogs also tell their owners about their wives' infidelity; this leads to quarrels and divorces; brothers gods wars gather dogs, give them all a potion, tell them to remain silent from now on]: Handy 1918, No. 17:464-467; yuma [dogs talked and unraveled all the secrets of the owners; people turned to the Great Spirit to intervene; One man hit his dog and sent her to talk all about it; she kept silent; barked; people realized that the Great Spirit had left dogs speechless]: Baylor 1976:2-3.
Mesoamerica Mountain Totonaki [it was only the Month, the lover of all women; said he was the Sun; the boy was watching the Iguana, who was basking on a hot stone; all the birds were hammering a stone, the Hummingbird succeeds in it split; there is a yellow egg inside the rock; it is surrounded by girls; it burns their skirts, stays lying on an orphan's skirt; she is told to swallow an egg; she gives birth to a boy; he drinks broth, not milk, does not tell his mother Approach him; climbs a tree, branches light up (the origin of fire); says that his grandmother will be east at the edge of the sky, his grandfather in the west, his mother at the zenith; tells his dog to point out to the pursuer- The month is the wrong way; when the month returns to the crossroads, the dog kicks; dogs have not talked since then; the month is still chasing the Sun; their quarrels cause eclipses]: Ichon 1969:55-57; coastal totonaki (Tahin) [the rich old man has many mistresses; he is said to be the Sun, but he is an orphan living with his grandmother; when the Sun was at its zenith, drops of his blood fell to the ground, including Various plants have arisen; The sun leaves the dog behind it; The month asked her where the owner went; the dog pointed the opposite direction; The month hit her, she became dumb; The month goes where ash, now cold; when the Sun rose, people turned into stones, idols, some hid in pyramids]: Williams García 1979:121-122; Nahuat (Puebla) [orphans left after the flood brother and sister; they were thrown into the fire; the boy was well burned, became the sun, the girl was burned smaller, became the moon; all the birds and animals gathered to determine which side the sun would rise from; only a dog I knew, God told her; the birds took pieces of cloth to make clothes for themselves to meet the sun; the battleship began to weave a dress for himself; the dog ran east, telling everyone where the sun would rise; God hit her speechless; the battleship did not have time to weave the dress, now half seemed to be woven, and the other half was only a base without a duck; God blessed the crowd, and they can no longer take off what they were wearing then clothes]: Taggart 1983:102; Jacalteki [The dog could talk, talked about God's creation and origin; he took out her tongue, placed it in the back, and put her ex in the back to her head; now that the dog wants to say something, there is no expression on its face, but the tail says everything]: Montejo 1991:51; tsotsil [wife meets lover; dog tells her husband about it; he kills lover and wife; God puts the dog's head to his ass so he doesn't speak anymore]: Gossen 1974, No. 64, 87:286-287, 297; Guiteras-Holmes 1961 [lover urinates through a crack in the wall of the house; husband creeps up, cuts off the penis; the lover dies; the husband gives his wife a penis under the guise of agouti meat; she eats, feels thirsty, drinks until she dies]: 261; Laughlin 1977, No. 86:278-286; Laughlin, Karasik 1988:225-231; tseltal [the hunting dog tells the owner that his wife has a lover; the husband is watching; after finishing the act, the lover sticks his penis into the gap to urinate; the husband cuts off the penis, the lover dies, the wife buries it shallow under the bed; her husband gives her a penis under the guise of animal meat, tells her to cook with tortilla; the wife eats, she is thirsty, she drinks, bursts; Jesucristo moved the dog's ass and head to dogs didn't speak anymore]: Stross 1977:13-15; chol [?] : Anderson 1957:313-316 in Gossen 1974:297; (mountain camps [?] : Foster 1945:236 [that's not here!] in Gossen 1974:297); chontal [must name the one who will ascend to heaven; everyone gathered, but only the dog gave the name: sun; the owner told her to be silent and dogs have not talked ever since]: Pé rez Gonzälez 2013:84.
Llanos. Sicuani [the hunter takes his wife to the forest; on his return, their dog talks about how the owners made love; they lengthen his tongue so he can no longer speak]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 62:250.