B42A. Blood or fat sprinkles the ground .44.45.47.

Hunters drive a bear across the sky and kill them in August-October. The bear's blood or fat falls to the ground in the form of dew or staining the foliage red. See motif B42.

The Midwest. Fox [red leaves].

Northeast. Red foliage. Mohawks and other Iroquois; mikmaq; penobscot [the hunter chases a bear until mid-September; pierces his heart with an arrow; chikadi fills the bucket with blood, and when there is blood overflows, it drips to the ground, coloring autumn leaves; when white bear fat drips, it turns into snow that covers the ground]: Speck 1935b:19; delaware [three hunters with a dog ( Alcor star) chase a bear, find themselves in the sky; the bear's body is the four stars of the Ursa Major bucket; the severed bear's head is three stars outside the bucket; when the bear is killed, its fat falls on earth, turns into dew drops on fallen trees]: Speck 1945:56 (quoted in Gibbon 1972:243).

Southeast USA. Chirokee [dew].