B57A. A red sunset is an indication of what happened.. 31.40.41.44.
Seeing the sky covered, the character realizes that another person's blood has been shed, or that another has spilled red liquid. See motif B57.
(Wed. Malaysia-Indonesia. Semangs (Kintak Bong) [the soul of the deceased flies to the Amomum xanthophlebium tree and shakes it; this causes its red flowers to fall and color the evening sky; a tree stands on the island by the shore and flowers fall into the water; the soul then flies to the Nipa fructicans palm tree, where it meets friends who died before]: Evans 1937:259).
Baltoscandia. Karely (Kalevalsky district) [Marina's wife is stubborn, she does everything in defiance; therefore, her husband tells me not to bake pancakes, not to bake a lot - she bakes a lot; etc.; the husband found a treasure in the forest, hung pancakes on trees, put the capercaillie at the top and the pike in the snare; when his wife and I went to pick up the gold, the husband explains that pike and capercaillie are as stubborn as she is - they do the opposite; it rained pancake at night; the noise from the royal stable - the king beats his wife; the red dawn - the king cut off his wife's head, blood is flowing; the husband orders not to go to the king to talk about the treasure, the wife goes; the treasure was found where there was a pike in the snare, and capercaillie; when the king beat his wife, cut her throat; the king advises M. to lime; her husband does not tell her to go to the forest with a purse full of stones, not to jump on a log across the river; M. fell; her husband became it's a pity, I began to drive a stone on a rope against the current (out of stubbornness, M. had to swim against); a bull came out with one horn, sorry to save him, M. broke one horn; the man threw the bull back - live there and M ., and bulls]: Onegin 2010, No. 57:477-479.
The Arctic. Northern Alaska Inupiate.
Subarctic. Upper pieces; helmet; hea.
The Midwest. Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake); Western Ojibwa; Eastern Ojibwa (Southern Ontario)] [The hunter notices that the wife is embellished; the eldest son tells him that every time he goes hunting, his mother also leaves home; the hunter watches his wife; sees her come to the tree, knock, and a handsome man comes out; when he returns home, the hunter taught the children (both boys) that they should be done; when the wife returned, her husband killed her, burned her body; said to the children: if there is a red sunset, it means that her mother's lover killed her; when they see the red sunset, the children rushed to run; mother (i.e. her spirit ?) pursues; they threw a pebble (mountain), a thorn (thorny thickets), an awl (many awls pointing upwards); the mother overcame everything; by the river, the children asked a large snail to transport them to the other side; that stretched out and they crossed; when the stalker asked for the same thing, the snail clenched in the middle of the river and the woman drowned; the brothers settled by the lake; a man in the boat swam up; asked the younger one to shoot, the arrow fell into the boat; asked the elder to pick it up and sailed away with him; kept it in his house; once offered to roll down the mountain in a sleigh; the young man refused to sit in front, sat behind; the sleigh rides on stumps and stones, the young man picked up a stone and killed a man; came to where he left his younger brother; he turned into a wolf (or half a wolf); this is how wolves appeared]: Laidlaw 1915, No. 7:6-7; Steppe Ojibwa; menominee [a person consistently marries girls, sacrifices, feeds a snake living in a tree near his house; tells his next wife to go ahead, make a fire; stomps on a hill, goes out a one-year-old bear, he kills him, tells his wife to cook it whole, eat it, drink the broth; she does it; the former wives could not, he stuffed meat into their mouths, threw it into the water, where his pets ate them; her husband's brother tells her to dig a hole where she can quietly dump the meat and drain the broth; warns that when you touch a tree with a stick, you should rush into the house; the snake does not have time to bite it; the husband asks what the ski eats; the wife replies that there are big strawberries in the south; the husband breaks the ski furiously, runs after strawberries; the husband's wife and brother are running; seeing the sky covered, they realize that the husband has grabbed strawberries; they throw pieces of snake, husband wasts time taking them home; a man in the rock opens the door, his two dogs devour the stalker, take him to the end of the world; her husband's brother marries a widow]: Bloomfield 1928, No. 112:503-517.