B64D. Arrow bones.. 31.35.-.37.39.-.41.

Certain bones in the body of living beings (usually birds and fish) are arrows fired at them.

Western Sami [reindeer], Ents, Nenets (tundra?) , Taimyr Nenets, Northern Khanty, Ket, Sym, PodkamennoTunguska, Ilimpic Evenks, Evens, Dolgans, Central Yakuts, Orochi, Nivkhs, Forest Yukaghirs, Northern Alaska Inupiat, Tagish [owl].

Baltoscandia. Western Sami: Kohl-Larsen 1982, No. 31 [the fisherman caught fish, carried him in a sack on a sleigh {or rather Pulk, a boat that deer can drag through the snow like a sleigh}; the fox pretended to be dead, its fisherman picked it up, put it in a bag of fish; the fox gnawed a hole, threw the fish and jumped out on its own; ate; tells the bear that it caught the fish by itself, putting its tail into the ice-hole; bear: I have a long tail, I'll catch it more than you; the fox advises the bear to hold its tail in the water longer - it will catch more; in the morning the fox calls people to beat the bear; he cut off his tail, went to kill the fox; it hid under a pine tree, her bear got it; fox: who kills prey where he grabbed it; the bear carried the fox; the fox points to colorful birds: she painted them; the bear asks to paint it; the fox tells you to collect a large pile of brushwood : let the bear sit on her and endure it; set fire to brushwood; the bear burned; the fox collected the bones in a bag, carried it; the man meets her; the fox rattles with bones: in the bag she has the inheritance of her deceased parents - gold and silver; the fox seems to reluctantly agree to change the bag for six deer that a person has; warns that if he opens the bag before he is behind the fifth or sixth mountain, it will only contain charred bones; the man opened the bag behind the fourth mountain; he did not find any more foxes; and she brought the deer to her friends; these are wolverine, ermine, frog and mouse; began to kill deer with arrows; wolf put his back, the deer still have a bone in this place ("wolf shot") that is not connected to the rest of the skeleton; the mouse is also behind, between the hooves, there is now bloating like a brush (gleicht einem Pinsel); the frog is below (there is also a bone, not connected to the rest of the skeleton); the ermine fell into the heart, there is also a bone ("ermine arrow); after dark, they began to cook deer; the fox slowly took her stomach, puffed it, stepped aside, began to hit it and scream: let it go, don't kill, it was a wolverine, an ermine and a hare that killed a deer; everyone thought that people were coming and ran away; the wolf jumped over the fire , burned; the tip of the ermine's tail turned black; the hare climbed under the cauldron, its ears turned black with soot; this is how these animals got their color]: 166-174; Poestion 1886, No. 1 (Karasjok, North Sami dialect) [seeing a man with a sledge caravan, the fox pretended to be dead; the man put it on the first sledge, the fox slipped off; shifted it to the second one, etc.; finding himself on the last one where the fish was, her fox threw it off and jumped off herself; tells the bear that she caught the fish with its tail down the ice-hole; when the tail froze, the fox began to call people; the bear cut off its tail, ran away; the fox also ran away, hid under the root, asks his dicks how they helped; leg: ran fast; ear: listened sensitively; nose: sniffed well; tail: showed to run here; bear pulled the fox by the tail, carries it to eat; walks by a spotted woodpecker; fox: that was the time when I painted birds! the bear also wants to be colorful; fox: to do this, you must tie you first; the fox tied it and burned it, put the bones in a bag, they rattle, the person he meets with deer pulled into sledges believes that gold and silver in the bag; gives deer for a bag; fox: you can open it by passing five or six mountains; wished a person's skis to break; they break; for the remaining deer to break their legs; broke; when the fox came to the deer received for the bear bones, the fox called his assistants to kill them: bear, wolverine, ermine, mouse, fox, snake, snake, snake, frog; the bear shot in the chin (now deer spot - "bear arrow"); wolf - in the back leg (there is a "bear arrow" spot); wolverine - in the back of the head ("wolverine arrow" spot); ermine - in the throat, mouse - in the hoof, even in the ass (everyone has the same), fox - at the base of the ear (there is now a "fox arrow" bone), in the intestines (a sign on the interior fat), the frog is in the heart (there is a "frog arrow" cartilage under the fat); so they killed all the deer; the fox went to wash the intestines, disappeared behind the stone, screamed as if she had been captured; the animals were frightened and ran away, leaving only an ermine and a mouse; at that time a deceived man came up; fox: it was my assistants who swapped gold with bones ; the man hit the tip of the tail with a pot hook over the fire, the tip turned black; the mouse hit the smut so it turned black; the fox came to the man who made the boat; I also want like this; in response, a man threw a fox into the river, it climbed onto a stone; each fish offers to transport it ashore, the fox rejects each; the pike is slippery, I can't resist; the perch - the dorsal fin scratches ; trout did not fit either; salmon; fox: swim closer; the fox grabbed it, threw it ashore, made a fire on its own, began to fry salmon; the branches are cracking, the fox thinks people are coming; then I realized; threw a stone at the salmon, fat splashed into her eyes, the fox went blind; she goes, asks the trees if they have an extra pair of eyes; the birch refuses to give, the aspen agrees to borrow for a while; the fox took it forever her eyes; the aspen only hit her on the tip of her tail, it turned white]: 7-15.

Western Siberia. Entsy: Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 9 [lying in the plague, Deua shot, cooked, ate seven birds; urinated, urine became a river; relieved himself right in the plague; swam along the river in a boat, stopped at stone; the mother of the pikes bit his genitals, he fired all his arrows at her, bandaged his wounds, swam to people, said he was frostbitten; people did not believe it; the pike was bony because it had arrows D.], 29 [= Barimich 2014:632-633; The partridge shot from the shore at Pike, which shot at the Partridge from below; since then, Pike's back has many bones - Partridge's arrows; there are also many bones in the back and legs of the Partridge - Pike's arrows]: 48-49, 147; Nenets: Nenyang 1997 (Taimyr): 146-147 [Perch and Pike got into a fight; Pike could not bite through the scales of the Perch, ran away, the Perch shot after, the arrow went down the back, since then the pike bones in split back], 147 [The partridge began to shoot arrows at Pike, since then they have been sticking out along the pike's back, she has many small bones in her back - Partridge's arrows; Pike shot at the Partridge from below, small bones in partridge legs - Pike's arrows]; Startsev 1930 (tundra?) [the pike was created by hell; it used to live in the sea and was the size and appearance of a walrus; pike swallowed people; it was fought by the thunder god Xehe and shot it with a bow; the ends of the arrows remained in its body, they were fork-shaped bones that every pike still has; Xehe defeated pike, and Num allowed people to eat it in writing]: 108; northern Khanty: Lukina 2010 (the upper reaches of Kazim, Ai-Kuryokh) [pike fought with partridges, capercaillies and wild deer; you can't eat pike and the one with whom it fought on the same day ("we eat, but we can't")]: 225; Ulyashev 2011 [" according to Obskougora texts in mythological times, pike with ulcers fought; pike began to win and fired arrows after fleeing ulcers, which is why they are so bony]: 258; chum salmon (pos. Kellogg) [the crucian carp was lazy to get food, swam at the surface, started shooting at the capercaillie; all the arrows hit the capercaillie in the legs, these are numerous claws on his legs; the capercaillie responded by shooting at the crucian carp, arrows hit all parts of the body, now there are a lot of bones in the crucian carp; the crucian carp got scared, dived, began to live in the mud, does not meet capercaillie]: Nikolaeva 2006:170.

Eastern Siberia. Sym Evenks (b. Ket) [the pike kept deer, lived in the village; enemies attacked, she threw herself into the water, hiding property in her head; enemies' arrows hit the back, became numerous bones; the bones in the head look like a deer hoof, palm tree, harrow and cross; therefore you can't eat a pike's head]: Lukina 2004, No. 3. 12:72; Ilimpic Evenks (Chirinda, 2007) [Partridge and pike fought, shot at each other with arrows from bows; since then, the partridge has its legs and the pike has a lot of bones in its back - these are pierced arrows]: Duvakin 2013; Evenks (Podkamennaya Tunguska): Suvorov 1956:61 [the pike lived in the taiga, killed everyone; the capercaillie shot her in the back, the arrow became her spine; the pike's arrows pierced the capercaillie's stomach, became his legs; Oxery threw the pike into the water, it stayed there], 64 [the crucian carp started shooting at the capercaillie, now there are a lot of small bones in his legs; the capercaillie also started shooting, the crucian carp now has bones all over his body; the crucian carp threw the onion and lay down]; Evens [fish used to go to land to eat berries, and partridges swam in the water; they ate seaweed, it caused them worms, many died; pike: you ate moss, you didn't share it with us, we won't go to land again; the pike shot the partridge in the eyes, since then the eyes partridges are red; partridge arrows hit the backs of pikes, so there are bones that look like arrows; pike: I'll go into the water, if you go into the water, I'll eat you]: Robbeck 2005:193-194; dolgans: Popov 1937 [Pike and Partridges quarreled, fired arrows at each other; pike arrows pierced the Partridges's feet, they are no longer meat, only long bones are arrow poles; Partridge arrows pierced Pike in the back; there are now a lot of bones - tips; firing all the arrows, the parties reconciled]: 38; Yermakov in Sangi 1989 [the country of Partridges was covered with snow, they flew to the willow on the river bank; Pike say that this is their possession; Partridges and Pike shoot arrows at each other; then reconcile; the arrows in the backs of the pikes turn into fork-shaped bones, and the legs of the Partridges into fused sinewy bones]: 148-150 ( Quail in Efremov, Alekseev 2000, No. 4:183-185; Osharov 1936a (western in 1930) [Partridge and Pike are fighting, Partridge has forked arrows, Pike has spear-shaped arrows; forked bones remain in the pike's back, spear-shaped partridge hips]: 95; Yakuts: Kulakovsky 1979 [(zap. Ergis, 1935, Kachikatsky Nasleg; =Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976:218); Shchuka and Grouse fired arrows at each other; the first hit the legs (from under the water), the second in the back; ossified arrows remained in their bodies]: 73; Ergis 1964-1967, No. 28 [as in Kulakovsky]: 96; 1967, No. 40 and 41 [as in Kulakovsky; Pike are fighting Partridges]: 169; (cf. Priklonsky 1890 [Phalaropus rufescens Bris. little cockerels died from pikes; Ai-Toyon told the pike to live in the water; when the cockerels approach the water, there will be thunder so that the pike go deeper and do not touch petushkov]: 169).

Amur - Sakhalin. The Orochi [Rudd and Herring both want to climb the river, not live only at sea; they fight; Rudd wins; herring arrows remain in the rudd, and rudd arrows in herring]: Aurora, Lebedeva 1966, No. 7:134; nivhi [the Pike and Rudd dispute ended with bow shots; Rudd's arrows are stuck in Pike's back, and Pike's arrows are still sticking out of Rudd's tail ( Manuscript fund of the East Asian Ethnography Sector of the IIAE FEB RAS. Materials by G.A. Otaina. ITEM 5. L. 1-2)]: Fetisova 2003:180.

SV Asia. Forest Yukaghirs (p. The ridiculous Verkhnekolymsky ulus of Yakutia) [The capercaillie is angry with the fish, shoots at them; they respond in kind; now the Capercaillie is stained - these are the arrows of the Wheelchair and Pike; the tail of the Wheelchair is solid bones; Pike painted with spots - Capercaillie's arrow marks (=Kurilov 2005, No. 21:265-267)]: Nikolaeva et al. 1989, No. 6:31-33.

The Arctic. The Northern Alaska Inupiat (Kobuk River) [Pike and Mudsucker (Gillichthys mirabilis, of the ray-finned family) began firing arrows at each other; the pike was facing and Mudsucker dodged the arrows; all Pike's arrows hit his tail, which now has lots of bones, and his arrows pierced Pike all over his body, with few bones in his pike's tail]: Cleveland 1980:18.

Subarctic. Tagish [the girl is in her first period, her young mother agrees to marry her two brothers; the brothers forbid her wife to climb a tree into the owl's nest to get feathers to decorate their shirts; but her mother sends her to the tree; while she climbs, all her clothes fall off her, reaching the nest, the girl becomes an owl; the mother puts on her daughter's clothes; she always jumped over the bows and arrows that the brothers have put across the path; the imaginary wife, carrying water, jumps over the first bow, clings to the second; brothers pull off her headdress, recognize her mother-in-law, she talks about her daughter's transformation; brothers shoot at an owl (their ex-wife), their arrows turn into sinew bones in owl legs; brothers strangled their mother-in-law, hung them under a tree]: McClelland 2007, No. 82:402-404.