B91. A keen snail.. 42.43.

The snail had (sharpest) eyes. The other character borrows them and doesn't give them back.

Quakiutl, Quinolt, Quileut, Lower and Upper Chehalis, Clackamas, Tillamook, Cous, Kalapuya.

NW Coast. Quakiutl [The Eagle asks the Snail to change his eyes for a while because he sees someone's military boat nearby; reports the boat to his tribesmen, he is praised, he leaves sharp eyes for himself]: Wallace , Whitaker 1981:114-115.

The coast is the Plateau. Quinolt [the Xwone'xwone trickster and the Snail changed their eyes; it turned out that the Snail was keen, and S. had ordinary eyes; the Snail married the Blind Crow; gives her one eye first, then the other eye ; blinded, the Snail does not cut down the tree, but the supports of the house; the house falls and burns, the Raven has time to fly out, turns black]: Farrand 1902, No. 2:92; Quileout: Andrade 1931, No. 26 [younger sister wants a dim star , the eldest is bright; the youngest wakes up with the old, the eldest with the young husband; the girls' father makes a bow; Whale, Bear, Elk can't pull it, Wren shoots, makes a chain of arrows; only the Snail sees an arrow piercing the sky; Osprey borrows her eyes, does not return it; animal people climb into the sky; the Spider lowers his younger sister on a rope, she hangs between heaven and earth, turns into a star; in the sky, a Thrush (Snowbird), then the Dog is sent for fire; both stay warm, do not return; the Rabbit kidnaps and brings fire; Rats spoil the weapons and clothes of the Stars; in battle, many Stars are killed; people- animals descend to earth, the chain of arrows breaks; those left in the sky become stars]: 71-83; Clark 1953 [a man from the sky steals the sun; Wren suggests making a chain of arrows; first The shark, then the Puma, the Kingfisher, the Hawk and others shoot successfully; the sky is cold; the wren rushes to the sun to warm up; while some treat the person to baked roots, others take the sun away; raise it, to illuminate the whole world; Eagle and Hawk take Snail's keen eyes; Stingray turns into Malaya, Bear skin into Ursa Major]: 151-152; Farrand, Mayer 1919, No. 10 [sisters sleep outside; alone He wants a red star, another blue star as her husband; Stars take them to heaven; red is an old man with sore eyes, blue is young; sisters want to go home, Stars send them to earth; earthly people decide fight against the heavenly; (episodes with Wren and Snail like in Andrade); once in the sky, Raven and Stingray duel; Stingray turns sideways and Raven is wounded by a spear; a little bird asks the owners let the fire warm; her breast turns red; (the Beaver episode is like in Andrade); heavenly people win, earthly people hurry back, the stairs break; the rest turn into stars, including Stingray]: 264-266; lower chehalis (winuchi) [Shwene wants to be on top of a cliff; cannot get off, licks her sweat, eats her eyes; takes the Owl's eyes and wings, goes down; the old woman gives him edible roots; he promises that his slave will take her in a boat; there is not a boat, but a stump; she puts bees under the roots in the basket, tells her to eat food when she climbs into the hollow; the bees eat S.'s eyes, the hollow closes behind him; Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella), Woodpecker punches a hole; S. stumbles upon the Snail's house; says he measures it, makes his eyes out of flowers, invites the Snail to change; since then, snails have been blind]: Adamson 1934:343-344; upper chehalis (satsop) [the old woman carries dried camas tubers in her basket; Xwəne buys tubers from her for a low bead; they are actually red berries; overtakes her, again goes out and buys; the third time she explains that their 5 brothers all look the same; but the fourth time she's pretty sure she's still the same person in front of her; S. suggests that his slave give her a ride to to the boat, for which she gives him dried salmon caviar; one waits for a long time, then sees that the boat is just a stump; she picks up hornets, and when S. again offers to change the beads for caviar, she gives him the basket, tells him to open where there is no wind; S. opens the basket, the hornets bit him, he is blind; came to the Snail's house; says he is measuring her house; took her eyes away, put berries in her eye sockets; S. came to the place where people played with his eyes; (episode missed; S.'s eyes were somehow stolen); when their eyes were thrown at him, S. took them away; tried to find that old woman but didn't find it]: Adamson 1934:347-348; upper chehalis [Geese don't tell XWαnä'xwαne to look down at people if he wants to fly with them; S. sees a man, scolds him, Geese leave S. on the mountain, take their wings; he kills an owl, goes down to it wings; meets a monster woman, she carries camas tubers, he exchanges tubers for a bead, but it's not a bead, but a stick; runs ahead several times and repeats the trick, says that there are five brothers they look the same; the woman collects bees into the basket, leaves it on the stump, tells the stump to close when S. gets there; the stump closes, the bees dazzle him; the woodpecker cut the hole, S. got out, made himself imaginary eyes made of dandelion flowers, came to the Snail, pretends to measure her house; that he sees unusually far away; the Snail agreed to change eyes; when the dandelions withered, she is completely blind; Sh. salmon, baked, turned milk into two girls; S. tries to get along with the girls, they run away; an old woman shakes a baby on a swing; girls kidnap him, replaced by a rotten deck; his mother conceived him from blue stone, he is the Month; she squeezes his diapers, makes the Sun out of his brother's urine; Blue Jay goes west, finds the Month; the 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; the Month says goodbye to its fish children; transforms and destroys monsters on the way to earth; rises to the sky to shine during the day, but is too hot; the weak Sun Brother should have Shining at night but afraid of ghosts gives too little light at night; The month becomes the month, the Sun becomes the sun]: Adamson 1934:173-177; clackamas [part of the Coyote's penis remains in the girl; when copulating, he heals her; runs away, sleeps in a hollow; tells the hole to close, cannot open it; promises bird girls to paint them if they break a hole; Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varins), Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) can't, Woodpecker pierces; Coyote tries to rape her, she flies away, the hole is small; he sticks out parts of his body; Vulture takes his eyes away; he bumps into at the house, pretends to measure it; tells the hostess that she sees a louse crawling across the sky; she agrees to change her eyes to see it too; since then, the Snail has been blind]: Jacobs 1958, No. 9:92-93; tillamook: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 38 [two girls live under water; South Wind copulates with them, falls asleep; wakes up in a stone bag; Little Woodpecker fails to cut a hole; YellowHammer girl breaks through the stone; the South Wind begins to caress it, it flies away without finishing work; the South Wind breaks itself apart, sticks them through the hole, gathers itself again; finds no eyes, they have been pecked by the Raven and The seagull; inserts berries into the eye sockets; persuades the Eagle to change his eyes for a while, runs away; the Eagle takes his eyes away from the Snail; she remains blind]: 128-129; Thompson, Egesdal 2008 [see motif M46A, "imaginary baby"; South Wind (SE) meets two girls, they take him under water, he is barely alive when they let him go; goes to rest; tells the rock to cover him from the wind, falls asleep, is walled up with all sides; calls woodpeckers, these are females; Little Woodpecker breaks his beak, the big woodpecker pecks a hole; SE reaches for the woodpecker woman's hips, she flies away; he disassembles himself, pushes himself into the hole; cannot find eyes, they were taken away by the Seagull and the Raven; he makes new ones with berries (snowberries), but actually sees nothing with them; stumbles upon the house of the Bald Eagle (LO), who asks why he feels the house; SE replies that he wants to try it on, he heard that the house is very large; LO replies that he is looking into the distance from the roof of the house; SE climbs to the roof, asks if LO sees women on the other side of the sea; LO agrees change eyes for testing; having caught LO's eyes, SE runs away, then takes away the Snail's eyes, they were keen; LO takes away the Snail's voice {and, obviously, its eyes}, the Snail is left without eyes and without voice; then SE arranges the area in the Nehalem area]: 23-26; cous [like tillamook; Trickster goes to bed in a hollow, it overgrows; Woodpecker girl; Raven carries insides, Vulture takes his eyes; Trickster lures the Snail Boy to come closer, takes his eyes away]: Jacobs 1940, No. 29:190-192; Kalapuya [Coyote falls asleep, Blue Jay takes his eyes away; he makes new ones out of rose hips; pretends that she sees a louse crawling through the sky; the snail woman agrees to change eyes with him; the Coyote gets blind eyes and she remains completely blind: the Nightingale woman blows the winds loudly; the Coyote changes anuses with her to make people laugh; scares off game, starves, changes back; man feeds his huge penis with chips; Coyote changes penises, lets his new one across the river into his bathing daughter chief; shouts to other girls to cut off the tip with grass; changes penises again, returning hers; girl falls ill; Coyote comes to her as a shaman; tells everyone to sing loudly, copulates; from her vagina water pours out; people send a louse, then a flea to look at; both washed away with water; the spider returns, reports; the Coyote runs away]: Gatschet et al. 1945, No. 5:238-244; (cf. snohomish [The fox throws up and catches his eyes; in the end the Raven takes them away; the Magpie suspects that the Fox is blind; the Fox says he sees the star; the Magpie peers, he pulls out her eyes, inserts her in to herself; old woman Illness says that her granddaughters go to a party where everyone dances with Fox's eyes; claims that stone, club, water, fire, magic root cannot kill her; Fox's excrement is advised to beat her nettles; she dies, he puts her skin on; the old woman's granddaughters carry it on their backs, on the way he inserts his penis first into his older sister, then into his younger sister; sings in the guise of an old woman, grabs an eye, lets in fog, pursuers can't catch up with it]: Haeberlin 1924, No. 20:407-411).