Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue translated by Jon F White

Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

B95. Burnt sphincter.. 44.50.

The appearance of the sphincter or buttocks is due to the fact that a character burned his ass.

Winnebago, menominee, eastern marsh crees, kiliwa.

The Midwest. Winnebago [foxes steal meat; Wakjunkaga puts burning smut in his ass; finds pieces of fat on the trail; this is his giblets; he ties his anus (the origin of wrinkles on human sphincter)]: Radin 1956, No. 13-14:16-18; menominee [Myanyabush dives, ties the legs of waterfowl; they lift him into the air, he falls; calls birds to participate in ceremonies; his tambourine hits on its own, his hands are free; Winnebago gives his anus a red bandage for silence; Myanyabush puts a burning smut in his anus]: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. 8:267-270; eastern marsh crees (Albany) [Wicágatcak fills the bag with moss, tells waterfowl what the singing teepee is carrying, tells them to dance with his eyes closed; strangles birds with arcana; Loon opens his eyes ; he kicks her (the origin of the shape of a loon tail); bakes meat, goes to bed, tells his ass to guard; someone comes up, his ass beeps, the thief immediately hides; twice; the third time V. does not react; Seeing that the meat has been stolen, he sits on a hot stone; since then, people's buttocks have been dismembered; V. constantly blows the winds, scaring away the game, starving; pieces of his gut fall out; he thinks it's dried meat, eats; The squirrel laughs; he throws a piece of intestine into the birch tree (the origin of the growths on the birch tree); hits the birch tree with a stick (stripes on birch bark)]: Skinner 1911:84-86.

The Great Southwest. Kiliva [Metipá came out of the land, from a small red mountain; created four sons and a moon (month?) ; to make the sun, he took it out of his stomach through his mouth, then took it out of his genitals - both times unsuccessfully; then out of his ass - hung in the east; since then, people's sphincter seemed to be burned; M. died and was burned, returned to the ground again; his bones are the veins of rock]: Meigs 1939:66-67.