C30B. Remove traces from the field .12.

In response to claims from an animal or spirit, a person suggests that he remove its traces from the field or walk without leaving traces. The Spirit can't do it.

Kono, Sicon, Mosi, Bulsa.

West Africa. Kono [contrary to the ban, the Spider cultivated the field on the slopes of the sacred mountain; the spirits demanded that the field be moved to another location; the Spider agreed, requiring the spirits to remove their traces from the field]: Holas 1975:248; Sicon [the peasant set up a field in the forest, planted cassava; the deer began to spoil it; replied to the peasant that this was his land and he always went here; the peasant agreed to leave the field, if the deer could remove its tracks from the ground; the deer failed; agreed with the peasant that he would clean the field after the deer made it rich; told him to sleep on a rock at night; stole cola nuts from the chief and brought him to the rock; the servants followed the trail, grabbed the peasant, threw him into prison; rats appeared, the man killed them; a snake crawled out, ordered her to give her rats; promised to bite the leader's son for this, he would die; gave three leaf: they will revive the boy; the man revived, the chief rewarded him and brought him closer]: Pinney 1973:277-280; mosi [the lazy son of a peasant became a barber; when resting under a tree, he appeared dirty shaggy spirit; despite his objections, the young man cut off his hair and washed his hair; the spirit demanded that he put his hair back; the young man could not, rushed to run, the spirit followed him with a sword; the young man ran to the field father; the father told the spirit that he had the right to kill his son, but he himself must remove his traces and smell from his field without a trace; the spirit rushed to run, the father with his sons and dogs followed him; on the edge of the spirit invisible and has remained so ever since, and the former barber became a good peasant]: Mariko 1984:115-117; bulsa [two options; the woman decided that her child was no good, left him in in the forest and found another one there, whom she brought home; he asked him to shave off his hair on his head; then asked him to return it; the woman was confused; she took the forest child back, but he stuck to her and refused to get down; her own child advised: ask him to go so as not to leave marks on the ground; if he can, you will also return his hair; he could not, stayed in the forest, and his child woman brought home]: Schott 1996:139-141, 143-145.