C9A. Flood: People turn into toads .50.64.66.72.

During a flood or when crossing a river, those who have drowned or escaped turn into toads and frogs.

The Great Southwest. Hicarilla [The Coyote grabs and hides the child of an aquatic creature; the flood begins, people flee to the mountain; it grows into the upper world, the water rises here; the Coyote throws the child into the water, the waters go away; drowned ones turn into frogs and fish]: Opler 1938:267-268

Eastern Amazon. Tenetehara [during a flood, people climb trees, imitate the voices of toads, turn into toads]: Nimuendaju 1915, No. 7:294.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Chiriguano [people start drowning at the crossing, calling each other, turning into frogs]: Nordenskicld in Wassen 1934a: 628; guarazu [Yaneramay came to the village, demanded a girl; she said he was old and ugly; when I was refused, I promised to triple the flood; water was clogged out of the ground; the girl's mother agreed, but I turned the girl into a deer; ready to follow him, I told him to climb into the hammocks under the roof of his house; two men who were making a stone ax and a club from a chonta palm tree flew to the sky; I told the birds to raise his house to the sky; to do this, he widened the hole in the sky; forbidden Those who were in the house to look down, looked, turned into toads; told the rest to throw the fruits down to see if the water had come down; there was no sound of falling, the water did not come down; I sent a man to find out did the water come down, forbid him to eat anything; he began to eat dead fish, when he returned, lied that he did not eat; I made him a vulture, told him to eat carrion; the same with the second (turned tuyu into a stork), the third (in yochi rodent, ate cusi fruits), four (torcaza bird, worms and pebbles bite along river banks), fifth (carau, eats river mollusks); each time there is less water, the land is drier, it has more life; Brother and sister are left, they are descended from them; later Y. will destroy the earth again with wind and fire, stones and water from the sky]: Riester 1977, No. 6:232-235.

Chaco. Ayoreo: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989b, No. 26 [in frogs and toads], 27 [kids in toads], 28 [girls into frogs, boys in toads], 29 [in toads], 30 [boys in toads], 31 [boys in frogs and fish], 32 [boys in toads] , then in turtles, snakes, waterfowl], 33 [boys in frogs], 35 [women and girls in frogs, boys in toads]: 52, 57, 60, 62, 65, 67, 69-70, 72.