D1a3. The wife is fire. 21.43.51.
A man marries a woman who is fire. She is offended, or her husband does not like her, her marriage falls apart.
Miri, Tagin, Quinolt, Mayhuna, Siona.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Hill Miri [Abo-Teni married a leaf, but only a leech was born; a banana leaf - a mosquito was born; when he bit his father, AT left, married Fire; then various animals; finally takes wife's sun Duinye; tells her that he has a big house and farms, but D. sees only a hut; tells her husband to build all the outbuildings, hedges, etc.; when her husband wakes up, they are full of pets animals and poultry; D. is no longer engaged in farming, only weaves, so AT decided to take a second wife; sacrificed cattle to spirits, carried meat; and D. gave more cloth and beads; AT lost his way, slipped, fell, everything rolled down the slope; below lived Dir-Pecha, dirty with sore skin, in rags; he put on the dress that AT was carrying, put on jewelry, brought meat to the girl at was going to, married her; AT returned to D. in rags left by DP; D. refused to live with him and has been wandering around the sky ever since; AT came to the village where DP lived, became a bird, climbed into the DP trap; he brought the bird to his son to play; the bird sat on the head of the DP wife, DP shot her, hit her wife, she died; the same with her son; the bird flew away, DP realized that it was AT; lured AT into a boat and let him go along the river; only D. caught and released him, but live with they still refused; DP became a lizard, disappeared into a hole; AT dug a hole to kill DP, but he jumped out of the other way, became human again; they divided the land: hills for DP, hills, for AT - Assam Plains; sometimes sends diseases to people and animals that live in the hills]: Elwin 1958a, No. 9:163-165;
Coast - Plateau. Quileut [a man marries Fire; then another woman; a fire wife is jealous of his youngest wife, burns her face; a man beats Fire, makes her a female servant]: Reagan, Walters 1933:331-333 .
Western Amazon. Maihuna [man marries Fire; other women force her to bathe; she turns into a gun]: Bellier 1991b, No. 19:102, 248; Zion [the man wanted the fire to become a woman, married her, she works in the heat; other women drag her to swim, she turned into a gun in the water; another man marries a woman who easily makes a honey drink; other women make it work in the sun, it melts like wax]: Folklor 1974:344-345.