D6B. The burnt one is made by caiman. 53.63.64.66.67.70.

The burned person turns into a crocodile/caiman.

Honduras-Panama. Kuna [son-in-law burns the owner of the fire, who turns into a crocodile]: Chapin 1989:71-76.

Central Amazon. Maue [Jaguar turns into a caimana after a hot stone is thrown into its mouth]: Pereira 1954:107; Ugge 1991, No. 6:180-181; munduruku [Caruekabö devours another son-in-law, when he goes out to urinate and returns to the house; Amabet is small, enters the house through a hole in the wall; K. tells him to make a shelter in the tree to hunt birds, is going to eat it when he becomes get down; A. puts four birds as watchmen, they warn of K.'s approach; fires an arrow, asks K. to pick it up, has time to go down; K. tells them to climb another tree for fruit; A. sends him for with a new climbing ring, he has time to get up himself; creates parrot chicks, throws them to K., who picks them up; peeled, A. in K.'s face, the sticky mass of chewed fruit, runs away; people hide it first under their elbows, then under his knees, then at the back of his head; they ask K. to open his mouth, throw hot stones there, K. dies; his body is thrown into the river, it turns into a caiman]: Kruse 1949, No. 20:627-628; Murphy 1958, No. 37: 116-117.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Eseeha [fire thrown at him]: Alvárez 1942:156; Verna 1985 [Shaedjjámi lived by the river; the Tapacáca toad had fire; T. threw it at S., he burned, became a caiman; killed T.; He promised to live in the river, grab people when they swim]: 67.

Southern Amazon. Kayabi [Pyreju'um was black, in ulcers, his cousin refused him; he came to the wife of the supreme deity Pajawi; he went to the river, the woman began to seduce the guest, he did not give in; turned his husband gave him jewelry; now the girl wanted him, but he rejected her; another young man also went to Pajawi, copulated, Pajawi put a hot stone in his mouth instead of a fish, turning him into his mouth young man in caimana]: Pereira 1995, No. 6:52-54.

Eastern Amazon. Urubu [while the Sun was gone, the ghost took his form, came to his wife, asked for food; she gave him hot cassava; he took it in his mouth, burned his tongue, threw himself into the river, became a caiman, now caiman without a tongue; the Sun came, the wife was surprised that her husband asked for food again; he explained that it was a ghost, brought his wife to the river, showed her caiman; we do not eat sloth meat because it makes him weak, but The sun eats in the evening, so it weakens at sunset; it illuminates the lower world at night]: Ribeiro 2002:606-607.

Eastern Brazil. Kayapo [(Lukesh 1968:170-172); a woman in the plaza near the men's house heated stones in the fire to bake cassava cakes; her little son fell in the fever, was badly burned; her brother came back with hunting; said that if he were an uncle who gave the child a name, he would also be burned in this fire now; her second brother (who gave his name) came out of the mansion, stumbled, fell into the hearth, and ran screaming to river, became a caiman; Cayman asked fish to dance all the dances they knew; after learning the names of fish and dances, he returned to the village as a man; taught them dances, costumes, fish masks; people began to call children by fish names ]: Wilbert 1978, No. 90:242-244