E19. The origin of drugs. 62.65.

Narcotic plants arise from a person's body torn apart by others.

NW Amazon. Barasana: S.Hugh-Jones 1979, No. 7D [the hero's younger brother dies when the hero's wife makes love to him: coca]: 297; Torres Laborde 1969 [Hino (snake, anaconda) got drunk; daughter tore him off the finger that was between the thumb and forefinger; the taibano was torn off the middle finger, the tatuyo was ring, the barasana had their whole arm torn off, so they know a lot of songs and dances; this is how the drug yazhe (Banesteriopsis sp. )]: 45; Tucano: Fulop 1954 [newborn boy: Banisteriopsis sp. (yazhe); all tribes received a slice]: 127-128; 1956, No. 9 [coca: sixth finger torn off]: 370-371; Reichel-Dolmatoff 1975 [as in Fulop 1954]: 134-135; Yukuna [male: coca]: Herrera Ángel 1975a, No. 7:413.

The Central Andes. The Incas [young beauty seduces men; people dismember her, coca emerges from parts]: Relacion 1882:198; Tello 1909:28; Calahuaya [young woman: coca]: Otero 1951:232; mountainous Bolivia (?) [Coca was a loose woman who changed lovers; Inca told her to be killed, her body parts buried in various places; they grew into coca bushes]: Paredes Candia 1969 (1): 169-174 in Toro Montalvo 1990b: 44-445.

Montagna. Amouesha [Yompor Rohr finds his wife with his brother; in anger he tears her to pieces, throws her west; they grow into coca bushes]: Santos-Granero 1983:26 in Amodio 1995:133.