E20. The origin of fish venom.

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When a person enters the water, the fish dies.

From parts of his body or on his grave, a plant grows from which fish poison (timbo) is made.

Tagin, screams, alabama, koasati, natchez, arekuna, akawai, makushi, waiwai, kalinha, trio, oyana, hishkaryana, oyampi, (emerillon), chikuna, munduruku, kamayura, mbia, chiripa.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tagin [Abo-Teni marries 1) Luki-Pipi, she is lazy, he chases her away, she tells her to start sowing when pipi pipi screams; 2) Blue Jay; she cooks delicious, AT I watched, saw that she defecates in cooking, he chases her away; 3) Yurne-Tami tree; she brings a lot of fish, AT spies on her urinating in the river, stunning the fish; he chases her, she teaches make fish poison from her bark, fruits, leaves; 4) a dry leaf; a wife does not have breasts, a child born can only suck blood, he is a leech; 5) AT marries a sister, only she is a person, people come from them]: Elwin 1958b, No. 13:191-193.

Southeast USA. When a young man dives, the fish in the river dies, people collect it; the Rabbit fails to imitate the hero. Screams: Swanton 1929, No. 6 [a woman finds a blood clot, he turns into a boy, hunts; she gets corn and beans by scratching her thighs; he spies on her, refuses to eat; she adorns his hat with live jays and rattlesnakes, gives a flute, birds sing to her play, snakes rattle; tells him to go over the mountain, where he did not tell him to go before; tells him to burn it in the house, later come to this place; marry the first girl he meets; on the way, the Rabbit offers to swim, steals the young man's clothes and flute; he comes to the village, marries, his wife finds many turtles in the puddle; The rabbit was detained as thief; when the young man appeared, silent birds and snakes gave a voice; the rabbit was thrown to the dogs, but he ran away; after swimming across the river, the young man put the fish to sleep, his wife picks it up; he hits his wife with an ax on the parting, two appear; The rabbit only accidentally crushed one gudgeon; killed his wife with an ax; in the place of the burnt woman, the young man and wife found all kinds of beans and corn growing], 7 [the old woman came, corn was pouring out of her ulcers, fills the bins; blood drips from under the roof; the old woman puts a bloody shard under the bed, it turns into a baby; grows up, hunts, spies on her grandmother, from whom corn is falling; refuses to eat; the grandmother attaches a jay and a rattlesnake to his hat, gives a flute; tells him to clear the area, drag it along it, burn it, return in three months; on the way, the Rabbit offers the young man catch turtles, steal his property; in the village, a jay and a snake shout that the Rabbit is a thief; people return the hat to a young man; he marries an old woman's daughter; washes his head in the river, putting fish to sleep; hits his wife with an ax on I'll parting, creating two wives; the Rabbit's fish does not die, the wife is killed; at the site of the burning, the young man finds grown corn and beans], 8 [the old woman picks up a blood clot on the trail, puts it in a vessel, it turns into boy; hunts, sees the village; the grandmother decorates his hat with a bird, which sings to the sound of a flute; tells him to marry, return later; the young man throws pieces of an old log into the river, the fish dies, the wife picks up; Rabbit at this time he takes his hat and flute away; but his bird does not sing; people return the stolen goods to the young man; with his wife he comes to the old place, sees a cornfield there, builds a stone shed; all the birds try break it; Owl, Eagle, Hawk change the shape of the neck and head from the blow; birds peck grain; the young man picks up what the crows have dropped, from him the current corn comes from him], 9 [the widow asks her son not to go to the mountain; he sees a village from there; she adorns his hat with live birds, gives a flute, they sing to its sounds; the young man is greeted, the chief gives him a daughter; he dives, putting the fish to sleep; at this time the Rabbit kidnaps hat and flute; his birds don't sing, fish don't die, he's driven in shame]: 10-13, 13-15, 15-17, 17-18; alabama [options (17) and (18) complement each other, only overlapping slightly]: Swanton 1929, No. 17 [an orphan lives with his grandmother; she adorns his hat with cardinals and jays, gives a flute, birds sing to it; on the way to the village, Rabbit offers to catch turtles, steals the young man's property; he smears himself persimmons, marries an old woman's daughter; in the morning the house becomes new], 18 [the young man dives, the fish dies, the wife picks it up; he catches a lot of deer; where the Rabbit supposedly left the deer, people find only a piece liver; a young man hits his wife with an ax on the parting, two appear; the Rabbit kills his wife; the Rabbit is chased, he hides in the hollow, the Crane is left guarded; the Rabbit ties him by the neck, hits him, runs away; the young man replies that he made the house new by cutting down the pillars; the rabbit cuts down, the house falls on it at night]: 134-135, 135-138; koasati [a man takes a little boy to his village; he grows up hunts, chasing turkeys, sees his village; a man smears it with the blood of a killed animal, tells him to have a period like women (the episode is incomprehensible and has no consequences); adorns his head clothing and clothing with birds and rattlesnakes; tells them to kill birds at the request of women he meets, but not to raise an arrow; they ask to pick them up, he does not listen; the fourth breaks his vaginal teeth, throwing a stone into the vagina; The rabbit offers to dive for turtles, takes away the young man's clothes; he smears himself with persimmons; marries an old woman's daughter; diving, puts the fish to sleep; shooting, immediately kills deer; at the Rabbit The only gudgeon pops up; after killing a deer, he hangs pieces of meat on the trees; the young man hits his wife with a club on the parting, gets two wives; the Rabbit kills his wife; he is chased by dogs, he hides in hollow, people leave the Blue Crane to guard; Rabbit beats him, runs away]: Swanton 1929, No. 15:178-181; Alabama and Koasati [an orphan is raised by an old woman; tells him not to go to the valley; he hunts, sees the village; an old woman decorates his headdress with bird feathers, gives a flute, tells him to go; when he plays, the jays and cardinals sing on the hat; the Rabbit invited him to catch turtles; took away his clothes and the flute young men when he dived; the young man smeared himself with persimmons, came to the old woman, married her daughter; where he dives, fish pops up, people pick it up; The rabbit dives, the only gudgeon pops up; the young man hung up the trees of dead deer; The rabbit took one liver, hung up pieces of liver; the young man hit his wife with a club on the parting, two wives appeared; the rabbit killed his wife, he was being chased, he climbed into the hollow; left to guard A crane with an ax, the Rabbit knocked it to blue, now it's the Blue Crane; the young man turned the hut into a beautiful house, told the Rabbit to kick it; the fallen house asked Rabbit]: Martin 1977:71-74; Natchez: Swanton 1929, No. 8 [a woman sits in addition on a basket, corn pours out of her ass; her son spies, refuses to eat it; she tells him to shoot jays, chikadi and parrots He revives them, adorns them with his hat, shoulders and belt; gives them a flute, birds sing to its sounds; tells them not to go to bed with women with a toothy vagina; burn it together with the house; the young man burns his mother, leaves agrees to the persuasion of the fourth woman he met; but his penis was like stone, his teeth were broken; the rabbit leads him to swim, steals his clothes; he smears himself with persimmons; only the old woman agrees to take the dirt; he fills the whole boat with fish; the Rabbit claims the same, but his wife finds only a few fish that have surfaced; catches a lot of deer; when the Rabbit sends his wife for deer, there is only one with already with pecked eyes; birds do not sing on Rabbit's clothes; a young man asks an old woman to part her hair, cuts with an ax, creating two young wives; the Rabbit only kills his wife; people first accuse the young man, but then Rabbit; told to bring a rattlesnake; The rabbit lies that people are arguing whether the snake is long; she agrees to measure herself, replies that her life is in the middle of her head; the Rabbit hits this place, like a snake; people say that the snake should have been alive; they tell the water to lead in a straight line; the water chases the Rabbit, he winds, leaves the water to flow winding; says that fields are better on the bank of the winding river], 9 [ a woman washes by the stream, her baby is carried away by the Puma; raises him with his wife; does not tell him to go downhill; he goes, sees people, his mother plays ball; the Puma sends him to people, decorates his hat with a parrot, jays, small birds, gives a horn; if you blow into it, the birds sing; does not tell you to talk to whoever comes out on the way; this is the Rabbit, he calls the young man to the river to catch turtles, kidnaps him clothes; the young man covers himself with persimmon fruits, drags a turtle with him; only an old woman shelters him; he leaves a turtle in the pit, the old woman finds many turtles there; gives him a granddaughter as his wife; while swimming, he becomes handsome again and puts the fish to sleep, people pick it up; the Rabbit tries to do the same, but only gudgeon emerges, and not because of the Rabbit; the young man asks his wife to part in his hair, cuts her with an ax; now he has two wives; The rabbit only kills his wife; the young man is told that he was the cause of the murder; 1) sent for arrow poles to the reeds, where poisonous snakes are teeming; the cougar gives he has four balls, snakes rush after them; the cougar also helps with advice in subsequent tasks; 2) get the ogre's beard to wrap the arrows; the ogre's wife cuts it off for the young man; 3) get clay from the bottom of the river; The kingfisher brings under his claws, there is a lot of clay; 4) the young man is left on the other side of the river, where cannibals live; he hides in a hollow; he hides the clothes of two bathing women, gives it away when they call themselves his wives; father-in-law offers a race, always pushes his sons-in-law to the point; the young man pushes him, helps him get up; at night he covers himself with a mask as if his eyes are open; father-in-law sets fire to the house, but the wives take the young man out; tell him to call a carrier by the river; the young man rejects various snakes, takes a snake with deer antlers as carriers; on the way he lets him eat four dogs; closer to the shore lets him eat arrow, rushing after it]: 230-234, 234-239.

Guiana. Arekuna [The fox kidnaps the child, gives it to Tapiriha; he grows up, she makes him her husband; he returns to the people; Tapiriha is killed; the father takes his son out of her womb; diving into the water, the boy kills fish; the stork persuaded the boy to bathe at a waterfall where there are many fish; the Water Serpent kills the boy with an arrow; the father asks the birds to kill the snake; most birds and animals cannot dive deep; two birds- a diver is killed by a snake with arrows; along with pieces of snake skin, birds receive voices and colors; animals get colors, deer - horns; from the bones, blood, flesh of the killed boy, various Timbo vine species]: Koch-Grünberg 1924, No. 22:70-76; akawai [boy]: Im Thurn 1966:383; makushi: Roth 1924, No. 600 [a person met a tapiriha, she became pregnant by him; when hunters she was driven away with her dogs, the man asked to shoot her in the head, not in the stomach; a boy was taken out of her womb; one hunter washed him in the river, where the fish immediately died; the girl took the child up when he went into the water, the fish was dead; the boy was appreciated; once told to dive into a deep pond, the Master of the Pisces killed him; the basket with the boy's remains was carried; haiari grew out of drops of blood; when buried, from konami (Clibadium: mashed leaves with meat - fish bait), from sweat - Kunapuru (Phyllanthus conami, strong fish poison in the leaves), wild agave from the skin (seeds are fish poison)]: 485-486; Soares Diniz 1971, No. 12 [Kanãimãimã got lost, met a tapiriha, married him; she warned not to kill a snake - it's a cub (cachorro), for her snakes are humans; six months later, tapiriha pregnant; her husband shot people, found out that they were going to hunt tapirs, ordered them to shoot them in the head rather than in the stomach; the tapiriha was killed, K. removed from her womb, raised the boy Urambá (i.e. timbo, who are poisoned with fish); when the boy was swimming, people collected fish that had fallen asleep; when the boy was 8 years old, he was asked to swim in backwaters where there are especially many fish; the father reluctantly agreed; the boy was bitten by a snake Pirarucu, K. pulled out the corpse; two years later, people decided to take revenge on the snake; two shot her, could not pull it out, the bird Uala-bagá succeeded; by that time W.'s body had decomposed; the father buried pieces; from his fingers legs grew timbó-cruatá, from his ears - timbó-fôlha, etc.; the father buried his main body in the forest, from it grew timbó-de-raiz]: 87; waiwai [old woman; from the head and hands a tree that gives strong poison; from the feet of a plant with a weaker poison]: Fock 1963:64-65; kalinya [when the boy swims, the fish die, his father picks them up; the fish kill the boy; the father's tears grow a vine Lonchocarpus]: Penard in Goeje 1943, no. d 37:127; trio: Koelewijn, Riviere 1987 [boy], No. 24:102-106; Magaña 1977 [old man], No. 42:140; oyana: Magaña 1987, No. 24 [Timbo (fish poison) ) was a nocturnal person; people are watching him, he turns into a timbo vine], 25 [Timbo was fishing, sent his wife home; when she returned, he had already turned into a vine]: 39; hishkaryana [ woman]: Derbyshire 1965:91-93; oyampy [male]: Grenand 1982, No. 27:201; emerillon [the hunter got lost; at night he was pecked at a hummingbird chick; a man hit a chick, threw it into the river, his swallowed aïmara fish; the hummingbird father decided to kill the fish, began to try various types of fish venom, found the strongest; the fish surfaced, the hummingbird began to rip their bellies open, found a son in one; the hunter all I saw it, people have since found out about pindo poison]: Renault-Lescure et al. 1987, No. 2:143.

NW Amazon. Chikuna [boy]: Nimuendaju 1952:92; (cf. baniva? [At first there were no rivers, they were laid by the Great Serpent; the man's son was covered in boils; his father planted him on a branch above the water, blood dripped into the water, fish floated, and his father shot them with a bow; his Big Serpent swallowed]: Brüzzi 1994:64-65).

Central Amazon. Munduruku [female]: Kruse 1946, No. 46, No. 10:618-619; Murphy 1958, No. 34:613

Southern Amazon. Kamayura [woman]: Münzel 1973:225-228

Southern Brazil. Mbia [see motive J9; a woman gets to Mbae-ypi creatures, they eat her; the baby in her womb can't be killed, it's Pa-i, the Sun; he grows up, lives with an old woman, out of a leaf makes himself a brother (next Month); brothers kill Mbae-ypi, one pregnant woman has escaped, jaguars come from her; when Pa-i's son enters the river, the fish dies, it can be collected; Charia asks Pa-i to lend him the boy, hits him on the head, throws him into the water; Pa-i fights Charia, their strengths are equal (solar eclipses); Pa-i gives C. a feather crown; wearing it, C. burns, mosquitoes, horseflies, gadflies emerge from the ashes]: Cadogan 1959:70-83; Cadogan, Lopez Austin 1970:74-85; chiripa [Yacy (Month) and Kuarahy (Sun) met Saria; I jokingly told him that they have many sisters, S. asked for one as his wife; Y. said he would consult with K., the older brother; he demanded fish in return; gave the girl, if she washed her feet in the river, the fish would die; but S. drove her into a tree hit, killed, her remains turned into a timbo vine used to make fish poison]: Bartolomé 1977:36-37.