E26. Trained people .34.42.56.57.59.62.63.70.
Fish caught turn into first people or women. (Texts on catching women in human form from the water are not included; cf. Motive F7).
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols [Jeonun-bel goes north to marry his wife, kills 20-headed Hotgor-Hara-Mangys and his men; the old woman is left alone, goes to look for her husband; rejects someone who has a penis like a stallion; marries someone who answers that he can wrap a mountain three times with his penis; they have many children; they led their people down the mountain across the sea; the old man's penis serves as a bridge; he was pecked by a crow, he moved, the people drowned; the old man makes a seine out of his wool; those caught became Mongols (or humans in general), left in the water with fish]: Potanin 1883, No. 112:384-387.
NW Coast. Bellacula [The raven hooks fish, throws it into the boat, the fish turns into a woman; promises to live with him until he looks at others; the raven violates the ban; the wife leaves, taking from all dried salmon]: Boas 1895:246.
Llanos. Guajibo [Kuwai makes a woman out of clay; she is able to bake cakes but cannot bring water; from wax, she can neither bake nor stay in the sun; from wood, she burns by the fire; his Matsuldani's son stomps on the ground, causing wind from the sky; a rainbow rises from the ground, and fish with it; when they fall to the ground, they turn into people; (a similar story in baniva, R. Wright)]: Baquero 1989, No. 2: 82.
Southern Venezuela. Fish caught are turning into women. Makiritar: Civrieux 1959:112-113; 1960:109; Sanema: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 189:373.
Guiana. Trio: Koelewijn, Riviere 1987, No. 1:15; Riviere 1969:259-261; vapishana [Jo√£o hooks piranha, wants her to be his wife; she jumps back into the water, turns into a woman, he brings her home, hides her; his younger brother Pedro discovers that someone has made soup; gets naked, rocking his penis; a hidden woman laughs, he finds her; she tells her to pour fish poison into her nostrils first; he does not listen, his penis is bitten off; deer, tapir, agouti refuse, the monkey agrees to change his penis with him, now her penis seems to have been bitten off by piranha; P. brings blood-sucking insects to the festival, they've been biting people ever since]: Wirth 1950:168-170;
NW Amazon. Baniwa [see guajibo]; chikuna [Dyoi and his brother Epi went to their niece's initiation party; the girl went to D., E. wanted her for himself; in the yard outside the house, the girl turned into a fruit on umari tree; D. did not allow it to be plucked, E. waited for it to fall; D. let E. clean the dead birds, at this time the fruit fell, the girl took on a human form, D. reduced it, hid it in a flute, 4 nights brought him into his hammock secretly from E.; he hears laughter at night; in the absence of D. dances, showing her genitals; the woman laughs, E. finds her inside the flute, copulates with her; she becomes pregnant, does not fit more into a flute; E. lubricates his penis with fruit juice to imitate a long abstinence; frozen latex falls off, D. understands the deception; to make black paint and paint the boy, D. ordered E. climb the genipa tree for fruit; it began to grow, but E. began to descend; then the woody mushroom orehla de pau grew along the perimeter of the trunk, but E. turned into an ant, crawled over the mushroom; D. ordered E. to grind the fruits of the genipa, E. the source of himself; the woman painted the boy, threw the rest of the pasta into the water; fish, including epi fish, appeared from the pasta; D. began to catch fish with various baits; when on stones, the fish caught turned into jaguars, urucuri husks into squirrels, tukuma husks into wild pigs, sweet cassava into chikuna Indians; however, E. could not catch; let Techi-ari-Ngui catch, E. pecked, on the shore, becoming a man, said that he had visited the land of gold in the east and would return there, and let D. go west; D. told him to catch fish, but E. killed them before they turned into people ; Var.: After understanding how to catch, E. caught kokama and other tribes, but not chikuna]: Nimuendaju 1952:127-129.
Central Amazon. Parintintin [Baira catches beautiful fish in the river, they turn into women, he distributes them to men; catches his daughter; his companion tries to do the same, but the fish jumps back into the river]: Pereira 1980 (2): 554-556; munduruku [see motive F34; women have a tapir lover, men kill him; women jump into the river, turn into fish; Karusakaibo fishes, does not look over her shoulder, she turns into his wife again; makes a drink from cassava; K. says that his pet monkey made it; Dairu does not believe it, she dances indecently in K.'s house; the woman looks out, laughs; D. also goes fishing; looks around right away, the fish does not turn into a woman; D. copulates with fish, since then the motley jacunda is inedible; the rest of the fish can't turn into women now, K. accelerates them along the river]: Kruse 1952, No. 10:997-998; Murphy 1958, No. 3:76-77.
Eastern Brazil. Suya [at night, the brother stains the face of an unknown mistress with genipa juice; the exposed sister lives openly with him, although he does not want it; they fish, the water blows her down the river; she turns into androgyne; under her leadership, women kill most men and go far east; set up a village behind a lake full of piranhas; men who return from hunting fish from the river different fish, they turn into new women; they are of different physiques depending on the fish they came from]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 158:459-467; kayapo: Wilbert 1978, No. 111, 112-113 [like Munduruku], 114:275, 277-278, 283-284, 286.