E30. The wooden ersatz spouse .19.20.35.39.40.42.43.45.48.64.

A man does not have a wife or a husband and uses a wooden ersatz as his spouse.

Melanesia. Oz. Kutubu [while collecting firewood, the girl came across an ugly old woman; she asks her to get berries from the tree, makes the tree tall; the girl cannot get off, but someone supplies her with food; she gives birth to a son and daughter; when they grow up, she tells them to close their eyes; brother and sister find themselves on the ground, the tree and their mother is nowhere; brother notices her sister hugging a palm tree trunk and rubbing against it; inserts it into the bark sharp flint; the girl cuts through her vagina; the brother stops bleeding, converges with her sister; they come from people living on the lake. Kutubu]: Williams 1941, No. 12:144-146; Tumleo [single fisherman; made himself a wooden bed - the headboard is like a woman's face, at the bottom of the vulva; sleeps with her; two sisters come to his house, hiding under the roof; they see him copulating with a piece of wood; throwing a pebble; they go down, he takes them as his wife; one gives birth to a boy, the other to a girl; the children have grown up and the wives are pregnant again; when going fishing, the father forbid the children go to the pond where he kept the small fish he had caught; they came, the fish went to sea, laughed at the fisherman; he came back, scolded the children; quarreled with his wives, they left, and he got poisoned and died]: Schultze 1911, No. 8:75-69.

Micronesia-Polynesia. The awnings [Kae leaves the sea, the fish swallows it, he cuts her belly from the inside, goes out, enters the island of women; they satisfy themselves with the roots of pandanus; K. marries Hina-i-Vaino'i; teaches her, how to give birth (local pregnant women were ripped open); after learning that X. becomes young every time he swims on the surf, K. asks to send him home; H. calls his whale brother Tunuanui, he brings K. home; his son arrives later on another whale; K.'s people want to kill him because he begins to dispose of K.'s property, but he announces who he is by singing spells; either he or K. forget send the whale back, but this has no negative consequences]: Beckwith, p. 502 in Ho 1967, No. 207:367-368 (Russian translation in Permyakov 1970, No. 170:421-429); Tuamotu [Tangaroa swallowed by a whale, cuts it from the inside, comes out bald; enters the island of women whose husbands are pandanus roots; daughter of sister T. Hina finds him, gives birth to a baby; women are about to burn her, but after her prayer, a downpour begins; Rupe shows up, takes her away]: Beckwith, p. 503 in Ting-hui Ho 1967, No. 208:368.

Western Siberia. Mansi: Lukina 1990, No. 123 [Mos-ne lives with his brother; brother (Mos-hum) says that this is not good, he goes to live alone; makes his wife out of wood, dresses her; in his absence, M. comes, cuts and burns a doll, puts her clothes on, sits in her place; brother thinks the doll has come to life, marries her; they have a son; the wife then never shows her face to her husband]: 326-327; Kannisto 1951 (1 ): 250-263 in Lintrop 1998 [mos' woman and her brother live in neighboring houses; brother makes something with an ax; in his absence, she finds a female figure under the mosquito net, still wooden below her shoulders, taller revived; she cuts off one leg and one arm of the figure, hides the figure under a pile of garbage, lies down in her place; brother takes her sister, they have a son; he plays outside, hears three times from under a pile of garbage a story about what happens is that the arm and leg are rotten; the sister/wife asks the son not to tell his father every time; the brother cuts off his wife/sister's arm and leg, then cuts it into pieces, takes the son, goes to the forest; from the woman's pieces of meat hogweed grew up; the bear ate it, gave birth to two cubs and a girl; while hibernating, the bear tells the girl to make patterns on birch bark; when the dog finds a den and a hunter from the city digs it, let the girl will put birch bark on the stake, cling to the stake; the girl was pulled out, the bears were killed; in the city, a girl hides pieces of bear and bear meat, throws it on the roof, then on, a bear with cubs turn into three stars]:?..

(Wed. Amur - Sakhalin. The Udege people [seven bald people eat people; their mother hides the girl who has come; she finds the remains of girls eaten; finds wings, flies away; seven chase her in the form of kites; she goes down, turns into seven worms; those too; she turns into lots of mosquitoes; bald ones turn into kites again, peck mosquitoes, can't peck a girl; she comes to a house where wooden idols make she has faces; she is afraid, the owner enters, takes the girl as his wife, burns idols; they have two children; she tells her to put three pillars, one with an iron core; bald people eat one child, a woman with the other climbs onto a pole; they gnaw the poles, remains iron; she asks the Raven to fly to call her husband; she refuses, it will be better to bite her eyes; the raven flies, the husband gives him the right to bite meat alone; kills bald arrows; prepares their meat, sends them to their mother; when she finds out what she ate, she hangs herself]: Nikolaeva et al. 2003, No. 10:69-72).

SV Asia. Russified (probably tundra) Yukaghirs [eight men sail in a boat, get to various creatures; there is a tree trunk in the bay; from time to time he leans over, knocking fish; he has several wives on the beach, he feeds them]: Bogoras 1902:616.

The Arctic. The hunter is taken to sea; he finds himself in contact with various strange creatures. The Polar Eskimos [see motif L9C; Kiwiok is getting married; previously his wife and mother-in-law's husband was a willow branch (knots are penises); they threw it into the water, she brought them seals; now the willow branch trembles from jealousy]: Holtved 1951, No. 3:104-120; Menovshchikov 1985, No. 227:437; Baffin Land: Boas 1888 [Kiviung sails to an unknown country; the old woman and her daughter are married to a log with knots; they launch it, it brings them seals; it sails away completely; K. marries his daughter; mother-in-law kills her, puts on her skin; he finds his wife's bones, runs away; returns home; his son has grown up; his the wife got married but returns to him]: 621-624; Boas 1901b, No. 15 [people are constantly tearing the boy's clothes; his grandmother teaches him to become a seal, to lure hunters into the open sea; one Kiviuk escapes ; sails to an old woman; a human head in her house teaches him to put a flat stone on himself; at night an old woman tries to pierce K. with her sharp tail, breaks it; the door in her house slams shut, when K. tries to go out; he slips through, only the edge of his clothes is cut off; K. comes to two women; the young husband has a piece of wood; brings her seals when she lets him go to sea; K. marries her, a piece of wood jealous but powerless; the woman's mother kills her by removing her lice; puts on her skin; K. learns the substitution when she sees that his wife is unable to carry the seal he has caught; sails away in a boat, returns home; his wife got married but returns to him]: 182-185.

NW coast. Tlingit: Boas 1895, No. 5 [a young man died in a collision with the Tlingit; his father and his men are sailing in search; they sail to the shore where only women live; they refuse to get along with sailors, they say that they have a husband; this is a log on the shore with teeth on the knots; in another village, sailors do not see anyone; they take skins, fish, fat; when they try to carry goods to the ship, invisible their hands stop them; in the land of the dead, the captain does not see his son because one of the sailors violated the ban on taking a woman on board; the guilty couple is killed; sailors return old]: 325-327; Swanton 1909, No. 41 [the chief's wife is dead; he asks the carver to carve her wooden figure; the statue comes to life but does not move or speak; she is moved to a new location; a small cedar is found on the floor - her child; the woman has become move a little, but never spoke]: 181-182; Tsimshian [in winter, the husband hunts mountain sheep; the wife cooks food and weaves at home; dies; he does not bury the body for a long time; after burying, he carves his wife's figure from red cedar; puts it in front of an unfinished blanket, makes her fingers move and her head turns when he comes in; every time he returns from hunting, he talks to his wife and answers himself explaining that she cannot meet her halfway because the yarn is wrapped around her fingers; two sisters, whom their mother scolded, run away from home, come to the hunter's house; they see a woman inside, when they enter, understand that this is a doll; they hide, the hunter comes, they laugh; when he finds the girls, he feeds them; the eldest eats greedily, the younger one moderately; he marries the youngest; she promises him to destroy the doll]: Boas 1916, No. 17:744- 745; bellacula: Boas 1895, No. 11 [Kasana's man had half a head, one arm, one leg, etc.; carved his wife out of a tree, named Culems; planted her as if she were weaving blanket; Chief Heiltzuk sent his two daughters to marry Kasan; they entered the house, knocked down a wooden woman, hid; Kasana came in, angrily told his wooden wife that she was not for him needed, since she could not sit; one of the girls laughed; he did not marry both, each with a child; went with them to their father]: 256-257; 1916, No. 17 [retelling the text from 1895]: 745; McIlwraith 1948 (1) [in At the beginning of time, a lonely man goes down to the ground; makes a woman out of wood, dresses her up; every morning he sits in front of a loom, leaves food for her; two girls enter the house, push the figure, the head falls into the fire, burns; they weave a blanket, eat food, hide; when the husband returns from hunting, he praises his wife for her work, asks him to be more careful; the girls laugh; he marries the eldest, calls other people to live nearby, arranges potlach]: 356-357; quakiutl: Boas, Hunt 1902, No. 3.1 [1) Sitting on the ground goes to tear cedar bark; a voice invites him into the house, asks where his wife is; he replies that his the wife cannot speak because she is carved from alder and her hair is made of yellow cedar bast; more about visiting the homes of supernatural creatures; 2) the chief sends two female slaves to swim; when they they come back, one falls into the fire, burns; the other decides to commit suicide in the forest; walks up the river for four days; sees a house with two wooden female figures, a pile of mountain sheep wool and a spinning rod; The hunter comes in, asks the figures to talk to him; divides the meat, puts it between them; when she leaves, the girl roasts the meat; when he returns, he thinks that the wooden wives have begun to come to life; brings salmon, the girl is so but secretly cuts them; the hunter thinks that the wives have started working; the next day the girl burns the figures; the hunter thinks they killed each other out of jealousy; a girl appears and says that she and There is the embodiment of wooden figures; after becoming a man's wife, a girl gave birth to many children, they became the ancestors of the tribe]: 122 (=Boas 1916, No. 17:745); Boas 1916, No. 17 (neveti) [a man named Sitting on Earth carves his wife out of alder; hangs a cedar bast over the doll to make it look like she is weaving; The bear takes him ten mountains to his village; in the Mouse's house he is given wild sheep wool; Since then, blankets they weave wool; in the Blue Jay house they feed them berries; Since then, people have been eating berries; the old woman does not tell them to enter the Wolves house; a man comes in, the Wolves eat it, then revive it]: 745; Nootka [a woman scolds her two daughters, they leave home; there are two houses side by side in the forest; the youngest enters one, has a wooden figure of a woman; a man comes, throws a figure into the fire, marries a girl ; her sister entered another house, where Puma and Raccoon, they kill those who come; she manages to escape, she also marries the first man; both give birth to him a child, the youngest a son, the eldest a daughter; the father teaches her a song that attracts game; Puma hears her singing, makes the girl teach him a song, kills him, pulls her heart out; father kills Puma, finds his daughter's heart inside him, revives her; both sisters go to native village, but it is empty; they create trout, let them into the river, and all trouts come from it]: Boas 1895, No. 8:112-113 (=2002:265-267; retelling in 1916, No. 17:745-746).

The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap [Kava (Converter) comes to Coyote people (possibly Thompson or Okanagon); there men use pieces of wood with holes from fallen knots as wives; K. leads a woman in a man's house, teaches her to copulate, tells her not to use wood anymore]: Teit 1909:652; Thompson: Adamson 1934 [The converter learns from the bird that his father is the root; The root is confirms; he turns his mother into stone for hiding the truth from him, tells women not to copulate with their roots anymore; travels, disappears; returns with Coyote to judge the dead when they will return]: 15; Boas 1916, No. 69 [1) Converters meet Coyote, whose wife is a hole in a jerk; throw her into the fire; when he calls her, she answers from the fire, but he refuses to take her out from there; 2) they meet Coyote in Tesela; his wife is a hole in a piece of wood, they burn it (Nicola); 3) Transformer brothers come to the house of a man whose wife is a piece of wood with a hole; they put it a piece of wood into the fire to keep warm; the returning owner finds ash instead of his wife; Converters give him two beautiful women, one from poplar, the other from an alder log; the first is white, the second is reddish skin, face, body; (different versions end with): instead of women with holes in a piece of wood, the Converters give the Coyote two new ones - birch and alder; poplar and alder; so one is white, the other is reddish (Lytton, Nicola, utamkt); he makes women from poplar and birch (Lytton); a woman from alder is short, from poplar (utamkt)]: 609; Hill-Tout 1899 [see motif M18A; three brothers- converters enter the house, the elder finds a piece of wood in bed, throws it into the fire; a trace of a human figure remains in the ash; the owner enters, looks for a wife, cries when he sees the trail; the younger brother carves two poplar and alder women, revives; one white and the other is redskinned; S. gives them to the owner of the house]: 208-210 (full text: 195-216); Teit in Reichard 1947 [girl takes a root as her husband (hogfennel, Peucedanum) palustre, marsh mustard), gives birth to a son; other children mock his work; his mother confesses to him; he goes on a journey (sometimes with the Qwoqtqwal brothers), changes the nature of bad creatures; mustard root grows where it passed; it also leaves water sources behind; it is not known where it went]: 63; lillouette: Teit 1898, No. I [woman masturbates with an edible root, gives birth to a son ; lies to him that his father drowned; he is going to kill Water, she replies that she did not kill his father; the mother tells her son other false stories; he throws her into the lake in anger; travels the land, turning people into animals, fish, rocks]: 95-96; 1912b, No. 9 [a single man considers a branch his wife; in his absence, a woman visits the house; eats the food left for the branch, cleans the house, makes a fire, hides; one day he throws a branch into the fire; a man cries, a woman comes out of hiding; they have many children]: 309-310; Vancouver Island (salishi? ethnicity not specified) [a lonely man Quil-Tum-Tum carves a woman's figure out of wood, considers it a mistress; Woodpecker tells two girls about this; they come, hide; K. finds the fire burning, the basket is finished; next time the girls open; the tribes inhabiting Vancouver come from them and K.]: Webber 1936:24; Halkomel (lower reaches of the river. Fraser) [Coyote used a hole in the tree, the Qäls converter made him a real woman out of cedar bast]: Boas 1895, No. III.1:19-24 (=2002:99); chalkomel (kovichan): Boas 1895, No. IV.2 (covichan) [first Sialatsa, then Swutlak, then other men and women descend from the sky; S. teaches them to hunt and fish; tribes disperse, S. remains alone; the other the chief sends his daughter to him; she finds an empty house with a wooden woman in her hands, a spindle and a piece of fat in her hands; the one who comes eats fat, hides; S. is glad, thinks that the wooden wife has eaten; The next time she comes burns a wooden one, puts on her clothes; marries S., her maid marries another man]: 47-50 (=2002:138-144; retelling in 1916, No. 17:746); Thompson, Egesdal 2008 [at the eldest Grizzly sisters daughter, youngest Black Bear has a daughter (World Cup), son and young son; World Cup daughter notices her mother's chest in her aunt's cauldron; Grizzly replies that the World Cup will come later; World Cup children lead Grizzly children to swim, those they drown (grizzlies can't swim); World Cup children run away with a rotten tree in Grizzy's children's bed as if someone is sleeping there; they climb a spruce, the Grizzly comes running, the World Cup children say that her children are with him, asking them to open her eyes dazzle her, throwing what they scraped off the bark of the spruce; the man carried them across the river in a boat; carrying the Grizzly, he knocked over the boat, the Grizzly drowned; the older brother threw the younger brother's hat into the fire; he he cried, the water in the river began to rise; brother and sister ran away, the youngest stayed, the fire remained under the water; when he saw the fisherman, the youngest became a fish, bit off (tore it off?) hook; when he becomes a man, he comes to the fisherman, he complains that the hook is missing, the boy says he has found it; stays with the fisherman; finds a piece of wood in his bed with a hole in the female, throws it into the fire; the fisherman says that his wife went out and burned down; that he is the first man, and the creator forgot to make him a wife; the boy cuts down two women, from birch and alder; the fisherman replies that he wants alder, it is his color ( i.e. with red juice); the boy finished the woman, the first man got a wife]: 258-261; kordalen [the woman goes to dig rhizomes every day (probably hogfennel, Peucedanum palustre, mustard plaster marsh); her mother looks after her son; he has grown up, asks about his father, the grandmother replies that he did not have a father; he threatens to kill her with a stick, she admits that his father is a mustard rhizome; young man The Chief Son-Root (SK) leaves, summons a monstrous fish out of the water, pulls its throat out, turns it into a boat; the Pest boy asks to take him with him, jumps in a boat, the UK turns it just into a pestle; sees a burning tree, comes up, there Grouse (Foolhen, Falcipennis canadensis) touches his burnt eyebrows; SK tells him to peck raw moss, no longer build a house or cook on fire; and before Black grouse collected moss under his wing, setting fire to a tree and rushing into the fire; the rabbit jumped into the boat, the UK killed him; the Otter (Fisher) demanded its prey, threatened to hit the water with its tail, sprayed the UK with its tail ; he killed her, threw her to the rabbit; comes to the house, there are many children, the hostess tells them that their father will soon return from hunting; the children see the Otter killed by the UK, he was their father; the UK revives him; enters the house where the walls of the awl; beret is large with patterns, the awls dig into it; he sets fire to the house, says that Shilla will no longer be cannibals, but will become awls for making moccasins; the same in the house where the Combs are; where Bubbles (they will now store tobacco in them); Kingfisher dives but the fish slips out; he washes the smell of fish into the bucket, cooks soup, he likes it; he makes Kingfisher claws and beaks so that the fish is easy to grab; he should not live in a house, but by the river, eat raw fish; the same with Osprey; by the river a man with one leg is a spear; SK turns into salmon, harpoons, breaks off, carries tip; harpoons fish with it; Ostronog sharpens his tibia again; SK comes to him, says he has caught salmon with the tip stuck; Ostronog tries to cover his leg with a cloak; SK offers to play hoop and stick on capes, wins, Ostronog is forced to give his own, SK hits him on the leg with a stick, makes it normal, gives a moose horn, tells him to make moose horn tips from now on , not from their own bone; everyone goes out to meet the UK; the ugly Toad causes rain, enters the house; the UK is forced to enter her; he addresses her, naming varying degrees of kinship, and finally says "wife"; she jumps between his eyes; he can't take her off; the Coyote says he should choose the Sun and the Month; the Robin is too hot, the Coyote talks about everything she sees; the UK says it will be the Month, will go far to The toad was not so visible on his face; Toadstool's son is one-eyed, becomes a good Sun - he does not see everything so clearly and is not so hot; when the sun is less bright, he can see a one-eyed toadstool]: Reichard 1947, No. 1:57-63.

Northeast. Penobscot [The jug woman uses a stick instead of her husband; ties it to her waist; can't untie it; the stick says she'll have to wear it everywhere]: Speck 1935b, No. 37:83.

California. Coastal Yuki [a young woman lives with her grandmother; finds a stick, she becomes her husband, brings game, firewood, acorns; a woman conceives from a stick and gives birth to a son and daughter]: Gifford 1937, No. 37:168-169 .

Eastern Amazon. Parakana [a girl lives with married brothers; in the forest she copulates with a tree branch, the brothers find it, break it; the same with a vine; with a deer, the brothers kill it, tell her sister that they killed a deer, that calls her lover in vain, sees blood; the same with tapir; the same with fish; then she takes her brothers' children away, they sail away, turn into Europeans, greet their fathers with gunshots, fathers understand that children can't be returned]: Fausto 2002:73-76.