E9F. The magic wife is a parrot.
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The magic wife is a parrot. See E9 and K25 motifs.
Honduras vs Panama. Cabecar; bribri.
Guiana. Kalinya; vapishana [E9]; oyampi [E9].
Ecuador. Cagnari [E9].
Western Amazon. Huambisa [?] ; kandoshi [E9]; achuar: Mowitz 1978:21 [during the flood and a long night, a man climbed a genipu tree, threw fruits down, a harpy eagle screamed, dawn, the water came down; parrots flew in three species, became women, began to chew cassava to make masato (alcoholic beverage); woodpecker knocks on wood, sparks fly, man gets fire; man catches that Parrot that is less beautiful , so people are not as beautiful as they could be; human descendants and Parrots gave birth to humans], 27-29 [same, two, not three Parrots], 33-39 [man freed an anaconda from the nets; at night he approaches him a woman, says that her father calls him; after being in the underwater world, a man and his wife return to earth; at night, a wife is a woman, in the daytime a snake, her husband hides her in a basket; a man's mother finds an anaconda, hits her with a stick; the flood begins, a man climbs a tree, throws fruits down, the water comes down; of the three parrot women, the man wanted to grab the one that was more beautiful, but grabbed the other two, one of them darker; from Europeans are the remaining uncaught].
NW Amazon. E9. Yukuna; guariquena.
Central Amazon. The exact place of recording is not known. {Rio Jamunda?} [Many women sailed along the river to the edge of the forest; with them the only Pahi ("father") Tuna ("water" or "black") man; women always killed boys; one woman gave birth to an ugly man, regretted it; fumigated with smoke, he became handsome; other women began to chase him to make him their lover, called Pahi-Tuna-Re; his mother hid him in the water; the women summoned him, imitating his mother's voice, grabbed him, made love to him; PT told women to cut their hair, twisted a rope, caught a PTR, killed him, cut off his penis, hung it over the entrance to the cave where the women lived; they ran away, hid in another cave, blocking entrance by poisonous creatures; PT lived alone; once food was cooked; saw a parrot fly in, became a girl; PT threw feathers into the fire; lived happily ever after with a girl]: Barbosa Rodrigues in Barroso 1930:99- 102; munduruku [while men hunt, women make cassava drink, take it to the river, hit the water with calebasa; the Serpent comes out, drinks beer, becomes a man, copulates with women; alone a person watches them; men call the Snake with the same signal, kill with arrows; women leave; a pet parrot lives in the same house; turning into a woman, cooking and drinking for the owner; he finds A parrot, burns her feathers, gets married]: Kruse 1949, No. 32:640-642.
Eastern Amazon. Tenetehara [E9].
Montagna - Jurua. Chayahuita [E9]; shipibo [E9].
Araguaia. Karazha [E9]; tapirape [E9].
Eastern Brazil. Apinaye.
Chaco. Nivakle: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987b, No. 15 [KÃxwet knows there are parakeets in the sky, sent Hawk there, he was handsome, the women decided to go down the tree that reached sky; when they came down, the Hawk knocked down a tree; every man got a wife; the women asked K. to turn them from parrots into humans; he did it, throwing them in every handful of earth], 18 [descended from heaven two parrots, became girls, married two brothers; they went up to heaven with them; the main spirit wants to kill people from earth, but they greet him, he allows them to stay; later one of the brothers decides return; the Eagle and the Hawk argue who will take him; the Eagle takes him, the man falls into the lake (drowning or fleeing, it is not clear)], 27 [a woman who had her period went to the river to get water; then it rained , flooded the ground; one person escaped; began to think that it would be good if the parrot became a woman; when he returned from hunting, he found a woman, people descended from them; this parrot was chorote, not nivakle]: 36-37 , 71-72, 86-87.