Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

F10. Teeth are broken.

.20.23.-.25.36.-.39.41.-.52.55.57.61.72.

A woman has a second mouth (usually in her vagina) with sharp teeth. A person inserts or throws a stone, bone, stick, etc. into this mouth, knocking out teeth or thus removing toothy animals from there.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Voleai [men coming to the island disappear; four brothers named Luche, Luyol, Lugarawa, Lumawo decide to find out what's going on; Lugarava comes to a woman, she directs her to her beautiful daughter, he lies down with her, the double-leaf shell in her vagina bites off his penis; his mother baked his body, ate it; the same with the others, Luce stayed; he took a hard wood stick with him to open shells; put it in the vagina, turned it, the young woman died; Luce forced the cannibal to revive the bones eaten from their bones; this time she ate her daughter]: Mitchell 1973, No. 65:187-189; Truk, Islands Yap County ["I have located the tale from Truk westward to Palau"]: Mitchell 1973:260.

South Asia. Bondo; bhuya; maria; muria; asur; agaria; baiga; juang [women bit off their penises with their vaginas; one had one at the end a thorn, he knocked out his teeth with it, they turned into bhoir trees; the woman became angry, cut off and buried her penis, a bombucks tree grew; a liquid like sperm flows from under his torn bark; It is dangerous for pregnant women to walk under this tree; its crooked spines look like teeth]: Elwin 1949, No. 18:382-383.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Solor.

Taiwan - Philippines. Atayal; ami.

Eastern Siberia. Evens.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nivhi; Udege people.

Japan. Ainu.

SV Asia. Probably Russified tundra yukaghirs [the hero carves out a toothy vagina, under it is normal]; Chukchi.

Subarctic. Khan; Upper Tanana; Tagish.

NW Coast. Haida; Tsimshian; bellacula; quakiutl.

The coast is the Plateau. Chilcotin; shuswap; thompson; comox; upper chehalis; western sachaptin; ne perse; upper colitz; takelma.

The Midwest. Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake); Steppe Ojibwa.

Northeast. Nascapi; montagnier.

Plains. Crowe; mandan; teton (oglala); iowa; arpahoe; skidy pawnee.

Southeast USA. Natchez; koasati.

California. Yurok; pomo; wappo; maidu: Dixon 1902, No. 6:67-71; yokutz (Gashowu) [hawk woman lived alone; killed deer and immediately ate, leaving only her skin; wolf and coyotes came to her; she fed them acorn porridge, made food from dried venison and gave them with her; promised to continue to feed them and their children, but they should not tell anyone about it; the magpie was a healer, found out everything, others followed; the eagle chief sent a pigeon to forty; she spoke of a hawk woman; all the men came to her wanting to marry her, but she refused; the coyote pretended to be sick; the wind caused, it began to tear off the roof of the house; she had to let the coyote rope secure the roof; the woman did not want to leave him in the house overnight, but had to; did not allow the coyote to take possession of it; at night she shoved herself a rattlesnake into the vagina; the coyote put a wooden cover over his penis, the snake broke his teeth; the woman agreed to take the snake out and they came together; they had a son; he was put in water for three days and he grew up; coyote He made a lot of beads and the son became a player; he wanted to kill the owl, but he bewitched him, turning him into a condor; the coyote shouted: kill the owl before the son finally became a condor, but he only cried; the condor flew away; the wife put the snake in her vagina again, she bit the coyote and he died; the condor began to hunt people; tried to make his mother a cannibal, but she refused; brought two boys and a girl, told their mother to fatten him; she told the boys to kill him or he would destroy them all; when the condor arrived to drink, the boys started shooting arrows at him, and their sister would pull them out of the condor's body and bring them back to the brothers ; the condor did not feel anything; his mother hid the children in a hole, covered it herself with a stone; the condor almost flew to the top of the sky, but then fell; they burned his body; his eyes flew out of their orbits; they were not they were found and the current condors arose; a woman and a girl descended to earth through a hole in the sky on a rope of feathers, and the brothers came to where heaven meets earth; there are people without mouths, they eat the smell of cooked food; the brothers showed how to eat, cut through one person's mouth; he spoke; he cut the mouths of others; everyone could eat and talk; the brothers returned home]: Kroeber 1907a, No. 14:205-209; Chumash [the Sumivovo brothers (son of the Mist, Jr.) and Sixs'usus (son of Thunder, the elder) are traveling; they are assisted by the Coyote; a woman thundering like thunder lures her travelers, kills with his biting tail; Six'usus hides an arrow straightener in his headdress; knocks their teeth into their mouths when a woman tries to bite him; a woman dies]: Blackburn 1975, No. 15:111.

Big Pool. Owens Mono Valleys; Northern Payutes; Western and Northern Shoshones; Goshiute; Chemewevi; Southern Payutes; Southern Utah.

The Great Southwest. Navajo; jicarilla; chiricahua; Western Apache; Hopi; Zunyi: Benedict 1935:51-56; havasupai; valapai; yavapai.

NW Mexico. Huichol.

Mesoamerica Micah; Mishteks [brothers, who will then become the sun and month, kill the seven-headed snake, take its eyes; then the owner of the snake, who has teeth in her vagina, put to sleep; younger brother ( next Month) knocked out her teeth with ticks (con una tenaza) or a grain grater chimes, copulated with her]: Chinchilla Mazariegos 2010a:130.

The Northern Andes. Guajiro.

Southern Venezuela. Makiritare [koati and paka insert an iron rod into the vagina, piranhas break off their teeth].

Western Amazon. Maihuna.

Chaco. Matako; toba.