Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

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F12. The husband kills his wife with his lover's penis .46.61.70.

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husband kills his wife by inserting her lover's severed penis into her body.

Blacklegs, Shuar, Kayapo, Cracho.

Plains. Blacklegs [a woman promises herself to the buffalo chief if he leads them into a hunter's pen; the husband finds a wife, they turn into flying ants, fly away from the buffalo; when he kills the bison leader, The woman cries; realizing that she loved Bison, her husband cuts off her breasts and genitals, puts the severed bison penis down her throat; the woman dies]: Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. 27:112-116.

Western Amazon. Shuar [husband kills lover with a poisoned arrow; puts his hot fried penis in his wife's mouth]: Rueda 1987, No. 64:267-268.

Eastern Brazil. The husband kills his wife by inserting her tapir lover's severed penis into her vagina. Kayapo: Wilbert 1978, No. 123 [Metraux 1960:23-25; near the village there are buriti palms along it; a woman was picking fruits, met a tapir; the little son followed her, saw her with a tapir, threw her at he was beaten with a fetal bone; the son's mother beat him, threw him into the thorny bush, rubbed his wounds with coal; the son told his father; the men hunted, killed this tapir, and the boy identified him on the trail of the one he had fallen into the head of the fetal bone; the husband put the tapir's cock stiff in his wife's vagina at night, she died; burying the woman, her friends saw the cock falling out; the woman's brother killed her husband at night with a club, the body thrown into the river], 124 [Lukesh 1968:94-96; a woman went to the savannah to have sex with Tapir; her son followed, threw a fruit into the tapir, he kicked the woman; she scratched her son with a sedge; he told his father; men killed this Tapir along with others; her husband injected the woman with a severed tapir member at night, she died; when her vagina bleed, relatives guessed that her husband was a murderer; he was caught up and strangled arrow like garrot]: 304-305, 306-308; crash [the wife calls her husband to the forest for buriti palm fibers to make baskets, but her husband has other things to do; the wife goes alone, agrees to become Tapir's mistress; he promises to protect a palm tree for her; she becomes pregnant, confesses to her husband that she is from Tapir; her husband tells her to surrender to Tapir again, kills him with an arrow; at night he puts a severed tapir penis into her vagina; the woman dies ; her relatives throw her husband into the fire]: Wilbert 1978, No. 122:301-303.