F36. Kids vs lover .14.19.41.43.44.46.47.49.50.52.55.56.61.62.68.72.
Awoman or man's (adopted) children kill their father's or (adopted) lover (or an inhuman spouse) of their father or (foster) mother.
North Africa. The Arabs of eastern Algeria [usually the continuation of the story of a girl running away from a cannibal and asking a snake to save her; a snake kills a cannibal; see the M21 motif; after becoming a snake's wife, the girl gave birth to two sons; Ali is cheerful and intelligent, the second son is stupid and weak, his name is Jerk; his mother does not love him and asks the snake to kill him; he hides in a wineskin, his mother tells the Jerk to bring water; Ali knows everything opens his wineskin and asks the snake what he is doing there; he asks for forgiveness; next time the serpent hides next to bread covered with a handkerchief; Ali lifted his handkerchief with a stick (same); the snake hides in a rolled up blanket, his mother tells Soplyak to take him to the river to wash; Ali hits the blanket with a stick, the snake leaves only pieces of meat; his mother cooked the poisonous parts, but Ali turned the food dish, the jerk survived and the mother ate the poison herself and died; the brothers go on a journey and leave; Ali tells his brother not to hire a blue-eyed man; the blue-eyed man goes out to meet the Jerk three times; he does not understand that he is alone and the same person believes that everyone in this area is blue-eyed, so he agrees to become an employee; The jerk is tortured by work; one day he meets another shepherd and he turns out to be his brother Ali; Ali takes the brother's place; pierces the dog's needle in the leg; drags the owner's mother along the thorns, and then clogs her throat with couscous - as if she died choking; brings children not 7 birds, but 7 scorpions, children bitten to death; cuts off the sheep's heads; the owner and wife decide to flee, Ali hides in their luggage; they agree to push Ali into the abyss at night; Ali quietly swapped seats with the hostess and the owner threw her into the abyss]: Bellarmi 1990:81-91.
Melanesia. Gudinaf (bwaydoka) [Inelewata, her husband is a flying fox; she has three children; the youngest asks the elders who is voicing it; the eldest replies that the bird is in the forest (flying foxes are considered birds ); the youngest says a voice is heard inside the house; they killed, cooked and ate a flying fox; the brothers offered the same food to the mother; she chased them with a stick; the older brothers ran away into the forest, and the mother stayed with the youngest]: Young 1970, No. 9:49-50.
Subarctic. Koyukon [the grandson tells his grandmother that he saw a bear; she asks the bear to be her husband, expands his passage into the dugout; the bear kills the grandmother, throws parts of her body out of the dugout; the grandson kills bear; The raven eats the carcass, tells his two wives that they ate minks and marmots]: Jette 1908-1909:479-480; taltan [the widow takes the Otter as her husband; hides it in a bag; her two sons find a bag, They kill the Otter, let the mother eat its meat under the guise of bear meat; they tell her the truth; the mother stalks them; they throw caribou giblets behind them; they turn into a gorge, a mountain, water, fire; the mother burns]: Teit 1921a: 239-240; hea [an old woman hides an otter lover in a sack; her two sons have no father; they find a bag, throw them into the fire; the old woman chases them away, gives them her hood instead of a boat; on the other A monster awaits them by the river; they kill him; pieces of his flesh turn into snipes]: Petitot 1886, No. 23:182-184.
The coast is the Plateau. See motive F33. Quarry [a woman's two sons return before her one day; find a live otter in her bag; kill her, feed her mother meat under the guise of bear meat; a blue jay screams that a woman eats her husband; the mother chases her sons, the elder kills her; the brothers marry; the elder's wife does not warn him when enemies attack, he is killed; the younger spouses are saved].
The Midwest. See motive F34. Menominee [Myanyabush lives with her grandmother; she takes a bear as a lover, feeds him boiled acorns; takes red paint from her grandson's bag to attract a bear; Myanyabush kills a bear in den with an arrow; the grandmother refuses to carry her head, paws or other parts of the carcass, carries the back; she is gone for a long time; Myanyabush comes back, sees that she masturbates with a bear's penis; he kills her, throws her to the moon]; ojibwa [grandma sends Nyanabusha to fast; he secretly comes back, sees her in her husband's arms (this is a bear, as discussed later in connection with his skin), sets her on fire There is wool behind him, he runs away; N. comes to him, calling him grandfather, says as if he had a dream that Sioux was coming; turns his excrement into enemy warriors; tells his grandfather to escape, kills him with an arrow himself; tells grandma to dance and eat his meat]: Jones 1917, No. 60:449-451.
Plains. See motive J18. Crowe [a woman becomes the wife of the Sun, gives birth to a son; they go down to earth; she dies, the boy comes to live with an old woman; she leaves food for her animal husband; the boy kills him, old woman mourns]: Lowie 1918:54 [two male otters], 59-60 [crocodile with a horn on its forehead, emits lightning; old woman is the Moon], 71 [water monster long otter]; mandan [woman becomes wife of the Month, gives birth to a son; they go down to earth; she dies, a boy comes to live with an old woman; her snake husband lives in her bed; she feeds him corn porridge; a young man kills him with an arrow; after a series of adventures returns to heaven, turns into a star]: Bowers 1950:200-205; arpahoe: Dorsey 1903 [A month wants to marry a woman, Sun wants to marry a frog because she doesn't blink looking at him; The month has become a porcupine, one of the two girls climbed a tree for him, ended up in the sky; The sun brought a toad or a frog, saw that the girl was better; the girl works hard, crunches loudly for food, old people like her teeth; the frog is idle, it has no teeth, crunches with coals; the frog jumped on the chest of the Month and stayed there; the wife of the Month gave birth to a boy; the Month does not tell her to dig up rhizomes with withered stems; she dug a hole in the sky, saw her camp, began to descend a rope of tendons, holding the baby behind her back; a month killed her by throwing a stone, her son survived, sucking her chest; The old woman is the night picked it up, called it a Star; the boy notices that the old woman leaves food to someone, kills a beast with sparkling eyes with an arrow and a club, lets his grandmother make spoons of his horns, she replies, This is yours grandfather; the young man grew up, left, kills snakes; one crawled into his anus, then into his skull, leaving a skeleton; he caused the heat of the sun, the snake crawled out, he grabbed it, she gave him her skin for his spear; he became Morning Star]: 212-228; arikara [two girls sleeping outside discussing young people; one wants a bright red star as her husband; in the morning, chasing a porcupine, she climbs a poplar by the river, a tree grows up, the girl is in the sky; the porcupine turns into a handsome middle-aged man, he was a Star; she gives birth to a son with a star on her forehead; her husband tells me not to dig roots in the lowlands; she digs, sees in the hole in the ground; the old woman advises to ask her husband for tendons, makes a rope out of them, the woman goes down with her little son, the rope is short, the woman hangs; the husband throws a stone, telling him to kill a woman, keeping her son alive; a boy sucks a dead mother's chest, steals corn and pumpkins from an old woman's garden; she leaves a ball and a stick, a bow and arrow; the bow and arrow disappear, the old woman knows it's a boy , catches, educates; feeds rooks (blackbirds) with grain, a young man kills them, an old woman revives them (they guarded her field); he notices a snake behind the curtain to whom the old woman gave porridge, kills him, he falls into a pond, turning it into a lake; an old woman mourns her husband; a young man brings a cougar, an old woman lets her go (these are all her animals); the same is true of a bear; a young man comes to four men, they kill a pregnant woman bison, the embryo is given to his grandmother; the young man is frightened, climbs a tree; men remove the embryo for promising to make his grandmother their wife; she agrees, they agree with her; the grandmother gives him a flute, he plays men's dugout loses their way out, they die; a young man comes to snakes, sits on a stone, snakes cannot crawl into it; he puts snakes to sleep with a story, kills, escapes alone, crawls into his anus, into his skull; the boy's father fills the skull with water, causes heat, the water boils, the snake crawls out, the young man comes to life, makes the snake short-headed; the young man died saving the country from monsters]: Dorsey 1904d, No. 14:45-55; arikara [ two girls sleep in the open air on a platform; both are monthly; one wants a red star as her husband; finds herself in the sky; the husband does not tell you to dig roots in the lowlands; the wife digs up, sees the ground through the hole, cries; the Old Spider woman advises making a rope out of her tendons; lowers the woman with a baby behind her back; the rope (= web) was not enough, the woman hung; the husband throws a stone, tells him to kill his wife, save her son, cuts off the rope, the woman falls; the boy sucks the deceased mother's chest; steals corn from the old woman's garden; she leaves the ball with the stick and the bow and arrows; the bow and arrows disappear, the boy steals; the old woman grabs him, raises him, he hunts; finds a snake behind the curtain, kills him (the old woman fed him meat); it was the old woman's husband, she lowers him into the pond); says to the young man that the bear wants to tear it apart (hoping that it will be so); the young man brings the bear to work; the old woman lets him go; the young man sees a tipi, he has four dice players, one has snot, the young man has them shoot; players take it; kill an elk, give the young man an unborn calf; the young man is afraid of him, hides in a pine tree (when the females have not yet given birth, the constellations in which the boy's father is not yet in heaven; knowing that his father will not help him, the young man is afraid); they kill the embryo for promising to bring them an old woman; he brings them, they are happy, let both go, giving knowledge of the rituals of catching eagles; the young man is invited by snakes, he is sitting on a stone , puts them to sleep with a story, crawls away alone; he falls asleep on the ground, the snake climbs into his anus; he cuts his stomach, chest, throat, cutting off the snake's head, but his head crawls into his skull; his father fills him in the sky skull with water, water boils from the heat of the sun, the snake comes out, the young man jumps up, makes the snake flat, crawling on his belly]: Dorsey 1904d, No. 16:56-60; pawnee (skidi) [two girls sleep outside; one wished a bright star in her husband; wakes up in the sky, with her a middle-aged man; he asks her to dig roots in the hills, but not in the valley; she breaks the ban, sees her house on the ground through a hole; weaves a rope from tendons, goes down with her young son; her husband strikes her with lightning; she falls dead, her son remains alive; since then he has a star pattern on his forehead; he steals corn and pumpkins from the witch's garden; she happy to be his teacher; her snake husband wants to eat him; the young man throws a bag of corn into the house, the snake bites the bag; he kills the snake, the corpse turns into the witch's husband; the young man kills cougars, bears, snakes, or brings them to the witch alive; she lets them go; he comes to the village; returns to heaven as a star]: Dorsey 1904b, No. 16:60-65; kiowa [girl climbs a tree, she goes to heaven, marries a celestial; he does not tell you to dig roots if they are pinched by bison; she digs, sees the ground and people through the hole, weaves a rope from her tendons, goes down; her husband throws a stone at her, killing her; the baby in her womb is alive; he is raised by the Spider; he throws up a hoop to play, which falls on his head, splits in half, twins appear; the Spider gives food to his snake lover; twins they find him in a tipi and kill him; she says it was their grandfather]: Parsons 1929a: 1-8; Kiova-Apache [the widow husbands a snake crawling into her tipi; eats in a different type, bringing food to the snake every time; tells her grandchildren not to kill the snake if they see it; they kill the snake with an arrow; the widow says they killed their grandfather]: McAllister 1949, No. 7 [the old woman finds a blood clot; cooks, he turns into a boy; she asks for meat from a tipi; under his skin he finds a snake, kills; an old woman says he killed his grandfather; he marries the chief's daughter, see motive K27], 34:45-46, 100-101.
Southeast USA. A man gives all the game to his toad mistress; his two sons call a toad and kill him; his father tries to kill the boys; they kill him themselves; he turns into a crow. Alabama [the second boy is an adopted son]: Martin 1977:16-18; Swanton 1929, No. 16:134; koasati: Swanton 1929, No. 16:181.
Big Pool. Through a hole in the roof of the dugout, two brothers see their mother copulating with their relative, the Snake; they kill both, as well as the snakes that the woman immediately gives birth to; save and raise the girl - my sister. North Payute (Owens Valley) [The serpent is a woman's husband's brother; they see many snakes and two children inside the dugout; they extract the children, set fire to the dugout; one snake crawls away (the origin of snakes)]: Steward 1936 , No. 30, 31:398, 409; southern payut (shivvitz) [kill lovers with arrows; burn the corpse of the Serpent; step on the mother's belly; snakes and lizards crawl out from there, they kill them all; they get the last to get girl]: Lowie 1924, No. 14:136-137.
The Great Southwest. Hicarilla [while the husband is hunting, a man with a spotty body comes to his pregnant wife, rips his stomach open, buries one baby in the hearth, throws the other into the stream; the husband takes his wife's corpse to the cave, Domashny finds, he grows up quickly; the father hears the son talking to another boy who asks his brother to get his father's arrows; the father tells the House to grab and hold the Discarded One; that looks like a frog, it has long claws on its arms and legs; the father cuts them off; if he hesitated, the boy would turn into a spotted frog; brothers shoot up above the mother's corpse, tell her to run away, she comes to life; they go away, their bodies are torn to shreds by a hurricane; an old woman finds a bloody leaf, puts it in a pot to cook, a boy jumps out; while the grandmother is gone, he kills the Rattlesnake with an arrow; an old woman grieves, it was her husband; the boy leaves, receives eagle clothes from the big Eagle; both go up to the upper world; there the young man meets his grandmother and other people in the form of eagles; eagles are attacked by bumblebees and hornets, many are killed; a young man kills attackers, brings his grandmother their scalps; flies back to the ground, returns his plumage; shoots an eagle, a Coyote replaces his arrow; a young man returns to his parents; marries, His wife's sister also lives with them; Spotted kills him while hunting, puts on his clothes, comes to his wife and her sister; they make a fire, he is hot, they see that it is not his husband, they rip his belly open; people they find a cave where Pyatnisty's wife, children and other relatives live, cover them with grass and brushwood, and burn all demons]: Opler 1938, No. VIIIa: 374-381.
Mesoamerica See motive F34. Popoloka; Masateki; Zapotecs; Chinantecs; Chatino; Mixteki; Tricks; Puebla Nahuat; Mihe; Mocho; Kekchi, Mopan ; chorty (synopsis of several versions) [hero - Kumix Angel ("younger angel, little brother", hereinafter K.) lives with his four older brothers; he has a cut on his leg; when he swims, fish His blood and flesh eat; his brothers rubbed him on a stone, threw him into the water, it foamed like a vine used to poison fish; the brothers are disgusted to understand that the fish they eat has been fed K.'s body; or K. turns into a fish himself; when the brothers leave, K. revives and cries on the shore; the old cannibal K'ech'uj takes him home; var.: she takes the bloody foam on the water for her own miscarriage; K. hunts birds and deer, but K'ech'uj secretly gives meat to her lover; after learning that K'ech'uj and her partner are not his parents, K. kills both; K. hides in a guitar that the hummingbird took to heaven, her mother meets there; all her property has been taken away by the Bronze King; K. turns the few remaining beans and corn grains into abundant supplies, rebuilds the house that his uncle San Lorenzo (SL) built and where Mother K. lives; arranges the ritual of feeding her father's brothers, i.e. four-way winds; causes SL with the power of a drum; deceives her father's tools (sword, drum, flute, ring, cloth), owned by a monkey, battleship, crocodile; defeats and kills the Bronze King (sometimes with lightning); hitting a drum and striking with a sword (thunderstorm), creates a milpa; older brothers create a mountain so that they too climb into heaven and see her mother; eagles begin to descend from the sky, threatening people's existence; K. destroys the mountain with lightning; the older brothers are told to hide their heads, but they stick them out and are blinded; their tears are a small November rain; K. turns them into frogs - "rain priests" on the four ends of the world; K. finds his father's grave; when he tries to revive him, a flock of partridges distracts him and revival is not succeeds; according to one version (Girard 1995:404), K. rises to heaven and becomes the sun]: Braakhuis, Hull 2014:452-454; pipili: Campbell 1985 [a woman's head leaves her body at night; husband smears the neck with pepper, the head (skull) sticks to the husband's neck; eats everything he preys; the priest advises to climb a tree, throw a heavy fruit in his head; a deer runs by, his head jumps on it; a deer rushes through the thorny thickets, falls into a ravine, dies; the head of the vultures that have descended asks her husband not to eat; dies, a mountain tree grows in this place; an old woman with iron teeth, mother women come, pluck calebas, bring them home; a month later the fruit bursts, the seeds turn into boys; the old woman makes hammocks for them; the boys grow up, kill the deer; the old woman eats all the meat with her lover; the youngest boy, Nanauatsin, watches her, finds out that she is greasing the boys' lips to make them think they've eaten; brothers make a hole trap with stakes at the bottom, lover falls into it, dies; they give its meat to the old woman, report that she ate; brothers send a lizard, who reports that the old woman is sharpening her teeth at the edge of the canyon; the old woman hits the lizard on the head; the brothers offer compete to see who will stream to the roof; the loser must be killed; they can do it, she doesn't; they lock her in the house, burn her]: 907-910; Schultze-Jena 1935, No. 6 [husband doesn't know what his wife leaves every night instead of himself, a piece of wood disappears; in the morning the food is ready; someone tells her husband about it; he discovers that only the torso remains; on the advice of that person, sprinkles ash and salt, head and the wife's limbs cannot return; the head is attached to her husband, he must wear it; she asks for fruit; sits on her husband's clothes while he is in the tree; the unripe fruit falls on the deer, he ran, the head mistook him for her husband, attached herself to the sacrum, the deer runs, it is scratched by thorns, she dies; the priest tells her husband to find and bury his head; a huacal tree grows, a flower, a fruit on it, and comes out of it many boys; a man's mother takes care of them; a fat lipped giant becomes her lover; eats what boys bring from hunting; the youngest spies on how the giant lubricates his lips with leftover food sleeping; brothers dig a trap hole, a giant attacks stakes, they finish him off; the penis is fried, given to an old woman, she says the meat is tough; tells me to bring water, they bring it in a net; she is surprised; they they stream urine over the hut; the old woman tries the same thing, but she has gone down; they tell her grandmother that she ate her lover's penis; more about getting corn from inside the cliff, see motive G3]: 25-31; kekchi [the boys Kagua Sake (sun) and Kagua Chok (cloud) lived with the woman Shan Ni; the father of her own three sons was the demon Chishal; CS and KC played ball, brought meat; they did not find him in the morning; their stepmother advised them to smell their own nails as if they had eaten everything themselves; they pretended to be asleep, saw C. eating meat; the chuluk bird helps them trap C. and kill him; after learning the truth, SHN tells his sons that he will eat the boys; KC hears this, sends the lizard to follow, it sees the SHN sharpening its fingernails on the stone; when the lizard runs between the legs of the SHN, it hits it on the head; CS heals the wound; boys put banana leaves on the bed instead of themselves, hide; SHN hits the leaves, CS kills her with a special stone; boys put her breasts and head in the cauldron, her sons eat it; the bird tells them that they ate their mother; CS and KC go to 13 mountains and 13 valleys to play ball; after learning that they ate their mother, her sons want to avoid punishment; one decides to become a hawk, the other is an owl, the third talthus (shrew rodent, not a mole); then see motive K16]: Becker-Donner 1976:122-124.
The Northern Andes. See Motive F28A. Kamsa, ingano.
Llanos. See motive F33. Yaruro; shikuani.
Western Amazon. See Motive F28A. Napo. See motive F34. Koreguahe; kofan: Borman, Criollo 1990, No. 8 [the woman has two boys, their younger sister and a baby boy; her husband is an underground trickster; while her mother is in the garden, the children began to drum calebass and a mat cup in the house by a hole in the ground; something green appeared from there - the trickster's penis; the children did not recognize their father, mistook him for a snake, cut off the penis; said: let this be a sign that people mortal; the severed part crawled into the forest; the mother heard her husband's moans, ran home, started drumming, no one crawled out; she beat the children, drove them away, did not let them into the house; they began to think what turn; stones - people will make hearth stands; sand - they will dig holes for the supports of the house; earth - will walk on us; trees - will cut down to build houses; rivers - will float along us in boats; cedars will make us dumplings; in the evening they came to the pebble tree on the river, raised their heads, saw the stars, decided to become stars; told their sister to hide the cotton rope, broke the reeds, they tied the rope to the reeds, threw it into the sky, but did not ask; in the morning the younger brother asked the elder to give it to him; he gave only a crooked reed; it pierced the sky, the rope went down, became by stairs; the children climbed into heaven, they liked it there; they went back to pick up the pet parrot; the mother said she would climb with them; they agreed, but told the parrot to cut the rope when the mother will climb high; the mother climbed with a couch, firewood, hearth stones, ash; the parrot cut off the rope, the children told the mother to become a laughing falcon (gavilan, Herpetotheres cachinnans); when they saw the children the mother cried; the falcon's feathers turned white because of the ash that awakened; the children became the Pleiades (when they are not visible, the rivers are flooded)]: 107-123; Calífano, González 1995, No. 38 [the woman has three little ones children; her husband is an underground worm; she hits her tambourine, sits on the ground, from there his penis rises; her daughter does the same, tells her brothers; the youngest cuts off his penis; he screams that the children killed him; children they reject turning into stone (put in a hearth), earth (trampled), wood (cut down and burned), sand; decide to become stars; the youngest manages to throw a crooked stick into the sky; from there the stairs fall; they they go up to the upper world, they like it, they go back to pick up their parrot; the mother climbs after them, taking ash-stained stones for the hearth; the children tell the parrot to cut the rope; the mother falls, turns into a nightjar (? ; apparently in a laughing falcon, see Borman, Criollo 1990), still screams plaintively]: 87-89.
NW Amazon. See motive F34. Carijona [jaguar]; tariana [her deer husband comes to a woman at night; copulates with her while the children are sleeping; they eat birds brought by the Deer, and leave bones and wings for the children; brothers they suspect that their real father has been killed, and the Deer is not their father, they kill him with fish poison in his drink; the mother gives birth to a son, a Deer, hides him in a bag; the brothers find him, he turns into a deer, runs away into the forest; brothers turn into mutum birds (Nothocrax urumutum Spix); the mother looks for them; they turn into ants, they bite her genitals; she hits ants; they decide that their mother really does not love them, fly away forever; mother turns into a small beetle]: Brüzzi 1994:200-202; tucano [her reindeer husband comes to a woman at night; she gives birth to a son with him, hides her from her two eldest sons, and daughters; the older brother followed; they killed the Deer by adding poison to his drink; the little boy turned into a deer, the older children into mutums]: Brüzzi 1994:202-204; yukuna [jaguar]; uitoto [jaguar; tapir jaguar]; ocaina [mother's lover killed the twins' father, they were born after the father's death; they ask the mother where the father is; she replies that she climbed for fruit and fell off the tree; brothers they try to fall, they are alive, they ask again; she comes up with something again; they injure a butterfly from the sarbakan, which refers to the grasshopper, that one to the woodpecker; the woodpecker tells him to be cured first; says that on the other side where does the sound of the slit gong come from, lives the father who ate them; brothers reward the woodpecker by giving him a red hat; brothers waited for and killed Drake {mother's lover and father's murderer; Blixen, p. 116: this is a deviation from The usual version, in which either a jaguar or a monkey} makes soup with it, gives it to its mother; she tells her to make a trap, turns into a rat, falls into this trap; the brothers leave; their mother is now a frog, hides in the ground, they dig there, find a worm egg, decide to raise a brother; they pierced an egg, got into his eye; a boy came out, remained one-eyed; two sisters saw two sparkling worms on the tree; people are called, there are more and more worms, they cause fire, a tree threatens a world fire; brothers (two and a third one-eyed) are called for help; they go to Thunder, climbing into the sky, throwing darts (carrizos), piercing one another (var: climbing a tree); the twins failed to create a chain of darts, the younger brother created it; the dart chain turns into a vine (they argue which one is too much smooth, the other prickly); you can't approach Thunder, they fall asleep; then they go to their snake grandmother, who gives them a dream wrapped in a sheet; The one-eyed man says he peeked that the grandmother did not put anything; they they open the bag, fall asleep; the grandmother reluctantly sleeps again; Thunder falls asleep, his daughter does not; while One-Eyed flirts with her, the twins replace the club and mirror (causes lightning) of Thunder; when they come down, añuje, at their request, cut off the vine, which fell, injuring its paws; the brothers told the battleship to undermine the roots of the tree, knocked it west with Thunder; Thunder was surprised that its former strength had disappeared]: Blixen 1999, No. 5:113-134.
Southern Amazon. Paresi [after falling out with the rest of the men while playing ball, the Zumizoré and Zonewa brothers left the village; each left two sons, raised by their grandmother Alawrir; brought by them the meat disappears somewhere; the brothers find a dwarf hidden in the basket who wants to eat them; they try to kill him, he dies only in the anthill of the hottest ants; A. pretends to be upset about the loss spindle; at night she revived a dwarf or made a new one; the brothers hear A. talking to herself about their dead parents; they force her to confess that Jaguar and Jaguariha ate all the men in the village, and the Eagle all women; Jaguariha opened her mouth, people entered it; brothers train archery, you need reeds to make arrowpoles, Otyueré owns it; A. taught you to take it from an battleship first a new knife; they took it while the battleship was lying with his wife; the blind old woman Yualoreroawsé took the knife away; they made her sighted, rewarded her with a knife, dazzled her again; O. and his cunhado (wife's brother or sister's husband) Alalaymaré smeared the branches with glue to catch bats; the brothers turn into bats, consistently cut off O.'s limbs, throw them down from the tree, scream that they are falling branch, second, etc.; O.'s body turns into a nest of honey bees; his head clings to A.'s shoulder, who became a forest spirit with two heads (whoever hears him howling will die); brothers killed Eagle with arrows; brothers they turn into hummingbirds, cut Jaguarihu from the inside with a knife, go out; the male Jaguar has two stone clubs in his house, the brothers swapped the dangerous and the ordinary; the same, two spears; hid in the Jaguar's house; on the way to he was greeted with various animals (alma-de-gato, Canis jubatus, Euchroma gigantea {something with antennas, flying is an insect?} , Anolis punctatus, Hemidactyluc mabonia lizard); everyone asks where they are going; when answered that killing Jaguar, they join, hide in the house; The lizard stains the fire sticks with a mass peca fruits; Canis jubatus has left his bowel movements; brothers put the rat head and tail of the caiman on the threshold; the Jaguar, seeing each of the hidden or left objects, traces, perceives them as a sign of his death; brothers giggle, Jaguar grabs a club, but it is not fatal, his brothers kill him; Europeans arose from ash and coal and various groups of Indians do not paresi (listed which of which burnt objects); the brothers shot at the sky tree, climbed a chain of arrows (or a thread lowered, at A.'s request, from a heavenly tree); all animals also wanted to climb; Canis jubatus and Dusicyon those climbed, but the thread broke or the Europeans cut off the chain of arrows; the two fell; in the sky, A. and the brothers play ball with the head of the jaguariha, the tail of the caiman, the head of a rat (A. gave them to brothers with by yourself); red sunset is the blood of the Jaguariha's head]: Pereira 1986, No. 8:149-169 (dwarf episode: 150-152).
Chaco. Chamacoco [eel]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 75, 76:252-257, 263-266