Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
Bibliography
Ethnicities and habitats

F3A. Pregnant man (other options). (.39.43.48.55.56.58.59.62.67.68.70.72.74.)

A man carries a child like a woman.

SV Asia. Coastal Koryaks [crows hunt whales, throw pieces of whale meat at each other, catch them with their mouths; Yitchum gets pregnant but cannot give birth; his sister Kilu replaces his stomach is the belly of a mouse; I.'s stomach gives birth to twin boys; J. does not have breasts, but feeds them with two blueberry bushes; his sister puts his belly back into his body; sons grow up good hunters]: Jochelson 1908, No. 129:324

The coast is the Plateau. Snowman [Mink makes fish out of her urine; Fox eats it, gets pregnant, gives birth to a son]: Haeberlin 1924, No. 20:400; tillamook [South Wind gives birth to a girl; predicts bigger than a man They will not give birth; she kills her three times, she comes to life; puts her on top of a mountain; when she calls her from the south, diseases spread]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 38:142.

California. Coastal miks [water everywhere; Coyote came from the west (where the world of the dead is now); a reed cloak shook south, east, north, west, water dried up, earth arose; Hawk (Chicken hawk) followed Coyote like a feather; Coyote addresses him, naming various relatives, who says he is the grandson of the Coyote; the Hawk gave birth to a boy from the navel; the Frog, the wife of the Coyote, came out of the water; a deer; the Hawk asked the Coyote for an arrow, he gave him a bow and arrows; wounded him with a deer, chased him, met the Frog; she gave birth to a boy; this is the son of Coyote, but he is Obsidian young fellow, because he is an Obsidian young fellow. actually born from Hawk's arrow]: Kelly 1978, No. 2:28-29.

The Northern Andes. Guajiro [Perrin 1976, No. 7:79-81; the son did not want to eat from his mother; she promised to find him a wife if he wanted his wife to serve food; the woman's brothers collected a ransom for the bride for nephew; he followed her on a mule, not on a horse, as he was advised; became pregnant; did not approach his wife; got up from his hammock, went into the forest, cut his stomach, from there a boy jumped out, the man died; wife raised a boy; young men tell him he is the son of one or the other of them; a woman confesses that she is not his mother; when drunk boys fell asleep, he killed them; their parents burned his stepmother in the house; her brothers came to take revenge, he killed everyone]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1986 (2), No. 108:824-826.

Llanos. Sicuani [a person makes another person pregnant by patting them on the stomach]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 47 [neighbors notice pieces of pineapple on kinkaju's teeth; Paka followed him to the tree Kaliawiri; he dropped a pineapple, Paka brought it to the village; the next day, Kinkaju took people to cut K., which grows bananas, pineapples, sugar cane, cassava, peach palm fruits, everything cultivated plants, branches of different trees; people took axes - fish bones; they immediately broke; they almost cut down the woodpecker with an ax, went to bed, cut down the thicket in the morning; working continuously, the trunk was cut, but the tree is suspended from the sky on a vine; the Mockingbird could not cut it, the juice splashed into his eyes; the squirrel cut; the fallen tree became a mountain range; people planted cassava; the flood destroyed all cultural plants; Tsuwawirinë slapped another man on the stomach, who gave birth to a boy who raised cassava again], 104 [Pumeniruwa behaved like a woman; his sons-in-law came down from heaven to work for him at the station; one of them Tsuwawiri patted him on the stomach; P. became pregnant, the boy jumped out of his stomach without leaving a wound; they called T. to send food from heaven to his son; for this purpose, the boy appeared vegetable gardens with cultivated plants, this is how they appeared]: 215-218, 380-381.

Guiana. Warrau [Haburi's first man produces a son himself (no details); meets the first woman Wautu; they sail away in a huge wax boat; the young man carves a figure out of wood, calls her" my son"; she turns into a girl; they're descended from Indians]: Wilbert 1970, No. 110:231-232.

NW Amazon. Barasana [after eating fish; woodpeckers open his stomach]: S.Hugh-Jones 1979, No. 2F: 270.

Bolivia-Guaporé. Chiriguano [the Aguaratunpa fox learns that the Forest Cockerel (Penelope) has a lot of peanuts; takes off his penis, makes a vulva out of the fetus, hangs the penis in place of the fruit; wears women's clothing; marries Cockerel; eats peanuts; gives birth to a baby; asks a bow and arrows to hunt; Cockerel says it's not a woman's business; A. replies that he is a man, puts his penis back]: Nordenskiöld 1912: 222-223.

Southern Amazon. Mehinaku [one person committed a homosexual act with another; he became pregnant, burst; the boy was picked up and raised]: Gregor 1985:60; Rickback: Pereira 1994, No. 81 [man broken the nut is not against a tree, but on the head of a relative; he committed a homosexual act with him; the man gave birth to a caiman, his sister killed a caiman], 89 [the man took poison from snakes, pricked his finger, became pregnant by sucking poison, He gave birth to snakes and caimans]: 249, 253.

Eastern Brazil. Sherente [men live alone, practice homosexuality; one gets pregnant, dies; others find a woman, cut to pieces, turn into many women; see motive F46]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 21:52

Chaco. Toba [two men have fun at night, sleep a long time in the morning; one gets pregnant; he gets thrown into the fire, his partner runs away]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989a, No. 424:593.

The Southern Cone. Selknam [two men married homosexual; one gave birth to a son; later turned into a bird]: Wilbert 1975a, No. 49:137.