F43C. Women's husbands are animals.19.20.
Thehusbands of first women, Amazons, or single women are small animals-usually flying foxes.
Upper arapesh, porapora, walman, Gudinaf (bwaydoka), Bining, Boigu, Torres Islands, Tikopia, Nukuria, (Tuamotu) Islands.
Melanesia. Upper arapesh [the man began to cook a marsalai pig; it does not cook, the man was carried by the river, he came to women whose husbands are flying foxes; they only scratched their vaginas, they only gave birth to girls, and in old age; one woman found a man, hid it in her bag, was pregnant with him, killed her flying fox; another woman noticed, also copulated, forgot to pour ash on stairs (the first one left ash to see traces); the man copulated with all women and sleeps with his wife at night; when it was time for her to give birth, the women opened her womb with a knife, removed the boy; man regrets that he was not invited; others gave birth to sons normally; began to kill flying foxes, burned their house; one told the birds that they killed a man, his penis was abandoned in the village square; his women buried]: Mead 1940, No. 34:378-380; porapora [the men in the men's home killed one of them, turned them into a flying fox; then they all turned into flying foxes and flew away]: Schwab 1970, No. 11b: 790- 791; walman (north coast of New Guinea) [only women lived on Valis Island, copulating with flying foxes; one day they sailed in dolblenka to the main island, asked for a young man they brought them home; became pregnant by him; when they gave birth to sons, they began to marry them, and killed flying foxes]: Becker 1971, No. 31:430-431; Gudinaf (bwaydoka) [Inelewata, her husband is a flying fox; she has three children; the youngest asks her elders who is giving the voice; the eldest replies that a bird is in the forest (flying foxes are considered birds); the youngest says that the 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 fled into the forest and the mother stayed with the youngest]: Young 1970, No. 9:49-50; Boygu [ when hunting dugongs, men led by Bazi and Meibu eat all the meat themselves, bring bones and giblets to women; M.'s wife makes a green tree frog out of coconut bast, revives it, all women wear frog clothes, made by frogs; men find only frogs at the Great Well; then women take off their frog skins and return to their husbands; M. notices clay on his wife's eyelids, realizes that frogs were women; tells other men, they make flying skins out of their bast, all men turn into flying foxes; all men, including babies, fly across the strait to the New Guinea; an old man finds a hollow with foxes, kills them, the dead turn back into men, founds a village]: Laade 1971, No. 51:95-98; Bining (Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain): Meier 1909, No. 1a [ chasing a pigeon that had escaped from his snare, the man sailed to the island, hid in a tree above the pond; the women came for water, one saw its reflection, sent others away, returned for what was supposedly forgotten with an apron (Schirm) brought the man into her house; others satisfied themselves with turtles, considered them husbands; the woman gave birth, then her younger sister; the mystery was revealed, the man had to get along with everyone; when his first son grew up, he found a hidden boat, returned home; his wife said that all the shell money was spent on his wake, and he lived with other women, killed him with an ax, cutting off his penis ( paraphrase in Isis 1998:136; in Dixon 1916:140-141; beginning of the same or similar text in Brown 1910:356)], 1b [as in 1a; woman tells others she forgot the water vessel; when pregnant, all women they gather, welcome the man; he tells them to call turtles to eat them; women eat them; everyone gave birth to sons, and before that there were only women]: 85-89, 89-93; Torres Islands [on Hiw Island, the snake gave birth a girl; a Glavenventar man from Fr. Motalava; the girl said that she has a husband; they turned out to be flying foxes that arrived after dark; G. killed them, married a girl, they have a son; while the couple works in the garden, the wife leaves son under the supervision of a snake grandmother; the husband returns first, sees the snake, kills; a coconut palm grows from the serpent's grave; the husband shook her, a large coconut fell into the water, sailed to Tikopia; so there are coconuts larger than the Torres Islands]: Durrad 1940:197-198.
Micronesia-Polynesia. Tikopia [at first there were only women, conceived babies with bats, only gave birth to girls; a man named Swift Whistlng came; married a Fareautaka woman (a group of families) of the Tafua family); when the bats arrived, the man killed them and began to fry them for food; he went to his land in Motlav, and his descendants remained]: Firth 1967:240-241; Nukuria [recorded Feb 2013; was the island, where only women lived, was conceived from turtles; one person got there, met with the chief; she was pregnant; he found out that local women did not know how to give birth, their bellies were ripped open; he taught, wife gave birth safely]: Davletshin, personal message 02.05.2013; (cf. Tuamotu [Kuru is swallowed by a shark, cuts its belly, ends up on an island of warlike women who satisfy themselves with sea cucumbers; one of the women gives birth to his children; he returns with them, but in part children grow wings, they fly back]: Beckwith 1970:503).