F45B. Men without a woman (.55.60.67.73.)

There were men who lived separately from women. See also motif F8.

The Northern Andes. Amber? (tolu) [were men who lived without women; met women to conceive children, killed girls, and raised boys]: Simón 1882-1892 (3) [1627]: 366 in Bierhorst 1988:190-191.

Ecuador. Santa Elena Peninsulas [sodomites]: Lizarraga 1909 [1605], Book 1, Ch. 4:487; Oliva 1857, Chapter 3:28.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Makurap [village of bald men]: Metraux 1942:152).

Southern Brazil. Apapokuva [there are Cuñá-tevíri women living without men and Ava-Tevíri men living without women]: Nimuendaju 1914:364.