Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

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Ethnicities and habitats

F47A. Women's body parts. 46.59.70.72.

Men use every part of a single woman's body for copulation, or every man takes a part of her body cut into pieces.

Assiniboine, Kashuyan, Apaniecra, Cracho, Sherente, Xavante, Cariri, Chamacoco.

Plains. Assiniboine [the girl goes to bed with her brother; he paints her hands, stains her blanket; after identifying her sister, she sails away in a boat; she promises to kill everyone if he does not return; turns into a bird, kills people with lightning, burns her parents; the Hawk grabs her, her brother cuts her to pieces; puts a piece of her flesh in each hearth; new people emerge from them]: Lowie 1909a, No. 11:160-161.

Guiana. Kashuyan (Arikena) [the first women were at odds with men; at the festival they gave them sleeping pills, flew to heaven in a tornado; waking up men find the only little girl hidden in the house under a clay pot; they cut it into pieces; everyone puts their part in their hammock; men who have returned from hunting are met in the village by new women]: Kruse 1955, No. 35:415.

Eastern Brazil. Apaniecra [Pompeu Sobrinho 1935:200-203; the man has five daughters, the eldest is married, the youngest is still a child; he found Pódwō's son-in-law with his wife in the garden, shot him in the eye, both drove away; left with his daughters; by the lake he saw a man Autxêpururé fishing with poison; to avoid being seen, he turned himself and his daughters into a deer, the youngest into a small deer; the middle could not turn, A. noticed her, guessed the transformation of the others; P. killed him, fried him, buried him, told him to leave; under the pretext that she had forgotten the bracelet, the middle sister (who did not turn into deer) came back, ate a piece of meat A.; P. was angry with her, because now A. would chase them; told the palm tree to bend down, they all climbed on it; A. noticed them when the middle daughter spat; P. let him down then let go of the rope, it fell and broke, became a crab; to get rid of his middle daughter, P. and the others turned into parrots, flew away; the middle sister came to the village of Hawks; they became with her copulate, everyone used one part of her body; she died]: Wilbert 1978, No. 153:368-370; crash: Wilbert 1978, No. 154 [Schultz 1950:144-150; husband found his wife unfaithful ; decided to leave, the children went with him; three boys and two girls became horses with their father, but the middle girl could not transform; the same in another family, where everyone turned into reindeer, the youngest girl could not, but turned golden brown; Autxetpirire poisoned fish with poison; father and children became kingfishers to fish, climbed a tree, the middle daughter could not; A. asked how to become the same colors like a girl; the father said to lie down in the oven, cover it with leaves and earth; A. stayed in the oven, everyone left, but the middle girl came back for the forgotten calebasa, dug up A.'s penis, and began to eat; followed in her father's footsteps, A. began to get out of the oven; Cayman volunteered to transport the girl, asked in the middle of the river if she would call him frosty; she denied, once on the shore, called him; hid under With Emu's mouse, Emu told Cayman that she had a pain in her armpit, did not raise her arm; the same with another caiman, the girl became a bird, hid in a wasp nest, they did not betray her; she reached the palm tree, at the top of her family, they told the palm tree to bend down, the girl climbed in; spat, giving them to A.; they lowered the rope, let him go, he fell, crashed, became a crab, climbed into the hole; the girl fell behind again, came to the house Serie, next to him Vulture House; climbed a tree by the water; Seriema's daughter came for water, the girl spat, the calebasa slipped out, crashed; so 4 times; The mother series wants to punish her daughter, she talks about the girl on palm tree; comes to a bird village; hides in a tree by the spring; Vultures, Male Royal Vultures, even Seriema's husband convinced her to go down, raped, using different parts for copulation her body; she died; every hawk took a piece of her vulva, tied it with embir fibers; they made a stick house, each piece on a stick, told them to stretch, the pieces covered the stick, they made a house; The pieces of her body put on sticks by others are dry]: 371-377; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 142 [a girl comes to a bird village; hides in a tree at a spring; men rape her using copulation different parts of her body; everyone takes a piece of her vulva, ties them with embir fibers; these pieces turn into new women]: 434; sherente [men live without women, practice homosexuality; one gets pregnant, dies; others first see a woman's reflection in the source, then notice her on a tree; they cut her to pieces; each leaves a piece wrapped in leaves in their hut ; returning from hunting, the men send the scout forward; he reports that pieces of flesh have become new women; the cougar has received part of the breast, his wife is beautiful; Seriema tied his piece tightly, his wife skinny]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 21:52-53; xavante [men don't come back from hunting so long that women get tired of waiting for them, turn into bakers, capybaras, old women into chameleons, children into parrots, possums; men notice an old woman in a tree, tell her to go down, copulate with her, inserting her penis into all parts of her body; she dies; she is cut to pieces, each man bandages his piece with ambier fibers, leaves them in their bed; when they return from hunting, the men send two scouts forward; they report that new women who have emerged from pieces of flesh are cooking food in huts; they lie as if one hut is empty; its owner gives the meat to another man; when he finds out that he has been deceived, he cuts off a piece of his caviar, roasts it, gives it to his wife; she does not take it, expels her husband; he turns into a bird in the series, screams plaintively; the wife also becomes a bird; men find traces bakers are ex-women; they hunt them to avenge them for their care]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 162:476-493; kariri [y there is only one woman; Tuppart kills her, cuts her to pieces; every man wraps his part in cotton wool, leaves her in his hut; when men come back from hunting, new women cooking]: Martin de Nantes 1706 in Lowie 1946:559.

Chaco. Chamacoco [men kill first women; one hides in a tree; men climb after her and rape her, slaughter her; leave them in their huts; when they return from fishing, they expel a scout; he lies as if the flesh has rotted; when men enter the village, they see new wives there]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 80, 84, 85, 87 [(Metraux 1943:116); an uninitiated boy was lying sick in his hut; mother climbed to repair the roof, he saw her genitals, met her; told her about the mystery of Anãpösö (perfumes that frighten women are mummers); when they learn that the secret has been solved, the men killed all women; one ran away in the form of a deer; men had to do women's work; the woman who ran away hid in a tree; spat; she was noticed by a man under the tree; the men climbed on wood, but they were hampered by their erected penises, they sprayed the entire trunk with sperm; then they climbed from another tree, raped a woman; she told them to cut her into pieces; the pieces fell into the sprayed one semen; each took a piece and brought it to the village; the men went fishing, sent a shaman to find out what was in the village; the shaman was afraid of the jaguars, came back halfway, said that the pieces had rotted; sent another He turned into a bird and saw that the village was full of women and children; but when he returned, he said that vultures had eaten the meat; the men came and saw children and women; those who took pieces from their hips got fat wives, and from the fingers - thin]: 290-295, 320-337, 348-349.