F54B. Sticky feathers. 68.70.
A boy or boy copulates with his mother or sister. This becomes known from the remains of paint or feathers with which he was covered during sexual intercourse.
Iranshe, bororo, kayapo.
Southern Amazon. Iranshe [at night, the youngest of three brothers sees parents copulating, mother's vagina; crying; brothers paint themselves ocher, raping the mother; she searches for her youngest son in the head, notices red paint, realizes who raped her; tries to throw her son into the fire, the brothers do not give; she and her husband turn into tapirs; brothers kill them; give the liver to the grandmother; the younger one adjusts so that she comes on a hornet's nest, dies; the Opossum asks them to clear his plot; the brothers are knocking down trees with the wind; the wife of the Possum does not believe they have finished their work; they leave; they refuse to take the daughters of the Forest Monitor, because they are leaving; they refuse to take the daughters of the Forest Monitor. he is ugly; the woodpecker throws them wax instead of honey; they kill him with an arrow, cut off his penis, throw an Otter (var.: the dead) on the path; they see how first one, then the second Old Otter (dead) picks up him, masturbates; Vulture steals their arrows; invites him to marry his three daughters; asks the elder to tear the bark off the tree; a giant eagle arrives, his son-in-law breaks his wing; Vulture heals him, this is his pupil; asks his sons-in-law to bring logs to build a house; the brothers are attacked by a snake, they kill her, bring her father-in-law to life; he asks his elder son-in-law to get the battleship out of the hole; beats his club, misses; his son-in-law kills him himself; Vulture's wife kills two older brothers with an ant, a wasp, a bee on them; the youngest is the wife of all three sisters; sticks bird feathers on himself, flies away with a falcon; sisters turn into pitifully screaming birds]: Pereira 1985, No. 41:169-172; bororo [feather-decorated son seduces mother; father finds feathers stuck to his wife's belt, tries kill a son, but he killed him himself]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1983, No. 105:204-205.
Eastern Brazil. Kayapo (shikrin) [boys stick feathers over themselves, rape women, including their sisters, who laugh loudly; boys wash their feathers, but one girl finds feathers in her brother's hair, tells others; when they learn about this, the boys turn into storks, fly away; the young woman tried in vain to grab her flying baby]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 159:468-469.