F54C. Recognized by fingernails. 20.

The husband sees traces of someone's fingernails on his wife's body and gathers the men to find out who left the mark.

Kapingamarangi, Ulithi, Truk.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Kapingamarangi [the priest's wife threw a premature fetus into the pond; another man picked it up, raised a boy; tells me not to swim where that woman lived; the young man violated the ban, got together with a woman and scratched her cheek with his hand; the priest realized that it was a fingerprint, called all the men; the young man was the last to come, his hand coincided with the trail; the priest tells him and his (adopted) father to leave the island; on another island they saw a boy in the pit; then they saw an eel (eel, possibly moray eel); the boy said it was his father; when the eel sailed away, the (first) breadtree grew there; the priest found out where the boy is with his (adopted) father and sent boats there; the eel sank them]: Albert 1948:112-115; Uliti [the chief's wife gives birth before the deadline, throws the child into the sea, a man from a remote village He picked him up and raised him; he came to the village where his mother lived and she made him her lover; thanks to the young man's adopted father, lovers find out that they are mother and son, but continue to meet in the hut for menstruation; the husband sees scratches on his wife's face and calls the men to find out whose hand they were left with; the young man is discovered, but he kills his father himself and stays with his mother mistress]: Lessa 1956:63; Truk [Chief Soufa has 5 wives; he tells him to kill boys, keep girls; one of the sisters {and wives at the same time?} S. gave birth to a son, sent him to the Wind Eater (some butterfly or bird), who lived inside the island; the young man grew up, hears screams from the shore, it's a toy boat festival; the adoptive mother made the young man like this the boat, she overtook everyone else; the boy's real mother took it from the shore; he took the boat, leaving his fingerprint on his mother's hand; S. gathers men to determine whose hand it was; sent a man and a young man was brought to the house of the Wind Eater; S. found out the fingerprints, told the young man to come tomorrow to put up poles for the community house; the foster mother tells him to dig a hole with a hole to hide when on him they will lower the pole; also let him take with him a coconut (it crunches) and a termite that will pave the way to the ground; when the young man dug a hole, a pole was lowered into it; the young man went out, S. tells him to come tomorrow; reception mother: drink water: they tell you to climb a tree for nuts and make a fire around - fill it with regurgitating water; he did so; on the third day, the adoptive mother teaches the young man to avoid raindrops; when he came to S., darts were thrown at him, none were hit; for the fourth time, his adoptive mother told him to take a knife from the sink, ocher and coal with him; the young man was trapped, lowered into the water; he chewed ocher with with lime, they thought it was the brain; coal - his stomach burst; he cut the ropes and came up, brought S. fish; on the fifth day: you will be left on a deserted island, you should take breadfruit with you; he they ordered to anchor off the shore, cut off the tench and sailed away; there was only one tree on the island; the young man put the fruit on top of his head, turned to the Rainbow God to pick up the fruit and help him escape; then hung it there caught fish; like this every day; an old man came, but the young man refused to speak to him; the next day a young man came; he was the God of the Rainbow; when he returned on the third day, he drew a boat in the sand, kicked her, the drawing became a real boat; the young man returned to S.; the next day S. and his brothers decided to sail in his boat himself; the young man told her to become sand again, the passengers were eaten by sharks]: Fischer 1954:289-306 .