F56. Temptation and incest. 18.-.21.43.44.46.48.49.68.72.74.

Seeing the vagina of a mother, daughter, daughter-in-law, sister, niece, or mother-in-law, a man or boy thinks about or commits incest.

Alava, Keraki, Trobrians, Yap, Tripuri, Upper Chehalis, Upper Cowlitz, Lower Ampqua, Cous, Klikitate, Western Sachaptin, Kalapuya, Modoc, Ojibwa (Lake. Upper), Crowe, Arapahoe, Vintu, Yana, Northern Payute (Owens Valley), Western and Northern Shoshones, Goshiute, Southern Payut, Southern Utah, Western Yavapai, Iranshe, Umotina, Chamakoko, Yagans.

Australia. Alava [an old woman gives a large piece of goanna meat to her blind husband and a little one to her grandson; the boy throws meat on a stone out of evil; the old woman climbs a rope into heaven, the grandson follows; he sees her vagina, in excitement slides down; the old woman refuses him, he grabs her clitoris with his teeth; the grandfather throws a stone ax at him, which turns into a rock; tells both to go to heaven; the Pleiades are an old woman and her grandson biting her clitoris]: Waterman 1987, No. 295:35.

Melanesia. Keraki [Kambel and his wife Yumar have Gufa's son; while K. is at the station, G. sees his mother sleeping naked, converges with her; K. soon comes, realizes that someone was before him; hides; sees G. again makes love to his mother; gives him a special type of tarot, he dies; the Natekari dog reproaches K. for killing; K. pierces her tongue with a cassowary pen; when he tries to talk about what happened, he only barks; since then, dogs have not spoken; G. comes to life and returns; K. covers the trap pit with palm leaves, G. falls into it, K. falls asleep; Y. goes, K. goes to heaven, after her; he is the Month; according to some options, his wife Y. - The sun, he always haunts her]: Williams 1969:312-314; the Trobrians [Momovala goes with her daughter to the garden; she climbs a tree, he sees her vagina, screams with excitement, explains what he saw green parrot; the episode is repeated with the mention of different birds; the girl gets off, M. rapes her; she goes to the sea, asks the shark to eat her basket, arm, leg, etc., finally eat it whole; the girl's mother M. talks about this, who tells her to take off her skirt, copulates until his wife dies; M. cuts off his penis, dies]: Malinowski 1932:346-347.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Yap [the woman died, told her son and daughter to dig her out of the grave seven days later; they dug her up, fed her, buried her again; so twice; the third time the sister climbed a palm tree, her brother saw her genitals, thought it was a wound; sister explained what it was; brother and sister got together, they liked it, they taught others; and the mother was completely dead; since then, people have not been reborn on the seventh day, but completely They are dying; people wanted to kill the perpetrators, but they ran to the mountain, lit a fire, climbed the pandanus, and from there they took to the sky in a column of smoke and became a constellation]: Müller 1918, No. 37a: 520.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tripuri [the sister asked her brother to cross the river first, but he insisted that she go first; when she entered the water, the sister lifted her skirt, the brother saw her genitals and wanted to marry her sister; the grandmother asked her grandson what he cared about; when she found out that he wanted to marry, she offered different girls, but the grandson refused; then asked if he wanted to take his sister, the grandson nodded; the grandmother allowed it; scattered rice to dry, the chickens began to bite it, my grandmother began to scold the chickens: this rice is for cooking for my grandson and granddaughter's wedding; my granddaughter heard; at night the girl heard a voice who advised planting a chhethuan shoot and tell it to grow up; she climbed a tree, it grew taller; parents and grandmother promise to abandon their plan, but the girl tells them to slaughter them first the trees of all the chickens and pigs prepared for the wedding feast; at first they slaughtered only a few; and when they saw that the girl could not be fooled and slaughtered everyone, she refused to go down and climbed to heaven; When her brother climbed after her, she shoved off the tree, her brother fell and crashed, and the top of this tree is now flat; the rainbow is the staircase that a girl takes down from the sky to collect water]: Mandal 2009; 95-97.

The coast is the Plateau. Upper Chehalis [Blue Jay pretends to be dying, asks her sister to step on his face; after seeing enough of her genitals, says he's recovered; passes her off as dead]: Adamson 1934:24; upper colitz [Coyote's son Eagle is married to two mouse sisters and two turtle sisters; when Coyote puts sparkling firewood into the fire, the women throw off their clothes, he sees that the Mice have white vulvas and The turtle is black, prefers white ones; it makes eagles from its excrement, places them on a rock, sends the Eagle to get the chicks; he takes off his clothes, climbs a rock, finds excrement there; the Coyote makes a rock smooth, puts on his son's clothes, takes his form, tells his wives to migrate, takes Mice; the old spider lowers the Eagle to the ground; the son recognizes him; he kills the deer, tells the Coyote to carry it, causes rain, The coyote is carried away by the river; the Coyote asks the trees for help, predicts the usefulness of those who give him their branches; turns into a dead deer, swims up to the boy; the boy's grandmother knows it's a Coyote, runs To beat him, he swims away; in the form of a baby in a basket, Coyote comes to five virgin sisters; they raise him, the youngest does not love him, because lying on their knees he always puts his hands between their legs; they have a fish pond; in the absence of the girls, the Coyote gets up from the cradle, digs a ditch; the sisters come running, hit him, but he manages to release the salmon; first he screams, Down the river, then catches up, screams, Up; so there are few salmon in the upper reaches]: Jacobs 1934, No. 2:103-107; lower ampquas [Coyote lures his sister's two daughters onto a path with a log across; when girls step over a log, he looks at which has a bigger vagina; frying salmon, lets the fire flash; the girls lean back, he sees their genitals again; when he finds out that the Coyote has a penis with teeth, girls run away]: Frachtenberg 1914, No. 19:89-91; cous: Jacobs 1940, No. 29 [Trickster (p.192: associated with a coyote) creates two daughters from alder bark; says he will die; asks to be buried with his face outside to see their genitals when the sisters step over him; tells them to marry the man who will come; the youngest suspects deception, the oldest goes out; he tells them they're just pieces bark, they go away; he raped an old woman, her sons left him at sea in a boat without oars; the seal helped him, he jumped down the whale's throat, cut him with a knife from the inside; after a series of adventures he comes to his sister; suddenly throws fuel into the fire, forcing her nieces to fall on their backs to see their genitals; takes the girl with the largest vulva fishing; helps to climb over the tree after as she agrees to call him husband; she sprinkles salmon blood on her genitals (the origin of menstruation; a menstruating woman is not allowed to eat fresh fish); the girl (she is a Duck) runs away]: 184-193; kalapuya [see motif K35; Keith's daughter comes to Puma, becomes his wife; Puma's brother Coyote puts willow in the hearth; sparks fall on the woman's feet, she lifts them up, he sees her genitals; next time put willow intentionally; Coyote dives, asks his excrement if he now looks like Puma; looks like him for the fifth time; returns to a woman in her husband's guise, copulates with her; The cougar rips open the woman's belly, takes his son out of his womb, leaves Coyote's five children; the father killed causes a flood, everyone dies]: Gatschet et al. 1945, No. 2:215-221; clickitate [Luca's wife turns into a Grizzly, kills people, pursues a son and a daughter; they run away, marry each other, they have a boy; a Grizzly meets and kills a son, comes to her daughter; she pushes her into a ravine, she dies; the Coyote appears, a woman throws her things into the fire, then burns herself; the Coyote brings up a boy; this is an Eagle, he grows up, marries three Mice, Gorlinka, Cricket; Coyote puts willow branches into the fire, flame flashes, women lift their legs; Coyote sees that the Mice have white, the other two wives have black genitals; he likes white ones; he turns his excrement into eagles; sends the Eagle to the rock to get feathers; makes the rock tall; takes the form of a son, puts on his clothes, takes his wives Mice, mistreats Cricket and Gorlinka; the Spider lowers the Eagle off the cliff; Gorlinka's son recognizes his father; the Eagle kills a deer tells Coyote to carry it, it's raining, the Coyote is washed into the river, swims downstream, turns into a dead deer; a girl picks him up; her grandmother knows it's a Coyote, wants to hit, he swims away , turns into an old man, stays with five unmarried sisters; they own a lake with salmon; he makes them digging sticks, digs a drain from the lake himself; his sisters beat him, breaking five bone spoons, with which he covered his head, but he releases water and fish; catches fish in the river, bakes, falls asleep, Wolves eat it; Wolves fall asleep, Coyote steals bird eggs from them; makes rapids on the river above which salmon are not must rise]: Jacobs 1934, No. 31:79-91 (paraphrase in Lévi-Strauss 1971, No. 606a: 233-234); Western sachaptines (yakima or paluz) [Coyote's son has two wives, Black Beetle and White Duck; Coyote puts willow branches in the fire, sparks fly between women's legs, Coyote sees their genitals, decides to take possession of the Duck; asks his son to climb trees to get eagles for feathers; blinking, makes the tree high to the sky; marries a Duck, the Beetle is left alone with his son; heavenly people bring the young man on a rope to the ground, tying a huge spoon to the end instead of a basket; on the ground he kills a deer, puts it in a spoon, heavenly people pull her to himself; everyone welcomes the young man on earth, the Beetle and her son recognize him; The duck turns into a duck, Coyote is treated like a slave]: Farrand, Mayer 1917, No. 1:135-137; modoc [brother and sister are orphans; Brother's arrow gets stuck in a tree; sister asks who he is; when he says, Wife pulls out an arrow, becomes his wife; he puts a comb on the bear's skin, if he falls, he killed; an old woman who raised an orphan turns into a Bear, pursues and kills her grandson; a sister-wife places hot stones in a stream, the Bear swallows them with her mouth and back, dies; taking a born baby, sister-wife rushes into the fire; Kmukamts snatches the boy, puts him in his knee, asks her daughter to open the abscess, she gets a boy, his name is Aissik; he grows up, he has five wives (chicken , crane, bird, fish, duck, tick); K. wants Stokoa (fish) for himself; puts his eyes on the back of his head, tells the spark to fall on S., sees her big vulva; asks A. to undress, climb the tree to an eagle's nest; tells the tree to grow; puts on clothes A., comes to S.; two butterfly sisters bring A. food and clothes, put them down to the ground in their basket; K.'s heart hangs around his neck; his grandson throws his heart into the fire; K. dies, rises to the sky, covers it with resin so that it floods A. and his family; A. hides everyone under stones; the Hen sticks out his nose, the Crane sticks out his head; the nose turns black, from the head of Crane A. scraped off the resin, it remained bald]: Curtis 1976 (13): 210-212.

The Midwest. Ojibwa [Nenabojo sees the vagina of one of his two daughters; pretends to be dying, telling his daughters to marry someone who comes even if he is old; when his daughters bury him, he gives instructions, but they think these are his last words; a stranger comes and spends the night with his eldest sister; she recognizes her father by the scar on his leg; daughters hit him, he laughs and runs away; in the village he asks what's new; the boys say it's okay, only N. married his daughters; N. tries to ventilate in the wind to make the gossip fly away, but it fails]: Josselin de Jong 1913, No. 12:19-23.

Plains. Crowe [Coyote allegedly goes to war, takes his mother-in-law to carry the prey; sees her genitals as she lifts her clothes while wading across the river; tells Owl to shout at night: Sleep together or die; they sleep together, come back]: Lowie 1918:49-50; arpahoes: Dorsey 1903, No. 39 [Nihansan allegedly goes to war, says all the warriors took their mother-in-law with them to carry the loot; sees her genitals, when she picks up her clothes, wading across the river; at night she pretends to be cold, her mother-in-law invites him to lie down with her], 40 [as in (39); mother-in-law gives birth to a boy; One-eyed Sioux (nickname or variant N.) says that he was captured in the war]: 75-77.

California. Vintu [Coyote's wife dies, he buries her backwards; tells his two daughters not to go to the grave; he copulates with the corpse at night until it decomposes; sets fire to his house, calls extinguish the daughters; the eldest climbs to the roof to flood the fire, he sees her genitals; asks both to stand above him with their legs spread, this will heal him; sends his daughters to marry a man; moves the house to a new place, marries daughters, feeds them plenty of venison; then tells them to return to their father, moves the house back; the third time, daughters see him carry the house; they beat him to death]: Demetracopoulou, Dubois 1932, No. 23, 24, 25 [without setting fire to the house]: 429-447; Yana [Coyote lives in the same house as her sister; pretends to be sick; she goes to party; he asks you to cross her to see her vagina; appears as a chief at a party, sleeps with her sister; she gives birth to coyotes, throws them away]: Sapir 1910, No. 7:103-104.

Big Pool. If not otherwise: a man sends his daughter to fix the roof of the house, sees her vagina. North Payute (Owens Valley) [Coyote sends both daughters to repair the roof to choose one of them; pretends to be dying; taking the form of a Shoshone Indian, marries the eldest of his daughters; first a son, and then daughter/wife gets to know him]: Steward 1936, No. 23:381; Western Shoshones: Smith 1993:56-58 [Coyote asks his family to dance; the wind lifts up women's skirts, Coyote sees their genitals; pretends, who is wounded by enemies; tries to copulate with the youngest daughter and mother-in-law when they carry the "wounded" home], 108-109 [The rat sees the mother-in-law's vagina; supposedly going hunting, takes his mother-in-law with him to fresh meat; goes with she dances, spends the night with her on the way back, she gets pregnant]; the northern shoshones [Coyote's daughters are dancing, he blows their clothes off to the side, sees their genitals; pretends to be going to war; makes a smoky fire as a signal that he is injured; one, then the second daughter carries it on her back, he tries to copulate, they throw it on the ground; the wife brings him home, does not pay attention to copulation; The coyote pretends to be dying, marrying daughters; see motive F64]: Lowie 1909b, No. 6:248-251; goshiute [Coyote sees mother-in-law's vagina (like the Western Shoshones); accompanies mother-in-law as she goes for the bars for the basket; scares her at night with strange sounds, forcing her to lie closer; copulates with her; kills her, pretends to be injured; tries to copulate with daughters visiting him]: Smith 1993:5-6; southern payut (Moapa) [Coyote asks her daughter to fix the roof, sees her vagina from below, quietly inserts his spare penis into it, he stays in her vagina; the girl falls ill; the drake heals her, takes out her penis , bakes in ash; all of them, including Drake, go to heaven to become Seven Stars; Coyote comes home, eats his penis]: Lowie 1924, No. 9a: 173; Southern Utah [Suawawi has a son and two daughter; he sees the eldest's genitals when she repairs the roof; deliberately steps on a sharp bone, pretends to be dying; tells him not to look back at his funeral fire, to migrate to a large village; daughters marry a man with an otter quiver; son recognizes S. by specks on his teeth while hunting rats; daughter tells mother that during copulation, her husband sucks her breast (the same happened with wife S.); wife tells C . turn into a wolf; he tells them to become stars; these four stars are visible in the evening]: Lowie 1924, No. 15:28-30; western yawapai: Gifford 1933a: 402 [Big Brother sees his vaginas in the moonlight sleeping daughters; touches them; girls (they're Frogs) go away, kill their father with witchcraft], 413-414 [Coyote lives with Puma, kidnaps Bear's wife; he comes for her, Puma kills him; Coyote has three daughters; he asks one to bring him a knife, go across the river in a deep place; the girl lifts up her clothes, the Coyote sees her vulva, rapes her; the mother and three daughters fly to heaven, the Cougar after them; the Coyote asks for a blind archer Shoot one daughter; his arrow pierces a girl, almost hits Puma; he turns red in anger - a red star; the constellation is called ^a muu].

Southern Amazon. Iranshe [see motive F54; at night, the youngest of three brothers sees parents copulating, the mother's vagina; crying; brothers paint ocher, raping the mother; she looks 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 let her; she and her husband turn into tapirs; brothers kill them; give the liver to the grandmother]: Pereira 1985, No. 41:169-172 ; Umotin [young man Hári (Month) told the tick to find out which girl had a bigger vagina; it turned out that his sister Barukolotó had; when everyone went fishing, B. left B. at home to cook cassava cakes, did not want the coloring on her body to be washed away; H. stayed, led his sister to the river separately; she saw that there was no fish on the river, and a rainbow was approaching her; realized that it was brother; began to shout at him, both went up to heaven; when the mother returned and did not find her children at home, she looked up to the sky, saw that the son had become the Month, the daughter became Morning Venus]: Schultz 1962, No. m: 244-246.

Chaco. Chamacoco: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 61 [when it rains, the mother takes shelter from her chicks, the son sees her vagina; then she only cries; says he wants the torment of the Algarroba; the father goes after her, the boy confesses to his mother, copulates; when he returns, the father guesses what is going on, the wife confirms; he takes his sons to fish; tells the elder to pull an eel out of the silt, kills him with a club, falls asleep with clay, goes home; the youngest sees it, spends the night at his brother's grave; herons and vultures flock; they ask the boy, but he is unable to speak; the karau bird (Aramus guarauna) gives him a snail to eat, he is speechless; birds dig up, revive his older brother; he is a shaman, brothers turn into jaguars; one killed his mother, the other rushed at his father, but he fought off with a club], 62 [the young man sees his mother's vagina, when the mother covers the roof of the hut with mats; cries, refuses all food, says each time she wants something else; she copulates with him; the father finds them; calls the youngest son to catch eels; digs a deep hole, puts an eel in it; sends his son for his older brother; asks him to get an eel, pushes him into a hole, falls asleep with clay; birds gather, give the youngest boy, who only cries, meat snails and water from the shell; he is speechless; birds pull bones out of the grave, fold them, only the big toe of one leg is missing; the Chaja bird (this shaman) revives the boy; for this purpose wasps they take the clay out of his ears and nostrils, and the black stork lets him swallow the fish; the birds invite him to become one of them; each time the boy rejects this option, says that his father will catch and kill this bird ; the same is to become a wolf; he and his younger brother agree to become jaguars; to do this, they wrap their feet in cotton wool, put vessels and baskets on their heads; in the form of jaguars, the younger brother kills his father, the elder mother; father's brother found blood; people don't know which animals killed their spouses; they send dogs, but the jaguars tore them apart; since then, jaguars have been killing people and dogs], 63 [mother adjusts shelter mats when it rains, son sees her vagina; since then she cries; the father goes to get the flour of the Algarroba, the boy copulates with his mother; when the husband returns, the wife talks about what happened; the father goes to catch eels, taking the youngest son; sends for the elder; when he pulls out an eel, pushes it into a hole, falls asleep with silt, leaves; the youngest stays at the grave; birds come down, give the youngest a snail, giving him back his speech; the birds dig up, they revive the older brother; the brothers do not want to turn into birds, they are ready to become jaguars; they kill parents; after collecting 10-15 jaguars, they frighten the hunter, his wife climbs a tree; they ask her to go down, she becomes their common wife; her son grows up; a bird in the forest calls him an orphan; the father says that his mother must have been eaten by jaguars; he goes to the forest, finds his mother, she makes a hut for him; he consistently kills with a club every jaguar that his mother cleans his fur and puts him to sleep; she does not allow the last main thing to be killed; returns to him in the forest; so there are many jaguars], 87 [( Metraux 1943:116); an uninitiated boy was lying sick in his hut; his mother climbed to repair the roof, he saw her genitals, met her; told her about the mystery of Anãpösö ( The perfume that frightens women are mummers); when they found out that the secret was solved, the men killed all women; one ran away in the form of a deer; the men had to do women's work; the woman who ran away hid in tree; spat; a man under the tree noticed her; the men climbed the tree, 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 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 frightened by the jaguars, came back halfway, said that the pieces had rotted; they sent another, who turned into a bird, saw that the village was full of women and children; but when he returned, he said that the meat had been eaten vultures; men came, saw children and women; those who took pieces from their hips got fat wives, and thin wives from their fingers]: 187-189, 190-193, 194-196, 348-349.

The Southern Cone. Yagans: Wilbert 1977, No. 26 [Gusinde 1937:1195-1197; when a father goes hunting, the boy sees his mother's vagina; screams, I want it! ; she consistently offers him everything that is suitable for eating and playing, he refuses; paints himself black and red, approaches her mother without paying attention to other people, howls her hand into her vulva; they sailed in a boat to the island, made love until they became wild geese], 27 [Gusinde 1937:1198-1199; mother carries the baby behind her back in her bag; went to pick tree mushrooms; the baby became an adult man, climbed a tree, threw her mushrooms; then told her to lie down, threw them into her vulva; when he went down, began to copulate with her; her mother brought a lot of mushrooms, distributed them to women, they were happy ; began to go mushroom picking every day; the women followed her, told her husband; the husband told his wife to take off her bag, the baby fell out, the husband saw his huge penis, cut it off; the child turned into a little woodpecker (Dendrocopus lignarius), which has a strong beak and a long red tongue]: 73-78.