F56A. Chips in the fire. 42.43.49.

To see a woman's genitals, a man throws something brightly flashing into the hearth. The woman loosens back, exposing her genitals.

Tsimshian, Upper Cowlitz, Lower Ampqua, Kalapuya, Klikitat, Western Sachaptin, Modoc, Southern Payut (Kaibab).

NW Coast. Tsimshian: Barbeau 1953 [Chief Hyde's nephew can turn into a loon wearing a loon skin cape; making bows and arrows, throwing chips into the hearth; flames break out, chief's wife loosened back, exposing her genitals; the nephew says that they are similar in color to the skin of a loon between the wings; the aunt complains to her husband; he smears the nose of the boat with resin, rides with his nephew to hunt sea otters, leaves stuck to him, he gets into another boat himself; the sun melted the resin, the young man put on a loon skin, flew home before his uncle returned; the same the next day; the young man leaves, marries the leader's daughter in an unfamiliar village; she warns that her father always kills her husbands; father-in-law tells me to get 1) a huge octopus; 2) a whale (the young man dives after a whale in the form of a loon, all other loons help him); 3) a huge oyster (it pulls the young man to the bottom, but all the eagles come to the rescue); the father-in-law admits defeat; a young man in the form of an eagle flies to his native village; one person tries to grab his legs, an eagle picks it up; all people grab each other's legs, the last is an uncle; all eagles help the Eagle Youth raise a human chain, throw it into the sea; with his wife, the young man founds the Eagle family]: 56-68.

The coast is the Plateau. Upper Cowlitz [Coyote's son Eagle is married to two mouse sisters and two turtle sisters; when Coyote puts sparkling wood into the fire, the women throw off their clothes, he sees that the Mice have white vulvas , and the Gorlinki are black, prefers white ones; he makes eagles from his excrement, puts them on a rock, sends the Eagle to get the chicks; he takes off his clothes, climbs a rock, finds excrement there; the Coyote does the rock is 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, summons it rains, the Coyote is carried away by the river; the Coyote asks the trees for help, predicts the usefulness of those that 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 let the salmon out; 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; 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 he put the willow intentionally; Coyote dives, asks his excrement if he now looks like Puma; the fifth time he looks like; returns to a woman in her husband's guise, copulates with her; the cougar rips open the woman's belly, takes her son out of the womb, leaves the Coyote's five children; the father of the murdered woman causes a flood, everyone dies]: Gatschet et al. 1945, No. 2:215-221; clickitate [Luca's wife turns into a Grizzly, kills people, stalks a son and 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; a Coyote appears, a woman throws her things into the fire, then burns herself; Coyote raises a boy; this is an Eagle, he grows up, marries three Mice, Gorlinka, Cricket; The coyote puts willow branches in the fire, the flame breaks out, the women lift their legs; the Coyote sees the Mice have white genitals, 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; son Gorlinka recognizes her father; the eagle kills the deer, tells the Coyote to carry it, it rains, 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 salmon lake; he makes them digging sticks, digs a drain from the lake himself; his sisters hit him, breaking five bone spoons with which he covered his head, but he releases water and fish; he catches fish in the river, bakes it, falls asleep, Wolves eat it; Wolves fall asleep, Coyote steals bird eggs from them; makes it on the river thresholds above which salmon should not rise]: Jacobs 1934, No. 31:79-91 (narrated 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 a tree to get eagles for feathers; blinking, makes a 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 instead of a basket to the end; on the ground he kills a deer, puts it in a spoon, heavenly people pull it towards them; on earth, everyone greets the young man, 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 she is; when he says, Wife pulls out an arrow, becomes his wife; he puts the comb on the bear's skin, if he falls, he is killed; the old woman who raised the orphans turns into a Bear, pursues and kills her grandson; the sister wife places hot stones in the stream, the Bear swallows them with her mouth and ass, dies; taking the baby, the sister-wife rushes into the fire; Kmukamts snatches the boy, puts it in her knee, asks her daughter to open the abscess, she pulls out the 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. undress, climb the tree to the eagle's nest; tells the tree to grow; puts on A.'s clothes, comes to S.; two butterfly sisters bring A. food and clothes, lower them to the ground in their basket; K.'s heart hangs in his around his neck; his grandson throws his heart into the fire; K. dies, rises to the sky, covers him with resin to flood A. and his family; A. hides everyone under stones; The chicken sticks out his nose, the Crane sticks his head; the nose turned black, scraped off the resin from Crane A.'s head, she remained bald]: Curtis 1976 (13): 210-212.

Big Pool. Southern Payutes (kaibab) [see motive F59; Coyote is responsible for his brother Wolf to die, but Coyote revives and saves him; asks trees that sparkle when burning; spruce answers last; Coyote puts it into the fire, sparks fly, the Coyote discovers that the Wolf has a wife; rapes her in his absence; she glues him to the aspen; the wolf rapes him; tells him to bring a jug, then brushwood; they stick to the Coyote; The wolf sets fire to the firewood, the Coyote burns]: Sapir 1930, No. 1:338-345 (retold episode: 344-345).