Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

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F60. Trickster treats a girl .19.31.42.43.48.

A girl or woman is ill. The character comes to heal her. The treatment consists of him copulating with her or trying to do it.

Mono, (Viram, Losap), Scandinavians (Saxon Grammar), Tsimshian, Bellacula, Quakiutl, Shuswap, Thompson, Chalkomel, Cowlitz, Upper Cowlitz, Ne Perse, Yakima, Clackamas, Sanpual, tillamk, upper coquill, kalapuya, shasta, yuki, chilula, achomavi, vintu, maidu.

Melanesia. Mono (Shortland Islands) [Porana came to treat sick women, actually copulated with them; men killed him in a man's house by blowing the winds (this is fatal for P.)]: Wheeler 1926, No. 02: 42; (cf. Viram [Duviar sees two girls swimming in his stream; to punish them, he puts a piece of sugar cane in a magic crocodile tooth, sends them underwater into the older girl's vagina; she falls ill, her genitals are swollen; two young men, first the eldest, then the youngest, come to treat her; each says he is D., cannot heal; the real D. comes (takes the form of a cassowary on the way) pulls out a piece of cane; the girls persuade him to lie down with them; at night, D. copulated with the eldest so much that she went to give birth in the morning; the next night the same with the youngest; both give birth to a son]: Williams 1969:390-391).

(Wed. Micronesia-Polynesia. Losap (Carolina) [Iol has a daughter, she climbed a tree, he saw her genitals, thought it was a wound; he led her to the sage, who smeared the "wound" with juice; but the next day the wound is visible again; sage I met a girl, she is happy; when she is sailing in a boat with his father, she explains what is going on; he copulates with his daughter three times, forgetting that the storm is coming; the boat capsized, they have been swallowed by fish; now in this giblets fish seem to be male and female organs one on top of the other]: Mitchell 1973, No. 63:183-185).

Baltoscandia. Scandinavians [Ruthenian King Rinda's daughter rejected Odin; the following year he dressed up as a blacksmith, forged jewelry, gave R., slapped him again; next time he appeared in uniform a valiant warrior is the same; then in the guise of a female medicine named Milestone; R. fell ill; the imaginary doctor said that the medicine was so bitter that R. should be tied; her father agreed; Odin got along with her; Seeing O.'s dishonest actions, the gods expelled him; 10 years later he returned and was worshiped again]: Saxon Grammar 2017 (1), III.3. 4:99-103.

NW Coast. Tsimshian [Txamsen was wandering, saw a beautiful woman; she complained of abdominal pain; T.: I'm a great shaman, now I'm going to the woods, and you go out and call for "medicine, medicine"; hear the answer When you see a plant protruding from the ground, you have to sit on it to enter the vagina; it happened, but this woman was nettle and after copulating T. was in terrible pain; he came to another place where is an empty house; he went into it, then returned to the boat: there is a woman in her; says she is salmon; when T. fell asleep, went to the river and filled it with salmon; T. caught a lot; crows began to steal salmon from boats; T. took out his eye and told him to guard the salmon, and went to get firewood; his eye screams that crows were stealing salmon and attacked himself; when T. returned, his eye had already been eaten; his wife made him a new eye; together with his wife they prepared a lot of dried salmon; everything was fine, but T. accused his wife of infidelity - otherwise why did he lose to Pnya; the woman could not stand it, called her people and disappeared into the river; all the dried salmon came to life and disappeared with her; T. got into the boat and sailed down the Ness River again]: Barbeau, Beynon 1987, No. 10:31-32; bellacula [The raven tells the burning bark to fall between the legs of a woman sitting at the hearth; to cure a burn, advises going to the forest and sitting on a plant that can be recognized by its vibrational movements; hides in the ground, exposing her penis; girl notices the Raven's eyes, leaves]: McIlwraith 1948 (2): 410-413; quakiutl (tlatlasiquala neveti) [Minka wants the boat with women to capsize; dives, sealing her genitals with resin; Raccoon asks who can cure women; Mink is called to do so; removes resin by copulating with each woman; everyone gets pregnant]: Boas 1895, No. XVIII.1, 6:172 (=2002:381).

The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap [Coyote asks two girls if they want izai; they think it's salmon, answer Yes; hereinafter like Thompson]: Teit 1909a, no. 53:741; Thompson: Hanna, Henry 1996 [Coyote sends his penis across the river to the youngest of three girls; says which sedge to cut it off; the end stays in the girl, she falls ill; the Coyote comes disguised as a shaman; fences off sick with a cane curtain, copulates, the end of the penis grows back; the Coyote leaves, the girl recovers]: 41-43; Teit, No. 2 [at the beginning of time, Coyote makes a son out of clay; he bathes dissolves in water; from resin - melts in the sun; from white stone - lives, his name is Nlixentem; Gagara and Duck give him daughters as wives, one dark-skinned, the other is light; Coyote turns their excrement in eagle chicks, asks his son to climb a tree for them, tells the tree to become tall, comes to his wives in clothes and in the form of a son, takes a bright one, drives the dark-skinned one; N. walks along the heavenly plain, pulls out large edible rhizomes, the wind blows out of the holes, these rhizomes are stars; he goes into an empty dugout, takes the basket, the baskets attack it; he puts the basket back, tells the baskets become servants of men; the same episode in a dugout of mats; awls; ridges, birch bark vessels; N. comes to two blind old women; they eat rotten wood, pass food to each other, N. intercepts it, old women quarrel, accusing each other; feel a man, say that he smells bad; N. turns them into two types of hazel grouses; comes to the spider spouses, they call themselves his grandfather and grandmother, they let them down land in the basket; N. finds a faithful wife and son; Coyote's people are starving, Raven finds N. returning, gets meat for his children; people force him to confess where the meat comes from; they return to N. they celebrate, ask him to take his second wife back; N. sends the Coyote for the carcass of a dead deer, the Coyote falls into the river, swims to the dam, followed by two sisters holding salmon; turns into a wooden plate; eats food, throws a plate into the fire, the Coyote turns into a baby, the sisters adopt him; in their absence, he breaks the dam, releasing salmon into rivers; goes downstream; asks three or four girls, do they want salmon, the youngest answers, Yes; he sends his penis to her across the river, the end stays in the vagina, the girl gets sick; the Coyote carries salmon across the rivers; a group of girls answers that they want mountain sheep meat, not salmon; in this place, the Coyote creates rapids; under the guise of a shaman, he comes to the sick person, asks everyone to sing loudly, leave him with the girl in the steam room, copulates, removes the end of the penis, the girl recovers; Coyote creates fake berries on the bushes, negotiates with the Grizzly to eat her supplies first, then him; runs away, the berries dry up]: 21-29; chalkomel ( Lower reaches of the Fraser River) [Mink turns into a handsome fisherman; the chief's daughter asks for fish; he throws fish across the river; the fish in the water enters the girl; she falls ill; the mink in the form of a shaman comes to treat her ; copulates, she immediately gives birth to a son; members of one of the family groups descend from him]: Boas 1895:25-26; cowitz [1) a young woman falls ill; Shwanee comes to treat her; copulates, and people at this time hit the boards, sing spells; says that the patient will recover, leaves; 2) the girl grows too slowly; S. promises to cure her; buries herself in the sand on the beach, exposing her penis; after using this medicine, the girl grows up]: Adamson 1934:263; upper colitz [Coyote sees girls bathing, asks Wren to lend him his penis; the penis must be carried in the basket, fed odorous ants; the Coyote sends him across the river to the girl; the Lark screams to cut off his penis with a blade of grass; the Coyote returns his Lark, comes under the guise of a shaman to the sick girl; says louder Beating a tambourine, copulates with her; running away, screaming what to call the baby to be born]: Jacobs 1934, No. 1:102-103; ne percé [Coyote sees five duck girls bathing; sends his penis through river; ties a pebble so that it is under water; when he finishes copulating with her older sister, tells others to cut off the penis with grass; it turns into a river threshold; the girl is sick; the Coyote comes to treat her , copulates, pulls out the end of the penis; girl recovers, Coyote is considered a strong shaman]: Erdoes, Ortiz 1984:318-319; yakima [Geese are sisters and brothers, despise the Crane; one went down to see him fish; tried the same way, got sick after swallowing water and fish; the crane came to treat her, told her to beat her tambourines; said that the disease was serious; but she was pregnant (it is not clear, he became pregnant her now or earlier); she gave birth to the Crane; Geese carry the Crane four times into the sea, where there are a lot of fish; food makes him heavier, the fourth time they throw it off, he drowns; for this his wife kills her brothers , only the youngest ran away; The crane grew up to become a healer; gave the frog woman beautiful clothes that, like his father, he kept in his stomach]: Beavert 1974:137-144; clackamas [Coyote says Fasaniha that he is her brother; asks her children to dance (with their eyes closed?) , quietly curls their necks; some escape, they are the ancestors of today's pheasants; Coyote comes to the house where mother and daughter; says that a short girl, let her come to the beach, will find healing means; hid in the sand with his penis out, the girl sat on it; the mother tells her daughter that she has grown up; Coyote sees girls on the other side of the river; they call him to copulate; the Coyote swims across the river, but The girls are now on the side he was before; Coyote's excrement tells him they're not girls, but... (the informant did not know the translation); the Coyote tells them to become two rocks; comes to a man whose body oozes; he collected it, baked it, gave it to the Coyote; the Coyote does not eat, the owner put it in his bag; when he opened it, there was sturgeon; the Coyote returned, water instead of home; relieved his need, his excrement says that the owner was Sturgeon; the Coyote helps the man put brushwood on his back; he says he has the wife gives birth; the Coyote squeezes pus out of the woman's finger, tells the fetus to be carried in the womb rather than in the finger, shows how to copulate; another person cuts trees into chips, feeds his long penis with chips; Coyote exchanged penises with him; if you do not give his penis chips and branches, he bites his legs; Coyote lets his penis underwater into the younger girl; fears that she will be carried away by the river, tells her to cut off the penis with a sedge; comes disguised a shaman treats a sick person; pretends to be weak, 5 girls, 5 widows, 5 abandoned women should carry him; copulates with them; tells Cranes, Vultures, Geese to sing loudly; Flea comes in, sees that a shaman copulates with a girl; Coyote runs away, girl has recovered; see further K1H motif]: Jacobs 1958, No. 9:80-92; sanpual [Coyote sends his long penis to girls bathing; penis can't be cut with an ax; the Coyote tells her to be cut with grass; the head remains in the girl, she falls ill; the Coyote, hiding who he is, comes to treat her; after copulation she recovers]: Ray 1933, No. 23:175-176; tillamook [South Wind; like sanpual; women try to cut with various sharp blades of grass; a severed penis turns into a sandbar; when the girl comes to heal, the South Wind tells everyone but two blind people to leave old women; they know what he is doing; the girl wants to reward him; he is responsible that only women will be paid for sex, not men]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 38:123-124, 126; upper coquill [the girl is ill, the shamans are powerless; the father invites another one, goes to the steam room; he asks the girl's mother to leave him alone with her for the night; copulates; the girl is healthy in the morning, everyone is happy]: Jacobs 2007:261-262; kalapuya [man feeds his huge penis with chips; Coyote swaps penises, lets his new one across the river into the chief's bathing daughter; yells to other girls to cut off the tip grass; changes penises back; girl falls ill; Coyote comes to her as a shaman; tells everyone to sing loudly, copulates; water pours out of her vagina; people send a louse, then look at the flea; both washed away with water; the spider returns, reports; Coyote runs away]: Gatschet et al. 1945, No. 5:240-244.

California. Shasta [from the other side of the Coyote River is called to treat a sick girl; he tells him to leave him in the house with the patient, close the holes tightly; the snake peeks, sees that the Coyote is copulating with the girl ; The Coyote runs away, rushes into the hollow of the oak tree, tells the hole to close; the little woodpecker arrives to hammer the oak; Coyote asks him to call all the birds to help; when he goes outside, he pulls out his intestines with blood paints all birds]: Dixon 1910a, No. 22:33-34; yuki [Skylark girl is sick; Coyote comes to treat her, copulates; girl squeals, people run in, Skylark flies up to a branch along with the hanging she's wearing a Coyote; everyone shoots him, misses; Blue Jay cuts off Coyote's penis with an arrow; Coyote falls, runs away]: Kroeber 1932b:938; chilula [Yamankyuwiñxoiyan appeared at the north end peace; then he constantly went south; met with a woman; was terribly thirsty; fell into the water, began to drink, a log swam into his mouth; he wanted the raven to peck his stomach; the raven did so, the water poured out; he climbed into the hollow, wanted the hole to close; then for someone to punch it; when the hole was pierced, he went out; threw his pubic hair into the water, it swam into the woman's vagina; that's bad; she asked her brother to call Ya. as a doctor; the treatment is that Ya. started copulating with her and thus took out his hair; when he reached the southern end, people live everywhere]: Goddard 1914, No. 16:361-364; achomavi [the girl is sick, her mother is looking for a shaman; Coyote pretends to be a shaman; tells him to be left alone with the sick; rapes her, she screams; the mother looks into the house, beats Coyote, he runs away, his penis stays in his vagina; his mother wants the Coyote to go blind; he makes himself new eyes out of resin; wants the girl to fall ill fatally; The thrush comes to heal her; the Coyote turns into a boy accompanied by Thrush; he sucks his penis out of his vagina; Coyote grabs his penis, runs away]: Angulo 1928:587; screw [Coyote was called to treat a virgin; he ordered him to be left alone with as a patient in a dark room, knocking loudly outside; the person who looked in saw that Coyote was copulating with a girl; he was beaten; he ran away, shouting that this was the only way to treat]: DuBois, Demetracopoulou 1931, No. 63:388-389; Maidu [mother takes Coyote for a doctor, asks for her daughter to be cured; he copulates with a girl; mother rushes to beat him, he runs away, the end of his penis remains in vagina; Badger pulls out his penis; mother is going to fry it, Coyote grabs it, runs away]: Shipley 1963, No. 2:13-19.