F61. A woman carries a trickster.

.10.12. (.13.) .43.48.-.50.72.

The male character pretends to be sick, weak, unconscious; the woman carries him on her back, copulates or tries to copulate with her on the go.

SW Africa. The Bushmen [all girls reject Kauch; he turns into a dead antelope, the girls find him; first he is carried by the one he did not want, the burden is heavier, she throws it; when another takes it a girl, K. slides down her hips, copulates; at the camp, the meat of an imaginary antelope of unpleasant taste, it is thrown away]: Kotlyar 1983, No. 117:243-245 (=2009, No. 13:43-44).

West Africa. Yoruba [slender) girl Buje rejects her suitors; the turtle promises to take possession of her; puts a killed snake on her path as if alive; pretends to work nearby; B. asks to hack the snake, the Turtle cuts it and deliberately touches his leg with a sword; says that he cannot walk, asks B. to carry him, slides on his hips, rapes her; proves to the leader that he has possessed his daughter; she is ashamed rushes into the forest, turns into a Buje plant]: Ellis 1894, No. 5:269-270 (=Jablow 196:148-150, but the text is classified as icom).

(Wed. Sudan - East Africa. Sarah (mbai) [Su and the nightjar came to the bride (there are many grooms, and the girl spends the night with whoever she chose; the girl's mother left all three in the hut; the girl's nightjar lay down on the bed, and Su on floor; hears the bride with a nightjar to kill Su at night; when they fell asleep, Su carried the sleeping girl to his seat, takes off her belt, girds herself with it and lies next to the nightjar; at night both got up and killed the girl, then lay down again; when he fell asleep with his nightjar, Su put her dead next to him, returned her belt, lay back on the floor; {then no conflict between the nightjar and Su}; in the morning they both carried the body out planted by a tree and stretched out in a smile; the girl's mother tells her to take water to her lovers; she does not react, her mother hit her, her body has fallen down; the woman screams that her daughter has been killed; and Su ran away with a nightjar; the girls gather on the field correctly; to distract them, he pretends to be unable to fly with his nightjar; the girls try to catch him, while Su picks up the grain; then refused to share it with the nightjar; he promises arrange that she will copulate with Su's wife in front of everyone; women attach Caesalpinia branches to their belt when performing rituals; the nightjar has become this tree; people go to the funeral; Su's wife attached to the belt of the branch; the nightjar, becoming a (anthropomorphized) bird again, began to copulate with it in public; Su tells his wife to hide it in a pot of porridge; the wife brings the pot with a nightjar; he asks his daughter to bring a knife cut meat; Su jumped out, ran away, licked the porridge off his body]: Fortier 1967, #13:227-231).

(Wed. The Balkans. Ancient Greece [Perry 1952, No. 410; a young man undertakes to carry an old woman on his shoulders; copulates with her; explains to the old woman that he is tired of heaviness and thus cuts meat off the old woman to lighten the burden; after a while, the old woman invites the young man to lighten the burden for the second time]: Gasparov 1968, No. 415:188-189).

The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap [see motif F58; The coyote turns into a piece of wood, swims to the top where the two sisters blocked the river; they pick up a piece of wood, make a dish out of it; it swallows all the food, sisters Throw him away; the Coyote becomes a baby, his sisters adopt him; at night he copulates with them; when they carry it on his back, he slides lower, copulates again; breaks the top, leads the salmon up the Thompson and Fraser rivers]: Teit 1909a: 629-630; Thompson [Coyote's daughter marries Lynx, the lord of the cold; the Coyote comes to his son-in-law, who freezes him; the Coyote melts a hole in his tongue ice, breaks himself apart and pushes himself piece by piece; collects, but the Raven takes his eyes away; the Coyote stumbles upon trees, asks for their names; the former grow high in the mountains, then lower down the slope; when poplar and willow appear, next to the river; Coyote goes downstream, meets Bird Girls; lures Wren as if he wants to show a star, pulls out her eyes, inserts herself; friends inserted Red berry eyes; people play ball through Coyote's eyes; he meets an old woman, asks about her customs, kills her with a stick, puts on her skin; asks her four granddaughters to take him to where play; the youngest three on the way throw their imaginary grandmother (apparently because of Coyote's sexual harassment, but it's not directly mentioned); the eldest reports; the Coyote grabs his eyes, runs away; blows the fog, his can't catch up]: Hanna, Henry 1996:56-63 [The fox throws up and catches his eyes; eventually the Raven takes them away; Magpie suspects the Fox is blind; he says he sees a star; Magpie peers, he she pulls out her eyes, puts her in; the old woman Illness says that her granddaughters go to a party where everyone dances with Fox's eyes; argues that stone, club, water, fire, magic root cannot kill her; Fox's excrement is advised to beat her with nettles; she dies, he puts her skin on; the old woman's granddaughters carry it on his back, on the way he inserts his penis first into his older sister, then into his younger sister; he sings in uniform old women, grabs eyes, mist, pursuers can't catch up with him]: Haeberlin 1924, No. 20:407-411; Skagit: Hilbert 1985:45-56 [Coyote promises daughter to whoever overtakes her; Raven, Mink and others lag behind, Mountain Goat overtakes, marries; wife gives birth, fat serves as a diaper; Coyote eats it; when he goes to the mountains, the Goat sends frost, the Coyote is trapped in an ice trap; breathes the hole, breaks himself apart, sticks out; the raven takes his eyes away; the Coyote puts leaves, sees a little; pretends to see a star; one of the sisters comes up, he pulls her eyes out, inserts herself; asks an old woman about her daughters; kills with nettles, takes her form; sisters carry her imaginary mother on their backs to where they play through the eyes of the Coyote; the youngest throws him off on the way He copulates with the eldest; takes his eyes, runs away], 87-95 [Coyote pretends to be dying, tells his daughter to marry a yakim man with a painted face and put food and property with his corpse; children They see Coyote cooking for himself, but he pretends to be dead; he appears, painting his face, speaks yakima, takes his daughter as his wife; the paint dries up and falls off, the daughter recognizes her father; the family leaves The Coyote, turning his house into a block of ice; the Coyote makes a hole, looks out, the Raven takes his eyes away; the Coyote puts yellow-green mold in his eye sockets that grows on a rotten tree, tells Bekas and Soroca that sees a fat beetle on a branch; grabs Snipe's eye; asks the Sick Old Woman what she is afraid of; Nettles; hits her to death with nettles, puts on her clothes; her two daughters carry their mother (i.e. Coyote) on the back to where people play with Coyote's eyes; on the way he tries to have sex with girls, the youngest throws him to the ground; he takes his eyes, runs away]; snohomish [Fox and Norka go travel; Norka said he would go see what was ahead; wrote into water, turned urine into salmon, gave it to Fox; he fried and ate; got sick; asks the two little girls in it ( probably their excrement), they laugh, Fox got pregnant; gave birth to a boy, he grew up quickly, married Butterball (?) and the bird, he loves the first, the second does not; the fox wants to take possession of his son's wives; asks the "counselors", who tell them to turn them into white birds; the son Fox undressed, climbed a tree, it is higher and higher, to the sky; "birds" returned to Fox; he put on his son's clothes, came to his wives, said that his father was dead; B. understood what was going on, the bird wife believed; the fox took the bird, B. did not agree with him; in heaven, Fox's son came to the gray-haired man the old man; this is the Spider; he said that the country where the young man came from was the third below; began to let him down; when it was warm, the young man realized that he was on earth; in gratitude he gave the spider 4 dressed reindeer skins; bald; caught up with his faithful wife, she touched his head, his hair grew again; first she carried her husband in her basket; then he told Fox and his bird-wife to bring the deer he had killed; bewitched the strap, that constantly eager; the fox and his wife rushed to catch up, his wife was carried away by the river, the Fox hardly swam out; his advisers said that there are two women down the river, they have a dam with a salmon trap; the fox turned into a wooden dish, swam into a trap; the women picked it up, she devours all the meat they put in it; they threw the bowl on the floor, it turned into a baby; when the women are not there, the fox goes to the dam and takes salmon from there; counselors tell you to break the dam; the head and back must be covered with baskets - these are the only vulnerabilities on the body; the women rushed to the Fox with the jails, but they are stuck in the baskets; the Fox led fish up the river; came to a woman with her daughter, married her daughter, speaks a miraculous language as if he were a mountain leader; salmon ran out; wife gave birth to a girl, left her Lisa and left; she grew up in a few days , married Mountain Sheep's son; the fox went to visit them; the baby, whom the daughter gave birth to, had fat diapers, the Fox ate them; when the Fox stole the stone hammer, his daughter kicked him out; the fox began to play, throwing them up his eyes, the Raven took them away; Magpie suspects that the Fox is blind; he says he sees a star that Magpie does not see; when she came, he pulled out her eyes and put her in; the fox came to the fat old woman- illnesses; she says that her two granddaughters went to a place where Raven shows Fox's eyes to everyone and the audience is dancing around; the fox asks the old woman in detail about her usual behavior, wants to kill; she claims that you can't kill her with a stone, a club, water, fire, a magic root; Fox's excrement is advised to beat her with nettles; she dies, the Fox put on her skin; counselors: spots under the eyes, tell your granddaughters that you are hurt; the granddaughters carried the imaginary old woman, the Fox copulated with both; the fox began to sing, everyone liked it, he called his eyes, they returned to his eye sockets, he ran away, the pursuer showed his penis, everything was enveloped in the fog, the Fox escaped]: Haeberlin 1924, No. 20:399-411; Koulitz [Shwanee throws up his eyes, the Raven takes one of them away; the old woman's children play with him; S. kills her, wears her clothes and hair; her daughter carries a fake mother to watch the game, S. slides lower and lower, copulates with a girl; the episode repeats with four sisters; the fifth throws S. on the ground; S. grabs his eye; speaks sisters, what should they call his children they are giving birth to; sisters revive mother]: Adamson 1934:253-254; clackamas [Coyote rapes a girl by sending her long penis; penis cut off by sedge, tip stays in the vagina; Coyote pretends to be a shaman; requires five girls, five widows, five straw widows to carry him upside down on their backs; feels their genitals and takes turns raping them; heals them a girl copulating with her]: Jacobs 1958, No. 9:90.

California. Coastal yuki [Coyote pretends to have a pain in his leg, asks his wife to take him to the river harpoonite salmon; sticks his cock between her legs, he drags along the ground; she throws it into the river; he catches salmon, does not give his sons, whom his wife sends; when he returns, he finds the house empty; his excrement replies that the family left with Puma through the course under a mortar; Coyote catches up with fugitives; people they scald it with boiling broth, he dies]: Gifford 1937, No. 17:127-129; screw [Coyote comes to two duck girls in the guise of their grandmother; asks him to be carried across the river; tries on the go insert their long penis into their genitals]: Dubois, Demetracopoulou 1931, No. 61:386-387; nicenan [Coyote pretends to be sick; asks his daughter-in-law to carry it; slides lower and lower, copulates with her; that bad; he pretends to heal her, copulates again; his sons kill him]: Uldall, Shipley 1966, No. 15 [pretends to be bitten by a snake], 16 [that fell from an oak tree]: 53-59; Kitanemook [Coyote pretends to be mortally wounded by a bear; when his daughter carries him on the back, tries to copulate with her; she leaves him, sends her mother Frog for him; Coyote asks her to leave him on funeral fire, pass off the daughter as his friend living across the mountain; "friend" agrees, fumigates the sun with tobacco so that night comes sooner; when hunting, Coyote calls his son son, not son-in-law; Frog squeezes seven little coyotes out of her daughter, roasts them; the Coyote comes and eats them; the mother, four daughters, and the son go to heaven, along with his mother's hat, are seen there as seven stars (obviously the Pleiades); The coyote sees their reflection in the water, they laugh at him; there is a group of three stars - the Coyote, his bow and arrow; both groups are far apart because the Coyote failed to catch up with his family]: Zigmond 1980, No. 67 : 217-218; serrano [Coyote pretends to be dying; tells his three daughters not to look back at his funeral fire, to go to his brother, the exact copy of it; the imaginary uncle invites the youngest marriage; daughters suspect deception, run to heaven, turn into Pleiades; Coyote sees their reflection in the pond; the youngest agrees to go down, put her father on her back and lift her; he tries with her copulate; she dumps it to the ground, it crashes]: Benedict 1926, No. 9:11.

Big Pool. Mono (Owens Valley) [Coyote tries to catch up with a woman; creates slippery ice in front of her, thickets of prickly holly; she overcomes them; a rock, she climbs her, he sees teeth in her vulva from below; creates a lake; she agrees to carry it on her back, he tries to copulate, she throws it into the water, he turns into an insect, swims out; brings dead ducks to the house where she lives with her mother; both crumble duck bones with vaginal teeth; bitten penises hang on ropes; he inserts a stick, pulls it out along with his teeth that pierced it; the same with his mother-in-law; Coyote took his wife home, on the way she gave birth to many children; they are human ancestors]: Curtis 1976:128-129; Western shoshones [Coyote asks his family to dance; the wind lifts up women's skirts, Coyote sees their genitals; pretends to be injured enemies; tries to copulate with the youngest daughter and mother-in-law when they carry the "wounded" home]: Smith 1993:56-58; the northern shoshones [Coyote's daughters dance, he blows their clothes to the side, sees genitals; pretends to be going to fight; makes a smoke fire as a signal that he is injured; one, then the second daughter carries him on her back, he tries to copulate, they throw him on the ground; the wife brings him home, doesn't pay attention to copulation; Coyote pretends to be dying, marrying daughters; see motive F64]: Lowie 1909b, No. 6:248-251; Southern Utah [Sinawav sees seven cranes, they fly to fight, he asks to take him with him; the cranes each gave him a pen; but then S. wrote in front of them and, while he was sleeping, the cranes took their feathers and flew away; S. asks them to kill the pregnant woman and bring him a fetus; the cranes did it, this baby is a girl, S. raised her as a daughter; offered to go to his relatives; they decided to pass her off as someone who would win the run; there are fast runners: hummingbirds, blue jays, coyotes; but S. won (because he persuaded others to eat some meat; not very clear) and married a pupil; she gave birth to three daughters and a son; once S. hunted and broke his leg; eldest daughter carried him on her back, and he lifted her clothes and met her (or tried to do so); at home he said that he was ill; let him be placed on a pile of firewood when he died and leave without looking back; the eldest daughter should be passed off as someone who would come on a white horse dressed in cougar skin; the son looked around and noticed that S. had rolled down the pile of brushwood; the daughter was passed off as someone on a white horse; the son noticed that The daughter's husband lacks the same teeth as her father; then the daughters rose to heaven and became seven stars - the Pleiades (although earlier it is said about three sisters, not seven); and the wolf (this is S.) howls at night]: Givón 2013, No. 5:31-43.

The Great Southwest. Pima [Coyote pretends to be ill; says she will recover if Puma's wife undresses and carries him on her back; copulates with her; husband leaves her; her offended relatives take people away from people deer and other commercial animals; people are starving; Coyote finds a cave, opens the door, animals run across the ground]: Russel 1908:216-217; yavapai [Coyote pretends to be sick; asks the hostess at home where he stayed, carry him across the river; copulates with her when she lifts up her clothes in a deep place; her husband kills him]: Gifford 1933a: 397-399; havasupai [Coyote, Wolf, Puma live together; the bear is at a distance, has a wife and daughters; he brings them only bones; the wife goes to the Coyote, the daughters marry the Puma and the Wolf; the Bear and the Puma fight; each is killed and reborn three times; On the fourth, the Cougar places a hot stone in the Bear's heart, the Bear dies completely; the Coyote pretends to have forgotten the arrows; shouts to his wife to send her middle daughter; crossing the river, the daughter bullies clothes, the Coyote copulates with them; then the mother and daughters turn into bison (the roof of the house became their wool, the hearth stones became their hooves, the water vessel became their head, the basket became their muzzle, the tipi poles became their ribs, grater with kidneys); Puma, Wolf and Coyote chase buffalo, kill their mother; the rest escape, bison come from them]: Smithson, Euler 1994:101-106.

Chaco. The anthropomorphic trickster pierces a thorn in his leg; asks Woodpecker's wife to carry him on her back; tries to rape her as he goes; she leaves him and returns to her father Sun. Matako: Barabas, Bartolomé 1979a: 129-130; 1979b: 81-82; Wilbert, Simoneau 1982a, No. 66:140-141; Toba [Sun Sakai's daughter marries Woodpecker; Novaikalachigi commands a thorn pierce his heel, tells Woodpecker that he is his wife's uncle, let her carry him home on her back; on the way she tries to copulate; then comes to the river, where she swims, puts on her clothes, takes them appearance, comes to Woodpecker; he suspects deception when he sees that his wife eats a lot; tells an ant to bite her, N. screams like a man; Woodpecker sends arrows in different directions to find out where the wife is; born to S. the son picks up his father's arrow; they all come to the Sun; he 1) tells the Woodpecker to kill the jaguar (the wife warns to shoot in the face, the Woodpecker brings a jaguar); 2) bring a certain aquatic plant; The capybara gives it to the Woodpecker, but the Sun demands that the Woodpecker rip it off himself; the Woodpecker swallows the water monster Lek; the Sun drains the lake, takes the Woodpecker out of Lek's womb, revives it; the water disappears, remains only in the Woodpecker's well, he does not give it to his father-in-law; he runs away from the Sun with his wife, who cannot catch up with the fugitives]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989a, No. 276:363-365.