F65C. Imaginary dead man: a boy reveals a lie.
.35.39.44.46.48.-.50.
A person pretends to be dead (to marry a daughter or to be able to eat meat from caught animals alone). One of his youngest children identifies his (adopted) father or notices that the imaginary deceased is alive (runs away from the funeral fire, laughs, etc.).
Western Siberia. See F65B motif. Nenets; Ents.
SV Asia. See F65B motif. Chukchi; coastal Koryaks (Alutors); itelmen; Russified, probably tundra Yukaghirs.
The Midwest. See motive F64 [son recognizes father in sister's husband]. Ojibwa (western); western marsh crees; steppe crees.
Plains. See motive F64 [son recognizes father in sister's husband]. Crowe; santi; skidy pawnee; (cf. sarsi [a woman has a husband and a seven-year-old son; she wants to go to her lover; hides a blood bubble under her clothes, pretends to be bleeding as if she is dying, telling her husband to leave her body in a tree not high above the ground; her lover lowers her to the ground, dresses her in men's clothes, passes her off as a friend; she visited her son, gave him a bow and arrows; her husband suspected something, gathered people, told everyone to do it arrows, the woman did not know how, did bad; the husband left her and her lover in the tipi, rushed at his wife with a knife; he shouted that he would become a partridge, flew up, but her husband managed to cut off one leg, the woman flew up to the sky has become the moon; an unfaithful wife is said to be like the moon]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 16:17-18).
California. See motive F64. Monache; kawaiisu; kitanemook.
Big Pool. See motive F64 [Coyote's son notices his father rolling down from the funeral fire but others don't believe him]: Owens-Vely Payute; Northern Payute: Kelly 1938, No. 14a [Coyote caused a storm. sent his daughter to fix the roof, saw enough of her vulva from below, which was larger than her mother's; says that his teeth hurt and he dies, tells him not to bury him but to leave him on the funeral fire, not leave without looking back; tells the daughter to marry a certain person; the son looks around, sees the father jump off the fire; that man comes to marry; the boy hunts rats with his sister's husband, finds out father on a rotten tooth; tells the mother; she tells her daughter to look in her husband's head, the daughter recognizes her father; the mother tries to hit the Coyote with a stick, he runs away; returns when her daughter has a child with him ], 14b [Coyote doesn't have a wife (widower?) ; he pretends to be dying, tells his daughter to put him on the funeral fire, marry a man with an eagle feather on his hat; brother turns around, notices that the father has jumped off the fire; son and daughter come to the camp where Coyote is staying; the daughter sleeps with him; hunting rats, the son recognizes his father by his rotten tooth; son and daughter have run away from him]: 404, 404-405; Palmer 1946 [seven small stars {obviously the Pleiades} - mother, son and five daughters; when they lived on earth, the father said that he was dying, let them put him on a pile of firewood, set him on fire, and immediately leave; but the son looked around and saw his father roll down from the fire; said to his mother, told them to run to heaven; the father looked for them, could not find a trace; the son laughed, the father looked up, but was too old to jump into heaven after his family; the father took aim, the son turned an arrow with three stars in a row; his father turns those who rose into stars and his son into a coyote; when a coyote howls, he misses his family]: 11-14; Steward 1936, No. 23 (Owens-Valley) [Coyote sends both daughters repair the roof to compare their vaginas; feigns death; dressed as a Shoshone Indian, marries his eldest daughter; son recognizes him by his teeth when hunting rats; daughter/wife recognizes him by taking him out of his head insects (text ends)]: 381; northern shoshones; western shoshones; southern payutes; [son identifies husband as father's sister]; chemeeuvi [like southern payutes]; utah: Givó ; n 2013, No. 5 (southern Utah) [Sinawav sees seven cranes flying to fight, he asks to take him with them; the cranes each gave him a pen; but then S. wrote in front of them and, while he was sleeping, the cranes took him away feathers flew away; S. asks them to kill a pregnant woman and bring him fruit; the cranes did it, this baby is a girl, S. raised her as a daughter; offered to go to his relatives; they decided pass her off as the one who will 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; the 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 laid on a pile of brushwood when he dies and leave without looking back; the eldest daughter should be passed off as someone who would come on a white horse dressed in a cougar skin; the son looked around and noticed that S. had rolled down from a pile of brushwood; the daughter was passed off as someone on a white horse; the son noticed that the daughter's husband lacked the same teeth as her father; then the daughters took 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]: 31-43; Lowie 1924 (southern Utah) [Suawavi has a son and two daughters; he sees the eldest's genitals when she repairs the roof; intentionally steps on a sharp bone, pretends to be dying; tells him not to look at his funeral fire, to migrate to a large village; daughters to marry a man with an otter quiver; the son recognizes S. by specks on her teeth, hunting rats; daughter tells her mother that when copulating, her husband sucks her breasts (the same was the case with S.'s wife); the wife tells S. to turn into a wolf; he tells them to become stars; these four stars seen in the evening], No. 15:28-30.
The Great Southwest. See motive F64. Coyote's son notices that his father jumped off the burial bed. Lipan; chiricahua; mescalero; navajo; havasupai; yavapai.