Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

F72. Simulated rape. 43.50.

The woman asks the man to tie her so that it seems from the outside that she is being raped before copulation.

The coast is the Plateau. Tillamook [Wild Woman finds a flycatcher boy, raises him as a grandson; makes him want; asks what he wants by offering any things; when asked if he wants to copulate, gets the answer: Yes; tells her to tie her arms, legs and neck so that it seems like she was being raped; a passerby looks into the house at this time, tells others; since then relatives don't copulate with each other]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 16:61-62.

The Great Southwest. Havasupai: Smithson, Euler 1994:78-79 [Turkey's wife asks the Flycatcher to tie her legs to the pillars of the house; husband discovers lovers in this position], 119 [The Bat copulates like this with by his wife].