Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue translated by Jon F White

Introduction
Bibliography
Ethnicities and habitats

F78. Toothy anus. 39.55.62.66.72.

The character has teeth in the anus or a second head in place of the anus.

Koryaks, Kogi, Marubo, Tucano, Toba.

SV Asia. Reindeer Koryaks [Ememkut hunts; the Kala woman tells him to give her his snowshoes, or she will let the dogs down; E. gives them away, he tears them with his toothy anus, calls the dogs, they are bears, they they kill E.; the same with the brothers E. Big Light and Self-Created, with his sister's husband Illa; his father The Creator sends his last brother named Thot-Who-Paints His Belly; he doesn't give snowshoes, kills bears, knocks out grinding teeth in the anus of feces, killing it; revives the brothers]: Jochelson 1908, No. 24:166-168.

The Northern Andes. Kogi: Preuss 1926, No. 9 [cannibal Taimu eats fish with his anus, has a second pair of eyes on the back of his head]: 194-195; Reichel-Dolmatoff 1985 (2), No. 7 [Kashinduqua eats anus], 10 [Teimu eats fish with her anus]: 44 (note 89), 55.

Montagna â€" Jurua. Marubo [a man killed a jaguar eating young corn leaves on his property; while the man was fishing, the victim's brother came, ate his wife, took her form, lay face down in her hammock; husband I understood the deception when he saw the imaginary wife eat fish with her mouth and back; the jaguar ran into the hole; the man started a fire, the jaguars suffocated, but the three jaguarichs ran away, then returned, revived their husbands]: Melatti 1984:157-158.

NW Amazon. Tucano [second head in place of the anus]: Fulop 1956:340.

Chaco. Toba [Hawk's son tells his father that a cannibal with a toothy anus blows winds on a person who approaches her and kills him; the Hawk throws stones and clods of earth, covering her ass and knocking out her teeth; she dies]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989a, No. 330:424-425.