Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

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.