F82A. What the owl is screaming about .59.68.

To lure a forbidden marriage partner into his hammock, the character screams with the voices of birds and animals or interprets their voices in his own way.

Guiana. Vapishana [the husband is away, the daughter-in-law hears the scream of an owl, asks her father-in-law what the owl is screaming about; the father-in-law each time replies that she tells me to outweigh the hammock closer, climb into the hammock to his father-in-law; then (after copulation) â€" to get back into your hammock, hang it in its old place; after that, my father-in-law says he no longer understands what the owl is screaming about]: Wirth 1950:211.

Southern Amazon. Mehinacu [in the village of vultures (= birds in general) is a festival of piercing boys' ears; but there were no hats for boys to dance in; The Bat saw his mother-in-law's huge labia; lured her into the hollow of a tree, where he had previously inherited her to think that people lived in the hollow; hung hammocks at different ends; various animals and birds came to the fire; mother-in-law asks what they are all screaming; To make you closer to me; when my mother-in-law hears the voice of a jaguar, lies down in a hammock with her son-in-law, copulates; the Bat cuts off her labia, fills many baskets; gives it to ducks, turkeys and other birds; those they make their tufts and folds on their throat]: Gregor 1985:191-192; paresis [a woman persuades her son-in-law to take her to the garden instead of his wife; a bird screams at night; every time her mother-in-law interprets her scream as advice to lie closer and then have sex; at night, a man's leg hangs from a hammock; an owl pecks around it; a man turns into a demon with a spear leg]: Pereira 1986, No. 28:339-342; Rickbacza [husband is going to go for edible flying ants; the wife says she should cook, sends her mother with her husband; at night, the son-in-law lies down in a hammock, mother-in-law by the fire on the ground; the son-in-law first screams with the voices of birds, then larger animals; when imitating a jaguar, his mother-in-law lies down in his hammock out of fear; in the morning he is ashamed, the ants are almost all scattered; his mother-in-law turned into a monkey; his wife went to look for her, understood what cases, turned her husband into a deer]: Pereira 1994, No. 10:109-112.