F9. Dangerous woman.
.11.-.13.15.-.17.19.20.22.-.53.55.-.69.72.74.
For various reasons, intercourse with a woman is mortally dangerous for a man, or he thinks it is.
Teeth, blades or sharp stones in the vagina or inner thighs; the vagina is a toothy mouth. See motif F9A.
(Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, Frisians, Germans of Austria), Arabs of southeastern Iran, Kiwai, Bondo, Sora, Bhuya, Asur, Korku, Juang, Agaria, Maria, Muria, Dhoba, Dom, Kond, Pardhan, Solor, Tingyan, Apayao, Atayal, Paiwan, Rukai, Puyuma, Koreans (Russians, Ukrainians), Abkhazians (Finns, Eastern Saami), Kets, Evens, Nivkhs, Udege, Nanai, Ainu, Tsugaru, Noto, Okinawa, Japanese, Chukchi, Yukaghir, Aleut, Inupiat of northern Alaska, Upper Tanana, Haida, Tsimshian, Bellakula, Kwakiutl, Chilcotin, Shuswap, Lillooet, Thompson, Comox, Pentlatch, Halcomelem, Upper Chehalis, Clackamas, Upper Cowlitz, Western Sahaptin, Nez Perce, Upper Coquil, Takelma, Sandy Lake Cree, Naskapi, Montagnais, Blackfoot, Crow, Mandan, Iowa, Otoe, Arapaho, Pawnee, Wichita, Natchez, Koasati, Yurok, Eastern Pomo, Maidu, Northern Paiute, Mono (Owens Valley), Western and Northern Shoshone, Gosiute, Chumehuevi, Southern Paiute, Southern Ute, Havasupai, Walapai, Yavapai, Navajo, Jicarilla, Western Apache, Chiricahua, Hopi, Huichol, Otomi, Aztec, Wawe, Zoque, Mixtec, Tzotzil, Chiriqui, Kogi, Guajiro, Sicuani, Warrau, Coreguaje, Ziona, Secoya, Mayhuna, Desana, Macu, Yagua, Mundurucu, Chavin, Nazca, Amahuaca, Mehinaku, Caduveo, Nivacle, Mataco, Toba.
Pike's mouth. See motif F9a1.
Spaniards, Portuguese (?), French (Picardy, Vosges), Dutch, Frisians, Germans (Austria), Serbs, Bulgarians, Russians (place of recording unknown), Ukrainians (Lviv, Poltava, Kharkov, Kursk), Finns, Mari, Central (?) Yakuts, Far Eastern (?) Evenks (Yakutia), Forest Yukaghirs.
Piranha in the vagina.
Sikuani, makiritare, Yanomami, Wapishana, Taruma, Vaiwai, Hishkaryana, Siona, Maihuna, Tariana, Yukuna, Desana, Kabiyari, Mehinaku, Kalapalo, Karazha, Tapirape, Maka.
A snake (in Oceania – a moray eel) in a vagina; the vagina is a snake's mouth; a snake crawls out of a woman's mouth and bites a man during intercourse; a woman with a toothed vagina is associated with a snake. See motif F9C.
Trobrianders, Tuamotus (Wahitahi), Bengalis, Agaria, Gonds, Lohar, Tsimshian, Thompson, Steppe Ojibwa, Seneca, Paugi, Pomo, Yokuts, Aztecs, Soque, Mixtec, Cozumalguapa, Warrau, Shipibo, Chacobo, Mehinaku, Nivacle, Chorote, toba.
Stinging insects in the vagina or on the pubis. See motif F9D.
Naskapi, Sikuani, Oyana, Bara, Tariana, Bare, Huitoto, Maue, Shipibo, Marubo, Mehinaku, Kalapalo, Paresi.
Mice in the vagina. See motif F9E.
Kuchin, upper tanana, han, tagish, casque, yellowknife, beaver, chipewayan.
Asmodeus: a demon who kills a woman's suitors on her wedding night without her knowledge. See motif F9F.
Book of Tobit, Socotra, Kashmiris, Bengalis, Sindhis, Oraons, Santals, Gonds, Sinhalese, Serbs, Bulgarians, Albanians, Romanians, Abkhazians, Avars, Tabasarans, Rutuls, Tsakhurs, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Talysh, Kurds, Persians, Tajiks, Norwegians (Eastern Saami, Estonians), Mari, Uighurs, Dungans.
Other variations of the motive.
Manden, Shambhala, Bondei and Zigula, Somali, Portuguese, Mono (Shortland Islands), Woleai (Carolines) [bivalves], Burmese, Baiga, Chinese, South Altai Tuvans, Inner Mongolian Mongols (Japanese), Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Olonetskaya, Tula), (Eastern Saami), Oroch, Yukaghir, Itelmen, Inupiat of northern Alaska (Selawik), Polar, East Greenland (Angmassalik, Kulusuk), Koyukon, Upper Kuskokwim, Southern Tutchone, Nootka, Twana, N'Perce, Upper Kokwil, Takelma, Passamaquoddy, Wappo, Tzotzil, Taulipan, Colorado, Quechua (Conchucos, Ancash dep.), hissing, Eseeha, southern Tehuelche.
Bantu-speaking Africa. Karanga [the god Moari created a man Mwuetsi ("Moon") at the bottom of a lake; he came out onto empty land; the god gave him a wife Mossassi ("Morning Star"), she gave birth to plants; he took her away, gave him a wife Morongo ("Evening Star"), she gave birth to domestic animals; the next morning after repeated copulation she gave birth to sons and daughters, they immediately became adults; the god warned against further copulation, but Mwuetsi did not listen; the wife gave birth to predators, snakes, scorpions; then she ordered her husband to take their adult daughters as wives; she herself slept with a snake; Mwuetsi wanted to sleep with her, the snake was under the bed, bit him, he fell ill, the rains stopped; his children strangled him, burned him, Morongo also killed, chose another ruler]: Frobenius 1931: 237-240 (=Frobenius, Fox 1937: 215-220; paraphrased in Abrahamsson 1951: 72); Shambhala , Bondei and Zigula [the hunter and ancestor Scheuta met a female elephant; she stretched out his penis so that he could have intercourse with her; gave him a means of making his penis longer or shorter at will; the woman Bangwe killed the men who slept with her; Scheuta killed her by making his penis long during intercourse]: Scheub 2000: 225-226.
West Africa. Manden [(episode from the Sunjata epic); two brothers kill a buffalo with a silver tail and golden horns; the chief offers to choose the best girl as a reward; on the advice of an old woman they take the ugly hunchback Sogolon Kudum; she does not allow them to mate with her, they give her to the ruler Nare Famagan Cenyi the Handsome in exchange for his sister; his magic knife transforms her (warts disappear, her back straightens); var.: he takes possession of her by putting the knife to her throat; her pubic hair was made into porcupine quills; after the marriage the woman stretches her head out of the hut to the square to watch the dances); Sunjata is born; a little later another wife, Susuma Barete, gives birth to another son, but her messenger comes to the father earlier, he considers her son the firstborn; S. is bewitched, cannot get to his feet; (then gets up, brings a baobab; creates the state of Mali)]: Belcher 2005: 402.
Sudan - East Africa. Somalis [an old woman advises a young man not to go into the city, because the Sultan's daughter has a snake belt, at the entrance there is a man-eating dog and a man-eating camel; he must give the camel grass, the dog meat, touch the snake's head with a staff, it will die; the young man does so, marries the Sultan's daughter]: Kirk 1904, No. 5: 322.
Southern Europe. Spanish (?) [{in a Tzotzil Maya text in Chiapas, a fool believes that there are teeth in the vagina; the plot may go back to a European tradition; a similar variant among the Creoles of Ecuador (Guayas Province, Carvalho-Neto 1994: 356-360) is clearly not connected with Indian folklore}]: Laughlin 1977, no. 138: 56; Laughlin, Karasik 1988: 148-149; Portuguese {motif described in the index, details not given} [an old woman arranges for a wolf's paw to be caught in a log; having escaped, the wolf runs away from another woman, whose genitals look even more dangerous than the crack in the log; or a man catches the paw of a lion, wolf, or fox; then they see that man with his wife and think that he is doing to her the same thing that he did to them]: Cardigos 2006, no. 38: 26.
Western Europe. The French (Picardy) [a father has three daughters, aged 22, 21 and 18; the eldest asked to be married; the father promised to give an answer in 8 days; the time came and he called all the daughters in turn, asking each how many mouths she had and which was older; eldest: the upper one, because teeth have already grown in it, but the lower one has not yet; middle one: the lower one, because it is surrounded by a moustache, but they have not yet grown around the upper one; youngest: I already know everything; my upper mouth has teeth and no moustache, and the lower one has no teeth, but has a moustache; the upper one is older, because it no longer sucks, and the lower one keeps asking to suck; my cousin gave him the breast twice yesterday evening; after that the father, caring for her reputation, gave the youngest daughter in marriage before all the others]: Kryptadia 1907, no. 48: 87-89; French (Vosges) [three girls are asked in succession: of your two mouths, which is the older? first: the top one - it already has teeth, but the bottom one does not yet; second: the bottom one - it has already grown a beard, but the top one does not; third: the top one - this baby was still sucking last night]: Kryptadia 1898: 387; Flemings [the priest's maid is his mistress; one day he fell ill and she tried to use an eel instead of a penis; but the eel remained in her vagina; and when the priest recovered, he bit off, the eel grabbed hold of the head of his penis and the priest pulled it out together with his penis; "I do not ask what an eel is doing in your vagina, but I protest against you using my penis as a fishing rod!"]: Kryptadia 1888: 315-317; Germans {only the south?}, Dutch , Frisians : Uther 2004(2), No. 1686A*: 373-374.
Western Asia. Arabs of the southeastern coast of Iran (the area of Minab and the villages between the ports of Lenge and Bushehr; the islands of the Strait of Hormuz) [Menmendas appears in the guise of a young and very beautiful woman. The thighs of Menmendas are sharp and jagged like a saw on the inside. Menmendas wanders in the mountains, carrying a box of jewelry, which she never lets go of. Men, seeing Menmendas, immediately fall madly in love with her and follow her. Menmendas soon begins to flirt with the man following her and leads him into some abandoned hut. In the hut, Menmendas lies down and, placing the box of jewelry under her head, spreads her legs. If the man has heard of Menmendas and guessed, p. who he is dealing with, he must pick up a handful of sand from the ground and, when Menmendas lies down, throw the sand into her eyes - in this case, the man will be able to steal the box and run away. But if the man is confused and ignorant and is overcome by carnal passion, Menmendas squeezes him between his legs and saws him in half with her thighs]: Saedi1977: 82.
Melanesia. Trobrianders [Dokanikani man-eating aunts, less than 10 in number; the youngest gave birth to a human girl named Buriwada; when she was still small, they introduced a moray eel into her womb; during copulation, it bit off the men's penises, they died, and the man-eaters cooked them in an earthen oven; one man gave the old woman betel, but the others did not; she warned him of the danger; he lured the moray eel by throwing a B. fish between her legs; the moray eel stuck out, he cut it in half, and then took the pieces to the man-eaters to cook; copulated with the B. all night]: Leach, Jarillo 2021: 149-150; mono (Shortland Islands): Wheeler 1926, no. 23 [woman refused, man finally had sex with her, apu bit him on the penis, woman ran away; what an apu is is unclear, possibly a moray eel], 63 [man satisfied himself by thrusting his penis into a hole in a rock; he was bitten by a centipede; "probably based on actual fact"]: 40, 42.
Micronesia – Polynesia. Woleai [men who come to the island disappear; four brothers named Luche, Luyol, Lugarawa, Lumawo decide to find out what is going on; Lugarawa comes to a woman, she directs him to her beautiful daughter, he lies with her, a bivalve shell in her vagina bites off his penis; the mother roasts the body, eats it; the same with the others, Luche remains; he takes with him a stick made of hard wood for opening shells; he puts it in the vagina, turns it, the young woman dies; Luche makes a cannibal revive the eaten ones from the bones; this time she ate her daughter]: Mitchell 1973, no. 65: 187-189; Truk, Yap Islands , Palau [ " I have located the tale from Truk westward to Palau"; in the Palau version the woman does not intend to kill her husband; he lures the eel out of the vagina with bait; this scene is often carved into storyboards; on Ulithi the motif of the toothed womb]: Mitchell 1973: 260.
South Asia. Baiga [The hare married, the wife squeezed him to death, pressing her thighs together tightly]: Elwin 1949, No. 5: 376.
China – Korea. Chinese [he who has intercourse with a virgin dies; no one wants a virgin; one man unknowingly did this, but the girl saved him; the motive was recorded as early as the beginning of the 19th century in Guangdong; it was believed to be leprosy]: Eberhard 1968: 134.
The Balkans. Serbs [a shepherd was sitting by a fire eating cheese; his sister was sitting next to him; her skirt rose up and he saw her genitals; he asked what was there; sister: a wolf; shepherd: cover it, or my dick will knock off the cheese that was lying on my lap]: Krauss 2009(1), no. 128: 352-353; Serbs [a young man was pestering an aunt; she placed a pike head between her legs and squeezed her thighs; the young man promised that he would never ask for pussy again; when his father married him, he told his wife that pussy bites; wife: she has no teeth; the young man tied his wife's legs to the sides of the cart, her hands behind her back and saw a tooth in her pussy; he got scared and ran away; the helpless wife rode the cart into her parents' yard; an insatiable pussy is called a pike, or more often a carp; variant: wife lifted her legs and farted; guy: at least the aunt didn’t bark]: Krauss 2009(1), no. 200: 417–418 (similar text: no. 202: 419–420); Bulgarians [a young man and a girl wanted to get married, but the girl had already lost her virginity and was afraid of a scandal; her mother taught her to insert a duck’s beak into her vulva; during their wedding night, the groom decided that the vulva had bitten him and told his friends about it]: Konstantin Rangochev and Rosen Malchev, recorded in the late 1980s (Rangochev, personal communication, May 15, 2017).
Central Europe. Russians (Karelian Pomorie: Sumsky Posad) [the old people have a son, Naplot; they bought him some skins, he cut them all up; he did this three times; then they tied him to a raft and floated him out to sea; the ship picked him up, N. answers incomprehensibly, the captain orders him to be thrown overboard, but even 10 people cannot move his legs; the tsar's son comes out of the cabin; they became brothers; N. warns that more than 20 people have already suffered from Anna the Beautiful; but it's okay, everything will be fine; after the wedding, he orders I. not to let AP put his foot on him, let him ask permission to go; N. lies down instead of I.; AP slammed his foot and arm into the wall; then I. went; having learned from him that N. had been with her before, AP went with him in a carriage, cut off his legs and threw them away; a blind man and an armless man gathered to see him; together they kidnapped the princess so that she would cook for them; the witch comes to suck her breast; her friends seized her, began to beat her with iron rods, forced her to bring them to the living and dead water, were healed, the witch was burned, the ashes were scattered; at this time I. was grazing goats at AP, with a cast-iron hat on his head; N. took AP to the bathhouse and beat him with an iron rod; she promised to wash I.'s feet and drink {this} water; AP and I. began to live happily ever after and acquire wealth]: Razumova, Senkina 1974, no. 50: 250-255; Russian (Olonets: Shokshozero) [Ivan Tsarevich went to woo in foreign lands; his sister learned that his bride would kill him; Nikita Mol is in prison; he promises to help if the princess releases him and to find 39 more Nikitas as companions; the ship landed, there was noise on the mountain: three were dividing an invisibility cap; the NM shot an arrow - whoever was faster after it; took the cap; in another place - a self-assembled tablecloth and a jug with 12 spouts; the same; in a third place they took two people to themselves: one is good at steaming in a bathhouse, the other - at eating; the princess orders to steam in a hot bathhouse, the companion cooled him down; to eat a lot; the other companion ate everything; to prepare shoes, which she has; the NM in the invisibility cap stole the shoes, the craftsmen made new ones for the princess; to prepare dinner (the self-assembled tablecloth); they got married; the NM went to bed; the princess threw her leg over him to press him down, but it didn’t work; all is well]: Onchukov 2000, No. 56: 214-215; Russian(Tula) [an old man advises a childless king to catch a yellow-mouthed pike in his pond and give it to the queen to eat; the servants are pulling in only an empty net; the old man: throw some in for me; they pulled out a pike; the maid fried it, ate it, sent it to the queen, and gave the slops to the mare; the son of the maid is Bur-Khraber, the queen is Ivan Tsarevich, the mare is Dmitry; they grow up, make jokes, tearing off others' legs and heads, and go off to wander; BH could not find a horse to suit himself, so he went on foot; I. ordered a club weighing 3 poods, tossed it up, put his hand under it, the club bent, but he is happy; D. - 5 poods (same); BH - 12 poods, the club broke; ordered 24 poods, it bent, BH took it for himself; they approached a hut, only BH managed to open it, now he is the boss; elder: under the stone there is a horse behind 12 cast-iron doors; only BH moved the stone, beat the horse until he tamed it; I., D. jumped on their horses over the sea, fell into the water, the snake swallowed them; BH jumped over the sea, the snake flies after; BH saddled him, threw three hot bullets into his mouth weighing 3, 6, 12 poods; orders to cough up; then orders to cough up the brothers; orders to take them to living and dead water; he first brought them to a well in which there was dead water; BH threw a twig, it was torn apart; had to bring them to living water; BH revived the brothers, and threw the snake into a well with dead water; they arrived in the kingdom, the queen married I., put her hand on him, he almost suffocated; BH lay down in his clothes, wore out three copper rods, three iron and three tin on the queen; sent Ivan: now she is meek; having learned that BH had beaten her, the princess suggested that he be destroyed; they gouged out his eyes, and cut off Dmitry's legs; D. sat astride BH, and so they went; they stole the tsar's daughter to keep house; the snake torments her; BH again seized the snake, forced him to bring her to the living and dead water, restored his sight, and Dmitry's legs; I. came to the kingdom; his wife forced him to herd pigs; he began to ask for forgiveness; BH dressed in his clothes; the wife was frightened, did not come out; the brothers went home]: Erlenwein 1882: 102-108; Russians (place of recording not specified) [a girl and a stupid guy are talking, being on different sides of a fence; in response to an immodest proposal, the girl sticks the toothy mouth of a pike through the fence (tyn)] Afanasyev 1992, no. 13: 8-19 (=SUS 1979, no. 1425***: 299; =Uspensky 1993: 125); Ukrainians (Galicia: Lviv) [First wedding night. The newlyweds are lying in bed. The wife asks: "Petro, come on, you can already." The husband: "No, I won't." Wife: "Petro, we're already married." The husband: "No, I won't, mom says she bites." Wife: "You're kind of weird. Give me your finger. Touch her." He touches. Wife: "Well?" The husband: "I still won't." Wife: "Don't be afraid. Look, do you have teeth?" He looks. Wife: “Well?” Husband: “No teeth, but the gums are very neglected”]: Kimakovich 2005: 39-40; Ukrainians: Grisha 1899, No. 60 (Poltava region, village of Tsipki, Gadyatsky district) [women sang at a wedding: "And our matchmaker has a bast hut, and behind those bast groves is a pussy with teeth, I would bite, but I'm afraid to approach"]: 150 (=Vovk 1898: 158, =Sulima 2001: 158); Evarnitsky 1906, No. 671 (Kharkiv region) [song at weddings after the defloration ritual (translation): "I ate cheese, I ate cheese, I smeared my teeth with fat, if there was sausage and baked piglet, I would eat more"]: 577 (=Krasikov 2003, No. 265: 90); Ukrainians (Kurskaya, Belgorodsky district, Shebekino village) [A mother sits on a high porch, with her legs wide apart. A three- or four-year-old son sits at his mother's feet, looks up, and sees her genitals under her skirt. He says: "Mom, mom, cover up your pothole, or I'm afraid she'll eat me." - "You're stupid, what are you afraid of? She gave birth to you." - "Yeah, she did, and she gave birth, but I'm afraid she'll eat you"]: Tarasevskyj 1909b No. 29: 16.
Baltoscandia. Finns : Uther 2004(2), No. 1686A*: 373-374; (cf. Eastern Sami (Kildin dialect; Russian borrowing) [the son grew up tall (and strong), the father could not find clothes for him, decided to push him into the water; the boy fell, pulling the entire pier with him; the father drowned, and the boy - now his name is Pop-float - floated on a log; he was picked up by a ship; the prince sails on it to marry the daughter of another king; when he returns with his young wife, he is barely alive in the morning: she crushed him, putting her hand on him, then her leg ; P. volunteers to take his place, throws away his hand, leg; tells the prince that it is now safe; having learned who slept with her, the girl suggested P. turn over three times on the shore and touch her chest with his feet, cut off his legs with a knife; swam back on the ship; P. crawled, ended up in the house of a legless and blind man; a mistress is needed; the king will give his daughter to the one who takes the ring off her, when she is at the window on the top floor; the blind man carries P., throws her up three times, the third time P. carries the girl away; Baba Yaga comes to her, asks her to take out lice, falls asleep, putting her head on her lap; when the men return, the girl is pale; having learned what the matter is, they ordered Baba Yaga's head to be put on a bench; they tied her by her braids, began to beat her so that she would give them living water; she gave it, they tried to revive the duck - it doesn't work; they beat her again, Baba Yaga gave other water; they revived the duck; they anointed their legs, arms, eyes, became whole and healthy; P. married that princess]: Kert 1961, No. 34: 120-124).
Volga - Perm. Mari [an innocent guy asks a young woman to give him what the Mari women give; she pretends not to understand; finally tells him to come to the fence after dark; she herself stands on the other side, lifts his shirt and puts a pike head to his genitals; when the guy inserts his penis, she clamps it with her teeth; he is half dead from pain and horror; a mother tells her son to get married, finds a bride; after the wedding he does not touch his wife; she complains to her mother; the husband wants to make sure that his wife has no teeth in her vagina; for this he puts her on a cart, tying her hands and feet, lifts her shirt; the mare pulled the cart and brought it to the mother-in-law's house; the people see and laugh; the mother-in-law calls her son-in-law to the bathhouse and tells him to get together with her; he likes it; then she sends her daughter to the bathhouse; he got together with her too; all is well, the young people have many children]: Lewy 1989, No. 27: 42-45.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. South Altai Tuvans [silver and golden frogs closed a spring; an old man says that they will open the water by drinking the blood of two khan's twin sons; the boys swallowed the frogs themselves, the river carried them to a country where khans die on their wedding night; the elder twin becomes a khan, the younger sees an old woman next to his brother, and a wolf three fathoms away rolls in the ashes and runs away; the old man says that it is the soul of the shulmus that ran for the means to kill the khan; the younger kills the wolf with an arrow, it falls into the ground, the old woman is dead; the brothers are married to beauties]: Taube 1994, No. 28: 234-236; Mongols (probably Ordos; the chronicle legend of the death of Genghis Khan on the bed of Gurbeljin-goa, the widow of the defeated Tangut state; material highlighted by S. Yu. Neklyudov; the woman's name comes from yürbel, "lizard") [After spending 19 years {quietly}, the Lord .. went on a campaign against the Minag Shidurgu Khan. Shidurgu Khan turned into a snake. Then the Lord turned into Garudi. When Shidurgu Khan turned into a tiger, the Lord turned into a lion. When Shidurgu Khan turned into a boy, the Lord, turning into Khormustu, seized Shidurgu Khan. Shidurgu Khan said: "If you kill me, it will be bad for you. If you do not kill me, it will be bad for your descendants." The Lord said: "Whatever happens to my present body, let my descendants find prosperity!" When he was about to kill, Shidurgu Khan said: "Search my Khan's wife Gurbeljin-goa, starting with her black nails!" The Lord took Khan's wife Gurbeljin-goa as his wife. Khan's wife Gurbeljin-goa went to bathe in the Black River. Her father, Sashin-Dzhangin from the Chinese clan of Wu from the city of Irgay, had a domestic bird that delivered mail. (The Khan's wife) tied a message to its neck in which she wrote: "I will throw myself into this Black River and drown myself. Do not look for my bones below. Look upstream!" (After this) Gurbeljin-goa, holding the pincers in her secret place, mutilated the secret place of the Lord and ran away. Then, jumping into the Black River, she drowned herself. The black river in which the khan's wife died came to be called Khatun-gol {Huanghe, "Lady River"}.. After this, the illness of the Ruler became serious..]: Tsendyna 2017: 81; Shastina 1957: 133; comment. in Bawden 1961: 238; Mongols (Inner Mongolia) [Genghis Khan captured the Tubut khan, who lived in the Zhong wei mountains (Derisun-khoto); the captured khan says to him: "My wife has an evil mind." Genghis killed him and took his wife for himself. At night, she castrated Genghis with a razor (tongura) and he died, and she herself threw herself into the Khatun-gol River; she was carried down the river below Derisun-khoro and landed on the shore. Here they built a mound over her body]: Potanin 1893: 270.
Eastern Siberia. Central(?) Yakuts (location not specified) [a woman approached a cauldron and saw a reflection of a scary face in the oil; she immediately guessed that it was a nerietinnyik (spirit of the dead) who had climbed onto the yurt and was looking into the chimney; the woman took off her pants, took a spoon and began pretending to feed her vulva with oil; she said: “Look at her! She’s being capricious again – give her a golden spoon. I’ll have to go to the neighbors for a golden spoon, otherwise there’ll be trouble!”; then she got dressed, left and gathered the men; they threw a noose around the nerietinnyik , dragged him to the ground and hacked him to death with an axe]: Zhukova 2008: 40; (cf. Yakuts (place of entry not specified; Russian borrowing is highly probable) [the younger brother was stupid and pestered the elder brother's wife; before leaving, the elder gave his wife the dried head of a toothy pike; when the younger began pestering her at night, she presented him with the open pike's mouth; the younger got his penis in it, howled in pain, and ran away; the father proposed to marry the girl to him; the younger was afraid and teased her vulva with his finger; the girl drove him away; the elder said that women have teeth between their legs too and advised him to knock them out; the younger was married to another girl; he hit her between the legs with a wooden snuffbox; she drove him away]: Zhukova 2008: 40-41); Far Eastern (?) Evenks (Yakutia; group not specified; in the correlation table they are classified as Far Eastern) [the husband and children went into the forest, the woman stayed with the chum; while she was milking the deer, the devil came to her; she asked him if he wanted to see something he had never seen before; the devil said yes; the woman told him to watch from afar and climbed into the thistle thickets; the devil was afraid of them; in order to save the deer, the woman took off her suede panties and, spreading her legs, began to say: "My little girl, you haven't eaten for a long time, you're probably hungry. Here, eat a little, so that the milk will last until the evening"; then she began to feed her vulva, dipping her finger in the milk; the devil began to laugh and forgot about the deer; this continued until the evening, until the woman's husband came and shot the devil with a charmed arrow]: Zhukova 2008: 50-51).
Amur - Sakhalin. Orochi [seven seal hunters swim to a foreign shore; they see a young woman; five young men follow her one after another, disappear; two elderly men swim to another yurt; the old man explains that each of the young men died, falling into the vagina of that girl; both return home, become shamans]: Bereznitsky 1999, No. 5: 145-146.
( Cf. Japan. The Japanese [invite a handsome young man to the bedside of a sick girl; it is assumed that the disease will pass on to him]: Eberhard 1968: 134).
SV Asia. Forest Yukaghirs : Spiridonov 1996 [a woman was cooking food in a birch bark cauldron; she had two children with her; an ancient old man entered; the woman put the meat on the table, undressed and pretended to feed her vulva; said that she again did not want to eat without salt, began to beat her vulva with a talina; pretended to go to the neighbors for salt; they came running, tied up the fairy-tale old man and began to chop and burn; but they could not harm him; they let him go, but from then on he became invisible]: 50-51; (cf. Zhukova 2008 (Russian borrowing) [merchants came to trade at a fishing site; one began to pester a local girl; she wrapped a live pike in a rag, leaving only the eyes and mouth; at night a merchant came and approached the girl; she put the pike under her arm; the merchant stuck his penis in her mouth; he jumped out with a roar and left; he did not marry for a long time, and when he did, he did not touch his wife - he was afraid of her teeth; later, he still had children with her]: 30); Itelmens [ Kutku copulated with sea shells; one closed; Khakhi accidentally found a bitten off penis in a boiled shell, put it back on her husband, and cured him; one day, Kh. turned her genitals into a duck, and forced K. to speak in praise of this duck; K. began to kiss the duck and realized that he was kissing the vulva]: Steller 1999: 155.
Arctic. InupiatNorthern Alaska (Selawik) [Nunamiu and his wife Qimmiq have four sons, they wander off and disappear; N. conceives a fifth by lighting a fire to send sparks into his wife's vagina; a son, Qayaq, is born; his father magically cultivates strength and dexterity in him, gives him amulets made from the bodies of insects and small nimble animals (weasels, minks, shrews); having prepared a supply of food for his parents, Q. sets off up the Kobuk Valley in search of his brothers; his father tells him to take his uncle with him, whom he will meet on the way; an unfriendly man comes into Q.'s hut at a camp, he throws him out, the uncle turns into a woodpecker; at a beaver lodge he picks up a broken wolverine tooth; a man spends the night with him, leaves in the morning, it was a wolverine; Q. tells a man who approaches that his thumb eats people like him; a man runs away in fright, turns out to be a lynx; a gluttonous man behaves strangely, rushes at K. with a knife; K. suggests that he die in a fire, he jumps into the fire and is burned; in the village K. gets married; in the spring the wife expects her father to cut her open and take out the child; K. teaches her to give birth in the usual way; he goes further, meets a giant; he says that his two wives will come soon and start fighting; let K. hamstring both of them, first the one who comes from the sea, since she is aggressive; after urinating, the giant flooded an entire valley; K. does this, the giantesses bandage the wounds, the husband sends them to clean up the house; the wives live with the giant only in the spring; the giant kills a caribou with a torn larch; K. leaves, prepares material to make a boat, wants help; spies, sees the Fox girl roasting meat, the Squirrel melting resin, the Bird women sewing the planking of a boat, the Beaver preparing the frame and oars, the Raven - a dart for birds, the Wolf and Wolverine scraping out the bark, the Bear felling trees, clearing them of branches; then everyone dances, the Woodpecker beats the tambourine; K. jumps up, grabs the Fox, she remains human, the others run away in the form of animals and birds; in the summer K. swims down the Yukon, his wife turns into a fox again; K. meets his uncle, takes him with him; they see how a man breaks off splinters from a fir tree, they fall into the water, the small ones turn into trout, the large ones into salmon; thanks to this there are fish; on the shore there is a house, the bones and skulls of his brothers, a naked woman; K. throws the head of a bearded seal into her vulva, the head tears the cannibal apart; K. buries the bones; there is a shiny ball on a tree, it attracts K., he hangs in the trap; the cannibal brings it home, his two children say that the game has opened its eyes; the cannibals fall asleep, K. cuts off their heads; K.'s boat slips between the crushed rocks, only the oar is shattered; the giant in the boat and K. throw darts at each other, K.'s dart cuts off the giant's head; he enters the house, the giant's wife throws a ule, K. throws it at her, cuts off the head; the door is closed, he gets out, turning into a mouse; turns into a trout, bites off the point of the fisherman's spear; comes to him, offers to fix the spear, pierces the fisherman with it; turns into a salmon, gets into the fishermen's net; the chieftain's son eats the head, the bone gets stuck in his throat,he dies; the bones are thrown into a pit, K. is reborn, they shoot at him, he runs away; they swim to the sea; the uncle left, turning into a lynx; K. becomes a falcon; the leader of the Unalik people catches him, eats him, he is reborn from the bones, marries the leader's stepdaughter; he wanted her for himself; he sends a storm, drives K.'s boat into the open sea; K. burps up the pebbles given to him by his father, the wind subsides; K. burns the leader's face with this stone; he orders the log to be split into firewood; this is how he killed many of the stepdaughter's suitors; with the help of a weasel amulet, K. completes the task, the leader is surprised that K. is alive; the leader orders them to shoot partridges, K. kills a huge man-eating bird there; they cross an abyss on a log, K. falls, but returns unharmed; crawls out of the communal house as a caterpillar, where the chieftain wanted to burn him; K. dodges arrows fired at him, kills the chieftain's warriors himself; ties him naked to a post, leaves him in the cold; appoints a new chieftain, flies away as a falcon]: Ivanoff Brown 1981: 40-114;Polar (Smith Sound) [a woman with an iron tail devoured men; when a stranger came to her, she waited until he was asleep, and, springing into the air, fell upon the sleeping man, piercing him with her tail; one man pretended to fall asleep, but when she sprang, he rolled aside; the woman fell on a rock and broke her tail; the man fled in his kayak, she ran after him; approaching, she cried out: "Oh, if I could only thrust my knife into him!" At her cry, the man and his kayak nearly capsized, such was her strength; the man replied: "Oh, if I could only thrust my harpoon into her!" At his cry, the woman fell on the spot; and she killed no more - her tail was broken]: Rasmussen 1921: 83; East Greenland : Gessain 1958 (Angmassalik) [travellers to the house of the Man-in-the-Moon encounter a dangerous woman , Nalikatek ; she grimaces, trying to make them laugh; her genitals are covered by a live dog's head; during winter ritual games in the men's house, a man in a N. mask tries to make those gathered laugh; those who laugh or smile are beaten]: 583 (=1984: 87, fig.73); (cf. Millman 2004: 131-132 (Kulusuk) [husband is killed, wife gives birth to a son, he immediately demands a wife, mother swims with him to look for a wife; they fall into the hands of the dog-headed people, wife tries to bite off her husband's genitals, he kills her; in another place, wife has long nails, she skins husbands, boy kills her; in a third place, wife is childless, husband kills her, people are outraged, force him to take a woman no one wants; she is boring, husband cries at the graves of three previous wives], 141-142 (Angmassalik) [Anniguaq woman has a sharp iron tail; when a man sleeping with her falls asleep, she stabs him to death; she kills men in this way; hunter Saqaq does not sleep, turns away, A. breaks the tip of the tail; when S. swims away, A. tries to drown him by magic, but S. gets out of the whirlpool, orders A.'s tail to drown; the tail falls off, drowns, A. does not kill any more men]).
Subarctic. Koyukon [brothers disappear one after another; the youngest Betohoh (then called K'etetaalkkaanee, "He who rowed {in the boat} among people and animals") goes in search; many encounters with people who turn out to be different animals; finally B. swims to a woman who is scraping human skin; offers B. human flesh, he says he is not hungry; goes along a path, there is a lake; the head of one of the brothers rolls out of the lake; advises him to put a stone on his chest at night; the woman takes B. to her bed; gets up at night and sharpens something; B. puts the stone on his chest; the woman sits on it, the blade coming out of her body from behind breaks; his boat is tied to the shore; he sends the woman for water, cuts the ropes unnoticed, swims away, the woman swims after him; he kills a beaver, falls asleep on a shallow; waking up, sees a woman who has managed to skin a beaver and make a blanket from its fresh skin; B. kills the woman]: Attla 1990: 120-125; Upper Kuskokwim [two sons complain to their father that their uncle Ch'ititazkane only sits at home, asks them to melt snow, bring him a drink; the father advises them to bring his brother water with dog shit; Ch. is offended, leaves; the man kills beavers, bakes one, gives it to Ch.; in the morning there is no sign of a fire, it was a wolverine; Ch. makes a boat; uses the breastbone of a black grouse (Dendragapus canadensis) as a pattern for the frame; asks who will sew a birch bark covering; hears a response from the forest and from the coastal willows; spies on two pretty young girls sewing; in the morning he sees that one has small stitches, the other large, and her hair is disheveled; unravels large stitches, calls again, the neat girl finishes her work; Ch. tries to grab her, but she flew away; Ch. tars a boat, floats down the river; someone from the shore tried to grab him, Ch. stabbed the attacker in the eye; it was a mouse, that's why mice have small eyes; Ch. sees a trap on the river, falls into it, pretends to be dead; the catcher brings him home, is surprised that the prey is letting out the winds; puts a club under Ch.'s head, he jumps up, kills the owner, hits the old woman on the tail, that's why wolverines have flat tails; the wolverine's wife climbed a tree, began to write from there; Ch. left her alone, returned to the boat; a man is harpooning salmon; Ch. turns into a salmon, takes away the tip; it is a seagull's beak; Ch. comes to the man, the man asks if it was he who deprived him of the tip; a girl comes to Ch. at the camp; he sees that she has been dressing human skin; does not get along with her, wants to know how she kills people; she spreads his legs, thrusts a stick, takes out half; thinks that she has killed him; but he jumps up, kills her with a club; they come to people who do not know what sleep is; he falls asleep, they think that he is dead; he teaches them to sleep; Ch. sees a bear sleeping on the shore, sticking out his backside smeared with blueberries; Ch. tells him that he will not sleep like that; the bear runs away into the forest; since then bears do not sleep near the shore]: Deaphon et al. sa: 74-84; southernTutchone [Äsúya (smart, Beaver) is floating down the river in a boat; ropes with human bones are stretched across the river; they rattle when touched; Ä. touches the second one, Chäzhru (Ch., Mink woman) comes out; tries to feed Ä. human flesh, give her her urine to drink; Mouse secretly gives Ä. roots to eat; Ch. killed men stunned by her urine, devouring them in bed with her backside {rectum; apparently, still with her vagina}; Ä. asks Mouse to make a hole in Ch.'s boat, swims away in his own; Ch. chases, drowns; on an island he leaves the mittens given to Ch. on a branch; when he wakes up, he sees Ch. herself there; she is sleeping on her back, with her legs spread, in order to devour whoever lies with her; he pierces her bottom (vagina?) with a red-hot spear, burns the corpse]: Workman 2000: 105-106.
NW Coast. Nootka [Kwotiath catches halibut and shellfish, Shark swims around the boat, eats all the fish; next time he thrusts his harpoon into her; goes to look for the wounded woman, sees an unfamiliar village near the shore, singing is heard from the house; a slave asks if K. is a shaman, to cure the woman; he sees his harpoon in the sick woman's back, the others do not see it; he is promised one of the sick woman's two daughters, he bargains for both; takes out the harpoon, the woman is cured; he brings the wives home, but their rough skin rubs his penis and makes it fall off; he throws it ashore; the place is now called Prickly Coast]: Boas 1895, no. 2: 99-100.
Coast-Plateau. Twana : Adamson 1934 [see motif A5, A20; one of two sisters has a baby Moon; while the sisters dig roots, their mother rocks the boy on a swing; two women substitute a piece of driftwood for him; the mother sends birds and animals to find him; Blue Jay finds him; on the way home Moon destroys monsters; kills a woman who cuts off men's penises (toothed womb?)]: 374-378; ne percé [Butterfly invites Coyote to copulate; crushes him to death (no details); he revives, takes his babies from his thigh , they advise him to break her with a stick ; he puts the babies back, does as advised; Butterfly dies]: Phinney 1934: 53-54; upper coquil : Jacobs 2007: 132-135 [Noise Under the Earth and Big Fat are talking about the ocean overflowing its banks; people get into boats, but the boats and oars turn into snakes; to prevent this from happening, they had to smear them with shit; a young man and a girl are saved on the top of a mountain, an old man arrives in a boat, with him his wife, daughter and son; Red Squirrel brings fire on the back of her head, that's why the back of her head is red; after a while the waters receded, the survivors got married, repopulated the land; Coyote comes to a woman, tells her daughter to bring water; she is afraid, those who come for water are dragged away by a crawfish; Coyote insists, the girl goes, the crawfish grabs her, Coyote turns the crawfish into a crayfish, they boil him and eat him; two blind women are pounding acorns; Coyote quietly takes a handful; the blind people feel him; he cuts out their eyes, turns them into partridges, tells them not to pound acorns, but to make noise while sitting on a branch; a man says that they should not go beyond the river, there is a salmon spear there, he kills people; Coyote turns her into a salmon spear; a woman, River Oyster, lies on her back, offers to copulate, bites off men's penises; Coyote turns her into a river oyster; a deer tries to hook Coyote, Coyote tells him to be a deer, deer are hunted], 263-266 [Weasel is Mink's younger disobedient brother; they are traveling; stones are pouring down a mountain, Weasel is ahead, dodges, almost died; Mink stabs a stone, the stone turns into a baked camas tuber; Mink tells these creatures to be camas tubers, and not rolling stones; a woman lies with her legs apart, calls for copulation; Weasel approaches her, wounded; it is a river shell; Mink opens it, throws all the shells into the water, tells them to be shells; answers Weasel that the place to spend the night is called "Fight Fire"; at night Fire attacks Weasel, he dodges; Mink sleeps peacefully; two blind women grind seeds (Indan oat) on a grain grinder, pass them to each other; Weasel eats everything unnoticed; they say that Weasel must be here; Spear attacks, Mink turns it into a spear, gets salmon]; takelma[Daldal (dragonfly) lived near the mouth, chopped up bodies float down the river; goes upstream; shoots an arrow into the sky, it falls on the top of his head, a second man separates from him - his younger brother; they successfully fight oaks and firs; come to the Blue Jay, she is the mother of the forest man K'uk'u; reluctantly agrees to give them her son's large shell in exchange for bundles of money dentalium; the son comes, kills her for this; catches up with his brothers, demands the shell back; D. smashes his leg with a stone; he weakens and dies, repeats everything that is said in his presence (probably he is an echo); the old man always turns into blood, travelers try it, die; the younger brother almost choked and died, D. extracted blood from his throat with a flint squeezer; a woman offers to warm her back by the fire, D. tries, gets burned, turns the woman into a stinging plant in the swamp; another woman lies with her legs spread, offers to copulate; D.'s brother tries, is wounded; D. sticks a wringer into her vagina, turns her into a freshwater shell, throws her into the water, she will become food for people; two blind women crush seeds; D.'s brother imperceptibly takes them, ties the women's hair; they accuse each other of stealing, fight; D. touches their eyes with the burning end of a stick, they regain their sight; D. looks into the house, there are tendons, this is a character, tries to burn those entering; D. turns it into deer tendons to attach feathers to arrows; in another house D. sees a baked salmon, eats it, Ostroga pounces on it; he turns her into a spear to kill salmon; the brothers look into two empty houses, in the fourth an old woman and a girl; the girl is afraid to go for water; D. sends her, Crab grabs her, D. turns him into a crayfish, the crayfish are boiled; the brothers meet two bad people, an older and a younger brother; they defeat them; D. turns the older one into the Evening Star, the younger one into the Morning Star; tells Coyote to catch gophers instead of salmon; turns into a low mountain, his younger brother into a high one]: Sapir 1909, no. 2: 34-42.
California. Wappo [Hawk arrives at Moon's house; Coyote (Hawk's grandfather) shakes stinging insects out of the blankets that Moon's two sisters are covering themselves with onto the fire; removes flint points from the inside of their thighs and forearms; Hawk is then unharmed by hugs]: Radin 1924, no. 11: 93-95; Pomo [Woodrat marries Morning Star's eldest daughter; she warns him that her father has protected her with thorns; Rat knocks them out with a rock; father-in-law offers to swing him on a swing, spins it, Rat does not fall; swings father-in-law, he falls off a cliff, dies]: Barrett 1933, no. 81: 305-306.
Mesoamerica. Tzotzil [penis damaged after copulation, no details]: Gossen 1974, no. 49: 279.
Guiana. Taulipan [when Macunaima was a boy, his older brothers warned him not to look at female genitalia; he only wanted to more; walking through the forest, he saw a vulva on the branch of a dead tree; he transformed himself into a monkey, a coati, a snake, a lizard to climb up and get a closer look; he reached the vulva only by becoming an ant; it swallowed him; the brothers noticed the thick vulva on the tree, cut down the tree, freed M.]: Pereira 1980(1): 73.
Ecuador. Colorado [the underground inhabitants have no anuses; two people fall into the underworld, eat, relieve themselves; they are given wives to conceive children with anuses; one is given an old woman, his penis is pinched by her vagina, he dies; the other is given a young woman; he returns to earth]: Calazacon, Orazona 1982: 274; Azuay [the prickly hair on the pubis of the cannibal]: Gutierrez Estevez 1985: 341; Lamadrid 1993: 18.
NW Amazonia. Desana [a man saw a Boraró (=Curupira) taking off his clothes and catching turtles; took his clothes, put them on, assumed his form and went to his wife; when he inserted his penis, her vagina burned as if there was pepper there; the man left, left the Boraro's clothes and returned home; but died after 4 days; other people killed the Boraro and ate them, and turned into Boraros themselves]: Brüzzi 1994: 194-195.
Eastern Amazonia. Shipaya [(a long story about a man who rescued a stranded pai; the latter invited him under the water, gave him his sister, and received him as his wife; the relatives were surprised that the girl was pregnant; she gave birth to a fish, which went into the water; he asked his brother to go down into the river because the child was crying without him; beautiful stingray girls lived in the river, with a dangerous sting at the end of their hair; the man who took the pai's sister as his wife persuaded the girl to have sex, pulled her hair back, and tied a liana around it; but the sling turned out to be rotten, the hair stung him in the groin, and he died]: Nimuendaju 1920: 1031-1032.
Central Andes. Quechua (Ancash, Huari Province, Quechua del Sur de Conchucos) [the parents got angry with their children, put them in a bag, threw them into an abyss, the bag got caught on blackberry bushes on a cliff; they ate blackberries; they asked a gallinazo, a falcon, a condor to carry them out of the abyss; the condor carried first the boy, then the girl to where the potatoes were; the girl noticed smoke, went to the witch for fire; she ordered her brother to be brought and potatoes to be brought; she peeled them, gave the girl rocks to peel; she lay down, taking the boy, the girl lay down with the witch's daughter; the boy cries; the witch replies that she is removing lice from him; that the beard of her vulva pricked him; in the morning the girl hears the witch promising her daughter that now they will eat her sister; the girl herself pushed the witch's daughter into the cauldron, took her brother's bones, ran; the witch calls her daughter – “Rosa!” She answers from her belly; the gallinazo, the falcon say that they did not see her, the condor – that he saw the girl; God lowered a golden chain to her; to the witch he lowered a straw one with a parrot; the parrot gnawed through it, the witch fell on the stones, the bristles of her vulva became blackberry thorns]: Weber, Meier 2008: 91-99.
Bolivia – Guaporé. Eseeha [Pachichóne wants to copulate with his brother's wife; she says that her husband takes her from behind because of a thorn in her breast (teta; a euphemism for pubis?); P. does not listen, is wounded, sick; people kill and eat him; his bones turn into all kinds of birds, his nails into beaks; the birds sit on the tree; under their weight the branches break off; from these branches the present forest is formed]: Verna 1985: 68.
Southern Cone. Southern Tehuelche [The Sun devours sons-in-law; Elal rides to the sea on a guanaco, then flies on a swan, shoots into the sea, creating islands to rest on; 1) sit at the edge of a well (did not fall, killed a lizard), 2) bring eggs to a rhea (two eggs fly at E. from two sides, break on E.'s stone cap ; E. kills the rhea, takes the eggs), 3) and 4) kill a guanaco, bring flints (as in No. 50; the grandmother helps E. ); all these creatures are relatives of the Moon; the Sun puts out a servant, hides his daughter, covering her body with a rash; E. marries; if he had immediately come together with her, both would have died; but during coitus the grandmother was nearby, everything worked out (what exactly the danger was is not said); E. left, his wife after him, drowned in the sea, became a water woman; at the new moon, when he sees Mother Moon, he makes the sea agitated]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984b, no. 51: 82-86.