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

F93. Talking penis, D1610.6.2. .32.44.46.66.

After a person does an action, his penis begins to speak (often: repeating what the person said).

Udmurts, Sauk, Assiniboine, Crowe, Santi, Pawnee, Kiova-Apache.

Volga - Perm. Udmurts [the old man sowed turnips and started: whoever tastes first learns three languages; a passerby heard, tasted; he will say the word - he has the same word from the other two holes; the person conveyed his illness is a mare, she is an ass, a pop is a hit; the details of the story are obscene]: Potanin 1884, No. 6:233.

The Midwest. Sauk [after urinating, the person asks his penis if it sees buffalo; the penis is silent three times, answers the fourth time and does not stop talking again; says he will stop if his mother-in-law touches it; her we have to do it]: Skinner 1928, No. 15:167-168.

Plains. A person asks his erected penis if he sees buffalo; the penis eventually replies yes and continues to repeat it; stops when his mother-in-law picks it up. Assiniboine: Lowie 1909a, No. 64:225-226; Crowe: Lowie 1918:225-226; santi (sisseton) [like souk; "Sisseton said they had the same story"]: Skinner 1928:68, note 1; Pawnee (kitkehahki): Dorsey 1906, No. 36:137-138; Kiowa-Apache: Lowie 1912, No. 25:225 in Thompson 2000:296.

Montagna - Jurua. Ashaninka [a man met a female tapir in the forest and then could not remove his penis; when he finally pulled it out, he repeated everything the man said; he tried to poison him and strangle him with a rope; then the man turned into a bird]: Zolezzi 2014, No. 3:126.