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

F9E. Mice in the vagina .41.61.

There are small mammals with sharp teeth in the woman's vagina.

Kuchin, Khan, Upper Tanana, Tagish, Helmet, Yellowknife, Beaver, Chipewayyan, Sekoya.

Subarctic. Kuchin: McGary 1984 [Ch'iteehaakwaii and Wolverine spend the night in the woods, leave their pants to dry by the fire; Ch. quietly swaps their pants and Wolverine's pants; spies, sees Wolverine throws her pants into the fire, thinking he is throwing off his pants Ch.; Ch. leaves in the morning; Wolverine promises to go too when she makes herself new pants; Ch. comes to the Lynx woman, she feeds him; passes by, swims away Wolverine; Ch. meets them and his family; swims on; a woman invites him to her place, gives him a man, he does not eat; sees that she is an Otter; tells her to eat fish from now on; he throws something at her then again, a mink jumps out of her ass, then a caress; (in many versions they lived in a woman's vagina, killed men during copulation); Ch. tells caress to eat mice]: 396-407; McKennan 1965 [ An otter woman invites Giateaquoynt to copulate; he puts a stick in her vagina, the stick is bitten; at night she breaks the Otter's head with a log (otters have had a flat head since then); throws his body into the fire; from Laska and Mink pop up vaginas; they were the ones who bit off men's penises]: 115-116; Petitot 1886, No. 5 [the older brother has two wives; he ties his younger brother, lowers the deck into the sea; the young man asks the seagull to swim in front of him, the sea calms down, brings the deck ashore; the white wolf tries to gnaw through the fetters, the marten succeeds; the young man comes to a village where there are only dogs; there is meat there, but because of the smell of a dog, it is impossible yes; he enters the dark passage, sees the eagle's feathered skin hanging, puts it on, flies into the village; children recognize eagle skin, pierce it; adults invite him to live with them; these people are dogs below belts; a young man stays in a house where a girl marries her, feeds him with mouse legs, mice are deer for them; local people do not know what sleep means; the young man falls asleep, others think he is dead; When he wakes up, he says that he has learned the secret of sleep in a dream; he throws a hare's eyes into the fire, others fall asleep; these people hunt polar owls, ask him to catch owls; he shot one, she fell into a house where his wife scratched it to death; the harvested mouse fell into the fire and burned; the dogs believe that the young man is to blame, tell him to leave; he comes to a deer hunter who has second eyes on the back of the head, and the skis are bent at both ends to go both ways; with his sword he killed all dog dogs; the young man puts on eagle plumage again, flies over the sea, and, if desired, creates an island to relax; He flies to his brother, who promises him one of his wives, but the young man grabs him by the hair, picks him up, throws him into the river, he drowns; the young man comes to his two wives, one has parasites caresses, the other has mice; he cleansed women from them, slept with both; pierced his chest with one eagle feather, she gave birth to a boy; one day he went hunting, grabbed him by the heel, dragged him into the water and drowned by a huge pike; it was his older brother]: 56 -67; Khan [An otter woman invites Beaver to copulate; he sees biting animals in her vagina; Beaver first inserts a stick, it is cleared, then sticks a hot stone, the woman dies; the Beaver kills weasels, minks, mice]: Rooth 1971:271; upper tanana [Mink girl bites off men's penises with her toothy vagina, devours the dead; Tsaosha (Beaver) introduces sleeping Mink into the bosom green shoot; it is immediately chewed; pokes burning smut; Mink dies; Beaver cuts her belly, weasels and minks pop up]: McKennan 1959:184-185; Tagish: McClelland 2007, No. 74c [Beaver ( Smart Beaver) sees a beaver woman making human skin; she suggests lying with her; he puts a branch in her vagina, the branch is eaten; then a hot stone, killing creatures in her vagina; she dies; then comes to life, says everyone is killed]: 376-377; Norman 1990 [like a khan; a mink woman; weasels, minks, mice jump out; a woman comes to life; becoming a mink, she sails behind a Beaver boat; he escapes her]: 106-107; helmet [The beaver comes to the Otter; she has biting animals in her genitals, so she kills men; the Beaver sends her to bring drinking water, sails away in the boat; she comes to him parking lot, lies down undressed with his legs apart; Beaver kills her by putting a hot stone in her vagina; a weasel and a ferret pop up from there, Beaver kills them]: Teit 1917a, No. 1:435; beaver [Tumashal comes to the beaver dam; there is a girl crying; says that a giant beaver can only be pacified by people who give it to him, now they have given her; T. kills Beaver with an arrow, cuts into small pieces, of which current beavers appear; T. puts a trap, the Sun falls into it; it gets dark; T. cannot approach because of the heat; other animals fail either, only the Mouse gnaws through the fetters; T. meets an old man, he eats lynx meat, they spend the night in the forest; T. replaces moccasins drying by the fire in advance; the old man throws his own into the fire instead of T.; in the morning T. gives him one moccasin from his pair; the old man gives him an arrow; T. shoots, follows her, finds himself in the sky; an old woman lowers him on a rope; he thinks he has reached the ground, gives a signal, the rope falls; in fact, he is in a big nest; kills two chicks; a third replies that the father will arrive with hail, the mother with the rain; T. kills adult birds, turns the chick into an ordinary bird, teaches how to fish; T. comes to a woman, she says that inside her three daughters are bad creatures that kill men; T. destroys these creatures (without details), marries girls; father-in-law consistently orders to bring various materials for making arrows, the old woman warns each time about dangers; 1) bring saskatoons (probably reeds) to make poles (there are snakes, T. puts on stone moccasins, brings reeds); 2) get a grinding stone; on the edge of the cliff, a male elk throws down those who come, his wife kills them; T. throws off the Moose himself, the wife takes the fall for a stranger; T. kills her with a stick, brings a stone; 3) bring feathers for arrows; T. kills huge eagles, brings feathers; 4) bring the tendons of a huge bison; he has two snipes sitting on his horns, warning people of approaching; T. turns into a rodent, digs passages in different directions, gnaws hair from the bison's chest (shoulder), pierces it in this place, brings tendons; 5) bring resin, it's between two collapsing trees; T. puts on stone mittens, brings resin; 6) hunt bears; father-in-law turns his daughters into bears, T. kills them; chases his father-in-law, who jumps into the water; T. tells the pelican to drink the lake; father-in-law drowns; T. meets an old man, who turns out to be his youngest brother, they tell each other about their adventures]: Goddard 1916:232-237; Yellowknife: Petitot 1886, No. 3 [the giant gives two brothers male and female arrows that hunt males and females; tells you not to pick them up, they come back on their own; the youngest shoots a squirrel, climbs a tree for an arrow, she takes him to heaven; he comes to the old woman; in the vagina of her eldest daughter there is a caress, the youngest is a mouse; the old woman stains his face with soot, but in the morning he washes and his sisters ask him to lie between them; he fails; the wolf digs a way, helps him get back; the young man tries to kill his younger sister, but she is immortal; mice, rats, moles, snakes, worms, death, hunger, cold, illness come out of her vagina; the old woman lowers the young man on her belt from the sky, he finds himself in the nest of cannibal eagles; the chick hides him under her wing; replies that the father will bring the day, the mother the night; lets the feathers go down], 4 [starts as in (3); the young man falls down; the sisters go to look for their guest, meet a monster with one eye, one hand, mouth off ear to ear; this is Eziel is death; he promises to spare the young man if one of his sisters marries him - E.; E. is carried away by an eagle; sisters take the arrows given by the old man to the young man, carried to the lower world; Thunderbird brings them to the seashore; their mother predicts that two brothers will marry them; Thunderbird brings a young man to the ground; giants help sisters; both brothers and sisters get together]: 352-370; Chipewayan: Birket-Smith 1930 [two brothers sail to giants; when hunting, a giant wears them in his mittens; sends them home, tells them not to climb a tree for an arrow if it gets stuck; the elder climbs, the tree grows, the youngest cries below, turns into a wolf; the eldest wakes up on the ground; comes to the old woman, her two daughters Ermine and Mouse laugh forever; the old woman smears the young man's face with soot; when it is washed, girls stop laughing; he sleeps with the Ermine; in the morning the old woman and the Mouse make it fall into the ground; women leave; Wolves dig him up; he comes to women, sleeps with the Mouse; wolves Ermine eats; he tears his clothes Mouse, mice jump out; he sews up his clothes, the Mouse becomes his real wife]: 92-95; Lowie 1912 [Cree kill everyone, two brothers remain; come to the giants, those they give two arrows, tell them not to go after one of them if she gets stuck in a tree; one of the brothers breaks the ban, climbs a tree, goes to heaven; it's winter there; the old woman gives her two daughters for him; one in the mouse's vagina, the other has an ermine; he sticks his hand, is bitten; falls into the ground, his wives dig him up; wolves tear the girl with the ermines, tear off the clothes from the one in which the mice are wearing; the mice come out of her; mother-in-law lowers the young man in the basket through a hole in the sky; he falls into an eagle's nest; the eagle says that his mother will fly like a cloud, his father will make a noise like the wind; gives the young man feathers, he flies to the ground; the big eagle brings it back to the nest, but the eagles release it again]: 189-193.

Western Amazon. See F9B motif. Sekoya [while the two wives of the Month are sleeping, he takes what bites from their genitals, releases them into the forest; now they are vampire bats]: Cipolletti 1988, No. 3c: 46.