H12C. Get your dead wife back.

.15.19.23.-.27.31.37.38.42.43.45.-.53.55.56.59.60.64.-.67.

The husband follows his deceased wife to the afterlife, but cannot bring her back, or returns her, but loses her again.

Latins, Marind-Anim, Orokaiva, Lake. Kutubu, Monumbo, Vedau, New Ireland, Guadalcanal, Leepers, Santals, Simalur, Toraja, Tinghian, Bukidnon, Chinese (Qinghai), Ancient Greece, Western Sami, Nivhi, Ancient Japan, Tlingit, Quarry, halkomel, quinolt, lkungen, delaware, sarsi, blackfoot, pawnee, wichita, yuchi, chiroki, yurok, shasta, mountain miwok, yokutz, chumash, monache, tubatulabal, serrano, gabrielino, northern payut, utah, navajo , hopi, zunyi, tiva, teva, mojave, huichol, tepecano, Western Mexican Nahuatl, Puebla Nahuatl (?) , Totonaki, Lacandons, Tsotzil, Tseltal, Chul, Chuh, Yukateki, Zapoteki, Hikake, Miskito, Kogi, Guajiro, Yaruro, Kalinha, Waiwai, Shipayaya, Cañar, Ayacucho, Ashaninka, Machigenga, Chiriguano.

Southern Europe. Latins: Verg. Georg. IV. 454-510 [Virgil's Georgiks (1st century BC); fleeing from Aristeus, Eurydice dies from a snake bite; Orpheus grieves, goes for E. to the afterlife; Dith is touched by his singing, lets E. go; O. on the way back with her; by order of Proserpina, E. goes behind him; before leaving the afterlife, O. stops and looks at E.; she says goodbye to him forever and returns to the afterlife world]; Fulg. Myth. III. 10 [Mythologies by Fabia Fulgence Planciada (second half of the 5th - first third of the 6th centuries): "Orpheus fell in love with the nymph Eurydice and, fascinated her with the sounds of cythara, married her. When Aristey, a shepherd in love, was chasing her, she ran away and stepped on a snake and died. Then her husband went down to the underworld, and he was given a condition not to turn around and look at her. When he turned around and looked at her, he lost it a second time" (trans. D.O. Torshilova)]; I Myth. Vat. I. 75 ["The First Vatican Mythograph" (compiled at the turn of the I-II millennium by an unknown medieval compiler): "Orpheus, son of Eagra and Calliope's muse, had Euridice's wife, and some believe a daughter Apollo. When she was chased by the shepherd Aristey, Cyrene's son, eager to dishonor her, she ran away from this compound and did not escape the snake that caused her death. Orpheus, longing for his wife, tried to soften Dita and Proserpine with his singing under the kithara in order to bring Eurydice back to the white world. So he went down to hell and sang compassion <в богах>. He received Euridice by agreeing to look back no sooner than she was released. Such resilience, however, is unbearable for lovers: Orpheus, fearing that Dith would not keep his promise, looked back and wasted his work. After experiencing such an unhappy marriage, he then returned to earth and, hating the entire feminine gender, retired to the desert" (trans. V.N. Yarkho)].

Melanesia. Marind-anim [the wife is dead, the husband digs up the grave, eats the brain in half with a saga cake, so he does not completely become a spirit; his wife's soul has brought him to mangroves; the dead beat the drum, brought by the first thief to die; during the day, the wife in the form of a crane takes her husband back to people; the dead are angry, threw bones at him; shooting stars are bones from the land of the dead]: Wirtz, Neverman 1981, No. 3:198-199; Orokaiva [husband follows to the underworld for his deceased wife; sovai spirits live there, including his deceased relatives]: Williams 1930:282; oz. Kutubu [Tauruabu's wife died; he went to the place where her bones were exhibited, saw a hole in the ground, walked down the aisle; the nettle parted in front of him; the huge gateibu lizard asked if he ate lizards; he replied that he ate, she closed her mouth, he went over her head; if he said, No, she would swallow it, he would have come out from the other end; there was a log trap on the trap, he carefully freed the clamp, the log fell, there was a thunder; when she heard it, the beautiful Berome came up to free her soul (aminterare), saw T. alive; taught her to walk, without looking back at her, past her mother Makorebu, to whom All men go to her father Gaburiniki; M. copulates with all the dead men who have come, G. with women; passing, T. noticed that M.'s huge ears hang, and his breasts are like tapas; in G. souls dance, have fun; sing, Korere (East, Place of the Dead), Korere, Takore (West, Place of the Living), Takore; in the morning G. returns T. to his wife, tells her not to let her work for 37 days; closing their eyes, they find themselves at home; a woman sits for 37 days, inserting her bones back into her body; brought magifono sugarcane with her, ga-dioko bananas, eaten will become immortal; on the 36th day, it remains to put the little finger bone right hand; T. tells his wife to cut off a few palm leaves; she cuts off her boneless little finger, spreads, leaves a pile of bones; T. talks about all people, dies; his body is burned; magifono and ga-dioko disappear; if they waited for the 37th day, people would eat them, become immortal]: Williams 1941, No. 16:151-154; monumbo [woman is dead, buried; her lover blocks the way for her soul; she turns into a snake, into crap, but he doesn't let it go; she agrees to take him to the world of the dead; there her husband goes out, he looks for another, everyone's ass seems like a burning fire to him; in accompanied by the dead, he returns home to his wife; she says that he has been away for a long time, and instead of souls she sees birds and snakes]: Höltker 1965, No. 10:87-89; vedau [the narrator heard from his father; the wife died; the husband took the dog, went hunting couscous for a memorial holiday; at dusk he hung the dead on trees to pick them up later; the third disappeared into a hole; the man followed and entered the country the dead Ioloa; during the day the dead - piles of bones, at nightfall, the spirits take their bones, come to life; the wife hides her husband so that the dead do not kill him; when leaving, the man took local coconuts, wild lemons and odorous the herbs, but the dead took them away, he hardly ran away; after him, the dead closed the entrance to Ioloa with a heavy stone; when the husband tried to visit his wife again three days later, he was unable to enter Ioloa; c since then, communication with the dead has become impossible]: Ker 1910:81-84; New Ireland (group not specified) [wife dies, husband comes to the seashore at night, where spirits gather, finds his wife; throws at she has betel and pepper, she recognizes them, tells him to leave; n came back, told me what he saw, died]: Cox 1913:197-198; Guadalcanal [wife died, husband went to look for her, sat on a rock, cried; one of He gave him a basket of perfume, said that his wife was in it, told him not to open it for five days; the husband heard his wife's voice, wondered how she could fit in the basket, opened it, there was nothing inside, the voice was gone]: Hogbin 1937:88; Lepers [a young man went down to the afterlife for his deceased wife by diving into a lake; in the village of the dead, his old friend told him not to eat anything; he did not see his wife, but collected sweet herbs brought them to the ground; another man descended into the spirit village at the root of the banyan]: Codrington 1891:286.

South Asia. Santala [the young wife is dead, the husband is crying; Isor brings him to the world of the dead; they dance, his wife's mouth turns black (during cremation, the fire is lit near the mouth); the wife tells her husband to go back, remove the bracelet left from under the hearth; at home, the husband puts his hand in there, he is bitten by a snake, he dies, and comes back to his wife who have already died]: Bodding 1929, No. 78:105-107.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Simalur [husband to wife: if you die, I will follow you; wife died during childbirth with her baby; husband stayed on the grave; an old man appeared, told him to close his eyes, his wife returned; but people accepted they were driven for demons; crossing the river across the bridge, they fell and drowned; turned into demons who kill women in labor]: Koehler 1964:29-30; Western Toraja [wife died, husband came for her in the village of the dead; he was shown where his wife was sitting with other men; his wife told her husband that they could not be together; she took him to the house, told him not to go out if she heard anything; the husband hears the noise, sees the light; goes out, sees a huge rotating disc - the sun; forgets about his wife, follows the disc, finds himself in his native village]: Kruyt 1938, No. 24:370-371.

Taiwan - Philippines. Tingian: Rybkin 1971, No. 43 [his wife is dead; at night she comes to help her husband harvest rice; he descends with her to the lower world of spirits; they sleep, he takes bamboo with her life; they climb to the ground by creeping stem; cut it off, stalker spirits fall down; woman comes to life]: 134-135; Cole 1916 [Sogsogot went hunting in the mountains; when he went to the clearing, he was grabbed and carried away by the Banog bird (playing mythology has the same role as the Garuda in India); it left a man in a nest at the top of a tree and flew away; there were two chicks and three pigs in the nest; the man ate the piglets and fed the chicks, and then the bird brought more pigs and deer; the man fed the chicks and they were ready to fly; then he grabbed their legs and they lowered them to the ground; the man returned to the village and therefore the inhabitants performed a ritual in honor of spirits; after that S. went to war, at which time his wife died; on the way home he met his wife, who was chasing a cow and two pigs; she said she was already dead; he wanted follow her; he tried to touch her hand, but she gave only her little finger; told her to go home and get the white chicken and then follow her footsteps; he did so and came to the river where she was swimming; she promised to hide it in the rice box and carry food there; when local people (i.e. perfume) come to eat it at night, you should throw them white chicken feathers; they really got scared and left; everyone the night and feathers began to end; his wife allowed him to leave with rice on the road; when he returned, the man asked about his wife and was told that she had died and was buried under the house]: 79-81; bukidnon [u Aliguyung is Bugan's wife; she died leaving a baby; there is nothing to feed him, A. went to the afterlife of Cadungayan; it's neither cold nor hot, clear streams and beautiful trees; at night the trees turned into at home, souls in them; A. found B., persuaded him to return; on the way he fell asleep at rest, and when he woke up, only his wife's head was nearby; when he carried his head home, a piece of wood instead of his head; A. went again; the wife explained that the dead cannot return to earth, but has given rice; if the child eats a grain every day, he will grow up and mature; but if he eats more than two grains at once, he will die; the son has grown up, rice is almost ran out; the son's leftovers were mixed with food and he and his father ate them; they died immediately]: Demetrio 1972, No. 4:15-16.

China - Korea. Chinese (Qinghai) [wife gives birth the day after the wedding; husband's childless sister pierces the umbilical cord out of envy, the mother and child die; the husband goes to look for his wife on the banks of the river the dead; she does not immediately recognize him (the dead forget everything), she already has another husband; he explains why the woman died; on a black donkey, the husband returns to earth; on the way, a woman joins him; gives birth to three children; the bonza advises to keep track of his wife; the husband sees that the wife is an inhuman creature; with the help of bonzes, she is expelled, the children turn into piles of garbage]: Frick 1954, No. 31:537.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece: Plat. Sym. 179d [Plato's Feast, written around the 80s and 70s. 4th century BC: "Thus, gods also highly respect devotion and selflessness in love. But they sent Orpheus, the son of Eagra, from Hades with nothing and showed him only the ghost of his wife, whom he had come for, but did not betray her herself, believing that he, like a kifred, was too pampered, if he did not dare, like Alkestide, to die because of love, but managed to get to Hades alive" (trans. S.K. Apta)]; Herm. Col. Fr. 1 (Powell). 1-14 [Hermesianact's "Catalog of Lovers" from Colophon (late 4th - early 3rd century BC): "Once a sweet Thracian girl, a sweet descendant of Eagra/Led Argiop into the world, strong with his kythara,/ Taking it from Hades. He sailed to a ruthless and harsh land, /Where Charon draws him into a common rook /The souls of the dead, and the lake is hidden, buzzing for a long time/There is a noisy stream between the thick reeds. /To these waves in Orpheus decided to appear all alone with kithara/Orpheus decided to beg all the gods: /Cokit, alien to the laws and frowning eyebrows, smiled, /He also stood his formidable gaze at the terrible dog, /The dog on fire he hardened his voice and his gaze mercilessly /And with three heads he inspired fear. /There he begged the great rulers of Argiope/Life to return his tender breath again" (trans. O.P. Tsybenko)]; Diod. Sic. IV. 25. 4 ["The Historical Library" by Diodorus of Sicily (1st century BC): "Orpheus took part in the Argonaut campaign, and out of love for his wife, he ventured to do an unprecedented thing: he descended into Hades and, delighted With his performance, Persephone, begged her to fulfill his wish to allow his deceased wife to return from Hades. Dionysus did something similar: the myth says that he brought his mother Semela out of Hades and, having given her immortality, called her Fiona" (trans. O.P. Tsybenko)]; Apollod. Bibl. I. 3. 2 [The Mythological Library of Pseudo-Apollodor (I-II centuries): "Calliope and Oyagra were born Lyn (they also call him the son of Apollo), who was killed by Hercules, and singer Orpheus, who accompanied him to sing Kithara: His singing made trees and rocks move. When his wife, Eurydice, died from a snake bite, he went down to Hades to take her away from there and asked Pluto to bring her back to earth. Pluto promised Orpheus would comply with his request if he did not look at her before he came to his house while leading his wife to earth. Orpheus, without listening, turned around and looked at his wife, and she returned to Hades again. Orpheus also invented the mysteries of Dionysus; he died, torn to pieces by the Menads, and was buried in Pieria" (trans. V.G. Borukhovich)]; Paus. IX. 30. 4, 6 [Pausanias's Description of Hellas (2nd century): "About Orpheus, the Hellenes believe a lot that is not true, by the way, that Orpheus was the son of Calliope's muse, and not Pier's daughter, which wild animals gathered for him, fascinated by the charm of the sounds of his songs; that he went to Hades alive to the underground gods, asking him to return his wife to him"; "But others say that after his premature death Because of her wife, he went to Aorn in the Thesprotis region; since ancient times there had been an oracle there and it was a practice to evoke the shadows of the dead. He thought that Eurydice's soul was following him; but when he turned around and saw that he had made a mistake, he took his own life out of grief" (trans. S.P. Kondratyeva)].

Baltoscandia. Western Sami (Sweden) [the young wife died, the body was left on the platform and tied; the husband fell asleep, leaving two shepherds to guard the body; entered the world of the dead, where his wife is just about to marry the deceased; grabbed her and tried to take her away; at that time the body on the platform began to rise, but the shepherds did not untie it, i.e. they believed that one of them would take the place then; the dead surrounded husband, wife could not be returned, but the husband escaped because he took meat with him (which was taken by the dead)]: Simonsen 2014:163-164.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nivhi [the man's bride died, he married another, he has children; he wounded a fox, chased her, climbed her hole, the hole is wider, went out into the bright world; the people there do not see him; he touched the jails that the old man was slaughtering, he cut himself; the man ate yukola, it seemed delicious; lay down next to the bride, she screamed in pain; called a shaman; the man was frightened, taking the yukola and went back to pick him up Two big deer chased, he crawled through the hole to the ground; the jukola brought turned out to be rotten; he talked about what he saw and died]: Pevnov 2010, No. 6:37-43.

Japan. Ancient Japan: Kojiki 1994, ch. 8 [Izanagi and Izanami marry and have children; giving birth to the fire god, I-mi burns his bosom, dies; I-gi comes to the Country for her Korney (Land of Yellow Waters, Land of Darkness); I-mi says she has already tasted local food; tells me not to look at it until she goes to consult local deities; I-gi Tires of waiting, enters her chambers; sees worms and eight Thunders in her body; I-gi runs, I-mi chases furies (the Ugly Women of the Underworld); I-gi throws a headband, then a comb; they turn into wild grapes, into bamboo shoots; the furies stop picking them up and eating them; I-gi sends Thunder and demons to an underland; I-gi drives them away by throwing a peach at them; I-mi chases them herself; I-gi blocks the passage to the underland with a rock; I-mi and I-gi divorce; I-mi promises kill a thousand people a day on earth; I-gi promises 1,500 newborns a day]: 47-49; Nihon Shoki 1997, scroll 1 [as in Kojiki; Izanagi urinates to create a river and reaches the ground until furies cross it]: 127-128.

NW Coast. The Tlingits [young wife dies; husband comes to the lake; screams, cannot be heard; whispers, the dead man in the boat immediately comes for him; the wife warns the dead not to eat food; both sail back in that On the boat, they come to their house; other people see a shadow instead of a woman; she does not sleep at night, her voice is heard; she begins to come to life; her husband's rival looks behind the couple's screen; husband and wife turn into bones, their shadows return to the world of the dead]: Swanton 1909, No. 87:249-250.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry: Jenness 1934, No. 9 [the shaman's wife dies; he tells her not to burn her, but to bury her; his soul goes east with her soul; along the way he does not allow her to eat berries growing by the side of the road, drink water; across the river there are black and red dwellings of the dead and robins (as in No. 1); by the river she yawns, a black boat rushes after her; he screams, a red one swims towards him; he puts his wife with him; an old woman warns the dead not to eat food; blueberries are actually the eyes of the dead, meat is snake, lizard, frog; the old woman eats everything herself while standing behind the shaman; two paths lead back to the ground; one dirty, dead dogs come along it; the other is barely visible; it leads to a snake thrown like a bridge over the river; the snake rises and falls; the shaman and his wife have time to run across; relatives they dig up the grave, the shaman and the wife come to life; but for the wife the opposite is true: it freezes in summer, she is hot in winter; she eats pine bark, not fruits; the husband lets her die again and for all], 10 [the young man walks along the road dead; (snake bridge, yawning, black and red houses as in No. 1, 9); an old woman adopts him; next to him, two blind women pierce the suitors with sharp forearms of the girl living in their house; the young man changed his jewelry (now his name is Kite (Labretka), women pierce the girl hoping to kill K.; K. throws his blanket inside the house; women pierce each other, die; K. kidnaps his wife Great Sonya; K.'s adoptive mother gives him a boat, oars and copper hats; the fugitives are unharmed when Great Sonya sends flint and stone rains; K. brings his wife home; see motive K1]: 143-145, 145-147; chalkomel (lower reaches of the river. Fraser): Boas 1895, No. 6 [husband goes to the grave of his deceased wife; Lynxes take them away, Chief Lynx is going to eat a man, he kills Lynx with a knife; makes many pairs of leather shoes, follows his wife; Pelican to him helps; he passes the snake Athlke, which has heads at both ends of his body; returns from heaven to earth with rich gifts, becomes a shaman; his wife does not get back], 7 [wife dies; husband goes to mountains, comes to heaven; the dead dance; the husband takes his wife, brings him home; observes the prohibition not to have sex with her until he returns; restores sight to his parents, who have been blind during his long time absences]: 41-42; Hill-Tout 1904b [wife dies, husband goes to the mountains; when he gains strength, he comes to the leader of the dead; he tells not to try to capture his wife first; the husband violates the ban, the wife disappears; next time he waits enough, brings her to her native village, does not sleep with her on the way; another widower followed his wife, got her, but on the way back he met before the deadline; the wife disappeared]: 339-341; lkungen (lummi) [the young man does not fight, digs a skull from the grave, brings it like a trophy; the skull turns into a girl; she goes to the world of the dead, he follows her; screams, calling a transporter across the river, they don't hear him; she whispers, the boat comes; he kills a caterpillar, for the dead it's an elk; he and she go back to the people, she distributes the food they brought as gifts; soon both die, leave for good to the dead]: Stern 1934:120-123; quinalt [Blue Jay tells her wife Juey to go down to the world of the dead and remarry there; she walks through blazing meadows, dies, comes dead to dead, marries the chief; Soyka follows her on another path, gets alive; he is transported across the river by a skeleton in a boat full of holes; Juey's new husband and the other dead are skeletons with owls with their heads; their fish are sticks, the whale is a log; Juey sends Jay back, gives five buckets of water to fill the fire; Jay takes flowers in the meadows for fire, wastes water, then burns; comes back and He now sees the whole boat; people are dancing with their feet up, rubbing deep holes with their heads; Soyka remains among the dead; (var.: Juey sends him back the short way, he returns to the ground)]: Farrand 1902, No. 2:100-101.

Northeast. Delaware [the wife disappeared after going to get water; the husband follows her to heaven; the old woman hides him from perfume, gives him a pumpkin jar (to catch his wife's soul in it?) ; when the husband returns to earth, he dances with others, closes the vessel, the wife appears in the flesh; one old man breaks the ban on crying, the wife returns to heaven]: Bierhorst 1995, No. 200:74.

Plains. Sarsi [the wife is dead, the husband follows her, sees the man who killed the bison, the bison turns out to be a mouse; the man told him to eat grass seeds, haze mushrooms, wild onions, then the husband saw the camp and people; (hereinafter referred to as the local hostess, not the owner); she tells you to ask for a smoking pipe for the Naguschoozh-na community, a hoop and two arrows to play; three nights women dance, the husband does not see wife, on the fourth she enters him; when he returns, he must not turn around, violates the ban, finds himself in the same place; goes with his wife again, brings him home; the wife never blinks or closes her eyes; they have seven children; one day it is smoky in the tipi, the wife hesitates to fix the tipi floors, the husband says in her hearts that she should become a spirit; the wife disappears and never returns; since then people have a sacred pipe and hoop play]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 25:30-32; blacklegs: Fraser 1990 [wife dies, husband follows her; the leader of the dead returns her to him, tells him not to look back at her along the way, don't hit her, don't reproach her for being a spirit, not to cheat on her; at home, the husband revives his wife in the steam room; after many years he gets angry, says that she looks like a spirit; the wife is getting younger and disappearing; he goes to her forever]: 41-48; Grinnell 1962 [wife dies; husband goes back; old woman gives him strength; owner of the dead gives him a Worm Tube, sends a woman with him, lets him look at her on the fourth day; husband returns wife; one day she swings her smut, his wife disappears; since then, the piegan (blackfoot unit) has had the Worm Tube]: 127-131; Pawnee: Dorsey 1904b, No. 20 (skidi) [young man mourns the bride's grave; a creature in the form of either a skunk or a rainbow leads him to the world of the dead; he is told to throw lice on the girl's head; she itches and comes to life; he returns with the bride to earth, marries her]: 71-73; Grinnell 1961 [wife dies, husband and baby come to the grave; sees his wife's spirit at night; persuades his wife to stay; she tells her not to look behind the curtain for four days where she will be; condition fulfilled; after many years, the husband takes a second wife; she says first that she is just a spirit; at night the first wife disappears; the husband and child die, the wife takes them away]: 129-131; wichita [man dies wife, friend dies in war; husband sees a dead friend at his wife's grave; he brings him into the world of the dead; women dance; father-in-law returns his wife to her husband; on earth he must return four times with scalps before he can lie down with another woman; the husband violates the ban, the wife disappears]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 58, 59:300-310.

Southeast USA. Yuchi [four men want to know if death exists, kill their wives; they go to look for them; before entering the cave, a cloud (=sky) rises and falls; three run under it in the form of a deer, a cougar, bear, rise to the cloud on the other side; the fourth is crushed; the old sun woman hides them under her clothes from a monstrous cougar; sows corn, beans, pumpkins, they immediately produce crops; the dead are invisible, they dance; The sun puts four wives in calebasses, gives them to their husbands; they wake up on the ground; one opens the vessel before reaching home, the wife disappears; three return their wives, become leaders]: Speck 1909, No. 8:144- 146.

California. Yurok [the beloved is sick and dies; the man follows her to the lower world; the dead dance there]: Kroeber 1976, No. S3 [a person grabs the dead, brings her back, should not say she was dead; violates the ban; returns her again; someone tells her children that their mother was dead; she dies forever], X2 [takes a stone, tells them to bury herself alive; rocks the carrier's boat with a stone dead; ten years after that no one died]: 383-384, 422; karok [the girl dies, her lover follows her; some people transport him across the river, tell him to pick him up before the dead took out her bones; both return to the village, they have a son; the children tell him that his mother was dead; when he tells her these words, her mother jumps into the fire, flies out like a butterfly, disappears]: Lang 1994: 64-95; shasta [wife is dead; husband follows her along the Milky Way; everyone dances in the afterlife; they lie like ash during the day; Coyote was given a wife; she gets harder on the way home; he drops her twice, twice returns; wife is no longer given; at home husband dies, his spirit comes to his wife]: Dixon 1910a, No. 9:21; mountain mivok (southern) [wife dies, husband waits three days at the grave; wife on the fourth day morning I get up and go west, the husband follows her, she is invisible to others; the wife hides in the cave; the husband persuades the guards to let him pass; crosses the slippery bridge over the river after his wife; contrary to his wife's advice, the husband comes to the dead; the bodies burned are black; the guard brought the man back to earth; people have since known what's in the other world]: Latta 1936:117 in La Pena et al. 2007:55-56; yokutz [wife dies; husband fasting on the grave; she comes out of the grave, he follows her; they go many nights, stopping during the day; the island of the dead lies across the river]: Gayton 1935a (techumni) [the bridge over the river into the world of the dead moves up and down when they cross him; the fallen turns into a fish; the local chief Typiknitsa tells her husband not to sleep; he sleeps with his wife, in the morning he has a rotten deck in his arms; this happens three times, he must return; at home violates the ban on not talking about his journey for six days; he is bitten by a snake, he dies]: 267-268; Gayton, Newman 1940, No. 3 [wife dies; husband sits on the grave for two days; wife gets up, she shakes off, goes west, the husband follows her; when she reaches the water, the wife tells her husband not to follow her, his smell is terrible for her; across the water, the bridge moving up and down turns into fish; the wife crosses, the husband flies to the other side with the help of a talisman; there, a Tipiknits man washes his face, tells him not to converge with his wife in the world of the dead and on the way back, 6 days not to talk about what he saw; invisible birds screaming how they try to frighten the walkers to fall off the bridge; the husband said on the fourth day, bitten by a rattlesnake, died], 6 [the wife is dead, the husband sleeps on the grave; on the third night the wife gets up, walks to the west, disappears during the day; the husband waits, the wife reappears in the evening, the husband continues to follow her; the wife rubs her face with all sorts of nasty things - insects, blood, urine; the husband does the same; both pass by the river bank between the cliffs; the wife crosses the river across the bridge, the husband can't; the owner of the dead Tipiknits sends his two daughters after him, they have rattlesnake skirts, they move him across the bridge; give him a drink, give him a drink pine nuts, this is enough to satisfy hunger; the wife is brought to her husband, T. tells him not to sleep, he falls asleep, wakes up among the heads; these are dead; at night they are people on their way, the husband does not sleep; they are allowed return; when he almost reaches home, the husband, breaking the ban, goes to bed with his wife, who disappears; he tells his parents what he saw], 16 (central foothills, Wukchumni group) [husband killed his wife for inappropriate behavior; went to check if the dead were getting up from the grave three days later; on the third night, the woman got up, went north; they came to the slippery bridge over the river; the fallen turn into fish; the husband flew across the river with their amulets; on the other side, the dead are dancing the Spirit Dance; my husband liked it so much that he decided to stay here; returned home and died], 17 (central foothills, Wukchumni band) [ the wife met the dog, her husband killed her, came to the grave; on the third night she got up, shook herself off, went north, her husband followed her, in the afternoon she became a rotten log; on the third night, the wife advised her husband not to go any further; on the sixth they came to the bridge over the lake, the bridge went up and down; but they cross; Tipiknits tells the man he doesn't like its smell; he is led to T. by a shaky bridge; man climbs the carats, and the messenger leans on his legs and head; at night the dead dance; it was all inside a big hill; Coyote plays dice with T.; when he loses, a person dies; when he wins, The coyote takes out T.'s pen, it turns into a pigeon; T. allowed him to be taken in three days, but not to agree with her; on the third night, the husband gets together, the wife is missing; the husband returns, despite the warning, says what happened to him, dies], 19 (northern foothills, kechayi) [the husband went for his deceased wife, returned her, but they were warned not to agree; as soon as he met his wife, she disappeared], 25 ( northern foothills, dumna) [a man marries, soon his wife dies; the husband hides in the grave; on the third evening, the wife gets up, shakes herself off, goes to the sunset, advises not to follow her; helps her husband walk through a narrow rocky cornice; across a bridge; over a bouncing narrow bridge; they go through a blank door in a stone wall; God agrees to return his wife if the husband does not fall asleep and recognizes her among the other dead; he found out, did not fall asleep; God allows her to be taken away, tells her not to agree with her for three days; at home, on the eve of the end of the period of abstinence, the husband copulates with his wife, she disappears; the husband immediately dies and disappears too], 34 ( Waksachi) [wife dies, husband goes to the grave; on the evening of the second day, the wife gets up, shakes off, goes west; hides underground for a day; a house on the shore of the reservoir; the person living in it asks the dead; replaced woman's eyes with sunflower seeds; tells you to go across the bridge; fish swims and scares (Hah!) going to fall into the water; the husband does not allow him to replace his eyes with seeds; the dead do not like the smell of the living; they disappear for a day; the husband returns his wife, that man returns her eyes to her, tells her not converge before returning home, not talking about anything for 6 days; the husband insisted on copulation, fell asleep without getting together with his wife; when he woke up, she was gone; he tells his story on the fifth day ; dies from a rattlesnake bite], 146 [wife dies, husband sleeps on the grave; on the third night a woman gets up and goes west; husband follows her, passes safely between the cliffs; the woman walks over a pond on a shaky bridge; Tipiknitz is the owner of the dead, his two daughters accompany the husband of the deceased; he is given an inexhaustible supply of food; a person sees the dead in the form of guns; he manages to stay awake; he returns home with his wife, violates the ban on sleeping with her, his wife disappears; her husband's parents were in mourning, he tells them what happened]: 17-18, 19-20, 26, 26-27, 28, 29-30, 35-37, 102; Hudson 1902:104-205 in Edmonds, Clark 1989 (mariposa) [Ule dies, her husband Soho mourns at the grave for three days; on the fourth night, the wife gets up, shakes off, goes west to Toxil, where the land of the dead is Tib-ic-Nict; S. follows her for 4 days, they cross the river over a bridge that is like a spider web; the souls of bad people fall into the water, turn into pikes, swim up the river, people then catch them and use them for food; S. and U. find themselves in a beautiful country; upon his return, S. talks about what he saw, dies on the fourth day]: 141-143; Kroeber 1907a, No. 24 [after dawn, the wife becomes invisible; souls cross the bridge, which rises and then falls; the bird frightens souls, many fall into the water, turn into ducks and fish; the leader allows the man to spend the night with his wife; in the morning there is an oak log next to him; the man returns home talks about the land of the dead; he is bitten by a rattlesnake, he dies], 35 [during daylight, the wife turns into a log; the masters of the world of the dead allow her husband to take his wife, warn him not to sleep on the way; he falls asleep, finds a log nearby in the morning]: 216-218, 228; chumash: Blackburn 1975, No. 25 [Coyote turns into a girl, goes beyond the Drake, eats its supplies, simulates malaise so as not to sleep with husband; runs away; Drake takes revenge by killing Toad, Coyote's wife; her spirit comes to Coyote, leads to Shimilaksh 'u, the land of the dead; with the help of his shamanic power, Coyote overcomes falling and rising log; spirits sing and dance; only the Owl is alive here; the Coyote can't take local food, it's like air; he can't get drunk; the spirits draw him into games to kill him; he escapes, returns to the world of the living] , 59 [a young husband accidentally kills his wife; spends the night at her grave; on the third night, the deceased goes out, goes to Shimilaksh 'u; he follows her; she helps him cross the river while holding the falling and a log rising; the owner of the dead tells him not to sleep for three nights to get his wife back; he falls asleep; at home violates the ban on telling what he sees, dies]: 172-175, 249-251; monk [man goes for his young wife; meets poisonous insects, predators; The wolf tells him not to dance in the land of the dead, not to talk to his wife or look back; the spouses come to earth; the husband talks to his wife until the end of ten days; she returns to heaven]: Gifford 1923, No. 12:340-341; tubatulabal [wife dies; husband cries at the grave; wife appears, leads him across the sea to the land of the dead; they dance; the chief agrees to let the woman go; the husband must not sleep with her for three days; he violates the ban; the chief refuses to repeat the request]: Voegelin 1935, No. 6:203-205; serrano [mother-in-law kills daughter-in-law, putting a point on her seat; clouds of dust rise from the place of cremation; the husband follows the biggest, distinguishes the silhouette of his wife; she carries him on her back across the river beyond which the world of the dead; he must eat special food, sees the dead only at night; when hunting deer, he presses two black beetles; these are deer, the dead are grateful; they send his wife back to the world of the living with him; tell her not to sleep with her three days; the couple do not know what it is three years; on the morning of the fourth day, the wife disappears]: Benedict 1926, No. 5:8-9; Gabrielino [a young wife is killed by an old woman who raised her; the husband waits three days at the grave; from a tornado rises the grave, it follows him south; his wife (=tornado) carries him across the sea; his wife helps him pass the tests; 1) remove the pen from the high pole; 2) cut his hair lengthwise; 3) draw a map the sky with the Big Dipper and the North Star; kill deer that the dead will drive away; these are beetles, he presses one, he turns into a deer; the dead allow his wife to be taken; he copulates with her to the expiration of three days; a rotten deck in his arms in the morning]: Gayton 1935a: 270 (quail in Monroe, Williamson 1987:80-82).

Big Pool. Northern Payut [the husband comes for his deceased wife; the owner of the dead allows her to return, tells the spouses not to make love until the deadline, to dance when she returns; the ban has been violated, woman returns to the dead]: Park at Gayton 1935a: 277-278; utah [chief's wife dies; Ta-woats agrees to take her inconsolable husband to her; rolls in front of her a magic ball laying straight road; the chief is happy to see his wife living in an abundant country; after returning, T. blocks the road with a gorge with a stormy river so that no one alive visits the dead again]: Powell 1972, No. 39: 76-77.

The Great Southwest. Navajo [the husband waits four days at his wife's grave; walks at night for her spirit; during the day he disappears into a crevice; in the world of the dead, they dance, call the living spirit; contrary to warning, he makes a fire during the day, sees skeletons lying around; runs, his wife chases him; animals hold a ceremony, the husband should not look at his wife while she is; he violates the ban, sees the skeleton]: Hill in Gayton 1935a: 271; Hopi [young wife dies; Owl agrees to take her husband to the border of Maski (the world of the dead); Old Spider gives him deer skin to wrap his legs, and then teaches him what to do; he succeeds go through cacti; he kills a rattlesnake who tried to block the way with an arrow; crossing the river in a boat, he slips between diverging and converging rocks; paralyzes giant Maasaw with a potion , a cougar on the roof of a kiva; The spider tells the man not to touch his wife, calmly watch the Master of the Dead (he has a huge penis) get along with her; not get along with a girl (she was his first girlfriend in his life) which he will be offered; a man does everything, gets his wife back; crossing the river, splashes a potion on a horned water snake, he disappears; contrary to the Spider's ban, he converges with his wife before reaching home; wife flies away owl]: Malotki, Gary 2001, No. 7:55-64; Zunyi: Cushing 1901 [a young man accidentally kills his wife; waits three nights at her grave; on the fourth they go west together; in the afternoon a girl invisible; she descends into the lake; the owl agrees to revive her, tells her husband not to agree with his wife until he returns home; on the fourth day he kisses his wife who has fallen asleep; she turns into an owl, flies away westward; people become mortal]: 1-33; Quam 1972 [a young married hunter rejects the witch girl's love; she tries to lime him, but a friend helps neutralize her witchcraft; then she wants to kill the hunter's wife as soon as she falls asleep; before dawn, the hunter falls asleep and lets go of his wife's hand; she dies; at night he sees the light in her grave, goes down to her, wants to go with her to another world; she tells take four pairs of shoes and food with you; following it, the hunter sees only a white feather moving; cannot go down into the abyss; the chipmunk plants a juniper, the hunter descends on it; the wife creates thickets of cacti, placers of stones, a grove of stunted trees; the husband puts on prepared shoes, passes; the wife greets her parents (ancestors), who do not greet her husband; the husband wants to enter after her in a kivu and dance, but he is stopped by the one who was her first lover; the owl gives her husband an arrow with a jay pen, tells him to shoot at the priest; then the wife returns to her husband; the owl allows him to shoot pick up his wife; in four days they will be at home but must abstain from having sex on the way; at the last moment, the husband tries to break the ban; the woman turns into an owl; Now she is mine, says Owl ; The owl takes her to the west, their owl descendants live there now]: 146-179; Tiwa (Taos) [1) Yellow Corn gives birth to a child, goes to fetch water ahead of time, sorcerers kill her; her husband Buries Magpie's Tail her, takes the baby, follows her; during the day the wife turns into a rabbit; they cross four rivers; in the first, water, then ash, soot, blood; the living can only drink from the first; the dead build a log bridge for those who come, their logs are sunflower stalks; at night the dead dance, turn into rabbits during the day; the crow teaches her husband to pull his wife out of the window by the hand; she becomes a rabbit, the eagle tears him to shreds; the spirits Rain covers shreds with a blanket; a woman revives, returns with her husband to people; 2) sorcerers kill Blue Corn; her sister Yellow Corn sleeps on the grave, follows her sister; further as in (1); ash, black, red rivers; rabbit covered with a dance skirt; kachina strikes there with lightning, woman comes to life]: Parsons 1940a, No. 6:23-28; teva (San Juan): Erdoes, Ortiz 1984:173-175 [Deer Hunter marries the Corn Maiden, the wife dies; for four days her spirit must wander near the village; the widower searches for the dead, begs her to return; day by day she turns more and more into a corpse, pursues her husband; Someone enters the village, demands his spouses, says that they have broken the law and angered the spirits; placing them in arrows, sends them both to heaven; in the western sky, the Corn Maiden (weak star) is forever pursues the Deer Hunter (bright star)], 295-297 [Ka-ping's young wife Willow Flower dies; a few months later he notices a light in the distance; at night he comes to a lonely house with his wife in it; she drives him away, then agrees to return alive if K. manages to stay with her until dawn; at night K. wakes up from the smell of corpse; runs away, his wife pursues him; by the river he asks the old man for help; he puts him in an arrow, launches him into the sky; the same with the pursuer; now two stars are visible in the sky in the west, one chasing the other]; Parsons 1939 [(plot summary); spouses - Morning Star and Evening Star Star]: 205; mojave [all died of illness; the old man remained, found a girl alive among the corpses, married her; Snake Soul (SS) and his three friends came to the party; the girl fell in love with him, he fell in love with him, he was hers took her away; the first husband asked the sorcerers, who killed the woman with witchcraft; SS sailed on a raft, drowned; two sisters collected the remains, the youngest brought home, SS is reborn; the younger sister says that when she comes dead SS wife, he should not touch her for four days; on the third day he tries to hug her, his hands go through the void; the dead tries to drag her husband to the land of death; the rat hole is separated by a whirlwind them]: Devereux 1948:249-252.

NW Mexico. Huichol [Tumusaúwi shaman and his wife must abstain for five years; after the fourth year, the wife got drunk, got together with Mexicans; their child fell ill, T. began to beat his wife, then the child died; Kauymáli asked her to marry him, but she died; K. came to the world of the dead, the gods of the sea gave him a bamboo jar with a cotton cork, told him not to open it on the way; letting his wife in the heel a magic arrow thorn, K. turned his wife into a fly, put it in a vessel; hears his wife asking to open it; on the fifth night, K. opens the vessel, the wife turns into a fly, flies away; K. comes to the gods again, but those they only teach him funeral rituals; other dead people beat the deceased to blood because she wasted corn; as a child she broke an oak branch; now the lice that bit her have descended from the broken place, and a branch grabbed her, pulled her away; the woman was grabbed and raped by an animal she had once trapped; the path was guarded by a larva, and on the sides were two dogs she once held starved; now they bit her; the turtledove wanted to give her a tortilla, but the crow did not allow her, for she teased the crow because of its long beak; when K. returned, released the birds caught for his wife; therefore There are many beautiful birds in the mountains]: Zingg 1938, No. 4b: 544-546 (=1982:235-236); tepecano [wife dies (short map note)]: Bierhorst 1990:119; Nahuatl Zap. Mexico [wife dies; husband asks Vulture to take him to heaven, wait five days; finds a wife; she offers him beans, but these are lizards; at night the husband hears the screams of fighting owls; the Vulture carries him back]: Preuss 1968, No. 51:270-272.

Mesoamerica Nahua upper Balsas {probably Puebla} [4 versions, 2 recorded from men, 2 from women; husband leaves his wife for a long time; she usually takes a lover; dies; husband comes back, misses his wife, but the main thing is that she wants to know where she put the money; the vulture takes him to the world of the dead; the husband sees local people ("devils") copulate with his wife; finds out where the money is returned to vulture; according to one version, it sets fire to a house in another world, and when he returns, the sight of ashes in his own place]: Raby 2012:172-175; mountain totonaki [The owl promises to take the man to his deceased wife, if he closes his eyes; the dead give him ash to eat; his wife warns that he will die when he returns if he tells me where he was; Owl takes him back, he is silent about what he saw]: Ichon 1969:183-184; nahua [the wife dies, the husband asks the priest to help him visit her; the priest hides him in front of the altar, he goes to heaven; his wife's new husband beats her, eats her; she goes out with his bowel movements, again becomes a woman; the earthly husband tries to lie down with her, she is as cold as ice; tells him to return for her in eight years (eight days on earth); he gives property to children, returns to her heaven; an evil husband leaves, an earthly man lives with his wife in heaven]: Madsen 1960:215; Veracruza Nahuatl, Maya Yucatana, Zapoteca [wife dies (short map indication)]: Bierhorst 1990:119; Tricky [wife died; husband came to the village of the dead to ask her where she hid the money; there she is married to a fox; promised to come to show; husband returned; a snake crawled, her husband hit her, she crawled away; he came back to the village of the dead; his wife said she came, but he hit her; she reappeared in the guise of a snake, indicated a place to dig, and returned to the dead; therefore, it is said that there are snakes and foxes souls of the dead]: Hollenbach 1980, no. 8.5:456-457; southern lacandons [wife dies, husband mourns; shrew catcher says she is turned into a mule, burns in fire, eats rotten wood and tree mushrooms; tells her husband to wash his shirt in pepper, takes him to the world of the dead; the husband sees his wife in the guise of a mule, finds out; returns to earth]: Boremanse 1986:97-101; northern lacandons [Mole Hunter (OK) found that he had killed all the moles and had nothing else to eat; climbed the Byrsonima crassifolia tree for fruit; saw a girl come out of a crack in the ground, took off her head, combed her hair, then put her head in place; he threw fruit seeds at it, but she did not raise her head; pulled the bump, opened the passage and it went down; OK found this bump and followed; it was evening on the ground, and The sun rises below; OK comes to the house, where Sukunkyum's wife calls him son: he has not changed his skin and is alive; she hid him in a large pot so that Kishin would not smell it; sprinkles it on the pot toasted pepper; son K. sniffs, suffers from pepper, leaves; the same with his second son K.; Sukunkyum returned, he placed the sun on the eastern edge of the sky; to prevent OK from smelling like a living person, S. gave him his old cloak; wearing a raincoat, OK turned into a hummingbird; old K. and his sons, everyone wants to shoot a bird to eat; K. hit it with an arrow, but his daughter picked it up and took it away; she put it with him for the night, he again became human; old K. and his wife called him son-in-law; OK does not eat what Kisins eat, S. warned him (beans are larvae, tortillas are wood mushrooms, salt is cadaveric liquid; OK comes to S. to eat; The sun is a person, but without legs, so S. wears it on his shoulders; OK sees what is happening to the soul of the deceased - to the one who has changed his skin; S.'s wife puts the person on a bench, feeds her; young Kisina want her pick it up to fry; finally, they grab their soul and alternately throw them into Metlan's fire and into cold water; K. tells his soul what misdemeanors he is tortured for during his lifetime; before that, K. killed monkeys; the dead are the monkeys he killed; the firewood that K. burns is the bones of the dead; S. showed OK the pillars supporting the ground; then tells people to tell people everything he saw underground; leaving the underworld, OK wanted to take his wife with him, but she hesitated sweeping the house; OK went out, the exit to the ground closed and the wife stayed downstairs; OK told people everything]: Cook 2019:133-190; tsotsil : Gossen 1974, No. 78, 92, 120:293, 300-301, 315-316; Guiteras-Holmes 196:258 -260; Laughlin 1977, No. 9 [a man cries at his wife's grave; a man invites him to close his eyes, he finds himself in peace the dead; his master tells him to take a mule; he sees women, one of them is the mule he needs; she says that local firewood is rotten bones and must be brought; the wife says they cannot sleep together; at night, the husband tries to approach her, there are a lot of bones; the owner of the dead said that a person will be able to return when his sandals are worn; the wife teaches to wipe them off a stone], 19 [the wife dies, on All Saints Day returns to the house; when he leaves, he tells him to talk to the owner of the dead himself; the man goes to the cave, meets the owner, he drives him away, the man goes crazy], 173 [the mistress (she is married to another) dies , a person cries at the grave; at night he sees bones, in the afternoon a beloved; she asks for firewood, but only bones in the ravine; three days after returning, the person died]: 28-30, 70-71, 395-396; Laughlin, Karasik 1988:139-140; tseltal [wife dies, husband cries at the grave; man dressed as ladino tells him to close his eyes; he finds himself in front of the Master of the Dead; he tells him to bring a horse, but man sees women in front of her; they are horses, they are regularly thrown into a fire pit; the wife explains to her husband that she is tortured because he did not hit her; together white and black corn, the dead eat brains and human flesh, pupils instead of beans; husband tries to have sex with his wife, but only bones in front of him; he closes his eyes, returns to earth, dies fifteen days later]: Chapman 1952:481; chol [every day the wife brings her husband meat to the field; he does not ask where she gets it from; the wife dies; the fox offers her husband to bring it to her; in the world of the dead, the wife became a tapir because she was a prostitute and received meat for payment]: Perez Chacon 1988:335-342; chooh [a person goes to the lower world for his deceased wife; spends several days there; dies two or three days after returning]: Maxwell in Peñalosa 1996, No. 400A: 65.

Honduras-Panama. Hikake [wife does not want to feed her husband; cuts off a piece of meat from her leg, gives him paki rodent meat brought by his mother; dies of blood loss; Guatecast comes for her, her husband asks take him too, goes with his wife, hiding under her skirt; his wife's sister (also dead) tells him not to touch anything in her house; he scattered everything, killed frogs and lizards (in another world you can't kill little ones animals, you can only kill game for food); he tried to hit a vulture that came to peck at his bowel movements, he scolded him; the Sun takes a man to collect crabs in the river; he leaves to illuminate the world, man remains in darkness; he is brought to the ground by night monkeys; he is speechless; his mother tells him to climb a tree, a tree falls down, the man speaks from the blow; died a few days later; here he was a scoundrel, but he became good in the next world]: Chapman 1982, No. 60:241-242 (=1992, No. 59:244-247); miskito [husband comes to his wife's grave; her soul goes out, he follows her; the path runs between two pines; they constantly collide and disperse; a woman's soul passes between them; her living husband goes around the pines; the soul crosses a bridge of human hair; swims in a boat, rowing four toads; a woman with gigantic breasts meets her soul; husband returns to the world of the living]: Conzemius 1932:159-160.

The Northern Andes. Guajiro [husband follows his wife to the land of the dead; breaks up with her; usually comes to Rain]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1986 (1), No. 106 [dead dance]: 299; 1986 (2), No. 68 [in the land of the dead wife refuses to have sex with her husband; he insists; after orgasm she disappears; he ends up in the wasteland], 69 [wife refuses her husband; he sees her copulating with others], 70 [husband insists on copulation; the wife chases him away], 71 [seeing the wife copulate with the dead, the husband also chooses a girlfriend among the dead; he becomes dead], 72, [the husband returns home; talks about land of the dead; dies, returns there], 73 [husband sees his wife copulating with the dead; Hawk brings him home to the world of the living], 74, 75 [wife resumes marriage with her husband; his body begins to decay; the Ant brings him home, heals him], 76 [the man's relatives die, he grieves at his wife's grave; she comes by horse, tells him not to get along with her yet, the two of them go together; their horse rushes through the darkness, over the sea; in a country overseas, a man lies in a hammock next to his wife, puts his hand on beer and corn porridge brought to her, falls asleep; waking up at noon sees a boa constrictor next to him, under his head - prickly avocado; a man walks along the road in a deserted place, a tree tells him to move on; on the seashore he sees the Sun, he moves east, a fiery mirror in his hands, tells the person to move away so as not to burn; lets a person get drunk from an inexhaustible vessel; tells them to go further west; women (these are forest turtles) tell a person to leave, he brings them misfortune; bird boys are afraid of him, hide; the same others locals; the lame (also a bird) sends to the old man; this is the Sun, he invites him to his house; in the morning he goes to do his daytime work; in his absence, puloi, the spirit of man's wife, comes to eat him; When she returns, the Sun makes her regurgitate and revives man, dazzles her; since then puloi, that is, enchanted places, are dark and silent; man wants to go home, the Sun tells his daughter Spider to take her away him; when he reaches the great darkness, the Spider gives a ball of threads, tells him to follow him; the thread ends up unraveling in the cemetery from which the man traveled]: 675-696, 697-704, 705-709, 710-711, 712-714, 715-716, 717-719, 720-727, 728-732.

Llanos. Yaruro: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990c, No. 68 [Stork Hoe Tio kills his wife, goes west to the Land of Darkness Anecha Dabu to bring her back; comes to Hiamui ("maternal uncle", master of the dead), he feeds him, food appears in the right amount by itself; is going to be relieved, the Earth demands that he stop and not stain it, there is no excrement in this country because anohini live there; H. tells him to recover in the corner on paper; they come to the village, the Stork recognizes his wife, but she disappears when he wants to keep her, because the dead are disgusting the smell of fish emanating from the Stork; H. gives him a pen, with his help Stork returns his wife; H. does not give him his wife and daughter, but allows him to take another woman that Stork likes; warns them not to fry fish, turtles and caimans; when his wife returns, nothing They don't do it themselves, everything happens at their will; contrary to warning, the Stork lights a fire to fry fish, the women disappear; the stork returns to H., but he does not give him more wives, but kills him; death becomes final; if the Stork hadn't violated the ban, people would not have fire, there would be no disease and hunger, children would be healthy, people would not eat fish, fruits, etc., they would eat only delicious food, beef, it would appear on its own], 69 [Stork Hoe Tio goes to the world of the dead for a woman who died; comes to Hiamui, calls him his maternal uncle; he feeds him with a little food; the Earth screams so that he does not empty his stomach at her; H. sends him to the end of the gallery forest, where the Earth does not scream; the stork cannot grab his wife, H. gives him a pen to which the woman sticks; H. Warns that if a woman eats fish when she returns, she will immediately disappear; if she stayed in the human world, they would not die; H. brings fish when she smells it, his wife disappears; the stork comes to X . again, but he hides a woman, doesn't give her], 70 [Hoe Tio comes to the world of the dead to bring his beloved wife back; Hiamui feeds him with a little food, which is increasing as HT eats; HT cannot empty her stomach because the Earth screams every time not to do it on her head; HT manages to grab his wife only after he touches her Hiamui with a mako parrot feather; H. warns that a woman should not cook by the fire, in the world of the dead they cook without fire; H. tells her to light a fire, she disappears], 71 [a man comes to Kumañi to return his dead wife; gets her, but she must not eat cooked food; her husband tells her to light a fire, it burns, disappears; if a person did not break the ban, people would not get sick and enjoy the food of another world]: 98-102, 103-105, 106-108, 109.

Guiana. Kalinya [wife dies, husband follows her to heaven; can neither eat nor walk there, the sky trembles at every step he takes; he returns to earth; to be in heaven again, he climbs huge tree; bitten by a centipede, dies]: Magaña 1987, No. 36:243; waiwai [husband cries for his dead wife; her spirit comes, leads; by the river, the husband calls the boat in vain; the wife speaks sounds like a turtle's voice; an anaconda rises out of the water by a bridge; they cross; on the site, the husband drives the opossum away - it turned out to be his late mother-in-law; the man sees the deceased shaman asking for Thunder use his mirror, scourge and fan against those who killed him; there is a thunderstorm on earth; a man returns home]: Fock 1963:82-85; oyampy [the old woman's husband dies; she rises to him in heaven on an eagle; not can eat the food of the dead, suffers from the stench, returns to earth]: Grenada 1982, No. 69:402-406.

Ecuador. Kanyar [husband meets his deceased wife at the bazaar; follows her; the owner of the dead promises to bring her back if her husband works for him for two days; when she goes to earth, the woman turns to ash]: Zaruma 1993: 139-141.

Eastern Amazon. Spiking [the wife died; the husband's brother made a shelter in the forest to hunt birds; sitting there at night, he heard voices at a reindeer watering hole; the husband ambushed, killed a stranger with an arrow; the wife, to run away, turned into a jaguar, a snake, a scorpion, but he did not let it go; when she became an ant, her husband stuffed it into a calebasa, brought it home; the wife looked like it, but when she saw her open grave, she left the village; At the place of the murdered stranger, relatives found the corpse of a white deer; at night, the owner of the dead Wuba came to her husband, asked why he had killed him; if he took his wife and released W., the dead would return after living with him home; the man began to live with his wife (apparently returning), they have a son; the husband went on a trip to kayapo, the wife ordered not to do so, he did not listen, was killed; the woman killed her son, left, taking the corpse]: Nimuendaju 1922:372-373.

The Central Andes. Pukio (dep. Ayacucho) [after his wife's death, her husband follows her to Qoropuna (mountain to the dep. Arequipa); the owner of the dead San Francisco agrees to return the deceased by placing her in a bamboo vessel and telling her not to open it ahead of time; the husband opens on the way, the wife flies away]: Arguedas 1975:73f in Cipolletti 1980:36.

Montagna - Jurua. Ashaninka [husband and brother go on an expedition for salt; at this time the wife dies from childbirth; when they return, they spend the night in an abandoned house; the deceased wife and her new dead husband come up; the wife cooks masato (alcoholic drink), both dance, the lyrics of this song have been known since then (a meaningless set of sounds); later the husband sees his wife again, that child; she sits on hot nettles; when she leaves, the husband He looks into the parcel where the child is, there are worms; when he enters the cemetery, the husband sees the dead; they tell him to return, because he is still "raw", not "cooked"; ask them to burn their clothes and food at home]: Weiss 1975: 446-448; machigenga: Baer 1984, No. 15 [the wife dies, the husband goes with her; the dead keep black monkeys, dangerous ducks and chickens in their homes, want to let them down on a person; his wife explains that he is a guest here; the leader of the dead speaks in a thunderous voice; the dead in red kushmas (shirts) eat cassava and headless fish; in black, leaves and rotten wood; the river in the world of the dead is the color of ash; the man returns home, talks about what he saw]: 231-233, 470; Baer, Hertle 1974 [as in Baer 1984]: 39; Elkins de Snell 1976 [the wife dies; the husband does not want to go to live with his parents, sees the soul of his wife who comes to the site for bananas; it leads him into the abyss; when a new soul comes, the Master of the Dead lets the black monkey fight it; if the monkey wins, the soul puts on black kushma, feeds on rotten fish; if the soul wins , puts on red fish, catches and eats headless fish; The owner says that he does not let the monkey down on the souls of the living; after spending a few days with his wife, the man returns]: 80-83.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Chiriguano [husband brings his wife back from the afterlife; violates the ban not to hug her for twenty days; wife turns into a fly and flies away]: Cipolletti 1978:58.