H18. Animals released, A1421. .11.-.14.18.21.23.26.27.

.30.33.-.37.39.-.52.57.61.-.64.66.68.70.72.-.74.

Commercial animals were concentrated in one place. A character creates them there or lets them run away.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Fang [at the beginning is an egg-shaped mushroom; it cracked, the top formed the sky, the bottom of the earth; both parts were connected to form an eggshell, from which the sun, moon, stars, rivers, wild animals, trees, etc., as well as Alonkok's progenitor mother; the lightning was in a special little egg inside the big one; it escaped, became dangerous for A., the lightning was sent to heaven; A. placed it in the sky the sun (illuminate, warm) and the moon (as a measure for women's cycles); A. gave birth to twins Nkombodo and Odangemeko, as well as Maböge and his sister, and those of the great god Nsambe and the woman from whom she descended humans; Nkombodo gave all animals and plants to Maböge and then Nsambe, who gave them names and they ran away except goats and sheep]: Tessmann 1913: in Pettersson 1956:97; bena-lulois, ben-koshi , bena-casase [Fidi Mukulu sent four people from the sky, gave the box, told them to open it in the house; the man opened earlier, the animals jumped out, ran away, so now they are wild]: Frobenius 1983:85-86 ; songe [four people came to Fidi Mukulu in heaven; he gave them four closed baskets, told them to open their houses; two reported, pets came out of the baskets; two opened on the way, from there wild animals jumped out and ran away]: Frobenius 1983:103; pende [people asked Mawese to give them pets; he told them not to open the box along the way; people discovered, all animals and birds, who are now wild have run away; the ones that are now domestic are left]: Frobenius 1983:112.

West Africa. Beng [all animals lived together in the same village; the dog found two eggs, which hatched a man and a woman, and a man had a gun; animals led by Hyena attacked a man's shelter, who discovered fire, animals scattered across the country; the dog did not attack, stayed with the man]: Gottlieb 1986:479.

Sudan - East Africa. The gang [Téré goes to heaven; Tédéré (the Month) throws lightning at him, but he repels the blow; the same with the other two Months, Gmba and Okuru; the supreme god Ivoro gives him a drum full of plants and animals; it is lowered with Téré on a rope; when it reaches the ground, you have to hit the drum, the rope will be cut off; the rope is over, the drum remains hanging, someone hit the drum, I. thought he was on the ground, cut off the rope; when he fell, most plants and animals fell out, ran away, became wild; the rest were cultivated plants and pets]: Daigre 1931:679-680; haza [see motif B30B; Quadudada's man asks his son to climb the baobab for fruit; he drives pegs into the trunk, rises, leaves the fruit on one branch uncollected, replies what he will collect next time; next time the father cuts off the pegs, says that the son can eat the fruit left behind; three months later he returns, says he will not be able to drive the pegs; the young man is terribly thin, asks the Hawk to let him down, he says that the Stork can do it; the stork cannot lift the young man either, he spreads his wings and tells him to jump; Stork's children pecked and ate the young man; The stork takes a knot with intact bones to the old man Muliliv; he breaks bones; various animals and birds have come out of them; various herbs have come out of his brain, water has flowed from his eyes, flooded the ground, dried up, and grew a lot trees, from the intestines of a snake; M. built a pen for all animals; the day did not come long; finally the Ishoko-sun descended from the sky, morning came; I. ordered the animals to disperse, returned to heaven]: Col-Larsen 1962: 23-28; the Masai [wild animals were women's cattle; one day they began to go too far; one woman told the child to go back; but the child's mother wouldn't leave until he finished eating meat; so several times; animals went wild, and women lost their livestock and began to live with men]: Kipury 1983, No. 5:32; anuak: Evans Pritchard, Beaton 1940, No. 3 [at first only animals on earth; God created a boy and a girl and told the Dog to throw them into the river; but the Dog carried them to the hollow of the tree where they grew up; God understood that the Dog did not drown the children, but promised not to harm them; gave the young man a wooden spear, and a wooden pestle for the girl; the young man began to herd God's cattle; the boy and the girl got married; the lion wanted to eat them, but the Dog recognized them and hid them; once God told Buffalo that tomorrow he would be distribute fangs, eyes, horns and horns among animals; he will give buffalo all his spears, but let him come early in the morning; the dog heard about this and came to God in the morning; replied that "This is me, Buffalo"; having received a spear, checked if she took everything; took it to the man; when Buffalo came, God had no spears left and had to give the buffalo a horn; when he found out that Leo wanted to kill him, the Dog agreed with the man; Leo ran for As a dog, she slipped between the man's legs, and the man killed the lion; as soon as their leader was killed, the animals left their village and went anywhere; a man with his wife and dog remained in the village]: 58-60; Evans Pritchard, Mynors 1941, No. 25 [Yenghum ("nose hair") was thinner - it couldn't be thinner; all the animals lived in the same village and he did not hunt, but ate with two spoons what the others brought; once He tied up the lion and left it on his platform so that he would not eat the food Y. wanted for himself; the same with the elephant; the animals decided that they would all be tied up, decided to run; they forgot the big bell, and the ostrich followed him, found it, carried it back; Y. hid in a bell, strangled the ostrich; when the body was found, the animals decided to finally disperse (and not to go to the village again)]: 73-74.

North Africa. Kabila [the first buffalo and heifer came out of the dark underworld; saw the light for the first time; the buffalo ran behind the heifer; seven days later he saw that the urine stream, when the heifer pees, was pointing backwards, and not forward like him; he got along with her, first trying her vagina with his finger and tongue, so people do it; she gave birth to a calf, he grew up; gave birth to a chick; a grown buffalo son wanted to get along with his mother, but the old buffalo drove him away; he came to people; they asked ants who they were, they told them, explained what a cow was; explained to buffalo the benefits of staying wild or becoming a pet; he returned to where his parents stayed, covered his mother and sister, drove his father away, who ran to the mountains, where anthropomorphic wild buffaloes are now revered, there are petroglyphs with their images; there are people near the cave make sacrifices; this Buffalo Ali was left without a wife, inserted his penis into a hole in a stone; 5 months later, under the influence of the sun, everyone (ungulates?) was born there wild animals (7 pairs of gazelles, etc.); Buffalo Ali fed them, taught them to eat grass and roots, taught them how to copulate, they multiplied; but the lion came from an ogre man, and the cat was a lion's child; stone used to be sacrificed]: Frobenius 1921a, No. 3:64-69.

Melanesia. Mekeo [Kaiava brings meat from wild animals, and his brother Ikuava only wild fruits; Y.'s wife sees meat from his wife Kna K sees meat from his wife's animals, and his brother, upset for her husband; spying on brother, I. sees him open the door in the hill, pulls out wallabies and wild chickens; when he leaves, I. opens the hill with the same signal, takes the animals, does not close the door, all the animals run away through the woods; K. and I. almost killed each other; K. goes to visit their sister Verovero, both brothers reconcile, kill the ogre]: Natachee 1951:157-161.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Qiang [goddess Mutsitsu and mortal Tugantsu decided to descend from heaven to earth; god Mupitha gave them spruce seeds to sow on the lower slopes of the mountains, sow thorny bushes higher, and also a hundred species of cattle to drive in front of them, and a thousand species of animals and birds that followed them; told them not to look back at the sky; they looked back, animals and birds scattered, became wild; they did not sow seeds as M. ordered: spruce on the mountains, lower shrubs; but they cut down spruce trees, built houses, cleared bushes, and sowed crops]: LaPolla, Huang 1996, No. 2:255; kachari [ only a widow and her son leave an incognito traveling incognito god for the night; he fills empty baskets with rice, tells them to come to a dried pond in the forest; the widow's son finds buffaloes there; when he drives them village, most animals run away, turn wild]: Sopitt 1885:56-57; angami [someone covers the widow's eyes behind him with his hand, asks for her daughter to be given to him; she has to agree, but she does not see anyone; later Ziso takes the girl away; a year later she comes for her mother, calls for a visit, tells her to ask for a small basket as a gift; Z. asks not to open it on the way; she opens, from there animals jump out; those who jumped out have become wild, they are "a man's share"; the animals she released in the house are domestic, this is "a woman's share"]: Hutton 1921:201-202; lepcha [Guru Rimpoche created the world; created the first people; they were brother and sister, but they got married, gave birth to mung (dangerous spirits); the gods told them that such incest was forbidden; brother and sister denied everything, but the dog exposed them, told them what they had seen; the sister beat the dog with a stick and since then the female and the male have not been able to separate for a long time during copulation; the gods decided to separate brother and sister; gave them animals; the brother carried his own in the basket to Tibet, this pets; my sister had a basket full of holes, the animals ran away and went wild]: Siiger 1967, No. 1:172-173; miri [two brothers are hunting; someone is cleaning their house; they find two daughters king of the forest; parents give their daughters animals, telling them not to look back until they get home; the girls looked around, the animals ran away; so most animals are wild]: Bori 1995:39-40; kachin [the daughter of the Raja of Heaven married the son of the Raja of Earth; the Raja of Heaven cut off a piece of her navel, put it in a box, gave it to her daughter along with a pumpkin seed; on the ground she opened the box, there was a spider in it, from which she I learned to weave; two pumpkins grew from a seed - one seeds of all types of cultivated plants (grains), the other - all wild and domestic animals]: Elwin 1958a, No. 6:198; drung (Yunnan) [domestic There were no animals or cultivated plants; Penggenpeng began to clear the area, and in the morning all the trees were in place; he waited for an old man who was reviving vegetation; he replied that he was the heavenly god Mubengge, P. promises his daughter if he meets the requirements; 1) quickly climb a straight tree and go down (P. does it); 2) follow the tiger to the ends of the earth; P. goes, finds himself in the sky, there are all cultural plants, all animals; M. suggests choosing between two daughters; one has beautiful eyes but a dirty face, another named Mumeiji is clean but one-eyed; M. sent her to the ground with P. and the other the daughter became the wife of a fish; the father gave the young couple plants and animals, told them not to look back; Mumeiji noticed that her father did not give rice, hid the rice under her fingernails; hearing the voices of animals behind her, M. looked around, the animals rushed to run; P. and M. managed to catch only cows, pigs, sheep, dogs, chickens, and others became wild; the couple's bamboo and honey were dropped, the bees became wild; the medicine vessel was dropped into river, so there is no cure and drung can only make a weak intoxicating drink; but the seeds of millet, sweet buckwheat, oats, corn and rice have been preserved; Mubengge dropped weed seeds from the sky to make life people were not very easy; when he saw rice, Mubengge told the gods to return some, so there are pacifiers in rice ears; Mubengge gave a book, but people cooked and ate it, so drung can't write]: Miller 1994:63-66.

South Asia. Kondas (kuttia): Elwin 1954, No. 6 [Bura Pinnu distributed cattle to people, kept the rest for himself; his wife said she was not going to herd the herd; he gave it to his daughter; BP's sister Pusuruli out of envy sent myna to scare the animals by flapping their wings at their heads; the animals fell off the leash, became wild ungulates], 8 [Nirantali was born from the ground, animals and birds came out of there; Jaora Pinnu held them at home, but then there was no place to keep them, they ran away, so wild animals and birds appeared]: 340-341, 341.

China - Korea. Namuzi [three brothers cultivate the land, the land is untouched again in the morning; they find an old man turning back layers of land; although kill him; the old man says there will be a flood, working it makes no sense; tells the older brother to make a boat out of metal, the middle one out of wood, the youngest of leather; the youngest takes his younger sister into his boat, the older brothers' boats have sunk; the water has descended, the rest of the people drowned ; brother and sister see two columns of smoke; sister picks up a flute, goes one way, brother picks up a knife, goes to the other; walks into the house, there are human bones; children explain that the parents have gone to catch the brother's corpses and sisters, the rest of the corpses are taken out; the brother runs away; comes to where the sister married; she tells me to eat little, the brother does not listen; he is killed; but only he knew how to light a fire, carry water, grind grain, herding goats (crows, frogs, dragons, peacocks know, but not everyone can); therefore, the brother has to be revived; seven daughters of Father Heaven come to swim, take off their wings, the young man hides the youngest's wings; says that they were gnawed by mice; the maiden promises to marry the one who would return her wings; she found her wings, returned to heaven; he climbed after her; father-in-law and mother-in-law began to scald his hair, for people's bodies used to be covered with wool; the wife intervened, the hair remained only on the head; the father-in-law demands 1) to dig up nine fields (the wife tells you to leave a hoe at each field, they work themselves); 2) burn the felled vegetation (leave nine torches); 3) dig up the seeds again (same); 4) sow buckwheat (leave the seed vessels at the edge of the fields); 5) harvest the seeds again (leave the bags by the field); but three seeds not enough; they were taken away by a gorlinka, his wife tells her to shoot in the morning, he takes seeds from the goiter, brings them to his father-in-law; 6) recognize the mother-in-law in the form of an animal, bring her (the wife tells you to grab the first sheep); 7) get to know the father-in-law ( it will be yak); the young man gets a wife, cattle, they are sent to the ground; the mother-in-law tells them not to sing, the young man sang, the cattle ran away, the wife managed to cover some of them with her skirt, these animals became domestic, the rest became wild; the couple can't do anything, poor, sent Crow with nine bowls of tears to heaven to his wife's parents; Raven felt thirsty on the way, drank tears, told his father-in-law and mother-in-law that their daughter and son-in-law were rich and they prosper that they drown the hearth with pork, wipe themselves with grain; the father-in-law was angry, sent tigers and boars to the ground, they ravaged the few fields that the young had; the Bat offered to bring 9 tears to heavenly parents; but heavenly father-in-law and mother-in-law did not answer what to do to live normally on earth; the Bat said he would sleep outside, but he hid behind the bed; I heard as the mother-in-law said: don't they know that three stones should be placed on the hearth, then children will be born; put the roof of the house on poles; lead irrigation ditches to the fields; when the mother-in-law is finished, father-in-law I noticed the Bat, threw a pestle at him, and since then her nose has been flattened; the Bat brought these three news to earth, people have begun to live normally]: Lakhi 2009 (1): 67-152.

The Balkans. Greeks (Imbros, Turkish. Gokceada) [the lonely old woman Drakena had countless herds of goats: she made so much cheese from goat's milk that when she put it on the shore to load it on the ship, she made a whole mountain; One day March was very cold, a lot of cattle on the island fell and only the old goats were not injured; boasting, she said to March: "March, you came and went, but you couldn't freeze my goats!" angry March took two days in February, cold and frost let in, and all the goats rested for the old woman; she managed to hide under the cauldron where she made cheese and cover a thousand frontal (buttery) and a thousand horned goats; only they were saved; February, since it lent March two days, was lame, and now it has 28 days; when the weather was good, the old woman, angry at what had happened, put on cheeses, who remained on the shore for loading, one on top of the other, climbed upstairs and frightened God; God cursed her, turned her and the cheeses into stone; there was a rock of "old woman cheeses"; and for some time stood on The top is an old woman; and the old goats scattered and ran wild, so that all the wild goats that on Imbros and Samothrace are descended from that old woman's goats; Imbros and Samothrace were the same island at that time]: Book 1965:303 (translated by O.V. Czech) in Golan 2013:195.

Iran - Central Asia. Ishkashim [all wild animals belonged to a rich man; God became angry with him and destroyed him, and disbanded the herd, now they are wild animals]: Nazarova 2005:102 in Plaeva 2017:191.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [Burgan batyr went hunting with a friend; an old man with one eye in his forehead brought them to the cave, blocked the entrance, ordered B. to kill and fry his comrade, try with an iron point whether the meat was ready; B. burned their one-eyed eye, hid in an animal pen; went out, wearing a goat skin, shouted one-eyed; he asked him to be killed (B. shot and killed), take his cattle; B. did not take it, they were wild deer, kulans, arakhars, etc., since then they have scattered across the land]: Ostroumov 1891:204-205; Kyrgyz (p. Kosheter, Uzgen District) [Karynbay (from karyn - stomach) owned huge herds of all four types of cattle; ignored workers, was furious, beat the shepherd to death; to see his cattle, K. migrated to a high mountain that looked like camel humps; from then on, the mountain peaks are called Toyochyo ("like a camel"); K. sowed the entire plain with grain; his six wives had six houses full of goodness; all wives The good was laid out in the sun when the angel appeared. "Do you have enough cattle? - I want as much more! There are twice as many cattle. - Enough? - I want as much more! As K. doubles his demands, the land begins to suck it in; when it sucked, a depression formed, which is still visible today; all Karynbay's cattle turned into wild animals]: Sabyr uulu 2008:442-443; (brief retelling in Bayaliyeva 1972:16).

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians [the old man and the old woman have a hornless cow; the old man hears a cuckoo that has bitten near death, offers to eat meat before death, slaughtering a cow; the old man cuts, the old woman leaves, all the animals she is understood and listened to; she lives alone, eats plant food, milks wild animals; the old man is starving; she takes him to her place on the condition that he does not kill animals; an old man shoots a huge crow ; he breaks his arrow, all the animals run away; the old woman sprayed them with milk, marals, wild goats, zerens at their tail have since had a white spot; springs have arisen from the old woman's tears; old man lost]: Garf, Kuchiyak 1978:83-86; Tofalars: Rassadin 1996, No. 12 [three shepherd brothers lived: the elder was Egg-Head, the middle was Grass-Leg, the youngest was Hair-Throat; VG began to cook meat, swallowed a piece, his throat burst; TN: he's a bad person, he steals and eats! hit his legs, they broke, he died; YAG saw that the brothers were dead, scratched his head to the middle of his fingers, they entered the brain, he died; half of the sheep and goats the brothers grazed ran away, so wild sheep and goats appeared]: 21-24; Sherkhunaev 1975 [Roe deer and Izyubr lived with humans; to drive the Roe Deer away from milk, the owner hit her tail with a scoop; her ass turned white; to drive Reindeer away from dough, hit a whorl, my ass turned yellow; the animals went to the taiga, became wild]: 242-243; (cf. khakas [Chatkhan invented a stringed instrument, began to play, people and animals listened; the one-eyed aina heard sounds, came from behind the mountain, killed C., took the instrument, stole herds; C.'s grandson grew up, began to kill birds, came to the house of the seven Ainu near the cave; held out an arrow, put a cow's breast on it, took it away; the Aina counted the bones, did not find the bones from the brisket, realized that C.'s grandson had grown up; he did this I overheard for time; when he returned home, dug a trap hole in front of the house, began to play his grandfather's instrument {it's not said how he returned it}; Aina came, fell into a hole, died; C.'s grandson started playing, the cave opened, herds came out of it, C.'s grandson brought them back; the instrument is now called "chatkhan"]: Balter 1958:74-78); the Buryats [Huhei is the only daughter of a rich man; marrying her off, father slaughtered the thinnest sheep for the guests; H. drowned in shame; parents fermented the taryk and began to beat their cattle in a whorl; goats turned into wild goats, sheep into roe deer; the latter had a white ass - taryk's trail; all the animals were once this miser's livestock; the daughter comes out of the water at night in the form of a huhei bird and moans, Ay, halyk, huhei! ]: Potanin 1883, No. 17:183-184; Oirats: Potanin 1983, No. 54d (dyurbuts) [Burkhyn Bakshi had 32 rebirths; once he went to fish to feed animals; the animals ate half but could not turn the fish over, B. turned over himself; then became a hare the size of a mountain and died to feed the animals; the animals ate it, and Burkhan placed Mangyrbe's skin a month: we see it in the form of spots; he became lice, to find out what these creatures were like; Khan's daughter rolled lice between her fingers; B. then ordered to kill lice immediately without torturing them; two rich men named Dut-Bain and Donong-Bain had no cattle count, but when B. came, they gave him chips in a cup: we have no other food; B. turned all their cattle into wild horses, donkeys and camels]: 270-271; Skorodumova 2003 [{the recording is not specified, but given the similarities with Potanin's text, probably not a halha, but the Oirats}; Duut and Dunun were rich; Buddha came to their house, cut a tree alone at that time; replied that they ate chips themselves, gave Buddha a cup of sawdust; Buddha released rich cattle, this is how Przhevalsky's horse and wild camel appeared]: 50-51; Tserensodn 1989 [The cuckoo was the daughter of a rich man in early times. Since the rich man's daughter got married, he decided to have a wedding feast on the ninth day. However, because he wanted to save his livestock, he slaughtered one skinny, thin lamb for a feast. The daughter's name was the Golden Nightingale or the Golden Pheasant (in the Large Mongolian-Russian Dictionary, vol. 1, GURGALDAI I Gorgooldei: altan gurgaldai shuvuu. nightingale; Chinese oriole; GURGUUL Gorgoo& 1) shuvuu. pheasant; nangiad gurguul is a long-tailed Chinese pheasant; uulin gurguul mountain pheasant; gurguulin tor net for catching pheasants). The Golden Pheasant was ashamed of people (she was ashamed of people), she ran to the river, where she turned into a cuckoo. Due to the fact that the only daughter was missing, the family became sad, the farm was abandoned, the cattle ran away, and the horses became kulans, the cows became deer and deer. All living beings living in our steppe originate from that rich man's cattle]: 129-130 (interscript translation and ethnic attribution of E.P. Bakayeva's text; brief retelling in Bakayev 2009:38).

Western Siberia. Nganasans (Awam and other informants did not know the story, considered it a shamanic fairy tale; Western 1961) [Suruny-NGO ("Orphan Boy") goes to look for the soul of his deceased father; his mother tried to hold him for 7 days, could not; she meets the giant Bydy-Nguo (bydy - "water"), who keeps all the fish in the sea, at the request of S. lets her go into the rivers, goes with him; another giant, Babi Nguo (babi, "wild deer"), holds the deer, at S.'s request, releases them into the tundra, goes with him; the giant Moo-nguo (mou - "land") throws stones the earth trembles, S. says that people will not be able to live on the shaking ground, M. goes with him; their strength is running out, the spruce is coming; S. kills an iron loon with a stone, the companions could not; they come into the house; in turn cook; half-skeleton old woman Kamynkuo-nguo (kamynkuo means "blood") picks up food every time, hits the cook; S. grabs it, she promises him three daughters, says that her husband (Plague) chews on his father's head; that she in fact, Syrada-nyama ("mother of underground ice"), hides; S. tells his companions to make a rope out of grass, pushes the stone, under it the move down, S. goes down; sends three daughters of Syrad upstairs- yams, when he climbs himself, the companions cut off the rope, he falls to the lower ground; comes to the plague of the Mother Bird; next to him the one who gnawed Father S.'s head; agrees to send him to earth on a bird, S. must feed her with his meat; the bird brought S. to the ground, but his eyes and spine were left; the bird regurgitates, S.'s body is recovering; S. cut off three nguos in the ear, sent it away, took three for himself girls]: Simchenko 1996 (1): 39-53.

Eastern Siberia. Evenki of the Baikal region [the elder brother asks Ivol to put a plague on the river; he tries to put it in the water, asks the deer to help, they do not help, he kills them; his brother tells them to bring roots make a net, I. cuts off the children's heels, brings (one word for root and heel); brother goes hunting to an old woman whose house all wild ungulates live; tells I. to spit on the burning the beast and drag; I. spits on the moose, cannot hold him, asks the old woman to help; she cuts off his head; his head rolls, wants to cross the river; does not get into the boat of a man, an old woman, sits down with a girl ; at her home she does not want to sit next to her parents, smiles when a girl sits her next to her; does not want to lie down with an old man, with an old woman, goes to bed with a girl; becomes human in the morning; an old woman makes Ivil's skin; his brother comes, shoots an old woman with a bow; she tells moose, roe deer, musk deer and other animals to go to the taiga; wild animals have lived there ever since]: Voskoboynikov 1967, No. 16:53-55; Evens [during the flood, some wild deer died, another swam across the sea; the birds were about to fly away, the crow decided to fly with them, although it was dissuaded; before reaching it in the middle of the sea, it fell; wild deer and moose standing on the shore saw a wet crow, got scared and ran away; since then there have been wild deer and moose, crows overwinter, and migratory birds come to incubate chicks because it's too hot in that land]: Robbeck 2005:192; central (? the place of recording is not specified, link to the archive) Yakuts [the old man and the old woman killed the only cow; the old man did not let the old woman into the house; she went to the forest, found rich and cattle there; the old man loudly spoiled the air, the animals ran away, the old woman managed to grab one calf by the tail, ripped off its fluffy hair; therefore, the cows have a thin tail]: Ergis 1967a, No. 73:174-175.

Amur - Sakhalin. Negidals [Nevkhan brings fat every day; his younger brother Ivchan follows his trail to a house full of moose; The elk roasts his leg, fat drips from it; I. beats him, moose run through the forest; N. brings Jukola; I. follows in the footsteps, robs the old Koseri woman's barn, she catches him, tears his stomach with her claws; next time he puts a cauldron on his stomach, makes claws for himself, kills an old woman, brings her to the barn; N. comes to the old man, who gives him a cat, tells him to feed him whole cakes; at home, the cat turns into a beauty; I. does the same, but feeds the cat halves; his wife has half her face]: Cincius 1982, No. 30:150-157.

SV Asia. Chukchi [two old women want to have a child; one acts as a husband, the other gives birth to a mouse boy; he is carried away, eaten by an Owl; the Raven adjusts so that the Owl releases gases, the Mouse's bones fly out his ass turns into a boy; the Raven undertakes to cure the Owl of diarrhea, puts hot stones in his ass; the owl is barely alive, the old women (in the form of husband and wife) beat him; the Owl's bones fall out of his ass various swallowed animals, commercial animals spread by land and sea]: Bogoras 1902, No. 25:655; itelmen: Jochelson 1961, No. 9 [see motive J35; female Elthehenai's children ask tell a fairy tale; she replies what old woman Ivlikelhen will tell; I. sings, trying to put E. to sleep and then eat; she digs a dig from home, runs away with her children; the youngest knot stays, lives with I.; contrary to the ban, she unties the bags, all birds and animals fly out of them and scatter; the cuckoo Kekukemtalkhan carries the knot in a boat across the river, marries her; says I. that she crossed after drinking water in the river; I. drinks, bursts; when he learns that his wife eats crap, the Cuckoo kills her], 32 [Sinanewt is Spider's daughter, Czalkotxan marries her; some girls force him stay with them; S. sends their son to C. to ask for food, but he tells the girls to burn the boy with smut; The spider hides all terrestrial animals in strands of hair on the right side of the head, and all marine animals on the left ; the family leaves, climbs the ridge; creates the sea, the Spider releases animals; C. starves, comes to his son (the text ends)]: 71-74, 216-218; Menovshchikov 1974, No. 201 [=Jochelson, No. 9 (per.)]: 583-586.

The Arctic. Igloolik [the spirit marries; never hunts; sticks a spear into the ground, a caribou jumps out of there; one person watches him; in the absence of the spirit, opens a hole, the caribou scatter across the ground; spirit hits them on the head, making it flat, telling them to run away from people]: Boas 1901b, No. 1:306.

Subarctic. Tanaina [commercial animals disappear; Kingfisher blinds his eyes, sings, finds a door in the mountain; he and Pika (a small animal living in the rocks) open the door, drive the animals out ; mountain dwellers slam the door, Pica cut in half]: Tenenbaum 1984:179-190; Chipewayans: Birket-Smith 1930 [after the flood, the caribou disappear; the raven drives animal people away from his dwellings; The fox enters there, makes a hole in the door, the Caribou run out into the light; when they see a hare jumping out, they do not go further (to other lands?)] : 87; Lowie 1912 [all birds are white; a person decides to paint them; paints Loon black specks, others in different colors; promises to paint the Raven like Loon, he doesn't like it; then he paints it whole black; runs away with the other birds, the Raven after them, catches up with the Rook, paints him black; builds a long fence, separating the deer from people; the one who painted the birds sends the Owl to follow; people come to the pen; the raven drives everyone who comes to the entrance; Arctic foxes slip, free the deer; the raven makes deer skins invulnerable to arrows; takes off his curse when promised leave giblets of dead animals for him]: 184-185; Petitot 1986 [The old raven woman hides animals; The owl finds them; the Wolf, the Fox cannot penetrate her; the Blue Jay releases animals; the old woman kept life; for this she broke the bone shell that covered the bodies of ungulates], No. 16:379-281; beaver [The raven drives animals underground, holds the fat behind the door; the Nightjar watches him; people break the door, releasing animals; The raven covers animal bodies with a bone shell, only the nose is vulnerable; but he himself suffers from hunger; makes ribs to animals]: Goddard 1916:250-251.

NW Coast. The Tlingits [a man manages to get to the jealous man's wife; he opens her arms; all the land and marine animals she kept with him run away; her husband sends a flood]: Swanton 1909: 120, approx. a.

The coast is the Plateau. Kutene: Boas 1918, No. 60 [The Coyote swims down the river; turns into a wooden bowl; the girls Kozoda and Snipe pick it up; the meat left in it for the night disappears; in the morning they find a bowl in their beds; they throw her away, she turns into a little boy; while the girls are picking berries, the Coyote releases the salmon and deer they held behind the pond and in the pen; both give birth to a child] 65 [The raven hides the buffalo, the people are starving; the Beaver pretends to be dead, the Raven goes down to peck at him, is caught, brought into the house; screams the Coyote, flies out the chimney; the Magpie notices which way he is flew; Rabbit and Hare come to two old women; turn into a puppy and a stone; one old woman wants to throw the puppy into the water, the other picks up; picks up a stone to use as an anvil; in a bubble and a rattle hang in the aisle, making a sound as the bison passes; young men hole a bubble, take the rattle, drive out the buffalo; cling their teeth to the bull's testicles; standing on the sides, old women hit the bison, flattening its body; bison is now available to hunters]: 165-171, 213-219, 303-304; Western sachaptines [see motive k27; Valetitsa swallows things, becomes small and ugly; Chief Eagle promises two daughters to someone who knocks down feathers from their heads (the girls themselves are placed on the top of the tree); V. knocks down both feathers; Coyote says he knocked him down, but they don't believe him; the chief sends his daughters to grandmother V.; the youngest remains in their teepee, the eldest mocks the dirty boy, marries the Raven; in the absence of his wife, V. regains her swallowed, regains her appearance; turns bison cakes into buffalo; kills buffalo; the Raven only picks up heads; leaves with his wife, taking all the animals away; the Beaver pretends to be dead, catches the Raven coming down; people smoke him to the black; let him go, or he himself breaks out; V. turns into a puppy, Snake into a digging stick, Mortar into a mortar; Raven's daughter picks them up; V. barks deer out of the teepee; Raven returns to the village]: Farrand, Mayer 1917, No. 9:157-164 ; ne perse [see motif K27; younger sister marries an ugly young man, the eldest is Raven; the young man becomes handsome, the older sister also goes to him; the raven hides the buffalo; the Beaver tells them to rip apart his belly, pretends to be dead, catches the Raven; people hang the Raven in the chimney, it turns white black; promises to say where the bison flies away; Poloz, Pest, Laska come to the Raven; turn into digger, pest, puppy; Raven's daughter picks them up; puppy barks, driving buffalo back to the ground from an underground cave; digger and pestle sit on the backs of running buffalo]: Phinney 1934:170-172; upper coquill [The cougar is married to Olenikha, with them his younger brother Wild Cat; returning from an unsuccessful hunt, Puma sees his wife filling the basket with excrement, putting camas tubers on top, baking contents; offers excrement to her husband, tubers to his brother; The cougar tells the Wild Cat that he ate someone's crap; the deer puts his hand in his ass, pulls out his pancreas, runs away to the Deer, who play with the gland like a ball ; The cougar is sick, the Wild Cat must hunt by himself, he hunts for deer three times, but two men take the prey; the Puma is going to check, these people are Triton (water dog) and Black Fly, the Puma makes them return the meat; The Wild Cat finds good luck, penetrates the Deer, grabs the pancreas, returns the Puma; they also get the "common heart" of the Deer; owning it, it is enough to call them, the deer come running themselves; Puma and Wild The cat is killed as much as they need; when left alone, the Coyote calls the Deer himself; they come running, taking the "heart", fleeing to the sea; skins, dried meat, bones also disappear; the Coyote in his hearts wants him the crap and guts are also gone, bursting, the crap and guts disappear; the cougar chases the deer, grabs the last one before he jumps into the sea, buries the wool from his skin, and new hairs grow out of his hair deer]: Jacobs 2007:102-130.

The Midwest. Menominee [the chief's daughter with three girls goes traveling; protests when they find a skull, kick it and urinate on it; at night, the skull flies into the teepee through the chimney; one girl calls his brother, another uncle, a third father, he eats them; the chief's daughter calls her husband; he tells her to carry him on her back; easily catches and cooks geese and swans for her; she invites him to take a steam bath; closes the steam room, leaves the comb responsible for himself, runs; a one-legged man calls her sister, hides her in his pocket, his two dogs carry his skull to the ends of the earth; One-legged's house is inside a rock; he whistles on the whistle, bisons appear; when going hunting, warns not to open the door when a person of the same appearance and voice asks for it; the girl forgets the warning, opens the door; the impostor whistles at whistle, bison break in, take the girl away; One-legged at this time married, leads his wife to the house; she hesitates, he turns her into a frog; kills buffalo, revives the girl; the impostor turns out to be a Rabbit, lying around with his stomach ripped open; One-legged goes south, sends the girl east]: Bloomfield 1928, No. 104:429-441.

Northeast. See motive B1; evil brother Flint hides animals in a cave; kills only for himself and his grandmother; a good brother releases them. Onondaga: Hewitt 1903 [some animals (monsters?) stays underground, harms people]: 194-197; 1928 [a good brother creates berries, corn, sunflowers, animals; a person tells a good brother where animals are hidden; he makes animals wild]: 500-502; mohawks [Maple Escape creates animals, they disappear; he wants to shoot the Mouse; she tells us where the animals are hidden]: Hewitt 1903:302-308; Seneca [grandmother tells his eldest grandson that his the father is the Wind; he comes to the Wind, gets a bag; on the way he looks inside, the animals that were there jump out, run away; at home, the grandmother sees animals, gives them names; the young man himself creates a pond with fat; animals dive (or do not dive) there, depending on whether they are now fat or skinny; The deer says it will bite hunters; its upper teeth have been removed; the same applies to other horned animals ]: Beauchamp 1922:215-216; penobscot [Gluskabe tells animals that the world is coming to an end; only those who hide in his bag will be saved; brings a bag to his grandmother Marmota monax; says they will always have meat now; she asks animals to be released so that people do not starve to death; G. agrees]: Speck 1935b, No. 2:39; delaware [a young man kills an evil old man, then him brother, his grandfather, hunts and frees a white deer; this deer is followed by all animals; they are spreading around the world]: Bierhorst 1995, No. 43:38.

Plains. Sarsi [people were starving, only one family owned bison; the old man became a puppy, the little daughter of the buffalo owner picked him up, and he advised the puppy to throw it away because he has human eyes; girl opened the door in the hill, under the ground of the bison; the puppy kicked them out, they scattered across the ground, he became Old Man again, closed the hill forever; this hill is still called Bison]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 5:8; Blacklegs: Spence 1985 [The Gray Raven hides the buffalo; the chief asks Napi for help; N. turns himself into a dog, the chief's son into a stick; Raven's little son picks up a dog, Raven's wife a stick; The dog and Stick find an underground hole, drive the buffalo out; they go out on their own, clinging to the fur of an old bison; N. turns into a dead otter, catches the Raven, hangs it in the chimney; since then, the crows are black] : 208-212; Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. 1 [The raven hides the bison; the Beaver turns into a dead beaver, catches the Raven, smokes in the chimney (the crows have been black ever since); he breaks his promise to let the buffalo go when he finds himself free; Beaver turns into a digging stick, his friend Little Dog into a puppy; they are picked up by Raven's daughter; taking the form of a dog and a human, they drive buffalo out of an underground hole; the Raven stands ready to kill released buffalo; stick and puppy hide in bison hair, pass the Raven unnoticed]: 50-52; grovanter: Cooper 1975, No. 2 [man hides buffalo; White Man wants to help people turns into a puppy; a man's daughter picks him up; a puppy becomes a dog, drives buffalo out of the cave; they trampled the owner; the dog becomes human, rapes a girl]: 434-435; Kroeber 1907b, No. 4 [old woman hides buffalo and summer; Nishant tells the little boy to cry until he (N.) comes; the boy complains he wants meat and land without snow; N. turns into a puppy, the daughter of an old woman, contrary to her mother's order, she picks him up; one day she takes him to the forest, the puppy turns into N., rapes the girl; she calls her mother for help; while the old woman runs to her daughter, N. returns to her home, throws the summer bag out; the snow melts; to go out by himself, N. clings to the scrotum of the last bison, hanging under his stomach; the old woman does not notice it; the warm wind blows at night, the bisons come]: 65- 67; the crowe [the bisons are gone; the hunters follow them into the cave; the underworld is inhabited by giants, the bison is their horses; their enemies are birds and animals; even a scratch in battle with them is fatal to giants; hunters kill animals; grateful giants help drive buffalo to the ground; bison no longer return underground]: Lowie 1918:216-218; Simms 1903, No. 14:295-297; Mandan: Beckwith 1938, No. 4 [two brothers hunt, the game disappears; they find a home with a lot of meat; they wait for the owner, throw the bundle from his back; there is a rumble, the animals jump out of the bundle, scatter across land]: 53-54; Bowers 1950:261-262 (retelling in Lévi-Strauss 1968, No. 503), 350-351 [Hoita (Speckled Eagle) hides ungulates inside the Dog Den Butte rock ledge; agreeing to collaborate with A lonely Man in the Okipa ceremony, frees animals], 358-359 [Hoita (Spotted Eagle) is unhappy that people stole his cape, hides buffalo inside the hill; PTS takes the form of a rabbit, Hoita believes it's a rabbit, PTS examines the hill; arranges a party, Hoita releases buffalo]; arpahoe: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 122 [White Raven hides buffalo; first Rabbit, then Moose, Bison pretend to be dead; the raven goes down to bite the bison, is caught, hanged in the chimney, turns black; people let him go, follow him, throw the puppy up; the puppy finds a door in the mountain, followed by the bison; drives them to the ground]: 275-276; Voth 1912, No. 7 [people are starving; three hunters enter a cave, see a steppe with bison; the owner of the bison gives a pot of meat, enough for many; sends bison to the ground ]: 45; sheyens [two men come to the door in the mountain; all animals and cultivated plants are inside the mountain; the owner of the animals gives guests corn, pumpkin seeds, sends them to the world of bison and other animals ]: Grinnell 1907:173-193; Kiowa [White Raven hides animals underground; Sendeh sends Owl and Dragonfly to scout (their eyes have been bulging ever since); turns into a puppy, Raven's daughter picks it up; he opens the flint door, drives the buffalo to the ground; turns into burdock, sticks to the bison's hair, the Raven does not find it; turns into a dead moose; the raven goes down to peck at him, sandwiched between ribs, thrown into the fire, turns black]: Parsons 1929a, No. 9:21-26; Kiova-Apache: McAllister 1949, No. 9 [people feel the Raven smells like fat; The Dragonfly manages to trace where his tipi; in a cave under the bison hearth, the hole is covered with a stone; the Coyote turns into a puppy, the Raven's daughter picks him up; the raven says the puppy's eyes are too smart; in Raven's house, the Coyote opens a cave, releases buffalo; the Raven waits to kill him; the Coyote hides under the feet of the last bison; tells the Raven to eat carrion], 10 [the white Raven drives away game from the hunters; the Coyote turns into a dead moose; The raven goes down to peck at him, sandwiched between his ribs; the Spider lets him go, but immediately pulls him back behind the web; people smear it with charcoal, turning it black, telling him to eat carrion]: 52-53, 53-55; Comanches [The hunchback keeps the buffalo locked up; the Coyote turns into a killdeer bird with a broken wing; the Hunchback tells his son to throw it away; then the Coyote turns into a puppy, the Hunchback allows him to be taken; night. Coyote produces bison]: WEB ([email protected]); wichita [the bisons are gone; the Coyote turns into a puppy, picked up by the Raven's children; he opens the stone door, the buffalo come out of the hill; the Coyote brings them to the people]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 27:191-194; tonkawa [the owner keeps all the buffalo outside the door (up the hill?) ; The coyote turns into a puppy, the children pick him up; opens the door at night; the White Bison asks how many animals to release; the owner always asked for one, the Coyote demands everyone; the bisons go on the ground]: Hoijer 1972, No. 13:44-46.

Southeast USA. Except yuchi and caddo; a man keeps all animals in a pen; his two sons release them. Caddo [Vulture hides buffalo in a cave; people are starving; Coyote turns into a puppy, lets Vulture's wife pick it up; opens a stone door, bisons come out; Vultures turn into vultures, now eating carrion]: Dorsey 1905, No. 1:10-11; yuchi [deer live in a cave; the owner kills deer as needed, and people are starving; after all, the deer were released, they ran across earth]: Swanton 1929, no.90:85; teals: Kilpatrcik, Kilpatrcik 1966, No. 5 [deer live in a cave; father punishes sons by sending mosquitoes, flies, fleas, lice on them; then cleans them with rain]: 389-390; Mooney 1900, No. 3 [son of Kana'ti ("lucky on the hunt") and his wife Selu ("corn") is playing with someone by the river; says a boy comes out of the water saying that his abusive mother was abandoned him into the water; S. realizes that it came from blood when she washed meat; parents ask their son to grab Wild, run up; he can't get used to home for a long time; Wild turns into a feather, sits on K.'s shoulder, finds out where K. gets arrow reeds, which kills deer by pulling them out of a hole in the mountain; brothers release deer and commercial other animals and birds, Wild hits the last deer, with Since then, the deer's tail is lifted up; K. breaks blood vessels with mosquitoes, bugs, fleas, lice, they have bitten the brothers; since then it is difficult to hunt; the brothers are watching the mother; she rubs her stomach, corn is falling, armpits are beans; brothers want to kill their mother; she tells her body to be dragged around seven times; corn will grow; they have cleared only seven small areas, so corn does not grow everywhere; K. sees his wife's head, goes to the Wolves, sends them to "play ball" against the brothers; they lure the Wolves into the palisade, kill them with arrows; rolling the hoop at sunrise, the brothers find K.; he warns them of dangers ; they are not touched by the cougar; cannibals try to cook them, they destroy them with lightning; the sky hits the ground; they slip to the other side, find K. and S.; they send them to the west; they are Little People, their voices - distant thunder]: 242-248; Natchez: Swanton 1929, No. 5 [see motive J27; the larger of the two brothers (the one that came from the last and was thrown away) asks his father how he catches game; the father names one for another, magic remedies (medicine); a young man tries, brings only a turtle, a snake, and other dangerous creatures; brothers watch his father; he comes to the mountain, opens the door, kills a deer, leaves; brothers they release deer and all the other game], 6 [the boy asks his father to make him more arrows; confesses that he is playing with another; together with his father they catch the Wild; the father warns of dangers; the brothers transport an old woman across the river; she attaches herself to their backs; they have difficulty taking her off with boiling water; making a pipe out of her nose; swimming where the leeches crush them; watching the father let the deer out of the hole in the mountain, kills; they release all the deer and other game; the father brings people to kill the brothers; they place a row of Ducks, then a row of Geese, Cranes, Quails for protection, fill the empty reeds with bumblebees, hornets, wasps; they sting the attackers to death; brothers turn their father into a crow]: 222-226, 227-230; screams [two sisters go to look for the Beaded Spitting (PB); The rabbit pretends to be him, pulls it out vultures have a few beads, puts them in her mouth; sleeps with one of the sisters; sisters leave, get to Gopher, who eats their provisions; the closer the house of the Turkey Killer PB), the more feathers lie on the road; the owner tests the girls, telling them to bring water with a sieve; the one with whom the Rabbit pours out, the other turns into beads; sends the first PB, takes the second as his wife; she is pregnant; he calls her from the other side of the river, asking him to fit a boat; from a distance she sees the figure of a woman in the house; she does not bring a boat, PB swims, hits her imaginary wife, she disappears; it was Kolowa, who ate the real one wife; in his wife's torn womb, PB finds a live baby, throws him into the thickets; the son has grown up, asks him to make two bows; the father spies on how the second boy, who has arisen from afterbirth; father turns into an arrow, a ball of grass, a feather, Discarded every time recognizes him; finally caught, tamed, his name is Fatcasigo (Not-doing-right); father warns not to respond if someone will ask him to be transported from the other side of the river, it will not be him, but Kolova, who ate them; the old woman calls, F. insists that they transport her; the old woman asks F. to take her on her back, shouts "Kolowai, Kolowai ", refuses to get off; F. hits her, sticks with his hands, legs and head; her brother also hits and sticks; the father soaks them with hot water, K. flies away; the father does not tell me to get two eggs off the tree, F. persuades his brother to pick up the eggs; the storm immediately takes their father away, he returns; lightning strikes around, the brothers get off the tree; the brothers spy on the father, see the corral in which he is holding bears, deer and all animals; they let them out; their father sends them to a character named Long Nails for tobacco; a crocodile transports them across the lake, teaches them how to grab tobacco and run; transports them back, Long Nails do not have time to catch up; F. suggests filling the house with stinging insects; brothers place watchmen who should warn them of their father's approach; these are the Blue Crane, the Wild Goose, the Pelican, Partridges; the closest ones when they screamed, the brothers release insects, they bit their father to death; the brothers turn him into a Crow; F. goes west, his brother goes east; when you can see him in the west the red cloud is F. when it's in the east is his brother]: Swanton 1929, No. 2:2-7; biloxi: Dorsey, Swanton 1912, No. 19 [God kept bison, bears, deer inside separate buildings; people should have taken animals from there as needed; a bad teenager opened the doors of buildings, the animals ran away], 31 [Goldfinch is the elder, Redbird is the younger brother; every time their father does not tell to open the door of one of the buildings, Goldfinch opens; lice, fleas, bison jump out from there; the father puts lice and fleas back; after losing buffalo, he wants to kill his sons; they tear hornet nests, father's people bitten to death; father hides in a hollow; Goldfinch pulls him out, cuts him, bathes in his blood; Redbird runs away, his brother sprinkles blood on him, but this bird's plumage is not entirely red]: 54, 114-116.

California. Hupa [the owner of the deer keeps them in a cave; to make him less vigilant, Tkoshotklvedin (creator, cultural hero) pretends to eat venison too; opens the door to the cave, lures all the deer outside]: Goddard 1904, No. 1:123-124; Lassik [The cougar keeps the deer in the pen; while he is away, the Coyote comes to his younger brothers Wild Cat and Fox, makes them show the pen; deer run away; Puma kills brothers, they come to life]: Goddard 1906, No. 1:134-135; Yuki [Thunder and his wife drive their two snotty sons out of the house, do not give them food; they live at their grandmother Mole; they burn the mother; release the deer from the father's pen; burn him alive]: Kroeber 1932b: 929; mivok [the deer are gone; animal people find them in the cave; they try to kill several, but the deer run away]: Gifford 1917, No. 8:314-318; tubatulabal [The wolf comes to the Deer Master's cave; asks him to climb a pine tree for nuts; blooms animals]: Voegelin 1935, No. 1:193-195.

Big Pool. Northern Payutes: Marsden 1923, No. 1 [Gray Wolf has a younger brother Coyote; when he learns that the Wolf keeps animals in the cave, goes there himself, pushes back the stone, shoots deer, misses; deer, antelopes, bears and all animals go out; to make them smell, shows them their penis {is that why animals smell humans?}] : 181; Powell 1971 [all animals are in a cave in the mountain; older brother Piaish (Wolf) takes them as needed; younger Itsa (Coyote) tries to figure out where he brings them from; digs under with a rock, she presses it down; goes to the lake to look for ducks, rushes through the ice; climbs to the top of a pine tree for a bird, a pine tree grows to the sky; each time P. helps his brother (makes the pine tree low); finally, I. finds and opens the entrance to the cave, releases animals]: 226; Steward 1936, No. 12 (Owens Valley) [The wolf keeps the deer in the cave; the Coyote decides to release them; hits one on the nose with his penis; deer gain their instinct , run across the mountains]: 372-363; mono (Owens Valley) [water everywhere; Topi's older brother (Wolf) and younger Isháa (Coyote) swim in the boat; sand is poured on the water, earth appears; I. asks T. to pour more, he sprinkles, the earth grows; T. goes, creates everything on earth; I. runs to the hot springs of Coso, each time throws the loser into the fire; the fire was supported by Snipe; it became dark , it began to rain; I. paid the shamans Duck and Owl, who began to sing, it began to dawn; T. kept the animals in the pen; sent I. to bring one; he put his penis in them, they smelled it, found a sense of smell, broke it hedge, scattered; see motif B3A]: Curtis 1976 (15): 123-128; Western Shoshones [The wolf takes one deer from their underground receptacle each time; his brother Coyote leaves the door open, animals run away]: Smith 1993:91; northern shoshones [Wolf: 1) all the game in the pen, people take as needed; 2) people are immortal; 3) no periods; 4) people give birth from the finger, no sex is needed; Coyote: 1) releases game, now we have to hunt; 3) blood sprays on her daughter, she goes to the menstrual hut; 4) people must make love, women must give birth]: Lowie 1909b, No. 2b: 239; utah [Raven keeps buffalo inside a cliff; animal people choose a weasel boy to turn him into a puppy; Raven's children pick up a puppy; he opens a rock, the bison runs away]: Lowie 1924 (Southern Utah) [ever since crows only eat giblets], No. 34:62-63; Smith 1992:37 (Uncompahgre), 64-65 (White River); Sapir 1930, No. 5 (Uintah) [Coyote camp boys play snowballs with Raven's sons; one snowball turned out to be a lump of fat; Coyote tells him to migrate, and Laske to stay, turning into a puppy; Raven's children picked him up; at night, the Raven family eats meat, goes to bed; Laska opens the lid, releases buffalo; runs to camp; everyone rushes to hunt buffalo, Coyote alone did not kill anyone, his arrowhead was made of poplar leaf]: 505-507.

The Great Southwest. Western yavapai [people wanted the dead to be resurrected after four days, Coyote to die forever; his son dies, he asks again how many days they wanted; he is told that The decision has already been made; people wanted mescal fruits to be eaten raw, Coyote would have to be cooked; they wanted saguaro seeds in the trunk, make a hole and fall; Coyote: let them ripen only in summer; Puma and Wolf hunt, Coyote cooks at home; one day he watches them secretly, sees them coming up in the cave, opening the door, getting a mountain ram fresh; Coyote goes into the cave, shows the sheep their penis, they smell and run away; there is no more game in the cave, the comrades are starving; the Raven comes, he has deer fat in his basket; while the Raven with the Puma and the Wolf are in the steam room, the Coyote ate the fat; the Raven flew away with his basket; Coyote followed him, found the cave where he kept the deer, released them; a shaman came and advised him to hunt deer, Wolf and Puma began to hunt]: Gifford 1933a: 412-413; hicarilla: Goddard 1911, No. 20 [The Raven holds buffalo; people see Magpie carrying giblets; the Bat and the Rattlesnake manage to trace its flight; the man turns into a puppy, his Raven's children pick it up; The raven throws it into the fire, the puppy burns, the Raven believes it's really a puppy; at night a man releases buffalo; the raven stands ready with a bow; the man clings to the old bison and gets out unnoticed; the Raven tells his children that they will eat the eyes and meat that remains on the vertebrae], 21 [as in (2); the youngest child of the Raven leaves the stone door open], 22-23 [the man's wife touches reindeer noses with a poker; deer have been smelling people from afar ever since]: 212-214, 216-220; Opler 1938, No. VC [Magpie carries giblets from the Raven's quiver; this is how people know that the Raven is hunting buffalo; the Flying The mouse manages to trace his flight to the east; two young men turn into puppies, the Raven's children pick them up; the Raven tells them to make a fire in front of them; one blinks, he is thrown away; the puppy sees the Raven opening the door to the rock, killing one bison; the puppy becomes human again, driving deer, bison, mountain sheep outside; the raven is ready to shoot the thief; the last bison invites the person to hide on his hooves; under his arm; on his head; the person says he is afraid to fall, hides in the ass, so he gets out; the animals were tame; poor old women they made a hut out of leaf-covered bushes; animals began to eat leaves; old women burned a stick, hit the deer on the nose, told them to take a breath; this gave the animals a good sense of smell]: 256-260; Russel 1898 [children find meat in the Raven's bag; the Raven flies east, only the Bat has followed his flight; people turn the boy into a puppy, the Raven's son picks him up; the puppy sees the Raven pick him up a stone slab at the hearth, this is the entrance to the animal monastery; a puppy boy releases animals, leads to people; a raven tells crows to leave eyes; an old woman touches a deer's face; so deer are afraid of people] : 259-261; Western Apaches (White Mountain): Goddard 1919 [Ganiskid owns deer; Crows (=humans) throw up the puppy, G.'s son picks him up; at night he opens a hole covered with a stone, releases animals; G.'s wife touches reindeer noses with her hand she had previously touched her genitals; deer now smell humans]: 126-127; Goodwin 1994, No. 15 [people do not share meat with Raven; he drives animals underground, hiding black-tailed deer behind a black jet door, white-tailed deer behind turquoise deer, mountain sheep behind a red stone door, antelopes behind a white beaded door, made from sinks; Na ^. ye'nez γgane turns into a puppy, the Raven's children pick him up; the raven pokes smut in the puppy's eyes, but he only squeals; after finding out where the animals are, he licks the Raven in the face, the one with disgust throws the puppy out the door; taking his form, N. leads people to open the paddocks; all the arrows of the hunters hit the prey; the Coyote screams, Wounded! , since then, game can only be struck in the heart; the raven tells his wife to touch her loincloth with a reindeer nose bandage; deer regain their sense of smell and stay away from people]: 86-88; chiricahua [Raven keeps cattle underground; Coyote turns into a puppy, Raven's children pick him up; he passes between two snakes, two cougars, two bears; opens the door, gives the pipe and tobacco to the Big Bison; releases animals]: Opler 1942, No. 4:15-18; lipan [Raven drops bisons giblets; The Bat flies and watches him; the Coyote turns into a dead hairless dog, the Raven's children pick him up; at night he comes to life , opens the door in the hill, drives the buffalo to the ground; steals tobacco, hiding in his ear; learns spells used when hunting buffalo; to leave the Raven's house, clings to the hair under his chest bison coming out]: Opler 1940, No. 11:122-125; Hopi [girl plays hide and seek with boys; wins, takes their clothes < their skins < them like animals; keeps them in her house; last the young man comes to life; she returns his clothes; all animals run away, they become difficult to get; she goes to live in the river]: Voth 1905, No. 37:140-141; Zunyi: Cushing 1883 [Snails keep all animals in a closed canyon; Puma, Coyote, Mole and other ancestors release them]: 21-23; 1901 [the daughter of the chief priest keeps animals in the pen; refuses grooms because they cannot catch game; twin heroes find pen; she releases animals]: 104-121; Stevenson 1904 [twins kill her, release animals]: 38; teva (Santa Clara) [the bride of the Sun comes to him, climbing a pine tree into the sky; her hens follow her; her relatives cut down a pine tree; chickens fly across the mountains, become wild]: Espinosa 1936a, No. 39:111; teva (San Juan) [The skeleton comes to the festival disguised as handsome; two Yellow Corn girls go with him, marry him; in the morning they see a skeleton in bed; run away, he chases them; the Morning Star sends an arrow with a rope from the sky, takes them to heaven; each gives birth to son; grandfather does not tell them to go north; they go; they go; they go first to the old man, then to the old woman; he has Raven as a watchman, she has an Owl; the old man and the old woman are owners of commercial animals and birds; offer to play in order; if the brothers win, they will receive animals and birds; they are also recognized as children of the Morning Star, not the Skeleton; the old man (and then the old woman) and boys turn into various animals and birds, into objects ( lake); the old man (old woman) can't guess, the younger brother always guesses (the elder doesn't); the brothers get what they promised; the grandfather sends them with their mothers to earth; with them - animals and birds that are not was on the ground]: Parsons 1926, No. 23:81-86; tova (Hemes) [Kuchitikh keeps all the deer in the pen; Akhayutah asks for help from the Owl; she gives him bread and black wool; scattered them, A. puts the owners to sleep; Puma, Bear, Wolf, Badger, Coyote help destroy the pen wall; deer run away; Coyote cannot catch his own, now feats with carrion; A. throws black wool at K. and his people; they turn into crows]: Espinosa 1999:41-49; tiva (Taos) [during the migration, an old Apache woman found a baby thrown away, called Na'sagi; the chief promises a daughter to whoever knocks down an eagle with an arrow; who will kill a fox; N. did it, although he was small, fat and dirty, got a girl; hid all the bison, deer and other animals in an underground shelter; opened it, the animals came out, people were happy; N. stepped on the bison's skull, regretted that it was a strong bison, and now only bones; the bison came to life, took it away; a small animal that was digging the ground promised N. to dig an underground passage under the bison; dug under ear; N. entered the buffalo house, where they were dancing, took his wife back; asks the tree if it will help, it sends it to another; the fourth, smallest, promises to help, N. and his wife climb it; wife N. urinated, the calf smelled it, the bison came back, but N. killed their chief with an arrow, they ran away]: Parsons 1940a, No. 25:76-77; Oriental Ceres (Cochiti): Benedict 1931:5 [all animals are in one indoors; the Coyote opens the bag of stars; the animals run away], 11 [the owner of the deer sows dewclaws; they grow into deer; he releases them to the mountains]; maricopa [two cougar brothers keep deer in a cave; their little brother Coyote decides humans should hunt, opens a cave, drives animals into the world]: Spier 1933:356-357; Pima: Russel 1908:216-217 [Coyote pretends to be sick; says will recover if Puma's wife undresses and carries him on her back; copulates with her; her husband leaves her; her offended relatives take deer and other commercial animals away from people; people are starving; Coyote finds a cave, opens the door, animals run across the ground], 217-218 [The mirage drives all commercial animals into the cave; the Coyote comes and opens the door, the animals run away].

NW Mexico. Mayo [the old man was not allowed into a rich house, and this was God; he came to the poor man, ordered to make a pen for animals that did not exist before; turned the rich into pigs and the servants into wild boars; because servants were Indians, they fled to the mountains and into the forest]: Olmos Aguilara 2005:242-243.

Mesoamerica Totonaki [San Juan makes all animals out of wood, as well as axes and shovels; tells animals to cultivate a cornfield; ants bring seeds to sow from his father-in-law's bins; wife brings him lunch, can't find the field, screams; animals eat corn, run through the forest; his wife spits in holes in the ground; saliva turns into all kinds of vegetables, roots and tubers]: Ichon 1969:108-110; tequistlatecs [The devil advises deer not to return to God's house for the night; they have since returned dead, i.e. hunters kill them]: Carrasco 1960:110; tseltal [turning their own brothers in all kinds of animals, the Sun spreads them through forests and mountains]: Ramirez Hernández, Melo 1988:39; tsotsil [Jesus, aka kox, planted cotton seeds, they turned into bees; told his two older brothers that he saw a hive in a tree; they climbed a tree, but shed only wax on the younger one; he sculpted gophers out of wax, they broke the roots, the tree fell, the brothers broke {and turned into wild boars}; Kox asked his mother for 6 cakes, built a pen, stuck cakes on the faces of the wild boars (piglets) that came, three wild boars ran away, tearing off their wild tails; promises mothers (=St. Virgo) that he will be able to cultivate the field himself; turns sticks into workers; when he returns, the forest is intact again; {does he think wasps are to blame?} He tears wasps to pieces, so they have a narrow waist; finds two rabbits and two deer telling the trees to rise; he stretched out their ears, they are what they are now; the rabbit is the elder brother of a deer like how gopher is Aguti's older brother; Kosh teaches his mother to go to heaven - count to 9; he became the Sun, she became the Moon; there used to be another sun, Lusibel; it was not hot enough, the earth did not dry out , it was impossible to burn vegetation in the field]: Guiteras-Holmes 196:183-186; mom [God creates animals from discarded bones, keeps them in the pen; his brothers open the pen, the animals run away, going wild]: Siegal 1943:123; chol: Gebhardt Domínguez 2001 [Chu'jtat brought the earth out of his heart; at first it was like the wind, the wind became a cloud, a cloud of water, mud, mud earth; in the four corners of the earth, he put three Chuntewinikes people each to support it; these people feed only on the smell of flowers and fruits; after that, C. cut off the umbilical cord that connected his heart to earth; the earth was covered with vegetation; C. created the first people, smaller than the Chuntewinikes, but larger than the current ones, very smart; without needing anything, they forgot the creator; C. destroyed them with a flood, sent Vulture to see if anyone was left, told him not to touch anything, but he ate the corpses; C. punished him by telling him to eat carrion; sent Gorlinka, she saw that there was blood everywhere, but some escaped on rafts; bleeding her feet and returned to C.; he turned the surviving people into monkeys; the foam of the flood turned into stones that did not exist before; C. created two people, one tried to kill the other, C. destroyed him, gave him a woman to another; their descendants inhabited the land; one woman hides from her eldest son Askun that he has a younger brother Ijts'in; he noticed his traces, his mother showed I.; I. made gadflies and bees, told the gadflies to wake him up if he sleeps for a long time; A. envies, killed I. on the site, he came back; lured I. into an agouti trap, he came back again; cut it, fed the fish, he came back from fish; offered to climb the tree to get honey; he threw off his honeycombs 12 times, but wax, I. made 12 agouti, they blew up the tree; it fell, A. crashed, I. made all animals out of it; from teeth, blood, the hearts of certain birds, and from the heart of the hummingbirds; I. led the animals to the house; those who went through one door and came out of the other became domestic, the rest were wild; the mother was happy, but the Dog told her that the animals were made of her son's flesh; she wept, the rabbit and the deer did not go through the right doors in fear, rushed to run, I. grabbed their tails, they broke away; other forest animals scattered after these two; one day I. caught a white rabbit, gave it to his mother; lay down in a hammock, swayed, because of which the trees fell on their own; but in the morning the vegetation was intact; the young man waited for the rabbit given to his mother, who told the trees to got up; he brought the rabbit back to his mother, she never parted with him again; the son jumped into the sky, became the Sun, the mother became the Moon, the rabbit's shadow on her]: 49-57; Hopkins, Josserrand 2016 [The moon's eldest son is the white Sun, the youngest was the green Sun; the elder took the youngest to buy honey, climbed a tree, but threw only empty honeycombs to him; he made gopher out of them, they undermined the roots and the tree collapsed; the elder's shattered body turned into all kinds of animals; the mother began to cry for her son and so most of the animals ran away and became wild]: 54-58; canhobal: La Farge 1947:51; Peñalosa 1995b [ Mother Virgin gave birth to Our Father in the field; her brothers gave him an ax, he knocked down the forest with a few blows, and they all cut down one tree; they tied it to a tree, set fire to the felled vegetation; he ordered Gopher gnaw through the fetters, hide it in a hole, left a tree that looked like burnt bones; the brothers began to eat, throw bones into this tree; Our Father turned bones into all animals; the brothers opened a corral, some of the animals ran away and became wild; he invited his brothers to climb the tree, it grew to the sky, he ripped off the bark from the bottom of the trunk (to make it smooth and slippery), and created a lake around; brothers turned into animals (monkeys)]: 153-157; the Hakalteks [two leaders are unsuccessfully trying to hit the deer on the face of the moon with an arrow; the fool (simpleton) asks for permission shoot, cuts off the deer's leg with an arrow; it falls into the sea, which was then boiling; the chiefs ask Vulture to reach his leg, he is scalded; the chiefs make him new eyes from the seeds of the miche tree, but he stayed bald people; The fool easily pulls out the deer's leg; everyone eats meat, he gets only bones; he grinds them, all animals emerge from the piston; he keeps them behind the fence; his mother, seeing animals, laughs, animals they run across the mountains; the deer had long ears, the rabbit's horns, they changed; only the Fox remains, he was tied in the house; the Fool released him; noticed that when the Fox blows the winds, the smell is pleasant; sends The louse followed the Fox, but he lay down in the sun, the louse crawled, the Fox saw through her; sent Flea, who jumped off the Fox, then jumped again; but forgot exactly where the Fox got the corn; the mouse found closed rock, said to the Fool; the Mouse and the Fox climbed through the hole, but it was too small for a man; var.: Qich Mam followed a big ant carrying corn grain; bandaged his waist to punish, so ants have a narrow waist; the woodpecker began to hammer the rock, broke its beak; KM began to play marimba, determined by echo where the rock was thinner; lightning broke the rock, there were grains of corn, beans, peppers , pumpkins, etc.; charred corn turned black, less burnt red, some remained white; KM called people to dismantle the corn; KM had the smallest cobs, but the land was his, it produced the best harvest]: Montejo, Campbell 1993:100-103; acatecas [Our Virgin Mother's brothers are unhappy that she gave birth to a son, Our Father; they call him the widow's son, took him to the plot, forced him to the site, forced him cut down the forest, then tied them up and let them fall; but Aguti dug a hole and Our Father hid in it; the brothers began to dance, eat, throw dice at Our Father's face; he gathered them, made a corral, buried them, everyone appeared existing animals; Ancient People (i.e. the same brothers) discovered it, the animals ran away, only pets were left; Our Father began to dance better than the brothers; they admitted it, threw away their costumes and masks; Our Father told them to climb a tree, tore off the bark to make the trunk smooth, made a lake around them, turned them into monkeys; (more about persecuting Our Father by kings, nailing him to the cross, and ascension)]: Siegel 1943:121-124; kekchi, mopan [Sun's brother is ugly, keeps animals in a pen, does not allow his wife to see her face; at night she lights a fire, he jumps up, animals in fright scatters]: Thompson 1930:124-125.

Southern Venezuela. Yanomam [Scorpion (its tail is associated with onions and its sting with curare-smeared arrowheads) kept all the bakers in a covered hole (these bakers are people bitten by wasps, turned into animals); killed one at a time as needed; Owl (Siccaba virgata) followed; wanted to release and kill one, but everyone ran away; Scorpion became a gray scorpion out of grief]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 149:280-281

Western Amazon. Shuar [man scares wild pigs, they run away from the pen]: Wavrin 1932:132-133; Aguaruna [man scares wild pigs, they run away from the pen]: Akutz Nugkai et al. 1977 (2): 114-118; kofan: Borman, Criollo 1990, No. 7 [no one shares meat with a loser hunter; he follows the bakers into the hole where they hide; enters the lower world; some creatures live there (translated as" tricksters"); the main penis is wrapped around his neck; he tells the man to bring pumpkins and sweet potatoes, he sees battleships and worms; after the "trickster" gives him a drink in which he dipped his fingernail, a person sees pumpkins and sweet potatoes; a "trickster" kills bakers; a person eats meat, and the owner only smells and throws it away; a person goes to relieve himself; "tricksters" smell, smear themselves with feces;" trickster" sends a person back, giving a tool to lure bakers; at first, a piece of it says so much that a person cannot crawl into the hole leading to the surface of the earth; some have to be cut off; bakers follow the person; people shoot them, the person is unhappy: why they kill the cubs; the other person also wanted this tool; both came down; the chief "trickster" asks others what they will become ( stone, flint, rock); tells people to move away; the first hunter leaves, the second does not, the house turns over, turns into stone; in the spring he turns back, but that man has long died; the first returns, reports this to his wife; the bakers stayed in the pen outside this man's house; after his death they went to the forest]: 75-105; Calífano, Gonzalo 1995, No. 75 [a loser hunter follows a herd of wild pigs, becomes one of them; through a hole he descends with them to the lower world; their owners live there Kuankua; a person spends a year there; k. has no anuses, they eat the smell of cooked meat; man defecates, k. enjoy the aroma; k. wrap their penises around the waist; penises crawl them into women's vaginas; a person becomes a baby, women bathe him, put pain on the penis; k. and man they turn into colored stones with them, then regain their former appearance], 76 [starting as (75); a person is frightened to see him smear his home with crap; returns to earth; wild pigs they give him a horn; he blows, they all come running, destroying his house; he throws the horn away; thanks to him, wild pigs live in our world], 77 [starting at (75); after a few days in the lower world, man comes back; first asks for a big horn, blows, lots of pigs get stuck in the aisle; blows into a small one, pigs take turns running out into our world; now they live on earth]: 134-136, 136-137, 137-138.

NW Amazon. Letuama [four Aya brothers live in the house of Mujer del Mundo; she keeps wild pigs underground, releases them as needed, raising the roots of the tree; two Ayas turn into woodpeckers, distract her attention, others find pigs; let them out; she throws Aya into the same hole; they get out as ants]: Palma 1984:53-55; ufaina [like a lethuam; a hole with pigs under cassava roots]: Hildebrand 1975, No. V, VI: 339-341; yukuna: Folclor 1974 [Lajmuchí built a house with his people; The owner of Leaves gave a bag of leaves to cover the roof, people opened it along the way, now the leaves are in the forest; it takes night, otherwise people eat all the time; the Master of the Night gave a package, one person opened it on the way, night fell, people fell asleep; the Master of the Night turned into a bat, ate his sleeping eyes; one put bags in front of his eyes in advance, the Master took them away, not his eyes; L. and his nephews came to the owner of the Yameru water; she gave a little bit of this water from the leaves; also only she has wild pigs in her pen; one the man opened the pen, the pigs ran through the forest; L. watched Hamera swim and eat fish; the water was in the tree trunk, they began to cut it down, his aunt overgrown the felling overnight; {apparently, they cut down the tree and they extracted water, there is no last page of text}]: 304-314; Hammen 1992 [Ñamatu, the Karipulakena brothers' aunt, had a cassava bush on the site; she picked it up, took it out a wild pig, put it on place; the brothers guessed it, the younger Lamuchí picked up the bush and the pigs ran through the forest; for this, N. placed K. themselves in that hole, but they got out through the sarbakan hole]: 289; okaina [ Fahairama (big spider wasp) meets two Muiroñókaha sisters (from "muyro", a species of bird, beautiful); they compete in magical power; F. has a tuh helper (this is a tapaka spirit); sisters hide everyone animals in an underground tank; first F. returns from hunting without prey; next time an assistant spirit tells him where the animals are, F. releases them; the sisters slam the door, F. cannot leave; he leaves their sewage on the floor; a year later, the sisters fumble with a stick, find crap, think that F. is dead and rotted; they open the door, F. jumps out, locks them themselves; leaves, sees the fishermen, insists that he was allowed to catch the biggest fish, it swallows it, the fishermen take F. out of its womb; F. wants to eat this fish, they put another smaller one on him; he does not believe that she swallowed it, he tries to gave a big one, eats (after all, he was starving for a year); wanders further, climbs the Ficus anthelmintica fruit tree, leaving a weapon and a handbag with shamanic accessories below; the tree grows tall, it does not get down; in the morning, Yomanahima, son of Ko:Ma:ndio, who lived at sunrise, came for fruit in the form of a monkey; F. asked for help to go down, J. went to his father, who gave him two peppers, ordered them to chew, let them go saliva; F.'s saliva did not have enough land; then J. chewed, saliva descended to the ground, turned into a vine, both descended; as a reward, F. gave J. cotton, ordered them to put it on the body, now these monkeys are beautiful golden fur]: Blixen 1999, No. 4:63-85.

Central Amazon. Munduruku [Karusakaibe lives in the village of Huakupari; sends his son Korumtau to his sisters for meat; they do not give it; Kar. tells him to fill their house with feathers; fumigates home, screams, Eat your own food! they hear, Copulate! , turn into wild pigs; Kar. kills pigs one at a time; turns into a tapira, lets people shoot at themselves, carries away pierced arrows, turns into a human again; Daira persuades Cor. show where the pigs are, he lets them all out at once; they are chasing Cor. , kill him; K. covers the pigs with a hill; the rest run away into the forest; they put an anaconda across the river; it pulls the shores closer together like a rope]: Murphy 1958, No. 1:70-73.

Eastern Amazon. Spiking [Kumãφári sent his young son to the people to ask for fruit; they replied that K. should come by himself; K. became angry and scattered the feathers of four mutum birds around the village; it blew at night, the village turned into a rock, and people into wild pigs; feathers around the village, people turn into wild pigs; in the morning he took his son to hunt; opened the rock, throwing three seeds, the pigs came out, he killed as much as needed; one day, in K.'s absence, his cousin (Vetter) came; K.'s son warned him to throw only three seeds, he threw down a whole bunch; many pigs cut down a palm tree, where K.'s relative and son hid, both killed, ran away; K. revived both of the drops of blood, told the relative to be the owner of wild pigs now, turned them into a wild boar; now he is a little man who rides a boar, rules the herd]: Nimuendaju 1920:1013-1014; tenetehara [Tupan came with his adopted son to the village of the boy's relatives; they did not take care of him; T. ordered for the boy to collect feathers, pour them around the village, set them on fire, people in the village turn into wild pigs and bakers; Marana ýwa T. made the boy the owner of wild pigs]: Wagley, Galvão 1949, No. 6: 134.

Montagna - Jurua. Pyro [Shishiya kills men, kidnaps women; lives in a hakanhonru tree; people avenge the death of a young man, set fire to a tree; a woodpecker hammers a trunk, from there they go out and spread through all commercial animals on the ground; S. burns, witch doctors and medicinal herbs grow from the ashes]: Baer (in print): 1-2.

Southern Amazon. Rickbacz [daughters-in-law do not give a man the meat that their husbands bring; he once again sends his young son for meat, he is given only feathers; the man makes a hut out of these feathers, invites him inside his married sons, fumigates them with pepper, sons turn into jaguars, their wives into wild pigs; the youngest son has legs full of sand fleas; the father leaves him at the fork in the tree, opens the entrance slightly to the hut, kills a pig that has come out; while his father was away, a man came and asked his son to show where the father kept the game; the boy agreed if he carried him; he opened the way out, the pigs and jaguars went out and ate that man; the pig put the boy on his back, carried him; the father found him, but when his mother took the tick out of his ear, he died]: Pereira 1994, No. 11:117-121 (=1973, No. 1:34); kayabi [Holds for a month wild pigs in the paddock; his youngest son makes a hunting shelter out of fragile wood; pigs kill him, run away]: Pereira 1995, No. 2:33; nambiquara [animal owner keeps them in a hole; blows once to summon an animal, it can be big or small game; reserves an assistant; the person asks him to call the game, is not happy with what he has got; the assistant allows him to blow twice, animals go out at once, run away]: Pereira 1983, No. 47:77-78; Iranian [snakes guard animals in a hole; father of two boys finds a hole, shoots game as needed; his wife's brother forces boys show a hole, releases all the game]: Pereira 1985, No. 53:218-220; paresis [a snake and a jaguar guard animals in a hole; they can be killed one at a time; people call many at once, animals run away]: Pereira 1986, No. 9:192-194; Umotina [Asanot - Bakololó's wife of the Sun; found the dens of all commercial animals; B. goes to make arrows, hides A. under the roof; comes him friend Month, pushes his penis on a grain grater; A. laughs, has to tell you where the animal's lairs are; The month only frightened the animals, finally shot two anteaters, A. did not want to take them, because the meat tasteless; A. sent her husband two tapirs on the road, he killed them; told about what happened; The month came to B. to get a piece of tapir meat, but he made an angry face, drove the Month away for scaring the animals] : Schultz 1962, No. d: 232-233.

Eastern Brazil. Kayapo: Wilbert 1978, No. 32 [a woman does not feed her children; a shaman burns her and her children into wild boars; locks her in a cave; kills two wild boars as needed; people force her son shaman show where the cave is; wild boars rush at people, trample and devour the boy; go to the underworld], 95 [O'oimbre sent his son to the village to the boy's mother's relatives to ask for food; refused, they told them to find the hunters and ask them for their needs; at night, O. threw bird feathers into a large house where people were sleeping, closed the exit with a stone slab; the boy asked his mother to take him out to pee, but soon began to scream like a fright; everyone turned into bakers; in the morning Takakö (he's brother-in-law of O.) took his son, went to the house, opened the door a little, threw two seeds that bakers love, killed the bakers who came out, closed the door; in the morning T.'s son stayed at home, injuring his leg; O. carried him and forced him to show where T. got the bakers; opened the door wide, the animals escaped, tore him apart, the boy climbed the tree, they opened him they knocked down, they also tore it; the father revived his son by collecting his body from fragments and adding sticks, calebass, etc.]: 109-112, 249-250.

Chaco. Chorote [a woman kills her son, a boar watchman; they run away into the forest]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 85:161.

Southern Brazil. Ofaye [The sun keeps wild pigs in the pen; his brother Month, in his absence, asks his wife to let him shoot a pig; pigs run away; the Sun splashes boiling water into the face of the Month, spots are still visible]: Nimuendaju 1914:377.

The Southern Cone. The South Tehuelches [the deity keeps the animals in a cave or pen; the fox frightened them, they ran away forever]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984b, No. 79 [the animals were in the pen, Elal told the Fox not to disturb them ; in the morning, the Fox gave a voice, the animals ran - the horses to the north, the rest to the south], 81 [the owner of the land, plants and animals was the first to leave the Áspes cave; she had a son; the fox frightened the animals, they ran away; the woman's son and herself, in the form of a white foal, and the mare chased them together again; the son began to swim in the lake, drowned; his mother regained her human form, then turned into a piece of meteor iron; the animals remained wild; after the woman, the rest of the people came out of the cave, went to the ground; (Spanish retelling of the original in Bornancini 1970:1255)], 82 [hostess the animals lived with them in a cave; the fox frightened them, they ran away; the woman ran after them in the form of a white mare, with her son in the form of a foal; he drowned; the mother turned into a red iron rock]: 122-123, 124-125, 126; North Tehuelches [the animals were together, the Fox threw a stone, frightened them; in the north you can see their footprints on the rocks]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984b, No. 80:123-124; selknam [ Guanacos didn't know people should be feared, people killed them easily; Lis tells Guanaco where his relatives went; now guanacos stay away from people]: Bridges 1948:440; Wilbert 1975a, NO. 43:117.