H19. The raven prevents hunting. 41.43.46.47.49.50.
Theraven (s) hides commercial animals in a pen, cave, or scares them away from hunters. See motive H18.
Kuchin, Tagish, Southern Tutchoni, Helmet, Hea, Chipewayan, Beaver, Kutene, Western Sachaptin, Ne Perse, Blacklegs, Hidatsa, Teton, Arapahoe, Northern Sheyen, Kiowa, Kiowa Apache, Wichita , caddo, natchez, screams, utah, jicarilla, chiricahua, Western Apache (White Mountain), lipan, tova (Hemes), yavapai.
Subarctic. Kuchin [The raven always warns the Caribou when hunters are coming; people starve to death, the old man and his wife are left; the old man pretends to die; the Raven comes down to peck at his eyes, old man catches it, kills it, plucks it, burns it]: McKennan 1965:98; Tagish [The Raven (Yéil) tells all animals not to fall into traps; wants to starve people to eat their corpses; warns animals about the approach of hunters, and eats dead people; deflects hunters' arrows from the target; one hunter hid in the snow from the Raven, shot the caribou unnoticed; asks his own two wives leave him like he's dead; the raven comes down to peck his eyes, the man grabs him, breaks his wings, burns him in hot coals]: McClelland 2007, № 73g: 366-368; southern tutchoni: Workman 2000:50-51 [The raven warns animals when hunters are approaching; people starve, the Raven eats corpses; Äsúya (Beaver) pretends to be dead, tells his wife to cover the imaginary corpse with branches; after making sure that the woman is gone, the Raven comes down to peck the corpse; Ä. grabs it, breaks its wings, drags it home, burns it alive; throws the coals away; they turn into a crow; Ä. tells him not to disturb people from now on, he turns small and black], 120-121 [the big white Raven warns animals when hunters are approaching; wants people to starve to death, he will eat corpses; one person quietly got out of at home, killed an elk, fed the others; when the old man died, his corpse was left as bait; the crow was caught, hung in the chimney, it became black and small]; helmet [two Crows drive away animals; people starve to death, Ravens peck their eyes out; Beaver pretends to be dead, grabs Ravens, burns alive; kills caribou for his wives]: Teit 1917a, No. 1:441; hea [Raven steals food from Kunyan 'a; warns that humans will disappear if K. kills him; so happens; K. revives the Raven, finds two female fish; men come out of pike, women from loche; animals disappear; hides them A raven, keeps a huge supply of meat in the house; an old owl finds them, people carry them away; The Raven flies away]: Petitot 1886, No. 14:150-154; Chipewayan: Birket-Smith 1930 [after the flood, the caribou disappear; The Raven drives animal people away from their homes; 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 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; breaks the spell when promised leave the giblets of dead animals]: 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 has saved her life; for it was she who broke the bone shell that covered the bodies of ungulates], No. 16:379-281; the beaver [The raven drives animals underground, holds the fat behind the door; the Nightjar watches him; people break the door by 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.
The coast is the Plateau. Kutene [The raven hides the buffalo, 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; Magpie notices which side he 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; a bubble and a rattle hang in the aisle, making a sound as the bison passes; the young men hole the bubble, take the rattle, drive the buffalo out; 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]: Boas 1918, No. 65:213-219, 303-304; Western sachaptin [see motive k27; Valetits swallows things, becomes small and ugly; Chief Eagle promises two daughters to whoever 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 down, but they don't believe him; the leader 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 swallowed, regains her appearance; turns bison cakes into bison; 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 that has descended; people smoke him to black; let him go, or he breaks out himself; 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 goes to him too; the Raven hides the buffalo; The Beaver tells him to rip his belly open, pretends to be dead, catches the Raven; people hang the Raven in the chimney, which turns white black; promises to tell him where the bison is flying away; Poloz, Pest, Laska come to the Raven; turn into a digger, pestle, 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.
Plains. 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 - stick; Dog and Stick find an underground hole, drive out buffalo; 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, crows black]: 208-212; Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. 1 [see motif K75; The raven hides the bison; the Beaver turns into a dead beaver, catches the Raven, smokes in the chimney (crows have been black ever since); he breaks his promise let the buffalo go when free; the Beaver turns into a digging stick, his friend Little Dog into a puppy; they are picked up by the daughter of the Raven; taking the form of a dog and a human, they drive the buffalo out of the underground hole; The raven is ready to kill the buffalo that have released; the stick and the puppy hide in the bison's hair, pass the Raven unnoticed]: 50-52; hidatsa [girl goes out in the Months; her son digs in the sky the rhizome, making a hole into which the ground can be seen; he and his mother descend on a rope from the tendon, the Month kills the mother with a stone, the boy is unharmed; lives with an old woman; kills monsters; comes out of the hollow bald man, screams, all the meat becomes bitter; the young man has become a spider, climbed a tree, turned a bald man into a harmless owl; the white Raven warns the buffalo about the appearance of hunters; the young man became wounded bison, brought the herd to people, went to the steppe himself, pretended to be dead; crows and magpies flocked, the last was their leader, the White Raven; the young man caught him by the legs, plucked him; he flew away; the young man threw one into the air the feather, it turned into a white Crow; the young man painted it black; people have tiny eyes and mouths, the young man expanded them; knocked out the predatory moose's larger and larger teeth, left two; finally turned into Morning Star]: Lowie 1942:4-6; teton: Erdoes, Ortiz 1984 (Brule) [The White Raven warns buffalo when hunters are approaching; the young man hides under buffalo skin, grabs it; one of the hunters throws it into the fire, the rope burns, the Raven flies away, but turns black and no longer warns the buffalo]: 395-396; Neuhardt, Brown 1997 (oglala) [two girls look at the stars, one wants a bright husband, the other is dim; two men appear, the girls agree to marry them; in the sky a bright star turns out to be an old chief; asks the pregnant wife not to press the digger hard to get roots; she presses , falls through the sky, crashes, the child remains alive; the birds are arguing about who will raise the Shooting Star (PZ), this honor goes to the Lark; the young man grows up, goes to the camp, where Vaziya (a source of snow) takes all the prey from people; the PZ cuts off his head, kills his relatives, one child hides; so there is winter; the White Raven scares away buffalo, people they starve; the PZ turns into a dead bison, the Raven goes down to peck at it, the PZ grabs it, smokes it in the chimney; the Raven turns black, flies away, losing its strength; the PZ turns into a boy, lives with an old woman; The thunders took the leader's hand, he promises his daughter to the one who will return his hand; in the form of the PZ king, flies to the tipi, where his hand hangs; overturns the cauldron on Iktomi (Spider) and others, carries his hand, returns it to the leader, marries]: 496-513; arpaho [the white Raven hides the buffalo; first the Rabbit, then the Elk, the Bison pretend to be dead; the Raven goes down to peck 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, behind which the bison; drives them to the ground]: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 122:275-276; Kiowa [the white Raven hides animals underground; Sendeh sends an Owl and a Dragonfly to explore (their eyes have been bulging since then); turns into a puppy, Raven's daughter picks him 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 descends to peck at it, sandwiched between its ribs, thrown into the fire, turns black]: Parsons 1929a, No. 9 : 21-26; northern sheyens [two girls look at the stars; the first wants a bright star as her husband, the second an ordinary star; a porcupine lures the first to a tree, from there to the sky, turns into a middle-aged man takes a girl as his wife; tells her not to dig a white tuber; she digs it up, sees her house on the ground through the hole; she goes down the grass rope; she is short, the girl falls, breaks; the Skylark woman finds a boy in her womb, raises him; he comes to his maternal grandmother; lets the water monster swallow himself, cuts him from the inside, releases swallowed people; in another village, the white Raven drives away buffalo from hunters, humans starve; Shooting Star pretends to be a dead bison, catches the Raven, smokes it to death in the chimney; marries]: Grinnell 1921:308-312 in Edmonds, Clark 1989:188-192; Kiova-Apache: McAllister 1949, No. 9 [people feel the Raven smells of fat; the Dragonfly manages to trace where his tipi is; in a cave under the bison hearth, the hole is covered with a stone; the Coyote turns into a puppy, Raven's daughter picks it up; The raven says the puppy's eyes are too smart; in Raven's house, the Coyote opens a cave, releases buffalo; the Raven is waiting to kill him; the Coyote hides under the latter's feet 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 descends to peck at him, sandwiched between his ribs; the Spider lets him go, but immediately pulls it back behind the web; people smear it with charcoal, making it black, telling it to eat carrion]: 52-53, 53-55; wichita [the bisons are gone; the Coyote turns into a puppy, he is picked up by the Raven's children; he opens the stone door, the bisons come out of the hill; the Coyote leads them to the people]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 27:191-194.
Southeast USA. 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; Natchez: Swanton 1929, No. 6 [boy asks his father to make him more arrows; confesses he is playing with another; together with his father they catch Wild; father warns of dangers; brothers transport an old woman across the river; she attaches herself to their backs; they have difficulty taking her off with boiling water; make a pipe out of her nose; bathe, where leeches crush them; watch their father let the deer out of the hole in the mountain, kill them; 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 guards fill empty reeds with bumblebees, hornets, wasps; they sting attackers to death; brothers turn their father into a crow]: 227-230; screams [two sisters go looking for the Beaded Spit (PB); Rabbit pretends to be him, pulls out some beads from the vultures, puts them in his mouth; sleeps with one of the sisters; the sisters leave, get to the Gopher, who eats their provisions; the closer the house of the Killer TurkeyPB) the more feathers lie on the road; the owner tests the girls, telling them to bring water with a sieve; the one with which the Rabbit combined pours out water, the other turns into beads; sends the first PB, takes the second as a wife; she is pregnant; he calls her from the other side of the river, asking him to fit a boat; from a distance he sees the figure of a woman in the house; she does not bring a boat, PB swims, hits his imaginary wife, she disappears; it was Kolowa, who ate his real wife; PB finds a live baby in his wife's torn womb, throws the latter into the thickets; the son has grown up, asks him to make two bows; the father spies on how he goes out to him play the second boy who arose from the afterbirth; the father turns into an arrow, a ball of grass, a feather, Thrown away recognizes him every time; finally caught, tamed, his name is Fatcasigo (Not-doing-right); father warns not to answer if someone asks to transport him from the other side of the river, it will not be him, but Kolova, the mother who ate them; the old woman calls, F. insists that they transport her; the old woman asks F. take her on her back, shouts "Kolowai, Kolowai", refuses to get off; F. hits her, sticks her arms, legs and head; brother also hits and sticks; father soaks them with hot water, K. flies away; father does not tell get two eggs from the tree, F. persuades his brother to pick up the eggs; the storm immediately takes their father away, he returns; lightning begins to strike around, the brothers get off the tree; the brothers spy on the father, see a corral in which he keeps bears, deer and all animals; releases them; his 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 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; this is Blue Crane, Wild Goose, 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 east; when you can see a red cloud in the west, it's F., when it's in the east, it's his brother]: Swanton 1929, No. 2:2-7.
The Big Pool. Utah [The Raven keeps the buffalo inside the cliff; animal people choose the Little Weasel to turn him into a puppy; the Raven's children pick up the puppy; the puppy opens the rock, the bisons run away]: Lowie 1924 ( southern Utah) [crows have only eaten giblets ever since], 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 the camp; everyone rushes to hunt buffalo, Coyote alone did not kill anyone, his arrowhead was made of poplar leaf]: 505-507.
The Great Southwest. Hicarilla: Goddard 1911, No. 20 [The Raven holds the buffalo; people see Magpie carrying giblets; the Bat and the Rattlesnake manage to trace its flight; the man turns into a puppy, the children of the Raven he is picked up; the Raven throws it into the fire, the puppy burns, the Raven believes it really is a puppy; at night a man releases buffalo; a raven stands ready with an onion; a man clings to an 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; chiricahua [The raven keeps the cattle underground; the Coyote turns into a puppy, the Raven's children pick him up; he passes between two snakes, two cougars, two bears; opens the door, gives the phone and Big Bison tobacco; releases animals]: Opler 1942, No. 4:15-18; Western Apaches (White Mountain) [humans don't share meat with the Raven; he drives animals underground, hiding black-tailed deer behind a black jet door, white-tailed behind turquoise, mountain sheep behind a red stone door, an antelope behind a white beaded door made of shells; 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 the deer noses with a loincloth; deer regain their sense of smell and stay away from people]: Goodwin 1994, No. 15:86-88; lipan [The raven drops his bison 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 to the hill, drives him out 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 the bison's chest]: Opler 1940, No. 11:122- 125; tova (Hemes) [Kuchitikh keeps all the deer in the pen; Akhayutah asks for help from Owl; she gives him bread and black wool; after throwing them, A. puts the owners to sleep; Puma, Bear, Wolf, Badger, Coyote help destroy the pen wall; deer run away; Coyote can't catch his own, now he's trapping carrion; A. throws black wool at K. and his people; they turn into ravens]: Espinosa 1999 : 41-49; Western yavapai [people wanted the dead to be resurrected after four days, Coyote to die forever; his son dies, he asks how many days they wanted there; 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 hunting]: Gifford 1933a: 412-413.