Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
Bibliography
Ethnicities and habitats

H22A. The animals were hit on the nose .34.40.41.49.50.74.

Large commercial animals were concentrated in one place and were not afraid of people. They ran away after someone touched them, hit them slightly (often on the nose), and got something dirty. Cf. motive H22.

Altaians, Tofalars, Buryats, Igloolik, Chipewayans, Northern Payutes (Owens Valley), Hicarilla, Western Apaches, Selknam.

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, Kuciyak 1978:83-86; Tofalars [Roe deer and Izyubr lived with a man; to drive the Roe Deer away from the milk, the owner hit her tail with a scoop; her ass turned white; to drive Reindeer away from dough, hit a whorl, his ass turned yellow; the animals went to the taiga, became wild]: Sherkhunaev 1975:242-243; the Buryats [Huhey is the only daughter of a rich man; when marrying her off, her father stabbed her for guests the thinnest sheep; 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 white ass - taryk's trail; all animals were Once this miser's livestock; 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.

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. Chipewayan [caribou gather on a hill next to a woman, hunters try to drive them out; a woman ties a strap to one of the Caribou to make them return; the hunter finds Thunderbird egg, throws into the river; caribou are frightened by thunder, flee from the hill; the hunter unties the strap, rubs clay on the face, ears, and legs of the caribou; animals become shy, no longer getting closer to people]: Birket-Smith 1930:90-91.

Big Pool. Northern Payutes (Owens Valley) [The wolf keeps the deer in the cave; the Coyote decides to release them; hits one with his penis on the nose; the deer gain their instinct, run through the mountains]: Steward 1936, no.12:372- 363.

The Great Southwest. A woman touches reindeer noses. Hicarilla: Goddard 1911, No. 22-23 [a man's wife touches reindeer noses with a poker; deer have been smelling people from a distance ever since]: 216-220; Opler 1938, No. VC [Magpie carries giblets from the Raven quiver; so people they learn that the Raven is hunting buffalo; the Bat manages to trace its 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, it is thrown away; the unblinked one is left; the puppy sees the Raven open the door to the rock, kills one bison; the puppy becomes human again, drives deer, bison, mountain sheep outside; Raven stands ready to shoot a thief; the last bison invites the man 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; animals were tame; poor old women 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 is how animals a good sense of smell has appeared]: 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 it up him; the puppy sees the Raven raise a stone slab at the hearth, this is the entrance to the animal abode; the puppy boy releases animals, leads to people; the raven tells the crows to leave their eyes; the old woman touches the smut deer faces; that's why deer are afraid of people]: 259-261; Western Apaches (White Mountain): Goddard 1919 [Ganiskid owns deer; Crows (=humans) throw a 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 they do not share meat with the Raven; he drives animals underground, hiding black-tailed deer behind a black jet door, white-tailed deer behind turquoise, mountain sheep behind a redstone 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 the deer noses with a loincloth; deer regain their sense of smell and stay away from people]: 86-88.

The Southern Cone. Selknam [the guanacos were not afraid of people; Kuanip's son was afraid of the guanacos who came up, hid behind his father, who threw hot smut at them; the guanacos ran away; the fox told them that the people only needed guanacos to satisfy hunger; after that, guanacos don't approach people; you can't hunt guanacos on Mount Haupin; it's their home, and if you start killing them there, the guanacos will disappear]: Dabbene in Lothrop 1928:104.