H24B. Souls fly away from the vessel.
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Thecharacter must open the vessel with the soul of the deceased when he gets to the place or after a certain time; opens before the deadline, the soul flies away. See H24 motif.
Melanesia. Guadalcanal [the wife died, the husband went to look for her, sat on a rock, cried; one of the spirits gave him a basket, said that his wife was in it, told him not to open it for five days; the husband heard his wife's voice, was surprised How could it fit in the basket, opened it, there was nothing inside, the voice was gone]: Hogbin 1937:88.
Micronesia-Polynesia. Marquise [1) Kena leaves his wife; she tries to follow him, then rushes into the abyss; he marries a cousin; she is killed; K.'s mother helps him go down to the lower world; at the entrance - interpreting rocks; companion K., holding on to the end of his loincloth, is crushed; the mistress of the lower world tells K. to wash and dress his wife, put it in the basket, not open it for 10 days; first he breaks ban; the second attempt is successful; 2) Tue-ato's wife cheated on him, he strangled her, grieves, her sisters brought her back to life; 13 days he should not touch her, violates the ban; sisters revive her again; 3) (Nukuhiva); Hahapoa descends into the afterlife for his wife Hanau; violates the ban by releasing her from the basket before the deadline]: Beckwith 1970:149.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Meitei [the merchant's son went on business; stayed with the woman and left soon; she gave birth to a daughter Songri; when she was 14 years old, her mother sent her to chase birds in the rice field; suddenly she saw a man; mother said it was her father; S. replied that then she would commit suicide by jumping into the Ningthi Turel {it is not clear why}; the mother did not take it seriously; but the daughter did not; she appeared to her mother in a dream and said that became a fish; if she wanted to return it, let her catch it and cover it with six layers of cloth; but the mother could not catch the fish; the next night her daughter said that it was in the pebbles that her mother threw on the shore; the mother picked up the stones, wrapped them in cloth, but opened the package before due time; the daughter flew away as a bird]: Oinam et al. s.a.
Coast - Plateau. The coyote hears voices from the vessel. Vasco; clackamas; clickitate; upper chehalis; kalispel; tenino; western sachaptin; ne perse; modoc [The creator descends in the lower world; spirits dance at night, turn into bones during the day; he carries them upstairs in the basket; falls twice, the spirits fly away from the basket; the third time he reports; makes bones into different tribes]: Curtin 1912:42-45 in Clark 1953:133-134.
The Midwest. Ojibwa [Bears kill the girl's parents and her younger brother; she raises him; he kills Bears, finds a phalanx of a finger and a lock of parents' hair in their belly; begins to revive them; the sister hears their voices, unfolds the bundle ahead of time, and recovery fails; therefore, the dead cannot be revived]: Désveaux 1984:60-61.
Southeast USA. The woman asks to open the vessel soon. Yuchi; chirokee; alabama; koasati.
Big Pool. Washo [The Coyote opens the vessel when he hears a noise inside].
NW Mexico. Huichol [husband beat his wife, she died; "half-bad" Kauymáli is in love with her, decides to return her to make her his wife; the gods of the sea allow her to be taken away, but tell her not to have sex with her on road; K. hits a woman with a thorn and arrow in the heel, turning her into a fly (or a mosquito?) , puts it in a hollow tube; on the way out of the world of the dead, a woman asks to open the phone, promises her love; on the fifth day, K. opens, the woman turns into a fly and flies away; the gods of the sea are nothing else can do; humans become mortal]: Zingg 1982:235-236.
Mesoamerica Tsutukhil [a poor young man turns into a hummingbird, enters the garden of the king's two daughters; one of them tells her father that she would like to use the hummingbird as a model for her fabric; going out to buy it fruit, both sisters meet the same young man as a man, fall in love, invite him to their place for the night; hearing laughter, the king sends a bug (the young man kills him), a louse (blind and does not see), a flea to scout (girls kill), firefly (sees and reports everything); one of the sisters gives birth to a son; the king tells the young man 1) to prepare the plot (zompopos work instead of him); 2) sow in a day (the young man throws red ones scarves, they turn into peppers; the whole field is sown from seeds thrown in the middle of the field); 3) peel the bag of rice (ants do this), 4) bring cachos de los animals (animal bones?) , the young man brings, it turns out that the king calls firewood; the young man and both wives run away; the king asks the angel to hit them with lightning; the young man turns his wives into dolls, hides them among cachos de ganados, but lightning incinerates both; the young man brings a vessel of ashes to his mother, tells him not to open it; in his absence, she hears a noise inside, removes the lid, two doves fly out; wives are lost forever]: Petrich 1997: 161-166.
NW Amazon. Makuna [there is a conflict between Yiba (whose relatives are land animals and birds) and Yawira (Anaconda's daughter, her relatives are aquatic creatures) (Yiba never follows instructions exactly wives and father-in-law, so the farming they teach is not so effective); from the very beginning he did not want Yawira, but her more beautiful younger sister; when he goes to get water, Yavira sees the Royal Vulture ( Sarcohamphus papa), asks him to pick her up, because Yiba does not want her; Yeba goes to Test Anaconda to ask for another daughter, who refuses, gives funds to get to the country of the Vultures; passing through villages of people- Arrow, - Weeds, -Yazv, Yiba weeds, ulcers; covered with ulcers, Yiba comes to Yavira, who does not recognize him, takes him for his father's servant who has come to recover; Yavira is surprised that he is sick strong at collecting firewood; Yiba sheds clothes from ulcers, Yavira hugs him; Vulture and his men went to get fish (actually worms; Yeba killed many animals for vultures on his way); Yavira regurgitated the red achiote juice, pretending to be sick, did not go with them; Yiba returned halfway; before fleeing, told all creatures and objects to remain silent, but one bird managed to say "Yiba"; Vulture sent soldiers in pursuit; Yiba hit almost everyone with arrows received from his father-in-law; together with Yavira climbed a tree for honey, leaving arrows on the ground; losing his weapon against the last group of enemies, Yiba he put Yavira in the hollow, she became a frog; her soul returned to her father, he placed her in a calebas; the enemies left, Yiba came to his father-in-law, who refused to give her youngest daughter, gave her calebas with Yavira's soul, telling him not open it on the way; he opened it, Yavira flew back with a bee; Yiba returned to his father-in-law, who drove him away; he pretended to be dead, covering himself with rotten leaves and putting the bench on his chest; the Vulture plunged his an arrow, it hit a bench; Yiba grabbed it, plucked it, bought it in peppery water, threw it into the trash; while his feathers were growing, birds and animals dismantled his jewelry and tools, the howler monkey took it whistle]: Århem et al. 2004:503-509; yukuna [Kanuma stole sacred flutes from ñamatu women; they left him alone, taking cultivated plants with them; he married various animals, but no wife could give him cultivated plants, he ate wild plants; his stork grandfather saw Jeechú's daughters by the river, who gave him manioc cake; K. noticed the crumbs under the hammock, forced everything tell; K. was the first to see the girl who was the owner of the animals, Inérukana; she told him to take his sisters, the owner of the fish, Mairero; M. ordered her to be put in a boat full of water and fish poison; piranhas came out of her vagina, but was left alone; when K. got together, she bit off his penis; the penis was on his stomach, the navel was a mark of him; K. sent his wife to the garden, but she saw that it was just a savannah; brought cassava from father, then yams, coca, peach palm; K. tried to plant them, but J. did not give seeds, only fruits; M. cooked a lot of wild yams for K.; he ate, his penis jumped out in the place where people had it now; M. told her husband to watch her sisters come and plant cassava; they themselves were cassava; K. heard the girls laughing that he did not have a penis; went out and they ran away; sent him to J. chew his younger brother's coca; on the way back, M. pushed him on the site, he fell and became coca; his soul became a harpy eagle that told K. not to cry - coca would always be there; coca, cassava, pineapple and others plants were also human and immediately ready for consumption, but K. did everything himself, since then he had to work; M. warned her husband that one day he would kill her; let him bury her in a small tree, covered with leaves; K. accepted his wife's brother for her lover and shot him with a bow; buried his body; she ended up with her father J. (i.e. in the afterlife); K. came for her; J. gave a rolled up hammock and told her not to open it on the way; K. opened, a bee flew out, bit him and disappeared; then K. found out that his wife was living in heaven with the vulture chief; wearing an ulcerative shirt, K. appeared there unrecognized; the fly told the vulture chief that saw a lot of fish (these are worms in the corpses); K. put a thorn, M. began to weave the basket and pricked her; the vulture chief went without it; K. took off his ulcerative shirt and took his wife; on the way they saw how bees suck honey; K.'s wife rushed there and disappeared into the hollow where the bees are]: Hammen 1992:154-157.
Central Andes. Pukio (dep. Ayacucho) [wife flies away].