H27. Mosquitoes released. .12.13.15.19.-.21.25.27.28.31. .32.34.-.36.41.43.47.-.53.55.-.57.59.-.62.65.68.72.

Before spreading around the world, stinging or blood-sucking insects or reptiles, diseases, or evil spirits were in a vessel, bag, or other small container. See H24 motif.

West Africa. Bambara [Mangalla god promises a hare to make him king if he brings a calebas with flies, mosquitoes, a snake covered with a stick, wild buffalo milk, a saddled hyena; old man Domma: M. not will fulfill promises; refuses to help; the hare makes a small hole in the calebass, tells the flies that M. allegedly said that there are not enough flies in the world to fill this calebass; flies climb into show the calebass that there are enough of them, the hare closes the hole; the same with mosquitoes; says to the snake as if M. does not believe that it is long enough to wrap a stick; the snake wraps around the stick, the hare ties her by the tail and head to her; tells wild buffaloes that M. does not believe that they have milk in their udders; they allow themselves to be milked to assure M. otherwise; the hare tells the hyena that his they make a king, he will be able to slaughter cattle without restrictions, he will only take heads; for promising to give her carcasses, the hyena allows himself to ride; comes to heaven to M.; he tells him to come by road, to who does not have Friday and Monday; the hare goes to D., he says that he warned the hare - M. will deceive him, there is no such road; at this time the hyena escaped from the harness, returned to the ground, the ass barely I pulled it out, so the hyenas are lower in the back than in the front; in the evening, the mosquito made a hole in the calebas, the mosquitoes flew out and have been active in the evenings ever since, and the flies have escaped into the wild during the day]: Frobenius 1922b, No. 82:151-153; bachama: Belcher 2005 [Venin and her brother Wut (Death) descended from heaven; V. gave birth to four sons; the fifth Nzeanzu wished to be born early from her thigh; gathered all the flies into a calebasa, ordered the brothers did not open it, they opened it, the flies flew out; see motive H7]: 298-299; Meek 1925 [the god Ndseandsu gave Ngberrum a tree pod, told him not to open it until he returned; he opened it, flew out from there mosquitoes and flies have been biting everyone ever since]: 32; ashanti [Kweku Tsin, Anansi's eldest son, found three nuts, tried to split them, but the first, then the second, flew somewhere; he looked for them, went down to a hole; there the old woman asks me to bring the yam, which tells me not to take it, not to dig up the one she asks to take; to cook the peel and throw away the yam itself; not to look at it when she eats; take a gong that speaks ding-ding, not don-dong; CC did everything, brought a gong, he gave any food; A. decided to go himself; rude to the old woman and does the opposite of what she advises; everyone jumped out of the don-dong gong he brought predators and snakes; they didn't exist before]: Barker, Sinclaire 1917, No. 16:89-94; Igbo: Basden 1938 [God gave two goat brothers, ordered to care; the youngest accidentally killed his own with a thrown nut while crying came to God; chose the worst food, the worst sleeping mat, the little box; when he opened it at home, riches came out of it; the elder deliberately killed his goat with a stick, came to God, chose the best food, a big mat, a large box; illnesses came out of it, he died]: 431-432; Ugochukwu 1992, No. 20 [a man has two wives, each with a son, wives are at odds; collecting firewood, the youngest son put in an old man, politely greeted him, took a torn litter to sleep, gave him a new one; he said that he was God, let the boy raise a kid; the boy passed him well, but one day he began to drive him away from the yams, threw a stone, hit him the eye, the kid fell dead; the boy carried it to God, his mother said that in such cases you should take a third of the meat for himself, but let God take whatever he wanted; he took everything, told him to go home when he heard the sounds, Doom, doom, let him hide under a tree; when he hears softer sounds, Yom, yom, let him pick up what fell from the sky, break houses; the boy picked up a clay vessel, broke houses, appeared money, property, two-story house; he gave a third to his half-brother and his mother; she was dissatisfied, sent her son to the forest, he did not greet the poor old man; then God appeared in a beautiful outfit, there was a boy immediately asked the kid, at home his mother beat the kid, killed him, the boy carried it back, said that he had accidentally killed him with a stone; while the kid was cooking, he secretly ate half of the meat; collected the bones in a large pile, covered it with meat; collected the remaining meat in another pile; God offered to choose, the boy chose the boneless pile; God gave the same instructions as the first boy; this one decided that at the sound of Doom, doom Money is falling from the sky; he brought home a huge vessel, broke it, all diseases (leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, etc.) came out of there, killed the boy and his mother, and spread around the world]: 159-168.

Sudan - East Africa. Lure [insects were in closed vessels in the sky; humans made their way there, opened their covers out of curiosity, flies, mosquitoes, wasps followed people to the ground]: Knappert 1997:150.

Southern Europe. The Sardinians [V. Bogrea, 1932:41-45; mosquitoes were collected at Zauberkreis in front of the church, walled up in a stone vessel; when they escape, the world will end]: Gunda 1979:398 {referring to D ähnhardt 1910, III: 171, but it's not there}.

Melanesia. Kiwai [a woman lived by the Fly River; she always kept her hut tightly closed because all the mosquitoes in the world were there - there were none in the forest or elsewhere at the time; once this the women stole a large bunch of bananas; she got angry and asked her fellow villagers who picked the bananas, but no one confessed; the woman ran home, opened the hut door and released mosquitoes; they attacked people and have been haunting them ever since]: Landtman 1977, No. 95:266-267; Tumleo [a man from a coastal village had a friend on Seleo Island; he visited him; local people convinced him that the guest bewitched him; he gave him fried poisonous fish, his children ate it, died; the man put a midge in a closed basket, brought it to the island with bananas; his friend opened it, the midge flew out, one of she bit children to death; before that, there were no midges on the island]: Schultze 1911, No. 5:59-61.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Samoa (Tutuila) [the couple sail to the island in a boat, tell the girl that they have water in their vessels; she asks her to leave one; mosquitoes fly out of it]: Polinskaya 1986, No. 32116-117.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Kachari [Arikina, Bangla Raji's wife, laid seven eggs; in her absence, six gods, led by Alow, hatched; went to look for parents, came back, met A.; became reproach God, who they thought was in the seventh egg, for hesitating to be born; they broke the egg, and the evil spirits that now inhabit the earth flew out]: Soppitt 1885:31; angami [part of the naga had double skin, separated from the others, arrows did not hit them; two people visited their village, received double skins as a gift, but refused to take them in fear; received a bamboo vessel with instructions to open only houses; when opened, cholera came out]: Hutton 1914, No. 4:484-485.

Taiwan - Philippines. Bontok [poor brother hunts, chased bear jumps into the river, he follows him; answers to the underwater woman that he did not hunt, but her son is waiting for him on the shore; does not laugh when she breaks rice by publishing indecent sounds backwards; it was not he who collects lice from her hair, but her son is waiting for him on the shore; she does not laugh when she breaks rice, making an indecent sound with her back: ants, centipedes, stinging insects; she gives He tells him to take the basket to his lock, sacrifice animals to her; since then, the closure has not been depleted; the rich brother decides to repeat the adventure; says that the deer is his; laughs when he hears indecent sounds, doesn't want to collect insects; he opens the basket at home, all those stinging insects and reptiles come out of it, kill it, spread around the world]: Eugenio 1994, No. 219:362-363.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece. Hephaestus, mixing earth with water, creates the first woman, Athena dresses her. Hermes gives her a lying soul (Pandora means gifted to everyone). Prometheus warned Brother Epimetheus, whose wife was Pandora, not to accept anything from Zeus. However, Pandora opened a vessel handed to her by the gods; diseases, misfortunes, and vices spread from it across the earth (Myth 2:281); the Bulgarians [God gave man a chest, ordered him to bury it on a high mountain; that discovered along the way, snakes, lizards, toads crept across the ground from the chest; God turned man into a stork, promised to restore his human form when he gathered all the reptiles that had crept]: Marinov 2003:149 (= Stoynev 2006:357; a brief retelling in Gura 1997:647); Romanians: Dähnhardt 1910 [God collected snakes, frogs, lizards, etc. in a bag, let the man throw them into the sea; he opened the bag, reptiles ran away; the man turned into Fischreiher (or a stork), who has a bag under his beak, he collects reptiles]: 288; Shustova 1994 [God collected harmful insects in a bag, gave it to the nosed woman, ordered him to drown in the sea without untying it; she untied it, many insects scattered; God turned her into a woodpecker, promised to make her a woman again when he gathered all the insects]: 189-190.

Central Europe. Russians (Saratov Volga Region) [peasant G.K. Zavaritsky told his father's legend from memory; the elder lured the devils into a jug, buried him under the cross; one lame imp hid, saw ; in the tavern, he persuaded a drunkard to open the jug as if a treasure was hidden there; the devils rose to heaven; at this time God walked the earth in the face of Christ, Michael the Archangel failed in heaven alone, the Devil made the throne in seventh heaven; Christ gave Michael six wings and a fiery sword, the Archangel expelled the devil's army from heaven; whoever fell into the water became cursed, some into the forest - goblin, at home - brownie, to hell between fences and the furrow - hell, who moaned to the noise (probably garbage - N.T.) - a jester; Michael the Archangel chained the chief to the wall in hell; he moaned, now his name is Stana]: "Ethnographic Review" book 109-110, 1916 in Tolstoy 1995:245-249; Russians (Olonetskaya, Vyatskaya) [Satan asked God of Earth to stick a stick in; snakes, frogs, rats, mice, and harmful insects crawled out of the hole]: Kuznetsova 1998:68; Russians (d. Gorodtsy, Trubchevsky District, Bryansk Region, 1990) [God gathered the reptiles in a bag, ordered the man and woman to take him to the swamp and drown him, not to look into the bag themselves; the wife encouraged the man to open it, the reptiles ran away; for this, God turned a man and a woman into storks - let them gather reptiles in fields and meadows]: Glebov 2012, No. 137:128-129; Russians (Arkhangelsk Gubernia) [the goblin (shishko, shishkun) released mosquitoes from the ground, and Ilya then plugged the place with burning smut) in Uspensky 1982:86;]: Podvysotsky 1885:192 in Uspensky 1982:86; Belarusians [ God gave Michael the Archangel a bag with unknown contents, ordered him to drown him, not to look along the way; he looked in, flies and mosquitoes flew into the world]: Dobrovolsky 1901:159; Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians [God gives a person (sometimes Adam, "Apostle Anton", a woman) a bag (pot) with reptiles to throw him into the sea, into the river, sometimes into the fire; out of curiosity, he opens the bag, bastards they spread; God turns a person into a stork (in the Ukrainian-Podolsk version, by throwing him out of the sky)]: Gura 1997:647; Ukrainians (Polesie) [God still walks on earth, comes to one peasant. The man on the rubble begins to complain about frogs and snakes that litter rivers and forests. There are still very few snakes and frogs in other places at that time; they are only found in that village. God tells a man to come to the appointed place at night for a very important task. The man is. God gives him a bag filled and tied with something, tells him to take him to a deserted place, start a fire, throw it there and return home without looking back. He forbade being curious and looking into the bag. The man takes the bag over his shoulders and, far from the village, thinks about what it might contain that he should not know. He takes off his bag, but as soon as the tie falls, a darkness of frogs and snakes falls out of the bag. When a man wakes up, you can't see a single bastard in the bag or near the bag, you can only hear croaking and hissing in the distance. With his head down, he returns home and confesses to God his crime. As punishment, God turns him into a stork and condemns him to catch reptiles forever, giving him hope, when he gathers all the reptiles again in one bag, to return him to his former image. That is why it is considered a terrible sin to kill a stork]: Trusevich 1865a: 202; Ukrainians (Starokonstantinovsky Pans y. Volyn governorate) [God, having packed all the stuff in a bag, orders a person to carry what he has collected in a bag and throw it into the pond, provided that he does not look there. A curious person, despite this prohibition, unties the bag and looks in. The bastards gathered there are released and spread around the world. As punishment, God turns a person into a stork, obliged to collect a creeping reptile]: Teodorovich 1899:264; Ukrainians (Bessarabia) [The stork was human. At the beginning of the world, God gave him a knotted bag and said, "Look, don't untie the bag or look into the bag, but take it and throw it into the water." The man couldn't stand it and untied the bag. Toads, snakes, vipers, lizards came from there, and since then those evil spirits have been in the world. Then God turned that man into a stork and told him to eat that evil spirits so that they would not multiply very much in the world]: Levitsky 1876:70; Czechs [Stonelis is a peasant, God gave him a bag of frogs, ordered throw into the sea; S. opened the bag out of curiosity, the frogs ran away, S. turned into a stork, began to collect them]: Dähnhardt 1910:288.

Baltoscandia. The Sami (Sweden) [God collected all the mosquitoes in a bag and gave them to the old lady for storage; she opened it when she heard the buzzing inside, the mosquitoes flew out, the old lady tried to catch them in vain]: Simonsen 2014:93; The Finns [Damn asked God for land - first tithing, then the size of a bast, but God did not give it; agreed to give it the size of a stake; the devil took possession of the hole, began to release mosquitoes, flies, gadflies; God closed the hole to the smut; so parasites are now being destroyed by fire and smoke]: Mansikka 1909:172; the Veps [When God created the earth and living beings, the devil, out of envy, prevented Him. God got angry, grabbed the devil and threw him from heaven to earth, into the swamp. A big hole formed in the swamp, where the devil fell; all "evil spirits" came out of this hole. Some went to water lakes, some to forests to forest dwellers, some climbed into clouds and clouds and so spread all over the world. This evil spirits would have climbed even more if God had not guessed to plug a hole in the swamp with a burning log; Finnish Karelians also tell us a similar option]: Kolmogorov 1913:372; Karelians: Kulikovsky 1893 (Olonetskaya Gubernia) [God sent Kara (Kancho) to bring earth from the bottom; he could not hold it, the earth fell through his fingers; God created the earth himself; K. asked himself to stick a peg in a piece, and reptiles climbed out of the hole while God Forbidden]: 189-190; Mansikka 1909 (eastern Finland) [God does not give the Earth Line, he begs for space for as long as it takes to stick a stake; mosquitoes and other harmful things come out of this hole insects and reptiles; they almost swallowed up the whole earth; God plugged the hole with smut, so parasites are destroyed with fire and smoke]: 172; Estonians [God tells the man (Hare) to drown a bag of fleas and flies; out of curiosity, he unties it, insects get out; God turns the curious into a stork and (one entry in Lutsi) tells him to collect plotters (Filzläuse, Phthirius pubis L.)]: Kippar 1986, No. 281D: 172; Livs [God gathered the mosquitoes in a bag, let the Hare drown in the river, ordered him not to look inside; the hare untied a little, one mosquito flew out, the Hare rushed to catch him, at that time everyone flew out, began dance; the hare liked it so much that God called him to tell him what he was laughing at; God made him shy, stupid, long-eared, with a split lip]: Loorits 2002 (4): 155; Lithuanians : Voltaire 1890, No. 4 [God gathered the reptiles in a bag, told the woman to take them to the swamp, not to look along the road; she opened the bag, the reptiles ran away; God turned her into a stork, ordered them to be collected before the day of judgment] : 144-145; Dähnhardt 1910 [the devil created reptiles and blood-sucking insects; God put them in a bag, let the man drown; he opened the bag out of curiosity, the reptiles ran away; God smeared his legs half with resin, turned into a stork, ordered to collect the scattered; when he collects it, he will become human again]: 285-286; Lebite 1965 [at the request of people, God gathered the reptiles in a bag, told the Stork to throw him into the sea, not untying; he untied it out of curiosity, the reptiles crept away; God hit him on the back, there was a black mark; he remembers this resentment, so he hates reptiles and eats them]: 395-396; Latvians [1) God told the Hare to drown a bag of mosquitoes in the river; he untied his bag to see, the mosquitoes scattered; the hare went to drown, the cancer grabbed his lip, the Hare ran into the forest, his lip remained torn; 2) God ordered the man should drown the bag of reptiles; he opened it, the reptiles ran away; God smeared his legs with resin, made him a Stork, ordered him to collect reptiles; when he gathered everyone, he would become a man; var.: gave the girl; black legs - a skirt]: Pogodin 1895:440.

Volga - Perm. The Komi-Zyrians [Yong (god) spat in the form of a swan, Omöl (devil) appeared from the spit in the form of a loon, diving and bringing earth; Yong creates land; there are seven tiers in the sky, the odd ones were created by E., even O.; each sky is one of the colors of the rainbow (the same on Vym, noted by G.A. Startsev); O. asks to give him as much land as he needs to fill the stake; insects come out of the hole, reptiles]: Sidorov 1924 in Plesovsky 1972:42; the Udmurts [after punishing people for greed, Inmar released harmful creatures from the hole from a stuck stake; according to other options, Keremet did it]: Vladykin 1994 : 74; Chuvash [Tour ă makes the land flat, it grows; Shuittan spits out silt hidden in his mouth, creates mountains, ravines, or causes a storm in the ocean before the earth has time harden; for S. to spit out the silt, T. beats him, evil spirits emerge from the splashes of blood; T. begs for land, agrees to a patch to lean on his staff, makes a hole in the ground, falls into the lower world; from holes come out diseases, reptiles; T. drives them back; S. clumsily imitates T.; T. makes apples, cow, sheep, S. - potato berries, goat, pig; predatory and harmful animals, reptiles, fish (throwing into pebbles water); T. made a man, went for his soul, left the dog without hair to guard; S. let the dog eat bones, promised the dog a fur coat, spat on the man; T. turned the man inside out, told the dog to eat bones, be beaten]: Egorov 1995:117-118.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Chulym Turks [water is everywhere, loon is swimming; God: what do you eat? - Earth. - Where is it? - Underwater. - Get it, thank you. Loon brought the earth three times, it turned out to be a cake, God lay down on it; the devil grabbed his leg and threw it into the water; God was on land, a lot of land was formed; the devil grabbed the sleeping God by the legs, pulled him into the water, and the earth expands; dragged until it was dry all around; hell asked for half the earth; God refused; well, at least stick the stake; God allowed, damn stuck the stake and took out mosquitoes, midges; God plugged the hole; did dog; made a man; went after his soul, told the dog to protect the man; the devil asked to miss: I'll feed and shower it with black hair; the dog missed; the devil pierced the navel and did not care; God told the dog serve humans; since then, people have illnesses]: Lukina 2004, No. 5.1:97-98; Altaians [water is everywhere, Kudai sent fish to search for land, only Pike brought it from the bottom; K. made it lighter than other fish; K. fell asleep, his brother Erlik grabbed a handful of earth, ran; the earth continued to happen; where E. jumped, a mountain appeared, where a trough came, the ground became uneven; K. agreed to give E. an earth the size of the end of his crutch; E. fell into this hole, all the reptiles and insects came out of it]: Khokholkov 1997:21-22; Teleuts [(western missionary you. Postnikov in d. Myyuta, whose population was formed mainly from Bachat migrant teleuts - see below. Potanin 1883:130, note 2; Funk 2004:9); there was only water; Ulgen went down to create the earth; Yerlik volunteered to dive, brought earth from the bottom in his mouth; W. made the earth, it was all from turf; There was a little land left between E.'s teeth; he spit it it out, a hummocked swampy place formed; W. scolded him; he asked for as much land as the end of his stick took; he fell into that the place he asked for; the swallow brought turf in his beak; W. scattered it; made the forest and everything on earth; created the human body from earth, bones from stones; a dog without hair; went to look for a soul for the man, left the dog as a watchman; E. appeared, promised to give the dog hair and soul to the man; the dog ate E.'s excrement, overgrown with hair; E. put a pipe in the man's ass, blew, thereby reviving him; W. came I wondered whether to exterminate people; the Frog persuaded them to leave them as they are]: Potanin 1883, No. 46a: 218-220; the Shors [Ulgen created man, went to look for a soul, left the dog to guard; Erlik gave her wool, spat on a man, smeared it with mud; W. agreed that E. would make a person's soul; he blew it into the man's mouth through an angelica stem; this is the "kut" soul that E. always takes for himself; there are three more; E. asked for land to rest his staff; fell into a hole, reptiles and insects crawled out of it]: Khlopina 1978:71-72; Khakas: Katanov 1894 (Kachins) [first it was a duck; making another friend, sent her behind the sand to the bottom of the river; she brings it three times and gives it first; the third time she left some of the sand in her mouth, this part became stones; the first duck scattered the sand, crushed for nine days, the earth grew; mountains grew up after the messenger duck spit stones out of her mouth; because of this, the first refuses to give her land; agrees to give her land the size of a cane; the messenger pierces a hole in the ground, goes into it; the first duck (now God) makes a man out of the ground, a woman from his rib, gives them cattle; the second duck is Erlik Khan]: 185-188 (=1963, No. 582:154-155); Mindibayeva et al. 2016, No. 1 (Kachins) [lived on earth a naked man without a soul; Skinny went for his soul, put a naked dog to the man; when he left, Irlik Khan came, the dog did not let him in; he covered it with hair, she let him go to the man; Irlik Khan spat man; Thin returned, failed to cleanse the man, turned him inside out, drooling inside; Thin breathed soul into the man; then I. began to ask X. for land; he did not give; that I. fell behind, H. gave the ground to stick the stake; I. pulled out the stake, the snakes crept out of this place; so snakes and other reptile worms spread; giving a soul, H. made man a herbivore; let a mare with a foal into the steppe and a woman with a child; a mare pinched the tops of the grass, and the woman ate the grass along with the ground; H. sees: after a woman, even grass will not grow; then H. made man eat wheat; the ear grew from the very beginning root; the woman was baking bread, the child was dirty; she wiped it with pancake pancakes; H. began to cut off the ear, but the dog howled what she would eat; H. felt sorry for her, left the top of the ear - the dog's share; man knew the time of death; one was supposed to die in the fall, began to make a grass hedge - enough for his life; H. decided that this way a person would drink everything, leave nothing for the children; made it so that now man about He does not know the time of his death; Irlik Khan sent a mosquito the size of a bull to the ground to find out whose blood tastes better; it turned out that a person had a mosquito to rest, the swallow asked to show her tongue, tore it off; The mosquito tried to grab her, but only tore off part of its tail, now it is split; the mosquito flew underground, but could not tell Irlik Khan anything; he got angry, hit him, told him to become a thousand mosquitoes; this is how mosquitoes appeared]: 77-81; Tofalars: Katanov 1891:67-68 [Purkhan wore a white coat, Aza wore a black coat; A. asked for the ground in which the cane was stuck; from there a snake crawled out; P. chased A., who turned into dummies (small fish) in the sea; P. into huchen, began to eat fish; then A. became rye grains, P. became chicken, began to bite; one grain rose to heaven, became a witch man pagá (Tuvinsk. Chylbygá, Kachinsk, Sagaisk. and Beltirsk. Chelbygen); hid behind the sun; the moon said this to P.; the moon eclipsed, P. began to complain; now a witch is on the moon, sometimes the moon eclipses because of her; (same in Rassadin 1996, No. 5, 6:13, 14-15)] , 89 [The devil asks God for land, gets as much as his cane took; he dug up the ground, snakes and frogs crawled out of it; God and the Devil began to chase each other, God hid behind the sun; the Devil asks the moon where God is hiding, she refuses to say; the devil turns into a witch closet pagá (= hel-bagá), swallows the moon; God hit the witch's throat, the Moon has come to will; during a lunar eclipse, people shoot up to help the moon]; Sherkhunaev 1975 [God decorated the earth, the Devil begged for a part, God agreed to give enough to rest his cane; from snakes came out holes; God chased the Devil, he became a witch, grabbed the moon, God hit him with a bell; when God chases the Devil, he climbs onto the moon, eclipsing it; people shot up to drive it away Devil]: 308-309; Baikal Buryats: Khadakhne 1926 [(b. Obusy, Osinsky District, Irkutsk Region); Ehe Burkhan (Mother Goddess) created a son named Budarga under a golden willow, from willow bark, his friend, the bird Ankhata Shubuun; at sea Abarga Zaghan created fish, created the sun from the light of fire; the demon Archang-Shothor came out of the sea foam; he did not reach the earth; the ASH bird brought a handful of clay in its claws from the bottom of the sea, EB on AZ made it earth out of his back; at night, the demon ASH began to pull the sleepers into the water, but only stretched the ground, which had become large; offered to squeeze the earth, so the mountains appeared; began to ask for a share; they agreed to give him enough to put up a cane; insects, snakes, worms, etc. crawled out of the hole; Sharakshinova 1980:24 [Esege Malan Tengriy, Oh Kharkhan and Damn Arhan Shuther decided to create the earth; Arkhan went to the outer sea, dived to the bottom, took out a mouth full of land; they created the land from it; it was smooth and even; A. began to ask for his share (a hectare, half a hectare, a quarter, etc.); just to put up a cane, they didn't give it; as a result, EM and OH gave land with a small brushwood; A. stuck brushwood into the ground, reptiles, insects and worms crawled out of the hole; EM plugged the hole with a burning log]; 25 [(according to Jamzarano, hand.) the world was created by a thousand heavenly Burkhans; in search of land, the Swan flew through the air, and the Raven was under water; they saw the Golden Turtle holding the ground in its paws; reported Huhuday Mergen, he shot the Turtle, which capsized, formed a firmament on which the earth and vegetation were created; a thousand heavenly burkhans basked on the ground - Ulgen and in the sky - Under; Arhan Shuther began to ask for a part of the land with a thin vine; stuck the vine into the ground, mosquitoes, flies, gnats and other harmful insects began to crawl out of the hole]; Mongols [( recorded by your missionary. Postnikov from Khalkhas); water was everywhere, the Ochurmans lived in the sky; decided to make land, looked for a friend, found Chagan-Shukuta; both went down to the water; the Frog that noticed them dived; O. sent ChSH find it in the water; he took out the Frog, put it belly up on the water; O. sat on it, told ChSH to dive, get the ground; he brought an armful of liquid earth from the bottom, said O., If it weren't for me, you wouldn't get it land; the earth immediately fell out of his hands, fell into the water; O. told him to dive again, take the land and carry it on his behalf; O. poured the land he had brought onto the Frog, the earth began to grow, both sat on it, fell asleep; Shulmus grabbed them to throw them into the water, but the earth grew faster than he ran to its edge; he threw them; S. asked for land for himself, received as much as at the end of his stick; stuck them in earth, worms, snakes, reptiles crawled out]: Potanin 1883, No. 46b: 220-223.

Western Siberia. Eastern Khanty: Lukina 2004, No. 1.1 (Tomsk Region) [only the sea is everywhere; Torum began to pour soil and wheat on it out of a handful; hell appeared, made swamps, hummocks, holes; stuck his staff {that mosquitoes flew out of the hole is not directly said, but most likely , this is a defect in a particular record}; T. fell asleep, the devil began to drag him to drown him, the earth became everywhere; T. flew to heaven, and the devil began to live underground]: 13; Petrukhin, Khelimsky 1982 (eastern, clarification N.V. Lukina, December 2016) [Kyn-lung (Kul-Otyr), taking advantage of Numi-Torum's dream, began to drag him along the ground, trying to drown him; at the same time, hills, valleys, pits, hummocks, swamps appeared; into his the underworld K. left through a hole from a staff stuck in the ground; bloodsucker mosquitoes and disease spirits rose to the ground through the hole, but the goddess Mye-Imi blocks it]: 567; Mansi [ when creating a world, kul asks God to allow animals to be introduced into the world; he does not allow, but allows you to make a hole in the ground; lizards, snakes and wolves come out from there]: Sadovszky 1995:161; Kets [was alone water; You dived, grabbed the ground (mud) in his mouth, put it by the cheeks; emerged, blew - the earth turned out; The devil is spinning, he does nothing; E. dived again, grabbed the mud by the cheeks, blew - deciduous, the cedar forest grew; E. collected what was crawling, dug a hole, lowered them there, dug a pole so that they would not get out; C. sees the pole, decided to pull it out - everything crawling ran across the ground]: Alekseenko 1976:72.

Subarctic. Koyukon: Jones 1983 [people want to take Raven's woman; he brings rotten wood in a sack; shakes, the bag is filled with mosquitoes; he releases them, punishing people]: 137; Ruppert, Bernet 2001 [huge animals enter the sea, water floods the earth; animal people flee on a raft; Raven and Seagull fly, find no land; aquatic animals dive, Muskrat brings some silt from the bottom; along with With their beaver, they pour more and more clay on the fruit, the raft turns into land; the raven revives people, draws riverbeds with his finger; at first, rivers flowed in two directions simultaneously; the Raven decided that people it would be too easy, stopped the reverse flow along one bank, the whole river flowed in one direction; the Raven made a man out of stone, but he would live forever and be unreasonable (his mind would not be right); made of clay, this man could think and multiply, the Raven made him a couple - a woman; first he wanted people to be reborn after death, then decided that there would be only one life; others wanted take his wife away from him; he filled the bag with rotten willow wood, opened it, and mosquitoes flew out to bite people]: 84-89.

The coast is the Plateau. Thompson; Puget Sound (Niscually) [cultural hero covers all diseases and vices in the house; tells not to open it; his daughter breaks the ban]: Eells in Clark 1953:138.

Southeast USA. Koasati [all diseases are put in a bottle; Snipe is told to take it far to heaven; he comes back and drops it, the bottle breaks]: Martin 197:8-9; Swanton 1929, No. 9:169.

California. Maidu [Coyote thinks the Mole is holding tobacco in his bag; takes it away, opens it; fleas come out of the bag]: Dixon 1900:268-269; chumash [Tortoise) carries a dead deer past the cave; from the caves hear a voice, the Turtle loses consciousness, the killed deer disappears; the Coyote offers to go together - the same; they gather animal people; a long red snake and a snake penetrate the cave, from there The ball rolls out; the first ancestors open it, there are all kinds of harmful creatures (vermin)]: Heizer 1955:56, 72.

Big Pool. White River Utah [A mosquito meets a man, asks others to be called; opens its bags of mosquitoes, mosquitoes kill people; people found out, killed Komar, burned it with his bags; The mosquitoes today are the ones that came out of the bags]: Smith 1992:91-92.

The Great Southwest. Keres (Laguna) [Yellow Woman (in myths all young women are called that) finds her sister and her husband, leaves the village with her turkeys, who call her mother; sends turkeys to Mount Taylor; opens a bundle of provisions, which turns into mosquitoes and mosquitoes; hides in the lake; turkeys fly towards her, the tips of their wings turn white with foam; return to the mountain; the woman's husband comes, throws her dress, it turns into butterflies]: Boas 1928a: 177-180, 273 [summary; var: a woman's mother throws her dress, it turns into a deer; mocassins into a bear, a handkerchief into mucus, a belt into a water one snake].

NW Mexico. Huichol [The Animal Master gives Vulture a basket; tells him to take it to a special building and not open it; he violates the ban; scorpions are spreading out of the basket]: Furst 1967:51.

Mesoamerica Totonaki [a forest witch came to the village, sucked blood and flesh from the children; if she found a woman alone, offered to look in her head, she also sucked it out; the husband came back and saw his wife's skeleton, did not show it, spoke to the witch as if it were his wife, invited her to grind the peppers for tortillas, melt the bathhouse, sent her to wash first, threw pepper there, burned it in the bathhouse; gave ash to another person throw it into the sea; another met him, asked him to open the vessel; flies that flew out bit both; the first became a toad, the second a torcaz bird; it flew up a tree, sang, dawned]: Relatos Totonacos 1994:79-81; Sierra Norte [Tsitsimime invited women to look for lice from them, devoured her; people called her to steam in a temazcal, locked the door, T. burned down; put the ash in a vessel, gave her throw it into the water; that man, out of curiosity, discovered that lice, nits, fleas came out of the vessel]: Báez 2004:81; Veracruz Nahuatl [see J25 motif; Tamakasti lives with her grandmother; her husband suggested she ate it; T. told the bat to kill her grandfather; blood dripped from the attic, the grandmother decided that it was her grandson's blood, started drinking; called her husband, found him dead; T. brought water, said that he did not kill his grandfather, for went to get water; the grandmother wanted to cook T., he threw it into the cauldron himself; burned the bones with his grandfather's corpse, told the Toad to throw the ashes on the other side of the sea; the Toad reached the shore, where she threw a deck with ashes, she burst, mosquitoes, flies and mosquitoes appeared from the ashes; the Lizard also only said that she had carried the deck with ashes; Skunk took it overseas; T. (or someone else?) split the lizard's tongue in half; T. told his mother that he would go to his father; on the way he sat on a stone, he swallowed it; he cut the heart of the stone with a sword; T. came to his father, brought Fox and the musicians; (hereinafter European a tale of matchmaking and marriage trials; T.'s rival - South Wind)]: Law 1957:345-355; Micah: Lipp 1991 [twin orphans brother and sister spent the night in the barn; the monster took them to the forest; there already many people, some died, some were still alive; the twins saw a monster sleeping in a tree; the sister did not hit, his brother killed him with arrows, it fell down the mountain with a crash; not go down; the brother tells his sister to write, say, I pee vines; She says, I pee bananas, moms, all fruit trees; brother wrote, vines have grown; twins tell people not to eat fruit until they, twins, go down; not the twins performed their first rituals with the twins; the twins turned them into coati, bakers, raccoons and other animals that spoil crops; the twins told the Toad to throw the ashes of the burnt monster into the river; On the shore, the Toad opened the bag, mosquitoes and other biting insects flew out; there are especially many of them along the shores of water bodies; the Toad was punished, now his body is covered with warts]: 75-76; Miller 1956, No. 3 [the girl refused young man; he turned into a bird, the girl hit it, hid it on her chest, became pregnant; went to the forest; the squirrel invited her to swing on the vine, cut the vine, the girl crashed; Vulture found it in her womb boy and girl; brother and sister came to the mother's parents; while the grandmother was gone, they killed their grandfather, stuffed the scarecrow with insects; the grandmother was fed meat; she hit his grandfather, the insects flew out; the grandmother pursues the twins, Aguthi hid them in her mouth; they threw hot stones into the snake's mouth; the beast carried them to the rock, they killed him with arrows; his brother tells her sister to write vines; she says she pees bananas; brother pees vines himself; turned people who ate bananas into forest animals; burned the beast, let the Toad throw ash into the sea; he discovered that mosquitoes flew out, turned into a toad; the appearance of the Sun and Moon as in No. 4] , 4 [Maria is spinning, the bird sits on the spinning wheel, she hit her, put it under her shirt, the bird pecked her in the chest, flew away; M. became pregnant; the squirrel invited her to swing on the vine, cut the vine, M. crashed ; The vulture took a boy and a girl out of her womb; the boy buried her mother, told Vulture to eat the corpses of animals, not humans; the twins came to the mother's parents; taking out the lice from her grandfather, they killed him, a scarecrow they stuffed her with insects, the testicles were allowed to cook and eat; the grandmother hit the scarecrow, the insects bit her; the sister wrote, the road was wet, the stalker grandmother was sliding; Aguti hid the twins at home in his mouth; the old man sheltered them, a serpent comes at night, the twins throw hot stones into his mouth; then in No. 3 (Lorenzo opened a bag of ash, turned into a toad); people are going to choose the Sun, they tell his brother that he is weak; he turns into the Sun, tells the old man to dig a well; while it is low above the ground, it is hot, only the old man has water in the well; tells his sister to run to the old man's house for the forgotten huarache; for this time rose high; sister became the moon; spots - her brother's huarache]: 79-85, 86-97; mountain poles [see J4B motif; old woman Tsitsimat saw an egg in the lake, began to catch it with a net; realized that it was reflection, and the egg is on a tree; told her husband to get it, the boy Homsuk hatched from the egg; he shoots fish and lizards with a bow; realized that the old man wanted to eat it; hid under the roof, taking a bat with him; the old man went upstairs, the bat cut off his head; the old woman drank the bleeding, thinking it was the blood of a young man; rushed after him; the man he met replied that H. had been here for a long time; the old woman burned down, H. told the Toad to throw out the ashes; she opened the bag, the ashes turned into poisonous snakes and insects]: Elson 1947:195-203; juice [flea box brought from the cave]: Baez-Jorge 1983 : 393; tsotzil: Gossen 1974, No. 157 [the woman had two cane vessels; she asked her friend to throw them in the trash and not open them; she opened it out of curiosity, fleas and lice stuck to her clothes and spread], 174 [there were many fleas and lice in the house of the god of the earth and his wife; they asked the poor couple to throw the bags of insects into the river; they looked into them, and fleas and lice spread throughout the world; man became rich because the god of the earth paid him well to let parasites on people]: 332-333, 341-342; chol [God sends a dog to drown mosquitoes and fleas, a dog unleashes on the river bank bag; god put the dog's head to the ass, turning it into a snake]: Anderson 1957, No. 2:314-316; Whittaker, Warkentin 1965, No. 9:51-54; chontal, mom [woman opens the vessel from which insects fly away]: Peñalosa 1996, No. 836F: 72; kekchi, mopan [see H24 motif; Kin (Sun) runs away with X't'Actani, her father sends thunder Chuck to kill fugitives; Keen turns into turtle, S. into crab, they sink to the bottom of the sea (lake?) , but lightning strikes S.; Keane tells the fish to collect her remains, but they begin to eat her flesh and blood; Keane asks dragonflies to collect S.'s remains in 13 decks; Keane leaves them to the old woman, promises to return after 13 days; comes, the old woman complains about the buzz inside the decks; Keane opens them; the first are poisonous snakes, the second and third are harmless, the fourth are mosquitoes, the fifth is fleas, the sixth is green hornets, seventh - yellow wasps, eighth - small black wasps, ninth - black wasps with white wings, tenth - white shaggy itchy caterpillars, eleventh and twelfth - various flies, in the thirteenth, Shtaktani; Keane sends a man to throw the first 12 decks into the sea, he opens them out of curiosity, reptiles and insects spread and fly away]: Thompson 1930:128-129; lacandons [Hachäkyum collected all the mosquitoes in a bag and let the toad throw them away on the other side of the sea; when you return, I will fulfill your every wish; I forbid you to open the bag on the way; hearing the noise Inside, the toad opened the bag halfway; the mosquitoes flew out, bit the toad, it jumped into the water; since then, covered in warts]: Cook 2019:443-447.

Honduras vs Panama. Sumu [brother and sister are orphans; brother steals fruit from the garden, owner catches him, that's hell; brother brings sister, they stay to work for hell; woodpecker says hell is going to them kill, tells you to dance over a covered hole of boiling water; hell will be cooked, the corpse must be burned, the ashes should be thrown away on the other side of the sea; the Toad and the Deer volunteered to carry the calebass with ash; competed, the Toad won; the brother ordered not to open the calebass on the way; when he reached the island, the Toad heard a noise inside, opened it; all the biting and blood-sucking insects flew out from there, the Toad was the first to bite, bite marks can be seen on it until still; if the Calebas were given a Deer, there would be no insects]: Houwald, Rener 1987 (4): 22-23.

The Northern Andes. Kogi: Reichel-Dolmatoff 1985 (2), No. 8 [Duginavi crosses an abyss in the sky; the Sun offers him its staff, D. refuses; loses his balance, a bag of flies, snakes, harmful birds fall to the ground], 31 [a bag of snakes and ferocious animals is put on the ground contrary to warning; creatures run away from it]: 48, 75.

Llanos. Yaruro: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990c, No. 12 [Ichiai creates mosquitoes, puts them in a calebasa; Kumanyi says they are harmful creatures that allow humans to throw calebas into the river; the one curiosity opens it; bitten by mosquitoes, rushes into the river, turns into a capybara], 47 [Ichiae was going to throw the calebasa with mosquitoes away; the man insisted that he be allowed to look inside ; the mosquitoes flew out, I. turned man into capybara], 48 [Ichiae created mosquitoes, put them in a calebasa, carried him to throw it away; Capybara insisted that I. show him what was inside; I. turned him into capybara], 49 [just like in (47) and (48)], 50 [I. carried a calebas with mosquitoes; it split, mosquitoes stuck to man, he became capybara, and mosquitoes became hair on it], 51 [one ancestor gathered them all annoying insects into the vessel to throw; someone walked by, opened it, the insects flew out; the informant heard this in his youth]: 34-35, 76-77, 77-79, 79-80, 81, 81-82; Sicuani: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 44 [see motive G5; Chamáni asks Palamékune to give them axes; he replies that he has only one poor axe; then he is given yopó to drink; C. and one of his companions are alone flies into P.'s mouth with a fly, another lizard climbs into his anus (and tickles P.?) ; he vomits, he belches various axes; the woodpecker takes the best, other worse birds; P. gives parcels, which buzz; people decide to open them; the Guang bird warns them to hide in pits ; those who opened the parcels turned into capybaras when flies that flew out of the bundle flew into their mouths; mosquitoes that did not hide were bitten to death], 49 [after the flood, Kinkaju finds a tree overseas Kaliviri with all the edible plants on its branches; his wife Paka realizes that he is eating something special, follows him, he breaks her tail (now she has no tail); she brings yams and other fruits to their children; fights with her husband; Furnáminali, Tsamani and Ivinai come to Palemekuni to ask for an ax; he does not give it; C. tickles his nose with a mosquito, he regurgitates axes and machetes ; Woodpecker gets the best ax; P.'s wife regurgitates bundles with night, wind, rain, mosquitoes, laziness; despite F.'s warning, people open bundles; it gets dark, it rains, mosquitoes bite; people turn into animals (caiman, anteater, etc.); it dawns; people cut down the trunk, felling overgrows, axes break; ants are told to carry chips away; the trunk is cut, the tree hangs on the vine; T. turns into a mockingbird, can't cut it; squirrels cut it; the male stays at the top, the female falls to the ground; the tree falls upside down, so humans are mortal]: 195, 221-223; Yépez 1984:19- 20; sikuani [after the flood, Kinkaju finds a Kaliviri tree overseas with all the edible plants on its branches; his wife Paka realizes that he is eating something special, follows him, he breaks her tail (now she has no tail); she brings yams and other fruits to her children; fights with her husband; Furnáminali, Tsamani and Ivinai come to Palemekuni to ask for an ax ; he does not give; C. tickles his nose with a mosquito, he regurgitates axes and machetes; the Woodpecker gets the best ax; P.'s wife regurgitates parcels with night, wind, rain, mosquitoes, laziness; despite F.'s warning, people open packages; make it dark, it rains, mosquitoes bite; people turn into animals (caiman, anteater, etc.); it dawns; people cut the trunk, felling overgrows, axes break; ants are told carry the chips away; the trunk is cut, the tree hangs on the vine; T. turns into a mockingbird, cannot cut it; Squirrels cut; the male stays at the top, the female falls to the ground; the tree falls top down, so humans are mortal]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 49:221-223; kuiva [the vessel is thrown into the fire, but insects still fly around the world]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991b, No. 91-94:145-149; guajibo [Palemecuna and his wife give people axes to cut down the Kalevirne tree; they give three bundles, containing darkness, rain and wind, mosquitoes (they bring diseases); people open parcels, become mortals]: Baquero 1989, No. 5:83; guayabero [A mosquito in the form of a man married a girl, drank her blood; he was killed, burned, the ashes were placed in a vessel; Cayman opened it, the mosquitoes flew out, ate him language; The sun told him to live in water]: Schindler 1977a: 229-231.

Southern Venezuela. Yanomam [a mosquito receptacle is mistaken for a bee's nest, set on fire, mosquitoes fly away]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 179:315.

Guiana. Makushi [two people asked Makunaima to open a vessel he did not want to open; all the stinging insects flew out; M. said they could not be brought back]: Soares Diniz 1971, NO. 11:86.

Ecuador. Colorado: Aguavil, Aguavil 1985 [Ilusun ate the hunter, came to his house instead, brought his liver, said it was a trapped guanta, the jaguar ate the rest; when the liver is brewed, tells the children, I am your father; the mother sent her sons for pepper, they ran away, came to the village where he was despicable; I. asked the victim's wife to look for lice from him, she saw a second bloody mouth on the back of her head, he ate they have people; the woman said that she would go after her sons, ran away to the same village, leaving her bowel movements to answer for herself; I. came in the morning, he was given an intoxicating drink; the widow of what he had eaten was dressed up as a man, cutting off his hair and making a penis out of his cob so that I. would not recognize her; they blew pepper into his nose, threw him into a fire pit; his wife came in his footsteps, she also got drunk; she managed to suck the child's brain; she was told dancing around the pit with fire was also pushed into the fire; the shaman collected their ashes in a rubber bag, ordered them to be thrown into the water without opening it; curious people discovered flies, horseflies and other bloodsuckers on the way; there are a lot of them now in summer]: 108-118, 290 [meat (broken game)]; Imbabura: Parsons 1945:131-133 [the widower has a boy and a girl, married a widow, she also has two children; she persuaded her husband to take her children to a ravine with bears and jaguars; he left them, left unnoticed (Var. from Cayambe: hung the calebasa on a tree, she was knocking in the wind, the children thought that her father was still cutting wood); the girl carried her brother on her back, came to the house, where the old cannibal Chipicha; she left the boy with her for the night; the girl asks why he is screaming - I wash him, he is afraid of water; the next day C. went to her potato field; the girl started looking for Manuelito, found bloody bones in bed; (var. from Cangahua: old woman and her husband, both Chifichas; tell the children (both boys) that they are their father and mother; they are fattening; the fairy tells do not listen to C. if he asks him to get the coals out of the stove; they ask him to get it himself, close the stove, make a fire, run away; the old woman returned them; "these two boys freed the world from monsters"); C. asked the girl to look in her head; she found a second mouth on the back of her head, meat between her teeth; C. ate the boy with this mouth when she was talking to the girl to others; when C. fell asleep, the girl collected bones brother, ran away; (Var. from Cangahua: one of the boys was looking for C. in her hair and eating with both mouths; told his brother; when C. fell asleep, they set fire to the house; the brothers collected C.'s ashes in a bag, told the man throw it into the river; he discovered it on the way, various insects flew out, ate the man to the bone); the girl got to people, got married], 133-134 [a nine-year-old girl went to the house of old Chificha, whose breasts were thrown behind her back; she asked to look in her head; told her not to touch the back of her head; C. fell asleep, the girl saw a fanged mouth on the back of her head, pieces of meat between her teeth; the girl ran to people who were building the house; C. came running, they offered to dance, gave her a drink, locked her in the house, set her on fire; C. began to shout that she would turn into lice, fleas, blackberries, hornets; people collected her ashes in a vessel, told one person to throw it into the canal; he opened it on the way, the creatures flew out, ate it; on Aymara "blackberry" phichaca].

Western Amazon. Cofan: Borman, Criollo 1990, No. 6 [God collected the mosquitoes into leaves, told the Capuchin monkey to drown the bag in the river, not to open it on the way; he opened it, the mosquitoes flew out, the Capuchin became a capuchin. ran into the forest; he was an officer, and the little monkeys were his soldiers; so they also rushed into the forest; the capuchin can pull a pierced dart out of his wound; if not for him, there would be no mosquitoes]: 69-74; Calí fano, González 1995, No. 30 [Chiga wrapped the mosquitoes in a bag, told the man to take them to one house; he opened the bag, the mosquitoes scattered; C. turned the culprit into a monkey]: 81; for example: Mercier 1979 [a woman with a child heard the sound of falling trees, thought someone was her own, shouted, Grandfather, bring firewood; grandfather came, but his leg was like a grain grater; began to bother her; she replied that she had not yet washed herself, ordered her vessels to be filled with water, water to be carried with a basket; while supay was busy, she ran to her mother; threw her husband's necklaces into the ravine, supai chased them to the noise; the birds hid the woman in vessel; people made a fire in the pit, the supai fell through, burned; they told the Monkey (machin) to throw ash into the river; he opened the bundle, the ash turned into stinging insects]: 116-119; Ortíz de Villalba 1989 , No. 52 [a loser hunter kills only a lizard, meets a forest spirit; the lizard comes to life, runs away, the spirit heals the hunter, gives him the hub of the huri khuri monster, the man easily kills wild pigs, the spirit puts everything meat in the basket; the man opens it on the way, the meat falls out; the spirit puts it in the basket again; the man's wife at first does not believe that he brought a lot of meat; at night, khuri-khuri came for his tooth, ate man], 53 [a forest demon killed a woman's husband, took his form, brought his wife his meat; the woman recognized the demon by her huge legs, ordered him to bring water in a vessel of unburned clay; when the vessel split, took two children, ran to the Toucans; they hid the woman, killed the demon who had come, burned the corpse; told one to throw a parcel of ash into the river; he opened it on the way, the ash strangled him, turned into mosquitoes], 53 [a forest demon killed the woman's husband, took his form, brought his wife his meat; the woman recognized the demon by her huge legs, ordered him to bring water in a vessel of unburned clay; when the vessel split, took two children, ran to the Toucans; they hid the woman, killed the demon who had come, burned the corpse; told one to throw a parcel of ash into the river; he opened it on the way, the ash strangled him, turned into mosquitoes], 62 [the demon ate the hunter, took his form, brought his heart to his wife under the guise of the heart of a wild pig; asks to remove insects from his head; a woman notices a toothy mouth on the back of his head; heart the husband speaks to his wife from the cauldron; his wife hides him on the river, runs away with the child; the demon pursues; the woman throws her necklaces, the stalker rushes to the sound; the woman runs to her parents, who hide her in vessel; people killed the demon with spears, burned it, ordered the young man to throw away the ashes; on the way, he made a hole in the bundle to see what was inside; mosquitoes, gadflies and other insects flew out, killed the young man, since then the world is full of them], 65 [a demon with holes in her side and a heart hanging from there invites a woman to watch over her children while she weeds, kills them, brings them to his wife; she refuses to eat children; tells the mother of the children about what happened; teaches the father of the children to turn into an eagle, raise the demon into the air, kill; the corpse cannot be thrown into the forest (will come to life), into the river (become an anaconda), must be burned; the ashes are hidden in bamboo vessel; one person found it; The squirrel screams not to open it, but it opened it, mosquitoes, gadflies and other stinging insects flew out]: 104-105, 106-108, 119, 116, 121-122 {pages 119-122 confused, out of order, with text No. 62}, 126-128 on them.

NW Amazon. Tikuna [Dioi and Epi put their snare; D. was hit by a forest turkey; E. put it in his snare, told D. that he had caught the turkey; it did not fly away, E. kept it at home; at dawn she sang about how E. took her out of the trap D.; E. killed her; sister D. and E. went to the river to wash her giblets, heard a noise in the turkey's stomach, threw it away; refused to tell E. where the stomach was, but he found it himself. discovered, mosquitoes and mosquitoes that flew out bit him to death; D. revived him by kicking him]: Nimuendaju 1952:126; desana [malaria mosquitoes are enclosed in vessels; when they are opened, they spread epidemic]: Buchillet 1995 [shamans can drive mosquitoes back]: 197; Reichel-Dolmatoff 1975 [a shaman hides a fever vessel near his enemy]: 95.

Central Andes. Ferregnafe (dep. Lambayeque) [in search of treasures and out of curiosity, the Fox dug up the pagan's grave; fleas came out of there; the fox tried to try them on the tooth, but they themselves bit him to death and spread around the world]: Torero 1974:226; Tantamayo (dep. Huanuco) [Achkay offers the person to help him dig up the field; tears off one testicle for him, for her it is an ulyuku tuber; he asks for permission to move away will cope with the need, A. ties a thread to him from his spinning wheels so that he does not run away; the man bandages the thread, runs away; A. chases, her daughter says in which direction the person ran away; comes to people, tears off the testicle one or the other; people they invite her to sit down, push her into a boiling pot; it says it will turn into flies and nettles; she is buried, one person tears up the grave out of curiosity, and all flies, ants, bees and others fly out from there insects]: Howard-Malverde 1986:10-12; dep. Ancash [God told the chihuaco thrush (Turdus sp.) to throw a sealed golden vessel into the river; he opened it, lice, fleas, and diseases were born; God punished C.]: Carranza 1978 in Tomoeda 1982:293; aymara (dep. Oruro) [the hole is dug, fleas emerge from it (the text is rather unclear)]: Arnold, Yapita Moya 1994, No. 3:58-59.

Montagna - Jurua. River panos (Inahuaya County, Dep. Loreto; shipibo?) [at the festival, a man whose body makes harmonious sounds goes out to dance; by morning the music has subsided, the dancer has turned into a bat; he has been grabbed, thrown into the fire; he said that his ashes will turn into torturous creatures; then humans collected the ashes in a vessel, but after seven days they discovered it, the ashes flew out, becoming mosquitoes, spiders, midges, ants, snakes, salamanders, toads]: Ravines 1972:41; shipibo [ the father-in-law eats his sons-in-law; one young man gets married; in the forest he does not sleep in the hut while hunting; the next day he asks him to leave him in charge; the father-in-law says where to collect firewood, does not tell him to go in a certain direction supposedly there are terrible ants; the son-in-law finds a bunch of skulls there; leaves his clothes together under a mosquito net; the father-in-law returns with the killed monkeys, brings down a heavy stone to the place where it should be father-in-law's head; seeing that he made a mistake, and loving only a man, he cuts the meat off his calves, roasts it and eats it; the son-in-law says that he saw everything, his father-in-law tells him to burn him, come in three days; his daughter comes; ash turned into mosquitoes; the daughter collects them in a vessel, hides them at home under a mosquito net; the wind blew away those that remained at the burning site; the daughter fed and released the collected ones (the origin of mosquitoes)]: Garc& #237; a 1985:124-125.

Southern Amazon. Camayura [Kwat and Yaú killed their father's mother Yaguar, who killed their mother; the corpse was burned, put in calebasa, thrown into the river; the fisherman saw the Yatawatí bird, shot her, from blood-sucking insects flew her]: Münzel 1973:33; kuikuro [in the sky, a constellation character opens boxes of mosquitoes and sand fleas at the appropriate time of year]: Carneiro 1977:11.

Chaco. Tereno [not a decree., how the vessel was opened]: Baldus 1937b: 532.