H28A. The ashes of the burned person turn into mosquitoes.

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When a character is burned, smoke and sparks turn into mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects that spread around the world.

(Akan), Kirati (Rai or Limbu), Chinese (Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Yunnan), Croats, Romanians, Karelians, Northern and Eastern Khanty, Southern and Northern Selkups, Tundra and Forest Nenets, Ents, Kets, Nganasans, Ilimpic Evenks, Negidals, Orochi, Wilta, Ainu Hokkaido, Igloolik, Tlingits, Haida, Bellacula, Heiltsuk, Kwakiutl, Nootka, Quarry, Comox, Malesit, Warrau, Karijona, synta larga, chiripa, caigua, apapoquwa, mbia.

(Wed. West Africa. Akan [someone empties vessels left to collect palm juice; a person guards, sees a deer stealing, chasing after animals; a leopard condemns a deer, gives it to a person the ability to understand animal conversations; if he talks to others, he dies; the chicken says where the gold is buried, the man digs it up, gets rich, brings a second wife; she is angry and envious; he laughs over the conversation of mice, the wife thinks that if not, let her explain; the man gathers the villagers, bequeaths property to his first wife and son, tells everything, dies; people kill the second wife, they burn a corpse; smoke and ash have dissipated, and evil has spread with them in the world]: Arnott 2000:5-20).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Rai or limbu [made a nest in a tree near the village of Raja vultures; took the children to feed the chicks; the trills did not reach, people cut down a tree, the chicks died; the vulture moved to more a low tree, it was knocked down with arrows, the meat was scattered, the bones were crushed and scattered in the wind; the meat turned into parasitic worms, black flies, mosquitoes, beetles, etc. appeared from the ash scattered in the wind; the tibia made a pipe, its sound terrified the enemies; the pipe slipped out of the hands of spies, drowned in the river; the pipe turned into a python; after that, the vulture began to be read]: Streltsova 2017:159-161 .

China - Korea. Chinese: Eberhard 1937, No. 11 (Yunnan, Guangxi) [mother meets Tigress as an old woman, she eats her, comes to her children disguised as a mother, eats one child at night, others (apparently boy and girl) under some pretext go out into the yard, climb a tree; the stalker tries to climb, dies, the burned corpse turns into mosquitoes or ants], 84 (Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Yunnan) [mosquitoes arise from a burnt monster or cannibal (bösen Frau)]: 19-23, 128.

The Balkans. The Croats [Noah's ark began to sink because the mouse gnawed through the hole; God ordered it to be plugged, and the snake volunteered to shut it up with its body if it was allowed to drink human blood; after the flood, the snake came to She asked God to keep her promise; God told her to wait a while; then more; she ran into shepherds and they threw her into the fire; fleas appeared from her ashes, still biting people]: Eschker 1992, No. 72:250-251; Romanians [during the flood, the devil made a hole in the ark; the snake plugged it with its tail, for which it received permission to eat a person a day; was left without a tail (the tail remained in a hole); but fearing that the snake would eat all people, Noah threw it into the fire; the snake burned, and fleas appeared from the smoke, drinking as much blood together as a snake would drink]: Gaster 1915, No. 71:218-219.

Baltoscandia. Karely: Onegin 2010, No. 25 (Kalevalsky district) [the healer gave the man water that would make his wife pregnant; but he took a sip himself, also became pregnant, went to the forest, gave birth to a girl, threw it on tree; the prince's dog barks, the girl (she says that her man carried her, raised the raven, the breeze rocked, the heavenly water washed) asks for clothes; the prince brings her to him, marries; Syuoyatar became a midwife, turned the prince's wife into a vazhenka in the bathhouse, stayed with her child; but the cuckoo does not cuckoo on her head, the bells on the hem do not ring, the child cries; the shepherd saw how the vazhenka she shed her skin, became a woman; she replies that her son is crying; she asks to bring her to feed him tomorrow, and then she will migrate with the deer; the shepherd brings, the woman asks to bring her son tomorrow; the shepherd tells the prince about this; the prince threw a deer skin into the fire; the woman became a snake (the prince cut her), a lizard (the same), a rolling pin, then a man; the cuckoo ate, the bells rang, the birds They sang on her shoulders; the prince orders to heat the hot bath, under the floor there is a fire pit, S. is led there on a red carpet, she rejoices; when she falls into a hole, she tells her fingers to become devils, earthworms, gnat, hair became sedge, prickly thickets; and so happened; the prince began to live with his wife and child]: 268-271; Concca 1991 [brother joined the army, sister stayed at home; brother drew his sister on tinder, I took it with him to the palace; the royal son saw: if my sister is really so beautiful, I will marry and take you to the palace; my sister makes excuses: I will go when I wipe my father's millstone; I'll rub the bench with the bottom mother's spinning wheel; I'll wipe my parent's foot; brother sparkled a millstone, cut a bench, broke his stupa; sailed in a boat with Pyatnashka's dog; Syuoyatar asks to pick her up from the shore; sister does not want to, brother takes ; S. makes brother and sister deaf and replaces their words; instead of "adjust your jewelry" - "jump into the sea"; "undress and jump into the sea"; "cut out your eyes, break your arms and legs, jump into the sea"; she did not To maim herself, but jumped into the sea; S. persuaded the young man to marry her sister, put on her clothes; the Queen married S., but since she is ugly, he threw his brother into a hole with snakes; but the viper hugs and lulls guy; sister is engaged to the son of the sea lord; embroiders a brocade shawl, asks for permission to take it to the Queen; she is allowed to get up a little out of the water, but is held on a silver chain; Fifteen is all says, hands over a handkerchief; a widow living by the sea tells the Queen everything; now the girl hands over a shirt for the queen; he realizes that this is not S.'s job; the widow tells him to forge a braid to cut a silver chain, and pull the girl out of the water with another chain; the girl turned into a mosquito, a lizard, a snake, a spindle, a rolling pin; the Queen did not let go; burning resin was poured into the pit, covered with red cloth, called S., she fell, burned down; ordered her hair to become gnats and worms; Korolevich made his wife's brother first mate]: 65-76; Schreck 1887, No. 9 (Russian Karelia) [husband and wife went to search for the missing sheep; the witch turned the woman into a black sheep, took her form, the husband did not notice the substitution; the witch wife asks to slaughter the sheep; the daughter knows that it is the mother; the sheep tells her not to eat her, collect her bones and bury her; A birch tree grew up in this place; the witch wife also gave birth to a daughter, began to tyrant her stepdaughter; the king invites everyone to the party; the stepmother tells her stepdaughter to separate barley from the ash; the mother's voice from under the birch tree tells her to take a birch branch, she does the work; the girl becomes beautiful, she is wearing a luxurious dress, a horse next to her; the queen seated the girl next to him, and the witch's daughter gnawed bones under the table; the queen smeared the door is resin, the girl's ring is stuck; at home she leaves her dress and horse by the birch tree; next time the task is to separate the hemp seeds; the same, a golden hoop for the girl's hair sticks to the door; for the third time the witch pours milk into the ash; a golden shoe sticks to the door; the queen gathers everyone to try it on; the witch squeezes her daughter's finger, head and leg into a ring, hoop and shoe; the queen must marry a freak; he takes both girls from the witch's house; crossing the river, he throws the freak like a bridge, crosses it, marries a beautiful woman, but everyone thinks it's a witch's daughter; the freak remains lie on a bridge, a cicuta grows out of her; the witch wants to cut her off, hears her daughter's voice, makes her human again; comes to the young queen, turns her into a deer, leaves her daughter instead; The royal baby cries; a widow teaches the Queen to give her a baby to take her to the forest; the deer queen comes to feed him; says that this will be the case for three days, and then she will go away forever with the deer; for the third time, the widow offers to clean the queen's head; she takes off her deer skin; the hidden king throws her skin into the fire; the queen turns into a spinning wheel, a mallet for washing clothes, a spindle, but the husband destroys these guises, the queen remains a woman; the Queen orders to cook a resin pit, light it, cover it from above, calls the witch and her daughter, they fail, burn; the witch manages to stick her finger out , says that (from it) worms will appear in the ground, mosquitoes in the air to cause suffering to people]: 63-74.

Western Siberia. Northern Khanty (b. Kazim) [the elderly spouses are childless; the old woman's knee is swollen, the old man took a stone out of the abscess; put it on the shelf; the food disappears at night; the old woman watches, the boy, the next time the young man eats; fights with his father; in the morning says he will go to kill four-headed Yalians; two-headed Yalian rides a two-headed beast Vures, a young man kills him; the same with three- and seven-headed; burns the latter, ashes turns into mosquitoes]: Lukina 1990, No. 26:90-93; Eastern Khanty: Donner 1915 (b. Wah) [the big bird caught a huge pike, let its sister cook it; but the sister served a dish of dog's entrails instead; the bird went to the ogre, ate the lard from his pan; he caught it; during his life The bird promised its sister; with his sister, they locked the door, leaving a small hole; the cannibal got stuck in it; they burned the house, and blood-sucking insects appeared from the ashes of the ogre]: 51; Lukina 1990, No. 33 [grandmother did not tells his grandson to go to the hut; he goes, comes to Menk-Iki's house; he nails him to the wall, goes after the cauldron; the grandson asks M.'s children to let him go, promises to make a ladle and eat the trough his meat and fat; kills them, cooks them, hides on aspen, taking bags of ash and hot walking; M. comes back, sees children's meat, cuts aspen, sits down to rest; animals and birds come to poop around aspen, the felling overgrows; the same again; the grandson asks M. to open his mouth to jump there; throws ash and foot; burns the corpse, the ash turns into mosquitoes], 34 [(Kulemzin, Lukina 1978, No. 92:80-83); Alvali hit a teal with an arrow; cannot pull the arrow out of his body; hits with a bow, the bow sticks; etc., until his head sticks; the teal was a Savs-Iki trap; he brings A. home; he asks first fatten him, then sends him to bring a larger pot; A. persuades his daughters to let him go, promises to make spoons to sip his soup; kills both, cooks, puts the meat on sticks along the path; climbs on wood, pouring sand into his shoes; S. eats meat; vomits axes, cuts wood, axes break; stays alone; A. asks S. to open his mouth to jump there; sprinkles sand, kills him with an ax, burns him, ash turns into mosquitoes]: 132-133, 134-136; Southern Selkups: Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951 (southern?) [Icha (Itya) falls into the trap of the line, he drags him into his home; in the absence of a devil, I. kills his daughters, runs away, climbs a tree; the devil vomits an ax (he's last year swallowed the whole city); Bear, Fox offer to help cut down a tree, but they deceive the line; I. promises to jump the line into his mouth, he lies face up; I. falls asleep with ash eyes of the line, jumping off the tree kills, burns it; sparks turn into mosquitoes]: 135-139; Donner 1915 [Ichite began to live with the cannibal Puegusse; he fell ill, asked him to be taken to the river for a drink; I. said that P. was heavy, let him leave him chain mail at home; killed him with people; the corpse was burned, the ashes became gnats]: 45-46; Pelikh 1972 [the text is confused, the informant does not remember everything; the girl hits a stump, a frog jumps out of there, calls to him; they go looking for grooms, the frog tries to change their clothes, the girl returns them; the frog suggests looking for them in her head, sticks a wire in her ear; the dog revives her; she returns to her husband, tells them to remove a frog; it was torn apart by horses, burned; its head became a marsh hummock, mosquitoes came out of the smoke]: 348-349; Tuchkova 2004 (Tym rivers, Parabel) [because Itte must be stronger than the one who turned into mosquitoes, spiders, midges burned by PÿNegusse, he is associated with a spider as well as a dragonfly]: 71; northern Selkups: Prokofiev 1935, No. 1 [Icha lives with his grandmother; shoots an arrow at the teal, she flies by; tries to take an arrow, sticks with his fist, heel, etc.; hell brings it to his daughters, goes after the cauldron; I. promises his daughters to make a wooden spoon, kills them, climbs on larch; hell eats his daughters; cries; an ax vomits to cut larch; Bear, Wolverine, Fox consistently offer to help cut down a tree, run away with an ax; I. promises to jump the line into his mouth, that lies face up; I. falls asleep with ash, the line jumps off a tree, kills, burns it; sparks turn into mosquitoes]: 101-102; Prokofiev 1976 [same; dragonfly fights mosquitoes, created by I., or she is I.]: 119; Sanghi 1989 (northern?) [boy Icha, an ant, lives with his grandmother; his parents were eaten by an evil spirit; I. got out of the boat, stuck to the ground with his foot; the spirit brought him home, began to fatten him; I. killed the daughters of the spirit, cooked his tongues and eyes, himself climbed the larch; the spirit ate his tongues and eyes, thinking it was I.; I. tells him to open his mouth, promises to jump into it; throws sand in his eyes, kills with an ax; burns, the ashes turn into mosquitoes]: 132- 135; Tuchkova 2004 [Pna-Kos lives with his mother; finds a guy at home trying to hide in the form of a bird; grabs her, the bird boy promises to give his sister; arrives home before P. to warn his sister; she puts a plague with a small entrance, invites P. to climb backwards; brother and sister pierce P.'s ass with a hot birth; P. predicts that his ashes will turn into mosquitoes and midges; brother and sister burn P.'s corpse, the prediction comes true]: 249-250; Kets: Alekseenko 2001, No. 137 [the young has two children, the eldest has four; the young shakes her breasts, laughs; came in to the bam; the eldest hid the children in her bosom, said that she would bring fishmeal, went skiing; dotem bam killed the youngest and her children, hung her intestines, planted their heads; the deceased's husband asked the dotem bam to help cook glue, pushed her into the fire; it burned down, turned into mosquitoes]: 248-249; Nikolaeva 2006 (village. Pakulikha, western in 1959. R.V. Nikolaev) [{just like Osharov 1936a, but the name of Chuuta's hero]: 158-162; Osharov 1936a [Damn it, this is his trap; Ichekochko stuck; asks the Devil not to eat him, but to take him to his daughters for toys; asks him to untie his daughters, he will cut out spoons for them; killed the girls with a knife, cooked them, placed the fried pieces on sticks on the way to the plague; ran away, leaving the little birds in the canopy as if the girls were having fun; Damn it ate meat, released the birds, found the heads of his daughters; counted the stars, missed the grains of sand, realized that I. ran away on the ground; I. climbed the tree, the devil began to cut, the Hare offered to cut for him; when the Devil fell asleep, hit him with the butt of an ax, as if the forest had fallen, ran away with the ax; Damn a new axe vomited (he swallowed it once, swallowing seven cities); the same episodes with the wolverine; with the bear; I. offers the Devil close his eyes, open his mouth, he will jump there; threw sand, killed the Devil, burned it, mosquitoes, spiders, midges appeared out of it]: 101-105; Nenets: Golovnev 1995 [see motive J54; Parne is thrown into the fire mosquitoes appear from the ashes]: 475-477; Nenyang 1997 (Taimyr; the author heard from her mother) [the nenka has a good plague, the savage has a straw plague next to him; the savage calls the nenka to tear straw for bed; by evening returns alone, Nenka's daughter sees her mother's head in an armful of straw; fills the bakary with ash, leaves it so that they can be seen from under the canopy, ties a bird to them, runs away; the savage opens the canopy, the bird rushes around, ash covers the savage's eyes; a fleeing girl throws her mother's scraper (an iron mountain, a savage climbs her), a cutting board (wide ladyda, the savage crosses), a comb (forest); the girl asks The old beaver to transport her across the river, tells the beaver that her face and park are beautiful; the savage says that the old beaver's face is crooked, her belt is poorly tied, and she advises her husband to push the savage out of the boat the current takes her away; the girl grows up, the savage meets her, makes her change clothes; husbands a man with white deer decorated with chorea, the girl leaves his older brother with dark ones deer, unadorned; brothers bring brides; a girl gives birth to a son, a savage is cut out by a man; the brothers' father asks the savage to hand him a knife through the fire, pushes him into a fire; her ashes turn into mosquitoes]: 30-34; Osharov 1936a [Ulasny turned into a beautiful girl, got married; what she touches will pollute; old people tell his son to light a glue maker, tell his wife to throw it away, push W. into the fire; ash turned into mosquitoes, burnt lice into spiders]: 206-207; Forest Nenets (Western 1914 on the river. Maykovskaya) [Chaika is alone in the plague, his mother, older brother's wife, older brother, grandfather went to buy firewood, berries, hunt, etc.; an old giant came, swallowed Chaika, went to his place; he had a knife, he cut through the giant's stomach, went out, came back; explains to relatives who come why he cries; they hid in the corners of the plague with a gun; the giant comes home, notices a hole in his stomach, comes back, he's shot, chopped, thrown into the fire; he said his body would turn into midges, horseflies, osm, husband, snakes, lizards, frogs, butterflies]: Lechtisalo 1947, No. 44:101-104; Enz: Long 1961 [old woman de Menuo (mother of all living things; aka Dya-Soi - Earth's parent) finds a baby in the swamp - son Nga-nyo (Heaven's son) and Dya-kata (Earth's daughter); raises him; Dia (gossip, liar; Yombu from the Nenets) goes skiing across the sky (his trail is the Milky Way), tells the boy who his parents are; he meets his older sister, who tries to tear him apart with her claws, he throws her at fire, her sparks turn into mosquitoes; Dia learns from Irio-Casa (the Month, or rather the shaman stuck to the moon, who can be seen on the disc) that there are 7000 stars, but he did not take into account the 7 stars of the Ursa Major and 7 - Pleiades; the son of Nga-nyo and Dya-kata grabs both of them at the same time, they cannot carry him to heaven or underground; his name is Sydene Badasi nga (God who raised us)]: 15-27; Prokofiev 1953 [Nakhutodde's hero burned the evil woman Tysi; sparks turned into mosquitoes and midges]: 203; Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 11 [two men went to the forest, one returned only in the evening, married a witch's daughter; the former wife ran away; her husband's father pushed the witch into the fire, her hair flashed, she predicted that her ashes would turn into flies, mosquitoes, and other insects]: 55-56; nganasans : Dolgikh 1976, No. 15 [the hunter has two wives, a woman and a shige (an evil cannibal spirit); he pushes shige into fire, sparks turn into mosquitoes - shige ngiladie ("shige sparks")]: 58; Porotova 1980 [at the cannibal and a woman has two daughters each; a cannibal leads a woman for a talnik, asks her to bend over the water, cuts off her head; at home, the daughter of the victim hears a cannibal promising her daughters that she will eat herself an adult brain, and they are a child's brain; girls leave blankets full of brushwood instead, run away, throw their mother's jewelry, creating a mountain, a lake behind them; they run to the river; the old man asks what their mother talked about him; they say she praised his face and back; he carries them in a boat; the cannibal replies that he is as long as a stick, his back is like an ax; he pushes her out of the boat, she sinks; sisters they spend the night in the old man's plague, in the morning there is no way out of him; the youngest comes out with a needle through the slit, the eldest gets stuck, the youngest tears off her head; the pigtails turn into legs; The head does not want to stay in the hole of the fox, the wolf , remains in a bear, warns not to lean on a stump; the youngest went, leaned, a cannibal jumped out of the stump; they go, disperse, the girl visits her older sister, she has two cubs; the youngest goes to sledges, the cannibal tells me to change, her sledges are drawn by mice, the ropes are worms; they change backwards; dogs bit mice, the old man pushed the cannibal into the fire; her ash became mosquitoes, beetles, worms, bees]: 13-19.

Eastern Siberia. The Ilimpic Evenks (Sovrechka, 1998) [A huge one-legged witch ate the mother of two girls; after that, their father and others made a big fire; the witch who came was deceived - they said that the fire fell a bullet bag, asked to pick them up; when the witch leaned down, people pushed her into the fire; she shouted that from now on her ashes would eat them; midges and mosquitoes appeared out of it]: Duvakin 2013.

Amur - Sakhalin. Negidals: Nadein 1982 [(literary work; self-taught author, father of the Sakhalin Evenk family der founded by the Yakuts, mother of a non-gidal; cf. Cincius 1982, No. 28:144-147); older sister goes for fish, the youngest stays at home; Silavun ("spit") comes in, sings that his leg is a spit, his head is a hammer (it has one eye), his hands are mites, his chest is fur; the girl lets her breath fan the fire laughs, S. looks in her head, asks for permission to put a louse on her tongue, pulls it out (he feeds on female tongues); the older sister comes to S.'s house, his sister hides her, S. goes to bed in troughs; both women throw it into the fire, the ash turns into mosquitoes, midges, wasps, gadflies]: 43-45; Khasanova, Pevnov 2003, No. 33 [the shaman offended people; the young man killed him, cut him, burned him; the ash turned into midges, mosquitoes, flies]: 85; Orochi [Baida's female spirit, hammer head, skewer legs, rosemary body, forceps hands; comes into the house while people are away; leaves, lifting the tent canopy ; people knock her down, throw her into the fire; she burns; the old woman blew into the fire, told the ashes to turn into mosquitoes, wasps and gadflies]: Berezinsky 1999, No. 23:152-153; Wilta [Silapu is a monster with legs- She came to the camp with skewers. Twirl legs - creak and creak; hands - forceps - dac; hammer head turns from side to side; instead of the body, rosemary - crack-crackle. S. went into the same house - there were no people. "Where did they go?" I scattered dishes in the house. Something fell on the dishes ringing. Silapu laughs. - Residents of the house, laugh! No one laughs. S. farted, something fell with the sound. Spova laughs - silence. I came to another house. Old lady: Comes S., this is my little sister. The old woman's house is big, people hid. They whisper: let's kill S. The old woman laid her hair down, began to look in her head. When S. falls asleep, the old woman says that S. cannot be killed like that, we must cut off the bump on the top of her head. They cut it off. The old woman tells S. not to throw it outside, but to burn it in the fire. "S. was a good person, but how can a good person get lost on earth? My sister will be replaced by mosquitoes, midges, and blood sucking. We need to inflate its ashes. Ash spread all over the land. S. turned into a mosquito with long skewers. And since then, midges and mosquitoes have been sucking alive people]: Sam et al. 2012:109-110; Wilta [older and younger sisters take turns hunting; one day the youngest left, the eldest began to cook; comes home monster: head like a blacksmith's hammer, body fur, hands mites, legs skewers; entered the house, vomited the girl's tongue, she fell dead; the monster sat her on the bunk, put a needle in her hands and threw her at her knees were an unsewn robe; the younger sister saw the eldest with her needlework, surprised that she did not answer, pushed her, she fell; the youngest took a bow and arrows, a spear, a zipper saber and went skiing; entered the house: there are treasures, and people's tongues are drying under the ceiling on the crossbar, one is fresh; the girl grabbed him, brought him home, put it in her sister's mouth, he grew up, his sister came to life; both sisters rushed to look for the trait; they see how he rolls a basin on the floor to make the water boil to cook meat; stops rolling - the water does not boil; eating, the hell snores; the sisters cut off his head with a sword, the monster fell apart; they burned everything, sparks turned into mosquitoes, midges and midges]: Sam et al. 2012:118-123.

Japan. Ainu (Hokkaido) [a hunter kills a one-eyed ogre, burns it; ashes turn into mosquitoes, midges, gadflies]: Batchelor 1907, No. 3e: 31-32.

The Arctic. Igloolik [a ferocious giant lived before the flood; a beautifully dressed young man came, went with onions to the giant's cave, hid under reindeer skins; a giant came, smelled a man, began to search club; at that time, a boy, the son of a giant, came; the young man pointed his bow at him, made him say that the giant could be killed by shooting in the heel; after the shot, the giant fell, shrunk to normal size man; people came running, saw the giant's body burning; his son said that the fire made the Sun; the smoke from the burnt giant turned into mosquitoes]: Webster 1988 (the informant's origin is not specified but this is about the Northwest Territories, almost certainly an igloolik; recorded at a youth camp in Devon or Northwest Baffin Land): 139-142; Laugrand, Oosten 2010 [a brief retelling of the same text Inuk boy's name]: 12.

Subarctic. Chipewayan [a woman's husband is a serpent, his snakes live in a hollow; hunters find their lair, burn it; ash turns to gnat]: Petitot 1884-1885, II: 19-21 in Barbeau 1952:119.

NW Coast. Tlingits: Erdoes, Ortiz 1984 ["Retelling from English source 1883 "; the giant killed people; the man pretended to be dead, the giant brought him home; went to get firewood; the man grabbed a knife, demanded that the giant's son tell him where his father's heart was; In his left foot; a man cut the giant's foot, he died; the man burned his flesh, the scattered ash became mosquitoes]: 192-193; Dauenhauer, Danenhauer 1987 [two older brothers disappear; the youngest goes to look for them; the cannibal grabs it, brings it to his home in a bag; leaves the bag for a while; the young man gets out, kills the ogre with a stick, burns the corpse, blows, the ashes turn into mosquitoes]: 75-79; Smelcer 1992 [(recorded in Juno in 1900s Livingston F. Jones; in Smelcer paraphrase); a giant kills a young man, then his brother; throws his third brother into his basket, carries him home; he cuts a hole, runs away, follows the giant in his cave, kills him with an arrow; burns a corpse, ashes turn into mosquitoes]: 18-19; Swanton 1909, No. 31 [Wolverine's heart is in his foot; Raven and his friend pierce her with a spear, but Wolverine dies only when burned at the fire], 58 [the chief's daughter marries his nephew, gives birth to a son with arrows on his head; he pierces his mother's chest, killing her; killing people; his uncle kills him, burns a corpse], 91 [shaman kills and burns cannibal]: 93, 214, 278; Haida [an unknown person comes to the house of five brothers; an older child cries, an unknown person sucks his brain; they rush at him, but he kills four brothers; the youngest runs away, hides at a fork in a tree above the lake; an unknown person sees his reflection, dives into the water; a person sings, the water is covered with ice, an unknown person freezes into an ice-hole; a man makes a fire around his head frozen; ashes fly away, turn into mosquitoes]: Swanton in Thompson 2000, No. 72:193 (=Waterman 1914:42); bellacula: Boas 1898:88-90 [girl begs her mother for mountain sheep fat, cries; her mother threatens to kick her out of the house, let Sneneik take her away; the girl calls S.; she promises her fat, puts her in a basket, takes her away; in S.'s house, a woman with a root from her back explains that S. will not give mutton fat , and lard from the dead, not berries, but insects; if you eat this, a root will grow from the back and grow into the ground (this happened to a woman); while S. goes after the girl's younger sister, the woman tells her to put on every finger has a mountain sheep horn, squeeze and unclench your arms and scream Yi! ; S. rolls down the slope in horror; the girl burns the corpse, the ashes turn into mosquitoes; the woman gives the girl baskets with meat, grease, blankets; shows where the bast and dance masks are hidden; the girl easily brings it all home, there are a lot of men unable to lift their baskets; bast and masks are now used for winter dance]; McIlwraith 1948 (1): 661-662 [the wife points her blind husband's arrow at the bear, lies as if he missed; eats meat by himself; some creature rubs her husband's eyes with his hands; he sees the light; puts his wife's head in a boiling pot; cuts it into pieces, they turn into lynxes], 1948 (2): 441-444 [children play; cannibal Snik puts them in her basket, takes them home; children cut a hole with a knife, run away; one girl can't get out; her mother cries, snot turns into a young man; he hides on a tree above the river; S. sees his reflection, dives behind him; then decides that this is her own reflection, admires it; having learned the truth, asks the young man to make her just as beautiful; he breaks her head between stones; burns a corpse, ashes turn into mosquitoes; a young man finds a girl in S.'s house, leads to his mother; returns to his father himself (not named)]; Heiltzuk: Boas 1928b [three options; white, black, rainbow, bloody smoke rises respectively above the house of Mountain Sheep, Black Bear, Grizzly, Ogre; four brothers come to the Ogre; his son greedily licks the blood from the leg of one of brothers; the ogre chases the brothers; they throw whetstone, hair oil, wool, comb, they turn into a mountain, a lake, a fog, a thicket (var.: the grater turns into a mountain, urine into a lake, broken arrows - in a windbreak); brothers and their father dig a hole in their house, make a fire at the bottom, push the Ogre, his wife and son there; pieces of the Ogre's flesh or ashes turn into mosquitoes and biting flies]: 49-65; 2002, No. XXI.8 [Noakaua's two sons ("wise") were hunting mountain sheep; they saw a house with beautiful smoke rising from it; there is a woman with a child, she tells me to wait for her husband to come; one of the brothers from blood dripped in the cut, the child began to lick it; the brothers decided to run; the woman called out to her husband, who chased after him; the brothers threw a stone (mountain), broken arrows (thicket), a comb (bush) behind, poured out water (lake); the father opened the door, dug a hole, covered it with a board; the cannibal sat on it, fell through, the father and sons threw hot stones at him, burned it, the ashes turned into mosquitoes]: 494-495; quakiutl : Boas 1895, No. 8 [a woman marries a waterman, gives birth to a son; he takes out his eyes, roasts and eats; the woman's brother kills him, burns the corpse; the ashes turn into mosquitoes and midges], 9 [a person meets in the mountains, an ogre, runs home, digs a hole, puts burning coals in it; promises to give his four sons to the cannibal; the cannibal and his wife fall into a hole, their ashes turn into mosquitoes]: 164-165 1910, No. 29 [cf. . motive L72; The ogre and his son are pushed into a hole with hot stones; ashes turn into mosquitoes and gadflies]: 397; chickpea [the leader's daughter gives birth to a boy; people die one by one, each There is a hole on the side, and the baby has blood under his fingernails; he grew up, killed his uncle; the young man's mother told her father about this; the soldiers hit him with spears, but they passed through his body without causing harm; he was shot he ran into the forest, swam in the lake to wash off blood from spears, loons drink it; he says he can only be burned; ashes turn into mosquitoes]: Sapir 1959:107-108.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry: Jenness 1934, No. 6 [women pick berries; one girl brings nothing, says the bears messed up everything; the next day, the strap of her basket breaks off; the mustache goes home; to her two Black Bears come up in the guise of young men; when she opens her eyes, she finds herself in a large village; all the animals take turns dancing and saying what they will feed their wife; Muskrat, Raven, Laska, The frog, Caribou, Marten are rejected, she marries the Grizzly; in the spring he says that the youngest of her four brothers will kill him; this is what happens; the brothers ask what part of the carcass she will take home; she drags his skin and head, turns into a Grizzly on the way, kills brothers, then other people; the youngest brother and sister return from squirrel hunting; the boy tells his sister to run between the Grizzly's legs; after she takes off her bear skin, promises not to harm the girl; the girl asks where the Grizzly's heart is; she shows what's in the palm of her hand; her brother kills the Grizzly by hitting her hand with an arrow; says that if they will run around the mountain from different sides and jump between two trees at the same time, they can marry; he manages to catch up with his sister, jump; she gets pregnant at the touch of his foot; gives birth to a son; her kills an ogre; a brother kills an ogre, burns both bodies; goes to the village carrying a baby on his shoulders; he kills him by spreading his throat and pulling out his tongue; in the village he takes out the tongues of sleeping people; two girls are saved who were in ritual isolation; they push the baby into the fire; its ashes turn into mosquitoes; one girl conceives from a stone and dies, the other from the pen gives birth to four Transformer Brothers; cf. J55 motive], 44 [spouses and child live in the mountains; cannibal Kaigett carries and roasts a woman; as follows: (6)]: 129-136, 220-222; comox (chatloltk) [cannibal Tal leaves a bather brings the girl to her basket, brings her home; she offers to lubricate her face with resin; T. dances in front of the fire, the resin melts, covers her eyes; the girl pushes her into the fire; the sparks from the burnt cannibal turn into mosquitoes]: Boas 1895, No. 18:89.

Northeast. Malesit: Mechling 1914, No. 9 [the Raven Chief's wife dies; Poktcinskwes comes in her form; Sturgeon lives with his grandmother, looks like a sturgeon; tells his grandmother that he marries someone who can do it feed; the leader's daughters are trying to feed Sturgeon, he belches everything; the youngest goes to him, meets P. on the way, she says that she has a Sturgeon child behind her back (in fact, a piece of bark); the youngest feeds Sturgeon, marries him; the eldest says she should go out, but the youngest objects; after the wedding at the dance, Sturgeon takes off his sturgeon skin, everyone sees a handsome man; P. steals supplies, children they find them in her house, people take them away; at the dance, Sturgeon thinks he is dancing with his wife, but this is P.; P. lives in Groundhog's house under the guise of Raven's reborn wife; he comes for her, she gives birth to him a child; through For two years, the Raven learns that it is P., tells her to be pushed into the fire; ashes and sparks turn into horseflies, mosquitoes, and other insects], 11 [Fisher is going to marry Whistler; Poktcinskwes herself would like to marry Marten; she sails with him to the island to collect bird eggs, leaves him there; the Fox replies that she cannot help, the Heron tries to raise the Marten, unable; Keith transports him; sitting on Keith, Marten sings that he is being carried by a bald eyed man; Keith thinks that fish are singing, asks Marten what they are singing about; Marten replies that they tell him to take his grandson faster; throws Four pebbles given by Keith, which makes Keith sail faster; returning to the mainland, Marten meets his Grandmother, the Groundhog; they are happy with each other, the Groundhog drops, loses his grandson Sobol; he meets the Snake; The snake tells him to bring a skewer to fry it; The marten hears Sable crying, advises him to bring a crooked skewer; when the Snake scolds for it, promises to straighten it, heat it, hit the Snake on the head; the Snake rushed to catch up with Sobol, Marten killed her; different animals came together to eat the snake; the Turtle was late, Marten threw snake blood on her feet, now her legs are red; Marten forced P. to stick to the tree; she she knocked herself out of the trunk, some were left behind her back, she wrapped herself around like she had a child on her back; she came to the dance, said that Marten's child; the marten was burning her; the ashes turned into bees, hornets, flies, mosquitoes], 12 [Poktcinskwes, Fishing Marten, Marten, Bear sailed to the island for bird eggs; at P.'s initiative, they sailed away in a boat, leaving the Fishing Marten on the island; Keith was the first to transport him His younger brother Marten saw him; the fisherman marten told him to throw baby P. into the fire; the fisherman marten threw her into the fire, the ash turned into flies and mosquitoes]: 55-59, 59-62, 62-63.

Guiana. Varrau [1) people kill a man with a spear leg, cut his flesh into pieces, which turn into insects, reptiles; 2) a person stumbles upon a rolling skull; he clings to his neck; man flees by rushing into the river; the skull sinks, stinging ants crawl out of it]: García 1993, No. 7 [The mosquito saw a fat woman, turned into a man, married her, sucked her blood at night; Seeing how thin she was in the morning, people advised her not to fall asleep in the evening; when her husband tried to suck, she killed him, cut him, burned the remains, scattered him, telling him that the ashes become mosquitoes and gadflies, horseflies and other stinging insects]: 48-49, 299-302, 308-309; Wilbert 1970, No. 6 [mosquitoes arise from a burnt mosquito man sucking his wife's blood], 91 [=García 1993, No. 7]: 51, 199-200.

NW Amazon. Carijona [the younger brother is a good hunter, the younger brother is not; he makes a jaguar mask out of his bast, painted it (there were no jaguars then); began to hunt as a jaguar, brought meat to the hunting hut , became human again, fired an arrow into the carcass to think that he had killed the animal with an arrow; began to catch more game than his younger brother; the younger brother followed, also made a jaguar mask, went to the maloka to frighten people, but the mask grew to him; he tore the elder and his wife to pieces, then all the inhabitants of Maloka except his mother; at her request, he agreed to go to the forest; promised to return in a month, let his mother would cook chichi; a month later, people dug a hole, hid, cook to tear off the mask, throw it into the fire, put fish poison into the chicha; the Jaguar became intoxicated, began to dance with his mother, said that he no longer drink with his mouth maybe he told me to pour chicha in his ass; when he fell, people threw it into the fire; pieces of skin became jaguars, ocelots and other cats; mosquitoes, gadflies, etc. came from the smoke, and ticks from burnt meat]: Schindler 1979, No. 10:100-105.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Cinta Larga [the Kaboêp girl loved the Owl, but at the festival she met the Paxit bird (blue, considered the son of the Jaguar), asks to leave a sign for her on the path to his house; this is his feather; Sister K. says that Owl's feather is on the path to Owl's house; K. and his sister come to Owl {sign substitution is not mentioned, sister is no longer mentioned before the Mutum bird episode}; Owl's mother says he should bring game to his wife; he brings rats; agrees to give corn; leads for honey, K. does not see bees, Owl climbs a tree, knocks out his eye (? ; quebrou olho), the liquid poured out, Owl says it's honey; K. replies that she will go for the vessel, goes to Pxit herself (took her hammock with her in advance); asks Pomi (Rolinha; bird?) , who eats fruit on a tree, does not say he has seen it; comes to the Crane (Socó), who hides it in his throat; Pomi, Socó tell Sova that they have not seen his wife; Owl asks what kind of bloating Socó has a throat, he replies that his teeth hurt; K. sleeps under the wing of Mutum, becomes pregnant with him, sister K. and Mutum did not get along; K. came to Paxit, Owl demands her return, K. does not want to, Paxis kills the Owl with an arrow, he comes to life, returns home; Jaguariha's mother-in-law asks K. to remove the splinter from her leg; there is no splinter in her leg, Jaguariha kills K., sister K. saves the egg, Sunkip was born from it, grew up; his father tells him to kill Mutum so as not to shout (letters. "cried"); Mutum tells S. not to kill him, says that he is his father, that his mother killed Jaguariha; brings a snake to hide it among edible larvae; she bites Jaguariha, but she does not feel anything; then C . asks Jaguariha to catch nuts that he will throw from the tree, she catches; Mutum asks to check if Yaguariha feels the heat of the fire; advises her to get the larva thrown there out of the fire; S. pushes Jaguariha into the fire, it burns; the ashes have turned into harmful insects; more about the Jaguars and the Turtle, see the full text in motif J12]: Leonel Queiroz et al. 1988:63-69.

Southern Brazil. Chiripa [see motif J8; Ñanderú Guazú came from the west, placed the earth on a wooden cross (palo cruzado); with him Ñanderú Mbae Kua; they found the first woman under the clay in a pot, both met her; NG went to the plot, came back, told his wife to go pick corn; she did not believe that the harvest was ripe for her; NG got angry, left, promised to forgive his wife if she found him path; from his mother's womb, their son Kuarahy (the future sun) showed her the way; asked to pick flowers, the woman was bitten by a wasp, she scolded K., he fell silent; the woman came to the old woman, she hid her under the pot from her nephews Añag; she herself told them that they killed and ate the woman; the old woman asked for fruit from the womb to eat, but neither cook nor bake it; K. considered the old woman a mother, shot butterflies, called them after birds, since then birds have names; the old woman does not tell them to hunt on Blue Mountain; K. goes there, finds his mother's bones, mixing them with cornmeal makes himself a brother Yacy (next month); brothers destroy Añag jaguars and demons; K. and Y. saw A. fishing; K. bit off and took the hook, I. got caught; A. caught him in the form of a bagre (first fish); K. asked for bones, Y. (moon phases); the brothers came to Saria (this is also Añag); Y. said that he had many sisters, A. asked them to marry, Y. ordered K. to ask permission; he told A. to bring fish for his wives, gave the girl, from his feet which the fish is dying; A. began to beat the girl, she turned into a timbo vine; K. gave A. a crown of feathers, it caught fire, A. burned down; a partridge flew out of his stomach, the ashes turned into mosquitoes; I. got together with a married woman; on a full moon, the Month copulates with girls, causing menstruation; K. did Venus; after copulation, Y. tells Venus to wash it, so it rains on the new moon; K. and Y. did a chain of arrows to go to heaven to my father; I wanted to climb first to become the sun, but K. was the first to climb himself]: Bartolomé 1977:16-40 (the episode with mosquitoes appearing on p.37); caigua [Ramoy Dad leaves his wife; she is pregnant with twins Pai Quara (Sun) and Yvangusu (Month); RP tells PC that if that son is his, he will find him; the woman goes looking for her husband at the fork in the PC sends her to the Jaguars; they kill her, throw the twins into boiling water, they are unharmed; grow up, lead the Jaguars across the river to the fruit tree; bring her to the bridge; Y. destroys it ahead of time, one pregnant The Jaguariha escapes; the rest turn into caimans and other aquatic animals; the Jaguar grandmother falls into a trap set by the twins; they burn it, the ashes turn into mosquitoes; the Sun leaves Wait a month, comes to his mother]: Samaniego 1968:419-421; apapakuwa [Nyanderikoy creates a koati, throws Anyaya from the tree; he asks N. to go down and puts it in the basket; He leaves him for a while; brother N. revives him, they put a stone in his place; Anyai's daughters find only coati and stone in the basket; A. returns; N. creates a deer, A. chases him, mistaking him for N.; brothers cover their heads with flowers; they tell A.'s daughters that their father needs to scalp off and rub the crown with pepper to become just as beautiful; A.'s head bursts, the brain turns into mosquitoes and barigues (horseflies?) ; brothers marry A.'s daughters; set fire to the grass around, women's hair lights up, heads burst, mosquitoes appear]: Nimuendaju 1914:396-399; mbia [see J9 motif; woman gets to creatures Mbae-ypi, they eat her; the baby in her womb cannot be killed, it is Pa-i, the Sun; he grows up, lives with an old woman, makes a brother out of a leaf (next Month); brothers kill Mbae-ypi, one pregnant woman has escaped, jaguars come from her; Pa-i makes a chain of arrows, the brothers go up to heaven, become the Sun and the Month; when Pa-i's son enters the river, the fish dies it can be collected; C. asks Pa-i to lend him the boy, hits him on the head, throws him into the water; Pa-i fights Charia, their strengths are equal (solar eclipses); Pa-i gives C. a feather crown; wearing it, C. burns, mosquitoes, horseflies, gadflies emerge from the ashes, a partridge from the entrails, the mistress of the fire, the soul turns into an evil spirit]: Cadogán 1959:70-83; Cadogán, Lopez Austin 1970:74-85.