H28B. Mosquitoes made from animal hair. 39.72.

Trimmed hairs on an animal's skin, or ash and smoke from a burnt skin covered with hair, turn into blood-sucking insects.

Chukchi, Toba, Pilaga, Caduveo.

SV Asia. Chukchi (2020) [rygrygyt (chuk): body, armpit, pubic hair, feathers, wool (but not hair on her head); no one married a woman; a man was walking past her yaranga; she was at the time scraped her skin; in order to lure the man to her, she created mosquitoes from the hairs that flew off after scraping; they attacked a man and had to go to yaranga; he stayed there]: Ozheredov et al. 2020:167.

Chaco. Toba: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989a, No. 78 (toba-pilaga) [first one water; Lapichí (the constellation responsible for the ripening of wild fruits) prevented, rubbed between and made it hard land; created the Paraguay River, carrying a stick on his shoulder - the water followed it; threw a bottle tree into the river, it turned into a (mythical) water creature Lek, swallowing people; met Nowaikalachigí shot at a big fish, the water rose; L. noticed N.'s wool, picked it up, rubbed it, it turned into mosquitoes; there is another world underground, there are also people and the sky there - three skies; fire is burning, because of this, the earth like burnt bricks; L. watches this fire; there are no trees there, and houses are made of iron], 303 (western toba) [all the fish were inside the bottle tree; the fox tells the man he is not going to shoot fish with bow: will only fish with his hands; the man warned not to touch the large predatory dorado fish (Salminus brasiliensis); but the fox shot the dorado, the tree burst, the stream of water with the fish rushed to where directed a dorado; when the fox died, his hair turned into mosquitoes; and he came to life a couple of days later]: 113-114, 390-391; pilaga [a man conceived two boys in a vessel; a vessel on the path along which women go to get water; the father said that when a beautiful woman passes, the vessel will split, this woman is their mother; their arrow is stuck in a tree, they pulled her out, a stream poured in; they ran to their mother, the water was for them; they stuck an arrow into the ground, the water stopped; so they led the river with fish further; the deceiver, contrary to their warning, shot a big fish, the stream behind them, he drowned; he revived during the rainy season bald; his hair turned to mosquitoes]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989a, No. 90:122-124; caduveo [ugly sorcerer Ania fell in love with a girl; smoke from burnt hare hair turned into mosquitoes; but the girl even refused to sleep with him; then the sorcerer caught the hare, burned its skin and the smoke turned into mosquitoes; the girl had to climb under A.'s mosquito net]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990a, No. 38:66.