H28C. Mosquitoes bring women back. 39.41.72.

The character creates blood-sucking insects to influence the behavior of the marriage partner.

Chukchi, Koyukon, Kaduveo.

SV Asia. Chukchi [the husband brings other women into the house every now and then; the wife goes to the tundra, makes mosquitoes out of clay, her nose out of deer hair; every time the husband lies down with another woman, she releases them; then turns into mountain sheep, leaves; Chukchi don't kill mountain sheep]: Van Deusen 1999:32-33.

Subarctic. Koyukon: Attla 1983 [huge animals enter the sea, water floods the land; the Great Raven tells the Raven to build a raft; animal people flee on a raft; the Raven and the Seagull fly in different directions, not they find land; many dive, but only the Muskrat pulls clay from the bottom, the Beaver helps to put it on the raft; when enough land has been piled up, the land has reappeared; vegetation has appeared; the Raven drew riverbeds, the water in them flowed in both directions at the same time; then decided that it would be too easy for people, let the rivers flow only downstream; made a man out of stone; decided that he would live forever and not would be smart enough (his mind would not be right); then he made it out of clay; this man knew how to think, was able to reproduce his own kind; made a woman; at first people died and reborn, but The raven decided that people should only live once; he was going to marry, others tried to take the woman away from him; then the Raven brought a rotten willow, sprayed dust, and it turned into mosquitoes (so that they bitten rivals); animal people then became animals]: 129-137 (=Ruppert, Bernet 2001:84-89; narrated in Smelcer 1992:124-125); Nelson 1983 [Raven kicked his six wives; when he wanted them back , they refused; created mosquitoes, they immediately ran; var.: a man stole Raven's wife; that boring a rotten willow, created mosquitoes; {knats â€" midges, mosquitoes}]: 59.

Chaco. Caduveo [the ugly sorcerer Ania fell in love with the girl; the smoke from the 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.