H39. Spilled poison .12.19.22.-.24. (.26.) .34.55.57.62.

Snakes drink liquid spilled on the ground and as a result become poisonous or immortal; creatures regain their nature (usually poisonous) by drinking or licking a special potion.

West Africa. Sarah (mbai) [Loa put the egg on a plate of grain; twins Sou and Ngaro came out of the egg; then Ngaba and Koutou; then Ngakoutou and Ngodjo; they in turn gave birth to twins and then a girl Sia ; she was walking with the monkey, found an egg, the monkey wanted to break it, but S. brought it home, put it in the barn; a day later, a boy and a girl came out of the egg; the monkey claimed that the egg belonged to her; c Since then, S. and the monkeys hate each other, monkeys spoil crops; the pretty bustard (Chlamydotis undulata) brought a vessel of poison to destroy everyone who grows grain; snakes, spiders and other poisonous creatures gathered around; the warthog and the monkey decided to save people; they started a quarrel, knocked over the pot; snakes and others drank poison and became poisonous; the warthog lost his hair from the poison; the bustard too drank poison and if she now sits on the roof, those in the house will get leprosy; now warthogs and monkeys eat everything sown in the fields]: Fortier 1967:71-73 (retelling in Belcher 2005:349); Yoruba [animals gather for advice to decide how to escape from humans; the turtle offers to brew a potion so that those who drink it will become humans; animals dance in advance; the turtle decides that, when they become humans, animals they will completely disperse, break the vessel; those who managed to lick the spilled potion became monkeys]: Walker, Walker 1980:30-32.

Melanesia. Marind-anim [the snake gave birth to the boy Yavi, three girls found him and carried him away; the snake crawled along the trail, brought down the house, but the woman drove her away with burning smut; began to swallow people, she was killed; Yavi kidnapped the fire demo Aramembe {he plays the role of a trickster}; Yavi began to sleep with his wife; A. called the sorcerers, Yavi died of witchcraft; A. repented, asked the sorcerers for a potion against the spell, but Yavi already buried; A. poured the potion on the ground, the snake licked it, since then the snakes do not die, but change their skin; the first coconut palm grew out of Yavi's head; his braided bast braids turned into roots, his head into the lower part of the trunk, the body into the trunk itself, the legs into the tail of the leaves; coconuts have three recesses - Yavi's eyes and mouth]: Wirtz, Neverman 1981, No. 18:224-225.

Burma - Indochina. Khmu [The boa was poisonous; bit a man named Al; people started shouting "Al is not dead" (a play on words; Al is not dead and He died sounds the same); the offended boa constrictor regurgitated all the poison; all his snakes got drunk, then insects (caterpillars, wasps, etc.); the calot lizard placed poison pegs around the tree and ran into them itself; since then, she has seen a wound mark on her throat]: Lindell et al. 1977, No. 8:55-56.

South Asia. Hinduism [the nagas kidnapped Garuda's mother, demanded Amritu's drink of immortality as a ransom; G. flew to the gods, eating an elephant and a huge turtle along the way; scattered them to the sides the gods guarding Amrita and flew up to the bowl; a rotating wheel lined with blades prevented her from taking it; G. turned into a bird, slipped between the blades, carried away the bowl; threw the two dragons guarding it at sand eyes; Indra caught up with G., who promised to return Amrita to him, deceive him; while they were bathing, getting ready to drink a drink, G. took the cup back; snakes became immortality when they licked the grass, on which the bowl stood, their tongues have doubled since then]; chhattisgarhi (Bilaspur) [before only the Asharia snake was poisonous; the shepherd always played the flute, fell asleep; a. did not like playing the flute, bit him; the flute remained in his mouth, the wind was blowing, the sounds did not stop; a. decided that her poison was weak, called all the snakes, scorpions, etc., fed her food mixed with its poison; now the degree of toxicity of snakes depends from who ate how much; a. herself became almost harmless, poisonous only one month a year]: Gordon 1908:72-73.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Java [the crow was white, the Sanca snake was terribly poisonous, and the Laki snake was harmless; the crow promised L. to become poisonous; asked S. to show how poisonous it was; she spat poison, all living things on the other side died; the crow brought a leaf, asked L. to regurgitate the poison on it; S. did it, said that she had no more poison; the crow took the leaf and told L. to swallow the poison; other snakes licked the leaf, too became poisonous, although smaller; the leaf itself is also burning; S. chased the crow; she asked the dyer to paint it black and S. did not recognize it]: Kratz 1973, No. 5:32-34.

(Wed. China - Korea. The fox [the celestial descended to earth in love with a beautiful woman; wanted to return to participate in the festival; his wife asks every day to postpone it until tomorrow until she finishes her business; finally, the husband decides to fly away alone, leaving his wife a pot of magic water; the one who drank this water will be able to fly; while the wife is on the site, the birds have drunk the water; the eagle the most, the peacock - a little bit, the rooster - just a little bit; The woman who returned got only a drop; it was enough to jump on trees; she became a gibbon; she cries all day long, grieving for her lost husband]: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994:186-187).

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans [the rich khan prepared poison; in his absence, the snake spilled poison, fell in it, took it in its mouth; where the grass crawled, caught fire; the khan ordered the servant to collect poison from the snake's body; but the poison was in the mouth remained, snakes have been poisonous ever since]: Alekseev, Dongak 2006, No. 3:7-9.

The Northern Andes. Yupa [God poured poison to the ground for the benefit of Calebas; snakes took possession of it]: Wilbert 1974, No. 53:143.

Southern Venezuela. Yanomami [the first people to learn how to make curare drank it and became poisonous snakes; those who came later did not get poison, they became non-venomous snakes; those who licked the powder became wasps; Omawë taught people how to use curare again]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 120:215.

NW Amazon. Usually: people have prepared poison to lubricate arrows, but snakes drink it. Kabiyari [Pitchi (see motif J15) was cooking curare, the fire went out, P. lost consciousness; at this time snakes crawled up and took poison for themselves]: Correa 1989, No. 3:72; Barasana: S.Hugh-Jones 1979, № 4F-H [ The cannibal eagle Rame took the man to the nest to be eaten by the chicks; the man killed the chicks, plucked the fluff to use in shamanic rituals, went down to the ground; he told Warimi; he tried to kill the eagle was poisoned with poisoned arrows, but the poison had no effect; V. went to get it from Anaconda Poison; a flock of ibises (Micteria americana) is flying; they carry ants for a symbolic exchange of food with their mother-in-law Romi-Kumu; V. calls ibis a nephew (by mother), but he replies that his nephew is flying behind; the same is the next ibis; the third agrees to take V. into his pack, although he dissuades him; V. was attached feathers and taught fly; on the way, the cassava section, where vegetation burns, the flame blocks the road; V. caused rain, the ibises liked it; then there was a strong wind on the way; the mountains were crashing; V. overcame these obstacles; When ibises fly into RK's house, Taho Yai (Pouncing Jaguar) kills and eats them, for him it's game (different kinds of game birds); with his shamanic power, V. stopped the trap to prevent it from falling again (on birds) ); Jaguar is furious: is nobody with you? ibises: no one; invisible to Jaguar and RK V.; ibises danced all night, presented RK with parcels of ants in the morning; RK and Jaguar notice that pieces of cassava are missing; ibises deny everything again; they flew away, and B . stayed; when RK swept, she felt like something was clinging to her pubic hair; this hair was a flower-covered vine (Lonchocarpus) that is used to make fish poison; V. became a green bee and drank nectar from those flowers; then began to copulate with RK and entered her body; finding no poison to poison her, he came out of her head as a poisonous lizard; now RK can't stop and continues to have sex with V. is already against his desire; took him to her house and closed the stone door so as not to go out; her father Anaconda Yada was sleeping, but RK woke him up: here's a servant to fan the fire; V. hid upstairs on the pole, and Anaconda Yada looked for it on the floor to eat; called V. to fan the fire, but V. did it from afar; V. climbed to the roof and made a hole; the ray touched Anaconda Yad's body. this is Sarbakan V.; Anaconda Yada fell asleep; as a fly, V. climbed inside Anaconda Yada through his ass, tied a rope around his heart and gallbladder; V. took poison from his gallbladder, and Anaconda Yada screamed from pain: this fool, a bunch of pubic hair, left me (alone) with V., the father of heaven; he covered his anus and mouth, but V. tickled Poison in his nose into the Anacondas and he sneezed it out; getting out through the hole in on the roof, V. became a parrot and flew away; then became an oriole (Icterus chrysocephalus), tied a bag of poison under his neck, so she had a yellow neck; when she flew over the RK garden, she threw a stick at him, but he dodged; when V. began to cook poison, he wiped off the foam, two types of burning ants appeared from it; the Lizard woman began to laugh: the poison was rather weak; V. shot her with sarbakan; inhaling poisonous vapors, V. began to cough - this is the voice of a howler; V. lost consciousness and at that time all the poisonous snakes, spiders, insects drank poison and became poisonous; when V. woke up, V. placed the poison in the vessel; the spatula with which he this was done by a scorpion, the rope with which the lid is tied - a poisonous spider, the rope around the neck of the vessel - a scolopendra, the lid itself - a hornet's nest; then V. made all kinds of sarbacans and smeared the darts with poison; started shooting at the Rame eagle; missed the first time, poisonous vines grew at the place where the dart fell; the same second time; the third dart flew into the sky, fell vertically down and pierced the eagle's neck; the eagle flew, dying and singing a song that they sing during the Rame eagle dance; each place has its own part of the song; tucano and desana took fluff from it for shamanic rituals and poison, so they have a lot of poison; tatuyo from Rame's body made the whole set of ritual items; for them, Rame has the Jaguar Eagle or the Round Jaguar Pumpkin; the feathers on the wings are ribbons of yellow feathers wrapped in He's musical instruments; themselves instruments made from his bones, called the bones of the Sun; the other bones are jaguar bones, which are tied to feather hats; from the skull, sacred calebas, calebas for wax, and calebas for tobacco; blood is made of red paint to paint initiating; Rame's shadow is a deer; it is made of tapir skin, behind which a shaman sits in the house for rituals He; Rame's brain and liver - shamanic tobacco and wax; fluff is the one used in shamanic rituals; letuama and tanimuka also got their ritual supplies from Rame's body; quartz crystals from his eyes, shamans see from them with help; and they took the fluff too]: 279-283; Torres Laborde 1969 [start see motif J15; Warimí asked Watsóa Wehéro to throw off the Wansoko fruit for him; he made a ladder, offered to go up, threw him away stairs, V. cannot go down; in winter Herons flew in, gave him feathers, taught him to fly; on the way, the trap was like scissors; V. put a log into it, everything flew safely; on the site, fire, V. caused rain, everyone flew by; ducks and other birds flew with them; flew to Romí-Kumú; she fed everyone; suspects that there is someone with the birds because she has eaten more than usual; arranges a dabukuri festival; the birds came back, but V. stayed with RK; she took him to her father's Rimáhinó (Serpent Venom) house; RK woke him up by touching a hot shard; V. became a flea, R. took him off his back. put it in his mouth; V. jumped out of his nose when R. sneezed, took the poison; flew as a bird to his grandmother, Mení's wife; began to cook poison, tasted it, lost consciousness; at this time the snakes stole it, became poisonous; V. killed Ramé the ogre eagle with a wind gun; his blood turned into various types of reeds; his feathers were taken for dance costumes, he taught many songs]: 31-45; yagua: Chaumeil 1982: 52; 1983:123; Powlison 1993, No. 3 [see J4 motif; Chuchupe kept all the poison in a vessel; snakes, ants, wasps, and others had to ask for poison for their darts; Orphan began to provoke Chuchupe to have him swallowed it, broke the vessel; snakes, etc. drank poison; whoever crawled earlier has stronger poison; the latter arrived after C. sprinkled the poison with ash, they have the weakest bite]: 83; chikuna [ the girl was waiting for initiation; asked the immortals who came in to make her immortal; among those invited to the party were Mëtarë (identified as a turtle in lingua geral) and his fiancée; he was her I didn't like it because he ate only wood mushrooms; she and her lover Falcon painted each other on the street; the tapir's skin with the guests sitting on it began to rise to the sky; the brother threw M.'s fiancée a rope, she broke off, the girl turned into a night bird, calling her brother plaintively; M. broke the vessels with the drink he had prepared, it was full of worms; ants and everyone who changed skin drank it; those who rose on their skins seen as a halo around the moon or the Pleiades]: Nimuendaju 1952:135-136.