H7i. Old Age, Hunger, Illness. (.31.36.43.50.58.62.)
Old Age, Sickness, or Hunger are special characters, but the Death character is not mentioned.
Scandinavians, Dolgans, Chilcotin, Snohomish, Kalapuya, Mixteki, Warrau, Tikuna.
Baltoscandia. Scandinavians [Thor and his companions come to Utgard, ruled by Utgarda-Loki (note 61: The Acts of the Danes Saxon Grammar explain that Utgardilocus is Loki, expelled from Asgard in Utgard, i.e. into the outer fenced space); see the city in the middle of the field; the king asks what art the guests are trying to show themselves in; Loki: no one will eat their share faster than me; competes with Logi (flame), both eat from both ends of the trough, meet in the middle, Logi ate both bones and troughs; Tialvi competes to run with Hoogie ("thought"), loses; Thor drinks from the horn, which locals drink in one, a lot in two or three sips, but when Thor takes two sips, there is almost no less water in the horn; Torah is offered to raise the cat, he only manages to tear one of its paws off the ground ; Thor offers to fight; Utgarda-Loki sends old woman Ellie ("old age"), Thor falls on one knee; Utgarda-Loki takes aces well, and letting them go says that if he knew how strong Thor is, not would let them into Utgard; Loki and Tyalvi could not argue with Flame and Thought; the other end of the horn was at sea: what Thor drank is now called low tide; the cat is the world's serpent, Thor raised it to the sky; not there was a man who would defeat Old Age; Thor brought his hammer, Utgarda-Loki and his city disappeared]: Younger Edda 1970:42-46.
Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [Smallpox came, asks the narrator where people are; he shows the way to the lower world; smallpox returns thin, there are only shadows; since then he has decided not to show up to people]: Popov 1958:89.
The coast is the Plateau. Chilcotin [the boy lives with his grandmother, feeds on hare droppings, the grandmother can't find anything else; in winter, the boy catches fish in the ice-hole, hears a tap, fish swims on the other side; fits Dt'an ("Hunger"), carries a bag of crumbs thrown away by people behind his back, says he is going to kill two people who insulted him (i.e., threw away leftovers); when he returned, D. said how difficult it was to kill the one of the two, whose name was Nork; he was cunning, but D. defeated him; D. left, the boy told others to take the fish from the ice-hole, which D. had caught up with]: Farrand 1900, No. 17:32-33; snohomish [Fox and Mink went to travel; Norka said he would go see what was ahead; wrote into the water, turned the urine into salmon, gave it to Fox; he fried it and ate it; got sick; asked the two little ones in it girls (probably their excrement), they laugh, Fox became pregnant; gave birth to a boy, who grew up quickly, married Butterball (?) and the bird, he loves the first, the second does not; the fox wants to take possession of his son's wives; asks the "counselors", who tell them to turn them into white birds; the son Fox undressed, climbed a tree, it is higher and higher, to the sky; "birds" returned to Fox; he put on his son's clothes, came to his wives, said that his father was dead; B. understood what was going on, the bird wife believed; the fox took the bird, B. did not agree with him; in heaven, Fox's son came to the gray-haired man the old man; this is the Spider; he said that the country where the young man came from was the third below; began to let him down; when it was warm, the young man realized that he was on earth; in gratitude he gave the spider 4 dressed reindeer skins; bald; caught up with his faithful wife, she touched his head, his hair grew again; first she carried her husband in her basket; then he told Fox and his bird-wife to bring the deer he had killed; bewitched the strap, that constantly eager; the fox and his wife rushed to catch up, his wife was carried away by the river, the Fox hardly swam out; his advisers said that there are two women down the river, they have a dam with a salmon trap; the fox turned into a wooden dish, swam into a trap; the women picked it up, she devours all the meat they put in it; they threw the bowl on the floor, it turned into a baby; when the women are not there, the fox goes to the dam and takes it salmon from there; counselors tell you to break the dam; the head and back must be covered with baskets - these are the only vulnerabilities on the body; the women rushed to the Fox with the jails, but they are stuck in the baskets; the Fox led fish up the river; came to a woman with her daughter, married her daughter, speaks a miraculous language as if he were a mountain leader; salmon ran out; wife gave birth to a girl, left her Lisa and left; she grew up in a few days , married Mountain Sheep's son; the fox went to visit them; the baby, whom the daughter gave birth to, had fat diapers, the Fox ate them; when the Fox stole the stone hammer, his daughter kicked him out; the fox began to play, throwing them up his eyes, the Raven took them away; Magpie suspects that the Fox is blind; he says he sees a star that Magpie does not see; when she came, he pulled out her eyes and put her in; the fox came to the fat old woman- illnesses; she says that her two granddaughters went to a place where Raven shows Fox's eyes to everyone and the audience is dancing around; the fox asks the old woman in detail about her usual behavior, wants to kill; she claims that you can't kill her with a stone, a club, water, fire, a magic root; Fox's excrement is advised to beat her with nettles; she dies, the Fox put on her skin; counselors: spots under the eyes, tell your granddaughters that you are hurt; the granddaughters carried the imaginary old woman, the Fox copulated with both; the fox began to sing, everyone liked it, he called his eyes, they returned to his eye sockets, he ran away, the pursuer showed his penis, everything was enveloped by the fog, the Fox escaped]: Haeberlin 1924, No. 20:399-411; Kalapuya: Jacobs 1945, No. 1 [(=Romanova 1997, No. 118:412-413); More is approaching, people are fleeing, birds are taking them to heaven; the Coyote was carried by his brother Vulture ( Cathartes aura); he smells nice to him, bites off a piece from Vulture's neck; The fly, flying by, screams, He eats his brother; Coyote: She said - Treat your brother carefully ; the third time Vulture hears correctly, throws off the Coyote; he turns into a feather, takes his form on the ground; pretends to be Moore, meets the real Mora; he sees in his mouth swarming people, believes he eats them; at night, Coyote sends mice to steal some of Mohr's power, who is no longer so strong]: 89-90; Gatschet et al. 1945, No. 5 [as in Jacobs; all animal people run to sky; Moore kills and eats Coyote]: 356-358.
Mesoamerica Mishteki [a thin woman walks into a woman's house with a thin child in her arms; the hostess gives her a tortilla; she leaves; it was a Famine woman, she just came to this village]: Dyk 1959:173- 174.
Guiana. Varrau [man accidentally answers Death's call]: Wilbert 1970, No. 85, 86:192-193.
NW Amazon. Tikuna [when Dioy called everyone to follow her, the girl in the menstrual hut did not answer; and when she came and called Old Age Spirit, she answered; he took off his skin, put it on the girl, and He put her skin on himself; left young, the girl turned into an old woman]: Nimuendaju 1952:135.