I17A. Dwarfs without bodily holes. (.23.35.43.44.50.55.60.61.67.)
Creatures without anus or (Greece, yakima, zunyi: mouth) are dwarfs.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Ancient Greek sources [Plin. NH VII, 2, 25-26: Among the nomadic Indus, says Megasthenes (an author of the 3rd century BC, who described India), there is a tribe (gens) that have only holes instead of a nose that drag their legs like snakes; they are called Kirts; to the outer limits of India, in the east, near the origins of the Ganges, there is a tribe of astoms, rootless... Above them, in the extreme part of the mountains, there are five and pygmies that do not jump three inches in size; Aul. Gell. Noct. Att. IX, 4, 10: These same writers (Ctesius, Onesikrit) say that there is a tribe (gens) at the extreme limits of India that does not eat food at all, but is saturated with the smell of flowers; pygmies also live not far from them; of these, the biggest ones are no more than two feet and a quarter]: Stahl 1982:45.
Western Siberia. Muncie [in the past, the sun hid for a week, for a month; in times of darkness, little creatures bothered children and women while men hunted; they have no anus; they smell food and then dumped to dogs]: Rombandeeva 1991:21.
The coast is the Plateau. Yakima [a huge bird carries people and animals; a person quietly climbs on its back, flies to the nest where the female sits on eggs; for several months it feeds unnoticed on what it brings poultry meat; sees a boat with little people, asks him to pick it up; these people breathe through a tiny hole, eat, inhaling beads; hordes of geese and ducks attack them every spring; feathers attack them every spring and fluff clogs the breathing holes; a man peels off his feathers to save many; the attack is repulsed; he is chosen as a leader, given a wife, he has children; by old age he returns home; now little people are probably all destroyed by birds that regularly trained to fight on the island where they lived; some say this story took place in Puget Sound]: Hines 1992, No. 20:69-76.
The Midwest. Fox [man gets to dwarfs; they rip open the bellies of pregnant wives; he teaches their women how to give birth; dwarfs have no anuses, they are surprised to see a person relieve themselves (he probably does they have anuses; without details); dwarfs are attacked by their terrible enemies cranes, geese, goose; a person easily kills birds, roasts them and eats them]: Jones 1907, No. 5:75-77.
The Great Southwest. Zunyi: Cushing 1901 [twin brothers descend into the underworld; dwarfs who eat the smell of food live here; they are attacked first by jays, then by pots of soup; many dwarfs die; brothers easily catch birds in snare, break pots, eat soup; pierce the anuses of dwarfs; children come to us from that world, so they only eat air until the umbilical cord is cut; old people return to the same place, they often have an upset stomach]: 400-410: Quam 1972, No. 37 [two brothers (Gods of War) live with their grandmother; she consistently warns them not to go in a certain direction light, but the younger brother offers to go; the Rodent digs a passage to the lying Cow; gnaws the hair off her skin under her heart; the older brother kills the Cow with an arrow, she manages to kick the younger one; the Rodent gives him medicine; a creature kicks passers-by off a cliff; the elder brother dodges, the brothers throw the creature off the cliff into the abyss; old woman Ahdoshla offers to take out insects, puts the brothers to sleep, kills, cooks; they come to life, kill A., make a scarecrow out of her; they come to another world, where corn, vegetables, melons are always ripe; dwarfs live there without mouths; brothers cut their mouths, dwarfs eat for the first time; they are afraid a boiling pot of corn porridge falling on them; brothers eat porridge; in the cave they find stick and stone that produce lightning, thunder and rain; bring them home; drag the effigy A. with them, pretending that run away from her; a frightened grandmother hits a scarecrow with a stick, the brothers laugh; pick up a stick and a stone, a thunderstorm begins, the grandmother almost drowns; the brothers think they killed her, but she returns from hiding; tells older brother to go west, younger brother to east; goes to Halonaava herself]: 182-194; lipan [a group of warriors travels to distant places; people with pin-headed anuses feed steam from food; give warriors wives; their children have normal anuses]: Opler 1940, No. 3:45.
Mesoamerica Totonaks [thunder dwarfs eat odor and have no anus]: (A.I. Davletshin, personal report, September 2012).
The Northern Andes. Yupa: Villamañan 1982, No. 6 [Pépento live underground; they don't eat or relieve themselves, they only drink decoction; marry, have children, die]: 21; Wilbert 1974, No. 8 [dwarfs live underground; they put food on the back of his head, let it slide down his spine; this is how they eat; the hero marries a local girl]: 87-88; guambia [the hero descends into the underworld; dwarfs live there without anus; he pierces their anuses, they die]: Rowe 1954-1955:154.
Ecuador. Kayapa [dwarfs]: Barrett 1925 (2): 364-365 [live somewhere on earth], 376 [kariks without anuses live in the underworld; they can only have sex in moonlight].
Western Amazon. Napo (or canelo) [a man climbs a rock, from there to the cave to hunt tayu (Steatornis peruvianus) birds; another wants to take possession of his wife, removes the rope; a man walks through the gorge, comes to dwarfs; they cook food, eat its smell; they do not give a person what they smell, it is their excrement; when they see how they have relieved themselves, they also ask them to make anal holes, which are tiny ; some die from surgery; dwarfs ask their wives to give birth to children with anal holes; dwarfs tell a man to go after the cougar, she brings him home, his wife remained faithful]: Ortíz de Villalba 1989, No. 48:92-94.
Bolivia - Guaporé. Takana [red-haired dwarfs in the lower world do not have anuses, feed on the smell of food, support the ground, hares are jaguars for them, attacked by huge wasps; when they turn gray, the earth will fall; As they pass by, the Sun and Moon tell them that they are still young, pulling out their gray hairs]: Hissink, Hahn 1961, No. 41, 42, 220, 222:88-89, 351-354, 354-355.