J12K. The groom and the liar live in the same house.43.49.

Desired and unwanted marriage partners live in the same house. An unwanted person, a servant or junior partner, usually pretends to be a master.

The coast is the Plateau. See motive J12. Shuswap; ne perse; kutene; Puget Sound; upper chehalis; koulitz; okanagon; kordalen; katlamet; clackamas; yakima ; ne perse; kalapuya; modoc.

Big Pool. Washo [escaped from the cannibals Nentusu with two boys comes to the Caress Brothers; the elder is taller Pewetseli, the younger Damalali; P. takes N. as his wife, hides her and the boys from D., tells him that they were crows, birds, they flew away; D. finds one boy, kills, leaves his head; N. and another go to the lake, turn into ducks; D. says that people should marry women, not ducks, ducks must eat; from the current territory, brothers come to your land; P. sees it first; warns D. not to touch the Spider; D. does not believe, the Spider kills him; P. comes to the Sun by rainbow; that replies that he has not seen anything, sends it to the Month; the Month eats frogs, not fish; says that he sees only at night, sends them back to the Sun, giving two porcupines that the Sun fears; the Sun confesses that he saw Spider drag D.; gave up the phone, told him to smoke first; when he came to Spider, P. smokes, Spider dies, P. revives his brother, tells him to hunt deer, but he chases Beaver, Beaver kills him; P. kills him Beaver, revives his brother; same with Ground Hog; D. kills Water Baby, scalps him, the lake overflows, D. hides on the mountain; P. tells him to scalp, the water descends, remains lakes in the mountains]: Dangberg 1927, No. 2:401-415 (=1968, No. 2:49-68).