J12L. A hypocritical murderer. 44.57.
The killer pretends to mourn the victim with everyone else. The deception is revealed, the murderer is persecuted. See motive J12.
Menominee, Western Ojibwa, Eastern Ojibwa (timagami), Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake), Steppe Cree, Swamp Cree (Albany), Potauatomi, Sanema, Yanomami, Yanomam.
The Midwest. The killer simulates suicide from grief for the deceased, cutting a bag of blood hidden under his clothes. Menominee [Dipper kills his brother White Wampum]; Ojibwa (including timagami) [Toadstool kills Loon]; Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [Loon is rich, Toadstool is poor brothers, The toadstool kills him]; the Marsh Cree (Albany) [The otter pretended to be dead, put a rotten tree in his nose and anus; Hell-diver Tcīgibis told Crawfish that their enemy was dead; Cancers they gathered, began to rot out of the Otter's ass; he laughed, jumped up, killed everyone except one at a distance; Toadstool was jealous of his wife for his brother Gagara; while he was sleeping, he put it down his throat hot iron; collected blood in a bubble, put it under his clothes; he was told that Loon was killed; he pierced a blood bubble, supposedly killing himself; left, diving into the water; if he were caught up, there were no greaves now would]: Skinner 1911:95-96; Steppe Cree [Dipper kills Beads]; potauatomi [Loon is a chief named White Wampum; his brother Red-necked Toadstool kills him].
Southern Venezuela. Opossum and Med live side by side in the same shabono (a circle of awnings open towards the central square). The opossum only pretends to work on the site, smelly; in the absence of Honey, he pretends to be a worthy contender; Honey comes, the girls move into his hammock. The opossum kills Med with witchcraft. He also tries his remedy on another character, he survives. When the Opossum pretends to be grieving, that character (always a Lizard?) exposes him. To escape persecution, Opossum hides on a tree or rock. The first ancestors (mostly birds) cut down a tree or rock. They smear blood, brain, and Possum excrement,
getting their current color. Sanema; yanomami; yanomam.