J12M. A woman turns into a duck .44.49.

A woman or two sisters come to two men and become the wives of one of them. The other one kills or tries to kill a rival or women. As a result, women become waterfowl.

The Midwest. Menominee: Bloomfield 1928, No. 96 [two sisters go to get the Beaded Spitting (PB); The Diver (Hell-Diver) says it's him; hiding beads in his mouth and nose, he blows out and cleans his throat; PB is a pet deer; The dive says that the deer ran away frightened by the girls; in the evening Dive is called to dance with PB; the girls put Dive's mother to sleep, leave driftwood instead, come to PB; there the Dive lies on on the floor, everyone dances on it; when he returns home, the Dive lies between driftwood, takes ant bites for tingling his wives; kills his mother, finds PB sleeping between girls, kills him by putting him in his mouth hot pebbles; hides a deer's stomach with blood under his clothes, pretends to kill himself at the news of PB's death; he is being chased, he says he will die if his wives follow him; turns him over their boat; he and both girls turn into dive ducks]: 359-365; Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II33 [Chief White Wampum spits beads; his brother is Hell Diver; two sisters come to marry the chief; The dive replies that it is him; every night he goes dancing at his brother's house; wives leave rotten decks in bed, secretly go dancing; stay with White Wampum; A dive pierces his brother's genitals hot iron dies; the dive pretends to mourn, simulates a suicide attempt by placing a blood-filled deer's stomach under his clothes and tearing it; calls his ex-wives into his boat, turns it over; sisters turn into female dive ducks]: 408-410; Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [Mana (Gagara) is rich, has many wives, his brother Wai-Mishu is poor; two sisters go to marry M.; V. pretends to be him, calls his sisters Mik-kei-san (With beaded ear pendants; this is the name of the M. sisters); girls say it's good to spit beads; V. sisters take theirs mouth pendants, beads turn out to be dog crap; girls leave poplar decks in bed, run to M.; V. tries to copulate with decks, is bitten by ants; simulates suicide by ripping open a bag of caribou blood under his clothes; runs behind the lake; the mosquito drinks the lake; V. pierces it, the water pours out; V. puts a hot copper spear in the mouth of M., sleeping with his wives, runs into the lake; promises return if his wives come to him; they go, he turns them and himself into greaves]: Ray, Stevens 1971:68-71; potauatomi [Gagara is a chief named White Wampum; his brother Red-necked Toadstool is nobody married to an old woman; comes to another village, meets two women, says he is BV, takes them as his wife; on the way they ask to kill an elk, he replies that it is one of his horses; at home he calls his old wife grandmother; in the evening invited to dance to real BV; wives leave decks with ants in bed, come to BV; Toadstool bitten by ants; kills sleeping BV by putting hot stones in his mouth; hides in his mouth blood, simulates suicide; says he will survive if his daughters-in-law come to him; they swim in a boat, he knocks it over, everyone goes to the bottom; he emerges, screams that he killed BV; people ask for the Frog drink the lake; The toadstool kicks her first, then pierces her stomach; now the toadstool has two wives]: Skinner 1924:361-363.

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; the same with Ground Hog; D. kills the 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).