J15. The road to the home of dangerous creatures.

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Going in search of a husband, relatives, etc., a woman, girl, or children accidentally go the wrong way and find creatures that kill or harm them.

Yaka, Ronga, Dagari, Ikom, Mungaka, Tangale, Joluo, Kalenjin (Marakvet, Sebeei), Masai, Iraku, Moroccan Arabs, Germans (Harz, Grimms), Gudinaf, Taupota, Motu, Mono, Mizo, Rai, Atoni, Hungarians, Moldovans, Belarusians, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Voronezh), Megrelians, Turks, Estonians, Setu, Karelians (northern), southern Selkups, northwestern and northeastern Yakuts, Evenks (Kirenian, Sym), (Nanai), Northern Alaska Inupiate, Upper Kuskoquim, Atna, Upper Tanana, Hea, Slevi, Shuswap, Seneca, Guajiro, Sicuani, Carinha Guyana, Makushi, Wapishana, Waywai, Hishkaryana, Lokono, Trio, Oyana , aparaí, oyampi, colorado, sekoya, kofan, napo, canelo, shuar, aguaruna, saparo, yagua, bora, ocaina, uitoto, barasana, kabiyari, tatuyo, Vila Bela, Tenejara, Urubu, Tupinamba, Canta, Machigenga, Piro, apurina, characterbet, eseeha, chacobo, chiriguano, guarazu, yuracare, caduveo, chiripa, caigua, mbia, apapoquwa, nyandeva.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Yaka (Angolan border) [the older wife is childless, the youngest has three children; the eldest goes fishing with her youngest daughter; the girl catches big fish, the woman is small; leaves, leaving the girl alone in the forest ; her mother told her to follow the road where there was white clay, not where was red ocher; the girl went where the ocher was, came to the cannibals, their leader swallowed it; God told her mother to take a knife, wait at a fork in the roads; when The cannibal came, she killed him, ripped his belly apart, all the children came out unharmed]: Plancquaert 1982, No. 47:121-123; ronga [Macingue has 10 daughters; a bird calls them to the house of the Man with the Big Club (BBD); they do not want to take the youngest, the lousy one with them, she goes; at the crossroads she advises to follow a narrow path, they walk along a wide path; at night, the BBD asks the girls three times if they are sleeping, the youngest replies that mosquitoes are not they give her, he hides her; she tells her to run, put baskets in her place; the BBD breaks them, thinking he is killing the girls; the Toad hides the girls, swallowing them, sends the bird to their father; the girls come back, everyone honor the youngest]: Junod s.a., No. 8:84-87.

West Africa. Dagari [lazy, lying, beautiful, goat-loving girl hesitates in the morning when others are going to the party; she does not have time to eat, returns twice under the pretext that she has forgotten something she swallows a few spoons of porridge herself; the third time the girls tell her to catch up with them, go to the right from the fork; the girl thinks that she will overtake her friends, follows the left path, gets to the spirits; they, when they leave, tell her disassemble different types of grain, cook it separately, otherwise they will kill; a Goat walks by, she persuades him to help her; he turns it into a guinea fowl, puts it in a bag, refuses to show the contents to the perfume, brings it a girl to her parents; she immediately tells her to kill a goat to eat goat meat; every time her father slaughters a goat, cooks, etc., her voice tells him not to do it, he does not listen; after eating, the girl cannot free from what is eaten, the goat's voice sounds from her belly; parents hit their daughter on the back to wear out the goat; this causes the daughter to die, the goat jumps out, runs away]: Hien 1995:98-110; icom [before There were no slit gongs; people disappeared for an unknown reason; Ibanang's parents never leave her alone; but she decided to watch her mother work in the garden; told her father she would go for with water, but she went to her mother herself; when she reached the fork, she did not want to take the cola nuts from the cripple, but ran along the right road; did not listen to him warn that this was not the way to her mother's garden; the same with a little gong; then she meets bigger gongs; the last one is huge, he swallowed it; those who were swallowed before dance inside; they have no fire or knives to cut off the gong's heart; mother the girls came back, rushed to look for her, taking a lot of sharp razors with her; crippled and warned her, but she said she was following her daughter; when the gong swallowed her, she gave the men razors, they cut her into pieces of the gong's heart, he died; then they cut a hole, went out with the swallowed cattle; they ate the gong meat and made drumsticks out of the bones; when they returned home, people made in their villages slit gongs]: Dayrell 1913, No. 20:52-55; mungaka [married daughter; mother told her to follow an overgrown path rather than an open path; she went clean, came to Nesí, who put her in a drum and became walking around people who work in the fields; they feed him, and he hits the drum for it and the girl sitting inside tells her story (how she went the wrong way); next time the women gave N. a leaky Calebasu when he asked for water; while he was trying to get water, they released the girl, put a snake and a grasshopper in the drum; seeing that the girl did not sing, N. opened the drum to kill him; the snake bit him and he died]: Meyer 1942, No. 12:233-236; tangale [people dig peanuts, kill rats, send a girl to fry them for fire, tell them to follow a narrow path instead of a wide one, that leads to Nanamudo; girl walks wide, N. gives her fire from her ass; walks with the girl, eats rats, puts all the peanuts in bags, sends them to him, puts all the peanut pickers in the bag, goes to her place, asks along the way every tree, will it help her carry the bag; only the thorny tree bends down, the rest N. scolds; hangs the bag on the tree, leaves; many of those passing by refuse to intervene, finally passing they open the bag, people run away; N. comes, rushes at those passing by, the Lizard hides from her in an anthill; in the end N. is killed, the Hare says he is the eldest; everyone roasts meat N., the Hare unnoticed puts bitterness in a piece, everyone leaves, the Hare gets all the meat]: Jungraithmayr 2002, No. 1:2-43.

Sudan - East Africa. Joluo [Achieng girl always hesitates; others went to tattoo, left leaves at the fork; The boa constrictor replaced them, A. came to him; he ordered one grain to be crushed, there was enough food for both; wrapped his body around A., thus putting on a beautiful tattoo; told him not to tell anyone; the young men were asking them to speak; she told me to build a solid house around her first; when they saw Boa, everyone ran away Her lover remained, cut Boa to pieces; married A.]: K'Okiri 1970:32-50; kalenjin (marakvet) [returning from the dance, the guys left first; told the girls that they would put them at the fork leaves on the path to take; the cannibal peeked, put the leaves on the path that led to her; the girls came to the cannibal, she took the form of an ordinary woman, fed her; it was 5 adult girls and a girl named Tamining; her mother did not want to let her in, then gave food with her; T. told the girls not to eat what the cannibal offered, gave her food; when the cannibal got ready at night eat the girls, T. jumped up; the cannibal took on the human image again, asked why the girl was awake; T.: Before going to bed, my mother tied a leather rope to my hand; next time: until they brought me the waters from the savannah; the cannibal ran into the savannah, and T. woke the girls up and told them to run; T. fell behind, asked her throat to bow the tree to get there; the cannibal ran by and then returned to her place; when T. returned home, at Gorlinka's request, father and brother T. sacrificed goats, alcohol and honey by the tree]: Chesaina 1997:80-81; kalengin (sebeei) [three sisters went for fruit; offered younger game: who can pick ripe ones with their eyes closed; (they peeked themselves), picked up ripe ones, and the youngest honestly closed her eyes, she was immature; after picking fruit, the sisters told the youngest to collect more than one, they promised to put green leaves at the fork on the path to follow and thorns on the other; the cannibal changed the signs; when the girl came to him, he sent her to the river to fetch water, giving her a vessel; by the river the old woman asked the girl to pull the sand fleas out of her sole; when she pulled it out, the old woman said that the cannibal was going to cook the girl in this water; she took her home]: Chesaina 1997:82-83; Masai [the lover tells the girl to go to him from the fork on the right path; she accidentally walked on the left, got to the ogre; stalls for time and sings a song so that the young man could hear it; the cannibal brought a leaf, on who will put pieces of her roasted meat; she demands another from a fragrant plant; at the last moment a young man appears, kills an ogre, they put pieces of his meat on the leaves he has collected]: Kipury 1983, No. 14:62-63; to Iraq [the mother went for honey, the children went to look for her; the girl wanted to take one road, but the boy insisted on following the other; they came to the ogre Agozá; he became theirs to fatten; left the blind old woman to guard; the children dug, ran away; A. threw the old woman into the fire; the children came to their father Zebas; then met A. again; the boy escaped and took the girl away; Z. him killed, removed a living daughter from his belly]: Kohl-Larsen 1963:188-192.

North Africa. The Arabs of Morocco [beautiful Lunja sees pigeons asking for something, she feeds them grains first, then her mother's jewelry; she goes after the pigeons, who explain that their mother is a ghoul; L. must ask God to make the needle's eye pass through it, to venerate the long breasts of the guli cannibal; she says she is now the sister of her children Aissa and Moussa; in another country, a son Sultan and relative (cousin) L. hurts the rest of the children; the old woman teaches her to throw the ball through her window, the sultan's son will come in, she will shame him that he does not go to save L.; the young man puts his mother's hand in hot soup, frees for promising to tell everything about L.; he comes to the country of the ghouls, the old woman talks about the cave where L.; arranges a meeting for them; the old woman says that it is too early to run, the gulya will catch up; tells L. henna is all in the guli cave; she forgot about the mortar in which she crushed henna leaves; the Sultan's son took L., the mortar woke up the gulya, she rushed in pursuit; catching up, Gulya asks what the Sultan's son is eating so as not to lose strength; L. replies that grass and wood; gulya eats them in vain; what the horse eats - his knees; gulya eats his knees; dying, tells, when approaching the house, to drive along the red road, not along the white road, drink from the muddy, and not a clean stream; if you make a mistake, he meets a big bird, it will offer food, you must eat a handful (mouthful), throw the other into the hem; the Sultan's son insists on driving along the white road; drinks from clean a stream, but L. is from a muddy one; eats everything, and L. drops it into the hem; the bird tells us to show that it has been eaten; L. shows what has been thrown into the hem, the young man cannot, the bird swallows it with the horse, flies away; L. kills the dog the Sultan's son, puts on her skin, comes to his father in the guise of a dog, who tells his servants to take care of her; every day a bird flies by, the Sultan's son curses his parents from her belly, who hold L. a dog; a beggar hears this, the sultan brings the imaginary dog to the palace, the son of the bird shouts for his father to kill the bull, the birds fly off, we must ask the white dog to regurgitate what she has eaten; she is so full that she cannot take off, belches a young man on horseback; at night he asks for a dog and hot water; in the morning he is beautiful in his bed; wedding]: El Koudia 2003, No. 11:72-80.

Western Europe. Germans (Harz) [the eldest daughter took her father to the forest lunch; came across a wire with rings on it; a gray man jumped out of the cave, took the girl to him; forbid opening one room; she violated the ban, the little man just came up and killed her; the same with three other sisters; the fifth placed the corpses as if everyone was doing something (sweeping, washing, cooking, etc.); she plunged into a barrel of honey and lying in feathers; ran home; a little man who went to invite wedding guests; asks the bird what his fiancée is doing; the "bird" answers what he is cleaning and cooking; at home The little man believes that in every room in front of him the bride is at work; when he realized the deception, he chased the fugitive, but she managed to run to his father's house]: Pröhle 1854, No. 7:26-29; Germans [ the woodcutter tells his eldest daughter to bring him lunch into the forest, marks the road with millet; the birds pecked millet, in the evening the girl came to the house, cooked food, as the old man ordered, but did not feed the chicken, rooster and cow; she went to bed without waiting for the old man; when she fell asleep, he lowered her into the cellar; the same with her middle daughter (the father scattered lentils); he scattered peas for the youngest, but they also pecked them; the youngest fed the animals she lay down after the old man; in the morning, instead of the old queen, the forest house became a palace, a chicken, a rooster and a cow were servants; the witch's spell fell apart after a good girl appeared; her sisters were identified work for a coal miner until they come up]: Grimm, Grimm 2003, No. 169:500-504 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:392-396).

Melanesia. Taupota [the woman had no mouth, gave birth without a man, hid the baby in a hollow; they put food in the hole in her head, she screamed, her mouth erupted; she sent the girl to take her son food, she saw a snake in the hollow; the same second, but with her friend, was not afraid, found a young man; both married him; one gave birth to a boy; both went to the party, her mother-in-law warned him to follow the trampled path, the overgrown one leads to Taumudukoro; the one who gave birth insisted on walking through the overgrown one; T. was covered in thorns, squeezed the baby to death, returned to her mother; both women returned to her husband; he told the lost child dive, put your hand in the big sink; the sink slammed shut, the woman drowned]: Seligmann 1910, No. 17:397-398; Gudinaf (bwaydoka) [when leaving for the site, the mother tells two teenage daughters to take care of about the little brother and if he cries, cook bananas for him; the girls cooked the youngest brother; when the mother returned, she drove them into the forest; says that from the fork, the left path leads to child -minder, and the right wide one goes to the tesel sharpening (i.e. to the ogre); the sisters argue, the eldest chooses a wide path and the youngest has to go with her; they come to the cannibal; he several times is going to approach them sleeping and kill them; but the youngest is awake and asks each time what he needs; he answers every time that he has come for fire; the girl gives him burning smut and he swallows it; sisters they run away; the cannibal follows in the footsteps and comes to the child-minder; he gives the cannibal a comb with which the cannibal pierces his fontanel on his head, dies]: Young 1970, No. 15:96-102; motu [the huge Eagle took away the girl in his nest, took her as his wife, they have a son; the boy sees the smoke of the village in the distance; the Eagle allows his wife and son to go to visit their relatives, tells them to follow the left path from the fork; the son wants to follow the left path, the mother speaks on the right; they come to the huge Snake; the woman deliberately drops the fish she took with her parents as a gift, tells the Snake that she has lost them; while he crawls to collect them, runs with her son, the Serpent easily catches up them; the next time she runs home, but the Serpent crawls there, stays in her house; she sends her two sisters to hunt with the Serpent, she and her son come running to the Eagle; the Serpent tries to cut down a tree; when it is ready to fall, the Eagle spits, the tree recovers; so several times; the Eagle lifts the Serpent into the air, throws it, it is unharmed; then it lifts it so high that it can't be seen from the ground; throws it, Serpent crashes; the eagle tells his wife and son they are safe now]: Romilly 1889:107-120; mono (Shortland Islands) [the woman's fire went out, she sent her two older children behind the fire, warned them to go along "our path", not the Matairua trail ("two eyes", {I mean, besides the usual two, a couple more behind}); from the fork they went along the M. Trail; she saw them with her eyes behind; followed them to their mother; took the baby, tore off his arm and leg, put it in the basket, killed his mother, took her and the baby, cooked it, ate it; people sent the children to sing for M., lured him to a trap pit, M. fell, the men killed her]: Wheeler 1926, #50:50.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Yap [a woman sends two daughters to fetch water; tells her not to follow the Makaran trail that leads to the cannibal, to follow the Makatar Trail; girls go to the Makaran Trail; the ogre calls to take it out from her insects; says that's not all, night falls; the cannibal goes out for food, propping up the door from the outside; the good spirit of Tivul (woman) comes, tells you to dig a way out under the wall, go out with rope and oil; girls put banana stalks on mats instead of themselves, climb a tree above the spring into which they have sketched thorns; the cannibal returns, does not believe that T. did not release her "crabs", beats her, kills her; the cannibal sees the reflection of the girls, dives into the spring, there are thorns; sees girls in the tree, asks how they got in; they oiled the trunk, it became slippery; they lower the cannibal's rope, let it go, she falls; so three times, it crashes to death]: Müller 1918, No. 54:566-567.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Rai [the mother of the boy and girl took the eagle away; the old woman gave the children a ball, it led them to the eagle's nest; the mother lowered the rope, fed them, hid them from the eagle, told them to come back, walk smooth, not along the bumpy road; at the sister's insistence, we went along the bumpy one, came to the cannibal; at night she ate the girl; the next night the boy put a pumpkin in his place; the ogre felt bitter; in the morning he said that the boar poisoned the peas; invited the old woman's husband to shoot at the wild boar, shot the old woman's husband himself; splashed hot resin in her face, convinced her; the old woman was chasing, the boy asked for an egg (bamboo grove) brush (a cook and a brush) - thickets again; threw the egg forward - the bridge over the river; the boy crossed, the water carried away the bridge, the boy replied that it was necessary to put a sarong and belt on the water; the water took the old woman, the boy returned home]: Lahoussois 2002:299-314; miso (lushey): McCall 1949 [parents send Nuchhimi and her sister to carry their aunt's pork load; at the fork, the road to my aunt is clean, on the way to Hmuichukchurudini heaps of branches and leaves; H. overheard, cleared her way, filled another with garbage; told the sisters that she was their aunt; the sisters lay down in the yard; sister N. had a wound on her head, H. became to suck her; said that bugs were biting; by morning she ate the girl; N. saw the bones, said she was crying from the smoke; H. closed her in the basket, went to the station; the mouse freed N., she ran home; while X. at home, N.'s parents put an egg in her hearth, a hornet in bed, a snake in a bamboo vessel, chopped the veranda pillars, tied a ferocious goat there; H. came, she was stung by a snake, an egg exploded in her face, a hornet bit in bed, veranda fell, goat groped]: 92-94; Shakespear 1909 [husband missed shooting at the pig and wife covered it with a basket; husband ordered the pig to be released to shoot again (shame that the pig caught by his wife), but missed again; followed in the footsteps, he was killed by a tiger; his wife followed, the tiger killed her too, two boys fell out of the womb; they were raised by a frog and a crow, told to kill the tiger; he asked the twins did not do this, gave two pairs of golden rapes; on them, the brothers came to their grandfather, he solemnly received them]: 411-412.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Athoni (Amanuban District) [two sisters see a Musang man (common muskang, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, one of the palm civets, viverr), both expressing a desire to marry him; Musang hears them talking, marrying them; in the morning he says that he will go to the field; let them follow; at the fork on his path there will be his dry, fragrant excrement, and on the Monkey trail - liquid and smelly; Monkey overheard, changed the excrement; the sisters come to the Monkey; he tells his mother to give them mats to sit down, give them betel, food; in fact, they are leaves from a tree and some wild fruits; at night the Monkey lies down between both wives; when he falls asleep, they leave a stupa and a piece of wood in their place, run away to Musang, talk about the lie; he tells them to go up to his tree; the Monkey comes running with his own people, Musang offers to go up to him, the Monkey asks for stairs; Musang lowers a long bamboo; when they reach half, lets go of the bamboo, the Monkey and his people fall into the pond, drown, Musang breaks their heads with a club]: Middelkoop 1959, text C: 169-173.

The Balkans. Hungarians [after the father's death, there are 3 sons and 3 daughters left; the eldest goes to plow, making a furrow from house to field; mother cooked dinner, older sister carried it to his brother; the 6-headed dragon fell asleep furrow, led to his house, married the girl; the same with the middle, with younger sisters (12-24-headed dragons); the elder, then the middle brother went to look for sisters, killed by dragons, on each a poplar has grown in the grave; the mother saw a flower, swallowed it, gave birth to a son named Peter Lily of the valley; he is still a hero in diapers; she tells his mother to bake bread with her milk, brings it to his sisters; they smell their mother, they believe that the submarine is their brother; killed dragons; the 24-headed one demolished 23 heads; left the 24th for reviving the brothers and leaving; when the brothers and sisters returned, the submarine jumped into the ditch and went to the ground]: Ortutai 1957, No. 6: 150-158; Moldovans [brothers go to plow, ask their mother to send their sister to bring them lunch, make a furrow from house to field; the Serpent falls asleep, makes another one to his house; locks the girl, tells him to work; the elder brother walks along the furrow, the Serpent cuts off his legs, throws him into the hole; the same with the younger brother; the mother drinks from the well, sits on the flints, gives birth to Flint; lowering the hut on his mother, makes her confess that he has brothers; during battle, the falcon refreshes him with water, he kills the Serpent; revives his brothers with living water]: Botezatu 1981:217-225 (=Moldavian tales 1968:313-323).

Central Europe. Belarusians (Grodno Oblast) [two brothers go to plow in the forest, mark the road with straw, the sister must walk along it to bring them lunch; the seven-headed Serpent overheard, changed signs, the girl came to the Snake; one, then the second brothers come, The serpent shows its wealth, offers iron bread, hangs his brothers on a beam; their mother's pea turns into a boy Pokatypea (P.), he grows up, the blacksmith makes him a seven-pound mace, he He throws it to the clouds, it falls, breaks; he orders a stronger mace; comes to the Snake, eats iron bread, breaks the deck without an ax, burns it without fire; P. and the Serpent drive each other into the ground, P. drives him whole, kills him with a mace; kills a horse, hides in a carcass, grabs the Crow that has descended, orders him to bring living and dead water; he brings, P. tears the Raven in two, glues, revives brought with water; revives the brothers; on the way back, the brothers tie him to the oak tree, not believing that he is their brother; he drags the oak tree to the house, leaves his parents, leaves; meets and takes Vyrvigora as a friend, Vyrvidub; P. kills a six-, seven-, nine-headed snake, brings tongues to the king; the wives of the Serpents turn into a bed, into an apple tree, P. cuts them, preventing their comrades from sitting down and eating apples; the third Snake falls from earth to heaven; P. throws three kani (stones?) into her mouth , three falcons, comrades; each time she Snake returns to drink; P. hides with blacksmiths; they tell the Snake to wipe the doors with their tongue, grab her tongue with ticks, P. kills her]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 134:254- 263; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [Before his death, a man asks his wife to leave him in front of icons and die for three nights when he dies. The wife forgot to bathe for the third night, the man's daughter sees that her father has come to life and is sitting. The wife sees him sharpening his teeth with a bar, taking two children and hiding behind the stove, the daughter stays, the man eats her. He chews on the stove, but he can't go in for it, grabs the baby from his wife and eats it. The wife begins to pray for a baptized person to appear. Saint Egory appears in the form of a man, hits the deceased on the head, who goes deep into the ground. The woman is afraid to stay alone in the house and Egory directs her to the city on the road, where at the fork she orders to turn right. She goes with her son, and at the fork her son wants to turn right, but the mother insists on going left. They enter a big house on stilts, they are met by an old man and an old woman, treated to boiled hands and legs, a woman does not eat, and a boy eats. They're taken to rest. The owners' children and robbers come. Old people say "two grouse flew to them by themselves." The robbers pick up the boy and cook it for dinner. The woman runs away to the city at night, buries herself under moss at night, the robbers do not find her. In town, she talks about robbers and leads an entire army to their home. The robbers get scared, throw silver and gold out of the windows, and promise not to kill again. Warriors cover the house with barrels of gunpowder and set fire]: Onchukov 1906, No. 45:122-123; Russians (Voronezhskaya, 1968, p. Aleksandrovka Pavlovsky district) [The old man asks his daughter to bring him lunch into the forest and spreads the way to him with branches. The bear sees this and moves the branches towards its den. The eldest daughter ends up with a bear, who forces him to agree to marry him (otherwise, he threatens to eat her). The bear goes hunting, gives the keys, but forbids his wife to enter one pantry. She sees a lot of goodness in the rooms, and a cauldron of gold in the forbidden pantry, she puts her finger in there and it turns gold. He ties it up, but the bear sees and eats his wife. The next day, the old man asks his middle daughter to bring him lunch, marks the way to him with strings, and the bear outweighs them. Everything is repeated with the old man's middle daughter. The youngest daughter Masha comes to the den on the ashes covered by the bear and also becomes his wife. In the forbidden pantry, she lowers a branch into the golden cauldron, it turns golden. She plants a branch in the ground. She bakes pies and asks the bear to take them to his parents, she hides herself in a bag under the pies. While the bear is walking, he forbids him to stop and eat pies. At the parents' house, dogs rush at the bear and tear them apart]: Kretov 1977, No. 13:27-28.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Megrels [nine brothers buy a plot of land and go to work there; her sister is told that they will throw garlic heads on the way; an old mdevi woman picks up garlic, scatters it on the way to to their home; hungry and unable to find their sister at home, the brothers come to Mdevi, her sons defeat them, lock them in a barn to eat at the festival; God sends the Raven to find out why the mother of the missing is crying; The crow promises to tell God if the old woman gives her her eye; God tells God that she is crying for a murdered child; the same with the second eye; God sends a Dove who tells the truth; God curses the Raven, with The dove sends the old woman a handkerchief to wipe her eyes and see the light, an apple to conceive a son; he becomes a giant, hears from his playmates that he had brothers and sister; comes to Mdevi, fights; the severed head of the younger monster grows back, the bird tells you to sprinkle ash on the wound; so the hero kills all the mdevis, frees his brothers and sister; the brothers offer to race, provoking the hero to step on the carpet that closes the hole; the hero falls at the well, the daughter of the underground king cries next to him, who is given to be eaten by a dragon who has closed the water; the hero falls asleep, wakes up to a beauty that has dripped in tears, kills a dragon with an arrow; a grateful king puts the hero on an eagle along with a load of meat; there is not enough meat, the hero cuts him off from his own leg, on the ground an eagle heals him; the hero returns to his mother, does not take revenge brothers]: Mashurko et al. 1904, No. 1:1-6; Turks: Dmitriev 1967, No. 2 [the woman has a daughter and three sons, the youngest rode in ash; the older brothers ask the mother to send them their sister to bring them lunch; she went wrong that way, she came to the three-legged deva and his three-headed wife; the deva's wife asks the girl to light the fire, the dev swallows her; the older brother goes to look for the girl; he cannot eat all the bread offered in the bakery , drink all the wine, crosses the river on an iron bridge, not a wooden bridge, eats sweet apples rather than sour apples; with him the same as with a girl; with his middle brother the same as with his older brother; the youngest ordered from a blacksmith a club, threw it up, caught it with a finger, it crashed; ordered a new one; ate everything in the tavern; went across a wooden bridge, ate sour apples; dev threw his club, the guy put his little finger, it crashed; he killed the deva with his club; refused to hit a second time; ripped the deva's belly, let his brothers and sister out alive; killed the deva's wife; the brothers went to the well, began to let the elder go to get water, he screamed - it was hot; the same average; the youngest was lowered, there were three beauties and a deva, the guy killed the deva with a club; sent the girls upstairs; the youngest gave a box, in it flint to call an Arab, he will follow orders; a white one will come to the pool and black sheep; if you sit on black, he will carry him down seven layers of earth; the guy accidentally sat on black; called an Arab, one lip on the ground, the other in the sky; the guy told him to bring him the merchant's clothes, hired a student in a shop; dev gives water to the city once a year, for which he demands a girl, the turn of the padishah's daughter; the guy killed a deva, got a padishah's daughter; told him to wait 7 years - he will bring another love from above; the snake crawls to the nest, the guy killed the snake with a mace, the birds told the mother that the boy who fell asleep saved them; the bird agrees to take him to the ground, let him cook meat and water; the bird takes it to the ground, returns it back him with his girlfriend; there was not enough meat, the guy cut off a piece from his thigh, the bird put it back; a wedding with two wives]: 39-48; Kúnos 1901 [two older brothers went to work in the field, told their mother send them lunch with her sister; the three-faced devil made the girl turn onto the road to his house; his wife tried to hide her, but the devil swallowed her right away; the older brother went to look; the people he met: not you will break the line until you eat all the bread from this oven; you drink all the wine from the cauldron; the young man takes one bite, a sip, can no longer; crosses the river on an iron bridge, picks sweet apples; swallowed devil; the same with the middle brother; the younger one orders a mighty spear from the blacksmith; eats all the bread, drinks all the wine, crosses a wooden bridge, picks sour apples; kills the devil with one blow of a spear ( refusing to put the second one), cuts the line and his wife, there are living brothers and sister; each of the brothers takes turns going down to the well on a rope to get water; the elders tell them to pick them up immediately; the youngest finds three daughters of the sultan below; the youngest advises you to get up first, only then send her; gives a box of flint with an efreet servant in it; the brothers throw a rope; the young man touches not white, but black a ram, descends even lower; the snake crawls to eat the chicks, the young man kills it with a spear; their grateful mother Anka (mother of birds and padishah peri) tells them to stock up meat and water, then raises it upstairs; the last piece he cuts it off from his leg, A. puts it back on the ground; the younger brother receives all three daughters of the Sultan]: 84-96.

Baltoscandia. Estonians (Otepää) [the eldest daughter goes to take her father to the forest lunch, loses her way, comes to the old man, who marries her, tells her not to look into the big barrel; she looks, there's blood, she puts her finger in her, cannot clean it, the old man kills her; the same with her middle sister; the younger one sticks a chip; finds the bodies of her sisters; sends her home under the guise of gifts, looks from the roof herself, tells her not look into the bag; then leaves a mortar on the roof instead of him, climbs into the bag herself; the old man calls his wife, she does not answer, he drags her furiously, the mortar falls on his head, kills; murdered sisters immediately come to life]: Järv et al., No. 26:116-118; seto (Oudova mk, Sträkova as., Põlva khk) [the three brothers went to the haymaking, asked their sister to bring food, left them stuck in the ground of the chip (tikud); the sister lost her way, came to the house Devil, who married her to his son; the older brother went to look for it, the old devil says that his back itches, the sister tells his brother to scratch the line, he ate it; his middle brother went; a hare, a fox, a wolf offer to hire him as a laborer, who each time replies that he has no money to pay them; the devil in the house is the same as with his older brother; animals agree to become his laborers for a piece of barley cake; the wolf lifted the old line; his sister decided to move away from the sauerkraut with the dough, the dough immediately turned into crap; the damn son took his wife's brother to see it riches, began to drown in resin; the hare was able to open only the first door, the fox the second door, the wolf ran in, lifted the line; brother, sister and animals stayed there]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 29:124-129; Northern Karelians: Onegin 2010, No. 15 (Kalevalsky District) [the father went to the forest, tells his wife to send his daughter to bring dinner; the old woman forgot to say that she should follow the right road, where the mitten is hung; the girl went on the left, came to the bear, he killed her; the same with her second sister; on the third, but her bear took her as a bride; told her to go into two barns (there is food, good) and not to go to the third; she went in, there her sisters' bodies hang, blood drips into the barrel, a ring is spinning in the barrel, there is no way to grab it; her finger is dirty in blood, can't be washed; she tied it up, told the bear that she cut herself; asks to take the hotel to her father ; revived her older sister, put her in her birch bark purse; when the bear came up, the dogs barked, he threw his purse, ran away; the same with her middle sister; the third time the girl put her stupa on the roof of the hut, dressed in women's clothes, a spinning wheel next to her; filled the chest with clothes and jewelry, sat in it herself; on the way, the bear thinks to open the chest and eat half; the girl, as if from the roof of the hut, shouts "I see, I see !" ; the bear ran home, hit the mortar, it rolled, he followed, crashed and died]: 168-171; Virtaranta 1971 in Kippar 2002 [the youngest ninth son of a wealthy peasant is cheerful and hardworking; his brothers are not they love, after the death of their father they are sent to live in the forest; he catches fish, hunts, brings skins to the merchant, who gives good money, the merchant's orphan marries a young man; they have two daughters and a youngest son; a husband prepares a distant field for burning; warns his wife to turn right at the fork; she has broken her leg, cannot carry food to her husband, sends her eldest daughter; at the fork on the left path, she sees an amazing bird; as if hit, but not given, takes the girl further; there is a giant forest master Osmo; he tells the girl to be a maid, otherwise she will cook; let her clean up eight rooms, do not go in in the ninth, otherwise she will go to the cellar to snakes, mice and toads; O. cooks for dinner and eats a whole moose; when she falls asleep, the girl enters the ninth room, there is a cauldron of resin boiling, there is a golden ring in it; she is in vain tries to pick it up; O. sees resin on his fingers, locks the girl in the cellar; the same with his youngest daughter (instead of a bird, she is lured by a fox; she tries to pick up the ring with her toe; O. looks first at hands, then on his feet); the mother sends her son; he sees an elk on the left path, jumps up on his back, the elk brings him to O.; he pulled out the ring with a stick, hung it around his neck; O. is satisfied, promises to pay generously, but so that the boy does not cover himself with the sign of the cross and turn to God; the boy asks the sisters to be returned; O. says that tomorrow he will eat them, the anniversary of Judas giving him a gold ring; boy asks him to show him; O. leads to the room, there is no ring; the boy says that he does not see well, tells him to bend down, covers himself with the sign of the cross and turns to God; O. falls into the cauldron, disappears; the boy frees his sisters, takes as much gold as he can carry, sends the sisters home, brings food to his father himself; says that O. still has a lot of money in his house; the father says that it is impossible to go there anymore: instead of O. a new one appears, a mother forest gives birth to it; now you have to run out of the forest, there is a rocky cape in your native village that the brothers do not need, you can build a house on it; the house is such that the king himself visited; a feast for everyone only the brothers were not invited]: 37-50.

(Wed. Western Siberia. Southern Selkups [the older sister goes to pick fish herself, afraid that the youngest will get lost; the youngest went to see the top, took the wrong path on the way back, got into a man's hut; this hell; he feeds her meat, made her a wife, tells her to make a mitten, then clothes; every time the devil's sister asks the girl to look for her lice, does the job for her; the husband tells her to take the meat to his three sisters, the wife finds them at home; gives birth to a son; they found the woman's mother, who asks to give her their son to help her, they gave them]: Dulzon 1966, No. 47:127-131).

Eastern Siberia. Northwestern Yakuts [an old woman harnesses a louse into a thimble, drives a needle, controls a pretext thread, finds a fresh grave in a rich yurt, pulls out a beauty; Harah Haan's youngest son's arrow ' and he gets into an old woman's yurt, he marries a beautiful woman, not knowing that she is dead, pushes her at night, she comes to life, silver money falls from her mouth; returning with his wife, the husband chases the squirrel, does not tell his wife to go on a road where bear and wolf skins hang, and walk where hay is scattered; the wife forgets, turns to a dangerous road, comes to Diege-Baab (Baba Yaga); she takes her clothes and comes to X. instead of her; the owners decide that if the daughter-in-law is good, then when the "chicken chicken" jumps, the green grass will crumble, and when the "bar-bar" jumps, silver money will fall down; if the start is evil, it will fall down dried fish and insects; they fall, Erbehtai Bergen's husband pulls off his wife's veil, sees eight eyes and a bull's nose; she is beaten, she gives the girl, she is revived with living water, DB is thrown into the fire ]: Gurvich 1977:175-176; northeastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts [a short old woman (Ergis: old Bayberikaen) with five cows brought horsetail with five shoots from the field, puts it under her pillow, that turns into a girl, her body is transparent (you can see the body through the dress, through the body of the bone, through the bones of the brain); Harah Haana Harzhit-Bergen's son (Ergis: Haardyt Bergen) takes her as his wife, giving a lot of cattle in dowry; takes home, hunts foxes, tells you to go along the road where the skin of a lynx, a sable is hung, not to go where the bear's skin is; she forgot, went where the bear's skin is, the devil's daughter from an iron yurt with one with her foot, one hand, one eye, she puts on her skin; kings blow their nose in the HB house (?) , everyone disgust (Ergis: green beads fell in her husband's house, where she blew her nose, where she stepped, gray ermines ran, everyone was disgusted); only red skin-haired sables run; old woman finds horsetail, brings her home, he turns into the same girl; tells her what happened to her (the dog dragged her heart and lungs, left her, and horsetail grew there); the horse tells HB's father about what happened; says that if his son does not take her Ayyi mistress (revived from horsetail) again, she will complain to Ürüng Ayyi Toyona (White Creator Master); the son should be kept in for 30 days running water, then ventilated; the son himself tells his father that the horsetail girl is one of the seven Siberian daughters of ÜAT's younger brother; her wings were cut off, sent to the ground; a false wife tied to a horse, scattered across the field, her body and blood became worms and reptiles; her true wife was returned; when she blows her nose, expensive kings fall, sables run when she steps]: Khudyakov 1890, No. 4:80-89 ( retelling to Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976:129, =Ergis 1964, No. 51:172-177); Yakuts: Sivtsev, Efremov 1990 [old woman Byaybyarikyan with five cows finds an unusual horsetail; leaves it in the house, it turns into beautiful; hunter Harzhit-Bergen gives a lot of cattle for her, takes her away; on the way he goes to chase the fox, tells her to turn east at the fork, where the sable skin hangs, but not to the west, where the bear skin is; the girl forgets, turns west, reaches an abaasa in iron clothes with one hand, one leg, one eye; she rips off her face, puts on herself, puts her clothes on; everything in the groom's house they expect that at the bride's word, beads will fall out of her mouth; when she steps, sables will run; her frogs fall, shabby ermines run; at this time, old woman B. digs up horsetail again, it turns into an old girl, says that her old body was dragged across the field by dogs; the girl's horse tells HB's father about what happened; HB ties the abaasa's daughter to the horse's tail, returns his wife, and falls from her lips red beads, sables run]: 136-143; Ergis 1964, No. 50 [=Ergis 1967, No. 183], 51 [cf. Khudyakov 1890]: 161-166, 172-177; Ergis 1967, No. 183 (summary of several texts, including archival ones; at least Verkhoyan) [old Baybericaen (Nectelikaen) lived with five cows. Once the cows got lost. The old lady asks the birds, no one knows, and only the eagle indicates where her cows are. Under a branched tree, an old woman finds a wonderful flower (horsetail grass) and brings it home. The flower turns into a beautiful girl. The son of rich Hara Haan falls in love with a girl and marries her. The spirits of the area give the girl cattle and outfits as a dowry. Here's the wedding. The husband takes the young woman home, but leaves her on the way and goes fishing for animals. The wife, after dozing off, drives along the road forbidden by her husband. A young woman came to the house of an Abaasa girl (baba yaga). She kills a visitor, wears her outfits and turns into a boyfriend's wife. Since the Abaasa daughter-in-law appeared, Hara Haan has been suffering misfortune after misfortune. His cattle and offspring began to die (or flee into the forest), and the cows stopped milking. Old B. again finds a flower that has become her daughter. She is happy. The horse tells XX about the act of an Abaasa girl (in var: under the guise of a fairy tale, B. tells her son XX who came to visit him). The son of XX brings home his real wife, punishes the Abaas girl], 184 (a summary of several texts, including archival ones; at least Verkhoyan ones) [old woman Syutyügyuyeen, sitting on a bull- louse, I went west. I found a fragment of a shovel and an old broom in the rich man's estate. She went on to the fresh grave, dug a dead girl out of it, who came to life. Har Haan's son falls in love with a girl and marries her (in some ways: a shaman's son). On the way home, the boy stayed hunting, and his wife, forgetting her husband's warning, drove along the forbidden road. I came to see an Abaasa girl who kills her, and she goes to the 20th century. The Abaasa girl has arrived. In the places where she set foot, insect worms appear. The husband guessed who it was and sat on horseback on the Abaas girl. I came to my dead wife, revived her with living water, and threw the Abaas girl into the fire (boiling water)]: 207; 1974 [(summary); seven daughters of the creator of the universe, Ayia Toyon, descended to earth in the form of white cranes- Siberian birds, danced and sang; the mistress spirit of the earth caught one of these girls, turned it into horsetail grass with five shoots so that she could become a resident of the earth and multiply people's offspring; old woman Bayberikaen went to the field to look for her cows; took horsetail and grass, brought it home, put it under her pillow; the grass turned into a girl, hunter Haardyt Bergen fell in love with her; his parents they married her to him; HB takes the bride home and on the way, showing the way, lets go alone, and remains hunting; the girl, having mixed up the roads, got lost, got to Baba Yaga; she tore off her face and all her clothes, put on the bride herself and went to the groom's house; the groom's relatives and he himself did not find the deception; the girl again turned into horsetail grass; the old woman found her a second time, she turned into her daughter; the girl's horse told the groom's father what happened; Baba Yaga was killed, HB regained his bride]: 223-224; Kirenian Evenks [two sisters find a cradle with a baby, bring it home; see that when left alone, he turns into a Manga giant, catches fish, then returns to the cradle; his sisters throw a boiling pot over him, run away; he chases them; old woman Achekai stretches his legs for them across the river like a bridge; when M. walks, removes his legs; M. shouts to make ladles from his hands, a bucket from his head, paint from his blood, a shuttle from his spine; at his sister's fork We went along the left path, they got to the old woman; she hides them, turning them into a needle and a thimble; two cannibals come; the eldest thimble girl laughs, the cannibals eat her; the youngest old woman gives a bird's wing, she flies away in it, meets a guy, gets married]: Pinegina et al. 1952:58-61; Sym Evenks: Vasilevich 1936, No. 21 (Chirombu) [The bear came to two bunny sisters, they poured it into his eyes sand put in her legs; a grandmother named Kandika came, grabbed the Bear, ordered him to bring a table, lowered the Bear on it, returned home; the bunny sisters decided to leave; K. tells them to walk along hoof-shaped, not along a kel-shaped road; at the fork they began to fight, the youngest won, so they walked along the kule-shaped, she closed on all sides; the eldest became a needle, slipped through, the youngest was a bump, stuck; the eldest pulled her, tore her head off; put it on a stump, rock, deck, her head cries every time; left her on another rock; came to the Frog; after living, she went to stay with her relatives; boasted to the Frog, that she had a steel thimble; she reached the place where her younger sister's head remained, she married a god; there deer rattled through the holes of the snags; the eldest asked me to call, rang behind the clouds; the eldest took away the big deer she had received from her sister as a gift; the frog brought insects, the deer carried them away on their hooves; the storm demolished the Frog's house, she dived into the lake], 22 (Chirombu) [Wolverine ate the mother of two Rabbit girls; they filled her eyes with earth, ran to the old woman; all her things move and work as she wanted; they hid in the cauldron, the cauldron did not go; the old woman beats him, the sisters laughed; the old woman was calling they live with her; when they want to leave, the old woman tells them to walk on the hoof-shaped, not to walk on the kule-shaped; the older sister remembers that she is kel-shaped; they fight, the eldest has won, they walk on the kule-shaped; the hut surrounds them in the dark; the eldest has become a fur, a needle, slips into the crack; the youngest is a bump, gets stuck; the eldest pulls her, tears her head off; left her on the deck, her head cries; left her on a tree broken by lightning - laughs; the eldest went beyond Thunder, her children are just like her - only heads; the youngest came to the Frog; she brings deer - insects, they are carried away by the wind; the Frog began to live in water]: 22-23, 23-24; Lukina 2004, No. 3.18 [the fox ate the mother of two bunnies; they climbed onto the roof, asked the fox to open its mouth and eyes, poured sand, ran to the grandmother; one covered himself with a cauldron, the other with a cousin { ?} ; grandmother tells the cauldron and the cousin to move, they do not move; the bunnies are out; grandmother: there will be two roads, one with hooves on the other, they dragged the kul along the ungulate; the elder decided to walk along the ungulates, defeated the youngest; came to the cannibal in the dugout; he closed the door; the youngest became a feather and went through the crack, the eldest became a stump, got stuck, only his head came out; the youngest carried his brother's head; put it on the piled tree - head cries; at the stump - the same; by a tree broken by lightning - the head smiled; the youngest came to the frog; she offered to herd deer; he came to where he left his brother; he lives with his wife, wife She gave them deer, he brought them to the frog, sent it to pick up the cockroaches; the deer dragged them all in their hooves; the wind started, it carried the frog into the swamp, it became a frog]: 75-77.

(Wed. Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais [the older sister suggests going to look for husbands, dresses up; at the fork, tells the youngest to follow a path with crutches; the youngest replies that the path chosen by the elder , will lead to a rich man; the youngest comes to the house of seven bald cannibals; breaks crutches folded near the house; hides in the ash, becoming a needle; cannibals ask the skull where the girl is, they see the needle, but the girl flies away with a midge; cannibals chase because the crutches are broken; the girl comes to Mergen, is well at home, becomes his wife; pretending to be a mess, on a bad nag, she comes to her sister; she idles, servants do everything; when leaving, the younger sister takes on her true form, lets water into the elder's house; at night, the eldest and her husband run to the youngest's house, they are treated; since then, the eldest has been all I began to do it myself]: Keele 1996, No. 32:321-329).

SV Asia. Chukchi (Western 1958) [the parents died, the sisters went to get water, the youngest brought home a stone god, a boy; he cried, she breastfed him; the eldest told him to leave the boiled meat for him to migrate; the sisters ran to the river, on the other side, the beetle catches lice in torbas, the stone god chases; the beetle grandmother stretches out her leg, the sisters cross to the other side; God also asks to sweep her leg, there is a beetle in the middle of the river He throws him into the river, he drowns; in front of the sisters there is a fork in five roads: freezing, spirits, dead, swampy, people, the youngest insisted on following the road of the dead; the eldest persuaded them to let them go: we let's bring you some delicious people; sisters came back and came to people]: Portugalov 2009:35-36.

The Arctic. Northern Alaska Inupiate (Point Hope) [girl rejects grooms, sees a separate head on the ground, takes her husband; father finds his head, pierces his eye with a stick, throws it away; the girl walks along a bloody trail to the bottom of the sea; there is a husband, wife and their son (ex-head) with an eye gouged out; he drives her away; one road leads to the ground, the other goes up to heaven; the girl goes up, the husband-head screams that this is not that road, but the girl keeps going up; in the sky a man pulls all her clothes off her; the old woman hides her, gives her a bucket of water and pieces of whale skin; the girl splashes it into that man's face killing him; in the house of the Month, all marine animals swim in a bucket of water; through a hole in the floor, a girl sees her house on the ground; an old woman and a girl weave her tendon rope; on the ground, a girl It does not open his eyes quickly enough, so it turns into a spider (the origin of spiders)]: Ostermann 1952:226-228.

Subarctic. The upper pieces [the girl rejects the grooms; goes to cut the grass, finds a living Head, takes it with her; at night, the mother hears laughter from her daughter's bed; finds the Head, burns her eyes, throws her away , Her head has rolled; the girl rushes into the water, finds herself in another world, walks up the river in the footsteps of the Head; at the entrance to the house there is a man covering his eye with his hand; he advises to follow the path from the fork, where a piece of white caribou wool is familiar, do not go where a piece of wool is tied to something; she goes along the second path (a path where the white tuft is too steep); comes to the lake, where a person crochets first along one piece of her clothes, then herself; brings her into the house, there is an old woman, insects on her face, she says that she should have obeyed; tells her to run along the path uphill to another old woman, she will protect; the old woman invites you to his house, closes all entrances tightly, touching them with his hair; tells them to sew garments; when they are ready, tells you to go further up the path, throw objects to the pursuer one at a time clothes; each time the pursuer picks up an object, looks for a pond, admires his reflection; the last one is thrown a bag of ocher, the pursuer paints; the girl runs into the house to the old woman, she closes the entrances (like the first one); the stalker climbs a fir tree near the house; the old woman blows at her (with scraps of hair?) , the fir is engulfed in flame, the stalker burns; the old woman's son returns, refuses to lie next to the girl; the old woman bathes the girl in hot caribou fat, each time her stolen goods come out childhood (scraps of skin, dried fish, etc.); after the third cleansing, the old woman's son takes the girl as his wife; the old woman shows the girl the ground through the hole, she sees her parents; the old woman weaves a rope for her from her tendons, a girl goes down to her parents; an Eagle (this is her husband) arrives, demands his wife back; she refuses to go out; in the evening, a red sunset means that the old woman who helped her is killed; the Eagle carries away wife, says mother died because of her, leaves, picks up, dumps again, she crashes]: Ruppert, Bernet 2001:290-295; atna [two sisters discover that parents have gone somewhere; Canadian the jay (Camprobber) tells them to follow a narrow path; the older sister insists on walking the wide one; they come to an old man who cooks his eyes; he kills his older sister with a hot iron; the younger runs away, saying that he is going out of need; throws a comb and other objects (without details), they turn into a thicket, a mountain, etc.; the Spider hides it under her bed; kills the pursuer; moves the stone, there is a hole under it, through it you can see the girl's parents below; the Spider lowers her on a rope]: Smelcer 1997:65-68; upper tanana: Brean 1975 [two sisters follow the butterfly, got lost; y the youngest of the forks suggests following a straight and narrow path, the eldest suggests following the wide left; they go to the left, come to the old man; in the evening they see him sharpening knives and spears; at night they ask permission to leave, he He ties ropes to them; they tie them to a stump, run; the Red Fox carries them across the river, they give him a necklace; he throws an old stalker into the water; he gets out; the Spider hides his sisters, He points his finger at the old man, the Old Man crumbles in a pile of bones; the sisters turn each bone into a kind of berry; when they returned, the sons of the Spider began to quarrel over who would get the girls; Spider she pushed the stump away, the sisters saw the ground through the hole; the Spider lowers them on a web to the outskirts of their village; says that if it snows fluffy, she died; in winter it snowed, the girls regretted Spider]: 17-19; Kari 1996 [two girls follow butterflies, find themselves in the sky; old chikadi tells you to walk along a narrow path, not to walk along a wide path; sisters argue at the fork, the eldest makes you go along a wide path; they see a platform with cut dog carcasses barking on it; "Damn" next to it, an old woman lives across the street; at night she whispers to the youngest that the eldest Devil will kill; in the hearth there is a hot iron penis, Damn puts it into the eldest's vagina, she dies, the devil covers her with a blanket; pretends that she is sleeping; the youngest asks for need, the devil offers her palm and head for that, but the girl replies that she does not want to get her father dirty; Damn ties a rope to her; the old woman secretly gives moose fat and a stone scraper; the girl ties the rope to the stump, tells him to answer for himself; Damn pulls a stump by the rope, chases, the girl tells the fat to become a lake; then the scraper is a mountain; The devil goes around the lake, drills a hole through the mountain with an iron penis; by the river, the girl promises Lisa to paint her ocher, she transports it on her tail {it's not clear - stretching her tail like a bridge or the girl sits on the fox's tail}, since then the foxes have been red; the same at the second river, the girl has been painting the Fox with charcoal, since then {black-brown} foxes black; The devil goes into the water, but comes back; the girl comes to the mother of the Sun; she hides her in a box of thread and needles; answers the Devil that no one was there; Damn is going to put her hot in her ass iron penis, but she melted the Line when she looked at it; the girl tells the blood line to become cranberry on tall bushes {in Alaska, cranberry is not our cranberries, but similar in taste and also red berries on tall bushes}, waist - cranberry on low bushes, penis with mushrooms among cranberries, testicles with salmonberry berries (Rubus spectabilis, excellent raspberries), bones with dog rose hips (Rosa canina) and bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), the brain is a silver sucker; berries have existed since then; two sons of a Sun woman came, married a girl; she misses relatives on earth; mother The sun tells me to move the stones away from the hearth; the girl sees her mother and relatives below on the ground; the Sun's mother says that if it snows sleet, you should turn his ass up and say, "The dog took it.." (the informant does not remember the meaning); lets the girl down on the web; the mother of the Sun is the Spider; (further it is not entirely clear: Wolverine either raped the girl or is trying to do it; Herbal People (Grass Tussock People) hide her); she comes to her mother; it's snowing, she said, "Take the dog.. ", it's sunny]: 23-33; McKennan 1959 [two sisters follow a butterfly, go to heaven; Chickady tells them to follow a narrow path; the older sister insists on walking the wide one; they come to the old man, he cooks a dog's eye, a man; kills his older sister by inserting the hot tip of a spear into her vagina; the youngest runs away; throws fat, a pebble, a lock of hair, they turn into a lake, mountain, forest; Fox transports the girl across the lake, she gives him red paint; the Spider hides her in a bag; carrying the Old Man, the Fox dumps him into the water; he gets ashore, wants the Spider to give him the girl; she looks at it into a pile of bones; each bone turns into a special kind of berry; Spider's eldest son marries a girl; she wants to go home; the Spider pushes a stone in the corner of the house; you can see through the hole girl's house; girl wraps a rope out of her tendons, goes down to the ground; husband kills Spider for helping his wife escape; storm begins; girl returns home]: 199-203; hea [husband marks the path to the lake with branches, tells her wife to follow it; she walks along a wide path, finds herself in a foreign village, one of the local men forces her to live with him; the husband finds his wife; she kills the kidnapper with an ax, the husband and his companions kill the sleeping villagers; the husband takes the kidnapper's wife]: Petitot 1886, No. 16:157-162; slevy [the beaver hunter's wife goes to him on the wrong path, gets to a cannibal from the Little Penis tribe; finds her husband's skull, hides his grief; cuts off the kidnapper's head at night, holes boats, runs away; returns at night, kills cannibal women and children]: Petitot 1886, No. 6:329-331.

The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap [the little boy wants to see his grandfather; the father allows his wife to take his son to her parents, tells him to go only to open places; the woman enters the grove, which turns into a huge forest; they lose their way, they come to the house of four women; they shove them into the fire; the boy puts out the fire with urine, runs away with his mother at night; the mother turns her hair (from her head or pubis) into four trees; hides with his son at the top; cannibals cut down three trees; when the fourth is cut down, the boy starts a stream of urine, the felling overgrows; the father sends four dogs (grizzly, rattlesnake, wolf, puma), they cannibals are killed; mother and son first return home, then come to her parents]: Teit 1909a: 635-636.

Northeast. Seneca [mother gives her two daughters corn bread, sends them to marry two brothers living in the same house separated by a partition; warns not to turn sideways at the fork; sisters turn they come to the wind men of Shagodyoweg gowa, run home in fear; they chase; sisters throw away baskets of bread, then their garments; pursuers spend time picking up and examining what has been abandoned; sisters come home; next time they are on the right path; when they go hunting, the brothers tell their wives not to go out for 10 days, otherwise their brother Shagodyoweg gowa will carry them away; on the ninth day, the sisters go out; brothers they find them at the SHG, who lets the women go; the brothers ask Hótho (Cold Weather, makes the trees burst from the frost) to watch over their wives; SG takes the sisters away again, the youngest runs away; X. comes, fights SG, he promises not to steal sisters anymore]: Curtin 2001:52-54

The Northern Andes. Guajiro [a pregnant woman comes to Jaguar's mother; he finds a woman, eats it; pieces of her flesh turn into boys; they become Jaguar's children; they steal fruit from an old woman's garden- Doves; she tells them about their mother's fate; they kill Jaguar's mother, let him eat her meat; drive him to remote places]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1986 (1), No. 24 [brother accidentally breathes pregnant sister; she gives birth to a girl; her uncle makes her pregnant by hitting her chest; she leaves home; twins talk to her from the womb; asking to make them bows and arrows; she pricked her eye in annoyed in the stomach; the twins stop talking, let her come to the Jaguar house; Jaguaro's mother hides her, her sons find her, eat her; five boys come out of msa, the Jaguars eat three, two educate; boys compete with the Jaguars by shooting at the pupils of a man on the moon; changing arrows and winning; Jaguars turn arrowheads into their claws; brothers steal melons and papayas; first Dove, Mako then tells them about their mother's fate; the brothers run away from the Jaguars into a cloud; the Jaguars turn into evil spirits], 25 [the girl becomes pregnant in a strange way; the son from her womb asks for arrows; she hits her stomach (as in No. 24); goes blind with a branch; the Jaguar finds it, eats it; raises three boys as her sons; after feeding Jaguar his mother's meat, they drive him away], 26 [as in No. 25, but begins only with an episode with Dove], 27 [A Jaguar kills a pregnant woman; then No. 25; one boy; he finds a friend, robs the Pigeon's garden with him], 28 [as in No. 26; four brothers]: 54-84.

Llanos. Sicuani: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 108 [Opossum's mother invites two girls to marry her son; in the morning, Opossum goes to the garden, the sisters run away; they come to Daledaleni's house; the old woman tells them go along a bad path, but they go well; D. catches up with them; in the house before dawn, devours one of the sisters; the second, taking her skull, returns to the people; D. comes for her, he is fed pumpkin and pepper; from this he dies, turns into a nest of ants; a girl buries her sister's head; at a party on this occasion, Opossum plays the flute; he was the first flutist], 147 [a pregnant woman goes to visit grandfather; he warns her to beware of other "grandfathers"; on the river, Monkeys call her granddaughter, lick her to death; her baby Shrimp hides under a leaf; in the guise of a boy comes to her grandfather; shoots an archery increasingly larger birds; buries a piece of skin from his big toe, a caimo tree grows with numerous fruits; Monkeys come to eat them, the young man shot with all guns]: 388-389, 489-490.

Guiana. Varrau [the sun is owned by a handsome young man; the father sends a daughter behind the sun, she is on the wrong path, raped by the forest spirit; another daughter comes to the young man, combines with him, brings the sun]: Wilbert 1970, No. 147:311-312; Guyana's carinha [see motive J9; a woman conceives twins from the Sun, these are Pia and Macunaima; P. from her mother's womb promises to show her the way to her father; by She tells the road to collect flowers; she falls, blames her sons; they stop talking, she comes to the house of the Frog Kono (bo) -aru, the mother of Jaguar; she hides the woman under a vessel, the Jaguar finds and kills her; K. tells them to save the twins; tells them that the Crax bird killed their mother; they exterminate the birds, the latter reports that their mother killed them by Jaguar; brothers kill Jaguar and K. with arrows]: Roth 1915, No. 35-38:133-135; macushi: Soares Diniz 1971, No. 2 [fish disappears from the top of the Sun; The sun grabs a thief, it's Cayman; tears off his tongue, his tongue turns into mazie fish; Cayman promises a daughter for his life; he doesn't have daughters, he makes a girl out of a tabatinga tree; sends for water; when she enters the water, she pops up, falls; makes a daughter out of wax; she puts a vessel on her head, starts laughing; makes a daughter out of samaumeira wood, she is real; the Sun does not find her vulva, puts a banana peel between her legs; The sun goes away, tells her wife to follow him after a while, follow him from the fork along the narrow right path; the woman walks along wide left, comes to the old toad woman; she asks to take out her lice, not the ones on the right side of her head; the woman bites through the louse, dies; the grandchildren of the Jaguar Toad find and eat the corpse; the Toad takes for himself two eggs in the woman's womb; she tries to cook, the water cools down; she cleans them from the shell, the eggs sing; she pours them into the basket; Anike and Inskira emerge from them, feed deer giblets lying in the next basket; at night, the toad hears a conversation, sees two boys in the morning; while hunting, a parikuaru bird tells them about the death of his mother; the brothers try to cut off the Toad's head, but she has a strong neck; they lure her into the garden; they ask her to name all cultivated plants (corn, bananas, sugar cane, papaya, sweet potato, jerimu, watermelon, melon, rice, cassava); set fire to the plot ; the old woman explodes, the hot stones fly to the sides; the brothers hid in advance in the shelter, were not injured]: 78- 80; Roth 1915, № 39-41 [The sun owns fish ponds; the caiman steals fish, The Sun catches him; cut all his skin, now it is in notches; Cayman promises to give her daughter in exchange for his life; he does not have a daughter, he makes a girl out of wood - a wild plum; the woodpecker hollowed out her vagina; The sun is gone, told she follows him later; (a brief retelling in the source); she ends up in the house of a Toad woman, dies biting through poisonous lice, and boys are found in her womb, these are Pia and Makunaima; P. kills Jaguar, finds pieces of the mother's body inside, revives her; the Toad hides from the twins that he owns fire; M. likes to swallow coals, decides to leave; digs a canal, swims away along it with his brother and mother; from the Crane they learn how to make fire by carving (he hits the stone with his beak); the brothers blocked the river with stones to detain fish; now there are rapids in these places; the crane began to steal fish from them; P. quarreled with him, he grabbed M., took her to Spanish Guiana; his mother was tired, P. left her at the top of Roraima; went to teach people, and also stayed on Roraima with her mother]: 135; vapishana [the wife of the Sun lost her husband's footprint, did not go on the right path, but on the left; came to the house of the old toad; she asked her to look in her head, not to bite through the lice; the woman saw it, died; the Toad hid the corpse on the platform under the basket; her sons (or pupils) - Jaguar, Puma, Ocelot and others; found the corpse, ate it, and the old woman was given twins extracted from the womb (João and Pedro, according to other texts, Duidi and Mauáre); them not to cook; they jumped out of her mouth, and when they swallowed it, out of her ass; she thought they were dead, put them to rot in a large vessel; they secretly come out, steal food; she waited, said let they live; they hide in mocó; she hid the mocó, they stopped hiding, they immediately became adult boys; they wanted to kill the bird, she said that it was not her, but the Toad, who killed their mother; the brothers sent the old woman to the area prepared for burning was set on fire; sweet potatoes, pumpkins, jerimú, melancias grew from its ashes]: Wirth 1950, No. 1:167-168; waiwai [Wayam-yenna (turtle people) were like humans; husbands called wayam wife into the forest for fruit; climbed a tree, fell again; his wife stepped on his stomach with contempt, so the male turtles have a concave shell from below; the wife climbed the tree herself, the husband went home; on the tree instead of fruits, there were various kakenau-kworokjam (spirits that previously lived on earth, now on the second heavenly tier, they have the names of animals, birds, insects); they wanted to copulate, the woman covered herself with twigs; The grasshopper split the tree, copulated (he has a sharp ovipositor); the kakenau left, the woman ate the fruit, got down, went home, went from the fork not to the wayam, but to kamara-yenna (jaguar people); their grandmother hides it under a vessel; a giant turtle lived in the house, she told the jaguars about the woman, put her head under the vessel, she spat on her, the jaguars broke the turtle woman's shell, ate her; the old woman was left with two eggs; in one she found Mawari, in another Wåshi; she hid it from jaguars under a vessel for three years; on the advice of the old woman, the twins made the first bows and arrows (also the first axes, the stone knife, the top); the Jaguars showed M. a Brazilian walnut, he climbed on top of it, they removed the stairs; M. tears turned into a squirrel; M. and V. had no penises, they grew up in the forest; their brothers licked them, by morning their penises grew; the old woman grew out of excrement cassava, the brothers did not like it; then she let herself be burned, a real cassava appeared from the burnt bones; they sent the karau bird to the top, there was a catch; it was an otter, the brothers copulated with it in the eye; she told them to catch women in the river; shooting at the water, M. and V. pulled out women's objects (bag, mat, basket, spindle, etc.); on the fifth time, M. pulled out a woman, the daughter of an anaconda with an anaconda child; the second he pulled her out for V., she had two dogs in her arms, when M. went up to heaven, he bequeathed people to hold dogs; V.'s descendants were non-strikers, M. were Indians and Europeans (they are kind); almost all M.'s children died; he let arrows into the sky, went up to heaven with his wife along a chain of arrows]: Fock 1963:38-42; hishkaryana [the Turtle's husband and wife went for fruit; the husband told his wife to climb a tree; she ate and grew him; Monkeys, Eagles and other animals and birds wanted to have sex with her; the insect split the tree, everything took it out through this gap; the husband saw it, went home; closed the path to his house, opened the Jaguar house; the mother of the Jaguars hid the woman; the Jaguars had a domestic turtle, started the winds, the woman spat, she was found, scheli, the eggs were given to her mother; Mawarye and Woxka were born of them; they hunt for an old woman; they hid from the Jaguar in a tree, he followed them, they came down in the form of leaves; the Jaguar understood who was in front of him; the brothers did not have penises, penises grew in the forest; the brothers took them out of the ground, took them for themselves; someone stole fish from the top; brothers send sentries; they caught the Otter, copulated with her, almost torturing her to death; she says that there are women; M. caught wives for himself and his brother; they have a fish in their vagina; while M. went to get the vine to make fish poison, V. injected penis, fish bit it off; M. cured his brother; M. slept with his wife on the river bank, swallowed by an anaconda; he came out through the anus; brothers separated]: Derbyshire 1965:54-78; curl: Magaña 1988a, No. 60, 60a, 61:107-109, 239; trio: Magaña 1987, No. 8 [twins from her mother's womb ask her to go to their father's village; tell her to pick flowers and fruits for them; she is bitten by wasps, angry at the children, those stop showing the way; a woman comes to the jaguars; comadreja hides her under a vessel, a Jaguar finds her, she turns into a turtle, he eats it anyway; two boys, an old woman, hatch from eggs raises them; while hunting, a dove tells them about their mother's fate; they invite the Jaguars to a party, lightning strikes the house where they dance; turn the house into a rock, an old woman into a deer; a pair of jaguars saved]: 133; oyana: Magaña 1987, No. 43 [a pregnant woman goes looking for the father of her child; a son from her womb asks her to get a banana; she is bitten by a wasp, she is angry with her son; at a fork in the womb On the road, he refuses to show the way, she gets to the Jaguar; his mother Toad hides her under a vessel; the Jaguar finds and devours her; the Toad saves and raises the child; the bird tells him how she died his mother; he invites the Jaguars, turns the house in which they dance into a rock; one jaguar escapes], 53 [in exchange for his life, a man promises his sister to be married to Jaguar; she does not want to go; he makes a wooden a girl, she falls out of a hammock, breaks; waxes, the basket sticks to her back; paints three girls with black paint, but the Jaguar recognizes the bride among them, makes her pregnant; she goes back to village; turns on the wrong path, gets to the Possum; Jaguar's son advises not to refuse the Possum, but to put the leaves in the vagina; the woman forgets to take out the leaves, becomes pregnant with her second son; the son asks fruit, a woman is bitten by an ant, she scolds an ant; the son thinks he is silent; she comes to the village of the Jaguars; their aunt Toad hides her under a vessel; the Jaguar finds her, eats her; the son of the Opossum is also eaten; Jaguar's son turns into a turtle; it is eaten, but four eggs remain; two boys and two girls come out of them; a bird in the forest says that the Jaguars killed their mother; children make their mother out of their mother's nails flutes attract the Jaguars; bring down the roof of the house on them; the flood begins; children flee in the tree; send a Parrot, then the Pigeon, to scout; they come to the Toad Grandmother, steal fruits from her garden; the Toad catches them; keeps the fire; children send birds to steal it, the last one succeeds; the toad has been without fire since then], 89, 97 [opossum bothers a pregnant woman; she goes on, eaten by jaguars]: 42-43, 44-45, 52-53; oyampy: Grenand 1982, No. 5 [see J9 motif; Yaneya leaves; pregnant wife follows him; twins from her womb show her the way; ask her to pick flowers; she is bitten by a wasp; she refuses to collect, The twins fall silent; the woman goes to the Jaguars, the Yaguariha eats her; the Mayamayali and Wayamakale twins (is poppy a monkey?) jump on a tree; Jaguariha calls them back; A dove hunting talks about his mother's death; M. and Y. lure the Jaguars to the bridge, create piranhas in the river; V. cuts off the vine ahead of time, two jaguars they save themselves, the rest are eaten by piranhas; M. almost revives his mother, V. hugs her ahead of time, she falls apart; by the sea, their father cuts down a tree, chips turn into fish; the father tests his sons, M. does not He withstands; the father tells him that he is not his son, but the Monkey; makes a parrot out of his skin, monkeys out of flesh; in the morning the father rises to heaven], 6:67-72, 75; aparai, oyana [man does not want give his sister to Injoliverö; makes the girl out of rattan, sends him; I. copulates with her, inserting a flute into her vagina; leaves, tells her to follow their son soon; she gets to Jaguaram; the old Toad hides it under the pot; the Jaguars come and eat it; the Toad keeps the eggs, from which the boys Malakalev and Varanar and the girls Lyatukoni and Molokalypyo appear ; from a forest chicken they learn about the death of their mother; they lure dancing Jaguars into a community house; Var. turns into a rock, presses the audience; the flood begins; they flee about the brother in a mortar, growing into a palm tree; V. turns a Toad into a duck; sisters turn into fish]: Rauschert 1967, No. 8:184-185.

Ecuador. Colorado: Aguavil, Aguavil 1985:38-40 [two women go into the hollow to get bats; the husband has other women, he cleans the stairs, walks away; one woman starves, the other sees the road, goes along it, goes to wild pigs; they look like humans; then to a female battleship, she is ferocious; then to an old woman guatusa {it seems paka}; lives with her; one cub is trapped, guatusa says that a female fell on him], 178-180 [her husband has a mistress, he wants to get rid of his former wife; he lets his wife and her sister down the cliff to get toro chicks, cuts off the rope; the women climbed into the cave, went out on the road; came to the old woman; she said her sons would come; one hid under the roof, they killed the other; the old woman sent the rest along the path to another old woman, she took her to the ground]; Mix 1982 [ a man painted by a genipa came to two sisters, led them to a tree, began to shed fruits, the fruits turned into skulls, and the sisters fell into an unknown land; two sisters go to a female star; the eldest did not listens to her instructions, sees not water, but blood, not beans, but human ribs; the Star brothers are condors; Condor smelled her eldest, began to eat her, and it seems like a love game to her, she laughs; The Star tells the youngest to run; parrots refuse to help because people killed them; Iguana transports them across the river because the woman did not eat her eggs; spends the night in a tree with parrot women; returns to her mother; The star did not tell her eat people's food; her relative gave her, she disappeared]: 91-97.

Western Amazon. Sekoya [jaguars eat a woman, her little sister is saved]: Cipolletti 1988, No. 42:189-194; kofan [man leaves his wife and sister in the woods; wife finds no way home, ends up with jaguars; Jaguarich houses; Jaguars want to marry a woman, but she is only ready to marry the youngest; others eat her in anger; Jaguariha finds an egg in her uterus; chicks hatch from it; they ask how their mother died; how to kill Jaguariha; Hit in the ear; they kill her; a woman's sister searches for a home, goes to Woodpecker, then Tintin; a man who kills by blowing the winds kills T.; a woman comes to Aguti, she takes her to her father's field]: Calífano, Gonzalo 1995, No. 119:175-177; Napo: Foletti Castegnaro 1985, No. 1a [the girl is pregnant, although there are no people around; I realized that from her brother, he went up to heaven, became the Month; her parents left; the girl asked the parrot to take her to the people; the eagle ate all three parrots; she asked about the twins' path in her stomach; they asked to pick a flower; she was bitten by a wasp, she hit her stomach, the twins fell silent; she went to the Jaguar house; the old woman hid her under the pot, her saliva dripped, the Jaguars jumped to get the woman Puka Puma ("Red Jaguar") took it out; the old woman asked for giblets, went to wash, found two children, raised them; they were Cuillur and Duciru; they asked them to make bows and arrows; they began to take out the head lice from the grandmother, they killed her, cooked her, took her jaw to the forest; her name was jaguars, her jaw says it was cutting wood; the brothers told the Jaguars that they ate their mother, turned into hummingbirds, flew away; they brought down the bridge with the jaguars, escaped a pregnant female; the brothers decided to cross the sea across the caiman on the back of the caiman; the elder does not tell Cayman that he has bulging eyes; the youngest said Cayman bit off his leg; The elder dried the pond, killed Cayman, put his brother's leg back; the elder made boats shooting at trees; the youngest broke the boat, now it's hard to make them; the brothers made a chain of arrows, went up to heaven, became the Pleiades; there was also the caiman's jaw and the basket in which their mother carried parrots], 1b [the woman got lost, went to the Jaguars; the grandmother hid her under the roof, the Jaguars were found, eaten, and the children from the womb were given grandmother; they were Kuilyur and Dusiru, children of the Month; they carried water, firewood, tired of working; made the chakra huge, the grandmother could not leave, they took her out; they made a bridge, brought it down, when the jaguars stepped on him, the pregnant female escaped; they came to the Jaguar chief, began to play guitar; the Jaguar sat down in a chair, began to play himself; the brothers closed the door, turned the house into a rock; now inside Cerro Galeras lives Mundupuma; they killed the grandmother of the jaguars, filled the skin with worms, gave the meat to her sons; the Jaguars found out, the twins turned into birds, flew away]: 55-60, 63-64; Mercier 1979 [wife pregnant, her husband- A month is gone; she goes looking for him, asks about the twins' journey in her stomach; she picks flowers for the twins, gets bitten by a wasp, she claps her stomach saying they're to blame; twins they stop talking; she comes to the Jaguar grandmother; she hides her under the roof, the woman spits; Murupuma, Puka-Puma can't reach her, Wimba-puma jumps; they eat her, the grandmother asks for giblets, takes it out, she hides twins in a pot; they grow up, call her to the plot where they quickly grew corn; she almost got lost in it; she tells them to bring water, they bring a lot, the grandmother almost drowned; asks for firewood, they bring a lot, they fill it up; they eat wood-grown mushrooms, it turned out that the grandmother's ears are still alive; the brothers' name is Kuillurkuna ("Stars"); they lured her into the cave where they were musical instruments, asked to dance, she sat on a glued bench, stuck; she was closed, she would come out at the end of time; the brothers lured the jaguars to the bridge over the abyss they had dug, brought them down; they hid in two rubber bags, let themselves be carried away by the cannibal eagle Anga, who brought them to a nest on a rock; when he fell asleep, the eldest killed the male, the youngest did not finish off the female, she flew away at sunset; the Duck responded unable to transport the brothers across the river; Cayman drove and asked what it smelled like; the eldest said he did not feel anything, the youngest that he smelled like caiman; the eldest had turned into a fast bird Suwisuwi, and the youngest in the sluggish Partridge, Cayman bit off his leg; the eldest dried the pond, found that caiman, tore off his jaw, took out his leg, put it back; climbed the vine into the sky, the eldest became Evening Star, Younger - Morning, they took their jaw with them (Hyades)]: 28-39, 51; Oberem 1957 (quiho) [the sorcerer turned into a cougar, ate people; brought a pregnant woman, left himself, she hid on the platform; spat, he noticed her, killed her, found two boys in her womb, put it in a bag; the sorcerer's wife wanted to raise them; the cannibal hawk carried the bag to the top of the volcano, could not open it; Vulture asked the sorcerer's wife to pick them up bag back; the young men quickly became 15 years old, a third joined them; dug a cave in the mountain; called a sorcerer, asked for a little more, walled up; now mundo-puma (world cougar) lives in the Galeras Ridge; If you hear a buzzing sound, he calls other cougars; they bring him food; he asks why game and not human; to kill the cougars, the young men put a log through the stream; the cougars followed them, the young men threw off the log , one pregnant female has escaped, from her today's cougars; two boys again; they killed a hawk and a cannibal snake; they are petrified and will come to life at the end of the world; see the B2A motif (the sorcerer's wife turns into mother earth, causes earthquakes)]: 183-184; Canelo: Whitten 1976:55; shuar: Pelizzaro 1990 [Iwia's cannibal dogs are jaguars, they are like his own children; a woman got lost in the forest, a pet parrot showed her where the fruit was; the parrot was eaten by eagles; she came to his wife Iwia, who wants to pass her off as Shiáshia's youngest jaguar son, hides her under the roof; the woman spits on the meat that S. eats, who finds it, marries; I.'s wife warns not to bite through lice, gives coal to bite it, making a sound; one day forgets, bites through the louse, S. kills his wife, I.'s wife keeps two eggs that were in the uterus ; they were born Yánkuam' and Stars; when they grew up, Y.'s wife told them about their mother's fate; they collapsed the bridge that the jaguars crossed the abyss, but S. escaped because he was walking first and little Yaa (stars) could not detain him; so there are jaguars in the forest; Yankuam pushed the large Yampinkia jaguar into the abyss; the brothers threw darts into the sky, climbed them into the sky, became stars, and Yankuam - Venus]: 38-40 (=1993:35-39); Pelizzaro in Forno 1969-1970:44; Rueda 1987, No. 31:146-147; Aguaruna [a woman with her young children went to the precinct; met a blue parrot, he left her yuhank fruit peel (it has a specific taste and is attributed to its harmful properties); she ate it, she has a headache and stomach ache, lost direction and went not along the Aguaruna road, but along the road animals; came to Battleship, he fed her only ants and snails; came to Pake, where there is a good cassava, but the owner did not give it, sent it to Canyuc (his own name? then she turns into agouti); she asks to look after the children, and she goes for cassava herself, says that the road is difficult; the children explain that the site is nearby; the woman comes there, it turns out to be her own vegetable garden; a woman grabbed a baby Aguchi, she and her husband ate it]: Guallart 1958:68-70; saparo [see J9 motif; girl smears her lover's face with genipa juice; they turn out to be her brother; out of shame he rises to heaven, turns into a Month; a woman falls asleep with two pet parrots; when she wakes up, the house is dilapidated, the chakra is overgrown; she goes, putting parrots on her shoulders; those report where her husband's mother went; then the falcons carried away the parrots; var.: Two twins, children of the Month, show the mother the way from the womb; one tells the mother to pick flowers, bees in flowers bit the woman; she claps her stomach, tells the children to remain silent, they are completely silent; a woman comes to the Mother of the Jaguars; her children are a red jaguar, a black jaguar, a spotted jaguar, a jaguar cat, a tiger, a bull herd jaguar; she hides the woman under the roof in a vessel; the jaguars found her, ate her; the Jaguar's mother raised twins in the womb, who killed the jaguars]: Reinburg 1921:11-15.

NW Amazon. Bora [the girl does not know who comes to her at night; her father notices her pregnancy, tells her to smear her lover's face with a genipa; in the morning she sees spots on her son's face; he stains his face with resin, puts under bee stings, but the spots do not disappear; he flies to heaven; his younger sister (not his mistress) follows him, but gets scared and he drops her; his father curses him, tells him to become a father of animals; a pregnant daughter tells her to carry kashiri water before the holiday; when all the vessels are full, she tells her to carry water in a basket; while she tries to do this, her parents leave; her four assistants remain with her - an ant, yellow snake, centipede (?) , a parrot; she comes to a bird; he shows her some grass, says that if it turns red, then enemies have killed him; a woman comes to a woman with a crooked leg; she sends her to the "cannibal of this road" , which will show the way to parents; she shows, but a woman gets to a person with faces from different sides (por todos lados); he puts her in the basket, brings her home to eat; his wife replaces her pumpkin, helps to run, shows the way; the cannibal tries to eat pumpkin, then cooks his wife's blood; sends his hook for the fugitive, but she puts it in the branch; two Lizards throw it across the river for her rope; when an ogre enters this bridge, they cut off the rope, he falls into the water, is eaten by a caiman; by the other river, a woman asks her assistants to scoop water, but they fail; the caiman carries it ; she finds her parents, but her brothers kill and eat her; her grandmother raises her son, who kills murderers]: Anderson de Thiesen 1975:7-19; Okaina [A month got together with her sister; mother noticed daughter's pregnancy, the father (his name is "Light, Clarity") squeezed the fetus out of her stomach, ordered her lover to smear his face with genipa juice at night to find out who goes to her; it turned out that the brother ran to heaven, became the Month, put on jewelry so that his father would not notice his soiled face; the younger sister asked who had smeared his face, who admitted that his older sister; the younger asked him to take her to heaven as well; the Month told him not to look down; everyone is screaming downstairs, the girl was afraid of screaming, looked down, fell, turned into a toayo bird {probably a nightjar}, now she sings on the full moon; the father drove away (again) the eldest daughter who became pregnant, she gave birth , came to the old woman's house; she painted her body to protect her from animal bravo (otter or jaguar); when bathing, the paint washed off, the fierce beast ate the woman; the boy was raised by an old woman; at the age of 5 he was opened (le revelaron) that his father was a Month, and his mother was eaten by a fierce beast; the boy went to the forest to play with a cancer shell (huesos de cangrejo), so he made the first fire; trained by throwing darts at tree trunks; met a fierce beast; he invited him to play together, was going to eat; the boy made a bridge over the river, ran across it; when the beast ran, the bridge collapsed, the beast was killed; the boy went to look for his father; A month sent him feathers and ornaments; his son made a crown and wings out of them, went up to heaven, became the Sun]: Girard 1958:137-139; uitoto: Preuss 1921, No. 10:107-108, 330-336; barasana: S.Hugh -Jones 1979, No. 4A-D; Torres Laborde 1969 [The month of Muyhu, Mení's son, comes to his sister at night (her name is Méneri -Ya, Mya), she became pregnant; spread the black paint, smeared his face; in the morning identified; since then there have been spots on the moon; the month has drowned in shame; his body has rotted on the shore; the Bat ate his flesh, has since become an ogre; Mení sent a shaman owl to look for his son, he has not found it (since then owls have big eyes); three Adyába brothers (creators) found Muihu's bones; told the ants to put them together, stuck them with tobacco leaves, creating a new body; Muihu came to life, but fell apart again when middle A. said that M. slept with ME; A. revived him again; I did not recognize him; he had a monkey with him, he asked ME to get her kaimo fruit from the top of the tree to eat; made the tree tall, ME stayed in upper world; the mochilero bird began to look for it, saw a reflection; I was bitten by a wasp, a mochilero killed a wasp, brought ME water, a anklet; weaved a rope out of sweet potato to go down; the rope broke, I fell, returned home; Muihu told her to bring water, but the filled vessel dried immediately; while she tried to fill it, Meni and Muihu left; at the Meni fork, he left a vessel decorated with turkey feathers that looked like man; Meni told him to show ME the right way if ME came, crying, and false if laughing; I laughed while I was far away, and when she went to the vessel, she cried; the vessel showed the way to the Jaguars; I came to Opossumiha; she asked her to lie in her son's hammock, but he smelled badly, Mya moved on; the Jaguars had their mother Oako, Menya's sister; the Jaguars returned from work at the site, carrying axes; the Jaguar saw the mirror hidden in Mia's vessel; she spat out of disgust; the youngest of the Jaguars agreed to dance with her; starting with his fingers, ate her; giblets were given to her mother; she carried them to wash on the river, Warimí boy Sué jumped from the womb into the water; the Jaguars tried to catch him; he became a frog; they ate a frog, but he actually went down the river to where Menya's sons live; he bathed with them; the boys didn't know who he was; he did not go into the house; painted or ate butterflies; their fathers told them to lure V.; the big girl was buried in the sand, others wrote from above; butterflies flew; V. began to paint, girl grabbed him; V. became a little boy, began to cry; Menya thought it was the child of his eldest daughter; passed from one daughter to another, but V. stopped crying only on the youngest's lap; at him blew, painted red (this has been done to babies since then); V. quickly grew into a ten-year-old boy; Meni told him that his mother had been eaten by jaguars; V. came to Maloka Jaguarov, became again as a baby; the jaguar who ate ME touched V., licked his finger, it turned out to be bitter; V. saw this Jaguar regurgitate his mother's blood; V. turned the Jaguars into different animals (tapir, paka, etc.), since then they have been eating each other; the Jaguars played a sounding calebass made of mother W.'s head, her voice was heard, my Son; V. put a log in his hammock, the Jaguar ate it; in the morning, the Jaguars played me again with the skull, V. threw him into the forest; told the water gauges to collect the husks of the miriti palm nuts, threw it into the water, it turned into piranhas; Tapira, with whom he went to collect miriti, V. pushed it into the water, and the piranhas ate it; V. made a bridge, the Jaguars walked along it, V. swung it, the Jaguars fell, the piranhas ate them; the eater held one paw above the water, was left with one paw; the Jaguar V. house burned; then see motive K1]: 31-45; macuna: Århem et al. 2004 [The month (Makañi ñamigaü - "Night Sun") copulated with plants in the absence of women; his leg began to swell; to cure him, his Meneriyo's sister offered to meet her on the condition that this would not happen again; but he began to come to her secretly at night; after becoming pregnant, M. smeared her lover's face with her genipa to find out who was coming to see her; he could not wash off the paint, drowned himself in the river; the father sent the owls to look for his son, they did not find it; the Ayawa brothers found, the sixth finger was missing; A. began to laugh with the stories of all the animals; the toad did not laugh (apparently, the finger was in her throat), so people don't have a sixth between their thumb and forefinger; Bakonea (naughty little brother) ridiculed the Month, so the eldest was only able to revive him for the fourth time; his placed at the mouth of the Amazon, collected dust from his body, it turned into midges biting when the moon was in the sky; when he entered Maloka, M. did not greet his brother who had come to life, but asked the Monkey what he ate; The month said that with the fruits of caimo; M. tried to pick it off, the branch sprung, threw it into the sky; then their father went to live in another little boy, put the figure of an old woman at a fork in the roads; if M. stood over to laugh at her, the old woman will send her to the path, where the feather of the utu bird leads to the cannibal shaman ~Gãs; if not, on the path to her father's house, where the guacamayo feather; the mochilero bird saw M.'s reflection in the vessel with water, found M., cleaned her body of flies, brought a rope to go down; the rope turned into a certain kind of vine; finding no one, M. asked the old woman where her father had gone, laughed at her; she sent her on the path to ~Gãs; she came to the Butterfly; his mother warns that he is not human, but M. stays; sees him suck the peel of the fruit, leaves, falls to the Opossum; goes with him to eat fruits; on the way he wants to lie down with her; she sends him to bring a leaf, leaves, comes to ~Gãs; his mother turns M. into a grillo, hides him above the entrance to Maloka; G. knows what's in the house a woman makes her laugh, blowing into a fruit, M. drops a drop of saliva, G. finds M.; arranges a holiday; M. first paints G.'s brothers, not him (he is covered with scab), dances in them, does not want to hug G., that kills her with a dance rod; G.'s mother saved her baby Ryãkomakü (son of the Month) by releasing him into the river; R. goes ashore to play, painted butterflies (they were white); three daughters of Maw ãt buried one of them in the sand, wrote on the sand, butterflies flew, R. approached them, the girl grabbed him; he stopped crying in the younger one's arms; he grew up in a day; W. had to take him from to G.'s house, talk about the death of his mother; W. tied him with bitter leaves; G. licked it, it turned out to be bitter; in the forest G. became a jaguar, but R. became a lizard, slipped away; at night R. put a deck in the hammock instead of himself, G. attacked her; in the afternoon, G. and his brothers began to throw M.'s head like a ball, and R. gave a lighter calebasa; if R. did not throw his own over the maloka, he would be eaten; R. carried the strength from his mother's head to calebass, threw his ball; since then, children have not been allowed to throw the ball over the maloka (it's like throwing their mother's head); R. threw garbage into the backwater, puño (Serrasalmus rhombeus) and piranhas appeared; He created a fruit tree on the shore, fish constipation to it like a bridge; when G. and his people went, R. told the bridge to fall apart; everyone was eaten by piranhas, but G. only ate their legs, he went up to heaven; W. suggested that R. burn from the middle, lit the plot himself around the edges; R. became a fish in a pit of water, waited out the fire; W. sent R. for Thunder's daughter; R. replaced Thunder's lightning club with a wooden fake; R. brought daughter G. to W., telling her to be unfaithful; she took the Pisces Leader as a lover; knocked on the calebass on the water, calling him; the bird told W. about it; W. killed his lover with an arrow, cut off his penis, gave it to his wife under the guise of a fish; told her that she ate, turned them into a dolphin; fish began to fight W., he defeated them, went to heaven; in the morning W. appears in the form of a rainbow]: 484-494; Trupp 1977 [Menery Yo, daughter of the Father of Peace, sees her brother Umakanö (A month) makes a vagina in the sand and inserts her penis in it (this is where papaya and cotton grow); she invites her brother into her hammock, but for the first and last time; but he continues come to her; she smears paint on his face; he cannot wash off the paint, he drowns in shame; he is revived and thrown into the sky; the sixth finger is missing, since then people have not had it; M. gets to the Jaguars, eaten, her son Umawadö (Rainbow) avenges her; the colors of the Rainbow are his feather crown]: 50-56, 63; Kabiyari [Month, Jejechu's son, began to come to his sister Meneriyo; she smeared his face genipa to find out who his lover was; in the morning, the Month could not wash himself, died; he was resurrected from his bones; when asked if he knew that M. was a sister, he broke up again, restored again; M. climbed a tree, it grew to the sky, she went down the rope; got to the Jaguars; their grandmother hid it under the roof; the Jaguars returned from the site, found M. because she looked down; the grandmother took giblets and found them the boy Mujnuyi (a name common to several brothers in other texts, see motif B7); he slipped into the water, became a fish; at the mouth of the river he began playing on the beach with Jejechu's daughters; they buried one in the sand, hands outside, wrote, butterflies flew, M. came to play with them, the girl grabbed him; he immediately became a baby; grew up in five days, shot flies, then birds, asks how his mother died; J. replies that she was bitten by a snake (M. lets herself be bitten, alive); burned down, fell from a tree, ate a jaguar, drowned; every time M. shows that this is not the case; now he has the name Pitche; he comes to the Chawine Jaguars who killed him mother; finds his mother's head; the jaguars licked his head, it is bitter (the pitchi tree on his head is bitter); P. placed his mother's head on the other side of the river, made a bridge there; the jaguar stepped on him, he collapsed, the fish ate them, one escaped, his heel was bitten off; then see motive K1]: Correa 1989, No. 3:53-67; tatuyo [no details]: Bidou 1972:66; ufaina [no details]: Hildebrand 1975: 376 (note 38); yagua: Chaumeil 1983 [After the Month met their sister, people became intoxicated at the festival, turned into herons and flew away; the sister of the Month went looking for them; asked about their ancestral path Herons almost killed her; Agouti ordered her to turn at the fork not to where the parrot's feathers were, but where the pineapple peel was; on that way she would reach her uncle; she did not understand, she turned where the feathers were and reached the Jaguars ; the old woman hid her under the roof; Jaguar came, she dropped something, he began to copulate with her; the second Jaguar ate her; the grandmother took the embryo, he jumped into the water; the woman's uncle's sons swim, they see it; he lit a fire, rushed into it, became the Sun; one of his uncle's sons followed him and became the Evening Star]: 193-194; Powlison 1972a [at night The month comes to his sister, who retired to a separate hut on the occasion of the first period; the sister wants to know who her lover is, stains his face with paint; the month rises to the sky in shame, the spots are still visible; the girl's mother and relatives turn into storks, fly away; the girl goes looking for them; she is bitten by a bee; then she loses her way, gets to the jaguars, the Jaguar eats her; the mother of the jaguars takes the baby out of the womb to the river to wash before eating it, he throws himself into the water and swims away; downstream a boy finds a baby, brings it to his mother, she raises them together; the son of a woman killed by jaguars agrees to the named brother's offer to be burned to become the Sun; he ascends to heaven for his father Month]: 71-72.

Central Amazon. Vila-Bela [when leaving, the husband tells his wife that she will find arar feathers on the way to him; the children from the mother's womb show the way; they are hungry, they cry, she hits the stomach, they stop talking; she gets caught to the Jaguars, says that she followed the trail of urubu and the feathers of the arar; one day the Jaguars return without prey and eat it; their grandmother finds eggs in the uterus, of which 7 boys and a girl are born; avenging their mother, invite the Jaguars to swim where it is deeper; they drown; the Jaguar grandmother comes, they kill her; they go up to heaven, turn into Pleiades]: Barbosa Rodrigues 1890, No. 13:261-262.

Eastern Amazon. Urubu: Huxley 1956 [Mair, in the form of a bird, flies over a rotten fruit; a woman comes out of the fetus, he takes her as his wife; she does not believe that her husband planted yams, cassava, etc. ripened the same day; angry M. leaves; the wife follows in his footsteps, the unborn son from the womb shows the way; after spending the night in the house of the Possum, the woman conceives a second son; Mair's son is offended by his mother, falls silent; the woman comes to the village of Jaguars; the old woman hides her under a vessel, the Jaguars find her, eat her; the children are thrown into boiling water, they jump out; the grandmother adopts them; the brothers cut trees into the river, they turn into piranhas and crocodiles; an island is made on the river, fruit trees are built on it, a bridge is built to the island; when the Jaguars cross the bridge for fruit, the brothers cut the bridge, the Jaguars are eaten by aquatic creatures; because the son of the Possum hesitated, two were saved; brothers come to M. , he gives them bows and arrows; offended by their mother, the brothers throw them into the forest, they turn into snakes; Meir wants to know if his children are in front of him; 1) remove the bait from Anyang's hook; Mair's son takes off the bait, then pulls the forest to laugh; Opossum's son takes the hook in his mouth, is caught, eaten; in the form of an ant, Mair's son collects his bones, revives him; 2) go to Grandfather Wind; he is not at home, Mair's son tickles his wife, her husband hears her laughter, blows, a tree falls on the brothers; Opossum's son dies, revives his brother; 3) walk between two converging and diverging gratin stones; Mair's son passes, the Son of the Possum is crushed, revived by his brother; M. realizes that the youngest of the brothers is not his son, he tells him to go back between the stones; the son of Possum is crushed again; Mair's son rises to heaven in anger, taking the stones with him; from now on produces thunder; Opossum's son goes up to his brother]: 217-220; Ribeiro 2002:180-182 [a worm got out of the tree, turned into a woman; she reached a fork; the path to Mair was thorny and overgrown, Mukura is good, she went for a good thing, got pregnant with Mukura {then it is clear that the woman was already pregnant with Maira before that}; the woman went for a walk, she was torn to pieces by a jaguar, Maira's son, followed by her son The Mukurs jumped out of the womb, rushed into the river; four days later they got out of the water - Maira's son, a 9-year-old, Mukura, a 7-year-old boy; tried unsuccessfully to kill a machete jaguar; jumped into the water again, Maira's son came out 14 years old, Mukura 10 years old, but the jaguar could not be killed again; Maira's son created a river, laid the vine as a bridge; the brothers stood at opposite ends, cut off the vine when the jaguar walked along it, not let him get out of the water, cut him down, kill him; the hurricane knocked down the forest, lifted the brothers into the air, Mukura's son hit him hard; they came to Meira, his son said that they were both his sons; the brothers went along the road, stones began to fall, Mukura's son was crushed; Maira's son became angry with his father, went on, creating stones in the middle of the river, where he is now unknown; on a full moon, Maira rises to heaven, then descends; when thunder, lightning strikes Maira's ground], 210-215 [Maïra put his penis into the crack as he passed the tree, because he did not have a wife; the tree was swollen, a pregnant woman came out of it, and the baby was in her womb spoke, pointing the way to his father; asked his mother to pick flowers for him; one day she reached for a flower, she was bitten by a snake, she slapped her stomach, reproached her son; he fell silent; she came into the house Mukura (i.e. opossum); he offered to spend the night with him; it was raining at night, Mukura was perforating the roof over the hammock by a woman who was forced to lie in his hammock; in the morning he told him to go from the fork to the left, but she turned right, went to a jaguar village; the jaguar wives told her to leave as soon as possible, but she stayed; she was hidden under a vessel; the jaguars turned the vessel over; Maira's son turned his mother into an animal, it ran away, him they caught up, killed; two embryos were given to an old woman; she began to fry them, but burned her hands; the embryos turned into agouti; the old woman began to raise them; the jaguars wanted to eat them; they became boys, ran away went looking for Maira, stayed with him; Maira's son offered to steal the fishing hook of a forest demon; Maira's son bit off and took it away; Mukura's son was caught in piranha guise; the demon ate her, threw away the bones; Maira's son turned into ants, they collected bones, Mukura's son came to life; Mukura's son safely took the hook away from another forest spirit; Maira praised them; the brothers turned into hummingbirds, flew, set fire to the forest beard the demon, his head burned down; the brothers killed the hummingbird {real}, found a man in his stomach; when they approached a wide river, they started shooting arrows one at the tail of the other, they turned into a bridge, they crossed it to on the other side, many bakers killed there; called the jaguars to pick up the meat; when they crossed the bridge with arrows, the brothers destroyed it; all the jaguars drowned because they were carrying a load of meat]; tenetehara: Nimuendaju 1915, No. 1 [see motif J9; similar to Wagley, Galvão]: 281-283; Wagley, Galvão 1949, No. 14 [Maira leaves leaving his pregnant wife; she follows him, Son of Maira (SM) shows her the way from her womb; asks her to pick a flower; the wasp bites the woman in the stomach, claps himself trying to kill a wasp; the son thinks that his mother hit him, falls silent; the woman sleeps in the house of the Possum; he makes a hole in the roof, rain falls on the woman, the Opossum suggests moving the hammock closer to him, then moving into his dry hammock; this is how the woman conceives the Son of the Possum; SM is dissatisfied; a woman comes to the village of Jaguars, an old woman hides her under a pot; a Jaguar finds her, the woman turns into a deer, runs away; a Jaguar with her dogs catches up with her; tries to fry the twins taken out of her stomach, cook, chip, but only scalds and hurts herself; the old woman makes them her grandchildren; they turn into parrots, macaws, other animals, finally people; one day they search for an old woman in her head, tear them off their heads, throw each other, then revive the old woman; the bird Jacques tells them about the death of their mother; they cry, the old woman is told that their eyes are swollen from wasp bites; they build a bridge over a dry swamp, fill swamp with water, throw straw fans into the water to fan the fire, they turn into piranhas; invite the Jaguars to fish, step on the bridge, bring it down; Jaguars eat piranhas; the spirit of the mother who ate it SM encloses in a bamboo jar, gives it to Maira; he demands proof that the brothers are his children; 1) kill the female Azang perfume; SM sets fire to her long hair, dries her the lakes in which Azang tries to extinguish them, Azang burns; 2) kill the male spirit Azang; he cuts down a tree to make a bow and arrows that hit all animals; SM pierces a sharp hand of spirit in a log, leaves him to die; 3) kill Azang the fisherman; SM in the form of a surubim fish removes the bait from his hook; brother gets hooked, caught, fried, eaten; SM asks Azang to give him the bones, revives his brother; asks his father to break a rock with an arrow; he cannot, SM breaks, he is stronger than his father; both are now in the Village of the Gods]: 137-138; tupinamba [Mayre-ata goes to travel, his wife cannot accompany him due to pregnancy; he follows, the son from the womb shows the way; she does not give him any fruit, he is angry, falls silent; goes astray, goes to the Possum; at night he conceives his second son; the opossum turns into an opossum; a woman comes to the village of Jaguars; a Jaguar eats her, the twins are thrown into a pile of garbage; one the woman picks them up; the twins hunt for her; show the Jaguars an island in the sea, where they will find a lot of fruit; Jaguars sail there; twins cause a storm; Jaguars drown, turn into jaguars and others cats; twins come to MA, he tests them; 1) walk between the crushing rocks; Opossum's son dies; MA's son revives him, both pass; 2) remove the bait from the hook Agnen 'a; son of the Possum caught, A. tears him apart; MA's son resurrects him, both take off the bait; MA recognizes them for their sons]: Thevet: 914-915 in Metraux 1932:135-136.

The Central Andes. Canta (Lima district) [Pachakamaka and Pachamama had Willka twins, a boy and a girl; Pachakamak drowned in the sea; Pachamama went with her children through the mountains and fell into the Va-Kona cave (during ritual dancing, Wa Kon wore a jaguar mask); sending the children to bring water in a leaky vessel, VK tried to seize P.; not achieving what he wanted, ate it; the bird told V. about the murder mother, advised me to run, tying the sleeping VC by the hair; when they woke up, VK chased, asking various animals if they saw the children; the mother of skunks sheltered the twins, fed her blood; set up a trap, VK fell off a cliff, crashed, its fall was accompanied by an earthquake; the twins were tired of eating blood, they went to the field to dig potatoes; playing with an unusual tuber, girl threw her hat into the sky; a rope came down from the sky, the twins climbed it to their father Pachakamak; the boy became the Sun, the girl became the Moon; the path of the stars across the sky continued their earthly journeys; Pachamama embodied in a mountain range, Pachacamac gave her power over fertility]: Villar Cordova 1933:162-165.

Montagna - Jurua. Amuesha: Santos-Granero 1991, No. 3, 3a: 54, 258; Tello 1923a: 123; Machigenga: Baer 1984, No. 4 [Falcon descends to Ya'konera, marries; returns to heaven before the birth of a son, He tells him to follow him, the son will show the way; the son from the womb asks to collect flowers for him; I am dissatisfied; he falls silent; I am on the wrong path, comes to the Jaguars; their mother Tsi'rinpi (lizard) hides her under the roof; Jaguars come, go to bed; I spat, hit alone in the ear; Jaguars demand that their lice be removed; these are big mites; I bite the coal, making a cracking sound; on the last Jaguar there is not enough coal; I gnaw the tick, it makes you sick, the Jaguar devours it; C. asks for a uterus, there are four chicks; C. throws them away, saying who ate their mother; falcons fly to the mountain, return to human form: Machai'rini, Choinka'vani, Pa'chakami, Ya'vireri; they tell C. that they heard her words about the death of her mother; they trap a knife in the river, call the Jaguars to swim, they attack the knife alone after another; brothers throw their hearts into boiling water; Jaguariha runs away; Y. warns that there is a demon in the river; Y.'s wife says their son has been swallowed by a demon; I. catches a demon, takes his son out of his stomach; with him Sails down the river]: 430-432; Pereira 1944 [Yakona (= Yakonero) conceives Chaingawane and his brothers Machaireni and another from a deity; the Jaguars kill her; their mother saves them children found in the uterus; they grow up, make a trap similar to the top, invite the Jaguars to try it; they die one by one; the Jaguar mother escapes, and the current jaguars come from her]: 84-85; Pereira 1988c [=1944]: 29-30; pyro [Yakonero has a jaguar husband and 20 jaguar sons; participates in an attack on a human village; all women are killed; I. hides a young man under jaguars in his skin; lives with people pregnant; returns to the scene of the massacre to pick up her lost bracelets; Tsla and his two brothers Muychkahit from her mother's womb ask her for flowers; she gets bitten by an ant, she claps her hearts on her stomach, her sons guide her not to people, but to the jaguar trail; she hides under the roof of her former home, her jaguariha mother-in-law wants to help her; the Jaguars find her, ask her to take out their lice; I. able to swallow her ex-husband's louse, they eat it herself; mother-in-law keeps her uterus; Tsla is the son of manacarao, M. are sons of pucacunga; they grow up to kill jaguars]: Alvarez in Roman 1985: 139; apurina [someone comes to Yakonero every night; she gets her hands dirty in paint (anatto, i.e. uruku, but then the paint is black, so obviously a genip) and touches her lover's back with them; in the morning she sees that the shamanic pipe is black; Yakonero goes to his parents, her son from her womb asks for this and the other; she claps her stomach, he guides her in the wrong direction; she comes to the old woman Katsamã uteru; she hides her on a shelf and lets the calebass spit; when she overflows, men discover her; she gives birth to four sons, Tsora the youngest; brothers consistently kill their mother's murderers; Tsora created different people, Apurina did everything worse than others, so there are few of them]: https://pib.socioambiental.org/en/povo/apurina/1517; characterbet: Calífano 1995, No. 17 [Jaguars kill a woman, her son Aymarinka-shipo takes revenge on Jaguars, runs to heaven, turns into Thunder, takes the name Uperax; without other details]: 186; Gray 1996 [a man climbs an Aviruk tree (rubber), throws his wife fruits; hears her laughter; she gets pregnant from the spirit of a tree, goes to live in his village; her relatives come there for a party and she decides to return with them; they warn not to follow them, because on the way Jaguar village; the woman goes, the Jaguars eat her, the uterus is thrown into the river; the fish take care of the baby; the brother of the victim sees the uterus, but no one can catch it; the mother of the murdered woman succeeds; the boy Marinka Aviruk requires only the fruit of the tree, quickly turns into a young man; kills many different animals, thinking that they are to blame for the death of his mother; the grandmother agrees to say that the Jaguars are to blame; M. makes a club that can split stones; kills almost all Jaguars, but one saves himself and there are many jaguars again; people are afraid, wondering what to do; To turn into a tree? - They'll cut it down; Hide under the ground? - Will they trample; Hide in the rocks or the river? - They will find it; the boy offers to go to heaven; everyone is happy and in a hurry tramples on him, he turns into tobacco; the sky falls lower, M. and people climb there; M. throws an ax to his grandmother, but falls into her, she turns into curasso (Crax daubentoni), sings before the storm; M. - Thunder, wielding his club in the sky; those in the sky are kurudneri spirits descending to people during rituals]: 118-128; Helberg Chávez 1996 [husband climbs a rubber tree, throws fruit to his wife, hears her laughter; she is seduced by the spirit of a neighboring rubber tree, she becomes pregnant; husband leaves her in the forest; Jaguar kills her; woman's mother catches a uterus from the river, raises a boy, Amarinke; he steals peach palm seeds from Jaguar Pomburu, makes weapons from its solid wood; kills old Jaguariha; from her a deer jumps out of her head, her soul jumps out of her anus; A. kills the rest of the Jaguars]: 102-118.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Eseeha [Docuei'ai (guazo, small deer) was the first to cut down the forest on the site, and told the Anteaters (aná, oso bandera) to work; they saw that D.'s site was small, cut down the forest around; when D . on their property, the Anteaters set fire to their own; D.'s cries were heard by his father Edósiquiana (the owner of animals, now translated as "devil"), who saved his son, but he has since had dark skin and little hair; E. moved D. to where the Anteater's mother lived; D. asks why the pot was on fire; Boil the deer; D. asked her to show her how she would do it, pushed it into boiling water; almost ate it when they arrived Anteaters; he fell into their trap, stuck with all his limbs and head, since then they have been flat, thin; became a deer; the Vultures thought D. was dead; when Condor pecked his heart, D. came to life, grabbed Vultures, began to torment, since then they have their current appearance; let go of their daughter for promising the biggest; he brought his daughters, D. chose the one he liked; became a deer, still lives in the forest; his wife ( Vulture's daughter) went to look for another husband; Pucarara's snake, she had no teeth, asked to insert a thorn, bit the girl to death; the girl's sister {practically, it's herself} escaped, the snake behind her, the man hides it in his daquidei, killed the snake, cut the current snakes out of pieces; the husband turned into an animal, the wife is pregnant, left, went to the Jaguars; Jaguariha tells her brother that a girl has come pig; the one who came hid under a tacuara (basket?) , her tooth ornament clapped, the Jaguar found her, ate it, the baby fell out of her ass, got to her grandmother, she put it in a calebass; the boy grew up instantly, the grandmother told me to be careful not to eat it like a mother ; the arrows did not harm Jaguar, he killed him with a gun]: Verna 1985:69-71; chacobo: Balzano 1984 [girl gets pregnant; paints her belt with uruku red paint to see who; in the morning finds paint on a piece of clay that resembles a penis; her children talk to her from the womb, tell her to go in search of their father; yellow feathers at the fork show the way to her husband, red feathers to jaguars; a woman gets bitten by an ant, she claps her stomach; the children fall silent; she comes to the Jaguars; the Jaguar marries her, she is pregnant; he tells her to take out his lice; the lice are big; she kills them but does not eat them; Jaguar takes offense, kills her; old Jaguariha finds four eggs in her stomach, including Kako, Mashutsai, Nyanya, Kurachyo (Ka. and Ku. boys, M. and N. girls); Kako climbs a tree, throws fruit to his father, Jaguar, kills him with fruit; Grandfather Jaguar offers to put a sliver in the ass, take it out through his mouth; he dies; the children get away from the grandmother; Kako kills sister M. He makes rivers out of her blood; turns her second sister into a frog; Kako climbs a tree, a mutum bird makes it grow; her brother lets the pole go down; Kako makes colorful feathers for the birds]: 29-31; Kelm 1972, No. 1 [husband disappears in the forest; his wife Iva goes looking for him; pregnant, although her husband has been gone for a long time (option: makes a penis out of clay, gets pregnant); son from the womb asks for a toy; at the fork tells me to follow the left path, where the parrot's red feathers are to his father; yellow feathers are scattered on the right path leading to the Jaguars; the woman is confused, comes to the old woman, the mother of the Jaguars; she warns that she is not must throw lice on the floor, looking for her son; Jaguar comes; the lice are large (1 cm), the woman does not bite them to the end, they move n olu, the Jaguar notices this, kills the woman (var.: she did not want to bite through lice); the old woman keeps the uterus, with two brothers Kako and Yanya and their sister Mashyo (uruku); var: boys Kako and Karachio, two girls Mashyo and Iva; Kako plays a flute in the forest, Jaguar likes it; Kako swings on a palm tree, jumps off; Jaguar wants too, Kako puts a stake, Jaguar dies; (var.: Kako inserts reeds into his penis, takes it out of his mouth; the Jaguar puts it in the ass, takes it out of his mouth, dies); Mutum does not tell me where the steam gets the nuts; Kako climbs the tree himself, Mutum makes it high to the sky; then makes it what it feels like it is now; Kako asks his sister and brother to give him a hook; they try to give him a caiman, a snake; finally, a hook; Kako goes down; swims, the waves have washed away the shore, the stream has become a wide river, Kako does not can get out; The stork (Alcedo sp.) pulls him behind his back; Kako does not know who saved him, gives his robe to all the birds, so they get colorful feathers; when the Stork admitted that he, at Kako's only a neckerchief remains; the stork tied, offended, flew away; K. makes his brother a wife out of his sister's rib; lies forever in a hammock in his big house in the sky; when he fell into the water, the Stork pulled him out; in this place There is a wound on her back; blood is dripping from it; people smear her forehead so as not to die]: 211-216; guarazu [Yanerykiy elder (Y1) and younger Yaneryvy (Y2) from Yanehi's womb tell her where to go; Every now and then they ask her to pick a flower, she gets angry, claps her stomach, at the fork in the trails they refuse to show her the way; she comes to the Jaguars; their grandmother hides it under the roof; all the jaguars believe the latter finds and kills a woman; the Jaguars try to cook the twins, they jump to the edge of the vessel; the grandmother advises raising boys; they hunt, bring the Jaguars a lot of meat; Y1 creates a river, puts log bridge, tells Y2 to tell the Jaguars that across the el chuchío river (something edible); brothers bring down the bridge, one pregnant woman escapes, the brothers smear her with clay (spots on the skin), turn her into a jaguariha, from she is current; at home they throw the grandmother of the jaguars to each other like a ball; she runs, turns into jochi (aguti?) ; because she lived with jaguars, she also has a patchy skin; because she was an old woman, she has only two teeth; she collects her mother's bones, Y1 tells the partridges to revive her; they fly over her three times, reviving her; Y2 each time rushes to hug her prematurely, the revived one turns into bones again; the brothers go west to the sky, turn into stars (unidentified)]: Riester 1977, No. 9:241-242; chiriguano: Cipolletti 1978, No. 2 [Tatú-tunpa (Battleship) became pregnant by breaking a hole under her hole; her parents scolded her, she went to the forest; the twins from her mother's belly began to ask her for flowers, she became angry they stopped showing the way, the woman came to the blind mother of the jaguars; she hid her under the roof; milk dripped from the woman's breast, the jaguars found her, ate her, and the old woman asked her insides to treat her eyes; The twins grew up quickly; the Jaguar mother said they killed turtles to kill their mother; the twins killed jaguars returning to the house one by one, cutting off their heads; the two-headed one was cut off one, the other one stayed, he ran away, Luna hid him in her bag, told the twins that she did not have one; the Jaguar began to eat it, Luna asked the twins to come back, they refused]: 51-54; Metraux 1932:154-158 [Tattoo -tunpa came down from heaven, got pregnant with a girl; she did not know how it happened; T. promised her to come back in a month; her mother tells her to go to her husband; the twins from the womb show her the way; she collects for them flowers, they need more; she refuses, they stop talking; she comes to the Jaguariha house; Jaguariha hides her in addition to corn; the Jaguars find it, eat it; the toothless Jaguariha asks for her uterus; when cooking, the twins sit on the edge of the pot; she raised them, gave onions to hunt birds; the Jaguars ask the twins to teach them how to hunt too; they can't learn; the twins lured them to cross first a shallow and then deep lake; all drowned, only the double-headed Celestial Jaguar escaped; the twins made a chain of arrows, went up to heaven; the double-headed Jaguar rose after them; ate the moon and the sun, from them a new moon and sun have appeared; these are eclipses of the sun and moon; one day it eats, huge bats will appear, people will be killed; some will hide under leather cloaks (?) ; at night, pots, plants, stones will sing, dance, attack people; smut will turn green, there will be no fire; people will first make fire with mate, it will end, remain in the dark; it will end earthquake, everything will die; the sun will return, another era will begin], 158-165 [a woman did not let her daughter out of the house to isolate her from her men; Rei (like Aguara-tunpa, Lisa) asked her to be his wife, mother refused; he said this to his brother Tatú-tunpa (Battleship); he dug a hole under the girl, became pregnant, then went to her; the mother heard the conversation, found that her daughter was pregnant; the daughter left; the child from her womb shows the way to her father, asks to pick flowers; when the calebas is full of flowers, the mother is angry why there are so many; the son falls silent, does not show the way, the woman comes to her mother jaguars; she hid it, the jaguar sons came, one asked his mother to take out his fleas, the woman's milk dripped on him, the Jaguar found her, the jaguars ate her, gave her giblets to her mother; she hid the twins, they they shot her pigeons, told her sons that she caught birds with snare; the Jaguars do not believe, the old woman shows the twins, says she gave birth to them herself; pigeons explain to the twins that the jaguars ate them mother; twins bear fruit to the jaguars, they say they found them across the river; the Jaguars agreed to cross on a reed boat; the youngest pulled ahead of time, the boat sailed down, everyone drowned, but alone the pregnant woman escaped; the brothers started shooting at the sky, made a chain of arrows; the jaguar managed to eat the youngest; the elder returned, revived him from drops of blood; the eldest became the Sun, the youngest became the Month; sometimes the jaguar Yawarowi eats the Month; when the new moon, the Month takes women's blood; when three days are not visible, it is with the Sun]; Nordenskiöld 1912 [at the festival, the Battleship digs a hole under a girl sitting on the ground, does pregnant; she comes to the Battleship's hole, leaves her baby in it; he is no longer given to her; she is taken away and dazzled by the Double-Headed Jaguar; her father catches her son with a net; the young man hunts birds, one of them advises him to look for his mother better; he kills cat predators one by one; the Double-Headed Jaguar is the last to leave the house; hides under the moon's apron, eats the moon; son The battleship makes its mother new eyes out of clay]: 271-273; yurakare [Sararuma, or Aima Sunye, burns the world; one person escapes by hiding in a hole; S. gives him all the seeds, of which immediately a forest grows; a man marries; his daughter falls in love with the Ole tree, it turns into a man; while hunting, W. tore a jaguar; his wife collected body parts, W. came to life, he did not have enough cheek; W. sees his reflection, ashamed, leaves, tells me to go home without looking back; the wife breaks the ban, goes to the Jaguars; they tell them to take out their poisonous ants and eat them; the mother of the Jaguars gives her pumpkin seeds, so that she pretends to eat; the chief Jaguar, with a second pair of eyes on the back of his head, notices a deception, kills a woman; the Jaguar mother finds a boy Tiree in her womb, hides her in a pot; he thinks her his mother; hunts for the pack, she tells him the truth; T. kills all the Jaguars except the four-eyed; he asks trees, the Sun, the Stars, the Moon to cover him; the moon hides, his silhouette is visible on the moon disc; T. makes brother Karu out of his thumb nail; the bird calls them to visit; K. overturns the pot of chicha, it floods the ground, K. sinks; T. revives him from the remains; both marry forest turkeys, everyone has a son and daughter; the girls' breasts were first under the eyes, T. gives them their current appearance; K.'s son dies; T. says he will be resurrected, warns that K. did not eat him; Peanuts grew on the grave, K. pulled out the bush, ate the fruit; so he ate his son, since then people have been mortal; T. tells K. to eat the duck; this is his son again; K. regurgitates what he ate, parrots, toucans, and other birds fly out; T. and K. they go to see Jaguariha, see that her lips are covered in blood; she ate a man killed by a snake; they peel off her head, turn it into an uruba, tell her to eat carrion; the snake makes a hole in the ground; T. tells kill her stork; people of different tribes (not Yurakare) come out of the hole; if T. wishes, arrows fall from the sky, people begin to fight; T. goes west, failing many people; old people are doing there again young]: Orbigny 1844:210-212.

A woman travels in search of relatives, shelter, returns home, or the purpose of the trip is not clear.

Southern Amazon. Paresi [two brothers married two sisters; one has a son Kazalynazaré, the other has a daughter Ayryazeró; K., his otei, both mothers turned into birds, swallowed by a huge fish; father A. has a party; Trogonideo bird-man meets a girl; in the morning she goes to his house; Owl replaces the pen sign at a fork in the road, the girl comes to Owl's house, everything is in mud; she runs, spends the night in a hollow, where she paints parrot chicks; they take her home; she tells her where the parrot's nest is, her brothers kill the chicks; parrots make her get lost again out of revenge; she goes to the Wolf; says that she is on her period, covers the parrot guard's beak with dough, comes to Mãe do tucum-do-campo; to the emams; to the Forest Cockerel; refuses to sleep with him, he flies away and takes the fire; to the Spider, does not want to copulate, he chases her away; she comes to the Aquatic Men, their mother kills her; her soul flies away as a bird, along with the soul of a cousin swallowed by fish, decide to be called K. and A. and take revenge on the fish; they raise stones and tree trunks to then be able to raise their enemy; raise the main fish to the tree where the stones had previously been brought; they eat; fallen pieces of meat and drops of blood turned into poisonous insects and snakes; scales]: Pereira 1986, No. 16:246-261.

Araguaia. Tapirape [ancestor (name not specified) goes east, leaving his pregnant wife; she gives birth to a son Mukvur (opossum), goes with him in search of her husband; evil M. leads down the wrong path, one day at night she copulates with her, she conceives the twins Tomatochiri and Mukvura-ura (Son of Possum), gets to the eyeless water spirits of Anchunga-ayuma; they dance around a boiling pot and they push a woman into him; before that, she gives birth to twins who grow up overnight; twins kill anchunga-ayuma; a huge bird Jacques directs them to their father (actually "grandfather", but named "father"); he gives T. a bow and arrow for tapirape, and M. gives guns for Brazilians; both brothers are handsome, but T. is light-skinned and M. is black]: Wagley 1977:179-180.

Chaco. Caduveo [Díeu-nái woman looks at the sky, wants the Pleiades as her husband; he goes down to her at night; her mother advises him to arrange a vegetable garden; they immediately appear in the garden ripe corn, beans, pumpkins; a small amount is enough to fill the cooking pot, its contents are renewed; people carried the plants home, the Pleiades saw the dropped cob, again turned the huge into a forest, returned to heaven; there was only one plant left, a jaguar under it; D. went to the garden, did not find a husband, the Jaguar called her to marry, she gave birth to a son, the frog male took him to raise him; the dove tells the young man should not shoot him, promises to take him to his mother; she warns her son that two Jaguars who pulled out one eye will now return; the young man kills the Jaguars with arrows; the son and D. come to her mother; she warns that there is a cannibal in the forest; D. tells his son to hear, otherwise his galaxy father will take him away]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990a, No. 26:46-48.

Southern Brazil. Chiripa: Bartolomé 1977:18-20; mbia: Cadogán 1958:89; 1959:71-73; Cadogán, Lopez Austin 1970:75-77; Caigua: Telémaco Borba 1908 (West in Parana in Tibagy in 1874): 62-69 in Frič 1912:480-482, in Koch-Grünberg 1921:213-215, in Metraux 1932:138-139 [the husband told his wife to sow corn, immediately sent it for the cobs, she did not believe what the day was ripe, did not go; the husband sent again, said that their unborn son wanted to eat; the wife replied that the son was not from him; the husband left, the wife went to look for him; the son from the womb asked to pick flowers for him and fruits; the woman was bitten by a wasp, she slapped her son, hitting herself in the stomach, her son stopped showing the way; she came to the mother of the Iary jaguars; she hid her under a vessel (cernidor), the last of the jaguars smelled a woman, she was eaten, I. asked for an embryo, there were twins; they jump off the pan, jump out of a mortar, I. kept them alive; senior Derekey asked I. to make him a bow and arrow hunt birds; younger Derevuy only cries; the red macaw told Derekey about his mother's fate; the brothers found her bones in the excrement of the jaguars, Derekay revived her, but Derevuy rushed to suck her breasts, mother broke up; Derekay kicked the rotten tree in anger, it turned into bees and honey; the tree ate it, stopped crying; having tied up the jaguars, the brothers went to look for their father, came to Ahan, Derevuy married his daughter; they ran away from him; their father was called from the tree, who responded from the sky; the eldest chose the day, became the sun, the youngest became night, became a month; he went down to bed with his aunt, she smeared his face with genipus juice, ever since then on the moon stains; guaraní come from Derevuy's son and his aunt's daughter]; Hanke 1956:225-226; Strelnikov 1930 [the pregnant wife does not believe that the pumpkins planted in the morning are ripe; still goes to the garden; in this while the husband goes to heaven; the son from the womb indicates where the father went; the woman sees the feathers of a large white bird on the path; the son confirms that the father passed here; the son asks to collect flowers for him; the woman a wasp bites, she hits her stomach, punish her son; the son falls silent; the woman gets to the Jaguars; the old Jaguariha hides her, the Jaguar finds her, eats her; Jaguariha asks for unborn twins; the elder - Nyanderike's; they don't fry, they don't crush them in a mortar; Jaguariha adopts them; does not tell them to hunt on the other side; they shoot Jacques, the parrot; Jacques says they are fools, the Parrot talks about mother's death; brothers fail to catch Jaguariha with a loop; her name is to eat fruits on the other side of the stream, put a pole across the stream; turn the pole over, Jaguariha falls into a stream, it turns into a sea; brothers make their mother; kill Anya's spirits]: 306-308; Samaniego 1968 [Ramoy Dad leaves his wife; she is pregnant with twins Pai Quara (Sun) and Yvangusu (Month); RP speaks PC, that if that son of his, he finds him; the woman goes looking for her husband, sends her to the Jaguars at the fork in the PC; they kill her, throw the twins into boiling water, they are unharmed; grow up, lead the Jaguars across the river to fruit tree; brought to the bridge; Y. destroys it ahead of time, one pregnant jaguariha escapes; the rest turn into caimans and other aquatic animals; grandmother Jaguarav falls into the placed the twins trap; they burn it, the ashes turn into mosquitoes; the Sun leaves Months to wait, comes to the mother]: 419-421; apapakuwa [Nyanderuvusu (Our Great Father) makes clay a bowl, tells Nyander Mbaekuaa (Our Father Who Knows Everything) to open it, under it to Nyandez (Our Great Mother); tells NM to try it; Niandesa conceives one son from N., the other from NA; N. sends her to bring corn from a field sown on the same day; she does not believe that the corn is ripe, tells her husband that she is not carrying his son, but her son NA; N. leaves, leaves a wooden cross on at the crossroads; Niandesu follows the trail; the son from the womb asks to pick flowers for him; she is bitten by a wasp, she reproaches her son; he is angry, at the crossroads shows the way to the Jaguars; grandmother Jaguarov hides her under the vessel; Jaguars come, find and eat women alone; the grandmother asks babies for herself; they do not cook in boiling water, they do not fry on charcoal, jump out of a mortar; the grandmother adopts them; they grow up right away; Nyanderykei is the eldest, son of Nyanderuvusu; they shoot Jacques, who tells the story of their mother's fate; the parrot tells the same thing; the brothers cry, wash away tears from their faces; Nyanderykei revives the mother from bones; the younger brother rushes to suck, the mother dies again; since then, women's breasts are not so beautiful; brothers create fruits to lure the Jaguars; show a small trap; Jaguars One by one they climb into it, fall into the abyss; the brothers eat their grandmother and other female Jaguars for fruit on the other side of the stream; the banks of the stream diverge, the Jaguarikh devour aquatic creatures; the younger brother is afraid, a rope is tied to the shore; the shores stop parting, one pregnant jaguariha escapes; brothers kill Anya's forest demons; Nyanderuvusu takes them home; now Nyanderykei holds the ground support at its zenith]: Nimuendaju 1914:393-399; Nyandeva [Ñanderú told his wife to go pick corn; she got angry, N. left, she decided to follow; her two sons they replied that they did not know where the father had gone; he turned three times in the house and three times when he went outside, and the wife turned outside only twice; the children from the mother's belly began to ask for flowers; the mother was bitten by a bee; she got angry, hit herself in the stomach; came to the jaguars, their toothless grandmother was there; the jaguars ate the woman, the grandmother asked for children (they are soft); she could not crush them in a mortar, kept them alive; they hunt with a sling on parrots; the parrot tells the story of the mother's fate; the eldest revived the mother, the youngest rushed to suck, the mother broke up again; the brothers killed the grandmother; put a log across the river, made the river wide; the jaguars entered the bridge, the bridge extended to fit everyone; the youngest swung too early, one pregnant jaguariha escaped; the trunk, falling into the water, turned into fish; the elder began to copulate with his daughter Diablo (the informant did not remember further)]: Novaes da Mota 1992:58-62.