J15A. The Jaguar has a woman.

.53.55.59.61.-.64.66.-.68.52.72.73.

Going on a journey (usually in search of a groom, husband, relatives), a woman finds herself in a home or village of large dangerous predators - cougars or jaguars. See motive J15.

The Northern Andes. Guajiro.

Guiana. Carinha Guyana; Makushi; Wapishana; Waiwai; Hishkaryana; Lokono; Trio; Oyampi; Aparai; Oyana: Magaña 1987, No. 89 , 97:52-53.

Western Amazon. Sekoya; kofan; napo; shuar; saparo; napo [a sorcerer who becomes a cougar brings a woman into his home]: Oberem 1957 (quiho): 183-184; Foletti Castegnaro 1985: 55-56, 63; Canelo: Whitten 1976:55; shuar: Pelizzaro in Forno 1969-197:44; shuar: Karsten 1919:338; 1935, No. 8:524.

NW Amazon. Barasana; kabiyari; tatuyo.

Central Amazon. Vila-Bela; Katawishi (Lake Teffe) [Yuwaruna's black jaguar wife tried to seduce her husband's brothers; they killed her on the shore, the boy from the womb rushed into the river; one of three unmarried sisters she saw a boy by the water combing his moths; could not catch it; the father asked his daughters to bury him in the sand, leaving his hands full; grabbed, the boy cried; did not listen to soothing songs; falls silent when the Owl sings, When you grow up, you will avenge the mother killed by the jaguars; the grandfather hides from his grandson where his uncles are; the grandson pulls out his grandfather's gray hair, makes a rope, she reaches for grandfather, he finds out that his uncle is not far away; his uncle sets fire to the house, cuts off his sleeping grandfather's head, cooks; when the daughters of the victim open the pot, the boy kills them with a club; some uncles did not burn; the boy did the bridge over the river, said that he could not escape the flood on the mountain on the other side; the uncles went, the boy brought down the bridge, they drowned; said that he would rise to the sky, he was the Rainbow; whoever does not want to die must answer; At midnight, people slept, answered a lizard, a snake, a spider, a cockroach, a scorpion, a crab, a tree that sheds its bark every year; humans do not shed their skin and die]: Tastevin 1925:188-190.

Eastern Amazon. Urubu; tenetehara; tupinamba.

Montagna - Jurua. Machigenga; pyro: Matteson [two jaguars marry a woman; tell them to look for lice; their mother warns not to bite through them, but to click the coals; gives coals, but one is missing; woman chokes while biting through a huge louse; jaguars eat his wife] 1951:47-49; 1955:59; character.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Eseeja; yuracare; chacobo; guarazu; chiriguano; surui [lonely Iapeab copulates with a tree, inserting his penis into a crack in the trunk; the tree gives birth two girls, the eldest is Cabeud, the youngest is Samsam; I.'s mother brings them up; Peshire (bird), Mokoba (owl) and others come to the party; sisters fall in love with P., laugh when M. dances; I. lies to M. as if they think he is handsome; P. leaves his pen on the path to his house; M. replaces him with his own; sisters come to M.; his mother feeds them meat, he feeds them honey; S. understands that they are rats and mucus from the owl's eyes, but K. eats; S. puts his fingers like a vagina where M. inserts his penis, but K. does copulate with it; sisters run away; the redfin bird Oyo hides them in her mouth, says M. that her teeth hurt, pushes him, M. turns into an owl; at home offers blackheads to her sisters, K. eats; then the sisters see that O. digs up worms, calls them acne; they turn him into birds; they turn him into birds; they come to the Macabe heron; S. again only simulates copulation, putting their fingers in V: the sisters come to the Itshiab deer, who feeds them corn; cuts the meat off his leg, gives it as game; the sisters ask why the meat is boneless, they scold I., it turns into a deer; they come to P., but he already has a different wife; they turn him and him into birds mother; they come to the land turtle, turn the Monkey and the Parrot into animals; they marry the Jaguar, because only he finally feeds them real meat; S. gives birth to a son; K. is pregnant; Jaguar's mother asks her to take it out a thorn out of her leg, the wind blows, K. laughs; when she laughs again, Jaguariha devours her; saves her uterus to eat later; S. saves it, raises her sister's baby; tells her son how her aunt died; he rises to the sky, produces thunder, making himself and her brother adults; cannot hit Jaguariha with arrows; brothers burn her; together with S. they rise to heaven (No. 25, p.82: turn into thunder), cut off the vine to prevent Jaguar from following them; Jaguar finds and turns the mother's corpse over; all blood-sucking insects fly out of the corpse]: Mindlin 1995, No. 22:73-77; synta larga [girl Kaboêp loved the Owl, but at the festival she met the Paxit bird (blue, considered the son of Jaguar), asking her to leave a sign for her on the path to his house; this is his feather; sister K. says that on the path to Owl's house is the Owl's feather; K. and his sister come to Owl {the sign substitution is not mentioned, the sister is no longer mentioned before the Mutum episode}; Owl's mother says that he should bring game to his wife; he brings rats; agrees to give corn; leads for honey, K. does not see bees, Owl climbs a tree, knocks out her eye (? ; quebrou olho), the liquid poured out, Owl says it's honey; K. replies that she will go for the vessel, goes to Pxit herself (took her hammock with her in advance); asks Pomi (Rolinha; bird?) , who eats fruit on a tree, do not say he saw it; comes to the Crane (Socó), who hides it in his throat; Pomi, Socó tell Sova that they have not seen his wife; Owl asks what Socó has bloating on his throat, he replies that his teeth hurt; K. sleeps under the wing of Mutum, becomes pregnant with him, K.'s sister does not get along with Mutum; K. came to Paxit, Owl demands her return, K. does not want to, Paxit kills the Owl with an arrow, he comes to life, returns home; Jaguariha's mother-in-law asks K. to remove the splinter from her leg; there is no splinter in her leg, Jaguariha kills K., sister K. saves the egg, Sunkip was born from it, grew up; his father tells him to kill Mutum so as not to scream (letters. "cried"); Mutum tells S. not to kill him, says that he is his father, that his mother killed Jaguariha; brings a snake to hide it among edible larvae; she bites Jaguariha, but she does not feel anything; then C . asks Jaguariha to catch nuts that he will throw from the tree, she catches; Mutum asks to check if Yaguariha feels the heat of the fire; advises her to get the larva thrown there out of the fire; S. pushes Jaguariha into the fire, she burns; the ashes have turned into harmful insects; S. asks the Turtle to deceive the Jaguar, who will take revenge; more about the Jaguars and the Turtle, full text in J12 motif]: Leonel Queiroz et al. 1988:63-69.

Southern Amazon. Vaura: Schultz 1966:26-30; Kalapalo [Quatinga meets Jaguar Nitzuega; he agrees not to kill K. for promising to send him daughters; K. carves five out of wood ; the tapir makes them a vagina by copulating; on the way they copulate with Laska, the Kingfisher; one died after drinking poisoned water from the lake; the other was split by a tapir's penis; the third fell off a palm tree, crashed; The male series says that he is N.; later women realize that this is not the chief's house; they come to N.; one sister becomes pregnant; N.'s mother blows the wind, the woman spits, chewing cotton, she kills her with her claw thrown; Taugi (elder) and Avlukum were taken out of the womb of the victim; the body was hidden under a roof; a forest chicken told the twins about the death of her mother; Jaguariha's house is surrounded by stinging insects, T . sent birds to eat them; the brothers killed Jaguariha; T. became pregnant with his aunt by giving her an arrow; she gave birth to warriors, T. gave them weapons; N.'s men fled to heaven; only Agouti escaped by slipping between her legs]: Baldus 1958:48-54; Basso 1973:10-12; 1987:29-79; Cuikuro: Carneiro 1989 [Kuantïnï decided to visit the sky where all animals are; in the forest he was surrounded by jaguars; their chief, the black jaguar Nitsuengï, agreed not to accept him kill when K. promised him his two daughters; N. put K. on his bow, untwisted it, threw it from the sky to the ground; K.'s daughters refused to go to the jaguar and K. carved the girls out of wood; out of 8 left in hammocks 6 came to life; made hair first from buriti fibers, then pineapple fibers - very wet; then from algae; made teeth from chips (black), piranha teeth (ate too quickly), seeds; tried different fibers for the triangle on the pubis; cut out the vaginas himself; told tifigu trees (at that time people) to have sex; penises are scratched; then lined the vaginas with cotton - good; Owl said to the eldest of the girls Itsanitsegu, that their father was going to send them to a jaguar; the battleship told the girls about the difficulties of the journey, in return demanded permission to get together with one of them; forgot his penis in the village and was running after it, the girls left; he blew, spreading witchcraft to make them die on the way; then he met the kingfisher, he gave fish, had sex with one of the girls, she put in a tampon so as not to get pregnant; same with a howler monkey, gave fried fish; the seagull offered fried oysters, the girls refused, so the seagull could not get along with them; another species of kingfisher; the girl who stayed with him asked him to throw him necklace on the back so as not to interfere during copulation; poured sperm on it, taking out her tampon; since then, this kingfisher has white spots and necklace marks on its back; the girls sent the most beautiful the tree shed the buriti leaves; I. turned the stumps of their nails into biting flies; from their bites, the tree that climbed the tree fell, the leaves pierced it, others buried it; the deer refused to copulate, although I. she wanted to; she gave him salt and since then the deer have died quickly from the wound; on a slippery path, one slipped, fell and died; K. warned the girls not to drink from the poisonous river; one drank, died, her buried; the tapir cut down trees, warned of a fork - if you go the wrong path, you will get to the wolf's village; I. told one girl to get along with him, his thick penis split her; I. hit him in anger, Since then, the tapirs have a narrow ass; when they saw that the split one was made of wood, the remaining two girls were upset, which means that they were also sent to the jaguar; Tayra barbara gave honey, but it is strong the girls began to cough; he got along with him, the cough stopped; at the fork in Itsanitsegu went left to the wolf village, and Anafukuagu went to the right, to the village of Jaguar; I. climbed a tree above the river; the wolf's wife The series saw the reflection, decided it was her own, began to show off beauty; then she realized; threw a nail stump, it became a fly, she bit the series, she dropped the calebass with water, it crashed; same again; then she called her husband; I. followed the wolf, thinking it was a jaguar; a fish fell out of his ass, he said that the fish was in the shell of the necklace; the wolf's mother greeted I., but she realized that she was mistaken: she was treated to fruit, i.e. food for wolves; from her sister, Jaguar N. found out that I. was in the wolf's village; took her; gave her potions to drink, she regurgitated her fish, got rid of pregnancy from a wolf; when I. was 8 months old, N. hid it under the roof, told her not to spit if his mother Kafisatïgo came and let the winds go; I. spat the cotton seeds, Kafisatigo decided that, out of disgust, she threw her claw at her, that compartment her head; sister I. raised the alarm; N. said that this was his third wife killed by his mother; Aguti told the girls' father, who sent an ant into I.'s vagina, the ant said that there were two boys in the womb; Quantini put them in the basket; they grew up quickly; the wild dog gave them the names Taoguiñï and Aulukumá; the grasshopper gives them the names Sun (Giti) and Month (Nune); A. asked the Sun to dig peanuts on partridge garden; she retaliated that A. was the Sun's aunt, and his mother killed her mother-in-law; the brothers took her mother's body from the roof of the house, where they put it to dry; the Sun sent a fly in her nose, she came to life, he He spoke to her, but she cried and died again; digging animals dug up the grave, I. buried; The sun told the bird to eat wasps, the hawk to eat snakes, the anteater to poison ants, and the tapir to trample the thorns; the road to N.'s mother opened; the brothers came to her disguised as young children; she began to tell how she killed I.; the Sun killed her; evil butterfly spirits flew out of her body; The month looked out from behind the tree, to him her nose was torn off; the Sun attached it, but now that the moon is in profile, you can see that there is no nose; Quantini let A. eat the ashes of bamboo, she gave birth to a zhurun, suya, and other wild Indians; took the opossumiha child, N. said that it was hers, he was glad; but the opossumich took him away; the wild Indians killed all the jaguars; the Sun saved his father and aunt by placing them in heaven, and to have what they had, he put tapir and deer there ( now constellations on the Milky Way); having arranged the life of wild Indians, the Sun rose to heaven]: 4-14; Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973 [Kuatungue went to make a net for fibers; he was surrounded by jaguars; he promised one daughter, he let him go; he has two daughters, but he carved six girls out of wood; tried different hair fibers; first piranha teeth, they eat too fast, then from seeds; made pubic triangles (trees did not want to give fiber for this); when they heard an owl scream, the girls asked their father what was going on; he told the whole story; on the way, one got drunk from a poisonous river and died; the kingfisher showed the way, for which he met with one of the girls; Tyra gave one honey, she coughed, he got along with her; the tapir showed the way, met the girl, she split, they realized that they were wooden; the battleship showed the way, went to get an erection, the girls ran away, he said they would die on the way; one slipped in the river, hit, died; a deer warned of a fork; one climbed onto a palm tree for leaves, another turned the nail stumps into flies, they bit the one who had climbed, fell, ran into a leaf, died; at the fork, two sisters climbed a tree; seriema, the wolf's wife I saw the reflection, thought she was beautiful; they turned the nail stumps into flies, they bit the series, she dropped the calebass, she crashed; so twice; the series called her husband; the older sister, made of at the bottom of the trunk, followed the wolf's path, the youngest followed the jaguar path; the jaguar took the wolf that had come to the wolf; she turned around, the wolf's mother's head fell off; the jaguar gave her potions to remove the wolf's fruit; she became pregnant from the jaguar; spat a cotton seed, the jaguariha thought that out of contempt for her, she cut off her head with a claw; her sister picked up the boys Rit (Sun) and Une (Month); the jaguar resettled her mother, surrounding the place with snakes, wasps, thorns, put the body of the victim on the roof of the house; the brothers grew up, stole partridge peanuts, she told them about the death of his mother; the bird ate the wasps, the snake hawk, the tapir trampled the thorns, the brothers killed the grandmother, tied stones to her legs and trampled her; set fire to her house, her body exploded, Months had her nose torn off, now flat; Rit told the jaguar to eat capybaras, not people; her mother was removed from the roof, she was barely alive, Rit hugged her , he said, she was completely dead; the digging animals dug the grave; Rith told his father to prepare lots of bows and clubs; told his aunt to give birth in the forest, she gave birth to wild Indians, Rith gave them weapons; The aunt told her husband that she gave birth to an opossum child, but the opossumich took him away; the wild Indians killed the jaguars, and threw his father and aunt Rit into heaven on the bow; Rit divided the tribes; then Rit and Une went to Morena] : 72-88; Kamayura: Agostinho 1974, No. 1, 3:161-164, 171-176; Münzel 1973:15-29; Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973:57-62; Trumay: Murphy, Quain 1955:73-74; Bakairi: Steinen 1897:323; Bororo: Wilbert, Simoneau 1983, No. 98, 99:174-175, 180-182.

Chaco. Caduveo.

Southern Brazil. Chiripa; mbia; caigua; apapokuwa; nyandeva.