J17. Frogs in hair. .15.16.21.22.24.25.27.29.30.32.-.35.37.-.46.48.50.61.66.-.68.71.

Instead of lice, the character's hair contains other creatures, or he pretends to live in his hair.

Southern Europe. Italians (Switzerland) [stepmother tyrannites her stepdaughter; sends a cow to herd, brings a basket of yarn with her, promises to kill if the work is not ready by evening; an old woman (this is Madonna) comes asks to comb her hair; says that a cow will take care of the yarn; the cow chews yarn, threads come out of her nostrils; the old woman's hair has gold and silver jewelry; she gives them to the girl; tells her on the way back do not turn to the scream of a donkey, turn to the cry of a rooster; she turned to the scream of a rooster, a star fell from the sky, was on her forehead; the stepmother sent her own daughter, gave little yarn, a lot of food; the girl offered yarn to the cow, but she was not interested; an old man (it was the devil) came, told him to comb his hair (toads, snakes, unpleasant insects), look back at the scream of a donkey, not a rooster; girl looked around, the snake dug into her forehead and wrapped around her body; at home, the mother tried to tear off the snake, but it wrapped around her arm; no one could help, but the stepdaughter easily tore off the snake; the stepmother and her daughter asked for Forgiveness stepdaughters; the scar on her own daughter's forehead and the bruise on the stepmother's right arm remained]: Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 63:234-238.

Western Europe. Germans (Austria) [stepmother sends Marie to the Cat Mill for brushwood and coal; cat people live there; the eldest asks her to look for different animals and snakes in her hair, but M. says that only fleas, gives a chest of gold, tells the cats to take it; the stepmother sends the eldest daughter, she refuses to take moles and mice out of her hair, cats tore her; the same with her sister and mother; M. goes beyond graph]: Cerf 1992:243-245.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lakher [Chhongchongpipa refuses to let the deceased enter the land of the dead before he removes his fleas; his fleas are large hairy caterpillars; the deceased is placed between his fingers sesame seeds; he bites through the seeds with a loud sound, saying Ch. that he's the one biting through his fleas; Ch. lets pass]: Parry 1932:397; best [Tlumtea marries Vanchung; she says she forgot her comb and rod, Tl. Returns for them, tells me to sit in a tree, not laugh, don't cry; Tonulawki sees V.'s shadow, takes it for her own, but is surprised that the other necklaces and bracelets; V. laughs, T. tells her to go down to look in each other's head; T.'s lice are huge, V. pretends to bites through them, just snaps his teeth; then T. looks in V.'s head, swallows it, puts her clothes on]: Shakespear 1909:404-409.

Burma - Indochina. Karen [the girl went to get water, the bamboo vessel slipped out, swam along the river; she came to the giant's dam for it; he brought her home; he and his wife took care of her, did not tell her open two baskets; the girl opened it, one had human skulls, the other was gold and silver; the giantess asked to clean her hair, there were snakes and centipedes; the girl killed them; she was allowed to go home, take any basket; she took an old one (with gold); she opened it, one had human skulls in one, told her to wash her hair in a black river, her lips in red, her body in white; a girl at home gave her neighbors treasures; one young man also arranged for the giants to adopt him; asked for an old basket, not knowing that it had skulls; opened it at home; a giant came and ate it]: Mason 1865:228-229.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Dusun (Piasau) [in the Tamburan Forest, she enters Ligat Liow's hut, she has a big heavy head; she asks her to grind rice for her, look for insects, snakes and scorpions; T. takes them out, her head LL becomes light, she gets up, gives seven pumpkins; T.'s cut pumpkins make food, dishes, gold, poultry and livestock; rich Sikinding goes to the forest, refuses to grind rice, comb his hair LL; snakes and scorpions come out of his pumpkin, bite him and his family to death]: Evans 1913:439-442 (translated into Braginsky 192:114-117).

Taiwan - Philippines. Bontok: Eugenio 1994, No. 219 [the poor brother hunts, the chased bear jumps into the river, he follows him; answers the underwater woman that he did not hunt, but his son is waiting for him on the shore; does not laugh when she breaks rice, making indecent sounds with her back; it was not he who collects lice from her hair, but her son is waiting for him on the shore; she does not laugh when she breaks rice, making an indecent sound with her back: ants, centipedes, stinging insects; she gives him a basket, tells him to take him to his lock, sacrifice animals to her; since then, the closure has not been depleted; the rich brother decides to repeat the adventure; says that the deer is his; laughs, hears indecent sounds, doesn't want to collect insects; he opens the basket at home, all those stinging insects and reptiles come out of it, kill it, spread around the world]: 362-363; Scott 1961 [ the old woman asks the traveler to look in her hair; there are poisonous insects and snakes, the man takes them out; the old woman gives him pine needles and straws, tells him to put them in the bins, it is filled with rice; the neighbor went to the same old woman, expressing his disgust, began to pry poisonous creatures with a wand; she turned him into a pole from under which the water that had cultivated the lake clogged. Danom]: 58-59; bagobo [brother and sister hear someone telling them to wait to make a basket for them; Buso asks him to look in his head, there are big lice and worms; takes the children in the basket; the girl asks me to stop picking up a comb; brother and sister run away with stones in the basket; Buzo's wife finds stones in the basket; buzo looks for children, sees them on a bethel palm tree; tells plants at the foot of the river palm trees grow big, children tell a palm tree to grow, drop nuts on plants, they drown; the buzo leaves, the children return to their parents]: Benedict 1913, No. 3:44-45.

The Balkans. Serbs [stepmother drives her stepdaughter away; she cleans up the dragon's house, looks for worms in his head, says that the head is fragrant; feeds the dragon's cattle (these are wild animals); takes as a reward the most a light chest, it is full of ducats; the own daughter does not clean up the dragon, says that the head stinks, hits animals, chooses the largest chest, snakes jump out of it, eat her and her mother's eyes out]: Karadzich 1856 in Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:78-81.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Tabasarans [stepmother tells Perikhanum to herd a red cow and spin his hair; the wind carries wool, the cow tells him to follow the wind; P. goes through a golden, silver current to the Azhdaha cave; in his hair snakes, lizards, P. says her hair is clean; the dough is dirty, P. says it's clean like her mother's; cleans the house, takes no treasures, Azhdaha shakes her on a swing, the gold from her dress does not fall; he tells her swim in a white lake, wash her hair in black, gives gold, dresses and a horse that can be turned into anything; when she sees beauties, the stepmother sends her own daughter Aykhanum; she calls Azhdakha dirty, she hides gold, it falls out on a swing; she is told to swim in a black lake, wash her hair in white, and a horn grows on her forehead; stepmother and A. go to the party, tells P. to separate the ash and millet, fill the vessel with tears; the mother from the grave teaches how to sift the millet through a sieve, fill the vessel with water and salt, put on a dress, take the horse given by Azhdakha; returning from the wedding, P. lost her shoe; bek's son fell in love, found the owner of the shoe; his stepmother slipped him her freak daughter instead of P.; P. flew in as a dove, A. ordered to slaughter her, threw her giblets away, a pine tree grew, A. ordered to make a cradle out of her, the old woman picked up chips; someone cooks in her house, she finds a girl; fattens a thin horse, she is getting prettier; Beck's son calls women to spin and tell stories; P. tells; everything is explained, stepmother and A. was put on horseback, whipped]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 49:444-450; Georgians [stepmother kills her stepdaughter with work; she goes down to the floor for a fallen spindle; the mother of the devas asks to look for hair, worms and reptiles; the girl says that her head is clean, the old woman directs her to a yellow spring, her hair and arms turn golden; the stepmother's daughter tells the old woman that she is rotten, she directs her to white and black springs, she turns black, a horn grows on her head; her stepdaughter's cow is slaughtered, a horse jumps out of her grave at the call of her stepdaughter, brings her stepdaughter a luxurious outfit; she loses her shoe, king looks for her, marries her stepdaughter]: Chikovani 1954:307-310; Azerbaijanis [the fisherman has an adult daughter Fatmazhykh and a little son Kiyavyzhykh; the mother died, the fisherman took the fanged Bash-khanum; she gave birth to bald boy and girl; ordered the old children to be taken to the forest; the father tied a board to the tree so that it would knock, and the children thought he was cutting wood; left; K. was thirsty, F. did not tell me to drink from the spring - you will a horse; then a dog; K. got drunk from the third, became a bull; said that he would now feed his sister with honey and oil, which were in his horns; took his sister; although the father and stepmother had moved, the bull found them; F . said that her brother was run over by a bear, and she came in a bull; she was sent to scratch her hair, the bull fed her; the wind carried away the tow; F. ran after her, ran into the hut; there were Baba Yaga, snakes in her hair and centipedes; F. asked her tow, the old woman asked how she liked the hut; F. praised the cleanliness; the old woman blessed her; told her to wake her up when the white, red and black water ran; washed her with three by waters, F. became white-bodied, her eyebrows and eyelashes black, her cheeks and lips red; gave her tow; her stepmother sent her own daughter; she called the old woman ugly; three waters made her body black, her eyebrows and eyelashes white, a red spot appeared on her forehead; then the stepmother pretended to be sick, asked for bull meat; he tells her sister to collect his bones and throw it into the well, where a beautiful outfit will appear; the stepmother and daughter went to meeting to the Shah, and F. ordered to separate the millet from the ash and fill the bowl with tears; the rooster and the chickens were separated, the rooster advised to prepare salt water; wearing the dress in the well, F. came to the palace, showered everyone with flowers, and her stepmother with ash; when she ran back, she lost her slipper; Tsarevich Mamed ordered to look for the owner; the rooster screams that F. was in a hole, tied hand and foot; M. married F.; stepmother's daughter pushed her into the sea, put on her dress; in the morning the rooster screams: her sister was drowned in the sea, swallowed her catfish, she carries the Shah under her heart and asks for salvation; the fishermen caught the catfish, took out F.; M. asks the liar if she wants a golden knife or a seven-year-old mare; she does not understand whether she wanted a mare; she was put in one bag, and the puppy and the pan in another; frightened by the roar, the horse rushed, the body scattered across the valleys; M. stayed with F.]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:3-19.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians (Azerbaijan, Khorasan, Markazi, Fars, Mazendaran) [my husband is kicked out of the house, he meets a diva; to mistake him for an even more terrible monster, a man hiding in a hiding place agrees to the offer to show parts of his body, etc.; whose lice are larger - the person shows a frog (or turtle); longer hair - shows a rope; teeth are larger - donkey hoof; voice louder - hits with an object; whose spit is more powerful - dumps contents from the intestine; whose fist punch is more powerful - hits the diva with an ax; etc.]: Marzolph 1984, No. 1152:188-189; Tajiks: Amonov 1980 [to to lure the cowardly husband out of the house, his wife did not feed him, and then took pancakes out into the yard and locked the door; he killed 70 mosquitoes, wrote on his staff that he had rid himself of 70 evils; picked up a donkey's tail, a frog, along the way, plow share; towards divas, offers to throw his tooth to each other, the coward throws a share; the hair from under the arm is a donkey tail; the louse from the body is a frog; the diva brings the coward towards him, afraid that he will swallow he and his mother, decides to kill him at night; the coward put a log, the divas hit him with a club at night, the coward said that mosquitoes were biting; the boiler of boiling water was hot, sweating; the divas pulling trees, the coward pretends that is going to tie up and tear out the whole garden at once; what is going to hit the sky with a stick; a diva brings a coward loaded with gold into the house and leaves]: 160-165; Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957 [on his way, weaver picked up a turtle, a horse's tail, a bull's horn; came to the diva fortress; the divas offered to measure his strength; threw his louse (the size of a cockroach) from behind the wall; the weaver threw a turtle; the other threw his hair from mustache, weaver - horse tail; when asked to voice, he sounded a horn; the weaver entered the fortress, took the captured girl out of there; the village decided that the weaver was a hero, they asked to kill the bear; the weaver became watching in the pit, seeing the interweather, cried out, the bear jumped, stuck his head between the branches of the tree; the weaver was asked to defeat the robbers; he ordered to be tied to a skinny horse; the horse carried, the weaver grabbed by the poplar and pulled it out, the enemies retreated in horror; at night the weaver quietly returned home]: 317-319 [the poor old man brings brushwood to the bazaar, the Fox eats the cakes that his wife gives him on the road every time; the old man decides to take the other road, gets to 40 genies; the old man says that he is Azrail, has come for their souls; they give him a golden mortar and pestle, the old man pretends to hardly agree; getting rid of old man, genies call animals to pilaf on the occasion of his father's death; Lisa wonders why now, although his father is long dead; Lisa leads the genies to make sure it's just a poor old man; the old man shouts to Lisa that he does not need genies to pay for his old debts, let him carry money; the genies kill Lisa, run away, decide to leave the area altogether.]

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi [stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter to the forest; he ties a block of wood to the tree, he swings in the wind, knocks, the girl thinks that her father is near; at night she hears the voices of 12 pigeons, praises them , they throw her jewelry, she comes back; the stepmother leaves her own daughter in the forest, who wakes up to the scream of 12 kites, scolds them, they fill her with twigs, the stepmother has difficulty digging up; sends her stepdaughter turn to the bathhouse to be eaten by Ye; she gets out from under the stove, leeches and snakes in her hair; the girl replies that the guest looks better than many; J. asks to look in her head, wake her up when the white one flows, black and red water; water pours, J. bathes the girl in white, runs her black eyebrows, red over her lips and cheeks, the girl returns beautiful; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she calls the old woman dirty , she bathes her in black water, runs her white through her hair and eyebrows, red on her forehead; her stepmother is strangled, her daughter is drowned]: Aisin 1993:300-302.

Turkestan. Karakalpaki [Yeshamak told his brother Doshamak to take care of the foal, he died, D. ran, saw a horse stuck in the swamp, tore off its tail, picked up a partridge eggs, a frog; herd the old woman's goats; climbed on an apricot, began to shake off the fruits, told the goats to eat half, but they ate everything, he stabbed them, ran away; returned to his brother, to meet two giants, D. offers competitions: squeeze them out butter out of the ground (presses eggs), pull hair out of the armpits (shows the horse's tail), race lice (lets the frog in); the giants ran away, the brothers took their wealth]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:145- 147.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Altaians [Brother Borolda-Mergen tells Sister Babosh-Aar, in his absence, not to fry the liver of the maral, not to hide behind a sable blanket, not to go to a wooded mountain; she roasts the liver floods the fire, the girl comes to an old woman, whose ears serve as bedding and blankets; searches for spiders and centipedes in her head; gets fire; at home she notices the thread, cuts it off, hides in rock; an old woman comes along a thread; skin warmups give her away; an old woman is ready to get her out of the cliff, her brother kills her with an arrow; swallowed people come out of her womb]: Garf, Kuciyak 1978:164-168.

Western Siberia. The Nenets [the cannibal old Tadibey (shaman) ate everyone, took his brother and sister; tells the girl to look in her head, there are mice; the young man and another prisoner in Tadibey's house kill him and his family]: Tonkov 1936:120-126; Ents [husband hunting, giant guy enters the plague, calls the hunter's wife to tear the grass together; suggests looking in each other's heads; Parne lice are beetles and other crawling insects; Parnay tells them to eat, the woman slowly throws them to the ground; when she puts her head on Parnay's lap, she pierces an awl into her ear; carries her body home wrapped in grass; the victim's eldest daughter notices her mother's hair; cf. J54 motive]: Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 12:65-76; Northern Selkups [Tamnenka (abbreviated for "frog", her antipode Natank ("girl", perfect woman) is a skillful midwife, then steals a newborn to give it to inhuman creatures; she is stupid and childish, does not know how to manage, she has bugs in her hair instead of lice, fuzzy articulation, three-toed hand]: Tuchkova 2004:286.

Amur - Sakhalin. Orochi {At first, Arsenyev did not separate the Udege and Oroch texts; since we are talking about sailing by sea, is it more like an Orochi? But maybe the Udege people also}: Arsenyev 1995 (1): 114-116 [the elder, middle brothers leave signs that indicate that they have died; the youngest Egda sees a huge boat in the sea with a stone Sandulya in it; he took E. into the boat; in his hair there is a ram, musk deer, S. says they are his lice; when they were at the cape, E. became a cormorant, dived, sailed away], 115 [Sandul's stone-man rode north by sea in a boat; towards Egda, E.'s arrow, spear broke against S.'s body; S. invited him into his boat; E. says that S. has musk deer in his hair, a wild goat; S. replies that they are lice; at Cape E. became a cormorant, dived, and became on the shore again a man, killed the elk; asked S. to open his mouth, threw the back, then the front of the elk at him; in the belly, both parts joined together, the elk came to life, tore Sandulya].

Japan. Kojiki ch. 18:64-66 [Oo-namuji marries Susanoo's daughter; S. tries to destroy him, his wife gives talismans against opsations; 1) spend the night in a cave with snakes; 2) with stacks and bees; 3) tells you to look for an arrow fired, surrounds the plain with fire; The mouse says how to hide; O. stomps his foot, falls into a hole, waits for the fire; the mouse brings him an arrow; 4) S. tells looking for insects in his head, these are legs; the wife gives O. red clay, he spits it out like bitten legs; O. ties the sleeping S. by the hair to the rafters, fills the entrance to the house with a rock, runs away with his wife, taking the Sword of Longevity, the Bow and Arrows of Longevity, Heavenly Talking Koto; she hits a tree, S. wakes up; O. and his wife manage to reach the exit from the Underground Land (Umi Country Passage ); S. predicts him to become God, the Ruler of the Great Country; O. develops the land].

SV Asia. Chukchi [Omyayak sees enemies, collects worms from the ground, says they are lice taken out of his hair, enemies run away in horror; another time he shows the mouse in the same way, puts it in clothes the enemy, the one in a panic]: Tyn'etegyn 1959:39-41; forest yukaghirs: Jochelson 1926 (b. Corcodon) [Mythical Woman finds only a woman with a baby in the plague; refuses all types of food offered to her, wants to take out insects from each other; the hostess finds mice in the guest's hair, and not lice; then she looks for a guest, strangles the hostess; devours her, tries to put on her clothes; she is cramped, MF cuts off her flesh with an ax, pulls on her clothes; the husband comes, suspects something is amiss, sleeps separately; in the morning they go to his parents; he runs ahead, warns about MF; his brother invites her to dance, pushes her into the fire; mice run out of the ash]: 305-306 (=Johelson 1900, No. 20:47-49); Nikolaeva et al. 1989 (1), No. 25 (p. Ridiculous Verkhnekolymsky District) [the old man drinks water from the ice-hole, the fabulous old man (SS) grabs his beard, lets him go when he promises to give him his two children; the old man and the old woman run away, hide their children under the floor; only the jar answers the UK where they are; he asks the children to remove his lice; these are mice and ermines; the foal takes the children, the SS regurgitates the ax, throws it, kills the foal; next time children takes the calf away; tells him to kill a louse, he will die, make a fence out of his skin and hooves, lie in the middle; brother and sister wake up in the house, there are also two dogs on an iron rope; brother hunts with them, the sister takes the SS as her husband, hides it in the house; both are thinking how to kill her brother; the SS promises to spit in the food to poison him; the dog hears, warns the brother; the dog kills the SS, the brother kills the sister with an arrow]: 79 -83 (=Kurilov 2005, No. 30:293-297); Chuvans [an orphan herds a rich man's cattle; a rich man's son at a nearby camp was presented with a dagger, and an orphan a puppy; a rich man's son laughs at an orphan; when an orphan returns in yaranga, the fire is burning, the food is cooked; once watched a dog take off its skin and turn into a girl; threw his skin into the fire; the girl warns that it will be taken away from him; the son of a rich man wants her take away, gives the orphan difficult errands; 1) get the dagger forgotten by his father from the cliff; wife: hit the rock with a snowplower, it will collapse; the cliff has fallen apart, a dagger has fallen out of it; 2) bring the one tied to father's dog on the pass; the wife gives an iron rod to beat the dog on the nose is not a dog, but a bear; 3) go to my father who lives on the horizon, bring a dagger from him; wife: devils live there; you have to climb the roof of the central iron house, ask for a knife; they gave a knife, with lice the size of a mouse on it; 4) bring the parents themselves; the devils came, but the orphan turned all the yarangas into bunches of grass; the devils are gone; 5) bring a dog tied at the horizon; this is a huge bear; his wife gave a lasso; when he saw the bear, the rich man offered a herd, but his wife advised me to take some of the argish; they migrated; the rich starved to death]: Brodsky, Innecay 2018, No. 18:38-42.

The Arctic. The island of St. Lawrence [the girls roll down the Giantess's dugout like a hill; she shoves them into her park, hangs them on a pole, tells him to straighten up; the birds refuse to help, the Fox tells the pole to bend down tells the girls to put moss instead; the youngest fell asleep and stayed in the park; while ripping open the park, the Giantess cuts off the girl's finger; agrees to take her in her head; there are mice, beetles, squirrels; The giantess tells them to gnaw, the girl just pretends to throw them away; the fox pretends to have blood from her nose, as if all the buckets are full of blood, in fact they contain red clay; the Giantess agrees empty the buckets at the top of the mountain; the Fox is on her heels like a spirit, pushing the Giantess off the cliff; when she goes to bed, takes out her eyes, tells her to guard; the Giantess comes up, her eyes jump, she calls, the Fox is still sleeping; The giantess bites her eyes, ties animal vertebrae to the Fox's tail; The fox runs, then realizes what's going on; makes new eyes out of kaavlaks berries, they are good, but fall out of the eye sockets; then from berries aamaks; they fit, but mow a little, since then slightly cross-eyed; releasing the girl from the dugout, the Giantess puts her in a bag, ties a rope to it; the girl's two brothers release her, put her in a bag a walrus skull, run away; the Giantess pursues; the girl throws a whetstone, it turns into a mountain; runs a river on the ground with a stump of her finger; answers the Giantess that she crossed on a shell; the Giantess cannot; then she advises to drink the river; the Giantess's belly is inflated, the girl offers to dance on the mountain; the Giantess bursts, making iron pans and boilers]: Slwooko 1979:14-20; Kodiak [the leader's daughter rejects suitors; two come to her at night, take her away in a boat, make her wife; three days later they lock her in the house without food; the old woman invites her to marry her son; carries her to heaven in a basket; the husband, like everyone else Stars, there are only half of the person (vertically), he has moss and mice on his head; a woman gives birth to the same son; Stars let her see the ground, descend in a basket; she visits her parents, returns to sky]: Golder 1903, No. 3:21-26; central Yupik (Nunapitchuk, lower reaches of Kuskoquim) [Yaqutgiarcaq ("Birdie") is the eldest of three children, she has a younger sister and brother; sister says parents call them they leave in a boat, but N. still collects cranberries; when the sisters go out to the river, the parents have already sailed away; they eat the fish head they have thrown; the father's skewer replies that the parents have gone this way; the sisters come to the dugout, there is an old woman in it, she asks to look for her in her head; her lice are voles and mice, she bites through them; N. says they need to pee; the old woman suggests doing it in her pot hand, ears, mouth, N. replies every time that they do not do this; the old woman ties a rope to them, lets them out of the dugout; the sisters tie a rope to a stump, run to the river; ask two Cranes to stretch through the river legs, for which they will paint them ocher; the cranes stretch their legs, the children cross them; the cannibal running on all fours is responsible for crossing on two shells (clam sells), two pieces of birch bark, on a blade of grass divided in half; each time the cannibal falls into the water; the sisters ask the Cranes to stretch out their legs, then remove them when the cannibal is in the middle of the river; the cannibal drowns, the mouse spits up; sisters paint Cranes feet black, forehead red, body blue clay; sisters come home; parents cry, don't believe when son says sisters are back; sisters enter the house, who were in it turn partridges, owls into owls (hawk owls), now hunt partridges]: Fienup-Riordan, Kaplan 2007:13-29; Northern Alaska Inupiate (Noatak) [parents warn two daughters what if they find a baby, you don't have to take him home; the eldest daughter brings; a man arrives, marries her, takes her in a sleigh through a hole in the sky; goes for a drink, leaving his wife for a while; a stranger appears, breaks off wife's clothes, takes the baby, takes her place; wearing a woman's clothes, the wife turns into a beetle; lets the caribou step on, bursts, regains her human appearance; she is naked, makes clothes from herbs, feeds on dead caribou, builds a hut; the husband asks the false wife why she stinks; she replies that she is sweaty from work; the husband finds a real wife; discovers false bugs in her hair; leaves her into the fire]: Hall 1975, No. M34:204-206; McKenzie estuary [children play dads and moms, one girl calls her husband the skeleton of a whale, who takes her to sea; she must clean his head; his lice are shrimp, she pretends to bite through them; her brothers come for her; she asks Keith to let her go out of need; Keith ties her by the rope, she ties her to a pole, tells her to be responsible for her; Keith stalks the fugitives; the girl throws different pieces of her clothes one at a time, Keith loses time caressing them each time; they kill them off the coast of Whale]: Ostermann 1942:117-119.

Subarctic. Koyukon [one of the widow's sons, Ggaadooggaa, sleeps all the time as a child, becomes a shaman; his mother drives him to throw snare at the rabbits, he goes, throws them into trees; his mother tells him to put normally, he catches rabbits in them;; the mother sends them to check the traps on blackfish, they are full; the mother asks for crooked sticks (i.e. porcupines), he brings a bunch of sticks; when he finds out what's going on catches lots of porcupines; his mother tells me to chop wood for the hearth; he cuts and roasts his younger siblings; {it is not clear from the text why; apparently an unexplained play on words}; mother says that it is necessary to cut there were trees; he cuts a tree, blood splashes from the trunk, which means that he has become a real shaman; chasing a woodpecker, he comes to the lake house, lives there with an old woman; she kills the Caribbean with her gaze; G. hears blows, this a dangerous man is more powerful than an old woman; G. goes to him, he asks him to look for squirrels, mice, caresses in his head, instead of lice; G. pokes them with an old woman's awl, throws them into boiling water; the old man wants to throw him, but G. confronts him himself, there is only blood in the boiling pot; G. lives with the old woman, sends her for firewood, comes to his two uncles, who hide him from the woman who comes, but he goes with her; her father is dangerous; G. does not eat a man, puts a woman to sleep, changes places with her, cutting off her hair, putting it to his head; her father kills her instead of G., he runs, the cannibal tells him to cramp, he freezes to the ice, G. his uncle calls, they save him, their dogs kill the ogre; G. returns to the old woman; she does not tell him to move the stove under her pillow, he moves it, sees the ground through the hole, sees his mother; the old woman lowers him on tendon rope, asks to untie rather than cut the rope; he cuts off, so people hang themselves on a rope; G. finds his mother, becomes a good shaman]: Alaska Native Writers 1986:42-45 (=Attla 1989:31 -69).

NW Coast. Hyda [see motive L72; Grizzlies kidnap the chief's daughter; she runs away, promises copper to the man in the boat; the boat bites off the heads of pursuers - wolves and bears; the new husband tells him to look for him in head; there are frogs, a woman bites her nails instead of them; recognized as a wife; see M21 motif]: Swanton 1905:336-338; Tsimshian: Barbados 1953:108-117 (southern coastal) [father-chief gives grooms Rhpisunt; she picks berries, is taken away by Chief Grizzly's son; there are many semi-petrified (starting with her legs) women in his house; the mouse asks R. to give her fat and wild sheep hair (used for cosmetics and jewelry); warns not to eat crabapples berries (these are human eyes), bring a raw and green tree for the fire that is not dry; advises to distract the attention of her husband's two sisters; R. loads them with firewood, quietly ties him to a tree, runs away; when the Grizzly approaches, R. hides in a tree; at the mouth of the river. Skin is called by Dzaradilaw, who sails in a copper boat; he does not respond to the promise of wealth, takes R. into the boat when she calls him husband; asks him to bite through his lice, these are frogs, she fulfills the request; kills the Grizzly with a live club with heads on both ends; D.'s first wife is friendly, but D. warns not to look if R. hears anything; R. hears crunches and chomps, spies, sees wolverine, falls dead; D. kills his wolverine wife with a spear, puts pieces of her heart on R., she comes to life; gives birth to a boy; they come to Father R.; he is concerned about the sounds that the boy makes at night; mother and son move out; son shoots birds, they turn out to be pure copper; he makes copper shields; his maternal uncle thinks that the young man is poor, refuses to give him his daughter; he dresses the girl in copper, uncle ashamed; (origin of the Copper Face coat of arms)], 129-146 (Gitsees, Port Simpson) [while picking berries, the leader's daughter steps into bear droppings, scolds bears; on the way home, the strap of her basket breaks; two men are offered to help, take the girl to the Grizzly house; the owner calls her daughter-in-law; The mouse advises that the girl hide her bowel movements by replacing them with pieces of copper (her jewelry); Grizzly believe that she had the right to despise bears for their litter; the girl quietly ties her two Grizzly sisters to the stumps, runs away; on the shore she calls Dzaradilaw, who is swimming in a copper boat; he takes the girl into the boat when she promises to marry him; kills the Grizzly with a live boomerang club with a mouth at the end; the girl sees frogs in D.'s hair; snaps them as if she chews on them, actually throws them into the water; D's first wife . friendly, but D. warns not to look at her; the girl spies, Wolverine devours her soul; D. kills his wolverine wife by cutting off her head, lubricating her neck with herbal infusion (otherwise her head grows): takes the woman's soul out of her body, she comes to life; gives birth to a boy; her brothers bring gifts; D. hides his wife, brothers find her corpse (i.e. the appearance of a corpse); D. sends his wife and son to her parents; a mature son should not communicate with people; the ban is broken, the boy is weakening; the grandfather resettles him and his daughter; a young man shoots a bird on the water, it turns into a copper boat, they make jewelry out of it; uncle gives his daughter for a young man when the slave reports how much copper that father has; the club received from his father hunts seals herself; the young man invites water monsters by sending them a live spear he has received from his father; feeds fat, builds a totem pole]; bellacula: Boas 1898 [a woman picked berries, got lost, Stump took her to him, married her; a woman who grew into the floor of his house gives her an awl, tells her to pick her up they have toads, which Stump has in their hair instead of lice, bite their nails, pretending to bite through toads; says that Stump's night pot is his watchman; gives a urine bubble, a comb, a whetstone; a woman drills holes under the corolla; when the pot screams, its voice is weak, but the Stump still hears, rushes in pursuit; the woman throws objects, they turn into a lake, a thicket, a mountain; a woman runs to heaven to the Sun, that burns a stalker; a woman gives birth to the Sun an ugly son; wants to go home; mother and son go down the eyelashes, the rays of the Sun; the children laugh at the boy; he shoots, makes a chain of arrows, goes up to father, ask for permission to perform his duties; lights all the torches at once; the earth burns, the rocks crack, people die, only his mother's house is cool; the sun throws his son to the ground, makes him a burrow]: 100-103; McIlwraith 1948 (2) [see motive F51; a woman goes to Stump, who marries her; a legless old woman in his house tells her what to do, gives her the necessary items; the wife must take out the lice from Stump and to bite through them; these are toads; the wife kills them with a knife, snapping her teeth as if she is biting; the vessel that guards her; he is silent, does not raise alarm; throws oil, comb, needle, whetstone behind; they turn into a lake, a thicket, many sharp needles, a mountain; they resort to the Sun, which burns the pursuer with its heat]: 489-494.

The coast is the Plateau. Comox (chatloltk) [The Grizzly asks the Black Bear to remove her lice; they're frogs, they fall to the ground, the Bear says knots fall from the tree (should she eat imaginary lice?) ; The Grizzly kills the Bear, cuts off, cooks her breasts, gives the Bear's sons to eat; they recognize their mother's meat, kill the Grizzly children, leave them standing beside the chest as if they are getting food from there; they run away, climb on tree; asking Grizzly to open her mouth, throw wood dust in her face; Grizzly runs away]: Boas 1895, No. 9:81; Upper Chehalis [Bear and Puma are Woodpecker's wives, each with five sons; Bear collects ripe blackberries, Puma collects red ones; invites the Bear to look in each other's heads; Puma has lizards in her hair, she eats them; on the fourth day she sucks the Bear's blood, on the fifth day she bites off her head; Bear's children see Puma roasting their mother's breasts; Woodpecker gives them strong arrows and Puma's children; Cubs kill Puma's children with their arrows; Woodpecker sends Cubs to their grandmother, tells them to walk along the path where there is red paint; they go the other, get to the Wolf, run away, come to the grandmother; the cougar runs in, the grandmother cuts it in half, slamming the door shut; the corpse is burned]: Adamson 1934:43-46; clackamas [y The Black Bear and the Grizzly both have five sons; the Grizzly asks to look in her head; there are frogs, the Grizzly eats them; looks for the Bear, bites her, devours her breasts; brings her breasts home; the younger bear cub notices them; bears kill and cook Grizzly's sons; one body is left standing with a smiling mouth; Grizzly eats his children; chases the Cubs; the crane stretches its leg across the river, warns not step on the kneecap; The bears cross, the Grizzly scolds the Crane, steps on the knee; he removes his leg, it drowns; crows bite her vagina, she comes to life; paints her face with vaginal blood; goes and asks various trees what it looks like; depending on the answer, determines what their properties will be]: Jacobs 1958, No. 15:141-156; clickitat [the old woman sends her grandson Wild Cat to Ask the old man what month it is; he asks him to tell him that the month of Copulation; the old woman gets angry, puts on jewelry, goes to the Old Man; he invites her to sit on his penis; they copulate; Wild Cat spies on them, sets fire to the house, they die; the Wild Cat comes to the water, drinks, his teeth fall out; after picking them up, he comes to the Grizzly woman; she takes his teeth, gives his grizzly teeth, sleeps with him; he goes to the Bear; Grizzly comes running, throws him his teeth, takes hers; now the Bear takes his teeth, gives her own; the episode repeats when he comes from the Bear to the Puma, from the Puma to the Otter; the Wild Cat comes to five female mice; they dig an underground passage, run away with it, the Grizzly chases them; one by one, kills four; the fifth with the Wild Cat hides in a tree above the lake; the Grizzly sees their reflection then raises his head; climbs a tree; asks the Mouse to look for toads in her head; there are toads instead of lice; looking for a Mouse in her head, kills her; kills the Wild Cat]: Jacobs 1934, No. 12:24-27; ne perse [Grizzly sees a Raccoon on the tree, asks how he got in; backwards; she climbs backwards, asks him to look in her head; her lice are frogs; he pierces her ear with a needle, she dies; his grandmother scratched her thighs, the Raccoon says she is on her period, sends her home; pretends that a lot of people have come, eats all the meat himself, leaves her grandmother's skin; she puts it on, turns into a Grizzly, kills him]: Spinden 1917, No. 18:196-198; tillamook [the fisherman did not catch anything because of the thunderstorm, scolds Thunder; he takes him to heaven, placing him under his wing, promises that for two days, but this is two years; at home At home, Thunder brings a whale, it's a fish for him; a man is tired of eating kitten meat, fishing; Thunder's wife asks to look for her in her head, her lice are water dogs, he pulls them by the tail; he thinks like Thunder copulates with his wife because they are so big; his wife reads his mind; two years later, Thunder brings a man down to the ground, giving him a whale; wife, children, everyone is happy]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 51:167-171.

The Midwest. Menominee [see motive F34, motif J35; a woman has a bear lover; her husband kills her, buries her under the hearth; a dead mother chases her sons; a crane asks to remove his lice; these are toads; brothers they bite through cranberries; two Cranes stretch their necks like a bridge, brothers cross to the other side; the mother in disgust refuses to bite through the toads; the cranes remove their necks, she sinks]: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II14:364-366; timagami ojibwa [see motive K27; Vemicus kills sons-in-law; tells them to look in his head; there are lizards instead of lice; the wife advises her husband to bite through cranberries; V. thinks that he bites through his lice]: Speck 1915d, No. 4:45-47.

Northeast. Passamaquoddy [Gluscap meets an old woman who asks to look in her head; her lice are poisonous toads and porcupines; G. took cranberries in advance and nibbles berries; the witch believes he is bites through her lice, falls asleep; he runs away]: Leland 1884:38.

Plains. Blacklegs: Josselin de Jong 1914 [as in Wissler, Duvall; sacred pipe shells - the leader's son's bowel movements; lice on the bison's head are big beetles; the chief ties children to the central a pillar of a ritual building, paints black, dedicates to the sun; a young man kills the leader and parents by throwing stones in their mouths]: 83-85; Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. V1 [chief owns a sacred smoking room pipes; other children take away his sinks (from the tube?) ; the chief tells everyone to leave, leaving the children; they go to the witch; she kills everyone but the girl and her younger brother; they run; the bison's skull is responsible for them; the girl agrees to take out Bison's lice and bite through them; they're big beetles; bites beads instead of lice; Bison carries children across the river, they return to people; the witch says lice are bitter; the Bison throws her into the river, she drowns; parents they refuse the children who have come, the leader tells them to tie the children to a tree and leave them; a good old woman leaves her dog, he frees the children; the brother becomes a young man, kills buffalo with magic; people are starving; brother and sister feed them; kill their abusive parents by throwing pieces of hard meat into their mouths]: 138-141; grovantre [while children play, adults migrate; children come to the old woman; she kills sleeping, stepping on their necks with a hot fire; the girl does not sleep, asks to spare her and her brother; brings firewood and water to the old woman, she rejects them; the bird explains that she needs rotten water and ropes spirits growing on willows; the girl pretends that her brother needs to urinate, runs away with him; the horned water monster offers to look in his head, bite through the lice; his lice are frogs, girl gnaws plum bones; a monster carries children across the river; an old woman throws away frogs, a monster drowns her; children find parents, they tie them up, hang them from a tree; the dog pretends to be sick to stay at the camp, she hides the fire; frees the children; the sister tells her brother to look at the buffalo, they fall dead (this is how all kinds of work are done); the dog turns into an old man; people come back ; girl takes her brother and old man by wife, husband for herself; brother kills other people with a look]: Kroeber 1907b, No. 26:102-105; arpahoe [white man is angry with Indian children; tells parents leave them; children look for parents, get to an old woman; she cuts off the heads of sleepers; two sisters persuade them to spare them; a bird advises them to run; a crocodile (?) I agree to transport them across the river if they collect insects from him; his lice are frogs; they click them like lice; they get to people]: Voth 1912, No. 15.

California. Pomo: Barrett 1933, No. 87 [The falcon brings better game to his Deer Wife and worse to his Mother Bear; the Bear chases him; his Grandfather tree opens the trunk, he hides in it; the Bear calls Olenikha to collect clover; asks her to look for snakes in her hair; then she looks for Olenikha herself, bites off her head; feeds her two sons her meat; the Lark says that they eat their mother; they strangle the Bear's two daughters in the steam room; run away; the older brother spits, creating a pond behind (like three times); the crane stretches their necks like a bridge; when the Bear steps on him, he shakes her into the water; throws her a hot stone in her mouth, she dies], 88 [as in (87); The deer is the son of the Bear, the husband of the Wild Cat; the Bear kills her son; unhappy that the Cat does not bite through the snake, the lizard, that it finds in her hair; The reindeer brothers run successively in four directions; then their grandfather Gnil throws them on feathers to the sky; the Crane throws the Bear into the water, she drowns], 89 [as in (88); the husband killed by the Bear Deer are Thunder; they have a boy and a girl], 90 [as in (87); both parents are Deer; a woodpecker (Yellowhammer) throws a hot stone into the Bear's mouth as she crosses the river along the Crane's neck]: 327-331, 334-342 , 344-348, 350-354; mountain mivok [The bear invites her sister Olenikha to collect clover; offers to look in each other's heads; the Bear's lice are frogs; the Deer throws them away, the Bear unhappy, Olenikha says that it is falling leaves (obviously, it is assumed that Deer should bite through "insects"); Deer lice are ticks; the Bear gnaws through her neck, eats her, brings her liver to the bottom baskets; the youngest of two reindeer sisters finds a liver under the clover; the sisters leave the basket and awls to answer for them, run away; their grandfather is Long-legged (crane?) stretches out his leg; the Bear falls into the river, but continues to pursue; another grandfather, Olenyat, the Lizard, invites the Bear to climb onto the roof of his house, open her mouth and close her eyes, throws two in her mouth hot stones; she falls, dies; the lizard took off her skin, cut it in half, gave most of it to her older sister, the deer, the younger; the girls began to run, dragging these pieces that produced with them thunder; the Lizard sent them to heaven, they are Thunder]: Gifford 1917, No. 2:286-292; the Oloni [during the flood, the Eagle, Hummingbird, and Coyote climbed to the top of Pico Blanco; when the water reached there, the Eagle carried A hummingbird with Coyote to Sierra de Gabilan; the water came down and the Eagle sent the Coyote to see if the earth was dry; he came back and said it was dry; the Eagle tells Coyote to marry a girl; the Coyote asks how to conceive children; consistently suggests (inserting the penis) under the knee, under the elbow, into the eyebrow, into the back of the head; The eagle disagrees every time; the hummingbird points to the place in the lower abdomen; Coyote wants to kill the Hummingbird, but he hid under the Eagle's wing and the Coyote did not find it; the Coyote came to the girl, asking her to look for it in his head; she finds a tick, throws it away in fear; the Coyote tells her to see it, swallow it; she swallows becomes pregnant; runs in fear; the Coyote creates a good road for her, but she runs through the bush; the Coyote creates flowers along the edges of the road so she can stop collecting them; she doesn't want to; he almost grabs it, but it reaches the sea, rushes into the waves; turns into a shrimp or sand flea]: Kroeber 1907a, No. 1:199-200 (=Margolin 1978:134-135).

The Great Southwest. Tiwa (Taos) [see motive J35]: Parsons 1940a, No. 24 [an Apache hunter takes his wife to hunt, kills a bison; the wife cries, he shoots at her too, bakes her head; sends his son and daughter to eat bison head; head hisses: Children, don't eat me; stalks them; brother carries sister on his back; serpent (?) Päkeleana transports them across the river, they sit by his horns; P. invites the Head to look for lice; these are frogs; The head rudenly replies that it does not eat lice; P. dives, the head sinks], 24 var.1 [from his wife The Apache chief is a snake lover; she feeds him the best meat; the chief watches her, kills both with arrows, places his wife's head on a tree, roasts her ribs; sends her son and daughter to taste bison meat; Head tells the mother not to eat; stalks children; the chief marries Coyoticha, the tribe migrates; Beaver asks the children to look in his head; there are frogs; the girl bites through the beads from her brother's bracelet, and the frogs fall into water; The beaver transports children across the river; The head tells Beaver that it has no arms; Grab the lice with your mouth! - Dirty creature! The head throws the frogs into the water; the Beaver drowns it], 52 [The deer warns her children that the Bear may kill her, they should not eat the meat she brought; that they must go east to their child and grandmother; The bear offers to remove insects, kills Deer; she previously advised the Bear to smoke her bears so that they are in beautiful spots; when they see their mother's meat, the Deer ran away; the Bear found dead cubs; by the Beaver River, he asks the Deer to remove his lice; these are frogs; the deer boy has a necklace of bear teeth, the girl bites them like she bites frogs; the Beaver carries the Deer through the river; the bear also crossed, came to the Deer, who cared for her to death]: 70-73, 74-76, 109-111.

Western Amazon. Napo [supai asked the hunter about his family and habits, killed him, turned him into a deer, took his own form; hid the deer from his mother-in-law; mother-in-law realized that it was not his son-in-law when he saw bats in his hair; the soup gave his wife the deer to cook, the meat from the cauldron says, I am your husband; when she left, my mother-in-law put grass in the cauldron that would swell her stomach; the supai asked his wife to lie down with him; she refused under the pretext that the son was crying; the supai burst; the woman and the child ran to the mother; the supai began to turn into a headless baruchi snake; the demon's head was buried far away, the snake's body was covered in a vessel; if the head hadn't been hidden, Baruchi snake would eat people]: Mercier 1979:121-124.

Montagna - Jurua. Pyro [two jaguars marry a woman; tell them to look for lice; their mother warns not to bite through them, but to click coals; gives coals, but one is missing; the woman chokes, biting through huge louse; jaguars eat his wife]: Matteson 1951:47-49; 1955:59; Alvarez in Roman 1985 [Yakonero has a jaguar husband and 20 jaguar sons; participates in an attack on a human village; all women are killed; I. hides the young man under jaguar skin; lives with people, is pregnant; returns to the scene of the massacre to pick up their lost bracelets; Tsla and his two brothers Muichkakhit from the womb ask she has flowers; she is bitten by an ant, she claps her stomach in her hearts, her sons guide her not to people, but to the jaguar path; she hides under the roof of her former home, her mother-in-law, a jaguariha, wants to help her; The Jaguars find her, ask them to remove their lice; I am unable to swallow my ex-husband's louse, they eat it myself; my mother-in-law keeps the uterus; Tsla's father is manacarao, M. is the sons of pucacunga; they grow up, jaguars are killed]: 139; machigenga: Baer 1984, No. 4 [Falcon descends to Ya'konera girl, marries; before the birth of a son, he returns to heaven, 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 road, comes to the Jaguars; their mother Tsi'rinpi (lizard) hides her under the roof; the Jaguars come, go to bed; I . spat, hit alone in the ear; Jaguars demand to remove their lice; these are big mites; I. bites the coal, making a cracking sound; there is not enough coal for the last Jaguar; I gnaw the tick, she feels nauseous, 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 in human form: Machai'rini, Choinka'vani, Pa'chakami, Ya'vireri; tell C. that they heard her words about her mother's death; they trap a knife in the river, call the Jaguars to swim, they attack the knife one by one; the brothers throw their hearts into boiling water; Jaguariha runs away; I. warns that there is a demon in the river; Y.'s wife says their son has been swallowed by a demon; I. catches the demon, takes the son out of his stomach; swims down the river with him], 14 [shaman with son and son-in-law successfully repels daily kashibo attacks in the forest; the niece asks her son for her husband, the shaman says he is still young; the niece feeds leftovers to ants; the shaman dies; the dead man comes home; the wife tells all plants and utensils not to tell that she has prepared a shelter for herself and her children in the hollow of a tree; lets the tuber of a red sachapapa pass; he says where the woman, his dead man, disappeared pulls out, comes to the hollow; ants reply that they are the only ones who live there; the dead man tries to light a fire, but his blood floods him; at dawn he flies into the sky with a comet; a mother with three daughters (married, girl , girl) return home; the youngest misses her father; when she hears the bird scream, the woman asks her to show her husband, for whom his daughter is crying; the man comes out of the forest, tells her to close his eyes; when a woman opens, finds herself in heaven; her husband's hair is not lice, but worms; she climbs to the ground]: 430-432, 463-469; amuesha [in the ancient sun, the husband is killed hunting by enemies; the wife speaks to the bird so, if she were human, she would tell her where her husband is; the bird turns into a man, talks about her husband, agrees to take her to sanerr (the country of the dead); tells her not to bite through her husband's lice, not saying that she came from home; there are not lice in her husband's head, but worms; the woman's child asks for a drink, the husband offers drinks from the heart, liver, kidneys; in other vessels, a blood drink (fermented blood); a woman tells her husband that the child has diarrhea, runs away with the child to the forest, the huancañcho'ch bird hides it on the papaya; the husband comes to his wife's site, asks the plants where she is; only a silly yam tries tell the truth, but his speech is incomprehensible, the dead man hits him with a stick, returns to the dead; the dead drink a bloody drink, dance, women sing; the woman spies; in the morning the dead turn into vultures , fly to heaven; the woman actually has four children, two boys and two girls; they memorize the songs, measure the flutes; the to'to bird takes them all home; they make a corn drink, sing, they dance, play the flutes, this is how people learn to sing and dance; a woman and her children cannot eat, everything turns to blood for them; at their request, the woman's brother kills them all]: Santos-Granero 1991, No. 2:36- 38.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Chacobo: Balzano 1984 [In her husband's absence, a woman becomes pregnant from a clay penis; her unborn children ask her to go looking for a father from the womb; the feathers at the fork point the way; the woman is bitten ant, she claps her stomach; the children fall silent; she comes to the Jaguars; the Jaguar marries her, she is pregnant; tells him to take out his lice; the lice are big; she kills them but does not eat them; the Jaguar is offended, 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 at 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 leave the grandmother; Kako kills sister M., from her blood makes rivers; turns his second sister into a frog; Kako climbs a tree, a mutum bird makes it grow; brother lets a pole go down; Kako makes birds colorful feathers]: 29-31; Kelm 1972, No. 1:211; yurakare [see motif J16; Jaguars tell a woman to take poisonous ants out of their heads and eat them; the Jaguar mother gives her pumpkin seeds to pretend to eat; The chief Jaguar, who has a second pair of eyes on the back of his head, notices a hoax, kills a woman]: Orbigny 1844:211.

Southern Amazon. Nambiquara [the hunter took his wife and children with him; at rest, the wife noticed huge lice in her husband's hair, kept silent; the husband began to dig up the battleship's hole, disappeared into it; the wife told her son to dig then; he said that there was fire in the hole, the father turned into an evil spirit to Siuitiahlus (his knees did not bend, his beard was thick); the mother told her son to push his younger sister to cried; said loudly that the girl was crying and they went; the Kunaouara frog hid them in his hollow, blocked the entrance with a wooden sword; S. followed the trail with the battleship under his arm; the Frog offered to go in to see; when S. put his head in the hollow, the Frog killed him with a sword in the neck; sent the woman and her children home, giving them his sword; they were told to kill Sister S. because she was now on her period and she can turn into Siwila.kuluse and kill them; the woman did so]: Pereira 1983, No. 37:54-56.

SE Brazil. Botokudy [the spirit of a murdered husband comes to a woman. She sees worms in his hair, falls dead]: Nimuendaju 1946b: 108.