J19. An ominous guest: the death of a woman.

(.19.) .37.44.-.50.59.68.

While a husband or brother is hunting, an evil spirit comes to his wife or sister; he kills her or takes her with him. Her sons, torn out of the womb or born at this time, are saved.

(Wed. Melanesia. Vedau [pregnant Garawada goes with her mother-in-law to the forest for fruit; climbs a tree; mother-in-law is unhappy that G. eats ripe fruits and throws green fruits; says that it is enough, tells her to go down; when G. goes down to the fork, his mother-in-law tells the branches to close, leaves; G. cannot move; gives birth to a boy, he falls to the ground; sucks wild ginger stalks dabedabe; he is going to go to people, mother teaches him to sing "I sucked dabedabe shoots, my mother Garavad"; he forgets the words, comes back, learns his song again; comes to boys throwing darts; throws his own but misses, and hurts another boy in the arm; the boys run away in fear, talk about what happened in the village; the boy's uncle hides in ambush, grabs him; from his song he realizes that he is a nephew; men release G .. but she runs away to the sea, turns into a crab; the boy stays in the village with her uncle]: Ker 1910:21-25).

Amur - Sakhalin. The Nanais [Baksu-Batur's wife is Symfuni beautiful; his wife turns bird feathers into birds, turns animal hair into animals; he goes hunting, she tries to detain him in vain, because she knows that her will be kidnapped; the underground old man Tundurhan hero defeated and took her away; she gave birth to three boys in a boat, T. throws each into the river; the last is a Larenchu hero, promises to return; the elder brother sucks catfish caviar, medium - pike, L. - Kaluga milk; invites brothers to live in dead Kaluga; the beauty saw them run out of Kaluga's mouth, brought them home, breastfed her; L. put her hands in hot buckwheat porridge; she admitted that they are S.-beautiful's children, went to her copper mountain, asked Gagdancha Molodets (=Tundurhan) to kill the boys because they burned her hand; G. and L. have been fighting for a long time; the bird threw silver a ball, a gold ball; inside a child; L. tore off his arms, legs, head - G.'s limbs and head came off; the brothers are going to look for parents; his mother was found; the bird says that the brother's father is fighting with Sankau- hero; on the hill, the sky covers the poplar, the sun covers the talnik with three processes, between them there is a snake, in it the spirit of life of the enemy L. is gray and white eggs; two girls killed the snake, gave the eggs to L.; he He threw gray in the forehead of the old man, he died, took white with him; returned home; father and mother cried when they met, his father's tears formed a large river, and his mother's tears made a small river happy; Salhan, Senke's daughter, asked to fold her father's body so that his wounds were not visible, revived him; three brothers - three at home, all married; father - one house; they lived richly]: Sunik 1958, No. 2:122-126 (=Medvedev 1992:286-296).

The Midwest. Menominee: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II.7 [When the cannibal Mowäki ^u looks into the house, a woman tells two children that it is their father's uncle; grateful M. helps his imaginary to his nephew, throwing hot stones at a spring; a bear with cubs comes out of boiling water, M. kills bears; the family gives him one of their sons, M. makes him big overnight; another comes exactly the same giant, they begin to fight; the first M. asks the man for help, he hits the second with a club, M. finishes him off, leaves; in the absence of her husband, another M. comes, kills his wife; every time a man finds a mess in the house; hides, sees a boy coming out of a log to play with older children; M. threw the woman's uterus into the log, she dried up to the baby inside like skin; father persuades him to stay; he goes to live with people; children come to him, easily kill and revive people], II.8 [a giant comes and kills a woman, throws his insides into a hollow stump; the father pulls out and raises one of the twins; the second is raised by mice; he goes out to play with his brother, hides from his father; the father catches him; the brothers kill monsters; the giant comes, cooks them, they are unharmed; they kill him with boiling water, avenging their mother; they go down to the underground gods, killing the guard, the horned serpent; four underground gods allow them to stay with them]: 332-337, 337-342; the Northern Cree [husband tells his pregnant wife in his absence, hide their son under a cane on the floor; the cannibal Toosh comes, pulls out the woman's uterus, throws her into the bushes; the mouse raises the baby; the husband kills the ogre; the older boy loses his arrows , The mouse takes them for his pupil; the boy persuades his brother to return home; their father goes to the lake; the brothers kill two lynxes in the lake, bring them to their father; he cries, lets many lynxes on them; they they kill them and him; the youngest consistently marries and rejects Olenikha, Black Bear, Dicabrasia, Soyka; marries Bobrikha, lives with her in the river, returns; the elder brother kills Bobrikha, gives her meat to the youngest; after eating, he turns into a beaver]: Bell 1897:2-8; sauk, fox [the hunter warns his wife not to look at the person who comes; he has a second person on the back of his head; For the fourth day, a woman looks at him, he kills her with an arrow; rips open her stomach, pulls out twins, leaves; the father throws the youngest under a log, he is raised by an old rat; he comes to play with his brother; brother and father grab him, his father cuts off his forelock; brothers destroy monsters; every time the boy from the log takes the forelock back, it has its strength; brothers kill snakes; the boy from the log brings it on his back the rock, calls her grandmother; the rock refuses to get off it; the father tells me to take it back, she gets off; the brothers kill the white bison, make a scarecrow out of the skin, frighten the father; the father runs away from home in the morning wakes up in the same place; the fourth time goes by day and night, never comes back]: Lasley 1902:176-178.

Northeast. Seneca [uncle kills his nephew's wives; he leaves marks in all directions from their house, sends his last wife in an arrow to his invisible brother, runs there himself; uncle pursues them; the nephew throws a shell on the other side, the banks converge, the fugitives jump across the pond, the shores diverge again; while the nephew is hunting, the uncle comes to the shore; reading the woman's mind, too throws a shell, crosses a pond; cuts off a woman's head, takes twins out of her womb; leaves her head, chest, twins in a hollow, takes the rest of the meat, leaves; the nephew brings prey from hunting, she disappears; sees little boys pulling meat; they feed their mother, who has become an ogre skull; the father slams the door of the house behind the twins, tames them; his dogs carry the twins west, he he runs south; a flying skull chases him; his uncles and aunts fight with the skull; they pour boiling fat on it, kill him; nephew, twins, dogs come to the young man's sister and her grandmother; live in peace]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 57:285-296

Plains. Sarsi: Curtis 1976 (18) [The husband does not tell the pregnant wife to look out of the tipi if she hears something; the wife pierces the hole with an awl, peeks; the old man comes in; refuses to eat food, offered on a tray made of wood, a dried stomach, a bark; on a woman's blanket (that's better!) , on her moccasin (even better), greed (more!) , wearing her dress (very close! ); when she puts food on her bare stomach, the person eats the offer with her flesh, pulls two babies out of her womb, throws one into the stream, the other beyond the floor of the tipi; the corpse's face puts in a fire, it wrinkles as if laughing; he leaves the corpse facing the entrance; the husband first thinks the wife is laughing, then crying; notices the prints of small legs on the ash; leaves his blanket on the hill for disguises, he flies up in the form of a pen; hears one boy calling another to come out of the river to play; next time his father grabs Domashny, Rechnaya slips away; convinces Domashny to lure Rechny ashore , he also grabs; brothers shoot arrows up above the mother's body, she comes to life; the father does not tell you to go in certain directions; the brothers go, defeat monsters; 1) the bison; 2) the bear; 3) the old man who killed them mother (Domashny searches in his head, protecting his stomach with a flat stone; the old man cannot bite into him, Rechnoy kills him with an arrow); 4) a living hill draws in and swallows people; brothers find skeletons inside ; cut off Hill's heart, make a hole in his side; revive the swallowed, go out with them; 5) Domashny tries to grab the Eagle's feather, the Eagle takes him away; the old woman finds a baby lying on eagle feathers ; only her youngest son agrees that she bring the foundling into the house; he is called Zillunna ("lousy"). The chief promises to give two daughters off as someone who will get two silver foxes; C. the old woman is ashamed to offer the leader Ts as her son-in-law, for the third time she says that he got the fox; the older sister refuses to marry C., the youngest goes out; only C. turns bison cakes into bison, gets buffalo; creates beautiful clothes for herself and his wife; the older sister turns into a mole out of envy, digs a hole under the sleeping C., who falls, she defecates on him; the old Wolf calls animals , they tear off C.; The she-wolf adopts C., she is killed, C. returns to his wife; tells the Wolves to execute her older sister; The Wolves tore her apart, Wolverine took the vulva and climbed the tree]: 136-140; Dzana-gu 1921, No. 26 [When going hunting, the husband tells the pregnant wife not to look out when she hears the sound of the bell; she looks out, the man comes in, refuses to eat from the plate, from the moccasins, from the greaves, from the dress, eats from her belly, tears it apart, pulls out the twins, throws one into the river, the other behind the floor, leaves, leaving the corpse standing; the husband mourns his wife, notices small footprints, leaves a bow and arrow, goes to the hill, sees boy; next time he leaves his cape on the hill, he comes closer imperceptibly; the boy, thrown next to the tipi, shouts to the man thrown into the river that his father is far away on the hill, he goes out, the family is enough him, calls his father; all three live together; brothers shoot arrows, tell his mother to beware, she comes to life; the father does not tell them to go to the river where their mother is murdered; the brothers go, that man suggests looking for he has parasites, one brother ties a person's hair to willows, the other puts a stone on his stomach; a man jumps up, wants to dig into his stomach, breaks his teeth, stays tied to his hair; the father warns do not go where the bear, the bison, the brothers kill them; do not go to the cave, they go, they are drawn in by the wind, they see the heart, it is an absorber monster, skeletons inside; brothers tie knives to their heads , dance, bounce, cut the monster's heart, return to their father]: 32-34; blacklegs: Josselin de Jong 1914 [husband warns his wife not to look at the monster who asks Where to enter? ; she looks, enters - without legs, her insides can be seen through her body; the woman offers him food on various pieces of her clothes, he agrees to eat on her stomach; rips it open, throws one The baby in the ash is Chief Ash (Z.), the second to the outside, this is the Chief Stuck in the Back (S.); each time the hunter finds things scattered; both boys play his arrows; the father leaves while turning in a stick; grabs both boys, recognized by them; Z. tries to revive his mother by throwing arrows over her; S. revives, saying that the boiling pot will now tip over; the father does not tell the hoop to roll east; the brothers roll, the hoop rolls into the old woman's house; she tries to strangle the brothers with smoke, they scatter the smoke with a pen, return home; the father does not tell them to shoot west; their arrow hits the beavers; the brothers live beavers, they forget about home; the father sticks a row of arrows on the shore; the boys come out of the water to collect them, the father grabs them, is recognized by them; the father does not order to shoot at one bird; they shoot, the arrow gets stuck on tree; Z. climbs after her, disappears somewhere in the sky, his clothes and shoes fall down; S. turns into a crying baby, picked up by an old woman, she calls him Fat Tummy (J.); he regains his former appearance; the chief promises to give one of his three daughters for the one to shoot the partridge; J. shot, the arrow crow (V.) changed arrows, marries his elder, J. his younger sister; 2) who traps a black one fox; J. catches, V. puts in his own, gets his middle sister; J. gives himself, his wife, a gorgeous look; turns bison cakes into bison, kills them; snow on his leggings turns into cherries, snow V. just melts on his leggings]: 38-52; Wissler 1936 [the spirit enters the house, responding to a woman's thought Why doesn't he enter? She serves him meat on all kinds of trays, then undresses, serves it on her clothes; then puts the meat on her stomach; the spirit rips open her stomach, takes out the twins; throws one at the hearth (Boy -Because of ash), another behind the partition (Stuck Behind); the spirit promises to revive a woman, teaches songs and rituals, images of stars, mountains, etc. on the walls of a tipi; the father gives the boy out of ash raising the Rock and the Stuck Behind to Beaver; both grow up strong and wild; first the first, then the second recognize the father by licking his hand; father and sons revive their mother; brothers destroy monsters; people with The sky is kidnapped by a boy out of ash; Stuck Behind marries the leader's daughter; goes up to his brother; both turn into a Gemini constellation]: 20-29; Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. II1:40-53 [=Wissler 1936]; Grovanter: Cooper 1975, No. 10 [despite her husband's warning, a woman opens the door to a blind old man; serves him food in various vessels; then in her moccasin, in her knee pad, with her lower one off clothes; as she undresses, the old man says: This is closer; predicts a great future for her sons, rips her belly open; throws twins at poles on opposite sides of the door; father He scatters arrows, catches one, the other hides underground; father and son catch him together; sons revive his mother; the storm takes one to an old woman; he marries the leader's daughter; travels to kill monsters; returns to his wife]: 462-482; Kroeber 1907, No. 19 [despite her husband's warning, the wife will invite a stranger into the house; gives him meat on various dishes (as in Flannery); he leaves one boy (his name is his name Kaanen) at the door, the other (Niisan) outside the door; the father finds his arrows scattered; catches his youngest son K., with his help - the elder N.; the sons revive his mother in the steam room; the wind carries N. ; the old woman finds a baby (this is N.) by cutting off a bump of grass; the chief promises daughters to marry whoever catches the porcupine; the porcupine falls into the trap of N.; the raven steals it; marries the eldest, N., the younger sister; The raven cannot find buffalo, N. creates them from bison cakes; turns bison blood into his wife's red clothes; the older sister is only stained with blood]: 77-82; assiniboine [with the woman guest goes to the underworld through the hearth; the husband follows them]: Lowie 1909a, No. 16 [the husband tells his wife not to answer strangers; the guest asks where the door is; woman: You know; the husband dives into the lake underground, they cook it there, an old woman revives it; he lowers the sun, underground people die; he returns with his wife to his children], 20 [the lover wants to take the woman away, but she is pregnant; he says he wants to eat from her womb; she asks how to sit; Lie on her back, put a bowl on his stomach; after eating, he rips her belly open, leaves the baby in a tipi; lovers leave through the underground passage under the hearth, then they return to earth in the form of snakes, hide in a hollow; the husband climbs a tree after them; not recognizing the snakes as the ones he was chasing, the husband climbs into heaven and becomes the Morning Star]: 168-169, 176; Crowe; Crowe: Lowie 1918:74-85 [every time a husband is hunting, a woman (her name later appears: Red Woman) comes to his wife; she forgets to tell her husband about it every time; serves the guest food for plate; she says she does not eat on such plates; serves on another; the same; her plate is a pregnant woman; the hostess lies on her back and exposes her stomach; the guest eats food and then rips her stomach open and pulls out twins; burns the dead upper lip to make it look like she is smiling; leaves the corpse standing outside the house; throws one baby behind the partition, the other into the river; when the husband comes, he pushes wife, the corpse falls and he sees that his wife's stomach is ripped open; husband buried his wife in a pine hollow; mice raise a Domestic Boy (Curtain-boy); father hears that he is somewhere nearby; offers to feed; finally he goes out and stays with his father; as soon as his father leaves, Domashny goes to play with Spring-boy; he has big sharp teeth; to go ashore, Rechnoy asks permission from his river father (a word that sometimes means a crocodile); as soon as Rechnoy senses the approach of his earthly father, he rushes into the water; Domashny tells his father about the River and how their mother was killed; Domashny distracts Rechny , the father, wearing leather mittens, grabs him; the water of the river rushes to the shore, but the father throws her bison giblets and the water recedes; the River Boy's sharp teeth are sawed; (hereinafter a long story about the adventures of the brothers); brothers kill and burn the Red Woman; mother turns into the Moon, Father into the Morning Star, Domestic Boy into the Big Dipper, River Star], 85-94 [wife is about to give birth; when going hunting, her husband tells her not to answer a stranger; the guest is blind with a second person on the back of her head, asks where the entrance is; the baby from the mother's womb tells him it's from the east; the woman gives the guest meat on a plate from leather, from the bark; each time he rejects what he has filed, says that his plate is the belly of a pregnant woman; kills a woman by placing a hot stone on her stomach; takes out the twins, throws one behind the septum, another into the river; puts the woman's corpse as if she is smiling; the husband leaves his wife's corpse on the platform; The domestic son asks his father for meat, comes out from behind the partition; The river secretly goes out from the father to play with his brother; the father notices the trail, Domashny tells him about the death of his mother; they wear gloves that Rechnaya is unable to bite through, they catch it; the River Boy has another "father" in the river; the boy gives him their sharp teeth; brothers find their father's box with white powder in it; when they pour it on their penis, they have fun; they spend everything, fill the box with ash; the father's penis only hurts from ash; brothers they resurrect the mother so that the father has a wife; to do this, they shoot up, tell her to move away so that the arrow does not fall on her; (hereinafter about the extermination of monsters by the twins)], 94-98 [a witch comes (as in pp.74-85); The River Boy gives his teeth (as in pp. 85-94)]; hidatsa [Coyote's sister is pregnant; her brother does not tell me to open the door; the Headless Monster asks where the door is, the sister opens; he says he eats, putting hot fat on the pregnant woman's belly; she only slightly heats the fat; he keeps the fat on fire with his bare hand, puts it on her stomach; she dies, gives birth to twins; he throws one into the center of the house, the other in the stream; brother puts his sister's corpse on the funeral platform; the Coyote makes the Domestic Young Man; the River grows accordingly; goes out to play with his brother, steals meat; they grab the River, keep him in the steam room while he sharp fangs do not disappear; he regurgitates swallowed frogs, etc.; brothers revive the mother; throw a hot stone into the mouth of the Headless, who explodes; the woman kills with his basket; the brothers ask her point the basket at the birds, they fall dead; they point it themselves at the woman, killing her; the celestials fear that the River will become too powerful; the Long Hand takes it to heaven, he is tied to pole; brother turns himself and him into spiders, they run away; The Long Hand closes the hole in the sky, the brothers cut the arm with an ax (the hand is Orion, the scar is Orion's Belt); hanging on a pole, Rechnoy learned the ritual songs, now taught people; sent a mother to heaven to return the hatchet taken from there]: Beckwith 1938:30-43; Omaha, ponka [the hunter warns his wife not to look at the guest; when Two-Face comes for the fourth time, the woman turns around, falls dead; he takes twins out of her belly, throws one into the house, the other into the forest; he is raised by the Mice; father and brother bring him home; Wild The boy kills snakes, brings their tails; comes to the Old Woman, she asks her to carry; gets off his back only after being hit with a stone hammer; the Wild Boy climbs a tree, throws four chicks from the Thunderbird's nest; the tree grows; the Domestic Boy hits the trunk with a hammer, the tree becomes low again; the father of the twins revives the snakes, tells the Old Woman to be taken back to her ravine, return into the nest of thunder chicks]: Dorsey 1888b: 76-77; 1890:215-219; iowa [a person does not tell a pregnant wife to look at a guest if he comes in his absence; for the fourth time she looks, sees him the second person on the back of her head and sharp bones sticking out of her elbows; he kills her with them; her husband pulls the twins out of her stomach; Dore leaves; Varegua puts them on a log; he is raised by the Mice; V. comes play with D.; one day forgets to say forget, D. talks about their games to his father; together they catch V., cut off a lock of his hair, he becomes less wild; every time the father warns not to go to a certain place; V. goes, D. has to go with him; father is dissatisfied; 1), 2) brothers catch, fry, bring leeches, snakes; 3) let the monster U-e (giant female genital organ) swallow themselves; they cover their bodies with flint, W. blows away the flints; in the womb, W. V. finds a flint flake under the foreskin, turns the scale into a knife, cuts off W.'s heart, makes a hole in his side; brothers and swallowed people and animals go out; 4) brothers find their grandmother; V. carries it to back, she sticks; her father tells her to be taken back to the rock, where she gets off herself; 5) The swan takes D., then brings her; V. punishes the swans by making their necks crooked; 6) tells D. to cut, cook and serve him under the guise of raccoon meat by the Horned Water Pumam; comes to life, splashes boiling water on Pum; brothers kill them; 7) get four dwarfs out of the nest in the tree; this is Thunder (produces thunder with flapping wings), Lightning ( blinks his eyes), 3) Rain, 4) Little God; their grandfather arrives in a thundercloud; D. hides under a piece of flint, V. becomes a wren; they return dwarfs to the nest; 8) go to the land of giants, crossing the sea across a bridge of Swans that form a chain; kill giants (like Horned Pumas); 9) also kill spirits with flat sharp heads; 10) as well as Sharp Elbows (one of which killed their mother); get sacred bundles from celestial beings; go to the four corners of the earth; each has a gap, opening and slamming; they jump over it; in the east - the Dove, in the west - the Wolf, in the south - the Bear; the father The brothers flee to the underworld through a hole from a column on which they hang a cauldron at the hearth; tells the local leader to cover the eyes of his sons with wax; Mice eat wax; brothers catch but let go father; V. goes to the Sun, D. goes to the Month, their father to the motionless (Polyarnaya?) star]: Skinner 1925, No. 1:427-441; arpahoe [husband tells his wife not to look out of the tipi, not to respond to strangers; the third time she pierces a hole with an awl to see who is calling her; a man enters in a tipi; she offers him meat in a wooden jar, then on her outerwear; he says he doesn't eat out of it; she takes off her dress or moccasin, he replies that it's closer; she undresses, puts meat on on his body; he eats meat, rips open her stomach, throws one boy at the door, the other into the stream; the father scatters arrows; the brothers play with them, he catches Domashny; with his help he catches and tames A boy from a stream; brothers revive his mother in the steam room; they come to her killer, untangle his hair, you can see his brain under them; they put a hot stone in his head, he dies; they kill a monstrous bison; Thunderbird and its chicks are killed, its feathers are brought; the storm takes one to an old woman; he marries the leader's daughter; see motif K27]: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 139, 140:341-355; Kiova-Apache [hunter returns without prey; the youngest son, going to get water in the morning, finds recently killed animals, increasingly large (rabbit, then deer, etc.); brings a wolf, bear, wild cat, puma; they become the companions of his father, mother, brother, himself; now his name is Lucky; the stone monster Nistkre is feeding this family to eat; they run away, leaving a piece of meat responsible for themselves; N. catches up with everyone in turn, defeats protective animals, kills everyone; Lucky's sister remains; Thunder Man hides her in the rock, breaks N. with lightning; takes the girl as his wife; ex-wife Sun is jealous ; the husband tells the pregnant wife not to answer or look at her in his absence; the woman violates the ban, the Sun kills her, throws the twins taken out of her womb into the ashes of the hearth, the other into the river; the husband revives his wife by shooting four arrows of different colors on four sides of the tipi (see motif I9); finds the Fire Boy in ash; his brother Water Boy comes out of the river to play with him; Fiery asks the father to make a second bow; the father teaches him how to catch his brother; his long nails are cut off, he forgets his river grandfather; every time the father does not tell his sons to go in a certain direction; they go and kill monsters; a stream whose shores diverge when people want to cross it; a tree whose branches fall on people; Deer, Bison stop killing people, now people hunt them; a woman plays with people, pushes off a cliff (brothers win, push it itself); shoot the Thunderbird, breaking its wing (now Thunder does not kill so many people); the brothers go for the hoop, he falls on the tipi, whose owner tries to kill the brothers with smoke, cook them, bake them; they are safe, they kill him; they go to the Tornado, he takes them away]: McAllister 1949, No. 6:30-44; wichita [one chief's son marries another's daughter; theirs they are banished, they live alone; the husband warns his wife not to look at who comes; every day, while her husband is away, a two-faced monster comes to eat meat; the wife watches, he kills her, takes the boy out of the womb, the last one throws him into the river; the man raises his son, makes him arrows; the boy from the river comes when the father is gone, wins arrows from his brother; the father tells the son to tie the boy from the river by the hair; he agrees stay on the ground, brings back arrows from the water; the brothers come to the Spider; she tries to cook them; the boy from the river sits in boiling water, scalds the Spider to death; climbs into the Thunderbird's nest, throws out two out of four chicks; a bird cuts off his limbs, they grow; the lungs of two-faced monsters hang on the wall in their cave; a boy from the river pierces them with an arrow, monsters die; Headless makes him play ball, kills losers; a boy from the river breaks his ball, wins by playing with his ball, kills Headless; brothers go to the lake for a hoop, they are swallowed by a huge fish; father thinks they're dead, they rise to the sky, become a star; they kill fish with their bowstring, go out through its ass; shoot at a star, blood drips; they go up to heaven themselves, flying two arrows fired]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 12:88-102

Southeast USA. Natchez [every time her husband hunts, strange creatures dance outside the house; one day a woman goes out, they eat her; the husband finds a drop of blood, it grows into a boy; the second comes from afterbirth; he is wild, eats bugs, can fly; father catches him, hangs him in the chimney, he belches bugs, no longer runs away from people]: Swanton 1929, No. 5:222-223; screams [the forest spirit eats a woman, leaves the uterus, throws the placenta into the thickets; the father finds the son; he asks for more arrows than he needs; the father realizes that there is a second son; he has difficulty catching and taming him; the brothers do not obey his father; he wants to kill them; they kill him]: Swanton 1929, No. 2:4-5; alabama [while five brothers are hunting, the sixth is looking for a swam tuber that has fallen into the water, finds a baby girl tied to the board; she becomes the brothers' sister; Sharp Ass comes to her in their absence, tells her to fry fish for him; girl: how do I fry? Sharp Butt: Put your finger in the fish and hold it over the fire; girl: how do you serve fish? Sharp Ass: lie on your stomach, your back will serve as a plate; this causes her to die; comes to life; so twice; the third time the brothers stay, grab the spirit, put fish on his sharp ass, fry, eat fish on his on his back, he dies, they drop the corpse down the river in a boat; the boat is spinning in one place, five brothers go one by one to find out why, they disappear; the sixth climbs the persimmon, the cannibal who comes up tells go down, fight her; he kills her with a baton, cuts off her head; she grows, but for the fourth time the cannibal dies; he throws her heart, it turns into a tree fungus; her intestines into vines; he cuts off her nose; comes to her daughters, says it's not her nose, but a smoking pipe; told her to lie down, promising to tickle, killed her with a club; throwing an arrow up, revived the dead from the bones; they looked around turned into a lynx, a crow, a hawk, etc.]: Swanton 1929, No. 13:129-131.

California. Kawaiisu [two Quail Sisters are traveling; one of them's husband, Hawk, does not tell them to go to bed on the sandwash where the Grasshopper's Giant's Trail passes; they break the ban; comes The grasshopper refuses to go to bed next to them, between them, next to the other side; agrees to lie on their heads; stretches out in the morning, pulling out their eyes with his sharp legs]: Zigmond 1980, No. 47A, C: 160, 161.

The Big Pool. Chemeuevi [the two sisters of Worms in Yucca Fruits travel in search of a suitable husband; Asparagus Worm's house has tendons; girls watch their husband and see what he is turning into tendons are asparagus stalks; go away; black pudding is hung near Poloz's house; wives watch, see Poloz scratching his body with thorns, bringing home his blood instead of food; fat at the Bat's house; he brings ice, calls it "ice fat", advises eating raw, not frying; girls find the perfect husband in the Red-Tailed Hawk; he tells him not to go to sleep in the cave in his absence; begins rain, girls break the ban; old man Grasshopper comes; rejects offers to go to bed on the other side of the fire, across the girls' feet, between them; lies across their heads; spreads his legs at night , scratching their eyes; the Hawk puts them in the eyes of a mountain goat; sees a giant from the mountain, grasshoppers when he comes down; kills grasshoppers, it turns out that he killed a giant]: Laird 1976:162-168.

The Great Southwest. Hicarilla [while the husband is hunting, a man with a spotty body comes to his pregnant wife, rips his stomach open, buries one baby in the hearth, throws the other into the stream; the husband takes his wife's corpse to the cave, Domashny finds, he grows up quickly; the father hears the son talking to another boy who asks his brother to get his father's arrows; the father tells the House to grab and hold the Discarded One; that looks like a frog, it has long claws on its arms and legs; the father cuts them off; if he hesitated, the boy would turn into a spotted frog; brothers shoot up above the mother's corpse, tell her to run away, she comes to life; they go away, their bodies are torn to shreds by a hurricane; an old woman finds a bloody leaf, puts it in a pot to cook, a boy jumps out; while the grandmother is gone, he kills the Rattlesnake with an arrow; an old woman grieves, it was her husband; the boy leaves, receives eagle clothes from the big Eagle; both go up to the upper world; there the young man meets his grandmother and other people in the form of eagles; eagles are attacked by bumblebees and hornets, many are killed; a young man kills attackers, brings his grandmother their scalps; flies back to the ground, returns his plumage; shoots an eagle, a Coyote replaces his arrow; a young man returns to his parents; marries, His wife's sister also lives with them; Spotted kills him while hunting, puts on his clothes, comes to his wife and her sister; they make a fire, he is hot, they see that it is not his husband, they rip his belly open; people they find a cave where Pyatny's wife, children and other relatives live, cover them with grass and brushwood, and burn all demons]: Opler 1938, No. VIIIa: 374-381; (cf. Western Apache [Deer Man turns a woman into a vazhenka, takes her with her]: Goddard 1918 (San Carlos) [rejects the various foods that the woman offers; asks for plants eaten by deer]: 49-53; 1919, No. 23 (White- Mountain) [When going hunting, the husband warned his wife that if he came back from the north side, it was really him, and if from the east, Ganljine; G. came carrying a live deer mask and said a woman to try it on, standing in the position of a deer, threw turquoise rings at her, she became a vazhenka; he took her away, copulating with her; people followed the trail, threw rings at her too, she became a woman again; one person killed both her deer, she's crying]: 127-128).

(Wed. Guiana. Oyampy [people go to the party; two sisters stay at home; one is pregnant, thinks her husband is back, asks for a penelope partridge; the forest spirit does it; pulls the baby out of a woman's belly, leaves in the morning; the second sister hides; people burn the spirit in his hollow]: Grenada 1982, No. 66:389-390).

Southern Amazon. Bororo: Wilbert, Simoneau 1983, No. 98 [Adúgo Édu is married to Akiguródo; Akarúio Boróge met him hunting; he attacked him and demanded his daughter as his wife in exchange for his life; Adugo explained that when the girl goes to him, she will first meet the little wolf Ókwe (every time she describes, warns not to take him for him, Adugo), then the marten Taira Ipočeréu, then big wolf Ríe, then puma, then leopard {apparently ocelot}, only then Adugo {i.e. jaguara}; false pretenders convince the girl every time they are Adugo; after spending the night with the deceiver, she realizes in the morning that this is not a real groom, because he must bring tapirs, and these bring less valuable meat; finally, Adugo comes to the real one; he tells his wife not to laugh if the evil spirit becomes her laugh; Marugódu's caterpillar laughed, the woman laughed and immediately fell dead; Adugo found two twins in his stomach, raised them; they once heard their father's mother cry; she explained that to them difficult things will have to do; without telling my father, the brothers began to train; the elder Eigáwa Áre, the youngest is Eigáwa Enawuréu; asked the father to give a bow and arrow; hunted parrots, those in at that time they ate people; told the remaining brothers to eat fruits; asked the father for a fishing net; fish bit people; brothers caught many, told others to eat other fish; asked the father to give little arrows; shot leaf cutter ants and wasps, they harmed people, told them to eat leaves and flowers; asked my father to make a club; the brothers began to chase Báče, got confused in vines, they killed him, since then the bače have been eating fish, not people; asked a thick rope to fight the cannibal eagle; EA wrapped a rope around his brother's head, the eagle stuck its claws into it, got stuck, EA killed him; told the harpy eagles to eat monkeys, not humans; the brothers scattered the eagle's fluff, the grandmother realized that the grandchildren were in danger; the brothers asked their father for a stick, came to Marugoda's house, stabbed her on a stick, they threw him into the fire; his father warned him to hide, but EA went out to look, the bone flew into his eye, his father told him to throw himself into the water, his eye recovered; the same with his younger brother; both had beautiful skin and eyes; Bororo still has dark eyes], 99 [about (98), brothers Bakoróro and Itubóre; marugoddo]: 174-179, 180-186.