J20. Ominous Guest: The Ban Broken .44.46.48.49.

While a husband or brother is hunting, an evil spirit comes to his wife or sister; he kills or maims her or her brother after she breaks the ban on opening the door to a guest, looking at him or talk to him. See motive J19.

The Midwest. Sauk, Fox; Steppe Cree [Thunderbird woman and Wolf are the leaders of the two halves of the village; during competitions, Thunderbird people exterminate Wolves; brother and sister run away; brother creates a lot of wampuma from his sister's beads, strings it on his hair, now he's a head from Wampum; goes north, tells a person who comes from the south at noon not to answer; he will be a copy of him, he asks her marry him; her sister believes that her brother has come, answers, indignantly refusing to marry; now her brother is forced to compete with a southern man; they drive each other into the ground, cut off their heads; sister frightened to grab the severed head of a southern man; he took her brother's head; V.'s body remains alive; her sister marries a man from the west, gives birth to twins; they have knives on their elbows; the twins fly on his arrows, visiting V.'s body; the raven guards V.'s head; one of the twins turns into a swallow, the raven drives him away; the other turns into a hawk, brings his head, revives V.; all three return to sister V. and her husband; husband, V., the eldest twin, disappear one by one, are swallowed by the Snake; the elder rips open the Snake with his sharp elbows, swallowed out; the twins turn the parents into two prickly trees; V. is told to stay in the west, people will dream of him; they turn into two stars themselves]: Bloomfield 1930, No. 19:152-162.

Plains. Sarsi; blacklegs; grovantre; assiniboine; hidatsa; omaha and ponka; iowa; arapaho; wichita.

California. Kawajisu.

The Big Pool. Chemeuevi.