J22B. Two women out of one .39.40.46.47.57.

A woman is cut or torn in half, two new ones are emerging.

Itelmen, central yupik, grovantre, natchez, choctaw, screams, seminoles, alabama, koasati, makiritare.

SV Asia. Itelmen [Ememkut marries a Moroccan; while she is hunting, the old lizard Kamankhnaut rips off M.'s clothes, puts on herself, pushes M. into the yard, pretends patient; at night M. enters the house, cannot wake her husband, feeds the child, leaves; K. (i.e. imaginary M.) tells E. to migrate; Goose marries M., they have a son; son E. kills Goose while hunting; M.'s son from Goose meets his son from E., brings him to his mother; M. revives Goose from bones; all of them they come to E.; he puts K. in a hot bowl; M. stabs himself on the parting on his head with a knife, divides himself into two women; one becomes E.'s wife again, the other Goose]: Jochelson 1961, No. 14:112-115; Menovshchikov 1974, No. 185 [=Jochelson], 186:547-554; Orlova 1999 [as in Jochelson; wife's name Khmaranlnut]: 131-135.

The Arctic. Central Yupik (open the hall. St. Michael) [men in the north do not have women; in the south there is the same woman; a young man comes to her, marries; the foreman's son comes to steal her; they pull her in different directions, tear her apart; everyone makes up for it half of her pieces are made of wood; a woman who remains in the south with a young man has a wooden top, she is a bad needlewoman, but she dances well; carried north, on the contrary; these features have retained the current descendants of both]: Nelson 1899:479; the McKenzie Delta (a man from Baffin Land heard this in Aklavik) [the only woman Putu ("hole") lived on the island, saw her, married by a Qalaseq hunter; The petty officer saw them making love, pulled the woman towards him, they tore her in half, each finished the missing walrus top or bottom; K.'s wife named Big-Little Vulva gave birth to 600 children; people continued to tear the foreman's wife in half and finish; all these wives remained childless]: Millman 2004:31-32.

Plains. Grovantre [Nishant is widowed; a man hits his wife with a stick, splitting her into two identical women; gives one to N.; N. repeats the trick, giving his wife to another widower; when trying to do it This is the fourth time, the wife does not split from the blow, but dies]: Kroeber 1907b, No. 12:70.

Southeast USA. Usually a young man asks his wife to parting her hair, cuts her with an ax, and two wives appear; The rabbit, imitating the hero, kills his wife. Natchez: Swanton 1929, No. 8 [a woman sits in addition on a basket, corn pours out of her ass; her son spies, refuses to eat it; she tells him to shoot jays, chikadis, and parrots He revives them, adorns them with his hat, shoulders and belt; gives them a flute, birds sing to its sounds; tells them not to go to bed with women with a toothy vagina; burn it together with the house; the young man burns his mother, leaves agrees to the persuasion of the fourth woman he met; but his penis was like stone, his teeth were broken; the rabbit leads him to swim, steals his clothes; he smears himself with persimmons; only the old woman agrees to take dirt; he fills the whole boat with fish; the Rabbit claims the same, but his wife finds only a few fish that have surfaced; catches a lot of deer; when the Rabbit sends his wife for deer, there is only one with already with pecked eyes; birds do not sing on Rabbit's clothes; a young man asks an old woman to part her hair, cuts with an ax, creating two young wives; the Rabbit only kills his wife; people first accuse the young man, but then Rabbit; told to bring a rattlesnake; The rabbit lies that people are arguing whether the snake is long; she agrees to measure herself, replies that her life is in the middle of her head; the Rabbit hits this place, like a snake; people say that the snake should have been alive; they tell the water to lead in a straight line; the water chases the Rabbit, he winds, leaves the water to flow winding; says that fields are better on the bank of the winding river], 9 [ a woman washes by the stream, her baby is carried away by the Puma; raises him with his wife; does not tell him to go downhill; he goes, sees people, his mother plays ball; the Puma sends him to people, decorates his hat with a parrot, jays, small birds, gives a horn; if you blow into it, the birds sing; does not tell you to talk to whoever comes out on the way; this is the Rabbit, he calls the young man to the river to catch turtles, kidnaps him clothes; the young man covers himself with persimmon fruits, drags a turtle with him; only an old woman shelters him; he leaves a turtle in the pit, the old woman finds many turtles there; gives him a granddaughter as his wife; while swimming, he becomes handsome again and puts the fish to sleep, people pick it up; the Rabbit tries to do the same, but only gudgeon emerges, and not because of the Rabbit; the young man asks his wife to part in his hair, cuts her with an ax; now he has two wives; The rabbit only kills his wife; the young man is told that he was the cause of the murder; 1) sent for arrow poles into reeds teeming with poisonous snakes; the cougar gives he has four balls, snakes rush after them; the cougar also helps with advice in subsequent tasks; 2) get the ogre's beard to wrap the arrows; the ogre's wife cuts it off for the young man; 3) get clay from the bottom of the river; The kingfisher brings under his claws, there is a lot of clay; 4) the young man is left on the other side of the river, where cannibals live; he hides in a hollow; he hides the clothes of two bathing women, gives it away when they call themselves his wives; father-in-law offers a race, always pushes his sons-in-law to the point; the young man pushes him, helps him get up; at night he covers himself with a mask as if his eyes are open; father-in-law sets fire to the house, but the wives take the young man out; tell him to call a carrier by the river; the young man rejects various snakes, takes a snake with deer antlers as carriers; on the way he lets him eat four dogs; closer to the shore lets him eat arrow, rushing after her]: 230-234, 234-239; choctaw [woman (she is a "red top" bird) sends two daughters to marry the Boat Maker (IL, green heron), they recognize him, because when he recruits the mouth of the water spits out, the water turns red; the crane by the river says that IL is him, spits out the water with the shrimps, so it looks pink; one sister stays with him, the other does not believe it, comes to real IL; then the second one comes to him, he tells her to dive three times, she can't, it means that she slept with the Crane, IL drives her away; hits the first with a stick in the middle of her head, the girl separates, turning into two, this is how IL gets two wives (as intended); the crane tries to separate his wife, but only kills her; bouncing off when hit, becomes humpback]: Mould 2004:198-200; screams: Swanton 1929, No. 6 [a woman finds a blood clot, he turns into a boy, hunts; she gets corn and beans by scratching her thighs; he spies on her, refuses to eat; she adorns it a hat with live jays and rattlesnakes, gives a flute, birds sing to its play, snakes rattle; tells you to go downhill, where she did not tell you to go before; tells you to burn it in the house, come to this place later; marry the first girl he meets; on the way, the Rabbit offers to swim, steals the young man's clothes and flute; he comes to the village, marries, his wife finds many turtles in a puddle; the rabbit was detained as a thief; The young man's appearance, silent birds and snakes gave a voice; the rabbit was thrown to the dogs, but he ran away; after swimming across the river, the young man put the fish to sleep, his wife picks it up; he hits his wife with an ax on the parting, two appear; The rabbit only accidentally crushed one gudgeon; killed his wife with an ax; in the place of the burnt woman, a young man and wife found all kinds of beans and corn growing], 7 [an old woman came, corn is pouring out of her ulcers, filling her bins; Blood drips from under the roof; the old woman puts a bloody shard under the couch, it turns into a baby; grows up, hunts, spies on her grandmother, from whom corn is falling; refuses to eat; grandmother attaches a jay and a rattlesnake to his hat, gives a flute; tells him to clear the area, drag it along it, burn it, return in three months; on the way, the Rabbit invites the young man to catch turtles, steals it property; in the village, a jay and a snake shout that the Rabbit is a thief; people return the dress to a young man; he marries an old woman's daughter; washes his head in the river, putting fish to sleep; hits his wife with an ax on the parting, creating two wives; The rabbit does not die, the wife is killed; at the site of the burning, the young man finds grown corn and beans], 8 [the old woman picks up a blood clot on the trail, puts it in a vessel, it turns into a boy; hunts, sees village; his grandmother decorates his hat with a bird, which sings to the sound of a flute; tells him to marry and return later; the young man throws pieces of an old log into the river, the fish dies, the wife picks it up; the rabbit takes him away at this time hat and flute; but his bird does not sing; people return the stolen goods to the young man; with his wife he comes to the old place, sees a cornfield there, builds a stone shed; all the birds are trying to break it; at the Owl, The Eagle, the Hawk changes the shape of the neck and head from the blow; the birds peck the grain; the young man picks up what the crows have dropped, from which the current corn comes], 9 [the widow asks her son not to go to the mountain; he sees from there the village; she adorns his hat with live birds, gives a flute, they sing to its sounds; the young man is greeted, the chief gives him a daughter; he dives, putting the fish to sleep; at this time the Rabbit steals the hat and flute; His birds don't sing, his fish doesn't die, he's driven in shame]: 10-13, 13-15, 15-17, 17-18; alabama [options (17) and (18) complement each other with only slightly overlapping]: Swanton 1929, No. 17 [orphan lives with his grandmother; she adorns his hat with cardinals and jays, gives a flute, birds sing to it; on the way to the village, Rabbit offers to catch turtles, steals the young man's property; he smears himself with persimmons, marries on the old woman's daughter; the house becomes new in the morning], 18 [the young man dives, the fish dies, the wife picks it up; he catches a lot of deer; where the Rabbit supposedly left the deer, people find only a piece of liver; the young man hits his wife with an ax, two appear; The rabbit kills his wife; the Rabbit is chased, he hides in the hollow, the Crane is left guarded; the Rabbit ties him by the neck, hits him, runs away; the young man answers what made the house new by cutting the pillars; The rabbit cuts, the house falls on it at night]: 134-135, 135-138; koasati [a man takes a little boy to his village; he grows up, hunts, chases turkeys, sees his village; a man smears him with the blood of a killed animal, tells him to have a period like women (the episode is incomprehensible and has no consequences); adorns his hat and clothes birds and rattlesnakes; orders to kill birds at the request of women he meets, but not to raise an arrow fired; they ask to pick them up, he does not listen; the fourth breaks his vaginal teeth, throwing them in vagina stone; Rabbit offers to dive for turtles, takes away the young man's clothes; he smears himself with persimmons; marries an old woman's daughter; diving, puts fish to sleep; shooting, immediately kills deer; Rabbit pops up the only gudgeon; after killing a deer, he hangs pieces of meat on the trees; a young man hits his wife with a club, gets two wives; a rabbit kills his wife; he is chased by dogs, he hides in a hollow, people leave the Blue Crane to guard; Rabbit beats him, runs away]: Swanton 1929, No. 15:178-181; alabama and koasati [an orphan is raised by an old woman; tells him not to go to the valley, he hunts, sees the village; she adorns his headdress with bird feathers, gives a flute, tells him to go; when he plays, the jays and cardinals sing on his hat; the Rabbit invited him to catch turtles; took away the young man's clothes and flute when he dived; the young man smeared himself with persimmons, came to an old woman, married her daughter; where he dives, fish pops up, people pick it up; The rabbit dives, the only gudgeon pops up; the young man hung the dead on the trees deer; The rabbit took one liver, hung up pieces of liver; the young man hit his wife with a club on the parting, two wives appeared; the Rabbit killed his wife, he was being chased, he climbed into the hollow; left the Crane with an ax to guard, The rabbit knocked him to blue, now it's the Blue Crane; the young man turned the hut into a beautiful house, told the Rabbit to kick it; the fallen house asked Rabbit]: Martin 1977:71-74; koasati [like screams]: Swanton 1929, No. 15:180; Seminoles: Greenlee 1945 [people agree to give Rabbit a wife if he kills a Crocodile; Rabbit is friends with the Crocodile, walks with him, hits him on the back with a stick, Crocodile runs away; The rabbit turns into a Squirrel; The crocodile says his head and ass are vulnerable; the imaginary Squirrel hits him with a stick at these places, kills him; people ask to kill a rattlesnake; the Rabbit kills her at her hole with a stick; people ask to cut down a thick tree; Rabbit sees the Woodpecker hammering the trunk on all sides; when the trunk becomes thin, the Rabbit knocks down the tree with a single blow; gets a wife; he is advised to comb it parting hair, hit the right part with an ax, there will be two wives; Rabbit misses, girl dies; Rabbit runs away into the forest]: 144; Gallagher 1994 [during the Young Corn Festival, a young shaman tells the wife combs her hair parting, cuts her with a tomahawk, two appear instead of one wife; trying to repeat the trick, the Rabbit kills his wife; people cut off the Rabbit's long tail]: 81.

Southern Venezuela. Wanadi (Uan√°di) hooks fish, turns into a Kaweshawa woman, drags him under water, then they go ashore; V.'s nephew, the capuchin monkey, warns what is in K. piranha's vagina, she has already bitten off his and the Possum's penises; Paka took an iron needle from Heron, inserted it into his penis, K.'s teeth broke off; Coati did the same; then V. poisoned piranha with fish poison; K. and V. visits Father K. under water; Curasso (Crax daubentoni) kidnaps K.; V. makes a new wife out of white clay, she melts in water; from black resin, melts in the sun; the frog wife only paints and powders, the wife- the bird laughs all the time; the bee tells V. who kidnapped K.; the old sloth gave V. his appearance; V. sees dirty and aged K. surrounded by her children born from Curasso; Curasso tells K. to cut her hair An old sloth; she gropes for her tongue under her hair, identifies him as her husband (his tongue ran through his head); first both turn into cockroaches, then V. into a woodpecker, K. into a frog, a woodpecker flies away with a frog in his beak to the heavenly lake of Aquen; he kills and roasts it; hangs it; sends Squirrel to the tree where the corpse hangs to cut off the rope; The squirrel laughs at what W.'s wife now looks like, V. turns him into squirrel; the same with the Anteater; The lizard cuts off the rope, K. falls into the lake, comes to life, becomes beautiful again; a second woman, but small, appears from her severed hand; V. gives her wife to the Lizard for his help; rewards lizards with the ability to climb trees]: Civrieux 1980:32-43