J27A. Thrown out kills father .44.45.47.

One of the babies is thrown out and lives in the river, in the forest, etc.; the other stays in the house; after the abandoned brother returns to the house, the brothers kill their father or his people. See motive J19, J25.

The Midwest. Nordic (? marsh?) Cree [husband tells a pregnant wife to hide their son under the cane on the floor in his absence; the cannibal Toosh comes, pulls out the woman's uterus, throws it into the bushes; the mouse raises the baby; the husband kills cannibal; the eldest 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 kill them and him; the youngest consistently marries and rejects Olenikha, Black Bear, Porcupine, Soyka; marries Bobrikha, lives with her in the river, returns; the older brother kills Bobrikha, gives her meat to his younger brother; after eating, he turns into a beaver]: Bell 1897:2-8.

Northeast. See motive J27. Mikmak: Parsons 1925, No. 1 [husband's father comes to his daughter-in-law, pierces her heart with a burning chip, rips her stomach open, throws her insides into the river, carries her body away, eats her body; her six-year-old son lures Found in his guts ashore; he returns to the river if he sees his father; the father catches him, gives him blue jay feathers; the older brother says that the father told his grandfather to kill their mother; they burn the father in the house; Found in his intestines pushes his bones, they turn into mosquitoes; brothers pour boiling fat on his grandfather, let his grandmother fry his heart, kill her with an ax]: 56-59; Speck 1915b [the woman has a 6-year-old son, she again pregnant; husband tells his father to kill her; the old man tells the woman to bend down, burns her heart with a stick, throws her insides into the water, takes her body to eat; the boy tries to catch her in the water little brother; finally brings him home; when his grandfather appears, he returns to the water every time; the old man catches him, gives him blue jay feathers; the older brother tells how their father told their grandfather to kill them mother; they burn the father in the house; the one found in the intestines (NC) pushes his bones, they turn into mosquitoes; brothers pour boiling fat on their grandfather, let the grandmother fry his heart, kill her with an ax; they go to kill her other giants]: 61-64; Whitehead 1988 [a woman marries her son Kukwes (an ogre giant); for her and her son, he hunts animals, for himself and her parents; does not tell you to touch a bear's stomach; son hits the stomach with an arrow, liquid drips, K.'s strength melts; he allows his father to eat his wife; the old man heats his iron staff, pierces his daughter-in-law, gutts, throws the baby from her womb into the river; The turtle brings him up, he goes out to play with his brother; he asks his father to make two bows, two arrows, etc.; the boys make a mess in the house, the family is forced to confess to his father; the father makes jewelry from bird tails; Domashny grabs in Rechnoy's house, keeps him, father comes running; first Rechnoy throws his tails into the fire, then smiles; the father fell asleep, the brothers burned him in the house; the bones collided, they turned into flies, mosquitoes, sand fleas; because they were pushed on the doorstep, insects enter the house through the entrance; The river beats the birch tree with a spruce paw, since then there are traces on the bark; brothers put their grandfather to sleep, looking for insects from him, stick to him fat, burn it, let his wife eat the liver, kill her with an ax; the bull frog hides all the water in his house in birch bark buckets, gives it in exchange for women; the River kills the Frog, breaks blood vessels, water fills rivers; brothers sail in a boat, River kills giants; Porcupine drowns so hot that Domashny dies; Riverboat wraps himself in a blanket, Porcupine dies herself, River revives her brother; house Kluskap is guarded by geese, River tells them to remain silent; K. causes frost, Domashny dies, revives him in the river morning; Domashny receives a growing beaver skin from K., becomes a merchant; Riverside marries his daughter Skunks; she takes him to collect bird eggs, leaves him on the island; seagulls bring him home; his mother-in-law tells him to sleep with her, tries to strangle him with her gases, he makes a hole in the blanket; she throws him into the hole , at the bottom, the Turtle devours his sons-in-law; the river gets out; meets a man walking with bent legs, kills him, makes a door out of him, brings the corpse to his relatives; snakes and frogs fall from their faces; both brothers return to the island, turn into two stones]: 140-154.

Southeast USA. The brothers let stinging insects on their father and his people, turn their father into a crow. Natchez [boy asks his father to make him more arrows; confesses that he is playing with another boy; together with his father they catch Wild; father warns of dangers; brothers are transported across the river an old woman; she attaches herself to their backs; they can hardly take her off after dousing her with boiling water; make a pipe out of her nose; bathe where the leeches are, they crush them; watch the father let the deer out of the hole in the mountain and kill him ; they release all the deer and other game; the father brings people to kill the brothers; they place a row of Ducks, then a row of Geese, Cranes, Quails for protection, fill the empty reeds with bumblebees, hornets, wasps; those they sting attackers to death; brothers turn father into a crow]: Swanton 1929, No. 6:227-230; screams [two sisters go to look for the Beaded Spitting (PB); Rabbit pretends to be him, pulls it out vultures have a few beads, puts them in her mouth; sleeps with one of the sisters; the sisters leave, get to the Gopher, who eats their provisions; the closer the house of the Killing Turkeys (i.e. PB), the more feathers lie on road; the owner tests the girls, telling them to bring water with a sieve; the one with whom the Rabbit combined pours out water, the other turns into beads; sends the first PB, takes the second as his wife; she is pregnant; he calls her from the other side of the river, asking her to fit a boat; from a distance she sees the figure of a woman in the house; she does not bring a boat, PB swims, hits her imaginary wife, she disappears; it was Kolowa, who ate a real wife; in his wife's torn womb, PB finds a live baby, throws him into the thickets; the son has grown up, asks him to make two bows; the father spies and sees how the second one comes out to play with him a boy who comes from the afterbirth; a father turns into an arrow, a ball of grass, a feather, Thrown away recognizes him every time; finally caught, tamed, his name is Fatcasigo (Not-doing-right); father warns not answer, if someone asks to transport him from the other side of the river, it will not be him, but Kolova, who ate them; the old woman calls, F. insists that they transport her; the old woman asks F. to take her on her back, shouts "Kolowai, Kolowai", refuses to get off; F. hits her, sticks her hands, legs and head; brother also hits and sticks; father soaks them with hot water, K. flies away; father does not tell me to get two eggs with trees, F. persuades his brother to pick up the eggs; the storm immediately takes their father away, he returns; lightning begins to strike around, the brothers get off the tree; the brothers spy on the father, see the corral in which he keeps bears, deer and all animals; releases them; their father sends them to a character named Long Nails for tobacco; a crocodile transports them across the lake, teaches them how to grab tobacco and run; transports them back Long Nails do not have time to catch up; F. suggests filling the house with stinging insects; brothers place watchmen who should warn them of their father's approach; these are the Blue Crane, the Wild Goose, the Pelican, Partridges; the closest ones when they screamed, the brothers release insects, they bit their father to death; the brothers turn him into a Crow; F. goes west, his brother goes east; when you can see him in the west a red cloud, this is F., when it's in the east, it's his brother]: Swanton 1929, No. 2:2-7; Seminoles [someone kills the newborn's mother; the discarded afterbirth turns into a second boy; he's wild, lives in the forest, comes to play with his brother; father turns into a log to catch him, but is recognized; throws feathers down the wind, Wild stays to play with them; father does not tell me to go to the lake; brothers approach catch small aquatic animals; water rises to the roofs of houses, then descends; brothers kill their uncle in a nearby village; father tells people to kill them; brothers release wasps and bumblebees, all people are killed; The brothers come to the old woman; she asks to collect firewood for the fire; the Toad warns that she is going to burn them; they themselves push the old woman into the fire; four horses jump out of the fire, the brothers take the white one; they find themselves among predatory animals; they shoot up, the arrow pierces the sky; which means that they will get to the sky, shoot themselves; in the sky, Thunder gives them their daughters as wives; they have many bad ones children, so people are afraid of thunderstorms; these two brothers are Thunder and Lightning]: Greenlee 1945:142-143; Alabama [a person has a son and an adoptive orphan; he only brings them the skins and liver of hunted animals; warns not to answer the call of strangers; an old woman comes, asks the boys to look in her head for her lice the size of corn kernels; next time someone asks the boys to transport him through the river; on the other side he asks him to carry; refuses to get down; the boys pour boiling water on it, stuck behind; the boys followed their father; saw him approach the pen where the deer were; killing one, takes off the skin and throws the meat into the pond to the female frog; when the father left, the boys called the frog with the same signal; she came out laughing, they shot her; when he found her corpse, the father cursed the boys; told others that they killed a man and deserved to die; the boys gathered stinging insects into a calebass; when people came to kill the boys, they released insects, hid themselves in a hole; those who came were bitten to death; when they found their father's corpse, the boys cut his ass, and a crow flew out]: Swanton 1929, No. 16:133-134; koasati [father brings only deer liver to his two sons; they watch him; he summons a woman from the pond, feeds her; brothers call her, kill her; it was the Frog; the father brings warriors to kill his sons; they fill the vessels with wasps, hornets, etc., release insects, enemies killed; father turned into a crow]: Swanton 1929, No. 16:181.