J34. Grandchildren scare their grandmother..44.46.48.50.61.

After killing a dangerous enemy, the heroes scarecrow him, scaring his family.

Sauk and fox (scare father), skidi pawnee (scare father), kitkehahki pawnee, yokutz, kitanemuk, chumash, hopi, zunyi, oriental keres (Kochiti, Sia), teva (hano), napo (grandmother).

The Midwest. Sauk, Fox [see J19 motive; a man with a second person on the back of her head kills a woman, rips her stomach open, pulls out twins; the father throws the youngest under a log, he is raised by an old woman- a rat; he comes to play with his brother; brother and father grab him; brothers kill a white bison, make a scarecrow out of their skin, scare his father]: Lasley 1902:176-178.

Plains. Pawnee (throw it off) [see motif J23; two brothers kill a monstrous lizard, puff out its skin, drag it with them, frightening their father; do the same with the scarecrow of the witch they killed]: Dorsey 1904b, No. 25:91-93; 1906, No. 13 (kitkehahki) [two girls sleep outside, one wants a star for her husband; wakes up in the sky; gives birth to a son; husband tells you to be careful when digging roots; she digs, holes in the sky, makes a rope from the tendons; descends, taking her son with him; hangs before reaching the ground; the husband kills her with a stone, she falls to the ground; the son sucks the breast of a dead mother, then comes to an old woman with a grandson of the same age; the grandmother does not tell them to go in a certain direction, they go, lightning kills monsters that threaten them; the bear; they make a scarecrow, scare their grandmother; another monster (not described); they kill cougars and other dangerous ones themselves animals; come to people; Star Boy disappears (probably returned to heaven)]: 56-58.

California. Jokutz: Gayton, Newman 1940, No. 2 [two orphans live with their grandmother; the eldest shoots a lark, which falls into a hole in the ground, the boy goes down to the lower world for him; Skylark offers to play beads; the game is to shoot the hoop; Lark people lose; The lark gives the boy a bow and arrows, sends him to the ground; the boy kills a bear, makes a scarecrow, frightened his grandmother with it; the boy and his younger brother they are lucky; they go down to the lower world of Atil and stay there]: 17; Kroeber 1907a, No. 34 [the girl collects clover; her mother tells her not to go far; she goes, the Grizzly eats her; the mother finds blood on the leaves brings home, a boy emerges from the blood; she makes arrows for him; each time he brings bigger game; she shows him the closet where his (father?)'s battle bows and arrows lie i) relatives (killed by a grizzly?) ; he takes them, goes east; sends all the grizzlies one by one; when his mother's killer comes out, he kills him with an arrow; puts his skin on a stone, where the grandmother takes water into the stream; she gets scared, runs home, on the way he fills the basket with urine; the grandson says that such water is not good, and the stream is just a scarecrow]: 225-227; kitanemuk [cannibal bird and bear kill the boy's parents; grandmother brings up him; he kills a bird and a bear, frightens his grandmother with a bear skin (making a scarecrow?)] : Blackburn, Bean 1978:568; Momoy (Datura meteloides) tells her daughter not to stay long while swimming; she lingers, the Bear comes to her, first as a human, then a bear; when she becomes pregnant, he kills her; M. revives his grandson from a drop of blood; the boy hunts larger animals; his grandmother made him first a small bow, then a real bow; talks about death mother; the young man kills the Bear with arrows; puts the corpse by the river as if the Bear is drinking; the grandmother is frightened, the grandson explains what is going on; the grandmother does not tell me to go over the hill; the young man walks, sees the village, stays there, takes his wife; Coyote makes him lose (apparently a ball game is on the court), loses his property and his wife; decides to leave, Coyote goes with him; he flies north to Huasna (he can take shape flies), Coyote runs; then the road to heaven, the Coyote leads the young man; in the house of the Sun they are greeted by two daughters of the Sun in rattlesnake skirts; the guests were given a deer, but told not to break their bones; the Coyote accidentally broke leg bone; the daughter of the Sun threw her bones into the water, the deer came to life, but the leg is not enough; the Coyote is thirsty; four vessels contain blood, pus, snot, body fluid; he does not drink, he is given sweet juice; and the young man drinks from every vessel; daughter of the Sun: when the father comes, there will be fog, wind, then he will throw stones into the house; brings dead people, Coyote eats them; Coyote asks the Sun to allow him to go across the sky instead of him; carries the torch is too low, the earth burns; it does not return for a long time; the Sun takes away his torch; the Coyote decides to return to earth; asks the ogre eagle Slo? w bring him down; he stretches his wing down; the Coyote runs on it, jumps ahead of time, crashes to the ground; comes to life; the grandson stays with the daughters of the Sun forever]: Blackburn 1975, No. 18:126-134.

The Great Southwest. They scare mother or grandmother. Hopi [Pookongs (same name as twins usually have) kills a monstrous bear, fills his skin with grass, drags him along, scaring his grandmother]: Voth 1905, No. 22:89-90; Zunyi [two Brothers (Gods of War) live with their grandmother; she consistently warns them not to go to a certain direction of the world, but the younger brother suggests going; the Rodent digs a passage to the lying Cow; gnaws off her hair skins under the heart; the older brother kills the Cow with an arrow, she manages to kick the younger one; the rodent gives him medicine; a creature kicks passers-by off a cliff; the older brother dodges, the brothers throw the creature from the cliff into the abyss; old woman Ahdoshla offers to take insects out, puts her brothers to sleep, kills, cooks; they come to life, kill A., make a scarecrow out of her; come to another world where they are eternally mature corn, vegetables, melons; dwarfs live there without mouths; brothers cut their mouths, dwarfs eat for the first time; they are afraid of a boiling pot of corn porridge falling on them; brothers eat porridge; they find in a cave who produce lightning, thunder and rain stick and stone; bring them home; drag the effigy A. with them, pretending to run away from it; a frightened grandmother hits a scarecrow with a stick, the brothers laugh; pick up a stick and a stone, a thunderstorm begins, the grandmother almost drowns; the brothers think they killed her, but she returns from hiding; tells her older brother to go west, younger brother to go east; she goes to Halonaava herself]: Quam 1972, No. 37 : 182-194; Oriental ceres: Dumarest (Cochiti) [girl gets pregnant from the Sun, gives birth to twins Maaseve and Uyuev; four days later they ask for a bow and arrow; they guard the tree for arrows puma and bear; twins kill both, make a scarecrow out of the bear, sit on it, frightening the mother; she says that only the Ogre Eagle has arrow feathers; on the way to the eagle, the twins come to the spring; his the monstrous Deer guards; the Gopher makes a hole to the heart of the lying Deer, the twins kill him with an arrow; they tie themselves with blood-filled guts; the Eagle carries them away, throws them into its nest; blood splashes, The eagle thinks they're dead; the twins kill him with arrows, tell the eagles not to be cannibals anymore; returning to their mother] in Benedict 1931:211 and in Boas 1928a: 252; Gunn 1917 (Sia) [Yellow Woman gets pregnant from the Sun, gives birth to twins; the mother tells them who their father is; their grandmother Spider gives them a bow and arrow; weaves the web like a bridge across the river; in the center there is a hole leading to the Sun's house; he experiences sons; 1) a turquoise steam room (they cool it by spitting out its shells); 2) locked in a room with moose, bison, deer, antelope; 3) in another with bears, cougars, rattlesnakes; the Sun gives they have bows and arrows, hunting sticks for rabbits (you can't throw them before reaching home); mother and father warn them not to go to dangerous places, the twins go; the cougar throws those following poles into the abyss for arrows, they throw it off; 2) the bear guards the arrow feathers; they kill the bear, pull the scarecrow on a rope, scaring the mother; they turn into the skin of a dead deer, let the eagle carry themselves away; they kill eagles, they throw them out of the nest; they kill the eagles that have arrived; the groundhog plants a seed by the cliff, a pignon pine grows, they descend it; the giantess puts them in a basket, carries them behind her back, they grab a tree, run away; she catches them again; sends them at home for fuel; they push her into the fire themselves; they fire lightning arrows; the mole digs under the antelope; the twins pierce it from below; tell the antelopes to eat grass, not humans ; the mole is promised her giblets]: 43-52 in Boas 1928a: 251-252; tewa (Hano) [girl rejects suitors; Sumacoli's people live in a lake; young S. travels on a rainbow, comes to marry, girl agrees; he easily catches deer and moose; sorcerers are jealous, put a sharp stick smeared with snake venom on him; he steps on it, returns to his parents, cannot take out the splinter, is about to die; his wife gives birth to twins; they grow up quickly, find a father, create hummingbirds that suck a splinter; his father recovers but remains lame; tells him not to go south; brothers go and kill a dangerous a bear, make a scarecrow, drag him along as if a bear is chasing them; they laugh when they see that his father is frightened; one of S. is killed by enemies; brothers revive him, but he is blind; they make new eyes out of resin ; Sumacoli's mask is half-blind (with small eyes) and lame]: Parsons 1926, No. 15:246-254.

Western Amazon. Napo or canelo [see motif A31; the girl became pregnant with her brother; he went to heaven, became a month old; she became an ilucu bird (nightjar? ; but then the story continues; the same below with the mother of the jaguars, who became a toad but continues to act as before) has left home; the Cuillor (younger) and Docero twins from her womb show the way; ask her to pick a flower, then a leaf, a fruit; when she picked the fruit, she was bitten by a wasp; she clapped her stomach because of you; the twins fell silent; the parrot on her shoulder began to point the road, but he was carried away by a falcon; the woman came to the mother of the jaguars; she hid her under the roof, warned her not to spit; the jaguars came, she spat, the eldest climbed, did not find it, the youngest found the woman, they spit her they were torn to pieces, the twins were given to their mother (tender meat), but they asked them not to eat; the mother of the jaguars hid them, a month later they had already grown up; the old woman asked them to prepare firewood; they collected a huge pile, told pull from below, the old woman filled up the firewood; the next time she asked for water, they directed the river, when the old woman opened the door, the water carried her; the twins told the old woman to collect corn in the middle fields, made it endless; she can't find her way back; the voice of the toad "ooh" can be heard; since then, where corn grows, the toad unculu screams; the brothers brought the old woman home; the elder brother tells the younger not throw the leftovers wrapped in leaves into the water; he threw them away, they turned into a stingray, and when he started fishing, the stingray plunged his thorn into it; the mother of the jaguars asked them to make a bridge over the river for them; brothers turned into birds, made clubs, came back; the elder told the youngest to cut off the bridge at the signal, but he said there was no need for a signal; when all the jaguars stepped on the bridge, the elder cut off his end, and the younger he fiddled for a long time and a pregnant jaguariha ran away; her traces are still visible on the river rocks; the brothers told the Old Jaguar about their adventures; he asked them to set traps and the brothers caught almost all birds and animals; the Old Jaguar decided to eat them; his brothers killed him, took out his spine, filled him with ash, put insects in his eyes; shouted that the jaguar wanted to eat them; the old mother of jaguars ran, hit the scarecrow with a stick, the ash blinded her, the brothers washed her eyes; the ancient Jaguar devoured everyone; the brothers made a room inside Mount Galera, put a lot of food and musical instruments there, they lured Jaguar with a game; he started playing himself, did not notice how the brothers came out; they told the hole to close; the Jaguar started rushing, one leg was left outside; there was still a roar; other jaguars brought him food; a huge harpy eagle devoured everyone; Cuillor hid in a rubber bag; the eagle could not tear it, threw it on the clouds; C. does not know how to go down; the old man Uchitican says he is also from the ground; ordered sit on his back, close his eyes, open him after the second whistle, flew; but C. opened after the first one, fell into the forest; Docero went to look for him; began to pick edible mushrooms from the trunk; scream from the trunk {apparently mushrooms are C.'s ears, but it's not directly said}; the woodpecker cut the hole; for this D. gave him a red handkerchief over his head; C. made glue, the eagle stuck, D. broke his wing with a blow of the club; the brothers turned him into stone; it is visible now - it looks like an eagle with a broken wing; a huge anaconda devoured people; the brothers made a trap, persuaded them to climb into it, turned the anaconda into stone; the thunder killed many; the brothers found him sleeping on a tree branch; they cut his neck with an ax, told him to petrify; there are thunderstones in this place now; the evil frog spirit ("devil") took the form of a mother, told the children to dance; the brothers hid, told him to become a stone; the brothers asked the caiman to transport them across the sea; when the first one sailed, he answered the caiman every time that it smelled like fragrant flowers; when he jumped ashore, he said that he was like a caiman; But when the Cayman took the second one, but he had time to bite off the young man's leg; the bees pasted his leg with wax; the brothers made a fire, the smoke rose to the sky, became a staircase, and the brothers climbed into heaven; C. a morning star, and D. an evening star]: Orr, Hudelson 1971, No. 2-15:7-49.