J37. The bird carries away the antagonist.

(.37.) .39.-.43.56.57.61.-.64.67.68.74.

Having turned into a powerful bird or created one, the hero lifts into the air and carries his opponent away.

(Udege), Chukchi, Asian Eskimos, Nunivak, Kodiak, Chugach, Aleuts (Unalashka, Umnak, Commanders), Bering Strait and Northern Alaska Inupiat, Kuchin, Tagish, Tlingits, Haida, tsimshian, quarry, tillamook, guajibo, shikuani, piaroa, yanomami, maquiritare, coreguaje, carijona, baniwa, wakuenai, desana, uitoto, manao, mura, maue, parintintin, munduruku, tenetehara, urubu, moseten, surui , sinta larga, kamayura, vaura, rickbakza, paresi, yagans.

(Wed. Amur - Sakhalin. The Udege people [the tiger became an evil spirit (amba); instilled his savons into men, who became his assistants, forgot their relatives; eight-year-old Salamage stayed with his brother; to find courage, he climbed into the eagles nest on the rock, you can't go back; there are two eagles in the nest; before the adult eagles returned, the kind tiger Kuta Mafa jumped over the abyss into the nest, took S., jumped back with them, not knowing that S. took one chick with him; the king of birds is ready to declare war on the king of tigers, he advises to punish only the guilty person - S.; the eagle took Aka, S.'s younger brother; S. returns the eagle, takes A., falls with him off a cliff, an eagle picks them up; S. explains why he tried to steal an eagle; eagles pick up an evil tiger, throw them into the sea; after him, leaving people's bodies, savons rush into the sea, become sea devils; men, including Father S., are returning]: Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010:195-200).

SV Asia. Chukchi [a strongman beat young men and children, took women away and forced them to work for himself; a woman gave birth to a boy, dressed him as a girl; the boy grew up; the strongman realized that it was a boy when he saw him shoots an archery; he pushed him off a cliff, but he ended up with an old man, he raised him {how the boy escaped, it is not said}; the young man killed a seal, brought him to yaranga, there is a girl; she told him to become a seagull, find his own mother; he put on a seagull skin, caught two whales, brought it to women who were subordinate to the strongman; then picked him up and threw him into the sea; brought his mother to that girl's yaranga, took off the seagull's clothes; all three live there]: Dolitsky 2019: No. 126:293.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos: Menovshchikov 1985, No. 39 (Naukan) [same in Rubtsova, Vakhtin 2019, No. 1:23-40; father lets his young son kayak into the sea; he ends up in the country of Orlov; two girls raise him, their father gives him eagle plumage; he grabs a fire-breathing whale, which drags it under water, the Eagle sisters help lift the whale into the air; the eagle wants human; the young man brings his father to eat him ; mother brings, she lives well with the Eagles]: 88-93; Bogoras 1913, No. 7 [a man always beats his wife; she turns a bucket of water into the sea, a bag of meat into a boat, sails away with her young son; sails to to an old man, that daughter; at night an old man sends his long penis scratching the baby's neck; a woman avoids copulation; runs away, turning a bucket into a lake; throws a piece of his hair, it turns into forest; climbs a tree; an old man sees her reflection, dives three times; hears her laughter, sees her in a tree; cuts a tree with his penis; a woman jumps on another; a fallen tree has crushed an old man to death; a woman gets to another old man, who has five daughters; the old man stretches the baby's dicks, turning him into a young man; shows the woman a scar around the young man's neck from being hit by a penis, she recognizes her son; the old man and his daughters They show the young man how to wear eagle clothes; in the form of an eagle, the young man tries to pick up a mammoth, his claws get stuck; the eagle sisters help him; he brings whales and humans for an old eagle who eats man; mother tells her son about his evil father; Eagle son takes the boat with his father into the air, throws it, brings the corpse of his mother's father]: 426-429; Van Deusen 1999 [husband beats wife; grandmother {apparently husband's mother} tells she runs away, creates a barrel, puts a woman with her baby there; she is nailed to the shore, the woman comes to a house with meat supplies; the owner returns, asks her to be his wife; the woman stings the baby, says that he is used to sleeping outside, goes out, runs away, climbs a tree; a man chases, sees her reflection in the lake, throws himself into the water; the woman laughs; he notices her, saws a tree, it falls on him, he is crushed to death; a woman with a baby comes to a yaranga, throws sand on the coating; an old woman in yaranga tells her daughters to know if it is raining; they see a woman; the old man tells her to drive her away if the baby is girl, invite if a boy; a woman first gives the baby, then enters herself, sees a healthy young man; this is her son, who immediately becomes an adult, he shows his mother a mole on his body; these people eagles, they give the young man an eagle robe, teach him to fly; he brings whales and deer; flies to Chaplino, brings a kayak with a man from there, throws it, the man in the kayak crashes, it was that cruel husband, the father of a young man- eagle]: 94-97; Nunivak Island [the chief sews the mischievous nephew into an empty sealskin wineskin, throws him into the sea; he is nailed to the shore where mother, daughter, and big eagle live; the young man takes daughter as a wife, an eagle brings them lahtaks and caribou; the hero asks the eagle to take him to his uncle, who swims in a kayak, his nephew drowns him; asks the eagle to bring a wife for his grown son; he brings a wife chief; two half men come with one hand, one eye, half mouth; start breaking the house; that woman kills them; she had a shale nose and walrus wings]: Lantis 1946, No. 12:281; Kodiak [see motive K27; a man kills his sister's sons; she pretends to have given birth to a girl, her brother finds out the truth; 1) drops a wedge into the crack of a log, asks her nephew to get it, knocks out other wedges; a young man escapes; an uncle lets his nephew into the sea in a box or in seal skin; he sails into the country of Eagles, receives eagle plumage; brings a whale to his uncle's village; an uncle drives the boy's mother away from meat; The eagle nephew lifts his uncle into the air, throws him into the sea]: Golder 1903, No. 8:90-95; chugach [(=Johnson 1984:50-60); Petty Officer Shili is uncle, Kumariaq eagle is nephew; S. does not give meat to grandmother K.; K. creates a whale washed ashore; S. drives K.'s grandmother away from the carcass; K., in the form of an eagle, grabs S. by the head, carries him away, throws him into the sea; takes his two wives; when old, makes two men out of whale bone; When they die, these men become husbands of K.'s widows]: Birket-Smith 1953:159-160; Aleuts: Jochelson 1990, No. 35 (Unalashka) [a man kills his sister's sons; she pretends to have given birth to a girl, the brother finds out the truth; 1) drops a wedge into the crack of the log, asks his nephew to get it, knocks out other wedges; he escapes as a beetle, brings firewood; 2) his uncle takes him to hunt seals, sews him into a seal he throws his skin into the sea; the nephew sails to the country of the Eagles, gets two wives and eagle plumage; flies to his mother, brings a whale to his uncle's village; an uncle drives the boy's mother away from meat; an eagle nephew takes his uncle into the air, throws him into the sea; returns to his wives], 43 (Umnak) [=1916, No. 4:302-304; Kanaagutukh keeps only women in her villages, kills all boys; one woman hides her son; when K. finds out the truth, he seeks to destroy him; 1) the young man splits a log, brings firewood; 2) K. pushes him off a cliff, taking him to hunt for cormorants; he descends like a feather that his mother gave him, brings cormorants; 3) K. leaves his son on the island; he hides the seal in advance, sews himself into his skin, sails to the Eagles; lifts his father into the air, throws him; makes slaves mistresses; returns to the Eagles ]: 269-277, 329-333; Lyapunova 1984 (Commanders) [there are only women in the leader's village (they also do all men's work); men are exterminated, the leader kills born boys; one woman hides her son under looking like a girl; the chief discovers him when he knocks down flying birds with stones; the chief tries to 1) protect him in the tree trunk (his mother gives a magic bone wedge); 2) throws him off the cliff (the mother gives magic feathers); 3) takes seals to fish, leaves it on the island; with a woman's knife, the boy takes off the skin from the seal, sews himself into it, swims, throws it on Orlov Island; the young man marries, studies flying in the skin of an eagle to her mother's village, brings her two whales; the chief tries to take them away, the young man lifts him into the air, throws him into the sea; when he returns to the village, swaps idle women and slaves ( including his mother), flies to his wife]: 27-28; Bering Strait inupiate [orphan Seetuk lives with her uncle, studies with him; uncle's wife eats all supplies, tells her husband that she does it nephew; uncle puts S. in a box, ties the lid, lowers it into the sea; the box sticks to the shore; S. frees himself, hunts, gets everything he needs; someone brings fish, deer, wolves to his house (they have them valuable skins); two brothers and sister arrive; she is ready to marry S. if he overtakes her and defeats an evil rival; S. first falls behind, then witches, overtakes; the girl's father gives him polar bear skin; S. defeats an opponent in a ball game (this is a big stone); diving into the sea; kills with an arrow when he is in bear form; S. marries, father-in-law gives him hawkish plumage; S. flies to his native village, He picks up his uncle, throws him into the sea, taking off his birds' clothes and telling him why he is going to kill him; brings his uncle's corpse to the village, tells his story; people kill their uncle's wife, bury him with her husband; S. returns to the Hawks, becomes their chief]: Garber 1940, No. 27:204-215; Northern Alaska Inupiate (Noatak): Hall 1975, No. EH13 [man cheats on his wife with widow; woman makes a small kayak, sails away with his son; sails to the Eagle's home; the Eagle teaches his stepson to turn into an eagle, hunt whales; tells him not to touch the spewing fire; the young man violates the ban, his claws get stuck, his stepfather saves him; a young man finds a real father, takes him into the air, throws him somewhere in the mountains], PM5 [every time a younger brother's wife gives birth to a son and he grows up, the older brother kills his nephew; the couple pretend that a girl was born; an uncle suspects the truth, puts his nephew in a hollowed out log, covers him, lowers him into the sea; he is nailed to the land of eagles; two eagle girls find him; he is taught to fly, they don't tell him to grab a fire-breathing whale; he grabs, gets stuck with his claws, eagles save him; he marries; comes to his uncle, kills him with his hands, crushed from above], PM73 [uncle's wife cheats on him with his nephew; uncle He closes him in a hollowed out log, lowers him into the river; he is found by an eagle girl, brings him to the sky; he is taught to fly; he takes the kayak with his uncle into the air, throws him, his uncle dies]: 97-102, 125-130, 276-278.

Subarctic. Kuchin: McKennan 1965 [the older brother is jealous of his younger brother; breaks a log, makes a coffin; invites his brother to lie down and try it on; closes the lid, lowers it into the river; takes the coffin to the shore where they live Dog Eskimos (= eagle people); they have no mouth, they eat the smell of rotten meat; the hero cuts their mouths; then they cut through each other, some in a hurry make a vertical cut; the hero gets a wife; local people rip open the bellies of pregnant wives, the hero teaches how to give birth; hawks are moose for them, the hero easily kills hawks; a dead hawk that falls from a tree runs over several people; the hero is given an eagle plumage, he flies home in it, lifts his brother into the air, throws him into the fast; takes his two wives; one of them lubricates his feathers with her milk, his wings weaken; he grabs the beaver, which drags him under water; wives take a piece of fir resin as their husbands; put a rope in a boat, let it go with the flow; at a signal they pull back; one day they spy and see that the resin turns into a man, he hunts beavers; they pull the boat sharply, the resin falls to pieces]: 132-136; Petitot 1886, No. 5 [the older brother has two wives; he ties up the younger brother, descends into the sea in the deck; the young man asks the seagull to sail in front of him, the sea calms down, brings the deck ashore; the white wolf tries to gnaw through the fetters, the marten succeeds; the young man comes to a village where there are only dogs; there is meat, but because of the smell of his dog it is impossible to eat; he enters the dark passage, sees the eagle's feathered skin hanging, puts it on, flies into the village; children recognize eagleskin, pierce it; adults invite him to live with them; these people - dogs below the waist; a young man stays in a house where a girl marries her, feeds him with mouse legs, mice are deer for them; locals do not know what sleep means; a young man falls asleep, others think that he died; when he wakes up, he says he has learned the secret of sleep in a dream; throws a hare's eyes into the fire, others fall asleep; these people hunt polar owls, ask him to catch owls; he shot one, she fell into the house where his wife scratched her to death; the harvested mouse fell into the fire and burned; the dogs believe that the young man is to blame, tell him to leave; he comes to the deer hunter, who has the second eyes on the back of his head, and the skis are curved at both ends to go both ways; with his sword he killed all dog dogs; the young man puts on eagle plumage again, flies over the sea, and creates an island if he wants to rest; he flies to his brother, who promises him one of his wives, but the young man grabs him by the hair, picks him up, throws him into the river, he drowns; the young man comes to his two wives, one has parasites caresses, the other has mice; he cleaned women of them, slept with both; pierced his chest with one eagle feather, she gave birth to a boy; one day he went hunting, grabbed him by the heel, dragged him into the water and drowned by a huge pike; it was his older brother]: 56-67; tagish [jealous man tells his servants to lock the opponent in the box, launch him; Eagle girls save him, he lives with the Eagles; arrives in the village, grabs a woman, others cling for her, he dumps everyone at sea]: McClelland 1975 (2): 466.

NW Coast. Tlingit: Swanton 1909, No. 52 [a jealous uncle kills the sons of his three sisters; the fourth husband gives his son a bracelet to help him become a feather ball in a moment of danger; uncle demands 1) come to a huge oyster (the young man is swallowed, cuts the oyster from the inside), 2) catch a monstrous octopus (brings it to his uncle), 3) climb a tree (the uncle climbs after him, pushes his nephew down, he lands with a feather); the uncle ties the young man to the board, throws him into the sea; three sisters find him, he marries two; visits his uncle's wife, kills him, returns to his wives], 53 [the young man kills the rival, escapes with a slave in a boat; a slave leaves him on an island; a young man sails to the shore in the shoes of a sea lion, enters the country of Eagles; marries Eagle's daughter, receives eagle plumage; at this time his mother was expelled from villages; her eagle son brings her fish and seals; people chase her, throw a stone in her face; the eagle grabs the leader, lifts her into the air; another man tries to hold the leader by the legs, sticks; with the rest The same thing happens; the Eagle takes them away, throws them into the sea]: 198-203, 203-206; Hyda: Reid, Bringhurst 1989 [The raven marries a Stream woman; the Wealthsound girl is their descendant; tells the one who picked her up to the young man and his relatives, when her brother threw a frog into the fire, the frog's mother began to look for her child; the old people told Wealthsound to hide in a latrine, the others were destroyed by the earthquake and with fire; the boy's parents adopt a girl of the same kind (their coat of arms is dogfish, a little shark); W. marry the mainland; her son complains that other children tease him with his rootless; mother and son return to the Haida Islands; her adoptive parents are already dead; named brother W. receives her and his nephew; finds him with his wife, puts him in a box, lets him go to sea; he is washed ashore in the country of Orlov, Orlitsa takes a young man as a husband, her father gives him eagle plumage, tells him to miss a large mollusk (clam); it is enough, dragged under water, the Eagles come to the rescue, each grabs the other, the whole chain of Eagles is almost hides under water, the old Orlitsa pulls them out, but the young man remains under water; at the request of his wife, her father pulls his bones from the bottom, revives him; agrees to send his son-in-law and daughter to the land of people; gives three stones; when a young man and his wife get tired of flying, they throw a stone, it turns into an island, they spend the night on it; so three times; at home the young man finds his mother; all women want it, he answers alone Reciprocity; the eagle wife sees how the water is cloudy, flies away; wearing eagle plumage, the husband flies after her; she tells him to return, he refuses; then she deprives him of his plumage, he falls into the sea; falling, hears frog croaking]: 93-103; Smelcer 1993 (Masset) [uncle is angry that his nephew is not studying well; closes him in a box, throws him into the sea; when he becomes an eagle, the nephew lifts his uncle into the air, throws him into the sea] : 49-50; Swanton 1905 (Skidgate) [uncle glues his nephew with tar to a log, lets him go to sea; a log sails to the country of Eagles; a young man marries the leader's daughter; he is given an eagle robe; he lifts up the air of whales and other marine animals; once almost dragged under water, his eagle mother-in-law manages to pull it back; he flies into his uncle's village in the guise of an Eagle, kills its inhabitants]: 271-273 [nephew throws chips into the hearth; the fire breaks out, he sees his uncle's wife's genitals; points to a red woodpecker, says he saw something like this red; the clam almost drags him under water; in the village an eagle boy lifts one man into the air; another grabs him by the legs, followed by others; an eagle lifts a chain of people into the air, throws him into the sea], 273-276 [nephew in love with his uncle's wife; uncle's slaves they smear the bottom of the boat with resin, masking it with feathers; they throw a young man with a board glued to him into the sea; he kills (without details) all the inhabitants of his uncle's village, except his two younger sisters], 277-280 [y nephews had the right to sleep with his uncle's wife; he sends nine nephews one by one to split a log, they get stuck, die; the tenth trains swimming in the sea, cutting off the fir's legs; 1) uncle splits the log, asks his nephew to get the wedge that has fallen into the crack, takes out another wedge; the nephew tears the log, brings it to his uncle; 2) the uncle asks for cormorants, pushes the nephew off the cliff; he turns into a feather; into a caress, climbs a rock, brings cormorants; 3) brings burning bark; 4) an uncle pushes him into the shell of a mollusk, his nephew tears it apart; the uncle puts him sleeping in a box, throws him at sea; he sails to the country of the Eagles; marries the leader's daughter, receives an eagle robe; lifts his uncle into the air, throws him into the sea; he turns into a sea spirit]; 1908a, No. 38 [shaman considers his nephew stupid, puts it in a deck, covers it with a lid, lets him go to sea; two sisters catch a deck; their father gives the youngest young man to marry; he wants to visit the house; he is given an eagle skin, which his father-in-law wore to catch whales; an eagle boy lifts his uncle by the hair, someone grabs him by the leg, the other grabs the grabber, forms a chain, the eagle lifts it up, throws it into the sea; takes the uncle further than others, turns it into devil -fish (stingray?) ; returns to his wife; contrary to warning, a whale with two breaths grabs him under water with all the eagles who have come to the rescue; father-in-law is the last, he manages to pull out the entire chain, including a whale]: 513-517; (cf. Tsimshian: Barbeau 1953 (b. Ness) [while the chief is hunting, his nephew sleeps with his wife; the chief finds them, kills his wife, glues his tied nephew with resin to the board in the boat, descends down the river; the boat reaches the sea, the resin melts in the sun; The mouse invites the young man to his uncle; animal people and birds sit around (in appropriate suits); the young man marries the daughter of the Eagle Chief; she gives him a stone to knock out her vaginal teeth; former the grooms are all dead; the wife gives the young man eagle plumage; he gains fame by helping to bring the big whale; the father-in-law leaves a huge oyster as bait, she pulls her son-in-law to the bottom; in response, the wife is ready starve himself; then the father-in-law opens the hatch in the floor, goes down to the sea, pulls out his son-in-law's bones, revives him; the young man wants to see his native village; his father-in-law gives him three pebbles; when his son-in-law throws them into the sea, they turn into islands, he rests on them; together with his wife they bring people lots of food; the young man hunts like an eagle; converges with an ordinary girl; then the eagle wife flies away; he tries to follow after her, she falls into the sea, drowns; she returns home, starves herself; her father-in-law revives her son-in-law again, who stays with eagles]: 42-52).

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry: Jenness 1934, No. 26 (Hegwilgate) [two boys are orphaned; the chief killed their relatives with witchcraft; one dives into a lake, gets a pipe there; one end kills her, the other revives; orphans create (?) two eagles; one of them grabs the leader, picks up; people grab the leader's legs and each other's legs; a chain of people rises into the air; the orphan's grandmother also grabs; orphans want to save her, let the chains break; two eagles play with the chief's body, then throw it into the river; it is swallowed by fish], 33 (Fort Fraser) [Chief Ketlangai killed the boy's relatives with witchcraft; he becomes a shaman, creates (incarnates at?) powerful hawk; hereinafter referred to as No. 26; all the villagers are carried away, fall, turn into a hill]: 175-177, 195; tillamook [Wild Woman kills a man; his sister-wife rushes into the fire; Eagle saves their son; he learns to fly, Thunderbird helps him; he takes the Wild Woman into the air, kills her]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 14:25-28, 50-54.

Llanos. Sicuani: Baquero 1989, No. 1 [Kuwai (Furnaminali) turns into an insect, clings to the genitals of Puakali (Mashunashunali), daughter of Quemi (anaconda, Eunectus murinus), who at that time "occupied the world"; marries her; one day Kuwai's son enters the house in the guise of Aguchi, Kuemi devours him; Kuwait picks up pieces of his flesh, creates two of them are eagle chicks; raises them to take Quemi to heaven; to lure him out of his lair, Kuwai releases Attalea sp. ants, Quemi crawls out to eat them; a trace of his body - The Milky Way; eagles take him to heaven, he himself is the Milky Way; his widow Yaniluava (= Tenteluva = Tsikiri) is the mother of all poisonous creatures (scorpions, spiders, snakes, ants); she tries to avenge her husband's death, falls into the trap of Kuwai, is eaten by piranhas; her daughter grabs her thigh bone, cuts off the leg of Kuwaii's other son, Kahuyali (Orion), throws her in water, it turns into catfish; K. is considered a jaguar and the creator of shamanism; he used to ride his stone boat, spreading fish along rivers; the giant eagle became an ogre, Kuwait killed him; there, where he fell, savannahs appeared in the forest]: 80-81; Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 6 [Purna puts the tops, two female sisters from the sky steal fish from them; P. points an arrow, she injures the youngest; P. heals her, goes up to heaven with both; they warn him not to slip on the mat, otherwise their father will eat it; Huemuéni's father-in-law (a snake) tells him not to slip on the mat; P.'s younger brother comes in the form of a paki, killed, eaten, P. revives him; next time in the form of capybara; P. finds some fat from the capybara eaten, makes two eggs, from which ferocious chicks hatch; one P. grows in the forest, he turns into a condor capable of lifting logs; P. lures his father-in-law into the forest to eat ants; the condor rushes at him, but only hurts; a year later he manages to pick him up and carry him away; mother-in-law tries to poison his son-in-law , throwing garbage from the roof into his food; puts piranhas in his daughter's bosom; P. puts his wife in the river, throws timbo; piranhas swim out and die; the latter stays, causes menstruation; at this time it is impossible copulate; mother-in-law entered the river, piranhas ate her; the eldest daughter turns her mother's jaw into a digging stick, chases P.; in the first village, when asked by P., people answer that they are waiting to kill P.; he turns them into wasps; in the other, into snakes; in the third, into biting ants; the Kahuyáli man makes a boat, the stalker does not believe he is not P., cuts off his leg; he throws his leg into the river, she turns into catfish; P. hides in a tree in the form of a mako, takes his wife's digger, turns his wife into a duck; K. creates several birds screaming that he has no leg; he is brought home], 7 [Furná ; minali turned into a tick, clung to the genitals of Kwameimi's daughter; the girl's hammock over her parents' hammock; at night they hear her daughter whispering to someone; F. is recognized as a son-in-law in the morning; F. asks for a younger brother bring a whetstone; do not go to K. as an edible animal; he came in as a paki, killed; F. asked for two pieces of meat, raw and boiled, puts them in a nest in a tree, they turn into chicks; grow into giant eagles; on the third attempt they are able to raise a palm trunk to the sky; F. lures Snake-K., creating leaf-cutter ants, the eagles raise K. to the sky, it turns into the Milky Way; K.'s wife lets F. see through the flared from the head of her young son F.; admits that the tick was from her genitals; F. creates a piranha pond, calls his mother-in-law to fish, piranhas eat her; her daughter takes out her mother's pelvis, made an ax out of him, chased her husband; came across a Kahúyari man making a boat, cut off his leg, he turned into Orion, turned F.'s wife into a duck; painted his leg with blood, made catfish; Orion is seen in the sky with his leg severed]: 39-49, 51-54.

Southern Venezuela. Piaroa [Wahari (falcon) marries the daughter of Kwoimoi (a poisonous snake); he wants to eat it; V. turns into a harpy eagle; lifts the shaped jaguar K. into the air, carries it around the world until he dies]: Boglar 1977, No. 32:291; Grelier 1959:158; Yanomami [(Cocco 1972:314-316); Kasé-Nudu thunder owner hunted by lightning; does not tell his sister to come to her site with cassava; she came; he took her two children to the forest, killed her with thunder, put their hearts at the fork in the tree; they turned into huge Dinoshi harpy eagles; the killer was frightened; the tree became a mountain with a harpy nest on at the top; their feathers are like armor; Enneku, the murderer's wife, went after them, they ate it; began to grab and carry people away; Kudene (looked like a water snake) made curare; the trumpeter bird found out that D. in the back did not have armor ; K. hit them with an arrow; the fallen feathers turned into bamboo for wind guns; where they fell, the best bamboo grows]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 126:222-225; (cf. makiritar: Civrieux 1960 [to punish his sister, Thunder kills her two sons; puts their hearts at a fork in a tree; they turn into Dinoshi's giant harpy eagles with armor on their chest; an anaconda man creates the first curare; a trumpeter bird learns that Dinoshi's back is vulnerable to arrows; they are killed with poisoned arrows; their feathers and bones are turned into bamboo for making winds rifles]: 183-184; 1980:85-87).

Western Amazon. Koreguahe [father-in-law took his son-in-law to look at the drawings on the stone, pushed him down, he was eaten by chulos; later the father-in-law returned, pulled out his son-in-law's bones, hid it under the roof; the victim's little sons hunted crickets, they asked not to kill them, but to feed them, showed where their father's bones were, folded them, ordered them to bring tobacco, began to smoke, the man began to revive, came to life, went hunting; the boys' mother does not believe when he sees husband, frightened; he tells his wife to put starch in the pot, which turned into a little harpy eagle; then he told his wife to put more starch, a big eagle appeared, and the man began to feed him meat animals, he was able to lift the tree trunk; the father-in-law was hit by a splinter in the leg, he asked his daughter to pull it out, the eagle grabbed it and took it away; at the request of his wife, the husband shot the eagle, but the arrow did no harm; the eagle ate father-in-law, head fell, tutamono (monkey?) began to blow at her, causing a dull sound; the jaguar asked me to give his head to him, and has been growling loudly ever since]: Jimenez 1989, No. 43:96-98.

NW Amazon. Karijona [Kaeromati dug a hole in the forest, pushed his son-in-law there, died a week later; K. collected the bones, hid it under the roof; the victim's little son asks his mother about his father; tears off the crickets's heads, one asks not to kill him, talks about his father; for this, the boy revived the others; bewitched the tree on the site to be strong, cassava to make it difficult to dig (so the grandfather and mother will not return home soon, they will to work), threw the cricket to the ceiling, he gnawed through the rope of the bundle, the bones fell; for this, the boy gave the cricket to chirp the bone that people had between their thumb and forefinger; fumigated their bones, after covering them with tobacco leaves, the father came to life; K. took meat from his grandson, now the father brought monkeys to his son, and gave his father-in-law a skin; the boy sculpted two harpy eagles from manioc starch, they grew up quickly; the boy they built a platform for them by the water so that their bones would fall into the water and their mother would not revive their grandfather like his father; the harpies grabbed and ate their grandfather, the bones fell into the water; the boy pretended to shoot, but with blunt arrows; then drove the harpies far away]: Schindler 1979, No. 12:110-118; baniva [man catches fish with poison; another kills him; the son of the victim pulls out his heart; it turns into a harpy eagle; he trains pick up stones and logs; becomes a little bird; the murderer's daughter takes her, gives it to her father; the eagle becomes huge again, takes the murderer away]: Saake 1968:268-269; vakuenai [younger brother Created by bones (SK) married the daughter of the Great Disease (WB); the wife's brothers decide to kill him; ask him to dive, put a stake on his shoulder, press the stake, but the young man puts the stake in the bottom, emerges; then, fishing with poison, they ask him to cross a river on a log, the young man slips into the water, is killed with arrows; the UK sees his brother's body being cut; becoming a wasp, steals his heart; bakes on a cassava brazier, squeezes a hawk out of him; he is small, the UK tells him to eat butterflies and birds; squeezes out other hawks; finally one that can lift a log; makes him small, brings the WB daughter, allegedly a hawk eats sand fleas; a woman brings a bird to her father, which becomes huge, carries away the WB; SK cut off the bow bowstrings in advance, corked wind guns; the WB daughter asks to shoot the bird, but the bowstring breaks, sarbakan does not shoot; the hawk throws the WB at Orinoco, which turns into a rock, rots under water, since then people have been ill with malaria; the UK has fumigated WB people with tobacco, they have stopped grieving for it; (p.53-56: SK kills his wife's brothers, apparently turning them into monkeys)]: Hill 2009:48-52; desana [at the party, two sisters dance with an inambu (Crypturus sp.) forest feather; he says he leads to his house the right path, with the yellow macaw feather on it; on the left, to the Opossum house, green; the Opossum changes feathers; in the morning, the sisters turn left to reach the opossum; at night they do not allow him to insert his penis into their vagina; he uses all parts of their bodies, since then the women have an unpleasant smell; in the morning, the eldest gives in to the harassment of the Possum; flee to Inamba; Crane, Duck refuses to transport them because of an unpleasant smell; Cayman he does not smell, he transports them; the possum chases them; the bird people kill him, leave his skin on top of the cliff; the calebass in the house of the Possum is filled with his blood; from it his mother creates two Eagles; those they take Inamba to the Jaguars, eat him there; one feather falls into the current Inambu; Inambu's father comes to the Jaguars, hides the bone from his son's leg, which falls into the lake, turns into two Diloa fish; mother Inambu can't catch them; they turn into crickets, come to grandparents; they become young men; they come to Opossum's mother, kill eagles, make flutes out of their bones; one feather turns into current eagles; lightning strikes the Jaguars; the grandmother also dies because she is from a Jaguar family; D. rise to heaven, become Thunders]: Kumu, Kenhiri 1980:161-184; yukuna [Karipulakena brothers swam in a boat downstream of Apaporis, but a huge turtle blocked the way; K. was asked by the harpy eagle to carry it away; but the turtle made it a wet season and it was difficult to tear it off the ground; stingray and fish lechero started shooting at the eagle; the eagle died; K. raised the son of an eagle, who came to the turtle's house to compare his bones with his father's; when he realized that his bones were larger, he first sent the little eagles to cover the sun, then the bees bite the turtle, then picked it up and carried it to Ipojló; the turtle's armor formed the rocky islands]: Hammen 1992:94-95; witoto: Folklor 1974 [man asks daughter to attach to Cassava leaves on his hands; turns into an Eagle, sits on a huge cassava plant; takes his unfaithful wife and her lover; then becomes an ogre; he is killed, burned]: 174-177; Preuss 1921, No. 5 [girls they caught a snake (Buneiseni turned into it), put it in a pot of water, the snake grows, is let into the lake, first eats cassava, then crawls ashore to catch animals; swallowed the girl herself; her father jumped the snake into its open mouth; when the serpent swam near his house, cut his stomach with a sharp shell, came out bald; his daughters tied his leaves like wings, he became an eagle; his beak an ax, brought the heads of monkeys and sloths to his daughters, then began to eat people; wanted to eat his daughters, but they locked themselves in the house, called for help; people set a trap, killed the ogre eagle; his spirit became an eagle- harpy]: 65, 224-229; Rodríguez de Montes 1981, No. 18 [Dihoma learned to transform into any animal; contrary to warning, he went to the water, a snake fell from his forehead; Nibagueño sisters (younger , beautiful) and Ecofueyaño tried to catch her in vain, their father caught her, placed her in a vessel, she was still growing, a pond was dug for her, the snake turned it into a large lake; took starch only from N.'s hands; going out to Putumayo, swallowing boats, people, then swallowed N.; D. let himself be swallowed, the snake cuts his heart with a knife; he tells him to wait for him to return from the seas to D.'s house; there D. cut an artery, the snake came ashore from her side; the daughter (apparently E.) said that her mother had a new husband; D. told her to bring her yarumo leaves and root (apparently to make wings and claws), turned into a harpy eagle, and began to carry her away , devour people; they made a trap, he died in it]: 144-148; Urbina 1991, No. 1 (muinane) [Diihoma is a great leader; while bathing, a snake skin came off him and another person touched it (? se percate de ello), turned into a snake; D.'s most beautiful daughter fed her manioc starch balls; the snake grew up, swallowed the girl; D. let him swallow himself; the snake swims into the sea, then returns; D. came out of his side; all nations were named after parts of the snake's body; D. plants cassava, the cuttings of which he extracted from the snake's womb; decided to take revenge on his unfaithful wife, turning into a harpy eagle, learning to fly from a dove; a giant tree grew out of planted cassava, an eagle's nest on its branches; the eagle fed his wife's lover to its chicks, then carries other people; the eagle was killed, from members of his body made ritual supplies]: 19-20.

Central Amazon. Lower Rio Negro (manao?) : Barbosa Rodrigues 1890:170-171 [A turtle kills Eagle Harpy; his son finds feathers, his mother says it's his father's feathers; he hunts turtles; they say their father killed his father; he trains strength, pulling trees; lifts the Turtle into the air; all the birds bite it, get dirty with blood, bile, etc., gaining colorful plumage], 271 [fisherman Uazu's hook gets stuck in the shell of Mother Turtles; she drags him into the river, the fish eat him; his son pulls the Turtle out of the water, turns into Grandfather Eagles; unable to reach W.'s bones and tendons, but they themselves turn into plants they make bows and arrows shoot fish]; lower Purus (mura?) : Barbosa Rodrigues 1890:267-269; maue [The Harpy Eagle wears the son of monkeys; he cries, wants fish; the Eagle suspects that his wife has a lover bringing fish; sends a fly to watch her, kills lover, Soko's bird, drives his son away; tells his wife to put her hand in the hollow to catch a rat; the hand gets stuck, the wife turns into the creaking of trees; the eagle asks Aram to eat the corpse, take the twins out the womb of the dead; eat Soko's son too, and give his son (Eagle) to his mother; she washes the baby in the river, he slips away, becoming a fish; the brothers of the killed invite Eagle to raise a log heated in the middle of the water; it breaks, the Eagle falls into the water, the Big Turtle kills him; the grandmother asks the sisters of the killed to catch his grandson; he asks his grandmother who killed his father; answer, Wind, then Hot Summer; he scratches aunts, who say that their father killed his father; he finds feathers, later his father's leg, on the ceremony site; trains to pick up logs and stones; pulls the Turtle out of the water; Toucan, then the Dove cannot penetrate her shell, Woodpecker pierces; these birds are colored with her blood; Jaguar and fish also color]: Ugge 1991, No. 2:130-146: Ugge 1991, No. 2:130-146: Ugge 1991, No. 2:133-143; parintintin [Canauréhu and Ipanitégué went to ruin the harpy eagle's nest; I., who remains below, asks about the chicks; K. replies that the chicks have fluff like I.'s wife's pubic; he throws away the stairs; the Eagle flew in, K. hid; he saw him, laughed while listening to the story, turned him into an eagle; taught him to fly, lifting heavier branches; they flew to the village together, tormented I. with their beaks and claws, lifted him into the air by the legs and by the head; all birds color their beaks and feathers with its blood and brain, and their meat has been eaten]: Pereira 1980 (2): 582-585 (retelling Lévi-Strauss 1964:319-320); Munduruku: Kruse 1946, No. 26:633-634; Murphy 1958, No. 54 [The Harpy Eagle grabs the Turtle but drags it under water; other eagles feed her son; he trains strength by lifting a log of the same weight as the Turtle; lifts the Turtle into the air , brings it to the nest; birds hammer its shell; Toucan fails, the Woodpecker pierces; all birds are colored with blood, bile and fat; the rapina eagle gets its head to blow it like a horn, but a tivito eagle asks to give his head to him; since then, T. has a low voice, and R. has a piercing voice].

Eastern Amazon. Tenetehara: Nimuendaju 1915, No. 7 [a man leads his wife and younger brother to the harpy eagles nest, climbs a tree; something has fallen into his brother's hair, the woman began to brush it, the husband decided that they are romance, gets down, tells their younger brother to climb to the nest, throws away the stairs, leaves with his wife; the young man finds one chick in the nest; parent eagles give him monkeys brought, call the other eagles, all of them they sing, turning a young man into an eagle; he marries the daughter of eagles; in the form of an eagle, he flies to the village where his older brother is preparing to dance at the festival; the older brother shoots, misses three times, the youngest an ordinary eagle becomes huge, lifts his brother into the air, his eagles have torn him to pieces, his bones fall to the ground; comes to his parents in the image of a man; takes them to the eagles, inviting other people to go with him, but they refused; the young man and parents took off; it rained at night, the village was flooded with a flood, some people escaped on the uassi palm tree, shed their fruits to see if the water had come down, but every time it was heard splash; people started talking like toads, turned into toads]: 292-294; Snethlage 1932 [similar to Nimuendaju], No. 1, 2:364-365, 372-374; Wagley, Galvão 1949, No. 21 [man asked for a brother to ruin the harpy eagle's nest (hawk), they made a ladder, the brother climbed, the man stayed with his wife, who began to seduce him; the husband told him to get up, he cried, cut off the stairs; the Eagle allowed the abandoned live with eagles, married a daughter, turned into an eagle; he sat on a tree on the edge of the plot, his wife called her husband, who missed, turned into a giant eagle, took his brother away, the eagles tore him apart, the eagle man threw the dice on the village square, became human, returned to his parents; told me to sing, only parents sang, their house took off; the rest died in the flood, turned into birds to hunt eagles]: 146-147; urubu [the harpy eagle (anthropomorphene) has a daughter, not yet feathers, he flew to look for feathers for her; his Indian relative Kaapor and his brother climbed into the harpy eagle's nest to give her feathers; her brother was frightened, returned home, the man stayed with the eagle girl, who told her father not to eat her husband; the eagle father poured water on them, their skin came off, feathers grew; the man became an eagle, stayed with eagles; at his father-in-law's request, he brought his brother, then his wife, to eat; after that, the harpy eagles stopped eating human beings]: Ribeiro 2002:600-603.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Mosethen [a huge snake swallows a man; his pregnant wife gives birth to a son, marries an eagle; the son hears his sisters say he would rather kill his father's killer than hunt mice; turns into an eagle, picks up huge stones, grabs a snake, brings it to the rocks, where she eats it with her stepfather; snakes, ants, wasps and other stinging creatures originated from her blood]: Nordenskiöld 1924: 145-146; surui [a man asks his brother to get a harpy eagle chick from the tree; asks him what he is like, if his feathers are large; Like your wife's genitals! The man cuts off the vines, leaves, the brother cannot go down; the chick turns him into an eagle; the eagle mother tells him to bring game, he can't, the chick hunts instead of him; the hero sends the bird to see Where is his brother; in the form of an eagle he kills him, lifts him into the air, eats his flesh, his skull turns into tinama; a left-handed person wounds a hero with an arrow, hides in a cave; women go to him calling him by name, Mosan! the hero summons him in the same way, kills him, he turns into cancer]: Mindlin 1995, No. 4:14-20; synth larga: Leonel Queiroz et al. 1988:81-82 [a man wounded an battleship, he disappeared into a hole, died; the man called his brother, asked him to get the battleship out of the hole, made a fire at the entrance; thinking that his brother was dead, returned to the village, took his wife; although burned, his brother got out; returned, killed his brother with a bow and wife, left with his son], 88-90 [the man called a relative (primo) to help him climb a palm tree to ruin the harpy eagle's nest; he cut down a tree to descend, went to his wife abandoned; the Eagles married him their daughter, turned him into an eagle; he killed and ate his rival, whose head turned into a black inamba bird]; (cf. tupari [Waledad failed to revive his deceased son; then he caused rain, who flooded the land fleeing the hills V. dumped into the water; Arkoanyo invited him and his brother named Wap to collect resin; he climbed the tree himself, began to shed the resin, covering the brothers' faces, arms and whole body; told two chickens to lift the brothers into the air, but they could not; the other two birds did it, smaller, but stronger; they took the brothers north and built a stone house for them there; the brothers are now there; when Valedad is furious, it rains on earth]: Caspar 1975:181-182).

Southern Amazon. Vaura [The turtle killed people from the Harpy Eagle family (dragged them into the water?) ; one young man trained for a long time, managed to raise the Turtle in his claws, threw it on a rock; the Jaguar and all the birds made their tongues and beaks out of blood, got votes; then they changed which one they liked best]: Schultz 1966:90-93; kamayura: Münzel 1973 [people came to the harpy eagle to ask for feathers; after attaching feathers, they managed to take off; the Harpy Eagle offered to kill Hauatsíu (the big turtle, Podocnemis cayennensis Schw.); everyone flew there with the Harpy Eagle; H. killed everyone; Araura's red bird lured the boy into the forest, became a man, says he is his father, tells him to paint the body is red uruku, promises to come in a year; the bird again leads the young man to the forest, to the village of Harpy Orlov; they say that his father has been killed, give him feathers to train lifting heavy stones; came to H., grabbed his throat, the Eagles carried H.'s children; he himself was thrown on a rock; all the birds gathered to drink his blood, found their current voices]: 180-184; Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973 [the man quarreled with wife and left; consistently approaches three types of trees, wants to be like them; each replies that he can't; comes to the birds; he is given feathers, especially harpy eagle feathers, asked to shake up; with the second time, one feather falls; he misses trying to dive and grab a rock; the birds say that their enemy Avatsiú, who has already killed many birds, is likely to kill him; he will attack A., but himself killed; birds ask his son for help; not a single feather falls, he lifts A. into the air, throws him; all birds smear A.'s blood, finding their current voices]: 174-180; Rickbacza [The lizard told a woman that her hunter husband was swallowed by fish chief Anaconda; the woman has various eggs in her basket; she is waiting for a bird to hatch that will break the bamboo and withstand the weight of her necklace; only the Harpy Eagle has succeeded to do this; he invites fish and Anaconda to drink chicha; Anaconda comes with her son, leaves his wife at home; if they die, she will take revenge; the eagle kills, eats father and son; now all anacondas in the river are females; women find beads in Eagle excrement (from swallowed Anaconda jewelry), make necklaces for themselves; The eagle catches and eats the women themselves, remains ugly; then the Eagle disappears]: Pereira 1973, No. 2:35-36; 1994, No. 6:76-82; paresi [two brothers married two sisters; one has a son Kazalynazaré, the other has a daughter Ayryazeró; K., his otey, both mothers turned into birds, swallowed by a huge fish; Father A. has a party; Trogonideo bird-man meets a girl; in the morning she goes to his house; Owl replaces the pen sign at a fork in the roads, the girl comes to Owl's house, everything is in the mud; she runs, spends the night in a hollow, where she paints parrot chicks; they take her home; she tells her where the parrot's nest is, her brothers kill the chicks; parrots make her get lost again out of revenge; she gets to the Wolf; says that she has her period, covers the parrot guard's beak with dough, comes to Mãe do tucum-do-campo; to the emams; to the Forest Cockerel; refuses to sleep with him, he flies away and takes away the fire; to the Spider, does not want to copulate, he chases her away; she comes to the Aquatic Men, their mother kills her; her soul flies away as a bird, along with the soul of a cousin swallowed by fish, decide to be called K. and A. and take revenge on fish; pick up stones and tree trunks to then be able to raise their enemy; raise the main fish to the tree where the stones had previously brought; eat; fallen pieces of meat and drops of blood turned into poisonous insects and snakes; scales]: Pereira 1986, No. 16:246-261.

The Southern Cone. Yagani [wife cheats on her husband with his younger brother; husband promises to become a bird and lift him into the air, but lovers do not pay attention to threats; husband climbs a tree, gradually turns into grey gyrfalcon (Circus cinereus); lifts lovers into the air, brings them to the nest, all the birds peck their bodies, throw their bones on the ground; the genitals remain in a position of copulation; the gyrfalcon carries them, throws where people play ball; people understood what was going on, agreed that revenge was fair]: Gusinde 1937:1201-1205 (translated by Wilbert 1977, No. 30:81-85).