J43. A bait for enemies.

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To destroy antagonists, the hero creates an edible bait for them, usually a fruit tree on the other side of the river.

California. Yurok [The crane stretches its leg across the river, the old woman is lured to this bridge, she sinks]: Kroeber 1976, No. A8 [mother-in-law and her sister are trying to destroy their son-in-law; he says there are something good], A9 [the old woman prevents the hero from fishing; he asks the Crane to kill her; he talks to her about good salmon on the other side]: 62-63.

Mesoamerica Half [hunger, only the Rabbit has corn; the Cockroach asks for it, the Rabbit tells him to wait; the Rooster comes for food, the Rabbit tells him to see the food where the Cockroach hides; the same successively (one eats the other) with Coyote, Jaguar; Jaguar kills Hunter; Rabbit Hunter: corn on the other side; Hunter crosses the river on a rotten log, falls through, is eaten by a Crocodile; The rabbit asks the Crocodile to carry it back; the crocodile wants to eat it; the rabbit says it's better to take the leaf as a plate; jumps ashore, runs away]: Münch 1983a: 293-294.

Llanos. Sicuani [a pregnant woman goes to visit her grandfather; he warns her to beware of other "grandfathers"; on the river, Monkeys call her granddaughter, lick to death; her baby Shrimp hides under leaf; in the guise of a boy comes to his grandfather; shoots the bow of larger birds; buries a piece of skin from his big toe, a caimo tree grows with numerous fruits; Monkeys come to eat them, the young man shot them all with guns]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 147:489-490.

Western Amazon. Shuar [The monkey throws a vine across the abyss, inviting the cannibals Ivia to cross to the other side, where a tree with fruits awaits them; when all I. steps onto the bridge, the Monkey cuts off the vine, those fall; The monkey eats their brains]: Barrueco 1988:45; Pelizzaro 1993:52 -53; Aguaruna [people climbed from the cannibal Willow into a tree; he cut it with a stone ax; the monkey Machin sent I. to swim, replaced his ax with an unusable fake, put back the chips that had already been chipped off, cutting down the thicket; hit the trunk so that I. could hear blows; told people to go down, threw the real ax into the river; I. broke the fake; began to dive, M. carried the ax deeper into the river, I. could not drain it; I. pulled his waist and mutilated his penis; M. invited all I. to go pick fruits from the tree on the other side of the ravine; when everyone stepped onto the bridge of vines, he brought it down; all I. died]: Chumap Lucía, García-Rendueles 1977 (2), No. 84:666-668.

NW Amazon. Macuna [see motif J15; Meneriyo turned onto the path leading to the ogre ~Gãs; he kills her with a dance rod; G.'s mother saved her baby Ryãkomakü (her son from her Brother month), releasing him into the river; R. goes ashore to play, painted butterflies (they were white); Mawão's three daughters buried one of them in the sand, painted on the sand, butterflies flew, R. came up to them, the girl grabbed him; he stopped crying in the younger one's arms; he grew up in a day; W. had to take him to G.'s house, talk about his mother's death; W. tied him with bitter leaves; G. licked, it turned out to be bitter; in the forest, G. became a jaguar, but R. became a lizard, escaped; at night R. put a deck in his hammock, G. attacked it; in the afternoon, G. and his brothers began to throw M.'s heads like a ball, and R. gave a lighter calebasa; if R. does not throw his own over the maloka, he will be eaten; R. transferred strength from his mother's head to the calebasa, threw his ball; since then, children have not been allowed to throw the ball over the maloka ( it's like throwing his mother's head); R. threw garbage into the backwater, puño (Serrasalmus rhombeus) and piranhas appeared; created a fruit tree on the shore, fish constipation like a bridge to it; when G. and his people went, R. told the bridge to fall apart; everyone was eaten by piranhas, but G. only ate their legs, he rose to heaven; W. suggested that R. burn the area from the middle, lit it around the edges himself; R. became a fish in a pit of water, waited out the fire ; W. sent R. for Thunder's daughter; R. replaced Thunder's lightning club with a wooden fake; R. brought G.'s daughter to W., telling her to be unfaithful; she took the Pisces Leader as her lover; knocked on the calebass on the water, causing him; the bird told W. about it; W. killed his lover with an arrow, cut off his penis, gave it to his wife under the guise of a fish; told her what she ate, turned her into a dolphin; the fish began to fight with W., he defeated them, went up to heaven ; W. appears in the form of a rainbow in the morning]: Årehem et al. 2004:484-494; Kabiyari [Month, Jejechu's son, began to come to his sister Meneriyo; she smeared his face with a genipa to see who lover; in the morning, the Month could not wash himself, died; he was resurrected from his bones; when asked if he knew that M. was a sister, he broke up again, restored again; M. climbed a tree, it grew to the sky, she went down the rope; got to the Jaguars; their grandmother hid it under the roof; the Jaguars returned from the site, found M. because she looked down; the grandmother took her giblets and found the boy Mujnuyi in them (this is the name in other texts have in common with several brothers, see motif B7); he slipped into the water, became a fish; at the mouth of the river he began playing on the beach with Jejechu's daughters; they buried one in the sand, hands outside, butterflies flew, M. came to play with them, the girl grabbed him; he immediately became a baby; grew up in five days, shot flies, then birds, asks how his mother died; J. replies that she was bitten by a snake (M. lets herself bite, alive); burned down, fell off a tree, ate a jaguar, drowned; every time M. shows that this is not the case; now his name is Pitche; he comes to the Chawine Jaguars who killed his mother; finds a head mother; the jaguars licked his head, it is bitter (the pitchi tree on his head is bitter); P. placed his mother's head on the other side of the river, made a bridge there; the jaguar stepped on it, he collapsed, the fish ate them, one escaped, his heel was bitten off; then see motif K1]: Correa 1989, No. 3:53-67.

Eastern Amazon. Tenetehara [Maira grows cassava that ripens in a day; the garden owner does not believe it; so now cassava ripens in a year; M. carves his wife out of wood; leaves; (var.: visits at night woman; she stains his face with genipa juice, find out who his lover is; M. leaves forever); Maira's son (SM) from his mother's womb shows her the path her father took; asks her to pick flowers for him; her a wasp bites, she claps her stomach, angry at her son; he is offended, directs her to the Opossum house; Opossum makes a hole in the roof above her hammock, rain falls on her; offers to outweigh a hammock closer to him, then move into his dry hammock; she conceives the Son of the Possum; SM sends her to the Jaguar village; the old woman hides her under the basket; the Jaguars find her; SM turns her into a deer, she she runs, the Jaguars catch up with her, eat her, give the children from the womb to the old woman; they cannot be fried, cooked, chopped, crushed; the old woman adopts them; they first turn into parrots, then boys; taking out the lice from the old woman, they tear off her head, play with her, put her back; the bird Jacques tells them about the death of their mother; they cry, their eyes turn red, the old woman is told that they were bitten by wasps; brothers throw wooden cassava pestles into the river, they turn into piranhas and snakes; brothers feed them meat to make them more ferocious; make a chain of arrows over the river like a bridge; they tell the Jaguaram that there are juicy fruits; when the Jaguars step on the bridge, the banks diverge, the river turns into a sea; (var: brothers bring down the bridge); Jaguars are eaten by aquatic creatures; brothers put Jaguar weapons in hollow reeds, throw into the fire, the fire spreads, M. collects fire himself; tests the brothers; they mock Azan's demons]: Nimuendaju 1915, No. 1:282-287; urubu: Huxley 1956 [Mair in In the form of a bird, she flies over a rotten fruit; a woman comes out of the fruit, he takes her as his wife; she does not believe that the yams, cassava, etc. planted by her husband ripened on the same day; angry M. leaves; the wife follows in his footsteps, the unborn son from the womb shows the way; after spending the night in the house of the Possum, the woman conceives a second son; Mair's son is offended by his mother, falls silent; the woman comes to the village of Jaguars; the old woman hides her under a vessel, the Jaguars find her, eat her; the children are thrown into boiling water, they jump out; the grandmother adopts them; the brothers cut trees into the river, they turn into piranhas and crocodiles; an island is made on the river, fruit trees are built on it, a bridge is built to the island; when the Jaguars cross the bridge for fruit, the brothers cut the bridge, the Jaguars are eaten by aquatic creatures; because the son of the Possum hesitated, two were saved; brothers come to M. , he gives them bows and arrows; offended by their mother, the brothers throw them into the forest, they turn into snakes; Meir wants to know if his children are in front of him; 1) remove the bait from Anyang's hook; Mair's son takes off the bait, then pulls the forest to laugh; Opossum's son takes the hook in his mouth, is caught, eaten; in the form of an ant, Mair's son collects his bones, revives him; 2) go to Grandfather Wind; he is not at home, Mair's son tickles his wife, her husband hears her laughter, blows, a tree falls on the brothers; Opossum's son dies, revives his brother; 3) walk between two converging and diverging gratin stones; Mair's son passes, the Son of the Possum is crushed, revived by his brother; M. realizes that the youngest of the brothers is not his son, he tells him to go back between the stones; the son of Possum is crushed again; Mair's son rises to heaven in anger, taking the stones with him; they are now produces thunder; Opossum's son goes up to his brother]: 217-220; Riveiro 2002:210-215 [Maïra inserted his penis into the gap because he did not have a wife; the tree was swollen and came out of it a pregnant woman, a baby in her womb spoke, pointing the way to her father; asked her mother to tear flowers for him; one day she reached for a flower, she was bitten by a snake, she slapped her stomach, reproached son; he fell silent; she came to Mukura's house (i.e. the opossum); he offered to spend the night with him; it was raining at night, Mukura made a hole in the roof over the hammock by a woman, she was forced to lie in his hammock; in the morning told me to go left from the fork, but she turned right and ended up in a jaguar village; the jaguar wives told her to leave as soon as possible, but she stayed; she was hidden under a vessel; the jaguars turned the vessel over; Maira's son turned the mother became an animal, it ran away, he was caught up, killed; two embryos were given to an old woman; she began to fry them, but burned her hands; the embryos turned into agouti; the old woman began to raise them; the jaguars wanted to eat them; they became boys, ran away, went looking for Meira, stayed with him; Maira's son offered to steal the fishing hook of a forest demon; Maira's son bit off and took her away; Mukura's son was caught in piranha guise; the demon ate her , threw away the bones; Maira's son turned into ants, they collected bones, Mukura's son came to life; Mukura's son took the hook safely from another forest spirit; Maira praised them; the brothers turned into hummingbirds, they flew, set fire to the beard of a forest demon, his head burned down; the brothers killed the hummingbird {real}, found a man in his stomach; when they approached the wide river, they began to shoot arrows one in the tail of the other, it turned out the bridge, they crossed it to the other side, killed many bakers there; called the jaguars to pick up the meat; when they crossed the bridge with arrows, the brothers destroyed it; all the jaguars drowned because they were carrying cargo meat], 398-406 [Maira took his wives three times, left him each time; turned the branch into a woman, married her; she asks where the water came from in the vessel, the flour in the pot, M. tells me not to ask; you can hear the sound of axes on on the site, M. does not tell me to go there; the wife goes, sees the ax working by itself; when the axe returns home, the woman grabs it, he stops working by himself; M. is angry, leaves; the child from the woman's womb tells you to follow, shows the way; a woman sleeps in Mukura's house (possum), at night the roof leaks, she goes into Mukura's hammock, conceives her second son; comes to a jaguar village; their mother hides her, jaguars they find, the old woman asks to give her embryos; they jump out of the pot, the old woman raises them, the brothers grow up in a few days; Maira's son invites his brother to avenge his mother's death; makes rivers cuts off and throws pieces of wood into the water, which turn into piranhas, snakes, caimans; Maira's son creates peka (cariocara) fruits; leads the jaguars to collect them; the brothers lay the vine as a bridge, cut them off on both sides when the jaguar walks along the vine; two escaped, the rest were eaten by aquatic creatures; the brothers come to Meira; his {current} wife is angry that he has children with another woman; Meira decides to check if they are his children; throws a fishing rod with a hook, his son bites off the hook, Mukura's son is caught, leaving a drop of blood; Maira's son is angry with his father, rises to heaven, becomes thunder and lightning; Meira and his wife go to south]; tupinamba [Maire-ata goes to travel, his wife cannot accompany him due to pregnancy; he follows, the son from the womb shows the way; she does not give him any fruit, he is angry, falls silent; goes astray, gets to the Possum; at night he conceives his second son; the opossum turns into an opossum; a woman comes to the village of Jaguars; a Jaguar eats her, the twins are thrown into a pile garbage; one woman picks them up; twins hunt for her; show the Jaguars an island in the sea where they will find a lot of fruit; Jaguars sail there; twins cause a storm; Jaguars drown, turn into jaguars and other cats; twins come to MA, he tests them; 1) walk between the crushing rocks; Opossum's son dies; MA's son revives him, both pass; 2) remove the bait from Anien's hook; son of Opossum Caught, A. tears him apart; MA's son resurrects him, both take off the bait; MA recognizes them for their sons]: Thevet, 914-915 in Metraux 1932:135-136.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Chiriguano [the woman did not let her daughter out of the house to isolate her from men; Rei (similar to Aguara-tunpa, Lisa) asked her for his wife, her mother refused; he told his brother Tatú- tunpa (Battleship); he dug a hole under the girl, became pregnant, then went in to her; the mother heard a conversation, found that her daughter was pregnant; the daughter was gone; the baby from her womb shows the way to her father, asks to pick flowers; when the calebas is full of flowers, the mother is angry why there are so many of them; the son falls silent, does not show the way, the woman comes to the mother of the jaguars; she hid her, the jaguar sons have come alone asked his mother to remove his fleas, the woman's milk dripped on him, the Jaguar found her, the jaguars ate her, gave her giblets to her mother; she hid the twins, they shot her pigeons, told her sons that she caught birds in snare; Jaguars do not believe, the old woman shows the twins, says she gave birth to them herself; pigeons explain to the twins that the jaguars ate their mother; the twins bear fruit to the jaguars, they say that found across the river; the Jaguars agreed to cross on a reed boat; the younger one pulled ahead of time, the boat sailed down, everyone drowned, but one pregnant woman escaped; the brothers started shooting at the sky, did a chain of arrows; the jaguar managed to eat the younger one; the eldest returned, revived him from drops of blood; the eldest became the Sun, the youngest became the Month; sometimes the Yawarowi jaguar eats the Month; when the new moon, the Month takes women's blood; when three days are not seen, he is with the Sun]: Metraux 1932:158-165; guarazu [senior Yanerykiy (Y1) and younger Yaneryvy (Y2) from Yanehi woman's womb tell her where to go; they ask her every now and then pick a flower, she gets angry, claps her stomach, at the fork in the trails they refuse to show her the way; she comes to the Jaguars; their grandmother hides her under the roof; all the jaguars believe, the latter finds kills a woman; Jaguars try to cook twins, they jump to the edge of the vessel; the grandmother advises raising boys; they hunt, bring the Jaguars a lot of meat; Y1 creates a river, puts a log bridge, tells Y2 tell the Jaguars that across the river el chuchío (something edible); brothers bring down the bridge, one pregnant woman escapes, brothers smear her with clay (spots on her skin), turn her into a jaguariha, current from her; houses they throw the jaguar grandmother to each other like a ball; she runs, turns into jochi (aguti?) ; because she lived with jaguars, she also has a patchy skin; because she was an old woman, she has only two teeth; she collects her mother's bones, Y1 tells the partridges to revive her; they fly over her three times, reviving her; Y2 each time rushes to hug her prematurely, revived turns into bones again; brothers go west to heaven, turn into stars (unidentified)]: Riester 1977, No. 9:241-242.

Southern Amazon. Iranshe [forest spirit Mamsy and his wife call the man and his wife to the forest, kill, fry meat; bring it to two sons animals killed along with meat; brothers find their mother's ear; they do a trap pit, they make a fire at the bottom, M. - the man falls through, dies; they make a shaky bridge over the river; they tell M. the woman that someone took her husband, left something for her on the other side of the river; they destroy the bridge, when M. steps on it; it falls into the water, turns into a buriti palm]: Pereira 1985, No. 25:122-125.

Chaco. Toba [girls approach the abyss; there is a lot of food on the other side; the bird The carrier builds a bridge, warns not to walk on a shaky log; girls step on a log, fall into the abyss; the stork builds a new bridge, burns the path to it - the Milky Way]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982b, No. 9:50-51

Southern Brazil. Fruit tree across the river; see motif J9. Apapokuwa [a woman goes to the Jaguars, is eaten; an old woman brings up two boys taken out of her womb; they show the Jaguars a small trap; the Jaguars climb into it one by one, fall into it abyss; brothers invite grandmother and other female Jaguars to the other side of the stream for fruit; the banks of the stream diverge, the Jaguarikh devour aquatic creatures; the younger brother is afraid, tied to the shore with a rope; the shores stop parting, one pregnant jaguariha escapes]: Nimuendaju 1914:393-399; caigua: Strelnikov 1930 [pregnant wife does not believe that pumpkins planted in the morning are ripe; yet goes to the garden; at this time the husband goes to heaven; the son from the womb indicates where the father went; the woman sees the feathers of a large white bird on the path; the son confirms that the father passed here; the son asks to collect flowers for him; a woman is bitten by a wasp, she hits her stomach, punishes her son; the son falls silent; the woman goes to the Jaguars; the old Jaguariha hides her, the Jaguar finds her, eats her; Jaguariha asks for the unborn twins; the eldest is Nyanderike's; they don't fry, they can't be crushed in a mortar; Jaguariha adopts them; does not tell them to hunt on the other side; they shoot Jacques, the parrot; Jacques says they are fools , The parrot talks about the death of his mother; the brothers fail to catch Jaguariha with a loop; they call her to eat fruits on the other side of the stream, put the pole across the stream; turn the pole over, Jaguariha falls into the stream, he turns into the sea; brothers make their mother; kill Anya's spirits]: 307; Hanke 1956:226; chiripa: Bartolomé 1977:27-28; mbia [see J9 motif; pregnant woman gets to Mbae-ypi creatures, they eat her; the old woman adopts the boy Pa-i (Sun) taken out of her womb, he creates a brother for himself (next Month); Pa-i makes a trap; confident in their invulnerability, Mbae-ypi take turns entering it and dying; to kill their women, Pa-i creates a fruit tree across the river, throws pieces of bark into the water, and they turn into predatory creatures; makes a bridge; brothers must swing it according to the PA-i sign; he signaled prematurely, one pregnant woman escaped, jaguars come from her, the rest fell off the bridge, eaten by water predators]: Cadogá n 1959:70-83; Cadogán, Lopez Austin 1970:74-85.