J45. The leg serves as a bridge, R246. .21.24.36.-.41.43.-.50.

The character stretches out his leg (duffle: arm) or neck in the form of a bridge over a water barrier. Usually, those pursuing or walking in front cross this bridge to the other side, and the pursuer or the person walking behind falls into the water as the character removes his bridge. See motive J44.

Dafla, (Kachin), Andamans, Western, Northwestern and Central Yakuts, Western Evenks (Cyrene), Baikal Evenks (North Transbaikalia), Orochi, Nivkh, Wilta, Kereki, Chukchi , tundra (?) yukaghirs, central yupik, southern tutchoni, helmet, chilkotin, shuswap, thompson, puyallup, snohomish, skagit, Puget Sound, quinolt, lower chinook, clackamas, katlamet, wishram, yakima, kalapuya, takelma, klamat, modoc, klikitat, ne perse, upper coquill, menominee, ojibwa, montagnier, seneca, mikmak, penobscot, passamaquoddy, assiniboine, osage, skidy pawnee, comanche, tonkawa, wichita, natchez, yurok, maidu, vintu , wappo, pomo, monache, northern payut, gosyute, eastern and northern shoshones, western yawapai, western apache, tiva, lipan, mimbres.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Dafla [Appa Pili (rakshas) lured two children into a cage, saying that he brought bananas home; put them to cook; the children blew bubbles, pretending that the water was boiling; they jumped out, stopped cooking AP children, put the dog in their place, ran away; AP began to eat what was cooked, the AP woman smelled her own; the children ran to the river, climbed a tree; the youngest admitted that they climbed the vine; AP- the man climbed, told his wife to beat whoever fell with an ax; the older brother cut off the vine, AP fell, his wife killed him with an ax, drank blood, then realized the mistake, began to cut down the tree; the children told him to fall on the top of his head across the river, they ran away, the tree was carried away by the river; AP asked the spirit of the river for help, he reached out like a bridge; when it was in the middle of the river, the spirit pulled back his hand, AP drowned]: Bori 1995:54-57; (cf. kachin [the flying monster lepsanam takes S. to his cave in the mountains; L. follows the fly in search; the old man says that L. will not be able to return S., and if he does, let him make a fire at his place head; Shingrang Lakang says that if L. returns his wife, he can make his leg a bridge over Ayeyarwady; L. comes to S., who hides him under a pile of brushwood; the kidnapper comes, eats, falls asleep, L. cuts off his head; those who did not believe in success and could not make a fire on their heads, etc., L. kills, they themselves turn into Lasa spirits; L. climbs a tree to get fruit for his pregnant wife, accidentally cuts off his hand also turns into Lasa; the same wife who committed suicide; these spirits are very afraid]:? : 119-121).

Malaysia-Indonesia. The Andamans [Bilika (the same word for a spider) have Porokul's husband; he was carrying a killed wild boar from hunting, could not cross the stream; the children woke up his mother, she came to the shore, held out her leg, P. crossed it across the stream]: Brown 1909:263.

Eastern Siberia. Northwestern Yakuts: Gurvich 1977 [the old man and the old woman only caught four fish; decided to eat the fish themselves, take their two daughters into the forest and leave them; the father went with them to pick berries, hung his fur coat on a stump, left himself; the children ate berries, began to play with a stone instead of a doll; then they left the doll and dishes, began to pick berries again; when they returned, the dishes were filled with boiled fish; sisters hid and saw that this doll was working; ran away; suddenly there was fire behind them; the eldest threw the comb, it became a stone mountain; the fire stopped; a strong wind began, the youngest threw a thread, an impenetrable forest formed; suddenly a man ran after them, but the girls had already reached the old Dalah Bridge; she threw her leg across the river and they crossed over to her; when the pursuer ran on the leg, the old woman removed her leg and he drowned; the girls stayed with the old woman]: 174; Ergis 1964, No. 66 (Deer) [the poor old man takes his three daughters to the forest, leaves old Doha on a stump; girls they found a farce, one picks up an iron child; when they return, they see that fish porridge is cooking in the pot; the youngest does not eat, hides, becoming a needle, sees how the child turns into an iron man; in next time the middle, older sisters hide; the sisters put the potted child in the fire, run away; he chases them with a hot pot; the old woman stretches her leg across the river, they cross; she asks the abaasa if her leg is rough, he replies that very much, she throws it off, he drowns; the daughter of an abaasa with an eye on her forehead, cuts wood with one hand, one leg; catches and locks the girls; becoming needles, they they get out, but the eldest tells her lungs, her stomach to swell; the sisters pull her head off, put her head off; put her head on a tree, her head cries; on the birch tree, the same; at the pine tree, she laughs; since then, the coffin has been made of pine ]: 245-246; central Yakuts: Vitashevsky 1912, No. I.1 (Bayagantay ulus) [two orphans went to pick berries; the eldest found a black, younger white stone (var.: the youngest wants to take the white stone, the eldest wants to take the white one, the eldest wants to take the white one, the eldest wants to take the white stone offers to take black; only one stone, shaped like a person); the girls began to live in a hunting lodge, put the stone in a stone cradle, the stone turns into a child; when they return, they find a baked one fish; the youngest spies, becoming a piece of bark; the child tells objects to move by themselves, promises to eat both sisters, takes the fish out of his mouth, bakes fish, returns to the cradle; the eldest eats fish, the youngest quietly puts her in her bosom; the sisters cover the child with a hot slide, run away; the old woman stretches her leg across the river, the sisters cross it; when the abaas crosses, the old woman removes her leg, he drowns; sisters come to the abaasa with one arm and one leg; prisoners are hidden in her iron yurt; she locks the girls in a closet; the youngest becomes the size of sawdust from a needle, jumps out; the eldest sticks her head, swells, her sister pulls, tears off her head, carries it with her; hangs it on larch, her head cries; on a birch tree, the same; on a tree broken by lightning, the head calms down; in a silver yurt a frog lives, asks his younger sister to sew a dress for her husband; before her husband arrives, he hides the girl in a bag; the husband realizes that it was not a frog, finds a girl; invites both wives to go to their relatives for gifts; The frog brings worms, leeches; the girl in the place of the tree where she left her sister's head finds a living sister, a yurt, cattle; the sister married the son of Thunder; hides the youngest; the son of Thunder finds her, gives cattle; on the way home he presses frog worms, leeches and frogs; the husband tells his wives to lie on the roof; the frog put a piece of moss, froze to death; the husband stayed with the girl]: 459-465; Illarionov et al. . 2008, No. 23 (Western 1936, Churapchinsky District) [the parents caught only four fish and decided to take their daughters to the forest; while they were picking berries, the father put his clothes over the stump and left; the girls went to the fork in the road, there is a child in silver and a child in an iron cradle; the youngest wants to take the one in silver, the eldest insists that it be in the iron cradle; the sisters live in the house when they return, there is fish in the house; the youngest does not eat; hides with a needle, sees the baby coming out of the cradle, turning into a giant, spewing an iron whorl, piercing his ass, from there boiled fish fall out; he becomes a baby again; the eldest does not believe it, she remains to see for herself; agrees to overturn a boiling pot of boiled berries on the abaas; the sisters run, the giant with a cauldron on his head is chasing; the youngest throws a needle (forest), a thimble (again) forest), the eldest throws a handkerchief (a cliff to the sky); by the river, the sisters ask the old woman Talas-Talas to lower her golden bridges; she stretches out her legs like a bridge, the sisters cross; when the abaas ask for her legs , TT hesitates, then holds out one, the abaas sinks; the sisters entered the house, the exit disappeared; the youngest made a hole, came out with a needle, a thimble; the eldest stuck her head, told her head and ass to swell, got stuck ; the youngest pulled, tore it off; tried to leave her head on the birch, willow, waist, pine tree, spruce - her head cries; when she left it on the aspen, she laughed; the youngest comes to the Frog's house; she asks to sew a bag for her husband, she does not know how; the same mittens, the torbaza; the girl hung the torbaza high, the frog can't reach; the husband found a girl; promised to marry the one who will not freeze in the yard overnight; the husband is a frog wrapped it in moss, put his wife in her bag by the chimney; in the morning she is alive, the frog froze; the man married a girl]: 253-271; Western Yakuts (Western 1938, Vilyuisky District) [at Lyybar silver boat, golden oars; someone calls him, he comes up, it's a mushroom, he kicks him, sticks, Angaa Mongus brings him home; L. asks him to fatten him first; sends him for a knife; the owner of the knife brings him to the owner of the sharpener, the sharpener must be taken away by a stallion, he needs a rope to bridle, a rope across the river, AM falls into the water, sinks; orders his pelvic bones to become a pestle, his tibia to become a stupa]: Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 15:173-177; Yakuts (recording location?) : Sivtsev, Efremov 1990 [poor parents go with their two daughters to pick berries, leave them in the forest; they find a hut, a black stone nearby and an iron cradle; the younger sister suspects that this is an Abaasa child; at home, the stone turns into a baby; sisters find baked crucian carp near the house; the youngest hides in the crack with a needle, sees how the baby turns into a giant, commands the fire to ignite, the fish to bake; the eldest the sister hides, sees the same thing; they throw a pot of boiling water over the child, run; the youngest throws a needle (thicket), a thimble (forest), a handkerchief (a cliff to the sky); by the river, the sisters ask old woman Talas-Talas ("walkways") throw a bridge; she stretches out both legs, the girls cross; the abaas says she is busy; stretches out one leg, cleans it, it drowns]: 64-71; Western Evenks (Cyrene) [two sisters find a cradle with as a child, they bring him home; they see that when left alone, he turns into a giant Manga, catches fish, then returns to the cradle; the sisters throw a boiling pot over him, run away; he chases them; old woman Achekai stretches her legs across the river like a bridge; when M. walks, removes her legs; M. shouts to make ladles from his hands, a bucket from his head, paint from blood, from his spine shuttle; at the fork, the sisters drove along the left path, get to the old woman; she hides them, turning them into a needle and a thimble; two cannibals come; the eldest thimble girl laughs, cannibals eat her; the youngest the old woman gives a bird's wing, she flies away in it, meets a guy, gets married]: Pinegina et al. 1952:58-61; Baikal Evenks (north of Transbaikalia, p. Chapo-Ologo, 1948) [two orphans went for berries, found an iron cradle with the baby; the youngest told me not to touch it, the eldest brought the child to the plague; when they returned, there were a lot of fish in the plague; the next day they hid and spy; the child got out of the shaky, became a giant, sat down, a bunch of fish appeared {i.e. he threw it out of himself}; when the girls entered the plague, there was again the child shaky; they knocked over the cauldron on him boiling fish soup, rode on deer; Mangi catches up, a cauldron on her head instead of a hat; one of the sisters threw a comb (thicket), Mangi made his way; threw her bag (the rock is the same); on the other side, old woman Acekai, the girls ask her to stretch out her legs, crossed them to the other side, the old woman removed her legs; when Manga asked her to stretch her legs, the old woman removed them in the middle of the river; Manga screams: make ladles out of my hands, a bucket from the back, paint from the blood, a shuttle from the spine; then drowned; at this time the girls reached the fork; one tells me to follow the left path, the other on the right; turned to the left, came to plague, it has an old woman without arms and legs; turned one into a needle, the other into a thimble; cannibals came, saying that it smells like gifts; the older sister laughed, she was eaten; when the cannibals left, the youngest asks , are there any toys; the old woman gave a bird's wing; the girl flew to the top of the plague, then to the tree, then flew away; reached the river, sat on a stump, found an old bone in her pocket, began to gnaw; in the morning deer run , they are driven by a handsome guy, he married her]: Pinegina 2019:87-91.

Amur - Sakhalin. The Orochi [six sisters live in heaven, the seventh eldest in the house; sisters come to her, the youngest smears her ass with charcoal, camlates; the eldest laughs, others see a human being on her teeth; they run away on skis; The eldest does not have skis, she tells her younger sister to break her ties on her skis, eats her; so with five sisters; the sixth throws a comb, then a stone, they turn into a thicket, into a cliff; the girl asks the old woman carry her across the river; she stretches her leg like a bridge; the same goes for the stalker, but the old woman throws her into the water; she wants her head to become a marsh hummock, her hair to be marsh grass, her bones - a river blockage, her eyes with beads, blood with a red stone, pus with a blue stone, all her ashes with a gnat; the old woman hides the girl from her seven wolf sons; the girl looks in her head, puts her to sleep, turns into a kuksha, flies away; lets a man catch himself, takes on his true form, marries, gives birth to a son; warns her husband that seven wolves will come; he does not believe, goes hunting; wolves they eat a child, a woman hides in a tree; wolves knock him down, she moves to another; sends a crow for her husband; the same with the second and third trees; on the third, a woman sends an eagle for her husband, with the fourth is a crow; the husband kills wolves with arrows; the mother of wolves comes, she is given the meat of her children under the guise of elk meat; when she comes home and notices that she has brought the heads of her sons, she choked]: Aurora, Lebedeva 1966 , No. 56:204-206; nivkhi: Bereznitsky 2002, No. 7 [seven sisters find a cradle with a baby in the forest; some suspected it was milk, others convinced them to take the cradle; the baby jumped out of the cradle, chased after the sisters, one by one, caught up with six sisters, cut out their hearts with a knife; the youngest asks for help from the old man on the other side of the river; he tells him to throw burdock on his knee; his leg lengthens, the girl runs across the river on the other side; the child hit the knee with burdock only the third time; in the middle of the river, the old man pulled his leg, threw the child into the water; the girl spends the night in the dugout, sees a man next to her in the morning; he leaves for wolves, tells him not to give his robe; a woman comes, begins to tickle her, she has to give her a robe, she throws it into the fire; the heroine runs away in fear, the old woman hides her; when she returns, the owner sees What happened, wolves chase his wife; the old woman shows the way to the village, the woman comes there, stays with people]: 111-112 (=2003, No. 35:133-134); Wilta 2011 [six sisters lived, the eldest found a baby in a cradle; each consistently notices that when left alone, the child swings in the cradle, licks the wall with a long tongue; they cover the house with grass, set fire, run away; demon consistently catches up, gutts the four eldest, the youngest two come running to the river, asking for help from a tall grandfather; he tells him to pick up, bring him a bunch {grass?} , stretches out his leg like a bridge, the sisters cross when they step on their knees, he pulls his foot, they jump to the shore; he tells us to enter the house, it's empty, they resort to the rock, they understand the crack the man at the top, becomes small, he tells them to hide in a crack; the man throws a sword at the demon, cutting off his head; takes both sisters as wives; turns into a bear, the sisters cling to him wool, he comes to a woman's house, they live there; they come to the house where they first went; the husband puts iron chains on wolves, harnesses them into iron sledges, flies to heaven with thunder and lightning, fights with with wind, thunder, lightning; gives his eldest wife to a Venus man; fought where Mars, Orion, Ursa Major; lowered Pegasus to the ground, he was torn; the informant does not remember further]:? : 38-40; Wilta [Old Man: "We must take our girls to the forest to get lost. When we're alone, we'll catch three trouts, we'll leave one to eat tomorrow, we'll catch two, and we'll eat them all. And this is how children eat half. The father took his two daughters to pick berries. He put his hat and jacket on the stump and left. The sisters came to the broken house, a small child was sleeping in the cradle, they rocked it, and stayed overnight. Fresh fish at the doorstep in the morning. We decided to watch secretly. The child got up, went to the doorstep and began to take the fish out of the anus. The girls ran away, and the child turned into a healthy old man, chased them. On the other side of the river, grandmother and girls ask to stretch their legs. They ran over her legs like a bridge. Old lady: "You go faster, my little sister lives there. You'll go into the house." On the shore where the grandmother was sitting, the old child also asks to stretch his legs. She pulled it out, he began to cross, and when he came to the middle, the birds flew in and began to peck at the old woman's knees. The man fell into the water and said: Old lady, you can make a boat out of my back, an oar out of my hands, a pot from my head, a stern paddle out of my legs, and a kettle out of my testicles. I swam downstream. The girls came over. Old woman: "When the sun goes down, you will sit quietly, you will not talk or cough. I'll cover for you. My brothers are coming." Brothers enter the smoke hole: one eye in the middle of the forehead, arms in the middle of the chest, and a large mouth. They say it smells human. The old woman had a hard time convincing her that no one was there. In the morning he gives the girls wings and tells them to fly high. The younger sister is flying higher and the older sister goes down. Someone grabbed her, pulls her, and the youngest is pulling her towards her. She tore off her top to her lower back, put it on her back and flew to good ground. I left it on a tree broken by thunder. She looked around and her sister was crying, she took her again. Found a tree broken by a bear. I looked around - half of my sister was smiling happy. The youngest flew to the house, the man shot, the wings fell off, the girl fell off. She agreed to marry, the house is rich. My husband went to see what happened to his older sister. There are two bears playing there. One has a front part from a person (like a person), and the back is from a bear. "Whoever has a human head must be his wife's sister." I went into the house and saw a girl at the door without a lower part, one back torn off. And a man sits in the middle of the place of honor. The house is full of wild deer meat and dried fat. "Take dried meat for your little sister," the girl suggests. The youngest's husband refuses gifts to the brothers, but agrees to tell his wife how her sister lives. Younger: I'm the one who tore half off and the devils ate half. Husband: Apparently, the bear connected the back of his sister to hers and she became like a bear. Their backs were bearish and the front parts were human. They saw me and ran to their house. When we entered our house, they became real people. I went to their house, she sat half by the door, and her husband was a young man, a real man. The youngest is afraid to visit the eldest. A few years later, the husband went back to his wife's younger sister. There is no one in the house, the fire is a little burning. The owners have returned - just human beings. My husband went hunting and never came back. His wife remembered him once saying that he would go overseas to look for people who killed his parents. He sailed to the island, put his spear into the seal, which left with his spear. It goes on top of the water, does not fall under water. He sees lots and lots of houses. A bald man came out of one: "What kind of person? Mergen manga or what?" {From this episode, the man's name is Manga}. A person carries a bunch of firewood. The manga lay in the middle of a tree split by thunderstorms. When the man started stepping over it, Manga squeezed him (killed) him. He put on his clothes and pretended to be a lumberjack worker. People: There's a wedding tomorrow. Many people came to marry the girl, all dressed in silk clothes. Healthy, tall. They try to move a stone the size of a deer, they try, they suffer, they can't. Manga's relative recognized him. The manga picked up a rock, threw it to a relative, who caught it and threw it back. He says that since they were little, the rock has grown. Whoever will pick it up is a good person. When the party was over, a relative married a neighbor's daughter and took him away, and Manga sailed in a boat to those who ate his parents and killed everyone. These people scooped water out of the bay, Manga home in shallow water, as if skiing, the proposed girl did not take the proposed girl. But when he got home, there were already two wives there, and he started living with them]: Sam et al. 2012:134-143.

SV Asia. Kereki [Grandma tied the ogre, fell asleep; he asks the two sisters to untie him; the eldest agrees, the ogre runs away, comes to the dugout of two old women; tries to crochet them; they they slip him a bale of dry grass, run away, break through the wall of the dugout; the mistress of the sea Ankanpinav stretches her legs across the sea, the women cross them to the other side; the cannibal comes running, A. advises him drink the sea, it bursts; his iron body turns into various products: his head into a kettle, his legs and arms into guns, his brain into beads]: Leontyev 1983, No. 7:100-104; Menovshchikov 1974, No. 113:352-356; Chukchi (Western 1958) [parents died, sisters went to get water, the youngest brought home a stone god, a boy; he cried, she breastfed him; the eldest told him to leave boiled meat for him to migrate; the sisters ran away to the river, on the other side, the beetle catches lice in torbas, the stone god chases; the beetle grandmother stretches out her leg, the sisters cross to the other side; God also asks to stretch out her leg, there is a beetle in the middle of the river He throws him into the river, he drowns; in front of the sisters there is a fork in five roads: freezing, spirits, dead, swampy, people, the youngest insisted on following the road of the dead; the eldest persuaded them to let them go: we let's bring you delicious people; sisters are back and came to people]: Portugalov 2009:35-37; Russified, probably tundra yukaghirs [three sisters are wandering, the eldest wants a baby, by the cliff finds a stone; at night the youngest rocks him, hides; he speaks in a male voice, Chumo, Chumo, become big, grows up, eats all the supplies in the house, becomes small again; the same episode with other sisters; they throw C. into a boiling pot, run away; he chases them, they throw a comb, then flint, they turn into mountains, C. gnaws at them; the eldest throws iron from the chair, it becomes like a river of fire, C. burns down, promises that his mother will avenge him; the sisters resort to the river, persuade the old woman on the other side to transport them; she stretches her leg like a bridge, they cross the river along it ; after learning that they killed her son, the old woman promises to punish them; Lisa saves the sisters by leaving behind bags of branches and ash that the old woman swallows]: Bogoras 1918, No. 9:61-64.

The Arctic. Central Yupik (Nunapitchuk, lower reaches of Kuskoquim) [Yaqutgiarcaq ("Birdie") is the eldest of three children and has a younger sister and brother; her sister says that their parents call them, they leave in a boat, but N. everyone picks cranberries; when the sisters go out to the river, the parents are already gone; they eat the fish head they have thrown; the father's skewer replies that the parents have gone this way; the sisters come to the dugout there is an old woman in her, she asks to look in her head; her lice are voles and mice, she bites through them; N. says they need to pee; the old woman suggests doing it in her pot, hand, ears, mouth, N. every time replies that they do not do this; the old woman ties a rope to them, lets them out of the dugout; the sisters tie a rope to a stump, run to the river; ask two Cranes to stretch their legs across the river, for which they they will paint them with ocher; Cranes stretch out their legs, children cross them; respond to a cannibal running on all fours who have crossed on two shells (clam sells), two pieces of birch bark, divided in half a blade of grass; every time the cannibal falls into the water; the sisters ask the Cranes to stretch out their legs, then remove them when the cannibal is in the middle of the river; the cannibal drowns, their mouse spits up; sisters paint the Cranes legs are black, forehead is red, body is blue clay; sisters come home; parents cry, do not believe when son says sisters are back; sisters enter the house, who were in it turn into partridges, owls into owls (hawk owls), now hunt partridges]: Fienup-Riordan, Kaplan 2007:13-29.

Subarctic. Southern tutchoni [The crane stretches its legs like a bridge; the sisters cross the river, ask the Crane to bend its legs when Wolverine goes; Wolverine sinks]; helmet [like a tutchoni; the bird snails yellow-legged]; chipewayan [Grasshopper woman stretches her leg like a bridge; throws a rolling Head into the water].

The coast is the Plateau. Chilkotin [The Seagull puts his feet like a bridge over the river, cleans when a person enters the bridge, so drowns people; when Lendixchuks crosses, he manages to jump ashore, breaks Seagull's legs , turns it into a seagull]: Farrand 1900, No. 1:111-12; shuswap [Bitter (?) puts his feet like a bridge over the river, throws passers-by into the water; Tliisa is not thrown off, crosses the bridge, threatens to kill Bittern if he tries to throw off his brothers; brothers cross; turn Bitter into a bittern]: Teit 1909a: 650; Thompson [The Bald Eagle sees a girl by the river; turns his penis into a log she crosses on; does not let her ashore until she agrees to call him husband; she goes to her relatives, sees the birds' battlefield, finds her husband's head and bones there; her head is decomposed, she pees on her; her head is chasing her; she asks the Crane to stretch her leg across the river like a bridge; goes to the other side, the Crane throws its head into the water; it does not sink, continues to chase; the woman climbs a tree; when she goes down, the Head jumps into her genitals; she gives birth to two eggs, they they roll everywhere behind her; they show an image of a bald eagle; her sisters throw eggs into the fire, they burst; they extract the woman's Head, break them into pieces, burn them]: Teit 1917b, No. 12:25; puyallup [see motif A23; creatures from the lower world kidnap Baby Month; he grows up and returns; The Heron stretches his leg across the river like a bridge; in the middle it screams: you will break my leg; The month manages to reach the other side]: Adamson 1934:356-360; snohomish [Crane, leg]; skagit [Crane, leg]; quinalt [leg: Thunder]; lower chinook [leg: Thunder]; clackamas [Crane: legs]; catlamet [Crane: legs]; vishram [old man stretches his leg like a bridge]; cous [fugitive uncle (Crane?)] ; Kalapuya [Grizzly kills the Brown Bear, pursues her daughters; the Crane stretches its leg like a bridge; the Bear's daughters cross the river; the Crane warns not to step on his knee; Grizzly comes, he pulls his leg back, the Grizzly falls into the water]; takelma [Crane, leg]; Puget Sound [leg; Crane]; Klamath [Bear chases Antelope's children, Crane stretches out her leg ]); modoc [the old woman insists that her granddaughter go looking for her husband; she gets tired of it, she kills her grandmother; she marries Moose; he is married to the Stone Woman, afraid of her; they run, the Crane holds out A foot across the river, they cross the river; the Stone Woman is warned to step cautiously; she steps carelessly, he dumps her into the water, she sinks]: Curtis 1912:240-242; Western sachaptines [a woman asks her children to give her water, they do not give her, she turns into a bird and flies away; her husband Luke scolds the children, leaves; her sister and little brother go to their relative boat manufacturer; she notices An owl cannibal; they turn into worms, the Owl puts them in his bag; they scream that his children are burning; he leaves his bag, runs to check; the children run to the river, ask the boat manufacturer to transport them; he stretches out his leg like a bridge; Owl replies that he ate the children; sends Cancer, Oyster, Butterfly to transport the Owl in a boat; Cancer tells Owl to tie stones for balance, breaks the boat, drowns the Owl]: Farrand, Mayer 1917, No. 14:176-177; yakima [Eagle is son of Coyote; two sisters Amushy óy (Monetaria seashell) and Wuxinshy áy (Abalone shell) live on island in the sea; their grandmother sends them to marry Eagle; they must go in the morning, but V. insists on going in the evening; the Eagle wants to sleep, hits those who come to the nose, they run away; then finds sea shells where it dripped blood, realizes that these are his girls, follows; old Heron refuses to stretch his leg like a bridge to the island; five Ducks go looking for the Eagle, see that the Heron insults him, spits on him; Wolf, Grizzly, Hawk, Snake, Salmon come to the rescue; Coyote swims on Salmon, sinks; they clean Eagle's clothes, he takes off, kills the Heron; the Salmon brothers make a bridge; V. goes first, Salmon rightly believes that the Eagle does not need she dumps her, she sinks; A. goes from the island to the mainland; whoever gets V. from the bottom will marry her; no one can, the Coyote brags that he got it, but his tail is above the water; the turtle pulls it out; says that he does not need a wife, asks for beautiful clothes; he is given (patterns on his shell); since then, a woman has been following a man, should not be aggressive]: Beavert 1974:3-8; clickit [when a girl comes to marry Eagle, his younger brother Coyote leaves; a monster lives in the Columbia River, swallows boats; the Coyote invites him to swallow each other; the monster does not pay attention to him, finally swallows him; The coyote cuts his heart with a flintlock knife; previously swallowed people go outside; the cannibal Basket advises Coyote to cross the river with her husband's help; this is the Crane, he puts his legs like a bridge, pushes those who turn into the water; the Coyote crosses in a boat; tells the Basket that he turned white when he was smeared with resin and lay down on hot stones; the basket burns, turns the Coyote crane into a crane; defecates, his two excrement sisters say that a man with one leg and one hand harpoons salmon; Coyote turns into salmon, but One-legged knows it's Coyote; hits him with a harpoon, pulls him out ashore, lets go; Coyote turns sisters into two dogs; the boy invites everyone to play off his dogs against him; they are scary and dangerous; Coyote dogs kill them; Coyote goes on, depriving the dangerous creatures]: Jacobs 1934, No. 28:64-74; ne perse: Phinney 1934 [girl does not want to bring water to her mother; she attaches feathers to her hands, flies away; her husband turns into a bow; girl with little brother they meet the Bear; they turn into two worms, she puts them in the basket; they crawl away, the cubs find an empty basket; the children ask their grandfather Longlegged (crane?) transport them across the river; he stretches his leg like a bridge; the bear is afraid to step on it, asks for a boat; the long-legged overturns the boat in the middle of the river, the Bear sinks]: 434-437; Spinden 1917, No. 13 [ a woman asks her son and daughter for water, they are in no hurry; she attaches feathers to her hands, turns into a crow, flies away; their father becomes an old flintlock gun; the children go to their grandfather; when they see an Owl, turn into two worms; an owl puts it in a bag; they scream that her house is on fire; an owl runs to her children, a boy and a girl run away; a grandfather stretches his leg for them across the river, hides it under a boat; Butterfly, Cancer, Oyster, Salmon, Swallow make a boat out of parsnip, advise Owl to tie stones to her neck; Owl sinks]: 192-193; upper coquil [Brown Bear and Grizzly are wives of one man; Brown The bear thought they were good friends, but the Grizzly killed her and her children, except for one son and one daughter; they run, the Crane stretches their leg like a bridge across the river, tells them to enter the house; when she runs up Grizzly, he shakes her off her foot twice, saying she stepped on a sore spot, but she swims to the shore where she was; the third time he lets her cross; the house says that the children were not here, they ran away; Grizzly runs and never comes back]: Jacobs 2007:243-245.

The Midwest. Usually necks. Menominee [two Cranes; Heron - beak]; Steppe Cree [two Bitters]; Ojibwa (? ; the origin of the text is not specified, but it mentions Lake. Upper) [two brothers finally decide to tell their father that a lover has been coming to their mother for many years; the father kills her, buries her in the ashes of the hearth; the mother's skull pursues her sons; the crane puts its neck like bridge over the waterfall; tells you not to step on a sore spot at the back of his head; young men cross, the Skull steps on the back of the Crane's head, which dumps the Skull into the water; the brains turn into sturgeon caviar ( the origin of sturgeon)]: Schoolcraft 1999:237-239; Ojibwa [little sons told their father that their mother had a lover, the father killed his wife, told the children to run, if they saw red clouds, then he was dead ; the cranes will form the bridge, united with their beaks, the head will fall into the water; the old man took his older brother into the boat, the youngest remained on the shore, became a wolf; the elder became the old man's son-in-law; in winter he burned his clothes in the forest , and the next time the son-in-law burned his father-in-law's clothes; that is, the old man thought he was throwing his son-in-law's clothes into the fire, which was his own; in the cold, the old man turned into larch]: Coleman et al. 1971:49-50.

Northeast. Montagnier [Crane (? chevalier solitaire bird), legs]; seneca [old man, neck]; mikmak [Crane or Heron: neck]; mikmak [Badger answers the Crane that he has a crooked neck, an ugly tail, etc.; Crane puts his neck like a bridge across a river; a badger walks along it, a crane dumps him into the water, he's barely alive]: Parsons 1925, No. 6:68-69; passamaquoddy [?] : Prince 1921, No. 12:67 in Thompson 2000:341; Penobscot [Heron, Foot].

Plains. Assiniboine [necks; two Swans; two Cranes]; Osage [four men live, two of them brothers; the older brother tells the younger brother not to use a certain arrow - the bird can carry it away; the youngest shot at the eagle, but missed; the same with the other birds; finally, a red duck arrives; after shooting other arrows, the youngest hit the duck in the chest with a forbidden arrow, the duck flew away, carrying an arrow; the young man went to look for her; a year later he came to the camp, the chief gave him a pair of moccasins; he goes from one leader to another, each time he receives an answer that the duck flew so many (fewer and fewer) days ago; by the sea asks the brown duck to stretch its legs like a bridge, she refuses; the white duck's legs did not reach the other side; the red duck reached out its legs, the young man crossed to the other side, there are thousands of birds; they explain that They wanted to get their older brother's arrow for a long time, finally the red duck got it; they gave him four blankets and that arrow; the red duck stretched out its legs again, the younger brother brought the arrow and blankets to the brothers]: Dorsey 1904c , No. 31:37-40; throw off the pawnee [legs; two Cranes]; Comanche [Crane; leg]; tonkava [neck; Crane]; wichita [cannibal kidnaps a woman; his mother advises her to run; Crane] stretches out her leg, the woman crosses the river; she comes to the old man, who kills the ogre]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 8:65.

Southeast USA. Screams [The rabbit asks the Puma what he eats; at night he warns that hot coals from the fire fall on sleepers at night; when the Puma falls asleep, the Rabbit sprinkles the cooled coals to where he lay hot on the Puma; they go further, the Rabbit offers to jump over the stream; staying on the opposite bank, makes the shores diverge, the sea between them; the crane stretches out its neck like a bridge; the Puma steps, the Crane screams that it can't stand it, the Puma returns; so several times; the Puma stayed on the other side]: Swanton 1929, No. 42:43-44; natchez [Rabbit meets the Ogre; offers relief by closing his eyes, replacing excrement; the Ogre is confused; when settling in for the night, the Rabbit warns that in this area, the coals of the fire jump on people at night; when the Ogre falls asleep, the Rabbit sprinkles coals on the place where he lay, then sprinkles them on the Ogre; they cross the stream; the Rabbit jumps back, makes the stream turn into a wide river; the Ogre asks the Crane stretch your neck like a bridge; it reaches half, the Crane says that now his neck will break, the Ogre comes back; so several times; the Ogre is on the other side]: Swanton 1929, No. 35:259-261.

California. Yurok [Crane; old man]; yurok [animal people kill a giant bird, go get its feathers to make feathers and wool out of them; the crane stretches its leg like a bridge; removes it when the last woman crosses the river; she falls, turns into stone]: Kroeber 1976, No. K3:329-330; shinkyon; coastal yuki [Heron neck]; propeller [Horned Serpent chases boy; The crane stretches its leg across the river; both the boy and the Serpent cross the river]: Curtin 1898:445-464; Maidu [Heron]; Maidu [Olenikha warns daughters that if the Grizzly kills her, they must go to their Crane Grandmother; while collecting greens, Grizzly invites Olenikha to look in her head, gnaws through her neck; tells the Reindeer that their mother is ill and will come later; The deer and the Grizzly daughters play, covering each other in a smoky cave; deer smoke Grizzly daughters to death, bake, put meat pieces and heads and limbs separately; tell all objects to remain silent, forget about the pine needle, run away; The grizzly eats the meat of its daughters, finds the heads; a needle shows the way to the Grizzly, the Deer climb the rock, throw a hot stone into the Grizzly's mouth, come to the Crane; when the Grizzly wakes up, asks The crane stretches its leg across the river; in the middle of the river, the Crane throws the Grizzly into the water (she allegedly scratched her leg with her claws; the Water Beetles ate the Grizzly; the Milky Way is the Crane's leg, stretching across the river and at the same time the river itself; two stars are Deer, in front of them their mother, then Grizzly daughters playing; the Horned Owl looks at the rock that goes into the sky river]: Beck et al. 2001:83-86 ; wappo [The deer husband and the bear wife go for acorns; the deer climbs the oak tree, the bear eats the acorns that have been thrown; the deer asks what they will bring home then; the bear says he is hers insults, demands that he cry, devours him, hides his head in a basket under clover, brings him home; says that her husband was killed by enemies; his reindeer sister mourns; brings deer to his children (this is the eldest and younger brothers) clover; The bear tells her to take her to the place where the clover grows; Olenikha predicts the children that the Bear will kill her (the murder itself is not described); Deer are placed in different places charcoal stirring sticks, run away; sticks are responsible for them; Gopher woman says that the children have run away; children ask the Crane to stretch his neck like a bridge, cross the river; when the Bear runs up, the Crane cleans his neck; brothers spend the night at the Crane's steam room; the youngest sees the light, goes to the world of the dead, where their mother is; they go to suck her breast, die, are cremated]: Radin 1924, No. 8:47-49; pomo (porridge) : Oswalt 1964, No. 5 [The bear and the Deer are widows; they go to collect nuts; the Bear asks the Deer to show her neck; bites and kills her; gives the eldest of the Deer Brothers his mother's meat; the crow does not prevent him yes; Deer strangle the Bear cubs with smoke in the hole; the Heron uncle stretches his neck across the river; the river carries the bear into the sea], 14 [The deer is married to a cricket woman; the Heron wants to take it for himself; invited the Deer to hunt for like a river, laid his neck like a bridge; in the middle of the river he threw off the Deer, he drowned, the corpse swam to the sea; the widow refused to marry the murderer]: 57-65, 105-107; Pomo: Barrett 1933, No. 33 [bird people come to the village of the Sun for food, killed; the two sons of the dead who remain in the village grow up, also go to the Sun; find their mother there; 1) come to life after being burned; 2) sent to hunt deer; in fact, this is grizzly; young men kill them, bring them to the Sun, it is sad; young men revive the dead, return home; food baskets go in front of them themselves; the crane lays its neck like a bridge to cross the river; after dancing all died, everything turned into water, poured into Clear Lake]: 160-164; Williams 1954 [The partridge is the sister of the Hawk Brothers (they are the Sun and the Month); her husband is the Deer and the owner of the deer, their two sons are Squirrels ; the Bear lives with them; she chased the Deer, he hid in an oak hollow, the hole is overgrown; the bear returned home, sat down to talk to the Partridge, killed it and ate it; Lark spoke about it Squirrels; they found their father, but could not free him from the hollow; he advised them to ask the Bear for a sun basket, throw it into the water, say they dropped it by accident, and the Bear would run after her at that time run; they ask the Growth on the Oak, the Spider not to say they saw them; the Knat Knat crane stretches its neck to them like a bridge over the river, they find their crying mother, or rather her spirit; the Bear beats the Growth, gets stuck, loses time, gets stuck in the web; KK invites her to go backwards; she suspects that another Totokus crane wants to kill her with a hot rock; yet agrees to board his boat; he kills The bear was hit with a hot stone; the sons moved her mother, who had become a rock, to the place she wanted]: 88-93; monk [man?].

Big Pool. A crane. North Payut (Owens Valley) [Kiao'nu always wins, tortures and maims losers; made the Bear and the Raven lame; Tuhuki'ni boy sees his mother's bow, arrows, playing hoop, etc.; mother claims that this is her property; he realizes that these are the things of the murdered father; comes to his father's sister, who says that K. is digging holes where rivals fall; Aunt Frog and Woodpecker went with the young man; Crane held out his leg to them like a bridge across the river, told them not to sit on the cape offered to him by K.; T. does not eat poisoned food, does not sleep (so as not to be killed in his sleep), does not take the daughter K. offered to him; plays with his own ball; wives T. and K. sit by the fire; Frog pours water on T.'s wife and K.'s wife is hot; with the help of Woodpecker T. plays better; Gopher digs holes in K.'s way, Woodpecker drives his ball into the hollow; T. wins; burns the Player and his wife, the Bear and the Raven regain their eyes and claws; kill people K.]: Steward 1936, No. 28:388-396; goshiute; eastern and northern shoshones.

The Great Southwest. Western yavapai [people live underground; younger brother invites the elder to illuminate the world; he makes a disc, smears ocher, hangs it, but the younger one makes a disc of white lime, smears ocher; it's getting light but too hot; the younger brother asks the elder to raise the sky with a reed pole, he did it; at night, the older brother touches the genitals of his two daughters; they hide on the shore under willow, where he relieves himself and swallows his bowel movements; he begins to lose strength, tells him to be cremated after death; people sent the Coyote to fire, at which time they lit a fire, standing around; the badger was lower others, the Coyote jumped over it, took his heart and ate it; the burnt heart had to be put earth, cultivated plants would grow; and that's how only one stem of corn grew; the best cobs went to the hopi and Navajo, and the worst are yavapai; people decided to go to the upper world; the hummingbird found a hole in the sky; under the guidance of their younger brother, they planted a pine tree and a vine that wrapped around it; they climbed up, but the old man with they were left with two granddaughters; when they got to the ground, water poured out of the hole; the flood was caused by the two daughters of the older brother who turned into frogs; people hollowed out a pine tree, put the girl inside and food supplies were sealed; only the girl escaped, the rest drowned; she lay down with her vagina under the rays of the sun and under drops of water, conceived, gave birth to a daughter; she grew up, tried to repeat everything, but Sun and Water recognized their daughter, conception did not occur; then the mother covered her daughter's body with her body, the Sun and Water did not notice the substitution; the daughter gave birth to a son Matinyaupakaamcha; the eagle took her to its nest and ate her, M. stayed with grandmother; interrupted the bird's leg with a stone; she: if you heal, I'll say something; when I find out that the old woman is not his mother, but his grandmother, killed the eagle, on the advice of the grandmother, heating the tip of his spear; the grandmother sends him to kill the bison (ox) ; the badger and gopher dug an underground passage under the lying bison; the mouse plucked wool from where the heart was, explaining that its children were cold; M. pierced the bison from below; he plunged his horn into the underground passage, but M. dodged; made a cape out of his skin, and under it was bison blood; let the eagle grab himself; blood gushed, the bison thought M. had been killed; the chicks see that the prey was alive, but the eagle did not believe; when it flew away, M. found out where the eagle would fly; becoming a lizard, he smeared with resin the places where the male and female sit; killed the eagle; told the chicks to remain silent, otherwise he would kill; the Bat lowered M. in the basket, telling him to close his eyes; he opened they fell, M. broke the Bat's bones, but cured it; M. looked into the grandmother's house through a hole in the roof; called her; grandmother: the wind whistles; when he saw her grandson, she began to dance with joy; the bald eagle took M. to an island on the lake; there are already many prisoners there; M. ordered the prisoners to eat crushed flint and hide by digging an underground passage; the eagles are dead; the crane stretches its leg across the lake; people cross the lake it's like a bridge; children fall into the water, turn into ducks; M. decides to make a bow; the grandmother warns of dangers every time where to look for bow materials; onion wood where the canyon walls are converge and disperse; M. put a deer horn between them, took out material; reeds for arrows owned by Owl; M.: I propose marriage to my grandmother; Owl is glad, he gave reeds himself; when Owl came, M. ordered grandmother to find out where his heart is; in the sole of his foot; M. shot there, killed Owl; the grandmother straightened her vulva with an arrow; when M. looked, the arrow broke; where the flint for the tips, sparks fly out; M. covered himself with a turtle shell, took out flint; the wood for the front of the arrows was owned by the Bear; M. called him to marry his grandmother; said he was making charcoal tips; the Bear believed shot M. with an arrow with a coal tip, and M. shot him with a flintlock arrow, killed him; grandmother: cut the deer in a clearing, not under a tree; M. began to cut under a tree; from a tree a naked woman came down, chased M. to meet him; the grandmother hid him under the hearth; but the woman began to write there, M. got out; M. made penises out of blue stone, quartz, lava and clay, used every single night, after breaking a woman's vaginal teeth; she became his wife; she was actually a bear; offered to drive game at him; he hung his clothes on a pole; three or four bears rushed at her, M. killed them, pulled out their fangs and claws; the Spider told M. that the Wind took his wife away; let M. compete with him outside, not in his cave; who would chase the ball faster; M. won all the prisoners and the life of the Wind; who longer hair - M. won again, killed Winds with a club; they spent the night in the Wind Cave; his wife became snakes in front of the entrance, M. jumped over them; M. went to look for his father Sun; spent the night with people on the way, who wanted to kill him; at night he covered his eyes with pebbles ("glass eyes"), the owners think he is awake; the wife of the Sun to her husband: your son has come; he wants to test the one who has come, invites him to the steam room; M. all paired and says it's cold, the Sun believes he's his son; he tamed the horse, went home; the Sun and the Cloud began to argue over him; each painted one half of his body; M. returned to the east to the Sun, and Grandma went west into the ocean]: Gifford 1933a: 402-412; Western Apaches: Goddard 1918:69-70 (San Carlos) [two sisters hear the flute playing; go to look for a flutist; consistently they meet Red Bird, Partridge, Dove, Road-runner; everyone claims he played, but his voice sounds different; came to two young men who lived with their grandmother; lived with them for a while; they were worried kindled by their grandmother, they returned home, inviting the young men to visit them someday; the boys came and stopped nearby; people from the girls' camp killed one, the other flew back to their grandmother with a feather; girls follow him, they are chased; Grandma Heron stretches her leg like a bridge across the river, the young man and the girls cross; the pursuers fall when the Heron removes his leg, turn into ducks; the young man lives with two wives], 71-72 (San Carlos) [two sisters hear the sound of the flute, go to them; on the way they meet Woodrat, Gopher, Dove, Red Bird; each answers that he did not play; the girl finds two boys then they come back, the youngest is pregnant; the brothers come to them (the episode of their death is not described); the younger sister gives birth to a boy; he shot Partridge; she asks her to be cured, for which she says that his mother's relatives ate her husband; at home, a mother shows him his father's hand; a young man walks down a wormhole; a mother, her sister and their mother follow; by the river, a young man tells a duck woman that he is being persecuted murderers of people; Duck stretches its leg like a bridge; when the pursuers are in the middle of the river, the Duck removes his leg, they fall into the water]; Goodwin 1994, No. 48 [The Great Blue Heron stretches its legs like a bridge across the abyss, people cross it to the other side to hunt deer; the Coyote kills an ogre owl, marries; hunters do not share meat with him, give him scraps; deer antlers were made of fat, the meat was boneless; The offended Coyote makes the horns hard, creates bones; people ask the Heron to remove his legs when the Coyote crosses the abyss; the Coyote falls but does not die, tells the bats to lay for him the path up; at this time, Coyote's wife thinks he has been killed; throwing a stone, she breaks Heron's legs; turns into a Bear, devours everyone; The chipmunk advises her younger brother to watch her sister's shadow, when she comes to look in his head; when the shadow begins to take on the shape of the bear, the boy kills his sister with an arrow; rubbing the bones of the dead with fat, revives people; Coyote ties them to the hair throws a grain grater into the river; if they float up, the dead will be resurrected; the grain grater pulls the broom to the bottom, lively people disappear and never return]: 175-176; Tiwa (Taos) [dog swallows beads; two girls and their brother find them in her litter; while they are strung, people migrate; children come to the old cannibal woman (like at 23); The frog tells the boy what wood and water he needs old woman; gives him a brush, a mirror, an awl; abandoned objects turn into thickets, thorns, ice; the old woman continues to pursue; a crane by the river offers to remove his lice; the boy deceives him, crunching her moose tooth, the old woman replies that she does not eat lice; children cross the river; when the old woman reaches the middle, the Crane folds her legs, she falls into the water; continues to pursue; Bear, Bison, Puma, Elk, Deer, Antelope, Wolf, Coyote can't help, killed by an old woman; Little Bison pulls an old woman with horns, throws her in the sun; children come to people; they hit the dog, leave; the dog saves fire for children; the boy becomes a good hunter and those who are gone are starving; returning to the abandoned]: Parsons 1940a, No. 27:81-82; lipan [many times Coyote kills a deer, leaves meat for three insect women; wants to feed and eat them; women leave nits in the cracks of the pole in the tipi, tell her to cry like a baby, run away; throw the cactus, it turns into many cacti; Crane stretches his leg like a bridge across the river; the Coyote crosses the river on the bottom, continues to chase, swallows two women; the bird Cardinal cuts a tree with an ax, hides a third woman in her hair; Coyote stops persecution]: Opler 1940, No. 62:181-183; mimbres [the painting on the vessel depicts a long-legged bird (crane?) in profile, an unnaturally long neck stretched horizontally; two people around the neck; the larger one sits, holding a rod (bow, dart?) in his outstretched hand ; the smaller one is behind him, and there is also a rod in his hand; both heads are decorated with a pen protruding up and back]: Cuncle 2002, fig.380.