J53. Deer and bear cubs .42.44.48.-.50.72.
Adeer or deer fall prey to an antagonist (usually a large predatory beast). The victim's children take revenge on the murderer and/or run away from him. See motive J52.
NW Coast. Quakiutl [The deer is married to the Bear; they have a son, Dap'is and several daughters; the Deer and D. catch seals; they give blood to the Bear's daughters, who die from her; the Deer and D. flee, ask the trees who has deep roots; they are sent north to the tisse; they climb the yew tree; the bear tries to dig it, the hole is filled with water, the fugitives cause a cold wind, the Bear freezes into the ice; the Deer and her son they throw brushwood at it and burn it]: Boas 1995, No. XVII.14:168 (=2002:371-372).
The Midwest. Menominee [Moose kills Olenikha].
California. The bear kills Olenikha. Kato; lassik; shinkion; yuki; yana; pomo; wappo [A deer husband and a bear wife follow acorns; A deer climbs an oak tree, the Bear eats the dropped acorns; The deer asks what they will bring home then; the bear says that he insults her, demands that he cry, devours him, hides his head in a basket under clover, brings her home; says that her husband was killed by enemies; his reindeer sister mourns; brings clover to her reindeer children (older and younger brothers); 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); the deer place sticks to stir the coals in different places, run away; the sticks are responsible for them; the Gopher woman says that the children have run away; the children ask The crane stretches its neck like a bridge, cross the river; when the Bear runs up, the Crane removes its neck; the 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 they go to suck her breast, die, cremated]: Radin 1924, No. 8:47-49; screw; maidu; mountain mivok; coastal mivok; chukchansi yokutz; monache; salinan [(the record is bad; in particular, the informant, author, or both call the Bear masculine, he; it is not certain that it is not the Bear); the bear is looking in Olenikha's head; she asks why he is not He bites through the lice, he replies that he does not eat toads; when the Deer looks for the Bear in his head, he kills her; takes the boy ("elf") out of his womb; he grows up in a cave, finds his rainbow grandmother; she does not tell fight Thunder; he runs away from Thunder, kills and bakes two bear cubs; lets the Bear eat, Oatmeal screams that the Bear is eating his children]: Mason 1918:116; tubatulabal [pregnant Olenikha eats clover; The bear kills her; the mother of the victim finds drops of blood on the grass; a boy emerges from them; grows up in the grandmother's house; climbs a rock; throws her red-hot arrow straightener into the Bear's mouth; A bear dies; then a young man kills a cannibal]: Voegelin 1935, No. 14:211-213.
Big Pool. The bear kills Olenikha. Northern Payutes; Northern Shoshones; Goshiyute.
The Great Southwest. The Coyotich or Wolf kills Deer. Hopi [Coyoticha wants to know why Olenicha has beautiful children; she advises her to bake her kids in the oven; after taking them out dead, Coyoticha kills Deer; one deer runs; adult deer they kill Coyoticha]: Wallis 1936, No. 12:44-46; Western Ceres (Laguna); Isleta Tiva; Teva.
Chaco. A Jaguar or Jaguariha kills a Deer or a Deer. Matako.