J53A. Inviting you to play kills. .21.33.43.48.49.
The character invites someone else to play. He follows the rules, but the initiator of the game does not follow and kills the other.
Lavrung, salars, forest yukaghirs, katlamet, yurok, yuki, yana, pomo, maidu, nisenan, mountain mivok, chukchansi yokuts, northern payut, northern shoshones, goshiyute.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lavrung [Black Bear and Rabbit have a daughter; both go to dig edible roots; one day the Bear returns alone; replies to Rabbit's daughter that she will eat her if she doesn't stop her ask where her mother is; she overhears the Bear talking to her daughter, realizes that the Bear killed the Rabbit; invites the Bear's daughter to shoot at each other, puts a stone on her chest , and that one is paper; an arrow bounces off Rabbit's daughter's chest, kills the Bear's daughter; Rabbit's daughter runs; the shepherd hides her in the sheep's ear; she throws ash in the face of the Bear who arrives in time, runs on; then but with a horse; then she hides in the Tiger's ear, he swallows the Bear; Rabbit's daughter chews the roots, replies to the Tiger that he eats her eye; gives the spine, then takes out the Tiger's eye, who says that his eye is not so tasty, asks him to take the second one out; asks him to drive him slowly along a bumpy road and fast along a smooth road; Rabbit's daughter brings Tiger to the edge of the cliff, makes a fire, asks him to move, the Tiger falls, crashes; comes into the house, tells the owners that a tiger lies under the mountain, promises to look after the baby and the cows; kills them, fills the baby with ash, cows with straw; the hostess spanks the baby, tries milk the cows, they fall apart; Rabbit's daughter invites the hostess to stand with a stone at the top of the stairs, the owner with a bow below, throw a stone at her and shoot at the signal; they kill each other]: G.yu lha 2011 : 369-373
Turkestan. Salars (Altiyuli, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous County) [the hare and the she-wolf went to get the sweet root; the she-wolf dug up and ate it, and left the hare for the bunny; when they returned home, The she-wolf had nothing to carry with her, so she ate the hare and took her sweet root; the hare decided to take revenge; called the wolf cub to play, invited him to fight; stuck a knife in the ground, threw it at he was a wolf cub and ran away; the she-wolf went in pursuit; the hare met the shepherd, who agreed to hide him among the sheep; the she-wolf demanded to tell us where the hare; the shepherd sharpened the sickle, the she-wolf ran away; the hare I met a deer, praised it for its beauty; he hid the hare in his nose and then killed the she-wolf; the hare climbed into a hole in the ground and insulted the deer; the deer hurt himself furiously; the hare cut off a piece reindeer meat, became related to a fox and a wolf; they consulted, chose the hare as their older brother; he suggested: "Wolf, fox, the salesman came from there. I'm going to pretend to be lame. [Wanting to] catch me, the salesman will put his chest [on the ground] and chase me. When he runs, grab the chest and run!" ; doing so, they got the chest; the hare handed the fox a drum: "Take this home. Play behind the kids' ears one morning. They're going to grow up fast day by day!" , and gave the wolf a pair of boots: "Take this away. Put them on, go to the mountains, creak [them]. All the sheep will run to you"; the fox played the drum - the children were scared and died; the wolf put on his boots - the sheep ran away; the fox and the wolf wanted to eat the hare; he pretended to be sick and closed his eyes; said that ate his eyes; the wolf said, "Take my eye out, I'll eat it!" ; the hare pulled out and sprinkled it with sugar; the wolf ate it, ordered the second one to be pulled out; the hare pulled out, the wolf said that this eye is not as tasty as the first one; the hare: "You're already full!" ; the same with the fox; the hare brought the wolf and fox to the edge of the cliff; made a fire there, threw it first at the fox, then at the wolf; they stepped back and fell off the cliff]: Tenishev 1964, No. 22:50-53.
SV Asia. Forest yukaghirs [the old woman had a hare with a son; the wolf invited the hare to go fishing; and then play; let's fight: whoever wins whom will break his belly; the wolf cub defeated the hare; the hare: do not tear my belly off, because they played; the wolf picked it up; fought again, the hare won; wolf: after all, the hare killed him, brought him into the house, the hare's mother was happy; the she-wolf followed the trail, promised Bring the bosses; the hare made a big grass house by night; wolf, bear, elk, wild deer came; bear: hare householder, wolf complains about you; hare: first come in, I'll feed everyone; come in, hare the door was locked from the outside, the house was set on fire, everyone died; the fabulous old man looked through the chimney: give me food; the hare ordered to lower the belt, tied it to a pole: pull; old man: why is it so tight? hare: a lot of meat; the old man pulled, the hare cut off his belt, the old man fell off the roof, crashed; the food ran out, the mother sent the hare to fish, he did not get anything; hit himself on the nose, blood in the snow of the glass, her hare froze, told his mother that he had brought a male wild deer; the mother made porridge out of it, the hare did not eat, said that he was full; the mother ate, went to bed, died; the hare put her on a sledge, left her by the tree, went into a house where the old man has three daughters; he also tells his mother to invite; hare: she is in poor clothes; the old man sent daughters with good clothes; the old woman does not answer, they pulled, she fell, broke in half; hare: they My mother was killed, now who's going to repair my clothes? old man: choose any daughter for yourself; the hare took the youngest; met a black-brown fox: food in the barn, bring everyone; the foxes gathered in the old man's barn, the hare locked him; the old man: here are the deer - the bride's ransom; the old man killed all the foxes, the hare and his wife live]: Jochelskon 1900, No. 6:11-16.
The coast is the Plateau. Katlamet [Malinovka and Yagodka (Salmon-berry) sisters; the first has five daughters, the second has sons; sisters go for berries, Malinovka looks for Yagodka in her head, wants to eat her; Berry warns sons, that they should run if she is eaten; the youngest sees Malinovka throwing Berries into the fire; the brothers invite Malinovka's children to play in the steam room, suffocate them with heat; arrange the corpses as if alive and smiling; running through the underground year; Malinovka first asks the dog where the children have run, then finds a way; The crane carries the brothers across the river; stretches his legs like a bridge; when Malinovka steps into the bottleneck, throws it into the water; the crow pecks out her genitals; she comes to life, paints her belly with blood; asks different trees if she likes coloring; Willow, Poplar, Fir, Tuya they say no; Alder, Cedar, Spruce, two types of Maple, yes; it makes the wood of the former useless, the latter valuable]: Boas 1901a, No. 15:118-128.
California. Yurok [Puma has two wives, Black Bear and Brown Bear, and they are sisters; Black has a boy and a girl, Grizzly has a girl; when leaving the Grizzly to collect acorns, the Black Bear warns the children that if she doesn't come back, Grizzly killed her; her mother didn't come back, Grizzly said she was late somewhere; Black Bear's children invited the Grizzly girl to climb into a toy house in the sand, brought it down they cooked meat like venison, gave them a Grizzly, shouted that she was eating, ran away; they climbed a tree, the Grizzly started digging it up, they climbed onto another, ran to the river, asked the old man to help them cross, he stretched his legs across the river like a bridge; when the Grizzly went, the old man removed his leg, the Grizzly drowned; the Black Bear's children began to live with his aunt]: Sapir 1928, No. 10:259-260; Yuki [The Bear is mother Deer; Deer's husband The deer brings birds to his son and daughter, gives his mother-in-law giblets; the mother-in-law took out the caught birds, left one partridge in the trap; the Deer leaned down after her, his mother-in-law killed him; called his daughter to collect clover, asked her to look in her head, then looked in her daughter's head, bit her off; put Olenikha's and Deer's eyes in acorn porridge, gave them to the Deer; they recognized their eyes; invited the Cubs to play steam room, closed the smoke hole; put the bodies with sticks to them, turning them into skunks; ran to the sea, asked Grandfather Crane to transport them across the sea; he stretched out his neck; when the Bear came , he removed her neck, she fell into the sea but swam out; Coyote, Rabbit, Fox and others killed her on the shore with stones, turned her into a bear]: Foster 1941:236-237; Yana (northern) [Grizzly woman wants The deer cut off a piece of her flesh for her; then searches her head, gnaws her neck, eats many of Olenikha's relatives, but does not find her two children; Reindeer invite Grizzly children to smoke as a joke Each other, strangle Grizzly children with smoke, cover the corpses with blankets, run away; flee to the rock, making it tall; Grizzly gnaws on the rock, dies; Deer turn her spine into a grizzly bear]: Sapir 1910, No. 24:207-208; pomo (porridge) [Bear and Olenikha are widows; go to pick nuts; Bear asks Olenikha to show her neck; bites and kills her; gives the eldest of the Deer Brothers mother's meat; Raven warns him not to eat; the deer invite the cubs to play; first they will climb the mountain and they will smoke them; when they shout that's enough, that's enough; then let the cubs climb; The cubs did everything, and the deer strangled them to death with smoke; the deer are running; the Heron uncle stretches his neck across the river, the deer cross the river; the river takes the bear to the sea]: Oswalt 1964, No. 5: 57-65; Maidu: Beck et al. 2001 [The deer warns her 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 the neck; tells the Reindeer that their mother is ill and will come later; Deer and Grizzly daughters play, covering each other in a smoky cave; Deer smoke Grizzly daughters to death, bake, put them separately meat pieces and heads with limbs; tell all objects to remain silent, forget about the pine needle, run away; Grizzly eats daughters' meat, finds heads; a needle shows the Grizzly way, Deer climb on a rock, throw a hot stone into the Grizzly's mouth, come to the Crane; when Grizzly wakes up, the Grizzly asks the Crane to stretch his leg across the river; in the middle of the Zhuravlikha River throws the Grizzly into the water (supposedly that scratched her leg with her claws; Women Water Beetles ate the Grizzly; the Milky Way is the Cranes's leg stretching across the river and at the same time the river itself; two stars are Deer, in front of them their mother, who continue to play Grizzly daughters; Horned Owl looks at a rock that goes into the sky river]: 83-86; Dixon 1902, No. 9:79-80 [reindeer brother and sister find mother's meat in a clover basket; kill cubs in a steam room; climb on a rock, it grows up; a hot stone is thrown into the Bear's mouth; their grandfather Crane (?) stretches her leg through the stream; the bear drowns], 80-81 [same; a hot stone kills the Bear], 81-83 [reindeer boys find their mother's head in the basket; cook a bear cub; throw it into the Bear's mouth a red-hot stone when she swims across the river; she dies; a spider takes them to heaven; they meet their mother there; they are thirsty; the mother goes to get water, sinks]; nicenan: Powell 1877 [Bear and The deer went for the clover; the bear said she saw a louse on Olenikha's head, Olenikha leaned down, the Bear pulled out her eyes and put it in her basket; Olenikha's children noticed their mother's eyes in the basket; they lured the cubs into the cave, lit a fire at the entrance, they were baked; the bear ate them furiously, chased the deer; they climbed onto the rock, dropped the hot stone, and the Bear died; they threw stones in different directions, acorns and berries appeared; the elder brother pierced a hole in the sky with an arrow, put up a ladder; the youngest was afraid to climb; then the elder let him smoke a pipe so that there was no ground apparently; both climbed into the sky, saw their mother by the pond, recognized her by her empty eye sockets; the elder brother was a deer, the youngest was a woodpecker (Sphyrapicus varins); the brothers did not like the blind mother, they went to wheel, fell into the pond, drowned]: 341-343; Uldall, Shipley 1966, No. 2 [Olenikha is her husband's sister (brother's wife?) The bears; they go for the clover, the Deer invites the Bear to look for insects from her, the Bear kills her; two reindeer boys find their mother's head in the basket; bake the bear cub in the hole, run telling the stump to answer for themselves; when they climb a rock, they throw a hot stone into the Bear's mouth, she dies, they fry and eat it; their mother's brother came to give him a bone, she fell, turned into a bear, ran away; the mother's brother takes them to heaven; there they roll the ball, find the mother in the house, suck her breasts; at night the youngest asks for water, the mother goes to fetch water, falls into a hole, dies; now the brothers produce thunder and lightning]: 21-25; mountain mivok: Gifford 1917 [The bear invites her sister Olenikha to collect the clover; offers to look in her head, gnaws through her neck, eats it, brings the liver to the bottom of the basket ; the youngest of two reindeer sisters finds a liver under the clover; the sisters leave the basket and awls to answer for them, run away; their grandfather is Long-legged (crane?) stretches out his leg; the Bear falls into the river, but continues to pursue; another grandfather, Olenyat, the Lizard, invites the Bear to climb onto the roof of his house, open her mouth and close her eyes, throws two in her mouth hot stones; she falls, dies; the lizard took off her skin, cut it in half, gave most of it to her older sister, the deer, the younger; the girls began to run, dragging these pieces that produced thunder; the Lizard sent them to heaven, they are Thunder], 2 [the Bear's lice are frogs; the deer throws them away, the Bear is unhappy, the Deer says it's falling leaves (obviously it is assumed that the Deer must bite through "insects")], 13 [short version; Deer strangle the Cubs with smoke in a hole; without crossing the river; the lizard is Aunt Olenyat; the text ends with her throwing into the Bear's mouth A hot stone, she dies]: 286-292, 333-334; Kroeber 1907a, No. 10 [two Deer Brothers strangle the Grizzly children in the steam room; they hide in their grandfather's steam room; he throws a hot stone in the Bear's ass burning it from within; Deer rise to heaven, become Thunders]: 203-204; Merriam 1993 [Deer is Grizzly's husband's sister; she has two sons, the Grizzly has one; the Grizzly invites her to look in her head kills, brings her liver home; deer find and recognize her; playing with him, strangle the Bear cub in a hole with smoke, put it as if he were sleeping; they ran to the other side of the river; the Grizzly asks how they got there; Backwards; the Grizzly goes backwards, the Deer roll a red-hot stone on her; they make a belt out of her skin, climb into the sky; there they meet her mother; she drowns in a spring; they go back; so deer live on the ground, not in the sky]: 103-109; Wilson 1922 [a deer with two reindeer came to visit a bear with a bear cub; went with her to pick berries, she killed her; the deer saw the bear bring their mother's liver; invited the bear cub to play, taking turns climbing into the cave, there is a fire in front of her, blowing smoke into it until the cave says it was enough; strangled the bear cub with smoke; ran to his grandfather; he taught him how to heat the stones and roll them down the mountain; when the bear chased, the stones killed her; the grandfather made several proposals to his grandchildren regarding their future fate, but they agreed, only when he invited them to live in heaven; lit a fire to take them to heaven; they began to dance around the fire and accidentally spilled water; together with the ferry they ascended into the sky, where they now live with their descendants; lightning is sparks from under their hooves; short sharp peals of thunder are a younger deer running, and deaf rolling ones are the elder deer]: 87-89; Chukchansi yokutz (brief summary) [Grizzly bear kills A deer, taking out her insects; two reindeer boys kill two bear cubs in the steam room; they run to their grandfather; he kills the Grizzly by throwing a hot stone in her anus; the boys make so much noise that they must leave live in heaven, become Thunders]: Gayton, Newman 1940, No. 130:96.
Big Pool. Northern Payut [Bear and Deer go to dig roots; sit down to clean themselves up; (to rumple their skins); Bear bites Deer's neck, brings her fat home; Younger Deer feels the mother's taste; when the Bear leaves to pick up the remaining meat, two Deer invite the two Cubs to play while locking each other in a smoky room; strangle them with smoke to death, put them on stakes ( so that the Bear thinks that they are standing outside the house), run away; ask the Crane to stretch her legs across the river, cross them to the other side; ask the pursuer to drown; when the Bear reaches the middle rivers, she leans to drink, falls, sinks; the bears respond to the Crane's wife that they do not eat fish, but pine needles; so deer are now living in the forest]: Kelly 1938, No. 27:431-432; northern shoshones [ after going for the roots, the Bear invites Olenikha to look in her head, curls her neck; the bears eat deer fat, talk about it to two Deer; they offer to play in the steam room, strangle the Cubs smoke, paint with red paint, place the corpses so that they look alive; run; spend the night in a hollow; The bear falls asleep by the hollow; the deer run to the river; their maternal grandfather Blue Bald Head (Crane?) stretches out her legs, they cross to the other side; the bear steps on her knee, the Crane throws her off; she swims for a long time, gets ashore, her hair is peeled off]: Lowie 1909b, No. 9:253-254; gosiyute [The bear kills Olenikha; the deer strangle the Bear cubs in the cave; they run; the crane stretches its leg through the stream; removes her leg when the Bear steps on her; she drowns; the crane tells the Deer to go to the mountains and eat grass, that's why there are so many deer]: Smith 1993:37-38.