J66. The straps are gnawed.

.14.21.26.-.29. (.31.) .32.-.37.39.41.-.45.48.49.62.

The character cuts, gnaws through bow strings and other straps in advance, and holes boats, making it impossible for opponents to fight or chase him.

Ancient Egypt, Tibetans, Koreans, Ancient Greece, Russians (North?) , Azerbaijanis (Eastern Sami), Komi, Hotanosaks, Uighurs, Telengits, Tuvans, Tofalars, Buryats, Nganasans, Nenets, Southern and Northern Selkups, Eastern Khanty, Ket, Yakuts, Nanais, Udege, Coastal Koryaks, Itelmen, Southern Tutchoni, Slevi, Chipewayan, Dogrib, Bellacula, Heiltsuk, Quinolt, Quileout, Upper Chehalis, Katlamet, Tillamook, Alsea, Cous, Ojibwa, Naskapi, Montagnier, Mikmak, Hoopa, Karok, Pomo, Maidu, Nisenan, Southern Payut, Utah, Wakuenai.

North Africa. Ancient Egypt [King Sanaharib of Arabs and Assyrians attacked Egypt; Priest Setos complained to the deity in the sanctuary; in a dream he was told to boldly lead an army against the enemy; the warriors did not go, Setos led by merchants, artisans, etc., he came to Pelusia; at night, flocks of field mice attacked the enemy camp, gnawed everything; enemies fled; in Pelusia there is a stone statue of the king with a mouse in his hands]: Herodotus 2001: 152-153 (II.141).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [as a result of a poor harvest of wild cereals, the mice were left without winter supplies; the king of mice asks the ruler of the local kingdom to lend him one grain barn, promising to return everything next year from interest; he agrees; the enemy is preparing to attack, stops across the river; the mice are afraid of the defeat of a friendly king, offer help, let only one hundred thousand sticks be prepared at the shore a foot long; the mice cross them to the other side, gnaw through the bowstring of bows, spoil clothes, etc.; in the morning the enemy retreats in horror; the king promises to send pets and then wild animals; the enemy king signs the world; for their help, the mice demanded to build a dam along the river so that the holes would not be flooded and to expel the cats; the king did this]: O'Connor 1906, No. 19:133-140.

China - Korea. Koreans: Garin-Mikhailovsky 1958, No. 34 (1898) [(reprinted in Burykin 2014:543-546); an archery who dreamed of going to Seoul came to the fortuneteller; he said, "Let a woman not cross your path. If he crosses, kiss her"; on the way to Seoul, the shooter saw a girl crossing the road, followed her and entered the house; the girl's father and mother were sitting there; the shooter stayed overnight; when he woke up, I saw a young tigress sleeping next to him, and two old tigers away; then fell asleep again; in the morning the girl said: "Remember: when you hit the last target, three will appear on the road, on three mules: two on white mules, wearing white and white fans, and the third on a variegated green fan. As you'll see, shoot them right away"; then she added, "They're not humans, they're wild people-if you don't kill them, they'll eat them all. When you kill them, cut the chest of the one who was riding a motley mule. You will find two animals in your chest: never be separated from them - let them be like children to you"; the shooter did as the girl told him; instead of the travelers he killed, people saw two old tigers and one a young tigress; the shooter cut the tigress's chest and took out two animals; a year later, the war broke out; the emperor appointed the shooter commander-in-chief; the night before the battle, the animals clicked all the rats and mice:" Go to the other side in the enemy army, gnaw through all their bowstrings and bows, eat their food and shoes"; the next day, the shooter captured all enemies; the war was over; the offspring of those animals - cats]: 499-502; Trotsevich 1896 (Shinjeung Tonguk Yeoji Seongnam - Review of the Attractions of the Eastern State, 1531) [In the legend about the origin of Mount Sodo (aka Pyekorsan, in Hwanghae Province in Soheung County), says: "Once enemies attacked, then a monk turned into a white mouse and crept into an enemy camp at night. He chewed all his bows and arrows, and the thieves fled. And the monk went to a stone cave on Mount Nachzhasan, did not leave it for several years, and died. He then became the deity of Mount Sodo. Local residents still make sacrifices to this day, and when they pray for rain during a drought, they receive it"]: 99.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece [Strabo XIII, I.48: "Chris houses the sanctuary of Apollo Sminthea and an emblem that shows the true meaning of God's name: it is at the foot of the statue that the mouse lies"; with this place there is a legend about tevkras who arrived from Crete; they received an oracle to stay where they would be attacked by the creatures of the earth; near Hamaxite at night, a huge number of field mice gnawed through everything leather on weapons and utensils; the Tevkras stopped there; a similar story can be found in the similarities to the Iliad (I,39); the Tevkras are one of the "peoples of the sea" associated with Troas]: Panchenko 2013:177-178.

Central Europe. Russians (North?) [The epic about Volkh Vseslavich; in Kiev, a fierce serpent wrapped around Princess Marfa Sveslavyevna's leg, began to hit the white stem, she became pregnant, gave birth to the hero Volkh Vseslavyevich; he tells his mother to swaddle him in armor, put a helmet on his head; by the age of 10 he learned the intricacies: to turn into a falcon, a wolf and a tour; at the age of 15, he went to the Indian king, who wanted to ruin Kiev; fed, he dressed his squad, hunting in the form of a wolf and a falcon; becoming a tour and then a falcon, he ran and flew to explore the Indian Kingdom, where Tsar Saltyk Stavrulyevich; hears Tsarina Azvyakovna telling her husband that now his opponent was born in Kiev; becoming an ermine, the Wolf gnawed through the bowstrings of his bows, took out the tips, the flint fuses of his guns; in the city gate, the hole was only an ant to pass; the Wolf turned himself and a squad of ants, they entered the city; orders everyone to be killed, leaving only 7,000 red maidens; raised the tsar and smashed it against the brick floor; he took Queen Azvyakovna and sat on the Indian throne; distributed it to people gold, silver and horses]: Kirsha Danilov 1977, No. 6:.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Azerbaijanis [seven sledges and their sister with a golden scythe lived in the village of Khuchni near Derbent; the neighbors were tired of their robberies, besieged the fortress; the sister fell in love with the leader, took the gunpowder out of rifles and pistols, filled the sheath of daggers and checkers with salt water; six sledges died; the youngest seventh tied his sister by the braids to the horse's saddle and disappeared; on the stone there are hooves of this horse, near the grave sisters; gunpowder and bullets are placed in the hoof holes, stones are thrown into the sister's grave]: Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 4:19-20.

(Wed. Baltoscandia. Eastern Sami [Chud attacked three hero brothers; the latter successfully shot back, but his wife cut the bow string; the hero was captured, but brought honorably to the king of Chudsky, and his wife killed for cheating on her husband]: Nemirovich-Danchenko 1877:?).

Volga - Perm. Komi-Zyrians (p. Pyssa, Udorsky district of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2004) [Chernutyev's weirdos came to the Tittydin chudins; a man named Patrak settled near their land; he came to them and, entering the house, cut the bowstrings of the bows hanging in the hallway; then a quarrel began , Patrak ran away; the Chudsky rushed in pursuit, but due to the fact that the veins on the bows were cut, they could not shoot; Patrak shot them all; they were Chernutyev freaks]: Limerov 2005, No. 157:196 ( original in Komi), 197 (Russian translation).

Turkestan. Hotanosaki ("Notes on Western Countries [the] Great Tang Era", written by Xuanzang after his trip to India in 629-645) ["Local legends say that rats in this sandy desert are big, the size of hedgehogs. Their wool is gold, silver and yellow in color. The leader, who leads their pack, goes around the area every day, and only then is a rat pack followed. In the old days, the shunnu, of which there were several hundred thousand and so numerous, attacked the outskirts of {Kustany, i.e. Khotan}. Their army came close to rat hill. At that time, the king of Kustany had an army of several tens of thousands and feared that he would not be able to fight back. He had known for a long time that there were wonderful rats in the desert, but they were not yet revered as spirits at that time. Shunna was about to be attacked and there was no one to ask for help. The chief dignitaries trembled with fear and had no plan of action. So we decided to arrange a sacrifice and light incense, praying to the rats. If they provided patronage, it would add a little more strength to the troops. And that same night, the king of Kustana dreamed of a big rat saying: "I respectfully want to help you. As soon as possible, at an early hour, troops must be moved. The next morning a battle will take place, and you will certainly win." King Kustany, having learned that he would receive help from above, built his army and gave orders to commanders and soldiers. He went on a secret campaign, and then, rushing in front of the army, launched a surprise attack. As soon as they understood this, Shunnu could not recover from their fear. But as soon as they were about to harness their chariots and put on armor, they found that horse saddles, people's clothes, bow bowstrings - everything they had with them - had been bitten by rats. Overtaken by their enemies, they surrendered and were defeated. Their commanders were executed and their soldiers were captured. Shunna trembled with fear when they saw the protection provided by the spirits. The king of the country Kustana, grateful to the rats, built a temple and established sacrifices. They have been worshiped here for generations, bringing the rarest jewels. That is why everyone, from rulers to commoners, makes ritual sacrifices here and asks for divine protection"]: Xuanzang 2012:337-338; (same or similar text in Abel-Rémusat 1820:47-50 in Panchenko 2013 (Chinese "Khotan's Story") [the Shunnu army invaded Khotan; the king offered offerings to the desert rats; in a dream, the rat leader ordered the army to be prepared for battle the next day; at night the rats gnawed through everything they could (clothes, bow strings, etc.); the leader of the shunnu died, the army surrendered; King Khotan built a temple in honor of the rats]: 181-182; Uighurs: Screen 1930:106-107 [In the purchased I have copies of one of these books about four imams, the last of Ali's twelve descendants, who, according to local legend, came from Arabia to Kashgar in the 9th and 10th centuries to to establish Islam, and they fell fighting for their faith. The book describes how imams assembled and sent a huge army to Kashgar, where the population found a tendency to return to paganism. They attacked the country with countless armies, and residents of Kashgar, Yarkand and other cities hurried to convert to Islam. But in Hotan, local rulers were preparing resistance. During the battle, one of the imams was killed. A mighty wizard made Khotan invisible, and an army of imams remained in one place for forty years to no avail. Only then did the rulers retire to the mountains to build a strong new city there, Khotan was taken and its inhabitants converted to Mohammedanism. The battle of the new city ended in failure for the imams. Two Ujat enemy warriors, disguised as dogs, secretly crept into the imam camp, gnawed through all the soldiers' horse harnesses and equipment, and the next day the imam army was defeated, and they themselves died in combat. The imams were solemnly buried, and those responsible for their deaths were cursed. Their male children were supposed to be born four-legged and with tails. Offspring could get rid of this curse if their daughters were married to sheikhs, the keepers of the grave of murdered imams], 108-109 [As an example of such an alteration, we can point to the legend of sacred rats mentioned by a 7th-century Chinese traveler. Khotan was attacked by the Huns, and King Khotan was desperate. At night, in a dream, the rat king appeared to him and offered his help. King Khotan accepted this offer, and hordes of rats flooded the Huns camp the following night. The rats gnawed through all the bowstrings and devoured the harness belts. As a result, the Huns lost the opportunity to defend themselves and were defeated. Since then, rats in the Hotan area have been considered sacred, and pilgrims care about feeding them].

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Telengits [episode of an epic tale: Altai-Buchay returns home from a campaign; drinks wine bewitched by his wife and gets very drunk; his wife and servants chained his horses to the railway town, they chain his dogs, tie his falcons in fetters, break his sword, cut his bow's bowstring in three places; Altai-Buchui, who has fallen asleep, awakens to the cries of horses and falcons; takes up the sword-sword breaks; takes up the bow - the bowstring is cut in three places; fights enemies with his bare hands for seven days, then falls; enemies saw off two of its fingers, steal cattle]: Kalachev 1896:496; Tuvans [cf. K24A motif; the lake dried up; Surji Bakshi, who lived in the Aji cave, told Tung Karatta Khan's servants to watch; five ducks flew in, the lake was filled with water; one turned to Sambai-Dagin , she is caught with an arcana; she tells her to build a house out of calico; at the direction of the AU, the servants threw a golden lasso over the mountains, caught goats to feed SD; TC enters the house, SD says she is the wife of seven Tayanji- kulov; TC exchanges it from them for his 108 wives and all the cattle; Jyusun Khan is at war; TC tells his wife to wear a winged coat, give the second to his mother, fly away; TC became a rat, gnawed his bows and armor enemy; Jyusun Khan offers a fight; their strength is equal, they have become friends; SD flew to her father Ter-han, Tayanji-kuly blew up her iron house; KH, becoming a thin boy, Meets a huge Raven on the way, then a huge Wolf; they reply that they are going to peck the eyes of the horse X, there is a KX horse; KH hits them, breaks off their legs and nose to their current size; Aza replies that he is going kill and eat TC himself; TC powdered him, it formed spiders, horseflies, mosquitoes; see motif K27; TC carries out Ter-Khan's difficult assignments, steals his sun and moon, which now shine people]: Potanin 1883, No. 110:373-379; Tofalars [while two brothers were hunting, the robbers took away their wives and property; the elder's wife went voluntarily, and the youngest warned the old mother-in-law that she grease the robbers' bowstrings; at dawn, the brothers caught up with the robbers, they could not shoot because the bows slipped out; the brothers shot the robbers and the older brother's wife]: Rassadin 1996, No. 30:67-68; Baikal Buryats: Burchina 2007, No. III.3 (Nukut District) [Uliger episode: "At this time, a white dog the size of an inch barks, which has not barked since puppy time. Brothers ask why a dog that never barked started barking? They want to go out and watch But Haryal Gohon (their older sister) intervenes: "I'd better go see it!" - and secretly cuts the bowstring from the bows, leather belts from the stirrups. He comes in and says there's no one. The feast continues. The dog is barking again. The brothers, leaning against the walls, go outside and see that they are surrounded in three rows by the army of Altan Gasu Khubun, the son of Shazhan Nomon Khan. "The frog is earthly! I think he's stronger than us! Just one arrow is enough to get rid of you!" Having said this, they pull a bowstring of Bukhara black bow with a Khangai arrow, but the bowstring breaks. They decide to trample enemies with horses - they put their feet in stirrups, [but] the stirrups break off. The brothers are falling. Sister Haryal Gokhon runs out and tells Altan Gus Hubun to burn Haidar and Buydar at the stake from taiga trees as soon as possible. He orders, and subjects burn their bodies without even leaving ash"]; IV.3 (Alar District) [Uliger episode: "As soon as he pulled out his lungs, they turned into Fifteen-Headed Aturai Shara Mangadhai, who grabbed Bator and asked, "Is Tolay Mergen home?" Hearing that he is hunting, he menacingly orders: "As soon as he arrives, cut his bow's bowstring, break the arrowhead! Otherwise I'll rip your head off!" Erheyhan Mergen Bator turns into a white ermine and, hiding under three layers of earth, makes his way to Tolay Mergen, cuts the bow string, breaks the arrowhead. Returning to the mangadhay, he says that he has fulfilled the order, let him act on his own now. Mangadhai lets him go, and Erheyhan Mergen Bator, without going home, runs away to the lands of the Mongols. At home, Aturai Shara Mangadhai gathers an army and goes on a campaign with her two brothers to Tolay Mergen. In the morning red sun, Tolay Mergen Palace is surrounded by a triple ring. In the morning, Tolay Mergen's wife sees that their palace has been surrounded by an army three times; she wakes her husband up. Tolay Mergan opens the door sleepily, shoots an archery, but the weapon is damaged. Then he sits on Ganzagat's gray horse, jumps over the fence and breaks through the enemy ring"]: 163, 233.

Western Siberia. Nenets: Labanauskas 2001 [two Nenets came to visit the Enets, and when they left, they made holes in their boats; came again and started killing the Eneans; two got into the boat, but there was a hole in it, they began to sink; one drowned, another was caught up and killed]: 274; Elders 1930 (tundra?) [the fox grabbed the crow by the wing; he told her to eat it whole and offered to go to the mountain; there he told the fox to open its mouth and wait for it to fly; the fox opened its mouth, the raven made a circle, flew into the fox and hit it with its beak; the fox fell into the river; saw the Ostyaks sailing in the boat; the Ostyaks said they were going to fight; the fox sat down with them, and when the Ostyaks fell asleep, turned the boat in the opposite direction; found birch bark bodies began to eat food; one ostyak raised his head and asked what kind of river; fox: "Birch bark body!" ; the ostyak fell asleep, the fox crept up to the arrows and gnawed at all the places at the iron and bone inserts, all the ends of the arrows; another Ostyak asked what river; the fox: "Arrow!" ; the ostyak fell asleep, the fox crept up to the bows and gnawed through them in the middle; the third ostyak asked what river; the fox: "The Luk River"; late at night the boat sailed to the plague; the fox woke people up; each took his bow and arrows; attacked sleeping people; they woke up, the battle began; those who slept in the plague won, then recognized their relatives as dead; one of those who came survived, ran to the fox with an ax; she told him to pick him up a higher axe for her to put her head on his knee; the Ostyak cut his leg; the fox ran away; the other Ostyaks wanted to shoot, but all bows and arrows were unusable]: 30-31; Tereshchenko 1949 [in a boat Overseas warriors come; the fox offers to take it - knows the area; while they sleep, the fox gnawed through the arrows; replies that they are passing the mouth of the river of arrows; gnawed through the bowstring: the mouth of the bowstring; the mouth of the bowstring the ends of the bows; the fox jumps ashore, the warriors' bows are useless]: 131-132; Mansi {text from the Internet, no specific origin is specified} [the bunny cut his lip with a sedge; asked the fire to burn it; Having learned what was going on, the fire told the bunny that he had an insatiable belly; (all the following characters give the same answer); the bunny asked the water to put out the fire; two boys to shoot bows into the water; the mouse gnaw the bowstring on the boys' bows; the mouse felt sorry for the bunny, began to gnaw the bowstring, but did not have time; the boys shot into the water, the water began to arrive and extinguish the fire, he lit the sedge; the hare jumped out of sedges, scorching their legs and neck]: Burykin 2014:542-543; Eastern Khanty: Lukina 1990, No. 38 (b. Wah) [The Gold-haired King agreed to make peace with his enemies; but his wife fell in love with the enemy leader; persuaded the king to take off his chain mail while he was sleeping, cut his bow; when the enemies approached, he jumped up, the bow broke, he was hit in the side with a palm tree; he put on his chain mail, ran, took it off, fell, his head was cut off; the leader of the enemies was dissatisfied why the king was killed], 94 (b. Vasyugan) [the fox pretended to be dead, the men threw her into the boat; she replies that the reach is called Hungry Island; the whirlpool - We used to drown our bows here; gnawed through the bowstrings; new reach - To the hungry reach- Bora arrived; she was thrown out of the boat]: 166-167, 251; Nganasans: Porotova 1980 [Dyaiku was hit by a stump, his fist stuck, then his leg, etc.; the old man brought him home, told his wife that a fox was trapped; while the old man was away and the old woman went out into the yard, D. jumped off the crossbar, became a baby, went under the old woman's hem; asks to slaughter the only deer, the old woman tells her husband to allow it, because these are theirs only son; D. loads meat into the boat, sails away, shouts that he is not their son, but D.; elsewhere, the boat in which the foreman's three sons are supposed to sail holes, covers the hole with clay, the sons drown; D. returns to his mother, tells how he deceived an old man, drowned people]: 21-24; Simchenko 1996 [Dyaiku is small but bearded, lives with his grandmother; hunts mice; grandmother eats fat, he hits her, she says that the copper-red killed his father; he comes to seven redheads, holes in their boats, offers to race, the first sinks, six sail to save him, also drowned; D. crawls up to the old woman when she urinates, she decides that she gave birth to him; D. asks her cannibal husband what he can destroy him; he admits that fire; at night D. burns him and his wife; comes to the shaman, pushes her into the fire; she was the mother of red and burned; sets fire to the deer, they run away; D. leaves, the man gives him a piece of inexhaustible meat; he comes to his mother, puts a plague in the middle of the water, climbs upstairs; the old woman tells give her pieces of meat when the guest comes; the guest comes, sits next to D.; he puts his hand down, the old woman does not react; the guest is gone, D. saw that the old woman drowned; D. sailed away, his boat froze, then D.'s testicles freeze to the ice, come off; he goes for new ones to Kou Kopto, Quicheda-Copto (Sun-Girl, Moon-Girl); stays in the sky, becoming Ngo]: 30-37; southern Selkups ( zap. I.N. Gemuev, born in 1980 Ket) [seven Tatar brothers go in a boat down the river; ask the capercaillie if he can speak (Ostyacki); he replies that the sand is biting; so he does not know how to; they ask the fox; she yaps, the brothers decide that the fox could speak, took it with them; she gnawed through her aunts's bows, "put bacon on herself"; said she wanted to go ashore, took the lard, ran to the old man: bran my tail with bacon; old man: what? fox: on your daughter's head; daughter's name Tyaren; the fox pulled out its tail, the old man cut off his daughter's head; the old man put crossbows, once killed a fox, took off his skin, gave the carcass to the dog; sings in her stomach: old man the dog kicked me out, I'm already confused; the dog did it; dog feces sings; crows, magpies, bite me; they pecked, their stomachs were upset]: Baulo, Tuchkova 2016, No. 1; northern Selkups (zap. Simchenko from the same informant from whom Prokofiev wrote down in Yanov Stan) [Yompu has stopped constipating fish, his grandmother is hungry; dead bones (i.e. the spirits of the dead, Latars themselves) float along the river; J. sails to the hill, where the Latars, makes a tambourine mallet, a birch bark cover on his clothes, the latars only scratch the birch bark; next time he places a perch and a ruff to dam the river, the Latars sink; the vines do With a hollow, J. tells the chips to bounce into his nose; while the vines are sleeping, J. places the lizard and the frog in the hollow, they expand it (these animals are able to expand the gap); eating the beaver, J. hides his jaw; the vine splits the larch, asks Y. to put his hand in, knocks out the wedge, leaves; Y. tells the beaver's jaws to split the trunk; in the skin of a polar owl he flies over the sea, gets tired, throws a whetstone, he becomes a rock, J. she rests; makes a noose on the larch; when the vines float in the boat, it is raised in a loop, remains hanging; two chase linden ducks, J. quietly holes in their boats, they sink; J. comes to their plague; an old woman shamanite, says they drowned; at night J. pushes her into the fire; people suspect that J. is to blame, he kills everyone with onions; other people bend larch and throw people into the water to break the plague a water vine that covered the fish; he did it because his son is sick; J. shoots into the water, follows the arrow into the underwater plague; shamanite, the son of the vine recovers, the vines let go of fish; J. in the plague lies with his daughter; cannot go out with an ermine or a squirrel, because the vines have put bear guards; goes through a smoke hole, a vine runs away with his daughter; they ride a sledge drawn by an animal, whose the horn draws the sky; J. throws a one-clawed female, then a two-clawed female, so until seven, they detain the stalker vine; a one-horned deer fights with the vine, etc., a semiric drowns the vine in the sea; the daughter of a water the vine revives the deceased grandmother Y., turns her into a girl; turns its gold ring into a golden plague; puts pillars for comlania]: Simchenko 1995:98-109; Kets: Dolgikh 1969, No. 56 (Imbatsky chum salmon) [orphan Tyney lives and works for a rich man, they are pushed around him; he asks God to send seven snows; snow fell from the hoof of sledges; at night T. buried skis, bows and arrows in the snow; killed sleeping people, leaving them for himself two young women; he had two children; he made an underground plague by the lake; a rich man sends people to look for T., but they cannot find the plague; finally they found dried larch, found T. under the butt, killed; T.'s children are already grown up, stunned]: 180-182; Donner 1955 [(2 options); people went on boats for ducks; one person did not hunt; answered what he thought about his wife and children; people returned, everyone was killed at home Yurakami, the leader's wife {apparently, that man} was taken away by the Yuraks; the man crept into the Yuraks, cut his bow bowstrings, killed all the Yuraks]: 124-135.

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts (central, Amginsky ulus) [two close variants, the first was recorded in 1921: Omolloon and Timir-Kuturuk lived together for several years; during this time O. entered into a love affair with his wife T.- K.; they decided to kill T.-K.; on the eve of T.-K.'s departure, his wife poured water into his quiver and froze it with the arrows attached; then cut his bow's bowstring halfway; O., moving forward, ambushed and attacked T.-K.; he grabbed the quiver, but all the arrows froze; T.-K. crushed the ice with his foot, grabbed his bow, pulled the bowstring, it burst; O. continued to shoot, but repented at the sight of his dying friend; T.-K. . died, O. galloped home and cut S.-T. in half]: Ksenofontov 1977, No. 168, 171:147, 150-151.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais [the older sister suggests going to look for husbands, dresses up; at the fork, tells the youngest to follow a path with crutches; the youngest replies that the path chosen by the elder , will lead to a rich man; the youngest comes to the house of seven bald cannibals; breaks crutches folded near the house; hides in the ash, becoming a needle; cannibals ask the skull where the girl is, they see the needle, but the girl flies away with a midge; cannibals chase because the crutches are broken; the girl comes to Mergen, is well at home, becomes his wife; pretending to be a mess, on a bad nag, she comes to her sister; she idles, servants do everything; when leaving, the younger sister takes on her true form, lets water into the elder's house; at night, the eldest and her husband run to the youngest's house, they are treated; since then, the eldest has been all began to do it herself]: Kile 1996, No. 321-329; Udege people [Aha dreams that she was taken away by a seagull of keels; Egdig's brother does not believe in danger; A. disappears; the dog's skull replies that the girl was taken away K., tells you to shoot an arrow, it will bounce, follow the arrow; the same is the dog's bones; the skull and bones turn into two young men, go with E.; E. frees the jay entangled in the branches; sees A. with two K. sisters collect blueberries; the jay lures A., she sees E., they agree to defeat K. during the campaign; E. hides in the house; A. sings, the K. brothers listen, dress K. as if dead; kingfisher, nuthatch, heron, eagle, squirrel, humpback dwarf boho are K.'s assistants, camlaat; only kingfisher and squirrel say they see E. hiding, K. drives them away; others do not want conflict, say that E. does not; when everyone falls asleep, E. tells the mouse to gnaw through the tendon straps; fights with K. and his brothers and assistants; they have a bowstring on their bow, the tip of their spear falls off, their pants fall off; E. kills K. and him brothers, beats assistants; since then, the nuthatch has a blue back, the back of the squirrel has become a frog; E. married one of K.'s sisters, the other and gave his sister to his two companions]: Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010: 100-105.

SV Asia. Coastal Koryaks (Palana) [lived two brothers who were good at bow shooting and a sister named Kilivnaut; K. began to meet secretly with a stranger, became pregnant with him; began to encourage him to kill her brothers; the stranger agreed; when the brothers fell asleep, K. cut their bow bowstring with a knife and carried their spears to the tundra; at night a stranger came, the brothers discovered that bows damaged and their spears disappeared; after receiving their first wounds, they pretended to be dead; K. demanded that a foreigner check whether they died after cutting off their upper lips; he cut off his older brother's upper lip, Rynnynalpylyn, he did not move; when he began to cut off the youngest, he shuddered and was pierced with a spear; ten years later, R. went camping with his relatives to the camp where K. lived; she was captured they pierced her ankles, pulled her belts through them and tied her to deer; they tore K. in two]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 150:474-477 (reprinted in Burykin 2014:541); itelmen: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 160 [registered in 1968 in p. Tigil: Tylval lived with his sister on Round Hill; Palansky Koryak came and challenged him; they began to compete: who was the first to go to the river for firewood, who would be the first to catch and kill a bear with his bare hands; T. won, Koryak was about to leave, but sister T., who wanted to marry this Koryak, offered him to do the trick; she found her brother's bow and cut his bowstring; Koryak began to climb the hill, T. grabbed the bow, the bowstring burst; the Koryak shot him with a crossbow; T. pulled out the arrow that hit it and killed Koryak with a blow to the forehead; then caught two wild deer, tied one to his sister's left leg, the other - to the right; deer tore it in half], 161 [west in 1926 in the village. Sedanka: Tylval had a beautiful sister whom he did not want to give to anyone; she started dating a Koryak and arranged to escape with him; T. found out, had prepared his bow and arrows; when he fell asleep, sister broke off everyone's arrows, and ran away herself; T. went in pursuit, caught up and killed the Koryaks; tied his sister by the legs to two wild deer; they tore his sister in half], 162 [west in 1926 in the village. Tigil: The Koryaks decided to steal his sister from Tylval; after hearing about this, T. took out a bow with stone arrows and waited at the top of the hill; when he fell asleep, his sister broke the stone arrows and poured water on the mountain, went down the mountain on a trough and left with the Koryaks; T. went in pursuit, killed Koryakov, and tied her sister with one leg to one deer and the other to the other; they tore it in half], 163 [west in 1953 in 1953 in c. Sedanka: Tylvala's sister found the groom, brought him; T. took the bow and wanted to shoot him; pulled the bowstring, and it burst (her sister cut it in advance); T. entered the house, killed his father and mother, pretended dead; the groom came in, hit T. on the head with a log; T. did not move, the groom and sister left; T. went in pursuit, killed the groom at once, and tied his sister to two deer and let them go in different directions]: 498- 500, 500, 501, 501-503.

Subarctic. Southern tutchoni [Äsúya (clever, Beaver) sails along the river in a boat; ropes with human bones are stretched across the river; they rattle when touched; Ä. touches the second, comes out Chä zhru (C., mink woman); tries to feed Ä. human, give her urine; The mouse secretly gives Ä. roots to eat; C. killed men stunned by her urine, devouring them in bed with her ass {rectum; apparently with a vagina}; Ä. asks the Mouse to hole C.'s boat, sails away in his own; C. chases, sinks; leaves these C. gloves on a branch on the island; when she wakes up, she sees C. herself there; she sleeps on her back, legs apart to devour whoever lies with her; he pierces her ass (vagina?) with a hot spear, the corpse burns]: Workman 2000:105-106; Sleep: Bell 1901, No. 1 [winter does not end; animals gather for advice; there is no only Bear; Lynx, Fox, Wolf, Mouse, Pike, etc. sky; they find two bear cubs in the house; learn from them that the bags contain rain, wind, fog, heat; The mouse gnaws on the oars, the Lynx turns into a caribou, the Mother Bear rushes after her in the boat, the paddle breaks; animals steal heat; snow melts, flood begins; huge creature drinks water]: 26-27; Petitot 1886, No. 6 [the beaver hunter's wife goes to him on the wrong path, gets to a cannibal from the tribe Little Penises; finds her husband's skull, hides his grief; cuts off the kidnapper's head at night, holes boats, runs away; returns at night, kills cannibal women and children]: 329-331; chipewayan : Birket-Smith 1930:83-86 [The squirrel wants the rocks to stay at the bottom and the birch logs to swim; the Bear wants the opposite; others support the Squirrel; when angry, the Bear promises to make an eternal night; The squirrel proves that the Bear will suffer himself; listeners admit that Squirrel is right, then the stones roll into the sea, sink to the bottom; the Bear unsuccessfully chases the Squirrel, steals summer; the animals are coming to a warm country; decide to lure the Bear by sending a caribou herd across the pond, the Mouse must gnaw on the paddle; but the paddle does not break, the Bear rows in the boat; because of fear, the Mouse's eyes remain bulging out; finally the paddle breaks; the animals learn from the cubs that the bag is warm, they carry the bag away; the Pike carries the last, its teeth are perforated in the bag; the bear screams that from now on, heat and cold will alternate; snow melts, water floods the world, but the 'tulkkuzji bird drinks all the water; the lynx first strokes, then tears its stomach, the water pours out], 86-87 [The bear lives in the sky; keeps rain, snow, fog in bags, cold; Lynx swims, Bear chases her in a boat].

NW Coast. Bellacula [The raven marries a widow, he likes her daughter; he asks various trees how they burn; thuja replies that sparks fly from her to women's genitals; Raven advises the girl cure a burn by sowing on a plant in the forest; hiding, exposes her penis, she sits down; The raven is not invited to the party; pretends to be sick, comes up secretly, screams, tells his sons to sprinkle ash on it as if he did not leave the house; says that those screams mean enemies are approaching; people are leaving, the Raven is eating holiday food; asks the Deer when he is fattest; leads to the meadow to the edge of the abyss; speaks that he, the Raven, was already when the mountains began to grow; the Deer replies that he was when the Sun was just beginning to give the world its current form; the Raven pushes the Deer off the cliff, eats; going into the empty the house, sees the fish stocks; tells the sisters to load everything into the boat; invisible hands beat him and his sisters; the raven goes to the guests, asks for return visits; the bird cuts his leg with a stone knife, from there it falls caviar; The seal holds his hands above the fire, fat drips; another bird sings, the box is filled with berries; the Raven only hurts himself, there is excrement in his box; he swims to the Salmon; tells the sisters to hole the boats; asks the chief's daughter to help take food to his boat, takes the girl, Salmon in leaky boats cannot chase him; at home she tells his wife to make his hair as long as hers; she warns that salmon hanged to dry will get entangled in his hair; as it happens, the Raven screams that he does not want to catch them again; the offended wife jumps into the water, all the salmon come to life and swim after her]: Boas 1898:90- 95; uvikino (Awi'ky'ēnoq) [Kuēkuaqā'o( Raven?) tells his sisters to make mats serving salmon meat, sails in a self-propelled boat to Salmon Country; there he tells his sister to quietly hole local boats; the chief feeds guests salmon, telling him do not break or throw bones into the fire; one girl's nose is bleeding, the leader realizes that K. hid the nasal bone, takes the bone, the girl recovers; K. pretends to be insulted, swims away, intentionally leaving one of his mats; the chief sends his daughter to give the mat to the departing guests; when the girl enters the water, K. grabs it, sails away; the chief sends unperforated boats in pursuit; K. Drops his mats, pursuers pick them up, fight over them; K. arrives home at Rivers Inlet; salmon have been there ever since]: Boas 1895, No. XX.1.5:210 (=2002:446-447).

The coast is the Plateau. Quinolt [two sisters want a star for their husbands, find themselves in the sky; the girls' father organizes a campaign for them; Puma, Grizzly, Moose fails, Wren makes a chain of arrows; animal people climb on the sky; it's cold there; the flycatcher is sent for fire, it stays warm; the Beaver lets himself be trapped; brings fire to the expedition members; Mice gnaw through the bowstrings of celestials, expedition members they attack them, return to the ground; the chain of arrows breaks, the rest in the sky turn into stars]: Clark 1953:158-160; quileut [the younger sister wants a dim star, the older one wants a bright one; the youngest wakes up with the old one, the eldest with her young husband; the girls' father makes a bow; Keith, Bear, Elk can't pull it, the Wren shoots, makes a chain of arrows; only the Snail sees it pierced into the sky is an arrow; Osprey lends her eyes, does not return it; animal people climb into the sky; the Spider lowers his younger sister on a rope, she hangs between heaven and earth, turns into a star; in the sky, the Thrush (Snow -bird), then the Dog is sent for fire; both stay warm, do not return; Rabbit kidnaps and brings fire; Rats spoil the weapons and clothes of the Stars; in battle, many Stars are killed; animal people descend on the ground, the chain of arrows breaks off; those left in the sky become stars]: Andrade 1931, No. 26:71-83; upper chehalis [snow covered everything in winter; the leader offered to go to heaven, defeat Snow; everything went north and then somehow went up to heaven; the mouse gnawed through the bowstrings of the four Snow Brothers, but dawn came and the youngest did not have time to gnaw; in the morning the earthlings attacked, destroyed the house, only younger Snow ran north; the Snake remained to pick up what others did not take, had difficulty getting home; heard the Frog mocking her, and Triton sincerely mourning (the Snake was thought to be died); The Snake gave Triton a piece of black suede, gave the Lizard straw to weave baskets, and also became striped with this straw; gave the Frog nothing]: Adamson 1934, No. 40:76-77; katlamet [five SW winds blow continuously; Blue Jay tells people to sing, the sky goes down, it is tied to the ground; people climb into the sky; Blue Jay and Stingray duel; Stingray turns sideways, Jay is injured with an arrow; Beaver goes to steal fire; he is caught, scorched, he comes to life, carries away the fire; Malinovka is sent to scout the entrance to the celestial house; she remains basking by the fire, her breast turns red; Skunk did not scout, Fright is back; Mice and Rats gnawed through bow bowstrings, ties on enemies' women's clothes; Eagle, Owl, Golden Eagle, Turkey, Hawk grab five Winds; four are killed, the youngest has slipped away; humans they return to earth, Blue Jay cuts off the rope, the sky rises again; Stingray stayed there, turned into a constellation]: Boas 1901a, No. 9:67-71; tillamook [Aheck gathered people, led south; along the way, he tells everyone to sing, scolds those who have no power; these are Bear, Otter, Beaver, Elk, Skunk; Raccoon, Hare and Wolf praises; Skunk enters women, they die from the stench; rats chew on bowstrings bows; only a few people have escaped; A. returns with people, but escaped enemies create cracks in the ground, into which many have fallen; create an insurmountable rock on the way; then called Spider, he became take people to the rock; Grizzly and Elk exchanged hats; everyone was afraid that the Grizzly would have horns, persuaded him to return their moose; the Grizzly was the last, A. advised Spider to pick it up to the top of the cliff and throw it; the blood of a fallen Grizzly colored the ground, the Alcea Indians take red paint from there]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 30:99-104; Alsea: Frachtenberg 1920, No. 10 [when a person does boat, enemies from heaven cut off his head; his two sons, born to his dog, climb into heaven with a chain of arrows; ask the murderer's two wives about their customs, kill them, put on their skins; husband she is surprised that the youngest wife hits the water while jumping into the boat; the brothers make holes in boats, carry the father's head and the head of his murderer (their "husband") cut off by them; try to resurrect their father; four times his head falls, grows on the fifth; they turn him into a woodpecker, themselves into dogs], 11 [=No. 10; one son from a woman, the other from a dog]: 125-137; cous [=Frachtenberg 1913, No. 24:149-157 (Zap. Saint Clair); the older brother was making a boat, his dog was next to him; a man appeared, cut off his head, disappeared; the youngest found the body, the dog barks, pointing up; the younger one shoots at the sky, makes a chain of arrows, comes to people dancing with his older brother's head; finds out where the murderer's wife is; asks her about her behavior, kills her, puts on her skin; stumbles while jumping into her husband's boat, he is surprised; gives edible rhizomes to the old man and his wife; they are surprised, they say that this woman is from the ground; fortunately, they have not been heard; she cries when she sees her brother's head under the roof, says that she has burned her hands on a hot pot and eats smoke in her eyes; the boy notices that the woman looks like a man; the younger brother holes all but one of the boats; cuts off her husband's head at night; his mother raises the alarm because she is bleeding; the youngest takes her head away the eldest, descends to the ground; the head grows on the fifth attempt, the eldest turns into a woodpecker, his head is red with blood]: Saint Clair 1909a, No. 6:32-34; upper coquill [in the year 15 months (p. 290: probably not 15, but 20, so in Harrington's record from the same informant), a long cold winter; Coyote takes a thousand warriors, leads overseas, throwing a handful of sand on the water; opens in front of them by water the road, behind it disappears; he sends two Mice to gnaw through bow bowstrings in the village of Months; in the steam room he kills 7 or 8 months one by one, they are devoured by the Glutton (this is a snake); one month felt danger, he was wounded in the thigh, now he is shorter than others in February; locals grab their bows, but their bowstring is gnawed; Coyote and his people return the same way he came]: Jacobs 2007:136-140.

The Midwest. Ojibwa: Carson 1917 [People are starving in spring; the boy is going to kill a squirrel; she tells him to break his bow and arrow, cry hysterically, asking for summer; people first think he is crying because broke his bow; then the Otter Chief (fisher) leads the Little Turtle, the Big Turtle, the Otter, the Crow, the Beaver to where the summer's Eagle lives; Caribou, Elk, Owl, Muskrat, and Hawk join them along the way; Beaver, Muskrat, Mouse gnaw on oars, Eagle's men boats hole; Crow, then Owl do not reach Eagle's house; Hawk flies, peeks, his face scorches; Elk, Caribou, Deer swim; Otter offers The eagle chases them; the hunters drown in leaky boats; the Otter takes the summer; the crow chases the Eagle, the Turtle drowns it; at home, the chief asks how many months a year should be; Elk: How many hairs on my body; Link (fish), How many eggs do I have, how many guts; The frog puts out his fingers, How many fingers do I have; the elk hits it with a stick; the chief agrees with the Frog]: 492 -493; Jones 1916, No. 16 [spring does not come, someone is holding migratory birds; the Little Otter leads the animals to free them; the Great Otter is included in the squad against the wishes of others; because of him, he has to go to the old woman twice before he can get food; later the old man gives food; the muskrat holes the boats, the Beaver gnaws on the oars, the Caribou wades across the bottleneck on the lake to divert attention the owners of the birds, the Fox barks at him; while the pursuers rush for the Caribbean, the Little Otter frees the birds; fleeing from his pursuers, climbs a tree, and from there into the sky, becoming the Ursa Major; returning from hiking, Caribou suggests that the number of winter months be equal to the number of coats on his skin; The Chipmunk suggests six months in terms of the number of stripes on his back, so decided]: 371-372; 1919, No. 56 [=1916]: 469-687.

Northeast. Naskapi: Millman 1993 [a little boy cries, demands summer songbirds; father promises Wolf, Wolverine, Otter and Muskrat that he will not hunt them if they get summer; they have come to To the beaver, he cooked three of his beavers, cut off pieces of his own fat for the guests; they came to the old man, asked for summer, he refused to give it back; his wife was a sucker fish; the otter lowered the log, everyone mistook him for an elk, rushed in pursuit; at this time, the guests carried away the bird baskets; the old man chased them, but Muskrat could not be drowned, and the paddle was stuck in Porcupine's needles; the arrow pierced Fisher's ass, which became a star into the sky Fisher; sent brought birds; boy killed one, put on skin, became a bird, flew away with birds; told his father he would see him next year]: 110-103; Speck 1925 (mistasini) [boy cries, demands summer birds to shoot at them; people go to get Summer; do not want to take the Otter, who is funny; Muskrat gnaws on the oars of the owners of Summer; launches a tree on the water that resembles an elk with with horns; the owners of Summer rush to catch it; only Sucker and Sturgeon remain to guard Summer; their mouths are covered, Summer is carried away; the owners start chasing, but their oars break; they catch up with the Otter; he says that enemies themselves will die if they try to burn or beat him; pretends to be afraid of water; he is thrown into the river; his pursuers shoot Marten; he runs from a tree to heaven, turns into a Big Dipper (the second star of the bucket handle is the place where the arrow hit)]: 28-31; 1935a [=1925]: 66-69; Montagnier: Desbarats 1969:35-41 [in winter, the mother leaves her lousy son; the forest spirit saves him, takes him to mother, calls her a monster; the boy cries as the spirit goes away; then like the naskapi; the muskrat gnaws through the bottoms of the boats; summer birds hang in bags on the walls of the fish dwelling; porcupine, fishing marten, they turn into a porcupine, a fishing marten; Whitefish hit the tail of Woodchuck, Marmota monax with an arrow, who jumped into the sky and became the North Star]; Savard 1979, No. 9 [parents they migrate, leaving their young son; Mistapeo saves him, leads him to his parents; they are afraid that Atshen brought him (they look like hairy giants), but M. tells the child's mother that she is the real A. ; M. eats only caribou lungs; if he ate meat, it would lose its taste for humans; boy cous for humans; y; if he ate meat, it would cry, want to shoot summer birds; Otter all the time laughs, she is silenced, she laughs quieter; the Big Beaver carries fat, the bag of fat is quietly cut off, the Otter is also given fat; some creature lies in the way like a rock; moves away; followed by the country of summer; The muskrat is a watchman, she is given fat, she agrees to launch a log with branches and make holes in the boats; in the evening, the fire owners dance; the owl flies for reconnaissance, looks into a hole in the house, her beak is burned ( now he is white), she puts a knot in the hole; two old women guard in the morning; when they see a log, they say that something is swimming; white and black fish remain at home; their mouths are sealed, summer is taken away; fish do themselves in glue a hole with a branch, raise the alarm; the chase is unsuccessful; the pursuers shout that let summer and winter alternate; the kidnappers agree, open the bag with summer; Caribou wants so many winter months how many fur does he have between his fingers; Beaver: how many scales he has on his tail; Jay: how many fluffs she has; everyone is told that he will not survive such a long winter; Woodpecker: six months in winter, how many fingers do I have on my two legs; the birds told the boy he would stop killing them, gave him fluff and feathers, he became Chaffinch], 10 [like in Desbarat; the pursuers put a huge one in front of the runners bone, but they break it; suggest that summer birds be alternately with them and then with their kidnappers; without turning into a star]: 38-43, 44-48; Speck 1925 (escumene) [parents leave the little one in winter boy; cannibal giant Atsen puts him in his mitten, brings him to his parents; the boy replies to his father that he will stop crying if he can shoot summer birds; animals go looking for them; Muskrat gnaws through the boats of summer owners, gnaws on their oars, pushes a stump into the river; the owners think it's an elk, follow them, their boats sink; Sturgeon and Sucker guard the birds, animals cover their mouths with resin, birds are carried away; Wolverine detains pursuers; birds are released, snow melts, boy shoots birds, stops crying]: 6-8; mikmaq [Kitpusiagana wants summer; he is guarded by an old man and an old woman on on the other side of the lake; an old woman goes there; throws pieces of fat to Muskrat, luring her ashore, promises to give more; Muskrat agrees to gnaw holes in the summer owners' boats, gnaw on their oars; a woman rejects Blue Jay (flies too noisily), chooses an Owl, sends her after the summer, Woodchuck with her, he is told to laugh in advance because he is funny; Owl, the owner of the summer, burns her nose with smut (he was big); everyone rushes after the moose, at which time the Owl takes the summer away; the pursuers' boats are full of holes, the oars break; K. glad he stops crying]: Wallis, Wallis 1955, No. 19:341-342.

California. Hupa [Rough Nose (SHN) does not tell his younger brother to fry short ribs while he is hunting; he roasts, takes him away; SHN catches a bird, wants to kill, she says that his brother is fried on sky; SHN calls Coyote and Spider to make a rope, Mouse to gnaw through bowstrings (and hole boats), Louse to tie sleeping hair, Caterpillar to pave the way up; Coyote fails to throw the rope on the sky (it is too thick and heavy); the Spider's arrow hits the sky, the Caterpillar crawls along the rope tied to it, followed by the others; SHN kills an old woman keeping fire under her younger brother's bag, puts on her clothes, pretends to be an old woman, puts a rat in a bag above the fire; when enemies fall asleep, attacks them, they panic (bowstrings are torn, etc.); brings her younger brother home]: Goddard 1904, No. 3: 154-156; Karok [Coyote goes to Lake Klamath for shell money; drinks berry juice The Lizard wants the Coyote to be thirsty; the grass lights up, the Coyote sees the scorched grasshoppers, eats them, but they fall out of his ass; he covers his ass with resin; the resin lights up, his ass burns; the Coyote tries to drink water, but all rivers and streams become dry as soon as he approaches them; in finally falls into the water, goes with the flow; when they see two girls, he turns into a piece of wood; they pull it out, they like it, they throw it away; then they decide it could be a Coyote and throw it away ; both became pregnant; the Coyote sailed to the mouth of the river and stayed lying down; wasps and other insects ate it, leaving only bones and testicles; when the wasp reached the testicles, the Coyote jumped up and hit it with a stick; from then Since the wasps have a narrow waist; once again taking the image of a man, Coyote came to people celebrating the girls' growing up; he became pregnant, chased; he hid in the steam room and pretended to be a Yurok Indian; then he swam across the river in a boat, telling the mice to gnaw holes in the rest of the boats; the pursuers realized it was a Coyote, wanted to swim across the river, but the boats were full of holes]: Bright 1954:3-8; pomo: Barrett 1906 [as in 1933, No. 4/5]: 44-46; 1933, No. 4.5 [bird-men kill two sons of a Coyote, make a bag out of their skin, fill them with light; Coyote comes to the owners of the sun disguised as an old man; dances while everyone is awake; mice gnaw through the rope; a bag of sun falls off a pole; Coyote blows away the sun; The Mist tries to detain the Coyote first and then the Rabbit, who received the sun after the relay race; The Rabbit opens bag; all birds try to hang the sun to the sky, only the Crow succeeds], 27 [The lizard sees the light in the east; the dove confirms that there is sun; bags of snow, wind hang in the house of sun owners, by rain, by the sun; mice gnaw on the rope, the Vulture opens the bag; all the birds try to attach the sun to the sky, only the Ravens can do it], 29 [The lizard sees the light in the house of the owners of the sun; the crane carries the Coyote across lakes; bags of sun, snow, cloud, cold, fog, frost hang in the house; Coyote gives children shells, they tell them which bag the sun is in; people come to dance, mice they gnaw the rope; Trout screams to their people that the Coyote people are stealing the sun; all birds are trying to hang the sun from the sky, only two Raven Brothers can do it], 30 [two Coyote nephews play ball (shinny) with two grizzly bears; Grizzly men kill them, sew a bag out of their leather, hide daylight in it; a lizard sees light in the east; Coyote comes there disguised as an old man, dances, puts him to sleep owners of light, sends mice to gnaw through the rope, ties the hair to the sleeping, takes away the light; the fog almost grabs it, he unties the bag], 31 [The lizard sees the light in the east; the Coyote comes there under looking like an old man, he dances, putting the owners of the light to sleep, sends mice to gnaw the rope, carries away the bag with the sun, the moon, the Pleiades; the Fog is almost enough, he unties the bag; only the Raven Brothers succeed put the sun on the sky]: 77-79, 135-137, 140-142, 143-145, 146-147; Maidu: Dixon 1902, No. 5 [Thunder deprives animal people of fire; to cook, they make the red-eyed bird look at it ; Lizard brothers notice smoke in the west; Mouse, Deer, Dog, Coyote go to steal fire; while Thunder's daughters sleep, the Mouse puts coals in its flute; the dog puts fire in his ear; Thunder chases kidnappers, Skunk kills him]: 65-67; 1912, No. 8 [Thunder asks his relative Komar where he pumped blood; the mosquito replies that it is better not to touch trees, but people should not be touched; the chiefs hire Toyesköm, for him to look at the meat; this makes it a little black; the Coyote wants to get real fire; the Lizard's two brothers notice smoke on the side of the Shoreline; it's owned by Thunder; the Mouse gnaws on the ties on the aprons Thunder's daughters, hides the coal in the flute, runs away; Thunder with two daughters chase, but the girls' aprons fall; the dog throws fire into the bush, the Deer on the chestnut; the Thunder decides to live in the sky]: 151-173; Nisenan [geese and other birds live in the west, own fire; Blue Jay sends the Mouse, the Deer to steal it; the mouse bites the flight feathers of sleeping birds, blows the fire away, puts it in trees]: Uldall , Shipley 1966, No. 1:17.

Big Pool. Southern Payutes (kaibab) [The Coyote only pretends to hunt; eats berries, hits mocassins with a stone, brings his wife to repair as if he had been chasing antelopes for a long time; finds and ravages Iron's meat reserves -Clothes; he sends his two daughters, they exterminate people; leave the old woman and her grandson, whom she disguised as a girl; the boy's mother Jo married; this boy is digging up the roots, someone steals them, he catches the kidnapper, who talks about the fate of his mother; the boy tells his grandmother to hit him on the head with a stick, cover him with a basket; two young men are under it; they tell Coyote to lead people (animals) ) on JO; only the Rattlesnake, crawling underground, bites the Antelope Watchman; together with others, the Coyote turns into sparrows; twin boys kill a rabbit for their mother (JO's wife), who demands from his wife To show that she killed the rabbit herself; she hits the same place as the arrow with a stick, Jo does not fully believe; young men and others turn into rats, gnaw through bowstrings; Rattlesnake bites JO, he dies; only Red Ant manages to shoot Jo's two daughters; young men bring their mother home]: Sapir 1930, No. 8:395-409; Utah [Stone Shirt kills the Crane and its men, kidnaps Crane's wife; she succeeds give the baby to his mother; the child grows up, breaks the man's leg; he shows him the bones of his murdered father; the young man asks his grandmother to hit him with an ax, turns into two twins; the mother tells them that Stone Shirt's clothes are impenetrable and his two daughters' arrows fly to the target on their own; twins turn into mice, gnaw on bow strings; Rattlesnake bites the Stone Shirt; KR and his daughters die ]: Powell 1881:47-51.

NW Amazon. Vakuenai [the younger brother of the Created of Bones (SK) married the daughter of the Great Disease (WB); the wife's brothers decide to kill him; ask him to dive, put a stake on his shoulder, press the stake, but the young man puts the stake in the bottom, emerges; then, fishing with poison, they ask him to cross the river along the log, the young man slips into the water, he is killed with arrows; the UK sees his brother's body being cut; becoming a wasp, kidnaps heart; bakes on a cassava brazier, squeezes a hawk out of it; that is small, the SC tells him to eat butterflies and birds; squeezes out other hawks; finally one that can lift a log; makes it small, brings the WB daughter, supposedly a hawk eats sand fleas; a woman brings a bird to her father, which becomes huge, carries away the WB; SK cut off the bowstrings in advance, corked wind guns; daughter The WB asks to shoot the bird, but the bowstring breaks, the sarbakan does not shoot; the hawk throws the WB at Orinoco, which turns into a rock, rots under water, since then people have been ill with malaria; the UK has fumigated WB people with tobacco, those stopped grieving for him; (p.53-56: UK kills his wife's brothers, apparently turning them into monkeys)]: Hill 2009:48-52.