K10B. Gone away cell. .19.45.47.52.53.61.

A huge bird carries a cage, bag or other container in which people are located to its nest. See motive 10A.

Melanesia. Aib [the forest spirit of Gula ("teslo") took the form of a woman; Wíremangge went fishing; V. asked to land her on an island to relieve her need; G. left her there after sailing away in the boat; she became a father-in-law in the house again; V. became a crocodile, she gave birth to two eggs; one hatched a crocodile, went into the water to her father; the other an eagle; V. sent him to bring grass from her house skirt and basket; wearing a skirt, she became a normal woman again; sat down in a basket, the eagle brought her to her native village; they were happy there; the eagle was stabbed to death by a pig; he took half into the water to his brother; then he began to eat people settled on top of a tree; two brothers climbed into an empty trunk, covered it with stones, covered it with clay; the eagle picked it up into the nest, could not peck it; at night he fell asleep, the brothers went out, killed it, ate it]: Schuster 1969:154-155.

The coast is the Plateau. Thompson [see the M18A motif; the Sqaktktquaclt converter tells the brothers to put it in the basket, takes red and white clay in their mouths, the eagle carries the basket, throws it, mistakes the clay for blood and brain, brings S. to the chicks; S. grabs chicks, descends on them from a cliff, puts their skins on his brothers, turns into a dog himself, placing stone knives under his skin, comes to a village where all animals are dogs; defeats everyone, revives them, turns those people into ants, dog animals into ordinary animals; The seal overturns boats with tornadoes, S. turns them into seals]: Hill-Tout 1899:213-215 (full text: 195-216).

Northeast. Hurons [the man kills many eagles; the eagle chief chases him; he hides in an empty deck; she brings the deck to his nest; he ties its beaks to the chicks, the chicks are starving; the eagles are starving; the eagle brings a man down to the ground, gives an amulet; he no longer kills eagles]: Barbeau 1960, No. 11:13-14; Tuscarora [a huge bird dives at the hunter; he hides in a hollow log, it brings a log into a nest on a high mountain; every time she flies away, a person feeds her freshly hatched chick the meat of the animals that the bird brings; makes a supply of skins and dried meat; throws an adult the bird has a noose on its beak; the chick grows up, is attached to the hunter because he fed it; when he has learned to fly, tells him to take skins and meat with him, brings it to where the bird kidnapped it; in the bird's nest there is a man collected snake oil into the vascular, a terrible poison and witchcraft; witchcraft has since appeared]: Rudes, Crouse 1987, No. 8:163-173.

Southeast USA. Alabama [a person hides from huge birds in a tree hollow; birds bring a tree with a man inside to their nest; a person plays with chicks, descends from a cliff on the back of one of them]: Swanton 1929, No. 43:154; hichiti [man hides in a hollow deck]: Swanton 1929, No. 4 [the bird makes a hole in the deck, it grabs it by the claw; leaving the claw, the bird flies away; the man finds eggs in her nest; comes home], 5 [Crow; like Alabam]: 88-90.

Mesoamerica Cell; see motif A20. Totonaki [an orphan Aktzin (San Juan) asks her grandmother for a basket of tortillas for the whole day; does not work on the site, but weaves a cage from vines, sits in it; the cage with the young man is carried away by a seven-headed eagle; a young man He kills the chicks first with a knife, then the eagle itself; cuts off its wings, descends on them to the foot of the cliff; in the forest he sees the firewood itself cut down, tied, the bundle comes to the Gromov house; they leave it they tell me to cook one bean; an orphan cooks a lot, a pile of beans crushed him; the same with a grain of corn; on the third day, an orphan puts on Gromov's clothes, flies; thunders remove him from the tree; for the fourth time wears clothes that will cause the world to end; St. The Virgin of Guadalupe tells the Thunders to provoke A. to break a rock by the sea; he gets stuck in it because the rock was a cloud; St. The maiden washed her hair, gave the Thunders hair, they tied A., left it at the bottom of the sea; but they could not take his cloak away]: Arenas 2000:106-108; chinantecs [twins Sun and Moon run away from the old woman; two- or the seven-headed eagle carries people away; the twins make a cage, hide in it, the eagle takes it away; at noon he sleeps, one head is awake; the twins strangle it with a noose, at which time the earth shudders; the eagle's eyes fall out, the moon grabs the right bright, the Sun on the left is dim; The Vulture is unable to lower the twins, putting them on its back, will now eat carrion; the Bat is fed seeds, from excrement A tree grows, twins and others descend it to the ground]: Bartolomé 1984 [seven-headed eagle; first Tucana, then the Bat are fed seeds; the Toucan tree is low, the Bat tree is low, the Bat tree grows to the top of the cliff]: 13-16; Weitlaner 1952 [double-headed eagle; the bat is fed twice; the second time the root of a tree growing at the top of the cliff descends to the ground]: 172-173; Masateks ( hitek) [the Sun and Moon twins run away from the old woman; they hide in a cage from the eagle, which takes her to the rock; there are already many children there, the eagle is eating them; the brother cuts off the children's hair, weaves a rope, they strangle the eagle with it; his sparkling eyes fell out; the twins ask the Bat to eat fruit; a tree grows out of the excrement; Woodpecker, the Squirrel is unable, Agouti gnaws on the tree, it falls on the mountain; the children descend it to land]: Portal 1986:51-53.

Honduras-Panama. A cage or basket. Terraba: Bozzoli, Murillo Chaverri 1984, No. 20, 22:21, 24; bribri: Bozzoli 1977 [the eagle eagle eats people; one person puts another in a cage; the eagle takes it to its nest to the top trees; a man puts two eagles to sleep with tobacco smoke, kills them with a stick; goes down to the ground]: 76; Bozzoli, Cubero Venegas 1982:9; 1983:11; cabecar: Stone 1962:58; bribri [eagle salpa devours people; parents hide three children in a wicker cage, give them tobacco; with. takes the cage to its nest, children smoke tobacco; the eagle cannot get the children out of the cage, throws it on the ground; parents bring their children back]: Bozzoli 1977:76.

Western Amazon. Napo [see motif K10A; the twin brothers lured the jaguars to the bridge over the abyss they had dug, brought them down; hid in two rubber bags, let themselves be carried away by the cannibal eagle Anga, who brought them to nest on a rock; when he fell asleep, the elder killed the male, the youngest did not finish off the female, she flew away to sunset; the older brother became the Evening Star, the Younger became the Morning Star]: Mercier 1979:34-36 (full text on p. 28-39, 51).