K10H. The bird feeds but does not let go. 19.40.
The bird takes the woman or boy to its nest, supplies food, but does not let go. The captive or prisoner runs away.
Gudinaf, Bering Strait Inupiate, Copper, Caribou, Igloolik, Polar, Labrador Eskimos, Western Greenland.
Melanesia. Gudinaf Island [an orphan boy is hungry, his uncles don't care about him; one day he finds a big fish with his eyes pecked out; like this every day; the Manubutu osprey sees it, takes the boy away to your nest in the tree; boy: do you want to eat me, grandpa? osprey: no, I'm a kind person; brings him fish, covers him with his wings from the weather; steals flint, pot, firewood, mat, yams, tarot, bananas, coconuts, sugarcane, pork, opossums and other game, fulfills every whim; but the boy has grown up and wants to play in the village with the guys; asks to bring him a rope; then sends his "grandfather" to pick fish to places that are farther and farther away, goes down from wood, runs away; one day a boy came across an osprey looking for him; - Oh, grandfather! - I'm not your grandfather since you ran away. He tells me to collect firewood and make a fire; rushes into the fire in grief; the boy cries]: Young 1993:383-384.
The Arctic. Bering Strait Inupiat [playing, girls marry stones and bones; one took the stone and became a stone herself; the other became a whale jaw, she became a whale, the whale took the girl; her parents sailed for her; when she let his wife out of the house, her husband tied a rope to her; she ties a rope to a pole, swims away with her parents; the husband becomes a whale, pursues; her shoes are thrown at him, then her knee pads, and outerwear; every time the whale lingers to fight it; trying to continue the pursuit on the shore, the whale again turns into whale head bones; another girl husbands an eagle's wing bone; she became an eagle, he took the girl to the eaves of the cliff; began to bring her birds and rabbits; she wove a rope from what she had brought; when she brought a deer, finished her work, went down, ran home; the man hit the stalking eagle with an arrow, it became an eagle bone again]: Smith 1994, No. 2:210-212; copper [a huge Eagle kidnaps a girl; she weaves a rope from her tendons, descends from a cliff, runs home; an eagle flies for her; her father asks Eagle to open his wings, kills him with a club]: Jenness 1924, No. 65 [1) the man asks Eagle to dance, promising him a sister, people kill him with arrows; everyone ate meat except Eagle's ex-wife; 2) as in Rasmussen]: 77-78; Rasmussen 1932 []: 221-222; caribou [two girls play wives and husbands; one takes a whale shoulder, says her husband will be a whale; the other finds a falcon leg, her husband there will be a falcon; the shovel turns into Keith, he takes the woman away, her brother takes her back; Keith chases them, she throws him parts of her clothes, Keith stays near them, the fugitives reach home; another Falcon carried the girl to a nest on a rock, wore her lemmings; she asked for tendons; she weaved a rope out of them, went down, ran home]: Rasmussen 1930b: 94-96; igloolik (Smith Sound) [ The seagull invites the girl to marry him, takes him to a nest on a rock; while she flies overseas to bring whale meat to her wife, the girl goes down the rope, runs home; The seagull does not have time to grab her, man kills Chaika with a shot in the wing; the same or the other girl is swallowed and regurgitated by a live narwhal]: Kroeber 1899, No. 14:175; polar (the storyteller's mother is from Baffin Land) [three girls they play marriage, one wants a seagull as her husband, the other a whale bone, a third grave; the Seagull takes the first to her nest, Keith takes the second to an island in the sea; they come for the kidnapped, she bandages Keith's rope tied to her to a stone, sails away with people; in the boat, Keith's wife consistently throws him parts of her clothes, strips naked; when Keith jumps ashore, he again turns into whale bone; The seagull brings belugas to his wife's goiter; the wife makes a rope out of their tendons, descends from a cliff, runs to her father; he invites the Seagull to raise his wings, kills with an arrow; from the femur the joint makes a dog kennel]: Holtved 1951, No. 39:174-179 (translated into Menovshchikov 1985, No. 205:415-416); Labrador Eskimos, West Greenland (two versions - one from Labrador, the other Greenland) [two girls play on the shore, one with eagles and the other with whale bones; the first says she would marry Eagle, the other says what kind of Keith; the first is carried away by the Eagle; she makes a rope out of her tendons the birds they bring, descends the rock, runs to people; the Eagle arrives, offers him to raise his wings, kills him with arrows; Keith takes the second girl, tells him to collect lice (parasitic crustaceans) from him; brothers the girls make a fast-moving boat, come for their sister; Keith chases them; the girl consistently throws her garments to Keith; the boat manages to reach the shore; when it reaches Keith, he turns into a whale bone]: Rink 1975, No. 8:126-128.