K16A. When he slips, he drops a scarecrow. .52.61.

In an effort to show that he is a good hunter, a man regularly walks in front of the girl, pretending to be carrying prey. One day he slipped, and the imaginary prey was filled with ash with a scarecrow or a bundle of termites.

Kekci, pokomchi, napo.

Mesoamerica Kekci, a mopan [old man T'actani has a daughter X't'actani; she is a weaver and a spinner; Kin killed an antelope, filled the scarecrow with ash and grass, and carried Sh past the house every evening; T. advised his daughter to pour on the water path; K. slipped, the scarecrow burst; then K. asked the hummingbird for his skin, giving him cotton wool in return so that it would not freeze; S. asked his father to shoot the hummingbird, who stunned him; at night in Sh. K. became a man; then see motive K16]: Thompson 1930:126-132; Kekchi: Becker-Donner 1976 [see motive F36; Kagua Sake (Sun) and Kagua Chok (Cloud), whose origins are unknown, they kill the monstrous husband (named Chishal), old woman Shan Ni, and then her; they give her three sons to taste her meat, who turn into a hawk, an owl, talthus (a rodent that digs holes, but not a mole); looking for an arrow that has flown far away, the COP hears a scream in the guise of the wind, finds the frightened beautiful Kana Po (Moon) trying to impress, carrying past a stuffed goat full of ash, ridiculed; causes she has a toothache, arrives in the guise of a hummingbird; her father Kagua Aatan shot a hummingbird with a wind gun; KP uses the bird as a model for weaving patterns; in the presence of a hummingbird, the pain subsides; at night, CS becomes a man; then see motive K16]: 122-124; Shaw 1971 [a young man walks past the king's daughter with a deer; a girl poured water on the path in which she washed corn, the young man slipped, the deer carcass fell, burst, there was ash in it; the young man became a hummingbird, the girl's father shot him for her, at night the hummingbird turned into a man; lovers smeared the magic glass of the girl's father, poured pepper into his oven a pipe (since then people have been coughing); The volcano threw lightning, the young man was covered with a turtle shell, the girl was destroyed; dragonflies collected her blood from the water, put it in blood vessels; most of them were snakes, etc. the last girl; the deer stepped on her, she became a woman; the young man was the Sun, the girl was the Moon]: 153-155; Termer 1930 [The sun filled the gazelle's skin with ash, carried it past the girl; she poured water onto the path, the Sun slipped, the skin burst; the sun turned into a hummingbird, sat on a tobacco flower; the girl's father shot him, her daughter took him to play, at night the hummingbird turned into a man; lovers run, darkened the glass through which the father sees everything, pepper was poured into the wind gun; the father still hit his daughter in the sea with lightning, the Sun hid under the shell of a turtle; butterflies collected the girl's blood in calebasses, gave it to storage for people; three weeks later, frogs were in one, snakes and toads in the others; in the last girl, but without legs, the Sun made them to her; the antelope could not, the deer pierced the vagina with its hoof; the Sun became the sun, girl with the moon]: 490-492; bump [the old man drags a deer; a girl is sitting on the doorstep, weaving; poured water on the path, the old man slipped, fell, became a log; then a sparrow; flew to the flowers of tobacco, growing up in front of the house; the girl asked her father to shoot a bird to use the feathers as a pattern on the fabric; the girl put a sparrow in her dress; at night he turned into a man, they run; the man hid himself from being shot with a turtle shell; because of his father's shots, diseases came to the world (cough - a man put pepper in his oven gun); the girl is pregnant; with her consent, the man leaves her in a rock, it turns into corn; the Crow pulls grain out of the rock; the fox eats, blows the winds, others smell a pleasant smell; God consistently sends the Rabbit, the Toad, the Frog to see what it eats Fox; only Lynx watched; God called the 12 Thunder to break the rock, they failed; they sent for the youngest, he called the Woodpecker; first the Woodpecker, then the younger Thunder hit, broke the rock; corn in different burnt degrees, so different colors]: Mayers, McNeilly 1973, No. 1:88-89.

Western Amazon. Napo (or canelo) [elderly Sulirucu is an unlucky hunter; every evening she returns from the forest past the house where two girls live, carries a bag full of something and feathers; the girls watch behind him, they see how he knocks down a termite nest from a tree with an arrow, puts it in a bag, sprinkles feathers on birds caught by other hunters; girls put slippery bark on the path, disguised as leaves; S. falls, the termite falls out of the bag; S. runs away in shame, does not walk past the girls anymore]: Ortíz de Villalba 1989, No. 60:115, 118 {pages 116-117 - from another text, pagination is broken}.