K1C. Anyone who comes to look at the bones dies himself.
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Theman left on the island but remains alive. After a while, the departed person comes to see his bones. Abandoned sails away in his boat, leaving him to die.
Vangunu, Tikopia (Kurds, Turkmens, Tajiks, Uzbeks in Khorezm), Chukchi, Asian Eskimos (Chaplino), Bering Strait Inupiat (Fr. King), Northern Alaska Inupiate (Noatak), Copper, Baffin Land (Auyuittuq), Tanana, Beaver, Comox, Seneca, Blacklegs.
Melanesia. Wangoon [Kesoko was fishing; saw a hundred giants come out of the forest, lowered the boat; 50 sat aft, 50 on the bow, one forward, the others back, the boat in place; K. showed how to do it; sailed to the island; the giants left it and sailed away, shouted that they would be back in 9 days; K. let the fish rot; the giants returned, thought K. was dead; he sailed away in their boat, shouting that he would be back in 9 days days; when he came back, they all starved to death]: Solomon 1995:77-81.
Micronesia-Polynesia. Tikopia [friends Pa Fatumaru and Pa Raropuka went to catch birds with nets; went down to the rocky cornice; PR got up first, untied the rope, left; PF bewitched the rain, drank rainwater; collected bird yay, smeared his face, lay down; flies flew; PR went down, decided that PF was dead, walked away; PF got up, removed the rope, bewitched the sun; PR died of thirst; PF went down to look at his corpse, returned; the informant's grandfather saw PR bones]: Firth 1967:114-115.
(Wed. Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kurds [Ali releases a huge fish caught in the net; his father kicks him out; the man hires him for 40 days, he will only work for the last one; the owner sews Ali into the skin of a bull, a bird Simurg takes him to the top of the cliff, tears his bag, flies away; Ali throws diamonds to his owner, who leaves him on a rock; Ali rushes into the sea, a grateful fish saves him; a year later Ali is hired to the former owner, he does not recognize him, Ali invites him to get into the skin of the bull himself; promises to tell him how to get off the cliff if he drops diamonds and gives him a note to his wife to marry Ali's daughter; the owner jumps into the sea, dies, Ali marries his daughter; the woman giving away golden tareks was presented as a monster, gave birth to a piece of meat, it was cooked, the fat turns the plates into gold, she gives them away; asks why the craftsman in Baghdad breaks his saddles and Akhund cries when he looks at the tree; the saddler says he is just learning how to make saddles; one of Akhunda's wife was peri, shedding her snakeskin, the second burned it; his wife, then two sons became pigeons, flew away; Ali married the owner of the plates]: Rudenko 1970, No. 59:218-222).
(Wed. Iran - Central Asia. A man leaves at the top of the mountain, escapes; next time he leaves the one who has left him. Turkmens: Sokali et al. 1955 [Mirali and Sultan-Soyun argue who suffered more (he will receive the gold bar they found); M. tells how the employee did to the bay; he fed him for five days, then sewed him up at the cliff in bull's clothing, the eagles lifted him to the rock, bought him to drop the gems from above, left; M. grabbed the eagle, which lowered it down; M. told Bayu that he had found descent; bai wanted to climb the rock himself, where he died; the SS rides his wife at night to a diva who teaches her witchcraft; the diva turns him into a black dog; after many trials, the mullahs return him to the SS appearance; he turns his wife into a donkey]: 188-194; Stebleva 1969, No. 38 [bai promises the orphan that he will eat 40 days and work alone; asks to remove the skin from the bull, climb into it; birds take him up the mountain, he drops bayu pieces of gold, buy leaves; the young man jumps into the river, the fish takes him ashore; he changes clothes, hires the bay again unrecognized, asks him to show how to get into his skin; promises to show how to get into his skin go down if bai gives him off his obligation to give him his property, wife and children; leaves him to die on a rock]: 198-200; Uzbeks in Khorezm [the poor man hears how bai is ready to feed the worker for forty days in one day of work; bai sews the worker into the skin of a slaughtered bull, tells him to wait for a huge bird to bring him to the mountain where gold and jewelry are born; the employee drops the bayu treasures, sees around people's bones; bai leaves it; in a dream, Sheikh Nejm-ed-Din Kubra tells the worker to follow a fox that knows the descent from the mountain; "At the end of the legend, the situation with the search for jewelry repeats, only for this one once bai himself is on the mountain; he stays there, but the wealth goes to the worker "]: Snesarev 1983:154-155; Tajiks [a young man comes to an old man who promises forty days of bliss in one day torment; spends forty days with his daughter; the old man tells the young man to kill a sheep, make a wineskin, climb inside; the bird takes him to a rock with gold and precious stones; promises to tell him how to go down if a young man will throw him treasures; leave him on a rock; a young man jumps off a cliff into the water, he is rescued by a crocodile whom he used to feed bread without knowing it; the young man pretends to be the twin of the missing person, history repeats itself; the young man pretends to be a fool, telling the old man to show him how to get into his wineskin, ties it; promises to tell him how to escape if the old man drops his treasure; leaves him to die on a rock ; gets married]: Amonov 1972:38-44).
SV Asia. Chukchi: Baboshina 1958, No. 88 [the elder brother did not like his younger brother and his wife; offered to go hunting on the island; both undressed, went in different directions; the elder came back and sailed, taking clothes and the youngest's kayak; he abused his wife at home; the youngest found a whale carcass, cut out a fire, made clothes out of seal skin, overwintered; the elder came to see the younger's bones; mistook the seal skeleton for his brother's bones; the youngest left, leaving the elder to spend the winter; a year later he returned and found his bones]: 214; Bogoraz 1900, No. 2 [two cousins live together, each with two wives; first one, then the other cannot kill a seal; chased her together on a boat, sailed to the island; one went out to urinate, the other took his kayak and belongings, left him on the island, took possession of all his wives at home; the voice promises to the abandoned that The brother will return in a year, pointing to the discarded whale; he makes a knife out of the whale mustache, makes clothes, a house, supplies, winters; the brother has sailed, he thought he saw the bones left behind; he sailed away himself, leaving him; he died, and the hero lived with four wives]: 7-11; Bogoras 1902, No. 49 [{same text as Bogoraz 1900, but with minor differences in details}; two cousins (y two wives each) are the best seal hunters; they quarrel when they cannot catch up with a small seal; he takes them to sea; the storm brings them to a deserted island; one sails away, leaving the other, taking them at home his wives; a man who feels sorry for People sends a whale carcass to the island; a man makes a knife out of a whale rib, a fat stone, hunts deer and seals; the next summer a traitor comes to see the bones abandoned; while climbing a cliff, another sails away in his boat; a traitor dies on the island]: 664-665.
The Arctic. Asian Eskimos (Chaplino) [the husband of his younger sister is Napagun, the eldest is K'utylin; K. calls N. to hunt the island, sails away, drowning his kayak; he survives, kills the seal, whale; K. tells N.'s wife that her husband went to another woman, but she refuses to marry K.; K. comes to see N.'s bones; N. leaves in kayak K.; K. dies]: Kozlov 1956:182-184; Asian Eskimos (Chaplino) [the older brother invites the younger brother to sail into the sea each in his own kayak; they sailed to the island; the elder asks the younger brother to look for water; at this time he picks up supplies, drowns his kayak and sails away ; the youngest hears a voice: go to a hole filled with grass; the young man fell asleep in it; in the morning a voice tells you to go to the shore - there is a seal thrown out by the sea; when the meat is over, autumn has come; the voice tells you to leave the hole, go to the yaranga by the bay; the young man got fire, found a whale; the voice teaches next summer, when his brother arrives, to take possession of his kayak and sail away; the brother sailed, went to the seal skeleton, thinking that these were the bones of a young man; that sailed away in his kayak; older brother died]: Rubtsova, Vakhtin 2019, No. 23:314-329; Asian Eskimos [two brothers sail to the island after renting parks; the youngest goes to collect fuel for the fire, the elder swims away; the youngest is about to stab himself, hears a voice that shames him; kills a seal, eats, makes clothes out of his skin; kills birds, covers the house, hibernates; sails a year later the older brother looks at the bones of the younger one; approaches the bones of the seal; at this time the younger brother sails away in his boat; the elder does not listen to what the voice says to him, stabbed himself; the youngest in the older brother's house finds their wife and children, they were starving, and the elder's wife and her children lived well]: Van Deusen 1999:124-126; Bering Strait Inupiate (Fr. King) [the man harpooned the bullhead fish (mason fish), she pulled the boat by the tench, did Salt Lake and Grantley Harbor, turned into the sea into King Island; the man came home, took the poor young man, to check whether the island had really formed; tired of waiting for him to hunt birds, he sailed away; the young man fed on dead seals and whales nailed to the shore; the man returned to see what had happened to young man; he hid, kayaked himself; the man starved to death]: Curtis 1976 (20): 105; Northern Alaska Inupiate (Noatak) [two men change wives; go to collect bird eggs on the rock; one lowers the other to the eaves, throws the rope; the person who comes down suffers from thirst and hunger; a voice tells him to tie himself with a rope, close his eyes; someone picks him up; perhaps the rescuer was a retreating bear ; the man returns to his wife; the next spring both go for eggs again; now the survivor lets the one who left him to die, throws the rope; this man does not return]: Hall 1975, No. PM139:389- 370; copper: Jenness 1924, No. 91 [two men sail to an island, one abandons the other, taking his kayak and weapon; screams that he will take his wife and come a year later; abandoned finds dead a seal, a walrus, survives; when a rival returns, the abandoned one leaves in his kayak; a year later he finds his bones]: 87-88; Rasmussen 1932 [the hunter is married, the other wants his wife, kayaks off the island, where both hunt seals; abandoned by witchcraft, drives a whale carcass ashore, eats whale meat all summer; the second hunter returns to look at its bones; when he goes ashore, the first sails to his kayak, returns to his wife; after a while visits the island, his enemy starved to death]: 238-239; Baffin's Land (Auyuittuq) [two men have one wife and one kayak on the island; once one picks up a woman, kayaks away, promises to return in a year; the abandoned asks the Sea Woman for help, throws a whale ashore, the man winters safely; when his ex arrives a year later The satellite, abandoned, hides, picks up the kayak, sails away, also promising to return in a year; a year later, it finds only the bones left behind]: Millman 2004:139.
Subarctic. Tanana [The Raven comes to hunt the island with his hawk nephew; sails alone in the boat; takes the Hawk's wife; returns a year later, believing that the Hawk is dead; turns his feces at a man to guard the boat; he screams, but the Hawk jumps into the boat; when he sails, advises the Raven to eat mice; the Raven chokes on the bone, dies; at home, the Hawk kicks his wife in the stomach, from there many fly out raven; Hawk lives with his wife again]: De Laguna 1995, No. 19:177-179; beaver [Swan boy lives with his parents; mother dies, asks father to take a new wife from the south, not east or west; father takes her to the west, from the seashore; she asks the Swan to get a rabbit, puts a live rabbit under her clothes, complains to her husband that her stepson raped her; the father takes his son to an island at sea, sails away in a boat without listening explanations; voice (Sitting in Heaven?) tells the Swan to spread resin on the stones; ducks and geese stick to it; thanks to the feathers and meat of the birds caught, the Swan survives the winter; in the spring the father comes to see his bones; the son sails away in his boat; returning ten days later, he sees his father dead, with feathers in his mouth; the Swan fires an arrow in front of his stepmother; the ground lights up; the stepmother rushes into the water; the swan makes the water boil, firing another arrow; stepmother dies; Swan lives like the adopted son of the female monster Only Nachi; people are game for her; she chases two children, he kills her with arrows; takes the name Saya, destroys monsters, turns to stone]: Ridington 1981:354-355; 1988:126-138, 189-190; (cf. atna [two families live; the head of one invites the other to visit, wins all his property and household members with checkers; orders the loser to migrate by extinguishing the fire; a good slave hides hot ones for the owner coals; he sews clothes from the remaining scraps of skin, hunts rabbits, survives the winter; in summer his marmot traps are empty, he is desperate; a stranger touches him with a stick, he regurgitates his bad luck; the traps are full; contrary to the warning of a stranger, a person takes the groundhog from the last trap; he jumps out of the bag, runs away; the stranger teaches how to win checkers; the person beats the offender, that's it takes it; the slave did not leave him fire, he died of the cold]: Ruppert, Bernet 2001:343-345).
The coast is the Plateau. Comox (chatloltk) [two women Omak and Kyeek come to the island to collect their shells; K. sails away in a boat; promises to take O. if she tears her clothes, throws her hair out; she will tear out her eyelashes and eyebrows; O. does it all, but K. still swims away; The mice lead O. to their underground home, give her new clothes, restore her hair; K. comes to see O.'s bones; she jumps into her boat, sails away; demands from her everything K. demanded of her; K. no one helps, she dies of cold and hunger]: Boas 1895, No. VIII.14:85-86 (=2002:210).
Northeast. Seneca [a spark burns a woman's finger; she puts it in her mouth, feels blood, eats her arms and legs; tells the dog to warn her husband and others that she is now a cannibal; her husband turns a dog rotten in a hollow; gives the old man fish and peanuts by the river; he stretches his neck like a bridge; the husband crosses the river, runs to his aunts; the wife eats the brain out of her bones, puts pebbles inside, her bones rattle when she chases her husband; she scolds the carrier, he turns his neck, she falls into the river; aquatic creatures devour her; her stomach remains; her husband's aunts catch him and crumble him, finally killing him cannibal; the survivor marries the granddaughter of a little woman; she beats her granddaughter; takes her son-in-law to the island to hunt, sails away; in the evening the water rises, the man climbs a tree; asks the Morning Star to speed up the sunrise , he accelerates, the water falls; mother-in-law comes to look at his son-in-law's bones; he sails away in the boat himself; the Morning Star does not accelerate dawn, water creatures eat the old woman; the man lives peacefully with her granddaughter]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 100:464-469 (=Curtin 2001:76-81).
Plains. Blacklegs: Clark 1966 [the wife does not like her husband's younger brother; tears his clothes; the husband takes his brother to the island to collect the feathers of geese and ducks, leaves it there; the young man spends the winter at Beaver's house; finds out rituals, receives a sacred pipe; when the husband comes to pick up his bones, the young man and son Beaver sail away on his raft, come to people, teach them rituals; the husband dies on the island]: 254-259; Josselin de Jong 1914 (piegan) [two friends come to the island to collect feathers; one sails away, leaving the other, taking his wives; the first dries goose meat and berries, digs a dugout, fills it with feathers, and survives the winter; the second arrives a year later; the first sails in his boat, takes his wives back; a year later he finds the corpse of the second on the island]: 66-68.