K1J. The abandoned one returns faster than the one who left. 42.44.46.
An abandoned person turns into a bird and returns home faster than someone who left him.
NW Coast. Tsimshian: Barbeau 1953 [Chief Hyde's nephew can turn into a loon wearing a loon skin cape; making bows and arrows, throwing chips into the hearth; flames break out, chief's wife loosened back, exposing her genitals; the nephew says that they are similar in color to the skin of a loon between the wings; the aunt complains to her husband; he smears the nose of the boat with resin, rides with his nephew to hunt sea otters, leaves stuck to him, he gets into another boat himself; the sun melted the resin, the young man put on a loon skin, flew home before his uncle returned; the same the next day; the young man leaves, marries the leader's daughter in an unfamiliar village; she warns that her father always kills her husbands; father-in-law tells me to get 1) a huge octopus; 2) a whale (the young man dives after a whale in the form of a loon, all other loons help him); 3) a huge oyster (it pulls the young man to the bottom, but all the eagles come to the rescue); the father-in-law admits defeat; a young man in the form of an eagle flies to his native village; one person tries to grab his legs, an eagle picks it up; all people grab each other's legs, the last is an uncle; all eagles help the Eagle Youth raise a human chain, throw it into the sea; with his wife, the young man founds the Eagle family]: 56-68.
The Midwest. Menominee [see motif K27; the old man takes his son-in-law to collect tea eggs on the island, leaves it, the seagulls carry it back]: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II14:368; timagami ojibwa [cf. K27 motif; Vemicus kills his sons-in-law; takes his son-in-law to collect eggs to the island, leaves it; he kills the seagull, puts on its skin, flies back, defecates on B on the way]: Speck 1915d, No. 4:45-47; Eastern Cree (Quebec, Lac Hameçon) [one of the two wives hates the other's son; asks for a live partridge, puts her under her clothes, scratched, accuses the young man (his name Ayatz) of trying to rape her; his father takes him to the island to collect seagulls eggs, throws him; A. puts on the skin of a seagull, flies over the water, falls on a rock; the water serpent Pisikiv plants him between the horns, tells him to warn him, if thunderclouds appear, he takes him to the shore; A. passes the Earth's Mouth, throwing stones at it; flies to his mother as a bird, takes the form of a human being; fires an arrow, setting fire to the world; those who came to him are saved good]: Petitot 1886, No. 1:451-459; Western Marsh Cree (Stone Cree): Brightman 1989:13-16 [Wīsahkīcāhk and his younger brother play birds with their claws; they fall into the water; Wimisos in a boat invites V. to come and get them himself, takes him away; his brother stays on the shore, turns into a wolf; V. shouts to him not to approach the water when he chases an elk; Vimisos has two daughters; the eldest says that V. is dirty; the youngest washes him, takes him as a husband; now the eldest wants him; the youngest refuses to share; Vimisos tells both to be wives, let many wives, otherwise people will not be enough; wants to destroy his son-in-law, tells you to bring 1) arrow feathers; takes them to the island where the eagles leave there; V. turns into a seagull, flies, defecates to Vimisos, reaches home before him; 2) turn into a jay; V. flies, Vimisos turns, flies, falls into water, sinks], 23-26 [Wīsahkīcāhk and his younger brother play on the lake shore, throwing up their nails; B.'s fingernail falls into the boat of the Wīmisōsiw who has sailed; he invites him to get into the boat and take his fingernail; the self-jeeling boat immediately sails; the younger brother on the shore turns into a wolf; V. shouts to him, chasing the Caribbean, not to approach the water; V. cries, ugly; Wīmisōsiw's two eldest daughters reject him, the youngest washes him, makes him a husband; the eldest now also wants him, the youngest refuses to share; they have two children; V. wants to make wings for himself, to fly; Wīmisōsiw intends to destroy him, 1) takes him to dangerous eagles, this is the spirit guardians of his father-in-law; throws V. to eat them; V. calls eagles younger brothers, they give him feathers, he is in guise seagulls fly over Wīmisōsiw, defecates on him, stays at home before his father-in-law; he sees V. making arrows; 2) bring arrowpoles, takes him to the thickets, throws snakes; V. calls snakes younger brothers, brings the poles home before his father-in-law returns; 3) V. suggests swinging; Wīmisōsiw leads to the swing around the bone; V. does not fall, but when Wīmisōsiw swings , he takes off and falls; later he returns; both spend the night in the forest, V. hides his clothes under his head, hangs his father-in-law's clothes where he hung; at night Wīmisōsiw gets up, throws his clothes into the fire; W īmisōsiw heats the stone, rolls in front of him; when the stone cools down, it heats it again; larch trees have been growing at all its stops ever since; Wīmisōsiw admits defeat, no longer pursues son-in-law]; swamp crees (west bank hall. James): Ellis 1885, No. 11 [Memishoosh sails to the shore, takes an orphan boy into the boat; raised, married his daughter; always killed his sons-in-law with witchcraft; 1) took his son-in-law to the island to collect tea eggs, sails away , leaving him on the island; son-in-law puts on tern skin, arrives home before his father-in-law; 2) jump over the abyss; son-in-law jumped, M. fell down, hardly returned home; 3) spending the night in the winter forest, M. with his son-in-law they hang their greaves by the fire; the son-in-law changes their places; M. burns his own, thinking that he has burned his son-in-law's greaves; in the morning he walks barefoot; the son-in-law hears a crackle, turns around, M. turned into larch; people will make sledge runners out of them]: 69-77; Skinner 1911 (Albany) [the ogre devours the family, fattens two little boys to eat later; the eldest makes a hole in the ground with his mother's awl, leaves through him, carrying the youngest on his back; squeezing through the hole, the youngest injured his cheek; the elder throws a piece of wood, a rag, a stone, which turn into a forest, a thicket of rose hips, a huge boulder blocked hole; Walrus transports brothers across the lake; tells them to warn if Thunder appears; tells him not to shoot arrows into the water, and if they fall into the water, do not reach it; when transporting an ogre, warns him not move and not touch a sensitive area around his neck; the cannibal moves, the Walrus throws him into the water, he drowns; his older brother's arrow falls into the water; Wemishus invites him to come and pick him up him; takes him away in a boat, the youngest stays on the shore, is raised by two polar bears; V. gives his older brother to his daughter's husband; always kills his sons-in-law; V. leads his son-in-law to collect bird eggs; on the way, interpreters rocks; the young man slips, V.'s head is crushed, but he makes it whole again; takes his son-in-law to the island to collect birds' eggs, sails away in a self-propelled boat; the young man puts on the skin of a seagull, flying over the boat, defecates on V.'s head, flies back before his father-in-law; V. is surprised that his grandchildren shoot arrows feathered by seagull feathers; his father-in-law leads him to the winter forest; at night he wants to push his moccasins into the fire and knee pads; the young man replaces them in advance; the father-in-law smears his legs with charcoal, as if he is shod, but freezes in the forest, turns into a juniper; the young man finds his younger brother; reminds of a scar on his cheek, the younger one believes that the elder in front of him; lets go of his bear servants]: 88-92; Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [Wai-Mishus has two wives; one scratches her body with raspberry stems, accuses the other's son of trying rape; the young man's name is Iyas; V. leaves him on the island, tells the seagulls to kill; The seagull carries I. on his back, defecates on V., returns to the island; the Green-horned serpent carries I. to the other side; asks to let me know if a black cloud appears; I. is silent, the Thunderbird carries the snake, I. manages to jump ashore; revives the snake from pieces of his skin; the fox helps I.; the old man with a huge leg presses sleepy travelers; The fox bites his leg, pus pours out, the leg becomes normal, the monster dies; ropes hang from the sky between the two rocks; I. throws them roots, runs himself; the woman and her three daughters teeth in vaginas; I. sticks a stone, breaking their teeth, women are grateful; two blind old women with sharp elbows kill travelers; I. throws clothes between them, old women pierce each other; I. revives them, cuts off her tips, heals her eyes; comes to the mother; tells her to throw another wife's child into the fire, who mocks her; lights the ground with arrows, he and his mother are unharmed, V. burns; I. turns the mother into robin, yourself into a toad]: Ray, Stevens 1971:112-120.
Plains. Assiniboine [woman falsely accuses her stepson of trying to rape her; husband takes her son to the island to collect seagulls eggs, throws it there; Seagull advises killing a seagull, pulling its skin over himself; twice he will meet interpreting rocks (or rather abysses, the hole of which closes and opens), every time he must throw them a fish; the mother shows the young man ulcers on the body, says that her husband is torturing her; the young man tells her to throw another wife's child into the fire; when his father comes out, the young man lowers the sun from the sky beyond the rays, the father dies from the heat]: Lowie 1909a, No. 7a: 150-151.