K25C. The boy under the bulb. 41.-.43.48.

Digging roots, collecting mollusks, etc., a woman finds a baby. He grows up, fights against dangerous characters.

Atna, Haida (Masset and Skidgate), Cous, Upper Coquill, Yurok, Viyot, Karok, Hoopa, Vintu, Achomavi.

Subarctic. Atna [people sail away to hunt seals, boats don't come back; a woman digs fir roots to make a basket, finds a baby in the growth; in a few years he turns into a man; she answers to him that these are his uncle's dwellings; he goes in search, tells his mother to dig a hole for prisoners; his name is Xay Dnaey (XD; "a man from the root of the fir"); sails in a boat on the river, sits on both banks on an old woman; one calls to go to her, says that another one killed his relatives; another tells me not to believe; he believes first, but sails to the second; she has a hook to pick up boats, her name is Necaan Koldaeł Tnaey ("eats human giblets"); she gives him a human hand in a bear's skull, he throws it at her, the bear fights it for a long time, XD sails away, she chases in a boat made of human ribs; he's an arrow smashed her boat in half, hooked her jaw, brought it to the hole his mother dug; she promises to revive the dead if he lets her go; he let her go, the boats have sailed, people are dancing, and they died in the morning; this is were just their souls]: Billum 1979:32-35 (=Ruppert, Bernet 2001:346-348).

NW Coast. Hyda (Masset) [the chief's daughter consistently sends a slave to her father's ten nephews, offering her love; everyone refuses, fearing the leader; then converges with the slave; the father tells her to leave her alone; only her youngest uncle's wife hides food for her; digging clams out of the sand, she finds a baby in the shell; he grows up, asks for onions, catches birds; Carpenter (the founder of the art of processing wood) makes them a good home, he is the boy's father; gets a huge amount of halibut; people come back; the son tries on the skins of wren, blue jay, woodpecker; respectively in blue, red the sky is colored, he is the Shining Sky; his mother is a Good Weather Woman (lifting her dress causes the wind)]: Swanton 1908a: 284-292; Hyda (Skidgate) [the chief's daughter consistently asks for a slave give her father's ten nephews an invitation to become her husband; the slave lies each time that the chosen one is afraid of her father; she marries a slave; the father tells the tribe to leave her and the slave alone; the wife of her youngest uncle hides some food for her; on the shore, an abandoned child finds a baby; he grows up, hunts; gets to his father; the carved beams of his house are living creatures; when a young man sits facing the sea, the weather is good; catches a huge halibut; comes to his maternal uncles; the tribe returns to her; the young man turns into cumulus clouds; his mother is a Good Weather Woman]: Swanton 1905:26-28.

The coast is the Plateau. Cus [the girl smears her hand with paint, stains the back of her lover, who comes to her at night; recognizes her brother in the morning, dies of shame; her father takes the baby out of her womb; another girl (despite ban?) digs up a large root, finds a baby under it; his sister advises to bury it, but she is raising him; these two young men have become friends]: Jacobs 1940, No. 12:150-152; upper coquil [Wind-Woman] lives alone; ripping off the bark from a tree, finds a baby; he stops crying as soon as she calls him "my brother"; he becomes a good hunter; rejects girls who come; goes to marry his daughter Thunder; the Wind Woman hangs a pestle - if the young man is in trouble, he will fall; the young man first stops on the other side of the river with the old men; they have two daughters, he marries them; the second daughter of Thunder has long nails, it is dangerous and ugly, it kills people; Thunder tells 1) to bring eels (these are rattlesnakes, the young man hits them with a stick, brings them, Thunder throws them back into the river); 2) after the steam room, Thunder offers to dive covers the river with ice, the young man breaks through the ice, goes out; 3) fight, Thunder cannot defeat the young man; 4) the ugly daughter of Thunder invites the young man to look in his head, wants to cut it off with her nails, but they break down, and she falls dead; 5) The thunder leaves the young man in the hot steam room, closes the exit; the young man digs the passage to the river, gets out; 6) The thunder bends the tree, sits on the top of his head, tells the young man to stand at the bases, jumps, breaking the tree, but the young man also jumped back; 7) get the nest off the tree; the young man climbs, the tree grows almost to the sky; the young man smoothly descends through the air like a piece of moss; 8) The thunder leaves a young man in the snowy mountains, who is barely alive, but returns; at this time the pestle cracks, the Wind-Woman comes, blows down the Thunder house, destroys it, brings firewood to those poor old people where he stayed a young man and whose daughters he took as his wife]: Jacobs 2007:172-279.

California. A dug up bulb turns into a boy or a boy is found under it. Yurok [a woman promises to recognize the boy she finds as a son if he kills a white deer; he goes up to heaven and kills; when she returns, she leaves his mother]: Kroeber 1976, No. A7 [hurricane takes an onion, that turns into a boy], F6 [finds under an onion]: 55-56, 294-295; villote: Reichard 1925, No. 13 [a woman is told (not clear by whom) to dig up only tubers with two leaves; under a tuber (with one leaf) ?) she finds a boy; he grows up, defeats Thunder in the ball run (shinney); plays with the Earthquake, loses to him, wins again]: 163-165; Teeter 1964, No. 13 [grandmother doesn't tell her granddaughter to dig up a certain tuber; she violates the ban, there is a baby boy under the tuber; the granddaughter did not pick it up, but the grandmother raised it; he started shooting rabbits]: 147-149; karok [two sisters find a boy under the bulb; the youngest refuses to take it; during the flood, he lets only the oldest one into his boat]: Kroeber, Gifford 1980, No. I3:121-122; chupa [two-stemmed root; boy recognized as son, when he brings a white deer (like yurks); Thunder and the Earthquake wins with a ball]: Goddard 1904, No. 2:146-147; propeller: Curtin 1898 [old woman Pom Pokaila (earth old woman) plunged the digger into ground, heard a boy scream; he grew up, his name is Tulchuherris, she tells him not to go east; young man 1) slips through a split pine tree in front of the Sun's house (the gap closes behind him), 2) throws flint dust in the eyes of the Sun's wife, who kills with her gaze, 3) pretends to smoke the Sun's pipe (The Sun choked on the young man's pipe), 4) dodges a knife falling at night but his bed, 5) escapes from a hot earthen furnace, digging a side passage, 6) climbs a tree to get woodpecker chicks (The sun breaks the rope; there are not chicks in the nest, but snakes; the hero kills them, goes down the rope, torn from the sky; The sun mourns snakes - its children), 7) goes to kill a deer (grizzlies run out, the hero's dogs kill them; the Sun mourns its children), 8) kills the fish that drags it along the river (possum helps to overcome; this is the son of the Sun), 9) climbs a rocking tree and jumps off quickly; when his father-in-law climbs, the young man pulls and releases the trunk; The sun flies to heaven and splits, becoming the sun and the month)]: 121- 158; Dubois, Demetracopoulou 1931, No. 7 [the old woman digs edible tubers, finds a boy under the last bump; he grows up, his name is Tultuheres, his grandmother does not tell him to go east; he goes, there's a house Sun and his two daughters; comes back, the old woman says that his parents died there; he takes a cougar instead of a dog, comes back to the Sun; he only pretends to eat human, eats what he brought from with herself; his wife's gaze The sun incinerates, but T. manages to throw crushed flint into her eyes; he only pretends to smoke the Sun's pipe, and from the pipe T. The sun choked; at night, a knife fell on T., but he dodged; the Sun sent T. for the bird, but there was a nest of rattlesnakes on the tree; T. killed them, brought them, the Sun felt sorry for his people; the next time he killed many with the puma grizzly; rattlesnakes in the salmon house; a monster with two horns; these are all people of the Sun; the last test: climb a tree, the other will bend it and let it go; T. jumped, and the Sun flew to heaven, split, became the sun and the moon; only five options; differences: flint dust in the eyes of the sun's dogs; additional test: The Sun closed T. in the pit where human bones burn; T. made a hole with a knife, came out]: 291-295; achomavi [the daughter of a chipmunk woman marries the son of Sugar Pine, goes to his family, gives birth to a boy; he cries; falls silent when she asks if he wants to see her mother; her They send the child to the Chipmunk; she puts it under the turf; her mother digs roots, finds the baby; gives the name Edechewe ("Wanderer"), but also Otter (Fisher-man); he grows up quickly, hunts all birds and animals, each time she asks his grandmother who they are (these species had no name before); his mother sends her new baby, his brother, to him by air; this is Laska; see motive K27]: Merriam 1992:40-59 (infant find: 50; then E. gets the sun and month that were on earth in the east).