Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

K27y1. Carbon tips. 41.-.43.50.

The character thinks or pretends that the arrowheads should be made of bark, coal, grass, etc. materials.

Atna, Khan, Tashish, Southern Tutchoni, Helmet, Bellakula, Skagit, Yavapai, Zunyi.

Subarctic. Atna [Lynx came to the Bear; he has two daughters; he insists on calling Lynx his son-in-law; Lynx asks where to get material for arrows; 1) poles; Bear sends crashing trees into the forest; Lynx slips between converging trees, brings solid wood; 2) arrow feathers; on such a cliff; there are two eagles in the nest, their parents flew away to hunt people; the elder eagle promises to tell parents about the Lynx, he kills him; tells the youngest to say that he fell asleep and fell out of the nest; the Eagle flew in, the Lynx killed him with an arrow; then the Eagle, the same; each of them brought half a man; Lynx ordered The eagle now feeds on partridges and rabbits; brought feathers; 3) a bowstring; there lies a deer as big as a mountain (moose); the Lynx asks the Mouse to chew off the hair from where the heart is; she gnaws, says to the Deer, that her children are cold; The deer allows; The lynx pierces him in this place with an arrow, brings tendons; 4) glue to secure the bowstring; the Bear sends the Lynx to where the resin boils on the fir; he brings, not burned; the Bear offers to hunt bears (these are his daughters), gives arrows with bark tips, but Lynx uses his own to kill the Bear's daughters; he chases Lynx, Lynx hides in the middle lakes; The bear tells the Frog to drink it; the Lynx asks Sandpiper (snipe or curlew) to hole the Frog's stomach, the water pours out; the Bear digs the runoff into the lower lake, but the Lynx slips, his Bear not to catch]: Tansy 1982:8-14; Khan (Eagle) [The bear harpoons salmon; the old man turns into salmon, harpoons himself, breaks off and carries the tip; comes to the Bear in human form; that suspects that the old man stole the harpoon; the old man marries the Bear's daughter; he demands 1) bring an arrow tree (the stump falls on his son-in-law, he dodges, makes poles out of a stump; 2) bring feathers for the arrows cannibal eagles (son-in-law climbs into the nest, kills one chick, asks another how the parents will arrive; Mother with snow, father with hail; kills adult birds with a spear, brings feathers); 3) get glue the tips with resin (the son-in-law sticks a long pole into the lake of boiling resin, splashes it on all the fir trees; since then, the fir is resinous; brings resin); 4) bring tendons (the son-in-law asks the Mouse to gnaw the hair from the place on the body of a monstrous moose under which the heart (The mouse explains to the elk that it needs hair to warm the babies; the son-in-law kills the elk with an arrow, brings tendons); 5) The bear advises making tips from birch bark; sends her son-in-law to hunt, tells his daughter to become a bear, kill her husband; her son-in-law kills her with bone-tipped arrows; The bear chases him, the son-in-law hides in the lake; the bear tells the Frog drink the lake; son-in-law tells Snipe to hole the Frog's belly, the water pours out; the son-in-law runs away from the Bear]: Schmitter 1910:21-23; Tagish [Beaver (Smart Man) marries Bear's daughter; he tells his daughter put on bear skin, invites his son-in-law to hunt, gives arrows with larch bark tips; The Beaver replaces them with bone ones, hits the Bear, her bear skin falls off, she dies; The bear and his wife They chase Beaver, he hides in the lake, shoves a deck into the net instead of himself; the Bear tells Curlew to drink the lake, the Beaver asks the Snipe to pierce his belly, the water pours out, the Bears hang themselves]: McClelland 2007 (2 ), No. 74a: 369-372; southern tutchoni [The Beaver (Smart Man) marries the Bear's daughter; he tells his daughter to wear bear skin, invites his son-in-law to hunt, gives arrows with unusable tips; Beaver replaces them with good ones, kills the Bear; the Bear chases him, he hides in the lake, the Bear tells the big bird to drink all the water, the Beaver asks the Snipe to hole in that belly, the water pours out; the Bear stops persecution]: McClelland 2007 (1), No. 2c: 37-39; helmet [Äsúya (Beaver, clever) walks on the ground, correcting animals that ate people; sleeps in the woods with Wolverine; that suggests drying moccasins; Ä. quietly changes moccasins in places; at night Wolverine gets up, pushes her own moccasins into the fire; in the morning Ä. leaves on the ice of the lake; Wolverine pursues, but freezes; Ä. throws the corpse into the water, says that wolverines will no longer kill people; Ä. comes to a huge Bear; he turns his daughter into a pretty girl; offers to hunt a grizzly that takes away and eats any prey; gives Ä. sedge-tipped arrows; the grizzly is the Bear's daughter; sedge arrows bounce off her, Ä. hits her with his flint with an arrow, but she is only injured; Ä. turns into a beaver, hides in the middle of the lake; she tells Kulik to drink water, looks for a beaver in the mud with her Bear father; Ä. asks yellow legs (snails yellow-legged, Tringa flavipes, long-legged bird) to hole Kulik's stomach; Ulit asks Kulik for permission to collect worms for his kids, makes a hole, water pours out, the Bear and the Bear drown; ( eagle episode - p. 85-96); Ä. comes to the nest of cannibal eagles; asks the chicks which one is the biggest talker; female and male nod at each other; Ä. knows that the male lies, pierces him with a sharp stick; the eagle arrives with snow; the female chick replies that her brother has a headache, he went down to look for cold water, disappeared; that the foreign smell is half brought by the mother human; Ä. pulls the Eagle down, kills; The eagle arrives with hail, the same; Ä. teaches the female chick to eat rabbits, partridges, etc., no longer eat humans; (tendon extraction - p. 97); Ä. asks the Mouse where to get the tendons for the bowstring; she shows a huge animal lying in a clearing; Ä. asks to climb from below, gnaw the hair on his chest; Ä. hits the beast with an arrow at this place, takes tendons; a huge worm in the mountains kills hunters; Ä. lures him out of his lair, cuts him apart with a spear, throws him off the mountain, blood turns into ocher; the cannibal offers hunters hunt a mountain sheep, leads to a cliff, collides, his wife downstairs finishes them off with a copper stick; Ä. collides him, his wife mistakenly finishes off her husband; at night, Ä. comes to her plague, kills her]: Workman 2000:91-100.

NW Coast. Bellacula [gutted salmon, the chief's wife finds a boy in one, raises her son, both grow up immediately; Salmon brother tells me to scream as he approaches his hut by the shore; human brother forgets, sees half-alive salmon on the floor; then a boat arrives, a man sails with it; they sail through the countries of Smelt, Herring, Candlefish; in Salmon Country, they jump into a house whose door every now and then slams shut; Salmon eat seaweed, offer a boy and a girl to a man; thrown into the water, they turn into salmon; the owners order to preserve bones and giblets, throw them into the water; children are reborn, but the boy is limping, the girl has no eye; an eye and bone are found, thrown into the water, the children recover; Salmon's daughter does not tell her to go to bed with her; a man sticks a stone, breaks her vaginal teeth; she gives birth to a son and daughter ; in the form of salmon, everyone returns to the human world; caught, man and wife take the form of human beings; man teaches how to throw fish bones into water; wife and children return to salmon; man climbs to sky; a woman gives him a bubble with a cold wind; the Sun 1) locks the person who comes in a hot cave, he opens a bubble around the icicle; 2) tells daughters to become mountain sheep, gives a man arrows with with charcoal tips; rams drive a man to the abyss, he descends with a feather, kills sheep with his arrows; the Sun mourns children, man revives them; gets two eldest daughters of the Sun as his wife; 3 ) The sun tells you to check the top, a log falls on his son-in-law, he swims out with salmon; 4) The sun drops a hammer into the water, tells him to get it, covers the water with ice, the son-in-law slides out through the crack with a fish; 5) The sun tells you to get a bird (partridge or similar); son-in-law tells her to peck out his father-in-law's eyes; he admits defeat, his son-in-law regains his sight; a year later he goes home to earth, his wife goes down with him to the sun's rays (these are her father's eyelashes)]: Boas 1898:73-83.

Coasts - Plateau. Skagit [Grizzly and Brown Bear married to Woodpecker; Bear brings ripe berries, Grizzly green; Bear warns her husband that a Grizzly will kill her by looking for her in her head; youngest son The bear sees Grizzly roasting his mother's chest; the woodpecker makes flint arrows for his sons from the Bear, and the Grizzly with charcoal tips; the former kill the latter; the Woodpecker gives them berries, feathers, and a spear pay the bushes, the tinder for the spruce, the Crane; flies away from the Grizzly, taking the baby; the bushes prevent the Grizzly from escaping; the Crane stretches its leg like a bridge; the Bear's sons cross to the other side, give the Crane spear; he pretends to have a pain in his leg; twitches when the Grizzly steps on her, throwing her into the river; she swims out; runs to Flint, the Bear's father, with whom his grandchildren hide; that invites her to enter the house backwards; the blade cuts her in half; the sons fly into the forest to their woodpecker father; the baby turns into red feathers on his head]: Hilbert 1985:130-136.

The Great Southwest. Yavapai: Gifford 1933a: 349-364 (SV yavapai) [people lived underground at the bottom of a deep dip; there was a pine tree ("dog-tail tree") surrounded by a vine; people climbed it to the ground, theirs the chief is Hanyiko' (Frog); his shaman daughter made him sick; before he died, he ordered him to be burned and watched for the stars; when two stars appear in the east before sunrise, they will adorn him feather head; in 2 months 5 stars will appear - this is his right hand; in 3 months it will be cold, his whole body will be visible; the red star will celebrate 4 months; corn will grow on his grave; when the corpse they burn, everyone goes around the fire, but the Coyote jumps over the short Badger, grabs, carries, eats his heart; before that, people said that the deceased would be reborn in four days; Coyote: let him die forever; H. died forever; Coyote agreed; his daughter died, people refused to change their minds; it snowed; people: the mountains were covered with cornmeal; Coyote: snow; so the snow does not consist of corn torment; when it rained, the dry tree did not get wet; Coyote: let it get wet; because Coyote took possession of H.'s heart, water poured out of the hole from which people came to the ground; people placed all kinds of things the seeds and the girl into the hollowed out pine tree trunk were sealed; after the flood, the girl went out, the others died; she lay down so that water dripped into her vagina, the sun was shining on her; conceived and gave birth to a girl; she grew up, her mother put her in the same place, but the Water and Sun did not want to get along with her daughter; then the mother covered her with her body and the daughter became pregnant; her son Skatakaamcha; his mother took the eagle and fed her chicks; he interrupted the partridge's leg; when he repaired it, she told about the fate of his mother; S. decided to kill the monstrous bull (bison?) ; The badger dug an underground passage under him, S. stabbed the monster with a hot knife, killed him; put on a blood-filled stomach; the eagle brought it to the nest; the eagles say that the prey is alive, the eagle does not believe; the eagle flew away, the eagle flew in, S. killed her with a hatchet; told the eagles to remain silent; killed the eagle when it returned; threw the eagles out of the nest; made the rock half as low, but no more; The Bat lowered it in the basket ; he opened his eyes, the Bat fell and was injured, S. cured her; came to his grandmother, who cries; he threw eagle feathers at her, said he killed both eagles; married; Wind stole his wife; Spider warns that Wind offers to compete kills losers; S. beat him in a ball and ring game; won a competition whose hair is longer; Wind stabbed S. 4 times without causing harm; S. killed him with a knife; threw one hand to the east, the other to the south, one leg to the west, the other to the north: let the wind blow from different sides; S. brought his wife back; grandmother: there is a bad Chewasistesikkaamcha; S. came to his house slowly throws away food for fear of being poisoned; killed C. with a knife; Bear's arrow reeds; S. invites him to marry his grandmother; he gave reeds; believes that the best tips are coal tips; S. killed him with flint; a tree for the ends of the Owl's arrows; S. and offered him his grandmother as his wife; she found the heart of the Owl, it was on the sole; S. shot there, killed the Owl; an bow tree in the canyon with converging and diverging walls; S. put a deer horn between them; went east to his father the Sun; the Sun's wife warns that the Sun will try to kill S. in the steam room; but S. is not afraid of the heat; the Sun recognized his son, let him choose a horse; a man at the cliff pushes passers-by with his foot; he grew up with his back to the rock; S. lets a chanterelle first, it dodges; then a rattlesnake, the man is afraid of it; S. disconnected him with an ax from the cliff, threw it into the abyss; below 6-7 women devour the fallen; S. threw that man's stomach into the fire, he burst into the eyes of the women, S. hacked them; there was a boy, he ran to the cave, S. did not I managed to get it, left the snakes to guard, but they fell asleep; the boy left, creating new ones like him; grandmother: you can't handle them], 402-412 (Western yavapai) [people live underground; younger brother invites the elder to illuminate the world; he makes a disc, smears ocher, hangs it, but the younger one makes a disc of white lime, smears ocher; it gets light but too hot; the younger brother asks the eldest to raise the sky with a reed pole, he did it; at night, the elder brother touches the genitals of his two daughters; they hide on the shore under the willow, where he relieves himself, and swallow his bowel movements; he begins to lose strength, tells him to be cremated after death; people sent the Coyote for fire, at which time they lit a fire, standing around; the Badger was lower than the others, the Coyote jumped over him, took his heart and ate it; the burnt heart had to lay the ground, cultivated plants would grow; and so only one corn stalk would grow; the best cobs went to the Hopi and Navajo, and the worst yavapai; people decided to get to the upper world; the hummingbird found a hole in the sky; under the guidance of their younger brother, they planted a pine tree and a vine that wrapped around it; they climbed up, but the old man and his two granddaughters stayed; when they got to the ground, from water poured in the holes; the flood was caused by those two daughters of the older brother who turned into frogs; people hollowed out a pine tree, put food inside the girl and sealed it; only the girl survived, the rest drowned; she lay down with her vagina under the rays of the sun and under drops of water, conceived, gave birth to a daughter; she grew up, tried to repeat everything, but the Sun and Water recognized their daughter, conception did not occur; then the mother covered her daughter's body with her body, the Sun and Water did not notice the substitution; the daughter gave birth to a son Matinyaupakaamcha; the eagle took her to its nest and ate it, M. stayed with her grandmother; interrupted the bird's leg with a stone; she: if you'll cure him, I'll say something; when he finds out that the old woman is not his mother, but his grandmother, killed the eagle, on the advice of his grandmother, by heating the tip of his spear; the grandmother sends him to kill the bison (ox); the badger and the gopher dug an underground passage under lying bison; the mouse plucked the hair from where the heart was, explaining that its children were cold; M. pierced the bison from below; he plunged his horn into the underground passage, but M. dodged; made a cape out of the skin, and under it bison blood; allowed the eagle to grab itself; blood gushed, the bison decided that M. was killed; the chicks see that the prey was alive, but the eagle did not believe; when it flew away, M. found out where the eagle would fly; becoming a lizard, smeared with resin the place where the male and female sit; killed the eagle; told the chicks to remain silent, otherwise they would kill; The Bat lowered M. in the basket, ordering them to close their eyes; he opened, they fell, M. broke the Bat's bones, but cured her; M. looked into the grandmother's house through a hole in the roof; called her; grandmother: the wind was whistling; when he saw her grandson, she began to dance with joy; the bald eagle took M. to an island on the lake; there were already many prisoners there; M . ordered the prisoners to eat crushed flint to the eagles and hide, digging an underground passage; the eagles died; the crane stretches its leg across the lake; people cross it like a bridge; children fall into the water, turn into ducks; M. decides to make a bow; the grandmother warns of dangers every time where to look for bow materials; onion wood where the canyon walls converge and diverge; M. shoved between they have a deer horn, took out the material; reeds for arrows owned by Owl; M.: I propose marriage to my grandmother; Owl is glad, he gave reeds himself; when Owl came, M. told his grandmother to find out where his heart was; in the sole legs; M. shot there, killed Owl; the grandmother straightened her vulva with an arrow; when M. looked, the arrow broke; where the flint for the tips, sparks fly out; M. covered himself with a turtle shell, took out flint; wood for the front of the arrows owned by the Bear; M. called him to marry his grandmother; said he was making charcoal tips; The bear believed, shot M. with a coal arrow with a tip, and M. killed him with an arrow with a flintlock tip; grandmother: cut the deer in a clearing, not under a tree; M. began to cut under a tree; a naked woman came down from the tree, chased M. to get along with him; the grandmother hid it under the hearth; but the woman began to write there, M. got out; M. made penises out of blue stone, quartz, lava and clay, used it every single night, breaking off women's vaginal teeth; she became his wife; she was actually a bear; offered to drive game at him; he hung his clothes on a pole; three or four bears rushed at her, M. killed them, pulled out their fangs and claws; Spider told M. that the Wind took his wife away; let M. compete with him outside, not in his cave; who would chase the ball faster; M. won all the prisoners and the life of the Wind; who has longer hair, M. won again, killed The winds were a club; they spent the night in the Wind Cave; the wife became snakes in front of the entrance, M. jumped over them; M. went to look for his father, the Sun; spent the night with people who wanted to kill him; closed him for the night eyes with pebbles ("glass eyes"), the owners think that he is awake; the wife of the Sun to her husband: your son has come; he wants to test the visitor, invites him to the steam room; M. all gives up a couple and says it's cold, The sun believes he is his son; M. tamed the horse, went home; the Sun and the Cloud began to argue over him; each painted one half of his body; M. returned east to the Sun, and the grandmother went west to the Sun, and the grandmother went west to ocean]; zunyi [the girl does not leave the house, does not look at the young man; rain enters her room, she gives birth to a boy; in a few days he grows up; throwing stones, hunts small game; sees men bow; mother admits that a bow tree and arrow reeds grow near a cave in which a terrible bear; a young man goes there; his divine father closes the entrance to the cave four times when the young man wants to enter it, but then decides - let him do what he wants; the bear meets him, grabs the young man; he says that his mother is beautiful; the bear himself chose the material for his bow and arrow, taught him how to do it bow; they agreed that the bear would come for his wife in the evening; the young man equipped the arrows with obsidian tips; the bear says it's just black coals, allows you to try it for yourself, pierced killed with an arrow; the young man hangs his heart near the house; the mother admits that there are terrible lizards whose spit burns; the young man goes to them, but their spits are harmless to him, because he has a divine nature; he himself throws a large piece of salt into the hearth, it explodes, the lizards die, it brings their hearts; the mother admits that on the path there is a giant pushing those who pass into the abyss with his foot; under the rock his children devour fallen; the giant straightens his leg, but the young man jumps back; kills him with a club, throws him down, the giant's children ate him; the young man carved out the giant's heart; went down to kill his children, leaving two; twisted his necks into a falcon and an owl; the mother admits that there is a huge bison or elk; the gopher made an underground passage under the lying monster, gnawed at the hair where the heart is; the young man pierced the heart with an arrow The monster plunged its horn into the ground, but the young man ran away; brought home his heart and part of the skin; the mother admits that there is a nest of cannibal eagles at the top of Shuntekia; when he came to the nest, the young man put on a monster-skin hoodie, attached his gut to blood; the eagle brought it to the nest of its chicks, the gut burst, blood poured out; the chicks reply that their mother arrives when the shadow of the clouds (actually from her wings) appears; the father arrives when it starts to rain (actually dew); the eagle brought the dead girl, the young man killed the eagle with an arrow; the eagle brought the killed young man, the hero killed him with an arrow; killed the chicks, took their feathers for feathering arrows or for use during rituals; he cannot go down; the bat grandmother puts him in the basket, does not tell him to open his eyes; he does not like her song and for the fourth time he opened his eyes; they both fell but did not break; the bat leads to it, feeds, but it can't see well, it does not have berries, but lumps of clay, etc.; she tells me to go home, avoiding sunflower; first went around, then went straight; the feathers he took with him turned into summer birds - goldfinches, sparrows, etc.]: Cushing 1901:65-92.