K42. A female bird kills men (a loon woman) .43.46.48.72.

A young female bird vigorously searches for someone she likes among a group of men, forcibly takes him and makes him a husband; turns into a monster, stalks and kills men, but eventually the account was killed by herself.

Klamath, modoc, (lower chinook), assiniboine, shasta, karok, achomavi, atsugevi, yana, vintu, maidu, ayoreo, chamakoko, maka.

The coast is the Plateau. Klamath [the red-haired woman is married; after going across the mountains, she tells only his youngest brother to accompany her; sleeps with him; he leaves a branch instead of himself, runs away; the redhead sets fire to the world; Only the sibling mother is saved; she finds a boy and a girl in the charred body of her daughter-in-law; knowing that the girl will repeat the crime of a redhead, she glues them together into one two-headed creature; he sees his double shadow, shoots an arrow, she falls, separates her sister from him; children make the Sun say who killed their parents; the redhead lives in the lake, the girl cuts off her head, brings it to her grandmother; brother and sister go down through the hearth; brother's arrow gets stuck in a tree; sister agrees to get it after her brother calls her not sister, niece, etc., but wife; becomes pregnant by her brother; grandmother finds the skin of the victim the bear's grandson, puts it on, turns into a Bear, catches up and kills her grandson; giving the Bear a drink, the sister wife throws a hot stone in her ass; she dies; the sister-wife takes the child, rushes into fire; Gmokamch snatches the boy, he grows up; then see the K1 motif (G. Sends a young man to an eagle's nest, tries to pick up his wives)]: Barker 1963, No. 4:25-37, 47; modoc: Curtin 1912:95-117 [(published in Lévi-Strauss 1971:48-51); the red-haired Tekewas has a husband and five brothers; the eldest is married, the youngest named Tutats hides his mother from her; T. finds out about him when he finds his hair; makes her accompany her to her house, arranges an overnight stay in the woods, lies down with him; he leaves instead of himself, a deck, runs to the brothers; the old spider raises the brothers to the sky in the basket, does not tell them to look down; the youngest looks, the basket falls into the house set on fire by T.; the mother pulls the hearts of her sons out of the fire, they turn into mountains (the heart of the youngest is in St. Shasta); the mother finds the corpse of her daughter-in-law, next to her two living babies; turns them into one boy; he notices that he has a double shadow, fires an arrow, chipping off his younger brother; secretly She brings him up, asking his grandmother for things and food as if for herself; she notices that now he has only one head; he confesses, brings his brother; the brothers want to kill the duck, which tells them about their fate parents; T. swims on the lake like a monstrous duck; brothers cut off her head, turn it into a duck whose meat is inedible; they ask for help from water, fire, trees, onions and arrows, all household utensils, but they forgot about the awl; they go through the hearth; the grandmother finds her daughter's head, the awl tells us where the brothers have gone, the grandmother follows them underground; they go west; the Duck is their other aunt, she has a bloating on her head; they press him down, since then birds and animals do not carry cubs on their heads; they kill Snake, Duck's husband, turn his remains into rocks and snakes; turn live pebbles into ordinary pebbles; younger brother would like serve the Month, the eldest to the Sun; the elder defeats the Bald Eagle, turns him into a bird, his servants Raven and Louse into a crow and a louse; they meet a one-legged giant, defeat him five times, kill him, he now wanders through the mountains, dreaming of shamans; brothers turn into two stars that appear in the sky before dawn in early spring], 268-271 [five Wild Cat brothers and their two sisters live together; the younger brother is extremely handsome, his parents hide him underground in a basket; the older sister is in love with him, lies down above the basket on the ground, talks to him; the older brother hides him on the island in the sea; when the older sister comes there, the youngest takes it back; the older sister sets fire to the ground furiously; some people flee in the air in the form of birds, others bury themselves in holes, most die; the older sister makes a necklace out of the brothers' hearts, swims on the lake, screaming birds and animals; the youngest puts her to sleep, cuts off her head, turns her into an inedible seabird (loon?) ; gives life to brothers and others from hearts and bones]; (cf. Lower Chinook [the girl is taken away by the Bear; she gives birth to a son and daughter; her four brothers come to the Bear's house one by one; his son asks take out his lice, kills young men; his younger fifth brother does not shoot on the way to the pheasant, does not enter the bear's house; together with the Bear's daughter, he burns the Bear and his son in their house; the Bear's wife revives brothers; dives into a lake, turns into a monster; Chief Blue Jay marries Bear's daughter; she never laughs; promises to laugh if he gets on all fours in the woods; laughs devours all men; her husband's legs below his knees disappear; she keeps him in a basket; gives birth to two sons; does not tell them to go down the river; they go, find the bones of people who their mother regurgitated; find a basket with her father; he says that their mother has become a monster; brothers turn her into a dog, put her father under water; go on a journey; they see a double-headed swan on the lake {perhaps a swan with heads at both ends of the body}; the youngest shoots, swims to the bird, disappears; the eldest throws hot stones into the lake; the water boils away; he rips open the bellies of all monsters; in the latter he finds a brother holding a swan; revives him; a man is dancing with a paddle, while fish jump into his boat; brothers taught him how to catch with a net; another man shoots in the rain because his house has no roof; brothers taught him how to make a roof; they wipe dirt off the skin, make people out of it, blow it, people come to life; a man sharpens knives, promises to kill those who fix things; brothers turned him into a deer, tying his knives to his head, these are horns; a woman throws people into the abyss on sharp flints; brothers throw her, cut her body to pieces, throw them in different directions; Indians who live where their legs fall have strong legs; those who live there, where the hair fell is long hair; etc.]: Boas 1894a, No. 1:17-21).

Plains. Assiniboine: Lowie 1909a, No. 11a [girl goes to bed with her brother; he paints her hands, stains her blanket; after identifying her sister, she sails away in a boat; she promises to kill everyone if he doesn't return; turns into a bird, kills people with lightning, burns his parents; the brother calls the Hawk to grab it, the woman drives it away; another Hawk grabs it, the brother cuts it to pieces; puts a piece of its flesh in each hearth; of them new people appear], 11b [two sisters try to seduce brother; father makes him a boat, he sails away; sisters ask him to swallow fish, but the boy tells her not to; sisters play with children, tell them not to touch their anus; the ban is broken, sisters turn into cannibal bears, everyone is killed, parents are blinded with lightning; brother comes back; sisters approach in a black storm cloud; brother tells birds They cannot kill them; then he turns the rock into an eagle; when the sisters sit on it, the eagle grabs and holds them, the brother burns them and grinds them into powder; restores their sight in the steam room to parents, revives them killed from their hair]: 160-161, 161-162.

California. Men usually go up to heaven in a Spider's bag or basket; the Coyote holes through the bottom, looks down; the basket falls apart, everyone falls; burns in a fire lit by Loon; it takes possession of their hearts; another character puts hearts in water, revives people. Shasta: Dixon 1910a, No. 4 [Aniduidui is the sister of 10 brothers; while bathing, she finds hair that is longer than hers; she looks in everyone's head, trying on hair, but does not find it; everyone is called Go with her, but she rejects her brothers; finally finds the youngest with longer hair, this is Ommanutc; she makes him go with her; they sleep together; he runs away leaving a deck in his place; the whole family climbs to the sky on a rope; A. asks all the objects in the dugout where her brothers are, but no one answers; she moves the fire, sparks fly up, she looks up, sees those climbing into the sky; one of the brothers looks down, everyone falls; A. makes a fire below; nine brothers and mother burn, the youngest is saved; marries two duck sisters; they have two sons; the lark reports that A.'s heart is in the sole her legs; nephews kill her with an arrow]: 14-15; Farrand 1915, No. 5 [as in Dixon; at the sky in a basket; mother looks down; Seagull sisters; son and daughter are born; brother kills sister himself]: 212-214; karok [ Gagara forces her youngest brother, whom she has not seen before, to copulate; he runs away from her, climbs a pole to heaven, leading the others; his mother looks around, everyone falls into fire; Loon cannot find the bones of his youngest brother, because he spark into heaven, where his wife revived him; his son and daughter come to Gagar]: Kroeber, Gifford 1980, No. A8 [Loon learns about his brother, finding his long hair; Loon's heart in her heel; nephews shoot at the heel, throw a corpse into the lake], I9 [younger brother married to a heavenly woman]: 12-15, 128-129; achomavi: Angulo, Freeland 1931 [ The Wild Cat comes to bed with his relative Loon; she stains herself with resin, finds the Cat's hairs stuck to her; comes to the men's house, sings, I want a man; shoots lightning, showing his strength; rejects the Wolf, the Fox, the Marten; the Cat is pushed out by other men; but Loon grabs the Woodworm, the son of the Cocoon Chief, whom his father hid; he is small; everyone gives him their penises, now his penis drags along the ground; he quietly tears it off, throws it into the fire; at night he runs away from the Loon, puts a stump in his place; the Loon approaches, burning everything; the Spider spins the rope, the Lizard ties it to the arrow , shoots into the sky; everyone climbs the rope, in front of the Eagle, behind the Coyote Old; Loon screams, Father, he answers, Daughter; looks around, the rope breaks; Eagle, Cocoon, Worm climb into the sky, the rest fall into flames; Loon makes a necklace out of their hearts; the Lizard's heart falls on Mount Shasta; turns into a baby, finds him by the Blue Jay, brings him to his wife; a growth on the boy's forehead; a boy shoots him with an arrow, the build-up turns into his twin; The Forehead Boy kills Gagara's daughter with an arrow on the lake; she chases him, his brother kills her with an arrow]: 126-132; Dixon 1908, No. 5 [Loon wants to husbands of everyone's favorite Wild Cat; men give it to her, but he returns; Loon is furious, flames from under it, the earth is burning; Mouse brothers attach a rope to the arrow, shoot at the sky, people they climb it; the Coyote looks down, the rope breaks, everyone falls; Loon catches their hearts with a net, makes a necklace; her sister Eagle finds hearts, soaks them in water, people are reborn; the Silver Fox says where to live]: 165-167; atsugevi [The Wild Cat comes to his sisters Orlitsa and Gagara, sleeps with Loon; she smears herself with resin; in the morning the Cat pretends to be asleep, but cannot hide that he is soiled; Loon wants to burn a dugout of male animals; they give Loon the Cat, but the Butterfly shrinks his penis; he can't satisfy Loon, leaves a deck instead, comes back; The Spider weaves the net, everything they rise to the sky in it; Loon sets fire to the world; old Coyote wants to see his daughter, looks down, everyone falls into the fire; Loon catches hearts, makes a necklace out of them; Gagara's sister Orlitsa flies and searches hearts; the Tree Larva escapes, marries two Beaded Girls; at the request of the Eagle, two young waterfowl kill Loon with arrows; the Eagle soaks hearts in the water, revives people from them]: Dixon 1908, No. 12:175-177; Yana: Curtin 1898 [Shelkovichny Worm has many sons and two daughters, Gagara and Orlitz; Coyote lives there, not a relative; Loon stands on the roof of the dugout, demanding that she was given a husband; rejecting others, she takes her younger brother, the Wild Cat; at rest, he runs away, leaving a deck in bed; Worm's sister Spider lifts everyone to the sky in a basket; Loon sets fire to the house; Coyote lies down to the bottom of the basket, looks down; everyone falls, only the Eagle has time to cling to the sun; burning bodies burst, hearts fly out, Loon catches them with a net, makes a necklace, goes to live in the depths of the lake; the hearts of Gagara's father and older brother fall past her; father and brother come to life, but get stuck in the ground up to their chin; at Orlitsa's request, two Kingfisher Brothers (? Fisher-birds) kill Gagara with arrows on Lake; Eagle puts the brothers' hearts in the steam room, they come to life; digs up his older brother and father]: 407-429; Sapir 1910, No. 2 [see motif D4; The Fox and the Transporter (bird) they steal fire, give it to the Coyote; he drops it, the ground lights up; Woman Fire Drill (= Loon?) sees people fall and burn], 10 [see J12 motif; Coyote causes rain when two girls walk from it to Marten; when people hide from the rain in the main dugout, the Coyote sets her on fire; the Spider picks her up people to the sky in the basket, the Coyote falls to the bottom, makes a hole, everyone falls down; Loon makes a necklace out of human hearts; an old woman (or grandson?) kills Loon, revives people from hearts], 12 [Loon looks good but lives without a husband; kills men, makes a necklace of ten hearts; finds longer hair in the stream than hers; comes to to her aunt Lark; girls tell her that it is not customary for women to enter the main dugout where men have gathered; Loon enters, demands to give her husband the one whose hair she found, rejects everyone, Eagle you have to give her his son; the old man puts an acorn shell on his penis, making him impotent; at rest, Eagle's son puts Loon to sleep, leaves a deck instead of him, returns; The Spider began to lift everyone up in a bag to the sky; Loon sets fire to the ground; the Coyote makes a hole, everyone falls into the fire; among the fallen, those animal people whose eyes were not injured are saved; the little Dive Duck kills Loon]: 33-35, 133-135, 228-232; screw [there are nine boys and one girl in the family; parents hide their youngest son, he is very handsome; every day she swims in the river; sister finds her brother's hair; tries on everyone, only The youngest Talimleluheres is the same; his mother sends him west with her; his sister calls him husband, then recovers brother; at night she hugs him at rest; he leaves an alder deck instead, returns to her parents; they set fire to the dugout, everyone rises to the sky; the sister runs to a burning dugout; the Coyote looks down, everyone falls, the sister makes herself a necklace from the hearts of fallen and burnt people ; she has wings; flies to the lake, dives, rests on a raft; two sisters find a handsome young man; the eldest finds him first, feeds him soup, he gets better, marries both; each gives birth to a boy; one of them wants to shoot a bird, which tells them about a winged woman; they kill her with arrows, put their hearts in water, and their parents and brothers are reborn]: Dubois, Demetracopoulou 1931, No. 37:355- 360; maidu [sisters Gagara and Orlitsa and their brothers live in the same dugout; Gagara goes swimming in the lake, finds her brothers' hair there; but one day she finds hair as long as hers; this is hair Tree Larvae (Wood-Bug); Loon turns black, lies on the path; Larva and others step over it, only the Coyote copulates with her; she rejects the Coyote and the others, demands a husband The larva, otherwise threatens to burn the house; the chief makes the Larva impotent; putting a log in his place, the Larva runs away to the brothers; the Spider puts them all in a large net, begins to raise them to the sky; Loon rushes to the sky in the brothers' dugout, a flame blazes from her mouth in volleys; the dugout has already lit up; the lizard expands the hole in the net out of curiosity, everyone falls into the fire, their hearts burst and fly around Loon makes a necklace out of them, but misses the hearts of the Tree Larva and Marten (Fisher); the Eagle finds them in a fire and brings them to the Duck (? Water-Ouzel) and her children have a bow and arrow; children kill a floating Loon with a bow, Orlitsa turns it into a loon, revives brothers from hearts by throwing them into the water; two female sisters find the hearts of the Tree Larva and Martens, revive them, marry them; Orlitsa wants people to come to life if left in the water for the night]: Dixon 1902, No. 7:71-76.

Chaco. Ayoreo: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989b, No. 343 [adé was a woman, she took new men all the time, they died every time; people killed her twice, she came to life; then they beat her for a long time, she became Vulture, she has a bump on her head; the rest of this story is taboo], 346 [The vulture was a woman, killing women; told men they could touch her if they killed a woman, because she did killed only women], 542 [people saw Aramatade winged creatures in the sky, women; one dropped her hat, the man brought it to the village; incredulous people came to where the Aramatade woman lived with children, people killed them], 543 [the nguiamia bird was a bad woman; it grabbed men, forced her to live with her, immediately left her, grabbed another]: 411, 414, 629, 629; chamacoco: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 126 [the husband took his wife hunting, killed two wild boars and other animals, the wife immediately swallows them; wants to make love to her husband, he is afraid of her; climbs a tree, throws a chick, tells him to fly away; runs away to the village; a woman rushes after her, people attack her, she turns into lightning, kills them; to feed her father, she regurgitates wild boars, honey, a parrot's nest; kills people again with lightning; the Achibo swallow kills her from a distance, cuts her to pieces, takes her away by horse], 127 [the woman went to collect the fruits of the Caraguat (Bromelia argentina); the plant has red flowers; the stem under it is straightened, the flower entered her vagina; instead of hair, her pubis, then the entire lower half of her body, were covered with heron feathers; she is ashamed, she no longer lets her husband in, does not answer him; the husband hid shamanic accessories under with a roof; at night, a shaman tube came down, pulled her feathers out of the woman, returned to the place; the woman realizes that the feathers are now in a shaman's mat; men need a mat to complete Axná rituals ; bsero, the woman does not give it; when she went out, the young man took her and took her to the men's house; from the feathers that fell out of the mat, the men made jewelry, Aishtuwénte (the patron goddess of male rituals, embodied by a shaman) put them on; the woman did not dare to take away the jewelry from A.; after the ritual, the shaman put them back in the mat; the shaman went with his wife to pick up the parrot's chicks; threw off the chicks, the wife devoured them raw; he told one chick to fly away; went down, ran to the village before his wife caught up with him; the wife stayed in the lake, lightning struck her; became naaxnít ("that which catches fire and is extinguished"); her four children warned her when people were coming; when the shaman sent people to kill his wife, they were struck by lightning; the shaman asked the white swallows to kill her, they refused; blacks try their knives (= beaks), when cutting a plant into a villi, children warn a woman, but swallows hide every time she throws lightning; swallows rush into the lake, killing the woman and her children, cutting them into pieces ; hiding in the lake, the woman herself became Aishtuwénte; the shaman told people that there was no more danger], 128 [during her period, the woman collected red caraguat fibers, part of the plant penetrated into her her vagina stayed there; at home she did not allow her shaman husband to meet her; he saw a flower in his vagina, thought that another shaman had placed it there; at night, her husband told his shaman tube to suck feathers and a flower from the vagina; the woman began to make sure that no one took her husband's shamanic accessories in which she was sucked; after the axnábsero rituals were completed, these accessories had to be brought to the men's house; the husband sent his wife's younger brother to send his sister for water, bring the phone; the shaman blew, colorful feathers flew from there; the wife did not dare to pick them up; after the rituals, she created a lake with predatory fish, remained in the middle; killed everyone with her lightning face; two chaja birds (Chauna torquata, fam. Anhimidae) warned her about people coming; her husband left and was not killed; returned with two white swallows that could turn into rain, but lightning killed them; in the sky, her husband asked for black swallows turn it into rain and lightning; he and the swallows killed the woman and her two birds in the form of lightning; they gave the woman's object spewing fire to the Rain], 129 [the young man sees that as soon as they reached the lake someone is approaching, lightning strikes from there; of all the birds, only black swallows flying in the rain agreed to help, grabbed lightning; together with the young man they started lightning themselves]: 473-474, 475-479, 480-482, 483-484; poppies: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 12 [Mako's woman is covered in colorful feathers; hears music, goes looking for a musician; asks everyone to sing; Vulture and others try, she rejects them; Thrush is the last to speak; she grabs him, takes him home; others tell him not to let her sleep; when his wife finally falls asleep, Thrush calls the others, the men pluck Mako's feathers, they adorn themselves with them; Mako asks her grandfather to sharpen her spear, he agrees to try the spear on it, she kills him, the spear comes back on its own; she kills many men, but the Caracara bird kills her arrow], 13 [starts like (12); men pluck Mako's pubic feathers; her father makes her a club, her grandfather sharpens him, she kills him; kills all men, but Hawk runs away; copulates with everyone women; an old woman has a son named Caracara; he kills Mako with an arrow; men rush to pluck her pubic feathers and make red crowns out of them], 14 [Efu Naq'aju woman walks through the woods, runs to the sound of a honey collector's ax, kills with a sharp weapon, devours; the naj litaj bird sang well, she chose him as her husband; others advised her not to let her sleep; when she finally fell asleep, her husband stole her feathers, feathers covering her clothes; men made hats for themselves; the woman killed everyone, birds with tufts on their heads flew out of the ash], 15 [the wife warns that she is on her period, but her husband yet asks her to cook an anteater; the steam from the brew changes her nature, she now eats only raw meat; her husband leads her to the parrot's nest, throws off the chicks, she swallows them whole; he throws an ax at her forehead she licks blood from the wound but is unharmed; her husband comes down, she kills him by tearing off her testicles; at home she comes to women cooking from the fruit, starts chewing on her husband's testicles; women, then all people they run; she tries to pull out the tongues of her horses; she grows wings, one with a hook; she flies, picking up men, does not touch women; her three young sons recognize the bodies she has brought; they send her mother for with water, they bend the tree, making a trap; the mother falls into it; unharmed under the blows of clubs; tells her to hit her little finger with sticks made of special wood (bola verde), to keep her tail (like a dog); they burn the corpse, tobacco and palm trees grow; the tail leads them to people, people return to the village]: 51-53, 54-56, 57, 58-66.