K43C. A dog unties children. 45.46.
Theconnected children (boy and sister) are left alone in an empty camp, and the animal frees them.
Northeast. Mikmak [Spruce Partridge died of hunger in winter, Birch Partridge took his family; he cannot find game, feeds homemade meat cut first from his back and then from his feet; the wife is surprised that the meat has neither bones nor fat; spies on him cut off strips of his own flesh, makes them a lot of meat; sits in a teepee, falls into the lower world, comes to Marten's house and his grandmothers Bear; Marten sends a woman to the chief's house, marries the chief's son; her son and daughter come down to her from the ground; her mother is reluctant to give them meat, they go to Marten and his grandmother; her comes to the woman Partridge's ex-husband, she tells the dogs to be lowered on him, his skin pulled over the door frame; the game disappears, people believe that those two children are to blame, they are hung by the heels of a tree, left; grandmother- The bear hides the fire for them; the marten burns the tree trunk; when it falls, puts a pile of moose hair, the children fall on it; the marten gnaws through the fetters, catches up with the departed; the boy hunts successfully, and the departed are starving; the boy on the arrow sends the Grandmother Bear a moose skin to indicate that he is alive; the crow flies to peck the corpses of the children, but they feed her; she brings meat to her children; people refer to The crow is a girl, but she only sees the mushrooms she cooks; the brother asks the Month to make him and her sister adults; when she goes hunting, she tells her sister to go out only when she hears his voice three times; every sister the day greases her hair, goes to the lake, where the Big White (white, not polar) Bear licks her fat; brother wonders where the fat goes; sees her sister and Bear from the mountain; she explains that otherwise the Bear will eat them both; his brother pierces his seat with an arrow; Bear: shoot in the paw! brother pierces his paw, Bear dies; people come back; brother and sister greet grandmother and marten, do not want to see the mother; after eating Bear meat, both people die; brother and sister come to the sea; people believe that they have dispersed the game; they put the horn of the Horned Serpent on the young man's head, which grows through it and around the tree; the sister tries to saw off the horn with a shell; the Killer Whale takes her away, she gives birth to him son; Killer Whale's sister tells you to make a circle on the horn with red ocher; the killer whale is first sent for ocher, then for a piece of red cloud; the killer whale chases his wife, sister and son; pieces of clothing are thrown at him the boy, then his cradle, he picks them up, wasting time; the woman frees his brother, the Killer Whale's sister marries him; one day she returns to sea, taking her son and the woman's son from the Killer Whale]: Whitehead 1988:24-43.
Plains. Sarsi [an old man and his wife in one type, and their three daughters with their husband in the other; the old man watched his son-in-law hunt beavers, after which he could not get a single beaver for four days; he came and took all his father-in-law's skins and food; only the youngest daughter secretly brought food to her parents; the old man picked up a piece of bison meat, began to cook, a boy jumped out of the cauldron; his son-in-law was told that it was a girl, he was a boy would kill; the boy grew up quickly, killed a bison; when the son-in-law saw that his father-in-law was eating meat, he wanted to kill him, but the young man killed him and two ungrateful daughters; the old man and his wife, youngest daughter and young man hid in a crack in the ice; people found them, killed the old men, tied the young man and his sister (i.e. the younger wife of an evil son-in-law) to a tree, left; the old woman sent the dog to gnaw through their fetters, left a knife and other tools; the young man glances animals and birds, lives well with his sister; people come back, the young man glances everyone but that good woman]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 29:35-38; blacklegs: Josselin de Jong 1914 [as in Wissler, Duvall No. V1; sacred pipe shells â€" the leader's son's bowel movements; lice on the buffalo head are big beetles; the chief ties the children to the central pillar of the ritual building, paints black, dedicates to the sun; a young man kills the chief and parents by throwing stones in their mouths]: 83-85; Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. V1 [chief owns a sacred smoking pipe; other children take away from him sinks (from the tube?) ; the chief tells everyone to leave, leaving the children; they go to the witch; she kills everyone but the girl and her younger brother; they run; the bison's skull is responsible for them; the girl agrees to take out Bison's lice and bite through them; bites beads instead of lice; Bison transports children across the river, they return to people; the witch says lice are bitter; the Bison throws her into the river, she drowns; the parents refuse The chief tells the children who come to be tied to a tree and left; a good old woman leaves her dog, he frees the children; the brother becomes a young man, kills buffalo with magic; people are starving; brother and sister feed them; kill their abusive parents by throwing pieces of hard meat into their mouths]: 138-141; Lowie 1909a, No. 4 [the chief defecates with beads; little girls find them; the chief's brother advises leaving the children some, because owning beads can harm adults; a good old woman hangs moss that indicates the direction in which the tribe left, but the children do not notice it; they come to the cannibal; she kills everyone except one girl and her younger brother; a bison's skull advises them to run across the river; two swans connect their necks like a bridge; a girl looks for lice from them, bites, says it's delicious; a stalker cannibal says that lice stink; swans raise their necks, the cannibal drowns; the children meet their tribe, but the chief tells them to be tied to a tree and leave; a good old woman leaves her dog, which frees the children; after the bath children become adults; brother magically catches bison; kills a bear, a giant; an old woman comes to live with them]: 140-145; grovantre [while children play, adults migrate; children come to old woman; she kills sleepers by stepping on their necks with a hot fire; the girl does not sleep, asks for mercy for her and her brother; brings wood and water to the old woman, she rejects them; the bird explains that she needs rotten water and perfume ropes growing on willows; the girl pretends that her brother needs to urinate, runs away with him; a horned water monster offers to look in his head, bite through lice; his lice are frogs, a girl gnaws plum bones; a monster transports children across the river; an old woman throws frogs, a monster drowns her; children find parents, they tie them up, hang them from a tree; a dog pretends to be sick to stay at the camp, hides the fire; frees the children; the sister tells her brother to look at the buffalo, they fall dead (this is how all kinds of work are done); the dog turns into old man; people come back; girl takes her brother and old man by wife, husband for herself; brother kills other people with his gaze]: Kroeber 1907b, No. 26:102-105; Shayens [see motive L5; husband cuts off his head to an unfaithful wife, feeds her son and daughter with meat; the head chases his children, dies; children come to people; the father accuses them of killing their mother, tells them to tie them up and leave them; the old dog gnaws through the fetters; the girl kills animals with his gaze, the boy becomes a good hunter; people are starving; the girl sends the Raven to throw them a piece of fat; people come back; the girl tells two bears to tear her father to pieces; since then there are cannibal bears]: Grinnell 1903:111-115; they beat the chief with a piece of dried meat]: Lowie 1909a, No. 4:140-145; arpahoe: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 127 [see the M16 motive; the blind man's wife hides from him meat, eats everything by himself; he becomes sighted, kills her; accuses his son and daughter of eating meat too, tells them to be tied to a tree and left; The wolf frees them; wolves, coyotes bring them food; the girl kills buffalo with her gaze; creates embroidered clothes and bags of meat while sitting on their skins; her dogs are a cougar and a bear; people come back, get food; the girl's dogs kill her father; brother and sister go to heaven], 128 [The chief says that the boy and girl spoke ill of him, tells them to be left alone; parents refuse them; they are tied to a tree; an old dog frees them; the girl processes their skins while sitting on them; people return; brother and sister do not want to know their parents]: 286-294; mandan [a man follows his wife into the forest, kills her, cuts off her leg, lubricates her with deer hair and blood, hides the corpse; gives a leg to his daughter and son (who is younger than his sister); tells people that children killed their mother; the chief tells them to leave the children in the forest, leave the village; children find those who have migrated, the old woman feeds them; now children tied in a skin tied to a pole on a cliff; the old woman's old dog frees them; they find the supplies left by the old woman; two spirits (the Sun and the Month) are delighted that the boy pierces and cuts off his tongue; now his name is Bez-Tongue; they make him a great hunter and warrior, give a herd of bison; people starve, come back, children give everyone meat and skins, force his father to eat soup while he does not die; Without Language marries the chief's daughter; gives an old dog buffalo skin]: Will 1913:331-337; iowa [by Dorsey 1881-82; a man kills his wife, roasts some of her meat, sends her little son and daughter to eat it; runs away, marries the chief's daughter; children notice the mother's corpse in the tree, do not eat her meat; they come to the father; he tells the chief that it is the children who killed their mother; tells them to fill their eyes with glue, leave them alone; the old woman leaves them food; the mouse gnaws out the glue; the boy hunts, learns the names of animals from his sister; a man comes to marry her; they have a lot of meat; the tribe is starving, comes back; they feed everyone except their father]: Skinner 1925, No. 48:503-506; Pawnee (skidi) [the chief forbids leaving homes and laughing when he goes; two sisters and brother play with the puppy; the chief tells them to put them in cage, leave the camp; puppy frees children; boy finds hot coals in one hearth; hunts; Puma, Beaver help him; people kill the evil leader, come to the young man; now the tribe lives in abundance] : Dorsey 1904b, No. 27:97-101