Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

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K5. False chicks. 42.43.50.

To trap the hero and send him far away, the enemy makes fake birds from valuable materials (bodily secretions, etc.). See motive K4.

NW Coast. Hyda (Skidgate) [The raven tells the Wind Master he saw an island with many woodpeckers; they sail there; the raven hits his nose, turns blood into woodpeckers, pretends to fall asleep in a boat, swims away in it; comes to the wife of the Wind Master in the guise of her husband; abandoned calls his rattle, she arrives, he crosses the strait as if dry; beats the Raven, throws his bones into the latrine; when the wife The wind comes there, the Raven spits in her genitals; the Master of the Wind throws the bones into the sea, the whale swallows them; people kill the whale; the chief's son cuts it, the raven flies out, the young man falls dead; the raven returns to the appearance of an old man; he is told about what happened, he advises him to leave the village; eats all supplies]: Swanton 1905:144-145.

The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap; Thompson; Lillwet; Sechelt; Snohomish; Puget Sound; Cowlitz; Upper Cowlitz; Curdalen; Clickitat; vasco; chalkomel (lower reaches of the river. Fraser) [Woodpecker and Eagle are brothers, both have sons; Woodpecker's wife has teeth in her vagina; Coyote is jealous of young men, turns his wife's excrement into waterfowl; she lures the sons of Woodpecker and Eagle far up with the flow; they go to heaven, they are taken prisoner; various animals and birds try to ascend to heaven in vain; Woodpecker's wife's uncle makes a chain of arrows, it turns into a path; the first ancestors climb into heaven, they fight against celestials, free young men, return; destroy the chain of arrows before the Snail descends; it jumps, has been boneless and slow ever since; the Eagle and the Woodpecker have cut down the supports of the house The Coyote, the house collapsed, the Coyote and his wife died; the Bear decided to avenge the Coyote; turned into a dog, came to the Robin Girl, hid; the eldest sons of Eagle and Woodpecker came to marry her, the Bear killed them; the same with middle sons; the younger ones grow up, train; Raccoon helps them get between a quartz woman and a Grizzly woman (they start fighting); Grizzly, then Lynx also chases them; The Seagull transports them to boat across the river; when the Grizzly approaches, the Seagull makes a hole in the boat, draws water, the Grizzly dies from cold water before the boat docks on the opposite bank; there are two blind women, the Duck and Partridge, they are Norka's wives; he decided to help them; pretended to be dying, ordered himself to be buried; when he learned that only Partridge was loyal to him, he left only her wife; Bison is the guardian of the entrance to the world of the dead; he missed the son of the Woodpecker and the son of the Eagle; the dead are playing; those who came took the brothers, brought them home, they came to life; the son of the Eagle married a Thrush woman; she cheated on him with his uncle Woodpecker; the son of the Eagle left; at the festival she spat in the baskets, which were filled with berries; Salmon came with his slave, the Thunderbird; he stole Thrush and put them in a boat; Woodpecker and Mink took the form of salmon, climbed to the top of the Thunderbird; he let the Thrush peel them; the salmon all fell off the shelf, became so dirty that the Thunderbird told them to be thrown away; the thrush went into the water, the salmon became Mink and Woodpecker, carried it away; etc.]: Boas 1895, No. III .3:30-34 (=2002:111-121); chalkomel (stSeélis) [an ugly young man comes to a girl; she first tells him to swim, then clean his genitals with coarse sand, then drives him away; he comes to two blind people, they work as one stick, passing it to each other, he intercepts him; he makes them sighted, they are partridges; they send him to their blind wives; they give each other food, he gives each other food, he is hers captures; restores their sight; they send him to his Crane Grandmother; she sends him to the Face Maker, tells them to choose the last one he shows; when he returns, sends the girl who comes to him wash, etc., as she sent him, drives him away; she turns her excrement into a bird, the young man and his younger brother follow her, the young man hits her with an arrow, the bird turns into excrement again; the bailiff on the shore, the young man hides his brother under the boat, hurts himself, lies down; a duck, a dive, an eagle come one after another; he catches them, puts the duck skin on his brother, the dive on the boat, the eagle on himself; flies away, the brother and the boat in the form of a duck and a dive fly home; the young man is in the sky; old people bring him down on a rope to the ground (he opens his eyes three times prematurely when the basket hits the clouds, into the crowns of trees, then picks it up back); reaches the ground for the fourth time, arranges a holiday]: Hill-Tout 1904b: 354-357; tillamook [South Wind (SE) comes to a man who has a belt of two living snakes; asks let him vilify; he warns that the belt is dangerous; when SE puts on his belt, snakes begin to squeeze his body, bite into the flesh; he cannot remove it himself, the owner takes the belt back; for revenge, SE turns his excrement into a bird (Lucky Bird), the owner of the belt and his son try to shoot her unsuccessfully, the son {then it is clear that the owner of the belt} climbs a tree, it grows to the sky, there an arrow hits a bird, it turns out to be a bunch of crap; the owner of the belt goes down, creates a whale, which takes SE to sea; a few months later it swims ashore, SE jumps ashore]: Thompson, Egesdal 2008:36-38; cous [Coyote turns his excrement into woodpeckers; sends his son to get woodpeckers off the tree, tells the tree to grow to the sky, then descend, copulates with both of his son's wives; hero stays in the sky, meets the Sun Girl; copulates with an icy penis (the sun has not been so hot since then); the Sun sends him to his sister; old people teach him to overcome challenges; 1) harpoon salmon ( the hero misses four, hits the fifth), 2) get a hammer from the bottom of the lake (the water is covered with ice, he breaks the ice with a hammer; the opponent cannot break it, the hero saves him), 3) hunt moose (this is the old man himself- A month, he's scared), 4) knock down a tree (the hero bounces when the tree falls), 5) cut the whale (he swallows the hero and swims away; the hero gets out of the womb, swims on a log; people in the boat bring him back) ; The month recognizes the son-in-law; the old spider woman lowers the hero and his wife in the basket to the ground; the hero's children are almost blind, because the Coyote touched their eyes with his penis; the hero puts a coyote skin on their father, turns them into a coyote; The spider takes the hero with his wives and children in the basket back to heaven, he now lives there]: Jacobs 1940, No. 29:214-221.

The Great Southwest. Navajo [a young man marries, he has a son; the Coyote leaves his skin on the trail, the young man touches her, she wraps him around, turns him into a coyote; the Coyote takes his clothes and bow, goes to his wife, but does not find it; The squirrel, who saw what happened, helps the young man take off his coyote skin, throw it again at the real Coyote; the young man does not like the smell of coyote left in the house; he goes to his wife's sister, marries her; she also gives birth to a son, Coyote changes her appearance again with the young man; the older sister does not notice the deception, the youngest feels that she is not a real husband with them; the Squirrel returns the young man to his true appearance, and the Coyote makes him a coyote again; the son is the first to recognize his returning father; the Coyote invites the young man to climb the rock for eagle feathers; these are two grasshoppers, whom the Coyote painted as eagles; the Coyote blows on the rock, she grows up to heaven; the young man spends 4 years with the Eagles; marries; the leader Orlov organizes a dangerous campaign against Bumblebees, then Wasps, Locusts, Weeds; the Spider gives the young man grass, he chews it, blows it at enemies, they are here But they die; the spider lowers him to the ground in his bag (the young man opens his eyes ahead of time, falls, but is alive); going from one fire pit to another, the young man finds a family; tells his son to heat the pebbles, gives them swallow Coyote, he dies; the wife turns into a deer, the son becomes the chief of the antelopes; the hero goes south in the rainbow]: Johly, B'yash 1958:8-14.