K51A. It pushes into boiling water. 39.-.41.

The old wife comes to her new wife in her husband's absence and kills her by pushing her head into boiling water or pouring boiling water or hot fat into her ear. See motif K51.

SV Asia. Chukchi [pours boiling fat on the face or ear].

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos [pours boiling fat into their ears]; St. Lawrence [(accidentally) pours hot broth into her ear]: Slwooko 1977:74-79; Aleuts [pushes into boiling water]; chugach [pushes into boiling water]; Kodiak [pushes into boiling water]; island Nuniwak [suggests dipping your face in boiling water]; central Yupik [gives boiling water or pushes him into boiling fat]; Northern Alaska inupiate [pushes into boiling water]; Aleuts [shove in boiling pot; tip the boiler over the woman].

Subarctic. He pushes his head into boiling water. Koyukon; inhalic; atna.