K52. For a kidnapped man to the bottom of the sea. 40.-.43.48.

A woman or boy who comes to the shore is carried to the bottom by the predatory inhabitants of the sea; the character goes down for the kidnapped and returns her or him with cunning and shamanic power.

Chugach, Upper Tanana, (Southern Tutchoni), Taltan, Tlingits, Haida, Tsimshian, Heiltsuk, Bellacula, Kvakiutl, Nootka, Quarry, Sechelt, Halkomel, Okanagon, Chumash.

The Arctic. Scoundrel: Birket-Smith 1953:167-170 [The raven marries Tresky's daughter; the girl wants crane eggs, the Raven pulls them out, marries, takes his wife away in a boat; killer whales ask him to close his eyes, kidnap him wife; the bird tells the Raven who is the kidnapper, for which he receives larvae; puts him under water; the Raven consistently comes to the Old Cod Woman, Halibut, Red Snapper, Perch; everyone replies that the kidnappers have just passed by; Perch warns that Killer Whales have a Crane as a watchman, gives a spear to bribe him; the Raven gives a spear to the Crane, since then the cranes have a long beak; Killer whales sleep, the Raven snoops, how they accidentally croak, grab it, put it under a stone, make a fire on top; the Raven has bark with him, he chews it, spits out red juice, killer whales think it's blood, take it out, throw it into the latrine place; his wife comes there; the Raven tells her to go back and wait; gets out, washes; pretends to be a leader, takes Squirrels, Martens, Lasok, Norok with him; the Killer Killer Chief asks why his men are so fast; The raven replies that he cut out a piece of each of their liver, lungs and heart; invites killer whales to lie in a row, smears each eye with resin; the leader has one eye barely sees; the Raven rips open the Killer Whale one by one , the chief notices this, runs away through the chimney; The raven and his wife load the boat with the property of Killer Whales, sail away], 171 [see motif L74; The bear bites off the man's hand, the Raven returns it, treats the patient; for this The chief gives him a daughter; the Raven takes her in a boat, brags about killer whales (blackfish) that only his wife has such a rich fur coat; they promise to give him fish, ask him to close their eyes, kidnap his wife; the Raven comes to the old woman, the mistress of the tides; the bird helps him fall under the water; the Blue Watchman Crane screams, the Raven gives him a copper spear, since then the cranes have a long beak; the Crane that pops out Killer Whales explains that he yelled when he sleepy; takes the girl out of the Killer Whale house, the Raven runs away with her].

Subarctic. Upper tanana [The raven brings his wife to the river to catch fish for her; the fish (obviously Salmon) jumps out three times, hits the Raven, but he still catches her; at this time, the fish took the Raven's wife away; The frog "raises" water for him so that he can descend into the fish world; there the Muskrat Slave cuts wood for the fish, breaks the ax; fears that he will be severely punished; the Raven repairs his ax for promising to pour soup into the hearth, when he enters the fish house; confused, the Raven takes his wife away, the Muskrat runs with them; the Raven tells the aquatic plants to grow thicker to detain the fish; the Frog helps them return to land; makes a house Muskrat above the water, tells you not to go (for a long time) under water so that fish do not eat it]: Kari 1996:39-46; taltan [husband and wife clean large unfamiliar fish; wife goes to the sea to wash their hands; Killer whales they take her away, make her a slave; her husband comes for her; the shark slave agrees to fill the hearth in the killer whale house; a couple unseen in clubs, the husband takes his wife away; the Shark fights the Killer Whales to detain them]: Teit 1921a, No. 35:228-229; (cf. Southern Tutchoni [the couple live by the lake; another man came to live with them; pretended to be returning home; when the husband went hunting and the wife went into the water to clean the fish, a former guest grabbed her and took her away; her husband sees his wife from afar, promises to return for her with her brothers; two years later they found a way under the glacier, went to another valley; they pushed a man left behind into the fire To watch two old women, he burned down; the old women showed the wrong way, but the husband found a wife; in the evening she took her two children, left the camp unnoticed; everyone else was killed at night]: Workman 2000:125-128).

NW Coast. Tlingit: Dähnhardt 1909 (Fort Tongass, far south of the Alexander Archipelago) [the killer whale stole Chief Schagattyno's wife; he went to sea by boat and dived; at the bottom asks two blind duck women; they say that they saw Killer Whale drag a woman; in gratitude, the chief cut the skin that covered their eyes, making them sighted; the episode is repeated with various ducks and geese; because the knife dull, the eyes of birds of different species are of different sizes; the Crane hides the leader, for which he receives grass from him that used to serve instead of tobacco; with the help of the Sea Lion (he is a slave to Killer Whales), the leader returns wife, emerges to the surface with her]: 503; Swanton 1909, No. 4 [Killer whales kidnap a woman who comes to the water; the husband follows her; the Chief of the Sharks advises her husband to wish the slave's axe to split; the ax splits, the husband repairs it, for which the slave agrees to help], 59 [the chief of the Killer Whales takes the woman as his wife; when entering the sea, the husband lifts the water like a blanket; passes several villages where different types of fish live; The cod is pale, walks upside down; the man paints the Cod red; Sharks show him the village of Killer Whales; while the slave floods the hearth, the husband takes his wife away; Sharks kill Killer Whales, preventing the chase]: 26- 27, 215-217; Hyda (Skidgate) [killer whales carry a woman, a man at the bottom of the sea marries her; the husband first gets to the floating seaweed, then descends to the bottom; gives gifts to the Heron Watchman, who hides it; grabs his wife when steam envelops the room where she is sitting; returns home with her]: Swanton 1905:244-247 [see motive K27; the old man helps her husband find his wife's trace; advises giving Heron tobacco and wicker cedar branches; The heron hides her husband in his mouth; hides it again when he runs away from her captors with his wife], 338-340 [The marten takes her husband to the floating seaweed; he gives the Heron cedar branches, a drill, a whetstone; the Heron hides it under his arm; the husband helps the slaves Raven and the Raven cut down a tree; they overturn the vessel of water to the hearth to fill the room with steam; at home, the hero hides his wife in a box; one day he finds him empty and there is a hole in the box]; Hyda (Masset) [the young man lives with his grandmother; the uncle sees that he is a good hunter, gives his daughter for him; at the request of his mother-in-law, the son-in-law catches a sea otter; the wife goes to sea rinse the skin, killer whales take it away; the husband descends to the bottom of the sea, gives mouse fat, whetstone to the Heron (sharpen her broken beak), Geese - tc! al (plant?) , they skip it, everyone explains how to overcome the next obstacle; a man makes a Tesla broken by a slave intact, he promises to pour water into the hearth; in the clouds, the couple takes his wife away; throws it behind hair from a comb (bushes), a comb (mountain); they climb a rope to the surface; the Killer Whale slave does not hold, but pushes the boat]: Swanton 1908a, No. 35:495-500; Haida O. The Prince of Wales (and the Tlingits? ; the author has "tlingits-hyda") [Gunarh's wife washes the skin of a sea otter in the sea, Killer Whale takes it away; taking Marten and Swallow into the boat, G. swims to two algae rising to the sea surface, ties a boat to them; goes down to the bottom; cuts the skin in front of blind Geese, they see the light, show the way; the slave breaks the teslo, G. glues it together, he promises to help; tells another slave to overturn a pot of water put on fire; in the cloud, couple G. takes his wife; puts something like tobacco in the slave's mouth, the slave swells, closing the passage; Geese send G. along the same path, and the pursuers are told where they dug up traps; Marten takes G. and his wife into the boat; among the killer whales, one with a double fin; shouts that he, the slave, will continue to help people; G. and his wife return]: Beck 1989: 100-112; Tsimshian [chief Gulaxnisem hunted sea otters, and their herd also included whales {probably killer whales: so on}; for this reason, killer whales kidnapped G.'s wife; he went in search; salmon pointed the road after G. painted his cheeks red and gave him a narcotic root; the following were ducks, while all the ducks were blind; they showed the way after G. cut through their eyes, although he did it badly in a hurry {what was bad is not very clear}; the bridge guard, who sounded when giving a signal to killer whales, hid G. under his cape; in the house, the killer whales they had kidnapped Salzan's slave; he was cutting wood in a hurry: killer whales were going to fry G.'s wife to turn her into a killer whale too; he broke his stone ax, G. gave him a lot of narcotic root, and he didn't notice how G. passed; spat on the axe and it was whole again; S. had two wives, both minks; they smelled G., but S. told them to go about their business; G.'s wife was already fried on one side and washed on the other; brought water, S. poured her into the hearth, G. grabbed his wife and took her away, no one noticed it in the clouds of steam; S. lay down in the doorway, blocking the way for his pursuers, he was beaten to death; G. had a knife that brought him to the ground and then to upper world; there he killed two grizzlies and a snake, married two grizzly daughters; wanted to take them to the ground, but he was allowed to go down with only his old wife]: Barbeau, Beynon 1987, No. 54:175-176; bellacula [Killer whale kidnaps Vaovalis's wife when she comes to the sea to wash clothes; in the underwater world, a slave splits a log with a wedge; V. tells the wedge to break; repairs himself; grateful the slave promises to fill the hearth with water; steam envelops the room, V. takes his wife, climbs her rope into the boat; finds in her the bones of his adopted son, who died of exhaustion in anticipation, for V. spent day is a year; V. revives it]: McIlwraith 1948 (1): 544-546; Heiltzuk [Vavalis sends his wife to rinse the cat's skin; the woman is kidnapped by the Killer Whale; the husband follows her; the Crow, Halibut, Cod answer that a woman has passed recently; the leader's slave splits the logs; V. tells his wedge to break; repairs the hearth for promising to fill the hearth with water; hiding behind clouds of smoke, takes his wife away]: Boas 1928b: 105-107; quakiutl [(no beginning?) ; Omal (Raven) comes to the Killer Whale's servant, tells his four wedges to split; he repairs it himself; the slave helps him find the Killer Whale's wife; O. hides in the wood, hugs the woman when she takes firewood; kills many Killer Whales, Ducks; returns to earth with a woman]: Boas 1910, No. 18:217-223; Nootka [a woman takes off her skin from a cat killed by her husband; the skin takes her to the underwater world; spirits (these are sharks) they are going to cook the captive; the husband dives, runs away with his wife; throws pointy sticks, they turn into a thicket; throws fat - the perfume hesitates, devouring it, fighting; the husband's friend pulls it out by the rope runaways to the surface; husband throws fat to sharks, they keep fighting over it]: Sapir, Swadesh 1939, No. 13:63-67.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [seal hunter tells new wife not to look if she hears dogs chewing; woman watches; sees first wife in Wolverine guise; she bites her in half; husband burns her Rossomokha, pushing into the earthen furnace, revives his new wife; one day he brings a white seal, asks his wife to wash the carcass; she enters the water, the marine inhabitants take it away; the husband dives, brings stones to the little fish, under which fish live, makes blind geese sighted; Satsan cuts down a tree to make the kidnapped woman fins; the husband tells the wedge to split; repairs; for this S. pours water into the fire; the husband carries wife; S. prevents the pursuers from leaving the house, Geese and Fish put obstacles in their way; the sea floods the earth to the sky; the husband kills his wife with an ax, throws it into the water; the water begins to fall; first Muskrat, Then the Beaver dives, both repeatedly bringing portions of clay from the bottom; man makes new land out of them]: Jenness 1934, No. 8:141-143; halkomel (snanaimook, Vancouver's east coast) [hunter kills seals; his wife goes to wash the skin, she is carried away by the Killer Whale; the husband, tying his belt to his belt and leaving the other end to his companions in the boat, goes down to the bottom; meets blind women, one serves others eat in a pot, a person grabs a pot, women understand that there is a stranger nearby; show the way, for which he makes them sighted; they warn that he will meet a Heron Watchman; a man approaches from behind, pushes her into the fire; heals her for a burn, for which she shows the way, gets a spear (= beak), warns that he will meet a slave next; the slave splits the tree, the person makes the wedge break; repairs, for which the slave pours water into the hearth in the Killer Whale's house; the husband grabs the wife, they run; the killer whale tells the Heron to kill the fugitives, but she deliberately misses; the husband and wife pull the rope, they are dragged into the boat, they get home safely]: Boas 1895, No. V.3:55-56 (=2002:153-155); sechelt (sisiatl) [a man shot a sea otter, his wife went to wash her skin, it turned into a sea fox, dragged it into the sea; the husband went down to the bottom; the Crane, the Goose, another bird is screaming, he tells them to be silent, show the way; hid in a tree, the slave began to cut the trunk, the man grabbed the chisel with his teeth, broke it; went out, fixed it, for this the slave spilled water into the hearth; in the dark and clubs, the couple took his wife away; the slave falls twice in front of the pursuers, each time creating a mountain; the husband and wife reach the boat, escape]: Hill-Tout 1904a: 52-54; Okanagon [Otter (Fisher) warns his younger brother Marten not to go in a certain direction; he goes, the woman in the house bends his face to the fire, since then the marten's face has been wrinkled; the otter leads this deer woman as her wife; tells her not to swim far into the lake; after giving birth to a son, she swims, climbs a log, it goes under water with her; the brothers meet a boat with two young men, who say that they are servants and guards of the underwater chief's new wife; the otter kills them, the brothers put their clothes on, come to the chief; the marten jumps awkwardly into the boat, everyone wonders what's wrong with him; The otter tells his wife not to take longer Let the chief sleep; when he falls asleep, his brothers cut off his head, swim away with the woman; the pursuers almost catch up, then they throw their heads; the Turtle, the Frog dive, cannot reach their heads from the bottom; The frog's legs are painted, the turtle's shell is made; now both do not freeze in the water, they reach out their heads; the shell and color remain]: Hill-Tout 1911:158-161.

California. Chumash [Eagle's nephew Xelex harpoons sea bass; Swordfish takes him away; the Eagle sends the Coyote to bring his nephew back; at the bottom of the Coyote gives the Door of the House to Swordfish tobacco, it opens; throws poisonous mushroom powder into the face of an old Swordfish, making him talk about the customs of Swordfish; 1) Swordfish let the Coyote eat huge pieces of whale meat; he sticks a flute through him passes meat through it, pretending to eat; 2) brings a huge whale; 3) wins the run, surrendering a lot of coyotes from their excrement and telling them to run separate sections of the distance; makes the Sword- revive fish K.; returns home with K.; he gets married]: Blackburn 1975, No. 26:175-189.