K63. Fish babies and reindeer people.
(.19.) .21.25.26. (.28.) .34.-.37.40. (.63.)
A person comes to people who hunt people or catch human fish. For them, these are wild animals or fish.
(Wed. Melanesia. Oz. Kutubu [thinking he was going up the steps to the men's house, Fagena kept going up, went to the men's house in the sky; asked the sleeper, too Fagena; the urine of heavenly people - fish, shrimp, bowel movements - pigs, snakes, wallabies, couscous; from there these animals descend into the Earth's reservoirs and forests with fog; heavenly F. opened a hole, saw his wife below in mourning; heavenly invited someone on earth Either kill, they killed a woman and a girl, there is a holiday in the heavenly village; below is also a holiday; the heavenly one descended the earth back down a palm tree; it turned out that the funeral festival was five days after how a tree ran over a woman and a girl; some believe that killing in the sky precedes death here; others that the dead are being killed in the sky]: Williams 1941, No. 14:147-148).
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Minyong [someone is cooking in the hunter's hut; he asks Doini-Pollo (Sun-Month) to see who it is; finds a girl Wiyu (Epom-Wiyu); she is ready to marry him, but first hers the brothers will bring gifts; the house is filled with clouds, it becomes dark, the girl throws meat and beer under the roof, her brothers eat and drink; after they leave, buffaloes, pigs, necklaces remain; the clouds clear the area under the crops; the couple go to visit them, the wife gives her husband ginger; if he cuts, let him suck blood and spit with ginger; he cut himself, the first two brothers licked the blood, screamed that it was sweet; he spat with ginger, others believed it was bitter; otherwise they would eat it; he kills a chameleon, for brothers it is a deer, they carry meat in a basket; in front of their son-in-law they cut, cook and eat their younger sister "with through the eyes of a deer"; a man secretly throws the pieces given to him into a crack in the floor; brothers give this meat with them, his Wiyu wife eats it; gives birth to children, devours everyone but one; when it's time for him to die, he went into the woods, gone]: Elwin 1958b, No. 15:124-127
Taiwan - Philippines Kankanai [two Timungan brothers are digging roots; they find a flat stone under one, he closed a hole into the lower world; they go down there by rope; cannibals with tails live there; the owner of the house Maseken agrees not to harm the brothers for one of them's promise to marry his daughter; when they hunt, they see four pillars propping up the ground; one is rubbed by a pig, causing earthquakes; hunters they chase an old carabao (buffalo), a person sees that it is actually their mother, misses it; father-in-law catches up and hurts her; tells the brothers to go to land if they don't like hunting people; they climbed upstairs on the same rope; when the sun was shining in the lower world, it was night on the ground; if the patient's throat and nose bleed, a chicken is killed for M.]: Eugenio 1994, No. 16:50-51.
China - Korea. Koreans [people used to eat other people because they looked like cattle; a young man went to look for a country where people were not eaten; a leper told him to come back: like this There is no country, but if you eat an onion, the cow's appearance will change to a human one; when he returned, the young man began to talk about what he had learned to his acquaintances, but for them he was a bull; he was tied to a pole to be slaughtered; the girl carried a basket of onions; the bull reached out and ate the onion; became human; from that time on, people began to grow and eat onions]: Ząng 1952, No. 10:20-21.
(Wed. Central Europe. Russian written tradition ("The Tale of the Unknown Man in an Eastern Country and the Language of the Different", late 15th - early 16th centuries) [On the Eastern countries beyond the Ugra land, people live on their own over the sea-Ωkian, calling for silence. And their mso ωlenie yes fish, and between themselves there is a drop of water. And the guest comes to them Ωtcodes, and they harden their guests, and they feed them. And what kind of guest will die, and they dream of it, but they do not bury him in the ground, but their own taco (e)]: Pliguzov 2001:).
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tofalars [a man came to people with horse hooves; they killed their daughter for him, cooked him, served him; he galloped off, his pursuers got stuck in a swamp; eternal people ride hares; sable caught one, bit his throat; that man killed a sable, eternal people promise eternal water for it; women laugh when they see little people; they are offended, pour water on conifers; they have been forever green]: Katanov 1891:89-90; Rassadin 1996, No. 39:95-96.
Western Siberia. Yamal Nenets: Golovnev 2004 [Nyad avorta - "Moshoeeds" who look like human beings, but eat moss; they graze by digging snow or turf with their shoulder blades ; gats; the same shoulder blades are placed to the head, which makes them even more like horned deer; the camp owner, Nyad Avorta Urv, herds moss with his sons, harnesses into sledges, catches with arcana, slaughters meat; Valka brought a mossy girl tied to a sledge to the plague, and then his wife, the daughter of the god Ilibembertya, turned her into a real woman, a mammoth the tambourine, cut into seven parts and revived again (Zhitkov 1913:244-247)]: 313-314; Lekhtisalo 1998 (Yamal) [The polar bear was chased by a polar bear, he was carried on an ice floe, then on a drifting tree; after 40 He crawled to the ground along the yellow ice for years; two giantesses brought him to their place in a mitten, cured him; their old father went to chase thousands of deer to people; women teach V. to tell the old man that he took his eldest daughter; V. and the old man come to the plague; there are half people in it; some walk upside down, others are naked, stand on top of each other, have faces in front and back; V. and his wife come to people who have Bone shovels on their heads like deer antlers, they eat reindeer moss; two guys grabbed a beautiful girl for V., began to strangle her; V. asked to give her alive; she tries to escape, is afraid of fire; in the other In the village, the owner strangled his wife for a treat and offered V. a fat piece; V. runs away, the owner's son is chasing him, V. stabbed him, others are happy to eat; V. returned home; the giant wife cut herself into seven parts, became normal; cut a wild girl, she came to life, became normal; V. became a shaman]: 28-31; Pushkareva 2000 [the youngest of four Tatamboev brothers comes to the plague, which deer people graze; Singgi-Khasawa offers T. to slaughter the "deer", he refuses; S. solders him, he wakes up by the sea of blood, decides that he is a murdeer; returns home after adventures]: 55- 56; Forest Nenets: Karapetova 1990 [nyata mamotlt's people ("eating moss"), naked, shoveling snow with their feet, eating moss, harnessing each other into sledges; Dietlemiam met them padetlta (the spirit master of wild deer); the elder offers to slaughter a young girl for him, but D. takes her as his wife; later meets these people again, gives them a vazhenka, she took her with her half a herd; this is how the Nenets got deer]: 64-65; Lehtisalo 1998 [forest yuraks also know about the giant people with shovels on their heads; they live in underground holes and eat reindeer moss, which makes their feces look like reindeer; move tirelessly, easily catching up with a reindeer team; the owner eats his own people, uses them as mounts instead of deer]: 31; Entsy [Sirota-Tau (orphan nganasan) marries Sigio's daughter; he sends him to fish, he pulls off the hook in a forest of Mach 150, pulls out a woman with a child, prunes the forest in fear; his father-in-law says it was caviar fish; ST and his wife run away, kills with the arrows sent in pursuit of the servants of S. (shoots at the last one, he falls, cuts the axe of the one in front, and that's it); his iron dog (hitting her nose); S. stops chasing; comes to cannibals who are going to slaughter his daughter for him; takes takes her as his wife; both wives eat human meat; in another place, the owners harness people into sledges, hunt wild deer, which are humans; elsewhere, ST kills deer, locals do not see it for a long time; his words for them are the crackling of frost, fire; he teaches them to make bows, they used to have planks with a hole in the middle; ST returns to their land]: Long 196:73-81; nganasans [two brothers include in the fog on the ice floe to an unknown shore; local people hunt wild - two- and four-legged; two-legged - naked long-haired people; the owners are angry with the guests that they do not shoot; then a married brother is easy killed the wild with a stick; the owner gives him his daughter; five years later he sends him to the Russian; the Russian explains that the shaman has sent the fog, sends them home in an iron boat; a married brother kills the shaman, returns wife]: Long 1938:131-135; northern (?) Selkups: Golovnev 1995:498 [Lozvyl, Devil's Lake; a fisherman pulls burbot out of the water, he turns into a naked baby; lowers it back - burbot again], 507 [into Nunil-to (Nalimye lake in the upper reaches Pelvis) also lives a water spirit, where fish also turn into babies].
Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [one dolganin went far north, met a giant, helped him with something, and the giant brought him home; they put the dolganin at the table, wanted to treat him; it turned out that they were eating great mermaids caught in the North Sea; one of the giants said that the guest should not be fed this meat; then they slaughtered the deer from their herd and fed the guest; brought venison with them and several huge deer; this is how dolgan herds appeared]: Natalia Bobykina's recording by Vasily Batagay (born 1978, Dudinka, Krasnoyarsk Krai), July 2016 at the Velikaya River Festival in the city Opochka, Pskov Region; Evens ("Kolyma Evenks") [a man with his wife and son walks through a deserted area; the son promises to find a wife; comes to an unknown camp, marries; father-in-law tells me to catch fish, son-in-law, and then father-in-law, catch babies; when hunting, deer are naked people; the son-in-law first lets go of the prey in horror, arousing the anger of his father-in-law, then fishes and kills many baby fish and reindeer people; the wife says his father-in-law wants to kill him; the man returns to his own, brings his wife with him]: Bogoras 1918, No. 1:26-28.
Amur-Sakhalin. Nivhi: Ostrovsky 1997, No. 12 [the hunter goes to the booth where a handsome man is sitting; he feeds the guest meat, but does not eat himself, because he does not have an anus; the hunter pierces his anus with a knife, he eats and spews what they eat for the first time; shows the hunter naked people; when he kills them, they turn into animals; the hunter gets a beautiful wife; in the forest world she was a she-wolf]: 83; Pilsudski 1991 [=Ostrovsky 1997]: 46-48 (same as Pilsudski 2003, No. 20:95-97).
The Arctic. Copper [Alguna pursues musk oxen, gets to people whose bodies are imperfect; they only suck meat, not eat it; A. goes on; sees a group of women chasing two men They catch one and tear it apart; when A. returns home, it turns out that he has been away for seven years]: Jenness 1924, No. 93:89.
(Wed. Montagna - Jurua. Kashibo [see motif A18; through a battleship's hole, a man enters the lower world; the Sun takes him into his boat; asks to throw a harpoon at people sailing in boats towards him; after hesitation, man pierces a harpoon, each person turns into a fish]: Gebhaert-Sayer 1987, No. 23:371-372).