K70. Two daughters-in-law: a girl and a frog.35.-.37.39.46.
One man marries a girl, the other (usually the brother of the first) marries a frog or a toad, or a girl and a frog marry one person's wives. Usually wives are offered some challenges, a girl is recognized as a worthy wife, a frog is of little value.
Nordic (?) Khanty, Northern Selkups, Southern Selkups, Sym Evenks, Evenks of the Baikal Region, Central Yakuts, Negidals, Nanais, Orochi, Udege, Wilta, Forest Yukaghirs (probably the text ends), Grovantre, Crowe, hidatsa, mandan, arapaho.
Western Siberia. Nordic (?) Khanty [{the episode of the competition between two daughters-in-law is not in this text, but given Lukina's version and other West Siberian texts, this is most likely an accidental defect}; when going hunting, brother tells Sister Machenkat to feed whoever comes - a chipmunk, a magpie; a bear comes, M. throws hot ash at her; she runs away along the road his brother took; M. goes to look for her brother, the trail is made bear; finds a sledge, but no brother; M. broke a fire stump, the Frog jumped out, angry that her house was broken; began to live together; the Frog tries to cook rotten; offers to change clothes and skiing; on smooth skis Frogs are difficult to walk; change back; come to town, Frog says her fiancé will be with gold garters, fiancé M. with belts; Colket takes M., Kana the Frog who becomes a girl; M. and her husband go to look for a brother; there are two cubs on the cedar, then turn into boys; one says he will give chips to his aunt, the other to his uncle; brother's wife Bear takes off her bear skin, becomes beautiful; her cheek is burned, she forgives M.]: Koptelov 1956:175-180; the northern Selkups [Natank ("girl") and Tomnank ("frog"+ two diminutive suffixes) live at one camp; T. calls N. to collect grass for insoles, kills N., pierces her ear with a blade of grass (sliver); daughter N. notices her mother's leg leaning out from under the tire on the sledge; spies on T. cuts the corpse, promises his children to eat and N.'s children; N. plugs the chimney with a rag (so that T. thinks it's still night), leaves, carries his younger brother in a box; he dies pricked with an awl or drill ; N. buries his brother, pulls out a stump to light a fire, a new T. jumps out from under him; she steals all N.'s things, but she tells them to come back; T. follows on skis from wooden bowls; N. and T. come to camp, marry two men; T. replaces newborn N. with a puppy; T.'s husband leaves her, migrates with T. and her husband; puppy (knot) T. helps her catch the beast; plays with a boy coming out of the water; he is the son of N.; they recognize each other when a stream of T.'s milk enters his mouth; the boy builds a giant plague; T. comes with her husband and husband N.; N. forgives him, telling him to wash himself 7 times; T. is brutally killed; var. (Western 1999, Turukhan): T. kidnaps son N., keeps him; the narrator believes this is a Ket fairy tale]: Tuchkova 2004:208-209; Southern Selkups: Bykonya et al. 1996 [when going hunting, brother orders sister to feed whoever comes; a bear comes in, her sister throws hot ash in her face; her brother does not return, her sister goes to look for him, a frog jumps out of the stump, offers to live together, cooks rotten, offers to exchange skis and fur coats; when they come to town, they change again, the girl gets her sable coat, the Frog gets her torn; the guy with the golden belt came up to the Frog, she became beautiful as a girl, a handsome guy with a simple belt took a girl; she takes her husband to her home; two cedar bears throw bumps, call them aunt and uncle, call them to their house; the girl apologizes to their house Bears (she is her brother's wife, became a woman, her cheek was burned)]: 178-185; =Pukhnachev 1966:20-24; Pelikh 1972 (b. Tym) [the text is confused, the informant does not remember everything; everyone died in the village, there is only one hunter girl left, went on a journey; a stump hits, a frog jumps out of there, calls to her; the girl was well prepared, and the frog gave a damn about the stove - it's not tasty; they go to look for grooms, the frog took the girl's ceilings; she tells them; pull one leg here, and if you don't return, then tear it apart; the frog had everything return; grooms water horses by the ice-hole; frog: the silk leash will be mine, and the leather leash will be yours; girl: you are silent, or I'll finish you off in your trough (she was driving in the trough); after the wedding to the frog it is enviable that the girl is more loved; offers to look for the girl in her head, sticks a wire in her ear; the girl was buried with the ring on her finger; her dog dug her up and revived her (exactly how, the informant does not remember); the girl threw the ring from hand to hand, ordered the palace to appear; gave birth to a child; tells her husband to remove the frog, otherwise she will not return to him; she was torn in half by horses and burned; her the head became a marsh hummock, mosquitoes came out of the smoke]: 348-349; Sym Evenks (Chirombu): Vasilevich 1936, No. 21 [The bear came to two bunny sisters, who poured sand into his eyes, put sand in his eyes legs; a grandmother named Kandika came, grabbed the Bear, ordered them to bring a table, lowered the Bear on it, returned home; the bunny sisters decided to leave; K. tells them to walk hoofed, not along kule-shaped road; at the fork they began to fight, the youngest won, so they walked along the kel-shaped road, it closed on all sides; the eldest became a needle, slipped through, the youngest bump, got stuck; the eldest pulled her, tore her head off; put her on a stump, rock, deck, her head cries every time; left her on another rock; came to the Frog; after living, she went to stay with her relatives; boasted to the Frog that she had steel thimble; reached the place where the younger sister's head remained, she married a god; there deer rattle through the holes of the snags; the eldest asked to call, rang behind the clouds; the eldest took away the big ones deer received from her sister as a gift; the frog brought insects, the deer carried them away on their hooves; the storm demolished the Frog's house, she dived into the lake], 22 [Wolverine ate the mother of two hare girls; they poured it on her into the eyes of the ground, they ran to the old woman; all her things move and work as she wanted; they hid in the cauldron, the cauldron does not go; the old woman beats him, the sisters laugh; the old woman calls them to live with her; when they want to leave , the old woman tells them to walk on the hoof-shaped, not to walk on the kule-shaped; the older sister remembers that she is kel-shaped; they are fighting, the eldest has won, they walk along the kule-shaped; the hut surrounds them in the dark; the eldest has become a fur, a needle, slips into the crack; the youngest is a bump, gets stuck; the eldest pulls her, tears her head off; left her on the deck, her head cries; left it on a tree broken by a zipper - laughs; the eldest went beyond Thunder, her children are just like her - only heads; the youngest came to the Frog; she brings deer - insects, they are carried away by the wind; the frog has begun to live in water]: 22-23, 23-24.
Eastern Siberia. Central Yakuts: Vitashevsky 1912, No. I.1 (Bayagantay ulus) [two orphan girls went to pick berries; the eldest found a black, younger white stone (var.: the youngest wants to take a white stone, the eldest wants to take a white stone, the eldest wants to take a white stone, the eldest one offers to take black; only one stone, shaped like a person); the girls began to live in a hunting lodge, put the stone in a stone cradle, the stone turns into a child; when they return, they find baked fish; the youngest spies, becoming a piece of bark; the child tells objects to move by themselves, promises to eat both sisters, takes the fish out of his mouth, bakes fish, returns to the cradle; the eldest eats fish, the youngest quietly puts her in her bosom; the sisters cover the child with a hot pot, run away; the old woman stretches her leg across the river, the sisters cross it; when the abaas cross, the old woman removes her leg, he drowns; sisters come abaas with one arm and one leg; prisoners are hidden in her iron yurt; she locks the girls in a closet; the youngest becomes the size of sawdust from a needle, jumps out; the eldest sticks her head, swells, her sister pulls, tears off her head, carries it with her; hangs it on larch, her head cries; on a birch tree, the same; on a tree broken by lightning, the head calms down; in a silver yurt a frog lives, asks his younger sister to sew a dress for her husband; before her husband arrives, he hides the girl in a bag; the husband realizes that it was not a frog, finds a girl; invites both wives to go to their relatives for gifts; The frog brings worms, leeches; the girl in the place of the tree where she left her sister's head finds a living sister, a yurt, cattle; the sister married the son of Thunder; hides the youngest; the son of Thunder finds her, gives cattle; on the way home he presses frog worms, leeches and frogs; the husband tells his wives to lie on the roof; the frog put a piece of moss, froze to death; the husband stayed with the girl]: 459-465; Illarionov et al. . 2008, No. 23 (Western 1936, Churapchinsky District) [the parents caught only four fish and decided to take their daughters to the forest; while they were picking berries, the father put his clothes over the stump and left; the girls went to the fork in the road, there is a child in silver and a child in an iron cradle; the youngest wants to take the one in silver, the eldest insists that it be in the iron cradle; the sisters live in the house when they return, there is fish in the house; the youngest does not eat; hides with a needle, sees the baby coming out of the cradle, turning into a giant, spewing an iron whorl, piercing his ass, from there boiled fish fall out; he becomes a baby again; the eldest does not believe it, she remains to see for herself; agrees to overturn a boiling pot of boiled berries on the abaas; the sisters run, the giant with a cauldron on his head is chasing; the youngest throws a needle (forest), a thimble (again) forest), the eldest throws a handkerchief (a cliff to the sky); by the river, the sisters ask the old woman Talas-Talas to lower her golden bridges; she stretches her legs like a bridge, the sisters cross; when the abaas ask for her legs , TT hesitates, then holds out one, the abaas sinks; the sisters entered the house, the exit disappeared; the youngest made a hole, came out with a needle, a thimble; the eldest stuck her head, told her head and ass to swell, got stuck ; the youngest pulled, tore it off; tried to leave her head on the birch, willow, waist, pine tree, spruce - her head cries; when she left it on the aspen, she laughed; the youngest comes to the Frog's house; she asks to sew a bag for her husband, she does not know how; the same mittens, the torbaza; the girl hung the torbaza high, the frog can't reach; the husband found a girl; promised to marry the one who will not freeze in the yard overnight; the husband is a frog wrapped it in moss, put his wife in her bag by the chimney; in the morning she is alive, the frog frog froze; the man married a girl]: 253-271; Evenki of the Baikal region: Titov 1936, No. 9 and 10 (p. Karama) [(No. 9:179-180); two girls went to pick berries, returned - a baby in a shaky baby; sings that if a good woman took him, he would become her good husband, if her husband took him, he would become a good woman for him; girls agreed to say out loud that the child is beautiful, pass him through a boiling pot of porridge, put him in the cauldron; they ran away; the monster is catching up; the eldest threw her handkerchief - the sea (the monster ran away for the boat, swam across); the comb is the thicket (the monster behind the sword, cut through); the bar, it fell in front (mountain); the youngest became a fur, crawled into the hole, the eldest became an ant, her ass was stuck; the youngest began to pull, but the monster ate ass, the youngest returned home alone; (hereinafter No. 10:180-181, from another informant); the youngest dragged the eldest, left; she cries; dragged again, left, she laughs; went alone, the frill untied, she she stood on a stick to tie her foot, the Frog jumped out, told her to go to her yurt, fed her, hid it; ordered her to sew a pullover (?) for his husband; the husband was surprised, she never sewed; the next day the Frog tells me to sew a pouch; the husband hid, found the girl, began to live with her; told the frog to pour blood into the skin, wrap himself; that first it was warm, but at night she froze to death; they killed frog deer; the younger sister went to where she left her elder; there was a hut, where her sister was backless, gave the youngest a lot of deer, she brought them to her husband]: 179-181 .
Amur - Sakhalin. Nanai [the seven Mergen Brothers have a younger sister Pudin; the brothers say that flocks of cannibal squirrels will now arrive, hide P. in a hole near the hearth, lubricate all household items with wild interior fat beast, forgot a torn fishskin sneaker; a bag of beast blood is placed on the sisters's chest; throwing arrows one in the tail of the other, they make a chain of arrows, go up to heaven; the sneaker gives out to squirrels, where P., those they pierce spears at the hearth, one is bloody, they think they killed P., they leave; P. harnesses the dog into sledges, leaves; the sledge turned its bump, the Frog came out from under it, P. asked to spend the night; complains that frogs interfere, the Frog replies that they are her relatives; two Mergen come, P. did not have time to put on her robe, turned into a red branch; the eldest M. sat on the Frog's can, the youngest took a red branch, began to cut, blood flowed; the eldest took the Frog, she put on P.'s robe; P. remained to tie the wound; the younger M. forgot the knife, came back, married P., they caught up with the Frog and the elder M., P. took his robe, gives her fish skin; before that, the Frog asks hazel, reddened, bird cherry, everyone says that she is ugly in any robe; The frog replies that he will make them kindling, toys for children, cleaning chips; Mergen's parents cover the floor with silk, the Frog walks on it, P. turns so as not to get dirty; father-in-law wants to warm up, the Frog heats the stove, sparks fly to his father-in-law; P. asks send the brothers good firewood, the bundle falls from the sky, the father-in-law is happy; The frog serves the father-in-law frog caviar, P. - porridge and butter that the brothers threw off; the father-in-law wants to see the relatives of the daughters-in-law, Frog brings frogs, brothers to P., give silk and fur clothes, return to heaven; The frog swallows spoons, ladles to simulate pregnancy, she is driven away, she jumps into the lake; P. gives birth to a son- heir]: Hodger 2011:67-77; Orochi: Arsenyev 1995 (1) [Egde hunted, broke the squirrel's leg, she promised to come for an answer; E. smeared oil on the whole tree, hid his sister (at the end she was named Bolige) in the ground under the fire, began to shoot arrows into the sky, they pierced each other's tail, E. hit them into the sky; squirrels came, all objects were silent, there was an old street in the corner, it was not smeared, he said where B. ; squirrels pricked the fire with a spear, but E. poured blood in advance; when they saw blood on their spear, the squirrels decided that they had killed B., left; B. broke the street, came to the house where Gilenyr's owner; he still laughs, she asks if she doesn't want to whether he should marry her; I agree if G. leaves a bunch of fish and fish are arranged one by one; (apparently, G. did); came to his mother; she tells him to make a seven-legged shovel out of birch bark so that she herself came home and brought birch bark; he made it, the old woman and B. made a farce out of birch bark; B. sat on a shovel, covered it with birch bark; put it on the ice, carried B. with a shovel; the frog invited B. to her bump; She drove out a lizard, a snake, and more frogs; but B. made her birch bark farce; two brothers came, the Frog said that it was just her and the dog; B. hid under the reeds; the youngest began to slaughter it, bleed; the elder took the Frog and all his possessions; the youngest said he forgot the knife, came back, B. was naked there; he repaired her frog clothes; they caught up with her older brother and the Frog; B. took her Frog's clothes; the brothers' father asks the Frog to cook chumiza, she cooks sand; tells B. to cook; she did not know where the chumiza was, went to the taiga, her seven brothers gave her chumiza, did not tell her where she got it; gave her porridge and To the frog, the porridge is hot; the father-in-law told B. to bring firewood, again the brothers gave it; the father-in-law went with B., she showed him her brothers, he was happy; they ordered not to send B. to the forest anymore; the old man and B. began to live well , The frog was driven away]: 122-125; Margaritov 1888 [knocking down pegs (a type of game) with a stick, seven brothers accidentally injure a squirrel that comes to play with them; she promises revenge by bringing other squirrels; brothers they hide their sister under the hearth, putting a bag of blood on top; they shoot arrows into the sky, they pierce each other's tail, forming a chain; they climb into the sky, the youngest is the last, picking up arrows; the old boots give the squirrels how the brothers left, where the sister is hidden; the squirrels pierce the wineskin, think they have killed the girl, leave; the sister goes to look for brothers, comes to the Frog; she takes her clothes, puts her on; the girl hides inside a stick; two brothers come, the eldest sits next to the Frog, the youngest by the stick, scolds her with a knife, blood comes on her; the eldest leaves with the Frog, the youngest returns for a knife, finds a naked girl, she does not have time to hide in the stick again, tells her story; in her older brother's house, the Frog shows his brothers' father-in-law - they are frogs; he drives away his daughter-in-law; the girl calls her brothers, Enduri sends them from heaven; they give them rich clothes, visit for three days, return to heaven; the girl is recognized as the wife of her younger brother]: 29 (quail in Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:403-405, Sanghi 1989; 285-287); Udege people: Lebedeva et al. 1998, No. 31 [when the squirrel army approaches, seven brothers hide sister Bele under the hearth, go to heaven themselves; smear bacon various objects, forgot to smear their flip-flops; they told the squirrels where the girl was; squirrels hit the hearth with spears, see blood on their spears that the brothers had sprayed there beforehand; left; Bele harnessed the sledges, they caught on a marsh hummock; there Emende, her relatives were frogs; began to live together; two brothers came, B. became an angelica; the elder brother married E., she wore a silk robe b. left her fishskin clothes; the youngest cut an angelica with a knife, saw blood; returned from the road for a forgotten knife, saw b., married; the brothers' father asks to make a fire, cook porridge, show relatives; e. burns lilacs (sparks fly to her father-in-law), cooks sand, brings frogs; brothers B. cook ash firewood for her, give millet to cook porridge, come to her; they say they married seven stars , fly back to heaven], 107 [(Arsenyev's manuscript); hunter Egda broke the squirrel's leg, she promised to come for an answer; he hid his sister under the hearth, pouring blood on top, and smeared the whole tree in the house oil, began to shoot arrows into the sky, which pierced one another, went up to heaven; when he saw blood, the squirrels thought they had stabbed his sister; she came to Gilenyt, he wanted to marry her, she left on the ice on a shovel; the Frog invited her to live with her, she gave her her jewelry; two brothers came, she became grass, one took the Frog, the other cut the grass, noticed blood, came back for a knife, took the girl, the Frog had to give her her jewelry and clothes, take hers; The frog tramples on her father-in-law's expensive bed, the girl folds it; The frog cooks sand, brings crackling firewood, brings a lizard, a snake, a frog - their relatives; seven brothers give their sister chumiz, cut good firewood, show themselves to their father-in-law; The frog is driven into the swamp]: 227-235, 474-476; Negidals: Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951 [Neyavkan went hunting, a frog climbed into his shuttle; asks her not to beat her, promises to make various ornaments; at home N. hides her from his wife in a corner in a quiver; in his absence, his wife promises her crying son that the father will return, bring moose fat; a voice is heard from the quiver; the wife finds, hits the frog, sprinkles ash into her eyes; N. returns, beats his wife, takes the frog and the son, leaves; the frog gives the child a button instead of a breast, does not know how to repair clothes, N. became impoverished, killed a frog, returned to his wife; she did not care in his eyes, but took it back]: 331-333; Cincius 1982, No. 25 [the older sister tells his father that the youngest has a man; he drives her daughter away; an old woman warns her not to tie her boots if she unties her; she violates the ban; the frog invites her into his house, takes her jewelry and clothes, gives her hers frog clothes; girl turns into a stick; Vayamilan marries the Frog, Tybdemalan sits on the girl's bunk, scolds a stick with a knife, blood flows; returns for a knife, stick turns into a girl, he takes her as his wife; father-in-law asks daughters-in-law to bring him treats, dowry clothes, bring relatives; The frog cooks frog caviar, brings leaves, frogs; the girl goes to larch, bags of delicious food rich in clothes fall from the top; two handsome men descend from the sky - they are her relatives; they take away Frog's clothes and jewelry; Frog and her husband choke ]: 135-139; Wilta: Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951 [a girl picks berries, sits on a bump; the Frog pops up, asks the girl to come to her, picks up her clothes and jewelry, gives her dilapidated clothes made of fish skin; two brothers arrive, one marries a Frog, the other scabs the wand that the girl has become; blood comes out on her; he returns for a forgotten knife, finds a girl; father-in-law asks daughters-in-law to bring firewood, berries, and their relatives; The frog brings raw firewood, dried berries, frogs and lizards; the girl brings dry firewood, fresh berries, her seven brothers fall from the sky; The frog swallows the girl's dishes; the Frog's husband cuts her stomach, the dishes fall out of there]: 373-376; Sangi 1989 [=Medvedev 1992:321-327; seven pudin brothers tell her to prepare to receive matchmakers, but she does not want to married; to protect her, the brothers turned her into a needle, flew away with white birds; when they entered the house, the matchmakers find no one; the carnation in the bunk says that the brothers and sister did not treat him, explains that pudin turned into a needle; the groom took the needle to him, but she did not turn into a girl, he threw it away; the powder became a girl, walks home through the taiga, hears voices, became a wooden shovel; the man picked it up; she is afraid of being locked, she stump in the barn, the man did not lock the barn, the pudin ran away; she came to the house in the forest, there was a frog; she asked for her to try on clothes of powder, she became powder herself, but the powder remained in her lower robe; fell asleep, became a frog; an imaginary pudin sent her for water; matchmakers arrived, seized an imaginary powder; an imaginary frog brought water, turned into a hook pole above the hearth; one of the guys came back, cut the pole with a knife, blood came out; he deliberately left the knife, ran to the sledges that were leaving, then said he had forgotten the knife and came back; there was a girl, the guy married her, and the imaginary powder became again a frog; the frog was driven into the swamp, and well done, brought his wife]: 289-294.
SV Asia. Forest yukaghirs [the old woman has 3 daughters; the boy came and put them on a cliff of a mountain; they sent a bird to her mother, let her send caviar (to stick glue to the rock) and an awl (to pierce the rock); the younger sister asks the elder if she will be jealous of her common husband; she replies what will happen; the youngest cut off her belt, the sister fell; the same with the middle sister; the youngest came to the house, there are various skins, clothes; I began to look for who the workers were, found a frog-girl and a mouse-girl, scalded them with boiling water to death; a guy came looking for his workers; who killed them {the text ends}]: Jochelson 1900, No. 2: 4-5.
Plains. Grovantre [The Sun and the Moon are brothers; the Sun prefers Frogs because they do not squint at him; the Month prefers girls; becoming a porcupine, it lures one of the two sisters into a tree, from there to heaven; the mother of the Sun and the Month wants to know which daughter-in-law crunches and champs more while chewing meat; the wife of the Month wins with good teeth; The frog tries to nibble on the coals, black saliva flows, the Frog described; the offended Sun throws her in the face of the Month, she sticks to it; the Sun takes the wife of the Month and her son; a woman with a child descends from heaven on a rope; the rope is short, The sun throws a stone at his wife; a woman falls, breaks, her son remains alive; she ruins an old woman's garden; she catches a boy, he lives with her; kills women who turn into snakes; one crawls into his anus, kills him; The month sends cold rain, banishing the snake; the young man and his mother come to life]: Kroeber 1907b, No. 21:90-94; crowe [like a grovantre; wives compete to see who eats more; Frog loses; Month throws her away; she jumps on his back and stays there]: Lowie 1918:52; hidatsa [brothers; month marries a girl, Sun on a Toad; woman eats thin chunks quietly, Toad eats, chomping, fat; Month laughs at her, she jumps on his back, stays there]: Beckwith 1938:117-130; Lowie 1942:2; Mandan [A month wants a girl to be married, the Sun is a Toad because she does not wrinkle her eyes looking at him; Month turns into a porcupine, climbs a tree; the youngest of two girls climbs after him, ends up in the sky; mother-in-law wants to know which daughter-in-law chews louder; Toad has no teeth, she can't chew meat, she chews coal; A month laughs at her, she jumps on his back, still visible]: Bowers 1950:200-201; arpahoe [like a mandan; Toad jumps on the chest of the Month]: Dorsey 1903:212-220; Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 134 [A month hears one girl expressing a desire to marry him, and another wants a bright star as her husband; his brother Sun prefers the Frog because it does not wrinkle her eyes when looking at him; Month turns into a porcupine, a girl follows him, climbs a tree, goes to heaven, becomes the wife of the Month; the Sun brings the Frog; The frog is going to get water, takes a vessel; The month offers his wife and the Frog compete who chews a piece of gut better; the wife of the Month crunches pleasantly, the Frog can't gnaw the gut, crunches with coals, black drools; she's offended, jumps on her chest for a month, her since then seen there with a water vessel; the Month has two wives, a woman and Bisonich, each with a son; sons and wives quarrel; the Month warns the female wife not to dig a deep hole by digging roots; she digs, makes a hole in the sky, sees his native village; weaves a rope from his tendons, climbs down it; The month throws a stone, killing his wife, but the child falls and remains alive; sucks a dead mother's chest; grows up; a person notices traces, leaves a bow and arrows, the boy picks them up; the man hardly grabs it, brings him to the parents of the deceased woman; the Month reproaches the Bisonikha Wife for what happened; she and her son go away; the month follows them; every day the bison kills one of them (one of the brothers of the wife of the Month) to feed their son-in-law; each time they collect bones in their skin, the bison comes to life; the Month peeks by piercing a hole in the tipi, sees his father-in-law hitting a snag, a man jumps out of there, runs, Bisons kill him for food; A month secretly makes bows, goes to hit the snag himself; first a woman jumps out- provocateur, the Month beats her, now her nose is injured, does not let her go back; people go out, the Month gives them bows; tells them to hunt buffalo and the Bisons to become bison; father-in-law's hat will become head and spine , bird claws with horns, hailstones - eyes, round elk teeth - teeth, eagle feather - tongue, deer hooves - hooves, moon-shell - voice, wampum - larynx, water turtles - buds, Navajo cape - intestines, bast - tendons, eagle feathers - shoulders, water plant root - penis, foam on water - lungs, vine pod - heart].