K86. A whiny child.

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A small (usually capricious) child is ignored, kicked out of the house, thrown on the road, and given to another person for a while. As a result, an animal or spirit takes the baby away.

Hottentots, Basques, Alsatians, Upper Arapes, Buka, Bougainville, Mono, San Cristobal, Ulchi, Ainu, Japanese, Tundra (?) Yukaghirs, Central Yupik, Mackenzie Eskimos, Atna, Tanana, Tagish, South Tutchoni, Taltan, Eyak, Haida, Bellacula, Uvikino, Quakiutl, Nootka, Quarry, Chilkotin, Shuswap, Thompson, Lillouette, Quileut, halkomel, lummi, clallam, vasco, yakima, kalapuya, kutene, teton, osage, sheyen, arapaho, karok, pomo (kashaya), coastal yuki, tubatulabal, kawaiisoo, luiseno, serrano, western shoshoni, chemewevi, utah, hopi , Tiwa (Picuris), Western Mexican Nahuatl, Guajiro, Sicuani, Warrau, Arecuna, Ticuna, Bora, Sharanahua, Yaminaua, Kamayura, Waura, Iranche, Paresi, Chorote, Maca.

SW Africa. Hottentots [the husband left at night, the wife lights a fire; feels that someone is nearby, thinks that the husband is letting the child hold; the husband comes, they understand that the child was taken away by the hyena; the boy grew up with hyena's children; he was spotted; caught with a hyena; when taught to live with people, the hyena was released]: Schmidt 2007, No. 57:129-130.

Southern Europe. Basques [the girl cries, the mother screams in her heart to take you away; after 8 years, the girl's brother sees her combing her hair by the cave; on the advice of the monk, the mother bakes seven loaves, the last with with a cross, leaves them at the cave; the girl takes six loaves of bread to the cave, the latter does not take them; her parents take her home].

Western Europe. The Alsatians [the little boy is constantly crying; a sorcerer came and offered to take him to study; they go down to the underground castle; the student must give hay to the donkey and the horse with horseshoe nails; you can't swim in the spring, look in the mirror; here is the key, but the door cannot be opened; the young man looked in the mirror, saw that it was dirty, washed it with water from the spring; when he looked again, he saw that he had gold hair; opened the room, there are skulls, a piece of resin on the table, he made a hat out of it to cover his hair; the horse tells him to give him food, the donkey has nails, take a sword, a brush, a bridle, a scraper, they jump away; the sorcerer pursues, the horse tells him to throw a bridle (water area), a scraper (many walls); the horse tells him to cut off his head with a sword to spell; a dove will fly out, drop a feather and gold clothes, it is necessary pick up; having done everything, the young man came to the castle, was hired as a gardener; enemies go to war; the young man summons a white horse with a feather, removes resin from his golden hair, smashes enemies, returns, taking the image again gardener; again, soldiers deliberately wounded him in the leg to recognize him by his scar; the king's sick daughter looked at everything, said to his father; he identified the young man by his scar, gave his daughter and the throne]: Lefftz 2006, No. 28: 267-274.

Melanesia. Upper arapesh [the cannibal spat on the old woman, killing her; put on her skin, came to two women at night, asked for their babies; ate one, leaving rotten instead; the other, a girl , raised; ate man herself, fed the girl pork; Month began to come to the girl, copulated, ran away with her to the island; the cannibal asks how they got there; On the board; they pushed her into the sea, her spirit became an ogre crocodile]: Mead 1940, No. 38:381-382; Buka [the older brother promised to leave the younger one opossum giblets (considered lacmism), but it turned out that the boys' mother she had already eaten them; the youngest began to roar, left the house, fell asleep on the bench; Totopiok took him away with the bench; in the forest, the boy woke up, grabbed a branch; hears T. coming to his cave, telling his wife put water on the fire to cook "vegetables"; when they saw an empty bench, T. and his wife went to look for the fugitive, noticed it on the tree (the sun had already risen); T. climbed, the boy threw fruit at him, T. fell, died; the same with his wife ; boy told ants to eat cannibal eyes; went down, returned home]: Montauban, O'Reilly 1952, No. 2:64-66; northern Bougainville [boy is naughty, goes to sleep on the platform in front of the house; spirit Tukis takes him away with the platform; the boy grabs a branch, climbs a tree; when he finds it missing, T. comes back; the boy throws a nut at him; T. says, Darkness, darkness, come quickly; boy throws nuts at him; dawns, T. leaves]: Blackwood 1932:93-94; mono (Shortland Islands) [parents don't let the boy bethel, he cries; Nitu took him to the forest; the boy climbed a tree, ripped off bark and writing; sitting at the top, said "day"; N. ordered to say "night"; at dawn N. disappeared into the cave; the boy went down, ran to the village; the men killed N.]: Wheeler 1926, No. 39:60-61; San Cristobal: Fox 1924:142-143 [the boy is naughty, wants a lizard to play with; his parents put him outside, go to bed; the kakamora dwarf comes and takes him away with the mat; by The boy quietly grabs a branch above the path; the dwarf enters the cave, the entrance closes, the dwarf eats the mat; the parents go to look for their son, bring him home (=Fox, Drew 1915:191)], 161 [when the boy cries, he is told that Kamusigauwi ("woman with clawed fingers") will pick him up; left him in the forest, he began to cry, K. came, ate him, hung his intestines on branches, told them to bleed if he came parents; two brothers eaten played with other boys, got into a fight; they were told that it was easy to beat their peers, they'd better take revenge on K.; K. offered them a stick to break coconuts, it was a snake, they didn't took it; brought food in which their brother's baked finger did not eat; offered to take the insects out of her hair; the brothers snapped the nuts, and K. thought they were biting through insects; fell asleep; they burned her alive in her house].

Amur - Sakhalin. Ulchi [the taiga giant has a sharp head, two fingers on his hands; he steals children who cry at night; shakes them in his cave in a stone cradle, treats them with resin, from which language is taken away]: Bereznitsky 2003, No. 69:257.

Japan. Ainu [little boy cries from hunger, mother doesn't pay attention; witch takes him away, he turns into a nightjar]: Batchelor 1927:79; Japanese [on a rainy night a wolf comes out of the lair looking for food, howling; hears the mother telling the child that if he continues to cry, she will give it to the wolf; the wolf is happy, waiting; the child falls silent; the mother says, "Who will give a wolf so glorious boy!" The disappointed wolf returns hungry; similar stories are told in connection with Buddha statues in local temples that devoured children foolishly promised by stupid mothers; the statue's mouth ends up in blood, or baby hair stuck to it]: Ikeda 1971, No. 75:27.

SV Asia. Russified, probably tundra yukaghirs [angry with the naughty grandson, the grandmother asks the Forest Master to pick him up; the boy immediately disappears, people search for him unsuccessfully; after a lot For years, he has been running away from the Forest Master by stealing his four-mile boots; they are made of the white leather of the River Master; the Forest Master harpoons the River Master, who tries to drown the Forest Master and his people when they cross the river on ice]: Bogoras 1902, No. 29:632-633.

The Arctic. Central Yupik (Kuskoquim) [a woman at work gives a crying child to another, ready to hold him; a stranger and a child disappear; not shamans, but a poor boy tells the father of the missing person that the child was stolen by the Wolf; gives goose and otter skins; a person comes to the village of Volkov, he is hidden by an old man and an old woman; the Wolf suggests 1) to hunt seals (a person kills a seal earlier Wolf brothers); 2) race (there is an abyss on the way, a man descends in the form of a goose); 3) fight in a dugout (a man wears an otter skin, the Wolf puts on a sea otter, he kills her); Wolves give him a son, he comes home]: Krenov 1951:181-185; McKenzie's estuary [people sing, hitting a tambourine; the little boy is woken up, crying; his grandmother is seasick; the woman asks to give it to her in her arms; the grandmother thinks it's the mother of the child; people follow the tracks, people turn into foxes; the boy's parents enter the house, are invisible to its inhabitants; they take the boy away, having time to jump out before the door closes]: Ostermann 1942:80-83.

Subarctic. Atna [children are told that if they cry, an Owl will take them or cut off their legs; one child cries; an owl takes him away and eats it]: Smelcer 1997:71-72; upper tanana [baby cries, everyone is tired, the older girls warn that the Owl will take him away; she takes him to her nest on the poplar; the Raven finds a nest, invites Owl to bend down to catch an arrow, kills him with this with an arrow; returns the child to the family]: Brean 1975:13-15; tagish [the boy is naughty, the father calls the Owl to frighten him; the owl takes the boy away; feeds dried meat and fat, but in fact it is ants; asks, pointing to his ears, what it is; the boy invites all spirits to make ears, tells them to lie on a log, puts sticks in his ear, everyone dies; he returns home, but warm from his eyes and ants climbed his nose; it fell dead, ants ate it]: McClelland 2007, No. 98:434-435; southern tutchoni [the owl was an ogre; the mother spanked the crying child thinking he would run to the teepee bubushki, but Owl put it in his bag, brought it to him, fried it and ate it; the owl and his wife ate all the dogs; the wife choked and died, and the Owl was going to eat all the people; people migrated, the old woman remained with his little grandson, his mother had already been eaten; they dug up the dugout; the owl came in, the old woman asked him to warm up by the fire first, poured fat into the fire, the Owl burned down; people returned]: McClelland 2007 (1), No. 17: 110-116; taltan [the girl comes from her grandmother when her parents are already in bed; she cries, asks for food; a voice outside promises her salmon; her mother kicks her out, although the girl says it is not her grandmother's voice; the girl is carried away by an Owl; feeds live ants; comes with her to watch memorial rituals on her; Owl sees everything upside down; asks the girl to dress up (?) her as the participants in the ceremony look like; the girl drives a stake in her head with a stone, the Owl dies; when the girl returns home and warms up, ants climbed from all the holes in her body; she died]: Teit 1921a , NO. 56:252-253.

NW coast. Eyak [(=Johnson 1978:62-63); the boy is always naughty; a man warns his mother that an Owl will carry him away; an owl enters the house through a smoke hole, carries the child; he is no longer seen]: Birket-Smith, Laguna 1938, No. 31:322; Hyda (Masset) [the girl cries in the evenings; the old woman looks into the house, lures her salmon heads, takes her away, hiding underground; feeds her snails, she does not eat them; asks to make her the same ear jewelry as her parents; the girl nailed the old woman's ears to the ground, returned to her parents]: Swanton 1908a, No. 22:433-435; bellacula [two var.; the father says to the crying daughter: Shut up, or the perfume or Snik (the forest monster) will take you]: McIlwraith 1948 (1): 503-505 [the spirits of the dead take the girl underground; people invite spirits to a feast; Their leader is the last to come, carry the kidnapped with him; people pour urine on the spirits, they run away in panic, leave the girl; she now eats only ash from the burned food], 1948 (2): 446-450 [two var; Snik pretends to be the girl's grandmother, takes her to a cave; a woman sits there, her roots grow from her body; she tells the girl not to eat S., gives her C. gloves; when the girl moves her fingers, pointing gloves on S., she falls into the abyss; the girl cuts off her breasts, cooks broth; sons S. (it's Wolves), they eat it, they die; the girl returns home]; uvikino [the mother is gone fishing; the little brother is naughty; his sister puts him out the door, gives him a bucket to play; he still cries; sister warns four times that the Month will pick him up; The month comes down, carries him away; it can be seen on the lunar disk with a bucket in her hands]: Boas 1895, No. XX.4.2:217 (=2002:457); quakiutl [child cries; grandmother: Zonokwa will pick you up; when the boy leaves the house, Zonokwa takes him first underground, then to her house; she likes the boy's ear jewelry, she asks for a hole in her ears; he nails her to the floor, she dies; he burns the corpse, returns home; people find supplies of food in Dzonokwa's house, bring it to the village]: Boas 1910, No. 11:117-123; chickpea [ a little girl is always crying, wants better food; parents go to bed without her, hear her cry from the ground; she has been taken away by the spirits of the dead; men hide in an abandoned camp; spirits appear with a girl; men grab a girl, the perfume disappears]: Boas 1895, No. 18:124.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [the little boy does not want to sleep, cries; all members of the family persuade him, but he does not listen; when the others fall asleep, the Owl {male character} came and tore off the pieces hanging on his belts bear fat, put the boy in her ear and took it away; in the morning the father went to look for the child, asks all the birds, they say they don't know, he shoots at each arrow with a blunt tip; hazel grouse {or partridge; grouse} promises to say if a person paints the corners of his eyes red; he first smeared red dust, hazel grouse is dissatisfied; then cinnabar; hazel grouse tells you to look in a thick spruce forest {more precisely in fir thickets}; the father saw a son in the water polishing the arrow shaft; tried to grab it; then looked up: the son is in the Owl's nest; replaced his son with hemp and carried it away; the owl returned, cried; led everyone birds to war to return the child; they laid a bridge across the river of hogweed stem; all the birds crossed, and then the muskrat gnawed at him; when the Owl stepped on the bridge, the birds advised, reaching the middle, stomp properly; the bridge broke, the Owl was carried downstream; the old man and the old woman caught her, dried her and asked her where the wet area was left on her body; Owl: under their arms; they poked it hot smut and told Owl to be an owl, only hunt rabbits]: Munro 1946:104-107; chilcotin [the little boy does not sleep, cries; someone calls him from the street, promises to give him food; he goes out, there is an Owl , takes the boy in the basket; feeds at home, gives a necklace of dentalium shells; parents found their son when the Owl was not at home, set fire to his house, took the boy away; the owl chased, the boy put on the bridge on the toes of the goat's horns, spread them out, the Owl was frightened, fell into the water, returned; the boy gave people dentium, since then these shells became known; the mother sent her son to swim, he went reluctantly, disappeared under water; in winter he began to break women's buckets when they took water into the ice-hole; two sisters went to get water with beautiful buckets; when the boy grabbed the bucket first, the second pulled it out by the hand; the sisters brought he was put in the house, put by the fire; he was covered in mucus; in winter people could not find a tree for skiing; the boy could hardly get up, brings an armful of material, tells one of the sisters to ruin it in the house, appears lots of skis; he asks everyone to hit him in the arrow; the raven gives an arrow with a leather tip; in the forest, the boy removes a layer of dirt and mucus like a shirt, becomes a strong handsome man; kills with each arrow deer, Raven - coyote arrow; entering the village, puts on slimy skin again; The raven watches the boy, finds hidden skin, tears and throws it away; the boy repairs it; the next time the Raven sees the young man in in all its splendor; he retains this appearance, takes two sisters as his wife]: Farrand 1900, No. 22:36-37; shuswap [the baby cries, the mother throws him into a dark corner, says the Owl will take him; Owl takes him away , teaches hunting and secret knowledge; parents find a son; he sets fire to Owl's house, runs away to people; turns an Owl into an owl]: Teit 1909a, No. 30:698-699; Thompson: Hanna, Henry 1996 [the baby cries, one of the parents warns that the Owl will pick him up; at night, the Owl carries him in the basket; feeds him snakes, mice, squirrels; he grows up, hunts, sends meat to his real parents; when he returns, he enters steam room, covered with ulcers; a girl who rejected her suitors agrees to marry him; he steams again, becomes handsome; going out, puts on his shell with ulcers; his wife burns it, he remains handsome] : 85-87; Teit 1898, No. XVII [the child cries, parents say: Owl, come and pick him up; Owl takes the boy away; he grows up to be a good hunter; hears Owl calling him his slave; Mouse reports that Owl is not his real father; he returns to people]: 63-64; 1917b, No. 16 [the baby is crying, parents: Owl, come pick him up; Owl takes the boy; he takes him away in his basket, makes him grow up quickly, hunt himself; Owl's heart hangs on the wall in his house; a young man throws him into the fire, the Owl dies; the raven shows the young man's relatives where to find him; his sister and mother lead him home; he swims in the lake, turns into a loon; goes out to his sister, bringing her dentium; one girl rejects the suitors; follows that young man's sister, asks him to be grabbed when he goes ashore, pours a potion on him, restoring his human appearance; he enters the house of nttsaaz (a small smelly creature), puts on his skin n; parents mockingly tell that girl to marry n; everyone laughs over her; the husband comes out of his skin at night, carries out his father-in-law's errands (chop a lot of firewood, hunts at night); his wife burns his skin, he remains handsome]: 26-30; lillouette [the little girl is whiny ; parents tell her that Owl will pick her up; at night, Owl takes her away; makes her wife; toads and snakes in his hole; she sends the Raven to bring fish oil from her mother; rubs her face with it; Filina wants to be rubbed on; she rubs his face with resin, dazzles him, runs away; he comes for her; her father invites him to take a steam bath; burns him on hot stones; he turns into an owl]: Teit 1912b, No. 14: 314-316; quileout [little girl cries; mother says Duskia will pick her up; D. takes her away in the basket with tar on her eyes; D. has many children in the house with their eyes covered; she is going to bake them, one girl pushes her to hot stones; the children return home]: Andrade 1931, No. 19:53-55; chalkomel (StSeélis) [the girl is naughty every night, her the owl Slalakem takes away, raises it, makes her wife; she asks permission to go out of need, descends from the tree, leaves the urine responsible for it, runs away; S. comes to her parents, who tell her to return to to her husband; she gives birth to S. a daughter; sends a bird to her older brother; he and his other sister come to S.; he sends S. for a deer, they all set fire to the house with daughter S., run away, brother falls into the lake, disappears , sisters return home; a girl from another village rejects her suitors, leaves, sings on the shore of that lake; an ordinary dive, a northern dive, a female dive who became the wife of a missing young man consistently they emerge, the girl replies that she did not call them; for the fourth time he emerges himself, takes off his dive skin, goes ashore, takes the girl as his wife; near the girl's village, a young man enters the leper's hut, throws it out of his skin, puts it on herself; the wife suspects that the leper is her husband, stays with him; parents send her food with her younger sister; when the imaginary leper washes, drops the waters turn into Ts'ákwes (some jewelry); the sister brings it to her parents, who ask her daughter and her husband to their place; the wife carries her husband on her back, the Raven mocks her; at night the young man throws off the cover of a leper; he drives all the deer together and hides them; in the morning he goes skiing after them, leaves his skin on the tree, the wife follows, burns the skin; the young man puts the meat of the dead deer in a bag, brings them into the house father-in-law; the bag is opened, the whole village is littered with meat, everyone admires the former leper; he visits his parents with his family who considered him dead; at the festival, the Raven eats all the meat alone, hiding it from his family]: Hill-Tout 1904b: 347-352; Lummi [giant Ch'eni walks with a basket, offers salmon to a crying baby, throws it into her basket with a snake at the bottom; goes to the next one; one was older, she smeared the basket with resin; on the way he clung to a branch, got out, ran away; in S.'s house, the girl invited the rest of the children to push the cannibal into the fire; C. burned down, the ashes turned into lice; and the flock of birds was former lice]: Thompson, Egesdal 2008:107-109; squamish [the cannibal Qalqalil came to crying children, lured her with a piece of bark, saying it was dried salmon, carried it away in the basket; one boy made a hole , released the youngest children, stayed with the elders; at home, the cannibal told everyone to squeeze their eyes before she smeared them with resin, then they would not stick together; the children pushed her into the fire, lice from her hair scattered, became flocks of birds; the boy took everyone home]: Thompson, Egesdal 2008:114-116; clallam [girl cries, parents don't feed her; Slapa promises her dried fish, but in fact she only has a stick; takes the girl away; a man finds her; people kill S. with spears, the girl returns to people but turns herself into S.; devours the hearts of children; she is put in a boat, sent to the edge of the world; there she helps Raccoon dig roots; Raccoon's husband tells me not to watch him kill a whale; the girl watches, the whale disappears]: Gunther 1925:149-150; vasco [the boy cries, people fall asleep, leaving he is alone at the hearth; a striped painted hand stretches out of the smoke hole, he tears it off; the Coyote tells us to dance; five At come! at! a'lias, one of them without an arm; with them two girls-A.; Coyote asks the Bat, Groundhog, Squirrel to cover the house with brushwood and dry grass; the boy gives his hand, A. dance, burn in the house; two girls stayed on street, gone]: Sapir: 281-282 in Hines 1996, No. 37:138-139; yakima [five cannibals stole a boy; they feed frogs, snakes, but he finds and cooks his own food; runs away, returns to his parents; later, two cannibals burn, one drowns, all owls emerge from her eyes; these women wearing masks carry a large basket behind their backs; parents warn children that they will cry or do things when they eat bad, Tah -tah -kle '-ah will take them away in her basket]: Hines 1992, No. 18:63-65; kalapuya [the old woman has two orphan grandchildren; one naughty mischievous; one winter she puts him outside; he cries for a long time, calms down by morning; only three steps are visible in the snow; he was taken by the Month, people see him on the lunar disk in the evening]: Gatschet et al. 1945, No. 9:272-273; coutene [Owl takes children away if they cry at night; The old man turns into a little boy, is carried away; there are many stolen children in the Owl's house; the owl goes to fry them for firewood; The old man tells the children to dance; Owl Joins the dance, the Old Man hits him from behind with a club, kills him; the children return to their mothers]: Linderman 1997, No. 3:23-40.

Plains. Teton [the boy does not listen; his mother kicks him out of the house, asks Annung-ite (a spirit with a second person on the back of his head) to pick him up; he comes and puts the boy in his ear (it serves him with a basket); parents wait for Annung-ita to come again, kill him with knives; take their son out of his ear; he is half himself Annung-ita, soon dies; parents burn Annung- it turns into porcupine needles and needle bags, all kinds of feathers, arrows, tubes, birds, axes, clubs, flints and flint tools, whippers, stone balls, shell necklaces, whips, pouches, beads, etc.]: Dorsey 1894:474-475; Osage [mother kicks her ever-whimpering child out of the house; Owl takes him away; people hear hooting and another voice from the nest, splitting the tree, finding the child inside; at first he is wild as an owl, then humanizes again]: Dorsey 1904c, No. 33:41-42; Shayena [the daughter is naughty, her mother kicks her out the door, says that owls take her away; Owl takes her to her parents' house; in the morning she is sent for brushwood; Sparrow, then Flycatcher, Blackbird says the Owls are going to eat her; the Hawk takes her to the mountain; calling Hawk her husband, she enters cave; The owl demands to open the door and return his food; the hawk grandfather tells him to open it slightly, the girl pushes the door again, cutting off Owl's head; they burned the body, beads and jewelry fell out of it; the girl wanted Take them, Grandfather Hawk shoved everything into the fire; the girl grew up and wanted to go home; she was dressed up as Backward-Talking-Warrior (the best Sheyen warriors); the hawk grandfather gives caress; the woman calls to her on the way offers a brain cauldron, the girl feeds everything caress; eats bison meat; at night a woman scratches her leg, making it a club; the girl does not sleep, lets out caress, she gnaws meat out of a woman's leg; she dies; a girl comes to her own; boys ask for her suit; she teaches that Backwards warriors should do the opposite (if told to go forward, they must go backwards); this is how the Sheyen military alliances came about]: Marriott, Rachlin 1975:43-48; arpaho [mother puts her crying son outside, asks the Basket Owner to take him to her basket; the boy disappears; the mother finds him in the image of the Big Owl Little Owl; mother and son run away; Big Owl gets tired of persecution, allows himself to be killed; mother and son return home]: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 106:239-246.

California. Karok [the brothers put their little whimpering sister out the door; the giant puts toads and frogs in her head instead of the brain, but treats her well; one day he brings and eats her brother's corpse; she collects resin, burns a giant, returns to her mother]: Kroeber, Gifford 1980, No. I14:134-135; pomo (porridge): Oswalt 1964, No. 29 [husband does not like that his wife has a small child from another men; the baby cries, he kicks him out of the house; the child screams that someone is taking him away, the stepfather does not let his mother go out to see; in the morning the stepfather felt sorry for the child; they went looking for him, found him under the tree gnawed bones; stepfather threatened to kill his wife if she told her relatives about the incident], 30 [the title says that the cannibal who took the child is a long-eared owl; the stepfather brings a deer; the little stepson does not want to eat broth, he cries; mother and stepfather have eaten, the baby is still crying - now from hunger; stepfather kicks him out of the house; he screams, someone takes him away; in the morning the husband went hunting, the mother found the child's bones under the tree; burned, poured ash into her husband's acorn porridge, he ate, died; she burned down the house, returned to relatives]: 159-163, 163-167; coastal yuki [little Salamander cries, parents throw him out of the house; Coyote discerns words in his cry, Fire is on the other side; people come to the Spider hiding fire in his body; everyone is dancing, moving ridiculously; finally, the Coyote does something very funny; The spider laughs, the fire falls out of his mouth, the Coyote grabs the fire; this is how people find fire; parents take the child back]: Gifford 1937, No. 8:121; tubatulabal [ a woman rubs acorns, her daughter cries; a woman says: Take her, Ihaval (mountain spirit); the spirit takes the child away; feeds the quails roasted under his arms and her snot; she grows up; he returns her to relatives; she violates the ban on saying where she was, dies]: Voeglin 1935, No. 7:207; kawaiisa: Zigmond 1980, No. 47A [giant Grasshopper hunts children; woman rubs acorns; her little daughter cries, her mother tells her to go home; she does not obey; the mother leaves by herself; The grasshopper comes, gives the girl his snot instead of fat, throws her in the basket, takes her home and eats it; the same episode with a little boy who, however, grabs a branch on the way and runs away], 47B [as in A, but only the girl episode; she grabs a branch herself and runs away], 54 [two options; a woman makes an acorn porridge ; her little girl is naughty, her mother goes home alone; when she returns, the girl is gone; she was taken away by Yaver (associated with a partridge, lives in the underworld); he feeds her with partridges, which cooks under her arm; in a year she grows up to become his wife; her brother meets her in the hills; I send a dead deer to the mother-in-law; sends my wife home, tells her not to talk about where she has been for three days; she gives birth to partridges, cannot catch them because I broke the ban; I kill her people by throwing stones at them (var. B: The Coyote asked to show what was in her bag; her partridge children flew out from there, he could not catch them)]: 159-161, 181-183; luiseño [the baby cries, the mother does not pay attention, the woman is Súskia takes him away; he grows up, considers her his mother; a Gopher woman tells us where his real mother lives, gives a rolling basket, he must follow her; S. suspects it's Gopher all told the boy, she tries to kill her, but she hides in a hole; S. throws a rolling tray, runs after him; shamans hide the boy in a roll of mats; S. promise to throw him down her throat, throw him in her throat, throw him hot stone; S. regurgitates a stone, kicks mats, killing the boy, dies on his own, the corpse turns into an owl; children are not told to touch the owl, but they pluck their feathers, put them on their heads; head becomes motionless; then they pinch feathers between their fingers, turn into larks, fly away]: Curtis 1976 (15): 103-105; serrano [little boy cries, parents put him outside to be taken by the witch Tuive (evil spirit, dead man); Two-womb tells the boy not to eat the witch's food, feeds him herself; he runs home; the witch's basket shows her the way, she comes for the boy; she They tell her to open her mouth to throw a child there; they throw a hot stone; when she dies, she kills everyone; only one old woman remains alive]: Benedict 1926, No. 7:9-10.

Big Pool. Western shoshones [Echo (mountain spirit) asks a woman to allow her baby to be held, takes him away; stretches his penis and copulates with him; the boy runs away; the robin man cuts off long penis; boy's genitals return to normal]: Smith 1993:138-139; chemewevi [when leaving to collect seeds, Turtledove leaves Sandfly to watch over her newborn son; woman- The wind imitates her voice, takes the baby from the babysitter's hands, carries her away; the Turtledove punished Mukha by squeezing her, now she has an elongated body; the boy becomes a young man; forced to copulate so often with the Wind Woman, that his penis is getting heavy and long, he cannot run; meets four girls, his relatives; they make his penis normal, tell him to hang the game high in a tree, run; archery shooter hides it in the arrowhead, shoots; the other hides it in a pile of arrows; jumps out of the cave with him when the stalker runs into her, closes the entrance; the woman turns into Echo]: Laird 1976: 158-159; Utah [Gorlinka leaves her daughter to look after her little son; the witch takes the child, turns him into a man, makes her husband; the mother's brother Eagle finds them, lures the Witch out of her refuge, takes her nephew, who becomes a baby again; the Witch asks the Rattlesnake to hide her, climbs into her stomach; the snake crawls away, dropping its skin; The witch inside the skin turns into an echo]: Powell 1881:45- 47.

The Great Southwest. A crying boy is kidnapped by an Owl. Hopi [a crying boy is put outside, carried away by an Owl; he begins to turn into an owl; an owl sends him back; his mother looks into his room before three days have passed; he flies away owl]: Voth 1905, No. 53:173-175; Wallis 1936, No. 5:28-30; tiva (Picuris) [the baby cries, the mother puts him on the roof of the house; the Owl takes him away; one person finds the baby, brings him back to his mother]: Harrington 1928:361; 1989:54-55.

NW Mexico. Nahuatl Zap. Mexico [mother does not pay attention to the crying boy, puts him out the door; he disappears; the older brother follows in his footsteps; the youngest refuses to return; turns into a storm, lightning, kills parents and older brother]: Preuss 1968, No. 7:130-132.

The Northern Andes. Guajiro [the boy is taken outside; the Bear picks him up; feeds him well; takes him as a husband; demons bring them his brothers' meat; he kills demons, stays with the Bear]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1986 (2), No. 41:588-593.

Llanos. Sicuani [the girl refuses to wait for her parents at home, drags them through the forest, the Fox finds her, makes her wife; she returns to her parents, who kill the foxes she has born]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 87 [girl always cries when her parents leave her alone, drags after them, they tell her to stay at home; she was met by a fox; began to copulate without knowing where to insert her penis; tried between with her fingers and toes, in her ears, nose, eyes, mouth, under her collarbone, into all the concave parts of her body; told her to climb the guava tree, shed fruit; saw a vagina from below; began to cut down a tree, and the girl had to get down; when she smoked tobacco, Nora thought she was home; she gave birth to children with human faces and fox tails; she came home, her brother threw her children on the roof of the house, saying they were cubs; the fox came I heard his children blowing the winds, named them accordingly; on the way back I came across something, forgot everything; came back, it happened again], 88 [mother says: Fox, marry her! ]: 333-335, 335-337.

Guiana. Varrau [the mother gives the girl to Jaguar, who has taken the form of a baby's grandmother; when the girl grows up, she runs away to people, knocking a boiling pot on the Jaguar; other jaguars are going to take revenge, but people run away]: Wilbert 1970, No. 191:442-444; arecuna [boy left on the road; Fox picks him up and raises him; Tapiriha kidnaps and makes him his husband; young man returns to people, his relatives they kill Tapiriha]: Koch-Grünberg 1924, No. 22:68-70.

NW Amazon. Chikuna [mother takes a two-year-old girl out of the house for the night; a male tree frog takes her, raises her, teaches her shamanic rituals; she returns to people, teaches shamanic]: Nimuendaju 1952 : 100; bora [women dance at the festival, holding babies in their arms; the Forest Dog asks everyone what gender the child is; everyone answers that this is a girl, the last boy; The dog asks for hold it to her, takes it away; The deer tells the woman to cook peppery soup, add crap, centipedes, etc., take it to the Dog, drain all the springs; The dog eats with pleasure, feels thirsty; goes look for water, leaves the baby to her daughter; Olenikha takes the child, brings it to its mother; The dog thinks that Olenikha hides in the hollow, climbs there, fights with some creature living there; her daughter pulls out her severed legs]: Anderson de Thiesen 1975:55-65.

Montagna. Sharanahua [Jaguar takes a baby girl who was thrown out of the house by her father (because she was crying?) ; raised her and married her; she gave birth to him cubs; her father believes that Jaguar ate her; finds her in the forest; Jaguar kills bakers, gives her father-in-law; he blows in his arms, Jaguar dies; father and daughter returned home, daughter married a man; Jaguar's children died]: Siskind 1973:76; yaminaua [Jaguar takes a baby girl thrown out of the house by her parents because she cried all the time; raises her, marries, she gives birth to a child; Jaguar kills bakers, makes a basket, brings meat to her father-in-law; father-in-law rejects the gift, insults Jaguar, brings daughter home]: MacQuarrie 1992, No. 2:117.

Southern Amazon. Kamayura [mother leaves her ever-crying little daughter in the forest: Let the Wolf (Chrysocon jubatus) raise you! The wolf feeds her well with fish, makes her his wife; the hunter finds her in the forest, he gives birth to a son; the wolf tries to kill the child or make her a wolf, but runs away into the forest; the hunter brings the woman to village]: Münzel 1973:340-344; Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973 [woman dies soon, Wolf takes her back]: 227-231; vaura: Coelho 1989 [=1992:55; boy is naughty, wants more food; his mother puts him outside, offers Apasa (a supernatural character) and Lisa; both come to pick up the girl, the child goes to Fox; he takes him away, raises him; the boy meets the girl; she agrees to follow him; marries Fox, takes the young man as a lover, gives birth to a child with a young man; asks his lover to kill Fox; he kills him with an arrow; they return to people, bringing sacred flutes, owned by the Fox; the woman and her husband die soon]: 319; Schultz 1965-1966 [2nd var.; the mother puts a whimpering girl out the door, tells Waulu (apparently Fox, Chrysocon jubatus) to pick her up; he takes her raises, marries; in his absence, a man comes to her, she gives birth to a boy with him; W. wanted to kill him, but the child's father saved him; his mother returned with him to people]: 121-125; Iranian [ a woman works in the garden, her little daughter asks for a breast, cries, her mother does not pay attention; the wife of the forest spirit Mamsy sprinkles her milk in the girl's face, stunning her; brings her to her house, puts her in her house, puts her cook in a cauldron, goes swimming; the girl's mother's sister hears the voice of M.'s wife, comes running, saves the girl (var: a teenager living in M.'s house revives the girl, takes her to her house); M.'s wife follows the girl, puts her foot under the door so that the girl's mother takes the splinter out of her finger; the poison from her finger kills the woman, the wife M. eats her, lies down in her hammock; the husband comes, sends his wife M. for water, revives his wife; locked M.'s wife in the house, burns]: Pereira 1985, No. 24:151-121; (cf. Iranian woman [the child cried at night, he was put outside; the night was constant; once asked his mother to let him into the house; the mother went out, he showed her that the sun was rising; that's why the child wanted to be on outside so as not to miss the dawn; everyone went out to watch, the baby did not cry anymore]: Pereira 1974:56); paresi [in the evening the girl Kwahazaló whines, her mother puts her outside, says let her The forest dog (Dusicyon thous) will take her away; he takes her away, wondering how kind his father-in-law is, who gave her daughter; when he hears that the crying has stopped, the mother wants to take her daughter into the house, but does not find her; the Forest Dog copulates, inserting a penis between the girl's toes; she grows up, gives birth to five puppies at once; tells the Dog to take the gift to her mother-in-law, bring it from her; he is afraid to enter the house, collects rubbish, wraps it up, supposedly brings from mother-in-law; K. does not believe, tells me to go ask what to call the children; The dog hears a random word outside the house, distorts; K. says that this is not a name, tells them to go again; so five times; K. takes the children, leads to their mother; The dog says that he will be late to collect firewood for his mother-in-law; brings; mother-in-law cooked the puppies; fed the Dog meat, he believed that the brothers K. had caught the game; the dog ran to the river to drink, his mother-in-law turned it into a termite mound, his hand became an epiphytic plant (Bromeacea); var.: When the Dog leaned to the river to drink, his mother-in-law killed him with a stick; K. noticed red hairs on his body, shaved them off; K. went to bed and was found dead in the morning]: Pereira 1986, No. 39:392-397.

Chaco. Chorote: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 6 [little girl cries; her older sister calls her mother three times, but she does not react; sister takes the baby in her arms, goes up to heaven with her, they turn into two stars, one very small; later their two brothers join them], 130 [the little girl is always hungry; her mother sends her to marry Jaguara; he takes her and feeds her abundantly] : 21, 247; poppy [in the dark, a woman asks her mother to hold her baby while she is changing the bed; Lisa takes the boy in her arms instead of his grandmother, takes him away; the boy considers Lisa his grandmother; killing partridge, asks if he can eat one or another part of the bird; the imaginary grandmother always replies that this meat will harm him, allows him to eat the bones; when he finds an arrow, he says out loud that it is a toy the boy's parents; the boy hears by chance, meets a real mother at the source; the fox comes looking for a child; the father calls her into the house, kills her]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 27:91-92.