K87. Masha and the Bear. (.21.32.37.39.-.44.46.50.52.53.56.-.58.66.-.68.70.72.-.74.)
A girl or girl becomes an animal's wife against her will. Usually, a forest (water) dweller feeds his husband or wife well, she returns to people, and people often kill their spouse and/or cubs born to him. {Most Eurasian options are not taken into account}
Lhota, Chuvash, Udege, Forest Yukaghirs, Coastal Koryaks, Chugach, Igloolik, Polar Eskimos, Tanaina, Inner Tlingits, Tagish, southern and northern tutchoni, taltan, eyak, tlingit, hyda, tsimshian, bellacula, quarry, comox, quileout, lower chinook, sauk, assiniboine, osage, pomo, vintu, tiwa (Isleta), lacandons, rama, sikuani, yanomami, warrau, shipibo, kashinahua, sharanahua, marubo, machigenga, chimane, chacobo, moseten, kamayura, waura, nambikwara, iranshe, shavante, chamakoco, kaduveo, nivakle, chorote, maka, angaite, ofaye, selkkle to us, yagans.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lhota [Tiger wants to eat a woman, she promises him her daughter when she is born; when a girl grows up and can carry water and fuel, Tiger takes her; Tiger's wife gives birth to him a daughter, wondering why, left with her father, the girl cries; sees him hitting her head against the hearth, licking blood; goes to wash, leaving a louse and a flea responsible for herself; runs away; the Tiger catches up with her at her mother's house; the mother does not believes that the daughter is alive, does not open the door; the daughter climbs into the hole for the dog; the Tiger and mother pull her, tear her in half; the Tiger cries, buries her half; the mother cooks a piece of meat from her half, gives it to him; he eats, pulls and eats buried goods; tigers have been eating humans ever since]: Mills 1922:190-193.
Volga - Perm. Northern Chuvash (village. (Pysăk Karachora, Cheboksary Uyezd, Kazan Gubernia, 1906-1908) [the bear steals women picking berries in the forest, takes them to his den and lives with them; brings them all kinds of food: honey, berries; sometimes a kidnapped woman gives birth to a child with him; this child looks like man, but his body is covered in thick hair like a bear]: Meszaros 2000:84.
Amur-Sakhalin. Nanais (recorded in 1914) [a story about the origin of the Aktanko family: the wife of a gold went to the forest, where she was grabbed by a tiger who took her to his house and lived with her; after a while, the woman returned home, where her son was born; his named Aktanko]: Ponyatovsky 2009:117; the Udege [the girl was picked up by a bear, married, the boy was married by a tigress, married; the Udege descended from the first marriage, the second was childless; the boy was not hunted a bear fatally; he said that he was his sister's husband, ordered his sister not to give his sister the meat of a bear killed by his brother, so that his sister would not sleep on the bear's skin and pass on his ost on the female line penis]: Arseniev in Podmaskin 1991:48.
SV Asia. Forest Yukaghirs (p. The ridiculous Verkhnekolymsky ulus of Yakutia) [the girl went into the forest in the fall, got lost; came across a bear den, climbed into it; the bear shoved her behind her back, she fell asleep; when she wanted to eat, the bear let her suck his paw; in the spring the girl returned home, noticed that she was pregnant; a boy with bear ears was born soon; he was strong and looked like a bear father; therefore, it is believed that bears and people are related by blood]: Zhukova, Prokopyeva 1991, No. 21:159; coastal Koryaks (Karagin dialect) [Tinienevvut picks berries; The bear tells her to go to her; one of the Bear's brothers marries T., lives with her as a human being; they visit her parents, who admire her son-in-law; her sister Rera wants the same thing to happen to her; scared of the Bear, her brothers kill her; R. missed her fiancé because of laziness, cowardice and disobedience]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 136:419-422.
The Arctic. A chugach [a woman picks berries, steps into bear droppings, scolds bears; it turns out that her husband is actually a bear; he takes her away; she gives birth to cubs; in the spring, her brothers kill the Bear, they bring her sister back to people; her bear children stay in the forest; she cries (because the hunters killed them?)] : Birket-Smith 1953:153-154; igloolik [no one gives food to a woman because she has her period; she comes to a house in the mountains, there are bears in human form; the bear feeds her, tells her to keep silent about what she sees ; a woman tells her husband about bears, he goes hunting, kills the Bear, the Bear tells him not to be afraid, he will only kill his wife, bite off her head, plays with her like a ball; dogs rush at him, he goes up to heaven with them, the bear and dogs become the Pleiades; the husband is left alone with two orphaned cubs]: Millman 2004 (Pond Inlet): 34-35; Polar Eskimos [two var.; husband with the wife got into a fight, the wife went to the mountains, went to the Bear; he feeds her seal, asks her not to tell her about the meeting at home, because he feels sorry for his children; at home, the wife whispers to her husband where the bears are; the husband goes hunting; The bear comes, tears off the woman's head, walks, giving her like a ball; dogs chase him; the bear and dogs go up to heaven, turn into the Pleiades]: Holtved 1951a, No. 6:50-55 (=1951a: 16-19; Russ. lane Menovshchikov 1985, No. 265:488-489).
Subarctic. Tanaina [a handsome stranger marries a girl; he is a brown bear; she gives birth to him three sons; they grow up to kill Bear Father, luring him under a platform with heavy stones on it; a woman and her sons return to people; someone teases her sons, they kill the offender; they go to the forest; humans and bears have been living separately ever since]: Vaudrin 1969:45-48; inner Tlingit, tagish , southern and northern tutchoni [a girl steps into bear droppings, scolds bears; meets a handsome man, who takes her home, marries her; turns out to be a grizzly bear; preparing for hibernation, the wife tells her husband to set up a den where her brothers hunt in spring; gives birth to two (three) sons, every month of winter it seems to her alone at night; in spring she rolls a lump of grass down the slope so that her brothers' dogs smelled; the bear understands this, asks his wife why she extradited him; decides to allow her brothers to kill him; the brothers find a den (the sister leaves him in front of her or ties him to the dog that has found the den arrowpoles or her own mittens); sister teaches how to ritually treat the Bear's body; asks her mother to bring clothes to her and her children (they all have begun to grow wool); despite Sister warning, brothers ask her and her children to wear bear skins, walk down the slope; when they start shooting at them with toy arrows, the sister actually turns into a grizzly, kills brothers (or only younger, older, two younger ones); people still follow the rules for dealing with a slaughtered bear that the sister taught the brothers]: McClelland 1970:5 [general summary], 5-55 [13 separate texts]; southern tutchoni [a woman picks berries, steps into bear droppings, scolds bears; The bear takes the form of her husband, takes her away, takes her as a wife; her brothers kill the Bear, bring her her home; asked to play bear with them; she turns into a bear, kills everyone, returns to the mountains with her bear children]: McClelland 1987:261-264; taltan: Teit 1921a, No. 59 [ a woman picks berries, steps into bear droppings, scolds bears; a bear takes the form of a man, takes her away, takes her as a wife; she becomes a bear herself; gives birth to two sons; the bear sends her back to people, tells her to talk to her ex-husband; in the village she takes on a human form again; people tease her sons because they look like bears; she turns into a bear, kills many; hunters kill her and her sons], 60 [Grizzly takes a woman away, she gives birth to twins; they return to people; agree to play bears; hunters chase them, they kill people; go into the forest; when they leave, sing a memorial song to mourn the murdered relatives (the origin of the Grizzly Song)]: 337-338, 338-339.
NW coast. Eyak: Birket-Smith, Laguna 1938 [a woman picks berries, steps into bear droppings, scolds bears; the bear takes the form of her husband, takes her away, takes her as a wife; she returns to people helps find bear dens]: 276-277 [runs away], 277-279 [gives birth to two sons; her brothers find her; she sends her sons to their bear father]; Krauss 1982 [An octopus drags a young woman into the sea makes him his wife; she gives birth to him two sons; visits her relatives with them; a whale kills an Octopus, a woman dies of grief; her sons kill a whale, never return to people]: 106-107; Smelcer 1993 [as in Krauss]: 61-63; Tlingits: Romanova 1997, No. 25 [by Swanton 1909, No. 89, two options; the leader's daughter picks berries, steps into a bear cake, swears; her berry basket falls apart, the maids go; the grizzly in the form of a man takes her away; she collects dry firewood, it doesn't burn; Bears collect raw; when they take off and shake off their skins, fat drips on the wood, they burn good; they teach the woman how to do it; the mouse grandmother tells her to run, gives her a branch of thorny bushes, a thorn from rose hips, dirt, sand, stone; the woman runs away, throws what she has received, appears behind her back thorny thickets, rose hips, quagmire, dunes, rock; a man in a boat (son of the sun, or Gonakadet) promises to help when a woman agrees to marry him; kills grizzlies with a club; the sons of the Sun were married to a cannibal; they killed her to marry a girl, cut the corpse to pieces; it was over the Tsimshian country, so there are many cannibals among the Tsimshians; from above, the girl sees her house father; loading the Sun Father's boat with their belongings, his sons and the woman with her child sailed to her father's house; on the way they fed the boat; for earthly people, the sons of the Sun - moon glare, the woman's son - ray; once a stranger took a woman by the hand at the well; the water she brought turned into mucus, her husbands immediately returned to heaven; when they left, they wished the woman's son to fall ill; people told her to leave villages; she began to live with her son in a hut, he grew stronger; people called the boy "Garbage Dump Man"; his father's copper boat swam at him with its mouth open; he shot, it fell apart; young man made the first brass things out of her; married the chief's daughter; looking for a daughter, the chief found a copper house inside the hut; this is how copper appeared]: 87-91; McClelland 1987 [like southern tutchoni; the end of the text the informant did not remembered]: 261-263; De Laguna 1972 [started like an eyak in Birket-Smith, Laguna; a bear takes a woman; brothers find her, kill the Bear; she returns to people; her five bear sons remain in the forest]: 880-882; Swanton 1909, No. 6 [a drowned girl becomes Otter's wife; her brother's family is starving; she comes to her brother with her three sons (half-human half-otters), brings meat, helps; leaves, when the brother tells others what happened], 31 [1) the girl picks berries, steps into bear droppings, scolds the bears; the grizzly turns into a human, takes her to the Grizzly; she leaves the beads in place where she relieves herself; Grizzlies think this is her bowel movements; the supply of beads is running out; the old captive tells her to take devil's club grass, a thorn of rose hips, clay, sand, stone; she runs, throws objects they turn into thickets of grass, thickets of rose hips, a swamp, a sandy slope, a rock; she promises a man in the boat to be his wife; his club kills grizzly pursuers; at home does not tell a new wife look at the old Oyster when it eats; the woman watches the Oyster pouring water, the woman drowns; the husband revives it, kills the Oyster; allows the woman to return to her parents; 2) the chief's daughter slipped on Octopus slime, swears; The octopus takes the form of a human, takes her away; she gives birth to two octopus sons; they crawl to her parents; her father invites her son-in-law; an octopus, a woman and little octopuses they come out of the sea; people grab a woman, kill an Octopus, throw little ones on the beach; at night, lots of octopuses attack the village; the shaman calms them down], 65 [girls are not allowed to eat between regular meals; two sisters violate the ban; mother terribly scolds her eldest, invites her to marry Mountain Man; sisters go to the mountains; Mountain Man marries his older sister; forbids look at the woman behind the curtain; the wife looks, both sisters fall dead; Mountain Man kills the woman behind the curtain, revives the sisters; allows them to visit their relatives, gives him a basket of meat; his enough for all the inhabitants of the village; it is considered good luck to hear the Mountain Man's axe in the forest], 89 [the leader's daughter picks berries, steps into bear droppings, swears, the Grizzly takes her away; the old mouse tells her to run; The sons of the Sun take her in a boat, marry her; she has a son; they all sail to her father; for people, her husbands are moonlight; see motive K43], 92 [as in No. 65; two sisters are accused of being ate food prepared for guests; an old mouse helps them avoid obstacles on their way to Mountain Man; sisters throw pieces of fish to dogs, moss between algae that collide, whetstone between interpreters rocks; Mountain Man marries both sisters; his mother sets fire to a ram's carcass, throws it at them; they throw it back, killing his mother-in-law]: 29-30, 126-129, 130-132, 222-224, 252-256, 280-288; Haida: Deans 1889 [the chief's daughter secretly meets a young man of an unknown kind; she is kidnapped by the Bear; the young man finds her in a hollow, returns her to people; one of her sons stays with bears, the other lives with humans; the Bear taught her ritual songs]: 255-259; Haida (Masset) []: Swanton 1908a, No. 36:500-508; Tsimshian: Barbados 1946:3 [girl picks blueberries, laughs too much, steps into bear droppings, scolds bears; they kidnap her; her brother kills her bear husband; when he dies, he teaches his wife ritual songs to be sung after killing a bear; her sons show hunters bear dens]; 1953:88- 102 [(episodes illustrated in hyde argellite figures); in the forest, the girl does not sing a special song so that the bears know about her, but laughs; stepping on bear droppings, she swears; two people approach her men, this is the Grizzly; the Grizzly forces her to marry him; living with him, she takes the form of a bear; the husband knows that the youngest of her four brothers will kill him; in the winter he tracks down the Grizzly; before she dies A grizzly rips bear skins off two sons, turns boys into great hunters; they return to humans with their mother], 117-129 (b. Ness) [picking berries, the chief's daughter steps into bear droppings, scolds the bears; on the way home, the strap of her basket breaks; two men offer help, take the girl to the Grizzly house; the owner calls her daughter-in-law ; The mouse asks for fat and mountain sheep wool (rich women use them for cosmetics and jewelry); immediately the servants contribute a lot of fat, the Grizzlies are happy with the rich dowry; The mouse advises that the girl hid her bowel movements by replacing them with pieces of copper (her jewelry); Grizzlies believe she had the right to despise bears for their droppings; when a woman brings dry firewood, bears ask which a fool did it (their firewood is green and wet); in winter, a woman gives birth to two cubs; the youngest of her four brothers finds a den, kills a Grizzly; a woman's children in human form come with her to people; they hunt in the guise of a grizzly, catch many animals, the woman's father gets rich; they finally become bears, go to their father's relatives], 129-146 (Gitsees, Port Simpson) [picking berries, chief's daughter steps into bear droppings, scolds bears; on the way home, the strap of her basket breaks; two men offer help, take the girl to the Grizzly house; the owner calls her daughter-in-law; the mouse advises the girl hid her bowel movements by replacing them with pieces of copper (her jewelry); Grizzlies believe she had the right to despise bears for their droppings; the girl quietly ties two Grizzly sisters to stumps, runs away; on the shore calls Dzaradilaw, swimming in a copper boat; he takes the girl into the boat when she promises to marry him; kills a Grizzly with a live boomerang club with a mouth at the end; D.'s hair is a girl sees frogs; snaps as if she chews on them, actually throws them into the water; D.'s first wife is friendly, but D. warns not to look at her; the girl spies, Wolverine devours her soul; D. kills his wolverine wife by cutting off her head, lubricating her neck with herbal infusion (otherwise her head grows): she pulls the woman's soul out of her body, she comes to life; gives birth to a boy; her brothers bring gifts; D. hides his wife, brothers find her corpse (i.e. the appearance of a corpse); D. sends his wife and son to her parents; until he is mature, the son should not communicate with people; the ban is violated, the boy weakens; the grandfather resettles him and his daughter; the young man shoots at a bird on the water, which turns into a copper boat, they make jewelry out of it; an uncle gives her daughter for a young man when a slave tells me how much copper there is; a club received from his father hunts seals itself; a young man invites water monsters, sending them a live spear from her father; feeds them fat, builds a totem pole]; bellacula [the girl picks berries, sleeps on the ground; discovers that she was lying on bear droppings, scolds bears; a bear in human form takes her away; she spends the night with him, it's a year for people; Bears agree to have her younger brother come for her; she comes back with him home]: McIlwraith 1948 (1): 678-679.
The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [the chief's daughter laughs at the big frog; a frog in the form of a man takes her to the pond; two years later, the girl's parents see a frog with a frog on her back; invite her into the house, give her food coals; drain the pond; they see it as a huge frog with a man's head; their daughter's body has also become almost frog; the daughter explains that if her parents welcomed her grandson well, she could remain human; frogs go to live in the river]: Jenness 1934, No. 19:168-169; comox (chatloltk) [The wolf takes Alx's daughter; A. follows her to the owner of the dead, who directs him to the Wolves; A. learns from Volkov that daughter lives well, returns home; Wolves send deer to his tomkam]: Boas 1895, No. 15:86-87; quileut [one of the two girls agrees to go to sea with Shark; gives birth to a son; on and she is covered seaweed is like her husband's relatives; they all visit her parents; people eat fish and meat brought as a gift but do not see their relatives; Shark's wife's father asks her daughter not to come again, but send fish and meat]: Andrade 1931, No. 51:141-145; lower chinook [the girl is taken away by the Bear; she gives birth to a son and a daughter; her four brothers take turns coming to the Bear's house; his son asks to take it out he lice, kills young men; the younger fifth brother does not shoot on the way to the pheasant, does not enter the bear house; together with the Bear's daughter, burns the Bear and his son in their house; the Bear's wife revives the brothers; dives into lake, turns into a monster; Bear's daughter is married by Chief Blue Jay; she never laughs; promises to laugh if he gets on all fours in the forest; laughs, devours all men; husband has legs disappear below the knees; she keeps it in a basket; gives birth to two sons; does not tell them to go down the river; they go, find the bones of people their mother regurgitated; they find the basket with their father; he says that their the mother has become a monster; the brothers turn her into a dog, the father is placed under water; they go on a journey; they see a double-headed swan on the lake {perhaps a swan with heads at both ends of the body}; the younger one shoots , swims to the bird, disappears; the elder throws hot stones into the lake; the water boils away; he rips open the bellies of all monsters; in the latter he finds a brother holding a swan; revives him; the man dances with with an oar, while fish jump into his boat; his brothers taught him how to fish with a net; another man shoots in the rain because his house has no roof; his brothers taught him how to make a roof; they wash dirt from his skin, make it out of it people blow on them, people have come to life; a man sharpens knives, promises to kill those who fix things; brothers turned him into a deer, tying his knives to his head, these are horns; a woman throws people into the abyss on sharp flints; brothers throw her, cut her body to pieces, throw it in different directions; Indians who live where their legs fall have strong legs; those who live where her hair has fallen have long hair; and etc.]: Boas 1894a, No. 1:17-21
The Midwest. Sauk (the story is heard from the Sioux) [the girl meets the Bear; pretends to be dead with her skirt covered; the bear puts his hand on her vulva, she says, Don't; he takes her to the den, takes her as a wife; people find her, kill the Bear; his brothers come to kill a woman but keep her alive; she gives birth to a boy with bear teeth; he becomes an invulnerable warrior]: Skinner 1928, No. 14:168- 169.
(Wed. Northeast. Malesit [Horus becomes human, kidnaps a girl; she gives birth to a son; they come to her parents; it is enough for a son to point a finger to get something to eat; he accidentally points for another boy, he dies; Mountain, his wife and son go away forever]: Mechling 1914, No. 28:97-99).
Plains. Assiniboine [a woman asks her husband to bring her a bear cub; he grows up, takes her away; she spends the winter with him; gives birth to a bear cub; he runs with him to people; they kill the Father Bear; teddy bear plays, kills four boys; goes to the forest]: Lowie 1909a, No. 34:191-192; Osage [the girl's parents don't marry her; she leaves with a stranger, he turns out to be Bison; she gives birth to him A calf; another Bison kidnaps her, creates two more women of the same appearance; promises to return it to her husband if he identifies his wife; the calf tells the father that the mother moves her right ear; the husband takes the wife, they come to people; The calf kicks another boy with his foot, he calls him names; the calf cries; the father picks him up, goes to the buffalo; all the bison (skins?) they turn into bison at the camp, follow]: Dorsey 1904c, No. 23:27-30; (cf. arpaho [a dwarf kidnaps a girl; she gives birth to a son who wants to see her parents; her brother meets her first; the dwarf has brought people a lot of meat; the woman stays with her parents, the dwarf leaves]: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 68:125-126).
California. Pomo [The Rattlesnake first comes to the girl disguised as a man; then takes her with her; she gives birth to four snake sons; tells them not to bite people; her body begins to change; she is the last time visits parents, disappears forever]: Barrett 1933, No. 101:373-374; screw: Dubois, Demetracopoulou 1931, No. 46 [the girl has her first period; mother sends her to bring sand for cooking acorns; a wolf man takes her to him; she brings her mother meat; when she comes a second time, she turns into a she-wolf, runs away], 47 [the girl has her first period; the mother throws her pet fox away, the girl disappears; returns with his child and husband; he has dog fangs in his mouth; he and his wife turn into a cougar, leave]: 372-374.
The Great Southwest. Tiva (Isleta) [girl rejects suitors; says she would rather marry a bear; the bear comes and offers to marry her; she agrees; people chase them, but the rain washes away the tracks; she gives birth to two half-bear sons; they are good hunters; an old bear dies; people kill his sons, bring a woman home; she dies of grief]: Parsons 1932c, No. 17:404-405.
Mesoamerica Lacandons [Jaguar kidnaps a girl or two sisters; feeds well, brings fire, marries]: Boremanse 1986:219-222 [one girl; Jaguar supplies meat to her family; neighbor kills out of envy A jaguar and his children; a woman dies of grief; since then, jaguars have been at odds with people], 381-383 [sisters bring meat to their father; people are angry; kill Jaguar and his children; sisters stay with people].
Honduras-Panama. Rama [husband left his wife in the forest; she gave food to wild pigeons to take her out, but the pigeons could not pick her up; then monkeys picked her up, brought her to a hammock in the forest, eating all her food; hammock belonged to a tapir, promised to feed him well if a woman became his wife; he stole food from neighboring plots; the tapir and the woman had a son; the tapir told him that if it rained, he would have been killed; then you need to take the skin from his testicles, you can use it to get any food and drink; the woman's eldest brother killed the tapir; the brothers brought her and her son to people, allowed her to take the skin from the testicles; began to laugh above the young man's gait is like a tapir; he ran away; the frame uses dried skin from the tapir testicle as a fishing talisman]: Loveland 1982:134-135.
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.
Southern Venezuela. Yanomami [four brothers are married to a sister, she is their chief; a jaguar whose wife has died kidnaps her; she nurses his young but refuses to marry him; when her brothers come after her, the jaguariha comes to life, the jaguar family members are members of the family of the month; the wife of the month gives two daughters to marry two of the brothers; the wife and his wife disappear for a month, people return home]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 18:53-55.
Guiana. Varrau: Wilbert 1970, No. 191 [the mother gives the girl to Jaguar, who has taken the form of a baby's grandmother; the girl grows up, lives with a jaguar, who licks her genitals; she runs away to people, knocking over on a Jaguar boiling pot; other jaguars are about to take revenge but people run away], 197 [=No. 191, M45 motif but without the baby crying; the jaguar raises a girl to 15; when she overturns the cauldron; the jaguar goes blind]: 442-444, 458-460.
Montagna. Shipibo: Roe 1982, No. 4 [girl sits on the ground copulating with a worm; mother pours boiling water on it; daughter goes to the forest; Jaguar sees worms in her vagina; puts healing leaves there, banishing spiders, scorpions, snakes, fish, lizards; his wife removes a splinter from his teeth; in pain he turns into a jaguar; his wife and two children return to people; jaguars attack the village; the older brother goes to his father- jaguar; since then, humans and jaguars have lived separately], 6 [the widow and her young son go to the forest, the tapir marries her; the late husband's brother kills the tapir, brings the woman and boy back to the people; she is reattached almost lost human appearance]: 58-61, 52-56; cachinahua [jaguar mother eats two sons born consecutively; agrees to be burned; woman stays with jaguar]: Ans 1975 [girl , whose worm lover is killed, goes to the forest out of shame; the jaguar does not eat her, but marries her]: 49-62; Capistrano de Abreu in Koch-Grünberg 1921, No. 90 [in the forest, a jaguar kidnaps a hunter's wife]: 251-254; sharanaua: Siskind 1973:76 [Jaguar takes a baby girl that her father threw out of the house (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], 113-116 [a woman in the woods is kidnapped by a tapir; she runs home; dies giving birth to a tapir son; her husband's younger brother kills a tapir]; yaminaua [ A jaguar takes a baby girl thrown out of the house by her parents because she cried all the time; raises her, marries her, gives birth to a child; a 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; marubo [the girl whose worm lover is killed goes to the forest out of shame; the cannibal's son does not kill her, but takes her as his wife; his mother and aunt devour their children; the cannibal is burned, the woman stays in the woods]: Melatti 1984:110-146; machigenga: Pereira MS, 28 Jan. 1996 [two sisters meet two honey pickers in the forest, go out for them; their husbands are Foxes in human form; when clearing areas for the garden, they tie the trees with a rope and knock them down all at once; they do not tell their wives to go to the site to talk to their mother; one of the sisters violates the ban, the Fox swallows it; the brothers turn into foxes, go back to the forest; the fox regurgitates and revives what has been swallowed; the second sister also leaves people, goes to live with the Foxes], 12 June, 1996 [ a woman mistreats her daughter; she suffers from worms; goes to the forest to be eaten by a jaguar; a Jaguar kills worms with fish poison, marries a girl, gets a lot of meat; the girl's brother finds her; Jaguar is warm accepts him, but her angry mother chases her away].
Bolivia - Guaporé. Chimane [a jaguar kidnaps a girl; she becomes his wife, has sons; a jaguar meets her mother; a jaguar's wife warns that her husband and sons are ready to attack people; people they kill them; the jaguar's wife returns but can only eat raw meat, dies]: Hissink, Hahn 1989, No. 13:66-67; chacobo [the girl has a worm lover; he is killed; she goes to the forest out of shame; jaguar takes her as his wife; they visit the girl's mother; their son bites her, she dies; the son of the murdered woman kills the jaguar]: Kelm 1972, No. 17:243; moseten [when digging cassava, the mother leaves the baby unattended; the girl abducts a jaguar; she becomes his wife, gives birth to children; a jaguar gives meat to her relatives; a jaguar's wife warns that her husband and sons are ready to attack people; people kill them and the jaguar's wife]: Nordenskiöld 1924:147-149; (cf. takana [a woman in the forest is kidnapped by the forest owner; copulates by inserting a penis between her toes; after boiling water, the woman runs away; her son is a man above the waist, the demon is lower]: Hissink, Hahn 1961, № 70:190)..
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 197340-344; Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973 [woman dies soon, Wolf takes her back]: 227-231; vaura [2 var.; mother puts a whimpering girl out the door, says Waulu (apparently Fox, Chrysocon jubatus) to pick her up; he takes her, raises her, marries her; in his absence, a man comes to her, she gives birth to a boy from him; W. wanted to kill him, but the child's father saved him; his mother returned with him to the people]: Schultz 1965-1966:121-125; nambikwara [the man took his wife into the forest; after shooting at the tapir, he missed, he took the hunter's wife and slept with her; once she asked the tapira got the fruit from the tree, ran away on her own; the tapir came to the village for her; people asked which part of his body could be hit to death and which arrow was fatal; he replied that at the edge of the rib with a jurupar arrow; people killed and ate tapir and his son {from a woman?}] : Pereira 1983, No. 48:78-80 (=Pereira 1974b: 26-27); Iranian: Pereira 1985, No. 49 [the man shed fruit, left it in the forest; a young man and two girls followed them, saw tapir eating them, became it scold; a tapir put one girl around his neck, took her away, disappeared with her in the river; sometimes goes ashore; the girl asks him to climb a tree for fruit, runs away; gives birth to a son from him; comes home; her brothers They kill a little tapir without knowing that it is their sister's son; Tapir bears fruit to his wife's relatives; a girl's younger brother says his son has been killed; Tapir runs away to the forest], 52 [two girls go to collect flying ants; one is monthly, she is carried away by the Wolf (Canis jubatus), although she offers him to take another; gives birth to a wolf cub; runs home; the Wolf comes for her, brings meat to her relatives; her brother kills him and her mother kills a wolf cub]: 215-218.
Eastern Brazil. Xavante [girls return from the field; the latter agrees to marry a wolf; when she returns to people, gives birth to cubs; people drown them and burn their mother; she turns into a falcon]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 91:265-268.
Chaco. Chamacoko [husband and wife go to the forest; jaguars kidnap a woman, marry her alone; a son who stays at home grows up, kills jaguars, tries to get her mother back; she goes to the forest because she herself acquires jaguar features]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 63, 64 [the woman went to the forest with her husband, got lost; climbed a tree, surrounded by jaguars; the elder told her to get down, said that the jaguars are now her children; married her; she learned to eat raw meat, became stained; at home, her youngest son goes hunting for the first time; a bird tries to tell him something; a father tells his sons how their mother disappeared; the youngest grows up, goes looking for her, sees more and more fresh parking lots; while the jaguars are gone, she struggles to persuade her mother to return; she takes turns putting everyone to sleep, her son kills them; when her jaguar husband comes up, she intentionally She wakes him up, he runs away; in the village a woman cannot get used to cooked meat; she goes with her husband to the forest, he throws her parrot chicks from the tree, she eats them; he invites her to climb the tree herself, runs away; she becomes a real jaguariha, her forest runs away; Jaguarichs are more ferocious than jaguars and hate men], 65:194-199, 200-215, 217-219; caduveo [a woman lost her family; she was taken away by a jaguar; when she became pregnant, she left him, gave birth to a son; killed him by cutting him in half; each half became a child]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990a, No. 51:84; nivacle: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987b, No. 133 [ parents beat their daughter for misconduct, she goes to the forest, the jaguar marries her, she gives birth to a jaguarenka; the jaguar kills her brother; after blinding the jaguar, she runs to people; the jaguar dies, his corpse is burned], 134 [jaguar kidnaps a girl in the woods; she gouges out his eyes, he dies; he gives birth to a jaguar at home, who kills her brother while hunting; she kills a jaguar, his corpse is burned], 135 [a woman runs away from her jaguar husband, blinding him with pepper; his corpse is burned, it becomes a jaguar], 136 [a jaguar man meets a girl in the forest, takes her as his wife; hunts for her relatives; they kill him, burn the corpse, and a jaguar emerges from him]: 300 -304; chorote: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 129 [parents and sisters do not feed the girl, refer her to a jaguar; a jaguar takes her as his wife; brings her brother's leg; she dazzles the jaguar, runs home, her brothers Jaguar is killed], 130 [little girl always cries hungry; mother sends her to marry Jaguara; he takes her and feeds her abundantly], 131 [woman goes from her husband to the forest to the jaguar; born son eats her; jaguar sees another woman in the tree, takes her as his wife]: 246-248; poppy [the husband does not bring his wife enough bird eggs; both agree that it is better for her to go to a jaguar; he returns to people with a jaguaren son; he bites or eats other children; people kill him, jaguars kill people, people from another village kill jaguars]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 42, 43:120; angaite [the jaguar forced a woman to live with him ; she gave birth to a human and a jaguarenka; killed a jaguarenka, and a human son killed a jaguar]: Cordeu 1973, No. 5:203.
Southern Brazil. Ofaye [the girl goes to the jaguar because he brings her a lot of meat; returns to people, the jaguar continues to hunt for her; she takes on the characteristics of a jaguariha herself, her grandmother kills her; the jaguar leaves]: Ribeiro 1951, No. 8:129-131.
The Southern Cone. Selknam [Sea Lion takes a girl; catches fish with a net, his wife carries her to her brothers; confesses who her husband is; gives birth to a son; brothers tell her to distract Leo's attention, kill him; her son swims into the sea, becomes a sea lion; brothers refresh the lion, the sister asks for her genitals; does not eat other parts of the body]: Wilbert 1975a, No. 47:132-135; Yagans: Bridges 1948 [girls play to the shallows; the Sea Lion takes one of them; feeds fish; she gives birth to a boy covered in the hair of a sea lion; they all sail to her relatives; men kill Leo; his son eats his meat; mother Hits him with a sea urchin, he turns into a fish; the woman stays with people]: 161-163; Gusinde 1931 [The Sea Lion brings fish to his wife's brothers; they kill him, give his meat to his son; the mother throws it at his son sea urchin, son turns into a fish; brothers throw Leo's penis and other parts of his body at her; she eats Leo meat with her brothers]: 666-671; Wilbert 1977, No. 19, 37:51-57, 105-108.