K87A. The kidnapped boy .43.49.55.59.62.68.
A forest woman gets or kidnaps a little boy and raises him to make him her lover.
Puget Sound, Upper Coquill, Western Shoshones, Chemewevi, Utah, Guajiro, Arecuna, Bora, Paresi.
The coast is the Plateau. Puget Sound [a cannibal kidnaps Gagara's son; makes her husband; he runs away; Thunder's daughter kills her stalker (cuts off her head with a door or burns her head); marries a young man herself]: Ballard 1929:101-103; upper coquill [while a woman picks berries, the Rabbit kidnaps her little boy; he grows up, the Rabbit makes him the only arrow, he hunts; one day he misses, his the arrow hits a Grizzly woman's bag, she leads him to her, makes him her husband; warns that she eats what people eat, but her 10 siblings are cannibals; they killed two or three of her husbands; they they try to attack the young man, the Grizzly wife kills them all - brothers, sisters, parents; the Rattlesnake woman warns that the Grizzly will now kill him; he runs, the Rattlesnake kills the Grizzly, in guise a woman becomes a young man's wife, brings him to his real parents and Rabbit, shares food with everyone]: Jacobs 2007:179-185.
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 the voice of the Turtledove, takes the baby from the babysitter's hands, carries it 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 a woman With the wind that his penis becomes heavy and long, he cannot run; he meets four girls, his relatives; they make his penis normal, tell him to hang the game high in a tree, run; shooter the bow hides the young man in the arrowhead, shoots; the other hides him in a pile of arrows; jumps out of the cave with him; when the pursuer runs into her, closes the entrance; the woman turns into an Echo]: Laird 1976:158-159; Utah [The Gorlinka woman leaves her daughter to look after her young son; the witch takes the child, turns him into a man, makes her husband; the mother's brother Eagle finds them, lures them out The witch from 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 her skin; The witch inside her skin turns into echo]: Powell 1881:45-47.
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; {Mexico to Bolivia's European story Juan Oso (son of a bear) is common. It is not clear whether it has supplanted similar local myths with the K86 motif. A guajiro bear (not a jaguar, etc.) can also be a European borrowing}]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1986 (2), No. 41:588-593.
Guiana. Arekuna [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 kill Tapiriha]: Koch-Grünberg 1924, No. 22:68-70.
NW Amazon. Bora [women dance at the festival with babies in their arms; the Forest Dog asks everyone what gender the child is; everyone says it is a girl, the last boy; the dog asks for her hold it, take 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.
Southern Amazon. Paresi [Termite Mother (MT) asked Uymayró's wife to raise her child; she gives; MT feeds him with termites, taking them out of her body; wants to raise a boy to make her own lover; the boy's father finds MT, throws a sharp stone at her, takes his son away; he was full of termites, he was washed, and a termite mite formed on the floor]: Pereira 1987, No. 225:716.