Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
Bibliography
Ethnicities and habitats

K8D. Jonah: swallowed by an anthropomorphic creature.

.10.11.13.-.15.19.-.23.25.29.-.31.34.-.36.38.39.41.-.46.50.56.59.61.62.68.

The character enters the body of an anthropomorphic creature, kills it from within (K952) and/or returns to the outside without help.

SW Africa. Bushmen: Kotlyar 1983, No. 118 [Kauha turns into ghngdua fruit, the girl eats them, he screams from her stomach, goes out of her abdomen; she leaves her bowel movements, he falls into them; turns into kitwa fruits, another girl eats them, he jumps over her belly walls again], 121 [Kauch's wives sculpted a baby giraffe out of their bowel movements; K. tried to grab it, ended up in a heap crap; wives turned into kitwa fruits, K. ate them, they began to speak from his belly; the bird pecked K.'s belly, the wives jumped out]: 246-247, 249-250.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Ovambo: Estermann 1956 [the boy went with his father to herd cattle, the father fell ill and died, the boy carried the body home; towards an evil spirit, says he was a friend of the boy's father, asks for a piece to eat, eats his leg, then the whole corpse; the boy runs, climbs a tree, taking a rope and blacksmith's fur (fole - blacksmith's fur, leather bag); he lowers the rope, he climbs it, the boy cuts it off; throws off his spirit in the mouth of a fruit, a branch, it swallows everything; he sits in a bag, jumps the spirit into the mouth, inflates a bag in the stomach of the spirit (põe-se a dar a fole); the spirit is bad, he wants to drink, drinks, dies of thirst; the boy and that's it people swallowed by a monster go out]: 191-193; Loeb 1951 [young men's dogs are various wild animals; he throws the bird to bake by the fire of the spirit, he is afraid of his "dogs", does not dare to rush at it; the same with the other in spirit, the "dogs" killed him, the young man cooked him, others ate him thinking that they were eating the young man; he killed all the spirits; married, the wife warns that her mother is a cannibal; the young man's "dogs" prevent his mother-in-law from coming up at night and killing son-in-law; the wife offers to run; they climb a tree; the mother-in-law begins to cut him, the dogs devour her, she revives from the remaining piece; the same second time; the young man and wife come to his mother; that eats the cannibal, the cannibal comes out of her ass, swallows her, who in turn goes out, swallows the cannibal, clogs her ass with fruit, then defecates over boiling water, the cannibal turns into locusts, flies away; the young man clears the area, the vegetation recovers; he watches, sees the locusts tell the bushes to revive; the young man catches it, puts it in a vessel, covers it; this time a cannibal finally dies]: 307-310; bast [the cannibal eats each of the children his wife gives birth; she licks pus from the cannibal's eyes, she advises her to give birth in the cave; the child opens to the mother's voice, and the ogre has a rude voice; the cannibal tells him to change his voice; he calls the child again, the child opens the door, the ogre eats him; the wife looks for the cannibal, finds it, he swallows it, but she has needles in her basket and razors; children are swallowed in the ogre's belly, the mother gives them razors, they rip open the cannibal's belly, go out]: Lambrecht 1963:288-290 (retelling in Klipple 1992:69); herero [the hunter comes into the house little monster; when he leaves, he does not tell you to look up; the hunter looks, there are dead people; the hunter runs away; when he hears the monster approaching, he climbs a tree; he cuts it, the hunter tells the dogs to tear it apart the monster, they do it, he gets off, runs away, but the monster respawns; repeats everything; the third time the dogs are tired; the hunter calls the one who is at home, she tears up the monster; the hunter comes running to the mother, hides ; the monster is here again; his mother asks him to swallow it, gets out of his ass twice; now offers that the monster allow himself to be swallowed, plugs his ass, the monster dies]: Estermann 1941:178-179.

Sudan - East Africa. Iraq [Ama'rini thinks Hodbaz is rubbing the grain and he is sharpening the knife; she swallowed it, he cut it from the inside and went out, took possession of the liberated cattle]: Kohl-Larsen 1963:117-120; nandi [12 the girls went to the river; when they began to swim, they were swallowed by an ogre; the hunter heard a scream, ran, and the ogre swallowed it; the hunter told the girls to sing, began to cut a hole in the ogre's stomach; feeling pain, he ran until he fell; the hunter and the girls went out to a country where no one was present; the hunter married girls, they are descended from Nandi]: Chesaina 1997:31; malgashi [man stoned an andali bird with a stone, brought it to him, cut it, cooked it, ate it; every time the chick or pieces of its body scream that a person is cutting it, cooking it, etc.; the wife does not eat and tells the children not to eat; parents chicks arrive, peck at a person's belly, fly away with the released chick; the person died]: Korneev 1977:179-181.

North Africa. Tunisia [the man married but the wife did not get pregnant, the same with the second and third; he told them that if they did not get pregnant, he would marry the fourth; they prayed; first: "At least half of the rooster", the second: "The Pot", the third: "Donkey"; so they gave birth; digging through the sewage of the royal court, the Rooster found a chest of gold, brought it to his mother; the king found out, ordered the guards to take it away from The rooster's chest by force; the Rooster got angry, flew to the palace, went up above the palace, saw the royal daughter, and she was bald, he shouted that the royal daughter was bald; the king ordered him to be locked in a cage with lions; the Rooster said: "Let's get the mouse out of the cave!" The lions smashed the cage and started running around the city; the Rooster shouted for the royal daughter again; he was put in the dungeon; he said the same words again, the water came out of the banks and flooded the dungeon, even reached to the Sultan's room; the Rooster began to scream again; the Sultan ordered him to be locked in a wheat warehouse so that he could eat and die, and the rooster called the ants; they took all the wheat away, and he again began to shout about royal daughter; the king ordered the rooster to be turned into a couscous; after eating it, he felt a stomachache, went to the bathroom, a rooster came out of it, shouted about the royal daughter and the king himself that he was red and fat; the king gave the rooster a jug of gold; the Rooster returned to his mother with gold; the pot also decided to help his mother, told him to wash it, turn it over and put it in front of the house; a man passed by saw the pot, took it home; the wife put fresh meat and vegetables in it, told her husband to take it to the bakery for meat to be cooked there; the baker cooked the meat and placed the pot next to the other dishes; the pot rolled home to his mother, she ate meat; washed the pot again and put it in front of the house; a Jewish jeweler passed by, picked up the pot, put jewelry and precious stones in it, fell asleep, the pot returned to mother; the next time the old man who passed by took the pot to use it as a night vase; sat on the pot at night, and he stuck to it, the old man could not get off, promised whatever he wanted, he demanded a property contract (house); the donkey's mother envied him, began to force him to work too; the donkey ate green unripe plants, went home; a boy ran by, the donkey sent him home to his mother made him a bed; she laid carpets and rugs; the donkey stretched out on the carpets and began spewing sewage, and then rolling on carpets and rugs until he died]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 66 in Korovkina MS

Southern Europe. The Spaniards [the gray bird began to sing to the king, but he told her to be driven away; she asked the tailor to sew her a blue satin coat, the hatter to make a hat; she sang that she was better than the king; he told Fry her, ate it at dinner, she began to peck at it from the inside; the king was given a laxative, the bird flew out, asked the other birds to give it a feather, reappeared in a colorful outfit, the courtiers did not catch up with her; she threw off someone else's feathers, turned gray again]: Shishlova 1977:81; the Sicilians [the widower king, who has 7 daughters, married a widow with 7 sons, the children also got married; the king and sons They went to war, leaving their pregnant wives; the Queen hates them, told the servants to take them to the forest, tear their eyes out; six women gave birth to a girl, they were eaten; the youngest gave birth to a boy Cacciaturino, he was raised; the brothers returned, met K. in the woods, his mother allowed him to live in the palace; the queen's cannibal sister advised him to get rid of K. by pretending to be sick; let the king send him as medicines are the blood of a giant cannibal; the mother teaches to let herself be swallowed, cut from the inside of the artery, go out through the mouth; the cannibal sister suggests acting blind, and the medicine only for her; she will kill K.; mother teaches you not to get off your horse, let the cannibal bring a high table; drop her fork; she will bend down, change good food and poisoned food; the cannibal will be poisoned, you have to take her magic wand and 7 pairs of eyes from the closet and eye medicines; K. restored sight to his mother and her sisters; creates a castle with a magic wand, invites the king, tells the whole story; the queen was cooked alive, fed to dogs]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 42:274-281.

Western Europe. Germans (Upper Palatinate) [a witch kidnapped three princesses, taught her magic; the prince got lost, asked to spend the night in the witch's cave; the younger princess warned that he should lie under bed and not drink the wine that the witch would offer before going to bed, but pour it into her boot; to do this, she turned off the lights for a while; when the witch fell asleep, the younger princess ordered her to run, flying with the prince to the air; the witch chases first one and then the second sister of the runaway; she turns herself into a rose bush, a prince into a rose; to a church and a priest in the pulpit; the third time the witch herself, the princess, flies tells the young man to give her a sword, turns into a pond, makes the prince a duck; the witch tries in vain to lure the duck ashore; then she drank the pond; the princess found herself in the witch's stomach and ripped it apart with a sword; the prince brought princess home; wedding]: Schönwerth 1981:21-22.

Melanesia. Gazelle Peninsula (New Britain) [grandmother sends her granddaughter to fetch water, the kangaroo tore her bucket of leaves; her grandmother waited, killed a kangaroo; sent her granddaughter to buy fire to Makonakonom; that one of hers raped, demanded a part of a kangaroo; his grandmother smeared a piece for him with crap, hid with her granddaughter in a tree; T. promises the birds a woman, they say where they are hidden; he tries to climb, they cuts off the vines; he shakes them off into the basket, swallows them along with the basket; the girl has an obsidian flake with her; the grandmother cuts through a hole, the swallowed ones come out; T. heals her dissected flesh, intact again]: Meier 1909, No. 1a: 175-181.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Uliti (West Carolina) [older sister hides from the ogre Rolá in a tree, the youngest from the cannibal women, the husband finds out the food she has prepared, they are back together; the spirit woman kills the chief brings home, fattens her; she cooks food for her sister, meets her; he notices tears on her face, spies, lures her older sister, imitates her younger sister, swallows; the youngest takes two sharp shells, is also swallowed; the sisters cut the cannibal's belly from the inside, come out]: Lessa 1980, No. 49:81-82; Marshall Islands (Ujae) [Lade catches fish and roasts fish on fire; demoness Likirebjel swallowed it along with the fire, it came out of her ass; she swallowed part of the island, swallowed L. again; again; on the fourth, L. was stuck in her stomach, but cut the demoness's belly sharp shell and came out; the demoness died]: Kelin 2003:140-145; Tonga [(both characters are sharks and ancient heroes at the same time, humans); Tui Tofau accepts Seketoa's challenge, hides in the trash, S. swallows it, TT swells in his stomach; S. admits defeat, TT comes out through his mouth, declares himself master of the surrounding seas]: Permyakov 1970, No. 148:373.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans: Francke 1900, ch. 1-3 (western Tibet) [as a white bird, the king of heaven began to fight the black devil bird; Agu {spirit category?} DPalle knocked out a black woman from a sling; refused cattle and wealth, asked one of his three sons to be sent to the land by the king; only the youngest Dongrub agrees; on the way to earth he comes to the spring, someone grabs his hand; warns that the giant Agu Za will swallow him; he will have to hold his sword in his right hand with his left hand, then he tells him to go out; D. asks if he should go over his head together with part of the brain, or through the foot; Z. asks to go forward; D. comes out through the back of the head, giving the giant the moon and sun to eat for a year; (hereinafter D. is born again on earth)]: 1-6; Yao 1986 [king fears that a wealthy merchant will want to take his place; tells the Lame Minister to bring the merchant and the merchant to deliver the sea dragon treasure; he asks for what is necessary, including a soothsayer parrot and 500 a man sets sail, black and white dragons appear, sink the ship; the wife of the deceased gives birth to a son, secretly raises him, does not say who his father is; he learned about his father from an old woman, gave her necklaces; the king saw them, made the old woman confess where they came from, told the Lame Minister to deliver the young man; he threatened to kill his mother, the young man comes out of hiding, receives the same task from the king as his father; the fairy promises his mother that her son will return, reports a magic whim; thanks to him, the dragons did not sink the ship, the young man went down to the sea dragon, the princess gave him a treasure; with his with help, he made the dying mother young and healthy; the king orders to bring a gold pot with a silver spoon from the Rakshasa; the guardian of the Rakshasa country swallows the young man, but is forced to regurgitate, from now on he becomes kind; the Rakshasa queen also swallows it; in terrible pain, she asks which end he wants to go from; the young man says that he is the incarnation of Buddha and it is not appropriate for him to go out from behind; the queen regurgitated him, gave treasures; a young man sits in a golden pot, he brings him to his mother; the king also wants to fly and visit the Rakshasa country; the young man throws the king Rakshasam to be eaten, he takes the throne himself]: 192-213.

Burma - Indochina. Palaung [the king marries a peasant woman, loves him more than his older wives; when she gives birth, his older wives throw the child off the cliff, replace him with a dog named Soline; the king returns his wife with the dog to her parents; the child is picked up by poor spouses, called Schumo; he grows up, finds a mother who does not believe that he is her son; he offers her to squeeze milk out of her breast; the stream enters Schumo's mouth, and not Soline; Sx. stays with his mother, Soline is sent to the palace; Schumo goes to play pebbles with the princes, always wins; they send him along the road where he lives 1) the dragon, Schumo kills the dragon; 2) where Bilu lives the ogre; Schumo jumps into his mouth, cuts his throat from the inside, goes out through his ear; the princes both times tell the king that they killed the monsters; 3) Bilu is kidnapped by the king's mother; Schumo on this grandfather and Grandma flies to the horse there, cuts off a piece from the queen's skirt; she tells me to tear out two trees, one wins fire, the other wins the wind; the bilu is sent fire and wind after the fugitives, Schumo waves his trees, taming the fire, the wind; the princes killed Schumo at home, the flower in his house has dried up; his mother's brothers and sister find the corpse; an old man comes to revive Schumo with a cup of water; Schumo shows a cut off piece of skirt queens; the king expels older wives and their sons, appoints Schumo as heir]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 140:320-323.

South Asia. Hinduism [the demon in the form of a goat turned into meat, his brother gave this dish to others, called the demon back, he jumped out whole, tearing the eater apart; the great ascetic and archer Agastya, affiliated with South India, destroyed the demon by digesting it]: Zimmer 1946:113; Pakistan [the king ventilated money on the roof; the Toontoony bird carried one gold to its nest; sings what the king has He also has money; the king sends him to inspect the nest, the gold is taken away by T. sings that the king is a thief; the bird was caught, but the youngest of the king's seven daughters missed it; the daughters decided to bake a frog instead of a bird, they put you cake; T. sings that the king ate the frog; the king throws the caught T. into boiling water, and then swallows it, he flies out of his nostril; the servant tries to hack the bird, cut off the king's nose; T. sings about This, flies to another country]: Siddiqui, Lerch 1991:15-22; Muria [Raja's wife quarreled with his younger brother and he left; came to Jal Kaniya Rakshasi; said he wanted to marry her sister Bael Kaniya, who lived inside the fruit of a Hungarian quince (Aegle marmelos); JK hid the young man from her husband, but he came, sniffed him out and promised not to harm him; but when he saw it, he decided to swallow it; the young man became small; when Rakshasa swallowed it, he cut his liver and stomach with a knife, went outside; Rakshasi said that only her husband could help overcome the guards of predatory animals around that tree; young man revived the rakshasa; when they arrived in the forest, the rakshasa gave the tiger a goat, a bear fruit, and a snake's milk; when the fruit was picked, Rakshasa ordered not to cut it on the way, but only at home; but the young man violated the ban; from A girl came out and began to cook; but the young man fell asleep and she could not wake him up; the underground inhabitants took her to Tarbhum Ghotul (the lower world); the young man woke up six months later; heard a voice from an anthill, dug it up; ants built an anthill on the head of a long-haired sadhu; he said he had been meditating for many years; explained that the only way to go down to TG was by weaving a rope from the bark of twelve forests; when the rope is ready, the sadhu lowered the young man, promising to pick him up if he gave a signal; the young man killed the underground inhabitants, the sadhu picked up the girl and him; BK said she forgot the necklace below, young man jumped after him; found the necklace, but could not get to the ground; two vultures came down to peck for the corpses of the dead; the female agreed to put the young man on her back and carry him to the ground; he found Jogal Karo - sadhu's daughter; she said that her father locked BK; for promising to marry her, she said that her father's life was in a bird's nest in the middle of the sea; gave a ring; the young man threw him into the sea, a frog came out, brought him to that the nest, he took it; the sadhu forbade his daughter to marry the young man, took him to the temple to sacrifice Chandi Devi; offered to eat rice on the floor like roosters peck; the young man asked to show killed a sadhu, but his blood gave rise to a thousand of them; then JK tore off that bird's legs and wings and then cut his throat; the sadhu died; the young man took BK, but JK shot him with an bow out of jealousy; mongoose revived him; BC said: let JK also be the young man's wife; all three returned to the boy's brother, lived well]: Elwin 1944, No. I.5:24-38.

Taiwan - Philippines. Apayao [fishermen build a dam; Beberoca lies down, damming the river, fishermen are happy; the crab bites B., he gets up, everything is washed away with water; so many times; crab, eel, frog dig a hole, people walk down it; B. swallows a woman, she has a knife hidden in her hair, she cuts through the giant's belly, goes out; B. dies]: Wilson 1947b: 65-67.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karachays and Balkarians: Aliyeva 1994, No. 65 [Alaugan marries three times, his wife dies every time, he takes an emegensha; she swallowed her child because he did not look like emegen; swallowed and a stranger, she was put in the basement; during the next birth, the witch replaced the child with two puppies, the Emegensha ran them over; A. took the child to the glacier, the boy Carashahuay grew up there; tells him to take him to his mother; she swallows it, he squeezed her heart, A. ripped open her stomach, K. came out], 98 [during the battle between sledges and emegens, Sosruk cuts off the heads of a three-headed emegen; Carashaway was smaller than others; emegenes queues swallowed it; he froze his entrails, others burned his heart or stomach, went out unharmed]: 419-421, 490; swana [published on weight in 1897; Amirani, Yusibi, Badri noticed that their father Iamani is blind in one eye; the mother replies that the father had smallpox; then the sons put hot cornbread to her chest; the mother said that when B. and Yu were born, Dev demanded give one of them; his father did not agree, then Dev took one eye from him; the brothers go to look for the deva, they see him on the rock, he spins (spruce is a spindle, a millstone is a spinning rod); dev swallows A., he rips off his stomach, but loses an eye; threatens to kill a deva if he does not heal him; dev tells him to take a piece from his heart and liver, rub his eye socket, A. recovers; dev now demands to heal his side, but A. inserts a wooden wicker in there, otherwise Dev would swallow the whole world; now when dev swallows the sun or moon, the star soon comes out through the braided line; A. demands I.'s eye be returned; dev shows a pole in the house , there is a box on it, another one in it, an eye in it; the brothers return the eye to their father]: Dumezil 1996:85-86; Margiani 1890b [=Dumezil 1996:84-85; dying, Dahl told her husband, whose name is Marzelian, to extract from her belly put the boy in the stomach of a bull, and a month later take it out and put it in the cradle; Christ christened the boy and named Amirani; jumping out of the cradle, A. killed the jugs of women who came to the spring; master The spring and part of the village was Jaman; he put the cradle with A. behind the boot, came home; the cradle was placed between the cradles of I.'s two sons, Visib and Badri; A. began to stab them with an awl; when he said, that he was A., were happy in the house and began to take care of A. even more than their own children; all three fraternized; playmates ask why the brothers did not regain their father's eye, if they are such heroes; the father admitted that he gave his eyes to the monster, otherwise he would have to give his sons; as soon as the brothers were able to smash a millstone on their knees, I. let them go; A. fought against the gray maiden, V. with the red , B. - with black; A. helped the brothers kill black and red, and gray swallowed it; V. and B. tell A. to cut the deva from the inside with a diamond dagger, they chop it themselves from the outside, A. comes out, but is blind in both eyes; as directed deva, they cut off pieces of his heart and liver, put it on A., his eyes see better than before; the brothers come to the sister of 9 devas; she fell in love with A., advised him to kill her brothers; cross the river, threw her hair over; the brothers crossed, V. cut off her hair, the maiden stayed on the other side and cursed A.: you will wander until you marry Bright Kaklotia's daughter; brothers came to the maiden at the top of the mountain; he lures them into his house, eats a ram, promises to eat his brothers tomorrow; that deva's sister is in shackles; says where her brother's diamond saber is, only she can kill him; A. cut the chains of the deva's sister, demolished the deva's 12 heads; there is a pole in the house, many eyes are on it, at the top of the box, I.'s eye is in it, the brothers return it to him; the daughter of Bright Kaklotia on the ottoman under in heaven; A.'s horse picked him up, A. cut off his chains, the ottoman fell; the girl's parents sent an army; his brothers killed him, but V. and B. died; the girl washed her face, A. revived her brothers with this water; celebrated wedding; there was even bird's milk among the dishes]: 6-11; Georgians [the chicken found a millet seed, sowed millet, grew, the royal herd trampled it; the chicken drove the herd, the horses fell off the cliff; became insult the king; the king fried him and ate him; he screams from his stomach that he was in heaven; got out; he was thrown into the treasury; he gave the entire treasury to the beggar; he was thrown into the stable, then into the goose, he released a wolf, a fox, they killed horses and geese; they threw him into the sea, he drank it, filled it with water in the tone; continues to tease the king]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 98:156-158; Armenians [the rooster found gold, began to shout about it, the king ordered the Nazir viziers to take away the gold; the rooster screams that the king was rich because of him; the king ordered me to return the gold; the rooster: the king was afraid of me; he was seized; the rooster: king me in the guests called; threw him into the cauldron; they treat him to the bathhouse; the king swallowed the rooster; he screams from his stomach; the king orders to kill him, if the rooster screams again, his stomach was ripped open, the rooster went up to the roof, and the king died]: Tumanyan 1984:97-100; Turks: Stebleva 1986, No. 12 [Keloglan ("The Bald") tells her mother that she will marry a giantess; rushes to suck the old deva's breast; she hides him from her sons, turning him in a broom; they promise not to eat their brother; at night K. does not sleep, asks him to cook new food; when she is away from need, the old woman ties a rope to him; K. bandages him, runs away; the Frog hides him in a hole in the water, sits down on top; The turtle hides it under the shell; the hedgehog under the millstone; does not answer the old woman's questions; furious she swallows it three times, he holes in her stomach three times, goes out; she dies; K. brings home the giantess's ears, says he married her]: 35-39; Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 161 [poor children come to the giantess; she waits for them to fall asleep, but the youngest always invents the reasons why he does not sleep (he wants halva, pilaf, fried lamb, bring water in a sieve), she has to fulfill his whims until morning; the giantess puts the youngest in a bag, but he replaces himself a foal; climbs onto a roof or tree; a giantess asks how he got in; he comes up with different ways (putting various objects on top of each other; putting hot iron in his ass, etc.) the giantess dies; or the boy runs away on horseback; the frog, the toad, the hedgehog hide him; the giantess swallows the hedgehog three times, it gnaws through her stomach, she dies]: 177-179.

Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks: Levin et al. 1981, No. 1 (Urgut near Samarkand) [the sparrow forced people to make him a new robe, on the roof of the padishah's house he shouts that his robe is new and the padishah has an old one; a sparrow fried, the padishah ate it, the sparrow screams from the inside; the padishah tells him to kill the sparrow when it defecates; the viziers cut off his ass, the sparrow flew away], 23 (Muminabad) [the old woman is going to go in need, but first decides to pick up cotton; each time he postpones his intention until the dress is ready; comes to the padishah to ask the land to go out of need; he gave; where urine spilled, a vineyard grew; the old woman is looking for a watchman, rejects people. the crow, the first sparrow (they want a basket, brush, grape berry to pay), takes a second sparrow as a watchman who will take half of the berry; the bald one comes to tear grapes, a sparrow ripped his skin off his head, the padishah ordered him to bring a sparrow; he was plucked, scorched, salted, cooked - the sparrow shouts "I was raw, I became boiled" every time, etc.; the padishah swallowed it, he screams from his stomach; the padishah tells him to cut when the sparrow flies out, the padishah's ass is cut off, the sparrow has returned to the old woman, he told everything]: 111-112, 128-130.

Baltoscandia. Karelians: Evseev 1950, No. 152 [Ira puts three strawberries in her mouth, gives birth to three sons: the elder Väinämöine, the middle Ilmoilline, the younger Dögamoyone; V., D. could not harness the horse, I. harnesses, goes with his brothers to marry Katerina; the old man who meets swallows I., he forges in his womb, breaks his ribs, goes out; K. demands 1) to plow the snake field (I. plows), 2) swim forest lake (swims without soaking clothes), 3) evaporate in a hot bath (I. cools the bath with a spit); K. carries by sea, the gulf breaks three times, I. creates an island each time, K. hides every time, becoming a fish, a star, a mirror in a hollow; I. finds it three times, tears it apart, throws it into the swamp; bones have become driftwood, blood berries, flesh hummocks, soul like a seagull], 162 [young Jorgamoinw brothers, old Väinämöine and Ilmoilline; I. sees Baba Hiijen Himmen akku flying, went to marry her daughter Annie; XX tells 1) to plow a field with reptiles, 2) do snake fence, 3) swim across the lake (hip boils on the shore, oil in the middle); swallows I., who asks his mother to send a piece of iron to make a knife, makes furs out of pants, fingers - mites, hammers - fists, knees - anvils; came out of the womb of the 20th, took A. away; she broke her sleigh in the middle of the tenth sea, I. created an island with a song, repaired the sleigh; A. jumped into the water, became a pike, I. ruff, caught it, turned it into a seagull], 164 [ Ilmoilline forges, Annie flies by like a bird, accompanied by old Väinämöine and Jogi-Jolgamoeni, goes across ten seas to marry her; golden snakes crawl around his neck, nightingales sing on an arc, golden cuckoos cuckoos cuckoos, the horse's body does not sweat, the hoof does not get wet; her father Hitto demands 1) plow the snake field like an elk with a horse on the shore of Lake Tuomelan d'ärven rannas, 2) put a fence of snakes, frogs, 3) catch a pike in Lake T.; I. sends a smaller horse's head, more chicken eggs on the pike's back; H. agrees to give A., but swallows I.; he does not want to go out with feces, vomits, makes a forge out of his shirt, furs out of his pants, hammers from his fists, his knee is an anvil, forged a knife, went out over his side, H. died; on the way A. asks I. to sing as he sang, killing her father; I. refuses she breaks her sleigh, jumps into the sea with a ruff; I. becomes a burbot, swallows a ruff; does not turn A. into a crow, a magpie (she would then become famous), turns her into a seagull], 165 [Ilmoilline goes to marry Anna, Hiijen aino tytär (An'n'oi, Hiijen aino tytär); his friend Väänämöine cannot harness his horse, I. harnesses him; at half past ten of the sea, H. breaks the arc, the runner, I. creates island, repairs; X. requires 1) catch an elk horse (hirvoi-hebozen), harness it in a fiery plough, 2) plow a snake field, 3) catch pike from the bottom of the sea river (meren-joven pohjas; I. sends iron hail to it ); H. swallows I., he makes furs out of his shirt, his fists hammers, his knees a anvil, forges a knife, cuts through X. lives, goes out, carries A. in a sleigh or boat; A. does not want it, I. takes it by force, turns into a seagull], 167 [the mother replies to Ilmoillina that Hiizi-Hitto has a palisade, on the stakes of the heads of his daughter Annie's suitors, only one without a head; I. tells his father to harness an elk horse, plant nightingales behind him, plant cuckoos to cuckoos, dogs bark, goes with their father; towards young Jolgamoine, does not turn, I.'s sleigh break the arc of Y.'s sleigh; nightingales sing, cuckoos cuckoos cuckoos, dogs bark; Hiijen Hittolaine requires 1) plow the snake field with a moose horse, 2) put a snake fence on it, 3) bring pike from the Tuoneh River (I. drives hail at it from the sky); swallows I.; he sends his father to his mother to ask if he should go out with with feces or vomiting; mother tells him to go out straight; XX asks him not to kill, but I. forges a knife (furs are a shirt, knees are an anvil, fists are hammers), goes out over his side, XX. dies; I. forces A. with him to go, she breaks her sleigh in the middle of the sea, I. repairs them with a song; A. rushes into the sea with a ruff, I. with a pike, tells me to turn around to swallow the ruff from her head; A. refuses, I. turns her not into a crow, a magpie (she would be a bad person), but in the seagull]: 303-307, 322-324, 325-327, 329-331, 332-337.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Buryats [Lobsogoy, who lives on the NW side, turned into a star, studied Gaser's magic, turned him into a tireless donkey and plowed on him; Alma-Mergen Khatan took the form older sister L., begged a donkey, restored G. to his appearance; going to war with L., G. and his warriors chase three wild bulls, sisters L.; two are killed, the eldest runs to L.'s palace, takes a human appearance, G. swallows; he cuts her from the inside, making her say that her brother is immortal but can be defeated; G. kills her by cutting off her heart; with the help of AMH, sending arrows at L., defeats him, locks him in stone tama for a thousand centuries; puts a stone battery to guard it]: Khangalov 1959:282-291; Mongols (Dunsurun, Khalkha) [the elder sister has a son Ihe-Alim, the youngest Baga-Alim; IA catches a wonderful horse; the old man warns not to go where the 10-headed Mangyt-Khai is; the horse tells you to cut the belt from his back, make a bowstring out of it; firing an arrow, IA flies past MX on horseback; In the evening, an old woman comes up, swallows IA with her horse; she is MX; IA cuts her heart from within, rips her belly open, goes out; performs feats, gets a wife and a kingdom]: Bennigsen 1912:81-86; (Cf. Mongols [Irin-sain comes to Mangys's wife; she replies that her husband will come with rain, wind and thunder, hugging the sky, lower earth with his upper lip, swallowing people and camels; tearing the bowstring into in the back of the mangys, I. kills him, freeing the swallowed]: Potanin 1893, No. 2a: 132); darkhats (recorded from a Tuvan who understands only Darkhat) [Tangyl Mergen wins, makes a hero's friend Khaeran-Hara-Beho; they kill 23-headed Athar Shar Mangys; at this time, 30-headed Mangys swallowed TM's house and sister; then swallowed them themselves; TM cut him from the inside, freed his sister and people; goes get the betrothed Dagina, the daughter of Lusai Khan; shoots an arrow at the fox, the fox is entangled in the plumage of the arrow, asks not to kill, talks about obstacles on the way; a red rock to the sky; two crows hatch eyes; two cannibal camels; two Khasyr-Basyr dogs; vast sea; TM pierce the rock with an arrow, throws bags of eyes to crows, solonets to camels, bones to dogs, horses have jumped over the sea; they meet Lusay Khan's shepherds, one of them says that L.'s death in a white stone in a mouse hole under the ridge; to get L.'s daughter, you have to win the competition between her fiancé Kuryuldey-Mergen; horses were allowed to run around Mount Sumbur, but KM people shot TM; KM married D., but she wants to revive her betrothed, flies to Erlik, takes a bottle of potion, tells HHB to kill the tiger TM was reborn into, pours the killed potion into his nostril, he is reborn by Tangyl Mergen; TM kills L., destroying the receptacle of his soul, kills KM (his death was in a needle stuck in a bow); they returned home, TM gave his sister XXB]: Potanin 1983, No. 148:512-517; the Khakas [The Rooster and Teteka brought seven chickens to the steppe; decided to fly to the birch tree, where the birch buds are; the Wolf ate the chickens; they flew to live in the poor woman's yard; buy took away from her hand mill, she and her son went to collect alms; the Rooster flew to the bay, shouted, demanding that the mill be returned; bai ordered the horses to throw it, then the cows, but they did not trample it; throw it into the oven; took the Rooster out of the oven, bought it; the Rooster in his stomach began to yell; bai ordered to beat himself in the stomach; his stomach burst, buy died, the Rooster grabbed the mill, threw it at the Wolf, he burst, live chickens flew out; the widow with my son got the mill back, began to live in prosperity]: Balter 1958:53-56.

Western Siberia. Nenets (Yamal) [his wife does not tell Yomba to go from the boat to the river, he does not listen; all the fish in the boat and in the house come to life, jumps back into the water; YE. grabs the last jar of caviar; says whoever dies tells him to cover him with branches, leave a jar with him; a man with a dog's ass lived with YE. and his wife; in the fall he sees YE. eating caviar, saying he has deceived everyone; a man with a dog agrees backwards with the old woman to run to the grave of Ë., supposedly from hell; Ë. screams in fear; leaves; comes to the old man and the old woman, turns into a baby, crawls under the hem of the old woman; old people they adopt him, after three days he grows up; tells him to slaughter the last bull to eat the liver; load the meat into the boat; cuts the rope, sails away with the meat; sees the line, turns into a pike, the devil swallows it, Ë. scratches him from the inside, the devil lets the pike out of his ass; chases Ë., he kills him with a knife; Ë. digs the shaman's grave, hardly runs away from the skeleton; pees into the river, the pike grabs his penis, he tears it off with his penis, throws it into the water; the man promises to give his daughter for someone who makes him laugh; YE. tells his story, makes him laugh, gets a wife; brings 300 deer to old people who deceived; went back to his old wife, took off the skin of a man with a dog's ass, under her was a handsome young man; YE. gave him his young wife, said that he had made the hell he had now killed as a half-dog ; YE. asked to slaughter a deer for him, ate meat, drank blood, turned into an idol]: Lahr 2001:273-277; Forest Nenets (Western 1914 on the river. Maykovskaya) [Chaika is alone in the plague, his mother, older brother's wife, older brother, grandfather went to buy firewood, berries, hunt, etc.; an old giant came, swallowed Chaika, went to his place; he had a knife, he cut through the giant's stomach, went out, came back; explains to relatives who come why he cries; they hid in the corners of the plague with a gun; the giant comes home, notices a hole in his stomach, comes back, he's shot, chopped, thrown into the fire; he said his body would turn into midges, horseflies, osm, husband, snakes, lizards, frogs, butterflies]: Lechtisalo 1947, No. 44:101-104; Enz [Somatu man hunts on wild deer; he is surrounded by little egete people with eyes and tongue on their chest; he runs away after crossing the river (they are afraid of water); he comes to ulaiga enchio (also "little people"); they are going to eat a woman, but they give her somata as his wife; he listens to them both eat; runs, a big man Sigio sits by the fire, grabs the somata, swallows it whole, he cuts a hole with a knife, comes out, the sigio dies, somata takes his bow; kills ulaiga enchio from it, takes his wife; this somata is the ancestor of the Sovalovs]: Long 1961:114-117; Southern Selkups: Bykonya et al. 1996 [Pyongesse caught up, swallowed Idyu; he began to sharpen a knife in his stomach; P. promises to belch it]: 134; Donner 1915 [Pünegusse, who comes from the north, kills and eats It'te's parents; Ithete is raised by an old woman, tells him not to go far, he goes; on the lake, a blind old man in a boat is fishing; I. catches the fish, takes it away; the old man (on Tym, Tea he is P.) shamanizes, tells the spirits to bring the offender; I. ties himself to the wall of the yurt; he brings spirits The old man swallows a yurt together with I., an old woman and a dog; I. sharpens a knife in his stomach, cuts it, goes out with the old woman and the dog; the old man dies]: 40-41 (retelling in Tuchkova 2004:252-253); Tuchkova, Wagner-Nagy 2015, No. 14 (Chaya River, recorded by N.P. Grigorovsky) [grandmother does not tell Ita to go to the upper edge of the lake, where ducks and crucian carps have oblique eyes; Itya walks, picks her eyes, they are straight; sees a blind old man, steals his fish; he promises that Itya will be in his stomach; the moose brought him a house with Itya, he swallowed it; Itya took a knife and a whetstone with him, cut the belly line, burned it; asks each of the seven daughters that her father fed her; six say that Itya killed them as human; the seventh with fish, Itya married her], 15 (Upper Ket, 1964) [Pineveldu puts out the head of the scraper, that He attracts whatever he wanted; Itya tied himself, his grandmother and the dog, but the belts burst, they were carried to P., he swallowed them; Itya took a knife with him, sharpened it, cut P.'s belly, released his grandmother and dog, burned them ogre], 16 (p. Vasyugan, 1983) [as in (14); Kitka and a blind old man; freed his mother and father from his womb; killed two daughters, the third did not eat human beings, Kitka married her], 18 (Ivankino, Ob, 1967) [when leaving, father and mother did not they tell Calabokke to make noise; he makes a noise, Pönehess came, pulled him out from under the bed, swallowed him; K. began to poke him with a knife, P. regurgitated him; his parents returned - P. had all his hair fallen out, the patient was lying; they were in the morning told him to make noise; P. came, they hacked him with an ax and burned him]: 84-86, 90-91, 94-95, 101-102; northern Selkups: Stepanova 2018, No. 39 [the hunter came across a plague, she has a girl in him, she is the daughter of a giant- cannibal; advises her father to feed him first, and then eat him; the hunter asks to swallow it whole, not to chew it; he took out a knife in the cannibal's stomach, ripped his navel, went out, the cannibal died]: 19-20; Tuchkova 2004 [hell enters the house, looking for a boy hiding behind a pole; a bucket, a cauldron do not give him a boy, he gives him a pole, because the boy cut her with a knife in the morning; the devil swallows it, but the boy cuts it his belly with a knife, comes out; his mother barely washed him from the damn feces]: 245 (apparently Tuchkova, Wagne-Nagy 2015, No. 17 (Nizhnyaya Baikha, Turukhan) [hero - Puchika-Churika]: 97-98); chum salmon: Nikolaeva 2006 [girl Henya Bolba ("little mushroom", the name is given for her short stature), hearing Devil's footsteps, took a knife, hid in the ash; Damn swallowed her, she cut a hole in his stomach, went out; each of relatives says he can't fit because she is dirty because Devil was in her stomach; grandfather took people to the dugout Devil, the Devil was finished off, burned; HB was washed]: 146-147; Osharov 1936a: 130-134 (river Dupchys, west in 1928) [the fisherman's trap is full of burbot, he hangs his bow on the fir as a sacrifice to God; the next morning, the burbot is even fatter; he feels sorry for the onion, he takes it; kills the imp he meets out of it; the hell's mother behind him chases, the fisherman asks God to take him to heaven, he refuses because he regrets the bow; the fisherman climbs a tree, falls, turns into a fox, then an otter, a pike, leaves the three traps of the line; still in the appearance of a pike hides in a stone in an empty plague; they refuse to give a spoon, dishes for kneading dough to the young man, the kleinitsa gives it out; the devil began to beat the stone, the devil swallowed the fragments, died; the devil swallowed the pike together with a stone, relieved herself, the pike fell out, she swallowed it again, burst, the pike came out of the stone, the young man became human again], 159-161 [everyone went fishing, Iyynbolba (the name is given for his short stature) hid in Ash, taking a knife, Damn found it, swallowed it, she cut it, came back, says it was dirty, there was a devil in her belly; people finished it off, burned it, washed Y.]; Porotova 1982 [Kolney boy, his father Coldey; Baba Yaga came and swallowed Colney; he had a knife, he cut her stomach, went out; Coldei reached the hole on a bloody mouse trail; hears Baba Yaga complaining to her daughter that her stomach hurts; sends her neighbor to sew her veins; she does not let her, Baba Yaga is dead]: 53-54; nganasany [Kyhe-lu (Kurapashechya Park) lives alone, decides to kill himself, rushes on foot, does not died; came to the plague, there is a woman, then her husband returns from hunting; when K. says, they think that the fire is bursting; K. takes the woman for himself, brings another wife to the man; K. enters the mouth of the shige cannibal, cuts his belly, goes out, killing him; takes off his skin; another man puts on his skin, dies immediately; K. revives him; K. and his wife became the father and mother of wooden ones, and the other man and wife became stone idols]: Dolgikh 1976, No. 21:79-81.

Eastern Siberia. Evens [when she dies, the mother tells her two daughters not to go up the river; they go, meet the devil, he promises to give fish for a kiss; the youngest agrees, the hell bites her, promises to come to visit; the youngest asks the eldest to leave her under bed, giving him a knife and wrapping her in a yurt tire; hell swallows her, chases the eldest, the youngest kills him, cutting him from the inside; the girl comes to rich people, they they push it around; she goes to fetch water, asks the Month or the Sun to take it; the Sun takes it, takes three years for the Month, now it is visible on it; she smiles, she has buckets]: Novikova 1958:40-42; 1987:43 -44; Yakuts (the place of recording is not specified; possibly a literary processed and/or abbreviated retelling of several texts) [The bird is tired of Ala-Mogus with his answers and advice; he roasts it in horns, she says he should now fry it on the other side; he swallows it, she talks from his stomach; he hiccups, the bird is in the wild; trying to kill the Bird, AM pulls a tree, hits the ground with it , leaves turn into many birds; AM admits defeat]: Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976:34-37; Yakuts (no place of recording, link to the archive; central?) [the merchant promises to give the sea spirit what he does not know at home; this is a son; the old man advises the young man to go to three sterhs, one of which will give a black stone; the guy gives it to the sea spirit, comes out victorious from trials; Siberian is a pupil of the sea spirit, the guy runs with her, turning into birds or fish; the spirit swallows them; they rip off his stomach and go out]: Ergis 1967, No. 101:181.

Japan. Aina [the hunter sees two men fighting; one in black and the other in red; black tells to run; red kills black, chases the hunter; he has a fall to the sky; the hunter jumps into her, cuts the red insides; he dies]: Pilsudski 1912a, No. 19:168-170; Japanese [parents want a child, a boy with a finger (MP) is born; rides in a horse's ear, swims in a bowl, his sword is a needle; (1) arrives on cannibal island; (2) to serve a wealthy family (minister); accompanies the princess, attacked by cannibals; MP teases them from a tree; swallowed, hits the cannibal from the inside; regurgitated, Cannibals run away, leaving a wish-fulfilling hammer; turning to him, MP becomes handsome, marries a princess]: Ikeda 1971, No. 425B: 112-113.

SV Asia. Coastal Koryaks: Bogoras 1917, No. 17 [The raven turns the louse into a shamanic tambourine, promises a daughter to whoever tells what the tambourine is made of; the evil spirit Kamak answers correctly, takes the girl away; she kills the rest of the Kamaks with a knife, throws her comb, it becomes big, she climbs it; K. cannot reach it, lets her leave; she marries, gives birth to two sons; K. comes, swallows it; she cuts it from the inside with a knife, returns to the crow people], 19 [Kamak swallows the Seagull woman, who cuts it from the inside with a knife; the Baklanicha woman deliberately allows herself to be swallowed Kamaka's wife, who tears her from the inside with her claws; Kamaki come to life, but no longer swallow people]: 77-81, 83-87; Menovshchikov 1974, No. 131 [the cannibal now comes to Ememkut's house; E. with his wife and the eldest child runs away; n. raises the youngest; when the boy grows up, eats him; he scratches his belly n., n. dies, the boy goes out]: 413-414; Jochelson 1908, No. 99 [=Bogoras, No. 19], 103 [=Bogoras, No. 17]: 287-288, 291-292; Jochelson 1908, No. 128 [Ememkut rises to the Sun, wins running, raising stones; the Sun admits defeat, but says that E. will not be able to marry the five-headed daughter kamaka; at home, his father promises to help him; E. sails in a boat, feeds K., grabs his daughter; K. swallows him five times, E. comes out from the other end; kills K., takes his daughter; she defecates with beads and brass rings; E. is getting richer]: 323-324.

Subarctic. Inhalic: Chapman 1914, No. 24 [two boys shoot arrows, come to the cannibal's house for them, try food from the pot; the pot replies to the Cannibal that the boys are hiding under a stone and under the pillow; she swallows both; one rips open her stomach with a knife, the other with a whetstone, both go out]: 98; Deacon 1987 [the giant swallows two boys; they cut through his stomach with a knife, go out the giant dies]: 118-119; koyukon [two boys shoot arrows, go looking for them, enter the ogre's house, eat food, hide one under the bed and the other under the seat; the mouse tells the visitor The cannibal about boys; he swallows them; one has a knife with him, the other has a sharpener; they rip open the ogre from the inside; he dies; one boy turns into a partridge, the other into a caress]: De Laguna 1995, No. 30: 231-233.

NW Coast. Quakiutl [SW The wind blows without interruption; Omean (raven) with birds and animals sails in a boat to fight him; Wren flies into the Wind's anus, makes a fire inside with friction, flies back; The wind offers one quiet day a year; Omean: Not enough! The wind offers eternal summer; Omeal: Too much; winter is also needed for people to starve]: Boas 1910, No. 18:227-229.

The coast is the Plateau. Lekuñen [the girl refuses the ugly young man; the grandmother advises him to go to the Face Doer; the young man chooses the most beautiful; on the way home he is kidnapped by a giant cannibal; puts him down between her breasts, swallows it; he squeezes her heart; the crane tries to pull it out, he grabs it by the beak, lets him go, the crane falls; the cannibal dies, the animals cut her, the young man goes out; marries the captive of the cannibal, takes the wealth; rejects the girl who rejected him; she herself goes to the Face Worker, he gives her ugly; brothers follow her footsteps one by one, each slides and falls, cannibal pulls out, swallows]: Hill-Tout 1907:346-348; quileut [giantess eats children; Kveti offers to help her carry her baskets of wild onions; eats all onions; she chases them; he turns into a bird, an insect, a fish; it swallows the fish along with the water; in its stomach, K. turns into a whale; the giantess dies]: Reagan, Walters 1933:312-313.

The Midwest. Western Marsh Cree (northern Manitoba): Brightman 1989:30-31 [Wīsahkīcāhk follows the trail, sees excrement with human bones; a giant appears, tells V. to bring a skewer , on which he will fry it; V. goes, cries, asks Laska to climb into the giant's anus, gnaw his heart; the giant died, V. took out Laska, washed it in the lake, revived it, said that people would call it weasel beast], 40-44 [Wīsahkīcāhk sees smoke, comes to the fire, there is Wīhtikōw {cannibal giant, windigo from the Eastern Algonquins}; he tells V. to collect firewood for the fire and 12 skewers for every part of his body; V. asks Laska to climb into the cannibal's anus, gnaw his heart; the cannibal dies, V. pulls out Laska, revives and cleans her on the snow, makes her white with the dark end of the tail in memory about what happened, gives the name "weasel"], 44-45 [as in p. 40-44, in short]; steppe crees: Ahenakew 1929 [the cannibal Vetico tells Vesakaicak 'u to collect firewood, wants to fry it; V. asks Ermine gets into his mouth, gnaw off his heart; the cannibal dies; V. paints Laska with clay, since then it has been white; the tip of his tail and eyes remain black]: 352-353; Skinner 1916, No. 1 (7) [Visukejak meets the Ogre, who tells him to bring eight skewers to fry him; V. brings seven, is sent again; asks Laska for help; Laska climbs into the Ogre's ass, killing him from the inside; for this V. paints Laska white with a black spot at the end of the tail]: 350; steppe ojibwa [the cannibal Windigo tells Nyanibozh to bring a skewer to fry it; N. brings crooked sticks, asks Caress to get into V.'s ass and bite off his heart; V. dies; N. rewards Laska by making her white; ties an eagle feather to his tail, so it's black]: Skinner 1919, No. 11:290.

Plains. Sarsi [The old man knocked down the tree, saying he would do this to the enemy; I'll say the Bad Man says he'll fry him on a skewer, tells him to bring a suitable stick, he brings unusable ones; asks affection for help, promises to make him beautiful; he runs, the caress gets inside the cannibal, eats his heart, he runs, but falls dead, the caress gets out; the person says that when winter comes, caresses will be beautiful white fur]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 12:12 {sic!} ; assiniboine [man tells Sitkonsky to prepare firewood for him; S. asks caress to get into his anus and gnaw off his heart; the man dies, his heart was like ice; S. washes his caress with snow, She's been white ever since]: Lowie 1909a, No. 43:128-129.

The Great Southwest. Oriental ceres (Cochiti) [Black Boy swallows a toad; it devours it from within; the doctor opens his stomach with a thunder knife; the toad runs away, the young man recovers]: Benedict 1931:156-157.

Llanos. Sicuani [(episode of cutting a tree with cultivated plants on branches (G5 motif) - catching axes]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 44 [Chamáni asks Palamékune to give them axes; he replies that he has only one poor axe; then he is given yopó to drink; C. and one of his companions, one flies into P.'s mouth with a fly, the other climbs into his anus with a lizard (and tickles P.?) ; he vomits, he belches various axes; the woodpecker takes the best, other worse birds; P. gives parcels, which buzz; people decide to open them; the Guang bird warns them to hide in pits ; those who opened the parcels turned into capybaras when flies that flew out of the bundle flew into their mouths; mosquitoes that did not hide were bitten to death], 48 [Kinkaju is the first to know about the tree of abundance; others they watch him; he agrees to cut down a tree, asks Palemekuni for axes; he replies that he only has a bad machete; Kinkaju penetrates his anus with a mosquito, flies out of his mouth; then P. belches various axes], 51 [Kinkaju learned about a tree with cultivated plants on its branches; Tsamani came to ask Palemekuni for axes; Ts. suggested that two of his people turn into mosquitoes, one would penetrate the anus will fly out of the mouth, the other into the mouth, fly out of the anus; P. began to regurgitate axes, knives, European clothes, etc.]: 194-195, 219, 227.

Guiana. Taulipang [a cunning man dies when he puts a dung beetle in his anus; it eats its intestines]: Koch-Grünberg 1924, No. 49:147-148; curl [strong man sees a dung beetle eating its excrement ; puts it in his anus, dies]: Goeje 1943, No. d38:127.

Western Amazon. A cannibal. Shuar [ant climbs into the cannibal's anus]: Barrueco 1988:43; Pelizzaro 1961, No. 8:6; 1993:55; Rueda 1987, No. 39, 59 [two options; Iwia walks around with her bag and catches people in it; Ant serves voice; I. understands this as a bad omen, wants to kill the Ant; he says he will die if he is placed under his ass and the winds let it go; climbed inside I., cut off his heart; I. died]: 170, 252-257; aguaruna [the cannibal puts the ant in his anus himself; since then, the ant has been black]: Chumap Lucía, García-Rendueles 1979, No. 82:654; napo (or canelo) [no one can kill; The ant tells the man he will help; teases I. that he is a bad hunter, without prey; promises to stop if I. lowers his pants, leans his back against a tree; climbs in the ass; bites him in the ass heart, I. dies]: Ortíz de Villalba 1989, No. 63:123-124.

NW Amazon. Barasana [penetrates (into the vagina?) goddess bee, comes out of her mouth as a lizard]: S.Hugh-Jones 1979, No. 4F: 280.

Southern Amazon. Iranshah [see motive J58; cannibal Ma-myu-u and cannibal Shinkaruli kill all villagers; M. swallows them with her ass; sister M., her three nephews, remain; boys threaten rape and kill an aunt if she does not tell them about the fate of her parents; they make arrows; enter M.'s anus to look at the weapons and utensils swallowed in her womb; M.'s liver and heart are cut off, jump back; M. dies, turns into thorns]: Pereira 1985, No. 29:127-138; paresi [younger brother falls into the trap of the demon Shikhali; he brings him home, says he brought him firewood; his two daughters lie down with a young man; they have poisonous insects in their vaginas, they tell him to stick a reed, pull out the insects, have sex, then put the insects back; at night, the young man falls asleep, eaten by W .; the same thing happens to the older brother, but he does not fall asleep; Sh. 1) sends him to bring toucans (they kill people); the old woman orders to burn the thorns on the tree first (var: wives cover holes in the face young men with wax, toucans did not peck him); the young man brings toucans, S. revives them; 2) clean the bird cage (there snakes, old woman or wives warn, he burns snakes, S. revives); 3) fish with poison ( old woman: there are caimans created by Sh.; you need to heat the stones, boil the lake; S. revives the cooked creatures); 4) get the vine to make arrows (the vine must fall on your head, the water spirit pulls out); 5) tear bark from the tree (his son-in-law climbs up, throws bark, killing S.); beetles came out of his stomach, so his daughters could not revive him; two beetles were made a sacred nasal flute; the young man and those born to as a boy and a girl, he swims down the river in a cassava trough; wives send two parrots; they fly into the young man's mouth, cut his heart, come out of his sides; since then they are red; children tease the person who comes to him Cocotero (their father's sister) that she has a hairy vulva; every time she wants to grab them, they jump into the water; Zatiamare (K.'s older brother and the dead boys) catches them in a trap; with the forest spirit copulates as a girl, she turns into a spirit herself; the boy is killed by fish, he flies away with a falcon; Z. finds his veins, teeth and brain, makes them into timbo, fish poison, kills many fish]: Pereira 1986, No. 7:131-149.