L111. A hook from the sky. .18.20.24.31. (.34.) .35.37.39.42.
Sky dwellers or shamans catch or want to catch people on earth with a hook, net, loop, etc., drag them into the sky (somewhere up) like fishermen pull fish out of the water; Earth's inhabitants are hooking fish that are humans or pets in their own world.
Kayardild, Marquesas, Mangaia, Pukapuka, Malays, Aboriginal Malays (mantra), Mentawai, Nias, Kubu, Western Sami, (Telengits), Enans, Kets, Udege, Nivhi, Chukchi, Tlingits, Haida, tsimshian, bellacula.
Australia. Kayardild [Evans 1995:590-596; Month is a man who collects the souls of those who have recently died during an eclipse (moon halo); when the network fills, the Month disappears as if he died himself; while people hide under fig trees so that the Month does not kill them; if they don't hide, they will be hit by the disease that induces crusted sores]: Hamacher 2011:140.
Micronesia-Polynesia. Marquises: Beckwith 1970 [Koomahu climbs to heaven looking for a sister hooked by a blind old woman Tapa; meets T., who bakes bananas, he regains her sight, marries one of her star daughters; finds his sister, descends with her to the ground on a tree he planted on the ground at the beginning of his journey]: 256; Handy 1923 [The legend of Nuku Hiva tells how Tokehika let the hook go from the sky to catch humans; the bodies of those sacrificed were hung on a hook tied to a tree by a rope, which was understood as a fishing hook that the gods lowered from the sky]: 242; Mangaia [the demon Amai-te-Rangi lowers a hook (or basket) from the sky that catches people (curious people climb into the basket, she takes them away); Moko (the leader of the lizards and grandfather of the hero Ngaru) sends lizards to the basket to find out what is above; Ayu does not interested in lizards, he sends them back in the basket; they say that A. has a cutter and a hammer in his hands, around people's bones; N. sits in the basket, pushes back 8 times, A. pulls it back to heaven, losing it forces; lizards rush at him, preventing him from hitting, N. kills him, brings a chisel and a hammer to the ground]: Gill 1876:234-236; Pukapuka [Lingutaimoa woman caught a fish, placed it in a coconut shell, began to feed; the fish grew, it placed it in a larger vessel, in a hole of water, in a lagoon, and finally in the sea; the fish swam, L. fed it; the fair-people-of-the-sky descended the sky was hooked, they caught fish; L. asked the wave to carry it to the horizon; the first two waves were not good, the third one brought it, L. climbed into the sky, asked everyone if he ate her fish, killed everyone who ate, returned home the same way; fish blood causes sun and moon eclipses]: Beaglehole, Beaglehole 1938.
Malaysia-Indonesia. Malays [you can see a banyan tree on the moon, under it a humpback old man weaves a forest from his bast, where he is going to catch everyone on earth; the rat constantly gnaws on the rope and the hunchback cannot finish his work; if it ends, the world will end]: Skeat, Blagden 1900:13; Malays aboriginals (mantra) [ideas about spots on the moon are close to Malay; on the moon, the banyan, the old man Moyang-Bertang weaves under it rope loops catch people with them; mice gnaw through the rope; the Moon is this man's wife]: Skeat, Blagden 1906:319-320; Mentawai [angry with his sister, Kombut settled on the moon; from there he tries hook people, but his wife prunes the forest every time]: Schefold 1988:73; Nias [a rainbow is a net abandoned by spirits to catch people; the shadow of a man caught by this net]: Frazer 1939: 372; kubu [an old woman on the moon spins a thread to catch people on the ground with it; a white mouse constantly gnaws at the thread and it does not reach the ground]: Schebesta 1928:244.
Balstoscandia. Western Sami [father and two sons spent the night on the shore; the youngest does not sleep; an old man swam in a boat; invites them to sit; they swim in the fog, then the fog rises a little and hangs like a ceiling; the young man sees hooks and sheep hanging from this layer; when sheep grab the hooks, they are immediately dragged up into a layer of fog; the old man explains that it is people who fish from the ground, and sheep eat fish; allows young man go back]: Poestion 1886, No. 8:46-49.
(Wed. Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Telengits [episode of a shaman's spell against the malicious intent of underground spirits: "A ferocious spirit that catches people's milk yield, you love to knock over a filled cup, yours the face is black as soot. Your black hair is sloppy, your height is enormous, you only hold your terrible shield in the light of the month"]: Kalachev 1896:492).
Western Siberia. Entsy [Sirota-Tau (orphan nganasan) marries Sigio's daughter; he sends him to fish, he pulls the hook in the forest at Mach 150, pulls out a woman with a child, cuts off the forest in fear; father-in-law says that it was caviar fish; ST and his wife run away, kills S. (shoots at the last one, he falls, cuts the axe of the one in front, and that's it); his iron dog (hitting her nose); S. stops chasing; comes to cannibals who are going to slaughter his daughter for him; takes takes her as his wife; both wives eat human meat; in another place, the owners harness people into sledges, hunt wild deer, which are humans; elsewhere, ST kills deer, locals do not see it for a long time; his words for them are the crackling of frost, fire; he teaches them to make bows, they used to have planks with a hole in the middle; ST returns to his land]: Dolgikh 1961:73-81; Kets: Alekseenko 1967 ["Shamans showed relatives traces of wounds sustained in the fight against foreign shamans. On autumn evenings, they were afraid to sit for a long time, because it was believed that at this time an alien shaman came on the ice of frozen rivers and fished people (their souls) through the smoke hole, lifting his finger and chin. The shaman threw an elongated man (like a mallet when guessing), and if he fell face down, he was destined to die. His shaman fought against a stranger and tried to take a person (soul), but when he failed, the person fell ill and died after a certain time"]: 194 (note 72); 2001 ["Hostile shamans fish for an <Хосядам> ulvey (human double, soul) by throwing your fishing rod into the smoke hole. This is how the Kets explained a person's unexpected fainting. People around him tried to save him by waving knives in the air to cut the invisible line. Afraid of attracting the attention of evil creatures, adults did not raise their voices or allow children to make noise in the evenings, stopped their pranks... "]: 15-16.
Amur - Sakhalin. Nivhi: Kreinovich 1929 [legends about how people of the sky caught gilak with fishing rods lowered from the sky and dragged them towards them]: 101; Sangi 1974 [baby left in the cradle He grows up himself; the fly says that his parents are the god of the Ninth Heaven and the goddess of the Eighth Sea World; the fly is caught by a spider, the boy kills him; the fly turns into a girl, combs his hair, flies away with a fly; the hero goes to look for parents; meets three brothers, lives in their village; a detour from the sky drags the brothers upstairs; the hero on a swan flies into a heavenly hole (where swan packs disappear), kills heavenly milks (evil spirits); they fed their brothers to eat; the hero frees them, sends them to the ground on a hawk; meets his father; he sends him down to his mother; the hero swims to her on a dolphin; next to her is a beautiful woman who flew to him like a fly; the hero has many descendants from his wife from the villages of three brothers and from a sea woman]: 125-146; Sternberg 1933 [the older brother sat down to defecate, he was caught a sky fishing rod pulled me to the sky; the next day it was the same with the younger brother, but the rod broke off, the chain, three large bells and the little one fell; while the younger brother was sleeping at night, someone took the fallen one; the young man began fishing, one seemed unfamiliar to him; he noticed smoke coming from the house, came there; a boy ran up to the boat, grabbed the fish, ran away; there was an older brother, two women, a boy in the house; first The older sister threw the fishing rod, the elder brother married her; then the youngest, the youngest married her; adopted a boy, his wife's son from heaven]: 344-345; the Udege [heavenly men
ba odoni and ba mamani womencould catch earthly people with fishing rods]: Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010:13 (=Podmaskin 2013:39).
SV Asia. Chukchi [orphan young man Kuqualon is starving; decides to go to heaven; there a man shows him a hole plugged in a cork; takes out the cork; through the hole, the young man sees five playing ball girls; chooses the youngest; a man fishes for her soul by lowering a fishing hook on a rope; in the sky she comes to life; a young man marries her, she gives birth every day; celestials create a deer from coals; a young man with wife descends back to earth]: Bogoras 1928, No. 7:326-327; Bogoraz 1939:43; Belikov 1982 [husband's younger brother bothers his wife in his absence; one day she threatens him with a knife, accidentally kills him; husband He fattens a beetle and a caterpillar in the pit, they turn into huge monsters; the Spider tells her that her husband will lead her monsters to eat, tells her to sew new torbaza, throw it in front of the pit; her husband rushes after him A spider takes a woman to heaven, her husband rushes into a hole in anger, is eaten; in the sky, Kele catches the souls of earthly people; Kele's wives tell the woman to hide in the house of the Sunny Woman; she burns kele with a look at him; the Sunny Old Woman lets the Earth look into the boxes, each one can see the earth at different times of the year; a woman pours water, sprinkles snow, it rains on the ground, snows on the ground; sees her home; the Sun returns her to land to parents]: 138-149.
NW coast. See motif L31. A feather descends from the sky (the Tlingits have a porcupine needle or something of it). The person who touches it sticks, the others consistently try to hold each other and stick to each other, the demon in the sky pulls them up, they disappear above and die. Tlingit: Swanton 1909, No. 13, 49:41-42, 192-194; Hyda: Bringhurst 2000:181-187; Swanton 1905 (Skidgate): 330-332; 1908a, No. 65 (Masset): 640-644; Tsimshian: Barbeau 1953:179- 184; Boas 1902: Boas 1902:94-100, 234-235; bellacula: McIlwraith 1948 (1): 358-359; (cf. haida [the hunter saw a boat with people moving through the air; she chased him, he hid behind a tree; so many times they finally caught up, he put his bow on the boat and turned it over; the people in the boat began to floundering as if in water; their scoop surfaced, became the Pleiades; the crossbar (board, side?) , where the skins were stretched (border on which skins were stretched) with the Ursa Major bucket, the skewer with another constellation (Orion Belt?)] : Swanton 1905b:12).