L121. A hunter and a werewolf wife. .10.-.13. (.47.)

An animal or cannibal (cannibal) turns into a woman and marries a hunter with the sole intention of killing him. Usually a wife takes her true form when she comes to the forest with a hunter.

Hottentots, Ambundu (umbundu), Rwanda, Tutsi, Ikom, Bambara, Mandingo, Malinke, Sam, Gola, Wai, Guro, Dan, Twi, Ashanti, Krachi, Mosi, Hausa, Von, Yoruba, (Dogon), Ekoi or niang, dagomba, dagari, wolof, sarah, joluo, (yuchi).

SW Africa. Hottentots: Bleeck in Koropchevsky 1874 [Hottentot married a Bushman who knew how to turn into a lion; asks his wife to become a lion, get a horse; she became a lion, her husband climbed into fear tree; asked his wife to become a woman again and no longer asked her to become a lion]: 23; Schmidt 2007, No. 46 [the young man is in no hurry to comply with his mother's requests; she warns that one day he will see a great thing; he leaves, comes to a sick, worm-covered old woman; she replies that she is a great thing; asks her to wash it, he does it; she gives him eggs, warns him of a cannibal who has a daughter and family with eyebrows, the young men who came to her all died, in the morning you have to run away from her; the cannibal's daughter herself invites the young man to change clothes and bed; at night, the cannibal kills her instead of the young man; eats her; in the morning the young man runs away; the cannibal chases, the young man throws an egg, a bush appears; when the ogre finds an egg, the bush disappears; when the young man throws the second egg, a river appears; he comes home; the cannibal, putting on half of the girl's body comes to the boy's mother disguised as a woman; the young man does not want to deal with her, goes with the dogs to the veld; the woman follows him, the mask falls, the cannibal takes on his true form; the young man climbs a tree; when he sees the ogre, he goes down, he rushes at him, but the dogs tear it apart; the young man tells his mother that the one she thought was a woman is actually an ogre]: 108-112.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Rwanda [insibika dog or hyena-like monsters live in the forest, spewing fire from their mouths and butts; Maguru promises to bring their leader's tail; his mother gives him calebasses with 1) pumpkin seeds, 2) Eleusins, 3) beans, 4) small peas, 5) fog, 6) water; in the absence of insibika, M. comes to their lair, the old woman hides it; when insibika comes and falls asleep, M. cuts off their leader's tail, runs away; consistently throws calebasses behind him to detain pursuers; {do they collect small seeds?} ; the wind dissipates the fog, but insibika cannot overcome the reservoir; when leaving, the last insibika predicts that M. will find a beautiful rod, a good cow, meet a beautiful woman, they will turn into insibika, they will eat it; M. rejects the rod and the cow, after listening to the advice of friends and mother, but accepts the woman; at night the wife gets up, but M.'s dogs are on the alert; the wife says every time she is in need; becoming pregnant, invites her husband to go to the forest to get ingredients from the tree for the witchcraft that pregnant women need; the mother tries in vain to prevent M. from letting M. in; he ties the dogs, tells the mother to release them, if a leaf falls on her chest; M. climbs a tree growing near the confluence of two rivers; the wife turns into insibika, the whole flock joins her, they cut the trunk with an ax; every time a bird shouts to prevent the tree from falling, the felling overgrows; M. throws a leaf, the mother releases the dogs, they tear insibika to pieces; on the way home, dogs demand their part of the prey, M. refuses, they tear it up and they devour; the little mongrel swallows the heart unnoticed; mother M. makes the dogs come back and regurgitate what they swallowed, but there is no heart; the mongrel promises to regurgitate it if she is given the best pieces; this promised, she belches her heart, M. comes to life, returns home, and has always fed dogs well ever since]: Smith 1988:79-80; Tutsis [like Rwanda, but without throwing objects that detain pursuers; monsters stop pursuing when they reach the river that the Kabwa hunter crossed with his dogs; then the text is almost identical to Rwanda]: Pinguilly 1976, No. 16:193- 209; ambundu [when hungry, lions agree to send a young lioness in the form of a woman to the owner of the Kimona-Ngombe herds; she will marry him, kill him, and the herds will be eaten by lions; KN marries a werewolf woman, goes to bed with his new wife in a separate house; his little son cries from another wife, his father has to take him with him; at night, the son notices that the woman has become a lion, he wakes the father up; so several times; finally, the husband takes care of his wife himself; says he will go to take his son to another house, tells people to set fire to the house where the new wife is; the Lioness burns]: Abrahams 1983, No. 94:338-342 (= Serauky 1986:146-149); (cf. umbundu [a man got married, his wife could turn into a wild animal; she has two children, her own and her husband's child; when her husband went hunting, she gave the children peanuts and ate her own; her own right there ate, took it away from a non-native child; he did not give it, it turned into a beast, the child climbed a tree, she gnawed at it, the tree fell, she began to chew on the child, he called his father, the father ran to his voice, but the wife managed to throw herself into the river, take on a human form; one day her husband hid, saw his wife become a beast, shot her]: Bell 1922, No. 11:129).

West Africa. Ikom [Chief Leku has Achor's wife; Akoba young woman is beautiful, uses the services of many men, does not want to marry; promises to marry someone who falls into the far away Calebass; L. gets in, she has to marry him, but gets tired of doing housework; she decides to kill him; asks him to go to the forest for fruits, leaving the hunting dogs at home; when he climbed a palm tree, she cuts the trunk with an ax; L. sends a bird for his dogs; the palm tree falls, but it moves to another; Achor causes the river to flood, but the dogs cross, tear Achor apart; L. makes five bundles with pieces of her body, lets five dogs carry; Akoba doesn't understand how he could carry so much, he has to tell him; she goes for firewood, makes five bundles, tells the dogs to carry; they brought it and died from fatigue; since then dogs have not talked or complied with their owners' requests]: Dayrell 1913, No. 6:11-12; bambara [Siriman hunter kills many animals; The hare advises animals to turn an antelope into a woman to trap S.; S.'s mother warns him that the woman seems dangerous to her; she asks S. to kill and fry his dogs; the mother keeps their bones, puts them in a vessel; the wife asks what S. turns into a stump, grass, agama lizard; his wife asks S. to accompany her to her parents, asks her not to take weapons with him; in an unfamiliar forest he calls animals, those they rush at S.; S. turns into a termite mound, grass, stump, agama, the wife every time says that the termite mound, etc. is S.; the hare gnaws on the tree trunk on which S.; S.'s mother sees her son in a tree from afar , cooks dog bones, dogs come to life, kill and disperse animals; since then it has been known that you can't argue with your mother]: Görög 1979:106-111; Mandingo (Guinea-Bissau) [hunter Samba kills many animals; Gazelle and Guinea fowl turned into girls, asked them to rest in the house, but they are afraid of tying dogs; Maryam's older wife does not want to do this, the youngest Cadi tells them to tie them up; S. goes to see the girls off, K. readily agrees not to untie the dogs; in the forest, the girls turn into a gazelle and guinea fowl, S. after them, finds himself among lions, elephants, etc.; runs, throws an egg ( turns into a lake); coconut - a palm tree appears; S. climbs it; animals bring axes, dogs hear, M. releases them, they drive animals away; K. tries in vain to prove that it is M. guilty, S. chases her away]: Mendelssohn 1971:170-174; Raspberries: Belcher 2005 [animals are concerned that Sirankomi is killing them; buffalo turns into a beauty to find out his hunting secrets , comes to S.'s house, asks her to tell her secrets to prove that he is really that great hunter; he says he can turn into an anthill or termite mound, a stump, a hummock of grass; when ready to talk about the last transformation, S.'s mother stops him; in the morning, a woman leads S. to the bush, asking him not to take a weapon with her; the animals rush at him, but do not know when he leaves in the form small tornado; var.: a woman makes a hunter get rid of his dogs, but his mother or sister lowers them or revives them from their bones; the hunter hides in a tree, dogs save him]: 42-48; Hervé ; 1936, Education africaine 25 (93): 53-56 in Görög 1979 [(no details)]: 106-111; Vai [a skilled hunter kills animals; an elephant turns into a girl; the hunter's mother warns that women are insidious; the girl seduces the hunter, he says that she can disappear in front of animals when she goes into a tree; then into an anthill; knowing this, the elephants knocked down a tree, trampled on an anthill, a hunter died]: Creel 1966:16-20; twee: Bellon 1914, No. 3 [(translated in Olderogg 1959:191-193; text referred to akan); the hunter took panther cubs from the hollow; the fox asked for one, then the hunter gave the second one; the panther mother became a girl, came to the village, promised to marry someone who would fall into a calebass hung from a tree; only the hunter got there; his amulet warned him not to fall asleep before the wife fell asleep; the hunter pretended to be asleep, the wife became a panther, the amulet turned the hunter into a mat; the next time the panther tore the mat, but the hunter turned into a pillow; then the wife called the hunter to her city, and he forgot the amulet; she knitted it and went after her husband to pour the hunter's heart blood on her own amulet; a fox came and taught the hunter what to do; when the wife- The panther came back, he asked her to tie it lightly so that a fox would approach her and grab it and eat it; fox: hunter, how are you? "I caught something and I want to get rid of it." Scratch it with a knife so I can see blood. Panther: Just a little bit. The hunter killed the panther with a knife; escaped thanks to the fox], 6 []: 17-20, 29-38; guro [the hunter takes the game out of the traps, and the cannibal comes out of the tree and picks it up; the pregnant wife thinks that the husband gives game to his mistress; watches him (which is forbidden), sees an ogre; he is going to kill a woman, the hunter asks for the child to be given to him if it is a boy; gives his son to his mother; he grows up quickly; pretending to have a pain in his forehead, provokes his grandmother to put her fingers in his mouth and bites her: he will bite off if she does not tell what happened to his father; she says; the young man goes to the ogre; on the way receives a horn from an old woman that gives instructions, corn kernels and winged ants; when there is an obstacle on the way, the young man asks for a horn, he tells him to throw the seed and ant, they pave the way; stays in at home with the cannibal, everyone asks the other who snores; the cannibal falls asleep, the young man cuts off his head and goes out; but the ogre puts his head back, turns into a girl, she comes to the young man to become his wife; horn warns of danger; for the first time a young man turns into a loincloth at night, his cannibal wife does not find him; the second time she burns the bandage, but the young man became at that time the threshold; the third time she surrounds him with fire; he takes a horn but drops it into the fire; turns into a hawk that always flies where they make a fire - looking for his fetiche]: Tououi Bi 2014:117-127; dan [after his father's death, the young hunter first killed the largest animals, and then buffaloes; he had a talisman; when the animal rushed, the hunter turned into a butterfly and flew away; the oldest buffalo gathered others to decide what to do; offered to turn the young buffalo into a beautiful woman; she went to the village leader, asked him to show her that hunter; his mother felt unkind, but the hunter fell in love at night she asks what he turns into when the beast attacks; a termite mound; then a tree trunk; a needle; a deadwood; when she wants to say "a butterfly," the mother does not allow her to finish the phrase; the beauty returned to the buffalo and told everything; buffaloes attack, the hunter transforms into the objects he told the woman about; but buffaloes do not know about the butterfly, the hunter escaped]: Tiémoko 2019 : 3-6; Ashanti: Barker, Sinclaire 1917, No. 22 [when the mother prepares to die, the two eldest sons promise to make a tombstone, a coffin; the youngest promises to put the tail of an elephant princess in the coffin; goes to look for her; comes to the elephant village; the old woman tells you to approach the princess when she sleeps, act decisively and quickly, otherwise the elephants will wake up; the young man carries his tail; elephants see it in a dream, wake up the princess, rush in pursuit; ji-ji boys tell them to throw a branch (a huge tree), a corn cob (a field of corn); when the elephants have passed through the field, the young man is already at home; the elephant princess took the form of a girl, came to the village, carrying a calebasa cymbal; whoever shoots an arrow through him will become her husband; old man: except Kwesi, who cut off the tail of the elephant princess; K. became the girl's husband; the first night she turned into an elephant, but GJ K. turned it into a mat, she didn't find it; the next night into a needle; K. asked his wife to bring him lunch to the field; she offered to look in his head, found GG in his hair, and threw it at fire; burning, GG told K. to spread his arms as if he were flying, turned into a hawk; so hawks often fly there, fire and smoke]: 123-128; Herskovits, Herskovits 1937, No. 19 [dying, father asks sons, what will they do for him when he dies; the first promises to bear the tail of the dangerous spirit of Sasabonsam, the second to break the rock, the third to cry; only the first does what he promised; the old woman gives him the means, it guides his actions; at night he climbs a tree; cuts off the tail of the sleeping S., runs away; S. sends other spirits in pursuit; the young man puts nkwata (a fork in the road) on the ground, appears many forks; throws an egg, a river appears; while the spirits try to drink the river, the young man gets home; S. turns into a beautiful woman, comes to marry a young man; he puts a piece of wood in his place for the night, the wife destroys it; in the afternoon, the young man walks with his wife into the field, the wife throws the product into the fire, rushes at the young man; the product shouts the name of the bird the young man turns into]: 88; curls [the old woman asks two sons, how will they honor her when she dies; the eldest promises to sacrifice two slaves, the youngest Kwaku promises to retrieve the tail of the queen of elephants; the mother is dead, the eldest son fulfilled his promise; K. met the old woman sent senya to the tree, which he should greet; the tree opened and hid K.; released it when the elephants who came fell asleep; K. cut off the queen's tail; it contained gold and tin frying pan (not mentioned below; perhaps they should be used as magic objects that detain the pursuer); when the elephants woke up, they chased; K. asked for an elephant tail to help, and he created a pond; elephants began to swim in it; the queen did not want to waste time and ran on alone; becoming a beautiful girl, she came to the village of K.; said that she would marry the one who would knock off her calebass tree, which she threw to the top; only K. succeeded, the girl went with him; once begged K. to let her see his garden in the forest; then got drunk and looked in his hair and found a fetist; threw it into the fire; when K. woke up, his wife became an elephant again; K. began to call his fetiche; fetiche: if you took care of me, you wouldn't let the elephant find me; K. it's all wine; the fetist forgave him and told him to jump; K. became a hawk and flew away; since then, the hawk has always been flying where vegetation is burned - looking for his fetist]: Campbell 1931:100-104; Hausa: Hassane 2013 [] : 102-105; Tremearne 1911, No. 45 [Buffalo turns into a woman to kill a buffalo hunter; asks for his secrets; he replies that he is turning into an anthill, a stump, a Zob..; here is the father tells him to be silent; his wife leads the hunter to the savannah, asking him not to take a weapon, turns into a buffalo, attacks an anthill, a stump; when the hunter turns into a ring (Zobe), the buffalo is not sure that it is him; the hunter is saved]: 457-458; (cf. Laptukhin 1964 [the hunter exterminated animals; the antelope turned into a girl to marry him and slaughter him at night; but he guessed it, shot her with a bow, the girl became an antelope again]: 14-15); Olderogge 1969 [when going to the forest, a man forbade two wives to untie abandoned dogs; in the forest he met Dodo, climbed a tree, played the flute; the eldest wife untied the dogs, the youngest objected; dogs Dodo was torn apart, husband beat his youngest wife]: 250-251; Scheub 2000 [Dodo's wife came to the village, promised to marry someone who would open her basket; only a poor young man threw a stone and managed to open it; his father and he knew that a woman was a monster, they could turn into an elephant, lion and other animals themselves; in the forest, a woman became a dodo, rushed at the young man, but he turned into a lion, a snake, she left]: 39-40); (cf. Dogon [ the hunter killed many animals; his mother hid one bone each time; the animals decided to kill the hunter, he climbed a tree; the dogs began to fight, everyone died, the dog Sadale escaped without a paw; when he saw him, the hunter's mother sprayed his bones with water, they turned into new dogs, killed animals; when he returned, the hunter asked the men to help bring firewood; the wife of one told him not to go; instead of firewood, people brought the meat of animals killed by dogs; the wife told the man that he was always at home; went around the village, everyone gave her a piece of meat, she gave her children, but did not give it to her husband]: Arakelova 2005:168-169); mosi [ the hunter killed the buffalo's child; in order to take revenge, she turned into a girl, the hunter married her; the wife said she did not like dogs; he killed them, his mother warns of danger, his son does not believe; mother collected the bones of the dead dogs; the wife took the hunter to the savannah, asked him to climb the tree for leaves; turned into a buffalo again and called all the animals to kill the hunter; he whistled, mother I heard, began to cook dog bones, dogs came to life, ran, dispersed the animals; so mothers should obey]: Tauxier 1917, No. 75:474; ekoi or niang [Atikawt is a great hunter; Having learned that elephants were poisoning crops, he decided to exterminate elephants until none of them trampled on the fields; elephants, sorcerers, optionally take the form of humans and elephants; sent a downpour to prevent A. to return home from the forest; A. came to the house of the mistress of the forest Ada; her lame girl warned not to touch the food that would be served; if Ada snores like a storm, then she is awake; and if like thunder, then fell asleep; the girl gave two plants; the juice of one would open the door, the juice of the other would dry the river to cross to the other side; as it happened, Ada stopped in front of the river; the next day she took shape girls and came to the city where A. lived; he fell in love with her; but one of his wives was a sorceress and realized that it was Ada; A. did not believe it; his wife told A.'s two dogs to take care of their owner; Ada took it out of her stomach a hot iron pin and prepared to pierce A. at night, but the dogs were ready to rush at her; she said she could not be in the same room with the dogs and A. chained them on the veranda; Ada took out the rod again, but the dogs broke through the window; then Ada led A. to the fruit tree and asked her to climb; made the tree tall; armed warriors jumped out of her belly and began to cut down the tree; A. called the dogs; his wife cut the chains, the dogs were thrown to help; the tree fell, but not to the ground, but to another; the warriors began to cut down the second tree, but then dogs ran up, tore Hell and its warriors]: Kunze 1990:116-124; Dagomba [a hunter killed a buffalo; her daughter decided to take revenge, came to a hunter's village in the guise of a richly dressed girl; all the young men noticed her, but she only agreed to go with that hunter; asked how he managed to catch so many animals; the hunter said he could turn into wood, stone, water, etc.; before he called his last transformation, his mother stopped him, telling him to be silent; he only began to say the word "needle", but did not say it in its entirety; the next morning he came across a buffalo, his wife; he became a tree - she was his uprooted, broke it with a stone, drank it with water; then he became a needle and hid in the tail of a buffalo; gently fell off his tail, became human again and returned home]: Campbell 1931:104-105; dagari [ a hunting magician does not miss, and in case of danger he can turn into various objects and elements; he has a pack of good dogs; he destroys many animals; once killed a lioness, a lion cub escapes, grows up, decides to take revenge; turns into a beautiful woman, marries a hunter; says he loves a dog, the hunter allows his wife to kill all his dogs; the hunter's mother hides their bones; the wife chooses for lying the skin of a murdered mother; asks how the husband manages to be invulnerable; he replies that fire, straw, wind, drawer...; at this moment, the hunter's mother hears, tells him to be silent; in the morning the wife says that will lead her husband to her parents, asks him to leave his gun, bow and arrows at home (she is afraid of them); after walking away for a minute, the wife turns into a lion; the hunter throws his flute at her, turns into fire himself; the lion turns into rain, fire into the grass, water vapor into the buffalo, which began to eat grass; grass into the tornado, the buffalo into the wall around it, the tornado into the lizard; the lion regains its normal form, waiting for the lizard to descend ; the hunter tells him to play his flute, his dogs come running, kill a lion; the hunter's mother revived them from bones]: Hien 1995:82-96; background: Herskovits, Herskovits 1958, No. 17 [Azizã - marine the creature, another name for these creatures, is Djehun; when A. went ashore, the hunter killed him, brought the king a severed tail, but woman-J. went to sea; this woman, the daughter of the victim, took the form of a beautiful girl, came to the king, promised to become his wife if he shot and hit the calebass she put on her head; the king did not hit; the same happened to other kings and hunters; only an old hunter who killed Father J.; she married him; the hunter has 6 dogs; the wife asks how he will escape in case of danger; he replies that he will turn into a river, a tree, sand, a vessel; the mother hears, tells him to be silent; oh He did not say the last transformation into a horse; the wife leads to the seashore for leaves; the husband climbs a tree, the wife calls her relatives Yehwe, they begin to gnaw, cut the trunk with their legs, arms, hair , with his teeth; when the tree is ready to fall, the hunter breaks one of his seven calebas, the felling overgrows; the last time dogs hear, come running, drive away all Yehwe; the hunter found out from the fortuneteller which make sacrifices; Yehwe killed the hunter's parents and all relatives, but he survived; Yehwe hasn't been killed since then], 49 [the hunter saw Agbo (buffalo) take off her skin, became a girl, went to the bazaar; the hunter hid the skin, the girl had to marry him, she stipulates that he will not name her Agbo; the first wife quarrels with her, says that her buffalo skin is hidden under the roof; Agbo finds a skin, turns into a buffalo, kills the hunter's first wife and her children, runs into the forest, tries to cut down the tree on which the hunter puts on an amulet that makes him invisible; the buffalo leaves; with since animals don't turn into humans], 65 [Sagbo and Zinzu brothers found themselves in the forest without fire; saw smoke; Z. came to a giant (Yehwe) named Zogbano with 32 horns; saw that all parts of YZ's body were lying separately and eat; when YZ noticed Z., he gathered into one person; Z. got fire, left, began to play the flute about how YZ was watching; he went to look for the player, Z. denied it was him; extinguished fire came for him again; so three times; a girl came to the village, promised to marry someone who would fall into a pea on a calebass on her head; only Z. got there, the girl became his wife; at night she turned into giant, wanted to swallow it, but Z.'s 42 dogs barked; Z. saw a tree in the forest, wanted it to be his wife instead of that monster; the tree turned into Djeluba's girl; she made a condition that he would not remember that she was a tree; she did not cook; Z. came home, had nothing to eat, went to his first wife, said that the second was just a tree; when Z. was in the forest, the first called the second tree, she returned to the forest, became a tree; the second went to the forest to her relatives; Z.'s mother gave Z. a drum, did not tell him to be beaten; the man asked to be beaten, all Yehwe Zogbanu ran to the noise, Z. climbed the tree, they were his they knocked down, he flew away like a partridge; the mother hears him telling his wife that he could have turned from a partridge into an ant, a leaf, a river, sand; then his mother told him to be silent; in the morning his wife took Z. into the forest; he told his mother to let the dogs down if the water turned red; Z. climbed the tree for leaves, YZ ran in, the water turned red, but the mother was not at home; friend Z. found himself in the forest, drove away the monsters; the wife said that everything happened without her knowledge; at home she told Z.'s friend that Z. was dead; the friend hanged himself; after getting rid of him, the wife took Z. back into the forest; the friend's wife told Z., he found the body, brought him home; went with his wife into the forest; she asked to climb the baobab to get leaves; the monster gathered, began to cut down, Z. successively broke 7 calebas, the felling overgrown each time; when the tree collapsed, Z. became an ant, a partridge etc.; again as a man, he ran, climbed the tree that was his wife; the notches immediately overgrown on him; his mother let the dogs down, they tore the monsters; the tree wife refused to return, but sent her four tree children, who are now human; Chief Dada Segbo ordered dogs to become man's best friends; his Z. sacrificed his deceased friend; still revered Adiku tree - wife of Z.]: 186-190, 235-236, 275-284; Yoruba: Knappert 1997 [a childless hunter promises to sacrifice a leopard to god Ogun; wives gave birth; in the forest, a hunter meets a beautiful woman, she takes him to her home; in fact, she is the wife of the leopard he killed; she wanted to kill the hunter, but she spared him; gave birth to him three sons, who turned into leopards at night; married women]: 181; Walker , Walker 1980 [at the festival, a hunter meets a beautiful woman, has no idea that she is a cannibal, wins a game where the winner is promised the hand of a beautiful woman, brings her wife into the house; at night she turns into a pile of teeth, three hunter dogs see it, bark, the hunter wakes up every time; the wife invites the hunter to take her to the forest, tells her to tie the dogs; the wife turns into a pile of teeth, the hunter climbs on a tree, teeth gnaw a trunk, a hunter moves from one tree to another; asks a flying bird to fly to his house, free the dogs; they ate the cannibal]: 17-19; (cf. Prov. Gongola, eastern Nigeria (ethnicity not specified) [the hunter killed 10, 20, 100 animals a day; got rich, has many cattle and wives; the forest owner told him to stop killing for fun. limit himself to one animal a day, otherwise he dies; he killed three antelopes, they turned into lions, rushed at the hunter; he became a bird, flew away, they became falcons, followed; the bird became with a tree, falcons with fire, burned a tree; the laws of the forest must be respected]: Knappert 1997:155-156); wolof [hunter Abu kills animals, they will soon be gone; residents of another village are in danger of starvation , but Abu refuses to change his behavior; then the villagers send him a beautiful girl; Abu's mother suspects bad things; the young wife frowns - she wants dog meat; Abu killed all the dogs in the village; his wife then took Abu to visit her relatives; the elders gave Abu a drink that made him blind; he had difficulty getting home; at that time his mother returned, who was visiting another village; she turned to the sorcerer, who sent Abu to the spirits; they gave a handful of seeds and water, from which Abu saw the light again; when Abu returned, threw away the seeds; when the rains began, they rose; so millet appeared]: Reuss-Nliba, Reuss-Nliba 2018:35-47.

Sudan - East Africa. Sarah (mbai) [Sou has 10 dogs; he went to cut reeds by the river; a witch lived there; he asked him to cook a meal worthy of a guest; she cooked the baby; Su noticed his head in the brew, put food under the bed and chewed a dry cake himself; witch: I gave you food as a guest, now you must be my lover; took your pest, chased Su; they went into the hut for the night, witch released her teeth to eat Su, but the dogs began to bark; the witch calmed down, threw a pestle into the fire and said that tomorrow Su should go across 4 rivers and bring her a new one; in the morning asked to close the dogs in hut, they're angry; they went across 4 rivers, Su had an ax to make a new pestle; the witch told Su to climb the tree: cut it above and I'll be below; then you poured out my food and now you're going to die! my teeth become an ax, my child's teeth become an ax! and Su began to sing, calling the dogs; they escaped from the hut, but the big dogs could not swim across the river; the smallest swam across, came back and carried the others; they tore them apart by the sorceress; Su went down with a tree, cut it down, made a fire and burned her remains; a woman collected ash to make salt, brought it to her; her daughter tells her mother that ash sings: I am ash (from the burned) witch, and my name is ash (for cooking) salt; the mother only replies that she will give this salt to her daughter when she has her wedding; but still scattered ash; she has grown a pumpkin vine; a huge pumpkin has come off the stem, rolled around the village, devouring everyone; the pregnant woman asked the lion to hide it: if you have twins, you can eat one; when she gave birth, she asked the lion to wait: let the boys grow up; the woman caught on the stump, which teaches to feed the lion with food and sleeping pills; when the lion woke up, the lion caught up with them, the woman pretended not to run away; stump: feed the lion to the dump so as not to wake up; they they ran to the blacksmith, the young men made throwing knives, climbed a tree, called the pumpkin sorcerer; the thrush screams, naming two vines; the young men smeared the knives with the juice of these vines; cut the pumpkin, all swallowed came out; so there are a lot of people on earth now]: Fortier 1967:177-183; Joluo [Obong'o has a talking Sijenje bull; S. and all the cattle are gone; O. went to search, came to Lang'o country; all those he meets indicate the wrong way; O. sang, S. answered from afar; so several times, S. found; in the country, L. offers poisoned food and drink, S. warns the owner each time; everyone went to the leader's funeral, to protect the cattle the Kaki hyena (a particularly ferocious type of hyena) remained; O. crept up, cut off her tail, it contained her strength; there was still a blind old woman, O. promised to cure her, dripped aloe juice into her eyes, she died in agony; O. brought his cattle back; K. became a beautiful girl, came to O.'s country; all men are interested in her, she asks every time which animal the man killed, rejects everyone; O. replies that he cut off his tail K.; she immediately chooses him as her husband; suggests going for firewood, not taking dogs with her because she is afraid of them; suggests O. to climb a tree, break off branches first; turns into a Kaki hyena, begins to cut; O. calls dogs; the bird distracts K., asks why to kill a handsome man; at this time, felling overgrows; O. calls the dogs again, they hear and come running; seeing them, K. became beautiful again a woman, but her dogs tore her apart]: K'Okiri 1970:11-31.

(Wed. Southeast USA. Yuchi {most likely to borrow from Africa} [women come to marry a young hunter, he hunts a lot of deer; his grandmother tells him to go with them; the hunter tells her he will go - she is probably tired of the food he brings; tells her to tie the dog and put the hoe in the fire; if he calls, the hoe will wake up the grandmother, and she will untie the dog; once in the forest, the hunter saw that there were a lot of deer around to kill him; climbed a tree; when the deer blew up and knocked down the tree, the hunter fired an arrow, which pierced the ground and turned into a new tree, but the deer and he was almost knocked down; the hunter screamed, the grandmother untied the dog, which ran and drove the deer away; when he returned, the hunter said: I didn't want to go with them]: Wagner 1931, No. 4:31-33).