L1A. Werewolf: A large predator.
(.21.32.39.-.44.46.48.50.52.53.55.-.62.64.66.-.68.71.72.)
Theanthropomorphic character turns into a dangerous four-legged predator (tiger, bear, jaguar).
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Minyong [see motive F34; the sister met the tiger; the brother came to them, the tiger brought meat, belching it; the brother left, dressed the dog in women's clothes, the tiger rushed at it, the brother killed him; returned sister; she smeared herself with egg yolk, took a knife in her mouth, turned into a tigress, but he managed to kill her]: Elwin 1958a, No. 2:359-365 (=1958b: 398-404).
Volga - Perm. Marie [two women and two men on the road; women decide to dress up as scarecrows, scare someone, pick up the goods; frighten the merchant, the priest; the poor old man is not afraid, but tells the mummers forever stay like this; this is how bears appeared]: Aktsorin 1984:276-278; Udmurts [the old man wants to split off a splint from the birch tree, it promises to fulfill all his wishes; the couple are getting rich; the old woman tells Ask the old man for something terrible to make them all afraid; they turn into bears; (the origin of bears)]: Klabukov 1948, No. 44:129-131.
SV Asia. Chukchi [a man has a wife and five children; he comes to a distant shore, stays with Mountain Echo; she is young and beautiful; the first wife comes to her, lulls her to sleep, kills her by pouring boiling broth into her ear; puts her body as if she is scraping her skin and smiling; her husband comes to his first wife to kill her; she turns into a bear, kills him; she stalks her children; they run away, turn into a wagtail, silly, awl tail, wolf, wolverine; bear has been wandering in the tundra ever since]: Bogoras 1928, No. 32:392-394.
The Arctic. The Aleuts [the shaman pretends to be dead; his wife buries him in a cave, puts a bow and kayak next to him; on the fourth day he finds the cave empty; the bird tells her that her husband lives with two new wives, she will take her there; the woman promises to show how to eat soup, knocks a boiling pot over her rivals; puts the corpses as if one is cursing and the other is laughing; the husband who has arrived shouts to the women not quarreled; wife turns into a bear, eats him with her kayak]: Lavrischev 1928:121-122; chugach: Birket-Smith 1953 [Aktiingcook pretends to be dying, asks to put it on him the grave is all his possessions; one day his wife finds the grave empty; the bird tells her that her husband has taken new wives; she comes to them in a kayak, asks them to bend over the boiling brew; leaves the dead standing one with a smiling face, the other with a sad face; turns into a bear, kills her husband, is taken to sea by four men; they turn into seals, she swims, turns floating seaweed into Middleton Island, gets to Monteig Island; therefore, brown bears are especially ferocious there]: 154-155; Doroshev 1866 [Akchimguk increasingly goes to the village beyond the mountain, explains to his wife that they are good food there; pretends to be treated there more and more often He tells the dying not to burn or bury it, but to throw brushwood, leaving his property nearby; on the third day, the wife discovers that the deceased is missing, thinks that he has been taken away by a bear; Magpie says that A. is with new wives; the old one comes to two new ones while A. is at sea; says that the best thing is to sip the brew from the cauldron, shoves both heads into boiling water; leaves one standing as if she is laughing and the other - as if she is smiling; accusing A. who comes, turns into a bear, kills him]: 371-373; Kodiak: Golder 1907b [the shaman turns the hunter into a bear; he wants to kill him; he turns him back to man; the bear man warns him not to hunt bears; the shaman breaks his promise, the bear kills him]: 296-299; 1909, No. 1 [the husband pretends to be dying, tells him to leave him on the shore seas with all her possessions; marries her mistress; the first wife comes to the second, advises her to keep her face above the boiling pot to make it red; pushes her into the cauldron; turns into a bear, kills her husband ; goes to the bears]: 10-11; Kenai Peninsula: Johnson 1984 in Norman 1990 [a man takes two new wives, both boiled; four Seals take the Bear to sea; she turns swimming seaweed from Middleton Island]: 162-164; Nuniwack Island [two sisters are married to a hunter, the youngest has a small child; the husband says he is dying, asks to be left on the ground in a kayak; the bird (Schneeammer) says younger sister, that her husband has two wives again; the eldest goes, notices smoke in the distance, comes to the house, where she sees her supposedly dead husband with two women; returns, asks her sister to paint her face, comes to to those women; replies that she became beautiful by dipping her face in boiling blood with water; they dip and die; the visitor puts one corpse on the roof, as if the victim leaned down to lift the blanket from the smoke hole, the other is at the door; puts a wooden plate to her ass, puts chopsticks in his nostrils, turns into a bear; kills her husband who comes, destroys the house; kills his younger sister at home, leaves; one day people killed a bear with a wooden plate and sticks in her body]: Himmelheber 1951:95-99; central Yupik: Fienup-Riordan 1983, No. 5 [husband disappears; wife takes bear skin, comes to a house where two sisters live, her husband's new wives; advises them to drink boiling water to become beautiful; they die; she puts on her skin, tears her husband to pieces; she can no longer take off her skin, remains a bear]: 239-240; Kawagley 1995 [(the author heard from his grandmother); in an empty village, a boy and a girl; married, they have a child; the husband is missing; the bird tells his wife that he is married to two women across the mountain; she took bear skin, came to those women when her husband was not at home, said that she had become beautiful after drinking a boiling broth; the women leaned over the cauldron, died; the wife put their corpses outside the house as if they were dancing; became a bear, tore her husband; when she returned to her son, she could not take off her bear skin; the son became a bird]: 24-31; Nelson 1899 (Norton Bay) [the husband pretends to be dying, asking to leave it on his grave kayak, gun and food; one day a widow notices smoke in the distance; comes quietly, sees her husband with three new wives; when her husband leaves, offers to make them beautiful like her; to do this, you have to lean over with boiling fat; pushes his face into the cauldron; makes stuffed animals out of their clothes on the shore; turns into a red bear with flat stones on her sides; her husband's arrows break, the bear kills him; returns home, kills her children; once killed by another hunter; red bears have been dangerous ever since]: 467-470; Bering Strait Inupiate (Kingicmiut) [Pisixohol pretends to be dying; his wife buries him under a kayak; the bird tells her that P. lives with another woman; she discovers that the grave is empty; puts on bear skin, makes ribs out of twigs, turns into a bear; killing her husband, opens him to for a moment his human face]: Lucier 1954:217-218; Northern Alaska Inupiate: Curtis 1976 (20) (Selawik) [Pisiksolik hunter's wife and two children did not see any other people; he died, his wife buried him, putting his equipment on the grave; the bird says that P. is remarried; the wife finds an empty grave that leads into the distance; puts bear and bear skins on herself and her children, comes to the house where P. lives with a new wife; kills both easily, remains a bear]: 261-262; Lucier 1958, No. 10 (noatagmiut) [husband pretends to be dying; wife buries him, is in need with her two children; bird talks that the husband lives with two women; the wife finds an empty grave; puts bear skins on her sons, who turn into bears, kill their father; show him their faces for a moment]: 94-96; Ostermann 1952 [husband pretends to be dying, telling him to be buried with all his possessions; marries the daughter of the leader of a remote village; a bird reports this to his two children; his wife and children wear bear skins and come to that village ; arrows do not harm them; the wife meets her ex-husband, takes off her skin for a minute, then kills him; brown bears have been dangerous ever since]: 185-187; McKenzie's estuary [Pitigtorleck pretends dying, asks two wives to put his jewelry and other things with him; a bird tells his two children that their father is in another village with his new wife; one of the former wives wears seal skin, swims on reconnaissance; P. pursues the seal but cannot injure it; both wives and children wear bear skins, come to the village, show P. their faces, then kill them; remain bears]: Ostermann 1942:95-99; copper [1) the husband disappears; the bullfinch tells his two wives that their husband has found a new one; wives become seals, sail to the place where the husband has settled; he realizes that he has been exposed; seals turn into bears, kill him; his new wife is not touched; becoming women again, they have returned home; 2) the man pretends to be dead; his two wives leave him on the ground with a kayak and a gun; he crosses the lake, takes a new wife; the former were shamans, became bears, killed a traitor; becoming women again, found new husbands]: Jenness 1924, No. 90:87; polar [mother lives with two daughters, all three abandoned by their husbands; picking up scraps of bear skins from old camps, sew bear clothes; come to the village, ask if their ex-husbands are here; they wear skins, everyone kill]: Holtved 1951b, No. 126:127-128.
Subarctic. Tanaina [the man asks his two wives to bury him with all his possessions, not to throw land on the grave; Chickady tells the women that their husband lives in the village with his new wife; those in the form of Brown Female bears kill their husband and all villagers; before killing their husbands, they take off their bear masks and tell them who they are]: Tenenbaum 1984 [one turns brown, the other becomes a white bear]: 23-33; Vaudrin 1969:49-51; inner tlingits, tagish, southern and northern tutchoni [a girl steps into bear droppings, scolds bears; meets a handsome man, who takes her to him, marries her; turns out to be a grizzly bear; preparing for hibernation, the wife tells her husband to set up a den where her brothers hunt in spring; gives birth to two (three) sons, every month of winter it seems to her alone at night; in spring she rolls out A lump of grass down the slope so that the brothers' dogs can smell it; the bear realizes this, asks his wife why she gave it away; decides to allow her brothers to kill him; the brothers find a den (the sister leaves in front of or ties arrowpoles or mittens to the dog that has found her den); her sister teaches her how to ritually treat the Bear's body; asks her mother to bring clothes for her and her children (all of them began to grow hair); contrary to the sister's warning, the brothers ask her and her children to wear bear skins and walk down the slope; when they start shooting at them with toy arrows, the sister actually turns into a grizzly, kills brothers (or only younger, older, two younger ones); people still follow the rules for dealing with a dead bear that the sister taught the brothers]: McClelland 1970:5 [ general summary], 5-55 [13 separate texts]; southern tutchoni [a woman picks berries, steps into bear droppings, scolds bears; the bear takes the form of her husband, takes her away, takes her as a wife; her brothers they kill the Bear, bring her home; ask them to play bear with them; she turns into a bear, kills everyone, returns to the mountains with her bear children]: McClelland 1987:261-264; taltan : Teit 1921a, No. 59 [a woman picks berries, steps into bear droppings, scolds bears; The bear takes the form of a man, takes her away, takes her as a wife; she becomes a bear herself; gives birth to two sons; The bear sends her back to people, tells her to talk to her ex-husband; in the village she takes on a human form again; people tease her sons because they look like bears; she turns into a bear, kills many; hunters kill her and her sons], 60 [Grizzly takes a woman, she gives birth to twins; they return to people; agree to play bears; hunters chase them, they kill them people; go to the forest; when they leave, they sing a memorial song as a sign of mourning for the murdered relatives (the origin of the Grizzly Song)]: 337-338, 338-339; helmet [the younger sister of the two brothers in the basket only a few berries, and her brother's wife picked a full one; a man takes her away, makes her a wife; she finds herself among a grizzly; spends the winter with them, gives birth to two children; in spring her brothers hunt; one of bears are killed by an older brother; people ask her sister to appear as a bear; she becomes a grizzly; her bear son is injured by an arrow in the eye; she tore her younger brother]: Moore 1999:332-355.
NW Coast. Bellacula: Boas 1898 [a girl steps into bear droppings, scolds bears; a man comes up, tells her to relieve herself; she puts copper jewelry under her; he does not believe, demands for real, says that her excrement smells worse than any animal; marries her; he is the son of a Black Bears chief; gives her lamb, then says it was human; winter passes like one night; in spring, the husband says that his wife's brother will shoot him, tells him to make a blanket out of his skin; the brother goes in front, the sister volunteers to carry the skin, becomes a bear if desired; in the village asks for bone needles, every time she says that the old one is broken; the younger sister sees that she inserts needles into her skin's jaw instead of her teeth; a woman turns into a bear, kills her mother, tortures her sister {something sexy, Latin); takes out her heart and lungs, hides it in his palms; brother comes, younger sister tells the Bear to shoot in the palm of her hand, she falls dead; brother and sister run, put the log over deep ravine; The bear comes to life, chases, falls off a log; brother and sister come to the village; Toadstool and Loon send a boat for the Bear, tell crayfish and worms to bite her, she falls into the river, crayfish and worms eat it; brother tells her sister to take one road, he goes the other, if the roads come together, they will get married; so it happened]: 111-114; McIlwraith 1948 (1) [girl picks berries, steps in bear droppings, swears; the Bear takes her away; she turns into a monstrous Bear, kills everyone in the village except her younger sister and brother; her brother brings a partridge, the Bear demands to show how he is got it, otherwise he promises to kill her; her brother shoots, hits the target; the younger sister finds out that the Bear's palm is vulnerable; her brother throws an arrow in her palm, kills the Bear; the brother and younger sister are married, they are the ancestors of the Atapaskan quarry]: 680-682.
The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [women pick berries; one girl brings nothing, says the bears messed up everything; the next day, her basket strap breaks off; everyone goes home; two people approach her Black Bears in the guise of young men; when she opens her eyes, she finds herself in a large village; all the animals take turns dancing and saying what they will feed their wife; Muskrat, Raven, Laska, Frog, Caribou, The marten is rejected, she marries the Grizzly; in the spring he says that the youngest of her four brothers will kill him; this is what happens; the brothers ask what part of the carcass she will take home; she drags her skin and head , turns into a Grizzly on the way, kills brothers, then other people; the youngest brother and sister return from squirrel hunting; the boy tells his sister to run between the Grizzly's legs; then she takes off bear skin, promises not to harm the girl; the girl asks where the Grizzly's heart is; from shows what's in the palm of her hand; the brother kills the Grizzly by hitting the palm of his hand with an arrow; says that if they run around the mountain with different sides and jump between two trees at the same time, they can marry; he manages to catch up with his sister, jump; she gets pregnant at the touch of his foot; gives birth to a son; she is killed by an ogre; brother kills an ogre, burns both bodies; goes to the village, carrying a baby on his shoulders; he kills him by spreading his throat and pulling out his tongue; in the village takes out the tongues of sleeping people; two girls who were in ritual isolation; they push the baby into the fire; its ashes turn into mosquitoes; one girl conceives from a stone and dies, the other gives birth to four Transformer Brothers; see motive J55]: Jenness 1934, no.6:129-136; chilcotin [a girl marries a man who turns out to be a Bear; her younger brother finds her, kills a Bear; she makes her fangs first from roots, then from bone needles, turns into a Bear herself; kills everyone in the village except her younger sister; his younger brother returns from hunting, his sister tells him that the Bear keeps her life in a basket under the roof; he pierces the basket with an arrow, the Bear dies; the sister marries her brother, gives birth to a son; the bear comes to life, kills her sister, puts her skin on; the boy reports this to his father; he burns the basket with life The bears revives his wife; runs with her and her son; Loon and the Dive transport them across the river; the Bear comes to life again, chases the fugitives; transporting her, Loon and Dirok break the boat, the fish eat the Bear]: Farrand 1900, No. 8:19-23; shuswap [the girl is out of menstruation, she is kidnapped by the Grizzly; her five brothers find her; she points the younger one's arrows, he kills the Grizzly; she asks for her skin with claws; makes fangs out of flint arrows, turns into a Grizzly, kills everyone in the village, makes his younger sister a slave; brothers come back from hunting, give his sister a partridge; Grizzly is surprised because The sister did not bring game before; the sister says she killed the partridge herself; the brothers shoot at the soles of the Grizzly's paws, dismember it, save the heart; marry their younger sister; the Grizzly comes to life, kills his sister, takes her form; brothers understand the deception, put the Grizzly's heart between hot stones; she dies]: Teit 1909a, No. 41:715-718; clickitat [a man named Oke had Grizzly and Black wives Bear; Grizzly warned that she was on her period and should retire for a while; after her period was over, she asked her two children to bring her normal clothes; brother and sister saw that the mother gradually turning into a grizzly; warned others; The bear climbed the tree, the Vulture turned into a door curtain, the bow became a bow, brother and sister fled with the help of the dog; the Grizzly destroyed objects that people had become; all that remained was the Coyote, who became a piece of rotten wood; he said that if the Grizzly touched him, she would have fly larvae in her ass; said in which direction the brother ran and sister; they grew up, married to each other; sister does not tell brother/husband to go to a certain area; he goes, meets his mother there; she offers to look in his head, kills; daughter creates the source; pushes the mother off the cliff when she drinks; the Grizzly dies; the Coyote appears, the woman throws her things into the fire, then burns herself; the Coyote raises the boy; this is the Eagle, he grows up, marries three Mice, Gorlinka, Cricket; the Coyote puts willow branches in the fire, the flame breaks out, the women lift their legs; the Coyote sees the Mice are white, the other two wives have black genitals; he likes white ones; he turns his excrement into eagles; sends the Eagle to the rock to get feathers; makes the rock tall; takes the form of a son, puts on his clothes, takes his wives, Mice, mistreats Cricket, and Gorlinka; The Spider lowers the Eagle off the cliff; Gorlinka's son recognizes his father; the Eagle kills the deer, tells Coyote to carry it, it rains, the Coyote is washed into the river, swims downstream, turns into a dead deer; his a girl picks up; her grandmother knows it's a Coyote, wants to hit, he swims on, turns into an old man, stays with five unmarried sisters; they own a salmon lake; he makes them sticks- diggers, digs runoff from the lake himself; sisters beat him, breaking five bone spoons with which he covered his head, but he releases water and fish; he catches fish in the river, bakes, falls asleep, Wolves eat it; Wolves fall asleep, Coyote steals poultry eggs from them; makes rapids on the river that salmon should not rise above]: Jacobs 1934, No. 31:79-91 (retelling in Lévi-Strauss 1971, No. 606a: 233-234); clackamas [Grizzly marries a woman, she gives birth to a son and daughter; father and son eat a woman's brother; daughter and mother burn them in the house; a daughter kills a mother several times, she is reborn; a mother tells people her daughter dangerous; the daughter steps on the lark; he reports that her mother's heart is in her hat; the daughter burns her hat; marries the chief; makes claws from the bones of animals killed by her sons; the husband sees her as a woman, sons are a monster; she turns into a grizzly, devours all people]: Jacobs 1958, No. 14:130-141; cous: Frachtenberg 1913, No. 30 [the girl is lazy; when she has her first period, she is locked in a hut, They do not let her drink or eat; her younger brother secretly brings her water and food; she turns into a bear, tells her brother to stay in place, kills her parents and others, brings her brother all their possessions; enters the water for a drink, turns into a rock; brother gets rich]: 181-183; Saint Clair 1909a, No. 5 [lazy girl turns into (?) ; people lock her up; only her younger brother brings her water and food; she turns into a bear, kills her mother first, then other people; turns into a rock]: 32; kalapuya [Puma hunts, Norka catches fish and collects roots; Puma marries a Grizzly; her four sisters come one after another, he fights with them, kills them; the wife finds out the truth in a dream, puts on a grizzly skin, devours her husband, carries him in her teeth penis; revives sisters, returns to father; gives birth to a boy and a girl; they hear the mother cry, see her penis in her teeth; they come to Norka, he tells them about the murder of their father; they tie up sleepers The grizzly sisters and their father are in the house, setting it on fire, running away; the mother chases them; the boy creates a berry meadow behind, a turtle teasing her stalker; she loses time picking berries catching a turtle; the children make a swing on an oak branch; the mother asks for permission to swing; after rocking her, they break the swing, she falls far north, disappears; the boy turns Norka into a hole, his sister into a grizzly, himself into a cougar]: Gatschet et al. 1945, No. 8:261-272; Western sachaptine [Coyote hears a noise like a duck is flying, something is hitting him in the eye, he has a hard time ripping it off, throwing it into the river (var: the object hits him consistently it in the jaw, face, forehead, mouth); cooks it and eats it for the fifth time; the object turns out to be a female vulva, the Coyote loses teeth; when going hunting, five Goose Brothers tell their sister to marry the first person man; Coyote turns handsome, forgets that he is toothless, cannot bite off meat; falls asleep, the girl sees that he has no teeth, she inserts mountain ram teeth in him; Coyote says that in his dream he has no teeth his teeth grow; he gets married; his brothers reluctantly take him to hunt, tell him not to make noise, he flies, he screams, everyone falls; next time they throw him off; when he falls, he screams "I am a feather!" , but at the last moment he accidentally shouts "Bitch!" , breaks; the wife puts her heart in her little fingers, kills the brothers with arrows, the youngest two remain; the youngest tells the eldest to shoot his sister in the little finger, who kills her; both came to the house of Cold, his daughter Winter, they're naked; went to Summer's house, married his daughters; Winter and her daughters came to war, but Summer ruined the blanket, everything melted]: Farrand, Meyer 1917, No. 3:144-148; yakima [woman finds out that when she leaves on the other side of Colombia, the husband found another wife; tells his daughter to bring a bone wedge from her grandfather to dig for her; she makes a grizzly teeth and claws out of a wedge, turns into a Grizzly; daughter and her younger brother runs away, leaving four dogs one by one, the Coyote; they point the stalker mother in the wrong direction (to the west), she tries every time, then finds the right trail; brother and sister marry each other; sister/wife gives birth to a son, does not tell her husband to go south; he goes, his mother meets him, searches him in his head, kills him; the daughter invites her to bend over the pond, she falls, drowns; daughter rushes into the fire with her child next to her; Coyote picks him up; he grows up, rises to the sky to Thunder, becomes another Thunder himself]: Hines 1992, No. 60:196-206; ne perse : Phinney 1934 [see M21 motif; five Bear Sisters kidnap a girl and mistreat her; her brother Woodpecker puts them to sleep and burns them, takes her sister away; tells them not to take anything from the Bears' house; she takes bears her teeth, turns into a Bear herself, chases her brother; five Mountain Goat sisters dig roots; they hide the Woodpecker under a bunch of roots when he agrees to call them wives; the Bear stops chasing ]: 106-112; Spinden 1917, No. 18 [Grizzly sees a Raccoon in the tree, asks how he got in; backwards; she climbs backwards, asks him to look in her head; her lice are frogs; he pierces her ear with a needle, she dies; his grandmother scratched her thighs, the Raccoon says she is on her period, sends her home; pretends that a lot of people have come, eats all the meat himself, leaves only her grandmother's skin; she puts it on, turns into a Grizzly, kills him]: 196-198.
The Midwest. Menominee [old woman puts on bear skin, turns into Bear]: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. 28:462-463; Ojibwa [Hawk leaves his wife; she is offended, turns into a Bear kills people; chases her husband, but he defeats her; in one village, Hawk revives dead people by shooting in the air; when he returns to his own, he finds only his sister alive, who is wounded and ulcers; from her he learns that the Bear's heart is in the little finger on her leg; he sticks an awl in front of the Bear's house, she steps on them, dies]: Jones 1916, No. 25:377-378; Steppe Cree [every day a woman wears her best outfit, returns in the mud; her husband watches her, kills her lover Bear; he previously told her that after his death, she would be able to become a Bear herself wearing his skin; her twin sons are half bears, other children are maimed; people kill them; a woman puts on skin, kills people; leaves her younger sister and parents alive, tortures them; a younger brother returns hunting, kills rabbits for his younger sister; asks her to know the Bear's vulnerable place; this is the sole of her foot; people dig sharp pegs into the ground; the bear steps on them and dies]: Bloomfield 1930, No. 12:63-65.
Plains. Sarsi [husband notices that when he returns from the forest with brushwood, his wife is covered in mud; she watches her, sees her copulating with the Bear, kills him, lets her skin off him; she keeps her; tells her the younger sister keeps the angriest dog with her; wearing the skin, becomes the Bear, kills everyone; only the dog protects the sister; six siblings return from the war; at the spring, the younger sister tells them what happened; they learn from her that the Bear's feet are vulnerable; they dig up pegs near the house; the bear steps on them, they try to burn her, she chases them; the younger brothers sister rises into the sky, becomes the seven stars of the Ursa Major; the star next to her is the sister's dog; the bear turns into stone]: Simms 1904:181-182; Blacklegs: Michelson 1911b, No. 2 ( piegan) [every evening, the older sister goes to the forest; the mother tells the younger sister to see her sister copulating with a bear; the father and the men shot him; the older sister asks the younger sister to bring her paw, call young people to play bear; asks not to push her into the hips; the girl pushes, the older sister turns into a Bear, devours everyone, turns her younger sister into a maid; she meets Seven brothers who have returned from the campaign; they ask her to know how to kill the Bear; she replies to her sister that she has injected it in her paw with an awl; the brothers give her sister a rabbit; the bear tells her to eat it herself, then wants kill for not leaving her half; runs out, attacks the awls; the brothers burn the corpse, a piece of finger flies off, the Bear revives, chases; the older brother blows on the feather, it takes off, they follow him, become the seven stars of the Ursa Major; the sister runs to the old man, who hides her, cuts off the Bear's ears and tail]: 244-246; Spence 1985 [a man has seven sons, two daughters; the eldest takes the Grizzly as a lover; the father tells him to be killed; the older brothers go camping; the sister takes a piece of Grizzly skin, turns into a Grizzly herself, kills everyone except Sinopa's younger sister and Okinai's younger brother; takes human form again; older brothers return; let younger sister scatter prickly fruits in front of the elder's house; brothers and younger sister run; older sister steps on prickly fruits, turns into a Grizzly, chases; O. waves his pen, creating a thicket, a lake, a tree; everyone climbs a tree; O. shoots arrows into the sky; with each arrow, one of the brothers flies away to heaven; they turn into the Big Dipper; the dim star on one side is S.; the four bucket stars are brothers who were pulled down from the tree by the Grizzly]: 182-184; Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. 7 [father and brothers girls kill her lover; she asks her younger sister to bring part of her bear paw, invites her to play, tells her not to touch her kidneys; the ban is broken, she turns into a bear; the brothers give the rabbit's younger sister, who has difficulty convincing the Bear that she killed him herself; they all run, spray water (lake) behind, throw a comb (thicket); the bird tells the Bear to shoot in the head; she is killed by an arrow; six brothers and younger sister turn into Pleiades, younger brother into (Polyarnaya?) Star]: 68-70; Assiniboine: Lowie 1909a, No. 11b [two sisters try to seduce his brother; his father makes him a boat, he sails away; the sisters ask him to swallow the fish, but the young man tells her not to do so; sisters play with children, tell them not to touch their anus; the ban is broken, sisters turn into cannibal bears, everyone is killed, parents are blinded with lightning; brother returns; sisters approach in black a storm cloud; the brother tells the birds to kill them, they cannot; then turns the rock into an eagle; when the sisters sit on it, the eagle grabs them and holds them, the brother burns them and grinds them into powder; returns them to their parents vision in the steam room revives those killed from their hair], 23a [girl takes a bear as a lover; people kill him; she asks for a piece of his skin, puts it on, turns into a Bear; kills everyone except parents and younger sister; her older brother returns from hunting; younger sister tells him that the Bear's right leg is vulnerable; he kills the Bear with an arrow; pushes her heart, sprinkles powder into the hearths; people revive], 23b [girl warns children playing not to touch her anus; the ban is broken, she turns into a Bear, kills everyone; younger sister becomes her maid; meets her four brothers; receives a rabbit from them, tells the Bear that she killed him herself; the younger brother kills the Bear with an arrow, hitting her vulnerable toes; pushes her bones, puts powder in the hearths, people revive ; var.: Bear chases brothers; they play ball, turn into Big Dipper]: 161-162, 179-180; grovantre [girls play; the eldest asks them to bring bison ribs; makes them for herself claws, turns into a Bear, kills everyone but her little sister; their six brothers return; ask my sister to find out where the Bear's vulnerable place is; Little finger on my left hand; give rabbit sister to throw hot fat at the Bear; they run, the Bear chases them, the youngest kills her by hitting her little finger with a tendon arrow (the only one that can kill her); burn the body, one spark flies to the side, the Bear revives from her, continues to pursue; if they wish, the brothers create a swamp, a forest, a gorge, a river, fire, cacti behind her; the sister hits the brothers with her ball, taking them to heaven; they become the Ursa Major or the Pleiades; the Bear stays on the ground]: Kroeber 1907b, No. 27:105-108; crowe [playing, the younger sister asks the older sister to become a bear; she replies that she will become real, the youngest insists; the eldest turns, devours people; tells the youngest to get the rabbit; her six brothers give it to her; show how to convince the Bear that she killed herself him; the bear chases his younger sister; she sticks awls everywhere, they pierce the Bear, she takes time to pull them out; the brothers tell her sister to throw a porcupine behind the needle, the Bear spends time picking them up; give buffalo manifold {buffalo droppings?} , then a piece of bison stomach; sister throws it behind her, manifolds turn into flat rocks, stomach into holes; older sister climbs over rocks, gets stuck in the last hole; brothers ask that they should all turn into; the sister offers what the smoking pipe points to - Big Dipper; they are now seven stars of the Big Dipper, the sister is accompanied by a dog]: Lowie 1918:205-211; Omaha, ponka [the girl has a grizzly lover; hunters kill him; she asks her father to bring her skin; pulls it on, turns into a Grizzly; kills people except her younger sister; there are four of them Brothers return from hunting, fleeing with their younger sister; creating thickets, forests, awls, crevices behind them; Grizzly falls into it, the ground behind it closes]: Dorsey 1890:292-293; iowa [Grizzly rapes a girl, she becomes his mistress; her younger sister sees them, her father kills Grizzly; her mistress turns into a Grizzly, kills people, keeps her sister captive; their four brothers they return after visiting the thunder; they give their younger sister a rabbit; the Grizzly chases them; they hide on a rock that becomes tall; kill the Grizzly with arrows, burn them; scatter ash throughout the village; ash first turns into ants, then the village is filled with people again]: Skinner 1925, No. 9:465-468; Shayens: Curtis 1976 (19) (southern sheyens) [children play with animals; one girl asks not to be named a bear; they call it; she tells her younger sister to hide in a dog kennel, turns into a Bear, kills many; her sister runs; tells her to appear behind a thorny bush, thorns, a river, a steep the shore; the bear overcomes everything; seven brothers protect the girl; they run out of arrows; together with the girl they climb to the top of the high peak; the bear tries to knock him down; they climb to sky, turning into Pleiades]: 143-144; Grinnell 1926:220-231 in Gibbon 1964 [like Crowe and Wichita; running away from the Bear, seven brothers and younger sister turn into Ursa Major]: 237; arpaho : Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 105 [a girl plays a bear, becomes a Bear, kills people; people run away leaving two children tied to a tree; they are freed by a black dog; the bear is chasing after them; the boy gives the ball, every time they follow the ball; the ball tells them to throw it to the sky; brother and sister follow them, turn into three stars (brother, sister, ball?)] : 238-239; Voth 1912, No. 13 [the older sister turns into a Bear, makes her youngest her slave; people are fleeing; the younger sister meets three hunters; they give her a rabbit; they kill the Bear with arrows; give Little sister Bear's leg bone; if the bone is lost, the Bear will respawn; the girl loses her bone three times; each time the Bear appears on the horizon, but the girl manages to pick up the bone; people return]: 49; arikara [the older girl reluctantly agrees to play bear; tells her younger sister to hide; turns into a Bear, kills everyone; sister secretly meets four of them brothers returning from war; reports that the Bear has vulnerable little fingers on her legs; the brothers let her scatter thorns in front of the house, they lure the Bear, shouting that enemies are coming; the bear dies, brothers burn it; a drop of blood falls on the ground, the Bear is reborn, chases her sister and brothers; the older brother throws an awl, it turns into a thorny forest; the second is a knife, he cuts through the gorges; the third the comb turns into a thicket of cacti; the fourth is a whetstone, turns into a high rock (the Devil's Tower in Wyoming), raising the fugitives to the sky; they turn into the Pleiades, the Bear goes west]: Park, No. 7:146-152; kiowa [every day the husband paints his wife's face red; her bear lover licks the paint; the husband watches his wife, kills the Bear; sees the wife crying while scraping her skin; wife plays a bear, turns into a Bear, kills all the people in the village, turns her younger sister into a slave; tells her to get a rabbit or kill her; the girl's six brothers come back, give her rabbit, they teach how to show that she got it on her own; the brothers taught her sister how to stick needles into the ground, the Bear ran into them; while she was taking it out, the brothers and sister run away, climb the rock; the sister speaks brothers that the Bear has vulnerabilities between her toes; brothers shoot there to kill the Bear; they and her sister, along with the rock, rise to the sky and become stars; the brothers' names are Sensitive Ear, Sharp Eye, Fast Runner, Sharp Mind; others unnamed]: Parsons 1929a, No. 3:9-11; wichita [a girl comes to the eldest of seven brothers at night; he smears her back with white clay; in the morning asks women to play ball, identifies her older sister; hits her with an arrow; she becomes a Grizzly bear in anger; brothers go camping, Grizzly destroys people; their younger sister comes to the brothers, they they give her dead rabbits; to kill the Grizzly, you have to shoot her four legs; the brothers do it but she is unharmed; the Grizzly chases the brothers; they throw the turtle's shell, it turns into a multitude turtles, the Grizzly eats them; they throw a red stone, the Grizzly loses time painting themselves with paint; they scrape the dust off the arrows, it turns into a thick bush; they break through the gorge with a string, the Grizzly crosses it; go up to heaven, turn into Ursa Major; Grizzly goes north]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 9:69-74.
California. Some men and women turn into bears and kill people. Pomo (porridge) [put their heads in the bear's neck; to kill a werewolf, you have to shoot in the neck]: Oswalt 1964, No. 44:205; Nomlaks [two Magpie girls are in love with the Wolf Brothers, reject the Hawk; by At his request, the Month cooks him, replacing his feathers with the hair he cut off from sleeping girls, turns him into a bear, puts his heart in the little finger of his leg; drives Forty and their younger brother into a tree; brother goes down, hits the Bear in the little finger with an arrow, kills him]: Goldschmidt 1951:396-398; screw: Demetracopoulou, Dubois 1932, No. 27 [Grizzly woman pushes acorns for soup; others don't eat her soup, they pour out; she is furious, kills everyone, her husband runs to heaven; fat (sperm?) drips down her thigh , she conceives twin sons; these are Thunder and Lightning, they are ashamed of their mother's thighs, they don't want to go out; when they are born, old Kukupivit raises them; they go up to heaven], 28 [Grizzly kills people, her husband Hawk escapes; then in (27)], 29 [Grizzly drips something on her hips, she gives birth to Thunder and Lightning; goes west; her sons find her, kill her; win competitions]: 448-453.
The Great Southwest. A man (woman) turns into a bear (bear); keeps his heart out of his body; the hero kills him/her. Yavapai [the woman's older brothers kill her husband Coyote; she makes fangs out of flint arrows, turns into a Bear; the brothers hide the youngest in a hole; the bear finds him, does not kill him; The vulture tells him that she killed her older brothers, that her heart is kept outside her body under an armful of grass; her younger brother cuts her heart with a hot knife, the Bear dies; people are reborn from bones]: Gifford 1933a: 377-381; hicarilla: Goddard 1911, No. 9 [one of the children playing makes claws out of skin scrapers for fun, muscles from hide fleshers, climbed into a hole; when went out, became a Bear (more precisely covered with hair to the elbows and knees); kills people, keeps his heart under an oak tree in Navajo country; invulnerable to arrows; Naiyeuesgani runs there, hits the heart four times with a club; The bear follows, falls dead]: 203-204; Opler 1938, No. C1 [children play bear; the girl gradually becomes a real bear; for the fourth time she completely changes, kills everyone; leaves her younger sister to serve her; carries water in human turtles, from which the Bear made buckets; the father and five other men return from hunting; they breed together with the girl Fire at the Bear Cave, throw a burning deer's peritoneum into her face; they rise to the sky on a cloud, turn into Pleiades]: 113-116; Russel 1898 [playing with others, the boy depicts a bear; when he goes out from a hole on the hillside, his arms and legs turn into paws; for the fourth time he becomes a Bear, devours everyone; the fox pretends to be an ogre; invites the Bear to make his paws thinner so that it's better to run; breaks them, the bear dies; the fox comes to two other Bears; people can't kill them because their hearts are kept in their homes; the fox hurts hearts, monsters die]: 262-263; Navajo [ against the wishes of her brothers, the girl marries Coyote; he dies because of his stupidity, she accuses her brothers of killing him; makes her teeth out of bone awls, turns into a Bear; arrows they bounce off her, she keeps her heart under a pile of leaves; her brothers hide the youngest under the hearth, run away themselves; she catches up and kills them, finds the youngest; he runs to the place where her heart is hidden, hits him with an arrow; cuts her body to pieces, throws them, they turn into pignons, yuca fruits, bears, porcupines, etc.; see G23B motif]: Haile 1984, No. 16-17:82-88; Matthews 1994:99-103; O'Bryan 1956 [genitals turn into pine resin, breasts become pignons]: 44-48; (cf. Zunyi [(like Navajo before the episode with the death of the Coyote; then the story ends); the Puma brothers, Black Bear, Lynx, Wolf, Eagle, Mole promise a sister to the one who kills the demon Síuiuki; Coyote recruits antelope bones, splits them with a stone, pretending to split his own legs; explains S. that after that he will run faster; S. believes, crumbles his bones, dies of pain; the girl is forced marry the Coyote; he hunts with her brothers, only frightens the game; he is sent home to carry meat, told to follow the right road; he forgets, walks on the left, climbs a rock, throws off the swallows he falls into the abyss, he crashes to death; his sister sends his brothers to look for her husband; when he finds his head, Lynx breaks it with a stone]: Cushing 1901:215-227; 1998:20-33).
Mesoamerica Nahuat (Puebla): Taggart 1983:163-164 [The worker asks the owner to pay, he offers to go hunting first; turns into a beast, the worker kills him with the fifth shot; under the skin finds the owner's clothes], 164-165 [one person went to the forest with another; they separated, the first became a jaguar, the second killed him, found clothes under his skin], 165-166 [the owner refuses to pay the worker; becoming a jaguar, waiting for him on the road; a worker kills him with a lightning strike]; Sayula is poloka [the sorcerer turns into a jaguar; a woman with children hides from him in the attic; he is going to attack him pour boiling water]: Clark 196:61-67; Tsotzil: Gossen 1974, No. 35:272-273; Chol: Lopez Austin 1990:102; Kekchi, Mopan: Thompson 1930:154; northern lacandons [y Haav's children die; his younger brother's son advises to go hunting monkeys, pray to Hach Ak Yum; the child has recovered, but X.'s shirt grows to the body, X. turns into a jaguar; he gets caught and beaten; his shirt falls off, H. becomes human again]: Boremanse 1986:124-128; Itza [two brothers kill many pheasants in the forest; Leo (Jaguar?) rushes to eat shot birds, brothers climb a tree, shoot a lion, take off his skin; the younger brother puts it on, it grows, he turns into a monstrous Leo; tells the eldest to leave, and then he will eat it, tell his mother; the eldest is sailing in a boat across the lake, the youngest is chasing, huddling along the shore; so they stayed there, died; these brothers are Chan]: Hofling 1991, No. 13:112-126; itza [two Brothers are being slaughtered in the forest by many pheasants; Leo (Jaguar?) rushes to eat shot birds, brothers climb a tree, shoot a lion, take off his skin; the younger brother puts it on, it grows, he turns into a monstrous Leo; tells the eldest to leave, and then he will eat it, tell his mother; the eldest is sailing in a boat across the lake, the youngest is chasing, huddling along the shore; so they stayed there, died; these brothers are Chan]: Hofling 1991, No. 13:112-126.
Honduras-Panama. Bribry [the shaman died leaving a basket with his amulet stones; only his sister could touch it, hid it under the roof; another man came drunk, stole the basket, hid it in a tree; sister the shaman found her, and there were two jaguars in the basket instead of stones; only her sister could approach them; she calmed them down and they turned into stones again]: Bozzoli, Cubero Venegas 1983:10 (summary in Bozzoli 2006:81-82); cabecar: Stone 1962:63; Guaimi: Casimir de Brizuela 1972:64
The Northern Andes. Kogi: Chaves 1947, No. 11 [Kashindukwe, Nuánashe and Námaku used blue and green stones to turn into jaguars at night; so did their people; Núnkasha trapped K.; Magri, turning into a jaguar, he ate his daughter and wife, they seemed like pineapples to him; Aluseye and Mulkwehe killed Nuánashe. but his spirit is only asleep; when all the Mamas (shamans and priests) are gone, K. and N. come to life, the sun will go out, the world will end, trees and mountains will disappear, the sea will flood everything]: 485-486; Fischer, Preuss 1989 [translated in Spanish. Preuss]: 161, 186-187; Preuss 1926, No. 9 [Niuálue came down from the sky, began fishing with poison, went downstream, and when he returned, he saw that Taimú had eaten catfish already picked up; he ate them raw with his mouth and with his back and (S. 85) he had a second set of eyes on the back of his head; N. climbed one of the four trees standing side by side; T. asked the fish where N. was silent, he ate them; finally, one looked at the tree; T. began to gnaw trees, a day later he knocked down two out of four, butterflies flew out of the trunk, worms crawled out, T. ate them; he could no longer gnaw, broke his teeth; called squirrels, mice, hedgehogs and other animals, those they knocked down the third tree; N. tied the last tree with 9 threads to the sky; when the trunk was gnawed, it did not fall; asked the eagle for help, which carried it to his nest to watch the chicks; the tree, meanwhile, fell, T . ate butterflies and worms that fell with him, thought N. was eating; N. decided that the eagles smelled bad, threw them on the ground, went down and ran away; the eagle asked his sister Saumá (a female forest demon, drives you crazy) catch N.; she put T. in her bag, N. started playing with her, so twice; the third time she carried the bag, but put it down and walked away; N. tore the bag and ran away], 10 [Kašindukua was born from his mother's menstrual blood is Gauteóvan, his father is Sintana; his parents wanted him to exterminate diseases, but he began to devour self-initiated ones; Namsiku tried to trap him unsuccessfully; he became either a cougar or a man; a man sees tree traps, a cougar sees laughing women; six years later he was caught, N. asked Gromov to fill the trap with stones; Thunder filled K.'s mouth with hot wax, letting K. So all the diseases and pains on him; K. tore off his penis and testicles, which turned into cougars; his head was cut off with a tree]: 194-201, 212-223; Reichel-Dolmatoff 1985 (2), No. 7 [Kashindúkua was Noá's brother ; na-sé, Búnkua-sé and Ambuambu; all of them were born by the Mother; was a great healer; Mother gave him a blue stone (= jaguar testicle); when he took it in his mouth and put on a mask, he turned into a jaguar; once did it was in the presence of a woman; she seemed like a pineapple to him, he ate it; began to do so intentionally; B. killed him many times by touching him with a stick to extract lime from the vascular, then revived him; people K . they followed him at night as jaguars, killed others; B. made a trap tree; at night she seemed like a woman, but crushed K.; he was shot with arrows, he promised that his every suffering would be sore people; his head and claws were cut off, hidden in a cave; at the end of the world he will come out of there and kill everyone; K. is good, he is our father, for the Kogi are the People of the Jaguar, and he is the Father of the Jaguar; we ask him permits to live on this land; for him we dance wearing masks of wind, water and earth], 8 [Noána-sé was the son of Kashindúkua; after his death he became the head (priest, Máma) of the Jaguar People; inherited his mask and blue stone, ate women; asked his sister Nukasá for her two daughters, became a jaguar, ate them, then their mother; B. and the priests killed him with clubs, but his Jaguar spirit went out and disappeared into cave; along with Kashinduqua and Námaku will come out of there at the end of the world to devour people]: 43-46, 46-47; guajiro: Wilbert, Simoneau 1986 (2), No. 35:577; muisques: Fernandez de Piedrahita 1942 [ 1676] (1), book 1, ch. 3:33; paes: Bernal Villa 1953, No. 21:305.
Llanos. Guajibo [Kuwai (Furnamali) turns into an insect, clings to the genitals of Puacali (Mashunashunali), daughter of Quemi (anaconda, Eunectus murinus), who at that time "occupied the world"; takes her as his wife; one day Kuwai's son enters the house in the guise of Aguchi, Kuemi devours him; Kuwait picks up pieces of his flesh and creates two chicks out of them eagle; raises them to take Quemi to heaven; to lure him out of his lair, Kuwai releases Attalea sp. ants, Quemi crawls out to eat them; his body trail is the Milky Way; eagles they take him to heaven, he himself is the Milky Way; his widow Yaniluava (= Tenteluva = Tsikiri) is the mother of all poisonous creatures (scorpions, spiders, snakes, ants); she is trying to take revenge for the death of her husband, falls into the trap of Kuwai, is eaten by piranhas; her daughter grabs her thigh bone, cuts off the leg of Kuwaii's other son, Kahuyali (Orion), throws it into the water, she turns into catfish; K. is considered a jaguar and creator of shamanism; he used to ride his stone boat, spreading fish along rivers; the giant eagle became an ogre, Kuwait killed him; where he fell , savannahs appeared in the forest]: Baquero 1989, No. 1:80-81; cuiva [having sex with his wife when she was menstruating (jaguar ancestry)]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991b, No. 162:238; Sicuani [ becoming a jaguar, the hunter's brother-in-law kills and eats it; a woman kills a werewolf brother]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 1:25.
Southern Venezuela. Makiritar: Civrieux 1980:97-99; Yanomami: Clasters, Lizot 1978:140-141; Fuentes 1980:77-78; Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 280 [(Lizot MS); residents of the same village count shamans the other as crooks; in response, they turn the frog into a jaguar; he kills everyone, the rest flee, leaving a tame turtle in the village and telling it to bite the jaguar in the neck; he suggests biting it everywhere; when in the neck, a turtle gnaws through his throat; soon died; people buried the head of a jaguar, and a tree with caterpillars (edible?) grew in this place , the caterpillar owner lives there]: 507-511; Yanomam [(Albert MS); after being burned, the dead shaman became a jaguar; he ate everyone, the rest ran away; the old shaman became a hornet, hid in a push-up bag cassava; his wife became a turtle; the jaguar hit the bag, his paw was clamped; began to blow under the turtle's shell, it bit into his throat, ate his insides, he died]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 279:504-506.
Guiana. Warrau: Wilbert 1970, No. 4 [man learned from the Caribbean to become a jaguar; taught his brother the same thing; both become jaguars and rob graves, find an ax and machetes; one brother is killed with a spear; another takes revenge by biting a murderer], 67 [a jaguar attacks a woman; her brother kills him; a spear, a pot, a knife, a rope are found in his belly; he was a man who turned into a jaguar], 170 [a man marries on the Monkey and the Frog; both wives leave him; he cries; tears wash away human features, he turns into a jaguar; his axes and machetes turn into fangs and claws]: 46-47, 165, 374; curl: Brett 1880 [son injures a jaguar; at home discovers a fragment of an arrow in his father's lip, turning into a jaguar]: 187-188; Roth 1915, No. 114:184-185; trio: Koelewijn, Riviere 1987, No. 13, 29:66-68, 118; Magaña 1987, No. 72 [wolves drive a man into a tree, little ones climb in his ass, kill him, eat him; the sons of the murdered man make clothes for the jaguar, put on, kill wolves; hunt in Jaguar in appearance; the younger one licks blood, his clothes grow, he turns into a jaguar], 76 [to hunt better, shaman Amakara makes clothes from vegetable fibers for himself and his brother; brother licks blood, becomes a jaguar; A. unsuccessfully tries to pull off his brother's skin as a jaguar, remains a jaguar himself, jumps into the sky, turns into a constellation]: 146, 147; hishkaryana: Derbyshire 1965:114-117.
Ecuador. Colorado: Aguavil, Aguavil 1985:78-82; Mix 1982:58-60; Kayapa: Barrett 1925:382-383.
Western Amazon. Koreguahe: Jimenez 1989, No. 35 [the shaman became a jaguar after his death; he was killed, burned, a rat jumped out of his heart; she was also killed], 40 [the young man made costumes from animal skins; wearing a jaguar skin, ate the children, you can't take off the skin anymore; he ate everyone, killed them, his grandmother remained, her body was covered with ulcers; he licked it, cured it; people taught her to close chewed corn in a vessel, crickets were born there, she put it in they were in the ass of the jaguar, they ate it from the inside; but the grandmother forgot to tell them to eat the heart; the jaguar's corpse was burned, a rat jumped out of the heart, from it the current jaguars; crickets still sing the song they sang when they came out of jaguar]: 77, 88-90; napo (quiho): Oberem 1957:183-184; shuar [Yawa ("dog") was a loser hunter; Etsa ordered hunters not to get along with women, but for women to try them seduce; Yawa did not give in to his wife, but she was unhappy; he poured seed into her navel, ran away; people and dogs exchanged penises, now dogs are long and people are fast; Yawa became a jaguar, ate his wife; people ran away, the girl is left in ulcers; the Jaguar licked her wounds, married her; she is giving birth, he asks her to call her mother and relatives, promises that he will not eat them; the mother advises to put Jaguara hot in her mouth a stone when he asked him to brush his teeth; the Jaguar died; when she gave birth, she was planted in front of the fire to burn everything; but the drops of blood gave rise to dogs and small cat predators]: Pelizzaro 1993:91-94 ; Aguaruna: Akutz Nugkai et al. 1977 (2) [The child blew into a pumpkin cone, and the Jaguar came down to that sound; first ate the child's sewage, then ate him; the child's mother began to beat the jaguar, who began to grow up; killed people at night by biting off their heads; people ran, leaving behind a girl suffering from sand fleas; Jaguar turned into a man (when he wore kushma, he became a jaguar when he took off - human), licked her fleas, married her; she brushed his teeth, taking out a man; the Jaguar threatens that if the wife identifies her relatives, he will also eat her; in a dream, the spirit of a deceased relative reports that the girl will be able to kill Jaguar; people teach her to throw a hot stone into his mouth; she threw it, hid under the roof, the Jaguar did not reach it, only dug her teeth into a pole; she blew her sink; The woman's jaguar and son were burned, but from the latter came the current jaguars and other cats]: 172-181; Chumap Lucía, García-Rendueles 1979, No. 36 [children of dudels in calebasu like you can't blow; from the sky a jaguarenok fell on the roof of the house; picked up sewage for the child, licked him; once ate it; the woman began to beat him, and he got bigger; began to kill people; people barricaded themselves in the house, then they fled; there was only one girl left, her legs were swollen due to sand fleas; the Jaguar became a man, sedated and cured the girl; made her his wife, brought her meat; she brushed his teeth; found the remains of women, whom the Jaguar killed and brought for food; the Jaguar threatens to kill his wife if she says that he is killing her relatives; she has to say that they are her enemies; the girl's brother came and taught her to throw them in the mouth The Jaguar was a hot stone instead of eating; a woman gave birth to a jaguarek; he was killed, but new jaguars and reptiles appeared from blood drops]: 417-441.
NW Amazon. Carijona [the younger brother is a good hunter, the younger brother is not; he makes a jaguar mask out of his bast, painted it (there were no jaguars then); began to hunt as a jaguar, brought meat to the hunting hut , became human again, fired an arrow into the carcass to think that he had killed the animal with an arrow; began to catch more game than his younger brother; the younger brother followed, also made a jaguar mask, went to the maloka to frighten people, but the mask grew to him; he tore the elder and his wife to pieces, then all the inhabitants of Maloka except his mother; at her request, he agreed to go to the forest; promised to return in a month, let his mother would cook chichi; a month later, people dug a hole, hid, cook to tear off the mask, throw it into the fire, put fish poison into the chicha; the Jaguar became intoxicated, began to dance with his mother, said that he no longer drink with his mouth maybe he told me to pour chicha in his ass; when he fell, people threw it into the fire; pieces of skin became jaguars, ocelots and other cats; mosquitoes, gadflies, etc. came from the smoke, and ticks from burnt meat]: Schindler 1979, No. 10:100-105; puinave [the wife does not want a husband; he goes with a relative to collect forest fruits; while the relative is in the tree, the husband turns into a jaguar; does not harm the relative, but asks to remain silent about his abilities; when he goes to the house, calls his wife, then his father-in-law, mother-in-law, kills them as a jaguar; a relative talks about what he knew; a jaguar is caught in a hole, killed with spears; blood splashes fly out, turn into current jaguars]: Cardozo 1968:44-46; uitoto: Preuss 1921, No. 19:93; bara: Jackson 1983:108-111; letuama: Palma 1984:40, 73; chikuna [when the old man shoots an arrow, a wide strip of bark falls from a neighboring tree; he and his friends make jaguar costumes out of bark, turn into jaguars, kill people; one person manages to kill an old man -jaguara, but his jaguariha wife kills the hunter; her son (man) hunts toucans with others; throws down the killed toucans; the jaguariha mother devours them; when he leaves, he goes down, sits down to take out the splinter, she rushes at him, kills him; the victim's children injure a jaguariha, bury her father; at home, the old woman again looks like a woman, says she has injured herself in a female; sons see their tip in the wound; they throw their mother into the fire , burn]: Nimuendaju 1952:147-148.
Eastern Amazon. Hissing [the man was jealous of his wife for the shaman, decided to kill him during a ritual dance; when the spirit of the deceased in the form of a shaman began to dance, the jealous man and his comrades went to where they had hidden them in advance weapons, killed the shaman with arrows; (more precisely, the spirit of the dead threw a wounded shell at the shaman); the mythical jaguar Apu Shipai, who was here, immediately ate the victim and those nearby; ASH was invisible from the outside it only seemed that the blood was disappearing somewhere; after dark, people began to disappear; the residents left the village, the old woman and the boy remained; in the middle of the day, ASH came to her in the form of a murdered shaman; he killed the man killed took the form of a wild pig (taitetu); ASH began to bring this meat to the old woman and boy, they did not know what was human; while the old woman was swimming, ASH asked the boy to pull something stuck in his tooth; he saw a man on his teeth; ASH said that the hair of the boy's father, uncle and brother was there; the boy told the old woman; she made kashiri, poisoning him with raw cassava, and told the parrot to answer for them , hid with the boy under the vessel; the parrot replied ASH that the old woman and the boy were on the site, and the kashiri was ready; ASH was drinking, looking for an old woman, the parrot said that he was not looking well, he needed to drink more; ASH lost consciousness, the old woman finished him off with a pestle]: Nimuendaju 1920:1035-1037.
Montagna - Jurua. Amuesha [without details]: Santos-Granero 1991:279; machigenga [shaman's wife cheats on him with his brother; he turns into a jaguar, kills lovers; along with other jaguars, exterminates humans; his younger brother, an ocelot, tells his mother to pour resin into his nostrils; a great woodpecker, a heron, a lizard, a monkey cannot penetrate the resin crust; a small woodpecker pierces; brother takes Jaguar and others away Jaguars into the cave, its entrance closes; the assistant feeds him chicken, says it's human meat; when he gives human beings, the Jaguar will leave the cave and devour all people]: Baer 1984, No. 9:446-449; pyro: Roman 1985:139; Yaminaua [old men in various cats to hunt (there were no jaguars before)]: Zarzar 1990:15-16.
Bolivia - Guaporé. Eseeha [like a machigenga]: Alvarez 1942:156; Verna 1985 [the young man growled; Edósiquiana asked what he was doing, he replied that he was imitating a jaguar; E. asked how this is possible if jaguars no, turned a young man into a jaguar]: 66-67; chimane [father and son know how to turn into jaguars; a young man kills his son first (when he wants to rush at him), then his father]: Hissink, Hahn 1989, No. 14:67-68; itonama: Nordenskiöld 1915:110; aikana: Becker-Donner 1956:284
Southern Amazon. Kamayura [Chief Tamakawi makes jaguar figures, tells his wife not to look at them; the wife has taken out the figures to pick up fangs for the necklace; jaguars come to life, eat the woman and anyone who doesn't have time to escape villagers; in the village of Bakairi, two men climbed a pole and killed a female with arrows; a male with a cigar in his teeth ran back; T. raised two boys; when they became adults, they waited for a jaguar by the trail, killed with poisoned arrows; at the festival, the skin was divided among everyone; the leader of the neighboring village was not told what the holiday was about; so he could not recognize all the songs]: Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973: 181-185; calapalo: Basso 1987:176-181; Rickbacza [the hunter anointed a bad man with poison; he became a jaguar]: Pereira 1994, No. 114:266; paresi: Pereira 1987, No. 55, 94, 103, 117:471 -474, 565-566, 583, 605-607.
SE Brazil. Botokuds [a woman stains herself, turns into a jaguar, eats everyone at the camp; a boy who was looking for his father in the forest at the time is saved]: Nimuendaju 1946b: 110.
Chaco. Ayoreo [two shamans turn into jaguars to eat a woman; she hides in a tree, they don't find her]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989b, No. 525:587; chamacoco: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, no. 61 [when it rains, the mother takes shelter from her chickens, the son sees her vagina; then she only cries; says he wants the torment of the Algarrobe; the father goes after her, the boy confesses to his mother, copulates; When the father returns, he knows what is going on, the wife confirms; he takes his sons fishing; tells the elder to pull the eel out of the silt, kills him with a club, falls asleep with clay, goes home; the youngest sees it spends the night at his brother's grave; herons and vultures flock; they ask the boy, but he is unable to speak; the karau bird (Aramus guarauna) lets him eat a snail, he is speechless; the birds dig up they revive the older brother; he is a shaman, the brothers turn into jaguars; one kills his mother, the other rushed at his father, but he fought back with a club], 62 [the young man sees his mother's vagina when his mother covers the roof with mats huts; cries, refuses all food, says every time she wants something else; she copulates with him; father finds them; calls his youngest son to catch eels; digs a deep hole, puts an eel in it; sends his son for his older brother; asks him to get an eel, pushes him into a hole, falls asleep with clay; birds gather, give the youngest boy, who only cries, snail meat and water from the shell; he finds speechless; birds pull bones out of the grave, fold them, only the big toe is missing; the Chaja bird (a shaman) revives the boy; for this purpose, wasps remove clay from his ears and nostrils, and black the stork lets the fish swallow; the birds invite him to be one of them; each time the boy rejects this option, says that his father will catch and kill this bird; the same is to become a wolf; he and his younger brother they agree to become jaguars; to do this, they wrap their feet in cotton wool, put vessels and baskets on their heads; in the form of jaguars, the younger brother kills the father, the elder kills the mother; the father's brother found blood; people do not know which animals have killed spouses; they send dogs, but the jaguars have ripped them apart; since then, jaguars have been killing humans and dogs], 63 [when it rains, the mother adjusts the shelter mats, the son sees her vagina; she has been crying ever since; the father leaves For the flour of the Algarroba, the boy copulates with his mother; when the husband returns, the wife talks about what happened; the father goes to catch eels, taking his youngest son; sends for the eldest; when he pulls out an eel, pushes him into a hole, falls asleep with silt, leaves; the youngest remains at the grave; birds come down, the karau gives the youngest a snail, returning him to speech; birds dig up, revive his older brother; brothers do not want turn into birds ready to become jaguars; parents are killed; after collecting 10-15 jaguars, they frighten the hunter, his wife climbs a tree; they ask her to go down, she becomes their common wife; her son grows up; a bird in the forest calls him an orphan; his father says that his mother must have eaten jaguars; he goes to the forest, finds his mother, who makes him a hut; he consistently kills everyone with a club a jaguar whose mother cleans his fur and puts him to sleep; she does not allow the last main thing to be killed; returns to his forest; so there are many jaguars], 87 [(Metraux 1943:116); uninitiated the boy was lying sick in his hut; his mother climbed to repair the roof, he saw her genitals, met her; told her about the mystery of Anãpösö (spirits that frighten women are mummers); When they found out that the mystery had been solved, the men killed all the women; one ran away in the form of a deer; the men had to do women's work; the woman who ran away hid in a tree; spat; she was noticed by someone under a man with a tree; the men climbed a tree, but they were hampered by their erected penises, they sprayed the entire trunk with sperm; then they climbed from another tree, raped the woman; she told them to cut her into pieces; pieces fell into the sprayed sperm; each took a piece and brought it to the village; the men went fishing, sent a shaman to find out what was in the village; the shaman was afraid of the jaguars, came back halfway, said that the pieces had rotted; sent another, he turned into a bird, saw that the village was full of women and children; but when he returned, he said that vultures had eaten the meat; the men came and saw children and women; who took pieces from the hips, got fat wives, and thin ones from the fingers]: 187-189, 190-193, 194-196, 348-349; chorote [at night the shaman becomes a jaguar, kills people; the old man ambushes him with a spear]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 128:244-245; nivacle [people burn a corpse, a real jaguar emerges from it]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987b, No. 135-136 [hunts for humans but they are afraid of it], 175-176 [cannibal]: 306-309, 434-437; toba [a person turns into a jaguar to have sex with a jaguariha; cannot take on his former form; pursues his friend, killed by him]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982b, No. 159:304; mockovi: Wilbert, Simoneau 1988, No. 208:253-255