L33E. Donated cape .41.43.44.46.49.
The trickster demands back or picks up a cape belonging to a skateau or other character (he usually gave this cape earlier).
Eyak, Thompson, Flethead, Kurdalen, Steppe Cree, Blackfoot, Crowe, Hidatsa, Teton, Santi, Arapahoe, Arikara, Goshiyute, Utah.
NW Coast. Eyak [The Raven found the grass blanket, put it on, threw it away; the blanket rotted, the Raven called West Wind, asked for his blanket back, got it]: Johnson 1988:1-2.
The coast is the Plateau. Thompson [The Coyote sees the steam room covered with a blanket; takes the blanket; something follows him, knocks him down, throws him into the mosquito swamp, takes the blanket; it was the Master of the Steam Room (or Wind); Var.: Coyote sent a cold to get out, freezing the quagmire and dispersing mosquitoes]: Teit 1917b, No. 21:10; Flethead: Edmonds, Clark 1989 [Coyote asks his wife Krotiha to dig a passage to the lying Moose monster; suddenly appears before; Moose thinks K. is invisible; Coyote dog Squirrel kills Moose Grizzly dog with flint attached to his head; K. lures Moose into the underground passage, takes carry his shield and spear, kills him with a spear; hears a child crying, lets the baby suck his finger, which eats up all his flesh; the fox revives the Coyote; next time K. puts flint on his finger, the baby cuts himself, dies; Coyote leaves his cape to the Rock; it starts raining, he takes it; the Rock rolls across the river after him; three women can't smash it with hammers; K. sets fire to the vines; entangled in them, the Rock dies from the heat; Mountain Sheep insults the Coyote; he throws him against a pine tree; now horns protrude from the trunk]: 20-23; McDermott 1901, No. 8 [Coyote gives a blanket to the Rock; a thunderstorm begins, he sends the Fox to pick up the blanket back, then takes it himself; The Rock rolls across the river after the Coyote, kills the Bear, the Bison; two old women split it to pieces with their hatchets]: 245-247; curdalen [The Coyote sees the stone, he is for him I like it, he sucks at him, goes on; The stone follows; the Coyote crosses the river, hoping that the Stone has lost its trail, but the Stone is already climbing ashore; the Coyote asks the Nightjar for help; he tells him to cling to his belt, lifts him into the air; the Nightjar rushes at the Stone, splitting it to pieces; the Nightjar falls asleep, the Coyote steals his cape, puts it on, but begins to take off and fall like a nightjar, breaks against a tree; The nightjar finds him, takes his cape; when the Nightjar woke up, his head was crushed by the Stone, so he became flat, his mouth wide]: Reichard 1947, No. 19:143-144.
The Midwest. Steppe Cree: Ahenakew 1929 [Vesakaicak gives Boulder his blanket; takes it back when it starts to rain, says he is not afraid of Boulder; he rolls after him, jumps on his back; V. has been lying under the Boulder for several years; Nightjars break the Boulder with their wings; V. paints them white specks as a reward; nightjars can lay eggs right on the ground]: 335-336; Bloomfield 1930, No. 2 [ Visakechak asks partridge chicks what their middle name is; defecates (?) at them; other partridges fly in front of him when he jumps over the stream; he falls into the water; gives his wet cloak to the Boulder; a thunderstorm begins, V. takes his cape; the boulder rolls over him; only The nightjars manage to break the Boulder (it is not specified how); for this, V. paints them with clay]: 23-27.
Plains. Blacklegs: Grinnell 1962 [on a hot day, Napi ("The Old Man") sits on the Boulder, takes off his cape, tells Boulder that he is giving it to him; leaves; it starts raining, N. sends the Coyote for the cape; when he returns, he says that Boulder refuses to give the gift; N. goes by himself, tells Boulder that he wanted to take the cape for a while, but now he takes it completely; under cover, N. and Coyote hear a rumble; The coyote tried to climb into the badger hole, did not climb, the Boulder crushed his ass; the fleeing N. calls his younger brothers for help; bison, deer, antelopes, rattlesnakes crushed; nightjars (bull bats) they dive on the Boulder, break off pieces, it falls apart; grateful N. widened the nights' mouths, pinched their beaks (pinched off their bills) to make them look beautiful and strange]: 165-166; Josselin de Jong 1914 (piegan) [Napi ("The Old Man") gives the cape to the Rock; it starts to rain, the Coyote sends the Fox to take it back; the Rock does not give it; N. takes it himself, the Rock rolls after him; the Nightjars let the winds hit the Rock, breaking it into pieces; N. comes to the Kozodoev chicks, tears their mouths for ruining his entertainment; the mothers of the chicks defecate on N.'s cape, he has to throw it away]: 15-18; Linderman 1995 [Napa ("The Old Man") sits on the Stone, feels cold, gives the Stone a cape so that it does not freeze; it begins to snow, N. freezes himself, takes the cape back; The stone rolls after him, presses down N.; only the Nightmare breaks the stone into pieces; since then, its head and beak have been strangely shaped; for this, N. puts white stripes on the wings with the Nightjar; since then, the Nightjars have been flying so that everyone can see the pattern on their wings]: 49-50; Maclean 1893 (blood) [two birds smash the Rock with their beaks]: 169-170; Wissler, Duvall 1908 [Nightjars break the Rock by blowing the winds; the old man says they ruined his entertainment], No. 9, 23:23-24, 37; Crowe [The rabbit suggests to the Coyote that the first to fall asleep is used by the other for anal sex; The rabbit sleeps with his eyes open, wakes up; then the Coyote falls asleep, the Rabbit gets together with him, runs away; out of the ass The coyote rabbits fall out, he catches them with a blanket, they turn into excrement; the Coyote gives the soiled blanket to the Rock; it starts to rain, he takes the blanket back; the Rock rolls after him; the Coyote consistently tells Bear, Bison, Moose that the Rock called them names, speaking ill of their appearance; everyone rushes to the Rock, is killed; the Nightjar easily breaks it (the origin of amulet stones throughout to the world); Coyote explained that the Rock said that the Nightjar had a small nose and a big mouth]: Lowie 1918:37; hidatsa [The Coyote covers the rabbit with a blanket, hits him; only bison manure is inside; The coyote gives the blanket to the Rock; it starts to rain, he takes the blanket back; The rock rolls after him but gets stuck in the swamp]: Beckwith 1938, No. 4:293; santi [The Spider invites the Rabbit to use each other; Rabbit first, ran away; when the Spider went out of need, rabbits jumped out of his ass; he gave a blanket to the Rock, asked for a slaughtered bison in exchange; it rained, the Spider took the blanket, returning to the bison, found only bones]: Wallis 1923, No. 25:96-97; Teton (White River) [Coyote gives his cape to Oia (Boulder); it starts raining, Coyote sends Iktomi to pick up the cape, Oia refuses to return it; Coyote himself picks up; Oia follows, Iktomi turns into a spider, hides in a hole; Oia presses the Coyote, picks up a cloak; White Man picks up a flattened Coyote, puts a rug in front of the fireplace; in the morning, a Coyote comes to life, runs away]: Erdoes, Ortiz 1984:337-339; Arapahoe: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 32 [Nikansan and Rabbit agree to sit at night looking at each other; N. falls asleep, Rabbit rapes him ; rabbits fall from N.'s anus; trying to catch the latter, N. smears his excrement on the cape; gives it to the Rock; the clothes become clean and fragrant, N. takes it back; the Rock rolls after him; animals cannot help; the Hawk crashes when it hits the Rock; the Nightjar splits it to pieces; N. promises to kiss the savior, instead stretches his mouth], 33 [beginning and end as in (32); N. told his anus to be on guard, waking up and punished him with smut; rabbits fell out of it instead of excrement], 34 [a pemmican floats along the river; N. asks for permission to bite off a piece, swallows everything; at night suffers from diarrhea; as in (32) and (33)]: 65-66, 68-69, 69-70; Arikara: Dorsey 1904d, No. 58 [Coyote comes to dancing people; these are Rabbits; they get giblets out of the fire; when Coyote gives them a military hat made of eagle feathers (status sign), Rabbits agree to share a secret, throw red willow branches into the fire, sing, burnt branches turn into bison giblets; after eating, Coyote asks give him his hat for a minute, runs away with it; Rabbits scream that his trick with branches will not work more than three times; on the fourth branch they simply burn; Coyote spews rabbits out of the ass; tries to catch them with his cape, but they turn into excrement; gives a soiled cape to the Stone; it starts raining with hail, Coyote returns for the cape, it turns out to be clean; the Coyote takes the cape away; The stone rolls After him, the Coyote asks two Bull-Bats for help, says that Stone spoke ill of them; he, the Coyote, allegedly promised to tell them about it and he now wants to kill him; the stone called the Kozodoys the ugliest of the birds with short beaks, broad mouths, short legs, dirty; the Nightjars split the Stone with their intestinal gases; it was the only Stone from which everyone else arose in world; Coyote painted the Kozodoys with white clay], 59 [Coyote suggests to Rabbit that whoever falls asleep first is used by another for sex; Coyote does not understand that the Rabbit sleeps with his eyes closed and falls asleep in the morning; When he wakes up, he spews rabbits out of their ass, catches them with a blanket, they turn into excrement; he gives a dirty blanket to Stone when he comes back, sees that it is clean, takes it, it's dirty again, he returns it returns to the Stone; looking around, he sees that the blanket is now clean and painted; so four times; after that, the Stone rolled after the Coyote, who asks the male and female Kozodoys for help, says that he called names them; they tell the Coyote to climb a tree where their chicks break the Stone with intestinal gases; the Coyote ate the chicks, which call their parents from his belly; they kill the Coyote like they broke the Stone]: 144-147, 147- 148.
Big Pool. Gosiyute [The Rock owns the blankets; the Coyote takes one; the Rock chases him; the Bear, the Snake, the Eagle, the Hawk try to detain her, the Rock presses them; the Nightjar breaks it to pieces; that the Coyote stole the capes from the Rock, we now have them (horse-blanket, blankets)]: Smith 1993:31-32; Utah: Kroeber 1901 (Wintah), No. 2 [Coyote takes the blanket lying on the Rock; she chases him; presses Deer, Mountain Sheep; Nightjar kills it with flapping its wings, turns it into a rock]: 260-264; Mason 1910 (Wintah), No. 10 [as in Kroeber; Rock knocks the Bear down; the water spirit stops it]: 306-307.