L33F. It breaks the rock with a nightjar. 43.-.46.49.
A rock, a boulder chases the character. He calls for help, splits the rock to pieces with his nightjar.
Kurdalen, Steppe Cree, Blackfoot, Assiniboine, Crowe, Arapahoe, Arikara, Pawnee, Western, Northern and Eastern Shoshones, Goshiyute, Utah.
The coast is the Plateau. Curdalen [Coyote sees the stone, he likes it, he spoils on it, moves on; The stone is rolling after him; the Coyote crosses the river, hoping that the Stone has lost its trail, but the Stone is already climbing the birch trees; 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 starts fly up and fall like a nightjar, crashes against a tree; the Nightjar finds him, takes his cloak; 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. Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [Visakajak offers Boulder to race; The Boulder rolls over his feet and freezes; V. becomes overgrown with moss; asks his brother Thunder for help in winter A bird; lightning from a bird's beak breaks the Boulder]: Ray, Stevens 1971:30-31; Steppe Cree: Ahenakew 1929 [Vesakaicak gives Boulder his blanket; takes it back when it starts to rain, says that he is not afraid of Boulder; he rolls after him, jumps on his back; V. lies under the Boulder for several years; Nightjars break the Boulder with their wings; V. paints them with white specks as a reward; nightjars can lay eggs right on the ground]: 335-336; Bloomfield 1930, No. 2 [Visakecak 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 in, 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; assiniboine: Lowie 1909a, No. 10 [I n ktum n and talks to the Rock; she demands gifts; I. refuses to give them, the Rock grabs it; I. promises birds {Kozooyam?} the most beautiful daughter is married; they break the Rock with flapping their wings; I.: I don't have a daughter], 11 [And n ktumni invites Black Bear to take a steam bath; closes the exits from the steam room, finishes off the Bear with a club; calls all the animals to a feast; The Rock grabs I. and holds for two days; the animals eat all the meat; I. promises daughters to the flying birds; they produce the wind, breaking the Rock; I. says that he has no daughters], 16 [And n ktum n and pretends to cry for his murdered brother, calls the fattest Ducks to dance; whoever opens his eyes will turn red; Turtle must stand in the center, tell you when to open it; The duck from the fourth row opened, screamed; the survivors turned red their eyes, Turtle I. also killed; sits on the Rock, she grabs it; he promises her meat, but everything is useless; coyotes and wolves carry meat; I. asks birds for help; they break the Rock with flapping their wings; the turtle grabs I. by the lip when he drinks; he roasts it, it promises to miss more people], 28 [ The Rock says to Sitkonsky: whoever gets off the road first will die; in two days S. leaves, the Rock is rolling, grabs him; S. tells Thunder that she will kill him too; Thunder breaks the Rock]: 108, 108-109, 112-115 , 120; 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 and wakes up; then the Coyote falls asleep, the Rabbit gets together, runs away; Rabbits fall out of the Coyote's ass, 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 world); Coyote explained that Scala said Nightjar had a small nose and a big mouth]: Lowie 1918:37; arpahoe: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 32 [Nikansan and Rabbit agree to sit night, looking at each other; N. falls asleep, Rabbit rapes him; rabbits fall out of N.'s anus; trying to catch the latter, N. smears his excrement on the cape; gives it to the Rock; clothes become clean and fragrant, N. takes it back; the Rock rolls after him; the animals can't help; the Hawk crashes when hitting the Rock; the Nightjar splits it to pieces; N. promises to kiss the savior instead stretches his mouth], 33 [the beginning and end are like 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; suffers from diarrhea at night; further as in (32) and (33)]: 65-66, 68-69, 69-70; Arikara: Dorsey 1904d, No. 57 [Coyote sees a stone on the mountain, asks how name; Runs fast; Coyote offers to race; Stone reluctantly agrees, asks to bring him to the top; first the Coyote is in front, but the Stone is rolling faster, sticking to his back, refuses to get down; the Coyote carries him, the Stone is getting heavier; the Coyote tells the Bull-Bats that the Stone called them names; he, the Coyote, allegedly promised to tell them about it, and then the Stone jumped on him his back to prevent him from doing this; the Nightjars began to dive at the Stone, making a specific sound, the Stone split; the Coyote called the Kozodoys, saying that they had ruined his hair with fragments of stone; The nightjars told him to go his own way], 58 [Coyote comes to dancing people; it's Rabbits; they get giblets out of the fire; when the Coyote gives them an eagle feather military hat (status sign), Rabbits They agree to share a secret, throw red willow branches into the fire, sing, the burnt branches turn into bison giblets; after eating, the Coyote asks for his hat for a minute, runs away with her; Rabbits they shout that the focus with the branches will not work more than three times; on the fourth branch they simply burn out; the 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 to rain and hail, the Coyote returns for the cape, it turns out to be clean; the Coyote takes the cloak; the Stone rolls after him, the Coyote asks for two Nightjars (Bull-Bats) to 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 Nightcutters the ugliest birds with short beaks, with broad mouths, short legs, dirty; the Nightjars split the Stone with their intestinal gases; it was the only Stone from which everyone else in the world arose; the Coyote painted the Nightclubs with white clay], 59 [The Coyote suggests to Rabbit that the first to sleep is used by the other for sex; the 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 the ass, catches with their blanket, they turn into excrement; he gives a dirty blanket to the Stone, when he returns, sees that it is clean, takes it away, it is dirty again, he returns it to the Stone; looking around, he sees that the blanket now clean and colored; so four times; after that, the Stone rolled after the Coyote, who asks the male and female Nightdlers for help, says he called them names; they tell Coyote to climb the tree where they are chicks break the Stone with intestinal gases; the Coyote ate the chicks, which call their parents from his belly; they kill the Coyote the way they broke the Stone]: 143-144, 144-147, 147-148; Pawnee (skidy): Dorsey 1904b, No. 29 [Thistles kidnap an orphan sister; he finds her; Thistles give him their strength; a girl comes and says her grandfather is calling him; this is the Rock, she is following the young man; he flies over the river is like a light thistle; the rock falls, splits; since then, the riverbeds have been covered with pebbles], 62 [(=1906, No. 126:446-447); Coyote gives a knife to Scala, asking for food in return; sees an antelope, picks up a knife; an antelope runs away, he scolds the Rock; she rolls after him; Wild Cat, Cougars, Bears, Tornado can't help; Nightjars break the Rock by blowing the winds on it; Coyote turns his children into hawks; when they blow the winds , The Rock gathers again, presses the Coyote; since then, the stones are hard]: 104-105, 260-262.
Big Pool. Western shoshones [rings are scattered at the cliff; the Coyote does not take alone, but humiliates all his fingers; the Rock rolls after him; the Coyote asks the Nightjar for help; that rally hits the Rock, it crumbles into dust; the Coyote sees little birds make the big ones fall from the sky, they eat them; the birds explain that they throw their pubic hair into the air to do this; the Coyote pulled so much that he has The intestines have fallen out; he sees the Chipmunks lower their tails into the ground, stretch their roots; tries to do the same, but the roots are thin; the chipmunks advise to lower their tail to the ground; laughing, they run away; Coyote does not he can pull his tail out, he pulls him into the ground; his brother Wolf pulls it out; says that a man will swim along the river, he has fat, you can ask only once; the Coyote opens his mouth bites off fat; runs down the river, goes back to the person as if he were meeting him for the first time; when the Coyote opens his mouth, the person sees fat on his teeth, the fat melts immediately, the Coyote clicks his teeth in vain]: Smith 1993:95-97; northern shoshones: Lowie 1909b, No. 16 b [The fox tells Coyote he took the beads from the Rock, but you have to pay for them; the Coyote takes it and does not pay; the Rock rolls up the slope, through the forest, across the river; Snipe says, Boo! , breaking the Rock to pieces (now rocks in the Rocky Mountains)], c [starting in (b); The Rock opens and closes, the Coyote is caught; the Fox tells it to open; from another Rock, the Coyote takes beads, defecates on her; the bird, the Crane, the Rattlesnake is crushed; the Nightjar says, Boo! , smashing the Rock; Coyote says Boo! another Rock, but crushed]: 262-265; gosiute [The rock owns blankets; the Coyote takes one; the Rock is chasing him; the Bear, the Snake, the Eagle, the Hawk try to detain her, the Rock presses them; the Nightjar breaks it to pieces; thanks to the fact that Coyote stole the capes from the Rock, we now have them (horse-blanket, blankets)]: Smith 1993:31-32; Eastern shoshones [like Western Shoshones]: Saint Clair 1909b, No. 3:266-267; Utah (Uintah) [The Coyote takes the blanket lying on the Rock; she chases him; presses the Deer, the Mountain Ram; the Nightjar kills it with flaps of its wings, turns it into a rock]: Kroeber 1901, No. 2: 260-264.