L51. The victim is abandoned to aquatic animals. .16.27.43.45.46.50. (.59.) .61.
Acannibal, a spirit, a predatory beast regularly throws its prey down, where they are devoured by aquatic or chthonic creatures.
Bretons, Ancient Greece, Modoc, Mikmak, Crowe, Hicarilla, Navajo, (pemon), Shuar.
Western Europe. The Bretons [the poor have three sons; they go to seek a better life; at the fork they agree to meet in 7 years; the youngest Louis comes to a rich house; the owner cries: an evil old fairy woman, who was not given alms, took all the cows one by one and gave her friend the dragon; the owner promises Louis his daughter Mona if he defeats monsters; the good fairy teaches Louis to tell the evil fairy what he is looking for a magic flower; do not lean over the abyss where she will lead him, but invite her to bend down, showing how to do it; throw off an old woman, she will be eaten by a dragon that thinks it is another victim; the dragon will fall asleep and can be killed; as it happened, Louis killed the dragon with a club; brought cows that gave more milk than before; Louis married Mona and went to the fork 7 years later expensive; the brothers were very impoverished, Louis brought them to his place and they began to work]: Orain 1904:29-49.
The Balkans. Ancient Greece ["Historical Library" by Diodorus of Sicily (1st century BC): "First of all, Theseus killed the so-called Corinet (Baton), who received this nickname from the club (k & #959; r): Using this defensive weapon, he killed passers-by. Theseus won the second victory over Sinid, who lived in Isma, who bent two pines and tied his hands (captive) to them, immediately let go of the pines. Thus, /pine/ tore bodies with terrible force, and the unfortunate died a terrible death. The third feat was the murder of a wild pig living in Crommion, which, being huge and powerful, killed many people. He punished Theseus and Skyron, who lived in Megarid on the Skyron Rocks, which got its name. Skyron forced the travelers to wash their feet at the top of a steep cliff, and then kicked them into the sea to Turtle with an unexpected kick. At Eleusis, Theseus killed Kerkion, who forced travelers to fight him, defeated them and killed them. After that, Theseus dealt with Procrust, who lived in Corydall in Attica and forced travelers passing by to lie down on a bed, and then those whose bodies were longer, cut off the protruding parts, and those whose bodies were shorter stretched (prokroω) legs, which is why he was nicknamed Procrust (Stretcher)" (trans. O.P. Tsybenko)]: Diod. Sic. IV. 59. 2-5; [Vatican epitome to the "Mythological Library" of Pseudo-Apollodorus: "The third Theseus killed a Crommione pig, named Fairy after the old woman who fed her. Some say about this pig that it was the product of Echidna and Typhon. He was fourth to kill Corinthian Skyron, the son of Pelops, or Poseidon, as some say. Skyron lived on Megar land among the rocks called Skyronides by his name, and forced passers-by to wash his feet; when they started washing, he pushed them into the abyss on being eaten by a huge turtle. But Theseus grabbed him by the legs and threw him into the sea. Theseus was the fifth to kill Kerkion, the son of Branch and the nymph Argiope, in Eleusis. Kerkion forced passers-by to fight him and killed them in battle. Theseus lifted him into the air and threw him to the ground. Sixth, he killed Damask, whom some call Polypemon. Sitting by the road, he made two beds: one small and the other large. He invited passers-by to come to him and put small people on a large bed, then beat them with a hammer to stretch their bodies to the full length of the bed; he put tall people on a small bed and sawed off parts of the body that did not fit there. So Theseus, having cleared the way, arrived in Athens" (trans. V.G. Borukhovich)]: Apollod. Epit. I. 1-5; ["Description of Hellas" by Pausanias (2nd century): "Molurides Rock is considered dedicated to Levkothea and Palemon; those who rise behind it are considered cursed, since Skyron, who lived near them, is all He threw foreigners he met into the sea, and the turtle swam to the rocks and devoured those thrown off the cliff; sea turtles, in addition to the size and shape of their legs, are similar to those living on the ground, but their legs they look like seals. For this, Skyron suffered (God's) punishment at the hand of Theseus, who threw him into the same sea" (trans. S.P. Kondratyeva)]: Paus. I. 44. 8.
The coast is the Plateau. Modoc [Norka is a leader and a good hunter, married to Tick; his younger brother Laska never catches deer; the old man tells Norka to fight him, takes the form of a horned animal, and is going to cut him into pieces and throw them off the cliff to his children; Mink cuts him, throws pieces with words, Here Norka's shoulder falls, etc.; the last head falls; the monster's children throw on the path knives, blankets, beads; if Mink picks them up, he dies; he picks up the last knife but manages to throw them away; returns home; the monster's daughter comes, spits out beads; Minka's wife spits out more beautiful ones beads, fights with her all night; by morning, the monster's daughter overcomes, carries the sleeping Norka, also becoming a horned animal; is going to throw pieces of his body into the lake to her sisters; Mink cuts her into pieces, himself them throws into the lake (the episode is similar to the first one)]: Curtin 1912:294-299.
Northeast. Mikmak [the hero marries the daughter of the Old Skunk; the old woman kills his sons-in-law; throws the hero into a hole where the old turtle waits for prey; the hero escapes (without details)]: Speck 1915b: 64.
Plains. Crowe [The red woman makes her brother a water animal; he takes the girl as his wife; the old woman teaches her how to escape; the husband tells her to dress the skin (ants do it for her); stand on the skull bison by the river; moles dig; she pushes her husband, he falls into the river, his fathers devour him]: Lowie 1918:204-205; (cf. wichita [The elk takes Chief Puma to his cave; the Puma pushes him down; the Moose's children Vultures think that their father's prey is falling, they are devouring him; the Puma returns home; see motive B27]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 34:229-233).
The Great Southwest. Jicarilla [sitting by the trail under a rock throws his victims into the river]: Goddard 1911, No. 8:202-203; Navajo: Haile 1938 [hero turns children into owls and hawks]: 125; Klah 1960 [ throws them into the river; the hero kills the ogre's children, turns two into a crocodile and a turtle]: 15; Matthews 1994 [the monster lies on the path on a cliff, pushes those passing by his foot into the abyss; the hero kills him with a knife, but the body does not fall; then it cuts off the hair, which has grown like roots into the rock; hears how the monster's children torment the fallen body, screaming which part of the body someone will get to eat; the hero sees how many children Monsters are dirty and ugly, telling them to be Payute Indians]: 122-123; O'Bryan 1956:94-95.
(Wed. Guiana. Pemon {arecuna?} [Piaimá met a bird hunter, put his feet in his earlobes, brought him to the mountain to the edge of a deep ravine; below his wives and daughters are waiting for prey; invited the man to swing on a vine, he replied that he could not, P. would show the way; he began to swing, the man cut off the vine, P. fell, the daughters thought that the man had fallen, finished it off with a stick, then saw that it was the father; they shouted to the man that he would die, getting to his mother's house and drinking carato de cambures; P.'s spirit became a butterfly, invited the man to show where to go down the mountain, brought him home; the mother cooked carato, the man drank, lay down in a hammock, died ]: Armellada 1988, No. 46:119-120).
Western Amazon. Shuar [A bear brings a man to the edge of a cliff above the lake; aquatic predators wait below; a person pushes the Bear down; snakes and crocodiles eat her thinking they are eating a person]: Pelizzaro 1961, No. 28:16; 1993:86-87; Rueda 1987, No. 41:173-174.