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Ethnicities and habitats

L53. Stones in the mouth, K951. .10.-.14.19.-.28.30.

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A terrible creature has been killed or neutralized by hot stones, pieces of iron, etc. thrown into its mouth or anus (Vishram and Guarazu have cold stones) or a creature retreats when he is threatened to throw a stone into his mouth.

SW Africa. Hottentots: Olderogge 1959 [the lion and the jackal shot the same antelope; the lion missed, but the jackal frightened him and agreed that the lion killed the antelope; the jackal broke his nose, left a bloody trail, sent a lion over it, ate the best parts of the carcass; the lion still found an antelope, noticed a jackal; sent him to take the meat to his family; the jackal scratched himself, said it was the lioness who did not let him in ; the lion went to the lioness, and the jackal and his wife collected a bunch of stones, climbed on it, taking meat with them; invites the lion to pull him upstairs, releases the rope twice; the third time he offers to throw off his meat, throws a hot stone into his mouth]: 8-10; Seubring 1934 [The Jackal promises Leo to take the game he has caught to his family, but takes it to himself; transfers the property to the top of the cliff; accuses his wife before Leo pretends to hit her; lowers Leo's rope; when he rises to half, cuts her off; throws a red-hot stone wrapped in fat into Leo's mouth, he dies]: 332-333; Schmidt 2007, No. 24 [woman married to an ogre; gave birth to a girl, hid her in a hole in the veld; when she came to feed her, she sang a song, told her not to go out if someone else's voice was heard; the cannibal overheard, sang a song, but in a rude voice; went to Jackal, who heated the stone, ordered it to swallow it to make the voice thin; the cannibal died; the woman took her daughter and went to her mother]: 74-75; the Bushmen (san) [the lion took the jackal's prey; the witch told the jackal not to go out out of the house, made the vegetation and water disappear and the antelopes began to come directly to the jackal's house; there he killed them; the jackal village and water were on a high mountain; the lion asked for a drink, then asks to quit the antelope fat that the jackal shows; the jackal tells you to close your eyes, open your mouth, throws a hot stone into the mouth of the ice, the lion dies]: Lewis-Williams 2000, No. 27:165-167.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Isanzu [Mulilwa boy released the bird from his father's trap; the bird promised to help him; his father sent him to the tree for fruit, cut off the lower branches, left him; M. sat in a tree for five days; the bird flew to the rescue, ordered her fingernail, snot, hair, some excrement to be thrown down, picked up M. on her wings, lowered it to the ground; ordered it to be cut from the back, eat it, fold the bones; M. covered the bones with a stone, a herd of bulls came out of there; the zebra refused, the bird brought him news of his salvation to his little sister; the girl told her mother, she also heard; M. came with the bulls; stabbed one, asked her father to open put fat in his mouth, threw a hot stone down his throat, his father died; a pumpkin grew on his grave; his wife (mother M.) cut it, a monster jumped out of it, ate everyone]: Kohl-Larsen, Allensbach 1937, No. 34 : 44-47; zaramo [the lion called the hare to get and bring the beehive; the lion did everything himself, the hare only watched; called the civet to eat honey; the lion came up and asked who was eating his honey; the hare civet: say: I, civet; tie me with brushwood and go down; the civet did everything, the lion found it, ate it; the hare ran away; the same with the mzeze bird, but she answered: we, me and the hare; she let down the hare, but his lion grabbed it, and the bird flew away; the hare advises the lion not to eat it, promises to get a lot of meat for him; he meets animals, they see him suck honey, he leads everyone to where honey is; tells them to build a solid fence; calling the lion, only the elephant and the pig ran away; the hare tells the lion to close his eyes, he will throw meat into his mouth; instead of meat, he threw a hot stone; the lion died]: Meinhof 1921, No. 1:279-282; kamba [The hare and Leo decides to live together; cattle begin to die; The hare assumes that cattle bewitch their mothers; offers to kill mothers; hides his mother, brings duck liver; invites Leo to try whose the liver is bitter, that mother bewitched the cattle; the lioness's liver turns out to be bitter; the hare continues to go to his mother to shave; says that he is shaved by a bull; the lion goes to the bull, he does not shave; spies on As a hare, his mother kills him; he cries, says that smoke eats his eyes; offers to kill a bull, cook meat; throws meat down Leo's throat; then throws a hot stone, Leo dies; the hare tells Hyena that The lion is sleeping; ties Hyena's tail to the tail of a dead Leo; the Hyena runs, the Lion after her; the Hyena hides in a hole; after a few days eats the lion's corpse]: Lindblom 1928, No. 7:13-19 (translated into Ohotina 1962:221-225 , a brief retelling in Kotlyar 1975:134, Arewa 1961, No. 831:52-53); kikuyu [Goko's wife negotiates with her father to kill her husband in order to take possession of his cattle; the wife is followed by a calf (in fact sorcerer) Gachao, tells the owner everything; he sits on the bull so that he is not bitten by the snakes brought by his wife, does not eat poisoned porridge, leaves, stealing cattle; the Gecero Ox is gone, Gachao followed him, telling Goko to go in front of the herd, not behind him; he goes behind, dies suffocating from the dust; Gachao finds Hesero, chases him, people chase him; he defecates, a mountain appears; urinates - a river; pursuers overcome obstacles, but can no longer catch up with Gachao; he meets the Wakango man; swallows him, turning him into an ox, then makes him human again; V. offers to take half of Gechao's cattle, and the whole herd will be; chooses bulls; unhappy that calves are born only in the Gechao herd (now his name is Wamaro and, apparently, he has the appearance of a human being); tries to prove that the calf gave birth to a bull, exposed; Wamaro gives Wakango swallow a hot stone wrapped in meat, it dies; Vamaro lived a long time, was feared and respected]: Gagnolo 1953, No. 20:16-20; kaguru [monster swallows all villages, pregnant woman escapes in a cave, gives birth to a boy; he sees a monster, realizes that onions cannot kill him; asks his mother to make cakes, gives the monster, he is happy, asks for more every day; the young man throws him into his mouth instead of cakes, hot stones, the monster dies; the mother tells her son to rip open the monster's belly, the swallowed ones come out; the mother's brother accuses the young man of cutting him when he cut the monster's belly ( uncle) eye, makes you pay for it {it is not said how}; the young man had a chain that he could swallow; the uncle asked for it, swallowed it, could not belch; the young man demanded the chain back, Uncle's stomach ripped open]: Beidelman 1967d, No. 2:8-11; safwa [The Hare and Badger take turns watching the cattle; the hare offered to kill their mothers; pretended to kill, and Badger really killed his mother; when he found out about deception, killed the Hare's mother; he took him to hunt for rats; prepared two rats in advance; offered to open his mouth so that rats could run into him; threw a stone there, killing Badger]: Arewa 1961, No. 831:59; goose [four girls agreed to go with the boy; one noticed that he had a second pair of eyes on the back of his head under his hair; came back from the road; the same second girl, the third; the last Nyagemi reaches her husband's village, gives birth to him a child; his brother visits her, her husband's relatives eat him; mother N. eats him; the husband complains about his throat, N. asks him to open his mouth, throws a hot pebble there, the husband dies; she locks cannibal children in the house, sets fire to the house; leaves, carrying her child; on the way they meet cannibals, the child asks them for meat, the man's ear is cut off; N. asks the river to disperse, goes dry; waters close over cannibals chasing; N. and the cannibal child into the river; comes home]: Vinogradov 1984, No. G18:145-148; Rwanda [The hare lures Hyena out of the cow, which they were supposed to use together, offers to open their mouths, throws a hot stone instead of meat, Hyena dies]: Hurel in Werner 1924:394; kiga [The hare negotiates with the Leopard to everyone killed his mother, hides his mother in a cave, goes to her for a meal; the leopard finds out about this; asks the blacksmith to forge a voice for him like a Hare's; imitating the voice of the Hare, asks the Hare's mother to open the door, enters and kills her; sitting by the fire, asks the Hare why he is crying; the hare replies that the smoke eats his eyes; the hare kills the Leopard by throwing a hot stone in his mouth]: Wright 1959:191-192; shona (zezuru ) [The chief's three daughters run away with their lovers, their younger brother is with them; sees young men turn into lions, their servant become hyena; sisters do not believe; a thin old mother of young men asks to wash her back; only the youngest girl washes; the old woman says that her lion sons are pulling pieces of meat from her; tells her to run, cooking pots of soup, porridge and rice, let flies into the soup, cockroaches into the porridge; lions chase, girls they throw soup, porridge, rice, lions take time to lick flies, cockroaches, collect rice; by the river, the Frog agrees to swallow the girls, turns their brother into a piece of wood; lions cannot grab it; in the house the chief, she belches the girls, turns a piece of wood into a boy; the chief gives her a bull; at home she kills him, flies gather, the Frog eats flies; the Hyena asks for it; the Frog wraps the hot meat a stone, throws Hyene into his mouth, he dies]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 136:322-331; Nyanja [The hare offers a man to kill his mothers; the man killed his own, and the Hare smeared the knife with red juice, hid it mother in heaven; from there she lowered his rope every day, picked him up, fed him; the man peeked, shouted to lower the rope instead of the Hare, but his voice is too rude; next time the man called soft in a voice, the mother lowered the rope, the man climbed, killed the Hare's mother and all the Bunnies, only one hid; returning from the sky, the Hare answered the man that he was crying, because the sun blinded his eyes; heated the stones, ordered a man lie down on the road, open his mouth, close his eyes, he will throw meat to him; threw hot stones down his throat, the man died]: Holland 1916:139-140.

West Africa. House: Frobenius 1913 (2) [the couple live in the forest; the eldest daughter of Ssara, the youngest, the tenth, the child is the son of Dan-Auta; when they die, the parents tell S. to take care of D.; the children have large supplies of grain, D. intentionally burns everything; S. takes him to the king's palace, where they live, D. gouges out his eyes to the king's son with a stick; S. takes D., they flee the city; climb a tree; D. urinates on the king's head; he orders to cut down a tree ; when it falls, the falcon picks them up, takes the children away; D. grabs the bird by the tail, it throws them off; the whirlwind picks them up, gently lowers them to the ground; they come to the city; it is surrounded by a wall to protect them from Dodo; at night you can't answer Dodo's scream, otherwise he will enter; D. calls him, he climbs into the city, D. throws hot stones into his mouth, Dodo dies; D. cuts off his tail, hides his tail; the king asks him to know who is the hero; rejects liars who bear the tail of a horse, a cow; the king gives D. a hundred wives, cows, sheep, camels, horses, slaves, and half a city]: 483-493; Johnston 1966, No. 32 [Auta orphan with her older sister they come to the city, stay with an old woman; the cannibal demands and receives the king's daughter, hides her in a well; A. heats the stones, calls the ogre, throws them into his mouth, he dies, he cuts off his head and tail, pulls the princess out of the well; the king finds out who killed the ogre, A. shows him trophies, gets the princess, the king marries his sister, divides the kingdom in half]: 75-77; zagawa [lion and jackal friends; while the lion is in the cave, the jackal tells me who is approaching; the lion is only interested in camels; the jackal: the sheep are coming; the lion: let them be my father's sheep; cows, donkeys, horses are the same; someone with long neck and long legs; lion: this is what I need; the lion killed the camel, the jackal cut it, heated the stone, wrapped it in fat, offered the lion, threw it in its mouth, the lion died; the jackal left the corpse in place and told panthers and hyenas that the meat belonged to the lion; they immediately left; the jackal took the lion's place in the cave, and the hedgehog told me from the top of the cliff who was approaching; hedgehog: cows; jackal: let them be cows my father; hedgehog: someone with a long neck and long legs; the jackal threw himself on the camel's back, he carried it; a branch knocked him to the ground; the jackal came back and saw the hedgehog laughing; the jackal wrote in his mouth and left] : Tubiana, Tubiana 2004 (1), No. 4:44-46; mukulu [father gave Lolo as Death's wife; when he breathes in at night, L. swallows and spits out when he exhales; L. ran away; people in the field promise L. protect, but she is running far; Death has come, killed everyone; the same with another group of people; the third is the Arabs; they heated the iron, threw Death into his open mouth, he died {it is said that they threw blacksmith's fur, but the meaning must be the iron that was heated}; L.'s father came for her and returned her to his house; the dog and the rooster tell them not to eat peanut soup; L. gave them, they died immediately; L. made the soup herself, gave father, he died {not entirely clear}]: Jungraithmayr 1981, No. 28:148-150; Yoruba [the monster was descending from the sky to devour people in the market square; Evian heated the hammer, threw it into the mouth of the monster, it flew away, never came back]: Belcher 2005:305; Igbo [childless parents finally have a son; immediately says that if he cries, he dies; after any pranks, he predicts that he you can't beat him, otherwise he'll cry; one day she kills another child; the mother takes him, runs to another village; the falcon agrees to carry them across the river if they don't touch his ass; the boy still threatens that touches, does it, mother and son fall, but on the other side; two animals in the village are killing people; residents will make the leader of the one who kills animals; a boy throws pebbles at one and the other from a tree; beasts think at each other, fight, are exhausted; a boy comes up, throws stones into their mouths, their bellies are filled with stones, they die; a boy becomes a chief]: Ugochukwu 1992, No. 4:41-45.

Sudan - East Africa. Nandi [the demon has swallowed all humans and animals, only the woman and the baby hid in the hole; the young man has grown up hunting with a bow, every time he brings the carcass of the beast, asks if it is the right demon; heats the stones in the fire; the demon comes to the fire, the young man asks him to open his mouth, promising to throw food at him; throws hot stones; when he dies, the demon tells him to cut off his little finger, and swallowed will come out cattle; thumb - people will come out of there; those who come out chose young chiefs]: Hollis 1909:107; Masai [after opening a tumor on his knee, a single man removes two boys from there; returning in the evenings, sings a certain song, the children open it; the enemies overheard the song, sang, but the children realized that the voice is not their father; the enemies go to the healer, who tells them not to eat on the way back to make the voice thinner ; they eat the lizard and the ant, the children learn the deception again; the next time they eat nothing, the children unlock the door, the enemies take them to their kraal; their father finds them, calling and listening to crying in response; the inhabitants Kraal says that only a person who swallows medicine can enter; a person opens his mouth, throws a hot stone at him, he dies; children stay in the kraal]: Hollis 1905:153-155; mundang [each the day when Kromtchi's parents are not at home, a monster comes, eats chickens, pushes (and eats) millet; K. talks to parents about this when they ask her why she is losing weight; mother, then father hide, but do not dare to attack the monster; the father hides with his ass out, the monster blows at him, he almost burst; then the blacksmiths hide, one puts a piece of hot iron in the monster's ass; Kazayé passes by family; his son goes after the fire, but this is the monster's ass; it turns out that this monster is Death; K. tells his wife to call the monster; hides in a tree, the monster makes him fall into his bag (his wife fell there before that K.), brings them to the river bank, goes for firewood; the monkeys untie the bag, put fruit inside, K. and his wife run away; Death throws the bag into the fire; realizing that the monkeys are to blame, declares war on them ; they are afraid to look at the monster, cover their faces with their hands; since then, monkeys cover their faces with their hands before they die]: Louafaya 1990:94-98; Oromo [The Jackal says he is an orphan, Leo takes him home, leaves cooking; when the Lion returns, the Jackal throws a hot stone into his mouth, the Lion dies; Hyena comes, the Jackal quietly ties its tail to the Lion's tail, says that the Lion is sleeping; Hyena Sits still until Leo's corpse begins to decompose]: Werner 1915:70; amhara: Gankin 1979, No. 28 [the lion ordered the hyena to guard donkeys, the snake to guard things, the macaque to sorghum, made the monkey a maid; the monkey saw the watchmen sleeping, killed the donkey, smeared the hyena's mouth with blood, pulled out sorghum, put it next to the macaque, spoiled things next to the snake; the guards were thrown into prison; they said the monkey could sew sandals out of stone; she replied that she needed snake fat, macaque veins, hyena skin; went to prison, tore out her veins, etc.; to sew sandals, they had to be soaked; when she saw her reflection in the lake, she said to the lion that another lion did not allow her to do her job; tied a stone to the lion, the lion jumped into the lake, drowned; gave the lion's son a hot stone wrapped in a piece of fat, the lion died; gave the hyena lions giblets; tied a lion's carcass wrapped in bull skin to the hyena's tail, asked to throw the garbage into the abyss; turning around, the hyena saw a lion behind her, fell into the abyss in fear], 30 [The lion told Hyena guard donkeys, Snake - things, Macaque - sorghum, made Monkey a maid; she kills a donkey, smears blood on the mouth of a sleeping Hyena, scatters sorghum around Macaque, smashes things; Leo throws the alleged perpetrators in prison; They say that Monkey can sew sandals out of stone; she tells Leo that she needs snake oil, macaque veins, hyena skin; kills Hyena, Snake and Macaque for this purpose; soaks the material in the lake, says that there is another Leo not giving her back; Leo sees his reflection, Monkey teaches him to jump into the water with a stone tied, Leo drowns; Leo's son is looking for his father; the Monkey gives him a red-hot stone, wrapped in a bovine peritoneum, Leo's son dies; gives hyena giblets, asks to drag the bag of leftovers to the cliff, ties a lion's carcass to Hyena's tail; at the cliff, Hyena sees a lion, gets frightened, falls down, breaks]: 41-46, 48-50; sakho [the lion married a girl; her father and brother came and asked her to return, the lion refused; the brother wrapped a hot stone in fat, threw the lion under the guise of a gift, that swallowed and died, the girl returned home]: Reinisch 1889, No. 2:180-181; bilin [baboons bury his mother; the fox says he buried his own in heaven; to get there, let one climb on his back, the others one on top of the other; the fox jumped out, the baboons fell, broke; the fox filled their vessel with their brains, smeared honey on top; gave the son of noble parents to try honey, told his parents that nothing but fox honey obtained in the sky would eat; the father called the fox, who sold him a pot for a bull and a cow, ran away; began to live with the lion, he chose a bull; when the cow calved, the lion ate a calf, then put it in the bull's ass, said he had given birth to a bull; the antelope confirmed that it had given birth to a bull; the fox gave birth to the boar, which said it had given birth to a cow; in the end, the fox agreed that it had given birth to a bull, but when the lion picked up the cow, the fox lifted the meat to the tree; the lion asked him to throw it off, the fox wrapped the hot stone in the meat, the lion swallowed it and died; the hyena asked her to share the meat; the fox gave her bones, that the lion came to life, the hyena ran, fell into the river and drowned]: Reinisch 1883, No. 3:202-208.

North Africa. Arabs of Morocco [one wife is childless, the other has a daughter and is pregnant again; the husband brings two pigeons every day, tells one or the other to be cooked; the daughter accidentally releases her mother's data pigeons; a shepherd catches them for promising to give one, a woman does not give them, he releases them again; a woman and daughter follow them, find themselves in the forest; the mother does not pay attention to the dog, cat, donkey (daughter speaks that they come to show the way back); sees a lion; tells her daughter to climb a tree; if the lion starts eating it on the right, then she has a son, let her daughter cover the child with leaves; if on the left, she has a daughter again; lion eats on the right, the girl sheds its leaves, the lion does not notice the baby; the crow promises to help if the girl gives her half of her mother's clothes; brings a red-hot plow share; asks the lion to open its mouth, she will jump at her; throws a share, a lion dies; a girl gives birth to a crow, takes a baby; helps to give birth to a she-wolf, tigress, lioness, monkey, bear, leopard, hedgehog; each feeds her brother, gives birth to her newborn's companions; on the mountain, a girl and animals ask God to make the boy an adult; so it happened; they met a ghoul, called them to live with him; the young man fell in love with a shepherdess; the sister is jealous, promises Gulya marry him if he kills her brother; ghoul asks the young man not to take animals hunting today; at home, his sister puts them to sleep with singing; the ghoul wants to eat the young man, he asks for permission to say it before he dies three words; the ghoul allows you to say seven; the young man calls his seven animals; at home, the sister rubs the grain, accidentally shoved the hedgehog into the eye, he woke up, woke up the others, they rushed to help the young man, the gulya was torn; at home, the sister cries, says that the hedgehog pricked her, asks her to show where he buried the ghoul's bones; his brother married, his sister put seven ghoul bones in his bed, they pierced him to death; he buried, animals dig up the body, take out the bones, the young man comes to life; the chief, his wife's father, orders his sister to be buried along with the ghoul's bones]: El Koudia 2003, No. 2:7-14;

Egyptian Arabs [a man has a youngest son and an eldest daughter; when he dies, he bequeathed that his son should not mind and be allowed to do whatever he wanted; the mother bequeathed it to his sister; the brother first burned all the property; then found that the sister took them to their neighbors, burned their houses; they ran away, began to work for the man; he asked to take care of the children, the brother killed them; the brother and sister ran away and climbed the tree; the brother defecated on the face of the sleeper under the leader's tree; he ordered the tree to be cut down; the bird felt sorry for brother and sister, carried them away from the top of the tree; the brother pulled her tail, she threw them off; they fell in the land of darkness; the brother cut down a fire, a pile of stones lit up; a huge ghoul shouted: Who dares to light a fire in the land of eternal darkness? the brother threw burning stones into the ghoul's mouth; the ghoul exploded, the country around him lit up; the local king ordered to look for a hero; brother and sister hid in the cave, fearing that they would be punished; but the king offered the throne a young man; he replied that he only wanted to be a vizier, but let his sister stay by his side; so it happened, everyone was happy]: Artin Pacha 1895, No. 12:150-156.

Melanesia. Inanwatan Berau [cannibal giant Wakabata Putih ate people; a woman with her young son escaped in a tree; the boy grew up, ordered stones and spears to be heated; threw a hot stone into VP's mouth, then spears were thrown there with his mother; VP died; where his head fell was the sea, where his body was sand]: Miedema 1997, No. 10:33; keva [a boy meets a man without a face in the forest with a hole on the top of his head; that gives pork, puts it in this hole; the boy steals his meat; one day he notices the loss, makes a trap, hangs the boy in a basket above the river; the basket decays, the flying foxes bring the boy home to his mother; he grows up, comes to the faceless, puts a hot stone in his hole; the faceless throws it into the water; the water hisses, evaporates; this is how the fog appeared]: LeRoy 1985, No. 68:207-209; cotton wool [two similar options; the spirit heard (huh?) , as two women agree to go fishing in the morning; woke one up before dawn, went with her under the guise of her companion; she sees that her companion is eating raw fish; the woman comes home; people are hot two stones, invited the spirit to open his mouth, threw fish at him, then stones, poured water on top; the spirit died]: Fischer 1963, No. 45a, 45b: 190-191, 191-192; kukukuku [man has two wives, one died; he told the rest to bring food from the garden to the stone, where he would bring the game himself; the living wife did not hear, the dead heard, came disguised as alive; gives everything rotten, eats the opossum giblets raw; the husband said that he would kill the bird, ran home; the spirit wife came to eat it; people threw a hot stone in her mouth, she died, fell into the ground]: Blackwood 1939:223-225; oz. Kutubu [girl Siserame (var: Kunumaka) started her period, she fell behind her own, saw Kikiwala sikiwala like s, she used her ears like wings; the night before, around the neck becomes noticeable, the red ring draws blood from the stones on which she was sitting; he took her to him, she gave birth to a son; his sister Ariame and brother Ganowei live in his house in the puppy box and at the top; he brings human blood in a bamboo vessel, calls them, they stick their heads out, he pours blood down their throats; when her son grew up, S. persuaded her to let her go to her village with him for a holiday; K. came after them; S. saw him fire an invisible arrow at her brother, who soon died; agreed with people how to kill K.; while not, she called A. and G., threw hot stones down their throats instead of blood; changed K.'s weapons with rotten fakes; people attacked, K.'s weapons did not harm them, but K. were also unharmed; S. broke Cordyline, which was growing near his house, K.'s life was in it, he died; people burned his house; his spirit is still pores hurt]: Williams 1941, No. 11:143-144; Vedau [Tauribolena has an old wife Rekubole and a young Kauavira, she has a child; T. treats him badly, the baby cries all the time; women ask for their own brothers save them from T.; those 1) mow the grass, but T. bounces off the sickles, whole; 2) set fire to the grass while hunting, T. jumps out of the flame safely; 3) offer to dive into the sea for fish, T. sticks his hand between the doors of the shell, they slam shut, the brothers swim away; T.'s body was washed ashore, the birds began to peck at him, no one could pierce his skin; the little bird flew to the moon, dived, pierced, the water from T.'s body spilled out, he came to life, returned to his wives; they asked him to open his mouth, they would throw baked fruits there; after the fruits they threw a hot stone; T. rushed into the sea, swam away, no longer him seen]: Ker 1910:103-107; motu [giant Tauni-kapi-kapi devours people; villagers sail away in boats; the pregnant woman's husband did not have time to make a boat, T. swallowed it; in other boats for a woman has no place, she hides in a cave; gives birth to a son; he grows up, is extremely strong; on a huge tree she builds platforms one above the other with a supply of spears and stones; at the very top he prepares a fire; as When a giant climbs a tree, the young man throws spears and stones at it from ever higher platforms; tells his mother to light a fire; pierces the giant's eye with a spear, throws a burning platform into his mouth; a burnt giant who swallows stones falls, breaks; so the young man avenged the death of his father; married the giant's daughter; becomes the leader of returning people, takes many wives]: Romilly 1889:120-127; Kanaka [the youngest of the two Goéwéou brothers set traps, one was hit by a lizard man, ordered his release, jumped around the young man's neck, refused to get down; fell asleep at home at night, the young man ran away; by the river ordered two Araucarias to connect the peaks, crossed them to the other side, came to the chief of Mévégon; the lizard followed him, jumped on his neck again, returned him; the next night the young man ran to the sea , on the rock where Népoéawé's children lived; they threw his rope, picked it up; the lizard was also given a rope, he got up, opened his mouth, threw hot iron into his mouth, he died]: Leenhardt 1932 : 54-59; Loyalty Islands [the demon Cainyo ("one tooth") ate them all, the woman and her young son escaped on the rock; they went down and up there by rope; when the demon asked the boy where his mother had gone, he each time he pointed the wrong direction, but one day he accidentally pointed the right one; when she saw K., the woman hid in a bag carrying the crabs she had caught; he picked it up, but the woman began to broadcast from the bag, demanding to move on; K. got scared, left the bag, the woman returned home; next time they prepared hot stones; the boy asked the demon to open his mouth, threw stones there, the demon died]: Hadfield 1920, No. 10:239-242.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Yap: Müller 1918, No. 59 [two girls, despite their mother's warning, go to steal fruit that belongs to an evil spirit; he chased them, they managed to run into the house; the girls' father heated the stones, threw them into the mouth of a spirit that thought they were children; after swallowing four stones, he died], 60 [like (59); an evil spirit is a crab, the girls' father scrubs ticks him with boiling water, the whole family eats crab meat]: 576-577, 577; Palau [Meluadeangel settled on the island, ate people; they decided to sail away in the morning; left a lonely old woman; she somehow became pregnant, gave birth to two boys; having learned the whole story from her, they collected a large pile of firewood and brought stones; they set fire to firewood, M. noticed the smoke and came; the young men began to throw hot stones into his mouth; feeling pain, M. ran his belly burst, he died; his mother ordered M. to take out his stomach and bring him to one of the islands where people were; if they guessed what it was, his stomach would swell; they guessed it; they realized that M. was dead and had his stomach buried; people returned, but the brothers did not allow them to stick until the chief handed them over his powers]: Kesolei 1971:21-22; Marshall Islands (Aeloninae): Tobin 2002, No. 48 [woman gives birth to 10 sons, each with one arm, one leg, one eye, one ear; they go to catch lobster; a witch screams, Give me my food; eats them when they fall asleep; a woman gives birth to ten half sons again , everything repeats itself; the third time he gives birth to nine halves, the youngest whole; others think he is crazy, they do not want to take him with them; when they fall asleep, he comes to the witch, they bake and fry lobster together ; he puts pebbles (shells?) over his eyes with an eye pattern, the witch thinks he is awake; he calls her a cannibal, promises to burn her, she leaves; according to one version, she throws a hot stone into her mouth, she dies], 49 [a woman has ten sons- halves, the eleventh is normal; the brothers think he is crazy, they do not want to take him with them; he hides at the bottom of the boat, they swim to the breadtree in the sea, he is guarded by an animal; they quietly take off one fruit, they swim back; they bake the fruit with the mother; when the animal appears, the youngest (full) throws hot stones into its mouth, the animal dies]: 207-209, 213-215; Marshall Islands (Maloelap) [woman gave birth to 12 sons, each one has one leg, one hand, one eye; she does not tell them not to fish on the south side of the island; they did not find fish on the west side, they went to the south, where the demon sent them his fish, they followed it scratched on the reef, went ashore to rest; the demon gave the leaf to heal the scratches, led them towards them, they entered the hole, the demon fish closed it, the boys died, the demon ate them; the mother gave birth to 12 of the same half boys; same, the demon ate them; the mother gave birth again 12, but the last Lakkiñ was normal, not half; brothers do not consider him a normal person, do not take him with them; finally took it; with They all jumped into the hole, but L. did not jump, killed the fish, took the brothers out; asked the leaf where to go - to the lagoon; hid the brothers under the ceiling of the house, heated the stones; the demon came - throw me fish; L. started throwing hot stones at him, he swallowed them, died; the brothers returned to his mother]: Kelin 2003:92-99; Tuvalu (Niutao Atoll) [Tuapa was born half-human, his parents threw him into lagoon; then his wife gave birth to beautiful Sina; she was forbidden to go to the lagoon; one day her palm leaf ring fell into the lagoon; her moray brother said she would only be able to pick up the ring if she stayed with him in the lagoon; then let S. bring him food and eat herself; S. told his parents everything; they turned S. into a pole of the house, but the moray eel brother came, recognized her, took her to the lagoon; so twice; the third time her parents made a fire, S. rose to the sky with smoke; a black cloud told her not to sit on it, sent her to red, red to white; Mauimatua lived there, he promised to protect S.; when the moray eel brother came, he was offered to eat, S. put a hot stone in the broth, said that the guest should swallow food greedily; the moray eel brother died, M. buried his head, a coconut palm grew out of it; the coconuts fell to the ground, from they are current]: Koch 1966:108-109; Bellona, Rennell: Elbert, Monberg 1965, No. 41A (Bellona) [Kotu'akotu'a and her granddaughter find the ngosengose creature in the sea, put them in a scoop of coconut shells; N. grows up, he is transferred to larger vessels, it becomes huge; K. and his granddaughter run to Mutikitiki, who hides them in calebass, they tremble in fear, blow the winds; M. says that his Calebasa usually behaves this way; bakes tarot leaves, wraps bitter stones in them, lets them swallow n; when he dies, he says that black and red coconuts will grow on his grave; coconuts are empty, M. urinates on they tell them to have five flowers in the bunch; the new coconuts are full], 41B (Rennel) [Kotu'akotu'a and her granddaughter find fish on the reef; they bring it, it grows, it is transferred to increasingly spacious vessels; this is ngosengose; K. and his granddaughter run to Mautikitika, who hides them in a drawer, they make a sound, M. says N. that his box always does this; bakes tarot shoots, wraps hot stones in them, lets them swallow n.; when he dies, he promises that green and brown coconuts will grow on his grave; first the coconuts are empty, then they are stuffed]: 125-126, 126-130; Monberg 1966 (Bellona) [old Kotu'akotu'a and her granddaughter catches a creature that looks like a sausage (some kind of clam?) , bring home, grow; the creature grows, tries to swallow K. and granddaughter; they run to Mutikitiki, who hides them under a wooden vessel; kills the creature by throwing hot in its mouth instead of eating stones; the creature asks to bury it, watch the grave; coconut grows, but the nuts are empty; M. urinates on them, his urine turns into coconut milk, mucus from the penis into coconut pulp]: 87-88; Taku [Asina's girlfriend decided to have a homemade fish; she caught an eel, put it in a vessel; it grew up, put it in a pond; her parents left, telling A. to feed the eel; she went to the pond and the eel rushed at her; she runs, calls First Maui for help, he can't help; so does the other eight; Maui 10 tells an eel to open its mouth, throws three hot stones there, the eel dies]: Moyle 2003:9-23; Maori [ Uta is fishing; his wife Houmea secretly eats it raw, tramples on the ground as if someone came and stole the catch; W. sends their two sons to spy on their mother, who say they saw; H. denies everything; while W. is not there, swallows the children; W. witchcraft makes her regurgitate; sending H. to get water, sails away with the children in the boat, telling objects and trees to be responsible for them; W. pursues in the guise of a cormorant; W. hides at the bottom of the boat; children throw fish into their mother's mouth, tell them to open it wider, throw a hot stone, it dies and turns into a cormorant]: Reed 1999:207-208 (=Dixon 1916:84-86).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Khasi: Bertrand 1958 [there was thlen (a serpent) on the way from the mountains to the plain; he always devoured half of the travelers, so the lonely man was safe; U Suidnoh settled nearby every day fed the snake sheep, once threw a piece of hot iron into its mouth; the corpse was divided so that people from the plain and mountains would each receive and eat their own piece; since there were fewer people from the mountains, one piece was left uneaten, and the descendants of the serpent (mythical harmful creatures) still live]: 140-141; Rafy 1920, No. 12 [the daughter of a deity gives birth to a snake; he lives in a cave, eats people; he is first fed animals, then they throw a piece of hot iron into their mouths; all people come to the feast, eat the snake; some remain, it is burned; one young man did not appear; his mother finds an unburned piece, brings it to her son; the piece turns into snake, grows, demands to be fed by humans; these snakes are now in every home in the human hunter tribe]: 58-67; dafla [Appa Pili started taking people away; Hado Desar pretended to be dead, AP brought him to his cave; HA quietly rested his legs and hands, AP left him at the entrance; HD climbed the rock above the cave, heated the stones; HP came out, HD started throwing stones, AP thought it was HP himself, became them grab, die; people crushed his remains in a mortar, they turned into blood-sucking insects]: Bori 1995:60-61; meitei [the hare replies to the tiger that he eats vegetables; the tiger falls asleep, the hare ran away; swings to a branch; tells the tiger that he is another hare; the tiger began to swing, fell asleep; the hare tied its hair to the tree; next time the hare is fishing; again says that he is another hare; fed the tiger a fish, he fell asleep; the hare shoved a hot ax into the sleeper's mouth, the tiger dies]: Oinam et al. s.a.; kachin [Ningkong wa decides to build a bridge over Ayeyarwady; his 9 brothers are jealous, they say that his brother, then sister, mother, etc., are dead; he continues to work; when he hears about his father's death, cries, leaves; finds everyone at home in good health; promises to flood the earth with a flood and burn it with 9 suns; puts an orphan brother and sister in drum; every day they release a rooster, throw a vessel and a needle; 8 times they understand by the sound of a fall that there is water below; on the ninth day, the vessel and needle fall to the ground, the rooster crows; both come to nata (nata - mythological creatures), hear that he wants to eat them; run away to another; he hides them under the roof, tells the first one to come in 4 days when the beer is ready; he is thrown into his mouth a red-hot iron rod; he rushes under the waterfall, his roar can still be heard; brother and sister give birth to a child, annoys the owner with crying; he kills the child, feeds his parents his heart, cuts the body into pieces, pieces turning into Chinese, Shan, Kachin, Burmese, etc.]: Gilhodes 1908:683-886.

Burma - Indochina. Vieta [a huge fish attacks fishermen; Lac Long pretends to throw a man into its mouth, throws a hot iron ball; the fish spits it out, but dies in the battle with LL]: Knorozova 2000:79 (=2020:354-355).

South Asia. Oraons [a woman giving birth went to the forest to buy bamboo; she could not lift the basket; called for help: if a daughter is born, she will be an adopted daughter, if her son will be eaten; the tiger helped; a boy was born; made friends with a monkey; she always warns him when a tiger appears; they fry fish, the boy hides, the monkey throws fried fish to the tiger; then asks him to close his eyes, throws a red-hot share into the mouth a plow; a boy finishes off a tiger]: Hahn 1906, No. 14:26-27; Santals [after stealing a goat, a man brought it to his property, fried and ate, throwing bones towards him; a tiger came up and swallowed them on the fly; the man heated the iron hatchet, threw the tiger, who grabbed it, thinking it was meat too, died]: Bompas 1909, No. 144:370-371.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Tetum [the tide found the Dog on the littoral, she climbed the rock; the Crocodile refused to transport her ashore because he was in a hurry to do the king's errand; the Shark agreed; on the shore, the Dog said that she would go for the promised money, told the Shark to open its mouth, threw hot coals, the Shark died; the Dog invited the Monkey to cut the prey together; the Monkey offered to swim; told the Dog what to do sand more to make the skin shine; while the Dog was doing this, the Monkey transferred the meat to the tree; refused to throw at least a piece to the Dog; the dog began to guard, the Monkey fell off the tree, the Dog killed her]: Mathijsen 1915, No. 3:4-7; toraja [(bare toraja); when they go to work in the field, the parents tell their son Tandani and his brother to prepare food for their return; but they play all day long; finally, the mother did not let the children into the house, pushing T. down the stairs; the brothers ran away; the mother tried to catch up with them and asked them to come back; T. threw peas behind several times, the mother collected them, wasting time; T. asked" gaping rocks" {gähnenden Felsen: obviously, the rocks} skip them, the rocks missed them; the mother of the rock was cut in half: one half became a goat, the other a pig; the brothers reached the fruit wood; T. climbed upstairs, began to throw fruit to his brother, drive away the pig that came up; did not know that it was his mother; threw her a fruit with a sharp leaf stalk; the pig swallowed it and died; the brothers came to old man and old woman; T. spoke about the killed pig, asked his brother to feed; the old man smeared the boy's mouth with blood, took his meat, left his bones for his brothers; on the way to the old man, T. quietly transferred the meat to his basket, and the old man's basket put stones; at home, the old man began to dump the contents into the cauldron - it was flowing; the old man thinks that the bone has pierced it; so with all the boilers; then he noticed that there were stones in the basket; In the morning, an old man with two dogs followed the boys; they climbed a tree above the river; the old man noticed their reflection; climbed a tree, saying to his wife: if "hrums" falls, it's me, and if "flop", then this is T., let the dogs down at him; T.: open your mouth, I'll throw something; the old man opened his mouth, T. threw a hot stone at him, the old man fell, the wife thinks it's T., let the dogs down, they bit to death the old man; she climbed herself, injured herself on thorns and died]: Adriani 1915 in Bezemer 1904:348-352.

Taiwan - Philippines. Atayal [giant Halus wears his penis wrapped around his waist; puts him across the river like a bridge; when women pass by, he's hard as iron, when men swing; H. rapes women, sending a penis at them through windows in houses; opening their mouths and waiting for game driven by hunters to jump into them; people heat a stone, tell H. that a deer is running; he swallows a stone, dies]: Norbeck 1950, No. 6:17-19; Tinghian [two women went to tear up the fruits of a vine owned by a crocodile; one another: look, don't throw the peel with their teeth marks on it; but the other did not pay attention to these words; crocodile I noticed traces and came to the village: where the woman who ate my fruit, I would eat it; he was asked to sit down, heated an iron plough in the fire and said: Here she is, open her mouth; the crocodile opened, put it down his throat hot iron and he died]: Cole 1916:90.

China - Korea. Chuan Miao [two sisters marry a handsome man, call Buffalo dirty on the way to him, spit on him; the beauties only hunt, there is not enough food, the sisters leave, persuade Buffalo to take them; he tells you to go to his hut without scaring off the rat; the hut turns out to be a big house, the rat is a pig; the older sister catches a pig, brings clean water, the youngest does not; Buffalo marries the eldest; eats him The tiger comes in his guise; the eldest believes that it is her husband, the youngest is hiding under the roof, hears the Tiger eating her sister at night; asks for what he eats, it turns out to be her sister's finger; the girl runs, climbs onto the roof of the house; asks the Tiger to bring her hot tongs, she will pinch off pieces of her body with them, throw him; throws tongs into his mouth, the Tiger roars, runs away; the girl sends Magpie take the message to her brothers to help; Magpie allows the brothers to pour black paint on her to prove the truth of their words (the origin of the magpie's color); the brothers lure the Tiger into the pit- trap, give giblets to Magpie]: Graham 1954:269-271; Chinese (?) [The Wrong Food. Instead of eating, people throw a piece of hot iron or a hot stone into the monster's mouth, the monster dies]: Ting Nai-Tung 1978, No. 159A: 36; Koreans: Park 1991 [Tiger, Deer, Hare found a bottle of suri, agreed to give it to the oldest; Deer: I have been living for more than a hundred years, my skin has changed color three times; Tiger: I sat under this oak tree with the Heavenly King; The hare cries, says that this oak was planted by the deceased grandson; The hare drank everything, the Tiger chased him, the Hare convinced him to let him go, because he saved the Tiger's ancestor from Heaven's anger; the hare promises to feed the Tiger with roasted beans, tells him to close his eyes, sets fire to the grove around; supposedly leaves for honey; Tiger swallows hot pebbles, thinking they are beans, dies]: 343-346; Choi 1979, No. 50 [the tiger came to the village house; the mother tries to calm the child; - Shut up, under the window the tiger is standing; then - Don't cry, you see, there is dried persimmon on the shelf; the tiger decided that persimmon was the name of a terrible creature, went to the barn to steal a cow; a thief just climbed in, mistook the tiger for a cow in the dark, sat on him; the tiger thought it was dried persimmon, ran; at dawn, the thief saw himself sitting on a tiger, jumped and ran away; the tiger thought he was saved; in one version, the thief hid in the hollow, came up bear, the thief cut off his penis, fried him and ate it; the tiger asked for it to be given to him; the man heated a red stone, gave the tiger, he died; the thief gave bear and tiger skins to the king, received an award, became honest man; either brought the bear to the owner of the cow, he gave him the cow as a reward, the thief improved]: 21-22; Ząng 1952, No. 69 [=Pack 1991:338-340; The hare offers the Tiger to bake pebbles; puts 11, says he put 10, leaves, telling him not to eat until he returns, 5 of them each; the Tiger decides to swallow the eleventh pebble, thinking that the Hare has paid off; burns, gets sick for a long time; next time The hare invites the Tiger to look at the sky with his mouth open, he will drive sparrows there; sets fire to the thickets, the Tiger almost burns; the hare tells the Tiger to fish on its tail, not to open his eyes; at night the tail freezes, People kill Tiger in the morning]: 157-160.

The Balkans. Moldovans [dragons stole the Sun; husband and other people go looking for him, wife gives birth to a son named Ion, aka Fat-Frumos; talks about his father; the Black King sends him for the Sun; he takes a skinny oath is a magic horse; FF consistently defeats dragons: Evening-, Night- Midnight, giants, cuts off their heads; in the last fight, the eagle sprinkles water on FF's strength, not the giant; FF turns into a rooster, a fly, hears dragon wives promise to turn into a well, an apple tree, a grape bush (drinking water, eating an apple, a berry will die); FF releases the Sun from the dungeon; the Black King tries Catch the sun, falls from the roof, dies; on the way back, FF cuts down a well, an apple tree, a vine, black blood flows; the mother of dragons pursues, FF hides in the forge, throws a red-hot stalker into the mouth a club that dies; FF is looking for Limbe-Limbeu, the father of dragons; kills a pig, a hare, a duck, an egg, three beetles, the third flies to the castle; the castle watchman kills a beetle without knowing that LL lives in it; FF kills a watchman, burns LL's corpse]: Botezatu 1981:17-27.

Central Europe. Belarusians [Hot stones in the mouth of the line instead of porridge or potatoes]: SUS 1979, No. 1131:265; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [the fisherman caught a goldfish, took it to the tsar; the cook fried the queen, I tried it myself, gave the rest to the dog, all three gave birth, the dog's son Ivan is the strongest; he left the knife in the tree, if blood flows, the brothers go to the rescue; he fights a 12-headed snake on the bridge, who came on a 12-legged horse; the severed heads of the snake all grow back, blood flows from the knife, the brothers come, hide their heads, the snake dies; the mother Snake turns into an iron rope, I. does not tell you to touch, cuts her, blood flows; does not let the brothers drink, the spring cuts, blood flows (it was a snake); the 18-headed Serpent pursues the brothers, they hide at the blacksmith, the Serpent becomes entangled in chains, I. tells him to open his mouth throws hot iron, the Serpent dies]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:203-206.

Iran - Central Asia. Kafirs (vaigali) [a deity born in the form of a bird and became a young man kills Werdei (p.157-158: one of the giant demons yush; males are red, covered in hair, with horns, feet turned back), letting him swallow hot stones instead of eating]: Klimburg 1999:150-151; (cf. Yagnobtsy [Shomiltykak asks the reaper to help reap the sickle; he sends him for a sickle to his wife; S. tells her that the king demands girls; she does not give it, he shouts to her husband about it, he tells her to give it back, Sh. girl; promises to cure a bald shepherd, buries her neck in the ground, kills, takes the herd away; plants an apricot seed, threatens to grind it, an apricot grows in a few days, S. climbs on it; the old woman asks to throw off the fruit, asks for her hands, grabs S., takes her in a bag; the reapers offer her to eat bread, S. runs away, leaving stones in the bag; the old woman's daughter lowers the contents of the bag into the cauldron, he breaks; the old woman catches Sh again in the same way, does not stop eating bread, brings S. home; while she sleeps, S. gets out, cuts off the heads of the old woman's daughters, throws one into the cauldron, hides at the top plane trees; an old woman eats meat, discovers her dead daughters; asks how S. climbed; he says he hit himself in the ass with a hot iron; she does so, burns, dies]: Andreev, Peshereva 1957, No. 33:167-169).

Baltoscandia. Icelanders [cannibal giant Kraka kidnaps a shepherd to make him his lover; he does not eat anything, promises to eat if K. brings him a 12-year-old shark; while K. is gone, runs away; K. catches up with him, screaming that he has caught a shark; the shepherd runs to the blacksmith; he threatens to throw hot iron at K., K. leaves, stops kidnapping men]: Simpson 1972:89-91; set [for now There are no parents, brother and sister decided to cook porridge from coals; the sister tried it, turned black, the brother put it in the sea to soak; in the morning she asks from the shore if the sister has turned white, she replies that she has not yet; Damn ( vanapagan) heard, called himself, the girl replies that it was not her brother's voice; for the fourth time he sharpened his tongue so that the girl did not understand the deception, replied that she had turned white; the brother did not wait for an answer, the healer said that his sister was taken away by Damn; brother sings outside the window of the house Devil, sister hears something, Damn replies that it was a wheel creaking (he made a wagon); next time brother sings, calling his sister to bury him, he has teeth aside; sister goes out, Damn believes her brother is dead; decides to brew beer on this occasion; no dishes, offers to cook in his mouth; sister tied him up, poured boiling water into his mouth, brother jumped out graves, threw hot stones in Devil's mouth, he died; brother brought his sister home]: Normann, Tampere 1989:58-62; Karelians [wife gave birth and died, husband took another; she asks beggars if there is anyone more beautiful than her; they say that the girl in the cradle is more beautiful; the woman put the baby in a box and put him on a pole; the beggar took it and brought it to him; the girl grew up, the beggar died; she came to the house of 8 men; She washed everything, cooked everything; so for several days; the brothers promise to consider her younger sister, she opened to them; when they left, a three-headed serpent crawled in; the girl told him to open his mouth, promised to feed him; she put hot stones in her mouth, poured water, the snake died; the same with 6-, with 7-headed snakes; when the brothers were away, the stepmother sent a poisoned shirt; the girl put it on and died; the brothers placed it in an open coffin on a pole; Popovich found the coffin and brought home; began to lose weight; when he was not in the room, a girl was found in the coffin, the shirt was thrown into the fire, the girl came to life; asked the brothers for permission to go out married; stepmother came to harm her but stepmother was shot]: Rausmaa 1972:5-7-511 in Sutrop 2018:624-626; Estonians [The wolf lived with people, slept in a sheepfold, but was still forever hungry and intended something- something to steal; the woman said she would give him warm bread, gave him a hot stone herself; he burned his mouth, ran into the forest, complained to the Forest Father, who allowed him to live in the forest, take care of his own food ; when leaving, the Wolf can bite the first person to meet him; a beggar, a woman persuaded them not to eat; the tailor asked permission to first try on whether he would fit into his stomach; quietly tied his belt to to the tree, to beat with a measuring stick; the wolf escaped, ran away, called the other wolves; the tailor climbed the tree, the wolves climbed on top of each other, beaten below; the tailor shouted to him what else he would get now, wolf jumped out, the others fell; now wolves are afraid of people, but they kill sheep, i.e. that belt was made of sheep wool]: Jakobson 1954:148-152; Latvians [Damn a wolf, instead of a ridge, a fence stake , could not revive, asked God to do so, saying that the purpose of this creature was to be a sheep shepherd; God ordered every owner to leave the shepherd bread from scraped flour; one housewife did not leave , the wolf came to God to complain, God allowed the sheep to be taken one at a time; the hostess asked not to take it, promised to give bread; the wolf who came threw a hot stone into the mouth instead of bread; since then, the wolf has a black muzzle, red mouth, big throat, white scorched hair on her chin]: Pogodin 1895:428; Lithuanians [The goat tells five goats to unlock only her, sings that it brought grass on their horns, milk in udders; The wolf repeats, the goats feel a rude voice; The wolf goes to the blacksmith, who makes his tongue thinner, the goats unlock; one kid hides under the stove, remains alive; The goat collects bones, cooks, tells Wolf that he is cooking fish, he asks for a treat, she tells him to stick his tongue into the crack of the fence, sprinkles hot coals down his throat, the Wolf is dead, the Goat ripped his belly, the goats jumped out alive]: Love 1965:42- 44.

Western Siberia. Mansi: Lukina 1990, No. 139 [Ekva-Pyris lives with his grandmother; loses an arrow, a woman with an iron body takes him away; he drills a tiny hole, runs away; twice; on the third since the body is copper, the knife breaks, the woman brings E. to her daughters, goes to kick birch bark; E. asks the girls to release him, he will make them a wooden ladle the size of their skull; cuts off their heads; taking hot ash and red-hot scrap, climbs a tree; a woman cuts a trunk; Fox, Hare, Wolverine offer help, axes blunt against a stone; E. asks a woman to open her mouth to jump at it; throws ash and scrap , finishes off the cannibal with an ax; returns to his grandmother]: 373-376; Popova 2001, No. 7 [grandmother does not tell Ekva Pygrisyu to go towards the north wind; he walks, sees a boat, shoots ducks, a boat takes him to the old woman Kirp Nölp; carries him in a birch bark body, he cuts a hole with a knife, runs away; everything repeats, KN carries him in an iron body, he drills a hole, falls out with a needle; in the third time is a copper body, the EP knife is broken, KN brings it to his two grandchildren, goes to make birch bark scoops; EP promises to make wooden ones to the grandchildren of KN, they release it; he asks to put their heads on measure the log, cut off, cooks meat, climbs larch; ties mice in the corner so that they squeak like children; KN eats grandchildren; Lisa offers KN to help cut down a tree, breaks the ax against a stone; then same - Olenikha; EP offers KN to open her mouth to jump there; throws a hot walk; KN dies]: 59-69; Rombandeeva 2005, No. 25 [Ekva-Pygris lives with her grandmother, fires an arrow, goes looking for her; woman asks him to get into her birch bark body, promises to look for his arrow himself, takes him away, he drills a hole along the way, gets out; the next day it's the same with the iron body; on the third day, not can drill a stone; a woman brings it to her home, tells her son and daughter to watch, goes to get firewood; E. asks them to release him, makes them drink his blood; cuts off their heads, cooks meat, climbs larch; the woman eats her children; begins to cut larch, the Hare offers to cut for it, blunts the ax against the stone; the same Fox; Wolverine; E. offers her open her mouth, throws hot ash with him, then hot scrap; she dies, E. returns to her grandmother]: 237-245.

Eastern Siberia. Evenki Orochons [Kandykah is an anthropomorphic demon who has a huge mouth instead of a head; devours animals, hunters are left without prey; then the owner of Agda's thunder in the form of a man with With eagle wings, he throws hot daggers - thunder arrows - into his mouth; they burn his stomach, he goes to the lower world for a while]: Mazin 1984:18.

SV Asia. Chukchi: Bogoras 1902, No. 25 [two old women want to have a child; one acts as a husband, the other gives birth to a mouse boy; he is carried away and eaten by an Owl; the Raven adjusts so that the Owl releases gases, Mouse bones fly out of his ass, turn into a boy; the Raven undertakes to cure the Owl of diarrhea, puts hot stones in his ass; the owl is barely alive, the old women (in the form of husband and wife) beat him; from the Owl's ass The bones of various swallowed animals fall out, commercial animals spread across land and sea], 26 [The fox says that the worst thing is man, the Bear is partridges; the fox catches partridges, The bear is wounded with a spear; the fox offers to treat him, tells him to swallow hot stones; feeds the foxes with bear meat]: 655; kereki [The fox shoots a bow at the sleeping Bear; he complains that someone is his pricked; she tells him to swallow hot stones to heal; the bear dies]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 116:369.

Subarctic. Southern Tutchoni [The Beaver and the Raven kill monsters; the Raven gives the ogre's wife hot stones instead of fish; she dies]: Cruickshank 1992:295; (cf. Workman 2000 [Äsúya (Beaver, Clever) tells a woman to climb a tree to the platform, take with her vessels of boiling water; she throws a vessel, then the second one into the beast's mouth, the one boiled from the inside, dies]: 112-113); tagish [The Raven (Yéil) comes to the Grizzly, who cuts his back, melts fat above the fire, gives the Raven mixed with snow; the Raven cuts his hand, holds it over with fire, only the foam bubbles; the Raven goes with the Grizzly in the boat to catch halibut; only the Raven bites, he tells the Grizzly he is bait (apparently from bear fat); the Grizzly kills himself; the Raven gives the servant a louse , he opens his mouth, he pulls out his tongue, the servant cannot tell Grizzly's wife what happened to her husband; the Raven explains that the servant caught the fish, so he only mooes; gives Grizzly's wife fat by putting it inside red-hot stone; gives water; it explodes, dies]: McClelland 2007, No. 73e: 363-364; taltan [The raven pretends to swallow hot stones; the ogre grizzly agrees to swallow too, dies; turns into a grizzly]: Teit 1919, No. 1.9:208.

NW Coast. The raven pretends to cut off his genitals to use them as bait to catch halibut; the Grizzly does the same, dies; the raven comes to his wife, adjusts her She swallows hot rocks; she dies; the raven eats both grizzlies. The Tlingits [The Raven hides hot stones in the stomachs of halibut, tells the Bear to swallow them whole; she dies after drinking water]: De Laguna 1972:868-869; Garfield, Forrest 1961 [Raven and Cormorant come to Brown Bears; The raven turns into a woman, wraps hot stones in the stomachs of halibut, advises her husband to swallow them whole; pulls out Cormorant's tongue without telling him; explains to the Bear that The cormorant tries to praise the taste of halibut; sends Cormorant for water, the Bear drinks water, explodes; the Raven drives the Cormorant away, tells him to live on the rocks]: 130; Swanton 1909, No. 1 [The Raven asks Cormorant to open his mouth , pulls out his tongue; he cannot tell the Bear what happened to her husband]: 6-7; Hyda (Masset) [The raven goes with the Grizzly to catch halibut; he bites, the Grizzly does not; the Raven explains what he catches on the skin of his scrotum; at home, the Grizzly complains of hunger, the Raven says he is not hungry because he swallowed hot stones; the Grizzly agrees to swallow hot stones, dies, the Raven eats it]: Swanton 1980a: 311-312; Tsimshian [Raven Bear: Wives of husbands who do not catch fish must swallow hot stones; throws a stone in its mouth]: Boas 1902:57-58.

The coast is the Plateau. Comox [Kumsnō'otl ("our big brother") descended from the sky; destroys monsters, turns ancestors into animals and stones; the monstrous octopus swallows everyone; K. overlaid himself red-hot with stones, the octopus rushed at him, burned himself; K. cut it into pieces, scattered it, they turned into current octopuses]: Boas 2002, No. VIII. 1:179-180; quinolt [four brothers hunt moose , fifth youngest Wild Cat watches the fire; the fire goes out, the Wild Cat comes to a woman who has fire; takes a different form, but she recognizes it every time, does not give fire; then it turns into smoke, quietly takes away a burning head; noticing the theft, the woman takes 5 belts and sets off in pursuit; each belt consistently turns into a sandbar along which she crosses the water; brothers turn their house into stone, a woman puts her head through the door to pick up the food she has thrown; a stone falls, presses a woman to death; brothers go to live up the river; kill an elk; Wild Cat calls someone to help eat meat, there is too much of it; a crushed woman comes to life, chases her brothers, swallows the four older ones one by one; the Wild Cat throws a dog behind him five times, each once it turns into a mountain, smaller in size; the fifth time a woman swallows the dog; the brothers tell the cedar to open, hide in the trunk; throw hot stones wrapped in fat into the woman's mouth; she drinks water explodes; this woman is a black rock and white pebbles are her vomiting]: Farrand 1902, No. 10:114-116; Skagit [father and son Wolves pursue father and son Moose, kill father; Mole transports son to a boat across the river after he calls him father-in-law (more precisely, "the grandfather of wives"); invites the Wolf Son to sail to the other side, the Moose swims behind in the boat, kills the Wolf; marries the Mole's four granddaughters ; Wolf father comes for Moose; The mole tells his granddaughters to grease the hot stones, feed it to the Wolf; he dies]: Hilbert 1985:145-149; Puget Sound [see J12; Skunk mistreats wives; they run away, climb a rock; he is asked to climb forward; they throw hot stones in his ass; his iron falls out]: Ballard 1927:64; upper chehalis [see J12 motif; girl marries the chief and marries Skunk; his master tells him to bring meat; the woman realizes that her husband is a servant; suffers from the stench; the owner sends Skunk, runs with the woman to heaven; the Skunk sees them reflection, streams into the water; then looks up, asks how they got there; Feet forward; the owner throws hot stones into Skunk's ass, his iron falls out]: Adamson 1934:46-52; colitz [like upper chehalis]: Adamson 1934:198-200; catlamet [The raccoon rejects all types of food offered by his grandmother, wants acorns; eats all supplies; the grandmother hits him with smut, he climbs on hawthorn; she asks to throw berries at her; he throws a lump of berries and thorns into her mouth, she turns into a partridge; Grizzly asks to paint it just as beautifully; the raccoon pours hot resin on him, runs to the Coyote; he says he has already swallowed the Raccoon; invites them and the Grizzly each to swallow five hot stones; inserts an empty cane, the stones fall out on the other side; the Grizzly dies; in winter, the Raccoon steals the Coyote's supplies; he dresses up as an enemy warrior, injures him; under the guise of treatment, pulls the Raccoon's intestines out; eats it]: Boas 1901a, No. 17:142-154; Vishram [a horned serpent in the mountains swallows people; chased two brothers; arrows do him no harm; they threw stones into his mouth, he choked to death]: Hanes 1998, No. 21:96-99; see motif K42. Klamath [stone in the anus of the Bear]; yakima [Skunk is a servant in the house of Eagle and his four Hawk brothers; an old woman sends her granddaughter to marry Eagle; Skunk pretends to be the owner of the house, takes the girl; hides under a mat; Hawks and the Eagle come, tell him to clean up the prey, cook; the woman realizes that she was mistaken; the Eagle notices that the seeds are ground better than usual, finds long hair; in the morning Skunk explains that he giggled because he was tickled by a mouse; the Eagle sends Skunk to pick up the dead deer, climbs the rock with the woman; says he was picked up by the rope; picking up Skunk, throws him in the ass a red-hot stone cuts off the rope; Skunk's iron floats along the river; the Skunk walks, asks the people he meets, answers him with laughter; he finds those playing ball with his iron, grabs it, kills the players and those whoever laughed at him takes their jewelry; Porcupine pretends to be dead; Skunk carries him, says he's afraid of whistling; Porcupine whistles, Skunk runs away, porcupine takes all jewelry - now he's wearing it beautiful needles]: Hines 1992, No. 54:180-188; ne perse: Phinney 1934:182-184 [a pair of Bears take someone else's prey; Coyote kills Bear; throws a grease-covered, red-hot stone into the mouth first The Bear, then the Bears; both die], 251-259 [see motif J12; five sisters come to marry the Eagle; the Skunk takes them for himself; the Eagle learns about the deception, runs away from Skunk with his wives to the top of the cliff; advises him go backwards; throws a hot stone into his anus; Skunk's iron falls out]; flethead [The bear takes the best meat for himself; the Coyote throws a red-hot stone wrapped in fat into his mouth; The bear dies, the Coyote is chosen as the chief]: McDermott 1901, No. 9:247; kordalen [cat mockingbird (Dumetella carolinensis) tells his grandmother he wants to make a bow; Moose asks to get the bowstring carry him across the river; agrees the oldest Elk; Mockingbird says that sitting in his hair on his feet, he will soak his moccasins; the same is higher, finally on his nose; climbs through his nose inside the Moose, which- what he does to his heart, the Moose dies; the Mockingbird comes out, forgetting the moccasins inside; sings, saying that he does not have a knife; the Wolf hears it, offers to refresh the carcass, sends a Mockingbird to let him lead maternal uncle; Mockingbird says he doesn't have moccasins; Wolf gives his own, Mockingbird deliberately spoils them; Wolf goes after his children; at this time, Mockingbird and his relatives carry meat to the top of the cliff, cover a pile of coal with skin; Mockingbird throws hot stones wrapped in fat from the cliff, they die; he lets Orlice carry himself to the nest, lives with eagles, while their feathers have grown, descends on two eagles, pulls out the feathers of their wings and tail for them, gives the Grizzly to make plumage for arrows; catches fish, does not share with her grandmother; she leaves him, rising into the air; he fishes for everything he needs; he fishes for his wife, child; the wife calls to her bottom; everything is made of ice; the child disappears; his grandfather says he has already been eaten; along with Mockingbird they return to shore (the informant does not remember further)]: Reichard 1947, No. 22:148-153; coutene: Boas 1918, No. 52 [giant ancestor (humanoid? snake-like?) crawls across the country; the woodpecker throws a hot stone wrapped in mountain sheep fat into his mouth; the ancestor rises to the sky, falls, dies], 53 [Gray Stone heats itself, jumps into the Grizzly's mouth, comes out with on the other hand; Grizzly dies]: 85-89, 93-97; Klamath [red-haired woman married; after going across the mountains, tells only the youngest of his brothers to accompany her; sleeps with him; he leaves instead a branch, runs away; the redhead sets fire to the world; only the mother of the sibling is saved; finds a boy and a girl in the charred body of her daughter-in-law; knowing that the girl will repeat the crime of a redhead, glues them together into one double-headed creature; he sees his double shadow, shoots an arrow, she falls, separates his sister from him; the children make the Sun say who killed their parents; the redhead lives in the lake, the girl cuts off her head, brings it to her grandmother; brother and sister go down through the hearth; brother's arrow gets stuck in a tree; sister agrees to get it after her brother calls her wife rather than sister, niece, etc.; becomes pregnant from her brother; the grandmother finds the skin of a bear killed by her grandson, puts it on, turns into a Bear, catches up with and kills her grandson; giving the Bear a drink, the sister-wife throws a hot stone in her ass; she dies; the sister-wife takes the child, rushes into the fire; Gmokamch snatches the boy; decides not to put him on her forehead, but to place him under his knee; his daughter brings the boy out of the abscess; the baby cries; K. says various names; the boy stops crying when the name Aishish is named; he grows up; then see the K1 motif (G. Sends a young man to an eagle's nest, tries to pick up his wives)]: Barker 1963, No. 4:25-9, 47; Gatschet 1890:xxxv-xxxvi; modoc [brother and sister are orphans; brother's arrow gets stuck in a tree; sister asks who he is; when he says, Wife pulls out an arrow, becomes his wife; he puts a comb on the bear's skin, if he falls, he is killed; an old woman who has raised orphans turns into a Bear , pursues and kills her grandson; a sister-wife puts hot stones in a stream, the Bear swallows them with her mouth and back, dies; taking the baby, the sister wife rushes into the fire; Kmukamts snatches the boy, puts it in his knee, asks his daughter to open the abscess, she pulls out the boy, his name is Aissik; he grows up, he has five wives (chicken, crane, bird, fish, duck, tick); K. wants for himself, Stokoa (fish); puts his eyes on the back of her head, tells the spark to fall on S., sees her big vulva; asks A. to undress, climb the tree to the eagle's nest; tells the tree to grow; puts on clothes A., comes to S.; two butterfly sisters bring A. food and clothes, lower them to the ground in their basket; K.'s heart hangs around his neck; his grandson throws his heart into the fire; K. dies, rises to the sky, covers his resin to flood A. and his family; A. hides everyone under stones; The chicken sticks out his nose, the Crane sticks out his head; the nose turns black, scraped off the resin from Crane A.'s head, she remains bald]: Curtis 1976 (13): 210- 212.

Plains. Blacklegs: Josselin de Jong 1914 [the son-in-law takes all the meat from the parents of his three wives; they cook a clot of bison blood, he turns into a boy; the son-in-law is told that a girl has been born; a boy immediately becomes an adult; kills her son-in-law and two older sisters, leaves the youngest, she was kind to her parents; comes to people from whom everything was taken away by the Bear and the Bear; kills them, leaving them in their mouths hot stones; a snake with a horn in its forehead took everything from old women in another village; a blood clot cuts off her and other snakes's heads; kills the Witch Doctor, who lured people into his house; the Ballplayer (woman); another a woman who asked everyone to fight her; another one who rocked people on a swing above the lake; a blood clot asks her to swing first, cuts off the rope, she falls into the water, fish and aquatic creatures devour her ]: 76-80; Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. 2 [an evil hunter does not feed his wives' parents; the youngest daughter secretly gives them meat; a young man is born from a blood clot; comes to old women; bears take all their food; he kills bears by throwing hot stones into their mouths]: 53-55; Crowe [a water monster swallows a mighty bird's chicks; a man kills a monster by throwing hot stones in its mouth]: Lowie 1918:144 -148 [a man ends up in the Thunderbirds nest; two monsters], 155-156 and 170 [in the Eagle's nest]; hidatsa [see motif J19; Headless Monster kills a pregnant woman; throws one of the twins in the center of the house, the other in the stream; the brother puts his sister's corpse on the funeral platform; the brothers revive the mother; throw a hot stone into the mouth of the Headless, who explodes]: Beckwith 1938:30-43; teton ( oglala) [a young man kills an owl; his older brother's wife asks for it to be given to her; he does not give it; she scratches her face and hips with a sharp stone, accuses the young man of attempted rape; the older brother tells his friends leave the youngest on the island; the youngest eats berries, three tubers give him food for many days; he catches and paints the opossum, asks for help; the opossum hides in the lake; the Horned Serpent appears from the waters; takes him ashore; asks him to say if a cloud appears; the young man does not speak, jumps ashore, the Thunder kills the Serpent; on the way home, the young man sees a bison skull with mice in it, they sing that their grandfather is dead; a young man kills them; comes to an old woman, she calls him a son; at night he sees an old woman rubbing paint on her leg, her leg grows longer; he killed an old woman with a crane's beak (always with him); burned it with at home; another woman has a hole in the top of her head, she pulls her brains out, mixes it into food; the gopher helped gnaw through a hole in the pot; the old woman fell asleep, the young man threw a hot stone into her hole in her head burned along with the house; the next old woman has two daughters, their vaginal teeth are gnashing; the young man kills both by inserting the crane's beak into their vaginas; since then, women are not dangerous; the young man sees that animals are chasing him pretends to be an old man, the old stalker does not recognize him; the young man comes to his sister, her husband beats her, the young man kills him; comes to his father, he dies of joy; the rest of the people are eaten by birds and animals]: Wissler 1907, No. 7:196-199; iowa [Ue (the female organ of the earth) sucked the Hare; threw it back; Hare's grandmother cured him in the steam room; he rolls hot stones in Wue; death cramps Ue caused earthquakes]: Skinner 1925, No. 39:497-498.

Southeast USA. Chirokee [Dressed in Stone falls asleep; Rabbit pushes a hot rock into his anus; Dressed in Stone explodes]: Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick 1966, No. 9:410-411.

California. Yurok [after swallowing the horn first, the hero lowers hot stones at it, pretending to swallow them; a dangerous spirit dies when swallowing stones thrown into his mouth]: Kroeber 1976, No. C1:217; villot : Curtis 1976 (13) [water monster eats the most beautiful people; Putchuri-gurru ("sharp buttocks") converter pretends to swallow a hot stone (it passes through it along the inserted wooden tube in advance); the monster agrees to swallow the stone, dies; two blind old women catch people with a net; P. announces that he is their nephew, released; burns old women with the house; splitter logs invite passers-by to get a wedge, knocks out another; P. pushes red alder juice into his mouth, as if crushed; then he asks the splitter to get a wedge, it dies; P. dries the three people who killed creek - yellow, brown, red]: 191-192; Reichard 1925, No. 33 [Coyote tells the Bear that hot stones avert disease; kills by throwing a stone in the mouth; other bears kill Coyote]: 197; Shasta [a young man and a Coyote lock themselves in the house from grizzly attackers; ask them to come in backwards; the door takes turns clamping the bears; they are killed with hot stones (apparently thrown into the anus)]: Farrand 1915, No. 6:216; Wailaki [(the text is difficult to understand); Norka lives with her mother, goes to her grandfather; (on the way?) sees dead girls and boys (throws hot stones into the mouth (deer?) , they fall out of his ass (killing him?) ; Mink returns home; (turns into a hole), swimming in the river, catches and eats raw fish]: Goddard 1923, No. 2:82-85; see motif J52 [A bear chases reindeer children]. Pomo [The Crane pushes the Bear into the water; throws a hot stone into her mouth, she dies; the Woodpecker (Yellowhammer) throws a hot stone into the Bear's mouth as she crosses the river along the Crane's neck] ; screw [old man (bird?) pushes the Bear into the water; throws a hot stone into her mouth, she dies]; maidu [the deer ask the Bear to close her eyes, open her mouth, throw a stone; she dies or continues to chase]; Nisenan: Powell 1877 [The bear and the deer went for the clover; the bear said she saw a louse on Olenikha's head, the Deer leaned down, the Bear pulled out her eyes and put it in her basket; children The deer noticed their mother's eyes in the basket; they lured the cubs into the cave, made a fire at the entrance, they were baked; the bear ate them furiously, chased the deer; they climbed the rock and threw them off hot stone, the Bear died; stones were thrown in different directions, acorns and berries appeared; the elder brother punched a hole in the sky with an arrow, put up a ladder; the younger was afraid to climb; then the elder gave he smoked a pipe so that the ground could not be seen; both climbed into the sky, saw his mother by the pond, recognized her by her empty eye sockets; the older brother was a deer, the youngest was a woodpecker (Sphyrapicus varins); the brothers did not I liked the blind mother, they rode on a wheel, fell into the pond, drowned]: 341-343; Uldall, Shipley 1966, No. 2 [Olenikha is her husband's sister (brother's wife?) The bears; they go for the clover, the Deer invites the Bear to look for insects, the Bear kills her; two reindeer boys find their mother's head in the basket; bake the bear cub in the hole, run, telling the stump to answer for themselves; when they climb a rock, they throw a hot stone into the Bear's mouth, she dies, they fry and eat it; their mother's brother came to give him a bone, she fell, turned into a bear, ran away; the mother's brother takes them to heaven; there they roll the ball, find the mother in the house, suck her breasts; at night the youngest asks for water, the mother goes to fetch water, falls into a hole, dies; now the brothers produce thunder and lightning]: 21-25; mountain mivok [1) A bear comes to her grandfather, a deer Lizard; he throws stones into her mouth or anus, she dies]; Chukchansi yokutz [a Grizzly bear kills Olenikha, taking out her insects; two reindeer boys kill two cubs in the steam room; run to their grandfather; he kills the Grizzly by throwing a hot stone in her anus; the boys are so noisy that they must go live on sky, became Thunders]: Gayton, Newman 1940, No. 130:96; yokutz [Hawk and Falcon throw arrows at salmon, then bows, he swallows everything; they jump themselves, swallow, cut his heart, he swallows, he swims to on the shore, dies, they get out through his slightly open mouth; his mother Shanvava tries to draw them into her, chases them on the ground; Smelly Beetle, Ant, Skunk ask her to open her mouth, squirt them there smelly liquid; Bug throws a hot stone, S. dies]: Curtis 1976 (14:177-178; salinan [Coyote invites Skunk to dance; throws a hot stone in his ass, he dies]: Mason 1918: 63; monak [cannibal moose chases man; Skunk says man is already dead, promises to throw meat into elk's mouth; throws stone, elk dies]: Gifford 1923, No. 10:338; tubatulabal [ a bear kills a pregnant Olenikha; her son climbs a rock; kills a bear by throwing a red-hot arrow straightener into his mouth]); kawaiisa: Zigmond 1980, No. 47A [ogre giant Grasshopper comes to the Mouse; her children are hiding in burrows; she asks the Grasshopper to close his eyes, open his mouth, promises to throw her children at it; throws a red-hot arrow straightener, the cannibal dies], 47D [as in A], 47E [Coyoticha instead of Mouse]: 160-162; luiseño [baby cries, mother does not pay attention; baby is carried away; Súskia woman, he is growing up; Gopher woman says that S. is not his mother, gives a rolling goat, he follows her, comes to people; they hide it in a mat; they ask S. to close his eyes, open his mouth, promise to throw the boy down his throat; throw a hot stone; she has time to kick a boy killing him; dies as an owl; people don't tell children to touch her; children take feathers, first freeze motionless, then turn into larks]: Curtis 1976 (15): 103-105; serrano [ the little boy cries, his parents take him outside to be picked up by the witch Tuive (evil spirit, dead man); Two-womb tells the boy not to eat the witch's food, feeds him herself; he runs home; The witch's basket shows her the way, she comes for the boy; she is told to open her mouth to throw the child there; they throw a hot stone; when she dies, she kills everyone; only one old woman remains alive]: Benedict 1926, No. 7:9-10.

Big Pool. Northern Payutes: Kelly 1938 [Skunk and Laska are brothers-in-law); Lasky's children do not like the smell of their uncle; Laska asks Skunk to bring the deer he killed; wraps the hot ones in fat stones, invites Skunk to swallow; that's bad; Laska drags him to the cliff, tells him not to look, to collide; Skunk wants to fall on the sand, not on the rocks; Laska looks - Skunk is alive in the sand], No. 29:435; Steward 1936, No. 34 (Owens Valley) [a dangerous woman chases Wolf; gets stuck in a hole in the roof of a dugout; Wolf's mother, brother, and nephew throw a stone into her mouth instead of Wolf's meat; she dies], 35 [as in ( 34); throw an arrow straightener]: 422-423; the northern shoshones [The Eagle is Skunk's younger brother; while he is hunting, ten Rabbits marry him and ten Frogs marry Skunk; Skunk takes He puts the Rabbits for himself, the Frogs under the Eagle's bed; the Eagle is surprised that the Skunk eats so much that he laughs; the Frogs tell the Eagle how the Skunk took his wives; the Eagle leads the Skunk to hunt pretends to forget his gun, comes back, runs away with the Rabbits to the top of the cliff; the Skunk sees their reflection, streams into the river; notices the rock; the Eagle replies that he has climbed forward; throws them in the ass The skunk is hot; the Skunk falls, his ass floats on the river; the Skunk walks asking if anyone has seen his ass; the Skylark replies as an orphan throws him into the air, he's like a fireball; the Skunk grabs his ass, runs away, kills people he meets, cutting off their heads and taking away jewelry; five Wolves easily kill Skunk]: Lowie 1909b, No. 19:208-270.

The Great Southwest. Lipan [people give all the fat to the Bear, the Coyote refuses; The bear chases him, he throws hot stones into his mouth; the Bear dies; the same episode with the Bear]: Opler 1940, No. 12:25-26; western keres (Akoma): White 1932 [Sun's sons Masevi and Oyoevi let the cannibal put them in the basket, bring them home; kill her by throwing hot flint into her anus]: 158- 162; Navajo [Coyote and Gopher are rivals; the girl promises to choose who will bring the most rabbits; Coyote steals Gopher rabbits, but he has the same number at first, and twice as many next time; he marries a girl; while hunting, the Coyote invites Gopher to go to bed on a cliff, tells the rock to rise tall, takes Gopher's wife; on the fourth day, Gopher manages to make the rock low again; he catches up with the Coyote; Wraps a hot stone in meat, lets Coyote swallow it, he dies; Gopher asks why his wife is crying; she replies that the gleam of snow hurts]: Baylor 1976:56-60.

Mesoamerica A serpent. Coastal Totonaki [see motif A24; ancestors live in a dark cold world; only the sky's serpent, the Milky Way, shines; its mouth is open; a lizard finds a hot stone, cooks food on it; four birds manage to break a stone, get a shining egg; animals bring it to the spring; an orphan girl finds an egg, brings it home; it returns to the spring three times; the fourth girl grabs it her teeth, it bursts, she swallows it; nine days later she gives birth to twin sons; born first stronger; the girl dies, her grandmother leaves the babies on the branches of the magician, they do not die; puts it on anon tree, whose fruits look like women's breasts; babies feed on honey like hummingbirds; the old woman is happy to bring them home; the Great Serpent shines poorly, feeds on young girls; brothers heat stones in temazcale, they throw it into his mouth; it gets completely dark, many people turn into stones and idols; brothers send a green fly to check if the serpent is dead; it flies into the mouth, flies out of the anus - dead; the elder tells the animals that he will become the Sun; they should not show his younger brother the path he took; the youngest spends time at the holidays; explains to numerous mistresses that it is him will become the sun; the elder tells the animals to make a fire, jumps into it from the mountain, flies east; his uncle comes later, when the coals are almost extinguished, follows him; the younger brother finds one ash, animals show him the way west; the old man predicts that three will soon appear in heaven; he is considered a madman, thrown to the ground; he turns into a dog, says he will guide the souls of the dead, leading they are on his trail to the Sun; the Morning Star rises, all ancestors (tutu na cu) die; the dog takes their souls to the Sun, which judges them; tells the good ones to repopulate the earth; the brothers' grandmother becomes an assistant midwives and female healers; half good souls turn into animals; the best are hummingbirds and woodpeckers, the worst are tecolote, owl, oruga, comadreja, jaguar, fox, coyote, cockroach, tlaconete; after sunset rises Month; he carries the souls of all his mistresses; patronizes everything related to women; corn is hidden in the mountain]: Munch 1993:37-40; mountain pennies [crocodile]: Foster 1945a: 199; Cicco, Horcasitas 1962 [a girl played with a bird, is pregnant with it; she gave birth to two boys, they are like dolls, her parents threw them into the river; the woman picked them up, said she was their mother; they guessed that this is not the case, that her deer husband is not their father; they killed a deer, made him a scarecrow full of bees, brought her his meat; the frog said that she was eating her husband; she ran to the scarecrow, the bees bit her; the children burned her in temazcal, she became a temazcal spirit; the children met their real mother, who weaved clothes for all animals, took her with them; they don't know where to get maize to feed their mother; they broke the bottle, threw it on the milpa, the fragments turned into flies and mosquitoes; left the mother, came to where the snake was going to swallow the girl; killed the snake, throwing hot stones into its mouth; the Sun climbed into the sky by thread, Month climbed his own way; his wife climbed after him; The sun told the tuza rodent to gnaw through the thread, the woman fell; The month still wants to return to his wife]: 74-78; zapotecs [two orphans Sun boy and girl- The moon lives with Sus Ley ("barren woman"); they hunt, but she gives everything to her old husband Gol Gisa'; he lives in the forest, does nothing; St. Anton always helps children with advice; twins kill GG, let SL eat his heart under the guise of a deer's heart, stuff his scarecrow with stinging insects; when SL touches her husband, insects fly out; she and her brother Ros (a worm living in the mud) wants to burn the children in the steam bath; they run away, strangle SL with smoke in her house, pick up her loom parts, ring, jug, comb; Ros turns into a snake, chases twins; they throw the objects they take, they turn into different mountains; they throw hot stones down R.'s throat, he dies; the sister grabs the bright right, and the brother grabs R.'s left, dim eye; the sister is thirsty; brother makes a hole of water; offers in exchange for the rabbit's bright eye; lets his sister approach the water when she puts her eyes on the ground; God assigns the boy to become the sun, the girl to become the moon; when they have risen, everyone rebengulal ("los idolos", first ancestors) buried in the ground]: 281-283 (=1936:222, 324-327); tricks: Cruz 1946 [the world is dark, people are burning fires; two brothers are fighting a seven-headed serpent; they kill him, throwing hot stones in his mouth; the younger brother takes his right, bright eye, the eldest gets the left eye; he causes all water sources to dry out, the youngest agrees to change, becomes the Month; the elder becomes the Sun]: 248-230; Hollenbach 1977 [see motif A20; twin brothers live in an old woman's house, kill her deer husband; the snake is going to eat the world, the twins throw hot stones into her mouth; they send a fly to check if the snake is dead; the fly defecates in its left eye; the younger brother takes a brighter right eye, the elder takes the left eye; the brothers go, the youngest wants to drink; the older one gets water as only the youngest agrees to change eyes; G. comes to the twins; they put her to sleep and rape her, putting stones on her penises; they run away to heaven, the eldest becomes the Sun, the youngest becomes the Month; he swallowed the rabbit, which is now visible on it; the birds wake up G., she is covered in blood; throws after the twins the parts of her loom (turning into the Taurus constellation) and sandals (turning into the Pleiades); G. herself becomes in the spirit of a steam bath]: 142-143 (=1980, No. 8.26-8.37:463-468); mixtecs, zapotecs [the Mixtec (or Zapotec) pre-Hispanic Code depicts a snake with stones flying into its mouth - obvious parallel to the narrative of tricks]: Vazquez 1983:4, 9-11, 13; Micah: Miller 1956, No. 3 [the girl refused the young man; he turned into a bird, the girl hit it, hid it on her chest, became pregnant; went to the forest; The squirrel asked her to swing on the vine, cut the vine, the girl crashed; Vulture found a boy and a girl in her womb; brother and sister came to her mother's parents; while the grandmother was gone, they killed her grandfather, stuffed the stuffed animal with insects; his grandmother was fed meat; she hit his grandfather, the insects flew out; the grandmother chases the twins, Aguti hid them in her mouth; they threw hot stones into the snake's mouth; the beast carried them on a rock, they killed him with arrows; brother tells his sister to write vines; she says she pees bananas; brother pees vines himself; turned people who ate bananas into forest animals; burned the beast, let Toad throw ashes into the sea; he discovered, mosquitoes flew out, turned into a toad; the appearance of the Sun and the moon as in No. 4], 4 [Maria is spinning, the bird sits on the spinning wheel, she hit it, put it under her shirt, the bird pecked her in the chest, flew away; M. became pregnant; The squirrel invited her to swing on the vine, cut the vine, M. crashed; Vulture took a boy and girl out of her womb; the boy buried her mother, told Vulture to eat corpses animals, not humans; the twins came to the mother's parents; taking out the lice from the grandfather, they killed him, stuffed the scarecrow with insects, let the grandmother cook and eat the testicles; the grandmother hit the scarecrow, insects bit her; the sister wrote, the road was wet, the stalker grandmother was sliding; Aguti hid the twins in her mouth; the old man sheltered them, the snakes came at night, the twins threw hot stones into his mouth; Información suplementaria like in No. 3 (Lorenzo opened a bag of ash, turned into a toad); people are going to choose the Sun, tell his brother that he is weak; he turns into the Sun, tells the old man to dig a well; while it's low above earth, heat, only the old man has water in the well; tells his sister to run to the old man's house for the forgotten huarache; during this time he rose high; the sister became the moon; the spots - her brother's huarache]: 79-85, 86-97.

Honduras-Panama. Bribri [jaguaru in anus]: Bozzoli, Cubero Venegas 1987:23; 1989, No. 14:23; cabecar [old woman kills a werewolf jaguar]: Stone 1962:63; doraske [family has many children; husband every day hunting; one day he comes back staggered, his hair falls on his face, the wife doubts whether it is her husband; he says he will take his eldest son and eldest daughter with him tomorrow and take them to his parents; so every day, the youngest daughter and son and baby girl were left; Ushidó (it was him, an evil spirit who killed a man and took his form) brought them to the house of spirits; the girl saw her heads on the stakes siblings; they also tried to pull her hair out to eat her brain later, but she escaped and ran; her brother ran after her; she tore her necklaces and threw seeds and dry fruits behind her, from which the necklaces were made; the Ushidó stalker picked them up and wasted time; the mother dug a hole in the house, hid her daughter in it, covered it with a large grain grater; hid the boy in addition to corn; She made a fire and put stones in it; Ushidó, tired, lay down in a hammock, fell asleep face up; the woman threw hot stones into his open mouth, and seeds into the fire, which caused odorous smoke; hid where her daughter hid; other spirits that came running asked the parrot where the people were, but he only repeated: "Karal, Karal"; the spirits left, unable to withstand the smell of seeds thrown into the fire; the woman with children ran to a clean river; a woman and a girl became a river old man, a boy a stone in her upper reaches, a parrot a grass that makes the sound of "caral, karal" when the wind shakes her]: Miranda de Cabal 1974, No. 6:23-24.

The Northern Andes. Nonama [a man brings an egg; a water snake with straight horns hatches; husband and wife feed him, he grows; swallows their daughter when the girl has her first period, because no one is fed; a talking parrot living in the house flew to people, told people about what had happened; people called a snake from home, offered corn, threw a hot stone into their mouths; found a measuring girl in their stomach]: Wassen 1935, No. 5:128-129.

Guiana. The trio [the old woman baked forest fruits; an evil spirit came to eat it; she offered him fruit, told him to open her mouth, threw the hot fruit there, the spirit swallowed it, died]: Koelewijn, Riviere 1987, No. 38:136.

Western Amazon. Shuar [Yawa ("dog") was a loser hunter; Etsa ordered hunters to disagree with women, but that women try to seduce them; Yawa did not succumb to his wife, but she was dissatisfied; he poured out seed in 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 was left in ulcers; Jaguar licked her wounds, married her; she When giving birth, he asks her to call her mother and relatives, promises that she will not eat them; his mother advises Jaguar to put a hot stone in his mouth when he asks him to brush his teeth; the Jaguar died; when she became to give birth, she was put in front of the fire to burn everything; but drops of blood gave rise to dogs and small cat predators]: Pelizzaro 1993:91-94; Aguaruna: Akutz Nugkai et al. 1977 (2) [the baby began to blow into a pumpkin cone, the Jaguar came down to the sound; first ate the child's sewage, then ate it himself; the child's mother began to beat the jaguar, which grew up; at night he killed people by biting off their heads; people ran they left behind a girl suffering from sand fleas; the Jaguar turned into a man (when he wore kushma, he became a jaguar, when he filmed, a human), licked her fleas, took her as his wife; she cleaned it 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 says that the girl will be able to kill the Jaguar; people teach her to throw at him a red-hot stone fell; she threw it, hid under the roof, the Jaguar did not reach it, only dug his teeth into a pole; she blew into the sink; the woman's Jaguar and her son were burned, but the current jaguars appeared from the last and other cats]: 172-181; Chumap Lucía, García-Rendueles 1979, No. 36 [children dudels in calebasu like you can't blow; a jaguarenok fell from the sky to the roof of the house; picked up sewage for the child, licked him; ate it once; the woman beat him, and he got bigger; began to kill people; people barricaded themselves in the house, then ran; there was only one girl left, swollen because of the sandy flea legs; Jaguar became human, sedated, cured a girl; made his wife, brought her meat; she brushed his teeth; found the remains of women whom Jaguar killed, brought for food; Jaguar threatens to kill a 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 a hot stone into the Jaguar's mouth instead of eating; the woman gave birth to a jaguarenka; he was killed, but blood drops gave rise to new jaguars and reptiles]: 417-441.

NW Amazon. Chikuna [evil spirit: hot chunks of solar mass]: Nimuendaju 1952:133

Central Amazon. Maue [as a result, the jaguar turns into a caimana]: Pereira 1954:106-107; 1980 (2): 721; Ubbe 1991, No. 6:180; munduruku [Caruekabyo devours another son-in-law when he comes out urinate, returns to the house; Amabet is small, enters the house through a hole in the wall; K. tells him to make a shelter on the tree to hunt birds, is going to eat it when he gets down; A. puts four birds as watchmen, they warn of K.'s approach; fires an arrow, asks K. to pick it up, has time to go down; K. tells him to climb another tree for fruit; A. sends him for a new ring for climbing, he has time to get up himself; creates parrot chicks, throws them to K., he picks them up; peeled, A. in K.'s face, the sticky mass of chewed fruit, runs away; people hide it first under their elbows, then under with their knees, then on the back of his head; they ask K. to open his mouth, throw hot stones there, K. dies; his body is thrown into the river, it turns into a caiman]: Kruse 1949, No. 20:627; Murphy 1958, No. 37:116-117.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Guarazu [Cayman agrees to transport the Monkey across the river; she dabbles with her hand over his eyes; screams that his pimples are nauseous; Cayman is going to throw it into the water, she says she was joking; grabbing branches, bringing down a stream of abuse from the tree; he promises the Vultures to give the Monkey's body to eat if they help him say Cayman is dead; Monkey notices that Cayman's tail moves; throws three stones into his mouth, he swallows them; this later dies, is eaten by the Vultures; the monkey cries, she really just wanted to joke]: Riester 1977, No. 65:316-317.

Southern Amazon. As a result, it becomes a caimana. Kayabi [violator of the ban on copulating with God's wife]: Pereira 1995, No. 6:54

Chaco. Mokovi [The fox suggests to his Uncle Jaguar that he will put baked ostrich eggs in his mouth; first he puts the cold eggs, then the hot one; the Jaguar dies]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1988, No. 94:128-129 .