L54. Boiled lake .19.21.41.43.-.46.55.68.70.

To overcome a disaster, hot stones or ash are thrown into the water.

Cockatoo, mountain arapesh, walman, lepcha, kuchin, quarry, quinolt, quileut, chinook, katlamet, menominee, delawari, wichita, guajiro, paresi, bororo, kayapo.

Australia. Cockatoo [the plains are covered with salt water; the cockatoo woman asks the Earth Rat woman to put what she is going to cook in the earth oven; the Rat does not react, then answers in her own tongue; The cockatoo hits the Rat on the head, throws hot stones at the salty, and hits the Rat on the head, throws the red-hot camera, tells the water to move away; the stone hit the back of the great Numeriji snake, sailed into the sea, taking water off the plains]: Spencer 1914:323-324 in Waterman 1987, No. 4435:118.

Melanesia. Mountain arapesh [a menstruating woman sat on a rock in the place where marsalay (spirits) live; asks a parrot (this is marsalai) to throw her a walnut; when she walks, they smell blood, follow her; one snake enters her in her sleep, she keeps losing weight; people threw her into the lake; If it's you, m, cut off her breasts; a woman surfaced, then her chest; people heated stones, threw water into the lake boiled, many meters died]: Mead 1940, No. 25, 35:370, 380; Valman [the boy with his two older brothers went to the forest; stayed in the hut; a cannibal came out of the pond; at night he came again, killed and ate brothers; the boy hid, ran to the village; people threw hot stones into the pond, the water dried up, they finished off the ogre, burned his corpse]: Becker 1971, No. 39:784-785.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lepcha [(local version of Geser); see motif L15; mung (evil spirit) kidnaps gye bu (GB)'s wife; he takes the form of a boy, mung believes this is the incarnation of one of his warriors, almost adopts him; the boy learns from the mung that the strength of that lies in two fish in water and milk lakes; in a bird (like a rhino bird) on a tree; in beetles on the roof (wrap them in cloth, hold them over boiling water); GB killed a bird, threw hot stones into the lakes, the water boiled, the fish died; killed beetles; cuts off the head of the mung, gives flesh to ants, grinds bones; kills his wife's son from mung, cooks, puts the head of the mung on the edge of the cauldron ; gives her wife her divinity, she forgets what happened, they live well]: Siiger 1967, No. 1:203-214.

Subarctic. Kuchin [a huge fish swallows a shaman's son; a shaman covers the ice on the lake with logs, puts stones on top; sets fire to logs in spring; hot stones fall into the lake, the water boils; fish thrown ashore, dies]: McKennan 1965:147.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [a fish swallows a boat with the chief's son; people throw hot stones into the lake; the fish swims out, regurgitates the swallowed; people kill it, bury the young man]: Jenness 1934, No. 78:256; quinalt [the water monster swallows his younger brother; the elder throws hot stones into the lake, the water boils; the monster dies; the hero rips it open, finds a brother inside the monster, cannot revive him; brother turns into a duck]: Farrand 1902, No. 1:84; quileut [like quinolt; Quitee's little brother turns into a hermit cancer; K. travels further then turns into stone]: Reagan, Walters 1933:312:65; Western chinook [two brothers see a double-headed swan on the lake; the youngest shoots, swims to the bird, disappears; the elder throws hot rocks into the lake; the water boils away; he rips open bellies to all monsters; in the latter he finds a brother holding a swan; revives him]: Boas 1894a, No. 1:20; katlamet [like a chinook; older brother Puma, younger brother Mink; found in newt's belly]: Boas 1901a, No. 14:107-109.

The Midwest. Menominee [when the cannibal Mowäki ^u looks into the house, the woman tells the two children that it is their father's uncle; grateful M. helps his imaginary nephew by throwing hot ones stones in the spring; a bear with cubs comes out of boiling water, M. kills bears; the family gives him one of their sons, M. makes him big overnight; another exactly the same giant comes, they they begin to fight; the first M. asks the man for help, he hits the second with a club, M. finishes him off, leaves; in the absence of her husband, another M. comes, kills his wife; every time a person finds him in the house disorder; hides, sees a boy coming out of a log to play with older children; M. threw the woman's uterus into the log, she dried up to the baby inside like skin; the father persuades him to stay; he goes to live with people himself; children come to him, easily kill and revive people]: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II.7:332-337.

Northeast. Delaware: Bierhorst 1995, No. 84 [playing by the river, a girl becomes pregnant, gives birth to a fish; her grandmother places her in a water-filled horse's hoof trail; the fish turns into an ogre monster, trail hooves go into the lake; two young men go up to the Sun, get ash from it, throw it into the lake; it dries up, the monster dies; young men are given wampum], 99 [girl gives birth to a fish, she is thrown into a ditch; a ditch becomes a lake, a fish becomes huge; it devours people; the two grandchildren of a poor woman turn into a Raven and a Dove, fly to the Sun, get hot ash, pour it into the lake; the water boils, the monster dies, young men receive the wampum promised by the elders as a reward], 160 [same; the girl violates the ban on swimming naked, becomes pregnant by the spirit]: 48, 52, 67.

Plains. Wichita [Thunderbird is the chief; the leader of another village calls him to play ball; the Thunderbird comes, sticks to what he sat on; it's a serpent, he takes him to the lake; two brothers they throw hot stones into the lake, it dries up; a piece of flesh is found in the snake's stomach on the bones of the Thunderbird; the brothers' grandfather revives the Thunderbird in the steam room]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 13:102-106.

The Northern Andes. Guajiro [Maleiwa began to harass the girl; this girl was the Sea, she flooded the ground; M. escaped at the top of the mountain; lit a fire, began to throw hot stones into the water, the waters dried up; from clay M. made people of different ancestral groups; women had teeth in the vagina; M. knocked out the girl's teeth with an arrow; she bathed; when she got out of the water, she sat down; since then, the stones in this area have been red; now women have been able to give birth]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1986 (1), No. 25:69-70

Southern Amazon. Paresi [the younger brother is trapped by the demon Shikhali; he brings him home, says he brought firewood; his two daughters go to bed with a young man; they have poisonous insects in their vaginas, they they tell him to stick his reed, pull out the insects, have sex, then put the insects back; at night, the young man falls asleep, eaten by S.; the same thing happens to his older brother, but he does not fall asleep; Sh. 1) sends him bring toucans (they kill people); the old woman tells you to burn the thorns on the tree first (var: wives cover the holes in the young man's face with wax, the toucans did not peck him); the young man brings toucans, S. revives them; 2) clean the bird cage (there snakes, old woman or wives warn, he burns snakes, S. revives); 3) fish with poison (old woman: there are caimans created by S.; you need to heat the stones, boil the lake; Sh. revives cooked creatures); 4) get the vine to make arrows (the vine must fall on his head, the water spirit pulls out); 5) tear the bark off the tree (the son-in-law climbs up, throws the bark, killing S.); they got out of his stomach beetles, so his daughters could not revive it; two beetles were turned into a sacred nose flute; a young man, along with his boy and girl, swims down the river in a cassava trough; wives are sent two parrots; they fly into the young man's mouth, cut his heart, come out of the sides; since then they are red; children tease Cocotero (their father's sister) who comes to them that she has a hairy vulva; every time she wants to grab them, jump into the water; Zatiamare (K.'s older brother and the dead boys) catches them in a trap; the girl is copulated by the forest spirit, she becomes a spirit; the boy is killed by fish, he flies away with a falcon; Z. finds his veins, teeth and brain, makes them into timbo, fish poison, kills a lot of fish]: Pereira 1986, No. 7:131-149; Bororo: Wilbert, Simoneau 1983, No. 29 [Meríri Poro did not go fish with everyone; people give his son fish, which is called his mother's genitals; in revenge for the insult, MP comes to the river, but finds only a water spirit there, wounds him with an arrow; the river overflows, MP ( var.: another character) escapes to the mountain, makes a fire, throws hot stones into the water, the flood ends; MP marries a deer, their descendants from generation to generation look more and more like people repopulate the country], 30 [Jokurugwa shot the spirit who stole fish from its top; he caused a flood; J. warned people, but they did not believe him, he escaped alone on the mountain; J. heated the stones, threw them into the water, the flood was over; J. married a deer, their descendants settled the country]: 71-73, 73-74.

Eastern Brazil. Kayapo [hunters stop at the lake; one sees monsters, advises everyone to run; only his relatives leave, others are killed by monsters at night; people throw hot stones into the lake, monsters are dying]: Wilbert 1978, No. 131 [dog people; lake dries up], 132 [Metraux 1960:22; frog people]: 323-324; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 129 (pau-d'arco) [jaguar people], 130 (shikrin) [piranha people]: 404- 405.