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Amonster or a huge animal dies from a fire in its womb. See K8A motif.
SW Africa. Bushmen [in 1990 Botswana recorded varints from Kxoe, Kua and ‼ Gana Bushmen; a monster devastates the country by swallowing people, animals, bushes, dwellings; one or two people remain who he is killed; it is a young man, a boy or two twin boys, a woman who lets herself be swallowed, kills a monster from within; or a boy or a man jumps into her mouth with blacksmiths accessories, makes a fire, monster dies]: Schmidt 2007:284-285.
Bantu-speaking Africa. Isanza [the monster Msirimbugwe ate all humans and animals; the pregnant woman hid it in a cave, gave birth to a son; he kills a giraffe, then an elephant, but the mother replies every time that it is not M.; M. takes the elephant, the young man chases him, catches up with M. swimming in the river; M. invites him to a cave with many weapons; the old man feeds him there; for 4 days he grazes M.'s cattle; secretly carries arrows into his cave mother; fires at M., on the 15th day M. chases him, the young man's mother throws a red-hot iron rod at M.; he swallows it and everything inside him lights up; swallowed people and animals go outside; ripping open M.'s stomach, the young man touched the ear of the swallowed old woman; she poisoned him with beer]: Kohl-Larsen, Allensbach 1937, No. 32:40-42.
Southern Europe. Basques: Meskhidze 2010 [the rooster laid an egg, buried it in a manure heap, a snake crawled out of it, began to live in a cave, first swallowed children, then shepherds and herds; one resident of Arbuix forged a strip of iron, whistled, hid, the snake crawled out, swallowed hot iron, died; people built a chapel from the bones of the monster, but hail began; stopped only when the chapel was destroyed; under The monster has an egg left on the ground; in 52,000 years it will rise from the depths, and a monster will be born that will destroy the whole world]: 317; Webster 1879 [a giant seven-headed serpent every three months woke up and ate everyone; people melted a lot of iron, woke up the snake, it swallowed hot iron, died]: 21-22; [the serpent (the seven-headed dragon) ate the sheep; the young man (Cavalier d'Athaguy, the youngest in the family) filled the cow's skin with gunpowder, let the snake swallow, it exploded, slipped into the sea, drowned; the whistle and noise made by the snake turned the young man's blood into water and he died].
Western Europe. The Scots [a farmer in northern Scotland has a lazy youngest son Assinatl ("Lying in the Ash"); six older brothers are pushing them around; the king has a daughter Gemdelavly with his first wife; sister A. her servant; the giant sea serpent Mestern Storworth has sailed; with his breath he can destroy the country; the Queen has a magician lover, she advises you to contact him; he tells me every Saturday throw seven beautiful girls to eat the snake; A. promised to kill the snake, but they laughed at him; the wizard ordered the snake to J.; A. hears his father confess to his mother that he should blow into the goose neck so that his mare would fly like the wind; when his parents fell asleep, he stole the neck, immediately rode to the shore where the boat in which the princess was supposed to take the snake; stole it from the old woman a pot of burning peat; told the watchman that he had found gold, he ran to look for it, A. swam to the snake, which swallowed it with the boat, A. set fire to his liver, the snake began to fight and regurgitated the boat; pierced his tongue the strait that separates Denmark from Sweden and Norway; its teeth have fallen out and turned into Orkney and Shetland; it itself has become Iceland, so there are volcanoes (the fire in the snake's womb is still burning); the Queen and the magician fled; A. caught up with them on his horse, hacked the wizard; the queen was imprisoned forever in the fortress; A. married J.]: Klyagin-Kondratyeva 1967:30-46.
Melanesia. Santa Cruz [Lata's parents left the boy under the vessel, they were carried to sea, L. grew up on his own; began to cut a tree to make a boat, Ginota came at night, put chips back; one fell into a bag L. screamed, L. and G. agreed to cut together; mother (grandmother?) warns L. of dangers; each time he brings her a fish, shark, mollusk, bird that were supposed to kill him; the Lavalu sea monster swallows L., who finds a man and a woman inside starving their clothes and hair; L. roasts laval's liver, he takes them ashore, people go out, L. gives laval to crabs; crabs bite through a huge wave rushing to L. , who tried to destroy him (she puts shells in her eyes at night, they sparkle, the woman thinks her eyes are open); L. lures the cannibal crab to throw himself into the fire to become beautiful]: Codrington 1893:509-511.
Micronesia-Polynesia. Aitutaki (Cook Islands South) [in the land of Kupolu spirits, Chief Rata decided to make a boat to see distant lands; saw the White Heron fighting the Water Snake; began to cut down a tree on the next day it is intact; the Heron said he would not be able to finish the job without her; the Heron and the Serpent both ask for help; R. helps the Heron, the tree is cut down, the birds led by the Heron make a boat; R. sails on it, Nganaoa asks to take him too, R. refuses; then N. easily catches up with him while sailing in calebass; he needs to find out about his missing parents in the land of Moonlight; says he will come in handy when necessary fight monsters; pierces a giant bivalve mollusk, then an octopus with a spear; a whale opens its mouth, N. breaks his spear in half, inserts a whale between its jaws, goes down inside the whale, finds it there parents, makes one half of the spear a fire drill, makes a fire in a whale, a whale is thrown ashore to Moonlight Island; they all live there, then return home to Avaiki]: Gill 1876:142- 148 (paraphrased in Beckwith 1970:269-270, in Dixon 1916:68-69); Taku [Ariki has a son Temus; people go missing, their boats are swallowed by a shark; when T.'s boat is swallowed, he fires with help a fire drill, the shark dies, is thrown ashore, the swallowed go away; the same is the tridact shell; T. cuts its muscles, swallowed emerge; the heron tears off the heads of those sitting in boats, carries it away, leaves her on the roof of his house; T. kills her with an oar, tells the parents of the victims to take their heads]: Moyle 2003:143-147.
The Balkans. Bulgarians [Karkaria (a huge snake or lamia) swallowed people who came for water; people loaded the donkey with combustible material (tinder), set it on fire, let it go to the water, K. swallowed it, began to fight from pain, broke the stone barrier, the waters subsided, K. remained on land, the Karkaria Plain was formed; huge bones are still being found there]: Iliev 2001:11-12; Albanians [the sea washed ashore the huge Lubi snake, which was on the mountain, devouring cattle and people; the old man offered to load the donkey with dry deadwood and other flammable things and drive him to the snake; the old man was loaded, the snake swallowed a donkey, began to burn from the inside; began to call for help from his father and brother the river; died; a monastery was built on this site, and the snake's ribs covered the roof]: Pedersen 1898:114-116.
Central Europe. Russians (Karelia) [at the prince's ball, the guy ran drunk to get the crown from the Kingdom of Babylon; the blind grandfather promises to help; which horse he puts his hand on immediately falls; chose a horse water carrier; asked for 4 ships: with resin, gunpowder, tin, under the people; sailed, the guy came in, took the crown; the grandfather ordered not to enter another room; he went in, where the girl told me to play checkers; checker fell, he leaned down - there were snake trunks everywhere; the horse had a hard time carrying the boy among the snakes back to the ship; the snakes were chasing, the boy and grandfather lit the birch bark ship, the snakes were burned, returned; then with gunpowder and tin; left the chase; the guy asked the prince for a reward: drinking vodka without money; then the formidable Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich came to war]: Sokolov, Sokolov 2011, No. 348:224-226; Eastern Ukrainians ( Poltava, Piryatinsky, recorded by L.M. Zhumchuzhnikov) [tsar {or prince; the narrator uses both designations alternately} goes with two sons; asks what they would make of three oaks; the eldest: barn boards; younger: would hang princes on the oak tree; the king pushed him into the sea, swallowed him by a whale, then swallowed carts of water and horses; the prince made a fire, began to smoke a pipe, the whale jumped ashore; the hunters began to cut the carcass, the prince gave his voice, the hunters ran away, he got out, sat naked, because his clothes had decayed during the year he had been in the fish; at that time the old king died, the eldest son reigned; the king must marry, the messengers saw a naked man; he said that his name was Ivan Golyk and the king would not marry without him; the prince {he is king} is traveling with IS; he does not order to crush mice, allows mosquitoes to pump his blood, released two pikes into the sea; they come to the thirtieth kingdom, where snakes rule; on the stakes, the last 12 do not yet; the snake has 12 daughters, the prince liked the youngest; the serpent tells overnight threshing 300 ricks, spread the straw to the straw, grain to grain (IS tells the mice to perform); get a ring dropped into the sea (IG: the serpent threw it into the sea itself; tells the pike to get it); shoot with a bow a hundred pounds; prince: it's shameful for me to shoot from this, let the servant shoot; IS pulled on his bow, it broke; ride around the horse behind 12 doors; IS: this is the youngest daughter; say you don't want to be embarrassed, let the servant will go around; IS hits the mare with a piece of bow, tells her to go down, fall and spread her legs; identify the bride among her sisters (the mosquito will sit on her nose); the prince got a wife, IS tells her not to trust her for 7 years; in the third year A son was born; the prince let it slip that IS had done everything; the wife waved a towel, cutting off IS's legs, and her body fell into the forest; the legless fraternized with the armless; the armless brought him in a wagon to the city; past the queen, all yellow; legless promises to cure if she tells the truth; queen: in the morning the serpent flies, the blood sucks; the legless with the armless hid, grabbed the snake, forced to carry it to the target water, became intact and healthy (the snake first tried to slip them dead water, but they put a stick in it - it burned down); IS returned and recognized his brother in the swineherd; hugged them; when the former prince drives pigs home, he must three times kiss one pig, otherwise she won't move; the princess is feasting with snakes and this is a signal to her that the swineherd is returning; IS took out tows and tar, made a whip, killed a pig, beat the princess until she gave up her snake temper, began to live with the prince]: Kulish 1857 in Pankeev 1992:84-99.
Volga - Perm. Udmurts [on the Kama River, a huge fish blocked the river; people put a lit candle in a barrel of gunpowder, cover it with a fur coat, the fish swallows, explodes]: Vereshchagin 1885:73 (=1995:96); Bashkirs [in in one kingdom, a young man and a girl were given to be eaten by fish; it was the turn of the royal daughter; the boy took a pot of coals with him, the fish swallowed the boat, he poured out the coals; the fish regurgitated the boat with the girl, and the guy cut the fish's belly, got out; the fish petrified - this is the island of Iceland]: Barag 1992, No. 51:101-102.
Eastern Siberia. Evens [Lake Labynkyr was huge; the pike-shaped monster living in it swallowed an old fisherman; his wife filled the bag with dry grass and rotten, coal, gunpowder, threw it into the lake; the monster swallowed a bag; hot coal exploded gunpowder; the body of a dead monster washed ashore]: Novikova 1987:107-108; Olekmin Evenks (Tungir; Russian borrowing?) [old woman and son, they have no deer, they have a horse; the son is gone, gone; the old woman followed the trail, saw a three-headed snake; threw him a bag of gunpowder on fire, swallowed the snake, exploded; the old woman took it out buried his son's bones in his belly; at night a bear came to her house, showed a splinter, she pulled it out; fell asleep; when she woke up, next to the carcasses of animals, they were brought by a grateful bear]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 26:26-27.
Amur-Sakhalin. The Udege people [a man tore birch bark for a boat; his son went to the lake to drink water; he was swallowed by a singma (a water monster); the man threw a burning birch bark into the water, the singma swallowed it, caught fire, surfaced; the man ripped his belly, found only his son's little finger; the lake was hot]: Lebedeva et al. 1998, No. 60:329; ulchi [two brothers went fishing, swallowed one Sima; another twisted birch bark, set it on fire, threw it into the water, swallowed the birch bark, surfaced, the man killed him]: Bereznitsky 2005, No. 91:495.
SV Asia. Tundra Yukaghirs (p. Kolymskoye, Nizhnekolymsky District) [a giant pike swallows a wild deer that has rushed into the lake and a dog chasing him; the dog's owner pushes a peat-filled kitchen into the water; the corpse of a pike they float up, they hardly pull him ashore, find corpses of a deer and a dog in his stomach, bones previously swallowed, three chairs; the dog's owner's uncle marries him successfully]: Kurilov 2005, No. 59:419-435.
Subarctic. Tanaina, tanana, koyukon [like eyak; no details]: Smelcer 1993:65; atna [The raven asks the Killer Whale to open its mouth, flies in with an armful of firewood; makes a fire, roasts and Killer Whale hurts her heart, she dies; the corpse is washed ashore, the Raven flies out through a hole in its side]: Smelcer 1997:15-17; Upper Tanana: Brean 1975 [The Raven tells Keith he is his relative, asks them to open their mouths to compare their throats; flies in, makes a fire, eats kitten meat; cuts off the heart when the whale swims to the shore; people cut the whale, notice how something has flown from within; The raven comes back, advises not to eat this meat, people leave; the Raven invites his nephew Galka (blackbird) to heat the fat, quietly drinks everything he has melted; Jackdaw pushes him off the cliff; regrets, collects from the remains, revives]: 48-53; McKennan 1959 [The raven asks the Big Fish to open its mouth; flies in, makes a fire, hurts the heart; the dying Fish jumps ashore; people slaughter it, a crow flies out of there; returns in human form; says that the fish is poisonous; he and the Magpie eat Fish alone; people come again, drown fat, filling their long intestine; the raven settles in far end, swallows everything Magpie pours in]: 192-193.
NW Coast. Eyak [A raven enters a whale; makes a fire in its womb, cuts and roasts its heart; a dead whale is washed ashore; people slaughter it, and the Raven flies out]: Birket-Smith, Laguna 1938 [flies in into the whale through the breathing hole]: 265; Smelcer 1993 [flies into Killer Whale's throat]: 65-67; Tlingit [like eyak in Birket-Smith, Laguna]: De Laguna 1972:845-846, 852-853, 859-860; Swanton 1909, No. 31:91; Hyda: Swanton 1905a [young man lives at his grandmother; lets the Grizzly swallow himself with a fire drill; kills by making fire in his stomach; burns a bear through]: 362-363; 1905b, No. 52 [Melospiza melodia (singing zonotrichia, seven oatmeal birds) lives with her grandmother, the grizzly stole their salmon; the bird started shooting at him, but he sucked it in his nose; inside the grizzly, the bird started shooting with fire drill, the grizzly died; the bird and grandmother cut the carcass, but the meat was stolen by people; then the bird carved a piece of meat from her sleeping grandmother, cooked it, and when she woke up, let her eat it; stood off the roof scream what she ate; his grandmother is a sorcerer]: 206; Tsimshian [Grizzly steals a young man's fish; sucks it into his mouth; the young man has wood and flint with him, he makes a fire inside the grizzly; goes out through his ass] : Boas 1902:117-119; bellacula: Boas 2002, No. 10 [a woman (she is a bird) has a son Troglodytes; someone steals dried salmon soaked under a rock; wren guards, This is the Grizzly; he sucks him in his nose three times, but he flies out of his anus three times; the Grizzly covers his nose and anus with plugs; with a fire drill, the Wren makes a fire inside the Grizzly; the Grizzly fell, his The womb burst, sparks rose to the sky, became stars; other Grizzlies, Black Bears and Wolves came to take revenge; Wren sang, grew a stone uphill, and with his mother they heated stones on top, killed animals, rolling stones down]: 520-521; McIlwraith 1948 (2) [Grizzly takes fish from Wren; plugs his ass, sucks Wren through his nose; he takes a fire drill with him, makes a fire inside the Grizzly takes out the plug, flies out; the Grizzly dies]: 430-431; Heiltzuk [three older brothers return from hunting without prey; the youngest teases the Grizzly, who sucks him into his mouth; the young man breeds inside Grizzly fire, killing him; all animal people carry meat]: Boas 1928b: 65-71; quakiutl [Wren asks Moose to get off the road; he refuses, tries to step on Wren, sucks it with his nose, he flies through; so several times; Wren takes firewood with him, makes a fire inside the Moose, flies out through the ass; The elk dies; the old woman was the last to share the meat, she got the guts]: Wallace, Whitaker 1981:110-113.
The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap [The elk stands in the river, swallows boats; Tlees lets himself be swallowed, makes a fire in the Moose's stomach; cuts off his heart when the Elk swims to the shore; tells the brothers not to hurt him, when they start to fresh the carcass]; lillouette [the boys in the boat call the little fish, then scream, Keith, the whale; old man Cutler doesn't tell me to scream like that; Keith swallows the boat; K. breaks it makes a fire, burns fat, cuts off Keith's heart, tells him to jump ashore; people open the carcass, swallowed, come out bald; people have been bald ever since]; comox [Keith drives herring away from Mink's boats; he calls him names, swallows him; makes a fire to fry herring; it gets hot; Mink cuts Keith's throat, he dies, drifts to the shore; people find Mink in a whale's carcass; he's bald from the heat]; Puget Sound [the whale swallows Norka, who kills him by making fire in his womb]; ne perse [Coyote sees a lot of people and animals inside the monster; makes a fire under his heart]; clickite [like ne perse]: Jacobs 1929, No. 9:225-226; Tenino [Chief Coyote has five sisters in his belly, they are blueberries (rather Coyote excrement); every time he asked them for advice, they said that this time they will not answer, because he will say again that he knew everything himself; the Coyote threatens them to rain, they will get wet; Blueberries agree to give advice; to kill Nash-lah, who swallows on the river has boats with people, you have to take firewood, tar and 5 flint knives with you; Coyote says he thought so himself; Coyote calls NL names, forcing himself to swallow; finds hungry people inside frozen; makes a fire, cuts off and roasts the monster's heart; N. regurgitates the swallowed, dies. coughing up the swallowed; Coyote gives first ancestors (animals) names (you will be an eagle, you will be a rattlesnake, etc.); now new people (Indians) will come; NL will live at the bottom but stop swallowing people]: Hines 1991, No. 1:12-15; yakima: Beavert 1974 [a dog-like monster lived in Vinacha in the water by the cliff sucked people in; Coyote's "sisters" say the monster has informants; it's Sandpiper's husband and wife (Scolopacidae); Coyote cuts off their tongues, promises to color nicely if they keep quiet; but the female I had time to squeak, the monster came out; the Coyote cut off the climbing plants (with which the monster tied himself?) , the monster fell off the cliff, died, the rock turned red; the Coyote freed the swallowed, painted Sandpipers; the other monsters fled; the Coyote tied himself to the rock; the last monster tore the vines, swallowed the Coyote; previously swallowed freeze; the Coyote made a fire under the monster's heart, he died, the swallowed ones managed to jump out through the ass; the smoke turned many gray and black, the Heron's wings darkened, the Coyote became yellowish, uneven in color; Coyote tells monsters not to live on land; Killer whales and Sharks have gone to sea]: 28-31; Hines 1992, No. 1 [the monster of Istiplach on p. Colombia sucks everyone in; he is afraid of the Coyote; the Coyote hides knives, firewood, etc., takes the form of an old woman, is swallowed; there are many living and dead animal people inside, it's cold there; he makes a fire cuts off his heart with a fifth knife, I. belches everyone; Coyote tells him never to swallow when real people come]: 19-22; Western sachaptine [the monster swallowed people; Coyote offered to draw each other in swallowed; there is a rattlesnake inside, the grizzlies want to kill him; he shamed them for not killing the monster; cut his heart, lit a fire under it; the swallowed ones came out; from the legs of the monster, the Coyote made black-legged, from the others parts - crowe, sioux, cans; washed his hands, from this water - ne perse (short but strong); var.: Coyote prepared fuel and resin in advance; ne perse arose from monster blood]: Farrand, Mayer 1917, No. 4:148- 149; clackamas [two monsters in the ground and in the river swallow people; the Coyote lights a fire in the womb of both; goes out with other people]; tillamook [the monster in the Columbia River swallows boats; boat The South Wind is also swallowed; it finds living people inside; they make fire by friction, burn their boats under the monster's heart; he drinks water, explodes; people escape]; coutene [Little Woodpecker, The drake and their wives return to earth after going to heaven; the water monster swallows their boat; they make a fire in his womb; the Great Woodpecker kills the monster; when they go out, the Little Woodpecker turns into a small woodpecker woodpecker]).
California. Yurok [a horned serpent swallows boats; the hero lights a fire in the boat, jumps ashore at the last moment; after swallowing fire, the snake dies]: Kroeber 1976, No. C1, F1:212-213, 274.
The Northern Andes. Ambera [a young man born from a tumor on a man's leg dies; seeing that he has no parents, the young man wants to know who killed his mother or father; he is told the culprits, he makes sure that they are not his parents were killed; the moon is named last; he climbs a tree or vine towards her, slaps her in the face, the trail remains; the woodpecker cuts down a tree or vine, the young man falls into the underworld; after adventures returns]: Isaza Bravo 1987 [Buro-Poto boy is born from a tumor on a man's leg; he is dead; BP asks old people (los viejos) who killed his father; they say that jaguars (hoping BP will go to them take revenge, and they will eat him); BP kills jaguars, leaves a pregnant female, the current ones; then old people say that BP's father was killed by snakes; BP killed snakes; a monstrous crab that lives in a deep body of water and swallows whole people; BP sits on the raft, makes a fire, the crab swallows it; the PSU keeps the crab on the fire, roasts the unborn cub, feeds the other swallowed ones, swims out on the raft through the ass; the crab is dying; old people: your father was killed by the moon; BP made a ladder, goes up to the moon, has already reached out his hand, but the woodpecker cut off the stairs; BP fell at sunset, and there have been spots on the moon since then; The sun took the PSU underground journey along the river; there people who ate the smell only B. ate, they asked them to make anuses, died, B. revived them; crabs attacked, for underground people it was death, B. easily exterminated them; through The Sun took him with him for several days; a lot of food in a small basket; at home B. began to suck blood at night, kill women; they poured boiling water on him, he petrified, and made corn grinders out of it]: 127 -130; nonama [two people were born from a woman's leg; at night they turned into waura ("wooden dolls"), preserving their human appearance, killing people, drinking blood; asked their mother who killed them father; Snake; killed all snakes in the forest; El Sierpe (giant snake); rafted to Sierpa, but the guacamayo warned her, she crawled away; the brothers put firewood on the raft, the snake swallowed it; they put There was a pole between the jaws, a fire was made in the womb; the snake was half-dead, one came out through the anus, found himself in the lower world, nothing was known about him; the other, through his mouth, continued to suck blood; the sky was close to the ground; the man made clothes out of vegetable fluff, took off; a woodpecker flew out at sunrise, hit him in the face; the man fell, but managed to scar the face of the moon; fell where the sun went down; played on the beach the boy, who gave fruits from the caimito tree, said that his father owned them, he will be today; this is the Sun; came white, wearing a gold hat; promised to take the man home; the boy throws fruits into the water, their fish ate; distracted the fish so much that they would not eat the Sun; the Sun and the man dived into the underworld; the Sun left him at the huts, promised to pick it up on the way back; sinculos (people without anus) said that the kuna wanted kill them; the man began to make onions and arrows; the kuna turned out to be shrimps; now the "British"; these are crayfish; the man explained that these enemies are eaten in his world; went out of need, two boys asked make them anuses, died; the Sun brought a man to earth; the man asked his deceased brother-in-law, who replied that he could not be cured; people decided to kill the person who came so as not to drink again blood; they crushed corn, mixed it with water, doused it at night, the man became a stone; it was broken, the fragments turned into mosquitoes, fell into the water into leeches]: Wassen 1935, No. 8:133-134; kogi [Duginavi was married to Mother Waters; pretended to clear the site, made masks himself; his wife peeked, burned them, cooked them for their little child, left; D. found his daughter in the cauldron, decided to drown himself; swam, put on a river mask , saw that the river was a woman; swam out into the sea, where it was swallowed by Mevánkukue (a class of creatures, including men and women); inside I found swallowed people and animals, a house, firewood; made a fire, M. died, belched him ashore; walking east along the beach, D. saw Kumígua cannibal women naked; they masturbated and copulated with each other; chased him, he hid by the Sun, the dog of the Sun drove them away; D. came to the Thunders].
Guiana. Warrau [water spirit]; pemon: Armellada 1947, No. 69 [the boys caught a turtle, started playing with it; it kept growing, swallowed it, went into the river, began to swallow people; Maurukkara took the flint, let himself be swallowed, made a fire; the boats and the bones of the swallowed were burning; the turtle crawled ashore, M. went out; the turtle died]: 217-219; 1988, No. 45 [water monster Rató swallows boats; the shaman sits in the boat, swallows; makes a fire; R. sends the fish to another R. to fool, but he does not get better; the man holes in R.'s side, all swallowed go out]: 117-118; akawai [ fish/crab].
Ecuador. Water monster. Kayapa; colorado.