L59. A stingy woman: a metamorphosis .26.40.42.48.55.61.66.72.

A woman eats the best food alone or eats fruits until they are ripe; as punishment, she metamorphoses.

Fox, Northern Alaska Inupiate, Igloolik, Baffin Land, Labrador Eskimos, Polar, West Greenland, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Bellacula, Quakiutl, Serrano, Guajiro, Shuar, aguaruna, achuar, napo, cachinahua, quechua Santiago del Estero.

China - Korea. Fox [son and daughter-in-law leave leftovers to the blind old woman; give leeches instead of fish; Vusa went down, asked for blind food; eats part stored for son and daughter-in-law; leaves a luxurious dress and a gold pin, tells her daughter-in-law to be stuck in her hair; after that, the part of the body covered with the dress becomes cow; the king ordered to show the cow woman as a reminder]: Dessaint, Ngwâ ma 1994:401-403.

The Arctic. The mother or grandmother of a blind boy points his arrow; lies as if he did not kill the bear; does not give him meat; his sister hides meat for him; Loon puts him on his back, dives with him; he gains sight ; harpoons a whale; mother/grandmother grabs tench, dragged into the sea. Northern Alaska Inupiate: Frost 1971 [(the exact place in the publication is not a decree.); a woman is tired of her son hunting so many animals; she asks evil spirits to blind him; aims his arrow at a polar bear, lies that he missed, eats meat herself; her daughter (the little sister of a blind man) lays pieces for him, gives them to him when her mother takes her to hunt caribou; Gagara dives five times with him , he sees the light; his mother comes back, he rides her in a boat, throws her into the water; she grabs the side, he cuts off her fingers, she tries to catch her hair, he cuts them off; she turns black whale, her severed hair is a whale mustache in a whale's mouth]: 62-67; Lynch 1995 [A blind young man lives with his grandmother; she teaches him to trap Loon; Loon asks her to let go because she has chicks; he lets go, the grandmother is angry; tells him to shoot at the polar bear, lies as if his grandson missed; tells him to eat berries and mushrooms; Loon immerses his kayak under water twice, the young man gains sight; throws his grandmother in water, it turns into a whale, her hair turns into a whalemustache; in gratitude, the young man puts a necklace of bone arrowheads around Loon's neck; now it's white feathers]: 21-26; Spencer, Carter 1954 (Cape Barrow) [=Spencer 1959:396-397; the grandmother of a blind boy points his arrow; lies that he didn't kill the bear; feeds him only rotten meat; Loon puts him on his back, dives four times with him; he gains sight; harpoons the white whale; ties the tench to the grandmother's hand, takes it to the sea; the killer whale devours the white whale; the hump on the back of the killer whale is an evil grandmother]: 68; igloolik: Kroeber 1899, No. 6 (Smith Sound) [The blind boy lived with his mother and sister; the mother pointed her son's bow at the bear, the arrow hit the beast, the mother said the boy missed; he smelled bear meat, mother denies that his sister is secretly feeding his brother; Loon tells the young man to sit on it, brings him to the rock, dives with him several times, he gains sight; the mother asks her son to harpoon the little narwhal; the first time he is like this and she does, she pulls the narwhal by the tench ashore; the second time he harpoons a big one, the narwhal drags the woman into the sea, she asks to throw her knife, the son does not throw it; she turns into a narwhal herself, her curled hair is in his fang; brother and sister are wandering, thirsty; sister enters the house, adlit in it, they eat her; brother killed them with a bone club (tusk), revived her sister from bones; they came to people, sister got married, brother got married]: 169-170; Rasmussen 1930a [grandmother; beluga whale drags her to sea; brother and sister come to people without anuses and genitals; brother marries, cuts through wife holes; she gets pregnant, her mother is about to cut her belly; she gives birth normally; all women make holes for themselves with meat forks; some die]: 77-80; Baffin's Land [The woman has an adopted son and daughter; the young man is blind; she tells him to shoot a bear, lies as if he missed, eats meat alone; his sister brings him pieces; Loon dives with him, making him sighted; he calls his mother hunt white whales, tells you to keep tench, takes her to sea, she screams, I swaddled you; turns into a narwhal; brother and sister travel; sister comes into the house to ask for water; inhabitants scratch it with their claws; brother kills them; brother and sister come to people without anuses; they chew food, spit out; sister marries alone; pregnant women cut their belly to extract the child; brother explains that the sister will give birth on her own; her son has an anus; people sit on stakes piercing themselves; some die, most successfully make their anuses]: Boas 1888:625-627; 1901-1907, No. 4:168-171; polar Eskimos [an old woman with her little grandson and granddaughter are left alone; a boy shoots a bear; a grandmother tells her granddaughter to tell him he missed, eats meat herself; his sister feeds him secretly; he asks take him to the lake; Loon dives with him four times, he sees the light; the young man harpoons the white whale, the tench drags his grandmother into the water, she turns into a narwhal, a bundle of her hair into his horn; his sister enters cannibal house, eaten; brother kills them, revives sister; brother and sister come to people without anuses; their bowel movements are deer fat, spew it through their mouths; urinate through a hole in the palm of their hand; sister goes out married here, pregnant; a shaman wants to give her a cesarean section as usual for these people; she normally gives birth to a girl who has an anus; her grandmother sits on a sharp stick to pierce her anus; dies]: Holtved 1951, No. 37:152-165 (translated into Menovshchikov 1985, No. 230:445-449); Labrador Eskimos [stingy mother; sister secretly feeds brother; mother turns into a white whale, her hood in a tail; in Beluga whales scream words, My son did it]: Nungak, Arima 1969:51; Labrador Eskimos, Greenland (text composed of 8 similar versions, 2 from Labrador, 6 from different districts of Greenland, 3 of which were recorded before 1828) [the widow has a son and daughter; the son kills a lahtak, the mother wants it for her needs, the son does not give it; the mother tells the tendons to spring when the son begins to tench them; a blow to the face makes the young man blind; the mother tells him to shoot at a bear that comes up, lies as if her son missed; his sister secretly feeds him bear meat; one day she takes him to the lake; there geese drop their geese in his eyes excrement, he sees the light; asks his mother to keep tench when hunting white whales; harpoons the biggest one, takes her mother into the water, she turns into a narwhal, a piece of her hair into a horn; brother and sister they go inland, live alone; the old brother visits people, then leaves forever]: Rink 1875, No. 2:99-105.

NW Coast. The Tlingits [a woman invents a fish trap; while her husband is hunting, she eats everything herself, does not give her mother-in-law; her husband goes hunting again, takes her trap; she complains, turns into an owl]: Smelcer 1992:37-38; 1993:25-27; Swanton 1909, No. 37, 98:176-177, 299-300; Tsimshian: Boas 1916, No. 37 [little son points an arrow at a blind father who kills a grizzly; wife lies as if he are missed; the son secretly gives his father meat, tells the truth; the father asks him to take him to the lake; there Loon takes the garbage out of his eyes, making him sighted; while blood flows, the wife finds it, thinks that her husband died; he doesn't let her into the house; she freezes to death, turns into an owl; husband dies]: 246-250, 825-826 [resume]; bellacula [wife points her blind husband's arrow at a bear, lies as if he were missed; eats meat by itself; some creature rubs her husband's eyes with his hands; he sees the light; puts his wife's head in a boiling pot; cuts it into pieces, they turn into lynxes]: McIlwraith 1948 (1): 661-662; quakiutl [wife leaves her blind husband; forbids children to give him fish, eats everything herself; children point their father's arrows at a bear, deer, mountain sheep; wife lies every time that he missed; eats fat , then drinks water, turns into a pile of fat, then into stone; Loon puts the blind man on his back, dives with him, he sees the light; revives his wife, first turns him into a deer, then restores her human appearance; she runs away to the forest, she has been living there ever since, she's a forest woman]: Boas 1910, No. 33:447-452.

(Wed. The coast is the Plateau. Tillamook [Ice with his men and his son-in-law The Raven go to sea, each time they bring only oysters to his wives and children; Ice eats the caught seals himself, does not bring home, because he is afraid that if his wife has monthly, he will lose his hunting luck; The raven hides meat under oysters in the basket, brings it to women and his adopted son; when Ice returns, he is surprised that women are indifferent to oysters; son quickly grows up; puts the digging sticks of Ice's wives on their backs, turns women into killer whales, diggers into their dorsal fins; men can no longer find even oysters and roots, they are starving; only the son sends meat to the Crow; the ice was left with giblets, he brought them, but they turned into a frog]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 4:15-19).

California. Serrano [husband sends his wife to bring meat to mother-in-law in exchange for seeds; wife eats all meat herself, returns halfway; husband's little sister tells him; husband bewitches water, gives her wife plenty of meat; she is thirsty but unable to drink; turns into a crow; eats all the seeds in her mother's bins; takes her child, drops it from a height, he breaks]: Benedict 1926, No. 6:9.

The Northern Andes. Guajiro [eats meat and milk; after returning from hunting, her husband turns it into a reinita bird with white stripes on its beak (=traces of milk on her lips): Wilbert, Simoneau 1986 (1), No. 91:240.

Western Amazon. The wife eats the best pumpkins; the husband leaves her, going up to heaven; the wife follows him, falls, turns into a nightjar, the pumpkin in her stomach into pottery clay. Shuar [when he falls, his wife turns into a nightjar]: Barrueco 1988 [Oetza is Auhu's husband; she gives him unripe pumpkins, eats ripe pumpkins herself; he tears her mouth, climbs the vine into the sky, becomes By the sun; A. climbs after him, he cuts off the vine, it falls, turns into a nightjar]: 21-22; Karsten 1935, No. 5 [the wife still wants to feed her husband, climbs into heaven with a basket of pumpkins, falls, pumpkins spread on earth]: 521; Pelizzaro 1961, No. 16:10; 1993:73; Rueda 1987, No. 17:106; Aguaruna [like Shuar]: Akutz Nugkai et al. 1977 (2): 126; Chumap Lucía, García-Rendueles 1979, No. 17:210-213; Guallart 1958:92; Morote Best 1988:67; Achuar: Mowitz 1978:69-73; Napo [Husband Not Month]: Foletti Castegnaro 1985:45-46

Montagna - Jurua. Kashinahua [a toothless old woman eats corn before the cobs are ripe; her daughter and son-in-law arrange the field away, tell her that the corn is still not ripe; she finds a plot, sees ripe cobs that, however, cannot chew; turns into a battleship, its basket becomes its shell]: D'Ans, 1975:156-159.

Chaco. Quechua on Rio Salado (Santiago del Estero lowlands) [sister eats all meat alone; her hunter brother lures her into a tree and leaves her; she turns into a nightjar]: Lehmann-Nitsche 1930:244- 266; Wagner 1909:269-271.