L5E. A decapitated wife stalks her husband .41.44.46.
Awoman's decapitated body stalks her husband and her head haunts her children.
Subarctic. Kuchin [while her husband is hunting, the wife in the forest gets meat from ceftree (probably copulates with him; the word means insects, snakes, worms, eels); Jateakuoit is the eldest of the two sons; tells the father about the mother's behavior; he cuts off her head; the body pursues him, the head pursues his sons; D. throws a stone, awl, knife, beaver tooth received from the father on the run; they turn into mountain, thorny thickets, mountain range, river; accidentally a tooth falls in front, not behind the fugitives; the Swan transports them across the river; the head calls the Swan husband, asks to transport her; The Swan throws it into the water, it turns into a big fish; the brothers play ball, he falls into the boat; the owner of the boat invites D. to take the ball: takes it away; the younger brother left on the shore turns into a wolf; The owner's eldest daughter refuses to marry D.; the youngest goes out, makes him handsome; see the K27 motive]: McKennan 1965:98-100.
The Midwest. Steppe Cree: Ahenakew 1929 [a woman knocks on a dry tree; snakes crawl out of the hollow, she caresses them; her husband watches her; calls the snakes with the same signal, cuts off their heads; leaves the most small (the origin of snakes); tells the eldest son to take the youngest on his back and run; gives them an awl, flint, a beaver tooth; sends his wife for meat, curtains the entrance to the hut with a net; a woman finds the dead the serpent rushes to the house, gets entangled in the net; the husband cuts off her head; runs to heaven, her body chases him, they turn into Little (the body of his wife) and the Big Dipper; the head chases sons running to west; they throw objects that turn into a barbed fence, a mountain (a huge worm gnaws through a gorge for the Head), a wall of fire, a river; two old bitters stretch their necks like a bridge, brothers cross it ; The head steps, causing the Vypyam to hurt, they throw it into the river; the elder brother throws a stone at it, the head turns into a sturgeon]: 309-313, 323, 329; steppe ojibwa [dressed up, the woman goes to the forest, knocks on wood; a man comes out of the trunk, they copulate; the husband finds them, kills his lover, cuts off his wife's head; gives the eldest son an awl, a needle, a piece of thread, a knife; says that if the sunset occurs red, which means he is dead; the body pursues the husband, the head of the sons; the eldest carries the youngest on the back; abandoned objects turn into a mountain (The head finds a gorge), thorny thickets (The head becomes entangled hair; the worm gnaws at them, for which the Head allows it to be copulated through the occipital foramen), the Horned Serpite (he lets the Head through the same fee), the river; the Head asks the Pelican to transport it for the same fee; the Pelican warns not to touch a certain place on his neck; the ban is broken, he throws his Head into the river; the eldest son breaks his Head with a stone; that same evening the sky turns red in the west]: Skinner 1919, No. 2:291-292; (cf. Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [a hunter meets a woman in the woods, marries; she goes to the stump, undresses, calls Machi-manita; snakes crawl through all holes her body; her husband watches her, sends her prey, kills snakes with an ax, gives her their blood instead of bear blood; tells their two sons that if the sky turns red, he dies; gives her a sharp bone awl stone, flint, beaver tooth, stone chisel, tells me to run; wife runs to the stump; when she returns, her husband cuts off her head, cuts her body, throws half into the sky, they can be seen now (constellations?) ; her Skull kills and devours him, pursues her sons; the sky turns red; the elder carries the youngest on the back; throws objects, they turn into thorny thickets, a rock, a wall of fire, a pile of poplar stumps, a river ; The Beaver makes a passage through the thickets when the Skull promises to allow it to have sex with itself in the eye sockets and nostrils; the lost soul leads the Skull through the crack through the rock; The Toadstool agrees to transport the Skull through the river, tells you not to touch the sore spot on the neck; the skull touches, dumped into the water; sons break it with a stone, it drowns; see motif K27]: Ray, Stevens 1971:48-52).
Plains. Black-legged (blood) [the husband gets a web to catch animals; his wife covers herself with incense, goes to the snake lover; the husband watches her, burns the lair of snakes; tells his two sons to flee, gives them a stick, stone, wet moss; hangs a web above the entrance to the house; the wife is entangled in her, he cuts off her head; her body pursues him; they turn into the Moon and the Sun; if the Moon catches up with the Sun, eternal night will come; the Head pursues the sons; they throw away the items they have received, a thicket, a mountain, a pond form; first mountain rams, then ants make a passage in the mountain; for this, the Head promises to become the wife of their leaders; falls into the water, drowns; one brother goes north, the other south; one becomes the ancestor of the whites; the other, Napi, the creator of the blacklegs]: Grinnell 1893a: 44-47.