L68. Two in the night.

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A person experiences a monstrous metamorphosis, being left (usually in a deserted place at night) alone with his companion.

West Africa. Kpelle [two men went into the forest, built a hut, began to hunt; after bringing the game, they began to cook it; one planned a banana and died; the other thought that his friend was sleeping; after cooking, he ate and woke it up another; realizing that he was dead, he lit the torch and ran; when the torch went out, the dead man got up and rushed after the living, he hid in the hollow of a tree; a beast jumped out of the hollow; thinking that it was his comrade, the dead ran after the beast; not catching up with him, he said that if he caught a friend, he would kill him; went back {to where he died?}] : Westermann 1924, No. 1:124.

Taiwan - Philippines. Bontok [mother sends her two sons to the mountains for firewood, is dissatisfied each time; gives them only food for pigs and dogs; the older brother climbs a tree, consistently cuts off his legs, arms, ribs , spine, head, every time he says that he dumps more firewood; tells the youngest to take it to his mother, turns into a zmeelov eagle (Spilomis holosplilus Vigors), flies home over the youngest]: Eugenio 1994, No. 209:351-352

Western Siberia. The Southern Selkups [two brothers hunted, reached the labazs; the eldest stayed by the fire for the night, the youngest, despite warning, climbed into the old junk in the storage shed; in the morning he replies that he will come now, he will first gather his joints; the eldest brought people from the house, set fire to the storage shed, and from there, while it was burning, different voices were heard]: Tuchkova 2004, No. 3:331-332.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [cousins return home; on the way they kill the monstrous queen (bear-like, looks at the victims); one eats his meat despite the other's warning; at night it turns into a queen; it dives into the lake, it overflows its banks; when the queen hides in the water, its level drops; the satellite leads to the lake of Zaniltse's relatives ; he comes out of the water, admits that he is to blame; reluctantly agrees to spend the night with relatives on the shore; people are found dead in the morning]: Jenness 1934, No. 32:194-195; Puget Sound [ older brothers catch salmon in a stream flowing out of the pond; the youngest refuses to eat it; those who eat are terribly thirsty; dive into the water, turn into newts]: Ballard 1927:73; coutenay: Boas 1918, No. 51 [two brothers hunt; the elder kills a wild sheep, dries meat on fire, he doesn't like the taste; he cuts, gives and eats his flesh, eats himself completely; the younger brother comes up and hears how the elder says he loves his younger brother, so it will take him two days to eat him; stalks his younger brother, kills him with his guts; the older brother's wife goes looking for her husband, covers his clothes with sharp creams; when the husband throws his intestines, they tear; she runs home, talks about what happened; people leave, the ogre's wife remains with the child; the cannibal comes, tears the child in half; the wife offers to wash the meat, goes out, runs away; talks about all people; The crane hides in a hole by the river cliff; when an ogre chases his wife, pushes him into the water with his foot, he drowns], 76 [young hunter kills mountain sheep, dries meat; sees two slices, eats them, likes the taste; it turned out that he cut off his flesh; he gradually devours himself, leaving bones and entrails; three days later, his older brother goes looking for him; the youngest says he loves him, but kills and eats him; this is how he kills all the brothers; the youngest is warned of the danger by his guardian spirit; he runs away, people are with him; the ogre's wife remains with as a child; a cannibal comes, holds the child tightly, tells him to dance; a woman pretends to wash the child, runs away; people dig a hole by the cliff, one of them pushes the ogre into the water, he drowns]: 83-85 , 273-279.

Northeast. Seneca [despite a friend's warning, one of the two hunters catches, roasts and eats trout in a hollow; is terribly thirsty, drinks from a stream, turns into a huge fish; says people can come to ask him for fish; turns into a monster, kills fishermen; his ex-friend drives him out of the pond, pursues him; he agrees to leave the country]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 32:169-172.

The Midwest. Steppe Cree [the older sister wants a bright, younger dim star as her husband; both wake up in the sky; the husband of the youngest young, the eldest gray; the stars leave home for the night; the old woman advises the sisters to dig up the root that grows where the bison droppings lie; there is a hole in the sky under it; the sisters go down the rope; the old woman tells the elder to blindfold not to open it before reaching the ground; she peeks, the rope breaks, sisters fall to the top of the tree; Bear, Lynx can't take them off, do not want them to marry; Wolverine takes them off, but the older sister falls, breaks her leg above the knee; sisters turn Wolverine into wolverine; at night The eldest of the fire cuts off her leg, sharpens the broken bone, calls the youngest My Husband; The tit tells the youngest to run north; Bear, Lynx, Great Serpent can't help them, older sister kills them with his sharp leg; a one-legged man pounding an ice-hole in the lake; agrees to help his younger sister when she calls him brother; kills his older sister by dropping a stone on her; see below story Bison Kidnaps a Woman]: Bloomfield 1930, No. 34:326-332; menominee [a hunter finds two raccoons in an empty stump; his companion finds two catfish there; eats them, is terribly thirsty, drinks right out of the river, turns into a catfish starting at its feet; asks you to tell your relatives to come to him]: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. 41:474-475; soup: Skinner 1928, No. 15 [two boys they fast, build a hut on the edge of the swamp; they fry a raccoon; agree not to drink before eating; one is thirsty; sends a friend to the stream to get water; then drinks from a stream, turns into catfish; on his body even now ear ornaments are visible; creates a large lake; tells to organize a festival where a dog is sacrificed to fish; predicts future resettlement to Oklahoma; people throw catfish tobacco], 3 [two young men- relatives go to steal horses; they catch fish (jackfish), discuss whether it is possible to eat it; one reluctantly agrees if the other cooks buckets of water for him; eats, is thirsty, turns into that one But fish; his father comes ashore, his son swims to him]: 154-155, 160.

Plains. Sarsi: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 31 [two hunters spent the night, one asked the other to set up separate huts, threw meat to him, it turned out to be human; he heard a crunch of bones and saw that the friend sharpens his leg bone; the man asked the log to be responsible for him that he was sleeping when the companion offered to kick each other; having received an answer for the third time, the sharp-headed split the log with his foot; the man climbed one of the four trees; the sharp-headed knocked down three, and his leg was stuck in the fourth; the man shot the sharp-footed with a bow, returned to the camp; the trunk with the bone that pierced him is still visible], 32 [ two hunters spent the night in the cave; in the morning one saw something lying in front of the entrance, warned the other not to touch it, but he touched it slightly and then put his fingers in his mouth; the next evening he began to turn into a snake ("a whale", but in reality into a snake), asked his companion to take him to the river; said that if he did not get it out for the fourth time by a man, the snake would lie like a bridge over the river, along which the descender can cross to the other side; let him donate a red flannel; a friend was frightened three times and returned, crossed for the fourth time, told people]: 40, 41; assiniboine: Clark 1966 [see motive K31; brothers return home from overseas; burn the road in a huge fish-like monster; eating meat turns into a sea monster himself]: 299-300; Lowie 1909a [turning into a snake begins at the feet; the snake crawls into the river], No. 25a [brothers see a snake on the path, make a fire on it; Thunder tries to kill the snake, but only affects turtles that have arisen from spots on snakeskin], 25b [find burnt snake meat; the younger brother helps Thunder defeat the enemy; for this, Thunder turns the snake first into a turtle, then back into a human], 25c [as in No. 25a; the snake brother requires passers-by to throw gifts into the river from now on; Thunder a snake cannot kill, but turns it into a turtle; a younger brother makes frogs, they kill a turtle], 27 [two young men travel; at night one hears his companion cutting a bone; he sharpened both legs; the young man runs, the companion catches up, pierces, revives him; the young man himself turns into a bison, an elk, a bear, kills and revives his companion; both continue his journey], 28 [the young man sleeps in the house; hears him A friend outside cuts a bone, making himself a sharp leg; a young man runs, a friend chases him, his leg gets stuck in a tree, he dies]: 181-183, 184-186, 186; grovantre [two friends travel; they enter the cave, enter the world of giants; they are attacked by eagles, cutting their arteries with blades attached to their legs; friends hit eagles with clubs, easily killing them; giants are grateful, friends go back; a water monster lies in their way in the cave; they burn the way in it; one warns them not to eat its meat, the other eats; at night, when they leave the cave, horns grow on his head, he himself turns below the waist into monster; predicts a friend's wealth; tells him to sacrifice only animal giblets; hides in the river; a friend becomes a leader]: Kroeber 1907b, No. 39:115-116; hidatsa [two young men return from hiking; the serpent lies on the path; they burn the way through it; one of the young men eats this meat, turns into a snake himself; the companion throws him into the river; he gives him military luck]: Clark 1966:295-297; Crowe: Lowie 1918:212-214 [two young men come back from a hike, spend the night in a hut; one cuts, cooks, eats meat from his leg, sharpens his tibia, chases a friend; he climbs a tree, then another; Ostronog breaks all trees one by one; sparrows advise a young man to climb a hardwood tree; a bone gets stuck in the trunk, Ostronog dies], 214-216 [two young men return from hike; a giant snake lies on the way; they burn a passage in it, eat roasted meat alone; turns into a horned and hairy snake; asks a friend to take him to the river; demands that he throw him a girl for a wife and a bison; gives him military luck and makes any ford small for him]; Simms 1903, No. 14 [the bisons are gone; hunters follow them into the cave; giants live in that world, the bison is their horses; their enemies are insects, small birds and animals; even a scratch in battle with them is fatal for giants; hunters kill animals; grateful giants help drive buffalo to the ground; on the way back young men see a sleeping monster ("long otter"); light a fire around, eating meat alone, turning into a monster himself; asking him to be taken to the lake; brings good luck to their two comrades, they become leaders]: 295-297; teton (oglala) [three old men and one young man go on the warpath; they kill a bison; a young man notices that he has a rattlesnake tail telling him not to eat this meat; old people eat; both they and the bison turn into snakes; people celebrate at this place (Snake Butt), worship a young man]: Beckwith 1930, No. 17:417-418; santi [girl agrees to marry a young man if he proves himself a courageous warrior; a young man with six comrades goes to war; they find no enemies; five climb a hill near the lake shore, stick to it with their feet, the monster takes them into the water; by the river, a young man is reluctant agrees to eat the fish that his friend offers him; the friend promises to bring him plenty of water if he wants to drink, but the young man drinks so much that his friend gets tired; the young man drinks from the river, turns into a huge fish; it blocks the way for boats; his lover arrives, leaves him tobacco and feathers; the fish sinks into the depths, the river is free]: McLaughlin 1990:23-28; mandan [see motif G15, M1 motif; the wind takes two hunters to the island; a horned serpent carries them back to the mainland; their path is blocked by the body of a huge snake; they burn a passage in it; one eats meat; in three days turns into a snake crawls into the river; a companion throws him corn and a skunk hat; finds good luck in war; people often give the snake the same gifts when crossing the river]: Bowers 1950:198-200; arpahoe: Dorsey , Kroeber 1903, No. 76 [young men follow the buffalo into the cave, come out from the other end in buffalo land; the monster's body will block their way back; they burn it; one young man does not listen to friends warning him not to eat grilled meat; his body turns white, he turns into a monster himself; asks his brother to take him to the water; when he goes to war, his brother always leaves something for him and returns victorious] , 78 [like Voth; turns into a snake; when wading across the river, people must throw animal giblets at him], 109 [two young men travel, spend the night in two separate huts; one sharpens his leg with an ax, suggests shoving each other with his feet; the second runs away; the sharp-head kills people; one person swallows a stone, asks to hit it in the stomach; a sharp leg breaks]: 145-146, 150-151, 258; Voth 1912, No. 10 [two young men find two big eggs; the youngest cooks and eats them; turns into a crocodile at night; tells the eldest to call friends; to summon him out of the water, you have to hang; hides in the waters]: 47; sheyens [ two young men travel; find two big yats; one refuses to eat them, the other cooks and eats; at night turns into a snake with two horns on its head; feels good only in water; companion drags him to Mississippi; he is now the patron of the river; tells his companion to tell people to throw him bison meat and tobacco, then they will be blessed]: Marriott, Rachlin 1968:51-55; Arikara: Dorsey 1904d, No. 21 [the son of poor parents received power from the gods of the four sides of the world; the Tree Rats gave him a bow and arrow, he easily kills game; he goes west; in a dream two Thunder Birds carry him to their nest on a rock; there are four chicks; their mother says that the monster from the lake devours chicks, he is not afraid of lightning; promises power over birds for help, lightning will fly out from his eye, mouth, joints; he descends, kills, roasts deer, feeds thunder chicks; their parents are happy; a two-headed snake crawls out of the lake, lightning is powerless even when it hits its mouth; the young man amazes both monster heads with arrows; all birds bite meat; two young men in the village hunt birds; one shoots at something like a white mushroom that rises and falls; both find themselves on an island in the sea where the sun rises; the old woman invites them to her place, gives them five corn tortillas, one for them, four for their grandfather, who will transport them across the water; we must reject the three snakes that are one for others will be asked to cross, sail on the fourth; give him cakes; collect and give him his lice - freshwater turtles - to eat; jump ashore only when he rests on him; the undried one jumped earlier , swallowed; another asked the snake to open its mouth, pulled out a friend; on the way along the path there was a long serpent; a stupid young man cried through him, ate a piece; in four nights he turned into a snake, told him to be taken to Missouri; the young man who helped the Thunderbirds chased the snake with the birds; he carried it to the bottom, made him regurgitate all the strength received from the Thunderbirds, except lightning from his eyes; let him go; the young man all his life closed his eyes so that lightning would not sparkle; the serpent gave people songs and healer rituals], 22 [two young men see a long snake blocking her on the path; one is a fool, offered to burn the passage, ate snake meat; turns into a colored snake; tells you to move it to one lake or another, but the fish are dissatisfied; then in Missouri; when crossing the river, people must turn to it, leave the cornmeal dried bison meat; camping warriors always leave gifts]: 73-78, 79-80; Parks 1996, No. 15 [two hunters return from the campaign; a giant snake killed in a steppe fire blocks the way; they They spend the night with her, eat baked meat alone, it looks like fish; turns into a snake, asks him to take it to Missouri; if people want to cross the river, they must throw him cornballs; he will pop up and become by bridge]: 206-209; skidi pawnee [two brothers return home; see a dead bison eaten by coyotes, kill a squirrel; the youngest eats fried protein with bison bone marrow; turns into a snake at night ; asks the elder to throw him into a hole on the hillside; the elder ties captured horses and a captured woman at the hole; snakes crawl out of the hole, devour horses; the snake brother gives the human brother good luck]: Dorsey 1904b, No. 80 [returning after visiting another tribe]: 293-294; Grinnell 1961 [returning from a campaign; human brother becomes chief]: 171-181; Kiova-Apache: McAllister 1949, No. 35 [two young men return from a hike; at the lake, one refuses to eat unknown eggs, the other thinks they are goose, eats; turns into a snake-shaped water monster with big eyes and big hairy horns; tells a friend to throw four captured enemies to him; tells his relatives not to cry for him; a friend brings an enemy child four times, throws a monster to eat], 37 [warriors go on a campaign, two lost, come back, starve; one offers to cut the meat off the leg, split the bone, eat meat and brain; the other says he will go after the fire, leaves the moccasin responsible for himself, runs away; a tree raises it to his fork; the one-legged comes running, trying to crush the trunk with a sharp bone; the tree clamps the bone; a man kills a one-legged arrow, returns home]: 101-104, 105-108; tonkawa [two hunters cannot meet deer; one catches rabbits, the other first snake, then fish; eats this fish, is terribly thirsty, runs to the river, turns into a huge fish; the warriors turn to it going camping]: Hoijer 1972, no. 23:84

Southeast USA. Caddo [one of the two hunters kills a big snake, cooks and eats its meat; turns into a snake himself in the morning; asks a friend to carry it to a hole on the hill; when going hunting, people should leave food offerings, he will help them; one day lightning kills this snake]: Dorsey 1905, No. 38:65-66; screams [two men hunt or fish; a preserved human form brings a transformed comrade to the pond; when he brings his relatives there, they have a huge boa constrictor in a large body of water]: Swanton 1929, No. 23 [violates the ban on eating a mixture of black snake brains, black squirrel and turkey], 24 [male squirrels and turkey; elk horns on the snake's head], 25 [eats fish swimming in the water hole on top of the tree; relatives who come are carried away by the stream; probably also turn into horned snakes], 26 [eats fish from a puddle under a uprooted tree], 27 [eats an egg found on the lake shore]: 30-39; Seminoles [at rest, one of the two hunters roasts the deer they killed, the other picks up fish on the lake shore; the first advises to throw it into the water, but he eats it; at night it turns into a huge water snake; asks to call his relatives, tells me not to approach this lake anymore, goes to the bottom]: Gallagher 1994:23-25; hichiti [one of two hunters eats fish caught in a tree hollow; becomes a snake; a companion brings him to the pond; a snake's mother comes to see him]: Swanton 1929, No. 17:97-98; yuchi [ two hunters see perch in the hollow of a tree full of water; contrary to the warning of a friend, one of them cooks and eats them; turns into a snake; young women feed it with the soft tips of corn kernels, He does not want any other food; teaches medicinal spells; crawls into the water, people go into the water with him; one woman ran for a forgotten ridge, stayed on the shore, petrified]: Wagner 1931, No. 16:67-70.

The Great Southwest. Navajo [two brothers hunt; the elder kills and eats the snake, becomes a snake; the Fire God threatens the Great Serpent, who returns man to his former appearance]: Yuinth-Nezi, Hatrali 1957:2-3; Western Apache (White Mountain) [one in two men eats a porcupine; turns into a huge water snake; the Eagle, the Sun, other gods find it underwater, turn it back into a human]: Goddarg 1919:135-136.

Mesoamerica Itza [two brothers kill many pheasants in the forest; Leo (Jaguar?) rushes to eat shot birds, brothers climb a tree, shoot a lion, take off his skin; the younger brother puts it on, it grows, he turns into a monstrous Leo; tells the eldest to leave, and then he will eat it, tell his mother; the eldest is sailing in a boat across the lake, the youngest is chasing, running along the shore; so they stayed there, died; these brothers are Chan]: Hofling 1991, No. 13:112-126.

Honduras-Panama. Pech [two compadres fish and hunt; one eats a raw turkey; the other escapes in a tree; it turns into a jaguar, then five people cutting a tree; monkeys take the hero away]: Flores 1989:55; sumu [one of two brothers catches and eats an unusually big fish; turns into a snake, climbs a tree; a flood begins]: Conzemius 1932:130-131.

Guiana. Varrau [after attending a festival in the village of toads, the elder brother deliberately burns his leg in the fire while hunting; chasing his younger brother, he kills a deer instead of him; people come to the forest, kill the elder, they cut the flesh into pieces; they give rise to harmful creatures]: Wilbert 1970, No. 41 [burns both legs, sharpens one; without chasing the deer], 156 [anneals and sharpens both; hummingbirds first, then squirrel lure the monster into an open place where people kill it; without turning into harmful creatures], 157, 158 [has fun in his sleep]: 110-112, 332-339; curl [two fishermen saw a Maximiliana regia palm tree, began to eat ripe nuts; one warned that it was forbidden to eat after sunset, the other did not listen; continued to eat, became a jaguar; the first went to the village, told his mother; she did not believe it, went to forest, the jaguar ate it]: Roth 1915, No. 114:184-185; oyampy [the man's wife gave birth to a child; his friend tells him not to go to the forest at this time for fruit; he goes, paints himself with charcoal, turns into The forest spirit is a black cougar; a friend climbs a tree; returning home in the morning, talks about what happened]: Bastien 1984, No. 2:15-17.

Western Amazon. Cofan: Barriga Lopez 1988b [wife scolds a loser hunter; he goes hunting with her brother; when he freezes, he climbs into the fire; burns, his head rolls to his wife; falls into the river, lives for a long time with dolphins; one day he rolls into the house, falls asleep; his wife's relatives set fire to the house; the skull remains, kills his wife, hides in the river]: 200; Borman, Criollo 1990, No. 19 [a man goes hunting monkeys with the husband of his older sister; at night he sees him put his feet in the fire; in the morning he finds that there is only one head left; the head makes a parcel of monkey fried meat small, tells him to carry it home in the same basket; when his wife comes up, her head sticks her mouth to her vulva; it cannot be torn off; one day a woman promises to give her head a fish, her head sticks off, the woman rushes into the water, lets a calebass through the water; the head takes her for the wife's head, swims away on it; when it comes to people living below the river, it becomes a fat man again; comes with them to his wife's village; the wife comes up, that man kills her; when the river has an annual flood, this head floats downstream; (Sirius is not visible at this time)], 21 [two whites went to collect rubber; in the forest one began to scream to call a woman; the demon became a woman and came, they lay down together; the companion saw that the demon was devouring his comrade, ran to the village, everyone locked themselves in the house; the demon came, but was afraid of the child's crying; when they came to the place, it turned out that the demon did not eat only a person, but also a hut, collected rubber, etc.]: 287-317, 349-358; Calífano, Gonzalo 1995, No. 59 [a man with his wife's brother hunts monkeys; smokes, shakes his mind for a while; falls asleep by the fire; At night, his wife's brother shouts to him several times that his leg is burning; he replies that no; by morning there is only one head left; the wife's brother carries it in the basket; his head tells him to leave her, send his wife, saying that the husband shot a lot of game; sticks between his wife's legs, sucks her vagina; one day a woman crosses the river, her head peels off, leaves at sunrise; during the holiday, the head returns in human form; turns into a head again, sticks to his wife; she dies; the head is half rotted, shamans break it to pieces]: 110-111; napo [the older brother burned the tree in which the evil boa spirit lived; there snake eggs; the elder tells the youngest not to eat them; he is thirsty, drinks, bursts, a lake appears in this place]: Foletti Castegnaro 1985, No. D8:111; canelo [two brothers find in the forest a snake in the hollow; they burn a tree; the youngest ate baked meat, became thirsty; drank, burst, the flood began; the elder climbed a tree, threw seeds down, to find out if the water was deep; found the youngest, that turned into a snake; first hand, then ate his eldest son; he wanted to kill the snake, was swallowed; cut his heart with a knife and went out; he went bald, died soon]: Coloma et al. 1986:77-79; shuar: Barrueco 1988 [two brothers hunt; a snake living in a hollow steals their meat; they burn a tree; one of them tastes snake meat; when he returns home, he is thirsty; asks his brother to move away and climb a tree; brother hears an explosion, water floods the area, then falls down; brother goes down, finds a snake, puts it in a vessel; she keeps growing, now lives in the river; swallows the brother's children and wife; he allows you to swallow itself, cuts the snake from the inside; the snake asks the bird to cure it, it refuses; the snake is thrown ashore against its former home; the person goes over the side; dies, violating the ban approach fire]: 57-59; Karsten 1919 [flood]: 328-329; 1935, No. 10:532-534; Pelizzaro 1961, No. 6 [without flood]: 4-5; 1993 [flood]: 151-152; Rueda 1987, No. 39 [without flood]: 168-170; Wavrin 1932 [flood]: 128-129; aguaruna [two hunters spend the night in the forest; someone steals meat; a punk snake crawls out of a dry trunk; hunters burn a trunk; one eats baked snake meat that tastes like a fish; suffers from thirst, drinks, bursts, turns into a river; another finds a punk egg with snakes in it; he puts one in a hole with water; the snake grows with the hole; goes out to swallow dogs, then eats the child; the father the child puts a clay pot on his head, takes a flint knife, lets himself be swallowed; cuts punks from the inside; Tsunki (a snake or fish with a human head) tries to treat a sick person; a person cuts heart, punks pop up dead; man comes out with a hole in his side; C. says he will die as soon as it dries; meat begins to fall off the man's bones and he dies]: Guallart 1958:66-68; band not specified (aguaruna?) [two brothers hunt, some steal their prey; they find a snake crawling out of the hollow; they make a fire, a snake falls into the fire, one of them eats its roasted meat; is terribly thirsty, drinks from lakes; turns into a frog, a lizard, finally a snake; tells his brother to run to the mountain, take a calebasa; the lake grows, floods the ground; people do not believe his brother, they drown; he himself experiences a flood on a tree on the mountain; after the flood, he finds a snake brother, carries him to a calebass from the lake]: Farabee 1922:124.

NW Amazon. Puinave: Cardozo 1968:44-46 [the wife does not want a husband; he goes with a relative to collect forest fruits; while the relative is in the tree, the husband turns into a jaguar; does not harm the relative, but asks keep silent about his abilities; when he goes to the house, calls his wife, then his father-in-law, mother-in-law, kills them as a jaguar; a relative talks about what he knew; a jaguar is caught in a hole, killed with spears; blood splashes fly out, turn into current jaguars], 47-50 [the wife hated her husband; he went fishing with his cousin; at night he turned into a snake by the fire; said he did it to kill his wife; bit her in the morning until death, crawled down a hole; snakes come from him]; chikuna [two brothers hunt; find a basket of boiled yam; the youngest eats; at night the demon tears off his leg; in the morning he says that the bats have eaten his leg mice; deftly jumping on one leg, a cripple kills game with a club; he kills a vulture tapir, asks him to be taken to heaven; turns into Orion]: Nimuendaju 1952:147; yagua [warriors go for revenge enemies; they hit a toad on the way; this is shaman Vatachar; warriors rape his wife; two do not participate, they see V. weaving a basket; he says it's an eye basket, tells those two to settle down at night far from others; in the form of a bat, it extracts from sleepers in the eye; in the morning, the curves decide to turn into bakers; some become a howler monkey, birds, a deer, an anteater; two go home; one warns another not to break a fruit tree branch, he breaks it; V. screams that he has been bitten in the heart; eats fruits with people, spits bones, says they are eyes; warriors understand that they ate the eyes of comrades (the origin of the delicious fruits of the ungurahui palm tree); at night, V., in the guise of a bat, cuts off the leg of a broken branch, he throws it into the river, his leg turns into a caimana, one-legged continues his journey; climbs a tree for night monkeys, the satellite explains that they are mushrooms; the one-legged turns into a toucan, flies ahead, showing the way; then see the K8A motif]: Powlison 1959:11-12; 1993: 97-118.

Montagna - Jurua. Shipibo [father-in-law eats his sons-in-law; young man marries; does not sleep in a hut while hunting; the next day he asks to leave him in charge; father-in-law says where to collect firewood, does not tell me to go to a certain side, supposedly there are terrible ants; the son-in-law finds a bunch of skulls there; leaves his clothes together under a mosquito net; the father-in-law returns to the dead monkeys, brings him down to the place where he should be the head of his father-in-law, a heavy stone; seeing that he made a mistake, and loving only a man, he cuts the meat off his calves, roasts it and eats it; the son-in-law says that he saw everything, his father-in-law tells him to burn him, come in three days; comes his daughter; the ash has turned into mosquitoes; she collects them in a vessel, hides them at home under a mosquito net; the wind blew away those that remained at the burning site; the daughter fattened and released the collected ones (origin mosquitoes)]: García 1985:124-125.

Southern Amazon. Trumai [bees eat the body of a honey collector; the head rolls into the village, attaches to the back of another man's head; he dives into the river, his head sticks to the tapir]: Monod-Becquelin 1975, No. 59:189- 191; Rickback: Pereira 1973, No. 13 [Tay's wife? tyendok is unfaithful to him; he went to shoot the monkeys, ate them in the forest, made a hut, sat in a hammock, put his foot in the fire, burned the meat, sharpened the bone, killed his opponent with the point; once he went hunting with a friend; a friend saw a sharp leg, left a block instead, climbed a tree; T. plunged his foot into a block; went into the forest, sometimes his song (repeating his name) is heard]: 47-48; 1994, No. 27 [two cunhados went hunt night monkeys; one found a potion (remedy, leaves - remedio-do-mato) of the Forest Spirit (he walks on one leg); put it to his leg; put it in the fire at night; the companion noticed, put it in his own hammock deck, climbed a tree; the first cut the meat, his leg became like a deer's antler, hit the hammock, left, became the Forest Spirit himself; the companion returned home; people could not find and kill the Forest Spirit]: 178-180; bororo [Magureréu and Aroro Ikáre go to the forest, M. tells A. not to tear the fruits, he vomits, he is left with only one head (not a decree, as it happened), rolls after M.; M. builds a hut, brings two turtledots there, A.'s head lies on the floor; when leaving, M. dreams of his wife cooking in his house; someone cooks; M. finds two girls, marries them, he throws their birdskins into the fire; a large group of women enter M.'s house, stumble over A.'s head; M. tells her to jump into the river, her head turns into the evil spirit of Imédu; M. catches him on the hook, tells her never to show himself to people]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1983, #57:114-116

Eastern Brazil. Cracho [man and sister's husband spend the night hunting in the forest; pretends to fall asleep; sees a companion stick his leg into the fire; for the third time he does not respond to a request for help to remove his leg; companion burns his foot, throws him into the forest, asks him to go pick up the fallen fruit; sharpens the bone with a sharp shell; he is going to pierce a person with a sharp leg, he turns into an opossum, hides in a termite mound; returns to his sister; sharp-headed Hitewa kills hunting companions with his foot; people make a doll out of thick bark, H. pierces his leg into it, gets stuck, he gets killed]: Wilbert 1978, No. 164:413-416; frame camera [the man went hunting with his wife's husband; noticed him putting his foot in the fire, shoved it off twice, but he put it back in; burned his foot, threw it into the forest, told him to look for the fallen fruit; with a scraper from the shell sharpened the bone, attacked; the man turned into a rat, hid in a hollow; Tečware lit dry leaves and tail in the hollow, but the rat slipped away; (text breaks off)]: Wilbert 1978, No. 167:419-420; apaniecra [Têttxuá invited Pótxête, his sister's husband, to hunt Cariama cristata birds; set fire to the bush but got nothing; P. pretended to be sleeping, T. put his foot in the fire, then burned the second one, threw his foot into the forest, shouted that the fruit was falling; he sharpened the bones on his legs with a shell, tried to pierce P., he dodged; became a rat, hid in a hollow; T. lit a fire there, but P. turned into a lizard, ran away; T. turned into a bee, sat on the path to the village, killed passers-by with a sharp leg; the boy covered his back with a piece of thick bark, told others to walk a distance away; sharp leg stuck in the bark, T. killed]: Wilbert 1978, No. 168:420-422; apinaye [Tečware's wife's brother goes with him into the forest; at night T. puts his foot in the fire, breaks off his foot, throws him into the thickets, tells his companion to go for a fruit that has just fallen; at this time he sharpens a bone; tries to kill a companion, who runs away to the village; T. kills people with a sharp leg; people disguise the tree trunk as a human figure, T. gets stuck in it, it gets killed; the severed head rolls; attacks people, grabbing them by the back of their heads with their teeth; people dig a hole, their heads fall into it, they burn it; this is where the Hancornia tree grows speciosa; men use her latex to make balls and body paint]: Wilbert 1978, No. 169:422-423.

Chaco. Chorote: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 89 [the handsome Kiésta (mockingbird) sang well, attracting girls and irritating men; decided to argue with Káhopo (the cuckoo) to sing all night; falling asleep, burned his right leg in the fire; people left him alone; he feels hungry, ate meat from burnt leg to bone, sharpened the bone, began to kill animals and then animals with it; the Hawk pretended to get honey from a bottle tree, provoked K. to strike, the bone got stuck in the tree; the Hawk burned it, a mockingbird flew out of the fire; the first time he became an ogre again, the second time finally a bird], 90 [Kiestá j and Likiku argue who will spend the night without sleep; K. falls asleep, accidentally burns his leg in the fire; people leave him alone; he eats meat from his leg, sharpens bones, kills, eats people; Hawk provokes him to hit, his leg breaks against a tree; a hawk burns him, a mockingbird appears from the fire]: 164-167, 168-171; nivakle [like a chorote; Cuckoo and Mockingbird compete singing]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987b, No. 184 [The cuckoo puts the foot of a asleep Mockingbird in the fire], 185 [The Cuckoo and the Mockingbird compete to sing all night; the Mockingbird falls asleep, the Cuckoo sings but actually sleeps , only his lungs sing; at dawn, the Cuckoo put the sleeping Mockingbird's leg into the fire; Ovenbird killed and fried Mockingbird; he came to life, became an ogre; sharpened his burnt leg, killed people with it; Fitsakajich called him to look for honey; climbed a tree; with eyes on the back of his head, he saw Mockingbird about to hit him, broke off a branch; he shredded his sharp leg against the tree, people killed him; he became a mockingbird ], 186:448-450, 451-455.