L74A. Hanged above the fireplace .40.42.-.44.46.48.52.

The enemy takes the hero away or tears off and carries away a part of his body, and then hangs his victim or part of his body (usually above fire) in order to torment the victim. Another character saves the hero himself or returns the stolen body part to him.

Chugach, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Comox, Lower Chinook, Clackamas, Menominee, Winnebago, Hida, Karok, Hoopa, Quiche, Copan, Izapa, Teotihuacan.

The Arctic. Chugach [A bear bites off a person's hand, hangs a smoke hole at home; a man suffers; a raven steals a hand, brings it back, heals the victim]: Birket-Smith 1953:165-166 [The raven asks The bear takes advantage of this to put smoky bark into the fire; since the arm is bent, people now bend their arms], 170 [(=Johnson 1984:71-73); The Raven teaches the Bears how to bite off a person's hand when people lure bears during the salmon run; tells them to hang them in the chimney to cause more suffering; people ask the Raven for help; he tells the Bear that if you tie your hand with grass , rather than tree roots, the owner's pain will increase; takes his hand; putting it back, asks people to keep their eyes closed; one person opened their eyes, so people's arms bend; see motive K52 further] .

NW Coast. The Tlingits [a good-kind young man compares a month to his mother's labret; a month picks it up, hangs it in the chimney of his house; a young man's friend shoots a star, makes a chain of arrows, she turns into a ladder, he goes up to heaven; frees the prisoner; the old woman gives him burdock (devil's club), rose hips, whetstone; the Month pursues fugitives; young men throw objects that turn into thickets burdock, rose hips, steep cliff; an old woman tells young men to think about the place where they played on earth; they wake up at home]: Swanton 1909, No. 56:209-212; Tsimshian [addressing the star, the young man says that it must be cold; the star takes him away; the woman on the mountain tells his father that the Star took his son, hung him in the chimney above hot sparks; a man shoots at the sky, makes a chain of arrows, climbs on it to heaven; the counter advises to replace his son with a wooden figure; the father pays for advice with tobacco, red paint, sling stones; tries different types of trees; a figure hung over a fire from The yellow cedar screams the longest; the father replaces his son with a doll, takes him away; throws tobacco, paint, pebbles, the pursuer rushes to pick them up; the father lowers his son to the ground]: Boas 1902:86-93.

The coast is the Plateau. Comox [in his father's absence, the boy cooks fish, the Grizzly steals the fish; the father comes back, shoots the Grizzly, but he rips off his hand and takes him away; the raven comes to the Grizzly, feeds him, he falls asleep, The raven takes his hand hanging over the fire, brings it to the person, the snail helps to attach it back to the body]: Boas 1916:821; lower chinook [the youngest of five brothers feels that the Glutter is coming; brothers they run, dig a hole in the ground, tell their female to show the monster another way; but he catches up, eats four brothers; the fifth runs to the river; the thunder stretches its long leg like a bridge when a man calls him not grandfather, uncle, but father-in-law; warns him not to touch his leg with a stick; when a monster crosses, he touches, Thunder bends his leg, the monster falls, is carried to the sea, turns into the sound of the surf in it's storm time; a man marries Thunder's daughter; he does not tell you to watch him catch whales; a man watches a whale leaves the Thunder net; a man's wife gives birth to two boys; Thunder requires son-in-law 1) bring wolves (then bears; grizzly) with whom Thunder played as a child (son-in-law carries, they bite his father-in-law), 2) help split the log (father-in-law takes out the wedge, pinches his son-in-law, he tears the log), 3) bring metas, which are shot by powerful people (son-in-law steals metas at night, chased with torches; Thunder's daughter tells children to beat her grandfather; Thunder urinates, rains, torches go out); son-in-law goes out to the village, lives with two old mice; loses a shooting competition to local people; his hair is cut off, hung in a chimney; his children come with their meth and arrows; win; turn the local leader into a sturgeon, his messenger in the blue jay; revive the father]: Boas 1894a, No. 2:31-36; clackamas [Fire's grandson has two wives, both sons; one returns to his brother; the husband follows her, plays with his brother (disc game), loses; he cuts off his ears and hair, hangs him in the chimney; the victim's children train their shamanic power; now they can burn with their eyes; take grizzly hair, come to enemies; win, harness players with their eyes (they turn into shrimp, blue jay); they turn wool into grizzlies, they devour enemies; brothers spare the two old women who sheltered them and their father; they bring their father home, Grandfather Fire revives him; they come to two girls; they do not know that one of them is their maternal aunt; local people kill them; the mother turns into the Sun, the brothers into stars; the leader who killed sees two stars near the sun, the one who killed an ordinary person - one]: Jacobs 1958, No. 13:114-130.

The Midwest. Menominee: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II2 [see motive F34; wife takes Bear as lover; sprinkles her dandruff on her husband to deprive good luck; husband burns lovers in a hollow; wife buries his corpse under the floor; her relatives are looking for him; the husband tells his children to flee; the Bear's relatives take her husband to heaven and torture him; the son of the departed man marries, he has two sons; his wife's brother marries the young man's sister; they are a son with two heads; he asks where his grandfather is; together with his cousins he goes to heaven, kills bears, brings his grandfather back to the ground], II.5 [the boy's grandfather lies in a teepee like a deck of moss, wakes up every four years; the young man finds the upper body of his older brother attached to the stump; he explains that their evil grandfather will do the same to him, teaches him how to win; the grandfather tells him to kill the polar bear; the young man does not run looking around, at the entrance to the house, the bear falls dead; the grandfather takes the pot out of his side to cook meat; the young man gives a bear's head to two old women, they disappear; these old women cut their older brother; now hostile creatures play a ball in the sky with the lower half, hang it in the chimney; the young man rises to the sky, cuts off the rope, the lower half falls to the ground, connects to the upper one; cranes, horned snakes guard the house two dangerous sisters; a young man scares off guards, takes sisters as wives; an old man breaks a sleeping boy's back, changes clothes with him, pushes him into the thickets, marries his eldest wife; the youngest finds a young man, takes care of him; he turns sticks into bear carcasses, grass into beavers and turkeys; when the deceiver steals carcasses, they turn back into sticks, into dung beetles; the young man climbs into the deck, regains former appearance, turns a deceiver into a hawk; gives his elder wife to his brother]: 305-311, 317-327; winnebago [(zap. Louis L. Meeker); having created the earth, Ma-ona created a man in the sky Wah-reh-ksan-ke-ka ("man with one leg"; M.); he dried by the fire (it was the sun), his leg cracked, M. threw him to the ground; created another , Koo-noo-ha ("first young man"; K.); together with seven other people, they are ancestors of eight families (apparently they were lowered to earth); brothers take turns chasing the beast, disappear; seventh brother Nah-ghee-gho-no-neenk (N.) comes to a hollow tree; six pairs of skis nearby; M. descends from the sky, N. wounds him with an arrow, he hits him, takes him to heaven; K. hears his screams, comes to heaven to M.; he took off his skins from six brothers, prepared their meat for food, N. hung up to suffer, avenging the wound, and he is small for food; M. and K. compete in a ball game (the ball must be handed over with a club); each hits the other's head, the head takes off, returns to the neck; for the fourth time, Ma-ona agrees that N.'s head does not return; she turns into the Morning Star, the murdered brothers into the clouds; each brother married the sister of another but N. who was single]: Smith 1997:105-110.

Plains. Hidatsa [Coyote's sister is pregnant; her brother doesn't tell you to open the door; Headless Monster asks where the door is, sister opens; he says he eats by putting hot fat on the pregnant woman's belly women; she only slightly heats fat; he keeps fat on fire with his bare hand, puts it on her stomach; she dies, gives birth to twins; he throws one into the center of the house, the other into the stream; brother puts his sister's corpse on funeral platform; Coyote makes a domestic boy; The river also grows; goes out to play with his brother, steals meat; they grab the River, keep him in the steam room until his sharp fangs disappear; he regurgitates swallowed frogs, etc.; brothers revive the mother; throw a hot stone into the mouth of the Headless, he explodes; the woman kills with her basket; the brothers ask her to point the basket at the birds, those fall dead; point them at the woman themselves, killing her; celestials fear that the River will become too powerful; the Long Hand takes him to heaven, he is tied to a pole; the brother turns himself and he is spiders, they run away; the Long Hand closes a hole in the sky, the brothers cut his arm with an ax (the hand is Orion, the scar is Orion's Belt); hanging on a pole, Rechnoy has learned ritual songs, now he has taught people; sent my mother to heaven to return the hatchet she had taken from there]: Beckwith 1938:30-43.

California. Karok [heavenly spirits kidnap Little Brother, hold him above the fire; animal people shoot up; only the Spider's arrow reaches the target; Big Brother rises to heaven, kills the spirit, accepts his look (wearing his skin?) ; swallows hot stones along with perfume; kidnaps brother, leaving a mouse instead; returns to earth with him]: Kroeber, Gifford 1980, No. B1:26-27; hupa [Rough Nose (SHN) does not tell younger brother fry short ribs while he is hunting; he roasts, takes something away; SHN catches a bird, wants to kill, she says that his brother is being fried in the sky; SHN calls Coyote and Spider to make a rope, Mouse gnaw through the bowstrings (and hole the boats), the Louse tie his sleeping hair, the Caterpillar pave the way up; the Coyote fails to throw the rope into the sky (it is too thick and heavy); the Spider's arrow hits into the sky, the Caterpillar crawls along a rope tied to her, followed by the others; SHN kills an old woman keeping fire under a bag with her younger brother, puts on her clothes, pretends to be an old woman, in a bag above the fire puts a rat; when enemies fall asleep, attacks them, they panic (bowstrings are torn, etc.); brings his younger brother home]: Goddard 1904, No. 3:154-156.

Mesoamerica Quiche ("Popol-Wuh") [there was no sun, only Vicub-Caquix ("seven mako parrots"); he said he was the sun, the light and the moon, that his eyes and teeth were sparkling; Hunahpú and Ixbalanqué were really gods; when VK was sitting on a tree eating fruit, Hun-Hunahpú (mistake: Hunahpú) hit him in the jaw with a blowpipe; he fell off the tree, but tore off H.'s hand and carried him away; at home he hung him in the hearth above by fire; told his wife Chimalmat that his teeth now hurt (due to hitting a dart); H. and I. agreed with old man and old woman Zaqui-Nim-Ac and Zaqui-Nimá-Tsiís (Big White Pig ( or rather, Bakers, jabalí), and Big White Coati) that they would go to VK and take them with them as if they were their little nephews whose parents were dead; old people told VK they could cure his teeth, replace them with new ones made of crushed bone; but they were teeth from corn kernels and did not heal his teeth, but crushed them, took his treasures; VK and C. died, and H. regained his hand; the old man and the old woman returned her, attached to H., it grew]: Popol Vuh 1972, cap. IV-VI: 17-25 (episode reviewed in Bassie-Sweet 2008:279).