Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

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L76. Torn off testicles. 65.72.

When a cannibal attacks a man, she devours or rips off his testicles.

The Central Andes. Tantamayo (dep. Huanuco) [Achkay offers the person to help him dig up the field; tears off one testicle for him, for her it is an ulyuku tuber; he asks for permission to move away will cope with the need, A. ties a thread to him from his spinning wheels so that he does not run away; the man bandages the thread, runs away; A. chases, her daughter says in which direction the person ran away; comes to people, tears off the testicle one or the other; people they invite her to sit down, push her into a boiling pot; it says it will turn into flies and nettles; she is buried, one person tears up the grave out of curiosity, and all flies, ants, bees and others fly out from there insects]: Howard-Malverde 1986:10-12.

Chaco. Chorote [a pregnant woman went with her husband to pick parrots; he shed her chicks, she ate them raw; her husband threw an ax at her head, she only began to lick blood; when her husband cried, she was his she ate it, put the testicles in a bag, crushed it together with edible leaves and pepper, ate it herself and gave it to others; realizing what they were eating, people left the village; her two sons and two daughters remained; the girls had a mother she picked her eyes and ate them; the fox helped her sons set a trap; her mother hung in her leg; her sons began to cut her with an ax; her mother ordered her to be hit not on the head, but on the leg; the corpse was burned, Lisa sang merrily]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 114:221-224; nivacle: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987b, No. 14 [the young man dreams of marrying two stars; the stars go down to him, the eldest shoots at the sky, makes a chain of arrows, Stars and a young man rise up it; thunderbirds live in the sky; wives warn not to respond to their leader's first greetings; the chief warns that the ducks on the river are local women; a young man kills duck; thunderbirds gather to kill him, stars bring him down a rope to the ground; there he finds his house destroyed by a thunderstorm], 171 [a woman goes with her husband for parrots, turns into ts'amtaj; husband leaves he eats chicks from the tree raw; when he went down, his wife stole him by the testicles, ate him; at home, her son finds his father's testicles in her bag; she ate them in front of everyone; the youngest of three sons at night she hears her feeling their liver, is going to be the first to eat the older one; they make a trap, the mother hangs in a noose; they kill her with arrows, although she does not die for a long time; they burn the body, grow out of the ashes tobacco; they shoot at the sky, making a chain of arrows, birds climb into the sky; they go down to look at the tobacco, return to the sky]: 59-64, 421-425; poppies: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 15 [wife warns that she is on her period, but her husband still asks her to cook an anteater; the steam from the brew changes her nature, she now eats only raw meat; her husband leads her to the parrot's nest, sheds her chicks, she swallows them whole; he throws an ax at her forehead, she licks blood from the wound but is unharmed; her husband goes down, she kills him by tearing off her testicles; at home she approaches women cooking from the fruit, begins chew her husband's testicles; women, then all people run; she tries to pull the tongues out of horses; she grows wings, one with a hook; she flies, picks up men, does not touch women; her three young sons recognize the bodies she has brought; they send her mother to get water, bend down the tree, making a trap; the mother falls into it; unharmed under the blows of clubs; tells her to hit her little finger with sticks made of special wood (bola verde), keep her tail (like a dog's); they burn a corpse, tobacco and palm trees grow; the tail leads them to people, people return to the village], 16 [the husband tells his wife to cook an anteater even though she has her period; she called him into the forest for the parrot's chicks; her husband shed the chicks, she ate them raw, became otho'ejinhe; he threw an ax at her head, but she only licked blood; he cried, she tore off his testicles; in front of the women of the village, she began to chew them; people ran away; wherever they stayed, she comes to camp at night, kills people; her children are afraid that their mother will eat them too; while she goes to fetch water, they do a noose, she hangs in her leg; tells her to hit her big toe, burn her, tobacco will grow; people come back, smoke; menstruators are not allowed to approach meat since then], 17 [in the forest, the husband became throw the chicks off the tree for his wife; she ate them raw; tore off her husband's testicles, ate them, brought them to the village, mixed other women into food; they ran away; she told her sons to burn them, and grew up in this place tobacco]: 58-66, 66-70, 71.