L9. Spear legs and knife hands. (.13.17.21.24.29.33.-.35.40.-.49.55.57.-.59.63.64.66.-.68.70.72.)
Thecharacter's body parts look like cutting or piercing guns.
Sudan - East Africa. Hadza [one of Jave's six brothers meets a woman who warns that her mother is a witch; at night, her mother-in-law tells her to stop laughing; when her son-in-law falls asleep, a horn comes out of her stomach and splits J.'s head, takes his body and weapon to a cave, hides in his mother-in-law's body; the same with four other brothers; the sixth puts a deck instead of himself, cuts his horn to pieces with an ax, kills a sorceress, tells it to rain, the dead come to life; the witch turns into a rhino]: Col-Larsen 1962:78-82; nzakara: Retel-Lautentin 1986, No. 21 [a man has a son with a leg in the form of a dart; father asks him to guard against elephants field; he pierces his foot into the elephant, the father finishes off the animal, roasts the liver for his son; Toûlé (spider) asks for a boy to lend him; after hitting the elephant, the boy calls T., who shouts an insult in response; the boy calls his father, he comes running; next time the elephant manages to go across the river into the land of elephants; the Krakpa eagle takes the boy when they are going to eat him, returns him to his father, receives his daughter as a reward], 21a [option; father puts his son's leg in a termite mound; termites eat it, a sharp bone remains; the father lends his son to T.; the boy hits the buffalo, T. dances with joy, forgets to help the boy out; the father promises daughter to the one who returns her son; Toad, Kakala insect, Krakpa bird of prey are called; Krakpa takes the boy away from the Elephants when they are going to eat him]: 139-148, 147-148.
Western Asia. Socotra [ginnia is a genie woman; there is a ginnia "on an iron nail" (mismar); she has one leg that looks like an iron nail, she jumps around a person, you can't run away from her]: Naumkin 2012:424 -425; Naumkin et al. 2014, No. 18:7; Müller 2005, No. 6:65.
Melanesia. San Cristobal [some mumu perfumes have one arm, one leg, one eye; they have long red hair; mumu prick and kill people with their long nails or by spitting them in the eye]: Fox 1924:139.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Garo [sisters Anok and Ronje went to collect water snails; a giant snail chased them; they climbed the vine into the tree, and the snail chased the elephant and both fell into the abyss; the sisters came into the ogre's house; he has a sharp bone nose with which he kills the victims; A. fell asleep, and R. put a log on the bed, covered it with blankets, ran away; at night, the cannibal pierced A.'s nose, but broke it against a log, when he wanted to kill R.; chased her; the rodent hid R. in his hole, replied to the ogre that he had not seen anyone; grateful R. brought him 6 bags of rice and millet; since then, rats and squirrels have loved rice and millet] : Rongmuthu 1960:95-96.
Malaysia-Indonesia. Senoi (sakai) [little hairy dwarfs have a sharp bone blade on their right forearm; when they climb a tree, they saw off their branches; they fall with the female, but are always unharmed]: Skeat, Blagden 1906:283.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians: Bgazhba 2002 [Abynuava forest man killed animals with a bone protrusion on his chest; hunter Mard-ip Mardsow fried meat, heard a.'s voice, put the burka on a stump, hid in the bushes; a. rushed to the burka, M. shot him in the heart; in the morning he came on a bloody trail to where A.'s two sisters mourned him; he spared them]: 31-32 (=Hvartsky 1994:46-47); Zukhba 1995 [forest man abnahuayu cuts through the prey, pressing against it with a steel axe-shaped protrusion on his chest; in N.M. Albov's record, the forest man's chest is not an ax, but long iron needles; Chitanaa Huhu covered the block with his burka, hid in the bushes; at night, a forest man rushed to a block, chH fatally wounded him with a gun, married his widow; var.: ChH killed Abnaouaya's wife, cut off and hid his daughter's braid (her strength is in her), brought the daughter was a maid; she stayed to watch the six-year-old girl, found her where the braid was, she found it, threw the girl into the cauldron of boiling milk, left, cursing the house]: 163-166; Chursin 1956 [abnaoe is covered with wool, only the palms of the hands are bare; the chest bone protrudes strongly forward, with this bone growth a. cuts the prey; N.M. Albov's message, repeated by C.F. Gan, as if A. had an ax hung on his chest, not corresponds to popular views]: 230; Kabardian people: Lipkin 1957 [Imys and Uazirmes are brothers; I.'s wife met with W., he went to live in the forest; a giant came out to his fire, from whose chest a sword protruded; Wu . silently gave him food; when he left, he put a stump on his bed, covered him with a burka; at night the giant fell on a stump with his chest; W. shot him, blinded him]: (quoted in Virsaladze 1969:252-253); Huth 1987 [Ismel, and it is not the prince who kills the boar; the prince sends him to the gorge for the goat, he disappears; the same with his son named Overmes; O. descends into the abyss, sees goats at the top of the cliff; wraps himself in the skin of a fallow deer, Eagle brings it to the rock; O. kills the Eagle, keeps the eagles; someone has taken away the meat supply, O. follows the trail to the hole, through it to the valley, stays with the old man; he does not tell him to go to the tower; near the lake, the dove takes off feathers, turns into a girl, bathes; O. hides her clothes; Mezytlynyko, a forest man, comes up with a sharp bone protrusion on his chest; going to pierce the edge, O. stumbles, O. kills him; gives his clothes to exchange for a ring; takes a girl as a wife; wife feeds eagles; O. flies in one, kills a goat, flies home, puts a goatskin with horns on the prince, he runs away into the forest, remains a goat; flies after his wife and riches, brings them]: 160-168; Adygs [the hunter began to fry a goat; a forest man with a sharp bone protrusion on his chest sat down at the fire; the hunter smeared his forelock with fat, the forest man made that but; the hunter set fire to his forelock, the forest man set fire to his hair, his coat caught fire, he ran away; the hunter covered the block with a burka, hid himself; the forest man came up, threw his chest at the burka, his hunter shot with two bullets; cut out a sharp ledge and brought it to the village]: Karashev 1957:129-130; Chechens: Dalgat 1972 (Western 1891): 264 [in the forest, the hunter met Almas, who had an ax on his chest; asked him to bring water, at which time he put a block in his place, said that his name was I am myself; Almas stabbed his axe into the block while trying to free himself, the hunter wounded Almas with a gun; they ran forest creatures; when they heard that Almas had wounded himself, they parted, Almas died], 265 [(=2004:87-88); the king of animals had an ax on his chest; the hunter shot the gazelle, the king of beasts said that the game was his; the hunter suggested eat it together, sent the king for water, put a block in his place; the tsar cut it in half, the hiding hunter shot; the tsar disappeared, the hunter was ill for a long time]; Ingush: Bagriy 1930 (3) [zap. Ushakov, village. Bazorkino, from the report by A. Gren 1902; someone approaches the hunter's fire; the hunter replies that his name is himself; sees that the person who comes up has an ax on his chest; lowers the dog, but it stands motionless; then the stranger and the dog disappear; the dog came back, barely breathing; the hunter leaves a log together, hides himself in an oak tree; at midnight that man came, rushed to the log, the hunter shot; trees and animals began to ask whoever injured said that he was himself; they thought the stranger killed himself]: 203-204; Dalgat 1972 [in the forest, the hunter met Almas, who had an ax on his chest; asked him to bring water to this time put a block in his place, said his name was I am myself; Almas stabbed his axe into the block while trying to free himself, the hunter wounded Almas with a gun; forest creatures ran; when he heard that Almas wounded himself, parted, Almas died] (Western 1891): 264; 2004 (as Western 1891, written by the author): 87-88; Tankiev 1997 [Hyun San ("forest man") has a bone ax on his chest; HS hugs the victim, piercing her; the man who outsmarted him says his name is "I am myself"; those who come ask HS who injured him; thinking that he injured himself, they leave]: 45; Avars: Gamzatov, Dalgat 1991 [(ideas about Kumyks, Laks, Dargins also killed a man with a saberbreast); the hunter killed, began to fry the beast; a huge Wild Man (G i alkhulchi) approached; the hunter gave him he ate his thigh, then half a carcass, fell asleep; the hunter covered the logs with his burka, climbed a tree with a gun; G. got up, hit the burka three times with his sharp chest; the hunter shot G. in the leg, he ran away]: 300; Khalidova 1984 [four hunters split up in the forest; one killed the beast, spent the night by the fire; a wild man came out to him, with a ledge on his chest like the blade of an ax; after eating half a carcass, he went to bed; the hunter covered his with a burrow of logs, climbed a tree; at midnight, a wild man hit the burka with a sharp chest; the hunter shot him in the leg; in the morning four hunters found a long-missing woman, the sister of one of them; a wild man took her to wives; hunters killed a wild man in his cave, took a woman and her son from the wild]: 168-169; Kumyks: Khalidova 2012, No. 92 [the hunter does not tell his wife to put a liver on fire; once she violates the ban the fire goes out; she goes to look for fire, sees light in the distance; one-eyed Kilictesh ("saber-chest") is sitting by the fire, frying meat; K. saw a woman, told her to stay; the husband followed the trail when K. was sleeping; took his wife away; at home, he stuck his sword upside down, covered him with his burka, hid in a tree; K. rushed to the burka, ran into his sword, the hunter shot him, he ran away; on a bloody trail, the hunter came to his cave; there he kidnapped a woman and a one-eyed child; a hunter killed a child, returned the woman to her native village]: 119-120; Khalipayeva 1987 in Zukhba 1995 [Baltatesh is a forest man with an ax sticking out on his chest]: 169; megrels [Gatulia began to fry the dead deer; Ochokochi, covered with hair, came up with an ax blade on his chest; G. shared dinner with him; for the night he covered the stump and the dagger pointed upwards; O. rushed to the burka, ran into a dagger, G. shot, O. ran away with a roar]: Mouriet 1884 in Virsaladze 1969:253; Georgians: Virsaladze 1969 [if a hunter meets Ochokochi in the forest, he should not speak to him and should not shoot him more than once; O.'s body is covered with hair, his chest is pointed in the form of an ax]: 252; Chikovani 1985, No. 142 [hunter Gutalia killed a deer; a shaggy man came to the fire glasses with a sharp protrusion on his chest; G. gave him a piece, he left; G. put the dagger under the burka with the point up, hid behind the trees; chokochi came, fell his chest on the burka, G. shot him; ochochi with roared away]: 320.
Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [Eztyrnak (Copper Claw) in the form of a man or woman approaches people at night, goes to bed, breaks his heart at night]: Khisamitdinova 2011:148-149; mari [son of a mare, son of a wolf and the bear's son came to the house where three girls cook pancakes; the skull will eat them when he comes; but the pancakes were eaten by the young men who came; the skull was furious, went to bring 300 warriors; the boys prepared 300 arrows; all three were killed; the skull took the girls underground; the mare has three souls; she found a son, gave him a soul, he came to life; asked two comrades to be revived; the mare and gave them souls, died herself; her son wrapped her in birch bark, buried; the comrades lowered the mare's son on a rope into a hole in the ground; below the house, in which an old woman, hid the mare's son under her hollow; her three sons came, each brought three deer; they feel a man they promise not to harm him; in the morning they showed the way to the skull; the mare's son came to another woman; she has no water, a serpent has been lying on the way to the river for three years; a young man killed him with a club, brought water; a woman shows the way to the house of the skull; do not enter, wait for the wife to go out; the wife says that she goes to fetch water and has a baby; the wife of a wolf's son herds cows, and the wife of the bear's son sleeps with a skull; promises to ask the skull where his soul is; the woman quietly stabs the baby with a needle, he cries, she explains that the baby wants to know where the soul of his skull father is; skull: in a duck on a pond in the middle of the forest; woman stopped stabbing with a needle, the baby died; the mare's son went to the skull and killed the duck, which died; the mare's son brought the women to the rope; his comrades picked up the women, and he was only half the height, threw off the rope ; he fell on his feathers; came to the sons of the first old woman; two say they cannot carry him to the ground; the third tells him to prepare meat and feed it when he flies upstairs; the mare's son cut off the last piece from his leg; the old woman's son blew on the wound, healed his leg; married his wife; confesses (alive?) mother, that his comrades were worse than he thought]: Beke 1938, No. 36:311-324.
Turkestan. Kazakhs [zhez-tyrnaki are women with copper claws; J. comes to the hunter's halt, then leaves; the hunter covers a block of wood with his clothes, hides; J. rushes, her claws get stuck in the deck; a man shoots, cuts off his hands with copper nails, takes it with him]: Ostroumov 1891:202-203; Kyrgyz [younger brother Omurzak is going hunting, elder Zhanuzak decides to go instead; he knows that O. met not an argali yesterday, but a copper-bearing Gestyrmak; she spends the night in a cave, a young woman comes up, hides her nose and fingers, Zhanuzak throws a smut at her, she runs away; he hides in a tree leaves a log by the fire, covered with a chapan; the copper-nosed comes up, mistakes the log for a sleeping person, pierces his claws and nose into it, the hunter shoots, kills it]: Ledenyov 1987:218-219.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians [returning to the farce, two hunters find two girls; the older brother warns that this is Alwun/Alban, the youngest does not pay attention; the elder puts instead of themselves, a log, sits next to a gun; at night, the girls release their claws from their long sleeves, pierce a log, the elder shoots; rubs the youngest's body with snow, only after that he woke up]: Belgibayev 2006:232.
Western Siberia. The Southern Selkups [logo (the devil) asks to be transported across the river; he must be put in a boat facing him; if with his back, he will move and stab him with iron elbows; on the other side he will ask whether to give money or fur; you must ask for fur; he will take six steps, leave fur on each; you have to take six; at the seventh step he will kill]: Pelikh 1972:324 (retelling and other sources in Tuchkova 2004:198); Eastern Khanty (Salym) [when you are sailing by boat along Maly Salym, you may meet an iron man with pins with iron tips on his elbows and knees; he asks to be transported to the other side; you cannot sit him with your back to him, otherwise he will plug him with his sharp pins; when you sit face to him and drive away from the shore, you must swing the boat and dump it into the river; then you have to sit on the shore and wait for the sixth birch bark to pop up; they put it in a sacred chest, it brings happiness; you can't take the seventh, otherwise the Iron Man will pop up and kill]: Vizgalov, Kardash 2010:88-89, 184-185.
The Arctic. Caribou [see motif K33; Kiviok sleeps in the house of an old woman with an iron blade protruding from behind; puts a flat stone on his chest; an old woman jumps on it, dies pierced with his own blade]: Rasmussen 1930b: 97-99; Baffin's Land [people are constantly tearing the boy's clothes; his grandmother teaches him to become a seal, to lure hunters into the open sea; one Kiviuk escapes ; sails to an old woman; a human head in her house teaches him to put a flat stone on himself; at night an old woman tries to pierce K. with her sharp tail, breaks it; the door in her house slams shut, when K. tries to go out; he slips through, only the edge of his clothes is cut off; K. comes to two women; the young husband has a piece of wood; brings her seals when she lets him go to sea; K. marries her, a piece of wood Jealous but powerless; the woman's mother kills her by removing her lice; puts on her skin; K. finds out the change when she sees that his wife is unable to carry the seal he has caught; sails away in a boat, returns home]: Boas 1901b, No. 15:182-185; the Polar Eskimos [people are constantly tearing the boy's clothes; his grandmother teaches him to become a seal, to lure hunters into the open sea; Kiwiok was kind to the boy, remains alive, gets to various strange creatures; the woman has a sharp tail, she tries to sit on K., he dodges, leaves (var: she pierces herself); the man invites K. to look down the cliff; K. has time for him collide himself; sees numerous victims below the bones; the girl and her mother consider her husband to be a tree female with thickened penises; when they throw such a penis into the water, he brings them seals; K. marries to the girl, the female trembles with jealousy; the girl's mother kills her, wears her skin; K. discovers the deception when he sees that his wife cannot lift the seal; returns home; the first wife thought he died, married to others]: Holtved 1951, No. 3:104-120 (per. Menovshchikov 1985, No. 227:434-438); polar (Smith Strait) [a woman with an iron tail devoured men; when a stranger came to see her, she waited for him to fall asleep and, jumping into the air, fell on the sleeper, piercing him with his tail; one man pretended to fall asleep, but when she jumped, he rolled back to the side; the woman fell on a stone and broke her tail; the man ran away on She ran after her kayak; when she came closer, she shouted: "Oh, if only I could stick my knife into it!" At her scream, the man almost rolled over with the kayak, that was her strength; the man replied, "Oh, if only I could put my harpoon into it!" At his scream, the woman fell on the spot; and she did not kill anyone else - her tail was broken]: Rasmussen 1921:83; Igloolik (Repulse Bay) [Aningaat is blind; his mother points his arrow at a polar bear, says that A. got into a dog; feeds him a dog, eats bear meat herself with her daughter; his sister secretly gives it to his brother; takes him to the lake; Loon dives with him, rubs his eyes three times, he sees the light; ties a tench to her mother's belt, harpoons a large white whale, which takes its mother to sea; brother and sister come to people with long nails; a sister comes into the house to ask for water; the inhabitants begin to rip it off meat; brother breaks in, kills everyone with an ice ax; wipes his sister's back with snow and urine, flesh recovers; they come to the cup-and-ball players; A. picks up one device, runs away; come to people without anus; A. tells her sister to take her husband there; she gives birth; the local foreman says they now have a man with an anus and a penis; pierces his anus; another pierced, missed, died; A. began to go to his sister secretly; she smeared her nose with soot; both came to the meeting house, where it was a holiday; everyone laughs at A. when she saw his black nose; his sister dips a moss torch in fat, runs away; A. runs after her, but did not dip the torch in the fat, so it went out quickly; the sister became the sun, A. month]: Spalding 1979:48-50; West Greenland [the wife pretends to be dead, Kivik buries her; the child sees the mother with new husband; K. kills her and her lover, leaves the child, swims across the sea; two icebergs converge and diverge; only the tip of the kayak's stern is damaged; K. sleeps with an old woman and her daughter; notices a sharp ledge on old woman's back; quietly puts a flat stone on her chest; at night an old woman jumps on it, breaking her tail; her daughter K. kills with a harpoon; comes to other old women and daughters, lives with them, helping to catch halibut; after many years he returns to his son; he grew up to be a brave hunter]: Rink 1975, No. 15:257-261 (trans. Changers 1985, No. 258:473-476); Angmassalik [Anninguaq woman has a sharp iron tail; when a man sleeping with her falls asleep, she stabs him to death; this is how she kills men; the Saqaq hunter does not sleep, turns away, A. breaks the tip of his tail; when S. swims away, A. tries to drown him with magic, but S. gets out of the whirlpool, tells A.'s tail to sink; the tail falls off, sinks, A. no longer killed men]: Millman 2004:141-142.
Subarctic. Koyukon [brothers disappear one by one; younger Betohoh (then his name is K'etaalkkaanee, "The one who rowed {in a boat} among humans and animals") goes in search; sails to a woman who scrapes human skin; offers B. a man, he says he is not hungry; walks along the path, there is a lake; the head of one of the brothers rolls out of the lake; advises putting a stone on his chest for the night; a woman takes B. to her bed; at night she gets up and sharpens something; B. puts a stone on her chest; a woman sits on him, the blade that comes out from behind her body breaks; his boat is tied to the shore; he sends a woman to fetch water, quietly cuts the ropes, swims away, the woman swims after him; he kills a beaver, falls asleep in the shallows; when he wakes up, he sees a woman who has refreshed the beaver and made it fresh skin blanket; B. kills a woman]: Attla 1990:120-125; tanana: De Laguna 1995, No. 5 [Cetitalkani makes a boat out of partridge and birch bark sternum, sails down the Yukon, meets various groups of animal people; Rabbit kills people by piercing them with its pointed tail; C. puts a flat stone on his chest, Rabbit breaks its tail, C. turns it into rabbits], 9 [about the same]: 98, 129; atna: Billum 1979 [(quail in Smelcer 1997:59-61); hunters disappear, find everyone with a pierced throat; Ciił Hwyaa lay down with a stone slab on his throat and chest; a rabbit came, jumped to pierce his throat with a sharp tail, broke his tail, since then it has been soft and bent]: 25-26; Tansy 1982 [hunters disappear one by one; everyone is found with a pierced chest; Lynx takes with The scraper, when going to bed, puts it under his clothes; at night, the Rabbit comes, tries to plunge his sharp tail into the sleeper, runs away, screaming in pain; a week later, Lynx finds the Rabbit in his lower back festering wound; Lynx cleans it, sews it up, brings fuel to the patient for the fire; Rabbit says Lynx saved his life]: 63-65; Kuchin [Jateaquoynt comes to the Bear; one of his two Daughters warn that her father kills sleeping guests with his sharp tail; D. puts a flat stone on his chest; the bear breaks its tail, dies; since then, the bears have a short tail]: McKennan 1965: 106-107; Khan [two Rabbits sit on the sides of the path, killing their sharp long tails; Tsa'Wëzhaa (Beaver) is tied with pieces of strong birch bark, Rabbit tails break]: Mishler 2004, No. 4:152; tagish [a woman with knife hands asks Beaver (Smart Man) to marry her daughter; at night he changes places with his wife, a woman pierces her daughter with her hands, Beaver runs away]: McClelland 2007, No. 74b: 373-373; doghrib [giant kidnaps boy; Moose saves him, carries him on his back, teaches him to take with him, throw a stone, a ball of earth, a piece of moss, a tree branch along the way; abandoned turns into rocks, hills, swamp, forest; The elk transports the boy across the river; the giant asks to transport him too; the elk throws him into the water; after escaping from the giant, the young man comes to the man who gives him 7 arrows, telling them not to climb a tree if the arrows are stuck; a young man climbs into the sky; two blind old women have taken the heavenly leader's magic belt; a young man comes to old women; from their backs copper blades protrude; he throws a bag of feathers between them; old women pierce each other; the young man returns the belt to the chief, marries his daughter; the northern lights are Ithenhiela's fingers (Ithenhiela - boy's name)]: Bell 1903, No. 3:80-84; taltan [cannibal mother and daughter have knives on their elbows; kill men, luring them to lie down with their daughter; the man cuts his daughter's throat with a knife, runs away, hides in log shelter; the old woman gets tired of crumbling logs, he also kills her with a knife]: Teit 1921a, No. 46:241-242.
NW Coast. The Tlingits [the son of the Fire Drill kills the ogre, comes to his wife; she cooks human eyes and fingers; she has knives in her arms; she stabs the young man, he dodges, the knife gets stuck in a pole; he throws him back, killing her]: Swanton 1909, No. 31:96; Tsimshian [Nebu is annoyed by the noise of children playing; he lowers his feathers; one boy puts them on his head, starts to rise into the air; others they grab him, stick, all the people of the village disappear into the sky; a menstruating girl and her grandmother remain; the girl puts three wedges of different tree species, a grain grater, a knife on her stomach; after four the day gives birth to sons and (from a knife) a daughter; when they begin to climb, the Grater turns into a mountain; when the mountain begins to tremble, the sister cuts off the feathers with a knife; they remain forever on the elder's head brother; now his name is Rotten Feathers; bones fall from the sky; GP runs feathers over them, reviving the dead; {here p. 100 ends the first part}; brothers go up the river; old woman Great Goose warns them of dangers; an old woman Knife-hand cuts off the heads of her daughter's grooms; GP crosses a fragile bridge with magic feathers on the way to her; at night she changes her hairstyle to his wife's and vice versa ; the old woman mistakenly cuts off her daughter's head; the GP leaves, changes her name to Labretka; marries Sna's daughter, runs with her; the night pot warns the owner, he does not react; then a wooden hammer Hits him, Sleep wakes up, catches up with the fugitives in his fast boat, creates a mountain in front of them, then throws a comb, which turns into a forest; Labretka makes a passage both times with his magic pen; Sleep stops chasing; his mask is used in rituals]: Boas 1902:94-100, 234-235.
The coast is the Plateau. Career: Jenness 1934, No. 6 [see motif B6, L1; brother and sister stay alone, get married; their young son kills people by taking their tongues out to sleep; two girls were in ritual isolation. escape; push a child into the fire, his ashes turn into mosquitoes; one conceives from a stone; dies because her child is too heavy and hard; the other conceives from a pen, gives birth to Ahlnuk and his three brothers (Ahlnuk, Tachandalkan, Taslas and one more); they kill a big snake that drowned people; kill two grizzlies that did not give people water; A. asks the man what he does; I cut out a club to kill A.; A. touches his lips with his finger, it falls dead; brothers come to people who are going to cut a woman to extract the child; A. teaches childbirth; a man harpoonite fish with its pointed tibia; A. turns into salmon, the person misses, breaks the bone against the stone; sharpens again; A. makes him a normal leg, gives him a jail (the origin of the jail)], 10 ( Hagvilgate) [a young man comes into the world of the dead; an old woman adopts him; two blind women pierce the suitors of a girl living in their house with sharp forearms; the young man changed his jewelry (now his name is Kite (Labretka), women pierce the girl hoping to kill K.; K. throws his blanket inside the house; women pierce each other, die; K. kidnaps the wife of Great Sonya; K.'s adoptive mother gives him a boat copper oars and hats; the fugitives are unharmed when the Great Sonya sends flint and stone rains; K. brings his wife home; see motif K1], 30 (Fort Fraser) [Ayas comes to two blind women; they have sharp elbows; he throws his cape between them, they pierce each other; he replaces their tips with normal arms; makes them sighted], 43 (Hagvilgate) [boy and girl hunt squirrels; girl laughs hysterically, scratches his stomach, dies; a young man reaches the river, is transported to the other side; an old woman warns him of dangers; a blind old woman lures grooms to his daughter, kills him at night piercing them with pointed forearm bones; a young man changes jewelry with her daughter, she kills her daughter; he kills and blinds an old woman; kidnaps the Sleepy's wife]: 129-136, 145-147, 191, 219-220; Thompson [the fat old man never shows his legs; wears them off, sharpening them like awls; kills many people; one young man dodges the blow, first one leg, then the other, gets stuck in a pole; a young man kills him; var.: a young man cuts off an old man's legs with a big knife]: Teit 1917b, No. 28:46; twana [the girl has her first period; contrary to the prohibition, she swims in the lake; the man sits on her clothes; repeats her words until she calls him husband; she lives with him in a lake; her five brothers come one after another; her husband pierces four with his sharp tail; the fifth turns the stump into a man, a tail gets stuck in it, a young man kills a monster; in his stomach he finds the hearts of his brothers, revives them; a woman's daughter scratches people's eyes with her nails; Raven women take her away in a boat; row, immersing their oars not with a plane and an edge, they fly away in crows; the raccoon takes the girl with his second wife]: Adamson 1934:371-374; quinalt [the giant has sharp icicles on his toes instead of his nails; he pierces his victims with them; a man hides behind a stump, a giant's leg gets stuck in a stump; a man kills a giant with a spear]: Farrand 1902, No. 15:125-126; quileut [Tustus kills people by piercing them with his long sharp with her foot; a woman gets lost, comes to his house; he eats her child's liver, bewitches the woman; like the other captives, she cannot move; her three brothers come looking for her one by one ; two are killed, T. swallows their liver; the youngest hides behind a thick log; T.'s leg gets stuck in a log, the man pierces T. with a spear; takes what he swallows from his stomach, resurrects his brothers and nephew; the spell breaks, bewitched women are able to move again]: Reagan, Walters 1933:327-329; kordalen [woman goes daily to dig rhizomes (probably hogfennel, Peucedanum palustre, mustard plaster marsh); her mother looks after her son; he has grown up, asks about his father, the grandmother replies that he did not have a father; he threatens to kill her with a stick, she admits that his father is a rhizome of mustard plaster; young man The Chief Son-Root (SK) leaves, summons a monstrous fish out of the water, pulls its throat out, turns it into a boat; the Pest boy asks to take him with him, jumps in a boat, the UK turns it just into a pestle; sees a burning tree, comes up, there Grouse (Foolhen, Falcipennis canadensis) touches his burnt eyebrows; SK tells him to peck raw moss, no longer build a house or cook on fire; and before Black grouse collected moss under his wing, setting fire to a tree and rushing into the fire; the rabbit jumped into the boat, the UK killed him; the Otter (Fisher) demanded its prey, threatened to hit the water with its tail, sprayed the UK with its tail ; he killed her, threw her to the rabbit; comes to the house, there are many children, the hostess tells them that their father will soon return from hunting; the children see the Otter killed by the UK, he was their father; the UK revives him; enters the house where the walls of the awl; beret is large with patterns, the awls dig into it; he sets fire to the house, says that Shilla will no longer be cannibals, but will become awls for making moccasins; the same in the house where the Combs are; where Bubbles (they will now store tobacco in them); Kingfisher dives but the fish slips out; he washes the smell of fish into the bucket, cooks soup, he likes it; he makes Kingfisher claws and beaks so that the fish is easy to grab; he should not live in a house, but by the river, eat raw fish; the same with Osprey; by the river, a man with one leg is a spear; SK turns into salmon, harpoons, breaks off, carries tip; harpoons fish with it; Ostronog sharpens his tibia again; SK comes to him, says he has caught salmon with the tip stuck; Ostronog tries to cover his leg with a cloak; SK offers to play hoop and stick on capes, wins, Ostronog is forced to give his own, SK hits him on the leg with a stick, makes it normal, gives a moose horn, tells him to make moose horn tips from now on , not from their own bone; everyone goes out to meet the UK; the ugly Toad causes rain, enters the house; the UK is forced to enter her; he addresses her, naming varying degrees of kinship, and finally says "wife"; she jumps between his eyes; he can't take her off; the Coyote says he should choose the Sun and the Month; the Robin is too hot, the Coyote talks about everything she sees; the UK says it will be the Month, will go far to The toad was not so visible on his face; Toadstool's son is one-eyed, becomes a good Sun - he does not see everything so clearly and is not so hot; when the sun is less bright, he can see a one-eyed toadstool]: Reichard 1947, No. 1:57-63; (cf. Upper coquil [Coyote sees Jarval harpooning salmon on the other side; not catching with Coyote; Coyote turns into salmon, harpoons, swims away, taking the tip away; the crane is going to make a new one out of its own leg bone; the Coyote says it has found that salmon, returns the tip; the crane and his wife give him dried salmon]: Jacobs 2007:266-268).
The Midwest. Winnebago [Sharp Elbow has sharp knees and elbows; kidnaps the Hare's lightning arrow, kills his friend; The Hare puts the whetstone forward, the elbows and knees of the Sharp Elbow break against the stone; the Hare kills with his arrow, revives a friend, orders the children and pregnant wives of the Sharp Elbow to be burned]: Radin 1956, No. 7:67-70; Western Swamp Cree (Stone Cree) [grandfather takes Ayās to the island to collect bird eggs, tells me to move away, sails away in a boat; the Horned Serpent says he is Grandma A., tells him to sit between the horns, drives him across the lake, asks me to say if a storm cloud appears; A. denies that the cloud is close, says that this is just the noise of water being cut; he jumps off the shore, lightning strikes the Horned Serpent; in the morning A. collects blood in a birch bark vessel, the Horned Serpent revives, sends it to Grandma A. Frog; she does not repair his moccasins well, the stitches are wide; the next grandmother Mouse repairs well, warns of two blind old women with sharp elbows; A. comes to their house, says he is going to go out, he gets out of the teepee in another place, the old women pierce each other; from another old woman A. feeds poisoned food to a fox hidden under her clothes, throws a fox at the old woman, the fox kills her; A. comes to a scabbed woman who cuts wood; a bird tells her that her son has returned, she does not believe it at first; says A. that those people burn her face and hands every night; A. tells her to ask for a baby throw him into the fire, call him; A. says he will burn the earth, his grandfather and his people do not believe; he fires arrows, everything lights up; A. turns into a crow, his mother into a woodpecker; the woodpecker has a black back and a white apron on the chest]: Brightman 1989:105-112; Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [see motif L70; Wai-Mishus leaves his son Iyas 'a on the island; he returns home; two blind old women with Travelers are killed with sharp elbows; I. throws clothes between them, old women pierce each other; I. revives them, cuts off their tips, heals their eyes]: Ray, Stevens 1971:112-120; Eastern Cree (Rupert House) [ Aioswé has two wives, he is jealous of one of them for her son from the other; noticing her marks of touch (without details), considers it a sign of treason; swims with the young man to the island to collect bird eggs, throws; Walrus ( i.e. a horned monster) transports the young man, asks him to say if he hears thunder; the young man lies as if the rumble they hear is being made by Walrus himself; next time it throws the rider into the water, but the shore is near; Thunder kills Walrus (var.: he escapes; seagulls carry the young man ashore); the old woman explains what to do on his way home and when he returns, gives a caress skin in a white winter outfit; comes to two old women (obviously blind - they do not see who has come), they have sharp elbows; the young man attaches a bundle to the stick, sticks a bundle between them, they pierce each other; human bones hang along the path; if you hurt, they will thunder, dogs will hear and tear; the young man digs an underground passage but touches his bones; dogs scream that it is the son of A.; the young man sticks out his head caresses, people think that the dogs were wrong, they kill them; at home the young man fires an arrow, setting fire to the ground, the second makes the water boil; A. asks how to escape, the son advises to sit in a vessel of bear fat, A. burns; the son draws a line in a circle, inside it the son and mother safe; son offers to become birds; mother turns into robin, son into Canadian jay]: Skinner 1911:92-95; Ojibwa [see motif K1; father leaves young man on island; returning home, he arranged for two old women with awl elbows to kill each other]: Jones 1916, No. 26:378; timagami ojibwa [like a Cree; a young man throws his clothes at the door, the old women rush after them, pierce each other friend; he cuts their bodies into pieces, they turn into bats]: Speck 1915d, No. 10:62-63; Steppe Cree: Bloomfield 1930, No. 19 [see J20 motive; the enemy cuts off the head of Wampum, takes her away; the body remains alive; the sister marries a man from the West, gives birth to twins; they have knives on their elbows; the twins fly their arrows to visit V.'s body; the raven guards V.'s head; one of the twins turns into a swallow, the raven drives him away; the other turns into a hawk, brings his head, revives V.; all three return to sister V. and her husband; the husband, V., the eldest twin, disappear one by one, swallowed by the Snake; the elder rips open the Snake with his sharp elbows, swallowed out; the twins turn their parents into two thorny trees; V. are told to stay in the west, people will dream of him; themselves turn into two stars], 34 [the older sister wants a bright, younger dim star to be her husband; both wake up in the sky; the husband of the youngest young, the eldest gray; the stars leave home at night; the old woman advises sisters dig a 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, rope breaks, sisters fall to the top of the tree; Bear, Lynx cannot 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 a wolverine; At night, by the fire, the eldest 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 cannot help them, the eldest a sister kills them with her sharp leg; a one-legged man cuts 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. Next story Bison Kidnaps a Woman]: 152-162, 326-332; stoney [the pointy leg motif is popular with stoney]: Lowie 1909a: 119, 184 (note).
Northeast. Seneca [a person hits a fish with a pointed tibia; explains to others that he sharpened it himself, can make it whole by spitting on it; people break their legs, can't catch anything, suffer from wounds; understand it was the Shodieonscon trickster]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 56:283-284; naskapi: Norman 1990 [Ayaje decides to marry two sisters with sharp elbows; in their the village sees human skulls; runs away, carrying skulls; sisters come to his village, kill everyone with their elbows; A. left alone]: 216-218; Speck 1925 [A.'s two wives have arms below their elbows as sharp as knives and awls; one of them cuts off their baby's leg, cooks; they argue which of them did it, fight; stab child to death]: 8-9; Montagnier [see motive F69; Chief Ayasheu's youngest wife falsely accuses his son of harassment; A. leaves him on the island; the Horned Being transports him to the mainland; he comes to the house of two blind old men with sharp elbows; throws his jacket at the door, old men pierce each other]: Desbarats 1969:6-12; mikmaq [the old woman pierces those who come with her sharp with their elbows; Gluscap lets his dogs down on her, they tear her to pieces]: Michelson 1925:52.
Plains. Sarsi [two hunters spent the night, one asked the other to set up separate huts, threw him meat, it turned out to be human; he heard a crunch of bones and saw his friend sharpening himself 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-footed 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]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 31:40; black-legged [one wife is jealous of another; cuts off and sharpens her leg; people run; she comes to another camp; many are pierced by bone; a warrior kills her; she is buried]: Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. 9:153; assiniboine: Lowie 1909a, No. 23 [And no one sees four boys throwing their eyes at a pine tree, they return to their eye sockets; I. catches his eyes queues, boys warn not to go far away; one cuts off his legs, sharpens his bone, kills an antelope; the other kills an elk in the same way; they give the same strength to I., but tells him to do this trick only in the presence of someone; I. catches his eyes twice in a row, they stay on the pine tree; the boys reach out, return AND, but deprive him of his ability to do the trick; I. one sharpens his legs kills an antelope; when he wants to kill a bear, he gets stuck in a tree; boys release him, take away his strength, more I. did not try to sharpen his legs], 26 [two women kill men by inviting them to their place home and piercing with sharp elbows; the hero asks women to sit with their backs; leaves a blanket between them; they pierce each other], 27 [two young men travel; at night alone hears him the companion cuts his 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 the companion; both continue their journey] , 28 [a young man sleeps in the house; hears his friend outside cutting a bone, making a sharp leg; a young man runs, a friend chases him, his leg gets stuck in a tree, he dies]: 117-119, 183-184, 184-186, 186; Grovantre: Cooper 1975, No. 10 [a man with a sharp iron leg invites others to play football; pierces them; the hero puts a tree in his place, it gets stuck, the hero kills him]: 477-478; Kroeber 1907b, No. 20 [see motif K27; a clot of bison blood turns into a young man, goes to exterminate monsters; a man with a sharp leg plays with others, kicks to death; a Blood clot substitutes poplar himself, his leg gets stuck in it]: 82-90; crowe [two young men return from the hike, spend the night in the hut; one cuts off, 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; bone gets stuck in the trunk, Ostronog dies]: Lowie 1918:212- 214; sheyens [a man with a pointed leg pierces it into trees, pulls it out; this can only be done four times a day; a European sharpens his leg with an ax, repeats the prank four times; animals ask him to show his art again; his foot gets stuck in a tree, a European dies]: Grinnell 1900:169 in Edmonds, Clark 1989:187; (cf. Shayena [the daughter is naughty, her mother kicks her out the door, says that owls take her; the Owl takes her to her parents' house; in the morning she is sent for brushwood; the Sparrow, then the Flycatcher, Blackbird says that the Owls are going to eat it; the Hawk takes her to the mountain; calling Hawk her husband, she enters the cave; the owl demands to open the door and return his food; the hawk grandfather tells me to open it a little, girl pushes the door again, cutting off Owl's head; they burned her body, beads and jewelry fell out of it; the girl wanted to take them, the hawk grandfather shoved everything into the fire; the girl grew up, wanted to go home; she was dressed up as Backward-Talking-Warrior (Shayen's best warriors); Grandfather hawk gives affection; a woman calls to her on the way, offers a brain cauldron, the girl feeds everything to caress; eats bison meat; at night a woman scratches her leg, making it a club; the girl does not sleep, lets go of caress, she gnaws the meat out of the woman's leg; she dies; the girl comes to her own; the young men ask for her costume; she teaches that the warriors of the union Backwards must do the opposite (if told to go forward, they must go back); this is how Shayen's military alliances arose]: Marriott, Rachlin 1975:43-48); arpahoes: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, #57 [friend Nihansana sharpens her leg, acting like a spear, kills a bison, treats N. with meat; N. repeats the trick, but his leg gets stuck in the bison; a friend frees him], 108 [the young man hunts, is hungry at night, cuts off his legs, roasts and eats; sharpens his leg; others run away, leaving decks instead; he kills many, kills himself with an arrow; his corpse has been burned], 109 [two young men travel, spend the night in two separate huts; one sharpens his leg with an ax, offers to shove 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]: 112, 257, 258; santi [see motive K1; older brother's wife accuses younger brother of trying to rape her; husband sends Unktomi to take brother to Unvisited Island to collect bird eggs, throw there; a young man meets various monsters; comes to two blind people (?) old women who have awls; throws a blanket between them, they pierce each other]: Riggs 1893:139-143; teton (Brule) [five brothers disappear one by one; sister swallows a pebble in despair, gives birth to a Stone Boy; he comes to an old woman, she asks her to stretch her back; she has a sharp ledge on her back, she killed people with it; the Stone Boy breaks her back, revives her uncle in the steam room]: Erdoes, Ortiz 1984:15-19; iowa [see J27 motif; a man does not tell a pregnant wife to look at a guest if he comes in his absence; for the fourth time she looks, sees his second face on the back of his head and sticking out the elbows are sharp bones; he kills her with them; the husband pulls the twins out of her belly; they grow up to kill various monsters, including Sharp Elbows; to do this, the elder tells the youngest to cut it and cook it; he jumps out of the cauldron, pouring boiling water over Sharp Elbows]: Skinner 1925, No. 1:427-441; arpaho [an old woman asks men to step on her back to relieve spinal pain; they step on a sharp one ledge, die; this is how ten brothers disappear one by one; their sister swallows a pebble, gives birth to a son; he is a stone, pressing an old woman when he steps on her; revives his uncle; his mother gives birth to a girl; sister comes to him; he paints her shoulder; recognizes her sister in the morning; leaves shame, turns into a light stone]: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 85:181-186; arikara [the old man sharpens his leg, kills another son-in-law, asking him to kick each other; this is how everyone who moves to his winter camp and marries his daughter dies; the latter climbs a tree, father-in-law jumps to pierce him, but stabs his foot in trunk; stays hanging, dying; son-in-law with wife and mother-in-law return to the village]: Parks 1996, No. 6:143-145; Kiova-Apache [warriors go on a campaign, two are lost, come back, starve; one suggests 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; the tree lifts it up to its fork; the one-legged comes running tries to crush the trunk with a sharp bone; a tree clamps a bone; a man kills a one-legged arrow, returns home]: McAlister 1949, No. 37:105-108; tonkawa [a young man comes to the cannibal; she has sharp iron elbows; he puts a stone on his chest, the cannibal dies (without details)]: Hoijer 1972, No. 17:58-59.
Southeast USA. Caddo: Dorsey 1905, No. 32 [ten out of nine brothers disappear one by one; the youngest comes to the old ogre; he asks to pick up a log; the young man cannot, lies down on a log, the old man is ready pierce him with the iron nose of his mask; The sun raises the young man into the air, the mask's nose gets stuck in a log; the young man finishes off the ogre; the Sun advises to burn the ogre and his wife in their house, put an arrow up over a bunch of bones killed; the arrow falls, the brothers who live jump up; return home], 33 [six brothers disappear one by one; the sharp-nosed chief made them his slaves; the Coyote turns into a wooden mortar, goes with the flow; women catch a mortar, crush corn, flour goes missing; the chief realizes it's a Coyote, puts the mortar on a log to pierce his nose; the Coyote rolls down from a log, nose gets stuck; Coyote tells slaves to finish off the leader; brothers return home]: 58-59, 60-61; teal: Duncan 1998 [stone-clad cannibal kills people with her sharp finger; bird explains to the person that her heart is at the tip of this finger; he hits his finger with an arrow, the cannibal dies]: 62-66; Ten Kate 1889 [cannibals man and woman dressed in flint, have pointed steel hands; their hearts are in their hands; on the advice of a bird, people kill the cannibal by hitting her with arrows in her hands]: 54; screams: Gouge 2004, No. 15 [puma (the lion) came to the hunter's pregnant wife, pulled out the child from her womb, left in the basket under the bed, the woman's body was dragged away; the father raised the boy, made him an onion, who loses his bows every time; he admits that there is another boy in the thickets who call himself brother first; one day he came to live in the house; father tells me not to go where Sharp Hoof is; wild brother offers to go; boys steal from that bow, Sharp Hoof chases, tries to hit, his leg gets stuck in a tree trunk; boys cut off his nose, kill him, bring his father's nose to make a smoking pipe; his father lit it, told him to throw it away; does not tell him to touch Thunder's eggs; a wild boy decided to get eggs ; the brothers went after them, took them, went up into the sky, became thunders; one real boy, the other was a false boy]: 65-67.
California. Pomo [The Rat (Woodrat) travels to exterminate monsters; Sharp Heel invites him to marry her daughter; at night he wants to pierce his son-in-law with his sharp heel; he cuts off the edge, the woman dies]: Barrett 1933, No. 80/X: 302-303
Big Pool. Eastern shoshones [like Assiniboine; women are blind]: Saint Clair 1909b, No. 4:267.
The Northern Andes. Cannibal forest spirits. Amberas [live on trees, their hands are knives]: Chaves 1945 (katio) [by Rochereau; Bibidi gomia, who had knife hands, lived on the tops of giant trees; one day one went down and came to an Indian house , killed a woman; the husband followed, climbed the vine, killed the jaguar guarding the lair; then the demons were smoked]: 196-197; Betania in Pinto García 1978:142; nonama [knife hand]: Wassen 1935, No. 9: 137-139.
Southern Venezuela. A girl's nails are like knives. Sanema: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 252 [Tinimisoma had sharp claws; another woman asked her to hold the baby; T. cut it, ate her liver; then killed her brother when he went to forest, put her liver in the basket; people identified the liver, threw T. into the fire], 253 [the girl has her first period; claws like the battleship tinimi; her husband went with her to the forest, she killed him, ate meat, the rest put it in a basket; she also killed her brother, brought her liver home; then another person; people identified the liver, noticed blood on its claws; it was thrown into the fire, pelted with tree trunks]: 473-475; yanomam [at her first period, Teremë's mother tells her to keep her hands clenched; she keeps them open, her hand turns into a sharp claw; she sharpens it; kills her sister's child when she her husband climbed a tree for fruit; her sister runs away; her husband hesitates to get down; when he gets off, T. kills him, drinks blood, brings pieces of meat in the basket under the guise of meat to bakers; people recognize a man; they arrange a party, throw T. into the fire, it burns]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 251:470-472.
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]: García 1993, No. 95 [after sending two sons to a palm grove, the father warns not to enter the village of Toads; the eldest goes there, gets drunk, the youngest brings him to an abandoned village; at dawn he asks to start a fire, falls asleep with his foot in the fire; sharpens his charred leg with a knife; when he falls asleep again, his younger brother runs away; the elder pursues, He pierces a sharp leg into a deer, counts his toes, two of them, realizes that it is not his brother; the youngest manages to swim across the river in a boat; the brothers' father consistently sends two birds, Ostronog kills them; sends Owl, that shaman, dodges, lures Ostrony to people's homes, they kill him with arrows; the sharp-legged was dismembered, his bones were ground, the remains reigned into wasps and poisonous snakes]: 308-310; Wilbert 1970, No. 41 [anneals both legs, sharpens one; without chasing a deer], 156 [two brothers hunt, hear the sounds of the holiday; there are frog spirits; the eldest calls to go, drinks at the festival, the youngest did not drink; brothers they spend the night in a hut; the elder hangs his legs in the fire, burns and sharpens both; lying in a hammock, pierces birds and animals with his foot; the younger brother catches birds for him, the elder does not allow him to go far; the younger said that the arrow was stuck in a tree, started running; the eldest chases, mistakenly rushes after the deer, counts his fingers are 3, not 5; the youngest brings people; the hummingbird tries to lure the sharp-footed to an open place, he kills him; the squirrel lures him, people kill him], 157 [the father sent two sons for palm larvae, warned him not to go to the frog village or drink there; the eldest went, the youngest dragged him to an abandoned house in the morning; in a dream, he burned his right leg, sharpened him; the youngest started running; the eldest mistakenly chases a deer, counts his fingers 2, not 5; the youngest jumps into the boat = dolulenka, the eldest manages to plunge his foot into the stern, but cannot hold the boat; the father sent people to lure the elder; two species of birds could not, killed; the owl lured; the shark was killed with arrows, cut; bones and pieces of flesh turned into wasps and reptiles, the sharp leg into a prickly plant], 158 [burns in her sleep]: 110-112, 332-336, 337-339; curl [woman hears the whistle of the forest spirit, whistles back; that turns her legs into stone daggers, her heart into stone; she stalks her husband, kills a caiman mistaking him for her husband; her brothers kill her with an arrow]: Roth 1915, No. 125:194; kalinya [in the woods the wife waits for the man while he hunts; she thinks that she hears a bird, whistles back; it was the demon Yawahë, he is furious, turning the woman's legs into stone points and her heart into stone; a woman rushes to kill everyone, eventually killed herself]: Penard in Goeje 1943, No. d. 36:126; oyana [in the forest, hunters meet a spirit with limbs in the form of knives; they try to kill him with clubs, but he himself kills them]: Magaña 1987, no. 7:35.
NW Amazon. Chikuna: Nimuendaju 1952:146-147 [two brothers hunt; find a basket of boiled yams; the youngest eats; at night a demon tears off his leg; in the morning he says that bats have eaten his leg; deftly jumping on one leg, the cripple kills game with a club; he kills a vulture tapir, asks him to be taken to heaven; turns into Orion], 147 [two hunters find a basket of boiled yam in the forest; younger eats; sleeps soundly; the forest spirit tears off his leg; he deftly jumps on one leg, killing game with a club; vultures take him to heaven; he turns into Orion]; yagua [warriors go to take revenge on enemies; by they hit a toad in the road; this is the shaman Vatachar; the warriors rape his wife; two do not participate, they see V. weaving the basket; he says it's an eye basket, tells those two at night to settle away 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; The squirrel lures the rest to cross the ravine along a log whose end does not reach the other side; the log is an anaconda; a man jumps, swallows; finds a live Deer inside; they cut the anaconda from the inside with piranha teeth when it comes out into the sun digest food; the anaconda chases them, they throw it into the calebasa river, the anaconda sinks into the water; the man is bald, the birds make new hair out of bast, the monkey dyes it black; every night a person spits with another animal, everyone warns of the next meeting; Partridge's anus stinks, man spits, Partridge flies away, carrying fire; Man plugs anus to an anteater with a tampon; he thinks that the Partridge has bewitched, is grateful to the man when he removes the tampon; the turtle mumbles that he will eat poisonous rhizomes, the man turns it into a turtle; Termite mound falls off a tree to crush a man, he dodges, tells the termite mounds to be on the ground since then; copulates with the Frog, which warns that her husband Battleship is jealous; Battleship calls a man in a hole, hoping to leave him in the lower world; a man climbs a tree, a battleship causes the wind, he has to get down; a man comes to the Wild Pigs Festival (a series of episodes); to Agouti (kills them); home to wife and sons]: Powlison 1959:11-12; 1993:97-118.
Central Amazon. Munduruku [Akainoatpyo is his nephew, Karujuribo is his uncle; K. turns into deer and other animals, A. cannot kill them; Grandma A. advises him to kill a tapir with his hand in him ass; tapir - K.; he jumps up, drags A. through Tapajos, frees him, emptying his stomach; advises choosing a third crocodile with trees growing on its back to cross the river; now the name A. - Perisvat; returning home, P. goes through various adventures; spends the night with a man whose leg bones are devoid of flesh, pointed; he tries to pierce P.; when his leg pierces a tree, P. ties her with a bowstring; releases her in the morning]: Kruse 1949, No. 33:643; Murphy 1958, No. 29:95-102.
Eastern Amazon. Shipaya: Nimuendaju 1920 [Kuñarima is the son of Kumafyari (=Marušawa, from morubišaba, "leader"); the beginning is not recorded; M.'s wife, Kamādu, came to Mukure's opossum, who climbed onto the roof over her hammock (and apparently conceived a second son, Aruβiata); as punishment for the twins breaking the water vessels from which rivers flowed out, M. decided to burn the brothers, set fire behind them, but while they were sleeping, the fire also stood; K. extinguished the fire with a feather panicle; then M. told the brothers to maintain the pan on which M.'s wife fried manioc flour; A. turned white and said that he was no longer he can stand it, but K. spat on him, he became crax again; they went swimming, A. could not dive because the water around him was boiling; K. blew, his brother cooled down; the brothers went hunting birds, M. warned to be afraid Awa; A. decided to be the first to try to take the hook away from Av, became a fish, Ava and his friend fished it, fried it; K. became a wasp, collected blood and giblets, revived his brother; he became a fish himself, bit it off, took the hook; Stork harpoons the fish with his beak; A. became a fish, the Stork harpooned it, ate it, K. revived it (like the previous episode); K. became a fish, dodged, Stork's beak stuck in a tree, K. cut it off, brought it to his father, he, like others the trophies of his sons, gave it to his wife; an old woman with a sharp leg sits by the path, asks passers-by to take out the sand flea, pierces him with her foot; A. pierced, the old woman fried him, ate him, his brother collected blood, revived him; when the old woman asked him to take out the flea and struck him, he dodged, his leg got stuck in a tree, he cut it off, brought it to his father; the brothers came to Adji ("wild"), they have no anus, defecate through their mouths; K. showed how to defecate, they also wanted their anus; K. began to pierce their anuses, killing them; A. did it less well, the stakes began to scream, others ran away; the brothers fried the dead, brought meat to their father; M. happy, ate meat with his sons, gave each house a hammock]: 1016-1022; 1922 [the warrior kills the enemy, fastes, stops fasting ahead of time; tells his wife to hang him a hammock in the forest; at night ants eat meat from his legs; he sharpens his bone, hunts for his son; then tells him not to come again; he violates the ban three times; the father pierces him, finally turns into an evil spirit]: 370; tenetehara [ Maira leaves, leaving his pregnant wife; she follows him, Meira's son (SM) shows her the way from the womb; asks her to pick a flower; the wasp bites the woman in the stomach, claps himself, trying to kill wasp; son thinks that his mother hit him, falls silent; the woman spends the night in the Opossum house; he makes a hole in the roof, rain falls on the woman, Opossum suggests moving the hammock closer to him, then move to his dry hammock; this is how the woman conceives the Son of the Possum; SM is dissatisfied; the woman comes to the village of Jaguars, the old woman hides her under the pot; the Jaguar finds her, the woman turns into a deer, runs away; the Jaguar with the dogs catches up with her; the twins taken out of the belly tries to fry, cook, pierce with a chip, but only scalds and hurts herself; the old woman makes them her grandchildren; they turn into parrots Macaws, in other animals, finally into humans; one day they look for old women in their heads, tear off their heads, throw each other, then revive the old woman; the bird Jacques tells them about the death of their mother; they cry, old woman they say that their eyes are swollen from wasp bites; they build a bridge over a dry swamp, fill the swamp with water, throw straw fans into the water to fan the fire, which turn into piranhas; invite Jaguars to catch fish, step on the bridge, bring it down; the Jaguars are eaten by piranhas; the SM mother encloses the spirit of the one who ate it in a bamboo vessel, gives it to Maira; he demands proof that the brothers are his children; 1) kill the Azang woman's spirit; SM sets fire to her long hair, dries the lakes in which Azang tries to put it out, Azang burns; 2) kill the male Azang spirit; that cuts a tree, what to do with a bow and arrows that hit all animals; SM pierces a sharp hand of spirit into a log, leaves it to die; 3) kill the Azang fisherman; SM in the form of a surubim fish takes the bait off his hook; brother gets hooked, caught, fried, eaten; SM asks Azang to give him the bones, revives his brother; asks his father to break the rock with an arrow; he can't, SM breaks, he's stronger than his father; both are now in the Village of Gods]: Wagley, Galvão 1949, No. 14:139-140.
Montagna - Jurua. Araua [the index finger on the deity's right hand has a knife]: Rivet, Tastevin 1938:256
Bolivia - Guaporé. Surui [two warriors think of home, which is forbidden to campaign; both are probably killed; the other laughs at an owl, says her face is like his wife's vagina; Owl asks Groundhog to wean the mocker's leg; he eats away, a sharp bone remains; warriors laugh when their friend waddles on one leg; he kills mockers with a sharp leg; one cuts it off with an ax; he turns into Santi - a forest owner who kills people but helps shamans]: Mindlin 1995, No. 7:25-27.
Southern Amazon. Trumai [one of the two hunters intentionally burns his leg in the fire; his companion runs, hides in the house; the stalker's pointed bone gets stuck in a log]: Monod-Becquelin 1975, No. 24:130 ; kuikuro [Viti-Vití, his wife and his wife's brother went to the forest for honey; when he climbed a tree, cut the meat off his leg, sharpened his bone, threw his blood down, not between; the wife and her brother ate clots, mistaking them for honey, then the brother smelled them; the wife and brother run away, do not open the door when BB comes; he went to the forest, made ditches with a sharp foot, which are abundant in the upper reaches of Shingu; in these ditches told his people to hide from the cold; now lives by Lake Kuikúru-Ipa]: Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973:163-165; vaura [hunter kills a huge toad; it makes its leg thin and sharp; his a companion warns his wife, who flees; Ostroonok goes to live in the forest]: Schultz 1966:134-135; 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 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; paresi [a woman persuades her son-in-law to take her to the garden instead of his wife; a bird screams at night; each time her mother-in-law interprets her cry as advice to lie down closer and then have sex; at night, the man's leg hangs down from a hammock; an owl pecks over it; a man turns into a demon with a spear leg]: Pereira 1986, No. 28:339-342; Iranian: Pereira 1985, No. 20 [woman brings food to her son-in-law's garden instead of his wife; makes he lies in the same hammock with her; at night he eats his leg; he turns into an ogre Aan; tells his wife not to talk to him; lives on a fruit tree; his wife and her sister kill their mother; two birds ( Penelope jacupeba and jacutinga) fly out of her stomach; the younger sister talks to A., invites him to drink chicha; the eldest hangs her hammock and the children's hammocks higher under the roof; A. comes, lies down to younger sister, eats her, starting with her feet; the eldest revives her, but she remains thin]: 106-107.
Eastern Brazil. Kayapo: Wilbert 1978, No. 144 [sedge people with sharp limbs and heads], 165 (cuben-crane-kegne) [Metraux 1960:33; Tedyuare pricked on a stingray, his leg began to rot, left on the trail to the wife took it; T. sharpened the bone of his leg on the sand, pierced the son who had come for him; began to kill people; the woman climbed onto a palm tree, threw off the leaf, injuring T.'s throat; T. continued to kill; the rest made a figure from a trunk stump; T. stabbed her leg, got stuck, killed], 166 [Banner 1957:62; the man was catching stingrays, his leg festering, his foot fell off, he was named Tedjuáre ("Sharp Leg"); when his wife I was going to drag him on her back, he pierced it with his foot; people made a wooden figure, T. stabbed her leg, got stuck, killed; the woman climbed onto a bakab palm tree for fruit; saw her head and T.'s shoulders climb after her; the woman poked him in the neck with a walnut shell; T. fell, people finished him off; this is how people learned to make speartips from pointed bones]: 345-346, 417, 418; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 132 (shikrin) [Vidal 1977:247; Têdjoare stepped on a stingray; his wife dragged him to the village, he copulated with her (it is forbidden to be bitten by a snake or stung by a stingray); his leg has rotted, he sharpened his bone , pierced his wife, ran into the forest; people make a wooden doll, T. pierces his leg into her, she gets stuck, he is killed; his head with ribs comes to life; climbs a tree for a woman, she manages to jump off, he's for she is being chased; he is lured again to attack the doll, killed, buried in the ground], 133 (pau d'arco) [(Nimuendaju MS); the fisherman stepped on a stingray, his leg rotted, he asked to be left in the hut with enough food; he burned his leg in the fire, sharpened the bone; his wife came for him, put her back up for him to climb, he pierced it with his sharp leg; kills many people; when a man climbs a tree, he climbs sharply then upside down, pierces him with his foot; asks two women if he has already reached the top; they all say no; one of them pierces him with a piece of bark, he falls dead]: 407, 408-409; crash [Schultz 1950:119-122; a man with his sister's husband spend the night hunting in the woods; pretends to fall asleep; sees a companion sticking his leg into the fire; a third time he does not respond to a request for help to take his leg out; the satellite anneals his foot, throws him into the forest, asks him to go pick up the fallen fruit; sharpens the bone with a sharp shell; is going to pierce a person with a sharp leg, he turns into an opossum, hides in termite mine; returns to his sister; sharp-nog (now called Hitewá) kills hunting companions with his sharp leg; people make a doll out of thick bark, H. pierces his leg into her, gets stuck, him kill]: Wilbert 1978, No. 164:413-416; frame camera [Nimuendaju 1946a:248; 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 it threw his foot into the forest, ordered to look for the fallen fruit; sharpened the bone with a scraper from the shell, attacked; the man turned into a rat, hid in a hollow; Tečware (Te is the bottom of the leg, čwa is the point, -re - subtle suffix) lit dry leaves and tail in the hollow, but the rat slipped away; (text breaks off)]: Wilbert 1978, No. 167:419-420; apaniecra [Pompeu Sobrinho 1935:198-200; 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 a branch above the path to the village, killed those passing by with a sharp leg; the boy covered his back with a piece of thick bark, told others to walk a distance away; a sharp leg was stuck in the bark, T. was killed]: Wilbert 1978, No. 168:420-422; apinaye [Nimuendaju 1978:422-423; Tečware's wife's brother goes with him to 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 only like a fallen fruit; at this time he sharpens a bone; tries to kill a companion, he runs away to the village; T. kills people with a sharp foot; people disguise the tree trunk as a human figure, T.'s leg gets stuck in it , he is 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 there; this is where the Hancornia speciosa tree grows; from it latex men make balls and body paint]: Wilbert 1978, No. 169:422-423; tupina ["I found this motif in Aldea Santa Rosa residents in Bahia, probably Tupinaki descendants"]: Nmuendaju MS in Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a: 408 (note 8).
Chaco. Except tobe: a person becomes a cannibal after eating meat from his burnt leg; remains alone in the forest; kills honey pickers who come to the forest. Chamacoco [burns his leg while hunting rodents with fire; taking daredevils as bait, people kill him; a severed spear leg is brought to the village]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 108, 109:426- 432; chorote: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 89 [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; I had eyes on the back of my head, 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; poppy [a man with a pointed tibia kills honey collectors in the forest; dodging blows, the Hawk forces the killer to break the bone against the tree trunk; kills him]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 72:158-159; toba [man kills others with his pointed tibia when he asks them to remove worms from his rotting leg; Hawk kills his own killer club]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982b, No. 170-172:323-325; 1989a [killer's sharp leg gets stuck in a tree in the hollow of which Hawk hides; he kills a monster], No. 335, 336, 337 [short version]: 430-433; matako [the monster's leg is an iron blade; it kills people with it; the hawk destroys it (without details)]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982a, No. 169:269.