L98. The cannibal owl. .15.21.27.35.39.41.-.50.56.61.63.66.
Thedemon who takes children away, threatens heroes, humans, etc., is an owl; there is an owl race that is hostile to people
inSouthern Europe. Italians (Ticino) [the shepherd was having dinner at the door of his hut; heard an owl scream; jokingly called an owl to dinner with him; a man with an owl's head appeared; asked what to eat; the shepherd called everything edible, then his cattle; the demon consistently devours everything and says he is hungry; one of the cows had the image of Madonna on the bell, the demon did not eat this cow; said that he would now eat the shepherd; he grabbed the crucifixion, lost consciousness; when he woke up, it turned out that everything eaten and all eaten was in place; since then he had not teased demons]: Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 61:231-232.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Rai (tulung) [older sister Jaw and younger Khlew (they are both hornbills of different species (unhappy that their younger brother Khakcilik does not grow up; they make an image of him out of wood or pumpkin, they crumble, think that they killed their brother (although nothing happened to him), leave; J. tells K. to leave first, she refuses; comes later than her sister, meets her mother's relative Owl, who kills her, eats her; J. returns, finds his sister's bones, revives, but since then the skin of this species of rhinoceros has been thin; the sisters go one north and the other south; Wayelungma does not obey the mother, she tells her to throw herself into the water she jumped and became a rock; Khakcilik threw the net several times (according to one informant, a fishing rod), pulled it out all the time, took it home; someone cooks and tidies in his absence; the old woman says it's her, eating up the young man; his "fate" says that an unknown mistress is in his house; he hides, grabs V., marries her; she tells how he threw it away several times a stone, breaking her ribs, arm, leg; she teaches how to build a house; gives birth to a son; the pole is fragile; their son accidentally falls into the pole pit, the table on him, stands firmly; V. teaches how to cultivate, sow the plot; sisters come back, fly (they are either birds or women); become pregnant; to bring them back home, V. tells her husband to send a rooster]: Allen 2011:64-89; Tibetans [in Tibet call an owl a "demon- a demon-eater, usually an enemy of a crow (Crow)]: Stein 1939:355 in Allem 2011:92.
The Balkans. The Romanians [one hundred of the widow's sons went to plow; the damn dragons first stole the older sister, then the other 99, making a furrow (not to the brothers' field, but to their house; the brothers went in search; came to cow shepherds; they warned that the brothers would defeat the dragon if they could eat 99 roasted oxen, 99 bread ovens and 99 barrels of wine; they could not; the horse shepherd said they would win dragons, only if a stallion with 99 hearts were tamed, they could not; the dragon killed them all; their mother swallowed a pea, gave birth to Pea Veselice; playing with the children, he learned about the fate of his siblings; so get her mother to confess, put {something hot on her chest? Grundbalken; on the way he ate 99 roasted oxen, 99 bread ovens, drank 99 barrels of wine, drove to death a stallion with 99 hearts; his older sister recognized him when he saw his scarves and beads; before killing him the dragon, learned from him how to revive his siblings; on the way home, the brothers tied Pea to a tree; he escaped, got home and then went to see the world; saw a man at his bedside dying sisters; he indicated where to look for the Beauty of the World; Pea forced the owl to return the stolen hearts and killed him, returned his hearts; crossed the bloody river; saw the Beauty of the World swimming in a milk lake; he stole her clothes, but broke the advice not to look back and turned into a deer with 99 horns; with an old man hit him with a sword and he became human again; next time he did everything right, but did not give way to Titicot and he killed him]: Bîrlea 1966:404-406.
Western Siberia. The Southern Selkups [had seven sons and an eighth daughter Pora ("blizzard"); she was fast, hard-working, while everyone was hunting, "flying in a blizzard"; the brothers left, got lost, made a house on the shore, stood in it live; parents told P. not to go anywhere, otherwise the owl would take it away; P. went to the window, took it away, ate it, left her head, put it on a stump, her head was alive; when she saw her head, the mother fell dead, the father put it down head in a bag; head tells us to go where they used to live; seven sons are sitting there naked and red; the old man was frightened of them, died (the story is cut off)]: Tuchkova 2004:242-243.
SV Asia. Chukchi [two old women want to have a child; one acts as a husband, the other gives birth to a mouse boy; he is carried away, eaten by an Owl; the Raven adjusts so that the Owl releases gases, the Mouse's bones fly out his ass turns into a boy; the Raven undertakes to cure the Owl of diarrhea, puts hot stones in his ass; the owl is barely alive, the old women (in the form of husband and wife) beat him; the Owl's bones fall out of his ass various swallowed animals, commercial animals spread by land and sea]: Bogoras 1902, No. 25:655.
Subarctic. Atna [children are told that if they cry, an Owl will take them or cut off their legs; one child cries; an owl takes him away and eats it]: Smelcer 1997:71-72; upper tanana [baby cries, everyone is tired, the older girls warn that the Owl will take him away; she takes him to her nest on the poplar; the Raven finds a nest, invites Owl to bend down to catch an arrow, kills him with this with an arrow; returns the child to the family]: Brean 1975:13-15; tagish [Owl steals, eats children; the old woman asks to be left alone in the camp; the owl comes, the old woman invites him to warm up by the fire first how to eat it; pours prepared resin on it, feathers light up, the old woman hides in a tunnel under the snow, the Owl dies; the old woman brings people the Owl's severed little finger to show that it was a giant; men burn a corpse, ashes turn into ordinary owls]: McClelland 2007 (2), No. 86:408-410; southern tutchoni [the owl was an ogre; the mother spanked the crying child thinking he would run into a teepee bubushki, but Owl put it in his bag, brought it to him, fried it and ate it; the owl and his wife ate all the dogs; the wife choked and died, and the Owl was going to eat all the people; people migrated, the old woman remained with his little grandson, his mother had already been eaten; they dug up the dugout; the owl came in, the old woman asked him to warm up by the fire first, poured fat into the fire, the Owl burned down; people returned]: McClelland 2007 (1), No. 17: 110-116; taltan [the girl comes from her grandmother when her parents are already in bed; she cries, asks for food; a voice outside promises her salmon; her mother kicks her out, although the girl says it is not her grandmother's voice; the girl is carried away by an Owl; feeds live ants; comes with her to watch memorial rituals on her; Owl sees everything upside down; asks the girl to dress up (?) her as the participants in the ceremony look like; the girl drives a stake in her head with a stone, the Owl dies; when the girl returns home and warms up, ants climbed from all the holes in her body; she died]: Teit 1921a , NO. 56:252-253.
NW Coast. Eyak: Birket-Smith, Laguna 1938, No. 31 [(=Johnson 1978:62-63); the boy is always naughty; the man warns his mother that the Owl will carry him away; the owl enters the house through a smoke hole, takes the child; he was not seen again]: 322; Krauss 1970 in Johnson 1978 [the boy still asks for caviar, the mother replies that he is not anymore; an old woman came, gave it to him, he vomited, he died; the old woman was Owl, fed him spiders]: 70 (translated into Romanova 1997, No. 16.2:60).
The coast is the Plateau. Chilkotin [the little boy does not sleep, cries; someone calls him from the street, promises to give him food; he goes out, there is an Owl, takes the boy in the basket; feeds him at home, gives a necklace of shells dentarium; parents found their son when Owl was not at home, set fire to his house, took the boy away; the owl chased, on the bridge the boy put goat's horns on his fingers, spread them out, the Owl was frightened, fell into the water, returned ; the boy gave people dentistry, since then these shells became known; the mother sent her son to swim, he went reluctantly, disappeared under water; in winter he began to break women's buckets when they took water into the ice-hole; two sisters went to get water with beautiful buckets; when the boy grabbed the first bucket, the second took it out by the hand; the sisters brought it into the house, put it by the fire; it was covered in mucus; in winter, people cannot find ski trees; the boy can hardly get up, brings an armful of material, tells one of the sisters to ruin it in the house, many skis appear; he asks everyone to hit him in an arrow; the raven gives an arrow with a leather one with a tip; in the forest, the boy removes a layer of dirt and mucus like a shirt, becomes a strong handsome man; kills a deer with each arrow, and a coyote with the Raven's arrow; when he enters the village, he puts on slimy skin again; The raven looks after the boy, finds the hidden skin, tears it up and throws it away; the boy repairs it; next time the Raven sees the young man in all his splendor; he retains this appearance, takes two sisters as his wife]: Farrand 1900 , No. 22:36-37; quarry: Jenness 1934, No. 57 [The owl took the son of a woman from the Laksamshu fratria; people heard crying from the ground, began to dig, dug up the child; the owl stole it again, so many times, so Moricetown has all the land in pits; the informant does not remember further, but Laksamshu made the Owl his coat of arms]: 239-240; Munro 1946 [the little boy does not want to sleep, cries; all members of his family they persuade him, but he does not listen; when the others fell asleep, Owl (male character}) came, tore off pieces of bear fat hanging from her belts, put the boy in her ear and carried him away; in the morning, the father went to look a child, asks all the birds, they say they don't know, he shoots at each arrow with a blunt tip; hazel grouse {or partridge; grouse} promises to say if a person paints the corners of his eyes red; he first smeared red dust, hazel grouse was dissatisfied; then cinnabar; hazel grouse tells us to look in a dense spruce forest {more precisely in the fir thickets}; the father saw his son in the water polishing the arrow shaft; tried grab; then looked up: the son in the Owl's nest; replaced his son with hemp and took it away; the owl came back, cried; led all the birds to war to return the child; they laid a bridge of stem across the river hogweed; all the birds crossed, and then the muskrat gnawed on it; when the Owl stepped on the bridge, the birds advised them to stomp properly when they reached the middle; the bridge broke, the Owl was carried downstream; the old man with they caught her as an old woman, dried her and asked her where the wet place was left on her body; Owl: under her arms; they poked hot smut in there and told Owl to be an owl, hunt only rabbits]: 104-107; shuswap : Boas 1895, No. I.2.10 [The owl says he eats people; the Coyote also pretends to be an ogre, suggests comparing their vomiting but closing their eyes; Coyote regurgitates grass, Owl pretends to be human; Coyote replaces vomiting, The owl is frightened; both turn into rocks, their mouths are wide open]: 9 (=2002:72); Kuipers 1989, No. 28 [The chipmunk girl lives in the woods with her grandmother; grandmother sent B. to pick berries, told me to pick them, not eat, beware of the Owl; B. climbed into the bush, began to eat berries; saw an Owl walking and catching children below; Owl Chipmunku: your father is waiting for you; B.: I have no father; then all relatives, but when Owl said that her grandmother was waiting for her, B. promised to go down; but let Owl close her eyes; Owl just pretended to peek; B. jumped over the Owl, she only managed to rip off her back, the stripes remained; B. ran to her grandmother; she hid her under the bed in a basket; but she rustled and grandmother hid B. in a bowl of soup, almost drowning her; lark: hide her in a quiver/sink (clam shell); to make a lark He did not give them away, his grandmother gave him a necklace; the lark flew away to show it to everyone; the Owl came and searched everything; the lark came back: I'll tell you if you reward me; the owl gave him a yellow sleeveless jacket; lark: B. in the quiver/sink; the lark still has this necklace and sleeveless jacket; Owl pulled B. out her heart and ate it; went to look for other children; lark for grandmother: place the berry instead of a heart; Grandma did so, crossed B. three times and she came to life; Owl met Coyote; Coyote: I also love eating children, let's go together; Coyote: let's eat those children in your basket; We will send the children to buy firewood to fry them; for children: bring resinous spruce branches; Coyote Owl: spread ash and resin so that when we start dancing, the paint does not come off; light a fire, a lot of smoke; Coyote: let it dissipate, otherwise the meat will be bitter; we will dance, and we will send the children to bring meat skewers; the owl is tired of dancing, but the Coyote cheers her up; pushed her into the fire; Coyote for children: with these skewer sticks shove the Owl into the fire; Owl's eyes burst and two types of owls have appeared from them]: 134-144; Teit 1909a, No. 30 [the baby cries, the mother throws him into the dark corner, says that the Owl {male character} will carry him away; Owl takes him away, teaches him hunting and secret knowledge; parents find a son; he sets fire to an Owl's house, runs away to people; turns an Owl into an owl]: 698-699; Thompson: Hanna, Henry 1996 [the baby cries, one of parents are warned that an Owl will take him away; at night, the Owl takes him away in a basket; feeds him with snakes, mice, squirrels; he grows up, hunts, sends meat to his real parents; when he returns, he enters steam room, covered with ulcers; a girl who rejected her suitors agrees to marry him; he steams again, becomes handsome; going out, puts on his shell with ulcers; his wife burns it, he remains handsome] : 85-87; Teit 1898, No. XVII [the child cries, parents say: Owl, come and pick him up; Owl takes the boy away; he grows up to be a good hunter; hears Owl calling him his slave; Mouse reports that Owl is not his real father; he returns to people]: 63-64; 1917b, No. 16 [the baby is crying, parents: Owl, come pick him up; Owl takes the boy in his basket, makes him quickly grow up, hunt yourself; Owl's heart hangs on the wall in his house; a young man throws him into the fire, the Owl dies; the raven shows the young man's relatives where to find him; his sister and mother take him home; he swims in the lake, turns into a loon; goes out to her sister, bringing her dentium; one girl rejects the grooms; follows that young man's sister, asks him to be grabbed when he goes ashore, pours on him the potion, regaining his human appearance; he enters the house of nttsaaz (a small smelly creature), puts on the skin of n; parents mockingly tell that girl to marry n.; everyone laughs at her; husband at night he comes out of his skin n, carries out his father-in-law's errands (chop a lot of firewood, hunts at night); his wife burns his skin, he remains handsome]: 26-30; lillouette [the little girl is whiny; her parents: Owl will take you; at night, the Owl takes her away; makes her his wife; toads and snakes in his hole; she sends the Raven to bring fish oil from her mother; rubs her face with it; Owl wants to be rubbed; she rubs his face with resin, dazzles him, runs away; he comes for her; her father invites him to take a steam bath; burns him on hot stones; he turns into an owl]: Teit 1912b, No. 14:314-316; chalkomel ( StSeélis) [the girl is naughty every night, carried away by the owl Slalakem, raised, made her wife; she asks permission to go out of need, goes down from a tree, leaves the urine responsible for her, runs away; S. comes to her parents, they tell her to return to her husband; she gives birth to S. a daughter; sends a bird to her older brother; he and his other sister come to S.; he sends S. for a deer, they all set fire to the house with daughter S., run away, brother falls into the lake, disappears, sisters return home; a girl from another village rejects grooms, leaves, sings on the shore of that lake; an ordinary dive, a northern dive, a female dive, the missing young man who became the wife consistently emerges, the girl replies that she did not call them; for the fourth time he emerges himself, takes off his dive skin, goes ashore, takes the girl as his wife; near the village a young girl enters the leper's hut, throws it out of his skin, puts it on himself; the wife suspects that the leper is her husband, stays with him; parents send her food with her youngest sister; when an imaginary leper washes, drops of water turn into Ts'ákwes (some jewelry); the sister brings it to the parents, who ask the daughter and her husband to their place; the wife carries her husband on her back, the Raven mocks her; at night, the young man sheds off the leper's veil; he drives all the deer together and hides them; in the morning he goes skiing, leaves his skin on the tree, the wife follows, burns the skin; the young man puts the meat of the dead deer in a bag, brings it to his father-in-law's house; the bag is opened, the whole village is littered with meat, everyone admires the former leper; he visits with the family of his parents who considered him dead; On the holiday, the Raven eats all the meat alone, hiding it from the family]: Hill-Tout 1904b: 347-352; sanpual [Rabbit (K.) tells her granddaughter Chipmunk (B.) to pick berries, says that Owl (S.) is not dangerous during the day; S. pretends to be K., asks B. to come down from the bush; she does not believe, tells her to hide under the basket, S. peeks, manages to scratch B. with her claws, the trail still remains; K. hides B. in the basket, under the pillow, The lark is in the shell; S. threatens to eat K., she has to give her away B., she asks for the bones back; S. wants to be white like K., she replies that she fried herself on hot stones; S. goes for resin, K. revives B. from bones, they burn S.; at night, the owl's eye bursts, hooting is heard, K. says S. will be an owl; S.'s three sisters tear her grave, eat meat, recognize her sister; the youngest did not eat; Coyote them fools, runs; asks his feces what to do; he says he will be home with the dancers, let the Owls dance with their eyes closed; Coyote sets fire to the house; the youngest S. does not enter the house, shouts to the elders; Coyote asks allow her to be kissed, bites off his tongue, runs, hides in a hole; feces turn into a noisy camp, S. goes to look for Coyote there, he runs away]: Ray 1933, No. 18:165-167; okanagon [young man looking for a personal beckons, dips spruce branches in the lake, drops from them turn into dentium beads; notices that his two younger sisters are spying, advises parents to leave, taking property, extinguishing the fire; girls they find an empty camp, the dog digs the ground by the stone; under the stone there is a passage to the lower world, you can see people descending; the brother agrees to take the sisters if they close their eyes; they open their eyes three times, each time again find themselves on the ground; their brother advises them to go to their grandmother, not to touch unfamiliar food on the way; by the Chaika River, a ford points out, smeared the old deer skin with blood from the nose makes it seem new; offers fat, the younger sister tries, gets pregnant, gives birth to a son on the way, goes to the Seagull; Lynx sends the Rabbit to give the elder a piece of fat; she does not eat it out of caution; the Rabbit lies under a log, sees the girl's genitals, she hits him with a stick, Lynx asks why the Rabbit covers his bloody nose; the grandmother hides her granddaughter from the men of the village, the Lynx urinates through the roof, the spray falls into the girl's mouth, she gives birth to a son; the grandmother collects men on a holiday, everyone passes the child to each other, the Owl takes him away; the young man grows up, finds him, runs with him on a log across the river, telling the woodworms to sharpen the log; the owl stalker falls into the water, crayfish drown him; a young man swims in a lake, turns into a loon]: Hill-Tout 1911:154-158; Western sachaptines [a woman asks her children to give her water, they don't give it, she turns into a bird and flies away; her husband The bow scolds the children, leaves; the sister and little brother go to their relative, the boat maker; they are noticed by the owl cannibal; they turn into worms, the Owl puts them in her bag; they shout that his children they burn; he leaves his bag, runs to check; the children run to the river, ask the boat manufacturer to transport them; he stretches his leg like a bridge; Owl replies that he ate the children; sends Cancer, Oyster, Butterfly carry the Owl in a boat; Cancer tells Owl to tie stones for balance, breaks the boat, sinks the Owl]: Farrand, Mayer 1917, No. 14:176-177; ne perse [woman asks her son and daughter to give her water, those they are in no hurry; she attaches feathers to her hands, turns into a crow, flies away; their father becomes an old flint gun; children go to their grandfather; when they see an Owl, they turn into two worms; the Owl puts them in bag; they scream that her house is on fire; Owl runs to her children, boy and girl run away; grandfather stretches his leg across the river for them, hides it under the boat; Butterfly, Cancer, Oyster, Salmon, Swallow make a boat from parsnip, Owl is advised to tie stones to his neck; Owl drowns]: Spinden 1917, No. 13:192-193; coutene [Owl takes children if they cry at night; The old man turns into a little boy, carried away; in There are a lot of stolen children in Owl's house; an owl goes to fry them for firewood; an old man tells the children to dance; an owl joins the dance, the Old Man hits him from behind with a club, kills him; the children return to their mothers]: Linderman 1997, No. 3:23-40; Takelma [the voice of a big owl (but not barn owls) is considered a sign of death and child abduction]: Sapir 1907:36.
The Midwest. Menominee [two hunters spend the night in the forest, hear the voice of an owl; one insults her, the other prays to her; sees an owl in human form coming up to his sleeping companion, carving it, frying it and eating it heart; in the morning a person without a heart wakes up, comes home, dies]: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. 37:469-470; Ojibwa: Blackwood 1929, No. 9 [Red Feather boy chases and kills senselessly small animals and birds; birds decide to punish him; an owl arrives, the boy goes out to kill her; she puts him in her ear, takes him into the hollow, tells her children and other birds that when the cubs grow up , a holiday will be held for them, a boy will be eaten there; the boy's great-grandfather organizes a holiday, asks Owl to return his great-grandson; he no longer kills game in vain]: 342-343; Coleman et al. 1971 [1) the mother threatens her daughter that if she does not listen, the owl will take her away; one day she kicks her out of the teepee; the girl came back 4 years later, said that she lived in a nest and was well fed; 2) every time her daughter did not listen, the mother calls the owl to pick her up; in the end, the owl takes the girl; after a few years she returns it; you can't call an owl to take the child]: 39-41.
Northeast. Tuscarora [mother asks her daughter to look for insects; she finds a strange louse, shows her father; he replies that it is an owl louse; daughter and son tell father that the mother is leaving home for his absence; he goes to the forest, turns into a turkey, invites other turkeys to let them down the mountain in the basket; they are happy; offers to close their eyes, closes the basket, brings the turkeys home, the children turn their necks; he hangs a caress skin from the ceiling; if blood flows, he is killed; puts calebasses with water in the corners; does not tell them to open the door; Bear, Lynx, Wolf consistently come, everyone pretends that the father of the children comes, the children do not unlock; the giant breaks the door, the brother and sister go underground under the hearth; before that they see blood dripping from the face of the caress; the giant spends time rushing to the calebasses, who make a sound; follow the children underground; they go out, climb a tree, find themselves in the upper world where the Owls live; their mother is there; their father killed her lover, she told the Owls they killed their father; mother refuses children, says that she did not give birth to anyone; they are placed in a basket, hung on a tree that bends over the river; they are found by a hunter, brought them to him; the boy grows up, destroys the Owl race]: Rudes, Crouse 1987, No. 27:414-428.
Plains. Osage [mother takes her ever-whimpering child out of the house; Owl takes him away; people hear hooting and another voice from the nest, splitting the tree, finding the baby inside; at first he's wild as owl, then humanized again]: Dorsey 1904c, No. 33:41-42; hidatsa [the girl goes beyond the Months; her son digs a rhizome in the sky, making a hole into which the ground can be seen; she and his mother they go down a rope from a tendon, the Month kills the mother with a stone, the boy is unharmed; lives with an old woman; kills monsters; a bald man comes out of the hollow, screams, all the meat becomes bitter; the young man has become a spider, climbed a tree, turned a bald man into a harmless owl; the white Raven warns the buffalo about the appearance of hunters; the young man became a wounded bison, brought the herd to people, went to the steppe himself, pretended to die; crows and magpies flocked, the last being their leader, the White Raven; the young man caught him by the legs, plucked him; he flew away; the young man threw one feather into the air, it turned into a white crow; the young man painted him black color; people have tiny eyes and mouths, the young man widened them; knocked out larger and larger teeth for the predatory moose, left two; finally turned into a Morning Star]: Lowie 1942:4-6; Shayens [daughter She 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 say that Owls they 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 her to open it a little, the 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 as Backward-Talking-Warrior ( the best warriors of the Shayen); the hawk grandfather gives affection with him; the woman calls to her on the way, offers a brain cauldron, the girl feeds everything caress; eats bison meat; at night a woman scratches her leg, making it out of it club; girl does not sleep, lets go of caress, she gnaws meat out of a woman's leg; she dies; a girl comes to her own; boys ask for her suit; she teaches that Backwards warriors should do the opposite (if they are told to go forward, they must go back); this is how the Sheyen military alliances arose]: Marriott, Rachlin 1975:43-48; arpaho [mother puts her crying son outside, asks the Basket Owner to take him to her basket; the boy disappears; the mother finds it in the Big Owl as the Little Owl; mother and son run away, leaving behind moccasins, leggings, various ornamented shirts; Big Owl counts the porcupine needles (i.e. jewelry) on all these items, loses time; on the latter he is unable to count to the end, falls exhausted, allows himself to be killed; mother and son return home] : Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 106:239-246; Comanches [while children play, parents migrate; Coyote tells us to be silent when passing by Owl; boy cries, sister has to bring him to Owl; Frog is responsible for them when they run away; the crane stretches its leg like a bridge across the river, tells the girl to bite through his lice, not to spit in disgust; the owl spits in the middle of the river, falls, swims out; children They ask Bison for help; he throws the Owl on the moon; he has been visible there ever since]: Barnard: 88-93 in Archer 2000:143-148; Saint Clair 1909b, No. 12:275.
Southeast USA. Tunic [an ogre owl comes to the village every night; the young woman's husband is a White Puma living in the water; her two sons walk through the forest to kill the cardinal's bird, who says that Owl killed their relatives; brothers come to an empty village; there is only an old toad; the owl swallows her every night, but regurgitates; brothers kill him with arrows, burn him; his testicles exploded, turned into tree growths - "mammoth testicles"]: Haas 1950, No. 10:83-87; choctaw: Mould 2004:99-101 [the old woman tells the children she is their great-grandmother, finds out where their father sleeps, cuts them off at night, takes them away in the basket his head; the Bear and other animals consistently ask what she has in her basket, but only Wild Cats make her show; she advises to go for a club to kill her, then suggests to another The cat goes for another club, runs away by herself; this cannibal was the Owl (Skate'ne)], 101 [at night a huge owl comes to the hunter's fire; repeats all his thoughts out loud; this is the evil spirit of Hoklonote'she; man throws fire, H. gets scared, flies away]; screams [two hunters spent the night in the forest; you can't think about home in the forest, but he began to think; after dark, their wives came and brought food; one became Yes, the dog warned another that these women were werewolves; ordered the woman to be kicked with her head; she became a fox, ran away; the werewolf ate the other night; the first man hid in the hollow; a huge owl I tried to get it from there, but couldn't; the man came home]: Gouge 2004, No. 4:22-27.
California. Yurok [two young men go hunting, each has six dogs; they go in different directions; in the evening, one's dogs express anxiety; a tornado carries them away one by one, then carries away the smut of the fire; the young man receives a revelation - words to appeal to an unknown force; his companion approaches, says he has become Sikkulī, a giant underground owl, producing a tornado, flapping its wings; who does not know the right prayer will take it away]: Spott, Kroeber 1942, No. 31:239-240; shasta: Dixon 1910a, No. 1 [Ädihoriki and Erikaner brothers are deer hunters; the owl turns into a dog, E. picks it up, she becomes big, takes him away; A. meets Badger; he cuts wood to fry the young man who has been taken away; A. kills Badger, puts on his skin, comes to enemies; ties his hair to the sleeping people, sets fire to the house, runs away together with brother], 2 [(short version; A. and E. live together, a dog comes, takes E., A. goes in search, meets a man, he replies that he collects dried wood to fry E.; A. tells the mouse to make holes in boats except one; sails in it with his half-alive brother]: 8-12, 12-13; pomo (porridge): Oswalt 1964, No. 30 [the title of the text says that the cannibal who took the child is a long-eared owl; stepfather brings deer; little stepson does not want to eat broth, cries; mother and stepfather have eaten, the baby is still crying - now out of hunger; stepfather kicks him out of the house; he screams, someone takes him away; in the morning the husband went hunting, mother found the child's bones under a tree; burned it, put ash in her husband's acorn porridge, he ate, died; she burned down the house, returned to relatives], 31 [at night, the husband and wife hear the scream of a great horned owl; her husband mimics her; many owls are flocking; they killed her husband, and the wife covered herself with a basket, escaped; brought people who died were cremated]: 163-167, 157-169; Maidu [The deer hunter answers to owl voice; goes crazy, dances and sings an owl song; devours itself in the morning, only head remains]: Dixon 1902, No. 11:189-191; luiseño [baby cries, mother does not pay attention, woman-Sú skia takes him away; he grows up, considers her his mother; Gopher woman tells us where his real mother lives, gives him a rolling basket, he must follow her; S. suspects it's Gopher told the boy everything, tries to kill her, but she hides in a hole; S. throws a rolling tray, runs after him; shamans hide the boy in a roll of mats; S. promise to throw him down her throat, throw him in her throat, throw him hot stone; S. regurgitates a stone, kicks mats, killing the boy, dies on his own, the corpse turns into an owl; children are not told to touch the owl, but they pluck their feathers, put them on their heads; head becomes motionless; then they pinch their feathers between their fingers, turn into larks, fly away]: Curtis 1976 (15): 103-105.
Big Pool. Utah (encompagre) [boy catches a bird; it turns into a huge Owl, takes it to an island in the middle of the lake; mother (?) Owls advise the boy to practice shooting with owl's bows; gives Owl his blood instead of the boy's meat; the boy kills the Owl with a shot in the ass; he and the old woman make a bridge from her feathers; When they get to the shore, they leave; the boy returns to his father]: Smith 1992:40-41.
The Great Southwest. Hopi: Malotki 1998 [a mother puts a capricious boy outside, is carried away by an Owl, raised with her own children; a young hunter sees a boy in the forest who has begun to grow with feathers; people pick it up, the Owl tells me not to look at the child for 4 days; the wife looks into the room on the fourth day before sunset, an owl flies out from there, returns to the forest]: 126-130; Voth 1905, No. 53 [ A crying boy is put outside, carried away by an Owl; he begins to turn into an owl; an owl sends him back; his mother looks into his room before three days have passed; he flies away an owl]: 173-175; Wallis 1936, No. 5 [as in Voth]: 28-30; Zunyi [people live in Itiwana; Cloud Swallower (hereinafter Cloud Absorber, PO), like an elk, swallowed all the clouds in the east, drought came; the Ahaiyute twins lived with his grandmother on Corn Mountain; she doesn't tell them to go east, they're coming; the gopher leads them down his hole, dug it under the software, under his heart, chewed wool in this place, he woke up, the gopher said he needed nest wool; brothers shot his heart with a bow; PO began to dig the ground with a horn but fell dead before catching up with his brothers; she threw his heart into the sky, it became a morning star; his liver was evening star; lungs - Seven Stars (Ursa Major); guts - Milky Way; returned to their grandmother; she does not tell them to go south, where the owls are; they went; owls sit without blinking, at the corner a boy owl and an owl girl; younger A. threw salt into the hearth, it scattered, caught the owls in the eyes; A. told Owls to become owls, kill not humans, but rabbits; grandmother: on SW in Noponikwi, an old giant Hakisuto with a horn on his forehead, not go there; A. go; H. pushes passers-by with his foot off a cliff, and his daughters at the foot devour them; H. pretends to have a cramp, tries to push A. three times, they bounce back; for the fourth time younger A. throws off H. himself; his daughters ate him; when they saw the horn, they realized that it was their father; A. they were killed; grandmother: in the north, a woman and her granddaughter kill people; there are two sisters; at night the youngest lay down with the eldest A ., and the eldest and the youngest, wearing red bandages over their heads; younger A. changed their bandages to their white ones; their father came in and stabbed not A., but daughters; A. returned home; grandmother: in the west, 8 girls with mother (hereinafter: with their grandmother), they have teeth in their vaginas; A. took 6 more young men with their grandfather; told them to make wooden penises - one made of oak, the other from hickory; lay down with 8 girls, their grandfather and their grandmother, at night, all vaginal teeth were broken with wooden penises; when the brothers left, Coyote came, got together with everyone who slept, each of them put their hair out of his mustache, blew there; so the women's pubic hair, and the genitals smell like a coyote; grandmother: a dangerous girl lives in the Snake's Place; A. got along with her and killed her; the same with the girl in Badger's Place; at the Hopi Place; where Navajo; when A. went back, these girls were theirs they chase, A. the heads of the dead are rolling; A. hid among the dancers in kiva hopi, dressed as hopi; the Navajo has the same; the dead woman is always behind; A. asked the sunflowers to cover them; under the wings bluebirds, stalker finds; in the Knife Society house; Polar Bear gives a knife to scalp her; A. come out of the kiva, kill the pursuer with a club and arrow, scalp her, tell her to count every last star; then the story of how scalp dance came about]: Benedict 1935:51-56; Tiva (Picuris) [the baby cries, his mother puts him on the roof of the house; he is carried away by an Owl; alone a man finds a baby, brings it back to his mother]: Harrington 1928:361; 1989:54-55; Western Apaches (White Mountain) [An owl carries young children in her basket, cooks and eats with his wife; in the same village took two boys, went to urinate on the way; the boys grab the branch, turn into bird fluff, run away; at home, Owl's son and wife find stone and excrement left by the boys in the basket]: Goddard 1919:137-138; hicarilla: Goddard 1911, No. 27 [Owl the Ogre]: 225; Mooney 1898a [White Beads girl falls behind the tribe; the sun shines on her, when she sits down, she gives birth to a son with him; The month shines when she sleeps, she gives birth to the second; the first is stronger because the Sun is stronger than the Month; the mother warns not to roll the hoop to the north; the son of the Month rolls, he rolls to the Owl; he cooks, bakes brothers, they are alive; he lets them go; the son of the Sun visits his father, receives a bow and arrows, the name Nae-naeshhuni (Monster Slayer); see motif L66]: 200-209; Opler 1938, No. 16 [The cannibal owl speaks to Coyote, that he hunts people; he offers to regurgitate what he ate with his eyes closed; replaces vomiting, says that Owl regurgitated grasshoppers, and he regurgitated human; Owl believes that he swallowed grasshoppers along with water; The coyote suggests making Owl a good runner, to do this, remove the legs; cuts off the meat from the Owl's legs; offers to stretch out her legs, breaks them with a stone; the owl throws her club at him, she comes back three times does not return for the fourth time; Coyote tells Owl to live in the shade, at dusk; var.: Coyote and Owl are in the steam room; Coyote cuts off the meat from the Owl's feet, pretending to cut off his own and then it flesh recovers]: 288-289; mescalero: Hoijer 1938 [A white-coloured woman lies under a cloud, gives birth to an Enemy Killer (HC); hides him from the Giant; he tries to take meat from the HC offers to shoot at each other; misses, UV arrows break one after another four flint covers on the Giant's body, kill him; every time UV goes to kill another monster, mother says it's dangerous, and he says he's dangerous himself; Bison glances; Gopher looks at him; Gopher digs four underground passages for UV under the lying Bison; where his heart gnaws its hair, says his children they freeze; UV pierces the heart; The bison breaks three turns with a horn, dies; UV fills its intestines with its blood, wraps it around itself; the Eagle takes him away, throws it on the rock to its children; UV kills three chicks, leaves the fourth, who can fly; he replies that the father will arrive when it rains, the mother does the same; UV kills both; goes down on an eagle, kills him; Orlov turned feathers into all kinds of birds; The owl looked at, the Owl's house was guarded by the Gophers; UV entered the Owl's cave, killed everyone there with a club; UV goes to the Killer Antelope; fires four arrows of different colors in four directions; each time there A cloud of the same color appears, and Antelope runs there; gets tired; UV tells her to become just an antelope and will be hunted by people]: 183-188 (Owl episode: 187-188); lipan: Opler 1940:59 [Big An owl puts children in his basket; one boy asks what he is most afraid of; Forest spirits; another clings to a branch, whistles to imitate the spirit; Owl is frightened, the boys run away], 60 [ Big Owl puts children in his basket; the horned toad tells the boy that Big Owl is afraid of her; the boy shows him the toad, he runs away], 87-93 [ferocious animals play against the harmless; it is necessary guess which moccasin the bone is under; the bet is life; Rabbit, Antelope play on the side of the evil; if they won, it would be eternal night; the good ones win the day thanks to the Possum, who climbed under the moccasins and the one who changed the bone; for this, the evil slaughter him into the ground; from some losers, the winners take fat; after a day, the birds are painted with white clay, now many have white feathers; the turkey is colored variegated in the colors of the daytime sky; The bear hurriedly put his moccasins on the wrong leg, so the clubfoot; the birds beat the Big Owl, he hides his heart in his leg, the Lizard hits him there with an arrow; his body turns into flints, an ordinary owl flies out of it, asks for a little darkness, lives in caves]; yavapai: Gifford 1933a (SV yavapai): 349-364 [people lived underground at the bottom of a deep dip; it grew there a pine tree ("dog-tail tree") wrapped in a vine; people climbed it to the ground, their leader was Hanyiko' (Frog); his shaman daughter made him sick; before he died, he ordered him to be burned and watched behind the stars; when two stars appear in the east before sunrise, these are feathers that adorn his head; in 2 months 5 stars appear, this is his right hand; in 3 months it will be cold, all of him will be visible body; the red star will celebrate 4 months; corn will grow on his grave; when the corpse is burned, everyone surrounds the fire, but the Coyote jumps over the short Badger, grabs, carries, eats the heart; until People said that the deceased would be reborn in four days; Coyote: let him die forever; H. died forever; they agreed with Coyote; his daughter died, people refused to change their minds; it snowed; people: the mountains were covered with cornmeal; Coyote: snow; therefore, snow does not consist of cornmeal; when it rained, the dry tree did not get wet; Coyote: let it get wet; because Coyote took possession of H.'s heart, from the holes from which people came to the ground, water poured in; people put all kinds of seeds and the girl in the hollowed out pine tree trunk, sealed; after the flood, the girl came out, the others died; she lay down like this that water was dripping into her vagina, the sun was shining on her; she conceived and gave birth to a girl; she grew up, her mother placed her in the same place, but the Water and Sun did not want to converge with her daughter; then the mother covered her with her body and the daughter became pregnant; her son Skatakaamcha; his mother took the eagle and fed the chicks; he interrupted the partridge's leg; when he repaired it, she spoke about the fate of his mother; S. decided to kill the monstrous bull (bison?) ; The badger dug an underground passage under him, S. stabbed the monster with a hot knife, killed him; put on a blood-filled stomach; the eagle brought it to the nest; the eagles say that the prey is alive, the eagle does not believe; the eagle flew away, the eagle flew in, S. killed her with a hatchet; told the eagles to remain silent; killed the eagle when it returned; threw the eagles out of the nest; made the rock half as low, but no more; The Bat lowered it in the basket ; he opened his eyes, the Bat fell and was injured, S. cured her; came to his grandmother, who cries; he threw eagle feathers at her, said he killed both eagles; married; Wind stole his wife; Spider warns that Wind offers to compete kills losers; S. beat him in a ball and ring game; won a competition whose hair is longer; Wind stabbed S. 4 times without causing harm; S. killed him with a knife; threw one hand to the east, the other to the south, one leg to the west, the other to the north: let the wind blow from different sides; S. brought his wife back; grandmother: there is a bad Chewasistesikkaamcha; S. came to his house, slowly throws away food for fear of being poisoned; killed C. with a knife; Bear's arrow reeds; S. invites him to marry his grandmother; he gave reeds; believes that the best tips are coal tips; S. killed him with flint; a tree for the ends of the Owl's arrows; S. and offered him his grandmother as his wife; she found the heart of the Owl, it was on the sole; S. shot there, killed the Owl; an bow tree in the canyon with converging and diverging walls; S. put a deer horn between them; went east to his father the Sun; the Sun's wife warns that the Sun will try to kill S. in the steam room; but S. is not afraid of the heat; the Sun recognized his son, let him choose a horse; a man at the cliff pushes passers-by with his foot; he grew up with his back to the rock; S. lets a chanterelle first, it dodges; then a rattlesnake, the man is afraid of it; S. disconnected him with an ax from the cliff, threw it into the abyss; below 6-7 women devour the fallen; S. threw that man's stomach into the fire, he burst into the eyes of the women, S. hacked them; there was a boy, he ran to the cave, S. did not I managed to get it, left the snakes to guard, but they fell asleep; the boy left, creating new ones like him; grandmother: you can't handle them], 402-412 (Western yavapai) [people live underground; younger brother invites the elder to illuminate the world; he makes a disc, smears ocher, hangs it, but the younger one makes a disc of white lime, smears ocher; it gets light but too hot; the younger brother asks the eldest to raise the sky with a reed pole, he did it; at night, the elder brother touches the genitals of his two daughters; they hide on the shore under the willow, where he relieves himself, and swallow his bowel movements; he begins to lose strength, tells him to be cremated after death; people sent the Coyote for fire, at which time they lit a fire, standing around; the Badger was lower than the others, the Coyote jumped over him, took his heart and ate it; the burnt heart had to lay the ground, cultivated plants would grow; and so only one corn stalk would grow; the best cobs went to the Hopi and Navajo, and the worst yavapai; people decided to get to the upper world; the hummingbird found a hole in the sky; under the guidance of their younger brother, they planted a pine tree and a vine that wrapped around it; they climbed up, but the old man and his two granddaughters stayed; when they got to the ground, from water poured in the holes; the flood was caused by those two daughters of the older brother who turned into frogs; people hollowed out a pine tree, put food inside the girl and sealed it; only the girl survived, the rest drowned; she lay down with her vagina under the rays of the sun and under drops of water, conceived, gave birth to a daughter; she grew up, tried to repeat everything, but the Sun and Water recognized their daughter, conception did not occur; then the mother covered her daughter's body with her body, the Sun and Water did not notice the substitution; the daughter gave birth to a son Matinyaupakaamcha; the eagle took her to its nest and ate it, M. stayed with her grandmother; interrupted the bird's leg with a stone; she: if you'll cure him, I'll say something; when he finds out that the old woman is not his mother, but his grandmother, killed the eagle, on the advice of his grandmother, by heating the tip of his spear; the grandmother sends him to kill the bison (ox); the badger and the gopher dug an underground passage under lying bison; the mouse plucked the hair from where the heart was, explaining that its children were cold; M. pierced the bison from below; he plunged his horn into the underground passage, but M. dodged; made a cape out of the skin, and under it bison blood; allowed the eagle to grab itself; blood gushed, the bison decided that M. was killed; the chicks see that the prey was alive, but the eagle did not believe; when it flew away, M. found out where the eagle would fly; becoming a lizard, smeared with resin the place where the male and female sit; killed the eagle; told the chicks to remain silent, otherwise they would kill; The Bat lowered M. in the basket, ordering them to close their eyes; he opened, they fell, M. broke the Bat's bones, but cured her; M. looked into the grandmother's house through a hole in the roof; called her; grandmother: the wind was whistling; when he saw her grandson, she began to dance with joy; the bald eagle took M. to an island on the lake; there were already many prisoners there; M . ordered the prisoners to eat crushed flint to the eagles and hide, digging an underground passage; the eagles died; the crane stretches its leg across the lake; people cross it like a bridge; children fall into the water, turn into ducks; M. decides to make a bow; the grandmother warns of dangers every time where to look for bow materials; onion wood where the canyon walls converge and diverge; M. shoved between they have a deer horn, took out the material; reeds for arrows owned by Owl; M.: I propose marriage to my grandmother; Owl is glad, he gave reeds himself; when Owl came, M. told his grandmother to find out where his heart was; in the sole legs; M. shot there, killed Owl; grandmother straightened her vulva with an arrow; when M. looked, the arrow broke; where the flint for the tips, sparks fly out; M. covered himself with a turtle shell, took out flint; wood for the front of the arrows owned by the Bear; M. called him to marry his grandmother; said he was making charcoal tips; The bear believed, shot M. with a coal arrow with a tip, and M. killed him with an arrow with a flintlock tip; grandmother: cut the deer in a clearing, not under a tree; M. began to cut under a tree; a naked woman came down from the tree, chased M. to get along with him; the grandmother hid it under the hearth; but the woman began to write there, M. got out; M. made penises out of blue stone, quartz, lava and clay, used it every single night, breaking off women's vaginal teeth; she became his wife; she was actually a bear; offered to drive game at him; he hung his clothes on a pole; three or four bears rushed at her, M. killed them, pulled out their fangs and claws; Spider told M. that the Wind took his wife away; let M. compete with him outside, not in his cave; who would chase the ball faster; M. won all the prisoners and the life of the Wind; who has longer hair, M. won again, killed The winds were a club; they spent the night in the Wind Cave; the wife became snakes in front of the entrance, M. jumped over them; M. went to look for his father, the Sun; spent the night with people who wanted to kill him; closed him for the night eyes with pebbles ("glass eyes"), the owners think that he is awake; the Sun's wife to her husband: your son has come; he wants to test the visitor, invites him to the steam room; M. all gives up a couple and says it's cold, The sun believes he is his son; M. tamed the horse, went home; the Sun and the Cloud began to argue over him; each painted one half of his body; M. returned east to the Sun, and the grandmother went west to the Sun, and the grandmother went west to ocean].
Llanos. Sicuani: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 127 [the couple catch and fry fish, hear the voice of an Owl; a strange man comes, asks for fish for his son, supposedly the fisherman's nephew; the fisherman gives; he comes again and again; the couple sails away; the owl chases along the shore, says he came to eat them; the man was a shaman and drove him away], 130 [two girls left home, met Owl, asked him for fish, he gave a rotten one, raped one girl at night, she turned into a termite; the other ran away], 131 [five young men spend the night in the forest, an old man is with them; the young men hear the voice of an Owl, three answer, shout for him to take care of his ass, they will rape it; during the day, the Owl takes away those who laughed at him, they sleep soundly; those who do not laugh wake up, drive the Owl away, find and revive those who were carried away; you can't laugh at the Owl]: 443, 447- 448, 448-449.
Western Amazon. Shuar: Pelizzaro 1993 [my husband was crushed by a fallen tree; the widow has a little daughter, gave birth to a baby; she hears Owl's voice, says, If you are my husband's spirit, bring firewood; she came in the evening the skeleton brought a pile of bones, invited his wife to lie with him; she told the girl to pretend she had diarrhea; her husband's spirit began to wonder what taboo he had broken (did he eat the wrong mushrooms, the wrong fruit, the meat of the wrong birds?) , since the daughter had a stomachache (all diseases from breaking the taboo); took the baby, scratched it; the woman left the burning smut responsible for her, ran away with her daughter to her parents; they hid them in a basket under the roof , they put ash and pepper in their hands; the husband's spirit was tired of waiting, put the baby's head in boiling water, chased his wife; on the way he dressed up and joined the dancers (at this time, the manufacturing festival sloth tans; from this spirit people learned songs); poked into his wife, who threw ash at him, he ran out, died; shuar now makes their own on the model of his jewelry; in the morning they found a dead owl at this place; her the head is covered with moss, and wood mushrooms, "tree ears", stick out of the ears; since then it has been known that owls (buhos) are the souls of deceased relatives]: 233-234; Rueda 1987, No. 53-53a [a person dies leaving a pregnant woman wife; she is still in bed, and the others have gone to the party; hears the voice of the Owl; says, When he was alive, he promised that the dead would bring me firewood; the owl fell silent; Ivian came and brought own bones; the woman tells the child to say that he has diarrhea; I. began to play with him, invited the woman to make love; but she went out with the child, who allegedly has diarrhea; the youngest child I. threw away into a vessel of boiling corn soup; the woman and the eldest run to where the holiday is; she was hidden under the roof; when I. came, she threw ash in his eye; in the morning they found a dead owl; var.: I. dances, his they push into the fire, calebasses grew up in this place]: 226-232; Aguaruna [the widow has a baby and an older child; hears the voice of an owl; thinks it is her dead husband; says, When he died, he promised and bring me firewood after death; the owl fell silent; Ivianch brought his own bones; asked his wife to take out his lice; there were many of them; tells me to eat them; the woman pretends to eat, snaps herself with his nails; I. decided to feed a crying baby; (gave him a penis instead of a breast?) , began to pull out his nails; the woman whispered to the eldest to pretend to go out of need; left the burning smut in the latrine to answer for them; ran with the child to people, there was a holiday; Ivianch was told that his wife was in a cassava trough (or he ran in, a trough was dumped on him and stayed under him); they left him there; a fox was found there in the morning; she was burned]: Chumap Lucía, García- Rendueles 1979, No. 79:641-642; Napo: Mercier 1979 [adults eat fruit, don't give it to an orphan boy; an owl promises him to come at night; asks if the seeds are ripe, the boy replies what else is green (this is means that adults did not fall asleep); finally, he says they are ripe; the owl sucks his eyes; in the morning, the blind decide to turn into river dolphins; their eyes are small, and from above they breathed where their eyes used to be]: 197-198; Ortíz de Villalba 1989, No. 38 (napo or canelo) [grandmother tells grandson and granddaughter not to tease Owl; they tease; owl says the beans are ripe; when grandchildren fall asleep, she sucks their eyes out; grandchildren ask their grandmother to throw them into the river, turn into a pair of dolphins]: 71-72.
Central Amazon. Moore (Lower Purus) [The Owl (Strix clamator) and his sister are giants; the owl ate the children of the Moore Indians; the sorcerers summoned his grandfather turtles to the beach, the Owl grabbed him, stuck with its claws, and the Turtle dragged him into the water; Owl's sister was asked to cling to a log, her claws were also stuck; before disappearing into the water, Owl said that his hands would grow into a tree to make bows, from {incomprehensible word} arrow glue , from nerves - a vine for a bowstring, from fat - walnut to polish arrows, from hair - a curaua for cordas flechas, from bones - bamboo for arrowheads]: Barbosa Rodrigues 1890:267-269.
Montagna - Jurua. Chayahuita: Anonimo 1993 [a woman hears the voice of an owl, calls him; the spirit kills her and children except the elder; he runs to meet her father; they send the spirit to bring water in an unburned clay vessel ; they kill him]: 238-240; Shlyakhtinsky 2008 [husband went hunting; while he was away, a pregnant wife gave birth to a girl; heard a pu'u owl singing in the forest; the woman said that if she were human as a creature, she could help her bring firewood and make a fire; pu'u came out of the forest in the guise of a woman, gave the woman the firewood she had brought with her; asked her to spend the night; at midnight she launched her finger in the eye of a little girl, replied that she was crying because she pulled a tick out of her age; when her mother fell asleep, she picked out the little girl's eye, ate it; then from a sleeping woman; little son the woman climbed under the roof, saw what had happened; heard his father return from hunting; went down and told him what had happened; the pu'e woman stayed in the house, put a stone in the hammock, became babysit as if it were a child; while she was fetching water, the man warmed up wax on the fire; asked the woman to let him paint her face to go to the party; tied two boards, told her to stick his nails in between the boards, otherwise he was afraid of them, they were too long; threw boiling wax on her face, set fire to the house; dying, the pu'u woman said, Yo'uira choka, ma'ma' choka, ascho' choka, uyyouan choka; therefore, After her death, tubers of whitina, sachapapa, sweet potato and uyyouan plants grew out of her eyes].