L9D. Sharp hands. .19.33.34.40.47.55.57.66.
The character has sharp nails or knife hands that he uses to kill people.
San Cristobal, Kazakhs, Altaians, Chelkans, Igloolik, Chiroki, Embera, Nonama, Sanema, Yanomam.
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.
Turkestan. Kazakhs: Ostroumov 1891 [zhez-tyrnaki - women with copper claws; J. comes to the hunter's halt, then leaves; the hunter covers the block with his clothes, hides; J. rushes, her claws get stuck in the deck; the man shoots, cuts off her hands with copper nails, takes it with him]: 202-203; Tursunov 1983:141-143 [when dying, father tells Yesek-Mergen not spend the night on takyr and near the mausoleum; EM goes to the mausoleum in the steppe; at night, a gesturnak woman comes up, hides her claws; EM feeds her with a knife, she goes into the forest; he leaves her covered a block of clothes; she comes back, pierces her claws, they get stuck, EM kills her with a bow, cuts her claws off, puts her in a bag; at the mausoleum, a woman with goat legs, Tautai Lak, comes out to his bed; her tongue is like razor; when she opens her mouth, EM cuts off her tongue, she falls dead; in the morning he wakes up in the mountains; this is the body of the dragon, Brother Gestyrnak and Tautai Lak; the dragon asks for help in the fight against the Ordala dragons- aydaharami; EM destroys them, returns to their mother], 146-150 [three horsemen go from one village to another, they are told each time that the village belongs to Mamay; in the tenth, old man Mamay himself tells them his history; his grandfather and father died in Usharal ("three islands"); he went there, fried meat, Gestyrnak came to the fire; M. fed her from a knife, she left; he cut down aspen, covered her with his clothes, hid in a tree; W . rushed to the block, M. wounded her with a gun, came to her house for her, she was dead, he cut off her stone hands with brass claws, took her husband's white ax; daughter M. Bikesh asked him for a dowry; when J.'s husband entered her yurt, she killed him with it; everyone in the yurts he had gone before was dead; one day M. came to a hill where there were white yurts; there were only girls; Peri told him to look into the fire until morning, but M. fell asleep; woke up in the steppe; Peri left a note that since M. was so old that she could not stay awake, she would not become his wife]; Potanin 1916-1917 (Kokchetav) [ Jake-batyr spent the night in the woods, cooking saiga; a woman with copper nails came, he threw her meat, she left; while going to bed, D. put a log in his place, hid himself with a gun; a woman returned, rushed to the ancient, he shot her, followed a bloody trail; found her dead in a hole, cut off her hands; a one-eyed ogre came to the cave; he told him to fry the staked man, lays a way out, goes to bed; D. heated the stake, burned the giant's eye; took off the skin from the goat, pulled it over himself, sat among the rams; releasing them, the giant felt the animals from above, let D. pass; he told him that he had escaped, the giant asked him to kill him; D. cut off his head with a sword; divided the giant's wealth between people, and took it for himself] ("Cossack Kyrgyz and Altai legends, legends and fairy tales"; retelling to Zhirmunsky 2007:219-220; ZhS 2-3 (1916), 4 (1917): 162-164 in Potanin 1972, No. 8:154-158.
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; residents of Chelny (p. Kurmach-Baigol, Turochak District, 1988) [two brothers went hunting; got to the barracks, stayed overnight; two beautiful girls came down from the top of the mountain; their sleeves were very long; the younger brother began to play with these girls; the elder did not let them near him; at night, the youngest lay down between the girls, fell asleep; the elder pretended to be sleeping; noticed that the girls were awake; asked when they would sleep; the girls replied: "When our eyes turn bright green, shine like stars in the sky, then this [will mean that] we are fast asleep!" ; everyone fell asleep; the older brother waited for the girls' eyes to shine, then put a rotten stump in his place and covered it with clothes; the girls stood up, tucked their sleeves up; the older brother saw that they had there were long copper nails; the girls clung to the stump covered with clothes so much that their nails went through; the older brother shot twice, the girls fell; the youngest was clouded by the strong smell of copper nails reason; the elder woke him up somehow, they returned home]: Oinotkinova et al. 2011, No. 88:211-213.
The Arctic. Igloolik (Repulse Bay) [Aningaat is blind; his mother points his arrow at a polar bear, says A. got into a dog; feeds him a dog, eats bear meat with her daughter; his sister secretly gives it brother; takes him to the lake; Loon dives with him, rubs his eyes three times, he sees the light; ties tench to his mother's belt, harpoons a large beluga whale, which takes his mother to sea; brother and sister come to people with with long nails; sister comes into the house to ask for water; the inhabitants begin to rip off her meat; the brother breaks in, kills everyone with an ice ax; wipes her sister's back with snow and urine, the 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; the other pierced, missed, died; A. began to go to his sister secretly; she smeared her nose with soot; both came to the meeting house, there is a holiday; everyone laughs over A., seeing his black nose; his sister dips a moss torch in fat, runs away; A. runs after her, but did not dip the torch in fat, so it quickly went out; sister became the sun, A. month]: Spalding 1979:48-50.
Southeast USA. Chirokee: Duncan 1998 [A stone-dressed cannibal kills people with her sharp finger; the bird explains to the man that her heart is at the tip of that finger; he hits her finger with an arrow, cannibal dies]: 62-66; Ten Kate 1889 [cannibals dressed in flint, have pointed arms of steel; their hearts are in their hands; on the advice of a bird, people kill a cannibal by hitting her with arrows in their hands] : 54.
The Northern Andes. Cannibal forest spirits. Embera [live in trees, their hands are knives]: Chaves 1945 (chami): 196-197; Betania at 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.
Montagna - Jurua. Araua [the index finger on the deity's right hand has a knife]: Rivet, Tastevin 1938:256.