M1. Dangerous crossing. (.11.13.22.24.25.34.37.-.39.41.43.-.47.50.-.53.55.56.58.-.64.66.70.-.73.74.)

The character crosses a pond on the back of a monster or animal that agrees to be a carrier, but can or is about to drown or eat its passenger.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Lingala [The male monkey is a good hunter; the animals go to live elsewhere; the monkey asks the Crocodile to transport him across the river; in the middle of the river, the Crocodile says his wife will be healed the heart of the Monkey; he replies that he left his heart under the tree; runs away, but returns home without prey; the Monkey's wife takes the children, goes to their parents; the Monkey asks the Eagle to move him to the island; pulls out his feathers; the Eagle agrees with the Crocodile to leave the Monkey on the island; he tells the Crocodile that there are many monkeys on the island; suggests counting the Crocodile's relatives, for this purpose he tells them line up in a chain, runs over their backs to the shore]: Vinogradov 1984, No. L7:293-295.

Sudan-East Africa. Sudanese Arabs: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 20 [Fatima is so beautiful that her brother Muhammad decided to marry her himself; F. asked her mother to help put a jug of water on her head; she replied that first, F. should call her not mother, but mother-in-law; the same with her father (father-in-law), brother (groom); F. told all the girls in the village that it had been decided to pass them off as brothers, took everyone away, they came to the cannibal giant; F. ordered not to eat anything, hide the food in a cooked hole, but the youngest girl ate it; F. told the cannibal to bring water from the seventh sea in a net or in a leaky calebass; the girls ran away, and the youngest did not she could; the cannibal returned, learned from the youngest that the girls had run away, told them to have piles of gold; silk fabrics; each time F. tells them to take only a little and run on; the river; F. asked the crocodile to transport it, she would give one girl to eat on the other side; when they swam, F. tells the crocodile to transport their mother (i.e. cannibal) first; when they are in the middle of the river, F. shouted that crocodile prey on his back; he dived and ate the cannibal; the girls settled in a cave; an old man with 6 sons nearby; F. asks him how to remove his skin - pierce a thorn; she plunged his skin slept, F. put it on, returned to the cave in the guise of an old man; the camel looked like eating foliage from the bush, the girls drove him away; the young men consistently began to come to find out what was going on; everyone took a girl; when Wad al-Amin came up, only an imaginary old man came to the cave; the old man says he is unable to herd cattle; YES agrees that he should herd pigeons by the river; F. takes off the old man's skin by the river; the slave sent with her is delighted, but he could not tell him anything; the imaginary old man said that the slave was sick, let his chest be burned; so several times; then AM himself went, saw everything; at home he offered to play chess, the winner would take off the loser's skin; F. won but did not fresh AM; AM won, F. took off her skin; the whole village gathered for the wedding], 23 [Fatma the Beautiful saw the camel come to eat crops; not knowing what it was her brother Muhammad's camel, tied him with strands of her hair; M. swore to marry the one whose hair it was; the parents agreed on the condition that M. would bring dowry from far away places; told F. to run away together with her mother's six sisters' daughters; one of them was lame; they saw big and small lights; F. said that where big, there was a cannibal, but the girls did not listen; the cannibal gave crushed human bones to eat, moistened with her milk; F. told me not to eat; the lame did not listen, the others quietly threw the food into the dug holes; in the morning the girls said that they should bring water with a net, a calabass without a hole, with an unburned vessel; she couldn't, came back, fried and ate the lame girl, rushed in pursuit of the others; wants the wedding to meet (the girls start dancing there, but they run again) so that a river with a crocodile; he transports on the condition that he is given one of the girls; but on the other side they ask to transfer the cannibal first, they say that she is his share, the crocodile dives; girls they live in a cave; a camel approaches her, followed by his owner Wad al-Nimair, he tells the girl to go out; so one girl every day; F. secretly came to the VN garden, asked the old man how to skin him off ( a thorn in her forehead), stabbed a thorn, put on his skin; the imaginary old man agrees to herd only pigeons; and only a dumb slave with him; by the river F. took off the old man's skin, bathed; at home, the slave gestured to talk about what he saw; F. explained that the slave had a headache and wanted to be cut off; the slave had his head cut off; so all but the last slaves were beheaded; VN went with him himself; stole F.'s ring while she bathed; the slave is the same as with the previous ones, but VN refuses to cut his head, but offers to fight; the winner will open the belly of the defeated; VN loses three times, but F. does not touch him; for the fourth time won, took off the old man's skin, married F.], 24 [7 girls went for firewood; saw two fires, decided to go to the big one, there was a cannibal; she mixed her milk with human bones, gave it to eat; one ate, the rest did not; at night the cannibal sharpens a knife; Fatma the Beautiful says that camels interfere with sleep (the cannibal tells you to take camels away); bulls (bulls); thirsty, used to drinking from the net, from unburned pot, from a calebasa without a hole; the cannibal goes to get water; the girls run away; the cannibal wants them to stay dancing for the wedding; for the river; the girls promise to give the crocodile his share, he carries them; comes back for the cannibal, girls: this is your share; a crocodile with a cannibal dives; girls hide in a cave; drive away a camel; drovers come up, each takes a girl; the latter got F., but she put on old man's skin; herds goats accompanied by a silent slave, removes her skin by the river, bathes; the slave steals her gold jewelry, brings it to the owner; wedding]: 110-114, 120-125, 125-127.

Burma - Indochina. Vieta [The hare asks the Crocodile to transport him across the river, promises to marry his sister; jumping to the other side, he says that he is not going to pass his sister off as a Crocodile; he watched for the Hare, grabbed it; the Hare invites him to say Ha-ha, because it's very scary; The crocodile opens its mouth, the Hare runs away]: Nikulin 1970a: 36; Khmers [The hare promises to give the Crocodile a remedy for warts if he will transport him across the river; spreads a banana leaf, says he does not want to get the Crocodile dirty with his paws; jumping ashore, he shouts to the Crocodile that he can't get rid of his warts; The crocodile pretends to be with a log, the Hare tells him, if it is a log, to swim against the current; the stupid Crocodile does so; The crocodile pretends to be dead, the Hare goes into his mouth, the Crocodile closes his mouth, the Hare slips into the womb, scratches it, the Crocodile is forced to regurgitate it]: Marunova 1972:165-166; Vietnam's white thai [a poor orphan cuts wood for sale; sees seven heavenly maidens descend to the lake, take off clothes and wings, bathe; hides the youngest's wings; takes her as his wife; a year later she gives birth to a son; in the absence of his wife, the father calms the crying child by giving him the mother's wings to play; once the mother stayed alone with the child, he cried and pointed to where the woodcutter hid his wings; the mother finds them, after a while flies away, giving her son her ring and telling his father to come to her if they want; the husband planted son on his back, went to look for his wife; the way through the mouth in the rock, which closes and then opens; The fox advises throwing sour fruits there, the teeth hurt, the movement of the mouth will stop for a while; father and son they pass; on the way a river with nine channels, in which even iron dissolves; a dog with nine tails and nine heads promises to transport if riders do not laugh in the middle of the river; in the middle of each channel the dog makes an indecent sound, father and son laugh, one head and one tail fall off; before the last crossing, a person ties himself and his son with a handkerchief, they reach the shore; since then, all dogs one head and one tail, it used to be nine; the phoenix offers to spend the night under his wing, and in the morning he and his mother will bring them to the place where they celebrate the princess's return from land; the phoenix's mother brought them to the river bordering the sky; the maids collect water to bathe the princess, the husband throws a ring into the kushvin; the wife recognizes him, tells him to call the visitors; her father suggests 1) tie each of the 300 buffaloes to the pole to which it is always tied; the firefly shows who to tie; 2) sow the grain and harvest it again; the birds collected it, but the king noticed that a few grains were missing; one the bird swallowed them, the king twisted her neck, since then birds of this species have goiter on the back of their heads; 3) find a princess in a palace of one hundred thousand rooms overnight; the rat promises to bring a dry leaf under the right door, but a cat ate it halfway; then a firefly leads to the right room; the king arranges a wedding, then sends the young to earth, where the son-in-law also becomes king]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 11:311-316; ahem [an orphan young man lived with an old man, hunted birds, saw bird girls coming down to swim, fell in love with the youngest, who was the last to arrive; the old man advised him to hide her wings; he hid them in quiver; at first he could not defeat the girl, found strength by chewing the bethel given by the old man, tied this old man with a rope; took the heavenly maiden as his second wife, she gave birth to a child; looking up, she saw the hidden under the roof her wings, put them on, flew away, returned to the child, invited her aunt to fly, but she just jumped and fell away; she flew away altogether; the pet monkey put a wand in the dog's paw to show to the owner, in which direction the wife flew; the dog had seven tails, she led the owner and the monkey to the river; the young man put his sword in the jets, the river parted, forming two channels; there were seven in total; the dog told hold on to her tail, don't laugh, otherwise the tail will come off; the young man and the monkey laugh every time the dog makes an indecent sound, the next tail comes off; when there is only one tail left, the dog is gone home, but the young man and the monkey stayed; the last stream crossed the body of the river dragon lying across; they came to the foot of Heaven rock, where the door opens and closes; the monkey began to throw off fruits of the tree, the young man threw them into the hole in the rock, the rock stopped; they climbed the rock to the banyan (ficus), where the monkey said he did not know beyond the road, returned; the young man saw two big birds, one said to the other that she would fly to eat buffalo meat at the festival to celebrate the return of the virgin bird; the young man carved the feather of one bird, hid in the hole with his child, the birds flew into the field, where buffalo bones were thrown away, the young man went out; there was a river, the women replied that they had come to bathe the bird girl for water; the young man threw bracelets and necklaces into the jug, asked him to pour the jug over the girl's head; she recognized her things; at the festival, the young man pinched the child, the wife recognized the son's cry; all three returned to earth, the house there was overgrown with vines during this time]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 8:294-298; Khmer [the hare wants cross the river; asks what the crocodile has on its body; he replies that warts, the hare promises to cure them; puts a banana leaf on the crocodile's head, says that he is afraid of getting dirty; jumping to the ground, calls the crocodile's ancestors smelly; the crocodile pretends to be a log, the hare says that the log must swim against the current, the crocodile swims; the crocodile pretends to be dead; the hare climbs In his mouth, he pops it, but the hare slips into his stomach; scratches from the inside; the crocodile asks him not to destroy, opens his mouth, the hare jumps out]: Marunova 1972:165-167.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Dayaki and Indonesia in general [a crocodile carries the souls of the dead]: Laubscher 1977:239-240 in Antoni 1982:150.

Taiwan - Philippines. Ami [a man sails to an island of women; they take his penis by the tail, put him in a cage like a pig; the woman who took care of him began to sleep with him, gave birth to a boy, the women began to stretch his penis, he died; the man made a hole in the cage, ran to the shore; the whale agreed to take him home]: Ho 1964:41-42.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans (Buren-Gol river) [old man Tyumendey saw felt floating along the river; it turned into a jelbag, grabbed the old man by the beard; let him go when he promised his three daughters; an old man and an old woman they gave their daughters buckets without a bottom, sent them to pick berries, migrated; after filling holes in the buckets, the girls picked berries; they saw a stranger in the yurt, realized that it was J.; went out into the yard, ran away; threw the comb ( turned into a forest), a bar (into a rock); J. cut the road with an ax; a beaver by the river asks the girls what his tail, ribs, teeth are; they praise, he carries them; J. says they are worms; Beaver tells him pick up stones, drops in the middle of the river, J. drowned; Beaver told his sisters to climb three spruce trees; three fellows passed by and married them; see motive J25, motive K27]: Potanin 1883, No. 84:341-343; Altaians [the father sends three daughters for berries, holes the youngest's tuyaski; while they found the hole, they filled the tuyas, evening has come; the girls came to the seven-headed Tielven hut; he sends them for with skewer branches, they bring unusable ones; he goes by himself, they run away; they tell Beaver that his back is round, his teeth are white; he drinks the lake, they cross to the other side; T. says his back is flat, the teeth are yellow; the Beaver orders to make a raft out of reeds, rock in the middle of the river; T. drowned; the girls climbed onto the fir; after urinating, they betrayed themselves to three passing merchants; one promises her future husband out of skins lice sew clothes, the second bake a thousand pies from one wheat, the third to give birth to a gold-headed son; husband and wife leave her husband's newborn mother; she throws the baby into the sea, lulls the puppy; mother bares her breasts, says, pokes smoyut (My Milk River), eventually lures her son out of the water; the grandmother is tied to an immense stallion]: Kandarakova 1928:125-127.

SV Asia. Coastal Koryaks (Alutors) [Kutkinnyaku insists that the Crab ride it; Crab puts it on his back, takes it to sea, dumps it, K. drowns]: Kibrik et al. 2000, No. 4:26-28.

Subarctic. Koyukon: Jones 1983 [The old porcupine woman needs to go across the river; she rejects the Muskrat, the Otter, agrees to sail on the Beaver; makes a fire on his tail, boils the soup; the Beaver dumps it in water, but the shore is near]: 67-71; Jenne 1908-1909 [like Jones; on the other side of the Dicobraz climbs a fir tree; throws down a Bear trying to get it; dances on his corpse]: 357-358.

The coast is the Plateau. Comox (chatloltk) [Setlanatk envies his younger brother Catenatk's hunting luck; tells their sister to make K. his lover; she calls K., he comes, doesn't recognize her, sleeps with her , loses his luck; one day he swims far away, does not hear it, brings many seals; S. takes him to the island to collect bird feathers, throws it there; The mouse becomes as huge as an elk, with large horns; tells K. sit between her horns, transports her across the strait, kills S.]: Boas 1895, No. 19:89-90.

The Midwest. Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [see motive F70; Wai-Mishus leaves his son Iyas on the island; the Green-haired serpent transports I. to the other side; asks for information if a black cloud will appear; I. is silent, the Thunderbird carries the snake, I. manages to jump ashore; the snake revives from pieces of his skin]: Ray, Stevens 1971:112-120; timagami ojibwa [man asks the Snake to transport him across the lake; he asks for warning if a cloud appears in the sky; the person does not warn; when he jumps ashore, the Thunder carries the Snake into small pieces; they turn into current snakes]: Speck 1915d, No. 19:71; Swamp Cree (West Bank Hall. James) [Ayas tyranted his wife, the son objected; then he went with his son to the island, left, left unnoticed; the young man was also Ayas; the horned creature was lucky to the shore, asking him to warn him if there was a thunderstorm; He ordered the shores to go by foam, sailed away himself; on the shore, A. saw Thunder smash his savior to pieces; a drop of splashing blood reproached him; A. came to his grandmother; she gave a small pot of food; if A. eats everything, he will not die when he meets dangerous creatures; A. ate with difficulty; entered the teepee, where there are two blind old women; moved their pot of food; they say that A. must have come; they want pierce him with his sharp elbows; he threw the skin on which he slept, the old women pierced each other; sharp bone shoulder blades hang above the path; A. jumped over them, but hit them, the dog barked, the owner ran out; A. disappeared into a hole, wearing a mink skin given by his grandmother; spent the night with a man who killed sleepers with his big leg; A. did not sleep, plunged his grandmother's point into his leg, killed a man; came to his mother; at his father another wife and child; A. told his mother to throw this child into the fire; when he sees his son, the father pretends to be happy with him; A. fired arrows, killed his father, the ground caught fire; his mother became a good plain by the lake, himself A . - the larch from which skis is made, old woman {stepmother A.?} - stone]: Ellis 1885, No. 9:45-59; Eastern Cree: Petitot 1886, No. 1 (Quebec, Lac Hameçon) [see K1 motif; one of the two wives hates the other's son; asks for a live partridge, puts it under clothes, scratched, accuses the young man (his name is Ayats) of trying to rape her; his father takes him to the island to collect seagull eggs, throws him; A. puts on the skin of a seagull, flies over the water, falls on a rock; water the serpent Pisikiv plants him between the horns, tells him to warn him if thunderclouds appear, takes him to the shore]: 451-459; Skinner 1911 [see motif L72; cannibal chases two little boys; Walrus transports them across the lake; asks for warning if clouds appear in the sky; brothers warn when the Walrus reaches a shallow place; transporting the ogre, Walrus warns him not to move or touch a sensitive area around his neck; the cannibal moves, the Walrus throws him into the water, he drowns]: 88-89; northern solto [see motive L5; wife cheats on her husband, he cuts off her head, leaves; head pursues sons; the elder throws a needle, a comb; the head stays at the needle, the crest turns into a mountain; the Swan carries brothers across the river, warns him not to sit on his neck, there is an ulcer; head promises Swan to be his sexual partner if he moves her; she grabs him by the neck, he dumps it into the water; she drowns, turns into a sturgeon; the older brother marries Omishug's two daughters ; his father-in-law takes him to catch sturgeon, pushes him into the water, calls the snakes to swallow him; the Horned Serpent takes the young man to the shore, asks for warning if thunder thunders; he is silent; the Serpent throws him into the water when he hears thunder, but the shore is near; see motive K27]: Skinner 1911:168-173; Steppe Cree [see motive J35; wife has a snake lover, husband kills him, cuts off his wife's head; Head chases his two sons; older brother Visakechi carries (first?) under the ground, the youngest is on the back; they throw objects (not named), they turn into fire, a thorny forest, a mountain; the Serpent makes a passage for the Head through the forest; a beaver with iron teeth gnaws through the mountain; the fourth object falls in front of the brothers, turns into a river; the Serpent carries them; when it carries the Head, it says it is swimming too slowly; he dumps it into the water, it turns into a sturgeon]: Bloomfield 1930, No. 1:14-16; Steppe Ojibwa [see motive L5; wife has a snake lover, husband kills him, cuts off his wife's head; Head chases his two sons; they throw an awl, needle, thread, knife; those turn into a mountain, thorny thickets, a Horned Serpent, a river; the Head asks the Pelican to transport her for the right to have sex with her through the occipital foramen; the Pelican warns not to touch a certain place around his neck; the ban is broken, he throws his Head into the river; the eldest son breaks his Head with a stone]: Skinner 1919, No. 2:291-292.

Northeast. Naskapi: Speck 1915c, No. 1 [see motif K1; the chief has two wives; the youngest is afraid that he will make the eldest son heir; asks the young man to shoot the partridge, puts it between his legs, scratched; the chief is lucky son collects birds' eggs, throws him on the island; the Seagull is unable to lift the young man; the Horned Serpent (catfish) carries him; he lies as if the sky is clear; jumps ashore, Thunder hits the Snake]: 73; 1925 ( Mistasini) [The cannibal kidnaps the baby, turns him into a young man; he is white, her own two dark-skinned sons; she says they were born at night and he was born during the day; a real mother finds a son, makes him again as a baby, kills the cannibal's children, leaving their bodies standing as if alive; runs away; the Seagull, although he says she has an ulcer on her back, transports them across the river when a woman gives her bear fat; transporting a cannibal, throws it into the water; she swims under water; a young man pierces her with a spear; it turns into a white whale]: 24-25; seneca [see motif K1C; people leave the girl on the island; the Horned Serpent carries her back; twelve once she starts to dive, she hits him with a new rod every time; a thunderstorm begins, the girl manages to reach the shore, lightning hits the Snake]: Cornplanter 1938, No. 7:73-79; Delaware: Bierhorst 1995, No. 80 [seven boys can climb into the air and fall into the ground; the eighth cannot; his grandfather takes him to the island, throws him there; the Horned Serpent carries him when he promises to see if they show up storm clouds; the boy does not fulfill his promise, the Thunders hit the Snake as the boy jumps ashore; he becomes a friend of the Thunder; the other seven boys turn into red stones; Some man thoughtlessly stains them; they turn into pine trees; too many people come to rest in their shade; then the boy goes up to the sky, turn into Pleiades], 142 [the young man does not hunt; grandfather takes him to the island, throws him there "to fix it"; the Skunk offers to take him home; the voice warns that the Skunk is weak; the young man sits on the Horned Serpent; they come back halfway, for the young man says that a cloud has appeared; next time he is silent, the Thunders kill the Snake, the young man jumps ashore; the grandfather teaches his grandson to kill a bear, the grandson is now like all boys]: 47, 63-64.

Plains. Blacklegs [the chief owns a sacred smoking pipe; other children take away his sinks (from the pipe?) ; the chief tells everyone to leave, leaving the children; they go to the witch; she kills everyone but the girl and her younger brother; they run; the bison's skull is responsible for them; the girl agrees to take out Bison's lice and bite through them; bites beads instead of lice; Bison transports children across the river, they return to people; the witch says lice are bitter; the Bison throws her into the river, she drowns; the parents refuse the leader orders the children who brought them to be tied to a tree and left; a good old woman leaves her dog, he frees the children; the brother becomes a young man, kills buffalo with magic; people are starving; brother and sister feed them; kill their abusive parents by throwing pieces of hard meat into their mouths]: Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. V1:138-141; Grovanter: Cooper 1975, No. 10 [a horned serpent carries a hero across the river; dives; hero kills him, swims to the shore]: 474-475; Kroeber 1907b, No. 26 [see motif K43; while children play, adults migrate; children come to the old woman; she kills sleepers by stepping on them with a hot foot in the fire necks; the girl does not sleep, asks to spare her and her brother; brings firewood and water to the old woman, she rejects them; the bird explains that she needs rotten water and perfume ropes growing on willows; girl pretends that his brother needs to urinate, runs away with him; the horned water monster offers to look in his head, bite through lice; his lice are frogs, the girl gnaws plum bones; the monster transports children across the river; an old woman throws frogs, a monster drowns her]: 102-105; assiniboine: Clark 1966 [see motif K31; a horned, woolen monster takes two brothers home across the sea]: 297-301 ; Lowie 1909a, No. 7c [older brother leaves his youngest on the island; he kills an enemy; scalps a horned water snake; sails on it to the mainland]: 152; hidatsa [chief's wife falsely accuses his younger brother in an attempted rape; the chief leaves him on the other side of Missouri; the chief is the son of the Water Serpent, the young man is the son of the Thunderbird; the Bird teaches him to lure the Snake with a shell (the son of the Snake wants to get it), feed him with cornbread as he carries him across the river; a young man lies that there is not a cloud in the sky, jumps ashore, Thunderbird kills the Snake]: Beckwith 1938:81-91; santi [older brother's wife wants to sleep with the youngest, he refuses; she accuses the young man of trying to rape her; the husband promises Unktomi (Spider) to marry his sister, tells him to take his brother to the Unvisited Island, leave her there; Horned Monster transports a young man to the mainland]: Riggs 1893 [a young man marries two cannibals, who turn into normal women, give him two sons; he wants to return home; wives ask his mother to call his father; this Unktelia's horned water monster; they put hot stones in the monster's eyes, hang a basket with her husband on his horns, he transports them to the mainland; asks for warning if they notice a cloud; daughters they do not warn; when the monster turns back, the Thunder kills him; the monster is immortal, reborn]: 139-143; Wallis 1923, No. 17 [the young man gives the water monster eagle feathers, he transports him ashore; asks warn if a cloud appears in the sky; the young man does not warn; the thunder kills the monster, the young man manages to jump ashore; on the way home he marries two cannibal daughters; they give birth to his sons]: 78-83; teton: Dorsey 1889 [the long creature agrees to transport the Ikto trickster across the river; he warns of a cloud; the serpent dives; a thunderstorm begins, Ikto emerges, the serpent has disappeared; huge rattlesnakes and water monsters are enemies of Thunderbirds]: 135-136; Wissler 1907 (oglala) [see motive K31; older brother's wife accuses young man of attempted rape; her husband leaves him on the island; the opossum hides in the lake; the Horned Serpent appears from the waters, carries the young man; asks to speak if a cloud appears in the sky; the young man does not speak; the thunder kills the Serpent; the young man manages to jump ashore; returns to his father], No. 7:196-199; mandan [except pp.289-291; two hunters shoot into a bubbling ball; the wind carries them to the island; the Immortal Woman lives there; they ask her for help; she tells them to sit down on a sea serpent; it gets tired, ready to dive into the water; four times hunters feed it corn, it swims on]: Beckwith 1938, No. 4 [four snakes swim one by one; the first three are rejected, hunters swim on the fourth; snakes have 1) one sharp horn, 2) deer antlers, 3) sandbraids on their heads, 4) earth with poplars growing on it]: 54-56; Bowers 1950:198-199 [snakes with two horns and with one big eye; corn runs out; the fifth time they give dried meat; reach the shore], 262-264 [brothers call the carrier; snakes swim up with one horn, two, two horns and willow shoots, and poplars on their heads, with two horns, willows, poplars, grass on their heads; brothers reject the first three snakes, swim on the fourth; when they reach, ask him to put his head ashore; he does not put it; clever brother jumps off; a stupid snake gets on his nose, swallows; a clever man lures a snake with corn, pulls his brother out of its mouth; lightning kills a snake], 289-291 [man sent overseas to bring the head of an ogre; woman- The deer teaches him to summon a snake carrier; throw corn into the water in front of its mouth; if he puts its snake in his mouth, he will swallow it; the snake carries it back and forth]; arpahoe: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903 [a horned serpent carries the hero across the river; in the middle wants to swallow him or drown him; he jumps ashore], No. 10, 11:28, 30-31; Voth 1912, No. 15 [white man is angry with Indian children; tells parents leave them; children look for parents, go to an old woman; she cuts off the heads of sleepers; two sisters persuade them to spare them; a bird advises them to run; a crocodile agrees to transport them across the river if they they will collect insects from him; his lice are frogs; they click them like lice; they get to humans]: 50.

Southeast USA. Except for caddo: the hero will leave on the other side of the sea. Caddo [people take an orphan to the island to collect bird eggs, throw him there; a horned water monster carries him on his back to the shore; asks for warning if a young man sees a star in the blue sky; a young man warns, the monster is back; for the sixth time, the young man is silent, jumps ashore; the Evening Star kills the monster (with lightning?) ; in the form of a man, thanks the young man for his help in killing a monster; takes him to heaven, which turns into a star next to the Evening Star]: Dorsey 1905, No. 13:26-27; tunic [crocodile carries a hero; this future Thunder; first the turtle, the fish offer to transport it, he rejects them; shoots arrows forward, throws food, forcing the crocodile to sail after them; jumps ashore, the crocodile does not have time for it swallow]: Haas 1950, No. 4:41, 57; Swanton 1911 [the uncle left the orphan nephew to fast in the house; the sister brought him food; the uncle's wife lured the young man out of the house in vain to kill the white squirrel; then asked kill a squirrel through a hole in the house; the young man pulled out the squirrel's claws, one did not notice; the woman scratched her body with it, told her husband that the young man went out and did it; the uncle demands to bring 1) arrow reeds ( dangerous creatures live in reeds; the rabbit pulls out), 2) the feathers of a dangerous fishing bird (the young man climbs into the nest, the eagle gives him feathers and one chick, ordered him to be released at home; the chick takes his uncle's child); 3) the uncle takes the young man to hunt deer on the other side of the fresh ocean, sails away in a boat himself; the young man wanders through the forest, curses owls, woodpeckers; the woodpecker asks not to curse, brings him to his house in a hollow; the young man got up, makes a ladder out of mushrooms; the cannibal brings his dogs (cougars, jaguars, wolves, raccoons) to the tree; climbs a tree, the mushroom step breaks, she falls, shouts "It's me", her "dogs" are a little bit of her not bitten; a young man goes to the water, climbs a tree; two women catch his reflection; he spits, they see him, take him home as a husband, give a mirror; these women were stolen as a child by a cannibal; when she came in, a young man let the bunny in a mirror, the cannibal liked it, she did not kill him; the young man and his wives ran to the shore, began to sing; sends turtles, catfish, garfish, and agrees to swim on a crocodile; throws arrows forward; the crocodile swims up to them, bites; the young man throws skins and cakes, the crocodile swallows them; the last arrow falls at the shore, the young man and his wives have time to jump off; the sister recognizes the arrow brother; nursed her uncle's child; threw it into boiling water; uncle told two people to kill her with batons away from home; brother fired lightning, people turned into vulture and opossum, their batons (paddle and pestle) turned into theirs tails; brother began to go up to heaven, told his sister to grab his leg, she failed, became a forest night chicken, singing before dawn; brother became thunder]: 319-322; biloxi [Uncle Tuhe tells him to be in ritual isolation in the house; his uncle's wife asks to shoot her squirrel; T. shoots through a gap in the wall; his sister pulls out the squirrel's claws, forgets alone; the uncle's wife scratches her body with it , accuses T.; his uncle tells him to bring special arrowpoles, white turkey feathers, deer tendons; Rabbit, Deer help T.; he kills the evil Old Man who unfastened him; the uncle asks the Eagle's chick, for the baby to play with them; the eagle gives the chick, which devours the baby; the uncle takes T. to the other side of the sea to burn grass, leaves it; the woodpecker lowers T. his tongue like a rope to climb a tree when he approaches cannibals; An owl makes a ladder out of tree mushrooms, one mushroom attaches weakly; a cannibal climbs mushrooms, falls, her dogs rush at her thinking it's T. {this episode on p.103}; they let her go in the morning; T. comes to her, marries her daughters; she tries to kill him; he falls into her trap; she asks where to strike; he replies that in head; she does not believe, wants to hit her ankle; he hits her with an ax, cooks her body; she comes to life; her daughters put hot iron into a hole in her head, she dies; T. and his wives swim across the sea to crocodile; T. throws him food, then fires arrows in front of him, then flies ashore with his arrow; tells his sister to throw his uncle's baby into boiling water; kills his uncle's people; turns into thunder, sister - into a snipe; toads sing in the rain as T. told them]: Dorsey, Swanton 1912, No. 28:99-107; natchez [a horned serpent carries a hero and his two wives; the hero moves ashore flying his arrow]: Swanton 1929, No. 9:238-239; Alabama [a horned serpent carries a hero; fires arrows and throws food (like a tunic)]: Swanton 1929, no. 12:128; koasati [like Alabama]: Swanton 1929, No. 12, 13: 174-176.

The Great Southwest. Tiva (Taos) [see motive L5]: Parsons 1940a, No. 24 [an apache hunter takes his wife to hunt, kills a bison; the wife cries, he shoots at her too, bakes her head; sends his son and daughter to eat bison head; head hisses: Children, don't eat me; stalks them; brother carries sister on his back; serpent (?) Päkeleana transports them across the river, they sit by his horns; P. invites the Head to look for lice; these are frogs; The head rudenly replies that it does not eat lice; P. dives, the head sinks], 24 var.1 [from his wife The Apache chief is a snake lover; she feeds him the best meat; the chief watches her, kills both with arrows, places his wife's head on a tree, roasts her ribs; sends her son and daughter to taste bison meat; Head tells the mother not to eat; stalks children; the chief marries Coyoticha, the tribe migrates; Beaver asks the children to look in his head; there are frogs; the girl bites through the beads from her brother's bracelet, and the frogs fall into water; The beaver transports children across the river; The head tells Beaver that it has no arms; Grab the lice with your mouth! - Dirty creature! The head throws frogs into the water; the Beaver drowns it]: 70-73, 74-76.

NW Mexico. Nahuatl Zap. Mexico [a merchant takes a skull on the road; puts water in a hole in the morning; throws it away once; on the way back he sees a lake in that place; the skull has turned into a snake; transports a merchant, is going to eat; they ask Skunk if the Serpent has the right to do so; Skunk says he doesn't hear, asks him to swim closer; the merchant jumps ashore; for his help, Skunk gets the right to steal corn from people]: Preuss 1968, No. 35: 215-220.

Mesoamerica Nahuatl Veracruza [a crocodile transports a rabbit across the river]: Mechling 1916:551-552; Totonaki (Papantla) [The rabbit found an abandoned milpa; negotiated with a cockroach, a rooster, a coyote, as a hunter to give them the harvest, asks for money in advance; appointed each time a little later than the other; a cockroach came, then a rooster, ate a cockroach, a coyote a rooster, the hunter shot a coyote; The rabbit led the hunter across the suspension bridge, cut off the vine, the hunter fell and died; to cross the river back, the Rabbit told the Crocodile that he wanted to die, but let him first transport him to the other side; jumps off and runs away; the snake invites the Crocodile to pretend to be dead, tells the Rabbit that the Crocodile is dead; The rabbit says loudly that the dead must release gases noisily; The crocodile does it; The Rabbit says that where he saw the dead do this, he leaves; he doesn't talk to the Snake anymore]: Levy 2012:401-466.

Honduras-Panama. The crocodile transports. Pécs [heroes from the island back across the sea]: Flores 1989:37, 40, 43; bribri [thunder brothers across the sea]: Bozzoli, Cubero Venegas, Constenla Umaña 1983:18

The Northern Andes. Nonama [a crocodile transports a rabbit across the river]: Wassen 1935, No. 6:132.

Llanos. Guayabero [two young men are going fishing; one was called by Dayip, who jumped across the stream and found himself overseas; the monster Mintatil, who holds the land, carries him back; while he sleeps, a picture insect paints it in different colors; the young man gets home, he was washed there]: Schindler 1977a: 232-235.

Guiana. Varrau [a man falls into a river; a caiman carries him; at the shore a man grabs branches; becomes a sloth]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1970, No. 201:465-466; vapishana [man grows Cayman cub; he grows up, the man rides it; the caiman swam along the river, intending to eat the rider; the fox pretends not to hear, asks the caiman to swim closer, the man jumps ashore; the fox runs ahead, pretends to be dead; the man buries it in the ground, leaves his head outside; so three times; the person realizes that it is the same fox, hits it; Lisa says that she saved him in vain; mother at home advises man not to raise caimans anymore]: Wirth 1950:204-205; kalinha [home across the river]: Magaña 1988a, No. 80:150; waiwai [hunters eat harpy eagle, forest spirit at night comes screaming: You ate an eagle's liver! Some wake up, poke the rest on the cheeks with smut, they run away, becoming kibihee (some animal, hunting object); so they have a white spot on their cheeks; Kurum-yenna (people- Vultures) play flutes, inviting them to dance in their village; Kworo-yenna (Parrot People) and other Birds come and take local girls; some of the current waiwai bands descend from them; when they parted home, became real birds; Kamara-yenna (Jaguar people) came to the river; turtles formed a bridge, the Jaguars walked along it; Kurum Yenna asked the turtles to destroy the bridge; the Jaguars were eaten by a giant piranha , the boy escaped, part of his foot was bitten off; Kurum Yenna kept him with him; a woman married to a red mako (Kworo-yenna); she keeps the Petalï anaconda in a fenced place in the river; feeds her meat, which her husband brings; but she gives her ish agouti, and she eats the meat of large animals herself; someone told the anaconda about this; when the woman called her, the anaconda jumped out and swallowed it and swam away; the shaman husband caught an otter, went with them to catch up with P.; aquatic people answer every time that P. had just swam; they come to the place where P.; otters surround her, these places are now the whirlpools of Mapuera waterfalls; otters P. jumped down the throat, collected the woman's bones, went out carrying them out through the anaconda's ass; when they returned home, they washed the old woman's hands and feet, collected water in a vessel, poured them into the river, the fish began to die; Kingfisher grabbed two fish, lifted it to the sky so that he would then have something to eat; P. began to jump out, people shot her, cut it in half, began to drag her ashore, the tail jumped back into the water, the current ones come from him anacondas; all bird people bathed in anaconda blood, became birds; it rained, some hid in hiding, others did not; so some birds remained red, others had only a few red feathers; those who were bathed in bile turned yellow, and those who were then caught in the rain turned blue; birds tried on wings and tails; animal people also became animals; women who married remained human, the rest became birds and animals; the old woman became various plants from which fish venom is made]: Fock 1963:62-66; oyampy [home across the sea]: Grenand 1982, No. 8:106

Ecuador. Colorado [a man painted with a genipa came to two sisters, led them to a tree, began to shed fruits, the fruits turned into skulls, and the sisters found themselves in an unknown land; two sisters get to a star woman; the eldest does not listen to her instructions, sees not water, but blood, not beans, but human ribs; the Star brothers are condors; Condor smelled the eldest, eats her, and it seems like a love game to her, she laughs; The star tells the youngest to run; parrots refuse to help because people killed them; Iguana transports them across the river because the woman did not eat her eggs; sleeps in a tree with parrot women; returns to mother; the star did not tell her to eat people's food; her relative gave it to her, she disappeared]: Mix 1982:91-97.

Western Amazon. A male or female caiman transports three or two brothers across a river or sea. Siona, Sekoya: Chaves 1958 [Three brothers went hunting, killed a tapir; on the way back they asked Cayman to transport them across the lake; jumping ashore, the latter shouted that Cayman was not theirs grandfather, but only a Cayman, Cayman bit off his leg; shamans began to drink yazhe, making the Sun shine and dry the lake; Cayman's stomach was ripped open, the young man was alive but without a leg; all three brothers became to drink the drug, they flew away; the sister refused to drink, the brothers left her at the top of the tree; there she cries, calling her brothers; the caiman's jaw turned into the Pleiades, and there you can see a flute in the sky, the end of the ax, tulpa (three stones?) , on which they put yazhe to cook]: 146-147; Vickers 1989 [Baira creates land after the flood, helps people get out of the ground, kills her father-in-law, who turns into Tapira; B. goes to heaven, tells his nephews to chase Tapir; they follow the trail of Tapir's excrement, it's getting fresher; Kaimaniha takes them across the river, bites off his younger brother's leg; they kill Caimaniha with an ax, reach out a leg; brothers - Pleiades, axe - Orion Belt, Hyades - Cayman's jaw, Milky Way - tapir trail]: 161-167; napo [two; female]: Foletti Castegnaro 1985 [sea]: 57-58; Mercier 1979 [wife pregnant, her month-old husband is gone somewhere; she goes looking for him, asks about the twins' path in her stomach; she picks flowers for the twins, she gets bitten by a wasp, she claps her stomach saying they are guilty; the twins fall silent; she comes to the Jaguar grandmother; she hides her under the roof, the woman spits; Murupuma, Puka-Puma can't reach her, Wimba-puma jumps; they eat her, the grandmother asks herself giblets, takes out, hides twins in a pot; they grow up, call her to the plot where they quickly grew corn; she almost got lost in it; she tells them to bring water, they bring a lot, grandmother she almost drowned; she asked for firewood, they brought a lot, they filled it up; they were eating wood-grown mushrooms, it turned out that the grandmother's ears were still alive; the brothers' name was Kuillurkuna ("Stars"); they lured her into a cave, where there were musical instruments, asked to dance, she sat on a glued bench, stuck; she was closed, she would come out at the end of time; the brothers lured the jaguars to the bridge over the abyss they had dug, they brought them down; they hid in two rubber bags, let themselves be carried away by the cannibal eagle Anga, who brought them to a nest on a rock; when he fell asleep, the eldest killed the male, the youngest did not finish off the female, she flew away at sunset; The duck replied that he could not transport the brothers across the river; Cayman drove him and asked what it smelled like; the eldest said he did not feel anything, the youngest that he smelled like caiman; the eldest had become the fast Suwisuwi bird, and the youngest in the sluggish Partridge, Cayman bit off his leg; the elder dried the pond, found that caiman, tore off his jaw, took out his leg, put it back; climbed the vine into the sky , the eldest became the Evening Star, the Younger became the Morning Star, took his jaw with them (Hyades)]: 28-39, 51; Wavrin: 1979:64-65; canelo [two brothers swim across the river in a boat; one opens his eyes, sees that the boat is a caiman; he bites off his right leg; his soul is in his right shin; the caiman is found, killed, his leg is returned; the crippled one comes to life]: Whitten 1976:53.

NW Amazon. Bar [caiman carries a monkey with her child across the river]: Pereira 1980 (1): 255; Vacuenai [Owl-Monkeys possessed poison; created from bones, decided to rid the world of poison; created a tree with many fruits, invited all the monkeys to a feast; when they fell asleep, he moved the tree to the middle of the river; the Night Monkey threw ripe fruits into the water, they were immediately eaten by piranhas; threw the dried ones - did not eat; became an ant, climbed into a dried fruit, fell into the river with it, escaped, so the poison was preserved; tsikota monkeys jumped into the water, they were eaten by piranhas and caimans; the female and the cub remained; nocturnal the monkey asked Woodpecker to transport it, he couldn't; then Cayman; he took them, was going to eat them, she managed to jump ashore, Cayman only bit off her tail, so these monkeys are short-tailed; from this one female and her son are happening today's tsikota monkeys]: Hill 2009:31-32; tarian [monkeys killed and ate Amaru, Yapirikuri's aunt; he decided to kill monkeys; his nephew Kuiniri hid in a tree , became an ant, ran away from the monkeys; they were in a tree; three types of monkeys, each threw fruit; one fell into the water, the other two ashore; the monkey Cacajao rubicundus lowered its tail into the water and piranhas bit it off; Yapirikuri shot monkeys with a wind gun; the monkeys fell into the water, were eaten by caimans and piranhas; only the Mother of the Monkeys and her nephew survived; they asked the caiman to transport them across the river; he I was going to eat them, but they managed to jump off; they are what today's monkeys come from]: Brüzzi 1994:230-232.

Central Amazon. Munduruku: Kruse 1949, No. 33 [Peresuatpë went hunting with his older brother; he went into the bushes; P. shot the tapir, missed it; this brother took the form of a tapir; his grandmother advised him to the next time pull the tapir inside through the ass; the hand is stuck, the tapir ran, P. pulled out his hand when the tapir relieved himself; along with the tapir P. ended up on the right bank of Tapajos; local people killed the tapir, cut it into pieces, P. saw it while sitting in a tree; those people mistook him for a bee nest, began to poke his pole, on the advice of a parrot, P. described the pole, the Indians began to lick urine, thinking it was honey; to cross back over Tapajos, P. called a caiman named Uàtippanpàn'a; first smaller caimans sailed out, P. rejected them; on W.'s back was grass and trees; the caiman regurgitated, P. compared the aroma to the smell Uruku; once on the shore, he shouted that W. stinks, he was furious, dived, the palm tree on his back broke; at night, the jaguar called P. by name, he asked what he wanted, fell asleep; woke him up the next night inumbu chicken, P. broke all her eggs, three left, since then Inambu has laid three eggs; the next night P. sleeps in a hollow; Jaguar wants to bite off his finger, P. gives him the finger of a dead monkey; so Jaguar got and ate all his fingers, then the liver; left; the next night, the Jaguar promises to bring a stone; P. leaves his bowel movements in the hollow, climbs a tree; sewage is responsible for P., Jaguar throws into the hollow a stone, finds crap; the next night the caterpillars prevented sleep, P. handed over half, now these caterpillars are few; P. sees two girls in the palm grove; agrees to marry; they ask not to be afraid of their father; he came, P. ran away; P. sleeps with Jaguar's wife; in the afternoon he replies that he did not see her; running away, he screams that he had slept with her; Jaguar accidentally rushed not at P., but at the Anteater, who scratched his eyes; Jaguar's wife made him new eyes out of resin, since then Jaguar's eyes shine; P. asks Rain Mother to drop his bananas; she throws the peel; he threatens to shoot, replies that he will cover himself from the rain with a banana leaf; he shot, it started raining, P. got wet; the Inambu woman plays the flute, her hammock had fire; he refused to lie down with her, she flew away, taking the hammock and the fire; P. took the bone out of Jaguar's throat, who showed him the way home; his mother painted him uruku, P. died of a strong smell]: 642-646; Murphy 1958, No. 29 [Akainoatpyo is his nephew, Karujuribo is his uncle; K. turns into deer and other animals, A. not can kill them; Grandma A. advises him to kill tapir with his hand in his ass; tapir - K.; he jumps up, drags A. through Tapazhos, frees him by emptying his stomach; advises him to cross the river back choose a third crocodile with trees growing on its back; now the name A. is Perisvat; P. rejects two smaller crocodiles, swims on a large one; lies that the crocodile's belching is fragrant; jumping on shore, screams that it stinks; at night, Inambu prevents P. from sleeping with conversations; P. breaks her eggs, since then the Inambu has laid only three eggs; P. kills a monkey, sleeps in a hollow; this is the Jaguar's lair; that requires P. to give him parts of his body one by one; P. gives him the limbs and liver of the monkey; leaves excrement responsible for himself, climbs a tree; Jaguar devours excrement instead of P.; P. conducts night with a man whose leg bones are devoid of flesh are pointed; he tries to pierce P.; when his leg pierces a tree, P. ties it with a bowstring; frees it in the morning; copulates with Jaguar's wife; he chases P., P. turns into a battleship, scratches Jaguara's eyes; Jaguar makes new ones out of wood latex, they have been shining ever since; P. spends the night by the Inambu fire; refuses to lie down in a hammock with her; she flies away, taking away the fire; P. falls into the trap of the hunter with both hands and feet; he leaves the old woman to guard the prey; the old woman falls asleep; the ant, the bee, the wasp, the monkey release P.; the hunter beats the old woman in anger, she turns into a bird; P. returns to his grandmother; dies when she rubs his uruku]: 95-102.

Eastern Amazon. Hissing [the men went camping; the latter put his hand in a hole in the ground, his hand was pinched; in the morning, a bearded and hairy demon (one of the informants identified him with the Sun) threw his rod kar , he finds the prey himself; the man pretended to be dead; the demon carried him in the ant basket; the man twitched, the demon stabbed him, he pretended to be dead again; the demon put the basket outside the house, his son found it was empty; the man hid in the hollow, the Kari found it; the demon filled the entrance with a stone; the rodent animals made a hole, the man went out, climbed the tree; the demon sent the snake, the man threw it off; the demon went to get the ax, the man ran away, jumping on the trees; saw two caimans in the river with bushes and an imbauba tree on their backs; one drove to the other side; the demon ordered to return, but the caiman swam on; released gases, told him to be called a fart, then a freak; the man replied that the caiman was beautiful, etc.; the man called him a disgusting fat fart when he was on the other side; came to the Inamba, who had three hammocks for her two wings and legs; contrary to the ban, he lay down in a hammock, it broke off, the inambu flew away; spent the night in an old house, heard singing at night, saw a skull in the morning, took it to a place where he would not wet it rain; tapiriha married to a jaguar, did not let her husband eat a man; he heard melodies in the forest; came to two other tapir spouses; then home; his little son had already grown up; the melodies he heard were a man taught people]: Nimuendaju 1922:390-393; tenetehara [roughly like Munduruu]: Nimuendaju 1915, No. 10:299-300; Wagley, Galvão 1949, No. 15 [Wiraí boy went to the station with his mother, got lost, the river split, he found himself on an island; the Nighthawk ("night hawk") refused to move him, the Woodpecker could not, Cayman offered to sit on it; on the opposite bank he went under water; the Soc&# bird 243; {apparently the pelican} dived, swallowed V., hid it in his throat bag, Cayman sailed away; V. spent the night under a rock, in the morning it turned out to be a huge Toad; saw hummingbirds dancing and singing "From him I will make calebas heads", V. frightened them off; the snake Moizuhú invited him to her house, wanted to eat it, but V. began to sing Hawk's song "The Hawk Eats the Eyes of Snakes", the snake was frightened, disappeared; V. slept again at a huge toad, she repeated "Sleep on the other side", where V. found a path, walked along it to a fruit tree; on the other, V. ate so many fruits that he began to go bald; Bakers brought him to the yam field; Father V. frightened the Bakers, grabbed his son; at home he hugged his mother so tightly that they could not separate themselves (var.1: called a shaman to separate them; var.2: they could not separate because V. was a shaman]: 140-142; urubu [the boy chased the nightjar, found himself on the other side of the sea (he carried him there with a nightjar); Toucan, a toucan with a red beak, the duck is offered to be taken home, the boy replies that they are too weak; A duck gives a boat to cross, this is Cayman; on the way, he asks if his back, tail, teeth, digging leeches are pleasant; the boy praises them every time; when he jumps ashore, he screams that they are disgusting; Cayman pursues a boy who asks for help from the Pelican (Socó-Ramoui - Owner of the Pelicans); the Pelican regurgitates the fish, hides the boy in his goiter, threatens Cayman, he has to leave; the boy returns to mothers]: Ribeiro 2002:463-466.

Montagna - Jurua. Cayman, if not otherwise, transports across the river. Shipibo [a group of brothers who bite off one's leg]: Gebhaert-Sayer 1987 [a single boy uses calebasa instead of his wife; she becomes a woman, gives birth to three sons; they sit in a tree and eat fruits; Tapir constantly comes and asks for fruit for themselves; they throw unripe fruit at his head; he knocks on the trunk, making it fat; brothers go down as ants; follow the tapir's trail; ask his excrement or the trees that grew out of them when the tapir passed; a year, six months, a month, ten days ago; he is here; the eldest turns into an ant, climbs into the tapir's anus, hurts his heart; the brothers fresh the carcass; everyone tries to become a pot to cook meat; only the elder can withstand the heat for a long time; they ask the Duck to transport them across the river; she replies that her boat is small; Cayman asks not step on his head; his younger brother steps, Cayman grabs him by the leg, drags him under water; the Sloth drains the river, the brothers take the youngest's corpse out of the caiman's womb; the leg is missing; they shoot at the sky, they make a chain of arrows; Termite and Little Squirrel are afraid to climb, Big Squirrel comes back, says the sky is good; the turtle turns the chain into a ladder; the brothers take Cayman's head and brother's corpse, take to heaven]: 350-351; Roe 1982, No. 7, 8 [despite the warning, the younger brother steps on the bow of the boat, which turns into a caiman and bites off its leg]: 62-63, 65; conibo [swallows little brother, bites off his leg; other brothers make a boat out of caiman's ribs]: Castaneda 1923:405.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Takana (kavinya) [shaman sends 10 men to hunt; they kill monkeys, tapirs, wild boars; fried their prey and went to bed; only one did not sleep; the night monkey came, ate his sleeping eyes; not the sleeper said that his eyes were where the anus was; in the morning people sailed in a boat across the river; the boat capsized, the blind drowned; the sighted asked the bird to make a boat for him, but it sank into the water when he stepped on it; Cayman took him across the river, started wagging; the man said he should relieve himself; Cayman offered to do it on his back, promised to eat it; the man grabbed a branch, but Cayman bit off his leg; the man turned into an insect like a cockroach, squeaking thinly; flew home; the shaman heard and understood that the man would not return]: Nordenskiöld 1924:288: eseeha [running away from human jaguar across the river]: Hissink, Hahn 1988:184; chacobo [man runs away from the tapir man; there is a lake in front of him, asked the caiman to translate; he wanted to eat the rider, but the man managed to jump off and grab hold of a branch; after an adventure, a person returns to his mother; see motif M6]: Kelm 1972, No. 4:226-229; guaray [after the Franciscan José Cardús, 1886; at the fork in the soul of the deceased turns to a narrow left path; the wide right path is for Europeans, nothing is known about it; the soul crosses the first river on the caiman, playing the flute; if it plays badly, the caiman will drown and eat it; on the opposite bank of the second river there is a tree with a box at the top; it bends to this bank and then straightens; the soul jumps into the box; if it misses, it sinks; then on the path lies the Izoiramoi worm; to a good person, he seems gigantic, and as he approaches he decreases to a tiny worm; he seems small to a bad person, and then grabs it between his legs, bites it in half, eats it; then an area of darkness , the soul lights a bunch of straw, passes; this torch must be kept behind your back; if bats will attack in front; when you approach the Tuanandior bottle tree, the soul kicks the root, making itself felt; the soul washes, drinks chicha, walks around the tree, hummingbirds flutter at its flowers; the soul wounds them with arrows, picks up feathers as a gift to Grandfather, releases the hummingbirds; then the path between the two Itacuru rocks; when they they disperse, the soul screams, the rocks stop for a moment, the soul slips; if it does not know what to shout, it is crushed, eaten by insects; it swims across the next river on a raft; if he was bad man, the raft in the middle turns over, the soul sinks; then at the fork, the Vulture looks, and the person who comes has jewelry in his lower lip, nose, ears; if not, indicates the wrong path where the soul dies; then a huge monkey grabs his soul, tickles; if the soul laughs, the monkey will eat it (the guaraya try not to laugh; women often giggle, so they will not get to Grandfather); further to the left of the path is deceptive Iguirar-oriyo tree; voices, screams from under it, there are colorful plants, it's easy to lose your way; you have to pass by with your eyes closed and your ear plugged, otherwise the tree will carry away; then the road becomes flat, around flowers; long-bearded Grandfather greets the soul affectionately, washes, makes him handsome, gives a wife; a man lives a normal life in the village of the dead]: Grubb 1924:187-193 (the episode with the caiman on p.189; =Pierini 1910:707-708); Guarazu: Riester 1977, No. 33 [returning hero], 65 [Cayman agrees to transport the Monkey across the river; she indulges in covering his eyes with her hand; screams that his pimples are skin makes her nauseous; Cayman is about to throw it into the water, she says she was joking; she grabs branches, brings down a stream of abuse from a tree; he promises the Vultures to give the Monkey's body to eat, if they help him by saying that Cayman is dead; the monkey notices that Cayman's tail is moving; throws three stones into his mouth, he swallows them; this later dies, is eaten by the Vultures; the Monkey cries, she really just wanted to joke]: 279, 316-317; pauserna [the man got lost, came to a wide body of water; the duck offered a caiman as a boat; the caiman sailed with the man for three days; - Say that I stink and ugly; the man kept silent; when the shore was close, the man grabbed the tree, ran; asked the uru (flightless) bird to hide it from the caiman pursuer; she sent him along the way to the herons, they hid it in a basket under the fish; Cayman put his paw in the basket, pricked on thorny catfish, left; the man became a heron, flew along with other herons to his relatives, became human again; after a week or two days he died]: Snethlage 1936:287-288.

Southern Amazon. If not otherwise: the caiman transports across the river. Trumai: Monod Becquelin 1975, No. 5:52-53; kamayura [a red mako flew to the village of Morená, where the Sun and the Moon lived; they realized that it was a mako made by Vanivaní, went to him; he made five cuts to each of them, collected blood, made each clot of mako; the Sun and the Month returned to their homes, began to make mako in the same way; in their absence, V. came and took all the mako and wives of the Sun and Months; they slowly came to V., the Sun sent blood-sucking flies to bite the women, collected blood, turned her back into wives {what happened to the original wives is not clear}; V. went down the river and took it from all the makos (so there are no red makos in the area where the Kamayura lives); the old Mavursinim fumbled to V., cannot cross the river; V. sends a tiny boat for him twice, then sends him caimana, M. takes it to V.; he treats him with cakes and beer made from cassava cakes soaked in water]: Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973:191-194; calapalo: Basso 1987:159-162; Iranian: Pereira 1985, No. 2 [see motive J12; Hummingbird's wife with her sister, mother and young child goes to her husband, goes to the Owl; they run away from him, come to the river; Cayman carries them; gives them fish, grabbing her and regurgitating; they just pretend to eat it; then they get to the Turtle], 4 [the young man goes to look for a wife; climbs a tree above the river; Mae - do - sol ( Euchroma gigantea) takes his reflection for her own, wonders how beautiful she is; the young man says she is ugly; she leads him to her, gives chicha from excrement; he leaves; asks Mae - da - agua (aquatic perfume with a fish tail, long hair, two horns) to transport it across the river; M. intends to fry it and eat it; the young man gives their children manioc starch, they teach him to jump off their father's back in the middle of the river, swim fast to the bank; the father turns the children into jati s; the young man comes to the village of the Sun, becomes the new sun; see motif A1]: 37-43, 45- 55; kayabi [the man is looking for a river crossing, Cayman suggests transporting it; in the middle of the river he asks what he looks like; the person replies that the caiman is beautiful; manages to jump ashore]: Pereira 1995, No. 4:42-43; Rickback: Pereira 1994, No. 1 [(=1973, No. 12:46-47); people eat tapir crap, tree mushrooms, cassava, don't know onions and arrows; a woman finds a seed, it turns into a bird's egg; she puts it in all the folds and recesses of her body; when she clamps it in the palm of her hand (var.: under the knee, in the fold of her abdomen), the egg gives birth to a boy; while the mother was not at home, another woman became massage his penis, got along with him; his penis grew; his mother took her son to the forest, he turned into Tapir; his mother made his legs and ass invulnerable by burning fire, stuffing leaves; but he can be killed in the armpit; Tapir copulates with all women, starting with the one that came when he was a boy; men suspect, sent birds to find out; while women in the field make their first bows, go to the river, imitate in the voices of women, Tapir was shot dead; the husband of the one who came to see the child hung Tapir's severed penis over her hammock; the women turned their children into birds, animals; one blew on a leaf, the water poured down, formed a river; Cayman carried the ugly ones first, then the beautiful ones; warned that the wind would blow in the middle of the river, they should not spit; the ugly ones held back, one beautiful spit, he spit them drowned; their voices and laughter can be heard from the river; some have turned into fish, stone, birds; sweet potatoes and corn grow at the bottom; the Sloth told the men what happened; they began to copulate with him, he told him it is better to catch women; men caught Carp first, but missed it; then Akara fish, she turned into a woman, new people from her; if they were more beautiful from Carp; women took the fire across the river; see, D4A motif]: 17-34; paresi [deer (Blasticerus dichotomus) carries the hero, demands his decoration as a fee, the hero gives everything he has reaches the shore]: Pereira 1986, No. 2:72-74.

Araguaia. Karazha [people catch too many pirarucu fish; the old man tells me to stop fishing, the fishermen do not listen; they disappear; fish in their guise come to their wives; looking for her sleeping husband in her head, the wife notices needles from fins; runs with children; tells the parrot to be responsible for her; Pirarucu pulls out his feathers, the parrot admits that the woman hid in the Heron's goiter; the Heron replies that she is fat because she is full fish; Pirarucu checks Heron's excrement; woman runs farther, loses her way, suffers from thirst; Electric Eel gives water when she agrees to lie down with him; another Eel deceives, he doesn't give water ; the child turns into a bird out of thirst; Unze asks what the woman painted her (second?) baby; - With melted wax; - Paint me too; the woman scalded Unze to death; the woman's sister put Unze fat in the hollow; contrary to warning, she comes back twice, eats fat, herself turns into Unze; a woman throws her into a tree; asks Cayman to transport her; promises to surrender to him on the other side, runs away herself; Cayman guides the pursuer in her footsteps; she throws in The pursuer is hot coals; then salt, a large river forms; Pirarucu cannot cross it, stops chasing, returns to his lake]: Ehrenreich 1891, No. 8:43-45.

Eastern Brazil. Cayman transports across the river. Kayapo: Wilbert 1978, No. 151 [(Metraux 1960:30-32); Kayapo was attacked by Europeans, Sakawāpö alone escaped, came to the shore of Shingu; Cayman offered to transport it; sailing to the shore, accuses S. what he called him "protruding eyebrows," "sawtooth tail," called long-toothed and fat; S. grabbed a branch, jumped, ran, hid in the Heron basket, which covered it with fish; Cayman became rummaging through the basket, but his paws are short, he did not reach S.; S. wanted to shoot a deer; he said that he had shot him once, the arrow was still in his body; went with S., but went to graze, S. did not wait; same with Tapir; with Obejian; from Coati; S. came to a recently abandoned village; then met his brother, who showed him the way home; S. said that the others had been killed; mother and other women held mourning ceremonies], 152 [(Lukesh 1968:60-63); Kayapos attacked the village of other Indians, but they killed the attackers, only Tčakamandapá escaped; the monkey asks not to shoot, promises bring C. to his house; but she often stopped looking for food, C. went by himself; the same with Tapir, with the Deer; at nightfall he met a bird with fire under its feathers; the bird allowed it to warm up, but warned her not to push; when C. moved, she flew away; then returned; in the morning C. came to the river, Cayman offered to transport her; in the middle of the river he offered to say that he had a nasty face, a thick belly, a tail like a saw; C. answered no; at the shore he grabbed a branch, shouted to Cayman that he was fat; the Heron shot the fish with a bow, hid C. in the basket under the fish; Cayman could not find C.; The fox asked C. not to shoot, took him to the house, C. spoke about his adventures]: 361-362, 363-367; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 150 (shikrin) [Vidal 1977:248; the jaguar ate the man; people left the jaguar a poisoned cake; it was eaten by a woman and died; the woman's mother, grandson and granddaughters went to the forest; one granddaughter climbed a tree, threw genipa fruits on her sisters, the sisters turned into capybaras, jumped into the river ; the one left in the tree became a monkey; Cayman carried his grandmother and grandson across the river; they jumped ashore, Cayman chased them; the stork hid the fugitives in his goiter, Cayman passed by; the Indians Pom-pom was hidden in a basket under fish; the fugitives reached their own, the people drove Cayman away, burned it with fire], 152 (paw d-arco) [Cayman carries the boy]: 441-442, 443-444; crash: Wilbert 1978, No. 18 [leaving from home, six Pleiade Brothers wade across the river; the youngest seventh sails on the Cayman, first sinking to the bottom with him], 154 [a girl catching up with relatives who have gone ahead]: 83-86, 374-375; sherente [while the father is hunting, his sons send the younger Asaré to bring their mother to the mansion to cut their hair; raped their mother, A. told their father about it; the brothers set fire to their parents' hut, they became with falcons, flew away; the brothers left, A. followed, they left him water in walnut shells, it was not enough; one dug a well, water poured in, filled the sea; A. swam to the other side for a forgotten arrow; on the way back, he asked the Cayman to transport him, he refused, A. scolded him, managed to swim ashore, Cayman was chasing, A. asked Dyatlov to hide it, they hid it under pieces of bark; the same when crossing the second and third rivers, he was hidden from the pursuer under the skins of partridge fruits, then monkeys; A. hid at Skunk, who killed the caiman with his jet; the brothers turn into Seven Stars ( probably the Pleiades), still like to swim in the sea]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 10:40-41.

SE Brazil. Botokudy [caiman catches a girl, puts her on her back, swims across the lake]: Sebestyen 1981, No. 7:151

Chaco. If not otherwise: the caiman transports across a pond. Matako: Alvarsson MS, No. 308 [girl sleeps outside, wishes a Month for Husband; a handsome man is nearby; during the day she hides him in her hut; he turns old stems into new pumpkins; returning to her world, asks her not to follow it; she goes; Cayman transports her across the lake; a reed stalk grows on his head; asks him to be called crooked, eyed; when asked again, she calls him dumps her into the water, she stays in a small place; asks the Month for help; a month sails to her in Cayman, takes her home; but she wants to go back, returns to the water (the end is not clear)]: 388-392; Calífano 1974 [Cayman transports a woman across the river of the dead, she complies with the ban on talking to the Cayman]: 58; Wilbert, Simoneau 1982a, No. 168 [(Metraux 1939:85-86); a woman's husband dies; her father forbids two grandchildren to eat fish; boys find a pond, eat fish; grandfather hears them telling their mother about it, kicks them out; (hereinafter only one of the brothers); the boy asks Cayman to translate him across the sea, received by the chief of an overseas village, also returns back in Cayman; kills his father's murderers with a stick; kills his grandfather, mother is happy]: 267-268; Toba [monkey]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989a, No. 170:243 ; mokowi: Wilbert, Simoneau 1988, No. 113 [Fox Cayman: People praise your beauty and voice; Cayman carries him across the river; the next day: People call you a son of a bastard; Fox runs away], 114 [as in (113); The fox runs away from the Jaguar; comes to the river; Cayman first: The girls send you hello; then: with a shovel tooth, a hammer nose], [the monkey says her sisters likes caiman songs; when she reaches the shore, she reports that it is a lie], 174 [The howler monkey (male) asks Cayman to transport him across the river, says that across the river his (Monkeys) sisters are fascinated by the little with Cayman's mouth and sweet voice, they want to see him; he grabs a branch at the shore, tells Cayman everything he thinks, runs away], 175 [like in (174)], 175 [in low water, three female fish pretend to in love with a caiman; when the water rose, the fish were safe and claim otherwise], 176 [as in (175)]: 148-150, 211-212, 213, 214, 215.

Southern Brazil. Cayman transports twin brothers across the river or sea. Mbia [sea]: Cadogán 1959:156-158; Caigua: Hanke 1956 [sea; dives before reaching shore, twins escape]: 227; Taylor, Taylor 1966 [river]: 94-95