M113. Birds are not allowed to drink.

.11.15.16.21.23.25.27.-.32.38.43.

In summer, at the height of the heat or constantly, birds of a certain species should not drink from water bodies and springs. It is generally believed that they only drink rainwater and scream, praying for rain. See Motive M112.

Subia, Italians (Veneto), French (Haute-Brittany, Gironde, Bordeaux, Poitou, Saint Malo), Flemish, Germans (East Prussia, Pomerania), AO, Naga of Burma, Meitei (ranks), Bhutan, Ancient India, Himachali Pahari, Marathi, Bengalis, Sinhalese, Sora, Paivan, Serbs, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Slovenes (?) , Romanians, Transylvania (Hungarians?) , Russians (Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod), Ukrainians (Polesie, Transcarpathia), Belarusians, Slovaks, Poles (Malopolska), Czechs, Avars, Varnishes, Rutulans, Megrelians, Georgians, Tajiks, Norwegians, Latvians, Livons , Estonians, Veps, Udmurts, Maris, Mordovians, Chuvash, Japanese, Takelma.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Subia [a rain bird married Lez's daughter; when Leza and his wife asked his son-in-law for water, he filled the calebasa with sand, added some water, said that there was a lot of sand in the pond; L. drove him away, banned drinking from the river, now he only drinks dew and rainwater]: Jacottet 1901:129-130 in Kotlyar 2009, No. 216:141.

Southern Europe. Italians (Veneto) [when God created water bodies, all animals and birds helped him except the teal and the crow; so God allowed them to quench their thirst only with drops of rain; so if the teal screams, and the raven begins to fly, this is to the rain; the Lord sent the Raven to bring a drop of holy water, but he began to bite the carrion and did not return; then he sent the Swallow, she brought it, so the swallows are blessed and kill their sin]: Kabakova 2006, No. 75B: 133; (briefly in Dähnhardt 1910:322).

Western Europe. The French (Gironde) [God asked the birds to dig water bodies; the Green Woodpecker refused to work; God said that since he did not want to dig a hole in the ground, he would now hammer holes in the trees; forbid him to take water from reservoirs and drink only rain water; now he screams, Plui, plui, flies, catching drops with his beak]: Dähnhardt 1910:322; French (Bordeaux, Poitou, Saint-Malo) [after creation birds had to dig rivers, springs and the sea; the Green Woodpecker refused to work with everyone; as punishment, he could only drink water that falls from the sky; screams plaintively; about the same in Charente infér. ]: Dähnhardt 1910:322; the French [there was no water, God told the birds to bring it from paradise; the Green Woodpecker refused to work; God only gave him the right to drink when it rained; he hammers trees hoping to find it in they are a drop of water]: Dähnhardt 1910:322-323; the French (Haute-Brittany) [after the flood, the land became completely waterless; God ordered all birds to bring some water from Paradise in their beak; the sea was full; only the green woodpecker refused to work; for this God told him to drink only raindrops; since then he has been screaming, calling for rain, and knocking on the trunk, hoping to find raindrops in the bark]: Kabakova 1998, No. 78:92; Flemish people [God told him to dig lakes and rivers; only the green woodpecker refused to work; God forbid him to drink from water bodies, let him catch only raindrops; so the woodpecker screams in the rain]: Van den Berg 2000, No. 134:147; Germans (East Prussia) [1) The kite flies more, rarely lands, drinks only rainwater from recesses on the rock; God punished him for asking for animals to work, the Kite replied that he did not want to get his boots dirty, because he had beautiful yellow legs; 2) shortly after creation, the birds were going to dig a well; the Kite did not want to get its yellow legs dirty; for this God forbid him to drink from water bodies; the Kite screams in anticipation of rain, because he only drinks rainwater from the recesses on the stone; 3) in order not to get his feet dirty, the little woodcock (Numenius phaeopus) refused along with everyone clean the swamp; God has forbidden him to drink from water bodies, and he only drinks rainwater from the charcoal in the rocks; in drought he screams, calling for rain]: Dähnhardt 1910:319-320; Germans (Prussian Samland) [ when the birds were digging a well, the Crow did not help, but threw the land back; now he does not drink water from reservoirs, thirsty near the water]: Dähnhardt 1910:320; Germans (Pomerania) [God commanded birds dig a pond to drink clean water from it; the Kite refused to work for fear of getting his feathers and legs dirty; therefore, now he only drinks water accumulated in tree hollows and recesses in the stone, and when it's not raining for a long time, he screams plaintively]: Dähnhardt 1910:320.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Ao [all the birds decided to clean the pond and the path to it (well and path); the long-tailed broad-billed refused; the rest rushed to peck at him, his head became flat; he was forbidden to drink from the pond; c Since then, this bird has been screaming, calling for rain because it only drinks raindrops on its leaves]: Coupe 2007:455-458; Burma's naga [the hawk rushes from the sky to the river, but the water seems like blood to him and he again it soars up; it did not rain for three years; the lord of the birds tells his people to deepen the riverbed; the hawk refused to work - he needs to lure the chick; one bird brought the extracted water to the hawk, but found that he did not have a chick and simply shied away from work; for this deception, the birds made the water look like blood to a hawk]: Zapadova 1977:249-250; Meitei (ranks) [Tangja Lilha Pakhangba dug the riverbeds, and Yoimongba Taothingmang cleaned them; all the birds worked with TY, and only the Nonggoubi bird refused to work; it must feed the baby, wash and cook food; so this bird does not drink water from rivers, otherwise her tail will fall apart]: Singh 1985:305-306; Bhutan [the frog has a cuckoo's wife; wanting to know what her husband thought of her, he pretended to go to visit relatives, and she came back and looked after her husband; he amused the inhabitants of the pond, mocking the cuckoo; told her husband that he would no longer deal with him, and he disappeared into the pond out of shame; so as not to touch desecrated by a frog, the cuckoo has decided not to drink water from the ponds; it is believed that the cuckoo drinks dew drops in the morning]: Choden 1994:13-14.

South Asia. Ancient India (Kalidasa, "Obtained by Urvashi by Courage") [stepmother does not give water to her stepdaughter; sends water, giving a wooden box to prevent her stepdaughter from getting drunk; turned into a rhino bird, and the box is in a ledge on its beak that prevents drinking; therefore, the rhino bird screams, calling for rain; according to two sources, the rhino bird proudly drinks only raindrops]: Dähnhardt 1910:401; himachali- plowmen (Kullu Valley) [about the pihu cuckoo (papiha in Hindi) say that she only sees water on the leaves and does not see other water, so she wants to drink and cries pihupihu; the man plowed in the field on bail, did not let him rest; bull: why don't you give me water? I will give you wine, after drinking which you will become a beer in the next life and see water only on the leaves, all the rest of the water will be seen as blood; if the cuckoo screams, it will rain soon]: A.S. Krylova, E.A. Renkovskaya (field materials, October 2016); khimachali plowmen [chataka bird screams in March, it's a hot month, it's thirsty; a woman has a daughter and daughter-in-law, no men in the family; daughter and the daughter-in-law went to plow on oxen; it was unbearably hot at noon, the oxen got up; the sound of drums was heard, the party began; the young women returned home, the daughter begged her mother to let her go; she agrees if the daughter first give the oxen a drink; whoever of the two does it first will get pudding (rice with milk and sugar); but the daughter's oxen did not go to the watering hole; the daughter brought them home without telling her mother that she did not drink; mother She gave all the pudding to her; then her daughter-in-law returned, she gave her oxen to drink; the woman scolded her, but she did not say about her daughter's deception; at night, her daughter's oxen died, cursing her: let her become a chataka bird, which can only drink rainwater]: Seethalakshmi 1960, No. 5:30-31; Marathi [a bird that expects rain is Chaataka; it waits for rain because only rainwater is completely clean, and as soon as touches the vessel, its properties change]: Dr. Sunil R. Parab, Shivalik Institute of Ayurved & Research, personal report 15.06.2018; Bengalis, Sinhalese [rhino bird can only drink rainwater, so it calls for rain]: Dähnhardt 1910:401; litter [Once the earth stopped raining, all the rivers and lakes dried up; everyone else flew to one of the birds and asked her to fly to the sky, find a pond in the sky and dig it in one place so that the water from it spills to the ground; the bird has completed the task, but has not returned to earth; now her wife cries for her husband and says that for now he won't come back, she won't drink]: Krylova, Renkovskaya 2017, field materials.

Taiwan - Philippines. Paywan [there were no rivers; the thrush and kite offered to dig them up, but the hawk and eagle refused to help - they would damage their wire bracelets; the thrush and kite dug the river, but banned the hawk and drink an eagle from it; and if they drink, they will swell and will not be able to fly; that's it: if they drink, they swell]: Whitehorn, Earle 2003, No. 24:137.

The Balkans. Serbs, Macedonians [The Eagle refused to dig springs with other birds; God cursed him, forbidding him to drink in the July heat on the week of fasting before Ilyin's Day, during Petrovsky fasting, or before the birth of the young month, in the moonless; The eagle drinks water only from recesses on the stones, plaintively asks for a drink between the Assumption and the Nativity of the Virgin]: Belova 1999:176; Serbs [ the eagle does not have the right to drink water during the moonless period, i.e. before the birth of the young month (Timok District), during the Petrovsky Fast (Aleksinatsky Pomoravye) or during the driest period, from 13/26.VII to Ilyin of the day (Bolevatsky District); at this time, water turns into blood for him, and he is forced to suffer from thirst as punishment for the fact that in ancient times, when God created the world, he did not fulfill God's commission to clean or dig a spring; in fact, the eagle did the job, but was slandered by a magpie or a fox, but the curse remained on it]: Gura 1997:612; Slovenes [(like Serbs?)] : Matičetov 1973:54-55 in Uther 2004 (1), No. 55:49; Greeks [according to Damaskin Studit's Collection on Certain Owners of Animal Nature (Metropolitan of Nafpakt and Arta, 16th century; Russian translation made in 17th century), the raven is thirsty (he cannot drink water in July, water "does not go down his throat") because he does not care about his chicks and even eats them when hungry; because of this thirst, he screams]: Belova, Petrukhin 2008:190-191; Bulgarians: Belova 2004 (p. Zamfirovo, 1988) [During the flood, the Lord released a crow from the ark to find land; the raven found the corpse and did not return; the Lord cursed the raven - two weeks during the fast of the Virgin, he could neither eat nor drink, because he has "blood in front of his eyes"; judging by the materials of the archival file, after additional questions from the collector, the informant said that it was not a raven, but an eagle]: 196; Denisov 1969 [in Bulgarian tales on the topic "Protecting the water itself" have no motive for helping birds to God build a water source]: 120-121; Romanians; Transylvania.

Central Europe. Russians: Afanasiev 1916:17 in Gura 1997 [one bird of all refused to carry water to fill seas, lakes, rivers; told God that it would get drunk on a pebble; now quenches its thirst as punishment rainwater, plaintively asks for a drink]: 554; Belova, Kabakova 2014, No. 299 (Kargopol District of Arkhangelsk) [when God walked on earth, only aspen and buteo buteo, hawkish) did not bow to him; he told the aspen to tremble even without the wind, and drink the buzzard only from the aspen leaf; so he flies and shouts: "Drink, drink!"] : 200; Russian written tradition ["Explanatory Palea" (list of the end of the 14th century): Noah released the crow from the ark; he did not bring news of the end of the flood; "Noah then proklya vran, and then I won't drink the waters of August, taco and you, if "his blood on us and on our children", the banner of the month of March is acceptable"; Russian translation of Damaskin Studit's Collection on Certain Animal Nature (made in XVII century, quoted from the list of the 18th century): "About Vrana. There is a vran, it is a custom to name the sitsev: yako does not drink water at all in July. Even thirsty, piti can't, but he doesn't go down his throat. For this reason, he calls out loudly at the time <... > It is illegal to name the custom: when they are hungry, they eat their small creatures and are still punishable for the sake of wine in a month"; "The Natural Book" (authorship attributed to Nikolai Spafariy, list XVIII c.): "A lie is a feathered bird that is unchild-loving and even gives birth to them and other birds, then it does not find food for itself, its little chicks eat; even leaves them uneaten and does not feed them at all <... > And for this reason, he accepts the execution from God as follows: as in July he does not drink water at all - even Velmi craves piti - he cannot by any means, he does not gently enter his larynx, and that for the sake of the wall He exclaims loudly..."]: Belova, Petrukhin 2008:190-192; Russians [conspiracy "against the crow": to prevent crows from eating trapped birds, you should spell "black crow and crow and blind his parents: like you, a black raven and a crow, do not see water in rivers, streams and lakes in July with the spell of Noah the Righteous, so no matter how you see me, the Servant of God (name), on my way, on mine the care of my catchy groats, speckles and smokers..." (with reference to Zabylin 1880:336-337)]: Belova 2004:196 (=Belova, Petrukhin 2008:196); Russians (Nizhny Novgorod) [God created the land, decided to fill it with seas, rivers and lakes, sent a strong rain, then ordered the birds to carry water to the designated places; one bird refused: I would get drunk on a pebble; the Lord forbade it to approach water bodies and allowed her to quench her thirst only with water that was after the rain stays on uneven places and between rocks; since then she has been complaining "Drink, drink!"] : Morokhin 2002, No. 460:428; Russians: Belova 2004, No. 416 (Cherepovets Uyezd of Novgorod Gubernia, 1898) [birds dug up the rivers; yellow did not participate, for which she was punished - she can only drink rainwater; the cry is yellow - "drink!"] ; № 418 (Yaroslavl Gubernia) [the guilty bird is a pigalitsa (lapwing): "When God created the world and all creatures, all birds were told to gather to dig a riverbed. So the birds showed up, one pigalitsa refused. For this disobedience, God has prevented her from drinking from rivers, streams, puddles, or any water on earth, and she can only quench her thirst with raindrops by catching them with her mouth open. At all times, especially before the rain, a thirsty bird still rushes in all directions, plaintively asking: "Drink! Drink!"" (WITH. Patsenko. From the beliefs of Yaroslavl Province, 1905. Archive) {=Belova, Petrukhin 2008:198}]: 195; Belarusians: Belova 2004, No. 413 (Kalinkovichi District, Gomel Oblast, 1983) [when sparrows dug a well, the kite (kite) was lazy and did not participate in it; God punished him; now the kite can only drink rainwater left on the leaves; it is thirsty, it takes off into the sky and shouts: "Pee-e-t! Pee-e-t!"] ; No. 414 (Ovruch district, Zhytomyr region, 1981) [when sparrows made a well for themselves, a kite (korshak) sat on a tree and looked; then wanted to drink from it; sparrows said: "Since I did not dig it, then don't drink our water"; since then he has "abandoned his birds" and sings every day: "Pee-hee! Pee-hee!"] ; № 420 (Lelchitsky District, Gomel Region, 1983) [There were no people, there was a desert; the animals agreed to dig a ditch; the oriole refused: "I will smear my feather"; for this, the animals did not give her water and do not give her water; she is thirsty and has been shouting "drink-drink" ever since]: 193- 196; Slovaks; Poles (Malopolska); Ukrainians (Polesie, Transcarpathia); Belarusians: Grynblat, Gurski 1983, No. 67 [God ordered the birds to clean the sea; only Magpie did not clean; Kite ( milvus) washed himself after work, and Magpie got dirty in the mud on purpose; God forbade Kite to drink from the sea, allowed it only from stones and leaves; therefore, when it does not rain, the Kite flies and screams shrill asking for water; God then figured out what was going on, and the Magpie, which used to be white, turned half black-the same as it was when it was smeared], 68 [first all the water was in one place; God told the birds to smash her along rivers and lakes; only the Kite refused to work, so God forbade him to drink from water bodies; since then, the Kite has been drinking only rainwater, screaming plaintively]: 68, 68-69; Gura 1997 [Magpie slandered the Kite, telling God that he did not clean the seas with all the birds; God forbid him to drink water from the sea; the Kite drinks rainwater from rocks and leaves, and when it has not rained for a long time, he asks for a drink]: 554; Davidovich 1896 (1) [all animals and birds dug lakes and rivers; only the Kite (buzzard) refused; so God forbade him to drink from there, and he drinks water from leaves and stones]: 113; Czechs [1) Kite (falco milvus) should not drink from wells, or only from puddles left on the rocks after the rain; in drought, he flies to the sky screaming, Drink, drink {=Grohmann 2015, No. 460:95}; 2) when God walked on the earth, the Kite did not give him water; now screams asking for a drink]: Dähnhardt 1910:313.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Avars [the birds decided to clear the lake; the Cuckoo replied that she did not want to get their feet dirty; the birds purified the water, forbidden the Cuckoo to use it; during the drought, the Cuckoo came to get water; agreed to her feet were always dirty; now she comes first to clean water bodies]: Atayev 1972, No. 20:28; varnishes [the birds decided to dig a ditch for drinking water, the cuckoo refused to work with everyone: her yellow the boots will get dirty; then a bird was put to the cuckoo to prevent it from drinking from the ditch; during a drought, the cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo plaintively, praying to Allah for rain]: Khalidova 2012, No. 164:199-200 ; Rutulans: Khalidova 2012, No. 53 [twins Madina and Gigu lost their parents: the father fell off the haystack, the mother was carried away by the river; since then, brother and sister have been drinking only rainwater {without explanation}, and after cleaning harvests, when hay is harvested in haystacks, they cuckoo; left without parents, M. and G. asked Allah to turn them into cuckoos; G. went to Mecca, from there he called his sister, and M. called his brother, remaining on homeland; they can't meet again], 165 [the boy's mother drowned in the spring when she went to the river, and his father died while haymaking; the boy asked Allah to turn him into a cuckoo; now the cuckoo is drinking water in puddles, not in a river; when it's time to make haymaking in May, it stops]: 72, 200; Megrelians [Kite's three cubs, when they became adults, attacked their mother who raised them and tried to strangle her; mother asked God to forbid them to drink water in July; since then, the water in July seems bloody to the kite, except for the stale kite, which kites can drink; screaming plaintively, the kites swirl high in the air]: Kobalia 1903:119-120 (retelling in Dähnhardt 1910:313, Virsaladze 1973:339); Georgians: Virsaladze 1973, No. 98 [Eastern Georgia, West 1961; God commanded all animals from time to time give him their children; the Kites asked them not to take their chicks away from them, for which they agreed not to drink in the heat; saying: "Why are you screaming like a kite in July?"] : 150-151, 339 [Mashurko's retelling 1894]; Mashurko 1894 (Guria, Imereti) [1) The kite did not touch the water when God created it, for this he eats only dew and shouts "Mtskhuria" ("I want to drink"); 2) When Noah let the kite out of the ark to explore the proximity of the earth, he did not return and was cursed for this and shouted "I want to drink!" ; 3) The water seems to him to be pus. Shout "I'm thirsty!" Distributed in July and August]: 238.

Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks (Samarkand District) [the woodpecker was a tanner and never participated in the construction of ditches; the mirab cursed him; so that when you walk past the ditch, you would go blind and suffer because of a drop of water! a tanner has become a woodpecker and knocks to get even a drop of water, flying from tree to tree to quench his thirst]: Amonov 196:45.

Baltoscandia. The Norwegians [Lord and St. Peter went to the woman to ask for bread; she cut off a piece from the cake, but it became huge; cut off a smaller one, the same thing; very tiny, the same thing; said she would not give anything if she had too much bread give; the Lord turned her into a woodpecker; his red crest is a woman's red bonnet, his black body is soot; she is not allowed to drink; in the rain, the woodpecker screams trying to swallow raindrops; woodpecker is the name of the bird- Gertrude]: Dasent 1970:2130214; Latvians [1) (Courland); God told all animals and birds to dig lakes and rivers; the plover refused - dew would be enough for him; 2) (Livonia); God ordered rivers to be dug and only crows did nothing; then he smeared himself with mud, and the plover, on the contrary, washed his face; the raven gave the plover's work as his own and Father God forbade the plover to drink from the river; now he screams when it is not raining; God told the crow forever stay black]: Brivzemniaks 1887, No. 37:41-42; Estonians; Livs; Veps.

Volga - Perm. Udmurta [there were no rivers or springs, God told Raven and Sarych to dig up the key; Sarych dug it up, but the Raven only interfered; she smeared herself in the mud, flew to God, said that she was the only one who worked; Sarych swam in a key, flew clean; God believed the Raven, cursed Sarych, now ordered him to drink only rainwater from the sky; when it does not rain for a long time, the sarich screams plaintively, asking God for rain]: Kelmakov 1978, No. 3:117; Chuvash: Meszaros 2000 (southern, 1906-1908) [çumăr kaiăk 'heron (?) ' (letters. 'rain-bird'); "The water of the river is a heron (?) I thought it was muddy and did not want to drink from it. I asked God to give her clean water. God said, "OK, don't drink from the river, I'll give you rainwater!" Since then, she has been drinking only rainwater" (village. Kiv Chakă, Buinsky Uyezd, Simbirsk Province); "Once a heron (?) I dug a spring in the ground to drink from it. I drank some water and flew away. A gray crow found this spring and turned to God: "Kărank-Kărank, Tură, I dug a spring!" God said to her, "Thank you, gray crow, you've been drinking from this spring all your life!" And the heron (?) she could no longer drink from it, by order of God, she drinks only rainwater" (Çn Elpuç village of Tsivilsky Uyezd, Kazan Gubernia)]: 89; Chuvash tales 1937 [shalanka ("hawk", "kite", in general, a "bird of prey") dug the ground for 7 days and nights, clogged a spring; cleaned off the dirt, flew to report this to the Torah; the crow deliberately smeared himself and flew first; Tora blessed her: you will be easy get food for himself; when the shalanka arrived, T. did not believe him, forbid him to drink from springs; he only drinks rainwater, screams and cries in the rain, and the crow croaks angrily]: 265-266; Aisin 1993 [on earth There was no water, they only drank rainwater; everyone tried to get to the water, only Sarych succeeded; the crow saw the key, smeared herself in the mud, told the man that she had found the water; Sarych appeared clean, the man did not believe him, punished him, telling him to drink only rainwater; when it doesn't rain for a long time, Sarych shouts, "Water, water", and the Crow croaks before the rain, "Guard, don't!"] : 10-12 (details in Denisov 1969:121 with reference to Chuvash Tales and Traditions, p. 19); Marie: Aktsorin 1991 [the kite asked Yumo what to drink; he told him to dig a well for himself; the kite dug, but the raven swam in it, the kite did not drink dirty water; after that, Yumo began to rain; if it doesn't rain, the kite flies and screams out of thirst; after a while it rains]: 28; Ödön 1937 , No. 1 [When God created the world, all living beings came to him for instructions and orders; Falke asked for a drink, God told him to dig a pond; he dug it up, but the Raven bathed in it, stirring it up water; Sarich came again, but now God told him to drink rainwater alone; when it's not raining for a long time, the barich screams loudly]: 139; Wichmann 1931 [the hawk dug a pond, swam, and went to eat; at this time there the crow swam and muddied the water; the kite complained to God; the gate began to claim that it had dug the pond; when God saw the crow in the mud and the kite clean, God took this as proof that The crow dug the pond; he punished the kite, forbiding him to drink water from reservoirs, let the tree drink only dew from the leaves, and let the crow drink wherever it wants; therefore, in dry weather, the kite screams shrill, waiting for the opportunity to drink dew]: 159-160; Mordovians [God tells every bird to dig a pond for a swim; everyone dug it up, Sarych was not there at that time, and when he appeared, he decided to resort to deception; offered the Raven to swim before going to God, smeared himself with mud, told God that he had dug up the reservoir that the Raven had actually dug; God punished him by forbiding him to drink from rivers and lakes and wells; since then, Sarich has been drinking only raindrops and dew, and when it's not raining for a long time, he cries and asks God for water]: Deviatkina 2011:150.

Japan. The Japanese (Kyushu, Shikoku, Kanto) [Why the Water-Begging Bird Suffers Thirst, 20 versions within Honshu; I. The servant forgets to give the horses a drink and they die of thirst; II. As punishment, he is turned into a red-breasted bird that asks for a drink, always thirsty; it flies to the river to get drunk, takes the reflection of its breast for the fire, so it quenches its thirst only with drops of rain, picking them up on the fly or picking them up from leaves; the bird always looks at the sky and asks for rain; the lark, which the servant has become, always looks at the sky and asks for rain; the lark flies to the sky in blue , believing that it is water; when she takes off, she sees the water below on the ground, and flies up and down all day; other explanations why the bird always asks for drink; 1) the idle daughter did not hurry home to the bed of the dying mothers; 2) the final episode in Cinderella (No. 510A); 3) the evil daughter-in-law is punished this way]: Ikeda 1971, No. 249G: 59-60.

The coast is the Plateau. Takelma [The Raven and the Raven are two girls, their first period; they were sent with buckets to fetch water; the Raven wrote in her bucket and returned, and the Raven actually brought water; to the Raven girl said she would only drink in winter and be thirsty in summer; Raven doesn't drink in summer]: Sapir 1909, No. 18:163.