M123B. A girl ties her kidnapper to a boat. 40.41.
Trickster tricksters his wife and takes her away by boat. The woman asks for permission to go ashore out of need, quietly ties the kidnapper's clothes to the boat and runs away.
North Alaska Inupiate (Point Hope), Koyukon, Ingalic, Kuchin, Chipewayan.
The Arctic. The Northern Alaska Inupiate (Point Hope) [1) Kinnack ("fool") carries three girls across the river, with the youngest, the fourth, swims down the river; she ties his clothes to the kayak, asks let her go out to relieve herself, runs away; trying to catch up with her, K. tears her clothes, spoils her kayak; puts his penis into a mouse hole; 2) K. sees a girl dancing on the water; dives, finds no one; 3) lies in wet clothes by the ice-hole, almost freezes; the man relieves him, he thinks it's raining; 4) comes to the dugout, sees two old women inside, inserts his penis through a smoke hole; old women they smell a man, run out, everyone wants it for themselves, he swims away; they curse his penis, it grows to a gigantic size; children chop it apart, chew it; 5) K. sees the house the girl calls him to copulate; in the house he finds only a bone with a seal, rubs his penis against it, leaves; 6) another girl calls him standing on a mound; turns into an owl, flies away; (stories about K. more common on the Kobuk and Noatak rivers)]: Lowenstein 1992, No. 6:34-40; (cf. Lucier 1958, No. 16 [The raven comes in rich clothes, the daughter of a rich man falls in love with a stranger, marries him; he returns empty-handed each time, but with bloody arrows; he is watched, seen how he fires arrows at the rock to break, stains them and clothes with blood from his nose; his father-in-law hangs a bear skin in the yard, it is torn; the father-in-law notices that his son-in-law has a three-toed trail; sends young people to her husband's parents; the house is empty, only pieces of caribou stomach; Raven's wife returns to her parents]: 102-103).
Subarctic. Koyukon [The raven offers to transport women across the river to pick berries; transports the elders, the last to take the young one; pretends that his boat is blown away by the current, takes the woman away; she quietly sews his clothes to the boat's spacer; asks to go ashore out of need; he ties a rope to it, she ties it to a branch, runs away; he hardly gets up, pulling out the crossbar, gets stuck between it trees; eventually catches up with a woman hiding under a stump; pokes this place (probably with a spear) until blood begins to pour; a partridge flies out from under the stump; because of the loss of blood, her meat white; crow's legs are scaly because he ripped them off while chasing a woman through the woods]: Attla 1983:33-39; inhalic: Chapman 1914, No. 5e: 28-30 [var.1; everyone wants to marry a rich man's daughter; women they sail across the river in boats to pick berries; the raven hijacks boats, invites the women to carry them back in their own; the last to take the chief's daughter, sails with her; she asks to let her ashore need; he ties a rope to her, she ties her to a tree, runs home; Raven comes to her house; grandmother says this rich girl is not for him; after that, all people have become animals], 30-32 [the girl refuses the grooms; the raven stole the boats in which they swam across the river, going to pick berries; offered to transport them in her own; that girl takes last, sails away with her ; she asks to stop out of need; he ties a rope to her, she ties her to a stump, leaves the stump responsible for her, runs away; he pulls out a stump, jumps ashore, the girl sits down at the same time into the boat, breaks and throws out its arrows, sails away; after 20 days, the Raven walks to his grandmother's house, dies two days later; the morning after singing funeral songs (some women sang them mocking) the raven flies away and all the other people too]; Kuchin: McGary 1984 [The raven dresses up, paints himself with his crap, looks handsome, comes to marry the Duck, gets a wife, takes him away ; the rain washes away the paint, the Duck nails his clothes to the boat, says she needs to go ashore; the Raven ties a rope to it, she cuts it off, runs away; the Raven tells others he's married but cooks for himself dried fish]: 298-303; McKennan 1965 [Beautiful Duck's parents refuse all suitors; the Raven dresses up, paints his clothes as if they are covered with beads; he is well fed in the Duck's house; he sees him in the corner the dog, asks to strangle it before he starts eating; at night he leaves the house and pecks out the dog's eyes, his outfit was injured in the rain; in the morning everyone says that someone with three fingers pecked his eyes on legs; everyone takes off the mocassins, the Raven quickly puts them back on, but the boy notices his three-toed paw; the Raven replies that this is a lie; takes his wife away; the paint from the Raven costume is finally washed off; wife quietly ties him to the boat, asking him to let her go ashore; the raven ties a rope to her, she ties it to a tree, runs away, returns to her parents]: 92-93; chipewayan [Big Bird - the leader's widow, she has a son and daughter; the raven comes to marry under the guise of a handsome rich man; says that he will not eat until the big dog is killed; in the morning the dog's eyes are pecked out, and there are three-toed paw marks nearby; the hostess tells the guests to take off the moccasins; the Raven refuses; agrees when he is promised new ones; the hostess's son notices his three-toed paw; the raven takes his wife to him; on the way, the rain washes away the coloring book, the wife sees black feathers; ties the Raven's tail to the boat, says he will go collect bird eggs, runs away; the raven turns into a crow, flies away]: Bell 1903, No. 1:77-78.