M13A. Turned to stone. 43.-.46.

Deity and man meet for the former to comply with the second's request. As a result, a person turns into a stone. Usually (except squamish) one of the petitioners wants eternal life, turned into stone. See Motive M13.

Squamish, menominee, marsh crees (eastern), western and eastern ojibwa, steppe ojibwa, fox, potauatomi, assiniboine.

The coast is the Plateau. Squamish [T'elch is noble, helps everyone with his two wives; the Great Chief Above sends the Transformer to fulfill people's wishes; T. says he doesn't need anything; upon request the leader agrees to meet the Transformer so that he does not be offended; cleanses the body, fastes; responds to the Transformer that he has everything he needs, does not envy others; he turns it into a rock ( near Vancouver Bay) to remind people of selflessness; his wives became stones at the entrance to the cave]: Clark 1960:107-109.

The Midwest. Menominee: Bloofield 1928, No. 87, 88:253-255, 255-265; Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. 52:485-488; Eastern Swamp: Bird 2007 (Winisk River): 193-197; Ellis 1995 (West Bank) James Bay), No. 7, 28:35-39, 171; Western Ojibwa: Jones 1916, No. 60:389; Densmore 1928:384-386; 1929b: 99-101; Eastern Ojibwa (Southern Ontario)] [four people walked for two years and came to Nanabush; he tells his daughter to cook meat with blueberries; one of the visitors thinks he can swallow so much food in one gulp; but they eat, and there is no less food in the pot; N. promises to fulfill the wishes of those who come; one wants to be a lucky warrior so that bullets do not harm him; the second wants the game to always come out to him on its own; the third wants to be a wife (N. gives him a daughter); the fourth wants to live forever, N. turned it into a block of granite; N., who received his wife, tells him not to speak to her until they get home; on the last day he broke the ban and his wife disappeared]: Laidlaw 1915, No. 17:15-16; Ottawa: Schoolcraft 1999:144-154; Fox: Jones 1907, No. 16:333-337; 1911:209-211; potauatomi: Skinner 1924:363-365; Steppe Ojibwa: Skinner 1919, No. 12, 14:290-291.

Plains. Assiniboine: Lowie 1909a, No. 35:123-124.