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Taking revenge on his wife or her relatives for the (alleged) offense, the husband roasts his wife alive. See Motive M14.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Marshall Islands (Wodmej) [Each of the four brothers lives on their own island in the atoll, each has their own fruits, each from the youngest to sail to marry a girl, but she refuses; the most the youngest is beautiful, has the skin of the feathers of the bird he later turned into; when he sails to the girl, she gladly swims to him; he brings two lizards to the sight of fish, the wife notices the skin lizards, demands that her husband take her back; he takes her to the island of one of the brothers, makes an earthen oven, throws breadfruit and his wife there, bakes her; brings meat to her parents, replies that theirs The daughter did not come because she was busy with the housework; four brothers turned into birds of different species]: Kelin 2003:32-36.

South Asia. Gondas [sister carries soup to her brother in the field; he drinks broth, throws rice into the river to Kajal fish; sister is surprised that the brother is still losing weight, spying on him; decides to drain the pond; the fish asks not do this by addressing your father-in-law, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law; parents refuse to fish, sister catches; then the same when to gut the fish; sister cooks it, eats it, leaves a piece for her brother; a piece tells him that he is his girlfriend; his brother makes a cage in the field; when his sister brings him lunch, puts his sister in it, sets it on fire; promises to put it out if she calls him her husband; she keeps calling by his brother, burns; he eats her grilled meat; feeds her parents; tells them what they ate, they cry]: Elwin 1944, No. 3:377-380 (Zograf translation 1971, No. 29:130-134).

The Great Southwest. Yavapai [The raven tells the children to climb a tree, burns them with the tree; feeds their wife with meat; the guest tells her the truth; she tries to hit the Raven, he flies away]: Griffin 1933a: 394-395.

Guiana. Warrau: Wilbert 1970, No. 1 [husband scolds his wife for flirting; cuts off her head, roasts her body; puts meat in a basket, head on top; invites her brother to look at her; turns into a forest cockerel], 2 [husband gets angry, hangs his hammock in the rain; cuts off his wife's head, roasts her heart and liver, gives them to her brother and father; leaving the chase, turns into a forest cockerel], 38 [two younger brothers wives tie her husband up, put her in the rain; he tells his wife to weave the basket, roasts it alive in it; invites her brothers to look at the meat; they kill him], 54 [the husband tells his wife that it rains on him sleep; her brothers help her tie him up, leave him in a hammock in the rain; he cuts off his wife's head, roasts meat, gives liver to her brothers; turns into a forest cockerel]: 41-43, 105, 142-143; curl: Magaña 1983, No. 7 [a man tells his wife he would like to sleep in the rain; it's a joke, but his wife's brothers tie him to a tree for the night; he takes his wife to the forest, asks for help weaving a fish basket, and roasts the wife lives in this basket, gives meat to her mother; she finds her daughter's arms and legs under the meat; the brothers chase her husband, find his parking lots (all traces of the old camps in the forest are left by him); they cut off his leg; he turns into a mabuculi constellation]: 29-30; Locono: Goeje 1943, No. d30 [killed, fried corpse buried]: 119; Magaña 1988a, No. 11:37 and Roth 1915, No. 207 [killed, fried, her liver mothers]: 261; oyana: Goeje 1943, № d18 [husband weaves a basket, roasts his wife alive in it, eats it in part; her brothers chase him; he rises to heaven, turns into a Month; his wife is distinguishable in spots on the disc]: 105; Magaña 1987, No. 2 [a man leads his wife to the forest, kills and roasts; gives meat to his mother-in-law under the guise of game; she recognizes her daughter by a cotton sheath bracelet; his wife's brothers chase her husband; he rises to the sky, becomes the Month; it shows the remains of his wife], 4 [people leave the blind man in the tree, the wife leaves him; the bird descends, regains sight; he roasts his wife, gives her meat to his mother-in-law; rises to heaven, turns into a Month; moonspots are his wife], 21 [wife leaves her blind husband in a tree; he goes down, goes to a voice; the valek bird explains that they are toads; they make a person sighted; he leads his wife into the forest, kills, roasts, gives meat to his mother-in-law; her brothers chase him; playing the flute, he makes a move under the river; one of the pursuers climbs there, meets snakes, wasps, scorpions; comes back, sticks her leg out, the passage closes, cutting off his leg; he turns into a turtle], 61 [the woman leaves her blind husband in the tree; the bird restores his sight; he leads his wife into the forest, kills, roasts, gives meat to mother-in-law; her brothers chase him, he hides in an underground hole; they go in but stop the persecution; he turns into a Month]: 34, 38, 47; trio [before frying, husband tears her lower abdomen]: Koelewijn, Riviere 1987, No. 65:219-222; Magaña 1987, No. 64:144; kalinha: Magaña 1983, No. 2 [the man tells his wife he would like to sleep in the rain; it's a joke, but his wife's brothers tie him to a tree for the night; he takes his wife to the forest, asks for help weaving a meat basket, roasts his wife alive in this basket, gives meat to her mother; she eats it with her daughter's brothers; under finds her jewelry with meat; brothers chase her husband, one cuts off his leg; her younger brother turns into a palm tree; Tamoussi agrees to make one-legged his messenger; he turns into a constellation Epietmbo], 4 [as in (2); after losing a leg, a man jumps to the sky; Tamoussi leaves him hanging there as punishment for a crime], 5 [as in (2); brothers cut off his leg and leave him in the boat; that thinks about what to become; does not want to be a tree (cut down), fish (caught), animals (killed and eaten), etc.; decides to become the constellation of Epietembo], 6 [as in (5); rejects turning into water (they will drink), wild boar (kill and eat), tree (cut down and burn); turns into the constellation E.]: 23-25, 25-26, 26-28, 28-29; 1988a, No. 1-7, 25, 36, 37, 49, 142, 157:11-18, 34-35, 51, 54-55, 76-77, 247-248 , 273; Penar in Magaña, Jara 1982 [man to wife: It's raining, I'll sleep well; the wife tells the brothers he wants to sleep in the rain; they tie him up in a hammock, leave him in a hammock for the night; hunting, he tied his wife in a basket, fried her alive on the grill; fed her mother-in-law meat; brothers catch up with him, cut off his leg; he rejects opportunities to turn into various constellations, becomes Orion]: 119; Galibi: Magaña 1988a, No. 30, 38, 39:53, 55-56; Oyampy: Grenand 1982, No. 38:247-248

Guiana. Lokono; kalinya; galibi; oyana; trio; oyampy.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Guaraçu: Riester 1977, No. 10 [husband takes his wife to the forest, asks for firewood while he hunts; puts his tied wife in the fire; mother-in-law explains that the wife is still looking for firewood; mother finds the place of burning, the ashes of the daughter tell her what happened; tobacco grows from the ashes; this is revenge on men: now they are all committed to tobacco], 51 [the husband suspects his wife of infidelity; leads to the forest, burns bonfire, carved genitals are brought to mother-in-law under the guise of animal meat; then tells her the truth], 64 [the husband's brother does not love his wife; takes her to the forest, kills her, burns the corpse, tells her husband that she will come soon; husband finds remains, turns into a Chuúbi bird, its crying voice can still be heard]: 245-246, 305, 316.

Southern Amazon. Iranshe: Pereira 1985, No. 33 [men take sacred flutes, go to clear the garden; one sends his son for chicha; follows, hears him telling his mother that men are waiting for the plot (it is forbidden to talk to women about this); the father tells his comrades that they can eat his son; he is thrown alive into the fire; the meat is eaten; the father brings his wife a fried hand under the guise of agouti meat; mother recognizes the son's hand; leads women towards men; they see flutes, kill men with bows, go up the river; a rock appears at their parking lot], 66 [the wife is pregnant for a long time; the husband sees her lying in a hammock, and next to snakes and Lepidopteros; they partly crawl back into her womb, partly spread (the origin of snakes, etc.); her husband calls her to the forest, offers her to sit in the basket, burns her alive]: 157-159, 233- 234.