M16. A cripple healed.
.35.39.-.43.46.49.55.59.62.64.68.70.
Thepatient's wife or relatives (often mother) do not care about him. He is recovering, and those who treated him badly are punished. Compare F62 and F96 motives.
Western Siberia. Nganasana [when he went hunting for wild deer, the old man did not hunt, but took out his eyes, let them go to the ground, they ran away, he shouted "Eyes, ooh!" , the eyes answered "Old man, koo-!" , the old man went to look for them by ear, his eyes hid; so they played; the old woman went into the plague, grabbed her eyes, hid them in a bag; scolded the old man, fed the rancid yucola; a wild deer came, the old woman aimed the old man's onion, lied that he missed, ate the meat herself; one day she went for the talnik, the old man called his eyes, they responded, he found them, punished his wife]: Simchenko 1996 (1): 71; oriental Khanty (zap. Lukina, r. Yugan) [the hunter returns without prey; the wife watches him pull out his eyes, says Samlek ram-ram; she quietly grabs and takes her eyes away; blind husband gets home; wife tells you to shoot at the moose, lies that the husband missed, cooks meat herself; the husband digs an underground passage to the next house where his brother lives; when his brother is not there, he crawls there, makes a fire; the wife comes and thinks that at home, her husband's brother tells him that she hid her husband's eyes in the chest, that she eats meat, hiding it from her husband; the husband crawls back, finds his eyes; scolds his wife (it is not known how it ended)]: Lukina 1990, No. 68: 189-191; Pelikh 1972 (Nazino, Aleksandrovsky District, Tomsk Oblast) [=Lukina 2004, № 1. 13:25-28; the old man rode down the mountain (skiing?) , putting her eyes aside; the old woman hides them; the old man finds them for the first time, not the second, thinks that the magpies have pecked; the old woman tells him to shoot at the moose, lies that he missed; eats meat herself, says that it is not fat that hisses, but raw firewood; the same with pike; the old man builds a new hut, digs a passage into it; says that his brother has come to the old woman; pretends to be a brother; the old woman feeds him, says how he deceives the old man; the imaginary brother advises not to torture her husband; the old man is tired, stuck in the course; the old woman pushed him with a poker, returned her eyes]: 376-377.
SV Asia. See also the M17 motif. Forest Yukaghirs (p. Ridiculous, Verkhnekolymsky District) [the husband is blind; his wife asks him to shoot a deer, lies that he missed; feeds him only with roots; the old man regains his sight; the son says they have meat; the old man binds his wife, leaves her on an anthill; her relatives agree that she deserves it]: Kurilov 2005, No. 47:383-387 (=Zhukov, Chernetsov 1994:66-68).
The Arctic. Usually, the mother or grandmother of a blind boy points his arrow; lies as if he did not kill the bear; does not give him meat; his sister hides meat for him; Loon puts him on his back, dives with him; he finds vision; a whale harpoons; mother/grandmother grabs tench, dragged into the sea. Central Yupik (Nelson Island) [(typical Eskimo version; woman lies that her husband missed, he kills her)]: Charlie 1997:25 in Mishler 2003:53; Bering Strait Inupiate: Garber 1940 [man killed in war, his son Suluk remains an earner; a lazy mother hates him, forbids his sister to repair his clothes, witches, he goes blind; she feeds him with willow branches, hides meat supplies ; tells his daughter to point his arrow at the polar bear, lie that he missed; Loon calls him, dives three times with him, he regains his sight; comes home disguised as blind, sticks his mother's throat the roots she was going to feed him suffocates; he also wants to kill his sister, but she explains that her mother forced her to do so; brother and sister are living safely]: 33-38; Keithahn 1958 [son brings caribou skins, the mother does not want to process them; when her son sleeps, his mother throws ash into his eyes, he goes blind; shoots a polar bear, his mother does not give him meat, lies that he is over, feeds him seal fat; interferes with berries with beetles and worms; Loon calls him, dives four times with him, restoring his sight; he ties his mother to the beluga whale's back and lets him into the sea]: 76-79; Northern Alaska Inupiate: Frost 1971 [( The exact place of recording in the publication is not a decree.); the woman is tired of her son catching so many animals; she asks evil spirits to blind him; points his arrow at a polar bear, lies that he missed, eats the meat herself; her daughter (the younger sister of the blind man) lays the pieces for him, gives them to him when his mother takes her to hunt caribou; Gagara dives with him five times, he sees the light; the mother comes back, he goes with she is in a boat, throws her into the water; she grabs her side, he cuts off her fingers, she tries to catch her hair, he cuts them off; she turns into a black whale, her severed hair is a whale mustache in a whale's mouth]: 62-67; Hall 1975, No. PM56 (Noatak) [a woman is tired of processing the meat, skins, etc. that her son brings from hunting; stirres urine into his food, he goes blind; she points his arrow, he kills a white one a bear, she lies like he missed, eats meat herself; he comes to the lake, a loon dives four times with him, restoring his sight; talks about what his mother did; he kills his mother]: 245-247; Lucier 1958, No. 11 (noatagmiut) [brother and sister live with his mother; the young man brings a lot of prey, the mother does not have time to process it; he smears his sleeping eyes with his menstrual blood, he goes blind; targets his bow is on a polar bear, lies that he missed; his sister secretly feeds him meat; Loon calls him to the lake, regains his sight by washing his eyes with water; he puts his mother in a boat, sends him to the open sea; brother and sister turn into wolves]: 96-98; Lynch 1995 [a blind young man lives with his grandmother; she teaches him to trap Loon; Loon asks her to let go because she has chicks; he lets go, the grandmother is angry; tells him to shoot a polar bear, lies as if his grandson missed; tells him to eat berries and mushrooms; Loon immerses his kayak under water twice, the young man gains sight; throws his grandmother into the water, she turns into a whale, her hair is in a whalebone; in gratitude, the young man puts a necklace of bone arrowheads around Loon's neck; now it's white feathers]: 21-26; Spencer, Carter 1954 (Cape Barrow): 65-68 [young man with younger sister and grandmother live alone; an old woman hangs her grandson's snowglasses over a fat lamp; he puts them on, goes blind; one day she shoots at a bear who comes to the house, the old woman lies that he missed, eats meat herself; he smells meat; she gives him dirty water to drink; he goes to Loon's voice, who dives with him four times, he sees the light; invites his grandmother to drink water with worms herself; harpoons a white whale, drags a tench an old woman, a white whale dives, an old woman disappears; a young man gets married, his sister is getting married], 68 [1) a blind boy's mother says he missed, eats bear meat herself; he speaks to Gagara's voice four times with him dives, he sees the light; accuses his mother in front of other people; 2) (=Spencer 1959:396-397); the grandmother of a blind boy points his arrow; lies that he did not kill the bear; feeds him only rotten meat; Loon He puts it on his back, dives with him four times; he gains sight; harpoons a white whale; ties the tench to the grandmother's hand, takes it to the sea; the killer whale devours the white whale; the hump on the back of the killer whale is an evil grandmother] 69 [people migrate, leaving a blind young man; he shoots at a bear who comes to the house, eats his meat all winter; goes to Loon's voice, she dives with him four times, he sees the light]; (cf. Burkher 1989 (Cape Barrow) [Imok blind boy lives with his grandmother; learns to shoot his grandfather's bow; kills a polar bear, cuts it with his grandmother; a swan puts it on his back, transports it through lake, I. gains sight; promises never to kill swans; becomes the best hunter]: 33-36); copper [the mother of a blind boy eats trout herself; gives him liver, mixing it with excrement; Loon puts it on his back, dives with him, he gains sight; harpoons salmon, asks his mother to hold tench, salmon drags it into the water]: Rasmussen 1932:204-205; caribou [lived mother, blind the eldest son, the youngest daughter; the mother points her son's arrow at the bear who comes up, lies that he missed; but the sister gives the brother meat; the brother asks his sister to take him to the lake, asks the loon to restore his sight ; the loon dives with him, he sees the light; when he harpoons a beluga whale, uses its mother as a float to the harpoon; the beluga whale drags it into the sea]: Rasmussen 1930b: 108-110; netsilic [Aninga is blind; his mother Agthulg-Rarnan aims at his arrow, lies that he missed the bear; eats meat herself; his sister Aleka feeds him secretly; he asks to be taken to the sea; two Loons in human form lick his eyes, making them keen; he harpoons the walrus, tying the tench to his mother, the walrus drags her into the sea; brother and sister leave; the mother's spirit in the form of a strip of fire, a moving belt blocks the way; they they jump over these obstacles; the sister goes to ask for water from spirits with claws on their hands; they want to kill her, her brother kills them, heals her sister; they come to people without anuses; they suck meat to fill them; brother gets married, sister gets married; those women have no vaginas, pregnant women get their bellies ripped open; sister gives birth normally; her mother-in-law pierces her vagina with a meat fork, dies; sister smears her black face unknown lover, identifies brother in the morning; they decide to turn into something; sister suggests, brother rejects options (wolves: their teeth are too sharp; bears: clubfoot; musk oxen: sharp horns; seals: sharp claws; etc.; in the sun and month); they light moss torches, run, rise into the air; sister extinguishes her brother's torch, so the month is cold]: Rasmussen 1931:232-236; igloolik: Kroeber 1899, No. 6 (Smith Sound) [The blind boy lived with his mother and sister; the mother pointed her son's bow at the bear, the arrow hit the beast, the mother said the boy missed; he smelled bear meat, mother denies that his sister is secretly feeding his brother; Loon tells the young man to sit on it, brings him to the rock, dives with him several times, he gains sight; the mother asks her son to harpoon the little narwhal; the first time he is like this and she does, she pulls the narwhal by the tench ashore; the second time he harpoons a big one, the narwhal drags the woman into the sea, she asks to throw her knife, her son does not throw it; she turns into a narwhal herself, hers rolled hair is in his fang; brother and sister are wandering, thirsty; sister enters the house, adlit in it, they eat her; brother killed them with a bone club (tusk), revived his sister from bones; they came to people sister married, brother married]: 169-170; Rasmussen 1930a [grandmother; beluga whale drags her into the sea; brother and sister come to people without anuses and genitals; brother marries, cuts holes in his wife; she gets pregnant, her mother is about to cut her belly; she gives birth normally; all women make holes for themselves with meat forks; some die]: 77-80; Spalding 1979 (Repulse Bay) [Aningaat blind; his mother points his arrow at a polar bear, says A. got hit by a dog; feeds him a dog, eats bear meat with her daughter; his sister secretly gives it to his brother; takes him to the lake; Loon dives with him, He rubs his eyes three times, he sees the light; ties tench to his mother's belt, harpoons a large white whale, which takes his mother to sea; brother and sister come to people with long nails; sister enters the house ask for water; the inhabitants begin to rip off its meat; the brother breaks in, kills everyone with an ice ax; wipes his sister's back with snow and urine, the flesh recovers; they come to the cup-and-ball players; A. picks up one device, runs away; comes to people without anus; A. tells her sister to take her husband there; she gives birth; local foreman says they now have a man with an anus and penis; pierces his anus; the other pierced, missed, died; A. began to secretly go to his sister; she smeared her nose with soot; both came to the meetinghouse, there is a holiday; everyone laughs at A. seeing his black nose; sister dips the moss torch in fat, runs away; A. runs after her, but did not dip the torch in fat, so it quickly went out; the sister became the sun, A. month]: 48-50; Baffin's Land [the woman has an adopted son and daughter; The young man is blind; she tells him to shoot a bear, lies as if he missed, eats meat alone; his sister brings him pieces; Loon dives with him, making him sighted; he calls his mother to hunt white whales, tells him to hold tench, she takes her to sea, she screams, I swaddled you; turns into a narwha; brother and sister travel; sister comes into the house to ask for water; inhabitants scratch her with their claws; brother kills them; brother and the sister comes to people without anuses; they chew food, spit out; the sister marries alone; the pregnant women are cut to extract the baby; the brother explains that the sister will give birth herself; her son has an anus; people sit on stakes, piercing themselves; some die, most successfully make their anuses]: Boas 1888:625-627; 1901-1907, No. 4:168-171; Polar Eskimos [old woman with little grandson and granddaughter abandoned alone; the boy shoots at the bear; the grandmother tells his granddaughter to tell him that he missed, eats meat herself; his sister feeds him secretly; he asks him to be taken to the lake; Loon dives four times with him, he sees the light; the young man harpoons the beluga whale, the tench drags his grandmother into the water, she turns into a narwhal, a bundle of her hair into his horn; the sister enters the cannibal house, is eaten; the brother kills them, revives his sister; brother and sister come to people without anuses; their bowel movements are deer fat, spew it through their mouths; urinate through a hole in the palm of their hand; sister gets married here, is pregnant; the shaman wants to give her a cesarean section as usually in these people; she normally gives birth to a girl who has an anus; her grandmother sits on a sharp stick to pierce her anus; dies]: Holtved 1951, No. 37:152-165 (translated into Menovshchikov 1985, No. 230:445-449); Labrador Eskimos: Hawkes 1916 [a young man blinded by the glitter of snow lives with his mother and sister; his mother points his bow at the bear, lies that he missed, eats the meat herself, gives it to her daughter; she discovers my brother sees the truth; in the spring he sees the light; harpoons the white whale, ties the tench to his mother's belt, the beluga whale drags it under water; she lives with beluga whales, screams everything, My son did it]: 157-158; Nungak, Arima 1969 [ stingy mother; sister secretly feeds her brother; mother turns into a white whale, her hood in a tail; words are distinguishable in the cry of a beluga whale, My son did it]: 51; Labrador Eskimos, Greenland ( The text consists of 8 similar versions, 2 from Labrador, 6 from different parts of Greenland, 3 of which were recorded before 1828) [the widow has a son and daughter; a son kills a lahtak, the mother wants it for her needs, the son does not give it; the mother tells the tendons to spring when the son starts tenching them; the blow to the face makes the young man blind; the mother tells him to shoot at the bear that comes up, lies as if the son missed; the sister secretly feeds him bear meat; one day he takes him to the lake; there geese drop their excrement in his eyes, he sees the light; asks his mother to keep tenches when hunting for belugas; harpoons the biggest one, takes his mother into the water, she turns into a narwhal, a piece of her hair turns into a horn; brother and sister go inland, live alone; an old man's brother visits people, then leaves forever]: Rink 1875, No. 2:99-105; Angmassalik [(Geese they hit a blind man in the face with their wings, he sees the light)]: Holm 1988, Thalbitzer in Spencer, Carter 1954:69.
Subarctic. People generously give food to the wife of a blind man; she does not share with her husband, she eats everything herself with her son; leaves her husband in the forest; Loon puts him on his back, dives into the lake with him, he gains sight; leaves his wife, son goes with him; the woman is left alone, despised by all. Kuchin [wife directs her blind husband's arrow to the Caribbean; lies as if he missed, eats meat herself; he comes to the lake; Loon dives with him, restores his sight; he rewards Loon by giving her a gift his dentalium shell necklace; wife thinks her husband is blind, gives him poisoned water; he kills her]: Petitot 1886:84; upper tanana: Brean 1975 [people generously share food with the blind man's wife the hunter, she eats everything herself; points her husband's arrow at the moose, lies that he missed; throws him in the forest; he hears the scream of a loon; Loon dives with him twice, he sees the light; comes to his wife, she serves he has dirty water with bugs; after taking his little son, she leaves his wife for other people]: 29-35; Smelcer 1992 [the wife points her husband's arrow at the moose, lies that he missed]: 113-114; tanaina: Kalifornsky 1991 [people share food with the wife of a blind old man, who hides what she received from her husband; takes him to the woods, makes a fire, tells him to shoot at the caribou, lies that her husband missed, roasts meat, says to her husband that it smells from greasy stones that have fallen into the fire; next time he leaves her husband in the forest, picking up his bow; the husband goes to Gagara's voice, she dives with him three times, regaining her sight; he comes home, gouges out his wife eyes, tells his son that he loved his mother more than him, let him stay with her; he goes to the village himself, tells people that he awarded Gagara a necklace made of dentalium shells (spots on his neck)]: 145-149 (= Ruppert, Bernet 2001:323-324); Vaudrin 1969 [people share food with the wife of a blind old man, who hides what she received from her husband; throws him in the forest; he tries to find water; Loon dives three times with him, returning him eyesight, tells her to take his son, leave his wife; at home, the wife gives him water with beetles; he offers her to drink herself, she realizes that he has seen the light; he leaves his wife, lives well with his son, and the wife is poor]: 15-18; tanana [similar to the upper tanan and tanine; no details]: Smelcer 1992:113; 1993:57; atna: Billum 1979 [the man has an Ant's wife; made him blind (not specified how); aimed an arrow on a deer (moose), lied that he missed; she eats meat herself, gives her husband rotten wood, wormy water; he hears the voice of a loon, she tells her to put her head under her wing, dives with him, the man sees the light; comes to his wife, cuts her in two places with an ax, drives her to a tree; so ants have thin braces on their bodies; the man is full]: 51-53; Smelcer 1997 [wife points her blind husband's arrow at a deer ( moose); lies that he missed, tells him to shoot again so that this time he hears that the arrow hit the ground; washes the arrowhead, lets her husband smell, but he smells blood; the wife eats meat alone; the husband hears the voice of the loon; she tells her to sit on her back, dives twice, each time making two circles on the lake; the man sees the light; promises not to hunt loons; shoves his wife's head into a boiling pot]: 37-39 ; hea [wife directs her blind husband's arrow to the Caribbean; lies as if he missed, eats meat herself; he comes to the lake; Loon dives with him, restores his sight; he rewards her by giving her a necklace from the dentalium shells; the wife thinks the husband is blind, gives him dirty water; he kills her]: Petitot 1886, No. 32:226-229; tagish [the wife of a blind hunter throws him; Loon dives four times with him into Lake, regaining his sight; he comes to his wife, she says she just wanted to follow him]: McClelland 2007, No. 92:421-422; southern tutchoni: McClelland 1975 (1) [The Milky Way celebrates Loon's flight, who cured a blind man]: 78; Workman 2000 [a young wife leaves her blind old husband; he hears the voice of a loon, goes to the water; Loons put him on her back, dives four times; the man sees the light after each she sees the dive better and better; finds a wife, she replies that she chased the moose, could not return; the husband does not believe; (the informant did not remember the end)]: 78-79; helmet [the husband is blind, he has a wife, a son and two daughters; husband asks his wife to aim his arrow at the caribou; wife lies that he missed; gives meat to children but not to her husband; in the morning he goes to the caribou carcass with the children; the husband hears the voice of the loon, comes to the lake; Loon puts him on his back, dives; after the second dive, the person's vision is fully restored; he ties a colorful handkerchief around Gagara's neck; kills his wife, slaughters children with a club; his wife's brothers they came to kill him, but did not, afraid of the hiss of the fat he fried]: Moore 1999:310-329; taltan [1) the wife directs the arrow of the blind old husband; lies that he missed, eats the victim herself to them caribou; leaves her husband; he crawls to the pond; Loon puts him on his back, dives with him until he sees the full light; the husband cuts off his wife's leg, kills her with this foot; 2) the man goes blind; his wife finds a caribou in a trap; eats meat herself with her children, leaves her husband; then in var.1; Gagara gives her husband a knife, he kills his wife and children with it]: Teit 1921a, No. 34:226-228.
NW Coast. Eyak [the young man's wife points his arrow; lies as if he did not kill the elk; she eats all the meat herself; Loon puts him on his back, dives into the lake, he gains sight; puts his wife's head in a boiling pot; becomes a good hunter]: Krauss 1982:88-89 (=Johnson 1978:102-103); Smelcer 1993:57 -60; Tlingits: De Laguna 1972 [woman asks her blind husband to shoot an elk; lies that he missed, shares meat with his blood relatives; "a big duck is like a loon" tells the hunter to sit on her back, dives with him until his sight returns; (the informant has forgotten the end of the story)]: 888- 889; Swanton 1909, No. 84 [a girl whom the young man loves unrequited invites him to pull out his hair, throw away his clothes and jewelry, leaves him in the forest; Loon takes him on his back, dives into the sea with him , regains his former appearance; he marries Shtil's daughter; comes with his wife to his native village; when his former lover talks to him, his wife goes to his father; he follows her by sea, she drowns him]: 243 -245; haida (Masset) [wife lies to her blind husband as if he missed shooting a grizzly; leaves him, eats grizzly meat; husband crawls to the lake; Loon dives with him, he sees the light; Loon advises her husband wish a grizzly head to bite his wife when she starts eating her; his wife dies; the husband distributes grizzly meat at the party, tells his story; the Raven comes, he is not given candlefish, he turns everyone in stones]: Swanton 1908a, No. 3:353-362; Hyda (Skidgate) [a woman promises to marry a young man if he rips out her hair; then eyebrows, mustaches, etc.; finally refuses; he makes a chain of arrows, goes up to heaven; a month is his grandfather, combing and washing him, making him beautiful; he goes back without looking at his former lover; she dies of grief]: Swanton 1905:353-355; Tsimshian: Barbeau, Beynon 1987, No. 55 [the old chief is blind, they push him around; they eat salmon, and he is given only fried salmon liver - they say, there is nothing else; he decides to leave and die; someone tells him to sit on his back, it's a loon; she dives with him three times, he gains excellent eyesight; the loon teaches him what to do next; when he returns to the people, the chief carved salmon out of the tree and let them into the water under the house {the house is obviously on stilts}; you can hear how fish splash; young men caught it, but again they give the old man only liver; goats appear on the mountain, everyone rushed there; the chief tells them to become alder trees; over time, these trees have become stone pillars]: 177-178; Boas 1916, No. 37 [a young son points an arrow to a blind father who kills a grizzly; the wife lies as if he missed; the son secretly gives his father meat, tells the truth; the father asks take him to the lake; there Loon takes the garbage out of his eyes, making him sighted; while blood flows, his wife finds her, thinks her husband is dead; he does not let her into the house; she freezes to death, turns into owl; husband dies]: 246-250, 825-826 [summary]; bellacula [wife points her blind husband's arrow at the bear, lies as if he missed; eats meat herself; some creature rubs her husband's eyes with her hands; he sees the light; puts his wife's head in a boiling pot; cuts her into pieces, they turn into lynxes]: McIlwraith 1948 (1): 661-662; uvikino [blind wife Haənthikvənas aims his arrow at black bear, lies as if he missed, eats meat himself; his son hides some meat for his father; the father asked his son to take him to the lake, sent him naad; Gagara put H. on his back, dived four times, H. saw the light; shot his wife; came to a girl whose father had previously threatened her that if she refused her suitors, he would marry X. (meaning that he is blind); H. gets married, they have a child; H. kills mountain goats coming out of the cave, pushing them into the abyss; a lot of meat; his wife's brothers (apparently envy) offer to hunt sea goats lions, leave H. on the island; the mouse brings him to the Sea Lions home; they send him home in the stomach of a sea lion accompanied by the Seagull; he kills his wife's brothers with arrows]: Hilton, Rath 1982:100- 134; quakiutl [wife leaves her blind husband; forbids children to give him fish, eats everything herself; children point their father's arrows at a bear, deer, mountain sheep; every time the wife lies that he missed; eats fat, then drinks water, turns into a pile of fat, then into stone; Loon puts a blind man on his back, dives with him, he sees the light; revives his wife, turns him into a deer first, then returns her human appearance; she runs away into the forest, has been living there ever since, she is a forest woman]: Boas 1910, No. 33:447-452.
The coast is the Plateau. Chilkotin [the wife points the arrow of her blind husband, lies that he missed, eats caribou meat herself; Gagara puts the blind man on her back, dives with him, he sees the light; for this he hangs it around her neck shell necklace; kills wife, burns caribou with carcass]: Farrand 1900, No. 21:35-36; quarry [blind man wets his arrows with saliva so they fall into caribou; wife lies that he missed, eats meat herself; throws it; Loon puts him on his back, dives, he gains sight; rewards her with a shell necklace, she still has it]: Morice in Boas 1916:827; skagit [young man, Having a skin disease, as usual, inherits his older brother's widow; she rejects him, he tries to drown himself; the water spirit makes him a handsome and successful hunter; the woman now wants him, he rejects her; she gets skin disease herself]: Haeberlin 1924, No. 38:433-435; Puget Sound [wife doesn't care for her blind husband, leaves him; daughter gives him meat; he dives, underwater man makes him sighted and young; many want to marry him; he rejects his former wife]: Ballard 1929:138-140.
Plains. Sarsi [the blind husband asks his wife to aim his bow at the approaching bison, kills the bison, but the wife lies that he missed, cooks the meat herself, prevents her husband and young son; the blind man goes to the lake, bumping into trees and asking everyone's name; when he comes to the willows, he realizes that he has reached the water; the bird, then the other three say that the swan will cure him; the swan puts the blind man on its back, Dives with him four times, his vision is fully restored; the husband forces his wife to eat meat until she dies; leaving the corpse on the ground, he leaves with his son]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 35:43-44; blacklegs (piegan): Curtis 1907-1930 (6): 59-60 in Edmonds, Clark 1989 [The Morning Star is the son of the Sun and Moon; the Chief's daughter rejects the scarred boy; the Morning Star takes him to heaven; the Sun puts him in the steam room , makes him indistinguishable from his son; the young man easily kills the birds that killed all the Morning Star brothers; when he returns to earth, teaches people steam bath rituals, marries the leader's daughter]: 228-230; Fraser 1990 [approximately like in Josselin de Jong; the girl rejects her suitors, the Sun promises that she will find the right one for her; when she returns to earth, Scar on the Face teaches people the Sun Dance, happily marries that girl]: 49- 56; Josselin de Jong 1914 [girl rejects scarred young man; he comes to the Sun and Moon; the Sun tells their son the Morning Star to prepare four steam rooms; turns the young man into them handsome; the Moon does not can distinguish him from his son; the Sun tells him to set up a steam room on the ground; the girl rushes around the neck of the returnee; he copulates with her and drives her away]: 80-82; assiniboine [the person goes blind; teaches his wife to hunt; she leaves him; Seagull (?) nurses him, regains sight; he cuts off his wife's breasts, feeds them to the Seagull; marries another woman]: Lowie 1909a, No. 48:204-205; arpaho [wife points an arrow to a blind husband; lies that he missed, eats the bison he killed himself; the owl makes him sighted when he looks into the Owl's eyes; he kills his wife]: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 125 [kills with an arrow], 126 [makes him eat meat until she dies], 127 [type of death not specified; a person accuses his children that they also ate meat; leaves them tied to a tree; see motif K43]: 282-287.
Big Pool. Southern Utah [the wife points the arrow of her blind husband; she lies that he missed, eats the bison he killed herself, gives him some plant she has cooked; he pushes a stone, heals his eyes with powder, sees the light; kills his wife with an arrow, eats plenty of meat]: Lowie 1924, No. 49:78; Wintah Utah [a blind Coyote kills a bison; the wife says he missed, eats the meat herself; he put medicine into his eyes saw the light, killed his wife]: Mason 1910, No. 4:301.
The Northern Andes. Ambera [the wife of her sick husband goes to dance alone; her husband becomes handsome, his wife meets him at a party and does not recognize him; at home he turns her into an owl].
Guiana. Oyana: Magaña 1987, No. 4 [wife leaves her blind husband in a tree; a bird lowers him, regains his sight; he kills and roasts his wife, feeds her mother-in-law meat; runs to the sky; spots on the moon disk - he and his wife], 16 [people leave a man in ulcers; he becomes handsome; his wife does not recognize him; he causes a flood], 21 [a wife leaves her blind husband in a tree; he goes down, goes to a voice; a bird Valek explains that these are toads; they make a person sighted; he takes 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 pursuers climb there, meets snakes, wasps, scorpion; comes back, sticks her leg out, the passage closes, cutting off his leg; he turns into a turtle], 61 [woman leaves her blind husband in a tree; a bird gives him back his sight; he takes his wife to the forest, kills, roasts, gives meat to his 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, 37, 38, 47; oyampy [the girl refused to marry the ugly man, the people left leaving him alone; at night the anacondas came, took him away, their father made him handsome; people came back, no man ; he came with his anaconda wife, she gave birth to a baby; the man's mother asked for it; the anacondas waited a long time and went into the river, their man in human form did not see them again; the man took the child to anacondas; c since then humans and anacondas have been at odds]: Renault-Lescure et al. 1987, No. 2:93-99.
NW Amazon. Uitoto [the wife of the sick chief goes to the dance; he changes her skin, comes to the party handsome; his wife does not recognize him at first; suspects the truth, runs home, throws his skin into the fire; he turns his wife into a butterfly, goes to the ancestral world]: Preuss 1921, No. 20:110-111.
Eastern Amazon. Hissing [an ugly man has a beautiful wife; rivals cut off his hands and feet, leave him in the forest; the animal owner heals him; he leaves his unfaithful wife, marries the daughter of an animal owner ]: Nimuendaju 1920:1034-1035.
Southern Amazon. Paresi: Pereira 1986, No. 50 [the woman has two husbands, one of them is ugly; he copulates with Kingfisher's wife but pretends to be chaste by sprinkling ash on the foreskin; the Kingfisher makes him handsome; now his wife wants him, but he rejects her; his rival refuses to throw ash, turned into a freak]: 436-441; 1987, No. 163 [three wives of a blind man ask him to shoot tapir; they lie that he missed, they eat meat themselves; his nephews tell him the truth; he causes cold and rain; wives die, turn into long-eared owls]: 662-663.
Eastern Brazil. A person is ill or injured; his wife and other relatives abandon him; birds or perfume treat him; he returns, punishes his unfaithful wife. Crash [an ant crawled into a man named Túlkrén's ear; relatives moved out, the wife took her husband's brother as a lover; vultures flew in, called other birds; together they pulled the ant out, the vultures drank all the pus; the vultures and hawks took T. to their sky; from there he saw his wife and brother; the hawk made his eyesight as sharp as that of the hawks; T. turned into dry leaf, descended from heaven; the wife denies that she is pregnant (from brother T.), T. makes the fetus fall out of her womb; T. sent an ant to bite his brother's penis when he starts copulating; that's them the romance was over; in another village, Kwük claimed that he could fly; he had feathers but could not take off; T. was covered with red mako feathers, flew five days later, bringing magic jewelry]: Wilbert 1978, No. 159:391-398; frame camera [Yawé went to the site, stepped on a smoldering log, fell ill; when all relatives went to the site for sweet potatoes, spirits of the dead (=birds and animals) came to treat him; while I was ill, my wife had a lover; I turned into a pigeon; my lover saw him, regretted that he was not with onions; I turned into a tacandira ant; bit my wife and her lover in genitals; the wife said she was bitten when she was picking leaves, but I caught her]: Wilbert 1978, No. 163:246-147; Apinaye: Wilbert 1978, No. 156 [(Oliveira 1978:385-386); the man became covered with ulcers, people went hunting, the parents wanted to take their son with them, but the wife refused because she loved someone else; when the people left, the royal vulture brought rats and dead meat to the sick; the man ate rat meat, he became slightly better; the vultures took him to heaven; he recovered; the chief vulture told him not to take revenge on his wife and her new husband; the vultures brought the man down to the ground, gave him jewelry and weapons; he opened parents, then son, but refused to meet his wife; the vulture himself punished her new husband, who became sores and died; the widow was left alone forever, and the crippled former married again and was happy], 157 [a person falls ill because an ant crawls into his ear, the patient becomes covered with ulcers, everyone will be left; the Hummingbird takes out the ant, the Vultures take it to them; the Thunder Club produces thunder and lightning; Thunder gives the man is the same; the man returns; his club thunders his wife and her lover with thunder; sends a scorpion to sting them into their genitals; then sends a swarm of stinging wasps]: 385-386, 387-388; (cf. sciavante [people move from place to place, setting fire to the grass and hunting; they tell the patient they can no longer carry it; he tells him to leave him in the hut, let his wife also leave; vultures they descend thinking that the person is dead; decide to take him to heaven and heal him; the vulture house smells of scattered excrement; but the local doctor immediately cured the person; vultures let him down on land, promising to leave them injured animals without pursuing them; the man explained to others that vultures cured him from feathers and ash from feathers]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 76:235-241).