Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

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M162A. Cuts off her genitals. .22.28.35.36.50.

The character pretends to eat his own genitals. The other one believes and disintegrates himself.

Khmu, Russians (Tverskaya), Kets, Dolgans, Evenks (Podkameno-Tunguska, Sym), Tseltal.

Burma - Indochina. Khmu: Lindell et al. 1977, No. 5 [the couple has a son Aay Caa Laay ("liar"; A.); while his parents are working in the fields, A. stuck a bunch of crap with feathers, asked his father to catch the bird, he smeared himself; parents left it to be eaten by the tiger; A. asks the tiger not to eat it - he will show where to steal the pig; they carry the pig on a stick; A. let the tiger carry the part of the trunk where the thorns are, told him not to moan, otherwise the food will become bitter; the tiger moans; A. points to the sunrise, sends the tiger there for fire, at which time he makes a fire, cooks meat, lays it for himself, puts bitter fruits in the tiger's part; A. prepares pig testicles, says he has cut off his genitals; the next day, the tiger agrees to have A. cut off his testicles; A. runs away; tells people who cut straw that a tiger is coming; puts on the clothes they threw, the tiger does not recognize him, he pokes his wound with a sickle; elsewhere he sprays hot juice there; runs and falls into a hole; tells the tiger that the sky is falling, even if he jumps off; stabs The tiger with a needle, who pushes A. out of the pit, calls the peasants; they ran to the pit, A. burned the village, hiding meat and rice; says that wherever his spear and arrow fall, there is meat and rice; the old woman has a golden stick, A. exchanges it for wooden food, which supposedly creates food (it is hidden in advance); A. runs away, carries brushwood to the house for a long time, the unrecognized says that this pile was brought by A.'s son; people: if the son is so strong, then A. we must be afraid]: 41-46; 1978, No. 3 [a childless woman wants to go to the monks to ask for a child; everyone refuses to transport her across the river; she builds a stupa by a tree out of sand, asks a tree to give her three children to take revenge on those in power, monks and elders; gives birth to three children, dies; the eldest is Aay CaaLaay ("liar"; A.); he was adopted by husband and wife; he feathered a bunch of crap, asked the adoptive father to catch the bird, he smeared himself; the same with the adoptive mother; they left it to be eaten by the tiger; A. asks the tiger not to eat it - he will show where to steal the pig; they carry the pig on a stick; A. gave The tiger should carry the part of the trunk where the thorns are, told him not to moan, otherwise the food will become bitter; the tiger moans; A. shows the star, sends the tiger there for fire, at which time he makes a fire, cooks meat, He lays off for himself, puts bitter fruits in the tiger part; the tiger returns without fire, A. sends him to make spoons for leaves, poured white on the leaves himself so that the tiger thinks it was from birds (and looked longer) ; the tiger eats bitter meat because he moaned on the way ; A. prepares the pig's testicles, says he has cut off his genitals; the next day, the tiger agrees to have A. cut off his testicles; when A. climbs a tree, the tiger sees that everything is in place; A. throws the fruits away while the tiger picks them up, manages to go down and run away; tells the girls that the tiger is coming, they threw away their clothes, A. hers put on, the tiger did not recognize him; the same with women and children; with men who cut straw; every time A. asks to show the wound, pokes hot smut at it, sprinkles hot juice, stabs with straw; jumps into a hole; tells the tiger that the sky is falling, let him jump; but let him not push him upstairs, or the sky will crush him; stabs the tiger with a needle, he pushes A. out of the hole, A. stoned him; says to the peasants that a tiger was caught in the hole; they ran to the pit, A. burned the village, hiding meat and rice; says that wherever his spear and arrow go, there is meat and rice; shows that people believe they throw spears, but nothing else they find; they catch A., hang them in a basket on a tree to then knock the tree into the river; a man with a gong was walking by, his eyes hurt, A. convinced him to change places - his eyes would recover; people knocked down the tree, the man drowned; A. says he met his deceased parents in the river, they offered him to take what he wanted, he took a gong; everyone jumped into the water and drowned except an old woman with an empty calebass; A. smashed the calebas with a stone, the old woman also drowned; A. told the governor that his wife had fallen off the roof, and his wife that her husband had been wounded by a boar; they ran to look for each other, collided with their foreheads; the governor expelled A. at a distance three blows to the slit gong, and A. measured three lengths of the gong, built a house there; the governor's children relieved themselves at A.'s house; A.: either poop or pee, but not both; governor: try it yourself! A. emptied his bladder, tied his penis, put a pile in the governor's house; he ordered to go where the earth turned upside down; A. built a house on the field where they plowed with a plow; the hunchback came, carrying the vessel to back; A.: Look, there are two suns in the sky; she looked, the vessel fell and broke; people filled bamboo vessels with intestinal gases, came to A. not knowing it was him; he fed them buffalo manure and I arranged it so that they opened their vessels under their noses]: 50-62.

Central Europe. Russians (Tverskaya, Toropetsky district, 1935) [hell comes to Riga to the old man, the old man refuses to go there; the wife dressed in her husband's clothes; answers the line that her (i.e., as if his) name is Himself, that bakes his own eggs (potatoes, actually); hell tried it, liked it, cut off his eggs, screamed, other devils ran; who did it? - We can't help ourselves; once we can't help]: Barashevich, Ponomareva 2000, No. 12:237-238 (same No. 13:238).

Western Siberia. Keta [Kazeγet {simplified spelling} fried caviar {or milk - "roe"} perch; when one half was eaten and the other, round in shape, was put to roast on the horn, someone at the door then knocked; K. asked if it was a hare; there was a negative answer; K. asked if it was a squirrel; there was a negative answer; when K. asked if it was a bear, he heard: "Yes, yes"; K. let the bear in , he asked what K. was frying; K. said it was his testicles and invited the bear to try it; the bear liked it, he asked if it hurt to tear them off; K. said it didn't hurt, but for This must be tied; the bear agreed, K. tied him up, cut off his testicles, and ripped his belly open]: Donner 1933:92.

Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [The fox convinces Myselov's bird that the deer and the camp are strangers; he kills a deer from his own herd, kills his wife and children; later he sees that Lisa did not kill her children, only bit their ears; the Mouselov lures the Fox onto thin ice; she falls through, gets to the fish mother, promises to heal, acting as a shaman, tells her to put a stick and then get up on the ice; says that the patient will scream; she ate the fish and ran away; sits on the woman's sledges, eats a bag of meat, replies that the area is called Polsumy, Donyshko; the bear wants to eat it, she promises to get fat, after sleeping; both lie down on the edge of the mountain; at night, the Fox lies down on the other side of the Bear, asks him to move, he falls; tells the man that he eats his penis; he cuts off his own, dies; the fox comes to his two wives, hides their face; in the dark, they try to cut the Fox with an ax, but cut the pregnant woman's belly; tells the Wolf that he gets fat by lowering his tail into the ice-hole; the wolf tail freezes, is torn off; other Wolves they say that Lisa came, breaking her tooth on a sharp deer stomach; a lot of Fox was sitting around the fire; the Wolf smeared his ass in ash, began to dance ridiculously; everyone laughed, closed her mouth alone, the Wolf tore her to pieces]: Popov 1937:28-33; Podkameno-Tunguska Evenks (Chunya River, Mutoray village); Lisa went to bed on the mountain next to the bear; he fell, the fox took out his guts, fried it, made sausage; gave The man liked it to try it; the fox said it was a penis, the man cut off his penis and died; the fox dressed in his clothes, came to his family's house]: Duvakin 2013, No. 22; Sym Evenks (Chirombu) [wolverine scares her skis; the fox cleans the fat from the sacrum, says she has her own penis; the wolverine cut off her penis, dies; the fox came to her house, where the children say dad came, asking why hunched; the imaginary wolverine replies that she was skiing; left in the morning]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 3:10-11.

Mesoamerica Tseltal [The opossum pretends to flatten its testicles with a stone, gives Puma fruits under the guise of testicles; the Puma agrees to flatten his own, dies, the Opossum calls two more, they eat Puma meat ; invites two Pumas, they realize that they ate their older brother; Possums hide in a tree by the pond, Cougars see a reflection, try to drink water, are a little alive; Opossums run, hide under a stone; Cougars are not recognize them, agree to hold the stone for a while; Possums run away; Cougars jump out, the stone does not fall; the Opossum muddies the river, tells the person that it is deep, offers to move them to the other side; another time takes his wife away; man and wife come back, see that the river is shallow]: Stross 197:19-23.