M21A. Under the pretext of malaise. 50.52.60.61.62.65.-.68.70.

The character is being chased by an enemy. The animal hides the fugitive in its mouth or on its body, and when the stalker appears, it refuses to open its mouth or expose a part of the body, pretending to be unwell (teeth ache, etc.).

Hopi, Chatino, Chinanteca, Cuicateque, Mihe, Cañari, Aguaruna, Quechua of Lambayeque (hides under his wing), Chayahuita, Surui, Sinta Larga, Paresi, Cracho, (Kayapo).

The Great Southwest. Hopi [So'yoko eats people; grabs, ties them hand by hand, leads an ugly Snake boy on a rope; he asks for permission to leave out of need; the Old Spider hides him in a hole ties a rope to a pile of crap, tells the crap to be responsible for the boy, takes him away; asks the Rattlesnake to help his "nephew"; he poison the boy's arrows, the boy kills S.; S.'s wife finds the corpse husband, chases the boy; he hides in a kachin's hut, cultivating the field, then in Gopher's mouth; he replies to the cannibal that his cheek is swollen; the goat tells the boy who comes running to sit in plain sight in the middle his kiva; makes an infusion of sour sumac leaves, moistens his tight penis with it; when the cannibal climbs into the kiva, the Goat copulates with her, the sour juice dissolves her vaginal teeth; copulation lasts so long that the cannibal dies; the goat rattles in a rattle, goats and lambs appear from the womb of the deceased, the Goat gives them to the boy so that he can have a herd when he marries; a boy to his saviors dedicates political fingers (pahos)]: Malotki, Gary 2001, No. 13:124-135.

Mesoamerica He hides it in his mouth, says that his teeth are hurting. Chatino [evil spirit pursues; old woman hides]: Bartolomé 1979, No. 2:23; 1984:10; Carrasco 196:45; Chinanteca [water monster chases; old woman hides]: Weitlaner 1977, No. 2:59; cuicateques [the old woman found two eggs, put them in a vessel, which were born to the Sun and the Moon; every day she went to feed the deer with corn porridge, told the twins to stay at home; called the deer the father of twins; When I came back, the house was a mess; once I sent them to feed my father themselves - call him, Kundo, Kundo! ; they called, the deer came, they killed him, the Moon took her right eye, the Sun took his left eye; fire was needed to cook the meat; they sent a fox to the old woman; she set fire to her tail, ran away; so that the tail would not burn, the fox placed fire in the stone {obviously in the flint}, the twins cut fire out of it; brought the old woman roasted venison, and made a scarecrow out of the skin, filling it with wasps and other stinging insects; old woman she ate, and by the river, the frogs told her that she ate deer liver; the twins told the old woman to pour sand on the frog's ass, so it was rough; the black vulture also told the old woman that she ate deer; she accused the twins of killing their father; went to check it out for herself; the deer did not respond; she went to the scarecrow and hit him with a stick - why she did not answer; insects bit her; she returned home and promised the twins call their uncle; this is a jaguar; they dug a trap hole, the jaguar fell into it; then the old woman called the twins' aunt, an eagle with two heads; they made a cage, the eagle sat on top, they grabbed her by paws (and killed); the old woman called another uncle; this is an aquatic animal with a shell, but big; the twins ran, met Thunder, asked them to hide them behind her cheek; Thunder replied to the beast that his teeth hurt and his cheek swollen; the beast tried to get into Thunder's mouth, but the Sun asked to hit, Thunder smashed the beast to pieces; while Thunder was working, the twins opened three vessels in his house: water, wind and hail; The soaked Thunder came back, closed the vessels and drove the twins away: that's why your aunt kicked you out; they found honey, the Sun ate a little, and told the moon to eat more, she was thirsty; the Sun gave water only after how they changed their eyes; the Sun did not tell them to drink everything, but the Moon drank everything; the Sun told them to regurgitate some of the water, otherwise it would not be on earth; the moon regurgitated, but the dirty water stained her face, so she was wearing it stains; the woman has a chest; the Sun gave her ripe cherimoyi and said that there are many of them in the forest; she left, and he asked the rat to gnaw through the chest; the woman hears and asks, Sun: don't worry; the same with the woodpecker; agouti gnawed, a wheel with a rope in the chest, the Sun and the Moon rose to heaven, agouti followed; asks what to do; Sun: cut the rope above you; Aguti fell, buried in the ground; the woman managed spanking the moon; so when the moon looks like a sickle, women are menstruating; woman to the Sun: remember me when I cover your face with my underskirt]: Weitlaner 197:56-62 (=Bartolomé 1984:6-9); Micah: Bartolomé 1984 [woman hides]: 23; Carrasco 1952 [grandparents had a boy and a girl; grandma sent them to the field where his grandfather worked, he asked them for help; they killed him, dead they hid them in honeycombs; they began to cook beans, a voice could be heard from under the pot: you killed, you were eating your grandfather; your grandchildren ran away, the old woman went in pursuit; Agouti hid them in her mouth, said that her teeth hurt; the children are running again, the sister is behind; her brother hit her in the face with los huaraches torn out of the ground; rose to heaven, became the Sun; sister hesitated to wash her face, also rose to become the Moon; spots and low gloss - due to impact]: 168-169.

Ecuador. Kanyari [the cannibal stalks; Skunk says he was bitten by a flea, promises to betray the hero but kills the stalker]: Gutierrez Estevez 1985, No. 2, 3 (Azuay): 339-340:339; Howard-Malverde 1981 , No. 15 [after the death of his wife, a man marries a widow; she cares only for her children, asks her husband to take her to the forest; the father hangs a calebas on a tree; in the wind she makes a sound as if he is cutting wood; himself leaves; the children saw a house from the tree; there was the cannibal Mama Ahuardona; the boy stole a cake, the girl laughed, the old woman caught them; began to fatten them; they showed a rat tail, then lost it; they pushed A. into the fire, ran to Skunsikha's house; she tells her to pick up a hat full of beetle larvae; A. pursues a ball of thread in front of her; Skunsikha hides the children behind her cheeks, pretends to hurt teeth; asks A. on the edge of the abyss to take a sand flea out of her ass; starts a stream, A. falls into the abyss, breaks]: 110-113; (cf. No. 14 [the widower has a boy and a girl; the new wife tells me to get rid of them; he took them into the forest, told the toad to sound like he was cutting wood, and left himself; the children threw roasted corn on the way, returned home on them; the next time their father took them further away; they climbed a tree, noticed a house in a clearing; there is an old woman; telling the children to hide under the roof, her sons will come; they say that it smells like human, the old woman denies; the old woman asks for a finger - are they fat; St. The virgin (Madre Virgencita) gave them a rat tail, the old woman feels it; they have lost their tail, the old woman decides to cook them; asks the girl to climb to the edge of the cauldron; the girl asks her to climb, pushes her into boiling water; a cockerel hatched from the egg taken by the girl; the cooked old woman and her sons burst]: 105-109).

Western Amazon. Aguaruna [Tsuna (smelly tree) stalks; caiman hides in its mouth]: Akutz Nugkai et al. 1977 (1): 39.

The Central Andes. Ferregnafe (Quechua, dep. Lambayeque): Montalvo 1989:311-314 (1980) [two children lost their herd of sheep in the thickets, their mother began to call out, the cannibal Ačkay answered them, called them to the house, she cooks stones in the cauldron, not potatoes; at night A. puts the children in her bed, ate boy, in the morning his sister saw his skin, penis and heart on the chair; asked for time off to go to the yard, refusing to relieve herself of the need for a house, A. tied a rope to her; the girl tied a rope to a tree, ran away, taking a rope brother's heart; A. pulled the rope, the tree fell; the deer cultivated the field, hid the girl in the furrow, A. ran, they ripped open her stomach with horns; A. chases again, holding her intestines; the skunker hid the girl in her hole, stunned by A. with her jet; the hawk hides the girl under her wing, says that he is limp when he fell off a cliff when he was chasing prey; refuses to show the wound, otherwise she will not will heal; he snatched A.'s eyes; the girl and A. ran to the creator; A. says he is running after the girl to look for her in her head; a revived boy is sitting next to the creator; all the cannibals have gathered together with A., the creator tells them to tell them that mountains should appear, mountains should arise; tells them to say that mountains fall; mountains collapse, burying cannibals under them except two; from the boy's heart, the creator created two dogs, told the girl to let them go on those cannibals, they tore them up; the girl returned home to her mother, said that two dogs were her brother], 316-319 (1993) [brother and sister are herding sheep; night has come, one ram is lost, the children call their mother, someone shouts to them that the ram is here, the children are coming to the old woman; she ate the girl at night, tells the boy to watch the cauldron in the morning with potatoes, stones are cooked in it; the boy replies that the stones are still raw, the old woman looks for herself - they have turned into mashed potatoes for her; the boy asks to go to the yard, refuses to relieve the need for the house, old woman ties a rope to him, he ties it to a tree; the old woman pulls, the tree falls; the condor hides the boy under his wing, replies to the old woman that he was injured in a fight, refuses to show the wound - he will worse; pecked out one eye from the old woman; she runs to the skunker who hid the boy in her hole, releases her stream into the old woman; deer plant potatoes, hid the boy, pierce the old woman with horns; in the sky St. Joseph looks in the boy's head, an old woman comes running; St. Joseph tells her to gather all her relatives, turned the reeds into two dogs, who tore up all the cannibals and cannibals, but some remained; St. Joseph took the boy home]; Quechua dep-ta Lambayeque [the boy and girl went to search for the missing sheep, got to an old woman Achakay {la achakay, i.e. A. - not really their own name, but the category of demonic creatures}, she offered boiled potatoes, but it was only yellow clay, A. eats it; at night the girl fell asleep, A. ate the boy, he gave a voice; A. came out, the girl found a heart ( brother), hid it; A. sniffs her hands; the girl says that she needs to go to the yard, A. offers to relieve her need in her arms, she refuses, A. lets her go with a rope tied to her belt; the girl ties a rope to the plant, runs away; tuyu answers A. that he is not ready yet; the skunk hides the girl in the hole, he and A. agree to let the winds go, the skunk lets A. in the face, tells the girl to run to the deer; two deer they dig up a potato field, one hides the girl under lumps of earth, butts A. in the eye, tells the girl to run to Gallinaso, who hides her under his wing like a hunchback; explains to A. worked, he was pushed; A. wants to look under her wing, Gallinazo bites her eye, sends the girl to the eagle; he brings her to God in heaven; the girl shows him the liver (it was said above that the heart) , it turns into two dogs, a male and a female; A. runs up, God rips off the girl's finger, gives A.; she chews it, calls "the lame, the blind," and God tells the girl to repeat, "Grow, mountain, grow!" ; God asks if all those called by A. have come; when everyone shouts, "Eat it!" ; they rush at the girl, but the mountain falls on them and everyone disappears; the girl and her two dogs remain; A.'s gray-haired head appears; at God's hint, the girl commands the dogs, "Grab, Toteres, grab, Bolberes"; God says A. will be pricked; the dog is covered in blood, comes back to the girl]: Weber, Meier 2008:37-49.

Montagna - Jurua. Chayahuita [it rains for too long; Kumpanama drinks Masato Rain (alcoholic beverage) and at this time pierces with a spear; leaves; when he returns, does not find the body of Rain; various Toads and Chameleons hide it in their mouths; they say their teeth hurt; when K. leaves, they let Rain out of their mouth; thunder comes, Rain rises to the sky]: García Tomas 1994 (3): 64-65.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Surui [see motif J12; lonely Iapeab copulates with a tree, inserting his penis into a crack in the trunk; the tree gives birth to two girls, the eldest Cabeud, the youngest Samsam; mother Yi . brings them up; Peshire (bird), Mokoba (owl), etc. come to the party; sisters fall in love with P., laugh when M. dances; I. lies to M. as if they consider him handsome; P. leaves his pen on the path to his house; M. replaces it with his own; sisters come to M.; his mother feeds them meat, he feeds them honey; S. realizes that these are rats and mucus from the owl's eyes, but K. eats; S. puts his fingers in It's like a vagina where M. inserts his penis, but K. does copulate with it; the sisters run away; the redfin bird Oyo hides them in her mouth, says M. that her teeth hurt, pushes him, M. turns into an owl; at home offers eels to the sisters, K. eats; then the sisters see that O. digs up worms, calls them eels; turns it into birds, and then turns him into birds; finally they marry the Jaguar; his mother kills K.; sons K. and S. kill Jaguar's mother]: Mindlin 1995, No. 22:73-77; synth larga [the Kaboêp girl loved the Owl, but met the Paxit bird at the festival (blue, believed Jaguar's son), asks to leave a sign for her on the path to his house; this is his pen; sister K. says that there is an Owl's feather on the path to Owl's house; K. and his sister come to Owl {the substitution of signs is not mentioned, about sister before Mutum's bird episode is no longer said}; Owl's mother says he must bring game to his wife; he brings rats; agrees to give corn; leads for honey, K. does not see bees, Owl climbs a tree, knocks out his eye (? ; quebrou olho), the liquid poured out, Owl says it's honey; K. replies that she will go for the vessel, goes to Pxit herself (took her hammock with her in advance); asks Pomi (Rolinha; bird?) , who eats fruit on a tree, does not say he has seen it; comes to the Crane (Socó), who hides it in his throat; Pomi, Socó tell Sova that they have not seen his wife; Owl asks what kind of bloating Socó has a throat, he replies that his teeth hurt; K. sleeps under the wing of Mutum, becomes pregnant with him, sister K. and Mutum did not get along; K. came to Paxit, Owl demands her return, K. does not want to, Paxis kills the Owl with an arrow, he comes to life, returns home; Jaguariha's mother-in-law asks K. to remove the splinter from her leg; there is no splinter in her leg, Jaguariha kills K., sister K. saves the egg, Sunkip was born from it, grew up; his father tells him to kill Mutum so as not to shout (letters. "cried"); Mutum tells S. not to kill him, says that he is his father, that his mother killed Jaguariha; brings a snake to hide it among edible larvae; she bites Jaguariha, but she does not feel anything; then C . asks Jaguariha to catch nuts that he will throw from the tree, she catches; Mutum asks to check if Yaguariha feels the heat of the fire; advises her to get the larva thrown there out of the fire; S. pushes Jaguariha into the fire, it burns; the ashes have turned into harmful insects; more about the Jaguars and the Turtle, see the full text in motif J12]: Leonel Queiroz et al. 1988:63-69.

Southern Amazon. Paresi [the mother of frost came from the south, began to fish with poison; for her, fish is firewood, Erone eats fish, she is frightened; E. met the Toloa forest spirit; he does not like to be seen from behind, there he has his gut sticks out; E. shouted from a distance what he saw, made a deer, T. thought it was E., took it home; E. killed people who were frying fish, left the old woman; went out on the road of lost souls; they want to eat it, he says what's salty, they go to the river for a drink, he hides in a tree; How did he get in? - Feet forward; he killed the first arrow, screams, Here E falls, they ate theirs; E. came to people without an anus, defecate through their mouths; put fried fish under them, saying it's crap; asked them to make anuses; E. pierced them with a stick, they died, the old woman remained; one blind man in the tree pulls out honey, the other below; E. catches honey, gives wax to the lower one; the upper one threw an ax down, E. his took it away, threw it into the water, he became a fish; E. met a tapir family, his daughter was sick; sent his parents for edible leaves, cooked and ate his daughter; tapir and tapiriha chase E., hides a nightjar under his body, the pursuers look into his mouth, tearing him up, now he's big; the female saco-boi swallows E., tells the tapirs she has a sore throat; the tapirs are gone, E. stayed overnight with the woman saco - boi, burned the man's boat; in the morning he was chasing; E. to a tree, telling him to grab the fruit, hit the head, killed; at the house cabore-do-sol hid in shallow water, covered himself with a piece of bark, like fish, children they shoot arrows, throw them at fish and onions, E. took it all away, in the evening he came to this house, the children recognized the arrows, E.: No, these are mine; they go swimming, the children wash it, everyone says, My hand, leg, ass and etc.; Father will come, kill you with this spear, we will eat; E. swapped spears (one hits, the other always passes by); killed the owner who came; the same episode with spears in the turtle house; in the marten house ( irara); the martens went for honey, ordered them to look after the children, did not order to untie the parcel; E. untied it, the children died, their parents revived them; the owner of the forest came, E. turned the fruit into stone, threw it from the tree, killed them her child; she wants to spray milk from her chest into him, but E. does not look at her; called for other spirits, but E. did not get it; E. returned to his mother, was absent from April (when it was frozen) until September]: Pereira 1986, No. 17:261-282 (hides in the mouth: 273).

Eastern Brazil. Crash: Wilbert 1978, No. 18 [Chiara 1961-1962:333-339; seven brothers agree to rape their mother, the youngest also reluctantly agrees; the eldest tells the mother who brought them food what they want from her another; she has to get along with them; the youngest is ashamed, he tells his father, the father beats his sons; sets fire to the house, turns into a falcon that eats lizards and chickens; the mother also becomes a falcon; the brothers go to travel, look for water at the bottom of a dry stream, the stream turns into a wide river, the youngest stays on one side, the elders on the other; the caiman first tries to drown the younger one, then carries him across the river; a young man grabs a branch, runs; the Atoré bird hides it under cut bushes; Nandu hides it under his arm, says she has an abscess there; the monkey hides it under a heap nutshell; Opossum sprinkles urine on Cayman, killing him; brothers turn into Pleiades, dive into the water in June], 154 [Schultz 1950:144-150; husband is convinced that his wife is unfaithful; decided to leave, children went with him; three boys and two girls became horses with their father, but the middle girl could not transform; the same in another family, where they all turned into reindeer, the youngest girl could not, but became golden brown; Autxetpirire poisoned fish with poison; father and children became kingfishers to fish, climbed a tree, the middle daughter could not; A. asked how to become the same color as a girl; the father said to lie down in the oven, cover it with leaves and earth on top; A. stayed in the oven, everyone left, but the middle girl came back for the forgotten calebass, dug up A.'s penis, began to eat; followed her father's footsteps, A. began to get out of the oven; Cayman volunteered to transport the girl, asked in the middle of the river if she would call him frosty; she denied, when she was on the shore, named him; hid under Emu's arm, Emu told Cayman that she had a pain in her armpit, did not raise her arm; the same with another caiman, the girl became a bird, hid in a wasp nest, they did not betray her; she reached the palm tree, at the top of her family, they they told the palm tree to bend down, the girl climbed in; spat, giving them to A.; they lowered the rope, let him go, he fell, crashed, became a crab, climbed into the hole; the girl fell behind again, came to the house Serie, next to the house Vultures; climbed a tree by the water; Seriema's daughter came for water, the girl spat, the kalebasa slipped out, crashed; so 4 times; The mother series wants to punish her daughter, she talks about the girl on palm tree; comes to a bird village; hides in a tree by the spring; Vultures, Male Royal Vultures, even Seriema's husband convinced her to go down, raped, using different parts for copulation her body; she died; every hawk took a piece of her vulva, tied it with embir fibers; they made a stick house, each piece on a stick, told them to stretch, the pieces covered the stick, they made a house; The pieces of her body put on sticks by others have dried up]: 81-87, 374-375; (cf. kayapo [Banner 1957:65; an old man Teeth on his head calls girls to look for in his hair; there are teeth hidden with which he bites off girls' fingers; after trying blood, he kills, eats girls; alone the bitten runs; the battleship digs the passage from her house into the forest, the parrot covers the entrance with its wings; the heron hides the girl, swallowing her, only the necklace outside, then regurgitates; the caiman carries her across the river; the stalker sees traces to the water, rushes into the river, is eaten by piranhas; his lice are left to torment people]: Wilbert 1978, No. 145:346-347).