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M29z1. Anthropomorphic trickster (miscellaneous).

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purely anthropomorphic character, or a character who bears the name of an animal or plant but does not act zoomorphic in the course of his adventures. See the motives in square brackets. {Data not fully entered}

Nenets, Ents, Nganasans, Dolgans, Eastern Khanty, Mansi, Northern Selkups, Kets, Yugi, Forest and Tundra (?) Yukaghirs, Evens, Kuchin, Beaver, Quarry, Quileout, Cowlitz, Puget Sound, Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, Coos, Alsea, Winnebago, Menominee, Chippewa, Western Forest Cree, Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake), Western marsh crees, oriental crees, ojibwa, timagami ojibwa, fox, kickapoo, sauk, potauatomi, steppe crees, steppe ojibwa, seneca, assiniboine, blacklegs, grovantre, omaha and ponka, arapaho, kiowa, yurok, hoopa.

West Africa. Mamprusi [bitter pepper, M30].

Micronesia-Polynesia. Easter Island [some man, M50].

Taiwan - Philippines. Apayao [Dam-OT, M3A].

Volga - Perm. Komi [some woman, M61].

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakasy [hero Kurgen Alym (Rigel), M50].

Western Siberia. The Nenets [Yeompu, Yombo, F65B; Yehen Hoba, M38, M108]; Entsy [Dia, Dyoa, M108]: Long 196:18 [see the B2A motif; the grandmother speaks to the boy, the son of the earth and the sky that Dia (his ski trail is the Milky Way) will tell you everything on earth, but will lie, although he will sometimes tell the truth], 27-32 [Dia pretends to be strong; suggests Sigio compete, whose boat is faster; sends a brother instead of himself, hides in front; S. believes that D. achieved his goal earlier, gives him his daughter; younger and middle somat believe that he is a god, they give his daughters; the eldest wants to fight; D. can't even raise the "bow" (in the form of a board with a hole in the middle) and the arrow given to him by S.; the elder somatu laughs at him, the wives throw D.]; nganasans [Dyaiku, M108]; (cf. dolgans [Laaiku, M108]); northern Khanty [Imi-hits, or Alvali, F65B]; Eastern Khanty [hunter, M42]; northern Mansi [Ekva-Pygris, F65B, M91]; Northern Selkups [Icha, M91]; Kets [Kasket, F65B].

Eastern Siberia. Evenki, Khabarovsk Krai [Mangi is a star near Orion]; links [old man, F81].

Amur-Sakhalin. Negidals [man who became a star, M50].

Japan. Japanese [old man, fool, lazy Gengoro, M93].

SV Asia. Chukchi [Ememkut, F65B; Orion, M50]; coastal Koryaks (Alutors) [Killilkitginaku (son of the crow Kutkinnyaku and Miti), F58]; forest yukaghirs [ old man, F81; Fairytale Old Man, M38]; Russified (probably tundra) yukaghirs [old man, F65B].

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos [Ememkut; Kukylin (Mitya's husband), F65B, Koshkley (Michiko's husband), F81]; Northern Alaska Inupiate [hunter, F81].

Subarctic. Kuchin [Vasaagihdzak, M41, M42, M53, M97]; beaver [Saya, M30; Vachajik, M53].

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [Estees, K1H, M18C, M38, M53]; shuswap [Tiisa, M61]; Thompson [boy, M61]; kutene [boy, M61]; quileut [Kvzti, M46, F18D]; clallam [fisherman, mister fish, M30]; Puget Sound [Shode, M73], coulitz [Shwanee, F60, F61, K1H]; upper chehalis [Shvaneshwane, M30]; lower chehalis [Shwene, K1H]; tillamook [South Wind, F18D, F60, K1H, Ice, M87, M36]; alsea [Trickster, M32]; cous [anthropomorphic Trickster, F25, F56, F64, K1H, M32]; takelma [Dragonfly (Converter), M87].

The Midwest. Winnebago [Wakjunkaga, F18D, M93, F63, K1H, M32A, M38, M53, M65, M66]; menominee [Meanyabush, Menapus, F25, F53, M93, K1H, M38, M51, M53, M60B, M61, M65, M66, M80; Old Man, K35]; Chippewa [Venebojo, M93, F63, F64, M38, M53, M60B, M65, Hunchback, K35, M30, M66]; Western Forest Cree [Vesakichak, F58, M41, M42, M53]; Northern Ojibwa ( Sandy Lake) [Visakaijak, F58, M93, L33B, M30, M32A, M53, M60B, M66]; Eastern Cree [Visagachak, M30, M32A, M53, M65]; Ojibwa [Manabozo, F56, F58, F63, K1H, M38 , M60B, M65; Nenabojo; Nenebojo, M93, F63, F64, F83, K1H, M38, M53, M60B, M65, M80, Hunchback, K35; Hunchback Indahgishkung, K75]; Timagami Ojibwa [Nenebuk, M93, K1H, M30, M32A, M38, M60B, M80]; fox [Visakia, F25, M93, F63, M38, M53, M60B, M66]; kickapoo [Visakia, M93, M38, M65]; sauk [Visakia, F63, M38, M62A, M65, M80]; potauatomi [Visakya, F25, M93, F63, K1H, M53, M60B, M65]; Steppe Ojibwa [Nanibozhu, M30, M32A, M53, M65, M80, M93; Hunchback, K35]; Steppe Cree [The Hunchback, K35, K75].

Northeast. Naskapi [Chakapi, K1H]; Seneca [Chadionscon, F58; old man, K75; some hunter, M30]; delaware [hunter, M30].

Plains. Assiniboine [Sitkonsky, Iktomi, F5A, F58, M93, F63, F64, M32A, M41, M51, M53, M60B, M61, M66, M80, M86]; blacklegs [Napi ("The Old Man"), F15, F18D, F64, M93, M41, M53, M77]; grovanter [Nishant, F18D, M93, F64, M41, M53, M66, M77]; teton [Iktomi, Old Spider, K35, M53, M65]; santi [old Ungtomi, M93, K35, M53] ; Dakota [Inktomi (Spider), F64, K1H, K35, M32A, M38, M51, M66, M86]; Omaha and Ponka [villain, Iktinica, K35, M38, Sisemakan, Iktinica, M53, Iktinica, M65, Hahige, M60B]; Iowa [Ishiinki, F18D, F63, K35, M38, M53, M65, M66, Khashuga, M60B]; arpahoe [Nihansan (=One-eyed Sioux), F18D, F56, F63, F64, F82, M38, M41, M53, M65, M77, M86]; Sheyens [Weehuk, M53, M65, M66; White Man, K75]; Kiowa [Sendeh, K75, M41, M53, M60B, M65, M66, M73].

Southeast USA. Natchez [cannibal, M30].

California. Yurok [Vohpekumeu, K1H]; hupa [Yimantuvinyai, K1H].

NW Mexico. Huichol [Kayumári, F58].

Llanos. Guayabero [Laman, J12].

Guiana. Lokono [forest spirit, M42B].

Western Amazon. Canelo [forest spirit, M42B]; shuar [forest spirit, M42B]; achuar [forest spirit, M42B]; aguaruna [forest spirit, M42B].

NW Amazon. Yukuna [Kawarimi, M30].

Montagna - Jurua. Chayahuita [Kumpanama, M60B].

Bolivia - Guaporé. Chimane [Dohiti, F58, M30]; moseten [Dohitt, M30]

Chaco. Matako [Takwah, F61, F63, J12, M8C, M30, M32, M38, M87, M102]; toba [Novaikalachigi, F61, Voyagalachigi, F63, J12]; caduveo [anthropomophic trickster , F58]; nivacle [anthropomorphic trickster, F58]; chorote [anthropomorphic trickster, F58].