Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

M32. Indigestion. .19.23.41.43.48.-.50.65.72.

The character swallows food or water, or his own entrails, pieces of flesh flow out and fall out of his ass.

Melanesia. Mountain arapes [Sabisil (Fool) asks a person how he caught fish and crayfish; Drank the lake; S. drinks, covering the holes of the body with leaves; when he opens the anus, along with the water entrails spilled out, S. died]: Mead 1940, No. 23:370.

South Asia. Santals: Bodding 1925, No. 12 [the jackal and the chicken became friends, the jackal came to visit, the chicken got drunk, the jackal ate it; the chickens said they sleep in a niche in the wall at night, put knives and triffs there themselves ; then: we sleep in the hearth; the jackal cut himself; burned his paw, pulled out hot coals on his belly; the chickens ask him to eat them outside, on a stone; run away, left alone, covered in litter, advises the jackal to wash it and give it to dry; spoiled the jackal in the mouth, disappeared into the termite; the jackal waited for a long time, the termites ate his ass; he goes to catch crabs and fish; swallows fish, it falls out on the other side; the old woman sends to Pay the shoemaker; he put it, now the jackal can't relieve himself; the shoemaker sends him to the blacksmith, who pierced his ass with hot iron; he goes to the village for chickens, the residents think that Turks came, ran away; there was only one old woman left, the jackal knocked her teeth out; people made a wax figure; the jackal thinks it's that old woman, beats, sticks; people hacked him; (translated into Zograf 1971, No. 4:32-39 )], 14 [the jackal and the hare rob travelers; the hare pretends to be dead every time, people put their luggage, the hare jumps up, and the jackal takes what people were carrying (rice, milk, firewood, pot); the jackal comes to the old woman asks for fire, offers to grind rice instead of her, fills the mortar with her crap; they cook rice, the jackal sends the rabbit for a swim, eats rice, fills the pot with his crap; the jackal got it a dance drum, the hare asked for it, broke it, disappeared into the hole, came out quietly from the other side, and the jackal waited; the ants ate his ass; he caught the fish, it fell out, he caught it a second time, the woman says he had already eaten the fish; the shoemaker sewed up his ass; he began to come to the woman for chickens; people made a resin doll, the jackal stuck, he was beaten; he asked the forge to pierce his ass, that did it, and the jackal defecated in his face, ran away]: 165-185, 207-217.

Subarctic. Tanana [The Raven takes the Seal to hunt ducks, kills, eats his giblets; takes out his own, gives it to his wife under the guise of reindeer; he is fed caviar soup; the raven covers his ass with his son's mitten; the boy finds it and pulls it out, what he has eaten pours out; the raven flies up the tree, the boys kill him with arrows]: De Laguna 1996, No. 20:180-182; koyukon: De Laguna 1996, No. 21 [The raven takes Whale hunts ducks, kills them, eats them; takes out their giblets, gives them to his wife under the guise of reindeer; mother-in-law complains to his daughter that they stink; the crow is fed caviar soup; he plugs his ass with his son's mitten; boy finds it and pulls it out, what he has eaten floods the dugout; those in it run away, turning into birds and animals; the Raven's corpse floats down the river; the partridge has been decorating itself with feathers since then around his neck she has black feathers], 36 [The raven is a bad hunter; pulls out his giblets, gives it to his wife disguised as bears; they smell bad; he is fed caviar soup; he covers his ass with his son's mitt; he takes it out; liquid fills the dugout, everyone turns into animals; one young man is saved]: 185-187, 262-264.

The coast is the Plateau. Puget Sound [Skunk mistreats his wives; they lure him to climb the rock with his feet forward; throw stones in his ass; his insides fall out; he eats strawberries, food goes through and through without hesitation; later he returns his guts]: Ballard 1927:66; alsea [Trickster's son throws him into the sea; he will turn into a whale; goes ashore regaining his former appearance; eats red berries, they fall out of it; grasses holes in their armpits; people have been growing hair in their armpits ever since]: Frachtenberg 1920, No. 5:83; Cous [Trickster (Coyote?) sleeps in the hollow, the hole overgrows; he pushes the remote parts of his body through the gap; the raven carries his entrails; the Trickster eats strawberries, they fall out; covers the anus with resin; jumps over the fire, the resin melts; takes some child's insides]: Jacobs 1940, No. 29:192; takelma [Coyote hides in a hollow pine tree in winter, tells the hole to close; cannot open in spring; three types of woodpeckers they hammer the trunk consistently; every time the Coyote screams that he has a headache from a knock; woodpeckers are offended, fly away without finishing work; the Coyote disassembles himself, sticks them into the hole, then collects them; The crow carries its guts and eyes; the Coyote makes new eyes out of rose hips; eats grasshoppers, they fall out of his ass; he seals his ass with resin; the resin lights up, the Coyote burns]: Sapir 1909, No. 7:91-95; upper coquil [Coyote comes to the Cus River; the old woman replies that her sons are at sea; Coyote says she will go to sleep in the steam room; when the sons arrive, let the old woman go into the steam room to pinch him , he will not hear a shout; when she enters, the Coyote rapes her; sons see it; send the Coyote who has fallen asleep in a boat to the open sea; he calls the Seal, corrects his head shape; Keith from the basket makes teeth (whalebone?) ; lets Keith swallow himself; cuts Keith's heart with a knife, goes outside when he feels that the carcass has been washed ashore; hides in the sand; those who are going to slaughter the whale say that it smells like a living person; they themselves are dead, they abandon the whale, leave; the Coyote climbs into the whale again, sews the hole, the whale nails to the other side; the Coyote is bald and blind; a girl with her period has come; holding her by the hand, the Coyote touches all parts of her body with the other hand, each time asking what it is; she calls it; after she calls her vagina, he pulls her skin off it, puts it on himself; now he is again sees; before that he asked the girl what she would have to do when she returned home; he walks along a rope, holding a tree in each hand, losing his balance a little; the girl's mother is surprised at this; the little brother asks what it is between his sister's legs, they don't pay attention to him; everyone has gone to cut the whale carcass, and Coyote lies down with another sister, who is also a period, rapes her; when the victim is found, The coyote has already run away; he hid in the hollow, telling the hole to overgrow, so he spent the winter; in the spring he screams, consistently sends birds and animals that have come, but the Woodpecker asks to open the hole; he cut, Coyote pulled out his feathers, the woodpecker flew away; the Coyote cuts himself to pieces, pushes them out; The Raven (?) takes his guts away; he eats strawberries, berries fall out of his ass; he seals his anus with resin; jumps over burning grass, his ass lights up, he rushes into the river, it dries up; into the sea; burns; She takes the remains ashore; they are bitten by a beetle, the Coyote comes to life, scolds the beetle for not letting him sleep; comes to his grandmother; gets deer; hears singing, this is the dance of girls who are menstruating; grandmother warns of danger, but he goes from mountain to mountain, singing moves away; eventually tells his excrement to dress him as a leader, joins the dance; dances day and two nights; dancers tear him off hands, even in spite of him; Puma is indignant, goes dancing, but breaks out of the circle; only he managed to survive; the dancers were dead]: Jacobs 2007:159-172; clickitat [Skunk wishes his brother's wife, she and her husband run away, lure Skunk to the rock, push him down; his musk bag falls out, disappears; the Skunk eats strawberries, the berries fall from the other end; he shuts his the anus with grass, can now eat; comes to people playing it with a bag, picks it up; doesn't come back home anymore]: Jacobs 1934, No. 18:42-43.

California. Yurok [Coyote tells Trout he sees flies on the mountain; Trout agrees to change eyes with him; Coyote gets good eyes, Trout is bad; Coyote drinks Lizard berry juice, she wants him failures; he eats grasshoppers, they fall out of his ass; he covers his ass with resin, the resin accidentally lights up, he runs to the river, burns; when the water rises, the remains of the Coyote turn into a piece of wood, swimming to the sea; a woman collects fuel, starts splitting a piece of wood; Coyote jumps up, wakes up, a woman runs away]: Curtis 1976 (13): 189-190; Karok [Coyote goes for money- with shells to Lake Klamath; drinks berry juice The Lizard wants the Coyote to be thirsty; the grass lights up, the Coyote sees scorched grasshoppers, eats them, but they fall out of his ass; he covers his ass with resin; the resin lights up, his ass burns; the Coyote tries to drink water, but all rivers and streams become dry as soon as he approaches them; eventually falls into the water, goes with the flow; When he sees two girls, he turns into a piece of wood; they pull it out, they like it, they throw it away; then they decide it could be a Coyote and throw it away; both became pregnant; the Coyote sailed to the mouth of the river and stayed lying down; wasps and other insects ate it, leaving only bones and testicles; when the wasp reached the testicles, the Coyote jumped up and hit it with a stick; since then, the wasps have a narrow waist; regaining their image man, Coyote came to people celebrating the girls' growing up; got pregnant, chased after him; he hid in the steam room and pretended to be a Yurok Indian; then swam across the river in a boat, telling the mice gnaw holes in the rest of the boats; the pursuers realized it was a Coyote, wanted to swim across the river, but the boats were full of holes]: Bright 1954:3-8; chupa [Coyote eats grasshoppers, they fall out from him out of his ass; he covers his ass with resin; accidentally sits on hot coals, the resin lights up, he jumps into the river; girls go, he turns into salmon; girls can't catch him, he slips between his legs, one of them gets pregnant]: Curtis 1976 (13): 184-185; screw [Coyote has been starving for so long that food has stopped being digested; it passes through the Coyote without hesitation; he seals his anus resin, lies by the fire; resin melts, food falls through again]: DubOis, Demetracopoulou 1931, No. 59:384; Maidu [Hummingbirds promise Coyote that he will fly by jumping into trees; he breaks]: Dixon 1902, No. 10:91.

Big Pool. Walapai: Kroeber 1935:272 [The fox and the Coyote live together; the fox carries away a huge bird; when he comes back, the Coyote is starving; he feeds him but the food fails; the Coyote fixes his anus boiled grain], 289 [a monstrous elk carries a man on its horns; a spider kills an elk; a man drinks, but the water passes through; the Spider tells his daughter to rub the moose horn, fix the person's anus with this powder], 290 [as in p.289; the hero is a bird with a white tail; food fails; the Spider fixes the anus with some food].

The Great Southwest. Pima [Rabbit bitten by the Rattlesnake (first death); his corpse is burned, Coyote steals, eats his heart; then food passes through it without lingering (why not specified); Wolf and the Puma stitches his ass so that food doesn't fall out after eating]: Russel 1908:216-217.

The Central Andes. Fox. Huanca (dep. Junin?) : Tello 1923b: 424-429 [The fox catches the birds in a snare, puts them in a bag; on the way home, she gives it to the old duck for a while; she opens the bag out of curiosity; the birds fly away, the Duck puts thorns in the bag, covers grass; taking the bag, the Fox thinks that the birds are pecking; chases the Duck, which flees in the middle of the lake; the fox tries to drain it by first digging the canal, then drinking water; water pours out of his anus; he shuts it up, dies], 430-431 [The fox catches the Duck; she promises to give him the cheese she has at home; her house is behind the lake; the fox takes the moon's reflection for cheese, drinks water; as on pages 424-429)]; Tarma ( dep. Junin): Metraux 1935b: 415; Korakora district (dep. Ayacucho) [after falling from the sky]: Lauriault 1957:26.

Chaco. Matako [Sipilah owned a bottle tree full of fish; did not tell Tokhuah to shoot fish; he shot at the dorado, the tree split; S. told T. to take the water away; stick a stick in the ground for the night, water he would stop, he would be able to sleep; told him not to look back; T. looked around, saw a water monster, drowned; he had previously offered Iguana anal sex; he said that T.'s penis was too big, but did not say that he himself has two penises; T. began to eat mistol fruits, they fell out of his ass; he covered him with grass; T. eats baby nanda, they drive him into a hole, leave their feathers at the entrance, he thinks they still here; escapes, becoming a hummingbird; in an empty village, asks a mortar where its owners are; she is silent, he throws her against a tree, she bounces into his head; asks a needle, she says pin-pin, he steps on her, she pierces his leg; the excrement answers, Thlapapapa, he gives him his foot, covered in crap; thinks frogs are croaking in the water, diving, and there are cacti; white bird advises to dig into hot ash to turn white; T. is burned; asks the birds of Chauna torquata to give him feathers, they wax them, he takes off, the wax melts in the sun, T. falls, screams, I'm a mortar, falls with a mortar, becomes human; The hawk stands on a branch on one leg, helps T. cut off his leg, shows that he has two; The Spider puts his leg back, that calls her redmouth and fat dog, her leg falls off again; another Spider heals him again; the red-eyed Pigeon advises rubbing red pepper into his eyes, T. temporarily goes blind; a white-faced bird and with a long beak, he advises him to smear clay and put sticks in his nose; he does this]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982a, No. 78:165-168; chorote [The fox invites the Iguana to compete who will endure longer hunger; the Iguana eats secretly, the Fox is barely alive; when he is about to eat, the mistol seeds fall out of his ass; he asks the bees to cover his ass with clay; now he cannot relieve himself; the woodpecker pierces his ass hole, since then he has white feathers on his head]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 148:277-278; toba [Hawk asks Iguana how many penises he has; he replies that alone, Hawk insists that two; suggests trying on it, but entering one; Iguana introduces both, Hawk's anus remains wide, what is eaten immediately falls out; he plugs his ass with grass]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989a, No. 354:471; mocovi: Wilbert, Simoneau 1988, No. 56 [Chunga invites Fox to dive; at this time it steals his supply of mistol seeds; puts the Fox on a spicy branch; the tornado removes it, but the food now falls out his ass; he asks the bees to seal it with clay; now the Fox suffers from constipation; the woodpecker pierces the plug, excrement splashes on the gathered birds; they have had colorful plumage ever since], 57 [about the same; passing animals remove the Fox from the stake; the woodpecker first seals his anus, then pierces the cork; now the birds are brightly colored], 58 [as in (56); the wasp seals; details are described in red and yellow coloring pages], 59 [Raccoon and Fox got into a fight over mistol seeds, Raccoon put Fox on a sharp branch; tears himself; further as in (56)], 60 [Duck is Woodpecker's girl; Fox kills her, puts on her feathers; Woodpecker feels strange smell, Ant invites, he bites the imaginary girl in the genitals, the Fox screams, runs away; the Woodpecker asks the Raccoon to punish the Fox; the Raccoon and the Fox fight over the mistol, the Raccoon puts the Fox on the branch; he He gets off, further like in (56); the fox bleed out and died], 61 [Kota√° made his wife (i.e. Fox) immediately fall out of her ass; further like in (56); since then, the foxes have a red ass]: 77-79, 80-81, 82-83, 83-84, 85-86, 87-88.