M32A. Eats what falls out. 44.46.
Thecharacter's insides or pieces of flesh fall out of his back. He eats them, mistaking them for regular meat and fat.
Winnebago, Western Marsh Cree, Ojibwa Timagami, Northern Ojibwa, Ojibwa Steppe, Algonquins, Attikamek, Assiniboine, Santi.
The Midwest. See motif M53; Trickster roasts dead birds, goes to bed, leaves his anus guarded; meat is stolen; he burns his anus as punishment; finds pieces of fat or meat on the trail and eats pieces of fat or meat; this is his giblets or pieces of burnt flesh. Winnebago [foxes steal meat; Vakjunkaga ties its anus (the origin of wrinkles on the human sphincter)]: Radin 1956, No. 13-14:16-18; Marsh Cree (Albany) [Wicágatcak fills the bag with moss, tells waterfowl what the singing teepee is carrying, tells them to dance with his eyes closed; strangles birds with an arcana; Loon opens his eyes; he kicks it (the origin of the shape of a loon tail); bakes meat, goes to bed, tells his ass to guard; someone comes up, the ass beeps, the thief immediately hides; twice; the third time V. does not react; seeing that the meat is stolen, he sits on a hot stone; Since then, people's buttocks have been dismembered; V. constantly blows the winds, scaring away game, starving; pieces of his gut fall out; he thinks it's dried meat, eats; Squirrel laughs; he throws a piece of gut into birch (the origin of the growths on the birch tree); hits the birch tree with a stick (stripes on birch bark)]: Skinner 1911:84-86; northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [Visakaijak asks the geese to dance with his eyes closed; one opens, V. only one thing is enough; bakes, falls asleep; his anus wakes him up, he tells him not to disturb him; two people in a boat steal meat, sail away; V. punishes his anus by sitting on hot stones; finds and eats pieces of meat; Chikadi says he ate his burnt flesh]: Ray, Stevens 1971:44; Western Marsh Cree (Stone Cree) [Wīsahkīcahk notices, picks up and eats pieces of meat; birds they scream that he is eating his flesh; he replies that it was his mother who woke up dried meat; then comes to the place where he burned his ass; after making sure that the birds are right, he makes a lump out of pieces, throws a lump on a birch tree turns into a birch mushroom; V. says people will use birch mushroom to light fire]: Brightman 1989:36; Clay 1978 (northern Manitoba) [Wesukechak says picks up moss in a bag, says waterfowl carrying a dance song; builds a teepee, invites them to dance with their eyes closed, strangles birds one at a time; Loon did not close his eyes, raised the alarm, the birds rushed out of the teepee, V. came on Loon, breaking her spine; bakes birds in the sand, falls asleep, telling her ass to be on the lookout; her ass sees the boat, gives a signal, V. gets up, does not notice anything; next time he does not react, the Indians take the meat away; V. punishes his ass by sitting on hot stones; wanders through willow thickets, since then the willow branches are red with blood; the hunter agrees to share with V. the meat of the killed duck; V. slides off the cliff, pieces of it Burnt flesh falls out; in gratitude for what the hunter shared with him, V. turns these pieces into edible lichen]: 48-56; timagami ojibwa [see motive F59; Nenebuk kills geese; people carry meat; anus warns, but N. tells him not to disturb him; sits in a fire; finds burnt pieces of his ass on the trail]: Speck 1915d, No. 1:28-31; steppe ojibwa [Nanibozhu invites geese to dance with their eyes closed; calls the fat ones closer; whoever opens his eyes will turn red; one opens, the survivors run away; N. bakes meat, tells the anus to guard, falls asleep; someone- then steals meat; N. burns his anus as punishment; goes, burnt meat remains hanging on the bushes; N. eats it; birds laugh: N. eats his meat]: Skinner 1919, No. 1:280-281; algonquins [Whiskejac calls ducks and geese with his eyes closed to dance in his house; Toadstool opens his eyes, V. kicks her, her tail takes on its current appearance; V. tells the anus to guard the meat while he sleeps; Indians they steal meat; V. sits down in the fire to punish the anus; pours mud on the Partridge's chicks; she frightens him by flying in front of his eyes; he falls off a cliff; pieces of his burnt meat turn into edible lichens]: Speck 1915d, No. 3-4:8-15; Atticamek [Wisəkedjak came across the Partridge's nest, spoiled the chicks; Partridges parents found V. sleeping on the edge of the cliff, took off next to him, he with Fright fell off the cliff with his back against the rock; later he found peeled pieces of his flesh in this place, mistook it for dried meat and ate it; the partridges laughed at him]: Davidson 1928a: 270.
Plains. Assiniboine [And n ktom n and finds many eggs, roasts, goes to bed, telling the anus to guard; the person tells the anus to raise the alarm when it eats eggs and leaves; I. roasts his ass above the fire; finds and eats pieces of fat; these are his own fallen insides]: Lowie 1909a, No. 18:115-116; santi [The spider kills birds, bakes in the ground, goes to bed, telling the anus to guard; the man tells the Spider's anus to be silent, takes the meat away; the Spider punishes his anus by roasting it on fire; his entrails fall out, he eats them thinking it's moose giblets]: Wallis 1923, No. 24:93-94.