M33. Sealed anus .11.15.16.19.21.23.29.41.43.65.72.

The character plugs or seals his anus tightly (with wax, clay, grass, etc.), or someone else does it. See M32 motif.

Kikuyu, coastal arapeche, Basques, French (Gascony), Walloons, Lepcha, Santals, Ho, Tamils, Ossetians, Georgians, Koyukon, Upper Coquil, Huanca, Tarma, Huancavelica, Aymara, Matako, chorote, angaite, toba, mokovi.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Kikuyu: Gagnolo 1952, No. 13 [Wakahare climbs a tree, drops Hyena's honey; says sweetness must remain in her body, Hyena agrees for V. to sew up her anus with thorns; cannot relieve the need, Jackal, Serval, Hare refuse to help for fear of getting dirty; the Raven agrees, for Hyena promises him pieces of meat from his belly; finds himself under a pile of white droppings; since then his neck turned white; decides to take revenge; tells hyenas that clouds are pieces of bacon and meat; invites them to hold each other's tail, let the first hold on to its tail, raise high into the sky, cut off their feathers in tail, hyenas fall, break, one pregnant female injured her leg but escaped; hyenas have been limping ever since]: 128-129; Mwangi 1983 [when the Hare gets honey, he only lets Hyena lick his finger; says that such sweetness should be eaten little by little; and in order not to disappear, the anus must be sewn up; the Hyena is barely alive, asked the Eagle to tear the thread, the Eagle was under a pile of droppings; to take revenge, he began to bring meat to Hyena; said that these are pieces of clouds, let all hyenas gather, he will pick them up; hyenas clung to each other, the Eagle flew; asks if the earth is far away; when hyenas answer that they do not distinguish between land, the Eagle asks The hyena scratches his feathers from behind; hyenas fall, break, only one has survived; since then, hyenas have been limping]: 57-61.

Southern Europe. Basques [the wolf sees the reflection of the moon, wants to eat it; the fox advises drinking water, water pours out of the wolf from behind, the fox offers to shut his ass; the peasants beat the wolf; the fox pretends to be her too beaten, brains out; the person he meets says that the fox is worse than the wolf; he agrees to carry the fox on his back; the fox hides in the hole; the wolf grabs her leg, but the fox says he grabbed it root, the wolf lets her go]: (Natalia Zaika, resume).

Western Europe. The French (Gascony) [people carry cheese on the cart, the fox lies down on the road as if dead, they throw it into the cart; she bit the cheeses, grabbed it alone and ran away; teaches the wolf to repeat the trick; he was beaten; the fox crept up to the cart, brought cheese to the wolf; led him to the lake, said that the reflection of the moon is also cheese; advises to drink water; and to prevent it from pouring out from behind, plug your ass with a peg; the wolf continues to drink; the cloud closed the moon; the fox says that the wolf swallowed the cheese without noticing; the wolf feels bad, the fox advises him to jump 9 times over the fire; the wolf falls into the fire, people beat him; the fox advises him to lie in the sun; people hit again wolf, the peg falls out, the water pours out; while chasing the wolf, the fox steals the pot of porridge; finds wine, leads the wolf there, he gets drunk, starts singing; the fox runs away, people wake up, hit the wolf, he gets stuck in a hole, forcibly escaped, peeling off his skin]: Arnaudin 1967, No. 5.1:66-82; walloons [three little pigs ran away from the pigsty, began to live in a clearing near the forest; the first built a leaf hut, the second - wooden, the third is an iron house; the wolf asks the first pig to let him in, referring to bad weather; he refuses, the wolf feathered, the house fell apart, the wolf ate the pig; the same with the second; when the third {his the house apparently withstood}, the wolf's ass broke; the tailor sewed it up for him, but now the wolf can't get rid of what he ate; the fox explains what was going on; the wolf returned to the tailor and he made a hole; gases from The wolf's bellies escaped with such force that the tailor flew away with the house]: Laport 1932, no.*124A: 30.

Melanesia. Coastal arapeche [a person tidies his hair; for this he gives him fish; replies that you can catch fish by covering your nostrils, ears, anus and penis with leaves and trying to drink like as much water as possible; he drinks, is ready to burst; the duck takes his plug out of his ass, the water pours out]: Fortune 1942, No. 8:209.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lepcha [crab and blackbird became friends; killed and cut a wild boar, but there was no fire; the thrush went in search, came to the demoness Samoo; she gave smut, but told her to shake it along the way; in the wake of the falling sparks, S. came to the place where the wild boar was cut, but the thrush took its share to the tree and the crab into the water; the thrush threw wood latex at the demoness; she sewed up her anus, drank a pond in which the crab hid; but the thrush pecked the anus and the water flowed out again; S. closed her anus again, but this time covered it with latex, the thrush's beak stuck, she caught it, put it in a cage, and took out the crab too and hung it by the claw; the thrush began to scream that the crab stinks; S. leaned over to the crab to smell, and it cut its throat; the crab returned to the water and the thrush to the tree]: Gorer 1938:490-491.

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 the 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 ask for fire, offers to grind rice instead, fills the mortar with his crap; they cook rice, the jackal sends the rabbit for a swim, eats rice, fills the pot with his crap; the jackal gets a dance the drum, the hare asked for it, broke it, disappeared into the hole, quietly came out 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, woman says he had already eaten the fish; the shoemaker sewed up his ass; he started coming to the woman for chickens; people made a resin doll, the jackal stuck, he was beaten; he asked the forge to pierce his ass, he took up with this, and the jackal defecated in his face, ran away]: 165-185, 207-217; the Tamils [the sparrow found the drawing, gave it to the old woman for preservation, the rice was lost, he received a handful of rice in return; decided to cook payasam sweets; to get everything they need, tells everyone walking under the tree that his mother has just died; people throw what they carried and run home; so the sparrow got firewood, a bronze vessel, cane sugar; began to eat payasam when it was still hot, burned his mouth and fingers, threw the vessel into the well in his hearts; then pulled it out, a little payasam remained on the wall of the vessel, the sparrow licked - how delicious; then he drank all the water in the well and covered his anus with hay; came to spend the night with the old woman, who showed him a place in the yard under a canopy; at night the cow saw a bunch of hay and ate it; the water spilled out of the sparrow, washed away the cow, the house and the old woman]: Beck 1987, No. 88:262-263; ho [the peasant plows; the jackal: when these eggs fall off (referring to the bull); man: when water flows out of this stone; the man knocked down the top a petrified anthill, and the jackal sat down there; white ants gnawed a hole in his ass; the jackal swallows a mouse, and it immediately jumps out of his ass; peasant: goes to the shoemaker, he will pay you a patch ; the shoemaker put a patch, and the jackal realized that it would make a good drum and started knocking; came to the village, started beating his "drum" and shouting that Indians would come and rob everyone; people they ran, all the chickens went to the jackal; but one old woman could not escape and saw everything; people left the old woman's wax figure; the jackal told her to get off the road, hit her; stuck with all her paws and muzzle; jackal: execute me in the forge with a hot iron; he was brought into the forge, the wax melted and the jackal ran away]: Halder 1916, No. 13:287-290.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [The fox invites the Bear to go bake a cheesecake for the cubs, she will guard them; throws them into the cauldron, says that the cubs are playing at a distance; the fox runs away, eats a cheesecake, teaches the Wolf to go to wish the Bear that her daughter-in-law give birth to a boy, then the Bear will give him a cheesecake; the Bear beats the Wolf; the Fox pretends to sew up her ass to be full for a year; the Wolf asks him to sew it up; after eating a lamb, he suffers until the rope bursts; the fox weaves the basket, says that he will roll down to the herd in it, put sheep in it; the Wolf asks to lower it in the basket; the fox calls the shepherds, they beat the Wolf; the Fox tells other foxes that she caught fish with his tail down into the water; the fox's tails are frozen, they have become short; the wolf makes a bridge out of stubble, the Foxes walk along it, he promises to deal with the fallen one; the fox falls, but says who jumped for fish is saved]: Byazirov 1951, No. 41:265-267 (=1971, No. 49:290-293); Georgians [The fox promises the Bear to cure the cubs from scab, tells them to bring a chicken and go to pray; cooked cubs, took the chicken; sends the Wolf to the Bear; he howls in grief, hits the Wolf; the Fox pretends to be another Fox, weaves the basket, says that he will roll down the mountain to the chickens; the Wolf asks to lower it, all bruised, beaten by shepherds under the mountain; The fox pretends to sew up his ass with a rope so as not to need food; The wolf asks to be sewn up; suffers, tears his whole ass to relieve himself; the Wolf tore off The fox has a tail; she pretended to be dead on the road; she is picked up by the wedding train; she tells the bride to give her the rings, otherwise she will ruin the air and think about the bride; runs away, pretends to be dead again, steals from the merchant is a fat fish aunt; comes in bracelets and with his aunt to 40 foxes, sends to catch fish, dipping his tails in the lake; the tails are frozen in the ice; leads the dogs, the foxes ran away, cutting off their tails, the Fox mingled with them, now all tailless; The wolf drives everyone to the bridge, prays for the liar to fall into the water; the Fox falls, the Wolf grabs her, magpies fly in; the Fox explains that she made them colorful; The wolf wants also become colorful; Fox roasts it on a spit]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 12:46-49.

Subarctic. Koyukon [The raven refuses to take the Camp Robber bird with him, takes the fat Keith; suggests that everyone cut the meat off their legs, eats kitten, lures Keith into a viscous place, eats, giblets away under larch trees, they turn into larch roots; carves out some of its own giblets, turns animals into meat; at home, tribesmen feel that this meat has a strange smell; The raven gets married; forgets that his intestines are circumcised, plugs his anus with the gloves of his youngest son; he sees them, the Raven flies away; Mink knocks him down the larch with an arrow; the water rises, the Raven's son swims along the river, tells various trees that his father is dead; the trees were like a wife to the Raven; the fir stings itself out of grief, now the trunk is scaly; Alder scratches itself, now bleeds; Poplar cuts itself with a knife, now her flesh hangs in shreds; the son of the Raven rewards them all, they are now useful trees]: Attla 1989:151-169; taltan [a lazy young man marries the leader's daughter; does not know how to chase game; one day he cuts his anus, pulls out his intestines, brings it instead of game; father-in-law notices that the game smells bad, forbids his daughter to cook it, tells his son-in-law to cook it; his the insides fall out, he dies]: Teit 1921a, No. 33:225-226.

The coast is the Plateau. Upper coquil [The Coyote comes to the river Cus; the old woman replies that her sons are at sea; the Coyote says he will go to sleep in the steam room; when the sons arrive, let the old woman enter his steam room pinch, 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 baskets make 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.

The Central Andes. Huanca (dep. Junin?) [The fox catches the birds in a snare, puts them in a bag, carries them home; gives it to the old duck Vachva for a while; she opens the bag out of curiosity, the birds fly away; V. puts thorns instead of them, covers them with grass; The fox picks up the bag, feels the injections, first thinks that it is the birds pecking; chases V.; she swims to the middle of the lake; the fox tries to drain it by removing the canal, then starts drinking water; the water pours out his anus; he plugs it, bursts]: Tello 1923b:424-429; Tarma (dep. Junin): Farfan 1949, No. 38 [The fox asks Duck where her children got their red legs; I baked them in the stove; The fox bakes her children, they die; The duck swims in the middle of the lake, the Fox drinks water to dry it; water pours out of her ass, she plugs it with a stone, bursts; Duck dances]: 123; Santa Barbara, dep. Huancavelica [Lisa asks Duck where her children got red legs; I baked them in the stove; The fox bakes her children, they die; Duck swims in the middle of the lake, Lisa drinks water to drain it; water pours out of her ass, she plugs it with a corn cob, bursts]: Farfan 1947: No. 19:115; aymara (dep. Puno) [The fox catches the birds, puts them in a bag, asks the Duck (Huallata) to guard him; curious W. opens the bag, the birds fly away; W. fills the bag with thorns, leaves; the fox carries the bag home, his the pets are scratched; he chases W. swimming on the lake; first tries to drain the lake by removing the canal from it, then wants to drink all the water; it pours out of his ass, he plugs his anus on the cob; bursts; another lake, Kamake-kota, forms from the spilled water]: Lopez, Sayritupa Asqui 1990:28-31.

Chaco. See M32 motif. Usually, Fox's anus is first opened, everything falls out of it, then sealed; birds punch a hole in it. Matako [Takwah anthropomorphic trickster]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982a, No. 78 [not described how the hole is made again], 99-103:166, 197-205; chorote [the fox does not eat for a long time; then cannot hold food; the wasp seals its anus with clay; the woodpecker pierces the hole]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 148:278; angaite [The battleship sealed the Fox's ass with clay; all the birds began to hammer, cut it ( without a bird coloring motif)]: Cordeu 1973, No. 15:214-217; toba: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982b, No. 129 [all holes]: 249; 1989a, No. 210:293; mocovi: Wilbert, Simoneau 1988, No. 56-63:77-90.