M34. An attached tail. 42.43.55.64.66.74.
An object is thrown at the character, which turns into a tail, and the character himself into a corresponding animal.
Quakiutl, Nootka, Quileut, Upper Chehalis, Guajiro, Chiriguano, Spike, Selknam.
NW Coast. Quakiutl [people know Kanekilah is coming; everyone is busy preparing a weapon to kill him with; unrecognized K. asks for a closer look at this weapon; uses it to transform the character; Deer: I sharpen these shells to slaughter the Kanekilah Organizer; Kanekilah turns him into a deer, sprinkled with crushed shells; from Mink's spears, the Raccoon makes it one tails; makes four blind women sighted, turns them into ducks; a man and a woman have genitals on the forehead, K. places them in the groin; leaves a person with many mouths on his body only one mouth; turns Oldest to stone; turns Perch into perch]: Boas 1910, No. 16:201-209; Nootka [people know the Converter is coming; everyone is busy preparing the weapon they are going to kill him with; unrecognized P. asks for a closer look at the relevant item; uses it to transform the character]: Boas 1895, No. 1 [two Converters descend from the sky]: 98; 1916, No. 6 [converter - Young Man out of snot, see motif L38; spear to tail: otter, raccoon, beaver, marten; two stone hammers into paws: bear; two knives from shells to horns: deer], 910-911; Clutesi 1967 [The deer sharpens two shells to make knives; answers an unrecognized Transformer that he will kill the Transformer with them; he asks for shells, puts a Deer on his head, turns it into a deer, shells into ears]: 93-97; Sapir, Swadesh 1939, No. 10 [tail club: beaver; knife in ears: deer; spear to tail: otter, raccoon, wolf, mink; claws (weapons) of Puma, Eagle in the claws of a puma, an eagle]: 46-51.
The coast is the Plateau. Quileut [Queti goes when he meets different people; everyone sharpens their weapons, says they are going to kill the world transducer; he praises weapons, turns those he meets into deer (knife - ears), beaver (club - tail), otter (spear - tail); creates tribes; turns dogs into Macae Indians]: Andrade 1931, No. 27:83-85; Clark 1953:122-124; Farrand, Mayer 1919 [Kweeti travels; first meets the White Man, tells him to have only one wife; Beaver sharpens the stone tip, replies that he is waiting for K. to kill him; K. puts a point to his ass, turns it into a tail; Deer sharpens the shells, replies that K. is waiting for him, he makes his ears out of his shells; on the Kvitz River, K. spits on his hands, throws mud spools into the river, they turn into Quetzush Indians (made of mud); Hoh Indians walk in their arms, holding nets between their legs; K. puts them on their feet; in Kvileuti turns wolves into people, tells them to fish; in Ozette creates Indians from two dogs; in Nii Bay he teaches people to fish]: 251-252; upper chehalis [Jesus (Swade, or Month) meets Beaver; I make a knife to kill Jesus; asks him for a knife, makes him a tail, turns into a beaver; turns an old man into a deer]: Adamson 1934:119.
The Northern Andes. Guajiro [The fox marries, only pretends to work in the field; finding him sleeping and the field untreated, the woman stabs Fox in the ass with a digging stick, it turns into his tail]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985 (1), No. 93 [wife], 94 [mother-in-law], 95 [mother; throws a pitcher at him; her loincloth clings, becomes a fox tail]: 250-252.
Bolivia - Guaporé. Chiriguano [Battleship son-in-law grows crops in a day; the fox son-in-law does not have such abilities; when he comes to the fire, his mother-in-law sticks smut in his ass, it turns into his tail]: Nordenski& #246; ld 1912:264-269.
Eastern Amazon. Spiking [The otter and other aquatic animals were people subordinate to Kumafari; the Otter did not like fishing for K., began to grumble; K. called him to his place, smoked him with a cigar, threw him into the water, he became an otter; turned others into animals, there were no people left at all; K. walked from village to village, found no one; began to blow on the ash, but could not fan the fire, birds took him away; passing by the house Otters, heard his name; Otter pretended to be K.'s relatives, deceived him by witchcraft, K. saw fire and fried fish in his home; K. ate and drank bananas and kashiri, but thought he was eating fried fish; The otter himself spoke about the deception, jumped into the water; K. threw an oar after him, it became his tail; on the way home, K. became ill, he died; after his death, K. Jr. went on a journey; a vulture flew by gavião de anta {HA; "tapirium vulture" i.e. royal vulture?} with smut in his claws, shouted that that son K., and he did not have fire himself; then K. died, stank, uruba flew, and GA came, but left his fire on the stump, K. could not reach; when he was eaten, K. turned into a dead deer, but GA did not approach, noticed that K. opened his eyes; then K. lay down on a stone, his hands sprouted out of the ground in two bushes of five branches each; at this fork, GA left his smut, K. grabbed it; GA said that son K., and does not know that you can get fire by rubbing Uruku branches in the sun; K. said he now knows, but he also has smut]: Nimuendaju 1920:1014-1015.
The Southern Cone. Selknam [first-ancestor men run into the hut one by one to find out what rituals women perform in it; they shoot an arrow or harpoon in everyone's back, turning into animal tails appropriate species; A fox is put in the back of a Drimys winteri bush]: Wilbert 1977, No. 65:190.