M36. Disassembled into pieces fits into the hole .43.48.

The character finds himself inside wood, stone, ice, etc. He or someone else makes a hole, but it's too small. Then he disassembles himself (or turns into fog), pushes these parts into the hole and reassembles it.

The coast is the Plateau. Thompson [Coyote's daughter marries Lynx, the lord of the cold; the Coyote comes to her son-in-law, who freezes him; the Coyote melts a hole in the ice with his tongue, disassembles and pushes himself piece by piece; collects, but the Raven took his eyes away; the Coyote bumps into trees, asks for their names; the former grow high in the mountains, then lower down the slope; when poplar and willow appear, there is a river nearby; Coyote goes down with the flow, meets Bird Girls; lures Wren as if he wants to show a star, pulls out her eyes, inserts herself; friends put Wren's eyes made of red berries; people play ball with their eyes with their eyes A coyote; he meets an old woman, asks about her customs, kills her with a stick, puts on her skin; asks her four granddaughters to move him to where they play; the youngest three leave their imaginary grandmother on the way; the eldest reports; Coyote grabs his eyes, runs away; makes fog, they can't catch up]: Hanna, Henry 1996:56-63; Skagit: Hilbert 1985:45-56 [Coyote promises daughter to whoever overtakes her; Raven, Mink and others lag behind, Mountain Goat overtakes, marries; wife gives birth, fat serves as a diaper; Coyote eats it; when he goes to the mountains, the Goat sends frost, the Coyote is trapped in an ice trap; breathes the hole, breaks himself apart, sticks out; the raven takes his eyes away; the Coyote puts leaves, sees a little; pretends to see a star; one of the sisters comes up, he pulls her eyes out, inserts herself; asks an old woman about her daughters; kills with nettles, takes her form; sisters carry her imaginary mother on their backs to where they play through the eyes of the Coyote; the youngest throws him off on the way He copulates with the eldest; takes his eyes, runs away], 87-95 [Coyote pretends to be dying, tells his daughter to marry a yakim man with a painted face and put food and property with his corpse; children They see Coyote cooking for himself, but he pretends to be dead; he appears, painting his face, speaks yakima, takes his daughter as his wife; the paint dries up and falls off, the daughter recognizes her father; the family leaves The Coyote, turning his house into a block of ice; the Coyote makes a hole, looks out, the Raven takes his eyes away; the Coyote puts yellow-green mold in his eye sockets that grows on a rotten tree, tells Bekas and Soroca that sees a fat beetle on a branch; grabs Snipe's eye; asks the Sick Old Woman what she is afraid of; Nettles; hits her to death with nettles, puts on her clothes; her two daughters carry their mother (i.e. Coyote) on the back to where people play with Coyote's eyes; on the way, he tries to have sex with girls, the youngest throws him to the ground; he takes his eyes and runs away]; Okanagon [Skunk and Marten (Fisher) live together; grandmother sends two granddaughters named Chipmunk) and Tyrant Bird (King-bird, Tyrannus) to climb under Marten's clean, tidy bed, Skunk's bed is dirty; Skunk came in first, youngest began to giggle when he spoiled the air, Skunk heard, found the girls in the chest under Marten's bed; says that he is the head of the house, hides them in his chest; Skunk replies to Marten who comes that it is him â€" Chief, Marten is forced, contrary to usual, to cook for himself; everyone puts food in his chest, Marten sees Skunk take out an empty plate; the next day he sends Skunk for the dead deer, finds girls, sets fire to the house, flies with them to a rock above the river in a column of smoke; Skunk sees a reflection, lets his stream into the water, understands the mistake, lets them go up, hits Marten's toe, he dies; the sisters pretend to be happy with Skunk; he copulates with them all day, falls asleep; they return to their grandmother, telling the rocks to grow around the Skunk; there is a small hole left, the Skunk dismantles himself piece by piece, pushes them, Raven takes his iron away; Skunk comes to people playing ball with iron, grabs it, kills people with it]: Hill-Tout 1911:148-150; clackamas [part of Coyote's penis stays in the girl; when copulating, he heals her; runs away, sleeps in the hollow; tells the hole to close, cannot open; promises bird girls to color them if they break a hole; Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varins), Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) can't, Woodpecker pierces; Coyote tries to rape her, she flies away, the hole is small; he sticks out parts of his body; Vulture takes him away eyes; he walks, stumbles upon the Snail's house, pretends to measure it; tells the hostess that he sees a louse crawling across the sky; she agrees to change her eyes to see it too; since then snails have been blind]: Jacobs 1958, No. 9:92-94; tillamook [two girls live under water; South Wind copulates with them, falls asleep; wakes up in a stone bag; Little Woodpecker is unable to cut a hole; girl- Yellowhammer breaks through the stone; the South Wind begins to caress her, she flies away without finishing her work; the South Wind breaks itself apart, sticks them through the hole, gathers itself again; finds no eyes, them Raven and Seagull pecked; inserts berries into his eye sockets; persuades Eagle to change eyes for a while, runs away; the Eagle takes the Snail's eyes; she remains blind]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 38:128-129; alsea [The Coyote sleeps in the hollow, tells him to close, cannot open it; Little Woodpecker is unable to cut, Big one punches a hole; the Coyote grabs him (hers?) , The woodpecker flies away; the Coyote breaks himself apart, sticks them through the hole, reassembles himself; the Raven takes one of his eyes away; the Coyote convinces the old woman that only one-eyed people can catch grasshoppers; she gives he has his own eye, he runs away]: Frachtenberg 1920, No. 17:191-195; cous [like tillamook; Trickster goes to bed in a hollow, it overgrows; Woodpecker girl; Raven carries his insides, Vulture takes his eyes; The Trickster lures the snail boy to come closer, takes his eyes away]: Jacobs 1940, No. 29:190-192; upper coquil [The Coyote comes to the Cous River; the old woman replies that her sons are at sea; the 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 comes in, the Coyote rapes her; the sons see it; they send Coyote who falls asleep in a boat into the open sea; he calls the Seal, corrects his head shape; Keith makes teeth out of the basket (whalemustache?) ; 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 tore 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; takelma [Coyote in winter hides in a hollow pine tree, tells the hole to close; in spring he cannot open; three types of woodpeckers consistently hammer the trunk; every time the Coyote screams that his head hurts from a knock; woodpeckers are offended, they fly away before finishing work; the Coyote breaks himself apart, sticks them into a hole, then collects them; The crow carries his guts and eyes; the Coyote makes new eyes out of rose hips; eats grasshoppers, they fall out from him out of the ass; it seals the butt with resin; the resin lights up, the Coyote burns]: Sapir 1909, No. 7:91-95; Kalapuya: Jacobs 195, No. 4 [The Coyote finds a hornet's nest, tells frog women that there is food inside, opens it; hornets bite them, they cause snowfall; Coyote hides in the hollow of a big spruce, closes the hole, forgets how to open it; asks the Woodpecker to hammer; Little, Middle, finally the Great Woodpecker they punch the hole; the Coyote tries to grab Bolshoi, he flies away; the hole is still small; the Coyote breaks himself apart, sticks them out; his eye is stolen, he makes a false one out of the berry; comes to people who play with his eye take him away; turns into a digging stick, dirt, a man making a harpoon; his pursuers don't recognize him, stop chasing him]: 96-103; Gatschet et al. 1945, No. 4 [as in Jacobs; Blue Jay takes his eyes away; running away from his pursuers, Coyote turns into a blind old woman, unrecognized]: 231-236; coutenay [The frog sends his granddaughters Chipmunk and Big Chipmunk to marry An otter (Fisher); Skunk lives with him; wears his clothes, says he is an Otter; he comes, sends Skunk, runs with his wives; they hide in a tree; the Skunk kills the Otter with his jet, takes his wives; they put him to sleep, run away, turning the house (=burrow) into a stone bag; the Skunk cuts himself to pieces, pushes them out through a small hole; the Raven takes his bag of corrosive liquid, people play with the bag; The skunk comes and takes it back]: Boas 1918, No. 68:231-243.

California. Maidu: Dixon 1902, No. 10.4 [people exterminate all coyotes, place their leader in a split pine tree, left inside; the pine tree was empty inside; the woodpecker pierces a hole; the Coyote asks him expand, the Woodpecker flies away in fear; the Coyote asks his excrement what to do; they first say that he will die here; then they advise him to go out in the fog; the Coyote does so, materializes again; Now people leave him on a cliff in the middle of the lake; excrement advises him to go ashore in the fog, he does it], 10.8 [Grandma Coyote sends him for firewood; he hears women singing, can't find a woman, falls asleep in the hollow; the hole overgrows; as in 10.4 (without the lake episode)]: 86-88, 89-90; 1912, No. 2 [Coyote wants people to be mortal, the Creator of the Earth wants eternal; puts the Coyote as punishment inside the tree; The woodpecker makes a hole; the Coyote asks to expand it, the Woodpecker gets scared, flies away; Gopher advises Coyote to go out in the fog, he does; see motive H34]: 27-39.