Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

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M41. Eye juggling, J2423. .41.43.44.46.47.49.50.59.67.73.

The character throws his eyes (an inhaler has a tooth) up or into the distance. At first they return to the eye sockets, but then they disappear.

Nganasany, Inhalic, Upper Kuskoquim, Shuswap, Snohomish, Koulitz, Western Sachaptin, Ne Perse, Chilcotin, Koulitz, Okanagon, Kerdalen, Klamath, Koutene, Western Forest Cree, Western Marsh Cree, Steppe Cree, Sarsi, Blackfoot, Assiniboine, Grovantre, Arapahoe, Skidi Pawnee, Arikara, Osage, Comanche, Kiowa, Caddo, Northern Payut, Western Shoshones, Goshiute, Eastern Shoshones, Ute, Yawapai, Navajo, Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Western Apaches, Lipan, Hopi, Zunyi, Sia Keres, Taos, Pima, Seri, Taulipan, Wapishana, Guarazu, (Caigua?).

Western Siberia. Nganasana [when he went hunting for wild deer, the old man did not hunt, but took out his eyes, let them go to the ground, they ran away, he shouted "Eyes, ooh!" , the eyes answered "Old man, whoa!" , the old man went to look for them by ear, his eyes hid; so they played; the old woman went into the plague, grabbed her eyes, hid them in a bag; scolded the old man, fed the rancid yucola; a wild deer came, the old woman aimed the old man's onion, lied that he missed, ate the meat herself; one day she went for the talnik, the old man called his eyes, they responded, he found them, punished his wife]: Simchenko 1996 (1): 71.

Subarctic. Inhalic, upper chunks [The mouse takes out one of its front teeth, throws it up and catches it, loses it; but finds and eats a lot of berries]: Smelcer 1992:116; Kuchin: McGary 1984: 460-468 [Vasaagihdzak sees the birds throw their eyes up, they fall back into their eye sockets; he repeats the trick; the second time he throws him too far, the birds take his eyes away; someone pokes W. he grabs the Fox, wants to tear him up, he promises to be a guide; ties a rope to him, runs away; V. bumps into trees, asks their names; when the tree replies that it is Fir, he does new eyes made of fir resin; the resin is light, so Europeans have bright eyes; Ducks and Geese are dancing; V. fills the bag with moss, says that it is dancing; one dance with his eyes closed; V. strangles birds by one, the White-Fronted Goose opens his eyes, raises the alarm; V. steps on two types of Greaves, since then they have a flat tail; V. leaves the prey to prepare; V. invites the Fox to race, who he will run straight to the meat, take it for himself; the fox pretends to be chrome, V. invites him to run straight, and he will run along the long road himself; the fox comes first, hides the meat, sticks his leg bones into the ground; the fox again comes - supposedly just arrived; V. gnaws bones; then finds the Fox sleeping; hits him with a stick, covers him with grass, sets him on fire; then sees Fox unharmed in the distance], 480-489 [Vasaagihdzak replies to waterfowl that he has dancing in his bag; everyone dances all night; in the morning V. offers a dance with his eyes closed, curls the birds' necks; the White-fronted Goose raised the alarm; when the Toadstool of Two species ran out, V. stepped on their tail, so their legs turned upside down; V. bakes game; goes to the lake; the fox pretends to be sick, apparently reluctantly agrees to race to the baked ducks, comes first, eats meat, sticks bones into the ground, as if the meat has burned; V. finds a sleeping Fox, covers it with grass, sets it on fire, he runs away; the birds throw their eyes, V. to them joins, Blue Jay takes his eyes away; The fox pokes V. in his eye sockets with a stick, V. grabs him; the fox asks him to spare him, leads her by the rope; bandages her to a tree, runs away; V. stumbles upon trees asks who they are; Willow, Poplar; when the tree replies that it is Fir, he makes new eyes out of resin; the fox does not know that V. has regained his sight, comes up, V. kills him], 497-502 [Vasaagihdzak says Ducks that he has dancing in his bag; the last dance with his eyes closed; The White-fronted Goose raises the alarm; V. steps on Loon and Greaves of two types, so they have such a tail; V. bakes game; Fox pretends to be sick, suggests that he run around the lake in a short way, and V. a long way; eats ducks, sticks his leg bones back into the ground; V. finds a sleeping Fox, sets fire, he escapes; V. sees how the birds throw up their eyes, repeat the trick, the birds take his eyes away; he stumbles upon trees, rejects willow, birch, makes new eyes out of fir resin; it is light, so Europeans are light-eyed].

The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap: Boas 1895, No. I.2 [The Coyote throws his eyes, the Raven takes them away; the Coyote makes new ones out of rose hips, comes to the old woman; she says her four daughters have gone to play with others people with Coyote eyes; Coyote comes to them, grabs his eyes, runs away]: 8-9; Teit 1909a [Holsholip has fun throwing his eyes up; Coyote does the same, the Raven takes them away; Coyote crawls on on the ground, gropes for rose hips, makes new eyes out of rose hips]: 632-633 [The fox throws up and catches his eyes; finally the Raven takes them away; the Magpie suspects that the Fox is blind; he says he sees a star; Magpie peers, he pulls out her eyes, puts her in; old woman Illness says that her granddaughters are going to a party where everyone is dancing with Fox's eyes; claims that with stone, club, water, fire, magic You can't kill her with the root; Fox's excrement is advised to beat her with nettles; she dies, he puts on her skin; the old woman's granddaughters carry it on their backs, on the way he inserts the penis first into his older sister, then into his younger sister; he sings in the guise of an old woman, grabs her eyes, throws fog, her pursuers can't catch up with him]: Haeberlin 1924, No. 20:407-411; kowlitz [Shwanee throws his eyes, Raven takes away alone; children old women play with him; S. kills her, wears her clothes and hair; her daughter carries a fake mother to watch the game, S. slides lower and lower, copulates with the girl; the episode is repeated with four sisters; the fifth throws S. to the ground; S. grabs his eye; tells the sisters what to call his children they will give birth to; sisters revive their mother]: Adamson 1934:253-254; sachaptin [Lynx throws up his eyes; The coyote does the same, the Lynx pushes the thrown eyes, they don't return to the eye sockets; the Coyote takes her eyes away from the oriole; the old woman sings, tells how people dance with Coyote's eyes; the Coyote kills her, wears her skin; the youngest of her five daughters feels it's a Coyote; at night he touches each one's genitals, the youngest chases him; in the morning she pretends to be lame, the girls carry him on her back to where they dance; he copulates with everyone, the youngest does not allow it; dances, grabs her eyes, runs away; later returns to give names to his children]: Farrand, Mayer 1917, No. 8:155-157; ne perse: Phinney 1934 [The Coyote imitates a man throwing his eyes; he tells the Coyote's eyes to disappear; Coyote takes Curlew's eyes, inserts berries in him]: 69-70; Spinden 1908, No. 8 [Wild Cat throws and catches his eyes; the Coyote imitates him; he catches and carries the Coyote's eyes; the Coyote inserts his eyes, pulling them out of a man; kills an old woman, puts her skin on, comes to dance; he, not knowing that it is a Coyote, give his eyes, he takes them away]: 19-21; clickitate [Coyote sees Partridge throw up his eyes, persuade her to change eyes with him; Coyote throws his eyes up, Vulture takes them away; Coyote takes them away He inserts flowers into his eye sockets, they wither; he inserts others; lies to a young hunter (an uncertain bird living in the bushes) that he sees mountain sheep in the distance; he agrees to change his eyes with him]: Jacobs 1934, No. 36:100-101; Okanagon [Chickady throws his eyes, catches them in his eye sockets; the Coyote does the same thing; two Crows carry them away; the Coyote asks trees for their names to go to the river; drinks; asks her little sister Blue Bird if she sees a star; snatches out her eyes, inserts her in; her sister Blue Jay makes her new berries; Coyote asks the old pheasant what she is afraid; nettles; he hits her to death with nettles, puts on her skin; her granddaughters Blue Bird and Blue Jay talk about how they played at the Sun Dance through the eyes of the Coyote; they ask why you have a strange voice (Burned your mouth with soup); Eyes (Injured one with a stick); in the morning they take turns taking your grandmother to the Sun Dance; the Coyote makes himself heavy, the sisters throw the imaginary grandmother, people scold them for it; Coyote grabs his eyes, runs away with Pheasaniha's skin; sisters revive grandmother]: Guie 1990, No. 16:141-147; curdalen [Coyote comes to the house where Pheasant's children bake berries; asks their parents' names; the answer is an indecent and threatening play on words (in the sense that his father will frighten him suddenly from behind and his mother between his legs); Coyote kills them; Pheasants take off suddenly when the Coyote walks along the cliff, he falls; Pheasants revive their children; the Coyote breaks his leg, eats his bone marrow, fills his hollow bone with chewed willow branches; so that two children come up they did not say that Coyote was eating himself, he twisted their mouths, they turned into crossbill, Loxia curvirostra; Coyote sees a person throwing his eyes up, they go back to his eye sockets; Coyote says his grandfather also took this trick, throws his own, the man grabs them, runs away; Coyote stumbles upon someone, takes his eyes, throws him off a cliff, he turns into Catbird ( rock wren?) ; sees a woman sitting, she reacts only when he burns her with nettles, says he will go with him; he sees dancing, puts out the fire, but the fat bubbles turn out to be stone; he lights the fire, there is no one He is surrounded by rocks, he is in a stone bag; birds come to hammer a stone, the Woodpecker pecks a hole to Coyote's eye, flies away; the Coyote sees the Vulture, calls him names; the Vulture pecks out his eye; The Coyote looks at others, the Vulture pecks him out; the woman who went with the Coyote broke the rock with her belt; aims the blind Coyote's arrow at the deer, which hits the target, but the woman lies like an arrow got into a tree; drives the Coyote in circles as if they had gone far; cooks venison; admits that he did kill a deer; after filling his gut with fat, he told me to put it on his eyes; the Coyote begins to see, but then eats fat , goes blind again; makes her eyes out of resin; they are weak, the resin melts every now and then from the heat; the Coyote comes to the blind woman; today she will come to the dancers, where she will insert the eyes of the Coyote; the Coyote kills her, puts on her clothes, scratches her eye; explains to her four granddaughters (Nightjar and three other types of birds) that she is hoarse and a sunflower seed has fallen into her eye; granddaughters take turns carrying an imaginary grandmother; she is planted before Coyote's eyes; an imaginary old woman tells her to extinguish the fire, dance in the dark; inserts her eyes in, runs away, leaving the saliva responsible for herself; the audience understands that "the leader took his eyes"]: Reichard 1947, No. 7:89-95; Klamath: Barker 1963, No. 2 [The badger throws up his eyes, they make the sound lolololok; the Coyote does the same, but his eyes are pecked by a flying crow; he's talking about everything stumbles; makes his eyes out of rose hips; pretends to see spots in the sky; the Antelope agrees to change eyes with him], 13 [The Thunderbird throws its eyes, causing thunder; The Coyote successfully does the same, but the Raven pecks his eyes; Coyote grabs the antelope's eye, runs away; Gmokamč makes new Antelopes out of clay]: 13-14, 83-89; coutene: Boas 1918, No. 61 [Snipe throws up his eyes; Coyote grabs them; Snipe takes them back, pulls out Coyote's eyes; he makes new ones from resin, it melts in the sun; out of foam, it flows out; from blueberries; takes the boy's eyes; his sisters; kills an old woman, puts her skin on; her two granddaughters carry her imaginary grandmother on their backs to a party where people dance with Coyote's eyes; Coyote grandmother sings; grabs her eyes, runs away]: 183-187; Linderman 1997, No. 4 [Coyote sees the Old Man throwing his eyes at the birch tree, they come back; Coyote catches his eyes, laughs at the Old Man, putting his fingers in his eye sockets; he grabs him , returns his eyes, takes away the Coyote's eyes; the Coyote asks the bushes and trees what their names are; finds blueberries, makes eyes out of blueberries, sees a little bit; the young man calls his sister to pick blueberries; the Coyote Kills him, puts on his clothes; kills his sister, puts her clothes on; comes to an old woman, kills her, puts her clothes on, comes to where they dance with his eyes; grabs an eye, runs away]: 41-48.

The Midwest. Western Swamp Cree (Stone Cree): Brightman 1989:31-32 [the birds throw their eyes up, they go back to their eye sockets; Wīsahkīcahk wants it too, the birds give him a song, allowing you to catch an eye, but not more than twice; V. throws a third time, goes blind; someone pokes his eye sockets, V. grabs Fox; says that he took his eyes, and before that, the meat promises to turn his legs; The fox asks not to do this, makes new eyes for V. out of fir resin], 48-49 [the birds throw their eyes up, they return to the eye sockets; Wīsahkīcahk tries too, the eye does not returns; birds advise you to throw the second one, V. will finally go blind; someone pokes a stick in his eye sockets, V. grabs Fox; says that he stole his meat, promises to break his neck; the fox asks not to do this , makes new fir resin eyes for V.]; Western forest crees [Wesakitchak sees chikadi leave their eyes on branches, they fall into their eye sockets; decides to repeat the trick by hanging them on branches his eyes go blind, his eyes fall into the mud; he walks, bumping into trees and asking their names; poplar, birch, larch; the last is pine, V. makes new eyes for himself from its resin]: Vandersteene 1969:49 -50; Steppe Cree: Ahenakew 1929 [tomtit throws its eyes under the willow; this is how it heals headaches; Vesakaicak repeats the trick every time he sees a willow; his eyes fall to the ground, their Fox takes away; V. asks trees what their names are, finds Fir, makes new eyes out of resin; sets fire to the grass around the Fox; he jumps out of the fire, the tip of its tail turns white]: 347-349; Dusenberry 1962, No. 1 [zap . 1905; Wi-sak-a-Chak sees birds catch their eyes at the bushes, then their eyes come back; the older bird explains that this is done for headaches no more than three times; V. throws eyes for the fourth time, they remain in the bushes; he goes asking the trees who they are; poplar, willow, pine are the first; when he finds a marsh pine, he makes new eyes for himself from its resin]: 235-236.

Plains. Sarsi [the bird throws up its eyes, they fall back into orbits; the old man wants too, the bird warns not to do it often; he throws it up three times, they are lost in the fourth eye; next to The Wolf went to him, the Old Man pulled out his eyes, put him in; brought the Wolf to the tree where his eyes, the Old Man, were stuck, took them out and put them in the Wolf; the Old Man's eyes were light like Europeans, and the Indians had dark eyes; eyes fester because the Old Man's eyes are stuck in a tree]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 10:11; black-legged [the bird throws its eyes; warns Napi not to do the same under the tree; N.'s eyes get stuck in a tree; he meets one or two girls, pretends his eyes are just hurting; they throw him off when they realize he's blind]: Fraser 1990 [Napi (Old Man) pulls out his eyes from Coyote inserts gooseberries instead]: 25-27; Grinnell 1962 [the bird throws its eyes up; the old man asks him to teach him, she says he can't do it more than three times a day; the old man throws for the fourth time; eyes disappear; he goes, calling animals for help; the Wolf brings a piece of dead meat to the Old Man's nose; he thinks that a dead bison is nearby, looking for him; grabs the Wolf, puts one of his eyes in, then finds own]: 153-154; Josselin de Jong 1914 [birds throw up their eyes, teach the Old Man how to do it; his eyes get stuck in the willow; he waves his hands at random, a woman comes up; he invites her to build a hut; does not find it ready, builds more; says she wants to offer her huts to choose from; she searches in his head, realizes that he is blind, runs away; throws his necklace into the river; he runs to the sound, a little doesn't sink; takes Coyote's eyes]: 21-23]; Maclean 1893 [one girl]: 168-169; Linderman 1920 [(probably black-legged); The old man sees Chickadi throw his eyes up, they fall back into the eye sockets; Chikadi reluctantly agrees to explain the secret: while your eyes fly, you can't move, breathe or laugh; in the end, the Old Man throws his eyes high, moves, his eyes fall to the ground; he finds them and inserts, but eyes get dirty, so vision deteriorates and eyes hurt in old age]: 27-34; Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. 13 [two girls; N. falls into the water; takes Coyote's eyes, runs away]: 29-30; assiniboine [the trickster imitates others; his eyes get stuck in a tree when he throws both at the same time]: Lowie 1909a, No. 22 [birds throw their eyes at the tree, they fall back; Sitconsky wants the same birds warn that his eyes are too strong; S. catches one eye, it gets stuck but falls; birds offer to throw both at once, they stay in the tree; S. makes new eyes out of resin], 23 [And no one sees four boys throwing their eyes at the pine tree, they return to the eye sockets; I. catches his eyes one by one, the boys warn not to do this often; one cuts off his legs, sharpens his bone, kills an antelope; the other kills an elk in the same way; they give the same strength to I., but they tell him to do this trick only in the presence of someone else; I. catches his eyes twice in a row, they stay on the pine tree; the boys reach out, return I, but deprive him of his ability to do the trick; I. one sharpens his legs, kills an antelope; when he wants to kill a bear, he gets stuck in tree; boys release it, take away strength, more I. did not try to sharpen their legs]: 117, 117-119; Dakota (Sioux, group not specified; identification from Dakota in Thompson 2000, No. 92:299) [ The rabbit meets a Bubble (i.e. Trickster), which hunts by throwing its eye to the tops of trees to track down game; The bubble teaches that after the fourth time, the eye must be changed; The rabbit does not take into account the first time thinking it was for testing; the eye disappears; then there are many stories about how the mice ate the eye and how the Rabbit got a new one; according to one version, he took the eye of another animal; the initiate knows that The Rabbit's eye is the moon on which the Rabbit himself is visible, reflected in his own eye; to reach the first eye, the Rabbit threw the second eye, it turned into the sun]: Meeker 1901:163; Osage [Grasshopper tells the Turkeys to dance with their eyes closed, kills one at a time; opens one, the rest have run away; The grasshopper told his grandmother that he invited the leaders to visit, told her to leave the tipi; pretends to be talking to invited, actually ate everything alone]: Dorsey 1904, No. 2:9-10; grovantre [the bird catches its eyes at the tree; Nishant wants it too; the bird tells you not to do it unnecessarily; N. throws his eyes until they get stuck in the branches; the mouse lends him his eyes; he finds his own, they're dry; he soaks them off, puts them back in his eye sockets]: Kroeber 1907b, No. 11:69; arpaho [Nihansa sees a man throwing his eyes at a poplar; he gives him the strength to do such a trick; N. catches his eyes too often, they get stuck (still visible on poplar branches)]: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 16 [ N. takes the Mouse's eyes, they are small for him; takes the eyes from the Owl], 17 [takes the Mole's eyes, climbs a tree, pulls out his own; the Mole throws away his eyes, since then the moles have been blind]: 50-52; Shayens: Kroeber 1900, No. 11 [the person throws up his eyes; the other wants too, the first warns not to do so more than four times a day; the second violates the ban, his eyes get stuck in a tree; the man lies quietly, Mouse comes to gnaw off his hair for the nest; he grabs it, lets it go when she gives him one eye; the other gave him Bison]: 168; Erdoes, Ortiz 1984 (northern sheyens) [Veeho sees a man telling his own His eyes fly up, hang on a tree, come back; he does not tell you to repeat the trick more than four times a day; V. sends his eyes out of boasting for the fifth time, they are carried away by a crow; The mouse gives him one eye, Bison - the other; one is too small, the other is big, but it's better than being blind]: 379-381; skip pawnee, arikara [like arpahoe, no details]: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903:51; Comanche: Barnard: 231-232 in Archer 2000 [The fox asks the Owl to teach him magic; he takes out his eyes, throws him at the willow tree, tells them to come back; warns that you can only throw at the willow and no more than four times per day; Fox throws at an elm tree, stays blind]: 165-166; Marriott, Rachlin 1968 [The old Coyote sees the Owl take out his eye and throw it up; when the eye returns to its place, the Owl has dried meat in his hand; The coyote tries to repeat the trick; first his right and then left eyes get stuck in a tree; he howls around]: 131-132; Saint Clair 1909b, No. 15 [two yellow birds cast their eyes at the trees; The coyote does the same thing, his eyes get stuck in the willow; he accidentally kills a bison, hides his blindness from two girls he meets; they look in his head, see worms in his eye sockets; they throw him off a cliff bells; he goes to the sound, falls, dies]: 278-279; kiowa [two birds throw their eyes up, Sendeh wants the same; they warn not to throw high; S. loses her eyes; Burdock woman marries him; discovers that he is blind; leaves ants and burdock in his bed, runs away; The owl gives him eyes for a while, summons animal people to find out whose eyes will fit best; dogs fit; so humans and dogs have the same eyes]: Parsons 1929a, No. 14:33-35; Kiova-Apache [The rabbit throws his eyes, they fall back into the eye sockets; reluctantly gives the Coyote the same ability tells him not to look under the trees; he violates the ban; the first time the Rabbit returns his eyes stuck on a branch; the second time Coyote remains blind; pretends to be sighted, comes to a tipi, marries to a girl, goes to the sound of bells on her dress; she discovers that he is blind looking in his head; runs away, lures him to the edge of a cliff, he falls; she returns to her parents]: McAllister 1949, No. 19:67 -70.

Southeast USA. Caddo [Duck takes out his eyes, dives; when he emerges, other Ducks throw her eyes, they return to her eye sockets; Coyote joins the game; Ducks warn he won't be able to repeat this trick; Coyote takes his eyes out and dives again, his eyes go missing; Ducks fly away; he meets a man who puts chestnuts in his eye sockets; Coyote sees again]: Dorsey 1905, No. 66:103-104.

Big Pool. Northern Payutes: Lowie 1924, No. 6 [The Puma and the Rabbit play, the Coyote joins; they kill his eyes; the Coyote takes the bird's eyes; the bird inserts red berries instead of his eyes]: 221-222; Marsden 1923, No. 5 [The chaffinch throws his eyes, they go back to the eye sockets; the Coyote does the same, the eyes are stolen, they are played with them; the Coyote goes there, takes his eyes (?) , runs away; he has two wives; he hunts, misses because he can't see well; when he puts his head on his knees, his wife sees that he has bad eyes; wives put a stone under his head, run away]: 189-191; Western shoshones [birds play, Coyote's eyes get stuck on the willow; he creates and puts a sixth sense in his eye sockets]: Smith 1993:94; goshiute [coyote meets bear; everyone replies to another that he is not afraid to walk along this path; the coyote invites the bear, with his eyes closed, to regurgitate what he ate to see how many people he has eaten; eats the regurgitated bear, and then regurgitates himself; the bear believes that the coyote, like him, is a mighty cannibal; the coyote advises the bear to go to the top of the hill; there he will see a man with a bow, but there is no need to be afraid of him; the bear went; the coyote came there earlier and shot him a bear came up; taking off his skin, the coyote fell asleep; when he woke up, he heard a noise, thought it was flies; then he saw someone (some birds) taking his eyes out of his eye sockets, throwing them at a tree, the tree was shaking, his eyes came back; the coyote said he also always played such a game; the birds wanted the coyote's thrown eyes to remain on the tree; blinded, the coyote went to the river; on the other The girls were on the side; they guessed that the coyote was blind, but he denied it; they surrounded the bison, the coyote shot him; took off his skin crooked; said that since girls of different heights (which was not the case), he wanted make the hut higher on one side and lower on the other; not seeing the entrance, I did the other; when asked why, he explained that there were enemies around, you need to have two ways out; at night I met both girls, depriving them virginity; seeing larvae in the coyote's eyes, the girls ran away, putting an anthill under his head; when the coyote woke up, followed the girls' footsteps; one threw a rattle into the canyon, the coyote ran to the sound, fell, broke his leg, began to eat his own bone marrow; sister's husband {wife's brother?} the coyote brought him home and asked him to play for him; the coyote won back everything he lost and won against everyone; his sister's husband put the eyes of a mountain ram in him, the coyote began to see again]: Smith 1993:17-21; Eastern shoshones [birds play, Coyote imitates them; his eyes do not return; he meets two girls, hides his blindness; when they take out his lice, they notice worms in his eye sockets; they run away; he follows them, falls off a cliff; his brother saves him, puts his bison's eyes in him]: Saint clair 1909b, No. 7:269; Utah: Giwón 2013, No. 9 (Southern Utah) [Sinawav asks if he can go with everyone to play - take your eyes out of the eye sockets and throw at the cedars; children: of course; the first time his eyes fell back into the eye sockets, and then someone wished S. bad and his eyes remained on the cedar branches; S. fell blind off the cliff and broke all the bones; worms appeared in the empty eye sockets, spreading the stench; two women walked, smelled it, and came up; they brought Dr. Porcupine; he told the women to clean their eye sockets, roll two a ball of yellow clay and insert S.; he saw the light again; so the wolves have yellow eyes; Porcupine also glued his legs together;]: 69-77; Lowie 1924 (southern Utah) [bird people play, Coyote wants too; birds spell his eyes to get them stuck in the tree], No. 12 [later let them fall], 12a [Coyote makes new eyes out of resin]: 26-27; Mason 1910 (Wintah), No. 13 [Coyote catches geese and ducks by the legs, eats; birds they look at the willow, then they fall into their eye sockets; the Coyote's eyes fall to the ground; he meets two girls; they run away when they realize he's blind; he falls off a cliff, eats the brain from his broken leg, says that eats mountain sheep]: 314-316; Sapir 1930, No. 2 (Wintah) [birds catch their eyes at the willow, shake it, their eyes return to their eye sockets; Coyote asks to take him with us, but always catches his eye first; the birds arrange that his eyes do not return; two girls come up, the Coyote covers his eye sockets with caress fur; accidentally, by ear and smell, kills one bison; the girls wonder why he does not picks up his arrows; he makes several entrances to the hut built by the girls; says that for laughter, enemies will suddenly attack; the girls realize that he is blind; when he falls asleep, they see maggots in him eye sockets; leave a rotten log instead; throw their pendants off the cliff, the Coyote follows the sound, falls, eats his own bone marrow, replies that he eats the brain of a mountain ram]: 489-493; Smith 1992:5 ( Wintah) [people play with their eyes thrown up; someone says they want one of the players to lose his eyes; then like gosiyute, but without mountain sheep's eyes], 81-84 [Chickady play; Coyote's eyes are not they come back; his brother inserts the eyes of a mountain sheep in him].

The Great Southwest. If not otherwise: animal people/birds play with their eyes thrown up, Coyote imitates them. Yavapai [people play; Coyote wants too; drops his eyes on the ground, loses]: Gifford 1933a: 371-372; jicarilla [Coyote catches his eye on his own initiative; they get stuck, turn into plums ; makes new ones from resin]: Goddard 1911, No. 33:229; Western Apaches (San Carlos) [Rabbits play; new ones are made of resin]: Goddard 1918:72; chiricahua [Rabbits throw their eyes up; Coyote imitates them; Rabbits want Coyote's eyes stuck in a tree; they get stuck; a blind Coyote meets a girl, gives her clothes with bells; she sees worms in his eye sockets, runs away, throws clothes into cacti thickets; Coyote rushes to the sound, copulates with a cactus; This vagina must be made of thorns]: Opler 1942, No. 30, 32:54-56; lipan [two options; Rabbit throws his eyes up; warns the Coyote not to do this under trees; Coyote's eyes get stuck in a tree or vine; 1) The rabbit makes new ones for him out of yellow berries; 2) pulls out his stuck eyes, puts them back into Coyote's eye sockets]: Opler 1940, No. 47:171-172; Navajo: Haile 1984, No. 4 [Chickady juggles with their own eyes; Coyote imitates them, eyes stick on a pine tree; Chickady brings them back; now the eyes are stuck on the fir; the Coyote is made new from resin]: 35; Hill, Hill 1945, No. 7-8 [Thrushes throw their eyes at the tree, call them back, their eyes return to their eye sockets; Coyote imitates them, eyes get stuck on a branch; he makes new ones out of pine resin, since then his eyes are yellow; at home he gives his wife a hoof rattle, she ties her to her belt; he sits with her turned away from the fire, but eventually the tar in the eyes melts; therefore, the coyotes have dark stains under their eyes; the Coyote follows his wife to the sound of a rattle; she throws her off a cliff; the Coyote sounds, breaks]: 322-323; Matthews 1994 [two birds Juggle with their own eyes, Coyote wants too; birds throw up his eyes; for the fifth time they tie two eyes together, they get stuck in a tree; they make Coyote's eyes out of resin, since then they're yellow; Coyote sits by the fire, the resin melts; the hawk rattles the girl's rattle; the Coyote goes to the sound, falls into the abyss; comes to life because his life is in his nose and the tip of his tail]: 89-90; Zunyi: Cushing 1901 [two Crows let their eyes race to a distant cliff and back; the Coyote wants to do the same; his eyes do not jump out of their orbits; the crows take them out themselves, let them into the distance, then peck them; the Coyote makes new ones cranberries; since then, his eyes are yellow instead of black]: 262-267; 1998:87-94; Handy 1918, No. 12 [Geese tell Coyote that they throw their eyes into the water, jump after them, their eyes return to their eye sockets; Coyote does same; Geese say they actually threw pebbles; they take the Coyote's eyes; he makes new cactus out of yellow berries; since then his eyes are yellow]: 461; Hopi [playing Blue Jays; Coyote dies]: Voth 1905, No. 66:194-195; Wallis 1936, No. 18 [sparrow girls play; Coyote is made from resin]: 56-57; oriental keres (Sia) [bird throws its eyes up; Coyote asks for a drop in his eyes too; asks for more; this time they don't come back; the bird makes him new ones out of resin]: Stevenson 1894:153; Tiwa (Taos) [gray birds in the tree throw their eyes up; Coyote also screams Chibiibi ! , catches the eye, they get stuck (the origin of round growths on the willows); birds laugh]: Parsons 1940a, No. 68:127; series [on the Chickady tree catch their eyes; Coyote's eyes are stuck on branch; Chickady makes him new ones out of resin; so Coyote's eyes are yellow]: Coolidge, Coolidge 1939:187; pima [the bird throws its eyes up, tells them to come back; Coyote asks to throw his eyes too; on the second time they fly away; the Coyote is crying; the bird makes him new eyes out of resin; they're yellow and the old ones were black]: Judson 1994:166-167.

Southern Venezuela. Sanema [The Crab takes out his eyes, throws them into the river, puts them back; the Jaguar asks him to do the same to his eyes; the Crab takes them out and hides at the bottom; the Jaguar asks the Vultures to give them to him new; they agree, for this they have the right to peck at game caught by Jaguar]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 358:612-613.

Guiana. Taulipan [Crab throws his eyes to the lake shore; calls them back, they come back; the Jaguar does the same despite the warning; the Pisces Master swallows his eyes a second time; Vulture makes him new ones out of wood latex]: Koch-Grünberg 1924, No. 46:132-134; vapishana [Caranguejo tells his eyes to jump out of their orbits to the lake shore, then return; Jaguar asked So that he throws his eyes too; he throws them, jumps into the water and disappears; the Jaguar dives but does not find his eyes; the Vulture pulls them out, glues the Jaguar with wood latex]: Wirth 1950:187.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Guaraçu [The anteater takes out his eye, throws it at the tree, climbs after it, pulls it out, puts it back in; the Jaguar also wants to play like this, but cannot take his eye out with his big paw; Anteater takes it out, throws it at the tree, pulls it out; the Jaguar wants both eyes taken out; now the Anteater invites Jaguar to climb the tree after them himself, leaves; the blind Jaguar waits under the tree for two days; eyes they start to deteriorate, the Vultures come to peck at them; the Jaguar promises to kill the Anteater for them, for which they return his eyes; because his eyes are rotten, they hurt in the light, and since then the jaguars have been hunting at night; A jaguar kills Muraviediha; her cub says Jaguar will now have to carry him himself, climbs to the back of his head, breaks his neck]: Riester 1977, No. 61:312-314.

Southern Brazil. Caigua [(the episode is not directly described; the author believes it is known to the informant)]: Schaden 1947b:121.