M42. Eyes taken out and lost, E781.

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The character takes his eyes out of his orbits and loses them. He usually regains his eyes later, makes new ones, takes away from another character, etc. See the M41 motif.

Aka, Yoruba, Mofu-Gudur, Dan, Kono, Dagari, Zande, Sudanese Arabs, Kiwai, Truk Islands, Nganasans, Eastern Khanty, Reindeer and Coastal Koryaks, Kereks, Itelmen, Asian Eskimos, about. St. Lawrence, Central Yupik, Inhalic, Upper Kuskoquim, Tanaina, Upper Tanana, Kuchin, Inner Tlingit, Chipewayan, Eyak, Tsimshian, Quarry, Shuswap, Thompson, Skagit, Snohomish, Puget Sound, Cowlitz, lower chehalis, tillamook, alsea, kous, takelma, kalapuya, clackamas, western sachaptin, ne perse, okanagon, koutene, steppe crees, winnebago, western swamp crees, western forest crees, hurons, seneca, penobscot, sarsi, blackfoot, assiniboine, grovantre, arapaho, skidi pawnee, arikara, iowa, osage, comanche, kiowa, keddo, waylaki, wappo, achomavi, maidu, northern payut, western shoshoni, goshiyute, oriental Shoshoni, Utah, Yavapai, Navajo, Jicarilla, Western Apache, Lipan, Hopi, Sia Keres, Taos Tiwa, Pima, Seri, Carinha (Guyana), Taulipan, Wapishana, Lokono, Canelo, Shuar, Achuar, Aguaruna, Chikuna, Munduruku, guarazu, rickbacza, kayapo (shikrin), chorote.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Aka [Tônzanga is older brother, Tôlé is younger (sometimes associated with a turtle); Tole left his eye on the leaves, made a fire, climbed a tree where honey bees ordered bring him guns to the eye to smoke bees; the eye has done this and further errands; Tole decides to repeat the trick, but the eye does not respond; the ants dragged him under the dry leaves; Tole's second eye also does not open; Tonzaga came, found an eye, put Tole in his eye socket, told him not to try to imitate it]: Motte-Florac 2004, No. 1:13-17.

West Africa. Yoruba [Obatala went swimming, left his eyes on the river bank; his opponent Eshu took his eyes away; the goddess Oshun fascinated E., who agreed to give his eyes to O.; she returned them to O., receiving them in return the secret of kauri shell predictions]: Beier 1966:49; mofu-gudur: Barreteau 1988a [Squirrel (earth squirrel, Xerus erythropus) and their maternal uncle Crane went to the savannah to look for mice; The crane does not tell you to take a hoe, water and food; with your teeth (?) tore a hole, the mice jumped out, the Crane killed them with his gaze, so they picked up a bag of mice; pulled out a bump, under it the water was like pus; next time like blood; on the third, water for washing; on the fourth, clean; The crane left Squirrel to fry the mice, said that he could eat fatty ones, went to wash himself, leaving his eye on the stump as a watchman; when the Squirrel wanted to eat the mouse, the eye forbids; the crane came back, took the grain out of termite mound, they ate; the crane raised its leg, fruits fell from the yuyuba tree; the crane climbs the tree for honey; a panther appears, the Crane from the tree tells the Squirrel to curse her; the panther rushes, the Crane tells her The squirrel grabs his testicles, raises him to the tree; they return home; next time the Squirrel goes with the Turtle, tries to play the role of the elder, repeat the Crane's tricks; but cannot kill the mice with a glance, the Turtle caught three; it cannot reach water, the Turtle has water under its shell; the turtle eats fat mice, and the ants eat Squirrel's eye left by the watchman; the fruits of the jujube do not fall, the Squirrel broke its leg; The squirrel disappeared into the termite mound, the panther grabbed the Turtle, but grabbed its tongue, told her to take it to the pond; Belke Crane: Don't go alone]: 488-540; Diane [the birds decide to swim with their eyes on on the shore, because the water is muddy; the owl hides one eye of the Partridge under its wing; to find the thief, the birds decide to take off; the owl takes off last, the eye falls, returns to the Partridge; now the Owl hunts only at night and cries because no one wants to deal with her]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:152-153; kono [during hunger, Spider has the last measure of rice flour in his house; he eats half, tells his wife give the other half to a crooked stranger who appears in his absence; takes out her left eye, leaves it on a branch; the wife finds it, understands the deception, sprinkles pepper on her eye and dries it in the sun; gives flour to the one-eyed man; he cannot put a peppered eye in the eye socket; comes back in the dark, explains that a branch bounced into his eye when he set traps; the wife exposes the deceiver]: Holas 1975: 249-250; dagari [Der sees flies say the magic word, take off their heads, bathe, then say another word, return their heads to their place; D. asks him to teach him, takes off his head, he swims, and when he leaves, the flies have already flown away; yet he heard the magic word they screamed from afar; D. shows others the same trick, but forgets the word that can bring back his head in place; he only has to take his eyes and attach them directly to his shoulders; so D. {is it a crab?} eyes on shoulders]: Métuolé Somba 1991:91-92.

Sudan-East Africa. Zande [the man takes out his eye, puts it on the hook as fish bait; after pulling out the fish, rubs his eye socket with ash, the eye returns to its place; Thur (spider) asks for magic ash; catches fish; when the box is full, throws away the one that has already been caught, catches more; the ash runs out, T. is left without an eye; that person catches the fish that has swallowed T.'s eye in his own eye, returns T.'s eye; he insults savior, goes home]: Arewa, Shrewe 1975, No. 39:260-261; shilluk [the raven takes out his eye and puts it in the sun to light a fire; the hare calls the crow to visit, takes out his eye, the fire lights up; but the hare forgets to put his eye back right away, the ants ate it; the raven cleaned his eye, inserted it into the hare's eye socket]: Artin-Pacha 1909, No. 11:36.

Melanesia. Kiwai [the husband takes out his eyes, puts them on the edge of the pond, crabs and fish dig into them, he catches them; he lies to his wives that he caught crabs and fish in the swamp; the bird pecks their eyes; wives kill birds, they find eyes in the stomach of one of them, put them back in their husband; they scold him]: Landtman 1977, No. 90:259-260.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Satawan (Truk County, Central Carolina) [son of Satawan Island Chief (=Kuttu) took his eyes out of his eye sockets and left them ashore when he was swimming; the cannibal Likechmwocho stole them to eat. hung it around her neck in a rag; the young man's father sent a servant to Olofat (a trickster god); he first took the form of a bird, then a pile of crap, but then came; became a stick, but L. recognized him, threw away the stick; then at night he shed four coconuts, became fifth himself; L. did not notice that she heard the sound of only four coconuts falling; at night O. brought L. to a deep sleep, took his eyes away, returned the young man]: Mitchell 1973, No. 31:92- 95.

Western Siberia. Nganasany: Simchenko 1976 (Avam, West. Simchenko 1961, Linancher family) [an old man and an old woman live on a cape on the river; the old man goes fishing for wild deer, chooses an elevated place, sends his eyes to search, sitting still and resting; the eyes see two bulls, tell the old man; he decides that it is far to go to the deer, asks him to see something else; his eyes refuse, invite the old man to play; they hid, and the blind old man was looking for them; then same zap. Boris Dolgikh in 1938 from the Taimyr Nganasan from the Linancher family]: 253; 1996 (1) [when leaving to catch wild deer, the old man did not hunt, but took his eyes out, let them go to the ground, they ran away, he shouted "Eyes, ooo! " , the eyes answered "Old man, koo-!" , 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]: 71; Ents [like Nganasan Simchenko 1976]: Simchenko 1976:253; Eastern Khanty: Lukina 1990, No. 65 (b. Wah) [the hunter returns without prey; the wife watches him pull out his eyes, says Samlek ram-ram; she quietly grabs and takes her eyes away; blind husband gets home; wife tells you to shoot at the moose, lies that the husband missed, cooks meat herself; the husband digs an underground passage to the next house where his brother lives; when his brother is not there, he crawls there, makes a fire; the wife comes and thinks that at home, her husband's brother tells him that she hid her husband's eyes in the chest, that he eats meat, hiding it from her husband; the husband crawls back, finds eyes; scolds his wife (it is not known how it ended)]: 189-191; Pelikh 1972 ( Nazino, Aleksandrovsky District, Tomsk Region) [=Lukina 2004, № 1. 13:25-28; the old man rode down the mountain (skiing?) , putting her eyes aside; the old woman hides them; the old man finds them for the first time, not the second, thinks that the magpies have pecked; the old woman tells him to shoot at the moose, lies that he missed; eats meat herself, says that it is not fat that hisses, but raw firewood; the same with pike; the old man builds a new hut, digs a passage into it; says that his brother has come to the old woman; pretends to be a brother; the old woman feeds him, says how he deceives the old man; the imaginary brother advises not to torture her husband; the old man is tired, stuck in the course; the old woman pushed him with a poker, returned her eyes]: 376-377.

SV Asia. Reindeer Koryaks [Kala woman (evil spirit) catches the Mice, leaves them in a bag; the Fox releases them; Kala comes to her; she pretends to be sick; asks her to pour her nightware down the cliff Kala pushes her; falls into the water herself; falling asleep, she hangs her skin, eyes and vulva to dry; The creator sprinkles water into her vagina; The fox runs away in fear before she can insert her eyes; makes new ones from blueberries (all in mist), cranberries (all red), shiksha; pretends to be a boy, the Creator picks him up, she eats all the fat he carries in the seal's stomach; another time, the Creator gains fat in his mouth, Fox Says she has news, the creator asks, Which ones? Fat flows out]: Jochelson 1908, No. 32:181-182; coastal Koryaks: Bogoras 1902, No. 18 [Kutkinnaku's raven creates a river, tries to crochet fish, but only catches himself; Fox tries also, she did not catch anything; K. catches a small seal on the shore; The fox chooses a larger seal, unable to lift it on its back; the seal volunteers to help her, pushes her into the sea; when she gets ashore, the Fox takes off the skin dries, takes out her eyes, telling them to wake it up in case of anxiety; when the tide starts, the Fox tickles, but she does not wake up; the tide takes her away; when she gets ashore again, the Fox punishes her eyes, breaking them with a stone; making new ones out of black berries, they're too dark; from ice floes, they cry all the time]: 652; Jochelson 1908, No. 90 [The fox and the Hare ride on the ice floe; the fox jumps ashore, falls into the water, he hangs his skin, his eyes and intestines dry; seeing the Big Crow Kikynnyaku, he runs away before he can catch his eyes; makes new ones from berries (they fall out), from pebbles (the same), from ice floes; unnoticed throws all the fish off the sledge K.; he throws poison, brings the dead fox to his wife Mitya]: 266; kereks [mice ride down the hill; this is the yaranga in which the Kala woman lives; she sews; something blocks the light; she thinks it's her cheek, eats it; then the second cheek is the same; when she sees the mice, she put them in a bag, hung them in yaranga on the upper crossbar; a fox lives next to her daughter Imyna; went wander, hear crying; mice teach: in order for the bag to fall, you must promise to fill it with mouse oil; the fox released the mice, was left alone, which died; the fox filled the bag with shiksha branches; told the mice go home; let everyone migrate, leaving the sheep's carcass in its original place; tells Ymynne to cook alder bark at home; the feces returned with firewood; got an answer from the stone who released the mice; the fox says that she fell ill; gives a tiny alder feces, says that it is a disease, asks me to go to the mountain and throw it away; she came up from behind and pushed the feces off the cliff; eiders are swimming on the ice floes; the fox asks to take her for a ride on a boat; they say that the boat will disappear; seagulls take; the seagull has attached the fox's wings; tells me not to sneeze when the sun rises; the fox sneezed, fell into the sea; swam on a log to the shore; went to bed, taking out her own eyes and telling her to be guarded; the old Kala got out of the abyss, poured water on her sleeping woman; the fox was angry with her eyes for not guarding them well, ate them; went to look for new ones; berry eyes are not suitable, everything around is red; made new ones out of ice floes; shot at a sleeping bear; she offers to cure him with hot stones; the bear is dead; the fox's daughters ate meat; the fox imposed the vertebrae on a rope, tied a sleeping wolf to the tail; shouted that toothy and fanged ones were chasing him; the wolf cut off his tail against the bushes; the grandmother sewed a new one, but it was no longer fluffy; and ordered her daughters to sew parts of the fluffy fox; now the tip of the fox's tail is white and the fox is black; the sea used to be clear; after the fox fell into it, it became salty and cloudy]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 116:364-371; itelmen [fox I wanted to get married; found a wormed fish that had swept away eggs; sat down and shakes it like a child - very excited; she eats worms herself; two loons swim along the river; the fox asks her to take it, calls himself the wife of a loon; loon: I am not a father to your child, his father is swimming behind; seagulls are swimming; the fox calls himself the wife of a seagull, sat on rafts; seagulls agree to take off; fox: what? seagulls: we say: swim carefully; seagulls flew up in a deep place, the fox was in the water, barely got out; lay down, taking off her skin and taking out her eyes, fell asleep; the raven Kutkh came up and poured water on it; the fox now naked and blind; she is called out by blueberries that pick themselves up; she makes eyes out of blueberries (all blue); the same from lingonberries (all red); from shiksha; finds her dried skin; soaks in a puddle , wears]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 166:506-508.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos [the fox asks the rowers to take her to the kayak; the rowers in the first and second kayaks ask them to wait for the next one; the third fox picks up; it sings and hits the tambourine to make the road appear short; suddenly I felt the cold, was in the water, and a flock of teals was flying away; the fox swam to the shore, something was pulling back - the tail; on the shore, the fox spread its skin, took out its eyes, began to dry; the raven pecked eyes; the fox put on the skin, still looking for her eyes]: Menovshchikov 1969:20-22 (=1985, No. 16:51-52); St. Lawrence [the girls roll down the Giantess's dugout like a hill; she shoves them into her park, hangs them on a pole, tells him to straighten up; the birds refuse to help, the Fox tells the pole to bend down tells the girls to put moss instead; the youngest fell asleep and stayed in the park; while ripping open the park, the Giantess cuts off the girl's finger; agrees to take her in her head; there are mice, beetles, squirrels; The giantess tells them to gnaw, the girl just pretends to throw them away; the fox pretends to have blood from her nose, as if all the buckets are full of blood, in fact they contain red clay; the Giantess agrees empty the buckets at the top of the mountain; the Fox is on her heels like a spirit, pushing the Giantess off the cliff; when she goes to bed, takes out her eyes, tells her to guard; the Giantess comes up, her eyes jump, she calls, the Fox is still sleeping; The giantess bites her eyes, ties animal vertebrae to the Fox's tail; The fox runs, then realizes what's going on; makes new eyes out of kaavlaks berries, they are good, but fall out of the eye sockets; then from berries aamaks; they fit, but mow a little, since then slightly cross-eyed; releasing the girl from the dugout, the Giantess puts her in a bag, ties a rope to it; the girl's two brothers release her, put her in a bag a walrus skull, run away; the Giantess pursues; the girl throws a whetstone, it turns into a mountain; runs a river on the ground with a stump of her finger; answers the Giantess that she crossed on a shell; the Giantess cannot; then she advises you to drink the river; the Giantess's belly is inflated, the girl offers to dance on the mountain; the Giantess bursts, she makes iron pans and boilers]: Slwooko 1979:14-20; central Yupik [ The crane takes out its eyes, tells them to warn of danger while it eats berries; its eyes raise the alarm, it does not believe; someone takes them away; it makes new ones with cranberries, blueberries, blueberries; blue eyes turn out to be the best, cranes still have them]: Barker 1995 [two Vs.]: 81-83; Frost 1971 (Bethel, Lower Kuskokvim): 23-26; Gillham 1943:76-85; Smelcer 1992:77-78.

Subarctic. Ingalic [The raven takes out his eye, leaves him as a guard in the boat, goes into the forest; the eye calls him, the Raven comes running, but his eyes are gone]: Chapman 1914:41; 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 carry his eyes away; someone pokes V. in the eye, he grabs The fox, who wants to tear it, 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 makes new eyes out 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 one at a time, White-fronted The 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 reaches the meat, he will 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 comes again - supposedly just got there; V. gnaws on bones; then finds 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 responds with waterfowl birds 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 two types of Toadstool ran out, V. stepped on their tail, so their legs turn 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 in the ground, as if the meat has burned; V. finds a full sleeping Fox, covers it with grass, sets it on fire, he runs away; the birds throw up their eyes, V. joins them, the Blue Jay takes them away his eyes; 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. bumps into 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, fits, V. kills him], 497-502 [Vasaagihdzak tells the Duckam that he has dancing in his bag; the last dance with eyes closed; White-fronted Goose raises the alarm; V. steps on Loon and Greaves of two kinds, 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. in a long way; eats ducks, sticks his leg bones back into the ground; V. finds the sleeping Fox, sets him on fire, he escapes; V. sees the birds throw their eyes up, repeats the trick, 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 upper ones are lumpy [lying down on the shore to bed, The raven hangs its eyes on the tree; the eyes give a signal, the Raven sees only a tree floating; next time the Raven does not hurry to get up, his eyes disappear; the raven inserts blueberries into his eye sockets (everything is dark) cranberries (small, fall out), bearberry (visible, but in red light); swims upstream in a boat; having relieved fir branches, turns them into beautiful clothes; marries a girl who rejected suitors; wife says people play with Raven's eyes; The raven comes, waits for both eyes to fall next to him, takes them away; the girl's beautiful clothes turn into crow crap]: Deaphon et al. s.a.: 57-59 (=Ruppert, Bernet 2001:285-287); tanaina [The raven finds a lot of dead fish on the shore; in the guise of a man he comes to the village, there are only women there, he replies that he does not eat from strangers; returning to the shore eats fish, taking its eye out and putting its eye on the log to guard; the eye gives its voice twice, the Raven comes running, but there is no one; the third time the Raven does not go; when he hears people's voices, he comes running, pretending that sand has fallen into his eye; people see an eye on a log, the Raven quickly grabs it, throws it three times, it hits his eye socket, but remains a little crooked; the raven turns into a crow, flies away]: Kalifornsky 1991:83-87 (=Ruppert, Bernet 2001:318-319); Upper Tanana: Brean 1975 [Raven marries Swans; flies with swans in autumn, his wife dumps him, he tells him to go to sea under him a fin, turns it into an island; leaves it on the shore of the eye to see if the boat comes; the eye raises the alarm when they see a fin; next time people take their eyes away; the raven catches up with them, takes the eye, inserts back crooked; therefore, crows have different eyes]: 63-67; McKennan 1959 [The raven takes his eye out of the eye socket, puts it on a stump, tells them to be a watchman; the eye raises a false alarm several times; The raven stops paying attention to his cries; enemies take his eyes away; play by throwing him to each other; The raven comes unrecognized; when the eye hits him, he puts it back, runs away]: 194; inner tlingits [the raven goes to peck for blueberries, leaves his eye as a watchman: if he sees a boat, let him call; the eye calls, but it is not a boat, but a floating log; the raven beats its eye; when it calls again, the raven did not go to see; the people in the boat took their eyes away; the raven came to the village, asked the old woman if she had heard of the eye; she sent him to a teepee, the man showed the crow's eye (apparently not understanding who in front of him), the raven put it in his eye socket, flew out the chimney; in the chimney he got entangled by the ropes and smoked, since then the crows have been black]: McClelland 2007 (3), No. 139:624-625; chipewayan [rain floods the ground; Visákecak makes a boat, asks the Duck to dive; she brings silt on her paws several times, V. creates land; sees larvae in a deer skull, asks for permission to join the meal, vanishes head, gets stuck, deer swims along the river; people rush to him, he jumps ashore, breaks his skull; leads the Bear to the berry bar, he eats, gets fat, falls asleep, V. kills him; cooks meat, asks juniper trees move apart, otherwise his stomach hurts; gets stuck, birds eat meat; juniper twists, since then its trunk is crooked; V. decides that his eyes are rather weak, takes them out, goes blind; goes asking trees for their names; rejects poplar, etc., when he finds a pine tree, makes new eyes out of resin; creates landscape features, animal habits; his ass is burned, he throws scabs at the birch tree; asks geese to dance with their eyes closed, kills one at a time; one opens their eyes, the birds run, V. steps on water-hen and the loon, since then they have not been able to walk on land; V. laughs at bear excrement , he rushes at him; V. asks caress to get into the bear's ass, gnaw his heart; then washes his caress, the tip of his tail remains black; V. eats something black that causes gas to erupt; sits on a hot stone , throws burnt scabs on the birch tree; asks geese to give him feathers, flies with him; they take their feathers, he falls, people defecate on him; he runs away naked, turns into stone, goes into the ground; only his hair can be seen on the cliff surface]: Lowie 1912:195-200.

NW Coast. Eyak [The raven quarrels with his wife, throws her basket of strawberries into the water, the berries turn into sea urchins; the raven returns to his wife, both go to bed on a rock, the Raven leaves his eye guard; Seagulls come, take their eyes away; Raven puts blueberries in his eye; tells his wife how they (as crows) will move on]: Johnson 1978:81-84; Tsimshian: Barbeau, Beynon 1987, No. 10 [ Txamsen was wandering, saw a beautiful woman; she complained of abdominal pain; T.: I'm a great shaman, now I'm going to the woods, and you go out and call for "medicine, medicine"; you'll hear the answer when you see speaking from the earth is a plant; you have to sit on it to enter the vagina; it happened, but this woman was nettles and after copulation T. was in terrible pain; he came to another place where the house was empty; he got into it, then returned to the boat: there is a woman in her; says she is salmon; when T. fell asleep, went to the river and filled it with salmon; T. caught a lot; crows began to steal salmon from the boat; T. took it out his eye told him to guard the salmon, and he went to get firewood; his eye screams that the crows were stealing salmon and attacked him; when T. returned, his eye had already been eaten; his wife made him a new eye; together with his wife, they prepared a lot of dried salmon; everything was fine, but T. accused his wife of infidelity - otherwise why did he lose to Pnya; the woman could not stand it, called her people and disappeared into the river; all the dried salmon came to life and disappeared with her; T. got into the boat and sailed down the Ness River again]: 31-32; Boas 1916, No. 22 [Txämsem (Raven) sees a beautiful woman appear in his boat; she Salmon, tells you to treat it well; putting his fingers and feet into the water, creates salmon; T. caught salmon, left his eye to protect them from crows; they take away both salmon and eyes; his wife makes him a new one; makes him a new one; makes his hair is beautiful; soon all the pantries are full of dried salmon; T. unreasonably suspects his wife of being unfaithful; she sees him gambling with a stump all day; salmon seed twice T. gets entangled in his hair, swears, throws a bone, laughs at his wife; she tells dried salmon to come to life, disappears with them; T.'s hair and skin become as ugly as before]: 76-79 .

The coast is the Plateau. Lower chehalis (winuchi) [Shwene wants to be on top of a cliff; cannot get off, licks his sweat, eats her eyes; takes the Owl's eyes and wings, goes down; the old woman gives him edible roots; he promises that his slave will give her a ride in a boat; there is not a boat, but a stump; she puts bees under the roots in the basket, tells her to eat food when she climbs into the hollow; the bees eat S.'s eyes, the hollow behind him closes; Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella), Woodpecker punches a hole; S. stumbles upon the Snail's house; says he measures it, makes his eyes out of flowers, invites the Snail to change; ever since snails are blind]: Adamson 1934:343-344; Cowlitz: Adamson 1934:252-251 [Shwanee lies to the old woman as if he has four brothers, asks for food for them; eats everything himself; the old woman puts hornets under roots in the basket; S. climbs into the stump, tells him to close, starts eating; hornets bite him, the stump no longer opens; he eats up his flesh, eats his eyes; woodpeckers and all birds punch the hole; he makes eyes out of flowers, paints birds, they are happy; changes his eyes with a boy (-bird?) ; at first he sees well, but then the flowers wither], 254-255 [Sh. climbs into the stump, tells the hollow to close, can no longer open; eats his flesh, eats his testicles; birds punch a hole, grateful S. paints them]; skagit [Coyote pretends to be dying, telling her daughter to marry a yakim man with a painted face and put his food and possessions with his corpse; the children see Coyote cooking for himself, but he pretends to be dead; is, After painting her face, he speaks yakima, takes his daughter as his wife; the paint dries up and falls off, the daughter recognizes her father; the family leaves 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 growing on a rotten tree in his eye sockets, tells Bekas and Soroca that he sees a fat beetle on the branch; grabs Snipe's eye; asks the old woman, what she fears; 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 with girls have sex, the youngest throws him to the ground; he takes his eyes, runs away]: Hilbert 1985:87-95; snohomish [Fox and Norka went traveling; Norka said he would go see what ahead; wrote into water, turned urine into salmon, gave it to Fox; he fried and ate; got sick; asks the two little girls in it (probably their excrement), they laugh, the Fox is pregnant; gave birth the boy, who grew up quickly, married Butterball (?) and the bird, he loves the first, the second does not; the fox wants to take possession of his son's wives; asks the "counselors", who tell them to turn them into white birds; the son Fox undressed, climbed a tree, it is higher and higher, to the sky; "birds" returned to Fox; he put on his son's clothes, came to his wives, said that his father was dead; B. understood what was going on, the bird wife believed; the fox took the bird, B. did not agree with him; in heaven, Fox's son came to the gray-haired man the old man; this is the Spider; he said that the country where the young man came from was the third below; began to let him down; when it was warm, the young man realized that he was on earth; in gratitude he gave the spider 4 dressed reindeer skins; bald; caught up with his faithful wife, she touched his head, his hair grew again; first she carried her husband in her basket; then he told Fox and his bird-wife to bring the deer he had killed; bewitched the strap, that constantly eager; the fox and his wife rushed to catch up, his wife was carried away by the river, the Fox hardly swam out; his advisers said that there are two women down the river, they have a dam with a salmon trap; the fox turned into a wooden dish, swam into a trap; the women picked it up, she devours all the meat they put in it; they threw the bowl on the floor, it turned into a baby; when the women are not there, the fox goes to the dam and takes salmon from there; counselors tell you to break the dam; the head and back must be covered with baskets - these are the only vulnerabilities on the body; the women rushed to the Fox with the jails, but they are stuck in the baskets; the Fox led fish up the river; came to a woman with her daughter, married her daughter, speaks a miraculous language as if he were a mountain leader; salmon ran out; wife gave birth to a girl, left her Lisa and left; she grew up in a few days , married Mountain Sheep's son; the fox went to visit them; the baby, whom the daughter gave birth to, had fat diapers, the Fox ate them; when the Fox stole the stone hammer, his daughter kicked him out; the fox began to play, throwing them up his eyes, the Raven took them away; Magpie suspects that the Fox is blind; he says he sees a star that Magpie does not see; when she came, he pulled out her eyes and put her in; the fox came to the fat old woman- illnesses; she says that her two granddaughters went to a place where Raven shows Fox's eyes to everyone and the audience is dancing around; the fox asks the old woman in detail about her usual behavior, wants to kill; she claims that you can't kill her with a stone, a club, water, fire, a magic root; Fox's excrement is advised to beat her with nettles; she dies, the Fox put on her skin; counselors: spots under the eyes, tell your granddaughters that you are hurt; the granddaughters carried the imaginary old woman, the Fox copulated with both; the fox began to sing, everyone liked it, he called his eyes, they returned to his eye sockets, he ran away, the pursuer showed his penis, everything was enveloped by fog, Fox escaped]: Haeberlin 1924, No. 20:399-411; kowlitz; shuswap; western sachaptin; ne perse; okanagon; clamate; kutene; quarry [ Estees catches swans by tying them under water with a rope by the legs; swans lift him into the air; he falls on a rock, sinking into it; Lynx licks the rock, making a hole; E.'s eye is visible in him; The raven pecks it out; the Lynx pulls out the other eye, the Raven takes it away; the Lynx frees E.; he makes false eyes out of resin; comes to two girls; they show him the eyes brought by the Raven; E. puts them in his eye sockets, runs away]: Jenness 1934, No. 39:208-209; Thompson [Coyote's daughter marries Lynx, lord of the cold; Coyote comes to her son-in-law, who freezes him; Coyote melts his tongue a hole in the ice, disassembles and pushes himself piece by piece; collects, but the Raven takes 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 downstream, meets Bird Girls; lures Wren as if he wants to show a star, pulls out her eyes, inserts herself in; friends inserted Red berry eyes; people play ball through Coyote's eyes; he meets an old woman, asks about her customs, kills her with a stick, puts on her skin; asks her four granddaughters to take him to where play; the youngest three on the way throw their imaginary grandmother (apparently because of Coyote's sexual harassment, but it's not directly mentioned); the eldest reports; the Coyote grabs his eyes, runs away; blows the fog, his can't catch up]: Hanna, Henry 1996:56-63; skagit [Coyote promises daughter to someone who overtakes her; Raven, Mink and others fall behind, Mountain Goat overtakes, marries; wife gives birth, fat serves as a diaper; The coyote eats it; when he goes to the mountains, the Goat sends frost, the Coyote is trapped in an ice trap; makes a hole with his breath, breaks himself apart, sticks out; The raven carries his eyes; the Coyote puts on leaves, sees a little; pretends to see a star; one of the sisters comes up, he pulls out her eyes, inserts her in; asks an old woman about her daughters; kills with nettles, takes her appearance; sisters carry her imaginary mother on the back to where they play with Coyote's eyes; the youngest throws him off on the way, he copulates with the eldest; takes his eyes, runs away]: Hilbert 1985:45-56; Puget Sound [Coyote's eyes are stolen or inflamed and he pulled them out and threw them away; makes new ones from pieces of red mushroom or rose hips; persuades Towhee to change eyes; comes to to people who play him (the Coyote) with his eyes; catches his eyes and Towhee throws his eyes away]: Ballard 1927:75; clackamas [part of Coyote's penis stays in the girl; when he copulates, he heals her; runs away, spends the night in a hollow; tells the hole to close, can't open; promises bird girls to paint them if they break a hole; Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varins), Yellowwhammer (Emberiza citrinella) can't, The woodpecker pierces; the Coyote tries to rape her, she flies away, the hole is small; he sticks out parts of his body; the Vulture takes his eyes away; he bumps into a house, pretends to measure him; tells the hostess that she sees a louse crawling across the sky; she agrees to change her eyes to see it too; since then, the Snail has been blind]: Jacobs 1958, No. 9:92-93; tillamook: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, no. 38 [two girls live under water; South Wind copulates with them, falls asleep; wakes up in a stone bag; Little Woodpecker fails to cut a hole; YellowHammer girl breaks through a rock; South Wind begins to caress her, she flies away without finishing her work; South Wind disassembles itself, sticks them through the hole, gathers herself again; finds no eyes, they have been pecked by the Raven and the Seagull; inserts them into the eye sockets berries; persuades the Eagle to change eyes for a while, runs away; the Eagle takes away the Snail's eyes; she remains blind]: 128-129; Thompson, Egesdal 2008 [see M46A motif, "the imaginary baby"; South Wind (SE) He meets two girls, they take him under water, he is barely alive when they let him go; goes to rest; tells the rock to cover him from the wind, falls asleep, is walled up on all sides; calls woodpeckers, these are females; Little Woodpecker breaks his beak, a large woodpecker pecks a hole; SE reaches for the woodpecker woman's hips, she flies away; he breaks himself apart, pushes himself into the hole; he can't find his eyes, they were carried away by the Seagull and Raven; he makes new ones with snowberries, but he doesn't really see anything with them; he stumbles upon the Bald Eagle's house, who asks why he's groping the house; SE replies that he wants to try it on, he heard that the house is very large; LO replies that he is looking into the distance from the roof of the house; SE climbs to the roof, asks if LO sees women on the other side of the sea; LO agrees to change eyes for testing; LO's eyes, SE runs away, then takes away the Snail's eyes, they were keen; LO takes away the Snail's voice {and, obviously, its eyes}, the Snail is left without eyes and without voice; then SE arranges the area in the area Nehalem]: 23-26; alsea [The Coyote sleeps in the hollow, tells him to close, cannot open it; Little Woodpecker is unable to continue, the Great 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; takelma [Coyote hides in a hollow pine tree in winter, tells the hole to close; cannot in spring open; three types of woodpeckers consistently hammer the trunk; each time the Coyote screams that he has a headache from a knock; woodpeckers are offended, fly away without finishing work; Coyote disassembles himself, slips them into the hole, then collects it; the crow takes its guts and eyes; the Coyote makes new eyes out of rose hips; eats grasshoppers, they fall out of his ass; he seals his ass 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 the frog women that there is food inside, opens it; hornets bite them, they cause snowfall; the 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 punches the hole; the Coyote tries to grab the Big, he flies away; the hole not enough; the Coyote breaks himself apart, sticks them out; his eye is stolen, he makes a false one out of berries; comes to people playing with his eye, takes him away; turns into a digging stick, dirt, a man making a harpoon; pursuers don't recognize him, stop chasing]: 96-103; Gatschet et al. 1945, No. 4 [as in Jacobs; Blue Jay takes his eyes away; running away from his pursuers, Coyote turns blind old woman, unrecognized], 5 [Coyote falls asleep, Blue Jay takes his eyes away; he makes new ones out of rose hips; pretends to see a louse creeping across the sky; the snail woman agrees to change eyes with him; The coyote gets blind eyes, but she remains completely blind: the nightingale woman blows the winds loudly; the Coyote changes her anuses to make people laugh; scares away game, starves, changes back; man feeds his huge penis with chips; Coyote changes penises, lets his new one across the river into the chief's bathing daughter; screams to other girls to cut off the tip with grass; changes penises back; girl falls ill; Coyote comes to her as a shaman; tells everyone to sing loudly, copulates; water pours out of her vagina; people send a louse, then look at the flea; both are washed away by water; the spider comes back reports; Coyote runs away]: 231-236, 238-244.

The Midwest. western marsh crees; steppe crees; western forest crees; winnebago [The hare brings wild cat meat; splashes blood on his grandmother's feet; she builds a separate one hut; whispers softly, pretending to have gone far; she puts the hut next to him; The hare speaks to different voices, pretending to have many guests; he eats all the meat himself; tells his grandmother that a man with one I would like to marry her with an eye; leaves, takes out one eye, returns disguised as a groom, spends the night with his grandmother; during this time, the mice chewed on his taken eye (without further details)]: Radin 1956, No. 16:79-81.

Northeast. Hurons [Trickster replaces her eyes with plum seeds; the witch wants the same ones for herself; first she sees well, then goes blind; birds find her old eyes, put them back in her]: Barbeau 1960, No. 22:26; seneca [see motif F69; a witch sends a wind that blows the young man's eyes away; his sister marries a witch's son, gives birth to twin sons; the grandmother gives them a ball to play; following the ball, they they come to their blind uncle; they put in the eyes of owls, eagles, they are not suitable; each one gives one eye; they come to their aunts (the daughters of a witch); turn into fleas, bite their feet; each The aunt thinks the other is pinching her; they fight, they kill each other; the twins find a baby girl decorated with human eyes; they send eyes to their owners; the girl has the life of a witch; twins kill a girl, a witch dies]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 114:543-555; penobscot [Gluscabe goes to get summer; on the way he hides one eye in a hollow, tells Chickady to guard him; comes to dancing people; summer lies in a bark basin, two girls are dancing next to them; G. turns them into toads, makes it dark in the teepee, takes summer away; the Ravens chasing him grab leather balls, with which his head is covered, thinking that he has grabbed his head; the Horned Owl took G.'s eye away; he catches it, puts her eye in; brings summer to the wigwam of Winter; he is an ice man; both he and his home are melting]: Speck 1935b, No. 11-12:45-47.

Plains. Sarsi; Blacklegs; Assiniboine; Grovantre; Arapahoe; Skidi Pawnee; Arikara; Osage; Comanche; Kiowa; Iowa [The hare advises the grandmother to marry the one-eyed man who will be the winner in the run; leaves, hangs one eye on the bush; runs back; the grandmother grabs him, makes him her husband; the crow takes his eye away; the hare inserts instead he has an acorn; hares have bulged out their eyes since then]: Skinner 1925, No. 43:500.

Southeast USA. Caddo.

California. Achomavi [the girl is sick, her mother is looking for a shaman; Coyote pretends to be a shaman; tells him to be left alone with the sick; rapes her, she screams; the mother looks into the house, beats Coyote, he runs away, his penis stays in the vagina; his mother wants Coyote to go blind; he makes himself new eyes out of resin; wants the girl to fall ill fatally; Thrush comes to treat her; Coyote turns into a boy , accompanies Thrush; he sucks his penis out of his vagina; Coyote grabs his penis, runs away]: Angulo 1928:587; wappo [Coyote lives with his grandson Elk, who hunts; Coyote pretends to be caught in trapped by a dead deer, then a coyote jumps out of the deer's skin; the second time, the Moose picks up the eyes of the imaginary deer with a sharp horn; the Coyote jumps up, bumps into trees; makes new eyes, they're not good he throws them away, turns them into bitter peppernuts; makes his eyes out of quartz]: Radin 1924, No. 10:79-81; Waylaki [Coyote became attached to two sisters, the youngest rejects him, he kills her, then the eldest; the cougar presses him, people cut him to pieces, throw them into the river; the head swims, the Crow pecks out his eyes; the Coyote's head protests; the crow says the Coyote can make new eyes out of white pebbles with with black specks; Coyote does so, revives]: Curtis 1976 (14): 167-168; Maidu [The fox pretended to lose his skin; the Coyote asks how to take off his skin; the fox tells him to lie down, rips him off skin, cuts off the tip of his nose, Coyote died, Vulture pecked his eyes out; Coyote came to life, went, came across a pine tree, made new eyes out of resin, tail out of a branch]: Dixon 1900:269-270.

Big Pool. Northern Payut; Goshiyute; Eastern Shoshones; Utah: Giwón 2013, No. 9 (Southern Utah) [Sinawav asks if he can play with everyone - take his eyes out of his eye sockets and throw at 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 blindly off the cliff and broke all bones; in empty worms started in the eye sockets, spreading the stench; two women walked, smelled it, and came up; Dr. Porcupine was brought in; he told the women to clean their eye sockets, roll two balls of yellow clay and insert S.; he saw the light again; therefore, the wolves have yellow eyes; Porcupine also glued his legs together;]: 69-77; Lowie 1924, No. 12A (southern Utah) [bird people play, Coyote wants too; birds curse his eyes so that they stuck in a tree; Coyote makes new eyes out of resin]: 26-27; Sapir 1930, No. 2 (wintah) [birds catch their eyes at the willow, shake it, their eyes return to the eye sockets; Coyote asks to take him with us, but always catches the 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; girls they wonder why he doesn't pick up his arrows; he makes several entrances to the hut built by the girls; says that for a laugh, enemies will suddenly attack; girls realize that he is blind; when he falls asleep , see larvae in his 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 [Chickady playing; Coyote's eyes don't come back; brother inserts mountain sheep eyes in him]: 81-84; Western shoshones: Smith 1993:94-95 [birds play, Coyote's eyes get stuck on willow; he creates and puts a sixth sense in his eye sockets], 117-119 [The Coyote lives with the Wolf; {obviously loses his eyes}; goes, meets two sisters, wants to marry; they offer him to hunt, he does not see anything, he hardly kills a buffalo calf; asks to remove his lice, falls asleep; sisters see that there are larvae in his eye sockets; put a skin with a nest of ants under his head; run in different directions, entangling their tracks, run away; one takes off her necklace, rings it over the abyss; Coyote goes to the sound, falls, breaks her leg, eats her own bone marrow; replies to the girls that he eats the brain bison; returns to the Wolf; he kills the bison, inserts Coyote's buffalo eyes; the Coyote sees well again, hunts successfully].

The Great Southwest. Yavapai; Navajo; Jicarilla; Western Apaches; Lipan; Hopi; Sia Keres; Taos tiva; Pima; Seri.

Guiana. Lokono [fishermen have fried the fish, one invites the forest spirit of Konoko-Kuyuha to join the meal; he takes out his eyes before eating, puts them on a leaf; the man quietly blows them into fire; K. destroys trees, man hides in an armadillo's hole; K. catches a deer, inserts his eyes; three years later, man and K. met and reconciled]: Goeje 1943, No. d35:125; carinha ( Guyana) [The turtle tells Jaguar that he also hunts tapirs, he demands proof; asks Tapir for food, pepper in it, asks for water, does not want to go to the river; Tapir suggests writing in her mouth, she agrees; clamps Tapir's penis with his teeth, bites off, Tapir dies; The turtle asks the Jaguar to borrow a knife to cut the meat; the Jaguar undertakes to do it himself, takes all the meat, leaves only giblets; The turtle makes soup out of them, praises them, lets the Jaguar try them, throws boiling soup in his face, takes the meat away; the blind Jaguar asks the Little Crow {apparently uruba} to help; she inserts black ones into his eye sockets seeds, he can see but badly; The Big Crow {apparently the royal vulture} makes his eyes out of resin, now he can see well; since then, vultures have been pecking the remnants of what Jaguar killed]: Gillin 1937, No. 2:190- 192; taulipan [The crab throws its eyes on the lake shore; calls them back, they come back; the Jaguar, despite the warning, does the same; 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.

Western Amazon. Canelo [the forest spirit Aya takes out his eye to salt food; the man pushes his eye into the fire; Aya inserts a fetal bone into his eye socket; comes to another house, pulls out and inserts the old woman's eye, and she inserts a seed; she dies]: Hartmann, Oberem 1971, No. B/2:699; 1987 [=1971]: 163; shuar [someone drank bean, peanut and cassava soup; the young man followed; Ivianch took it out Salt the soup with his eye, put it at the hearth; the young man shoved his eye into the fire; as people approached, I. turned into a butterfly, slipped into the forest; made a new eye for himself from the fruit; once pulled out the old woman's eye, and her put this fruit in; it still has rainbow colors]: Pelizzaro 1993:243-245; achuar: Mowitz 1978:17 [The Sun, the Moon and the Fox are swimming in the river, leaving their eyes on the shore; the Sun comes out first, Fox takes his eyes away; now he has bright eyes, and the Fox had to take the ordinary ones that were by the Sun], 57-61 [the forest spirit steals meat; takes out his eye to salt it; the man pushes his eye into fire; the forest spirit pulls out and inserts the old woman's eye; she dies]; Aguaruna: Akutz Nugkai et al. 1977 (1), No. 10 [Fox has bright eyes, the Sun has ordinary eyes; The fox comes to the Sun to help work on the site; both go swimming, leave their eyes on the shore; The sun takes the Fox's eyes and vice versa], 11 [The Sun and the Fox bathe and dive while fishing; the Sun does not see with its own eyes, the Fox agrees change; The sun refuses to change back]: 233-238; Chumap Lucía, García-Rendueles 1977 (2), No. 72 [someone steals food; a young man sees Ivianch taking out his eye, putting it in a soup instead of salt, then leaves the hearth to dry; pushes his eye into the fire; I. lies down on the old woman's bed; when she comes, he puts her eye in for himself, she dies]: 618-619.

NW Amazon. Chikuna [hunter Choe loses prey; he guards, cuts off his leg reaching for meat with a jaguar; brings him to the village, shows everyone; among the audience is the Royal Vulture, which was a thief; taking his paw, he puts it to his body, flies away, pulling out C.'s eyes; in his house in the sky, he hangs a bundle of eyes from the ceiling beam; a grasshopper and one type of termites cannot gnaw through the vine; others termites gnaw, a bundle with eyes falls to the ground, C. puts her eyes back; the old vulture gives a boat to escape from the Royal Vulture; C. pushes off so hard that she falls under land; there he meets strange creatures; the Blind have a lot of food; C. steals it, the Blind can't catch it; dwarfs are incredibly strong, throw C. like a ball; people without anuses feed on steam from prepared food; C. marries, his wife eats with him, he cuts through her anus, she dies; C. returns to earth]: Nimuendaju 1952:118-119.

Central Amazon. Munduruku: Kruse 1949, No. 33 [Peresuatpë went hunting with his older brother; he went into the bushes; P. shot the tapir, missed it; this brother took the form of a tapir; his grandmother advised him to the next time pull the tapir inside through the ass; the hand is stuck, the tapir ran, P. pulled out his hand when the tapir relieved himself; along with the tapir P. ended up on the right bank of Tapajos; local people killed the tapir, cut it into pieces, P. saw it sitting on a tree; those people mistook him for a bee nest, began to poke his pole, on the advice of a parrot, P. described the pole, the Indians began to lick urine, thinking it was honey; to to cross back over Tapajos, P. called a caiman named Uàtippanpàn'a; first smaller caimans sailed out, P. rejected them; on W.'s back was grass and trees; the caiman regurgitated, P. compared the aroma to the smell Uruku; once on the shore, he shouted that W. stinks, he was furious, dived, the palm tree on his back broke; at night, the jaguar called P. by name, he asked what he wanted, fell asleep; woke him up the next night inumbu chicken, P. broke all her eggs, three left, since then Inambu has laid three eggs; the next night P. sleeps in a hollow; Jaguar wants to bite off his finger, P. gives him the finger of a dead monkey; so Jaguar got and ate all his fingers, then the liver; left; the next night, the Jaguar promises to bring a stone; P. leaves his bowel movements in the hollow, climbs a tree; sewage is responsible for P., Jaguar throws into the hollow a stone, finds crap; the next night the caterpillars prevented sleep, P. handed over half, now these caterpillars are few; P. sees two girls in the palm grove; agrees to marry; they ask not to be afraid of their father; he came, P. ran away; P. sleeps with Jaguar's wife; in the afternoon he replies that he did not see her; running away, he screams that he had slept with her; Jaguar accidentally rushed not at P., but at the Anteater, who scratched his eyes; Jaguar's wife made him new eyes out of resin, since then Jaguar's eyes shine; P. asks Rain Mother to drop his bananas; she throws the peel; he threatens to shoot, replies that he will cover himself from the rain with a banana leaf; he shot, it started raining, P. got wet; the Inambu woman plays the flute, her hammock had fire; he refused to lie down with her, she flew away, taking the hammock and the fire; P. took the bone out of Jaguar's throat, who showed him the way home; his mother painted him uruku, P. died of a strong smell]: 642-646; Murphy 1958, No. 29 [Akainoatpyo is his nephew, Karujuribo is his uncle; K. turns into deer and other animals, A. not can kill them; Grandma A. advises him to kill tapir with his hand in his ass; tapir - K.; he jumps up, drags A. through Tapazhos, frees him by emptying his stomach; advises him to cross the river back choose a third crocodile with trees growing on its back; now the name A. is Perisvat; P. rejects two smaller crocodiles, swims on a large one; lies that the crocodile's belching is fragrant; jumping on the shore, screams that it stinks; at night, Inambu prevents P. from sleeping with conversations; P. breaks her eggs, since then the Inambu has laid only three eggs; P. kills a monkey, sleeps in a hollow; this is the Jaguar's lair; that requires P. to give him parts of his body one by one; P. gives him the limbs and liver of the monkey; leaves excrement responsible for himself, climbs a tree; Jaguar devours excrement instead of P.; P. conducts night with a man whose leg bones are devoid of flesh are pointed; he tries to pierce P.; when his leg pierces a tree, P. ties it with a bowstring; frees it in the morning; copulates with Jaguar's wife; he chases P., P. turns into a battleship, scratches Jaguara's eyes; Jaguar makes new ones out of wood latex, they have been shining ever since; P. spends the night by the Inambu fire; refuses to lie down in a hammock with her; she flies away, taking away the fire; P. falls into the trap of the hunter with both hands and feet; he leaves the old woman to guard the prey; the old woman falls asleep; the ant, the bee, the wasp, the monkey release P.; the hunter beats the old woman in anger, she turns into a bird; P. returns to his grandmother; dies when she rubs his uruku]: 95-102.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Guaraçu: Riester 1977, No. 3 [a woman invites her husband to lie in a hole; he lies down, falls asleep; she puts it in a basket, covers it with leaves, puts animal meat on top; her sons they suspect that the father is in the basket; one leaves his eye and saliva to watch; they see and hear a woman asking her husband if he will die soon; the son goes to wash his eyes, the fish takes him away, he is left with one eye ; since then, these fish have human eyes; brothers pour four strips of ash around the house; stepping over them, the mother falls and dies; brothers treat their father; the woodpecker promises to give them a gift if they do not kill him; steals sticky oil from the owner of the peach palm tree, lubricates their arrows with it; the toad pees on the arrows, the oil partially dissolves; brothers and father make a chain of arrows, go up to heaven; the father becomes With thunder, he scolds his wife loudly; the brothers fire their lightning arrows; because the glue is partially off, the lightning is split], 61 [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 can't take his eye out with his big paw; The anteater takes it out, throws it at the tree, pulls it out; the Jaguar wants both eyes taken out; now the Anteater invites the Jaguar to pick them up the tree himself, leaves; the blind Jaguar waits under the tree for two days; his eyes begin to deteriorate, the Vultures come to peck at them; the Jaguar promises to kill the Anteater for them, for this they give him back his eyes; because his eyes are rotten, they hurt in the light, and since then the jaguars have been hunting at night; the Jaguar kills Muravyediha; her cub says that Jaguar will now have to carry him himself climbs to the back of his head, breaks his neck]: 226-230, 312-314.

Southern Amazon. Rickbacza [Jaguar sees two tiranídeos birds pulling out each other's eyelashes to make pastinha on their heads; asks him to do it too; they tell him to close their eyes so they don't get into them his hair, pulls out his hair on his head, pulls out and swallows his eyes, climbs a tree; the Jaguar grabs the Turtle's tail; he stops laughing, the Jaguar thought it was a piece of wood, let it go (then caught and ate); caught the curiango bird (Caprimulgídeos); he asks him to pull out only short feathers, leave long ones, promises to jump into the mouth; relieved him; Odontophorus guayanensis birds Jaguara is inserted into the eye sockets of the seeds of Maximiliana regia (or tucum) palm fruit; Jaguar sees again, chased agouti, his eyes fell out; the birds glued them with resin; chased the tapir, fell out again; glued fresh resin; the grateful Jaguar painted them with a genip, he no longer hunts them; began to fight the Anteater, the forces are equal; to compare who eats which animals, we decided to compare excrement; Anteater changed, Jaguar doesn't believe but is afraid they split up]: Pereira 1994, No. 8:93-99.

Eastern Brazil. Kayapo (shikrin) [Vidal 1977:258; Jaguar tells the Frog that his voice is louder; The frog croaks along with all the other frogs, but there are few other jaguars in the forest; frightened, the Jaguar runs, attacks a branch with his eye; the anteater is called to heal, completely pulls out his eye; Tinamou makes a new eye out of wax; he finds the Anteater, eats his legs, so the anteaters' legs are thin]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 87:260-261

Chaco. Chorote [a man who has risen to heaven is pecked by vultures; his star wife collects his pieces, one eye is missing; makes her husband a new one]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 136 [vulture's son had time swallow the eye; new from the fruit], 137 [the star extracts swallowed pieces from the vultures but does not find the eye; inserts the pigeon's eye]: 256, 260-261.