M42A. Berry eyes .37.39.-.43.46.49.50.68.

The character (usually after losing his own eyes) inserts seeds or berries into his eye sockets and sees again.

Negidals, reindeer and coastal Koryaks, Kereks, Itelmen, St. Lawrence, Central Yupik, Upper Kuskoquim, Eyak, Shuswap, Thompson, Puget Sound, Tillamook, Ne Perse, Kutene, Takelma, Kalapuya, Klamath, Blackfooted, Northern Payut, Lipan, Zunyi, Carinya Guyana, Rickbacza .

Amur - Sakhalin. Negidals [the old man went to get firewood; Lisa saw him, made his eyes out of dark lingonberries, turned into a little boy; the old man finds him, adopts him, although the old woman suspects deception ; a grown-up boy asks to load the goods into the boat, let him warm up, sails away with all his property]: Khasanova, Pevnov 2003, No. 68:135-136.

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 hangs his skin, his eyes and intestines dry; seeing the Big Crow Kikynnyaku, he runs away, forgetting to take his eyes; makes new ones from berries (they fall out), from pebbles (the same), from ice floes; imperceptibly throws all the fish off the sledge K.; he throws poison, brings the dead Fox to Mitya's wife]: 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 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. 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, like 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. The upper pieces [when lying down on the shore, the Raven hangs his eyes on the tree; his eyes signal, the Raven sees only a tree floating; next time the Raven is in no hurry to get up, his eyes disappear; The raven inserts blueberries (everything is dark), cranberries (small, falling out), bearberry (visible, but in red light) into its eye sockets; swims upstream in a boat; having relieved the need for fir branches, turns them into beautiful clothes; marries a girl who rejected suitors; wife says people play with Raven's eyes; Raven comes, waits for both eyes to fall next to him, takes them away; beautiful clothes on a girl turns into crow crap]: Deaphon et al. s.a.: 57-59 (=Ruppert, Bernet 2001:285-287).

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 continue to live]: Johnson 1978:81-84.

The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap: Boas 1895, No. 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 that 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 ground, gropes for rose hips, makes new eyes out of rose hips]: 632-633; 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; 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 people who play him (Coyote) with his eyes; catches his eyes and Towhee throws his eyes away]: Ballard 1927:75; coutenay: 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 a place where they dance with his eyes; grabs an eye, runs away]: 41-48; ne perse [Coyote imitates a man throwing his eyes; he tells Coyote's eyes to abyss; Coyote takes Curlew's eyes, inserts berries in him]: Phinney 1934:69-70; tillamook [two girls live under water; South Wind copulates with them, falls asleep; wakes up in a stone bag; Little Woodpecker is unable to cut a hole; YellowHammer girl breaks through a rock; South Wind begins caress her, she flies away without finishing her work; South Wind breaks itself apart, sticks them through the hole, gathers herself again; finds no eyes, they have been pecked by the Raven and the Seagull; inserts berries into the eye sockets; persuades the Eagle to change eyes for a while, runs away; the Eagle takes away the Snail's eyes; she remains blind]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 38:128-129; takelma [Coyote hides in a hollow pine tree in winter, says the hole closes; in spring he cannot open; three types of woodpeckers consistently hammer the trunk; each time the Coyote screams that his head hurts from a knock; woodpeckers are offended, fly away without finishing work; Coyote He breaks himself apart, sticks them into a hole, then collects them; the crow carries his guts and eyes; the Coyote makes new eyes out of rose hips; eats grasshoppers, they fall out of his ass; he seals his ass with resin; resin lights up, Coyote burns]: Sapir 1909, No. 7:91-95; kalapuya: Jacobs 195, No. 4 [Coyote finds a hornet's nest, tells frog women that there is food inside, opens it; hornets bite them , they cause snowfall; Coyote hides in the hollow of a big spruce tree, closes the hole, forgets how to open it; asks the Woodpecker to hammer; Little, Middle, finally Great Woodpecker punches the hole; Coyote tries to grab Bolshoi, he flies away; the hole is still small; the Coyote breaks himself apart, sticks them out; his eye is stolen, he makes a false one out of berries; comes to people who play 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 pursuers, Coyote turns into a 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 crawling across the sky; woman -The snail agrees to change eyes with him; the Coyote gets blind eyes, and she remains completely blind: the nightingale woman blows the winds loudly; the Coyote changes her anuses to make the 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 of the grass; changes penises back; the girl gets sick; the Coyote comes to her as a shaman; tells everyone to sing loudly, copulates; water pours out of her vagina; people send a louse, then a flea see; both washed away with water; the spider comes back, reports; Coyote runs away]: 231-236, 238-244; clamate [The badger throws his eyes, they make the sound lolololok; the Coyote does the same, but his A flying crow pecks his eyes; he stumbles over everything; makes his eyes out of rose hips; pretends to see some spots in the sky; Antelope agrees to change eyes with him]: Barker 1963, No. 2 : 13-14.

Plains. Blackfooted [a bird throws its eyes; warns Napi (Old Man) not to do the same under a tree; N.'s eyes get stuck in a tree; he meets one or two girls, pretends that his eyes just hurt; they throw him when they realize he is blind; N. pulls out his eyes from Coyote, inserts gooseberries instead]: Fraser 1990:25-27.

Big Pool. Northern Payutes [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]: Lowie 1924, No. 6:221-222.

The Great Southwest. Lipan [two options; Rabbit throws his eyes up; warns Coyote not to do this under trees; Coyote's eyes get stuck in a tree or vine; 1) The rabbit makes him new ones out of yellow berries; 2) pulls out his stuck eyes, puts them back into the eye sockets]: Opler 1940, No. 47:171-172; Zunyi: Cushing 1901 [two Crows race to a distant rock and back; Coyote wants to do the same; his eyes don't jump out of their orbits; Crows take them out themselves, let them go into the distance, then peck them; Coyote makes new ones for himself from cranberries; since then his eyes are yellow, not 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; the Coyote does the same; geese say they actually threw pebbles; they take Coyote's eyes; he makes new ones from yellow cactus berries; since then his eyes are yellow]: 461.

Guiana. Carinha (Guyana) [The turtle tells Jaguar that he also hunts tapirs, he requires proof; asks Tapir for food, pepper in it, asks for water, does not want to go to the river; Tapir suggests write in her mouth, she agrees; clamps Tapir's penis with her 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, throws boiling soup in his face, takes the meat away; the blind Jaguar asks the Little Crow {apparently uruba} for help; she inserts There are black seeds in his eye sockets, he sees, 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.

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 a bird; he asks to pull out only short feathers, leave long feathers, promises to jump into his mouth; relieved his need; Odontophorus guayanensis birds insert the Jaguara into the eye sockets of the bones inaja fruits (or tucum); Jaguar sees again, chased agouti, his eyes fell out; the birds glued them with resin; chased the tapir, fell out again; glued them with fresh resin; the grateful Jaguar painted them with genipa, He no longer hunts them; he began to fight with the Anteater, the forces are equal; to compare who eats which animals, we decided to compare the excrement; the anteater changed, the Jaguar does not believe, but is afraid, they parted]: Pereira 1994, No. 8:93-99.