M42C. When it falls off a cliff, it eats its bone marrow. (.36.) .43.49.

Falling off a cliff and breaking his leg, the character eats his bone marrow.

(Sym Evenks [bear]), curdalen [coyote], gosiute [coyote], Western shoshones [coyote], ute [coyote].

Eastern Siberia. Sym Evenks: Vasilevich 1936, No. 42 (Chirombu) [the younger sister forgot her grandmother toys when migrating; the older sister, the younger brother said that they worked and did not know where the toys were; Ostyak said what she poured out behind; the girl saddled the deer, took the dog, came to the old place, where the Bear; he asked the names of the deer and the dog, tied the girl and dog to the tree; the girl says to the Bear three times, that her late parents did not take a bed of urine and feces when they were going to fresh the vazhenka (i.e. you have to cook everything away); The bear goes away to cut away; the crossbills can not untie the girl's fetters, bent beaks; Lisa freed her, for which the girl promised to paint her tail; The bear wants to eat the Fox instead of the girl; she suggests that he put her on his lap, cut it with an ax; The fox dodged, Bear cut his legs, began to eat his own bone marrow; since then, the tip of the fox tail is white, the bear has no bone marrow; the girl went to the river, called her father, mother, uncle; everyone refuses to transport, they say, the girl is a crybaby; she tells the rock to slide down, crush them all; the ostyak carves the scoop, carries the girl in a scoop; the bear asks how the girl crossed; she sings - "lower, taller"; The bear enters water, sinks; tells his heels to become bars, his legs with sharpeners, his back with a soft stone, his skull with a stone for rubbing paints, his shoulder blades as a paint stone, his blood with red paint, his feces with black paint; now it's all there in the mountains; the girl became the wife of Ostyak; carries water, he pours out every time, says that she wears feces and urine; the girl asks the birds to carry her away; cranes, swans refuse, shamanic birds give her gasha feathers to fly with them; the ostyak tells her to fall, promises to make a dress, a bib, an occipital ornament, a hat, a fringe on her belt; she says she does not need it, does not fall; she sits at the door of an old woman; she asks where to hide her from her sons; she refuses to hide in the fringed belt ("smelly"), hides in a needle; sons smell it, promise to eat the girl at sunrise, then at sunset; she she flies away, catches up with gasha, they swear that their mother released her, they shoot, injure her wing shoulder; Gurivul asks her to fall, promises a storage shed, says on how many stands; when on 10 stands, the girl goes down; they have a son; G. is hunting, gasha came; the woman pretends that the child is dirty, goes out with him, hides in the storage shed; gasha gnaws on the stands; they managed to gnaw three, the woman sang three times, the third time G. came, killed two gash, the third ran, leaving a fang; G. comes to people, steps over the fire, everyone laughs; he looks - people have intact teeth; when through the third fire, he sees a toothless man; asks take out his lice, stab gash with his own tooth to death in the back of his head, tells others that his grandfather fell asleep, leaves]: 45-51; 1959:185 [the tip of the fox's tail is white because she deceived the bear by offering him put it on his knees, cut it and eat it; The bear put it down, cut it with an ax, the Fox dodged; The bear cut his leg, began to draw his brain from the bone and eat it; the fox ran away; since then, the fox has had the tip the tail remained white, and the bear had no bone marrow]; Lukina 2004, No. 3.14 [the hunter spat, saliva was picked up by the river, the bear asked whose you are; saliva: the hunter; and who are his wives? Mischievous and Maludi; the bear came to the storage shed, asked them to drop the stairs; women: you have someone else's voice; bear: lost his voice in foreign lands; they threw down the stairs, the bear tied them up, beat them with cups; became rip off the birch bark to make the body; women: it's dirty here, go away; a fox came to the bear, says "Shaludi, Maludi"; bear: you let them go; fox: no, my paws and ear tips are soot; the bear came back to storage shed, women ran away a long time ago; fox bear: you let them go; fox: hack me, I'll sit on your knee; he cut both his legs, eats bone marrow; cedars started screaming; bear: when I eat myself, cedars barked]: 73-74.

The coast is the Plateau. 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 flying from behind and mother between her legs); Coyote kills them; Pheasants take off suddenly when Coyote walks along a cliff, he falls; Pheasants revive their children; Coyote breaks his leg, eats his bone marrow , fills the hollow bone with chewed willow branches; to prevent the two children who come up from saying that the Coyote is eating himself, he curves their mouths, they turn into crossbill, Loxia curvirostra; sees a man 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; the Coyote stumbles upon someone takes his eyes for himself, 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.

Big Pool. Vasho [people are having fun; a giant comes looking at him and dies; only a Nentusu woman and a little boy are hiding; when a giant sees her, she magically gives the impression that many people elsewhere; the giant rushes there, finds no one; N. and the child hide under a hummock, the giant cannot pull out the grass, leaves; another giant Ololing is blind; sitting on his head boy, points the way, leads to a cliff; O. breaks his leg, eats his own bone marrow; crawls under a stone, becomes a ground squirrel; N. and two children come to the Rabbits of two species, to Skunk, do not eat their food, leave, come to the Caress Brothers; then see J12M motif]: Dangberg 1928, No. 1:395-401 (=1968, No. 1:40-49); goshiute [coyote meets bear; everyone answers to another who 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 ogre; 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 the tree; then they shook the tree, their eyes returned back; the coyote said that he also always played this game; the birds wanted the coyote's thrown eyes to remain on the tree; blinded, the coyote went to the river; There were girls on the other 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 wants to make the hut higher on one side and lower on the other; not seeing the entrance, he did the other; when asked why, he explained that enemies were around, you need to have two ways out; at night he met both girls, depriving him their virginity; seeing larvae in the coyote's eyes, the girls ran away with 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; Western shoshones: Smith 1993:94-95 [two sisters go looking for Eagle; Coyote claims it's him; sisters go to Eagle; Coyote kills him, takes his clothes and loot; younger sister identifies Coyote on the legs; the sisters put ant stands under Coyote's head and legs (as if his wives are pinching him to take out the lice), run away; the Coyote chases them, they throw the necklace off the cliff, the Coyote goes to the sound, falls, breaks his leg, eats his own bone marrow; replies he eats the brain of a mountain sheep], 117-119 [Coyote lives with the Wolf; {obviously loses his eyes}; goes, meets two sisters, wants to marry; they offer him to hunt, he sees nothing, he hardly kills a buffalo calf; asks him to remove his lice, falls asleep; sisters see 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 sounds, falls, breaks her leg, eats her own bone marrow; answers the girls what the bison's brain eats; returns to the Wolf; he kills the bison, inserts Coyote's buffalo eyes; the Coyote sees well again, hunts successfully]; Utah: Givón 2013, No. 10 (southern Utah) []: 79-88; Mason 1910 (Wintah), No. 13 [The Coyote catches geese and ducks by the legs, eats them; the birds catch their eyes 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 that he is blind; he falls off a cliff, eats his brain from his broken leg, says he 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; The coyote asks to take him into the company, but always catches his eye first; the birds arrange his eyes not to return; two girls come up, the Coyote covers his eye sockets with caress fur; accidentally, by ear and smells, kills one bison; girls wonder why he doesn't pick up his arrows; he makes several entrances in a hut built by girls; says that for laughter, enemies will suddenly attack; girls they realize that he is blind; when he falls asleep, they 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 it eats the brain of a mountain sheep]: 489-493.