M43. Bait figure. .18. (.19.) .25.26.33.35.40.42.-.44.55.57.59.61.62.66.68.70.
To kill or catch a monster, he sees a figure made of wood or clay or a living person. Most often, a monster's claws or sharp leg get stuck when they pierce a tree.
Kurnai, Paiwan, Chinese, Mansi, Asian Eskimos, Kwakiutl, Illini, Dabaiba, Makiritare, Karinha na Orinoco, Kalinya, Makushi, Waiwai, Kofan, Napo, Chikuna, Shipibo, conibo, kashibo, kashinahua, ashaninka, machigenga. A flying monster.
Kazakhs, Twana, (Sarsi), Kayapo, Kraho, Apaniekra, Apinaye. A monster is a person with a pointed leg, arm, or tail.
Australia. Kurnai (NW Victoria) [The hawk failed to steal the huge emu egg, sent his daughters to help two Brahm Bram brothers; they bait the Chaffinch Girl, kill the monster from ambushes, telling the emus to lay smaller eggs]: Waterman 1987, No. 3860 (2): 99.
Wed. Melanesia. Vedau [twins Kototabe and Kelokelo are training with a sling; other boys say they should not throw stones at them but at the Manubada hawk who killed their father; the twins mother confesses that this is so; the brothers leave their mother a dracaena branch - if it wilts, they are in trouble; they load slings and batons into the boat, swim to M.'s nest; when M. dives, the brothers jump to the sides and dive, M. pierces the boat, gets stuck in it; the brothers kill him with batons; seeing the dracaena branch swaying like the wind, the mother of the twins dances happily; M.'s body was divided between tribes; people in the mountains received head: Now when they're shot, they dodge with their heads bent; people on the shore have a side, they're dodging away from the flying arrows]: Ker 1910:61-63).
Micronesia-Polynesia. Maori [Poua-Kai built a nest on the mountain, carried people to feed their chicks; Te-Hau-O-Tawera filled the pond under the mountain with a wicker of young trees, lured the bird; it rushed behind him, he goes to the pond, her legs are confused, people killed her]: Steinen 1933:340.
Taiwan - Philippines. Paywan [a Valaka bird with a hundred heads and a hundred eyes carried people away; they put bamboo and trees, put a mortar with hot coals in the middle, disguised them with clothes, put them around a spear; V. went down, ran into spears]: Egli 1989, No. 91:263.
China - Korea. The Chinese [a huge cannibal mosquito eats people; they protect themselves from it with smoke; make a stuffed man out of paper; when a mosquito rushes at him, he is strangled with smoke; they burn him, appear on his corpse mosquitoes; they are left to live]: Riftin 1993:36-39.
Turkestan. Kazakhs: Ostroumov 1891 [zhez-tyrnaki - women with copper claws; J. comes to the hunter's halt, then leaves; the hunter covers the block with his clothes, hides; J. rushes, her claws get stuck in a deck; man shoots, cuts off hands with copper nails, takes them with him]: 202-203; Tursunov 1983:141-143 [When dying, father tells Yesek-Mergen not to spend the night on takyr and near the mausoleum; EM goes to the mausoleum in the steppe; at night a gesture woman comes up, hides her claws; EM feeds her with a knife, she goes into the forest; he leaves a block covered with clothes instead of herself; she comes back, pierces her claws, they they get stuck, EM kills her with a bow, cuts her claws off, puts her in a bag; at the mausoleum, a woman with goat legs, Tautai-Lak, comes out to his bed; her tongue is like a razor; when she opens her mouth, EM cuts off her tongue she falls dead; in the morning he wakes up in the mountains; this is the body of a dragon, brother Gestyrnak and Tautai Lak; the dragon asks for help in the fight against the Ordal-Aydahar dragons; EM destroys them, returns to his mother], 146-150 [three horsemen go from one village to another, each time they are told that the village belongs to Mamay; in the tenth, old man Mamay himself tells them his story; his grandfather and father died in Usharal ("three islands" ); he went there, fried meat, Gestyrnak came to the fire; M. fed her with a knife, she left; he cut down aspen, covered it with his clothes, hid in a tree; J. rushed to the block, M. wounded her with a gun, came for it to her house, she is dead, he cut off her stone hands with brass claws, took her husband's white ax; daughter M. Bikesh asked him for a dowry; when J.'s husband entered her yurt, she killed him with it; everyone in the yurts he had gone before was dead; one day M. came to a hill where there were white yurts; there were only girls; Peri told him to look into the fire until morning, but M. fell asleep; woke up in the steppe; Peri left a note that since M. was so old that she could not stay awake, she would not become his wife].
Western Siberia. Mansi [The garden-with-collar-sable black (V.) sends servants for arrow poles, they don't bring good poles; he walks by himself, finds a tree, almost cut it down when the winged creature grabbed him, tore him off the tree, carried him into the sea, threw him onto a sandbank covered with human bones; he swam away, taking a human shoulder with an oar; found a huge larch with with the Winged's nest at the top, knocked down, killed a child (chick?) Winged, hid at the trunk; Winged plucked his claws into the trunk, could not pull him out, V. killed him; the second Winged flew in, saw V., but also plunged his claws into the barrel, V. killed him, chopped him into pieces; went Next, married Shul-Otyr's daughter; see motive K27]: Munkácsi 1995:27-28.
The Arctic. Asian Eskimos [An eagle takes a woman to heaven; her husband makes a wooden female figure; Eagle's claws get stuck in her, a man kills him; puts on his feathers, rises to heaven; Eagle's wife killed his wife; he learns from her the ritual of celebrating seal hunting, kills her, goes down, teaches people]: Menovshchikov 1985, No. 40:93-97.
NW Coast. Quakiutl [Ho-Hook (Crane), disguised as a man, approaches women digging fern roots; sharpens her beak against a tree, breaks a woman's head, eats her brains; the leader smears a woman's blood , lies in her place; attaches a cedar board to the tree; when X. comes to sharpen his beak, the beak gets stuck; the chief breaks it off, pushes the monster into the fire; makes his image a family coat of arms]: Webber 1936:7.
The coast is the Plateau. Twana [a girl has her first period; contrary to the ban, she swims in a lake; a man sits on her clothes; repeats her words until she calls him husband; she lives with him in a lake; her five Brothers come one after another; the husband pierces four with his sharp tail; the fifth turns the stump into a man, the tail gets stuck in him, the young man kills the monster; finds the brothers' hearts in his stomach, revives them]: Adamson 1934:371-374.
The Midwest. Illini [The Storm Bird kills people; the chief hides warriors in the bushes around the open space in front of her cave; gets out in the open; the bird attacks him, is killed by arrows]: Cunningham 1980: 22 in Edmonds, Clark 1989:273-274
Wed. Plains. Sarsi [two hunters spent the night, one asked the other to set up separate huts, threw him meat, it turned out to be human; he heard a crunch of bones and saw his friend sharpening himself leg bone; the man asked the log to be responsible for him that he was sleeping when the companion offered to kick each other; having received an answer for the third time, the sharp-headed split the log with his foot; the man climbed one of the four trees; the sharp-footed knocked down three, and his leg was stuck in the fourth; the man shot the sharp-footed with a bow, returned to the camp; the trunk with the bone that pierced him is still visible]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 31:40).
The Northern Andes. Dabaiba [two birds with girls' heads; wooden figure]: Anghiera 1912 (2), dec.7, book 10:319.
Southern Venezuela. Makiritar [the cannibal bat lives in a cave; people leave an old woman alive as bait, tie hot coals to her legs; a bat carries the bait; people find the cave by smoke; they kill a monster with poisoned arrows]: Guss 1989:117.
Guiana. A living woman. Carinha in Orinoco [the man is jealous of his wife, she leaves; he comes to her father, lies down in a hammock; his son finds him dead; tobacco grows on the grave; the young man hides the wings of pigeons that have arrived ; pigeons take it to heaven; there the old man and the old woman tell him to 1) make a stone bench decorated with copies of the heads of the old man and the old woman; 2) dry the pond; 3) make a bridge; everything is done by an assistant spirit; reports that these old man and old woman killed the young man's father; when the young man knocked down the trunk to make a bridge, the chips turned into piranhas; the old man and the old woman stepped on the bridge, he fell, they were eaten by piranhas, their heads remain; the old woman's head went up to heaven, became the Morning Star; telling her daughters to avenge her; they gave the young man a drink, lifted the sleeper high up a tree; the eagle asks how he got here; a vine appears from the eagle's bowel movements, a man descends it; the eagle wanted to kill him, but he hid in the water, returned to his mother, gave her an eagle chick; he grew up to bring deer and fish to the woman; she organized a party clearing the site; people came to help, one asked the eagle to bring him an old woman, the other a young woman; so the eagle began to drag people; in one village they made a trap, a bait girl into it, the eagle was caught, killed; a woman came, an avenger feather fell on her chest: all his fibers became diseases; the woman blew on them, they scattered around the world]: Civrieux 1974:104-108; kalinya (?) [The Okowpere bat takes people away, drinks their blood; they left an old woman as bait, they gave her that torch; when O. took the old woman away, people found O.'s hollow in the light of the torch, set it on fire; when O. got out, she was killed poisoned arrows]: Goeje 1943, № b26:50; tops: Roth 1915, No. 203A [the bat carried people to its nest at night, devoured; the old woman offered herself as bait; took it with her torch, when people were born to the monster's nest; the bat was killed]: 259; Soares Diniz 1971, No. 9:84; waiway: Fock 1963 [a man discovered that another hunts monkeys in the form of an eagle- harpies; tells his wife, she tells the wife of someone who takes the form of an eagle; the eagle's wife tells her husband that she will no longer eat the meat he brings because it has saliva; the husband turns himself and his son into a harpy eagle , both fly away; take people away; the old woman agrees to be a bait; a rope is tied to her; the eagle takes the old woman, the rope unwinds, people find a tree on which the eagles sit; arrows fly by; walking eagles are carried away to look for them; only the wife's brother {brother-in-law; perhaps classifying, i.e. the person from whom the story began} kills eagles with arrows; people rip off their fluff and feathers; feathers from their chest turn into hawks, wing feathers turn into eagles]: 79-81; Roe 1991, No. 4 [a man pastes harpy eagle feathers over himself and his son; both turn into cannibal eagles; people wrap a woman in bast cloth, they give her flower petals; the eagle grabs her, carries her into the nest; she throws petals along the way; people find a nest; the eagle says that only his nephew will kill him; he hits the Eagles with arrows, the Eagles disappear; a nephew asks one person to leave grilled meat for him on the trail; eagles turn into meat themselves; people find it, eat it, his nephew does not get it; at night he cannot wake up the sleepers; the Eagles kill them, the dead turn into koachi; the nephew and his companions climb a tree; the spirits of yaimo yahua come, cut the trunk with axes from turtle shells; the axes break, the spirits go away in the morning]: 94-96; trio : Magaña 1987, No. 70:145-146.
Western Amazon. Kofan [a pair of cannibal eagles have salt; people make a balsa tree doll, dress it up, put it in a boat; the male's claws are stuck in a doll, people kill him; the eagle was not so dangerous]: Calí fano, Gonzalo 1995, No. 93:146-147; napo (or canelo) [Huamani eagle devoured people when they went for salt; a wooden figure of a man was made of wood on the bow of the boat, hidden people killed an eagle with arrows]: Ortíz de Villalba 1989, No. 35:67.
NW Amazon. Chikuna [first a live turtle; then a human figure (made of wood?)] : Pereira 1980 (2): 469-470.
Montagna - Jurua. Clay figure. Shipibo, Konibo: Gerhaert-Sayer 1987 [people always take an unborn child into the boat; a huge eagle grabs him, others escape; a young man makes a clay figure; an eagle grabs it, but can't carry it for a long time, falls into the river, sinks]: 352; Roe 1982, No. 11 [people swim along the river for salt; the eagle from the cave always carries the one who sits second in the boat; the Kokama Indian suggested doing clay doll; the eagle grabbed it, its claws are stuck, it fell into the water, it was eaten by piranhas; now the path for salt is clear]: 70-71; kashibo [eagle and eagle carry people; people make a clay doll; eagle gets stuck in it; he gets killed, the eagle disappears]: Estrella Odicio 1977, No. 1:46; Kashinahua [Tekã Kuru smokes heavy tobacco, lies in a hammock for a whole year; getting up, kills his wife and her lover; consistently visits villages, in each of which one of his sisters; each husband died; TC kills monsters and cannibals who killed the corresponding people; in one village, a harpy eagle took children away; TC makes a figure out of clay, the eagle grabs it, cannot pull out its claws, dies; one person gave TC to eat the urubu vulture liver, TC then died]: Shenipabu Miyui 2000:39-44; ashaninka (river kampa): Anderson 1985 [the father gave his daughter an eagle; she raised it, the eagle began to bring her game, even tapirs; took her to his nest; brought her other children there, they died there; girl went down the vine, fell into the water, made a boat, sailed downstream, did not return home; the eagle continued to carry people away; the man made a clay doll, put him in a boat; the eagle's claws were stuck in this figure he could not pick it up, he was killed; the current harpy eagles remain, but they are not dangerous to humans]: 61-65; Fernandez 1984 [cannibal eagle in a tree; clay doll; he was stuck with his claws, he was killed; feathers arose enemies (Pyro Indians); then killed an eagle]: 130-132; Weiss 1975:409-411; machigenga [the son warns his mother not to let his father drink more masato; he takes it himself, goes to burn the vegetation on the site burns; the son says that the father is a shaman and will return, the mother should not look at him, let him wake her son up; at night the father comes in the form of smoldering smut; the wife pours water on him, he falls apart into coals; the son angry with his mother; father turns into a harpy eagle; ex-wife tells him that their little daughter is his wife; he first refuses, then takes her away; she quickly becomes a woman, gives birth to a child from his father-husband; wants only a man; he drags her people to their nest on the mountain; people make a clay doll, put them in a boat; the eagle tries to carry it away, it is too heavy, he is beaten, he falls into the water; large feathers turn into Cashibo Indians, small feathers into shipibo; the daughter takes Falco peregrinus as her husband; he brings her snakes, her child eats them; the mother asks her daughter to watch over her little brother; she eats him; seeks and does not find a father, turns into warlike Amazons; they give birth to children without husbands; they eat boys, raise girls; Wasp People are fighting with the Amazons; once the Amazons did not kill their sons, they went to Osam, but together, the Amazons did not defeat; the eagle (survivor) turned into kashibo cannibals; they were attacked by the Amazons, since then there are fewer cashibos and they do not eat humans]: Baer 1984, No. 13:456-462.
Southern Amazon. Bororo: Wilbert, Simoneau 1983, No. 98 [Adúgo Édu is married to Akiguródo; Akarúio Boróge met him hunting; he attacked him and demanded his daughter as his wife in exchange for his life; Adugo explained that when the girl goes to him, she will first meet the little wolf Ókwe (every time she describes, warns not to take him for him, Adugo), then the marten Taira Ipočeréu, then big wolf Ríe, then puma, then leopard {apparently ocelot}, only then Adugo {i.e. jaguara}; false pretenders convince the girl every time they are Adugo; after spending the night with the deceiver, she realizes in the morning that this is not a real groom, because he must bring tapirs, and these bring less valuable meat; finally, Adugo comes to the real one; he tells his wife not to laugh if the evil spirit becomes her laugh; Marugódu's caterpillar laughed, the woman laughed, and immediately fell dead; Adugo found two twins in his stomach, raised them; they once heard their father's mother cry; she explained to them difficult things will have to do; without telling my father, the brothers began to train; the elder Eigáwa Áre, the youngest is Eigáwa Enawuréu; asked the father to give a bow and arrow; hunted parrots, those in at that time they ate people; told the remaining brothers to eat fruits; asked the father for a fishing net; fish bit people; brothers caught many, told others to eat other fish; asked the father to give little arrows; shot leaf cutter ants and wasps, they harmed people, told them to eat leaves and flowers; asked my father to make a club; the brothers began to chase Báče, got entangled in vines, they killed him, since then the bače have been eating fish, not people; asked a thick rope to fight the cannibal eagle; EA wrapped a rope around his brother's head, the eagle stuck its claws into it, got stuck, EA killed him; told the harpy eagles to eat monkeys, not humans; the brothers scattered the eagle's fluff, the grandmother realized that the grandchildren were in danger; the brothers asked their father for a stick, came to Marugoda's house, stabbed her on a stick, they threw him into the fire; his father warned him to hide, but EA went out to look, the bone flew into his eye, his father told him to throw himself into the water, his eye recovered; the same with his younger brother; both had beautiful skin and eyes; Bororo still has dark eyes], 99 [about (98), brothers Bakoróro and Itubóre; marugoddo]: 174-179, 180-186.
Eastern Brazil. A figure made of wood or bark. Kayapo: Wilbert 1978, No. 165 (cuben-cran-kegn) [Metraux 1960:33; Tedyuare pricked on a stingray, his leg began to rot, left on the trail for his wife to pick it up; T. sharpened his leg bone in the sand, pierced the son who came for him; began to kill people; the woman climbed a palm tree, threw off a leaf, injuring T.'s throat; T. continued to kill; the rest made a figure out of a trunk stump; T. plunged her leg into her, got stuck, him killed], 166 [(Banner 1957:62); the man was catching stingrays, his leg festering, his foot fell off, he was named Tedjuáre ("Sharp Leg"); when his wife was about to drag him on his back, he pierced it with his foot; people made a wooden figure, T. stabbed her leg, got stuck, killed; the woman climbed onto a bakab palm tree for fruit; saw T.'s head and shoulders climb after her; the woman poked him in the neck with a shell walnut; T. fell, people finished it off; this is how people learned to make spear tips from pointed bones]: 417, 418; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 132 (shikrin) [(Vidal 1977:247); Têdjoare stepped on a stingray; his wife brought him to the village, he copulated with her (it is forbidden to be bitten by a snake or stingray); his leg has rotted, he sharpened his bone, pierced his wife, ran into the forest; people make a wooden doll, T. He pierces her leg, she gets stuck, he gets killed; his head with ribs comes to life; he climbs a tree for a woman, she manages to jump off, he chases her; he is lured again to attack the doll, killed, buried in the ground]: 407; crash [Schultz 1950:119-122; man and sister's husband spend the night hunting in the woods; pretends to fall asleep; sees the companion stick his leg into the fire; does not react the third time when asked to help remove his leg; the companion anneals his foot, throws him into the forest, asks him to go pick up the fallen fruit; sharpens the bone with a sharp shell; is going to pierce a person with a sharp leg, he turns in an opossum, hides in a termite mound; returns to his sister; an acute (now called Hitewá) kills hunting companions with his sharp leg; people make a doll out of thick bark, H. pierces her leg, gets stuck, killed]: Wilbert 1978, No. 164:413-416; apaniecra [Têttxuá invited Pótxête, his sister's husband, to hunt Cariama cristata birds; set fire to a bush, but they did not get anything; P. pretended to be sleeping, T. put his foot in the fire, then burned the second one, threw his foot into the forest, shouted that the fetus was falling; sharpened the bones on his legs with a shell, tried to pierce P., who dodged ; became a rat, hid in a hollow; T. lit a fire there, but P. turned into a lizard, ran away; T. turned into a bee, sat on a branch above the path to the village, killed those passing by with a sharp leg; the boy covered his back with a piece of thick bark, told others to walk a distance away; a sharp leg was stuck in the bark, T. was killed]: Wilbert 1978, No. 168:420-422; apinaye [Tečware's wife's brother goes with him into the forest; at night T. sticks his foot into the fire, breaks off his foot, throws him into the thickets, tells the companion to go after the fruit that has just fallen; at this time he sharpens the bone; tries to kill the companion, he runs away to the village; T. kills people with a sharp leg; people they disguise the tree trunk as a human figure, T.'s leg gets stuck in it, he is killed; the severed head rolls; attacks people, grabbing them by the back of their heads with their teeth; people dig a hole, the head falls into it, hers They burn there; this is where the Hancornia speciosa tree grows; men use its latex to make balls and body paint]: Wilbert 1978, No. 169:422-423.