M44B. Food thieves are women. .11.13.17.19.-.21.24.25.29.34.35.37.39.47.52.56.59.-.62.65.-.67.72.74.

The character discovers that someone is stealing game or fish from his trap, mountain, etc. or ravages his garden, vegetable garden, field; he or his messengers wait and catch the thief. The kidnappers are women, or the aquatic animal is the kidnapper, but when caught, it gives the hero a woman.

Congo, sarah (mbai), baloki, mehri, rao (middle Ramu), Fiji, Palau, Rarotonga, lepcha, chan, minahasa, vemale, atauru, bunak, tetum (or kemak), ibaloi, tingian, kalinga- apayao, (bontok), Armenians, Shors, Nenets (tundra?) , nivhi, chukchi, koasati, nahua (Huasteca), shikuani, pemon, waiwai, mapidian, hishkaryana, makushi, lokono, colorado, sekoya, napo, aguaruna, desana, uitoto, vakuenai, takana, toba, nivacle, chorote, maka, southern tehuelche, yagans.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Congo [Motu noticed that fruits were being stolen from his garden; he was a guard, caught a woman from the Land of Clouds, married her; she asked her tribesmen to bring fire from the sky, taught people them use; some heavenly people came down to live on earth, Motu became their leader; his wife forbade opening one basket; M. opened it, there was emptiness; his wife and her people returned to heaven]: Kotlyar 1973:36-38 (retelling in Kotlyar 2009, No. 288:154); beams [people ate raw food, froze without fire; someone steals bananas from the Motu garden; he watches, sees people descending from the sky, grabs one of the women, takes as a wife; she asks heavenly people to bring fire, teaches them how to use it; other heavenly people also come to live in the village; M.'s wife tells us not to open the basket, otherwise all heavenly people will disappear; M. opened There's nothing there, my wife and her men have returned to heaven; but the fire and cooking skills are still there]: Scheub 2000:153.

Sudan - East Africa. Sarah (mbai): Fortier 1967:115 [there was a poor harvest in heaven; women went down to earth to steal pumpkins; the pregnant husband did not tell her to go down, he would pick pumpkins himself and bring them to her; but she did not I listened; when the owner of the field appeared, agile and light women got up, but the pregnant woman could not; gave birth to a son; some people come from them], 115-117 [only Sou and his old one lived on earth Bou-Guéré's barren unloved wife; Soo once saw girls dancing but they ran away; Su tripped over a stump and he (Su calls him "uncle") told him that these girls were stars; let Su he will sow white eggplants behind the house; then they must be poured with sticky red juice of the vine; the stars will come down to collect eggplants, they will not be able to fly off immediately because of the glue; you have to grab one; Su caught three; each gave birth to him a son; they inhabited the land].

Western Asia. Mehri [when the dates are almost ripe, someone ripped them off; soothsayer to the owner: these are three Ginny girls, they come to swim, they have to hide their clothes; the man hides them, returns two, the third takes away, marries; marries three sisters to marry three genies who came for them; leaves, leaving his wife in the care of her mother; it was a holiday, people asked that this man's wife also dance; she says she needs her clothes for this; people persuaded her mother-in-law to give her clothes; the woman danced and flew away; people buried a lamb, told her returning husband that his wife was dead; but he opened the grave, made the mother tell me everything; soothsayer: feed brown, black, white camels for three years; then don't let them eat; the one who jumped over the fence will take them; the brown one jumped over; take it to the sunrise until he is exhausted; then three days on foot; every day he stays with his sisters, three genies give a hair to help; he sees his wife, she opens it to his father after he gives promise not to cause harm; wife's father demands: drink a stream, run from a bowl of water to the mountain and back without splashing, eat two camels; genies do everything, man gets a wife]: Stroomer 1999, No. 37: 99-104.

Melanesia. Rao (and apparently other groups in the middle reaches of Ramu and the upper reaches of Keram) [wives of the Month (kru) stole crops from earthly people's garden; people killed them; during which the Month began to cause periods bleeding from terrestrial women]: Kaspru 1973:147; Fiji [two female spirits (tupua), returning from fishing with torches at night, usually stole bananas from people; people found an escape reeds, on which women went underground, began to dig, they put a white-faced woman from below, she became the leader's wife; she did not care about the child; she was reproached, she went to the ground]: Polinskaya 1989, No. 54:152-153.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Palau [Akapekemek left vessels tied to palm trees overnight, collecting juice in them; someone empties blood vessels; he guards, fish comes out of the water, leaves its tail, climbs a palm tree; A. takes her tail away; the next day he sees a naked woman under a palm tree, asking for a skirt; he gives her, takes a woman as a wife; they have a beautiful daughter; her mother sends her to bring a pestle, she accidentally finds a fish tail, swims away; a sea woman's grandson, Athmolokoth, grows up, catches fish, loses the hook, goes down to sea after him; he's swallowed by his grandmother, he brings him back]: Kubary, vol.1:60-65 in Frazer 1924:263-264 ; Rarotonga (South Cook Islands) [a man and a woman come out of the lower world to the spring near the village on a full moon; steal vegetables from the locals's garden; eat them raw; people put a net at the spring, the man runs away, the woman is caught; the chief takes her as his wife; preparing to give birth, she asks to take care of the child after her stomach is cut and buried; the chief explained that earthly women give birth normally , the woman in labor remains alive; the wife asks for permission to return to teach women to give birth in the spirit world; the husband allowed, tried to go down with her, but could not; the wife did not return to earth]: Gill 1876:265-266 (retelling in Dixon 1916:79).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lepcha [a birdsman finds guns online instead of birds; guards a thief, he turns out to be a beautiful girl; he marries her; his relatives arrange their first wedding ceremony]: Siiger 1967:131-132; chan [the man cannot find a wife; to attract girls, he began to grow flowers; someone steals flowers at night; the man waited and grabbed the girl; she said she went down from heaven, her name is Shambili; once said that she must return to her family as the Spring Festival is approaching; on the day her husband let her go, a lame man died in a nearby village; and when his wife returned, her husband noticed his leg in her basket; when she entered the house, there was a buffalo's leg (mitan) in the basket; the husband did not eat; the next day a neighbor came up and saw that S. was eating her husband's corpse; people surrounded the house, but thunder struck and S. returned to heaven]: Mills 1951:334-335.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Minahasa: Bezemer 1904 [a hunter became Tonaas (head; also "priest") of a hunting expedition; as such, he received the best parts of the loot; someone steals these supplies, each of the watchmen claims that he did not see anyone; T. remains to guard himself; a girl appeared; T. wanted to kill her, but she said that she was his daughter; he went to a rattan bush out of need and gave birth to rattan from it; T. named his daughter Uweranden ("rattan child"), brought him; Raja Ramopoli saw a fruit in the river with traces of women's teeth (it falls into his hands three times, although he tries to throw it away); sent slaves to find a girl who is not found; then one man brought a plucked rooster to the village, shouted loudly what he was selling; everyone looked and laughed, W. too; the cunning man saw her teeth; the Raja married her for a lot of money; when the couple walked along the path, the rattan stems leaned in front of them, preventing them from walking; the wife explained that the stems salute her]: 279-283; Kratz 1973, No. 44 [Mamanua dreams that she will find a spring under the stone; pulls out a stone, a lake forms, M. arranges a vegetable garden on the shore; someone steals sugar cane and fruits; M. guards, 9 girls in the form of swans {translated by Braginsky - geese} come to swim, they take off their birds' clothes; M. hides the clothes of Lingkambene, the daughter of the supreme god Muntu-Untu, takes L. as his wife, she gives birth to her son Wulansendow; contrary to warning, accidentally cuts off one of her hair; she must return to heaven to heal the wound; M. and V. sit on the falcon, which is unable to lift them; they climb the rattan, it breaks, they fall into the water, the fish takes them to the horizon, the dog takes them across the sky to the palace M.-U.; he tells me to identify his wife among nine girls (the dog sniffs her out, wags her tail); they remain in the sky; V. grows up, asks his grandfather to lower him to the ground; he brings with him a knot, an egg in it, from his wife comes out for V.; seeds of fruit trees in another nodule; since then they have been growing on the ground]: 212-216 (=Braginsky 1972:117-121); vemale [the sunny god Tuwale noticed traces of sawn teeth on mango fruit; found sisters Dapie (moon) and Siloo; to make them laugh, he told the ant to bite his genitals, began to squirm, the girls laughed, T. saw that D. had the sawn teeth; the parents did not agree to the marriage because T. has a skin disease, they brought a pig instead of his daughter; T. dragged R. underground; the next day she appeared in the form of a moon; T. constantly pursues R. in the sky, and when catches up and marries her, a solar eclipse occurs]: Knappert 1977b, No. 12:193-194; atauru [a man planted a betel; the owner was waiting for thieves, the shark was at the foot, the turtle climbed upstairs; the shark swam away, he grabbed the turtle, it was a woman, he married her, a boy was born; the husband's mother scolded the boy that he was crying; the wife fed him, found and put on her turtle shell, swam away; her husband followed her, found himself at the top of the Ficus tree; spat at those who came to the spring to get water, they thought it was a bird; then noticed; the woman refused to return]: Barroso Duarte s.a.: 170- 174; bunak (Papua Timor) [two brothers catch two pigs ruining the garden; they turn into two girls, the older brother takes both for himself; the youngest leaves, raises buffaloes; the crow sits on buffaloes back, biting them to blood; he asks the elder to give him his father's golden arrow; the crow is wounded, flies away with an arrow; the bird brings him to the lake, dives with him into the water; he sits on a coconut palm, throws a coconut flower to those who come to the source; they explain that the Raja has an incomprehensible disease; the younger brother undertakes to cure him, takes out and hides a golden arrow in his clothes, shows a wooden arrow fake, smeared with red betel juice; Raja recovers; locals hang oranges on a tree during the day, turn into people at night and dance; a young man asks for two ripe oranges as a gift; in two girls; the raja also gives cloth, a fan, a panicle, a horn with butter, tells you to put oranges only on the cloth; the bird carries the young man back; he bathes, leaving oranges on the cloth, hears laughter, oranges turned into two girls; realizes that he saw these girls dancing with raja ravens; the older brother asks one of them for himself in exchange for one of his two wives; the youngest does not agree, the elder kills him; girls revive it with a fan, a panicle, oil; together they kill their older brother, the youngest takes his widows]: Berthe 1972:57-59 (=Hicks 2007, No. 5:48-49); tetum or kemak ( Austronesians of Timor) [the younger brother began to crochet, which he borrowed from the elder, the hook was taken away by the crocodile; the elder demanded the hook back; the younger brother waited for a cockatoo woman stealing from his garden betel; she explained that betel needs to be treated by her crocodile grandfather, who has a sore throat; her younger brother goes with her to the underwater world, pulls his hook out of the Crocodile's throat, replaces her palm thorn ( allegedly he extracted it); asks buffaloes as a reward; they appear in the corral; the crocodile asks for a woman in return; the young man tries to give a maid, but is forced to give his sister]: Hicks 2007, No. 4:48.

Taiwan - Philippines. Ibaloi [the stars went down to swim, broke off the tops of the tarot planted on the field; the pig, the dog told the women that they were not to blame, advised that the women's husbands should break the field; those in midnight saw stars come down from the sky, took off their clothes, began to swim; men hid them, married the stars; former wives either committed suicide out of jealousy or left; men grew old and weakened, and women stayed strong and young; they took their clothes locked in the room, returned to heaven; their children became our ancestors]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 24:235; Tinghian (bilongan itneg) [The stars came down to eat sugar cane on the man's field; one hung her clothes on the fence; the owner woke up, found these clothes, the rest of the Stars flew away, the most beautiful remained; she gave birth a daughter to her husband; she found her mother's clothes in ash; she put them on, invited her husband to divide her daughter in half; the husband received a part above the waist, the wife got the bottom; the Star revived her part in the sky, so the stars look like legs; the top began to rot, the husband buried his head, and a coconut tree grew out of it; therefore, coconut has eyes and mouth, and there are rotten coconuts]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 25:237-239; kalinga-apayao [among seven Sinarugkawan heavenly sisters younger; at noon they went down to the ground to swim in the river; they noticed a sugarcane field owned by Dungkuwan, went to eat cane there; D.'s blind mother told her son that the field was burning (so dazzling was the beauty of the girls); next time D. waited for the sisters to swim, took away S.'s wings; married her, hid her wings in bamboo; S. gave birth to a son; once bamboo fell on floor, she found her wings in it, flew away; D. and her son began to ask different birds to take them to heaven, but only the fastest, Chaetura gigantea dubea, sem. Apodidae, carried it away; husband, wife and son began to live happily in heaven]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 26:241-243; (cf. bontok [all stars are men in white clothes; one day they went down to eat sugarcane, but when they were caught they returned to heaven]: Jenks 1905:216).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Armenians [orphan hero Aslan herds his herd; at night someone takes food from him; he guards, grabs a girl; she is the daughter of Zarya Zarzand kidnapped by a three-headed deva; she refused to marry a deva; he tells the girl to stay inside the rock and only go out for an hour at midnight; she will be released by the young man who is helped by swallows and who touches her with a myrtle branch; A. comes to the old woman, feeds the swallows, they teach how thank the old woman; she gives you 14 nuts (eat one a day, you will gain strength), two nuts (including a horse and a weapon), a jug of water and a bag of flour, and sends her to the fortress, where you need to get a myrtle branch ; dev pursues, the horse orders to dispel the flour (the forest grows); then A. cuts down the maiden's head; the deva's mother creates a lake in front (the horse tells him to pull out his hairs, a bridge appears), A. hits the rock with a branch, the girl is released; the old woman is flying on her headscarf with them; King Z. held a feast on the occasion of her daughter's return; at midnight, the old woman entered A. and the princess's bedchamber and killed the snake - it was the mother of the deva]: Nazinyan 1969:129-134.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Shors [Kakpyryn-old man is surprised that someone eats food from his cauldron; she remains guarded, sees a girl; she: I am a man, Saryg Khan's daughter; her brother squeezed out her eye, broke her eye, broke her arms and legs; her father's relative, Mukalay, fell in love with her, but she refused; then he accused her of debauchery - her men come in the door, go out the window; opened the doors himself, her father believed her brother crippled, left her in the forest; K. tells her to go down to the river, the water makes her healthy and sighted; Kara Kan's son met her, married her; her brother did not recognize her, she forgave him; M. was beaten and taken to the forest]: Arbachakova 2010 , NO. 12:289-295.

Western Siberia. The Nenets [an old horse who has escaped from the city gives birth to Yuno Nyu ("son of a horse"); runs away "right in the sun"); Iba-sei Nyu (Heart-Warmth Son) and Pi-sei Nyu (Heart-Night Son) come to Yun; queues are watching who is stealing boiled food; three Khabey Ne girls (Khanty Women) arrive in the guise of swans; PN turned into a wooden dish, IN into a scoop, both burned; YK became with wool, captured women, married his youngest himself; three years later, in the absence of his husbands, Sudba Wesako (Giant Old Man) came, breathed in the soul of one of the women; Yun revived them; sent IN and PN to south and west, he and his wife went to the sun; when his wife was behind, the SV's daughter offered to look in his head, pierced her head with her fingernail, threw it into a hole; 9 years later, the bird reported it to the Mare; she pulled it out son, flew to heaven, said that she is the Mother of Seven Heaven, and he is the Son of Seven Heaven, Si'is Num Nuh; pulling out a semigrant blade of grass, she sees an exhausted wife below, next to the SV and his daughter; cuts through SM, the wife cuts through his daughter, a seventh of those, go underground and now they are Nga diseases; SNN has become Noom, his wife is Haer (the Sun)]: Golovnev 1995:385-387.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nivhi [the hunter killed a wild boar, then an elk; both times during the night, the meat is gone; he makes a figure out of rotten wood, tells him to show where the thieves came from; the figure points to the side hills; the hunter flew there like a fly, went inside a young woman in that pain; she sent a maid for her older shaman sister; that beautiful woman; the hunter showed himself, the shaman ran away; he ordered the first His name is a woman, chased a shaman; so three times; defeated and killed a sea man, the husband of an elder shaman; brought four wives and began to treat them with meat]: Pevnov 1910, No. 1:84-88.

SV Asia. Chukchi [four brothers hunt deer, some eat boiled meat; when the younger one remains guarded, a skeleton woman enters, tells her to cover her with meat, turns into a woman the youngest takes her as his wife; the elder wants her too; the woman rejects the younger one, hits the board, kills, hides, the older one finds the body; the spider tells the woman that the elder grows worms in the pit to leave her to eat them; a woman invites her brothers to try on ritual gloves, a spider lifts her up]: Belikov 1982:167-169.

Southeast USA. Koasati [underwater creatures steal melons and peaches on the shore; humans catch a water woman, she stays in them]: Swanton 1929, No. 8:168-169.

Mesoamerica Nahua (Huasteca region, Hidalgo) [a farmer grows beans, a deer eats them, he injures a deer; finds two women stealing beans in the field; they agree to pay in kind, lead him to a cave, there they turn into deer, make him treat an injured male deer; after a few months, the squirrel brings him lemon; with its juice he heals the deer's wounds; he is allowed to go home; now he always leaves food animals]: Stiles 1984:89-90.

Llanos. Sikuani [aguchi ruins the garden, the man sets a trap, the agouti caught turns into a woman, wants to marry a man; he hesitates because he is married, but Agouti takes him overseas, three of the day, becoming a tapir, she moves underwater, and the man in her ear is turned into a tick; on the land of the tsaki-momobi women's community, tapiriha eats bananas and pineapples; women catch her in a trap pit, kill her; girl finds it; a man lifts a vessel that covers the penis that protrudes from the ground; the seed splashes into his chest; he fills the penis with boiling water; ducks of various species undertake to transport it across the sea, but throw it , when he blows the winds; finally, ordinary people bring him home; becoming the fruit of a palm tree, he sees his mother, she is old; he goes down, becomes human]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 86:329-332.

Guiana. Pemon [aquatic women steal cassava; a man waited and caught one; she took him into the river; the river owner told his sons to give man a magic remedy, he became a good fisherman; one day went to his mother; his wife does not tell you to unfold the package taken with her along the way; it has a lot of fish; he unfolds it three times; his wife throws it, returns to the river]: Armellada 1973, No. 58:179-180; waiwai [two brothers believe that there are women in the river; they began to catch Paki from the boat with a jaw hook; the eldest fell asleep, the youngest caught it at that time, hid it in his hut and came back; the eldest The fish was missing; he put the Owl to guard; a woman came out of the water, accidentally placed her feather crown on Owl's head, the Owl flew to her older brother; he rose to the sky with the crown; she found him, having passed two villages; they returned to earth, becoming the ancestors of men]: Farabee 1924:172-173; the mapidian [while Tuminkar was sleeping, his brother Duid caught a woman; T. set the top, told the Owl to guard; before dawn, a woman in a feather crown approached her; before stealing the fish, she took off the crown, accidentally put it on the Owl; he brought T.'s crown, he took her to heaven; the woman followed behind him, people descended from them]: Farabee 1918:159; makushi: Roth 1915, No. 39-41 [The sun owns fish ponds; the caiman steals fish, the Sun catches it; cut all the skin, now it's in the notches; in exchange for life Cayman promises to give his daughter; he does not have a daughter, he makes a girl out of a tree - a wild plum; the woodpecker hollowed out her vagina; the sun is gone, told her to follow him later; (the source is brief retelling); she enters the house of a Toad woman, dies biting through poisonous lice, boys are found in her womb, these are Pia and Makunaima; P. kills Jaguar, finds pieces of her mother's body inside, revives her; Toad hides from the twins that he owns fire; M. likes to swallow coals, decides to leave; digs a canal, swims along it with his brother and mother; from the Crane they learn how to make fire by carving (he hits a stone with his beak ); the brothers blocked the river with stones to detain fish; now there are rapids in these places; the crane began to steal fish from them; P. quarreled with him, he grabbed M., took him to Spanish Guiana; the mother was tired, P. left her at the top of Roraima; walked, teaching people, and also stayed on Roraima with his mother]: 135; Soares Diniz 1971, No. 2 [see motif J16; fish disappear from the top of the Sun; The sun grabs a thief, this is Cayman; He tears off his tongue, his tongue turns into a mazie fish; Cayman promises a daughter for his life; he does not have a daughter, he makes a girl out of a tabatinga tree; sends for water; when she enters the water, she pops up, falls; does daughter out of wax; she puts the vessel on her head, starts laughing; makes her daughter out of samaumeira wood, she is real; the Sun does not find her vulva, puts banana peel between her legs]: 78; curl: Brett 1880 [like the top of the head]: 27-28; Coll 1907, No. 1 [Maconaura puts the top who steals fish from it; M. leaves the Woodpecker as a watchman, who signals too late; the bird Casika; M. sees the caiman, kills with an arrow; next time she finds a girl at the top, she is a caiman's sister; marries; she wants to see her mother, M. accompanies her; Kaikoutji's father-in-law tells 1) make a bench with the image of a jaguar with on the one hand, K. himself, on the other hand (he wears a mask, insects offer to bite him; from a cousin bite (an insect species), spider K. does not move; from an ant bite he raises his head), 2) build overnight a house with a feather roof (the birds gave feathers); M. visits his mother for a while; if K. kills him, the Owl will come to tell him; K. kills M. with a club and an arrow, his mother sails in a boat, picks up his remains; two people promise to avenge M., turn into a boa constrictor and a jaguar, kill K., his wife, his people; A. avenges his mother, kills M.'s mother: after that, the animals become predatory, storms and bad weather appear]: 682- 689; hishkaryana [Turtle's husband and wife went for fruit; the husband told his wife to climb a tree; she ate and grew him; Monkeys, Eagles, and other animals and birds wanted to copulate with her; the insect split a tree, everyone took her out through this gap; the husband saw it, went home; closed the path to his house, opened it to the Jaguar house; the mother of the Jaguars hid the woman; the Jaguars had a pet turtle, blew the winds, the woman spat , they found her, scheli, gave the eggs to her mother; Mawarye and Woxka were born; they hunt for an old woman; they hid from the Jaguar in a tree, he followed them, they came down in the form of leaves; Jaguar understood who was in front of him; The brothers had no penises, penises grew in the forest; the brothers snatched them out of the ground, took them for themselves; someone stole fish from the top; the brothers sent sentries; they caught the Otter, copulated with her, almost torturing her to death; she says that there are women; M. caught wives for himself and his brother; they have a fish in their vagina; while M. went to get a vine to make fish poison, V. injected a penis, the fish bit it off; M. cured his brother; M. slept with his wife on the shore rivers, he was swallowed by an anaconda; he came out through the anus; the brothers broke up; the fish kidnapping episode on p. 72-75]: Derbyshire 1965:54-78.

Ecuador. Colorado [the hunter is married to the lazy Frog; always finds only feathers trapped; comes earlier, finds a clay woman, takes her as his wife; the frog pushes her into the water, she melts; The frog asks her husband to have sex with her from behind; the husband copulates from the front; the Frog's gut pinches his penis; the frog dies; the husband tries to make a new woman out of clay (she starts moving); in a boat Nutria arrives, frees a person by cutting his gut; tells him not to talk about what happened; at the festival, a person says, disappears]: Mix 1982:88-90.

Western Amazon. Sekoya [two aquatic women (=snakes) steal peppers from two brothers' garden; brother grabs them; only the eldest managed to hold his own; after his death she returns to the river]: Cipolletti 1988, No. 20: 125-127; for example: Mercier 1979 [someone steals pepper from the garden of two brothers; they hid, grabbed two women; they turned into snakes, wasps, etc.; the elder released his own, the youngest brought them to his mother, saying it was yaku-warmi ("water woman"); at night, the mother saw her son hugging a big snake; the daughter-in-law gave birth, her mother-in-law found a child under her bed in a pile of leaves, made him cry to come mother; yaku-warmi went to the river with her child; the husband came to the shore, the wife led him; first a person sees snakes, then they seem like people to him; brings his mother a masato given by his wife, returns to the river forever]: 94-97; Ortíz de Villalba 1989, No. 58 [a man catches a woman stealing peppers from his garden; she lives in a river, he makes her his wife; his mother sees her as a snake, gets scared; she gives birth to a snake; fearing to be killed, she goes into the river; her husband grieves without him, she takes him home]: 113; Aguaruna [someone steals pepper from two brothers' garden; they hid, grabbed two women; they turned snakes, wasps, etc.; the eldest released his own, the youngest brought him to his mother, saying that it was yaku-warmi ("water woman"); at night, the mother saw her son hugging a big snake; the daughter-in-law gave birth, her mother-in-law found it under her We lie in a pile of leaves of the child, made him cry for his mother to come; the Yaku-varmi went to the river with the child; the husband came to the shore, the wife led him; first a person sees snakes, then they appear to be human to him; brings her mother a masato given by his wife, returns to the river forever]: Mercier 1979:94-97.

NW Amazon. Desana [Gain pañan is the ancestor of Parrots (but human); someone steals crops from the garden; first the girls with baskets ran away, the next night he caught one; she is pregnant; replies that she is eating worms, insects; he inserted a leaf into her vagina, it was all chewed, there were piranhas; the woman is the daughter of the main Water Serpent, Piranha children in her stomach; G. washed her vagina with fish poison, married her; decided to visit father-in-law; emptied insect baskets into the water, ate the fish but did not touch it; the father-in-law killed the old servant (fish), gave his son-in-law to eat; under the water was a peach palm, on which all four varieties of fruit ripened; G. I swallowed the seeds while they were searching it, took it out of the crap on the shore; the palm tree grew, again all varieties on the same tree]: Kumu, Kenhiri 1980:151-158; uitoto [one woman; pineapples]: Rodríguez de Montes 1981, No. 17:139-140; vacuenai [in a mother's garden made of bones, someone steals pepper; SK guards, sees vultures take off their clothes, begin to tear pepper; he hides the clothes alone of them, the rest fly away; the vulture woman becomes his wife; she wants to visit her relatives, he accompanies her; the wife warns her father to answer only the third time, otherwise she will eat it; the UK kills the deer, father-in-law hides him; when worms start, he leads people to "fish", they bring worms; the wife lubricates her husband's eyes with a drug, now it's fish for him; father-in-law's father tells SK 1) to make a boat in a day; he she does, but when her father-in-law's father steps on her, she splits; his wife's younger brother fumigates the stone with tobacco, the boat is ready; 2) make a rope out of moriche palm leaves; the same young man burns the leaves, sprinkles ashes in calebasa, drinks, takes the rope out of his nose; SK can live with his wife; after the child is born, they return to his mother; wife and son fly away in the form of vultures; the husband is left alone]: Hill 2009: 42-48.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Takana: Hissink, Hahn 1961, No. 38 [someone steals cotton from the field; a man is waiting for two women; they are sisters Luna and the Morning Star; Luna advises taking a sister, but he wants the Moon; after copulating his penis grows, he carries it in the basket; at night, his penis crawls towards women; one girl's father cuts it off when he enters a hole in the wall; the severed part turns into an amphisbene lives in a termite mound; var.2: The moon asks to put the penis in the basket before copulation; from there it crawls towards it; var.3: the penis crawls to the sky, copulates with the Moon; the man cuts it off for himself, dies; var.4: every girl and woman to whom a penis crawls cuts off a piece; pieces turn into snakes; var.5: first a man, then his wife, cuts off pieces from the penis; they make many snakes]: 81 -83; Nordenskiöld 1924 [Moon and Venus are sisters; they steal corn, cassava, etc. from the Sun field; he awaits them; despite the Moon's warning, they grab her, not her younger sister; his penis Grows up, he carries it in a basket; Venus comes back to the field; the Sun lets his penis go to her; she cuts it, mistaking it for a snake; the Sun is dead, has risen to heaven]: 296-297.

Chaco. Toba (Bolivia) [Karsten 1932:209; after the world fire, men came out of the ground; they were fishing, someone kidnapped it; on the fourth day they left the watchman; women descended from the sky in a cage, began to pick up the fish; shouted to the men that they could not get out of the cage; the men broke the bottom with stones, the women fell down, fell into the ground; the men dug them up, but some were knocked out alone with digs eye]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982b, No. 58:129-130; nivacle [first women from a river or lake; steal game; different birds go to guard in sequence]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987b, No. 42, 44, 48, 49, 51 [steal fish; then turn into frogs]: 116-120, 131, 137, 146; chorote [women descend from the sky, steal game from men]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 12 [hunters lived alone, began to fry meat, left as a guard Parrot; women came down from the sky, the Parrot raised the alarm, but the women rose back; then they left Iguana to guard, he cut the rope on which the women had descended; Hawk began to distribute women; those who came first received the most beautiful ones; the battleship was the last, he did not have enough wife; he began to dig, believing that some of the fallen women had fallen into the ground; pulled his wife, but while digging, he scratched her eyes with his claws; said that let the woman be blind, but him], 13 [every hunter leaves his prey on his platform; women come down a rope from the sky, carry the meat away; each says that whoever she took the platform from will be her husband; the Hare was the first to guard, overslept; the hummingbird cut off the rope on which the women descended; took the best woman; the Pigeon was the last to come, he got a blind woman; he was told not to have sex with her before others, for his child would be weak and would soon die; but he did not listen, a child was born the next day, died three or four days later; if Hummingbird was the first to copulate, the children would not die], 14 [someone steals hunters' prey; Kíxwet tells the Parrot to remain a watchman; women descend from the sky up the fiber stairs; The parrot throws off trees on one of them, they tell him to go down, throw a black cactus fruit into his mouth (since then a black beak), put a leaf in his mouth (parrots have not spoken since then); Alawó was put as the new watchman ( black fishing bird); he cut the stairs, everyone got wives; the battleship found his own in the ground, pulling it out, pricked her eyes out with his claws], 15 [Kíxwet knows that there are parakeets women in the sky, sent Hawk there, he was handsome, the women decided to go down the tree that reached the sky; when they came down, the Hawk knocked down the tree; each man got a wife; the women asked K. to turn them from parrots at people; he did this by throwing them into every handful of land]: 29-30, 31-32, 33-35, 36-37; poppies [the first women come out of the lake; they steal fish; different birds go to guard in sequence]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 2, 3:19-25

The Southern Cone. South Tehuelches: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984b, No. 109 [tchóion - women led by the leader lived in a cave, stole meat from people, even from a poor old woman, from hunters; the shaman ordered leave him in the village as if he were dead; turned into a ball; the girl picked it up, the leader told him to give the ball to her; the shaman took his form, grabbed it; she had to marry him], 110 [as in ( 109), but it is not clear whether the village consists of the same men, or whether both sexes live there]: 155-156, 157-158.

The Southern Cone. The Yagans [first-ancestor women steal hunters' loot to conduct rituals in secret]: Gusinde 1937:1339; Wilbert 1977, No. 65:186.