M46A. A picked up baby.
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The character turns into a baby, is picked up by the owners of valuables, and then steals valuables or converges with a woman. The baby is not a demonic creature and does not intend to kill those who pick it up (cf. Motive L60).
Monumbo, Gilbert Islands, Russians (Lipetsk), Nenets, Ents, Nganasans, Dolgans, (Central Yakuts, Baikal, Kirenian, Turukhan Evenks), Negidals, (Sakhalin Ainu), central yupik, haila, quileout, quinolt, shuswap, thompson, lillouet, snohomish, skagit, Puget Sound, colitz, upper colitz, vasco, vishram, ne perse, yakima, okanagon, kurdalen, sanpual, kutene, alsea, kato, yuki, coastal yuki, northern and western shoshones, mixteks.
Melanesia. Monumbo [building a house to initiate the young men, people cut down and brought a wooden beam; when the boat was approaching the shore, light emanated from the beam; a beam was installed in the house; when the men left, it became human, he danced with the children; the men threw a beam into the sea, it sailed to Fr. Manam, people made her a headrest; when everyone left, he became human, ate all the chickens, pigs and dogs; the men threw the headrest into the sea, he swam to the shore of the main island; he became a baby; husband and wife adopted him; at night the baby became an adult, made love to the foster mother, who became pregnant; while his wife was away, the husband wanted to throw the baby on a palm tree, but he jumped into the river and swam away; the women of the village came to fish; the headrest man came out of the water and met them; the men sent the boy; the women covered him with nets, but he cut a hole, peeked; the men hid On the shore, they killed the one who came out, cut off his penis, let his wives eat; the old woman put her piece next to him; he flew to heaven, became the Month]: Höltker 1965, No. 4:80-82.
Micronesia-Polynesia. The Gilbert Islands [Nareau steals fruits from others; those who build a community house ask him to climb into a hole, put a pole on top, N. goes through the dig; to take possession of Nautima's wife, he bakes himself in coals, comes from outside, takes fish out of the coals; Nautima asks to bake herself, dies; the wife dies of grief; in order to take possession of Taranga's wife, N. became a baby, the woman picked him up, took him to bed; at night he copulated with her, she had three children with him]: Maude, Maude 1994, No. 2:61-64.
Central Europe. Russians (Lipetsk) [the merchant sends his daughter to marry the king; on the way, the maid pulls out her eyes, takes her place; the blind woman asks the old man to borrow silk and velvet, makes a crown, asks for it to be given to the tsar in exchange for an eye; a false wife gives one eye, then a second eye; the true one sees the light, turns the old man's hut into a glass house, goes to the king, the false wife tells her to be cut into pieces, takes the heart; the old man collects, buries pieces, a garden grows; a false wife orders him to be cut down, the garden becomes stony; the king sees a boy in this place, brings him to the palace, he stops crying, having received the heart of the victim to play, runs away into the garden, the king behind him, sees a real wife instead of him; the false one was blinded, tied to horses, let him into the fields]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 127:224-227.
Western Siberia. Nenets: Lar 2001 (Yamal) [his wife does not tell Yomba to go from the boat to the river, he does not listen; all the fish in the boat and in the house come to life, jump back into the water; Ë. grabs the last jar with caviar; says he will die, tells him to cover him with branches, leave a jar with him; a man with a dog's ass lived with YE. and his wife; in the fall he sees YE. eating caviar, saying that he has deceived everyone; a man with a dog's ass agrees with an old woman to run to the grave of Ë., supposedly from hell; Ë. screams in fear; leaves; comes to the old man and the old woman, turns into a baby, crawls under the old woman hem; old people adopt him, three days later he grows up; tells him to slaughter the last bull to eat the liver; load the meat into the boat; cuts off the rope, swims away with meat; sees the line, turns into a pike, hell swallows it, E. scratches him from the inside, the devil lets the pike out of his ass; chases Ë., he kills him with a knife; YE. digs the shaman's grave, hardly runs away from the skeleton; pees into the river, the pike grabs him For a penis, he rips it off with his penis, throws it into the water; a man promises to give his daughter for someone who makes him laugh; YE. tells his story, makes him laugh, gets a wife; brings 300 deer to old people, whom he deceived; returned to his old wife, took off the skin of a man with a dog's ass, under her was a handsome young man; YE. gave him his young wife, said that he had made the hell he was a half-dog now killed; YE. asked to slaughter a deer for him, ate meat, drank blood, turned into a seat (idol)]: 273-277; Nenyang 1997 (Taimyr) [childless old people have one deer; Yombo ("rogue") turns into the baby, the old woman picks him up, the old man suspects that it may be E.; E. hunts for the elderly; then says that he is sick, tells him to slaughter the deer; when moving, he tells him to load everything valuable in a hollow, A big boat holes, sails away with his property, old people sink]: 151-154; Ents: Porotova 1982 [(=Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 7:37-38); Deua hides in the plague; when the old woman goes out, grabs his hand, tells her husband to shout that she has given birth to a child; turns into a baby; grows up; asks his father to slaughter a big deer; move to another place, put meat and yucola in the boat; he will transport them to the other side, return for their parents; sailing away shouts that he is not their son, but D.]: 153-154; Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 1 [Dhoa wrote - a river formed, pumped up hills; sat on a stone, a pike bit his genitals; he pretended to be a baby, the old woman picked him up, she and the old man raised him like a son; he asks to slaughter the deer, put the meat in the boat, promises to transport the meat and come back for old people; from the middle of the river shouts that he is D., swims away; the old people are starved; D. comes to another old woman, Boonle's boyfriend lives with her; D. and B. become elderly; D. dies, tells her to put them with he has a barrel of caviar; B. hears laughter from the grave, shouts that a bear is coming; D. jumps up]: 17-20; nganasany [Dyaiku was hit by a stump, his fist stuck, then his leg, etc.; the old man brought him home, said his wife that a fox was trapped; while the old man was away and the old woman went out into the yard, D. jumped off the crossbar, became a baby, went under the hem of the old woman; asks to slaughter the only deer, the old woman tells her husband allow it, because this is their only son; D. loads meat into the boat, sails away, shouts that he is not their son, but D.; elsewhere, the boat in which the foreman's three sons are supposed to sail holes, covers the hole with clay, sons drown; D. returns to his mother, tells how he deceived an old man, drowned people]: Porotova 1980:21-24; dolgans [Laaiku's lonely dog saw Jige Baba, turned into a child, she decided that she had given birth; L. asked them to slaughter their only deer, move to the other side of the river, ride alone in a boat; sailed away, shouting that he was Laaika; the prince promised to give his daughter away for solving the riddle; L. lies down in the grass, the prince's daughter stumbles over him, tells her friend that if she married, she would not carry water; that his father has a tire for a pack of seven lice skins; L. guesses the corresponding riddle, gets married]: Efremov 2000, No. 17:277-281.
(Wed. Eastern Siberia. Yakuts: Vitashevsky 1912, No. 5 (central, lake. Churapcha, Churapchinsky Ulus) [the old man and the old woman have two daughters, he catches four hares each; decides to leave his daughters in the forest so that they and the old woman can get two hares each; took his daughters to pick berries, left his own clothes on a stump; but caught only two birds with one stone; the older sister was half abaasa herself; they find an iron yurt with an iron cradle; the youngest spies on the child pulling fish out of his penis, cooks; returns to the cradle; does not tell the younger sister to eat fish, she eats; the old woman tells her to go from the fork to the east; the older sister goes west, the younger sister does not want to throw it; there are no holes in the iron yurt; the eldest makes them as small as sawdust from a needle, they end up in a yurt; inside the abaasa woman does not bring fish, but leeches; the younger sister casts the same spell and ends up outside; the elder she sticks her head; the abaas eats her torso, the youngest carries her sister's head, throws it under the larch; she sees an island on the lake, where she is beautiful, this is the older sister's abaas essence (the informant does not remember further)]: 456-458; Ergis 1964, No. 66 (Olenek) [a poor old man takes his three daughters to the forest, leaves old Doha on a stump; the girls found a farce, one picks up an iron child; returning, they see that fish porridge is cooked in a pot; the youngest does not eat, hides, becoming a needle, sees the baby turn into an iron man; next time the middle, older sisters hide; sisters put the potted baby in fire, they run away; he chases them with a hot pot; the old woman stretches her leg across the river, they cross; she asks the abaas if her leg is rough, he replies that very much, she throws him off, he drowns ; Abaasa's daughter, with an eye on her forehead, one hand and one leg, cuts wood; catches and locks the girls; becoming needles, they get out, but the eldest tells her lungs, her stomach to swell; the sisters pull, tear off her head; they put her head on a tree, her head cries; on a birch tree, the same; on a pine tree, she laughs; since then, the coffin has been made of pine]: 245-246; 1967b, No. 213 (summary of several texts, including archival ones) [authors They take their girls to the forest to leave them there; the sisters find the Iron Child (a doll, a stone) in the forest; when they learn that this is an abaasa child, they decide to kill him, but the Iron Child pursues them himself; sisters manage to escape by throwing a comb, scissors, needles that turn into a mountain, a forest, etc.; on the way they meet a river, they cross it with the help of a lynx (old woman); walk along the forbidden on the road, they get to Baba Yaga; the eldest dies in prison, the youngest, using a spell, escapes; comes to a man married to a frog, marries him; the older sister came to life and married a son thunder, from which she receives wealth, and the frog-wife brings water insects and dies]: 217; Sivtsev, Efremov 1990 [poor parents go with their two daughters to pick berries, leave them in the forest; they find a hut, a black stone and an iron cradle nearby; the younger sister suspects that this is an abaasa child; at home, the stone turns into a baby; sisters find baked crucian carp near the house; the youngest hides with a needle in cracks, sees how the baby turns into a giant, tells the fire to burn, the fish to bake; the older sister hides, sees the same thing; they overturn a pot of boiling water on the child, run; the youngest throws a needle (thicket) , a thimble (forest), a handkerchief (a cliff to the sky); by the river, the sisters ask the old woman Talas-Talas ("walkways") to throw a bridge; she stretches out both legs, the girls cross; the abaas says she is busy; stretches out one leg, cleans, he drowns]: 64-71; Evenki of the Baikal region [two sisters find a cradle with a baby, bring it home; left alone, the child leaves the cradle, becomes a monster; then returns to the cradle ; the sisters throw him into the boiling pot, run away; he chases them; they throw a handkerchief, the comb turning into a sea, a thicket; the pursuer screams, Mother, where is the ladle, drinks the sea, cuts down the forest; they throw a file, but it falls in front of them; the youngest becomes hair, the eldest becomes an ant, they climb into a crack in the rock; the monster pulls the youngest, the eldest holds it, the youngest is torn in half; the back the monster eats, the front older sister carries her with her; tries to leave her on a tree stump, but the sister cries; when she leaves her on a hummock, she laughs; the frog takes her as his wife]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 9 [brief version]: 179-180; Voskoboynikov 1967, No. 13:43-45; Cyrene Evenks [two sisters find a cradle with a baby, bring it home; see that when left alone, he turns into a Manga giant, catches fish, then returns to the cradle; the sisters throw a boiling pot over him, run away; he chases them; one throws the comb, the other bag, they turn into a forest, a rock, they can't stop M.; old woman Achekai stretches her legs across the river like a bridge; when M. walks, removes her legs; M. shouts to make ladles from his hands, a bucket from his head, paint from blood, a shuttle from his spine ; at the fork, the sisters drove along the left path, they get to the old woman; she hides them, turning them into a needle and a thimble; two cannibals come; the older thimble girl laughs, the cannibals eat her; the younger old woman gives a bird's wing, it flies away on it, meets a guy, gets married]: Pinegina et al. 1952:58-61; Turukhan Evenks (Katanga, i.e. the upper reaches of Podkamennaya Tunguska, west 1928) [two sisters dug sarana, picked up a baby; when they returned, they see the plague as a cauldron on fire, two whitefish cooking in it; watched a man turn two of his worms into whitefish; filled the baby with melted with tin, they ran; they were chased by giant Mani in a tin belt; the eldest threw a suede scraper (mountains, M. made saddles in them), a whetstone (a cliff, M. split), a jagged chuchun, i.e. round suede scraper (forest, M. threw off his tin belt, crawled), comb (stones, mountains, forest), M. got lost in them as an ant]: Osharov 1936a:19-21 (=1936b, No. 15:280-281); (cf. Sym Evenks [ the girl cut her hand with a knife, the bird advises her to lick the blood; the girl likes the taste, she eats her mother, her younger sisters; the older brother runs away to the Nemelon 'e (decapod deer); the sister throws an ax, he consistently cuts off all the legs of the deer; the brother continues to flee, becoming a moose, a bear, a wolverine, a fox, a ferret, an ermine; when he becomes a mouse, the sister loses track; breaks her scrapers and tanners, dies]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 45:55-58).
Amur-Sakhalin. Negidals [the old man went for 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.
Japan. Aina Sakhalin [two older sisters bring the youngest baby they find; the youngest spies, sees that the baby has become a devil, eats food; the older ones do not believe at first, stay in turn, they see the same thing; throw the baby into the fire, run away; the middle one comes back for forgotten beads; they are put on the line shoveling the fire; the girl turns into a spider, goes down, picks up the beads, runs away; hell pursues; the youngest pulls out her tooth, throws it, it turns into a rock, they climb it; hell calls other devils, some have axes made of wood resin; first the devils dive for the reflection of women; then they cut down a rock, it presses them all; women live well]: Pilsudski 2001, No. 9:43-44 (same 2002, No. 9:39-41).
(Wed. The Arctic. Central Yupik (Kuskoquim) [the hunters did not give the old woman meat, she hid the light; they beat her and killed her; sent the Raven to look for light; the Milky Way was his trail; he turned into a sliver, fell into a bucket with water; the daughter of the master of the light brought the bucket home, the sliver turned into a boy, he was adopted; he wants a ball with light to play; becoming a Raven, he takes him away; opens it at home, the world is light again]: Krenov 1951: 193-195).
NW Coast. Hyda (Masset) [four sisters own a salmon river; a man comes and becomes a baby, older sisters pick him up, the youngest doubts; in their absence he becomes an adult, roasts and eats salmon, goes back to the cradle; one night she takes possession of her younger sister while she sleeps; leaves]: Swanton 1908a: 346-347.
The coast is the Plateau. Quileut [K wati turns into a baby; two virgin sisters find him digging roots; the youngest takes him, he keeps crying; the eldest falls silent; at night she takes him into his bed; he turns into a man, takes her as his wife]: Reagan, Walters 1933:309-310; quinalt [zap. Ronald E. Olson in 1926, not published before; Xwoni Xwoni made a fish trap, turned his crap into a man, left him guarded, told him to be called if chinook salmon came across; he called when trapped a driftwood swam; SHH killed him; in the same way he made a new watchman, who called when he caught salmon; SHSH kept the milk, they turned into two girls, he called them daughters; said he was dying, told leave the corpse on the platform, come later, their little brother will be there; the girls find this baby, bring it home, it grows rapidly; first the older sister, then the younger sister throw him on the floor at night, because he tries to have sex with them; they understand that it is SHH, they leave; they see people hitting fish with a spear; they call two young men who bring them to their house, take them as wives; brothers always throw one fish into the fire, they do not tell his wives to touch him; the sisters touch him; the fire is the brothers' mother, it turned out that the sisters poked her in the face with a stick, she died; the brothers said that they themselves are Harpoons; at night, the girls wake up, with not everyone husband, and harpoon; sisters go east, see a blind old woman rocking her daughter Fazaniha's baby; sisters replace the child with a piece of wood, run away; Phazanikha, carrying her mother, chases, abandons her mother, that turns into a lake waist-deep for girls; throws it again, but the old woman has little water left, she was Flood Lake; the baby grows up quickly, from the sisters' song he realizes that they kidnapped him, that his mother Pheasant, and father a log, sails downstream in a boat; all the girls in the village want him so much that they urinate; he is as bright as the sun; Blue Jay pointed to the ugly Frog Girl, who combed her hair decorated herself, came with a bucket and a box of possessions; she did not wet herself, and Blue Jay did it as if the Frog had wet himself; the young man took the Frog into his boat, swam further down; a young man stands on the shore swallowing lizards and everything that swims; says that his brother was stolen by the SHH girls; the brothers recognize each other; the frog took him by the leg, shook lizards and other rubbish out of him; the elder brother became the Sun, it's too hot, everything is burning; then it became the Month, married the Frog, she can be seen on the moon with her box and bucket; the youngest (coming from a piece of wood in the cradle) became the Sun]: Thompson, Egesdal 2008:202-209; shuswap [see motif F58; The coyote turns into a piece of wood, swims to the top where the two sisters blocked the river; they make a dish out of wood; it swallows all the food, sisters Throw him away; the Coyote becomes a baby, his sisters adopt him; at night he copulates with them; when they carry it on his back, he slides lower, copulates again; breaks the top, leads the salmon up the Thompson and Fraser rivers]: Teit 1909a: 629-630; Thompson: Boas 1895, No. II.5 (ntlakyapamuk) [=2002:87-88; Coyote's son has two wives, Coyote wants one for himself; sends his son to a tree for a bird; the tree grows; when the son jumps into the sky, the Coyote makes the tree low again; the young man wants to pull out the roots; it turns out that these are holes in the sky = stars; turns two old women into birds; Spider spouses they bring him down to the ground in a basket; his wife and son meet him; he kills a deer, sends a Coyote after him; the Coyote sinks in the river; turns into a piece of wood; two women make a plate out of it; it eats food; they they throw her into the fire; she becomes a baby; they make him a servant; they keep fog and wasps in the vessels; left alone, the Coyote opens the vessels, releasing fog and wasps into the world]: 17-18; Teit 1898, No. 2 [two sisters they hold the fish behind the pond; the Coyote turns into a wooden bowl; eats the fish that the sisters put on it; they throw the bowl into the fire, it turns into a baby; left alone, the Coyote takes his old appearance, breaks the dam, fish rushes into rivers]: 27; lillouette [like Thompson; women's brother finds a bowl]: Teit 1912b, No. 7:303-304; snohomish [Fox and Norka went to travel; Norka said he would go see what was ahead; wrote into the water, turned the urine into salmon, gave it to the Fox; he fried it and ate it; got sick; asked the two little girls in it (probably his own excrement), they laugh, Fox became pregnant; gave birth to a boy, he 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 in the fog, the Fox escaped]: Haeberlin 1924, No. 20:399-411; Skagit [Coyote's son is married to Turtledove and Duck; the Coyote wants them himself; creates a woodpecker, sends his son to the tree for him; the woodpecker soars higher; the Coyote waves his penis, everything drowns in the fog; puts on his son's clothes, marries the Duck; the Turtledove rejects him; the Spider lowers his son from heaven to earth; he comes to the Turtledove, the Duck leaves the Coyote; creates a river; the Coyote crosses it, is carried away by the current; it turns into a wooden bowl; two women Magpie and Snipe pick it up; the food left in it disappears; they break the bowl; the Coyote turns into a baby, women raise him; in their absence, he eats food; they guess they want to punish him]: Hilbert 1985:66-72; Puget Sound [Coyote turns into a baby; five sisters (birds are birds Carriers) hold the salmon behind the pond; pick up the baby; he breaks the dam, releasing salmon into the river]: Ballard 1929:146-147, 148-150; cowlitz [The Coyote carries the river, it turns into a wooden one a spoon; a woman picks it up, takes food with it, the food disappears; the same episode with a bowl, a horn spoon, a pot; five girls hold the fish behind the pond; K. turns into a baby, one of the sisters picks it up; he breaks the dam]: Adamson 1934:245-247; upper coulitz [Coyote's son Eagle is married to two mouse sisters and two throat sisters; when the Coyote puts sparkling wood into the fire, the women throw off clothes, he sees that the Mice have white vulvas and that the Gorlinki have black ones, prefers white ones; he makes eagles from his excrement, puts them on a rock, sends the Eagle to get the chicks; he takes off his clothes and climbs the rock , finds excrement there; the Coyote makes the rock smooth, puts on his son's clothes, takes his form, tells his wives to migrate, takes Mice; the old spider lowers the Eagle to the ground; the son recognizes him; he kills a deer, tells Coyote to carry it, causes rain, the Coyote is carried away by the river; the Coyote asks the trees for help, predicts the usefulness of those that give him their branches; turns into a dead deer, swims to boy; the boy's grandmother knows it's a Coyote, runs to beat him, he swims away; in the form of a baby in a basket, Coyote sails to five virgin sisters; they raise him, the youngest does not love him, because lying at on their knees, he always puts his hands between their legs; they have a pond with fish; in the absence of the girls, the Coyote gets up from the cradle, digs a ditch; the sisters come running and hit him, but he manages to release the salmon; first he screams, Down the river, then catches up, screams, Up; so there are few salmon in the upper reaches]: Jacobs 1934, No. 2:103-107; vasco: Curtin 1909b, No. 5 [Coyote makes eagle chicks out his giblets; sends his grandson Eagle to get feathers; makes the rock tall; takes the form of a grandson, puts on his clothes, sleeps with his two wives Mouse and Woodpecker; Thunder splits the rock, the Eagle descends, catches up with the family, his wives welcome him; the Coyote is washed into the river by the rain, he turns into a piece of wood; two sisters pick it up; he turns into a baby; when women are gone, he takes on his true form, eats their fish; destroys the dam, releasing salmon into rivers; showers the sisters with ash, turning them into birds]: 264-267; Hines 1996, No. 5A [two sisters keep salmon behind the dam; Coyote turns into an alder log, swims, younger picks it up, the eldest tells him to throw it away; turns into a baby in a cradle, the youngest picks it up; while the sisters dig the roots, he breaks the dam for five days, turns back into a baby at night; releases salmon up Colombia, sisters turn into birds (like swallows); in the Vancouver area, Coyote met people without mouths, they cooked, sniffed, threw them away; he cut their mouths; the chief invited him daughter as a wife, he refused (I take women whenever I want! )]: 51-53; Vishram: Hines 1998, No. 5A [the young man killed a deer, tied the carcass with his intestines, asked the Coyote to bring it; the intestines are tearing, it has begun to rain, the river has carried away the Coyote; he has become a baby in the cradle; five sisters keep all the fish in the dam; found a baby, the youngest suspects it was a Coyote; while the sisters are digging the roots, the Coyote is digging a canal; puts five horn spoons on her head; one of the sisters broke digger, they came running, started hitting the Coyote, each broke a spoon, but his head was intact, he released the salmon; screams, Little fish into the river, the big fish into the sea; then he recovered, but he couldn't fix it; He turned the sisters into swallows, they fly in front of the salmon; told the fish to jump ashore, but the salmon slide back; asked the sisters, they said they should be beaten with a stick; began to bake salmon, fell asleep; five The wolves were all eaten, the Coyote's hands and lips were greased; his sisters talked about the Wolves; the Coyote put them to sleep when they baked eggs, smeared their mouths with eggs; then pp.50-55: The Coyote goes, setting norms (where to catch fish, what different places along the river look like Colombia)], 5B [=Sapir, p.3-7], 5C [approximately like A; Coyote wears five wooden hats; the Wolves episode on pp.61-65; determines fishing spots: 65-66]: 44-55, 55-57, 58-66; ne perse [cf. motive K1; Coyote's son sends him to bring meat, separates him from the camp by deep gorges; Coyote sails down the river on a raft in the form of a baby; the eldest of the five Swallow Sisters picks it up; he breaks them fish dam releasing salmon into rivers]: Phinney 1934:380-381; Yakima: Hines 1992, No. 44 [Coyote's son is married to three sisters, the youngest Coyote wants himself; asks son to climb a tree for feathers an eagle, advises to take off his clothes; leans a tree with branches against a smooth trunk; then cleans up, puts on his son's clothes, migrates with his wives; two days later the son descends; the youngest wife hides him in her bag; he kills Coyote with a truncheon, throws him into the river; the Coyote turns into a baby, swims to the dam, behind which five sisters hold salmon; while they are away, breaks the dam with five wooden scoops; sisters break scoops but not Coyote's head; Coyote threatens his "sisters" with rain if they don't teach him how to catch salmon; where he gets wives, he makes good fishing spots, where they don't give him bad ], 45 [Coyote's son has two Swan Wives from the coast, two Gorlinki; he loves Gorlinka, Coyote likes Swans; he makes artificial eagles, invites his son to climb the rock after them, takes off his clothes, makes a rock smooth, puts on his son's clothes, says that Coyote stayed on the rock; sleeps with the Swans; Gorlinki know it's not their husband, they leave food for him in the parking lots; five days later, the Spider lowers the young man off the cliff ; he kills a deer, tells Coyote to bring it, he is carried away by the river; the Coyote turns into a baby, picked up by five swallow sisters who held the fish behind the pond; breaks the dam with wooden ones over his head shields; sisters break them, but Coyote is intact]: 121-126, 126-131; Okanagon: Teit 1917c, No. 3a [Coyote sails down Colombia in the form of a small inverted boat; at the mouth of the river, two sisters blocked it in a pond, preventing the salmon from going up; they find a boat at the top, use it as a trough; the fish put in it disappears; they hit the trough, it turns into a boy; it grows fast; while sisters no, breaks the dam, frees the way for fish; turns sisters into sandstone birds; leads salmon up the river; lets him go where he is given wives, blocks the channel with rapids where they are not given]: 67-70; Hill- Tout 1911 [Once in a hurricane, Coyote wants it to be even stronger, thrown by the wind into the river, swims like a wooden bowl to the fish dam owned by two sisters (birds); they pick up a bowl they put salmon meat in it, the meat is eaten in their absence; the youngest throws the bowl into the fire, which turns into a baby, the youngest decides to raise it; when the sisters leave, the Coyote gets out of the cradle, breaks it a dam; his sisters rush to beat him with digging sticks, but he puts a bone spoon over his head; leads salmon up Colombia, marries Wolverine's daughter, creates rapids in this place so that the fish do not go higher; leads salmon through the tributaries of Colombia; People-Mountain Sheep on the Simulkameen River abandoned salmon, now there is no fish there]: 146-147; kordalen [four women blocked Colombia with a dam, interfering salmon go up the river; the Coyote turns into a piece of wood, swims to platinum, becomes a baby; women pick him up, he grows; asks permission to go to the dam for a drink; breaks it, salmon rush up Colombia]: Teit 1917e, No. 5:121; sanpual [four sisters keep salmon in a pond; the Coyote turns first into a wooden bowl, then into a baby; the sisters pick him up, the youngest suspects deception; he becomes a man again, breaks the dam]: Clark 1953:91-95; coutenay: Boas 1918, No. 60 [Coyote swims down the river; turns into a wooden bowl; Kozoda girls and The snipe picks it up; the meat left in it for the night disappears; in the morning they find a bowl in their beds; throw it away, it turns into a little boy; while the girls are picking berries, Coyote releases salmon and deer, which they kept behind the pond and in the pen; both give birth to a child]: 165-171; Linderman 1997, No. 8 [the old woman tells hungry children that their Uncle Kingfisher has a lot of food; Coyote hears this, he runs to Kingfisher himself (the same beginning with Moose, Puma); he pulls the fish out of the ice-hole, the Coyote breaks on the ice, his wife revives it; the elk bakes the roots, they turn into brain bones; cuts off his wife's nose , feeds the Coyote, puts ash on his wife's nose; since then, moose have such a nose; Coyote hurts the Dog Wife, since then dogs have a short nose; takes meat from Puma while he is not, sends his wife; Puma beats her; Coyote kills with his magic arrow, lives in his house; kills not two deer at once, as his wife tells him, but many; deer roll stones at him; he turns into a board, swims along the river to the top; it is owned by three women; one picks up a board; in her house, the Coyote turns into a baby; left alone, breaks the top, releasing salmon into rivers]: 73-89; alsea [Su'ku converter is looking for a place that is convenient for fishing salmon (when people appear); sees crows killing sea lions; let crows no longer do it, only let people hunt sea lions; turn others into seagulls; Rakun man rolls stones in the sea to make a bridge across it; S. destroyed what he had done, ordered the bridge not to be built; people played shinny, began to fight; S.: playing shinny you can't fight, turned fighters into two trees; saw a girl and her little sister; turned into a baby in a cradle that swam along the river; the baby was first taken by his younger sister, he continued to swim; when he took the eldest, he fell silent; began to feel her, and when got to the genitals, she threw it into the water; he took on his usual form; leaned down for a drink from the spring; frightened of his reflection; then decided: let my children not be afraid of their reflection; saw him sleeping man; he was going to kill several times, but still left him alone; when he dozes off, someone tickles him with a pen; this is the man S. turned him into a wolf; made a good place to catch salmon; each rivers told a man and a woman to live, so there are so many tribes]: Frachtenberg 1920, No. 25:233-235.
California. Kato [Coyote turns into a baby swimming on the river in the cradle; girls pick him up, go to bed; at dawn, Coyote leaves; when girls wake up, they find themselves pregnant]: Goddard 1909, No. 15:219; Yuki: Foster 1944 [The Coyote wove the basket, turned into a baby, swam in a basket along the river; he was picked up by the Swan Girls; at night he became a man, met everyone but the last one, out of caution, to lay on the stone from the back and front; in the morning she just got up but turned into a turtle]: 236; Kroeber 1932b [like a kato; the baby cries when an ugly woman takes it; calms down in the arms of a beautiful woman; in the morning, women cut off Coyote's penis, kill him; he revives]: 938; coastal yuki: Gifford 1937, No. 12 [like a kato; calms down in the arms of the one who picked him up; women give birth to a baby; returning to his wife, Coyote says that he was bitten by a snake; his tribe Woodpecker sees that it was not a snake, but one of the women who stabbed him when he woke up], 21 [as in (12 ); Coyote sleeps with only one woman; Malinovka exposes him]: 124-125, 137-138;
Great Pool. Northern shoshones [Coyote turns into a baby, gets into a boat, swims to the dam that prevents salmon from climbing the river; five women find him, the eldest feeds him; in their absence, he breaks the dam; calls salmon, catches, roasts; falls asleep; Wolves stole salmon, stretched out Coyote's nose; Coyote found Wolves asleep, stretched out his noses and them; married; another man stole his wife; since then people take their wives away from each other]: Lowie 1909b, No. 23i: 275-276; Western shoshones [The rabbit saw two girls, became a little boy, they picked him up; at night he feels their breasts; the next night becomes a man, copulates with them; during the day he turns the swamp over with people, they die; the girls come back, he copulates with them until their insides come out of their mouths; turns into a rabbit]: Smith 1993:167-178
Mesoamerica Mixteci [Our Creator Father (BUT) learns that the mistress of a temazcal (steam bath) owns a ball of thread to measure the world; she comes ashore, where she washes, fires miniature arrows at her, she thinks flies bite; he turns into a baby, gets out of the water; she brings him home, tells her twin sons that they have a little brother; goes to take food to her husband, who works in forest; when he returns, he feeds the baby with his milk; the next day, the boy asks the twins to let him play with their mother's ball; it is stored in a vessel; BUT pulls a thread, measures the world, puts a ball back, lies down in the cradle, cries; a woman scolds the twins for not caring for her brother or comforting him; on the fourth day she returns when BUT is still measuring the world; he explains what she is looking for meat to eat; goes for a walk, she warns not to go to the right; he goes screams, Go get some food, dad!" A deer appears, BUT kills it with an arrow, makes a scarecrow, fills it with wasps and bees; brings meat to a woman; she eats it with her twins; when she brings food to her husband, he does not answer, she hits him with a stick, Wasps and bees fly out, bite it; BUT drowns the temazcal to treat it, closes the exit; it stays inside; it takes the twins and takes it away]: Solano González 1985:172-177.