M46C. Swallowed needle. .20.40.-.43.

The character turns into a needle, a garbage, a small insect. A woman swallows it and becomes pregnant. See M46B motif.

Micronesiaâ€"Polynesia. Truk [mosquito larva]; Ifaluk [mosquito].

The Arctic. Northern Alaska inupiate [feather; mud]; central yupik (unaligmiut) [leaf (needle?)] ; Kodiak [fluff].

Subarctic. Koyukon; kuchin [speck]; inhalic; tanaina; atna [speck]; upper tanana; southern tutchoni [grain of mud]: Workman 2000:81; tagish, internal tlingits; taltan.

NW Coast. Eyak; tlingits; haida; tsimshian; bellacula; heiltsuk [fat drop; fish, needle rejected]; uvikino [berries; pine needle rejected]; chickpea.

The coast is the Plateau. Chilcotin [spruce needle].