M46D. The child asks for a toy. .19.22.-.25.35.37.40.-.43.

A small child cries and calms down only after being given a valuable item hidden in the house to play with. After receiving an item, a child or an associated character takes it away.

Valman, Vietnamese White Thai, Bengalis, Loinang, Ilianen Manobo, Mamanwa, Taosug, Maguindanao, Mansi, Udege, Kodiak, Aleuts, Central Yupik, Northern Alaska Inupiat, Estuary McKenzie, Koyukon, Ingalic, Tanana, Khan, Upper Tanana, Southern Tutchoni, Tagish, Inner Tlingit, Kuchin, Taltan, Eyak, Tlingits, Hyda, Tsimshian, (Heiltsuk, Uvikino, Quakiutl, Nootka), Chilkotin.

Melanesia. Valman (New Guinea's north coast) [parents went for clay, left two daughters and a young son; he cries, wants breast milk; refuses coconut, sugar reeds; stops crying when the sisters make a ball from the core of a sago palm tree and start throwing it over; The sky goes down to see, the ball sticks to the sky, turns into the moon; the spots are dirt, held by sisters and stuck to the ball]: Becker 1971, No. 20:397-398; (cf. Tumleo [parents prepared a sago, put it in a pot, the children (two sisters) saw that pieces of sago have become the moon; when they leave, the parents tell them not to lose the moon; the sisters throw it to each other a woman's evil spirit who comes up catches the moon, lets it go to the sky, says let it shine for everyone]: Schultze 1911, No. 1:39-41; the Purari Delta [in many ravi are nailed to the pillars for decoration white discs from the core of a palm tree, called the "moon"; the first one was owned by two women, illuminating it at night; Iko's hero came from the west, took the disc, threw it into the sky, it became the Month ( male)]: Williams 1924:231).

Burma - Indochina. Vietnam's white tai [a poor orphan cuts wood for sale; sees seven heavenly maidens descend to the lake, take off their clothes and wings, bathe; hides the youngest's wings; takes her as his wife; a year later she gives birth to a son; in the absence of his wife, the father calms the crying child by giving him his mother's wings to play; one day the mother was left alone with the child, who cried and pointed to where the woodcutter hid his wings; the mother finds them, after a while flies away, giving her son her ring and telling her father to come to her if they want; the husband put his son on his back, went to look for his wife; the way through the mouth in the rock, which closes, then opens; The fox advises throwing acidic fruits there, your teeth hurt, the movement of the mouth will stop for a while; father and son pass; on the way there is a river with nine channels, in which it even dissolves iron; a dog with nine tails and nine heads promises to carry if riders do not laugh in the middle of the river; in the middle of each channel, the dog makes an indecent sound, father and son laugh, one head and one the tail falls off; before the last crossing, a person ties his mouth and his son with a handkerchief, they reach the shore; since then, all dogs have one head and one tail, before it was nine; the phoenix offers spend the night under his wing, and in the morning he and his mother will bring them to where they celebrate the princess's return from land; the phoenix's mother carried them to the river bordering the sky; the maids collect water to bathe princess, husband throws a ring into the kushvin; his wife recognizes him, tells him to call those who come; her father suggests 1) tying each of the 300 buffaloes to the pole to which he is always tied; firefly shows who to tie to; 2) sow the grain and harvest it again; the birds collected it, but the king noticed that several grains were missing; one bird swallowed them, the king twisted its neck, since then the birds this type of goiter on the back of the head; 3) find a princess in a palace of 100,000 rooms overnight; the rat promises to bring a dry leaf under the right door, but halfway she was eaten by a cat; then the firefly leads to the right room ; the king arranges a wedding, then sends the young to land, where the son-in-law also becomes king]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 11:311-316.

South Asia. Bengalis [Duo is the king's eldest, unloved wife, Suo is the youngest's beloved; both are childless; the fakir gives S. a drug to give birth to a beautiful boy; his life will be in a gold necklace, it's in a box, in the belly of the fish in the spring; D. finds out; when the young man's pigeons fly into her room, she returns them for promising to find out what his life is; when she finds out, she pretends to be sick, asks her to eat that fish, puts on a gold necklace; the young man dies but his body is left in the garden; every night D. takes off his necklace, the young man comes to life and feeds; the sister of the god of fate Bidhata-Purusha learns from him that her daughter will come out for the deceased; she goes into a young man's garden at night; they are married; she learns his secret; she has two children; she pretends to be a hairdresser, comes to D.; tells her child to cry; he calms down, only having received a necklace from D.; his mother promises to return it in the morning; the prince no longer dies; the king orders D. to be placed in a vertical hole, covered with thorns, then buried alive]: Day 1914, No. 1:1-16.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Loinang [Ade Banggai sees seven heavenly maidens coming to swim in a pond; she hides one of them's clothes; she is forced to marry him, gives birth to a daughter; he hid her clothes under the roof in a flute; the daughter cries, the mother dismantles the roof to let in the sunlight, finds clothes, flies away; AB rises to heaven on a rattan that has grown to heaven, lives there with his wife and daughter; one person began to sweep cut off the rattan, it fell, the table is a mountain; AB descends to the ground on the back of a large bird, falls on a banyan tree, turns into a monkey, becomes the ancestor of monkeys; the bird becomes small, now nests in rice crops without harming them]: Kruyt 1930:505-508 in Fischer 1932:213-214, in Lessa 1961:148, 154.

Taiwan - Philippines. Ilianen manobo: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 1 [Beletamey hunted wild chickens, heard a noise in the sky by the pond, seven heavenly maidens took off their feathers, began to swim, B. hid the youngest's clothes; The eldest tried in vain to take her sister with her; B. brought the maiden home, married her; she gives birth to a girl; she cries, and when B. climbs under the roof behind the box in which he hid the clothes of the heavenly maiden, stops; he opens the drawer, the maiden takes her clothes, flies away; tells her to take care of the baby, leaves a bottle of her milk, goes down twice to feed her daughter, then flies away altogether], 2 [Itung does anklets, goes to look for suitable vines, lost his way, came to a woman's house (this is his father's sister), who says that at noon 7 heavenly maidens go down to the pond to swim; their hand monkeys they guard their clothes, the woman advises taking bananas to distract the monkeys; I. hides the youngest's clothes, others fly away, he marries the youngest, she warns that she will fly away if she finds her clothes; she gave birth a girl; she asks for a parcel hidden under the roof; I. is forced to get it and open it; the wife grabs her clothes, flies away; I. leaves her daughter to her parents, goes to look for his wife; meets an old man, this is the leader birds; birds do not know the way to the country "where the moon rises and the sun sets"; fish do not know either, but then the eel says to go west through 7 ridges and 7 valleys; the local leader promises to give I. his wife, if he identifies her among 7 identical ones; I. recognizes by the spot from the needle injection on his little finger; takes his wife, returns home]: 21-29, 31-51; mamanwa [seven heavenly sisters went down to the ground to swim, they took off their clothes; the youngest was Ilya Manlangitnen ("living in heaven"); Tawtamisaá hid the youngest's feather clothes, took the maiden as his wife; one day their little son saw a flute under the ceiling, began to cry, ask her; her mother took it out, found her clothes in them, flew away with her son; The boa constrictor brought T. to heaven; the virgin's father demands 1) pull a piece of iron out of the ground, 2) bring water in a basket of holes; the eel fulfilled these tasks; 3) finding a wife in a dark room where she sleeps with her sisters; the firefly said he would sit on his wife; the father of the heavenly maidens arranged a party, and also brought Mother T. to heaven]: Wrigglesworth 1991 , No. 10:133-137; Taosug: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 16 [parents tell Prince Jalilul Akbar to take his wife from heaven; he hides in the forest, sees 7 heavenly maidens go down to swim; hid the youngest's wings Putli Intan ("diamond princess") in the wind tube; became a fish, swam to PI, she was tired of the fish, she got out of the water, began to dress, did not find wings, the sisters flew away; Ja brought PI home, the sultan arranged wedding, they had a boy; while the father is playing ball, the son cries, wants his father's brass pipe to play, PI found wings in it, fed the child and flew away; in a dream she appeared to her husband, told her husband to take care of son], 3 [seven houri maidens came down from the sky to swim; the wings of the youngest named Julpa disappeared; the elders flew away for new ones; Prince Julamri brought Julpa to him, hid his wings under the stove; married Julpa, although she had a lover in heaven; Julpa gave birth to a son, Jarries; when the boy is one year old, he still cries, points towards the kitchen; the mother found her wings, the boy is happy, the mother fixed them; left them for her son the ring flew away; the father came back, took the son, went to look for his wife; the maid collects water in the river to bathe Julpa; Julamri asks for a drink, throws a ring into the jug; he and the son go after the maid to the party Julpa marriages; when the imam started pouring water on her, the ring fell out, she recognized him; Julampri defeated his new fiancé in a Chris duel, got his wife back]: 191-197, 262-267; maguindanao [ Sulayman, King Sulayman's son, saw seven women bathing in a pond in the forest; Putri Anak's youngest sister ("baby princess") was the last to swim; the sisters went to the mosque, S. hid the PA's clothes; she became his wife, gave birth to a son; the boy cries, wants a piece of bamboo hanging under the roof; the PA found her clothes in bamboo, put it on, returned to heaven; her son became a prince]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 17:199-203.

(Wed. 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. Mansi [Moss woman lived with her brother; he hunts, she sews and cooks food; as soon as she is going to cook, someone lifts her hair under the plague roof; brother comes back, the food is not ready; on the third once asks what was going on; waited and cut off his hand; tells her sister not to take her out of the plague; a woman comes in: give her brother's hand, or he will die; to take a woman, Moses tells her to enter, marries her; a boy was born ; while the father is away, she cries, asks for her hand to play with bells; the woman Moses gave, the brother's wife grabbed her hand and the child and ran away; when Brother Moses returns, the hand pierced him with an arrow and he petrified]: Lintrop 2019:175-177.

Amur - Sakhalin. Udege people: Lebedeva et al. 1998, No. 25:197-203 [while her older brother is away, a bird girl flies to the younger Latige, takes off her wings and claws; he sews her clothes to his own, older brother grabs her, hides the bird's clothes in a box; while her husband is away, her son cries, wanting his mother's clothes; she takes the clothes, flies away with her son, the husband shoots his son's little finger; sends a decoy duck to the bird wife ( given by the old woman), grabs his wife, tears off, burns her bird's clothes; when they returned, L. stuck to the door (because he ate good meat, not bad meat as ordered); they revive it]; Nikolaeva 2003, No. 5 [Lektige lives with her younger sister; she does not know how to sew; someone washes, sews, embroiders in L.'s absence; L. waits for a duck woman; grabs her feathers; one day their son cries; sister L. says he looks for her mother's duck clothes; the mother takes her clothes, flies away with her son; L. goes in search; the old woman says that a woman with a child stayed with her, must be on the red lake; L. lures her This old woman catches a decoy duckling; she agrees to drop her feathers, he burns them; at home, her sister stuck to the door; says that L.'s wife's seven sisters ate all supplies]: 38-41.

The Arctic. Kodiak [the chief's daughter is promised to the one who gets the light; the raven turns into a feather, swims in a spring, the daughter of the light owner swallows a feather full of water, becomes pregnant; her son asks for three to play box; finds night in the first month, stars in the second month, the sun in the third; flies away taking the last two; releases first the month and stars, then the sun; gets both daughters of the leader]: Golder 1903, No. 6:85-87 ; Aleuts ["It's great that this fairy tale about a crow receiving light through birth from a girl was also known to the Lisyev Aleuts in almost the same form, including the name Elya, instead of which raven-bird plays the role. This toyon, the guardian of the luminaries, lived somewhere at the height "]: Veniaminov 1840 (III): 47 (quoted in Lyapunov 1984:26-27); central Yupik: Krenov 1951 (Kuskoquim) [the hunters did not give the old woman meat, she hid the light; she was beaten and killed; the Raven was sent to look for light; the Milky Way was his trail; he turned into a sliver, fell into a bucket of water; the daughter of the owner of the light brought the bucket home, the sliver turned into a boy, he was adopted; he wants a ball with light to play; when he becomes a Raven, he takes him away; he opens it at home, the world is light again]: 193-195; Nelson 1899 (hall. St. Michael, unaligmiut) [there are too many people; the creator raven hides the sun in a bag, opens it only for a while; his older brother turns into a leaf (needle?) ; Raven's wife goes to fetch water, drinks, swallows a leaf, gives birth to a boy; he asks for a bag of sun to play; takes him away, opens; makes the Morning Star out of a bunch of burning grass; his descendants gradually become ordinary crows]: 460-462; Northern Alaska Inupiate: Gubser 1965 [Umialik (rich man) owns two balloons with bright and dim light; the rest live in the dark; daughter w. refuses get married; The raven turns into an eagle feather, falls into the lake, the girl goes to fetch water, drinks, swallows a feather, soon gives birth to a boy with a lump on his forehead; he grows fast, wants to play with light, grandfather he is bored with crying, he allows him, although the cone resembles a crow's beak; the raven takes away the light, breaks, it becomes light; the woman cries, says that let the day be divided into dark and bright parts; dim light first stayed with him, but then he broke him out of grief]: 35-39; Hall 1975, No. EH6 (Noatak) [it's always dark; the rich man has two balls; the squirrel digs a hole at the well, where the rich man's daughter takes water; the raven hides there , drops dirt (probably her feces) into the well, the girl drinks water, swallows dirt, gives birth to a boy with a ponytail; he asks for balls to play; at first he gets only the little one; when she gets a big one, pushes him out at home; The squirrel and the boy run away, throwing the ball to each other, the owner cannot take it away; shouts to the Raven that let his people take half; if the Raven took the small ball, the days would be short, and now they are long]: 83-85; Lucier 1958, No. 3 [It's dark in the world; The raven becomes a child, needs a ball to play; takes it out of the house, breaks it, the sunlight comes out; the father says let the light be so now always]: 92; Spencer 1959 (tareumiut) [the world is dark; a woman and her father live by the sea; she goes to fetch water, swallows a feather floating in the water; gives birth to a boy with a crow's beak; this is Tulugaak ( Raven); he wants to play with the bubble that hangs in the house; tears it up, it becomes light; T. disappears; the woman's father is angry]: 385; McKenzie's mouth [man and woman hold light in two bladder; The fox and the Raven come to kidnap him; the woman goes out to urinate, the Raven tells the willow branch to penetrate her vagina; the woman becomes pregnant, gives birth to a boy; he demands these balls to play; pushes out the smaller outside, the Fox takes him away; the child turns into a Raven, follows; when they leave the chase, the Fox and the Raven tear the ball, the light floods the ground; if they carried away a larger bubble, there would be no night]: Ostermann 1942:70-73.

Subarctic. Koyukon: Attla 1983 [the sun is gone; people tied a rope to the Bear so that when he looks for berries, they will find it; The bear thinks it's okay, let it be dark; people ask the Raven for help, give him as much food as he wants; the Raven flies away; turns dust and grass into good clothes and shoes; the owner of the sun suspects that it is a Raven, but others say that he is rich handsome; his daughter fell in love with the Raven, he began to live in their house; noticed a dog, asked him to hang it; people notice that someone with a three-toed paw pecked over the corpse; everyone should show bare feet; the Raven says so that the veil covers their eyes, the audience does not notice that he has three toes on his feet; sent his wife to fetch water, threw a fir needle into the water, the woman drank, swallowed it; gave birth to a boy; in the same place it remained dark, the Foxes sang, Let there be light; rattles were tied to the sun and moon in the house so that no one would touch it secretly; the boy cries, asks for the sun to play, the grandfather gives; the raven wants for the dog to grab the salmon; everyone rushed to the yard for the dog, but the Raven back into the house, grabbed it, released the sun, it became light; kicked the child, he turned into a bunch of fir needles; grabbed the moon, became tear off a piece, giving each one of the months of the year the name; December became Nameless; The Raven is back, everyone is happy with the light]: 89-105; De Laguna 1996, No. 23 [The raven makes himself a rich outfit with cones and berries, marries the daughter of a leader who owns the Sun and the Month; a boy born asks for the sun and a month to play; the Raven's outfit begins to turn into what he came from; the raven flies away, grabbing the sun, month and stars; the wind puts them in the sky], 25 [The raven makes the sun and the month, the leader steals them; the raven comes to him disguised as a rich man; throws a fir needle into the water, the leader's daughter swallows her, gives birth to a boy; the raven takes her as his wife; the boy asks for the sun and the month to play; the raven screams that the dog is robbing the barn with frozen fish; everyone runs there, he turns the boy into a fir branch, takes away the sun and the month; then makes stars], 26 [as in (23); The Old Raven gets the sun; cuts off a piece, makes a month out of it]: 197-198, 201-209, 210-214; Jette 1908-1909 [people promise the Crow two dogs to eat if he finds the lost sun; he flies, sees a beautiful girl coming for a drink; turns into a fir needle; a girl swallows it with water, gives birth to a boy; he asks for a hanging the sun is in the house; brings it back to people]: 304-305; inhalic [the daughter of a rich man rejects her suitors; her father's village is light; the raven comes, turns into a fir needle, the girl swallows it with water, gets pregnant, gives birth to a boy; he still cries until he gets a shining thing; flies away with it, bringing light to people]: Chapman 1914, No. 5:22-26; tanaina [the rich man hides the sun and the month; the raven drops in the source of her pen or turns into a fish; the daughter of a rich man drinks, swallows a feather or fish; gives birth to a boy; he asks for sun and a month to play; turns into a crow, takes them away; people are grateful to him]: Osgood 1937 [The raven drops the fir needle, the rich man's daughter swallows it with water; the child gets sun and a month to play; when he becomes a Raven again, flies out through a gap in the corner of the house]: 183-184; Smelcer 1992 [turns into fish]: 111; Vaudrin 1969 [drops his pen]: 43-44; tanana [like tanine; no details]: Smelcer 1992 [turns into a fish]: 31; atna [the chief holds stars in three carved boxes, a month and the sun; his daughter comes to the spring; the raven turns into a speck, the girl swallows it with water; gives birth to a son; the boy asks for and receives stars and a month to play; throws them through the chimney; gets a box with the sun; turns into a crow, takes it away; people don't believe that light exists; the raven opens the box; people are scattered around the world in fear]: Smelcer 1997:19-21; Khan (Eagle) [Bear took the sun off the sky, hung it around his neck under his clothes; the Raven marries his daughter; they have a son; the Raven tells him to ask for the sun to play; the boy throws the sun through a hole in the roof, the Raven flies away next]: Schmitter 1910:26 (=1985:38-39); Upper Tanana: Brean 1975 [a rich chief stole the sun and the month; the raven turns into a piece of moss, the chief's daughter swallows it with a scoop of water; gives birth to a boy; he asks and gets a month and sun to play; throws them out through a hole in the roof, flies away]: 37-41; McKennan 1959 [the old man owns the sun and the month; the raven turns into a fir needle, falls into a spring; the old man's daughter swallows it with water; gives birth to a boy; he asks for the sun and a month to play; turns into a Raven, takes the stars away; smears them with resin, sticks them to the sky; draws them with a pole way across the sky]: 190-191; Smelcer 1992 [like tanine; turns into a piece of moss]: 111; southern tutchoni: McClelland 2007 (1), No. 1b [the world is dark, daylight, sun, moon is owned by a rich man; he has a daughter; her maid goes to fetch water; the raven turns into a grain of dirt, tells the maid to keep silent about it, the daughter of the luminary owner swallows dirt along with the water; becomes pregnant, gives birth three weeks later boy; he asks for a box of daylight to play, then the sun, then the moon; every time he releases into the world; then turns into a crow, flies away]: 18-22; Workman 2000 [(the informant remembered fragments); The raven created the world; the rich man's daughter collected water; the raven made garbage fall into the scoop; after drinking water, the girl swallowed it, gave birth to a son Raven; something about the stolen sun]: 81; tagish, inner tlingits [The raven turns into a pine needle, falls into the cup of the chief's daughter; she spits out the needle, but it is again in her mouth, swallowed; she gives birth to a boy; her father gives for him to play the sun, the month, the stars; the Raven puts them in a box, takes them away; animal people do not give him fish; he opens the box, it becomes light; animal people turn into animals]: Cruickshank 1992:42-43; Kuchin: McGary 1984 [The bear lives higher up the river, hides the sun, hangs in his house behind his bed; the Raven comes there, enters the house; the Bear's daughter goes to the river, scoops water with a ladle to drink, something the black woman falls into the ladle all the time, she swallows, immediately feels pregnant; the Raven swims away, the Bear's daughter gives birth to a boy that night; he grew up, began to go outside on his own, one day began cry, ask for a bright balloon; the grandfather gave it to him, told him not to take it far; the boy threw the balloon into the sky, the sun shone; the bear rushed at the boy, he flew like a crow down the river, sat on the fir]: 275-285; McKennan 1965 [The bear holds the sun in a bag above his bed; the Bear's daughter comes to get water; the raven turns into a speck, falls into her bucket, she swallows it with water, gives birth to a boy; he demands the sun for games; rolls out the door, puts it back into the sky]: 90-91; taltan [the chief keeps the light in the box; the raven turns into a cedar needle, falls into the water; the servant brings water to the leader's daughter for drinking; that gives birth to a son; he asks for the sun to play first, then the Big Dipper, then daylight; flies away through the chimney, holding sun and light in one hand, and the Big Dipper in the other month; throws light on north, sun east, month west, Ursa Major south]: Teit 1919, No. 1. 5:204-205; tagish [The raven goes to get sun, month and daylight; its owner and daughter live on the island; the raven lives on the island; turns into a fir needle, falls into the cup from which the girl drinks; she gets pregnant, gives birth to a boy, he cries and gets a month to play, leaves him; then receives and takes a bag with the sun; steals people have fat in the dark, throws dog crap back to them; opens their bag with the sun; when light comes, animal people turn into animals, everyone tells them who they will be]: McClelland 1987:254-257 (=2007, 73c: 361-362).

NW Coast. Eyak [a wealthy family keeps the sun, the month, the stars; the raven will turn into a fir needle, fall into a vessel of water from which the girl drinks; flies out through the chimney, carrying the stars]: Birket-Smith, Laguna 1938:251 [people fish; The raven can't fish in the dark; lets the stars out of the box; it's always light], 259-260 [fishermen don't give the Crow fish; he catches luminaries; for to make it light, they give him all the catch]; the Tlingits [the rich/chief in the upper reaches of the Ness River owns light; the raven turns into a garbage; the rich man's daughter swallows it with water; her father gives it to her grandson first a bag of stars, then a month; he throws lights through the chimney into the sky; after receiving a box of daylight, he turns into a Raven, takes the light away]: Golder 1907c: 292-293; De Laguna 1972:852-856 [ The raven turns first into a feather, then into a fir needle], 860-862 [first into a beetle, then a hemlock needle]; Smelcer 1992 [into a hemlock needle]: 31-32; Swanton 1909 [into a hemlock needle], No. 1, 31:3-4, 81-82, p .374 [the world was dark; one man knew that Raven-Upper Reky-Ness had light, came to his daughter; was born to ask his grandfather for light, brought it to the people]; Hyda: Barbeau 1961 [monster with in two mouths - the leader's slave; brings a lot of prey, eats almost everything himself; the leader's son dies; people mourn, he is resurrected; the monster tells him to eat his skin scales; now the young man is hungry all the time; his my father is ashamed, he allows him to go to get light, lets him wear crow skin; the young man flies into the sky through a narrow passage, the walls of which converge and diverge; fir needle]: 83-85; Swanton 1905 (Skidgate) [like Barbeau; some needle; steals the moon; where the chief lives is not clear; smashes the moon before throwing it into the sky (moon phases)]: 116-118; Haida (Masset): Swanton 1908a: 308 -311 [The raven comes to a lonely woman who owned the moon; dies himself and she becomes pregnant (without details); The raven comes out of her thigh; cries, asks the moon to play; closing all the holes in at home, a woman gives the moon; when the smoke hole expands, the Raven turns into a crow, flies out with the moon under its wing; the raven asks fishermen for fir needles, referring to candlefish; promises to make light, they don't believe it; he shows the moon, he gives him fish; he breaks the moon in half, making the sun and the moon; the fragments turn into stars]; the Tsimshian [like Hyde: flies through a narrow passage]: Barbeau 1961 [( three versions); fir needle]: 75-82; Barbeau, Beynon 1987 [the world is dark (gloomy), there is no sun; the chief came in and saw his wife and lover; he thought it was his nephew; he told his wife that everything knows; she was shocked and soon died; the coffin was hung from a pole; the chief is surprised that his nephew shows no signs of grief; tells me to watch; people see a woodpecker flying up to the coffin every evening, and in the morning flies away; they hear laughter from the coffin; the chief came to see for himself, but cadaveric worms fell on him; the woman in the coffin gave birth, the baby got out; when the coffin was opened, there was a decayed corpse; the chief ordered one of sisters take care of the baby as if it were his son; she has a son of the same age; they have grown up as brothers; the chief's son took two ducks, took off their skins; when they were put on, the young men learned to turn into ducks, fly; flew to a leader who had daylight; we had to fly between two mountains that converge and diverge; the brothers agreed that whoever flew would marry the leader's two daughters; they flew and descended into the lake in front of the chief's house; each of his daughters took one of the ducks that turned into men at night; both gave birth to a son; from the eldest Txamsen ("Smart"), from the youngest Lugabula (" Lazy"); at this time, the houses of the missing young men mourn their loss; two babies were seen on seaweed in the sea; chief: they came back; they grew up, one of them took the form of a crow so that steal the sun from the leader of heaven; flew to where the chief's daughter took water, turned into a needle, she swallowed it with water; it was the same Txamsen; the baby cries, wants a ball with light to play; one day he rolled the ball out of the house, became an adult man, then put on a crow's skin and took the ball away; saw spirit people fishing in the light of torches; they refused to share the fish, T. tore the ball, daytime light spread across the world, the sun appeared, the spirits were gone]: 1-5; Boas 1902 [cedar needle]: 10-16, 21-23; Garfield, Forest 1961 (b. Ness) [Chief Raven Upper River. Ness owns the sun, moon and stars; the raven asks fishermen for fish, they mock him, promise to give fish in exchange for daylight; the raven goes to the leader's daughter, turns into a garbage, and is thrown away with water; then in a hemlock needle, the girl swallows it; gives birth to a boy; the girl's mother suspects that the baby has feathers under her skin; a grown boy asks for the moon to play, throws it to the sky, pretends which is accidental; gets a box with the sun, gets stuck in the chimney, gathers all his strength, flies out; fishermen continue to laugh at him; he opens the box, fishermen turn into all the animals whose skins they are wore]: 78-79; (cf. [turning a crow kid into a bird is not mentioned] heiltzuk [The raven consistently turns into a fish, a needle, a berry; the chief's wife throws this garbage away every time; finally, into a drop of fat, a woman swallows it with water; a boy born asks for a box of sun to play; takes it away; several groups of fishermen refuse to share their catch with the Raven (they catch candlefish); he opens the box, people turn into frogs and waterfowl]: Boas 1916, No. 1:883; uvikino [(told by a young woman); Our Father sent the First Chief to earth; he taught us how to weave nets to catch salmon; in the sky Only the moon was shining; the Raven ("true leader", "great inventor") knew that only Menis ("alone in the world") owned the sun; became a pine needle, fell into the vessel of M.'s eldest daughter; she drank water without swallowing needle; then the Raven became berries, she noticed their reflection, ate them, gave birth to a boy; he immediately speaks; cries, asks his grandfather to make the top to catch salmon for him; he does, but the grandson soon again cries; the same is a bow and arrow; a paddle; a boat; a box hanging under the roof; the mother does not give, the grandfather gives; the grandson wants to be allowed to take the box away in the boat; returns the first time, opens the box the second time, sunlight floods the world]: Boas 1916, No. XX.1.1:208 (=2002:443-445); quakiutl: Boas 1910, No. 17 [Omean (raven) turns into the child of the mistress of daylight (she is a seagull); asks for playing a boat, then a vessel of light; sails away in a boat, brings light to the world]: 233-235; Boas 1895, No. XVIII/1 (tlatlasicoala neveti) [the world is dark, Omeatl (raven) turns into a piece of wood; owner The sun sends her daughter to bring her; after taking her, she becomes pregnant; a born boy asks for a box of sun to play, takes it with him into the boat; cuts off the rope, sails away, opens the box; first eternal day; the former owner of the sun also makes the night]: 173-174; Nootka: Boas 1916, No. 1 [the chief of another village keeps the sun in a box; the raven turns into a hemlock needle; crying, gets a boat first, the fastest moving paddle, then a box of sun; opens it only after the wise Wren promises that everyone will give him fish and oyster of every species after each catch]: 888- 892.

The coast is the Plateau. Chilkotin [one person owns the light; the raven turns into a spruce needle, the man's wife goes down for a drink, swallows a needle along with water, gives birth to a boy; he cries, gets to play a box of light; becoming a Raven again, takes him away; women give him berries for opening the box slightly; the Raven breaks the box, releasing light; people are tired of eternal light, the Raven tells the night and day alternate]: Farrand 1900, No. 2:14-15.