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The character (by deception) kills an ungulates. He asks another to refresh the carcass, looks for a knife to do it, or a fire to fry the meat. The other freshens the carcass, gives fire or a knife, but takes or tries to take all the meat for himself.

Tangale, Senufo, Ontong Java, Garo, Toraja, Nenets, Chilkotin, Shuswap, Ne Perse, Sanpual, Kurdalen, Klamath, Modoc, Menominee, Crowe, Pawnee, Kiova-Apache, Wichita, Katawba, Maidu, Northern Payut, Western Shoshone, Utah, South Payut, Havasupai, Jicarilla, Lipan, Navajo, Zunyi, Sanema, Carinha (Guyana), Galibi, Kayabi.

West Africa. Tangale [The frog invites Antelope to race, arranges its relatives along the running route, the exhausted Antelope dies; the Frogs do not have a knife, they ask the Hare to cut the meat, he cuts, but takes the best for himself; goes for fire; Frogs pretend to die after eating meat; the latter reports this to the Hare; he throws fire and meat, runs away; Frogs feast]: Jungraithmayr 2002: 44-50; vute [The frog got the beast; Tukur (the dwarf deer) came up and asked if she had a knife, a machete, an ax; she answered no every time; T. gives it all, but takes it all in exchange meat; The frog made a deal with the other frogs and they pretended to be dead; T. replied that they died because they lost their prey; you and I would die too; T. threw the meat and ran away {the meaning is not clear; rather in total, the error and the text is similar in content to the tangale version}]: Sieber 1921, No. 13:170-171; senufo [animals under the guidance of a lion grew sorghum (mil), but it is impossible to blow it - there is no wind; The mistress of heaven, Koutiélo, is consistently sent a hare, a hyena, and everyone else; each time K. gives the wind and the messenger gets a head start, but each time the wind breaks forward and returns to K.; the turtle they gave a big head start, and the wind was so sure of victory that the turtle was the first to get there; for this she was given a bull; but she could not slaughter it on its own; the bull was killed by a hyena; then the hyena's wife, each time in a new one the outfit, like another woman, came up and received a piece of meat as a gift; only giblets and liver were left; the oldest turtle tried it and pretended to die of poison; the hyena rushed to his wife and told me to throw away all the meat; the turtles got the meat]: Pinguilly 1997, No. 3:41-51.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Ontong Java [brother and sister killed a pig but do not know how to cut it; the spirit came and offered to cut it, brother and sister promised him part of the meat; he took all the good, and the bitter and the bad gave it to brother and sister; they had to throw it away; they opened the spirit's earthen oven and took out the meat; knowing that the spirit would chase, the brother told his sister to climb the coconut palm, pick up meat and water there; around palm trees poked the stakes upside down, climbed the palm tree by himself; the spirit came to eat brother and sister; asks how they climbed; sister: upside down; the spirit cannot climb; brother: upside down; the spirit climbed, and the young man poured ash and water into his eyes; the spirit fell, ran into stakes, died]: Keopo 1981:37-38.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Garo [the turtle and the monkey decided to put the tops; the clever monkey caught a lot of fish; the turtle put the top in a small puddle, but a boar hit its top, the monkey offered to cut it, fry the best pieces and eat them on the tree with the best view; invited the turtle to hold on to its tail to pick it up; going up to the middle, asked to loosen its grip, the turtle fell; so three times; the monkey ate all the meat, throwing only the bones to the turtle; when the monkey went to the river to drink, the turtle grabbed its ass; the monkey's nephew tore off the turtle, but the monkey died of blood loss; the monkeys They discuss options for executing the turtle; she replies that the ax will break, the club will be dull, the fire will go out; pretends to be afraid of drowning; swims away]: Rongmuthu 1960:138-140.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Toraja [Pottori Tondon tells her husband that if a lizard living in the house screams, he must run; she screams herself, the husband comes running in panic, hits his wife on the head with a dagger, she rushes into the pool of the river; every day, her daughters come to the shore, she gives her younger breast; the eldest explains to her father that she fed the youngest mulberry; he follows, tries to grab the PT, she slips out; the sisters leave, the eldest she climbs a mango, puts a knife in one fruit, throws a wild boar that comes up, he dies; going to look for fire, the eldest comes to the witch Indo Orro-Orro; she makes her admit that the fire needs to fry the wild boar, so shares the meat that she takes everything for herself; the sisters follow, quietly replace the meat in the witch's basket with stones; she brings the basket to her husband, he scolds the IOO; the sisters eat wild boar meat, the IOO finds them, fattens them; the lizard warns the sisters that IOO wants to eat them, tells them to leave a louse, a bug, a flea in the house to answer for themselves; sisters climb a palm tree, tell it to be tall, throw it where their mother is; fall on east; PT does not recognize them, gives them a pig talker; they see a dagger scar on her head, they cry, everything turns out; PT is married to a boa constrictor; PT tells daughters to throw nuts off the roof, says they are mice; The boa constrictor stops paying attention, falls asleep, the PT throws it under the house where it was trampled on by a buffalo]: Braginsky 1972:138-144.

Western Siberia. Nenets: Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951 [The Deer and the Mouse decide to play hide and seek; The mouse finds the Deer by its horns; the Deer does not find the Mouse, swallows it with grass; it gnaws through its stomach, asks the Raven to take it off the skin; it only bites his eyes; The seagull only pulls its guts; Bears, Wolves, Arctic foxes, foxes eat meat; the mouse is left with horns and hooves]: 87-88; Senkevich 1935 [The Deer and the Mouse decide to play hide and seek; The mouse finds the Deer by horns; The deer does not find the Mouse, swallows it with grass; it gnaws through his stomach, asks the Raven to take off his skin; he only bites his eyes; the mouse goes to bed, tells other animals to take off their skin, leave it fat; those only horns and hooves were left]: 68; Tonkov 1936 [as in Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov; Arctic foxes and other animals eat meat]: 201-203; (cf. Entsy: Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 39 [Mouse and Deer play hide and seek; Mouse finds Deer when they notice horns; The deer does not find the Mouse, swallows it with grass; it gnaws through its guts, jumps out; calls everyone animals go to bed; when he wakes up, he finds that all the meat has been eaten; since then the animals have not communicated with each other], 41 [The deer invites the Mouse to play hide and seek, she finds it by its horns; he swallows it with grass; she gnaws a hole in his stomach, goes out; The deer dies, the Mouse calls friends to a feast, falls asleep; when she wakes up, all the meat is eaten]: 166-167, 170-171).

The coast is the Plateau. Chilcotin [Caribou agrees to transport Porcupine across the river; D. sits on his back, kills him with a needle into his anus; looks for a knife to remove his skin; Wolverine helps to remove his skin, requires fat; D. himself eats fat; R. beats him, thinks she killed him, follows the family; D. carries meat to a tree; tells R. and her household to cover themselves with a blanket when he throws meat to them; throws a sharp bone himself; R. sees in the hole he throws bounces off; D. agrees to help R. climb the tree; R. eats meat, wants to relieve himself; D. tells him to sit on a thin branch for this purpose; R. falls, breaks]: Farrand 1900, No. 25 : 40; shuswap [Moose agrees to transport Wren across the river on his back; he cuts him with a knife, says he is taking out ticks; kills; looks for a large knife to cut the carcass; Wolf picks up the carcass for himself, cuts with a knife; Wren offers to take the meat to the Wolf's children, takes the pieces to the top of the cliff, cooks the meat; the Wolf asks him to throw off a piece; the Wren throws hot meat into the Wolf's mouth, he dies; kills Wolf cubs in the same way; birds feast]: Teit 1909a, No. 60:751-752; ne perse [like the Great Basin tribes; kills a bison with a knife clinging to his leg]: Spinden 1908, No. 9:21-23; sanpual [The woodpecker kills an elk or a deer; he needs a knife; the wolf offers to cut the carcass if the Woodpecker brings his nephews; he goes hits them, says he has not found them; the wolf goes by himself; the woodpecker takes the meat to the cave on rock; throws Volka and his five tribesmen hot stones instead of meat; they die]: Ray 1933, No. 12:154-155; curdalen [cat mockingbird (Dumetella carolinensis) tells his grandmother that wants to make a bow; to get a bowstring, asks Moose to transport it across the river; agrees the oldest Moose; the Mockingbird says that sitting in his hair on his feet, he will soak his moccasins; the same is taller finally, on the nose; climbs through his nose into the Moose, does something to his heart, the Elk dies; the Mockingbird comes out, forgetting the moccasins inside; sings, saying that he does not have a knife; the Wolf hears it, suggests to refresh the carcass, sends a Mockingbird to bring his maternal uncle; the Mockingbird says he does not have moccasins; the Wolf gives his own, Mockingbird deliberately spoils them; the Wolf goes after his children; in This time Mockingbird and his relatives carry meat to the top of the cliff, cover a pile of coal with skin; Mockingbird throws hot stones wrapped in fat from the cliff, those die; he lets Orlitz carry himself to the nest, lives with eagles while their feathers grow, descends on two eagles, pulls out the feathers of their wings and tail, gives the Grizzly to make plumage for arrows; catches fish, does not share with his grandmother; she leaves him in the air; he fishes for everything he needs; fishes for his wife, child; wife calls to her bottom; everything is made of ice; the child disappears; his grandfather says it has already been eaten; together with Mockingbird they return to shore (the informant does not remember further)]: Reichard 1947, No. 22:148-153; Klamath [Porcupine asks Bison (possibly Moose) to transport let him get in the ass across the river to cross the river; refuses to sit on his horns, on his back, hold his tail, climbs into his ass; cuts his liver, kidneys, heart; goes out, looks for a knife cut meat; Coyote gives a knife but demands to compete with him on the run; the winner gets all the meat; Coyote wins, hits Porcupine, leaves his hat as a watchman, runs after his children; Porcupine throws hat into the fire, raises meat to the tree; Coyotes line up below asking for meat; Porcupine sheds his spine, killing Coyotes; the youngest cub escapes, and the current coyotes come from him]: Barker 1963, No. 3:17-21; modoc [Modoc invites Porcupine to transport him across the river; he replies that he is afraid to ride on his back, head, ear; climbs into his mouth, then inside the Moose; cuts on the other side his heart comes out, looks for a knife to cut meat; the Black-Brown Fox gives him his own, offers to jump over the carcass; the winner gets it; wins, kills Porcupine, leaves his hat as a watchman, runs after his own children; Porcupine comes to life, tears his hat apart, lifts meat to the tree; Coyotes line up below asking for meat; Porcupine sheds his spine, killing all Coyotes]: Curtin 1912:272-275.

The Midwest. Menominee [Porcupine asks the Cow to transport him across the river; she offers to hold her by the horns, by the tail; Porcupine replies that he will fall into the water; agrees to climb into her ass; pierces her with a thorn heart; looking for a knife to cut the carcass; Menapus offers his own, freshens the cow, drives Porcupine away; while he goes after his wife and children, Porcupine takes the meat to the top of the pine tree; M. sees the Porcupine's reflection in river, dives with a stone tied to her neck; defecates, the wife takes the crap that has surfaced for Porcupine's giblets; M. unties the stone, sees the Porcupine in the tree; he refuses to throw meat to him]: Bloomfield 1928 , NO. 84:237-245.

Plains. Crowe [like the Great Basin tribes; Coyote loses (jumps unsuccessfully, can't cut the bison) but still calls his family; Porcupine carries meat to a tree; Coyote jumps into the river when he sees him reflection]: Lowie 1918:35-36; (cf. blackfooted [Napa ("The Old Man") makes stuffed animals to two men as if they are going to fight; tells two buffalo that they quarreled over whether the bison is fat or thin; asks for buffalo let him feel them; groping his heart, pierces them with a knife; tells both hands to fresh their carcasses; the right hand is quicker than the left, they swear, fight; bloody N. can do nothing when foxes, coyotes and wolves carry meat]: Linderman 1995:44-47); throw off the pawnee [The turtle asks the Bison to transport it across the river; climbs into his anus, gnaws on his insides, the Bison dies; the turtle sings that it would be nice to get a knife to fresh the prey; the Coyote offers his own on the condition that the meat goes to the one who jumps over the carcass; wins, goes to call his family; the Turtle asks two Eagles to move meat into their nest on poplar; there he makes a fire and cooks meat; the Coyote brings his children, sees the reflection of the fire in the water, thinks it's a Turtle, dives, gets his head stuck between two driftwood; his excrement pops up; the turtle asks its cubs if they want meat; they cry and run away]: Dorsey 1906, No. 130:453-454; Kiova-Apache [Bison offers Porcupine to transport him across the river; he does not want to cling to the wool - the water will wash it away, wants the Bison to take it in his mouth; on the other side he pierces the Bison's heart with thorns; looks for a knife to fresh the carcass; the Coyote pretends to be chrome, offers to jump through the carcass; wins by getting all the meat; while he's gone, Porcupine carries the meat to a tree by the river, cooks it; the Coyote sees the reflection, jumps into the water with the rock, sinks; Porcupine asks the Coyote's children to lie down, closing his eyes; throws ribs instead of meat; kills everyone but the youngest, who opens his eyes; calls him to the tree, feeds him to the dump, tells him to sit at the end of the branch; it breaks, the Coyote falls, breaks to death]: McAllister 1949, No. 17:62-64; wichita [The turtle asks the Bison to transport it across the river; does not want anything but to climb into his anus; on the other side he gnaws through the Bison's intestines, goes out; searches knife to cut the carcass; Coyote gives, offers a race in running; wins meat, follows the family; The squirrel helps the Turtle carry the meat to the tree; the Coyote dives into the river for reflection, almost drowns]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 44:271-274.

Southeast USA. Catawba [The Opossum advises the Deer to get the fruit by hitting a tree; The deer dies; the Opossum looks for a knife, the Wolf hears it, takes the meat; the Partridge frightens the Wolf, helps the Opossum transfer the meat to the tree; The wolf sees the reflection of the Possum in the water, dives; the Opossum laughs, his drools down; the Wolf asks him to drop the meat; he throws larger pieces; throws the bone, the Wolf swallows her, exhales]: Speck 1934, No. 115:87-88.

California. Maidu [Porcupine kills an elk with an arrow; does not have a knife; offers Coyote a quarter of the meat for a knife; Coyote offers to jump over the carcass; Porcupine tells his skin to stand on end, Coyote loses, steals part of meat]: Dixon 1902, No. 10:83-84.

Big Pool. A porcupine kills a bison by crawling inside it and piercing his heart with thorns; he does not have a carcass knife; the Coyote offers his knife; then says that the winner of the competition will get all the meat running or jumping; wins, kills Porcupine; goes to bring his children; Porcupine comes to life, carries meat to the top of the tree. Northern Payutes: Kelly 1938, No. 16a [Porcupine asks Moose to transport him across the river; prefers to climb not on his back or neck, but under his tail; climbs inside; when Moose reaches the shore, kills; looks for a knife to cut the carcass; Coyote suggests that whoever jumps over the carcass gets meat; wins, kills Porcupine; leaves his hat to guard, follows his wife and children; Porcupine comes to life, throws the hat into the water; cuts the carcass (with a Coyote knife?) , carries meat to the top of the juniper; Coyote asks him to drop a piece; Porcupine asks the Coyotes to stand in a row, kills everyone by dropping a heavy portion of meat], 16b [Porcupine asks Moose to transport it across the river; replies that he is afraid to fall, sitting on his back, ear, nose; climbs into the anus; when the Elk goes ashore, kills him with thorns; looks for a knife, cut the carcass; Coyote hears, offers to jump through the carcass; wins, takes all the meat, kills Porcupine, leaves the hat to guard, goes to bring the family; The porcupine comes to life, the hat screams but the Coyote does not hear; The porcupine throws the hat away, transfers the meat to the top of the juniper; the Coyote comes, climbs the juniper, asks where to relieve himself; the porcupine points a thin branch, it breaks off, the Coyote breaks; the Coyote cubs wait for the Porcupine will shed their meat; killed in large pieces]: 407-408, 408-409; Western Shoshones [bison killed by an arrow]: Smith 1993:59-62; Utah: Kroeber 1901 (Utah), No. 5:271-272; Lowie 1924, No. 17 (Southern Utah): 30-31; Mason 1910 (Wintah), No. 16 [without getting inside the moose, the winner will get meat]: 317; Powell 1971 [as in Mason]: 86-87; Sapir 1930, No. 1 (Wintah) [following the buffalo trail, Porcupine (D.) asks bison manure how long ago its owner has passed; the deadline is getting shorter; by the river he asks to transport it; rejects many buffalo, chooses the best one; says that he is afraid to ride on his back, on his horns, in his nose, climbs in the ass; kills when the bison replies that it has reached the shore; other bison butt the carcass, but did not reach D.; he is looking for a knife to cut the carcass; Coyote (K.) says that the one who cuts the carcass through it will jump over; tells D. to wash the meat but not eat it; leaves his excrement as a watchman; they shout that D. is eating meat, K. kills him with a stick, leaves; D. comes to life, puts meat on a pine tree, tells it to grow up; Sheds K. and his cubs a bison's neck, killing everyone but the youngest; he climbed in, ate, K. sent him to relieve himself at the end of the branch, he fell and crashed]: 485-489; Smith 1992:6-9 (Wintah), 86 (White River Utah) ; southern payut (Moapa) [two women stand in front of the house and their sons play with those who come to the house; before playing, women give poisonous porridge to those who come; when players win, they cut off losing heads and throwing them to their mothers; Cünawab {apparently Coyote}, his brother Töbats {apparently Wolf} and their people came to play; did not eat the porridge offered, but threw it to those women; Rabbit from the Coyote team won, cut off the players' heads and threw them to their mothers; they first thought they were the heads of those who came, but then they cried; these women were killed too; then came to play elsewhere; won everything, including pignon pine seeds; they were at the top of a smooth pole; by order of the Coyote, the mouse took them out; the Coyote placed the seeds on the pines - let them always be there; The turtle killed the wild ram; Coyote: who if he jumps over the carcass, he will get the skin; the turtle could not jump over; the Coyote refreshed the ram, but there was no rope to carry the skin; while he went to get grass and made the rope, the Turtle dragged everything to his home; The Coyote asked one of his sons to cause a downpour to flood the Turtle's house; but the Turtle is alive; asked one of his sons to cause a terrible fever; the Coyote and his sons died]: Lowie 1924, No. 2: 160-161; Southern Payut (Shivwitz) []: Lowie 1924, No. 9:119-121; (cf. chemeuevi [The South Fox comes to the river, asks one of the geese girls to transport him; each asks if he wants it, he answers that the other; so to the last, she is the biggest; he gets inside her; asks if the water is deep; she replies that to her calves, hips, etc., and then in reverse order; when it is clear that they are on the other side, the YuL breaks her heart; when she falls, the Goose Girl turns into a dead bison; YuL sings that he is looking for a knife to cut meat; Coyote hears; runs away for a knife; in fact, YuL had a knife; after cutting the carcass, he tells the pine tree to grow; pine understands it and meat; Coyote brings his family; LE tells everyone to lie under a pine tree, he will shed meat; sheds bones, killing everyone but the Coyotic girl; tells her to climb to the end of a thin branch, shakes it off, she breaks to death]: Laird 1974b: 220-221); havasupai [kills a deer; Coyote offers to jump over the carcass, wins; the porcupine slowly eats meat, takes it to the tree]: Smithson, Euler 1994:92-98.

The Great Southwest. Jicarilla: Goddard 1911 [like the Great Basin tribes; Porcupine in the Moose's anus], No. 32, 34 [Coyote kills gophers; Wild Cat drags meat to a tree]: 228-229, 230; Russel 1898 [Porcupine asks Bison to transport him across the river; afraid to sit on his head, agrees to climb into the anus; on the other side he gnaws through vital organs; looks for a knife to cut meat; Fox: whoever jumps over will get meat over the carcass; Porcupine cannot; The fox runs away to invite his own to a feast; Porcupine carries meat to a tree; tells the Fox to lie down with his eyes closed and covered with skins; throws not meat, but sharp ribs; Fox on the edge peeks, dodges, stays alive; The porcupine lifts him up to the tree, feeds him; he asks where to relieve himself; the porcupine sends him to the end of a thin branch; the fox falls; comes to life when his corpse begins to decompose]: 263-264; lipan [like the Great Basin tribes; Coyote does not kill Porcupine]: Opler 1940, No. 24:142-143; Navajo: Haile 1984, No. 8 [like the Great Basin tribes; kills an elk; hereinafter like havasupai]: 41-44; Hill, Hill 1945, No. 13 [as in Haile]: 328-330; Zunyi [The turtle cunningly kills a deer (not specified how), looks for a knife to cut the carcass; Coyote wants for helping half the deer, the Turtle does not agree; the Coyote tries to kill the Turtle, which pretends to be dead; while the Coyote runs to call his wife and children, the Turtle fills the deer's stomach with ants, transfers the meat to the top of a pine tree; ants bite the Coyotes; the turtle sheds heavy ribs instead of meat to the Coyotes; all Coyotes are killed except two puppies; The turtle asks one to climb a tree, gives him meat; after eating The coyote is thirsty; the turtle invites him to drink dew at the end of the branch; it's actually tar; the Coyote falls, crashes to death]: Cushing 1901:244-254.

Southern Venezuela. Sanema [Colchester 1981:96-98; after killing Tapir, the Turtles cannot cut the meat, their knives (=teeth) are not good; Jaguar came, cut the carcass, began to fry, left the Turtles to fan the fire; Turtles They hid the meat in the hole; the Jaguar shoves a vine into the hole, tying the Turtles; so they have a shell in cracks]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 328:575-576.

Guiana. Carinha (Guyana) [The turtle tells Jaguar that he also hunts tapirs, he requires proof; asks Tapir for food, pepper in it, asks for water, does not want to go to the river; Tapir suggests write in her mouth, she agrees; clamps Tapir's penis with her teeth, bites off, Tapir dies; The turtle asks the Jaguar to borrow a knife to cut the meat; the Jaguar undertakes to do it himself, takes all the meat, leaves only giblets; the turtle makes soup out of them, praises them, lets the Jaguar try, throws boiling soup in his face, takes the meat away; the blind Jaguar asks the Little Crow {apparently uruba} for help; she inserts There are black seeds in his eye sockets, he sees, but badly; the Big Crow {apparently the royal vulture} makes his eyes out of resin, now he can see well; since then, vultures have been pecking the remnants of what Jaguar killed]: Gillin 1937, No. 2:190-192; Galibi [the turtle deliberately shows the deer how it falls down the tree; the deer wants it too, crashed; the jaguar came, offered the deer to undress, left the turtle alone giblets; the turtle made soup from them, put a lot of pepper; the jaguar also ate the soup, but the turtle sprayed peppercorn broth into his eyes and took the meat back]: Renault-Lescure et al. 1987, No. 5:51-55.

Southern Amazon. Kayabi [Turtles eat fruit on the tree; Tapir asks him to shed the fruit too, but they throw only the peel; Tapir hits the trunk, the turtles fall, he tramples on them; two have not fallen; follow his footsteps they find more and more fresh excrement; when they saw Tapir sleeping, one climbed into his anus, the other down his throat, killed Tapir; they came to Jaguar to ask for fire; he does not believe that fire should be smoked wasps, took it away from They're meat; they secretly come to Jaguar's house to eat meat; one day he spotted one of the Turtles, threw it away]: Pereira 1995, No. 10:63-64.