M54. The runaway wakes up in the same place. (.11.40.) .43.44.46.

The character lives or stays at someone else's house; then goes far away, falls asleep, but wakes up again in the same house.

(Wed. Bantu-speaking Africa. Tetela, Vakusa [Dikulu lost to the Sun in the dice; grabbed half of what he lost, ran away; but wherever he ran, the Sun was everywhere]: Frobenius 1983:71).

(Wed. The Arctic. Kodiak [two hunters can hardly see the dwarf dwellings; dwarfs fresh salmon, call it a whale; ask for help to kill a brown bear in the lair; it is a mouse in a hole, people easily kill it; They hide two dwarfs in their clothes for happiness, try to leave, but find themselves in the same place; to leave, they have to free the dwarfs; they return home]: Birket-Smith 1953:148).

The coast is the Plateau. Okanagon [Coyote comes to giant Swanaiten; decides to steal two stones with which he carves fire; runs all night, climbs a tree in the morning; hears S.'s voice, who asks why he is sitting on the stairs in his house with stones in his hands; the next night, the Coyote carries the stones away again; when S. wakes up, they see him running around the hearth; Coyote admits defeat, eats breakfast, leaves S.]: Hill-Tout 1911:144-145; coutenay [(two var.); Coyote marries the daughter of the Sun; tries three times to carry away the frame to dry his skins or torch; the Sun advises him to walk away from his house without rest for two nights and day or three days and three nights]: Boas 1918, No. 56:133-141, 298-299; Western sachaptin [1) A month sends his son to kill people, eats testicles; Coyote pretends to be the brother of the Month, kills him his son with a club, puts on his clothes, feeds the Month with his son's testicles; there are many ornaments in the house; when the Month falls asleep, the Coyote takes them away, walks for a long time, falls asleep; wakes up at the exit from the house of the Month; the same the next night; The Month asks why the Coyote killed his son; the Coyote tells him not to kill people anymore, to be a month; 2) the same; The month was hot as the Sun; Coyote cuts off his head, tells him to be a month]: Farrand, Mayer 1917, No. 12:173-175; yakima: Beavert 1974 [Coyote goes east to look for bison; falls asleep at night, wakes up in the same place; so four times; his "sisters" (excrement) say that it is the Sunwoman who mocks him; he is advised to become a feather for the wind to carry him away; to land, he becomes a branch; enters a rich tipi, asks the owner's five daughters to marry; these are bisonichs; the owner warns not to have sex with them for five days; they go west, spend every night in the same tipi they magically carry with them; the Coyote becomes a bison; the older girl does not like the new one country; she lies down, exposes her genitals, Coyote copulates; bison returns east, Coyote becomes a coyote again]: 45-51; Hines 1992, No. 46 [Coyote's daughter marries Mountain Sheep; in the cave of that a lot of fat; at night, the Coyote collects the owner's property, takes it away; in the morning he wakes up in the same cave; the sister of five Brothers, Mountain Sheep, descends an avalanche on them; all turn into mountain peaks ; sister can't go down the mountain, wild sheep live only in the mountains]: 131-139; ne perse [son of the Month kills passers-by with a club, brings corpses to his father, he eats his genitals raw, cooks the rest ; The Coyote invites the Son of the Month to bend down for a drink, give him his club, kills him, changes his clothes with him, brings his son's corpse to the Month under the guise of prey; the Month devours him; at night, the Coyote runs away, by morning falls asleep, wakes up on the doorstep; like this three times; then kills the Month, tells him to shine at night] Spinden 1917, No. 7:186-187; tillamook [South Wind saw a girl on the seashore; Blue Jay advised me to grab her without blinking; this is the daughter of the Sea; the South Wind took her home; went to her father, his pets are whales and other marine animals; returned; the first wife of South Wind left, but again ended up in the corner of his house; the whole world is his home]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 26:92-93.

The Midwest. Sauk, Fox [see J19 motive; a man with a second person on the back of her head kills a woman, pulls twins out of her belly; the father throws the youngest under a log, is raised by an old rat woman; he comes to play with his brother; brother and father grab him; brothers kill monsters; father is afraid of their magical powers, runs away from home, wakes up in the same place in the morning; the fourth time it is day and night, no longer returns]: Lasley 1902:176-178; sauk [seeing two women bathing, a man sends his penis, tells him to bring the one he likes best; people send Moose for the missing woman; penis catches up with them, returns the woman; Visakia causes frost, the penis cannot crawl, V. takes the woman to the Turtle; he puts V. to sleep, talking about his exploits; takes away his beautiful clothes, runs all night; falls asleep in the morning; Wakes up in the same house V.]: Skinner 1928, No. 16:155-156.

Plains. Sarsi [The old man stopped in the tipi of a lonely man; the owner offered bison tongues to eat; the old man noticed two spears, decided to steal one, took it away at night, but in the morning he found himself with the old tipi; so four times; so now thieves are always found]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 9:10-11; blacklegs: Grinnell 1982 [The old man stays at the Sun's house; while hunting, his legs set fire to the grass, driving out the deer ; at night, the Old Man takes his legs away, runs for a long time, lies down with them under his head; wakes up in the house of the Sun, explains that at night he decided to use them as a pillow; the same for the second night (The old man did not know what home was Suns are the whole world); The sun gives legs; the old man wears them when hunting, they light up, he jumps into the river, his legs burn]: 167-168; Josselin de Jong 1914 [like Wissler, Duvall]: 7-9; Linderman 1995 [ The moon made the Sun beautiful legs; at night he slept with them under his head; Napa ("The Old Man") went there (the Moon and the star children were working at the time), took the moccasins, went far, went to bed; when he woke up, saw the Sun take the moccasins, left laughing; the next night N. stole them again; the Sun angrily called him a fool, for the whole world is the house of the Sun, you can't hide from it]: 36-39; Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. 14 [Napi (Old Man) comes to a house whose owner is (probably) the Sun; steals his legs; after the second (or fourth) attempt, the owner gives them to him; tells him to wear them only during the paddock hunting with fire; N. wears to brag; legs light up, N. hardly drops them, they burn]: 31-32; Sheena [Veeho (European, trickster) comes to the Sun's tipi, carries his legs, runs all night, falls asleep, wakes up again in the heat of the Sun; the whole world is the house of the Sun; the Sun asks how his legs were under V.'s head, he replies that he wanted to sleep, put them instead of a pillow; then the next day; The sun laughs, gives V.'s legs; V. put them on, went, the steppe caught fire, he burned his legs; The Sun refuses to give V. new legs]: Erdoes, Ortiz 1984:162-163; Kiova-apache [The coyote comes to the tipi, carries away the sacred bundle at night; wakes up in the same tipi; after the fourth time, the Sun explains that it is his bundle and the sky is his tipi's roof; Coyote agrees he can't escape from under the sky]: McAllister 1949, #21:73-74; (cf. assiniboine [Iktomi enters the dwelling where a person is sitting and a rattle is tied; offers to replace him while he sleeps; the person tells I. to smoke the pipe, falls asleep; I. picks up the rattle, leaves; goes to rest at dawn; wakes up to the touch of the owner of the rattle; explains that he went out to shake the ashes out of the pipe and took the rattle with him so that it would not be carried away by the winged monster]: Lowie 1909a, No. 48:132).