M55. Dangerous overnight stay. 47.59.

A human or weaker animal character takes a stronger character to sleep in a supposedly dangerous place where hot coals, sticks, etc. can fall on those lying at night; when A strong character falls asleep, his companion burns or hits him, pretending that both of them have suffered equally.

Southeast USA. The rabbit sprinkles hot coals, etc. Chirokee [coals on otter; otter rushes into water]: Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick 1966, No. 3 [living in water ever since]: 106; Mooney 1900 [Rabbit steals otter clothes]: 267-268; natchez [coals for cannibal]: Swanton 1929, No. 35:260; screams: Swanton 1929, No. 40 [ash on the cannibal], 41 [burning bark on the cougar], 42 [ash on the puma], 43 [coals on the puma]: 42-45; alabama [falls trees, ashes on the puma] Ogre]: Martin 1977:35-36; Swanton 1929, No. 54, 55:159-160; koasati [like Alabama]: Swanton 1929, No. 55, 57 [trees only]: 205-207

Guiana. Taulipan [the man invites Cayman to spend the night on the riverbank; hits him with a branch, pretends to fall on both; Cayman says that if he were hit on the nose rather than on the back, he would die; next time a person hits him in the nose and kills him]: Koch-Grünberg 1924, No. 49:145.