Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

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M60A. The hunter comes to the one he wounded .16.19.20.21.24.29.32.34.36.-.46.

The creature/character runs away or swims away with a hook, harpoon, arrow, or other object thrown by the hero in his body. Local shamans can't heal an existence/character. The hero or his friend comes to the wounded man's village, takes out the object that caused the injury, or drives him even deeper into the body. The patient recovers or dies accordingly. See L105 and M60 motifs.

Irish [cannibal], walman [boar], Lake. Kutubu [fish], Palau [fish], Yap [?] , Tibetans [king of demons - black yaks], Tibetans Amdo [cannibal], bataki [boar], galela [boar], minahasa [fish], boogie and/or makassars [boar], toraja [boar], Kai Islands [fish], tetum [fish], bunak [crow] , but hides in the lake], roti [crocodile], Kalmyks [cannibal shimnus], Georgians [devs], Bashkirs [demon, shaitan, bearded old man from the underworld], Buryats [bearded old man from the underworld], Mongols [tsar underground shimnus, devils], Mongors [nine-headed old woman], central (?) Yakuts [underground dwarf], Amur Evenks [elk], Udege [Iron Beak], Kojiki [fish], North Ryukyu [fish], Chukchi [mouse; seal; kele; Wolf; giant; owl], Asian Eskimos [tugnigak; Luoed wolf], Bering Strait Inupiate [Ogre Wolf or Wolverine], Northern Alaska Inupiate (Kobuk, Selawik) [monster with mouth from ear to ear; cannibal; cannibal whale], chugach [sea lion], koyukon [mink; cannibal], tanaina [ marmot], taltan [seal], helmet [seal], tagish [seal], eyak [seal], tlingit [seal], haida [water creature], tsimshian [sea lions], bellacula [woman from heaven], heiltsuk [forest spirit], quakiutl [ forest woman], chickpea [fish], quarry [swan?] , comox [fish], quileut [water spirit], cous [forest spirit], menomini [underground bears], chippewa [underwater snakes], ojibwa [underwater spirits, underwater lions {i.e. cougars}], timagami ojibwa [queen of the gigants] underwater lynxes], northern soltos [water pumas], northern ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [water monsters], steppe crees [water cougars; water lynxes; fish chief], sauk and fox [underground manito snakes], montagnier [stones], mikmak [mythical kulu birds], assiniboine [river drummer fish, Aplodinotus grunniens], omaha and ponka [water monsters], iowa [water monsters - horned cougars].

Western Europe. M60. The Irish: Curtin 1975:157-165.

Melanesia. L105. Valman: Becker 1971, No. 34:435-436; oz. Kutubu: Williams 1941, No. 9:139-140.

Micronesia-Polynesia. L105. Palau: Kubary, vol.1:60-65 in Frazer 1924:263-264; Kubary in Boas 1895:110-111; Yap: Müller 1918:654 in Hatt 1949:90.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. M60. Tibetans: Waddell 1931:294-298; Tibetans (Amdo) Kajihama 2004, No. 28:117-123.

Malaysia-Indonesia. L105. Minahasa (Houmbulu): Matsimoto 1928:111; boogie and/or makassars [wild boars ruin the garden; the owner asked a friend for a spear, threw it at the boar, it broke, the boar took the tip; the owner of the spear demanded it back; the man found a bottomless hole in the forest, went down on a rope, found himself on the crown of a mango tree; the girl came for water; said that the prince's son had returned from the ground hard sick, no one can cure; the man pretended to be a healer, ordered him to be left with the sick for three days; killed the prince, took not only a spear, but also an expensive necklace and sword with a golden handle; returned to land; after learning of his adventures, the ruler gave him a daughter and a throne; the treasures he brought are still kept]: Bezemer 1904:369-371; bataks: Matsimoto 1928:111-112; galela (Halmahera): Van Dijken 1895:398 in Dixon 1916:213-214; Kay Islands: Dixon 1916:156-157; Tetum: Sá 196:44-64; Tetum or Kemak (Timorese Austronesians): Hicks 2007, No. 3 [(=Pascoal 1967:132-137), 4:47, 48; Bunak (Papua Central Timor): Berthe 1972:57-59 (=Hicks 2007, No. 5:48-49); Roti: Braginsky 1972:54-57; M60.

Toraja: Adriani 1898:365 in Dixon 1916:214-215

Caucasus - Asia Minor. M60. Kalmyks: Badmayev 1899:87-93; Georgians: Chikovani 1954, No. 3:28-33 (=Chikovani 1985, No. 3:19-22).

Volga - Perm. M60. Bashkirs: Barag 1987, No. 127, 128:113-115; 1988, No. 10:75-78.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. M60. Buryats: Baldayev 1960 (in drill): 365-371 in Ulanov 1974:39-41; Mongols: Potanin 1893, No. 2:374-376; Skorodumova 2003:18-22; Čerensodnom 1987:40 (published in Ulan Bator) in Nassen- Bayer, Stuart 1992:329-330; Mongors: Todaeva 1973, No. 10:289-295.

Eastern Siberia. See L105. Amur Evenks: Bulatova 1987, No. 2:111-116. See M60. Yakuts (no place of recording; central?) [The old man had a son from Abaasa's wife. A mother wants to eat her son, but she kills his mother himself. The father could not wake his son up and wanted to stab him with a knife. The son leaves his father and goes to the forest. There the guy finds three friends. They live in the same house and hunt. A dwarf man comes in and beats his friends. The hero defeats him and pursues him in the lower world. A dwarf man lies sick, the hero heals (kills) him, marries his daughter and rises to the middle world]: Ergis 1967b, No. 93:179.

Amur - Sakhalin. See M60. Udege people: Mozhaev 1955:58-64; Podmaskin, Kireyeva 2010:157-161.

Japan. See L105. Ryukyu Islands (northern): Ikeda 1971, No. 470C: 121-122; Kojiki 1994, Ch. 33-35:90-96.

SV Asia. Chukchi: Baboshina 1958, No. 50 [kele]: 133-135; Bogoras 1928, No. 8 [Wolf]: 330-332; Kozlov 1956 [giant]: 39-44; (cf. Bogoras 1902, No. 25 [owl]: 655).

The Arctic. See M60. Asian Eskimos: Menovshchikov 1985, No. 75 (Chaplin), 91 (Naukan) [(=1988, No. 33:160-162); Cannibal Wolf]: 166-168, 210-213; Rubtsova 1954, No. 5 (Chaplin) [tugnygak]: 86-92; Inupiat Bering Strait (west in the village. Shishmarev, although the action takes place in the upper reaches of the river. Kobuk): Keithahn 1958:52-61; Northern Alaska Inupiate: Alaska Native Writers 1986 (Kobuk River - Noorvik-Selawik): 79-87; Curtis 1976 (20) [Cannibal Kit]: 258-259; Keithahn 1958 (Kobuk River): 52-61; Spencer 1959:388-390. L105. Chugach: Birket-Smith 1953:155-156.

Subarctic. See M60. Koyukon: Attla 1989:135-145. L105. Koyukon: Attla 1990:104-109; Tanaina: Tenenbaum 1976 (3): 10-12; Taltan: Teit 1919, No. 13:235-237; helmet: Teit 1917a, No. 10:451-452; Tagish: McClelland 2007, No. 49 : 253-254.

NW Coast. See L105. Eyak: 34; Tlingit: Smelcer 1993:19-22; Hyda: Swanton in Boas 1916:820; Tsimshian: Boas 1895, No. 7:285-289; Garfield, Forest 196:81-82; Heiltzuk: Boas 1895, No. XXI.4:237-238 (=2002:489-490); bellacula: Boas 1895, No. 9:253-256; quakiutl: Boas 1895, No. 5a, 7:148-149, 189-191; Nootka: Boas 1895, No. 2:99-100.

The coast is the Plateau. L105. Quarry: Jenness 1934, No. 10:145-149; Comox: Boas 1895, No. 11:94-95; Quileout: Farrand, Mayer 1919:259-260; Cus: Frachtenberg in Boas 1916:821.

The Midwest. Menominee: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. 7:260-263; Chippewa: Barnouw 1977:34-38; Ojibwa: Blackwood 1929, No. 2:323-328; Carson 1917:491-492; Radin 1914, No. 10:22-23; Radin, Reagan 1928, No. 2-5:62-76; Ojibwa (Sault Ste. Marie): Kidder 1994:25-29; timagami ojibwa: Speck 1915d, No. 1:34-36; Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake): Ray, Stevens 1971:20-26; northern Solto: Skinner 1911:173-175; Steppe Cree: Ahenakew 1929:320-327; Bloomfield 1930, No. 1:16-20; Skinner 1916, No. 1 (1): 341-346; Sauk, Fox: Jones 1901:226-235.

Northeast. Montagnier: Savard 1979, No. 7:28-30; Micmaq: Rand 1894:83-93; Whitehead 1988:192-204.

Plains. M60. Assiniboine: Lowie 1909a, No. 5:145-147; Omaha, Ponca: Dorsey 1888b: 204-206; 1890 [=1888b]: 238-253; Iowa: Skinner 1925, No. 10:468-472.