M61a. Owners quarrel to get valuables. .41.-.43.

To get valuables, the character provokes a quarrel between their owners. When they start fighting each other, valuables fall out of their bodies and end up at the character's disposal.

Upper kuskoquim, taltan, tlingits, hyda, shuswap, thompson, sanpual, tillamook, kutene.

Subarctic. Upper pieces [the fish disappears; the Raven goes downstream, sees that the Grizzly has built a dam; people beg the Raven for help; he tells the Seagull that the Eagle scolded her, promised to beat her; says Eagle that the Seagull scolded him and was going to beat him; the Seagull and the Eagle were fighting; after the Seagull regurgitated enough fish scales, the Raven reconciled them; smeared himself and the boat with scales, sailed to the Grizzly, said that people in the upper reaches are full of fish; furious that his dam is useless, the Grizzly destroyed it; the fish went up the river]: Deaphon et al. s.a.: 19-20; taltan [the owner of the fish candle does not give it to others; the Raven tells the Seagull that the Heron slander her; tells the Heron that the Seagull calls her names; they fight, the Seagull regurgles the swallowed fish candle; the Raven pours the fish into his boat, sprinkles wreckage on top shells resembling scales pretend to catch a fish candle himself; the owner believes that he allows the Raven to eat a fish candle; the raven swallows fish, flies into the chimney, regurgitates at the mouths of rivers; since then fish candle is everywhere]: Teit 1919, No. 1.4:203-204.

NW Coast. Tlingits: Veniaminov 1940 (3) [El went to travel, quarreled with Seagull and Heron, so he took out a fish candle]: 44; Kamensky 1906 [the owner of the forest kills everyone who comes for firewood; El asks Seagull why she is having fun, then replies that she has a candlefish, catches it and swallows it; El tells Heron that the Seagull is scolding her; the Heron fights with the Seagull, she regurgitates the fish, El takes her away, shows the old man, says that there are a lot of fish; after learning that he is not the only owner, the old man gives Al a candlefish boat, El releases it into the sea; people are fishing, one woman came late, Elle asks her come up if she wants fish; she enters the water, picking up her clothes, Elle pulls her hairs out of her mice, tickles them in the nostrils of the dead, they come to life, teaches people to make fire out of wood]: 78-81 (English translation. Kamenskii 1985:62-63); Alaska Native Writers 1986 [as in other versions]: 89-90; Krause 1989 [The Raven tells the Crane that the Seagull called him an empty long-necked bastard; tells Chaika as if her Crane called names; The crane hits the Seagull in the stomach, she regurgitates the herring, the Raven takes it away; smears the boat and himself with scales; fishermen believe that the Raven has a lot of fish, decide to eat its supplies; the raven rips off the moss on the trees, fishermen They believe that a bear is nearby, they run away; the Raven eats alone; returns bruised, says he hid from bears in a tree and fell]: 180-181; Smelcer 1992 [The Seagull and the Crane]: 33-34; Swanton 1909, No. 1 [The Raven Crane or Heron: The Seagull calls you Leggy, always wandering along the shore; Seagull: The Heron says you have a big belly and your eyes are red, because you are always looking at the sea, looking for something eat; The Heron kicks the Seagull alive; she regurgitates a large herring; the Raven swallows it, says, Just the Raven]: 14; haida [Grandma causes the ebb and flow, lying on her back and then raising and then lowering her legs; she kept all the fish in boxes in her house; the Raven tells the Seagull that the Crane calls her largemouth and loud; tells the Crane that the Seagull calls him long-billed; the Crane Hits the Seagull in the stomach, she belches the candlefish, the Raven picks it up, rubs the scales into his hat, comes to Grandma; she believes that the fish exists besides it, opens the box out of grief; since then, the fish swims in the sea]: Webber 1936:25.

The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap [flint tips cover the Grizzly sisters's bodies like wool; Tiisa promises every Grizzly to marry her, they fight each other out of jealousy, the tips crumble; T. gives tips for their brothers, they scatter flint across the country]: Teit 1909a: 645; Thompson [the young man needs arrowheads; he separately tells two old men as if each of them calls the other by bad names; while they are fighting, a white stone for arrows falls from the body of one, black from the body of the other; after gaining enough, the young man tells the old people to make peace]: Teit 1898, â„– XXV: 76; sanpual [ the fire was in the sky; the leader gathers animal people, orders them to shoot at the sky, make a ladder of arrows; the arrows do not reach the sky; the woodpecker does not participate, makes a bow from the rib of an elk, arrows from the branches of the Canadian irgi ( Amelanchier arborea, serviceberry); tells the Golden Eagle that the Bald Eagle says nasty things about him and vice versa; Eagles fight, feathers are flying, Woodpecker uses them to plumage arrows; to make tips, his grandmother sends him to the Flint and the Hard Stone; the Woodpecker tells everyone that the other speaks ill of him; The stones fight, the fragments fly, the Woodpecker uses them; when the chief again tells them to shoot at the sky, the Woodpecker hits, his arrows form a chain; everyone climbed into the sky, the Golden Eagle is ahead, the Grizzly is the last; he took a heavy bag of food, the lower arrows broke off, the Grizzly remained on the ground; in the sky everyone found fire; the owners chased, those who came saw that the chain of arrows was broken; the Eagle ordered each of the birds to put an animal on its back and lower it; Woodpecker (Sphyrapicus varins, Sapsucker) did not fly off, but jumped, broke his nose, since then he has been flat; the fish slipped off Magpie's back; he had arrows with him, they pierced his body, so the fish have a lot of bones in their bodies; chief and The grizzly shared the fire, gave Firefly and the Hummingbird, they smashed it around the world]: Ray 1933, No. 11:152-153; tillamook [The South Wind wanders, sees a whale carcass on the shore, there is nothing to cut it with; goes to Copper to man, says that Flint Nose spoke badly of him, says Silicon Nose that the Copper Man promised to beat him; they fight, pieces of flint fly off, South Wind makes a knife, cuts the carcass; Copper Man and Flint Nose realize they've been fooled]: Thompson, Egesdal 2008:21-22; coutene [the hero needs flint for his arrows; he tells Flint that Diorite promised to smash it; same, but vice versa, says Diorita; stones fight, both fall to pieces]: Boas 1918, No. 105-107.