M64. He pretends to own valuables. .31.40.-.42.48.

The character comes to the owner of valuables (food, fire) and pretends that he already owns them. As a result, valuables are made available (littoral is exposed at low tide, salmon spreads in waters, etc.).

Latvians, Lithuanians, Nunivak [raven], central yupik [raven], chugach [raven], koyukon [raven], upper kuskoquim [raven], tanana [raven], taltan [raven], eyak [raven], haida [raven], Tsimshian [raven], yurok [coyote], viyote, karok [coyote].

Baltoscandia. Latvians [Devil had the fire, he refused to give it to God, hid it; God put up a kitchen hut, began to beat dry raincoats with a stick, the dust rose like smoke; the man sent to Hell overheard how the Devil thinks out loud and is surprised that God got fire from stone and iron, where the hell he hid it; God got fire, gave it to man]: Ancelane 1962:21; Lithuanians [The swallow flew to hell and boasted that she had fire; hell asked if she got it from stone; she burned her goiter when she carried fire, so there was a red speck on the swallow's goiter; hell threw a hammer, split her tail]: Kerbelite 2001:53, 60-61.

The Arctic. Nunivac Island: Curtis 1976 (20) [on the littoral at low tide, the Raven gets his foot stuck in Sea Anemone; promises him a kayak, umiak, he replies that he does not need them; promises a fresh water well water and fat floating on it; Anemone comes with the Raven, the water turns out to be tundra, fat is garbage, Anemone drinks, it itches, it combs itself to blood (hence the reddish stripes); The raven finds dead herring, rubbing himself with it, tells the owner of the caribou meat stocks that he has left a lot of herring on the shore; he goes ashore, finds the only dead fish, the Raven has taken all the meat during this time]: 245-246; Himmelheber 1951 [The raven bites Crab on the littoral, he grabs his leg; the Raven promises his aunt to marry him, then his uncle's kayak, the Crab does not let go of his leg; lets go when the Raven promises a source of fresh water for grief; they come there, but the spring is contaminated with Raven's excrement; the raven finds a dead herring, rubs himself with it, tells the freshly deer that there is a lot of herring nearby, and wants to eat meat, eats all the best, flies away; the same with birds that make a fire to fry fish; blocks the Groundhog's passage, demands berries collected; Groundhog invites him to dance with his eyes closed, slips in a hole; the same with Mink; The raven sees a dolphin, flies into his mouth, the woman knocks threads inside, tells him not to touch the bladder; The raven pierces the bubble, turns dark, the dolphin dies, throws it on shore; people cut the carcass, the Raven flies out unnoticed; comes back, says that something has flown out of the dolphin, probably an evil spirit; people throw the dolphin, the Raven eats it alone]: 58-64; central yupik [on the bank of Cuskoquim, the Raven steps with his foot at the Sea Anemone; he lets go of his foot for promising to give him Uncle Raven's wife or relative; when free, the Raven says he has no uncle, pokes Anemone with a stick, killing him; sits at Groundhog's hole without letting him in; he asks the Raven to dance, promising to give something, slips into the hole; the Raven says to the Bear who has taken the moose that there are seals nearby; the bear goes to look for them, the Raven eats an elk; asks the White Whale to swim closer, jumps into his mouth, inside a little old woman and a lamp; the Raven touches the lamp, it goes out, Keith dies He nails him to the shore; the Raven flies out unnoticed, returns in human form, tells the people cutting the carcass that the meat is dangerous; they leave, the Raven eats all alone with the old woman who has come out of the whale ; asks him to make "Eskimo ice cream" for his return, hides, frightens her, eats everything himself; the old woman throws ash at him, then notices it in the Raven's eye, forgives him]: Wassilie 1978:99-101; chugach: Johnson 1984:70 [The raven finds a sea urchin shell, rubs it on himself, comes to the Mistress of the Tides, says he has eaten sea urchins to the dump; she wonders - she seems to have not allowed it low tide; the raven puts a sea urchin under her ass, she screams that she believes him], 83-84 [The raven smeared herring scales, came to an old woman whose house is full of herring, told her he was cold collecting herring; she does not believe it, he pricked her with a sea urchin, she went ashore with him, he flew back, ate all the herring in her house].

Subarctic. Koyukon [the fish disappears, people give the "grandfather" (Raven) clothes and food, he agrees to go downstream; there the Brown Bear blocked the river, takes all the fish; the Raven makes two resin spears, they appear obsidian; picks up fish that has fallen asleep, smears the whole boat with scales as if it had a lot of fish; tells the Bear that he is so tired of cleaning the fish; exchanges the Bear's spear for his own resinous; makes the bear cub fall on him, breaks the bear cub against a stone in anger; the bear and his wife rush at the Raven, their spears bend, the Raven kills the Bears, breaks the dam, in the fall returns to people, sees they have a lot of fish]: Attla 1989:117-131; upper chuskoquim [the fish goes missing; the raven goes downstream, sees that the Grizzly has built a dam; people beg the Raven help; he tells Chaika that the Eagle scolded her, promised to beat her; tells Eagle that the Seagull scolded him and was going to beat him; the Seagull and the Eagle are fighting; after the Seagull regurgitated enough fish scales, their Raven reconciled; scaled himself and the boat, sailed to the Grizzly, said that people had a lot of fish in the upper reaches; furious that his dam was useless, the Grizzly destroyed it; the fish went up the river]: Deaphon et al. s.a.: 19-20; tanana [The Brown Bear blocks the river, takes all the fish for himself; the raven makes a knife and spear out of resin, draws scales inside his boat with fish; tells the Bear that he also has a lot fish; The bear examines his boat, believes; changes with him with spears and knives; The raven breaks the dam; the bear wants to kill him, but the resin weapon is useless; people can now fish; the raven swims away in boat; where the paddle immerses, an island forms there]: Rooth 1971:191-192; taltan [the owner of the fish candle does not give it to others; the Raven tells the Seagull that the Heron is slander it; 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 shell fragments resembling scales on top, pretends to catch the fish candle himself; the owner believes, allows the Raven to eat a fish candle; the Raven swallows fish, flies into the chimney, burps up in river mouths; since then, candle-fish has been everywhere]: Teit 1919-1921, No. 4:203-204.

NW Coast. Eyak [there was no low tide; the Raven can hardly get a sea urchin in the water; comes to the old maid of the tides, says he has caught a lot of sea urchins; she doubts he pokes her sea urchin in the ass, she screams that the tide has already begun; it is]: Johnson 1988:3; Hyda (Skidgate) [Grandma causes the ebb and flow, lying on her back and raising her legs and lowering her legs; in boxes in her house she kept all the fish; the Raven tells the Seagull that the Crane calls it largemouth and loud; tells the Crane that the Seagull calls him long-billed; the Crane hits the Seagull in the stomach, she regurgitates the candlefish, the Raven she picks her up, rubs her scales into her hat, comes to Babka; she believes that the fish exists besides her, opens the box out of grief; since then, the fish has been swimming in the sea]: Webber 1936:25; haida ( Masset) [The raven comes to the old woman, the mistress of the Low Tides; says he froze collecting sea urchins (sea-eggs); she does not believe it; he stabs her back with fir needles, she thinks they are sea urchins; spreads her legs, low tide begins, the Raven collects mollusks, fish and other edibles on littoral; leaves]: Swanton 1908a: 303; Tsimshian [The raven deliberately quarrels with the Seagull; knocks her on his back, she belches the fish- a candle; he stains his boat with fish caviar, sails to the owner of the candlefish; he believes that people already have access to fish, orders the fish tank to be opened; they blur]: Boas 1916:654.

California. Yurok: Kroeber 1976 [two sisters keep salmon in a vessel, acorns in a basket; Vohpekumeu sleeps in their house, overturns vessels; fish appear in rivers, oaks on the ground], No. A15, C2, E1 [V. makes salmon from alder bark; women think he owns fish too, he won't steal their salmon]: 108-110, 218-219, 266; Kroeber, Gifford 1949, No. 6 [Coyote quietly picked up acorn shells, so that two girls who owned acorns and salmon would think that he also had it all; when the girls pulled salmon out of the depths of the dugout, Coyote took out the alder bark as if he also had dried salmon; coming out of dugouts, threw a stone into the oak tree, the acorns fell down, spread across the country; dismantled the dam, the salmon went up the river; the girls turned into two white rocks (one at a distance, because she went for a forgotten knife) ]: 123-124; vilot [The creator or woman holds all the fish in the recess of the rock; the trickster releases it]: Kroeber 1909, No. 5 [Gudatrigaquitl (a person who survived the flood) or a woman keeps it all fish in a hole in the rock; Gatzvokvir brings berries that look like salmon caviar; the owner (owner) of the fish thinks that the fish has already spread around the world anyway and does not mind releasing it optional]: 97; Reichard 1925, No. 8 [owner unclear]: 153-155; Karok: Kroeber, Gifford 1949, No. 6 [Coyote came to two girls who had acorns and salmon; put an oak quiver in his quiver the bark show that he also has acorns; hit the oak tree, the acorns fell down, then spread throughout the country; when they took the salmon out of the hole in the edge of the dugout, the Coyote took out the alder bark, it red as if dried salmon; began to chew like he had salmon; the girls resisted, but he released the salmon into the river; the girls turned into two white cliffs, their dog into another]: 116-117; 1980, No. II9 [like yurks; Coyote makes fish bones out of bark; shows them to sisters so they think he doesn't need their fish]: 156-157; Powell 1877 [Kareya created the fish but it lived in the sea and the entrance to the Klamath River the dam stopped; K. gave the keys to it to two old women; people were starving; the coyote tore off a piece of alder bark, came to the old women and pretended to chew it; alder bark, if torn off, became red, and the old women believed that the coyote also had salmon; they were no longer afraid that he would try to steal their salmon; waiting for the old woman to put the key where they could grab it, the coyote pushed her grabbed the key and opened the dam; the salmon went up the river]: 37-38.