M65B. Lost loot. .41.43.-.46.48.
Having resorted to deception, the character kills the game, but the thieves take the loot. See M53 motif.
Subarctic. Chipewayan [Visákecak kills a bear]
The coast is the Plateau. Thompson [Coyote kills marmots]; coutenay [Coyote kills bison].
The Midwest. Winnebago [Wakjunkaga kills raccoons]; menomini [Menapus kills elk]; chippewa [Venebojo kills elk, bakes meat]; timagami ojibwa [ Nenebuc kills bear]; Ojibwa [Nenabojo kills bear; Manabozo kills caribou]; (cf. chippewa [Mink to one Pike: the other says you're eyed; she replies: She has teeth like a saw and a long muzzle; Mink transmits; pike fight, kill each other; Mink cooks fish, falls asleep; people passing by steal it, put guts filled with stones instead, Mink breaks teeth against them]: Barnouw 1977, No. 37:152); marsh crees (Albany) [Wicágatcak stuffs a bag with moss, tells waterfowl what a singing teepee carries, tells them to dance with his eyes closed; strangles birds with an arcana; Loon opens his eyes; he kicks it (the origin of the shape of a loon tail); bakes meat, goes to bed, tells his ass to guard; someone comes up, his ass beeps, the thief immediately hides; twice; for the third time V. does not react; seeing that the meat is stolen, he sits on a hot stone; since then The pores of people's buttocks are dissected; V. He blows the winds continuously, pieces of his gut fall out; he thinks it's dried meat, he eats it; the squirrel laughs; he throws a piece of intestine into the birch tree (the origin of the growths on the birch tree); hits the birch tree with a stick ( birch bark stripes)]: Skinner 1911:84-86; Algonquins [Whiskejac (Canadian jay) kills bear]; Eastern Cree [Visagachak kills birds]; sauk [Visakya kills ducks]; kickapoo [Visakya kills elk]; potauatomi [Visakya kills birds]; steppe ojibwa [Nanibozhu kills deer]; steppe crees [ Vesakaicak kills birds; Visakacak kills two buffalo; Visukejak kills a bear].
Northeast. Viandot [Raccoon kills geese]; naskapi [Wolverine tells Char (fish) that Salmon said he swam into Muskrat's ass and enjoyed it; Char replies that Salmon is losing consciousness if he tries to have sex with his wife; Wolverine transmits these words to Salmon, etc.; Char and Salmon fight, kill each other; Wolverine cooked them, put them in a bag, falls asleep; Muskrat changed fish with stones; Wolverine ate stones; Muskrat also tried to gnaw stones, broke his teeth]: Millman 1993:33-34.
Plains. Blacklegs: Linderman 1995:44-47 [Napa ("The Old Man") makes stuffed animals to two men as if they are about to fight; tells two buffalo they quarreled over whether the bison is fat or thin; asks the buffalo to let him feel them; groping his heart, pierces them with a knife; tells both hands to fresh their carcasses; the right one is quicker than the left, they swear, fight; bloody N. can do nothing to do it when foxes, coyotes and wolves carry meat], 51-55 [Napa ("The Old Man") sees the Gophers playing, burying each other in hot ash and immediately tearing it off; suggests burying it; then all the Gophers at once , does not tear it off, bakes it, falls asleep; The cougar takes the cooked game, falls asleep; N. finds it, stretches its tail, legs, body]; assiniboine: Lowie 1909a, No. 11 [And n ktumni kills black bear; I n ktum n and kills ducks]; crowe [Coyote bakes game]; teton (oglala) [Iktomi kills ducks]; yankton [Iktomi kills ducks] ducks]; Omaha, ponka [Iktinke kills turkeys]; iowa [Ishiinki kills waterfowl]; oto [Ichthínke kills ducks]; Sheena [Weehuk kills birds]; arpaho [Nihansan kills beavers]; skidi pawnee [Coyote kills bear]; kiowa [Sendeh kills gophers; Sendeh kills moose]; kiowa- Apaches [Coyote kills (ducks?)].
California. Chumash [a rabbit steals a melon from the field; a man makes a resin doll, a rabbit sticks to it; a man is going to cook it alive; a rabbit tells a coyote that they want to marry a man's daughter; the coyote willingly takes his place; he can hardly escape, but his tail has been scalded; the rabbit pretends to support the edge of the ravine; the coyote agrees to hold him, the rabbit promises him two chickens, runs away; Having lost its last strength, the coyote bounces off the edge, nothing happens; the coyote dances, distracts the fish, catches them, roasts them, leaves for a while; the hawk stole the fish with its tails in the coals]: Blackburn 1975, № 108:311-315).