Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

M66A. A mountain of excrement. 44.46.

After eating a certain food, the trickster leaves a mountain of excrement that is larger than himself.

Winnebago, Menominee, Western Ojibwa, Fox, Steppe Cree, Grovantre, Iowa, Pawnee.

The Midwest. Winnebago [the onion says Whoever eats me will relieve me; Wakjunkaga eats, blows abundantly, takes off into the air, throws others around me; relieves The need is so abundant that the mountain of its excrement becomes as tall as a tree; it falls into them, almost sinks]: Radin 1956, No. 23-24:25-27; menominee: Bloomfield 1928, No. 77 [the roots say Menapus 'u, what is their name Sweet; M. eats them, takes the eruption of his gases for rifle firing; joins the dancers, they turn out to be steppe grass], 78 [M. urinates on the baby partridge; the spine replies that its name is Eat-Raw; M. eats, takes the eruption of its gases for rifle firing; the other root calls itself Well-as-laxative; M. eats, suffers from excessive defecation; heals by eating the Puskering-Root root]: 213-215, 215-219; Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. 20 [the spine screams, everyone eats me; Myanyabush eats it, suffers from gas eruptions; after eating another root, leaves a mountain of bowel movements, almost drowns in it]: 296-297; western ojibwa (chippewa) [Venebojo hears a voice from the grass: Whoever eats me will become walking a lot out of need; V. eats, almost drowns in his bowel movements]: Barnouw 197:19-20; fox [the artichoke sings, warning of what will happen to the person who eats it; Visakia eats, almost drowns in lake of its excrement]: Jones 1907, No. 9:273-277; Steppe Cree [Visakichi saw a bubble with bison bone marrow floating along the river; he emptied the bubble, threw it away (since then foam has been on the water); Diarrhea removed what he had eaten; he began to drown in the lake of his own crap; he called for help from various willows, but only the red willow could bend down and pull it out; for this he painted its bark red and its berries â€" white; this lake in Alberta still gives off a terrible smell]: Teit 1921:321.

Plains. Grovanter [Nishant asks a floating piece of fat how much it can bite off; a little bit; N. swallows it whole; defecates profusely, which does not drown in his excrement]: Kroeber 1907b, No. 8:69; iowa [grass (or a bug sitting on it) sings: If Ishinki eats me, he will have diarrhea; I. chews grass, rubs his ass; defecates profusely, falls uphill his own excrement that covers his eyes; bumps into trees asking their names; when he reaches the willow, he realizes that the river is nearby; washes his eyes]: Skinner 1925, No. 28:487-488; Pawnee: Dorsey 1904b, No. 72 (skidi) [Coyote eats some berries; in the cold, his excrement freezes immediately; he finds himself on top of a mountain, falls into a crack, dies]: 272; 1906, No. 141 (kitkehahki) [artichoke He asks Coyote to bite him several times; finally, he eats him, spews gas, his leg flies off, he is carried away by a stream of his own crap]: 464.