Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

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M68. When the winds blow, it scares the game. 43.-.45.

Because of his own stubbornness, the character suffers from an irrepressible gas eruption and scares away the game with a loud sound. Almost starves to death.

The coast is the Plateau. Clackamas [Coyote meets Skunk, who is dancing with the winds blowing loudly; persuades him to swap anuses; now Coyote is running away; Coyote asks to switch back]: Jacobs 1958:94 -95; kalapuya: Jacobs 1945, No. 6 [A coyote comes to a man whose anus makes a loud sound every time he moves; despite the warning, he insists on swapping anuses (all they will be surprised when he starts blowing the winds while dancing); cannot approach the game, suffers from hunger; returns his anus to the owner, takes back his own]: 113-115; Gatschet et al. 1945, No. 5 [Nightingale woman the winds blow loudly; the Coyote changes its anuses with her to make the people laugh; cannot quietly sneak up on the game, starves; returns the anus to the owner]: 238-240.

The Midwest. Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [Visakaijak asks berries what will happen to whoever eats them; Will itch; V. eats, he has a terrible itch; the same question for lichens; Will Let the wind go for several days; with these sounds, V. scares off beavers, is left without prey; punishes his anus by sitting on hot stones; pieces of burnt flesh from his ass fall on the trunk of a poplar, since then His bark is stained]: Ray, Stevens 1971:39-40; Eastern Marsh Cree: Bird 2007 (Winisk River) [Wisakaychak puts moss in a bag, tells waterfowl he carries songs; builds a teepee, tells them to dance, stretching their necks to each other and closing their eyes; throws a rope over everyone; Loon opens his eyes and escapes; V. manages to kick her, since then the loons have a flat tail; V. bakes geese and ducks in sand, goes to bed, tells his ass to guard; people approach carefully, the ass does not give a signal, the meat is stolen; thieves stuck their bones where they were; V. punishes his ass by sitting on a hot stone; after this is what V.'s ass honks loudly at every step; the game is frightened, V. is starving]: 184-190; Skinner 1911 (Albany) [Wicágatcak fills the bag with moss, tells waterfowl what the singing teepee is carrying, tells closing his eyes to dance; strangles birds with an arcana; Loon opens his eyes; he kicks her (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; so twice; the third time V. does not react; seeing that the meat has been stolen, he sits on a hot stone; since then, people's buttocks have been dismembered; V. constantly blows the winds, scaring away the game, starves; 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 (stripes on birch bark)]: 84 -86; western marsh crees (stone crees) [rose berries) answer Wīsahkīcahk that the person who eats them will suffer from itching; V. eats, screams that it itches; lichen says that the one who eats it will start to blow the winds; V. eats, constantly blows the winds, scaring away the game; heats the stone, burns his ass, the eruption of gases stops]: Brightman 1989:33; Steppe Cree [ Vissakejak constantly blows the winds, cannot quietly approach the game; to punish his anus, he sits on a hot stone; scabs fall into the snow; later V. finds one of them and eats them; the bird yells to him about it; he doesn't believe it, but then he tastes disgusting]: Skinner 1916, No. 1 (11): 351.

Northeast. Scrape, montagnier [the moss on the rock tells Wolverine that the one who eats it will start to blow the wind; Wolverine eats, the sound of the gases emitted scares away all the game; to force his anus shut up, Wolverine puts a hot stone in him]: Desbarats 1969:81-82; mikmaq [three men come to Gluscap; the first asks the flute to lure game (gets); the second wants many women (gets a bag, warned not to untie it along the way); the third wants to blow the winds so that everyone laughs (gets a spine, is warned not to eat on the way); both prohibitions are violated; from Hundreds of girls pop up in the bag, copulate with a man, he dies; the one who eats the spine constantly emits gas, frightens the game, people drive him away, he commits suicide]: Leland 1968:69-72.