M70. The elder poisons the younger ones with intestinal gases .45.57.59.62.67.68.70.72.

The oldest character poisons the youngest with his intestinal gases.

Northeast. Seneca [see motif K27; a man gets married; the first night his mother-in-law puts him in her bed, covers him with skins, tries to poison him with intestinal gases; his fetiche cleans the air for him]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 100:467; mikmaq: Speck 1915b [a woman has a 6-year-old son, she is pregnant again; her husband tells his father to kill her; the old man tells the woman to bend down, burns her heart with a stick, her insides throws him into the water, takes the body to eat; the boy tries to catch his little brother in the water; finally brings him home; when his grandfather appears, he returns to the water every time; the old man catches him, gives him blue jay feathers; older brother tells how their father told their grandfather to kill their mother; they burn their father in the house; Found in the intestines (NC) pushes his bones, they turn into mosquitoes; brothers pour over their grandfather with boiling fat, let his grandmother fry his heart, kill her with an ax; they go to kill other giants; Marten's grandmother says that the Ox Frog took all the water, gives it for the girl; NC sends Marten, he brings dirty water; NC goes by itself, kills the Frog with an ax, sends girls home, breaks blood vessels, rivers fill up again; brothers come to the Dicobrazh makes a hot fire; brother dies, NC complains about cold, Porcupine dies from the heat, NC revives his brother; interpreting rocks crush passers, NC breaks them with an oar; on the lake, geese are Gluscap's guards; NC tells them to remain silent; NC and G. both have time to smoke a pipe; NK withstands cold and wind; G. gives an inexhaustible piece of fur, NK's brother becomes a fur merchant; NK marries; mother-in-law takes him to the island to collect seagulls eggs, throws him there; seagulls bring him back; at night mother-in-law lies down with him, tries to poison him with his gases; he made a hole in the blanket with a knife; threw him into a hole, at the bottom of her turtle always devours her sons-in-law; NK got out, kill him]: 61-64; Whitehead 1988 [woman marries the son of Kukwes (an ogre giant); for her and her son he hunts animals, for himself and her parents he hunts people; does not tell you to touch the bear's stomach; the son hits the stomach with an arrow, the liquid drips, strength K. melts; he allows his father to eat his wife; the old man heats his iron staff, pierces his daughter-in-law, gutts him, throws the baby from her womb into the river; the Turtle raises him, he goes out to play with his brother; he asks the father to make two bows, two arrows, etc.; they make a mess in the house, the family is forced to confess to his father; the father makes jewelry from bird tails; The family grabs in the River's house, keeps, Father comes running; first Rechnoy throws his tails into the fire, then smiles; the father fell asleep, the brothers burned him in the house; the bones collided, they turned into flies, mosquitoes, sand fleas; because they pushed him on the doorstep, insects enter the house through the entrance; the river beats the birch tree with a spruce paw, since then there are traces on the bark; brothers put their grandfather to sleep, look for insects, cover him with fat, burn him, let his wife eat his liver, kill her with an ax; The bull frog hides all the water in his house in birch bark buckets, gives it in exchange for women; the River Frog kills the Frog, breaks blood vessels, the water fills the rivers; the brothers sail in a boat, the River kills giants; The porcupine drowns so hot that Domashny dies; while the River is wrapped in a blanket, the Porcupine dies herself, the River brings her brother to life; Kluskap's house is guarded by geese, the River tells them to remain silent; K. causes frost, Domashny dies, revives him on the river morning; Domashny receives a growing beaver skin from K., becomes a merchant; Riverside marries Skunsikha's daughter; she takes him to collect bird eggs, leaves him on the island; seagulls bring him home; mother-in-law tells her to sleep with her, tries to strangle her with his gases, he makes a hole in the blanket; she throws him into a hole, at the bottom the Turtle devours his sons-in-law; River gets out; meets a walker with bent legs, kills him, makes a door out of him, brings the corpse to his relatives; snakes and frogs fall from their faces; both brothers return to the island, turn into two stones] : 140-154.

Southern Venezuela. Yanomam [Ramphocelus carbo married Mazama Americana, the daughter of the deer; the father-in-law demanded peach palm fruit from his garden, but there are palm trees with inedible fruits (without thorns, fruit looks like the fruit of a peach palm tree); the son-in-law brought his own edible fruit, the father-in-law claimed that he had collected them from him; invited his son-in-law to inhale the hallucinogen, instead gave him his calebas intestinal gases; his son-in-law gave him a strong drug; his father-in-law cut off pieces of flesh, turned into a deer, his son-in-law shot him, and ate the deer]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 102:194-197.

Guiana. Son-in-law and mother-in-law. Caribbean Dominica [friend advises son-in-law to stab mother-in-law in the ass; she stalks son-in-law and daughter, cuts off her son-in-law's leg; all three go up to heaven and turn into stars]: Taylor 1952, No. 2:270; trio [son-in-law rejects mother-in-law's love; then she masturbates with calebasa; son-in-law lubricates her with pepper; for this she blows winds in his face at night; he pierces her with an agouti tooth, refuses to bury her]: Magaña 1987, No. 44:140; oyana [at night, mother-in-law blows winds into her son-in-law's face; he is losing weight, a friend explains to him the reason; he stabs his mother-in-law's ass, she dies]: Magaña 1987, No. 37:41.

NW Amazon. Tikuna [every time one small child left by his parents cries, the Jaguar takes him away, tells him to put his nose to his ass, and kills him by releasing intestinal gases and devours him; Dioi turns into the boy, carried away by the Jaguar, but turns his nose away; people ask Jaguar why he is taking Their Father; he understands the mistake, but D. does not let him go; tells him to return to his original place, clutches Jaguar's hands in the trunk trees; demons of the Jaguar family still come to feed him, you can hear their roar]: Nimuendaju 1952:132.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Guarazu [an old woman poisons her son-in-law with her intestinal gases; his friend advises to stab an arrow in her ass with a nozzle that prevents blood from flowing out; the old woman dies, her daughter does not notice the wound; son-in-law pretends to mourn]: Riester 1977, No. 44:299.

Southern Amazon. Nambikwara [younger brother is losing weight; the older one tells him that his mother-in-law is blowing winds in his face at night; son-in-law sticks a stone ax in her ass, she dies]: Pereira 1983, No. 23:40; kayabi [by At night, the mother-in-law blows the winds into the mouth of his sleeping son-in-law; he is losing weight; another person talks about the possible cause of his illness; when his mother-in-law comes up at night, he pierces her with a sharp stick, she dies]: Pereira 1995, No. 56 : 107; Rickback [an old woman poisons the young man with her intestinal gases at night; his married friend explains to him how much he is losing weight; in the manhood, a friend advised him to heat an elongated fruit seed and stab the old woman in the ass (var.: women advised me to stab an arrow); the old woman died; the young man put salt on her hands and mouth, supposedly she died full of salt; the bone fell out of her; she was buried]: Pereira 1994, No. 36:198-199; Bororo: Wilbert, Simoneau 1983, No. 36 [at night, paternal grandmother blows winds in the face of her sleeping grandson; a friend explains why he is losing weight; he stabs an arrow in the ass; in the morning, daughter-in-law wants to leave the baby's mother-in-law, but cannot wake up; hurrying to fish with poison, leaves the baby at the fork in the tree; he cries; the perfume pierces him with sharp sticks, blood flows down the trunk, leaving grooves; the child turns into a nest of termites; the mother in despair devours all fish, including spoiled fish; regurgitating it, spews various diseases; her head was cut off, thrown into the lake, but the diseases remained ], 37 [instead of sleeping in a man's house, the young man sleeps in his family; his grandmother blows winds in his face, he loses weight; suspects the truth; stabs an arrow in her ass; tells the battleships to dig a hole here, bury her; covers the grave with a mat; in a hurry to go fishing, her daughter-in-law calls her in vain to leave her child with her; leaves her on a tree, which turns into a nest of termites; devours fish, regurgitates diseases; her two brothers cut off her legs and head, throw them into the lake]: 81-83, 84-86.

Eastern Brazil. Suya [at night, the mother-in-law blows the winds into the face of his sleeping son-in-law; he loses weight; his friend guards, tells us what is happening; the son-in-law pierces a sharp stick into his mother-in-law's anus; they can't wake her up in the morning; the old woman is buried, the son-in-law recovers]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 166:499-501.

Chaco. Chamacoko [the old woman wants the young man, but does not dare to tell him; instead, she blows winds in his face at night; he knows it, loses weight, tells another; a friend undertakes to lie on him place and plunge the old woman into her vagina with a digging stick; she was buried; when she was shoved into the grave, the stick inside cracked and broke]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 136:504-505.