M74. Regurgitated food .21.22.34.39.43.46.49.50.

A weak character regurgitates previously swallowed unusual food, or replaces his belching with a strong character's belching, or interprets his secretions as remains strong animals he ate. The strong believe that the weak are strong or have unusual abilities.

Tibetans, Lepcha, Bhutan, Burmese Naga, Viets, Thai Vietnamese, Chelkans, (Tubalars), South Altai Tuvans, Mongors, Coastal Koryaks (Kichiga), Itelmen, Quarry, Shuswap, Thompson, lillouette, Puget Sound, Kiowa, Goshiyute, Hicarilla, Navajo.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [an old tiger named Tsuden was hunting; the frog was scared of him, but climbed on a bump and asked where he was going to go; tiger: I'm hungry and I'll probably eat you; frog puffed up: I'm king frogs and I can jump any distance; we will compete to see who will jump across the river; quietly grabbed the tiger's tail, and when he jumped across the river and started looking for a frog in the water, called out to him; the tiger amazed; the frog offers another test - to compare vomiting; the tiger has not eaten anything for a long time and only regurgitated some water, and the frog regurgitated its tiger's hair (she had just held on to the tiger's tail); said that just yesterday she killed and ate a tiger; the tiger ran away; towards the fox; when she heard the tiger's story, she laughed and said she could easily press the frog with her paw; the tiger agrees to return, but only if they will contact the fox with their tails; frog fox: you did not repay the debt and did not bring meat; and are you taking this dog for me for lunch? the tiger fled, dragging a fox with him; if they didn't die, they still run]: Shelton 1925, No. 2:21-25; lepcha [Tiger invites Toad to lick each other looking for insects; Tiger licks The toad, it has no lice, the Toad is a Tiger, it has many; the Tiger suggests comparing belching; he has leaves and white clay, the Toad has tiger hair; the Tiger runs away, fearing that the Toad will eat it; the Coyote suggests The tiger goes with him to the Toad to find out what's going on, ties himself to the Tiger by the neck; the Toad shouts to Coyote that he promised to bring three Tigers; the Tiger runs away, dragging the Coyote with him, he dies]: Stocks 1925, No. XI: 366-367; Bhutan [the tiger asks the frog to clean its hair from insects; fell asleep; the frog stuffed it put tiger hair in its mouth and ass, asked the tiger what it eats; tiger: big animals, but if I am very hungry, then small ones, even frogs; frog: and I eat little ones, but if I am very hungry, even tigers; I opened my mouth, there is tiger hair; the tiger has run away; the fox leads the tiger back, but so that it does not I was afraid, tied their necks with a vine; frog: thank you, fox brother; I'm hungry, and you came to me with breakfast; the tiger ran away, dragging the fox, it suffocated; the tiger looked around, the fox grinned: stop laughing! the tiger went away from the frog]: Choden 1994:41-44; Burma's naga [the tiger invites the frog to gnaw the stone, gnaws it into powder; the frog only hurt its mouth, but quietly spit out the stone and showed blood: it squeezed blood out of the stone; the tiger offers to jump across the lake; the frog clung to its tail, also found itself on the other side; the frog regurgitates the tiger hair that has fallen into its mouth, says frogs used to eat tigers, they're just tired of it; the tiger runs away]: Zapadova 1977:242-244.

Burma - Indochina. Vieta: Knorozova 2000 [during a drought, Toad agrees to send a messenger to heaven if the Fox, the Bear and the Tiger accompany her; the Tiger is ready to obey the Toad if she defeats him in jumping across the lake; Toad clings to the Tiger's tail; Tiger suggests comparing their diet, belching roe deer, foxes; Toad regurgitates tiger hair, which it swallows, holding the tiger's tail; in heaven, Heavenly Lord sends chickens, dogs, guards to kill Toad, who sends Fox, Bear, Tiger at them; Heavenly Lord promises that every time the Toad gives a voice, he will send rain]: 37-40 (=Vietnamese tales 1992:182 -191); Dähnhardt 1912 [the toad is afraid that the tiger will eat it; offers to jump over the stream, clings to the tiger's tail, is in front; says it eats tigers alive, shows tiger hairs at home in his mouth; the monkey explains to the tiger that he was deceived; but the toad outsmarted both]: 76; thai Vietnam [the tiger asks the toad if it can drag the tree to build a house; in response, the toad suggests jump long; clings to the tiger's tail, he believes it's in front; asks what the toad eats to be so strong; offers to regurgitate what he has eaten; the toad asks the tiger to regurgitate first; this is meat; the toad regurgitates something green, white, red; says that white is elephant tusks, red is the tiger's pupils; the tiger runs away; the monkey convinces him to return, offers to connect with a rope; the toad: a monkey, You promised me nine tigers, why only one? the tiger runs, dragging the monkey; the dead monkey grins as if laughing; the tiger is furious; ate a monkey]: Degeorge 1925:972-973.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Chelkans [The fox tells the Magpie to throw off one and then the second chick, threatens to climb the willow and eat everyone; the Bear explains that the Fox cannot climb the tree; the Fox invites the Bear to lie down sleep on the edge of a cliff, pushes down; feasts; invites Wolves to compare vomiting; she has meat and fat, they have grass used instead of onuch; teaches Wolves to lower their tails into the water, meat will fall from above and lard; an old woman beats Wolves frozen in the ice, they run away without tails]: Kandarakova 1988:151-154; (cf. tubalars [The fox invites the Bear to light a fire and warm up; tells him to move, he falls off a cliff, the Fox eats lard and meat; runs away from the Wolf between the trunks of the talnik, the Wolf gets stuck; belches bear fat and meat in front of nine Wolves, advises putting their tails into the water, at night food will fall from the sky; tails freeze into the ice, the Old Man, whose cow and horse they ate, kills them; his youngest daughter agrees to marry Lisa]: Baskakov 1965:67-70); South Altai Tuvans [The Little Fox tells the Mountain Goat that he wants to eat what is between his legs; he replies that the Little Fox is stupid; the Little Fox offers to crush him against a rock, dodges, asks the Goat to close his eyes, otherwise it's scary, the Goat breaks, the Fox eats his scrotum; belches in front of seven wolves; they are amazed, they have not seen anything like it; The fox teaches you to sit with its tails down the ice-hole and fall from the sky; the wolf's tails are frozen, the fox sends an old man to them; Wolves tell the old man that they will die if they hit between the tail and the ice; they fall, he puts them in a bag; rests seven times along the way; each time one wolf gets out of the bag, puts a stone in his place; the old man's wife hurries to his response, swallows a needle and thimble, says it's in the bag stones; the old man accuses his wife of eating wolves, rips open her stomach, there is only a needle and a thimble; The fox sees the old jelbega woman, she lies on one ear, covers herself with the other; asks to light a fire, lies down at a cliff; at night, the Fox asks him to move, otherwise the fire will burn his fur; the jelbege falls off a cliff, breaks]: Taube 1994, No. 48:268-269; the Mongors [the frog tells the tiger that he is the king of the earth, and she is waters; the tiger looks into the pond, sees its reflection, decides that there is a mighty creature; the frog claims that it runs no worse than a tiger; the tiger runs, the frog clings to its tail; it remains in its mouth tiger hairs; the tiger wants to compare belching, sees that the frog's belching has tiger hair; the frog says it wanted to regurgitate the tiger's head, but it has already digested it; since then, the tiger has kept away frogs away]: Stuart, Limusishiden 1994:127-128.

SV Asia. Coastal Koryaks (Kichiga) [Chachuchanavut fox smeared the dugout's entrance log and bone breaker with fat crush; Kuykinnyaku's raven swallows a greased hammer crush a stone, the end of a log; meets the Wolf; he regurgitates the bone marrow, K. - a log, a stone, a hammer; the Wolf leaves, K. brings Mitya's wife a bone marrow regurgitated by the Wolf]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 127: 407-408; itelmen [The fox kills deer; the raven Kutkh asks him to eat the abomb; invites the Wolf to compare their belching; the Wolf regurgles reindeer fat, K. brings it to his wife Mitya, lies, as if he killed a deer; M. finds nothing, turns into a cauldron, K. throws it far; M. turns into a warm dugout; K. puts his head in the door, M. clamps it with his anus; K. is bald; later she gives him back his hair]: Jochelson 1961, No. 31:207-208.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [Ayasu kills two black bears; meets the ogre Neilly; they regurgitate what they have eaten; N. makes sure that they are both cannibals; A. kills N. with a club]: Jenness 1934, No. 30: 191; shuswap [Owl says she eats people; Coyote also pretends to be an ogre, suggests comparing their vomiting but closing their eyes; replaces vomiting; the owl is frightened; both turn into rocks]: Boas 1895, No. 2 : 9; Thompson: Hill-Tout 1899 [see M18A motif; Coyote brags that he eats human; Sqaktktquaclt (the youngest of three traveling brothers) invites him to belch it, closes his eyes, but peek; Coyote regurgitates grass, young man turns him into a coyote]: 206-207 (full text: 1905-216); Teit 1898, No. 4 [cannibal, Coyote (claims to eat people too)]: 30; lillouette [like Thompson]: Teit 1912b, #8:307; Puget Sound [cannibal, hero; then he kills her with fire]).

Plains. Kiowa [Sendeh tells the four Cannibals that he also eats people, suggests closing his eyes and comparing vomiting; replaces it; advises putting hearts on the ground before attacking the village; pierces cannibal hearts with a stick, they die]: Parsons 1929a, No. 20:40-41.

Big Pool. Gosiyute [a coyote meets a bear; everyone replies to the other that they are not afraid to walk this path; the coyote invites the bear, with his eyes closed, to regurgitate what he has eaten to see how many people he has eaten ate; eats regurgitated bear, and then belches himself; the bear believes that the coyote, like him, is a mighty cannibal; the coyote advises the bear to go to the top of the hill; there he will see a man with onions, but be afraid of him no need; the bear went; the coyote got there earlier and shot a bear who came up; taking off his skin, the coyote fell asleep; when he woke up, heard a noise, thought it was flies; then he saw someone (they were some birds ), who took their eyes out of their eye sockets, threw them at the tree, shook the tree, their eyes came back; the coyote said he also always played this game; the birds wanted the coyote's thrown eyes stayed in the tree; blinded, the coyote went to the river; there were girls on the other side; they guessed that the coyote was blind, but he denied it; they surrounded the bison, the coyote shot him; took off his skin crooked; said that since girls of different heights (and this was not the case), he wants to make the hut taller on one side and lower on the other; not seeing the entrance, he did the other; when asked why, he explained that there are enemies around, you need to have two ways out; at night he met both girls, depriving them of their virginity; seeing larvae in the coyote's eyes, the girls ran away, putting an anthill under his head; when he woke up, the coyote followed the girls' footsteps; one threw a rattle into the canyon, the coyote ran to the sound, fell, broke his leg, began to eat his bone marrow; sister's husband {wife's brother?} the coyote brought him home and asked him to play for him; the coyote won back everything he lost and won against everyone; his sister's husband put the eyes of a mountain ram in him, and the coyote began to see again]: Smith 1993:17-21.

The Great Southwest. Vomiting; Coyote, cannibal. Hicarilla [Cannibal Owl]: Goddard 1911, No. 27:225; Opler 1938, No. 16 [The cannibal owl tells Coyote he hunts people; he suggests regurgitating what he has eaten with his eyes closed; replaces vomiting, says that the Owl regurgitated the grasshoppers and he regurgitated the human; the owl believes that he swallowed the grasshoppers along with the water; the Coyote suggests making the Owl a good runner by removing the legs; cuts off the meat from the Owl's legs; offers to stretch out her legs, breaks them with a stone; The owl throws her club at him, she returns three times, does not return the fourth time; Coyote tells Owl to live in the shade, at dusk; var.: Coyote with Owl are in the steam room; Coyote cuts off the meat from the Owl's feet, pretending to cut off his own and then his flesh recovers]: 288-289; Navajo: Haile 1984, No. 14:70-71; Matthews 1994 [Coyote invites the giant to unclog his stomach before entering the steam room, regurgitating its contents into pieces of bark and closing his eyes; the giant regurgitates meat, the Coyote of worms, replaces the bark; as soon as the giant regurgitates meat, the Worm Coyote, replaces the bark; as soon as the turns away, Coyote eats his regurgitated meat]: 227 (note 83); O'Bryan 1956 [12 hunting brothers have sister Ataed'diy ini; she promises to marry only the one who kills the giant; the giant walks slowly, to him It is rare to catch a person and put it in his basket; the Coyote tells the giant that he will make him as fast-footed as he is; in the steam room, both drink vomit, each burps into his vessel; Coyote has grasshoppers , the giant has meat; the Coyote replaces blood vessels, explains to the giant that because of these grasshoppers, he walks slowly; quietly puts a deer on his leg, cuts it in half; lets the giant feel first a severed leg, then a kiss, the giant believes that by cutting and coalescing his leg, the Coyote gained strength; he allows his leg to be cut off, the Coyote takes it away, says A., who killed the giant; she puts a new one condition: first she kills Coyote, then he must come to life; Coyote hides his heart and lungs in a hole under the hill, wrapped in a black wind; she kills him, he comes to life; so 4 times (heart and lungs are wrapped in the blue, yellow, white wind, burrows lead east, south, west, north); Coyote marries A., teaches all his tricks; A. hides the Coyote under the blanket, the brothers smell; the brothers leave home to his sister and Coyote, building a hut for themselves; brothers cross the canyon in the rainbow, and are forced to move the Coyote; mountain sheep had horns full of bone marrow; one of the brothers killed a ram, the Coyote wanted horns for himself (they are received by the murderer); when the brother cut off the horns, the Coyote made the horns bony; the traces of trying to cut them off are circular rings on the outer surface; (option: Coyote tries himself cut off the horns, hit them furiously on the ground, the canyons of the Mesa Verde district form); the brothers turn the meat into a small ball, tell them to take it to their sister, not put it on the ground on the way; the Coyote puts the ball turns into a bunch of meat, Coyote doesn't know what to do; insults swallow people; two spiders quietly weave the wall behind the Coyote, he can't jump over it, swallows kill him, make stripes of skin forehead bandages, since then swallows have a band on their forehead]: 40-44.