M76. A person climbing a tree has his leg cut off. 42.58.59.

A woman cuts off a man's leg when he climbs a tree; a man cuts off a woman's leg when she climbs a tree. See K13A motif.

NW Coast. Bellacula [The raven calls the woman to collect the fruits of the wild apple tree, takes her far away; she climbs a tree, drops the fruit down, he immediately swallows them; she scolds him; he cuts off her leg with an ax]: McInwraith 1948 (2): 392-393 [the foot falls into deep water; the woman promises her necklace to whoever reaches her leg; the Seagull does not dive, the Loon brings her leg; the woman sticks it with resin, the leg grows] 394 [The raven carries his leg, sings; the woman turns into a one-legged forest dwarf].

Guiana. The cannibal's daughter takes revenge on her husband for killing her mother. Varrau; carinha na Orinoco; arecuna; taulipan; (cf. tamanak [man and wife went fishing; they quarreled, the woman cut off her husband's leg with an ax; he rose to heaven, became the constellation "Legless"; Lehman-Nietzsche proves that it is the Big Dipper; Geely identified with the Pleiades or the Ursa Minor]: Jilij 1781 in Lehmann-Nitsche 1925a: 103-105).