M80. The partridge scares the offender, K932. .43.-.46.49.

The character insults a partridge bird, kills or offends its chickens; the partridge suddenly takes off in front of the offender, he falls (usually into a lake or river).

Shuswap, Kordalen, Sanpual, Kalispel, Yakima, Menominee, Algonquins, Ojibwa (Western and Eastern), Sauk, Western Swamp Cree, Steppe Ojibwa, Atticamek, Montagnier, Assiniboine, Comanche, Kiowa Apache, Goshiute, Uncompagre Utah.

The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap [Coyote seals the eyes of sleeping children with tar; their mothers (four types of partridges and hazel grouses) fly in front of him, he falls into the river]: Boas 1895, No. I.2:7-8 (=2002:70-71); Teit 1909a, No. 1 [ turns into a piece of wood; see motif H20], 53 [sinks]: 629, 740; curdalen [Coyote comes to the house where Pheasant's children bake berries; asks their parents' names; in response, indecent and threatening A play on words (in the sense that his father will frighten him suddenly from behind and his mother between his legs); the Coyote kills them; Pheasants take off suddenly when the Coyote walks along the cliff, he falls; Pheasants revive their own children; the Coyote breaks his leg, eats his bone marrow, fills his hollow bone with chewed willow branches; so that the two children who come up do not say that the Coyote is eating himself, he curves their mouths, they turn into crossbill (Loxia curvirostra); Coyote sees a man throwing his eyes, they go back to his eye sockets; Coyote says his grandfather also took this trick, throws up his own, man grabs them, runs away; Coyote bumps into someone, takes their eyes for himself, throws them off a cliff, turns into Catbird (rock wren?) ; sees a woman sitting, she reacts only when he burns her with nettles, says he will go with him; he sees dancing, puts out the fire, but the fat bubbles turn out to be stone; he lights the fire, there is no one He is surrounded by rocks, he is in a stone bag; birds come to hammer a stone, the Woodpecker pecks a hole to Coyote's eye, flies away; the Coyote sees the Vulture, calls him names; the Vulture pecks out his eye; The Coyote looks at others, the Vulture pecks him out; the woman who went with the Coyote broke the rock with her belt; aims the blind Coyote's arrow at the deer, which hits the target, but the woman lies like an arrow got into a tree; drives the Coyote in circles as if they had gone far; cooks venison; admits that he did kill a deer; after filling his gut with fat, he told me to put it on his eyes; the Coyote begins to see, but then eats fat , goes blind again; makes her eyes out of resin; they are weak, the resin melts every now and then from the heat; the Coyote comes to the blind woman; today she will come to the dancers, where she will insert the eyes of the Coyote; the Coyote kills her, puts on her clothes, scratches her eye; explains to her four granddaughters (Nightjar and three other types of birds) that she is hoarse and a sunflower seed has fallen into her eye; granddaughters take turns carrying an imaginary grandmother; she is planted before Coyote's eyes; an imaginary old woman tells her to extinguish the fire, dance in the dark; inserts her eyes in, runs away, leaving the saliva responsible for herself; the audience understands that "the leader took his eyes"]: Reichard 1947, No. 7:89-95; Sanpual [Coyote does not believe that Chickady, who made a bow from an elk's rib, will be able to make a chain of arrows; suggests shooting at him; Chickady tells him to go far, but still Shoots to death; the Fox revives him; Coyote insists that Chickady play with him, wins his bow, arrows, clothes; comes to the Partridges; asks about their parents, they mumble something; he bakes them in coals, leaves them planted on sticks; Chickady revives them for promising the Partridges to return to him what Coyote took; Partridge parents suddenly take off the Coyote, he falls off a cliff; his fox revives; Chickady regains his possessions; only he shoots to the sky and makes a chain of arrows; everyone has climbed into heaven; the Grizzly is heavy, breaks the chain; everyone jumped, becoming bumps or stones; Coyote became a leaf; Beaver, Woodpecker, Excrement and Dog remained in the sky, the Dog ate Excrement; Beaver pretended to be dead, he was ripped off; Woodpecker flew in, everyone rushed after him, Beaver climbed into his skin again, hid it the fire under her fingernails dived; then all the lights went out, but Magpie hid the coal in the sink; the old woman passed her daughter off as a Woodpecker; lit a smoky fire; the woodpecker covered her head with his hands, she remained bright red ]: Ray 1933, No. 13:157-160; Kalispel [Coyote wins all his possessions against Wren; comes to Partridge's children, asks their parents' names; father flying headlong, mother Soaring -Between the legs; Coyote laughs, shoves the children into a hole by the hearth, throws hot ash and earth, bakes; Partridge's father and mother fly up at the head and between the legs of the Coyote, who falls off the cliff in fear; Partridges they bring Wren his property, who revives his children for it; the Fox, as always, revives the Coyote]: Teit 1917, No. 1:114-115; yakima [Coyote comes to the Partridge's chicks, asks where his brother (i.e. their father); chicks can't speak, they only squeak; Coyote kills them with a stick; their parents suddenly fly out in front of him, he falls off a cliff on rocks; his brother Fox revives him by stepping on him three times; Coyote promises not to kill chicks anymore]: Beavert 1974:173-177.

The Midwest. Menominee: Bloomfield 1928 [(resentment to chicks and revenge on partridges are two separate episodes in texts about Menapus's trickster tricks); Menapus relieves the need for young partridges; partridges suddenly take off in front of him, he rolls down the slope]: 215, 231; Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. 22 [The minybus pushes the Partridge's children into a pot of boiling maple juice; it scares him, he falls into the river, falls apart in half, sees his ass before his eyes]: 298-299; Algonquins [Whiskejac calls ducks and geese with his eyes closed to dance in his house; Toadstool opens his eyes, V. kicks her, her tail takes on its current appearance; V. tells the anus to guard the meat while he sleeps; the Indians steal meat; V. sits down in the fire to punish the anus; pours mud on the Partridge's chicks; she frightens him, flying in front of his eyes; he falls off a cliff; pieces of his burnt meat turn into edible lichens]: Speck 1915d, No. 3-4:8-15; atticamek [Wisəkedjak came across a Partridge's nest , spoiled the chicks; Partridges parents found V. sleeping on the edge of a cliff, took off next to him, he fell off the cliff with his back against the rock; later found peeled pieces of his flesh in this place, took for the dried meat and ate it; The partridges laughed at it]: Davidson 1928a: 270; Ojibwa: Blackwood 1929, No. 6 [Manabozo scares away the partridge chicks, who replied to him that they were "crow scarecrows"; them the mother takes off in front of M., who suddenly falls into the water; fills the bag with grass, tells the waterfowl that in the bag of song, you have to dance with your eyes closed; Hell Dive opens and sees that M. is strangling birds one at a time; M. manages to kick him with his foot, the dent remains; M. cooks the birds, falls asleep, burns his ass in a dream; slides off the cliff, tearing off the scabs, the blood has colored the willows, now they are red]: 337-338; Radin 1914, No. 1 [Nenebozho defecates on the partridge's chicks; she scares him, he runs, throwing his buckets]: 6-7; Radin, Reagan 1928, No. 14 (Minnesota) [Manabozo throws dirt at Partridge's children; their his mother frightens him when he is standing on the edge of the lake; M. falls into the water]: 96-97; timagami ojibwa [the girl sees the Sun in a dream, now she cannot look at it, goes to live for the Sun; 4 days later at the wooden bowl left at home turns out to be four boys, one with horns, the grandfather sends them to 4 directions of the world; this is 4 winds; the fifth is Nenebuc; he went to punish the west wind blowing too much from this food is not enough; he broke one horn with a club; killed three geese, told his anus to guard; he signals that N. is angry, tells him to be silent; people stole meat; to punish his anus, N. sits down in the fire; finds and eats burnt pieces of his flesh, thinking that they are animal meat; defecates on partridge chicks, since then they are not white, but brown; sleeping at the edge of the cliff, his partridges have thrown him down; burnt pieces of his flesh became lichens; kills a bear; two trees creak, N. sticks his hand between them, gets stuck; all the animals have come to eat bear meat; only the rabbit did not eat, remained skinny; N. became an ant, climbed into a bear's skull; became human again, unable to pull out his head; when he bumped into trees, he asks what kind of trees they are; so he reaches the river, swims, people think that a bear is swimming; N. fell on a rock, the bear skull has broken; N. wounds the queen of the Giant Lynxes with an arrow; the Toad goes to heal her; N. kills the Toad, puts on her skin, pierces his arrow deeper into the Lynx's body, killing her; Lynxes send a flood; N. commands The beaver reaches the ground, it does not dive to the bottom; the muskrat pops up dead with the ground in its paws; N. makes the earth; sends the White Crow to find out if it is big; he eats dead fish, turns black; the Seagull eats a little, its wings turn black; the owl eats fresh fish, does not return]: Speck 1915d, No. 1:28-38; sauk [Visakia asks Partridge's children what their names are; frightening people , Frightening, lying; V. spits contemptuously; adult partridges fly up noisily, he falls into the water]: Skinner 1928, No. 7:149-150; Western Swamp Cree (Stone Cree) [Wīsahkīcā hk comes to Partridge's house, asks the chicks what their names are; they say their name, say that their mother scares people; V. does not believe, defecates on the chicks, leaves, goes to bed on the edge of the cliff; when he finds out what happened, the partridge creeps up, pours cold water into V.'s ear, he jumps up, falls into the lake]: Brightman 1989:32-33; (cf. Western Swamp Cree (Stone Cree) [Wīsahkīcāhk jumps across a stream, at which time partridges take off, he suddenly falls into the water; as punishment, he cuts off the partridges's wings so that they can't fly well]: Brightman 1989:38); Steppe Cree: Ahenakew 1929 [Vesakaicak stains chickens' faces with mud; their mother tells other Chickens to slam their wings when V. jumps over the stream; V. falls into the water]: 333; Bloomfield 1930, No. 2 [Visakechak falls into the water]: 333; Bloomfield 1930, No. 2 [Visakecak asks partridge chicks what their middle name is; defecates (?) at them; other partridges fly in front of him when he jumps over the stream; he falls into the water; gives his wet cloak to the Boulder; a thunderstorm begins, V. takes his cape; the boulder rolls over him; only hawks manage to break the Boulder]: 23-27; Dusenberry 1962, No. 3 [Visakachak asks the partridge chicks what their names are; one replies Pahayo; V. says everyone should also have middle name; Our name is Scarecrow; V. laughs, defecates at chickens; when he tries to jump over a deep stream, partridges take off, he falls into the water; when he gets ashore, argues with Coyote, who should give way; decide that they will sit still, the youngest should stand up first; after a few years, Coyote stops answering, V. leaves; but Coyote runs up to him, calls him younger brother; V. threatens, Coyote is afraid and runs away]: 236-237; Steppe Ojibwa: Skinner 1919, No. 3 [Nanybozhu asks the partridge chicks what their names are; Pinya; - And also? - Shy; N. does not believe, defecates on chicks], 4 [N. promises to jump into the river if he is given a girlfriend; hesitates; Partridges suddenly take off, he falls off a cliff, lands on a soft one sand]: 281-282.

Northeast. Montagnier [Mesh finds antlers, brings them to the river; people think there is a deer there, they come in a boat; M. asks to be sent a woman; they send a widow, he copulates with her; all understand that it is M., they swim to the widow to help; M. runs away; asks the Crane, then Orlan, what's new; Nothing, only M. copulated with the widow; M. asks the partridge chicks what will happen to those who will eat them; Nothing, but adult partridges will scare him; M. eats the chicks, walks, the partridges take off, he shies away; asks mushrooms what will happen to the one who eats them; Will become uncontrollable release gases; M. eats mushrooms, even sticks them in his ass; M. scares away all the game with his sounds; then he punishes his anus by sitting on a hot stone, the eruption of gases stops; flying birds M . shouts that mothers who lost them in childhood are looking for them, we will be happy to dance with our eyes closed; kills them one by one, finally Orlan opens his eyes, raises the alarm; M. invites the Bear to look lingonberries, leads further; The bear asks how he sees so far; M. suggests improving his eyesight by pouring lingonberry juice into his eyes; the bear closed his eyes, M. killed him with a stone; fell asleep by the river, telling him The anus to guard the meat; the people on the boat asked the anus to remain silent, took the meat away; see the M49 motif, the hero in someone else's skin]: Savard 1979, No. 7:26-28.

Plains. Assiniboine [Sitkonsky asks the partridge chick what his name is; Chicken; asks again, he says his name scares everyone; S. defecates on him; Mother partridge takes off, S. falls into the river; Laska asks him to catch fish; S. says to one that the other calls it names; fish fight, one kills the other, S. finishes off the winner; Laske gives nothing; he stole fish; S. tells Grom that everyone treats both of them badly; Thunder causes a flood; everyone without wings drowned, after the flood S. revived everyone]: Lowie 1909a, No. 14:110-111; Comanche [Coyote spits on a chick partridges; she takes off in front of the Coyote, he falls into a ravine, breaks his leg; calls to eat his bone marrow]: Canonge 1958, No. 4:13-14; Kiova-Apache [The partridge replies to the Coyote that her name is Scarecrow People; The coyote furiously replies that this is not a name for a small bird; a partridge takes off unexpectedly in front of him, he falls on the road; admits that the name is correct]: McAllister 1949, No. 16:61-62.

Big Pool. Goshiute [The Wood Mite called the Coyote "having sex with his own daughter"; the Coyote began to trample on him, but he only grew up; Coyote wrote to the children of Wild Hen, their mother frightened him. he fell into the river; at night, someone steals Coyote's edible cane (Cattails), which he cooks; Coyote asks all parts of his body one by one; the penultimate is his penis, the last is his extra penis; that replies that the Mole stole; the Coyote waited for the Mole, stabbed him; the Mole's mother calls Coyote (not knowing who he is) to cure his son; he pretends to suck the wound, sucks fat himself; in the morning he killed the Mole with a knife, and his mother; see further motives F9A, J12]: Smith 1993:8-11; Utah's uncompagre [Coyote came across partridge chicks (Sage Hen), wrote to their eyes, they complained to their mother; she suddenly took off before With a coyote, he fell into a stream; got out, hung his clothes to dry; saw the reflection of the berries, tried to get them out of the water, then saw them in a tree; he came to the Bear, who asked her to look after her baby, too ran for berries; the Coyote cut off his head, cooked him, put his head in the cradle with the log; told the Bear that he had killed the deer; when he walked away, shouted that she was eating her child; hid in a hole, went out with On the other hand, he covered one eye with resin, returned unrecognized to the Bear, lit fire at the hole, pointed to a cloud in the distance, it supposedly was smoke from another exit, which means that Coyote could not be caught; so twice, the second time killed the Bear by hitting with pogamoggan]: Smith 1992:21-23.