M81A. Vivid female ducks. 42.43.

The hero meets two blind women and makes them sighted. These women are birds (geese, ducks, hazel grouses, partridges).

Tlingit [ducks, geese], hyda [geese], tsimshian [ducks], heiltsuk [ducks], quakiutl [ducks], chickpea [duck], quarry [geese], thompson [hazel grouse], lillouette [ducks], pentlatch [ducks], comox [ ducks], upper coquill [partridges].

NW Coast. The Tlingit (Fort Tongass, far south of the Alexander Archipelago) [the killer whale stole Chief Schagattyno's wife; he went to sea by boat and dived; at the bottom he asks two blind duck women; those they say that they saw Killer Whale drag a woman; in gratitude, the chief cut the skin that covered their eyes, making them sighted; the episode is repeated with various ducks and geese; because the knife is dull, the eyes are dull birds of different species of different sizes; the crane hides the leader, for which he receives grass from him that used to serve instead of tobacco; with the help of the Sea Lion (he is a slave to Killer Whales), the leader returns his wife, emerges from her to the surface]: Dähnhardt 1909:503; Haida O. The Prince of Wales (and the Tlingits? ; the author has "tlingita-hyda") [Gunarh's wife washes the skin of a sea otter in the sea, Killer Whale takes it away; taking Marten and Swallow into the boat, G. swims to two algae rising to the sea surface, ties a boat to them; goes down to the bottom; cuts the skin in front of blind Geese, they see the light, show the way; the slave breaks the teslo, G. glues it together, he promises to help; tells another slave to overturn a pot of water put on fire; in the cloud, couple G. takes his wife; puts something like tobacco in the slave's mouth, the slave swells, closing the passage; Geese send G. along the same path, and the pursuers are told where they dug up traps; Marten takes G. and his wife into the boat; among the killer whales, one with a double fin; shouts that he, the slave, will continue to help people; G. and his wife return]: Beck 1989: 100-112; Tsimshian [chief Gulaxnisem hunted sea otters, and their herd also included whales {probably killer whales: so on}; for this reason, killer whales kidnapped G.'s wife; he went in search; salmon pointed the road after G. painted his cheeks red and gave him a narcotic root; the following were ducks, while all the ducks were blind; they showed the way after G. cut through their eyes, although he did it badly in a hurry {what was bad is not very clear}; the bridge guard, who sounded when giving a signal to killer whales, hid G. under his cape; in the house, the killer whales they had kidnapped Salzan's slave; he was cutting wood in a hurry: killer whales were going to fry G.'s wife to turn her into a killer whale too; he broke his stone ax, G. gave him a lot of narcotic root, and he didn't notice how G. passed; spat on the axe and it was whole again; S. had two wives, both minks; they smelled G., but S. told them to go about their business; G.'s wife was already fried on one side and washed on the other; brought water, S. poured her into the hearth, G. grabbed his wife and took her away, no one noticed it in the clouds of steam; S. lay down in the doorway, blocking the way for his pursuers, he was beaten to death; G. had a knife that brought him to the ground and then to upper world; there he killed two grizzlies and a snake, married two grizzly daughters; wanted to take them to the ground, but he was allowed to go down with only his old wife]: Barbeau, Beynon 1987, No. 54:175-176; Heiltzuk [Kanekelak meets blind women cooking; spits in their eyes, making them sighted; turns them into geese]: Boas 1916, No. 1:883; quakiutl: Boas 1895, No. XV.1 (nimpkish) [ Gyi'i goes to marry a girl whose father kills suitors; sails in a self-propelled boat with feathers and wings of seagulls; sails to his aunt, who gives him three stone tiles to tie to his legs and to buttocks; gives shells; G. gives these shells to a person who also helped with advice; he leaves them on the shore, since then there are shells to feed people; gave another person the same thing, but they are inedible shells; swam to four blind duck women, steals the roots they bake; each thinks the other has taken it, they fight; they smell it; G. spits in their eyes, restoring their sight; they they tell him that a girl and her father are about to come; G. ties an octopus to her face to look like an old man; a girl takes him as a slave, her brother doubts; in a boat, a girl tells an imaginary slave that must marry G.; G. throws off the octopus, appears in his form; the door to the girl's father's house slams shut, crushing the incoming ones; G. makes a false move and then slips; father-in-law offers to sit down, G. ties his stones, they break the tips that killed the other suitors; G. throws shells into the fire, extinguishes the fire; under the guise of salmon meat and berries, his father-in-law gives sisisutl meat and milk; G. pretends to eat hides pieces under her clothes; gets his wife, she gave birth in the morning; father-in-law calls to split the trunk, deliberately drops the wedge, asks for it; sees blood, but it turns out that G. quietly jumped out and waits for his father-in-law in boat; when they sail, G. throws coniferous needles and pieces of wood into the water, they turn into fish and dolphins, jump on his father-in-law, who dies; at the shore G. revives him, father-in-law admits defeat]: 135-137 (= 2002:307-310); 1910, No. 35 [Kanekelak goes to marry Dzavadalis's daughter; meets blind geese and ducks, a blind woman; spits in their eyes, they see the light, give him instructions; he breaks the vaginal teeth of D.'s youngest daughter with a finger, marries her; slips through the door, which usually pinches grooms; thrown on thorns, turns into an ermine; sent to split (?) wood; D. takes alder juice for blood, fluff for his son-in-law's brains; K. returns with firewood; his father-in-law is carried in a boat, causes a storm, his father-in-law dies, K. revives him]: 455-462; Wallace, Whitaker 1981 [ The converter goes, turns the people they meet; two blind women dig roots, one smells the Transducer; it restores their sight, turns them into ducks that always dig into the smelly mud]: 26- 27; chickpea [see motif L40; A snot boy shoots arrows into the sky, climbs a chain of arrows; makes two blind Old Ducks sighted; in gratitude, they advise him to follow a narrow path leading to his father's house, not along the wide path leading to dangerous animals; on a narrow path he should not eat a dangerous woman's food; he comes to his father, who gives him salmon and candlefish; when he returns to the ground, he places fish in rivers]: Boas 1916, No. 6:907-908.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [see motive L78; the hunter brings a white seal, asks his wife to wash the carcass; she enters the water, the marine inhabitants carry it away; the husband dives, makes blind (women?) sighted along the way -geese; Satsan cuts a tree to make the kidnapped woman fins; the husband tells the wedge to split; repairs; for this S. pours water into the fire; the husband takes his wife; S. prevents the pursuers from leaving the house, Geese throw sharp stones in front of them; see motif B3A]: Jenness 1934, No. 8, 30 [Ayasa comes to two blind women; they have sharp elbows; he throws his cloak between them, they pierce each other; he replaces their tips with normal hands; makes them sighted]: 141-143, 191; Thompson: Teit, No. 2 [at the beginning of time, Coyote makes a son out of clay; he bathes, dissolves in water; from resin, melts into sun; made of white stone - lives, his name is Nlixentem; Loon and Duck give him daughters as wives, one dark-skinned, the other is light; Coyote turns their excrement into eagle chicks, asks his son to climb for they go to a tree, tells the tree to become tall, in the clothes and appearance of his son comes to his wives, takes a bright one, drives the dark-skinned one; N. walks along the heavenly plain, pulls out large edible rhizomes, from The wind blows holes, these rhizomes are stars; he goes into an empty dugout, takes the basket, the baskets attack it; he puts the basket back, tells the baskets to become people's servants; the same episode in the dugout mats; awls; ridges, birch bark vessels; N. comes to two blind old women; they eat rotten wood, pass food to each other, N. intercepts it, old women quarrel, accusing each other; feel a man, they say he smells bad; N. turns them into two types of hazel grouses; comes to the spider spouses, they call themselves his grandfather and grandmother, they lower them to the ground in a basket; N. finds a faithful wife and son; Coyote's people are starving, Raven discovers N. who has returned, gets meat for his children; people force him to confess where the meat comes from; they return to N., celebrate, ask him to take his second wife back; N . sends the Coyote for the carcass of a dead deer, the Coyote falls into the river, swims to the dam, followed by two sisters holding salmon; turns into a wooden plate; eats food, throws the plate into the fire, Coyote turns into a baby, sisters adopt him; in their absence, he breaks a dam, releasing salmon into rivers; goes downstream; asks three or four girls if they want salmon, the youngest answers, Yes; he sends his penis across the river, the end stays in the vagina, the girl gets sick; the Coyote carries salmon across the rivers; a group of girls replies they want mountain sheep meat, not salmon; in this place, the Coyote creates rapids; under the guise of a shaman, comes to the sick person, asks everyone to sing loudly, leave him with the girl in the steam room, copulates, removes the end of the penis, girl recovers; Coyote creates fake berries on the bushes, negotiates with the Grizzly to eat her supplies first, then him; runs away, the berries dry up]: 21-29; lillouette [started like Thompson; blind women they feed on rough sand; send the hero to the Spiders, who help him return to earth]: Teit 1912b, No. 8:308; pentlatch [the young man fires arrows, they pierce one another's tail, he turns them into a rope, climbs it into heaven; comes to her grandmother Kalmar, who gives him tar; comes to the Ducks, they are blind, they give him roots, he splashes them with water, they see the light, fly away; one remains to say so that he does not give a hand to his older, middle sisters, they have teeth in the vagina, but gives his younger one; he comes to three sisters, sleeps with the youngest; the older ones give him fish bones, the youngest gives him good food; the girls' father agrees to give the youngest]: Thompson, Egesdal 2008:90-96; comox (chatloltk) [two brothers make a chain of arrows, climb to heaven to marry the chief's two daughters; steal food from two blind old women; make them sighted, they turn into Ducks; they advise you to look for an old one-legged man; he gives 1) flat stones under you to sit on the porcupine bench, 2) put the rods in the vaginas of wives to break them vaginal teeth; brothers have been married safely; since then, women have vaginas without teeth; see motif K27]: Boas 1895, No. 3:65-68; upper coquil [Noise-under-ground and Big-Fat are talking about that the ocean overflows; people get into boats, but boats and oars turn into snakes; to prevent this from happening, they had to be smeared with crap; at the top of the mountain, a young man, a girl, escaped in a boat An old man comes, with his wife, daughter and son; the Red Squirrel brings fire to the back of her head, so she has a red head; after a while the waters have come down, the survivors are married, repopulated the earth; the Coyote comes to a woman, tells her daughter to bring water; she is afraid that Cancer (crawfish) drags those who come for water; Coyote insists, the girl is coming, Cancer grabs her, Coyote turns Cancer into cancer, it has been cooked and eaten; two blind women push acorns; the Coyote slowly picks up a handful; the blind feel it; he cuts through their eyes, turns them into partridges, tells them not to grind the acorns, but to speak out while sitting on a branch; man says that they don't go across the river, there Ostrog kills people; Coyote turns it into a salmon jail; the River Oyster woman lies on her back, offers to copulate, bites off men penises; Coyote turns it into a river oyster; Deer tries to hook Coyote, Coyote tells him to be a deer, deer are hunted]: Jacobs 2007:132-135.