M81D. Healed blind people. 20.21.35.42.43.48.49.

A person meets (most often in the sky) one or two blind people and restores their sight.

Tanna, Uliti, Kapingamarangi, Nukumanu, Nauru, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Rotuma, Niue, Samoa, Manihiki (North Cook Islands), Mangaia (South Cook Islands), Rarotonga, Marques, Maori, Southern Khanty, Chukchi, Tlingit, Haida, Bellacula, Heiltsuk, Quakiutl, Nootka, Quarry, Shuswap, Pentlatch, Comox, Halkomel, Sechelt, Klallam, Upper Chehalis, Kurdalen, Takelma, Upper Coquill, Karok, Northern Payute .

Melanesia. Tanna [two women burned dry leaves on the plot; one of them's little daughter went to the fire, the smoke carried her to the sky; there, a blind old woman Masineruk feeds pigs; the girl picks her up quietly food; M. answers when she got to heaven; M. asks not to go to a certain place; the girl tells M. to put a certain grass on her eyes, dive, she gains sight; left alone, the girl goes to a forbidden place, opens the door in the ground, sees the ground below, her house; M. found out why the girl was crying, lowered her down on the vine; she was met by her mother and sister; then M. lowered her on the same rope a few pigs; one of the Coal Sacks is that hole in the sky]: Humphreys 1926:97-99.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Uliti (Carolina) [having been refused by the bride's relatives, Haluwai ordered the servants to sail the boat; six died, H. was the last to sail to the tree - the pillars of the sky; the trunk branched; H. sent the servant one trunk at a time, the lizard cut him in half; then he climbed the other way to the giant bird's nest; hid under its feathers, flew on it; seeing an island below (in the upper world), threw a pebble so that a bird could come down to grab it; jumped to find an inhabited island; a blind old woman bakes a tarot in the sun; H. secretly takes her tarot; confesses when she says her sons will come cannibals; H. cut through her eyes with spicy grass, she saw the light; taught her how to bake tarot (on fire); she hid it under her chest; her sons are also grateful to H.; the old woman does not tell X. to lift the mat in the corner of the house ; he picked it up, saw his village on Fr. Yap; an old woman threw it there in a box; now it's a rock; H. marries his fiancée; the excrement of the old woman's rooster with her became yams]: Lessa 1980, No. 25:8-11; Kapingamarangi [younger brother Apart throws a chisel received from Apari's older brother at the frigate bird; the bird takes it away, Apari demands his chisel back; Apara comes to a blind old woman who cooks tarot; he makes her sighted; performs her three assignments (not a decree, which ones); gets two beauties, they have a chisel in their hands (obviously returns the chisel to her brother); Apari comes to the same woman, does the opposite, gets two ugly old women; they chase him, he runs, dies of exhaustion, and l from the eldest.]: Albert 1949:243; Nukumanu [Woman Earth met the Wind that lived in heaven; then he could not go down to her, asked name their child Sinekepápa; this is a daughter; then the Wind came back to Earth, she gave birth to her youngest daughter Asina; Sky found out that Earth had daughters, asked her father for permission to go down; Earth asked Wind, whether he agreed to give his eldest daughter, he agreed, the eldest married; after that, a man named Opuna came to marry his youngest daughter, received; Sinekepapa gave birth to a son Naleau; he decided to go to to his father in heaven (Kimulani); that mother is blind, N. touched her eyes, ants, a centipede, black squirrels, crabs fell out, she saw the light, glad to see her grandson; he leaves, meets men led by Opuna, who build a guest house, mock them; when he jumps into a hole prepared for a pole, they throw a pole at him; he turns into an ant, hides inside a pole; goes out; replaces him in earthen stove food with crap; they want to bake it in the oven, it turns into an ant, crawls out unnoticed; sails to Keloma Island]: Sarfert, Damm 1931:413-436; Nauru [from the older, middle sister her first period comes, parents give gifts; when the youngest Egig ("eucalyptus"), she is not given gifts; she leaves, plants a coconut, the tree grows to the sky; in heaven she comes to the blind old woman; E. drinks her palm wine; when she takes the second shell with wine, the old woman catches her; E. extracts midges, worms, ants from her eyes, she sees the light; hides the girl from her sons; the Sun comes, Thunder; third son Month of Kindness; marries E., she is visible on the lunar disk]: Permyakov 1970, No. 138:337-339; Tuvalu [the couple has 10 daughters; when each reaches maturity, the holiday is tripled in her honor; but the youngest mother did not like it and did not arrange a holiday; the girl went crying into the forest; the Pua tree promised to help, told me to climb it, grew to the sky; the girl went across the sky, saw two blind men who coconut shells were making juice; the girl took one; missing the shell, the old men grabbed the girl; she called Pua for help, but the tree told me not to worry and be kind to those people; she offered the blind to bring firewood, they refused; let her go for promising to cure their eyes; the girl brought one crab from the shore, the other from the forest; opened her eyes to the blind, pulled her out of her eyes with crab claws blades of grass, insects and other garbage, the blind saw the light; wrapped the girl in a mat and hid it under the roof from their two cannibal sons; they smelled the smell, but did not harm the girl when they found out that she healed the old people; she cleaned the house, woven many mats; when she decided to return, mats and other things were given to her as gifts; after going down the same tree, the girl came home; the sisters also climbed into heaven and made sure the youngest was telling the truth; then heavenly people came to visit; all is well]: Koch 1966:95-96; Tokelau [Magamagai Matua became pregnant by the Sun, exposing her body to its rays on at sunrise and sunset; gave birth to a son Kalokalo o le La; he grew up, went to Fiji to marry Fiji's chief Sina; but first decided to visit his father; at the foot of a tree he saw a blind woman who big talo (?) with 8 little ones with him; when a woman broke off a little one to eat, K. did the same; the woman realized that someone was stealing her food. clapped her hands and the woman saw the light from it; taught K. not to pay attention to insect and crab bites, when he climbs a tree into the sky, hold tight when the wind blows; The Sun gave K. a gift, but ordered him to open it only after marriage; the parcel was in in a rotating and swaying house at the foot of a tree, K. took it out; but in Fiji he opened it before marriage; inside was a mother-of-pearl shell, the shine of which dazzled the Sun; he told the sharks to eat K.; and so happened ; bonito fish ate the shell, the last piece fell into the net of the chief of Fiji; he gave it to Lakulu, whom S. married; L. with his men and S. decided to sail away, but the chief sent a storm, everyone drowned, S. escaped, returned to her father, taking that piece of shell and Tautunu's newborn son; T. grew up, got that shell like a hook, first attached it incorrectly, then caught fish correctly; once forgot gear on the shore, parts of it used crab, lobster, one fish as parts of their bodies]: Burrows 1923:168-170; Rotuma [sisters Nujka'u; Nk; and Nujmaga; Nm); caught a bird in a snare, Nm ate her; put up a new snare, caught the old woman and her grandson; while the old woman was fishing, they ate their grandson; asked the tree sprout to grow, it grew to the sky; they went up there, peeling off the bark behind them to the trunk became slippery; in the sky they came to two blind twins connected with their backs; they stole their yams; the twins raised their legs, began to grimace, the sisters laughed, they caught them; the sisters put insects in to their eyes, they saw the light, separated from each other; all four began to live well]: Churchward 1939:328-330 (trans. Polinskaya 1986, No. 15:77-80); Niue [divine boy thrown out after birth; grows up, goes to look for parents; comes to an old woman baking eight yam tubers; restores her sight; she says how to find a father]: Beckwith 1970:256; Samoa [Kalokalo-o-ke-la comes to her blind grandmother; she finds out his presence when he counts eight tarot buds; he gives her back vision; climbs a tree, where he finds an amulet shell for good fishing]: Beckwith 1970:256; Manihiki (North Cook Islands) [the youngest of three Maui brothers pretends to sleep, secretly follows parents, who ask the sacred pillar to open, go down through the crevice, bring food from the underworld; while everyone is sleeping, M. comes to the pole, asks it to open, penetrates into the lower world, sees a blind old woman; she is his grandmother; he sees three fields, then three trees, one good, another average, and the third miserable; to find out whose they are, the grandmother says every time, "Who is this in the field senior (middle, junior) M.?" ; so M. finds out which field (fruit tree) is his (worst) and which are his brothers; when he climbs a third tree, a grandmother with a stick comes to punish the thief; M. throws the fruit in one eye, then on the other, she sees the light, says that everything on earth and underground will belong to him]: Kauraka 1982:35-38 (=1989:18-19); Mangaia (Cook Islands South) [Ukupolu rejects Ako, says it will come out for his friend Tane; A. leads T. to her but is jealous; T. grabs a long branch of a huge tree, is thrown up, falls into Enua-kura (The Land of the Parrot's Red Feathers); T. comes to the blind Kui, eats it unnoticed yam; she throws a fishing hook, T. puts a banana stump in her place; then a bush; lets herself be caught for the third time; says he is T., the old woman recognizes him as a grandson; there is water on her island only in coconuts; K. tells them not to climb a palm tree to the sky, they are guarded by her children by a lizard, a centipede, a beetle, a locust (mantis); T. killed them, climbed a palm tree, tilted it over Avaiki, dropping coconuts in it, then the palm tree straightened up again; hit K.'s eyes with two coconuts, she saw the light; T. rejects K. (she later became the wife of the Month), marries her youngest; she is jealous, he weaves baskets like wings, flies to them at Avaiki]: Gill 1876:107-114 (briefly in Beckwith 1970:256); Rarotonga [ Tongoifare is Tangaroa's daughter; her husband Manuahifare; they have three sons Maui and a daughter Inaika ("Ina Fish"); the youngest Maui noticed that his father disappears in the morning, returns after dark; he put an end father's belt under him to wake up when the father gets up; sees the father telling the pillar of the house to open so that he can go down to the lower world; during the day he does the same; meets a blind old woman; she She takes the coals out of the fire with tongs, thinking it's food, and the food burns; she replies that her name is Inaporari (Blind Ina), she is Maui's grandmother; four trees nearby; Maui knocks on each one; every time the old woman says that this tree belongs to Maui the elder, then the middle, Inaika, and finally Maui the Younger; he replies that he is Maui the Younger; immediately fruits appear on the tree; after biting off a piece , Maui throws them into the eyes of the old woman, she sees the light; says that the fire is owned by Maui's grandfather Tangaroa-tuimata ("T. with a tattooed face"); after admitting his grandson, the grandfather gives him smut, Maui leaves and extinguishes it; so four times; on the fifth, Tangaroa fires with two sticks, one held by Maui; blows out the fire; then the tern holds one; Maui understands how to make a fire; pulls out his grandfather's upper stick; the lower one in the tern, for this purpose it burns it above the eyes, the spots remain; the tern flies away; Maui invites Tangaroa to fly through the same hole; takes off with his rainbow belt; Maui pushes him, Tangaroa falls, breaks; Maui puts his bones in a coconut, opens it, Tangaroa comes to life; tells parents who have descended to the lower world to visit Tangaroa only on the third day; he returns to the upper world, opens brothers and sister the secret of getting fire; shows them the lower world]: Gill 1876:63-70 (retelling in Frazer 1930:79-82); Marquises [Koomahu climbs into heaven to look for a sister hooked blind old woman Tapa; meets T., who bakes bananas, he regains her sight, marries one of her star daughters; finds his sister, descends with her to the ground on a tree he planted on the ground at the beginning of his journey]: Beckwith 1970:256; Maori [Tawhaki is a good fisherman, his wife's four brothers are bad; they attack him, he's barely alive, his wife finds him, saves him; he tells his people to go to the mountain, causes a downpour, the village of his wife's brothers is washed away by the flood; T.'s younger brother Karihi; their parents were stolen by Ponaturi creatures; they can't stand the light of the sun, sleep on the ground at night, hide under water for a day; brothers find a mother, she says that P. killed their father; the brothers tell his mother to tell P. that it is still night; she says that the day has come when it is very bright; P. melted from sunlight, only Salmon jumped into the water, became a salmon; the heavenly maiden Hapai came down to T., gave birth to him a daughter; he said something about his daughter that offended her mother, she took her daughter, returned to heaven, saying that if he wanted to find her, let her cling to her a vine that is firmly rooted in the ground, not swaying under the clouds; T. and K. come to their blind grandmother, steal her tarot roots; she tries to kill thieves, they restore her sight, she recognizes her grandchildren; she leads them to the heavenly vines; K. grabs the swaying one, T. sends him home; he climbs the stable himself, turns into an old man, he is told to carry a Tesla, he quietly completes the half-finished boat; He is told to carry firewood, he comes to his wife and daughter; H. and her brothers will guess who he is; he is back with H., becoming Thunder; (brief retelling in Beckwith 1970:249, 255)]: Reed 1999:58-74.

Western Siberia. Southern Khanty (b. Konda, S. Patkanov, 1888) [A childless old man set fire to his barns so that smoke could rise to Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother-why doesn't he have children? Heavenly Father sent a son, who gave three seeds, let the old man let his wife eat; she gave birth to a boy, he grew up quickly, came to one of the ends of the earth, the bear and the wolf let him see the old woman, who gave him a name Like Aspen Leaf, the Agile Husband (VM); he returned home, only one foal from his father's herd did not bend at his arm, he took it; tells his father to marry him one of the three royal daughters; the father was beaten, expelled; the priest's youngest daughter was given without dowry; his wife refuses to look in his head - she did not even look aside where the Merchant, the Wanderer (KS); his flying horse brought him to the old woman; she says that no one returned from the city of CS; gave a bundle of 60 silver rings; the next old woman gave a ball of thread, the third gave a white towel; teaches how to avoid a mountain of human bones, throw rings to 60 warriors, cross the bridge across the sea; the warriors shot, only pulled three hairs out of the horse's tail; the CS's mother turned the VM into a needle, hid it from her son; he orders to show the person who came, became his brother, ordered his wife to be beaten, when she arrives magpie and gets out of her magpie skin, with three silver bars; the wife is forty again and flew away; the COP does not tell me to open the seventh room; in others - frogs and lizards, in the seventh - the girl is CS's sister; the VM married her; goes to fight the seven-headed menqua, tells his wife not to leave the house at that time; cuts down the menqua warriors, but there are more and more of them; then he cut her husband, who carved warriors out of flint like sparks, destroyed warriors, hit something with a sword; at home I found out that the COP had left the house - he hit him, why did they release him? they found the body, put it in the coffin; wife: mother-in-law wants to kill you; he entered his mother-in-law's house, fell into the lower world; there the old man and old woman adopted him; they do not tell him to herd cattle in the Menqua estate, he stole their eyes; but grass is better on the other side, the VM drives cattle there; hacked one-, two-, etc. -headed menkvas; the seven-headed man cannot be cut down, he drove him into the ground, the menkv asks him to take his white towel, wrap it around his neck, then cut; then the VM cut off his head; came to the Menkwa mother, fights with her, changed buckets of strong and weak water; the old woman's daughter shows that the old woman should be stabbed in the chin with a knife ; VM did so, killed an old woman; daughter tells her to burn her, sweep away frogs and lizards that will crawl out of her into the fire; VM tells the girl to jump over the fire - if she used to live with a man, she will fall into the fire; she She fell, there were lizards too, he burned them; he took the eyes of the old men, brought them, they saw the light; told them to prepare meat, put firebirds on their backs; she brought them to the ground, he cut off the last two pieces from the calves of his legs; the firebird belched them and put them back; the wife lies between two men; the VM wanted to hack them, the wife: these are your sons; the VM cut the youngest son, sprinkled blood on the body of the CS, he came to life; revived his son live water; his wife's brother (i.e. CS) set up a copper playground for games, the VM set up a silver one; everyone lets a block of stone on his court; the VM takes flint, sparks turn into husbands; when he lets in his stone, he breaks the arms and legs of the CS people, tears them apart; the COP lets the VM and his wife (i.e. his sister) go home to the VM - he cannot live with a hero who is stronger than him; on the way they go to those three old women, his wife turns them young; at home, VM climbed onto the roof, looks into the house, where his parents are quarreling over a spark; he poured water or snowed, putting out their fire; they swear; he opened up, daughter-in-law turned them young; the VM scatters chips brought from another world, they turn into a populated city; abundance is all around]: Lukina 1990, No. 88:220-237.

SV Asia. The Chukchi [see the M75A motif; the orphan has five strong uncles; they defeat him in circles, kick him, trample him; he pretends to be dead, catches the Raven; refuses to take a ransom knife, two sisters A crow, a deer; the raven promises to make him a shaman; the young man defeats his uncle, moving the land and the sea; marries the daughter of the fifth, good uncle; Dawn takes her away; the young man stands on a spear, flies to the North Star ( Cole); that wife is blind, daughter is blind in one eye; the young man makes them sighted; they confirm that Dawn took his wife; he kills the kidnapper, returns his wife]: Bogoras 1928, No. 23:364-367.

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 Fr. 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; bellacula [after adventures, the young man returns home riding salmon; many blind women dig roots on the shore; he takes their food; they blame each other, fight; he spits on them making eyes sighted; spends several days making love with them]: McIlwraith 1948 (2): 480-481; Heiltsuk [Kanekelak meets blind women cooking; spits in their eyes, making 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, taking them with him feathers and wings of seagulls; sails to her aunt, who gives him three stone tiles to tie to his legs and buttocks; gives shells; G. gives these shells to a person who also helped with advice; he leaves them on on the shore, since then there are shells to feed people; gave another person, the same, but these are inedible shells; sailed to four blind duck women, steals the roots they bake; everyone thinks that another one took it, they fight; they smell it; G. spits in their eyes, restoring their sight; they tell him that a girl and her father are about to come; G. ties an octopus to his face to look like an old man; the girl takes him as a slave, her brother doubts; in the boat, the girl tells the imaginary slave that she must marry G.; G. throws off the octopus, appears in her appearance; the door to the girl's father's house closes, crushing incoming; 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 other suitors; G. throws shells into the fire, extinguishes the fire; under the guise of salmon meat and berries, the father-in-law gives siciutl meat and milk; G. pretends to eat, hides pieces under her clothes; gets a wife who gave birth in the morning; father-in-law calls to split the trunk, deliberately drops the wedge, asks for it; he sees blood, but it turns out that G. quietly jumped out and waits for his father-in-law in the boat; when they swim, G. throws coniferous needles and pieces of wood into the water, they turn into fish and dolphins, jump on his father-in-law, he dies; on the coast 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 his finger, marries her; slips through the door, usually pinching the grooms; thrown on spikes, 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; Nootka: Boas 1895, No. 12 [the girl swims in the lake, takes her breath away with a second face on the back of her head; one of them is always watching her; she gives birth to a son with him; every time one of her ten The brothers come for her, the son reports this to his father, who kills the young man; the brothers' mother cries, her tears and snot turn into a boy; he kills the monster and his son with arrows; makes a chain of arrows, climbs to heaven; quietly takes food from two blind snail women; restores their sight; they help him overcome challenges and marry the daughter of a heavenly leader; see motif K27]: 116-117; 1916, No. 6 [see motif L40 ; The boy, out of snot, shoots arrows into the sky, climbs a chain of arrows; makes two blind Old Ducks sighted; in gratitude, they advise him to follow the narrow path leading to his father's house, and not along a 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 land, he puts fish in rivers]: 907-908; Sapir, Swadesh 1939, No. 21 [see motif J57, motif L40; after killing a cannibal, a young man shoots arrows into the sky; a chain of arrows turns into a rope; he rises to heaven; rubs the eyes of blind women with his penis, making them sighted; they teach him to overcome obstacles]: 97-101; Nootka (south west coast of Vancouver) [see motive L41; after killing the cannibal and her husband, Eut-le-Ten became chief; decided to marry the daughter of heaven chief; ordered to prepare arrows; shooting at the sky, he made a chain; two blind old women in the sky are preparing food, E. quietly intercepts it, they quarrel; he confesses, makes holes in their eyes, returning sight; old women give him the strength to overcome challenges; turning into the puddle of tears from which he once arose, E. overcomes the lake with frogs, cod (it grabs the sun during eclipses), two snakes; breaks the stakes he should have run into; unharmed in the fire; turns into a puddle of tears when a log rolls at him; gets a wife; later returns to earth]: Carmichael 2006:37-41.

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; shuswap [a dirty young man wanders aimlessly, meets two blind female moose; takes their food, they quarrel; he makes them sighted ; they turn him handsome, marry him; agree to go with him to his people, tell him not to smile at other women; one day he smiles; his wives and children turn into moose, meat and fat in caribou, moose, etc., they run away; he himself becomes the same fly as he was]: Teit 1909a, No. 38:711-713; pentlatch [the young man shoots 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 motive K27]: Boas 1895, No. 3:65-68; chalkomel: Boas 1895, No. III.4 (lower reaches of Fraser) [=2002:121-126; young man visits a girl; she may have soot on his back, recognizes his brother in the morning; out of shame, both go to the mountains; their son asks why his parents look alike; they send him to their mother, burn themselves; a young man meets a cousin; washes his grandmother's eyes, restoring her sight and youth; asks her cousin to pretend to be dead, catch a vulture; wearing vulture skin, rises to heaven; comes to two blind women, quietly takes their food; they recognize him; help marry the daughter of the Sun; he puts stones under him, does not sit on thorns; he throws bones to wolves guarding the Sun's house; three daughters of the Sun beautiful, he gets one; three daughters of the Month are ugly, the Month is angry that the young man did not choose them; requires 1) split the log (the old woman gives bones and white paint; when the Month knocks out the wedge to make the log flattened the young man, he inserts a wedge of bones together; the Month takes paint for the brain); 2) catch trout (the young man turns a stick with thorns into trout, gives the Month, the thorns dig into his throat); 3) lead a red bear (he turns pieces of a tree into two bears, the Month asks them to be taken away); two young man's sons, born to the daughter of the Sun, want to see their grandmother on earth; the Sun lowers his son-in-law and family into basket on the ground; one man spies on the young man's wife, burned by her radiance], V.3 (snanaimuk) [=2002:153-155; the hunter kills seals; his wife goes to wash the skin, she is carried away by Finval; the husband goes down for her to the bottom; quietly takes food from blind women, then makes them sighted, they show the way; the crane shows the way, gets a spear; the slave asks to repair the split wedge; for this he pours water into the hearth in the house Finwala; husband grabs his wife, they get home safely]: 37-40, 55-56; Hill-Tout 1904b (StSeélis) [an ugly young man comes to the girl; she first tells him to swim, then clean his genitals with large sand, then drives him away; he comes to two blind people, they work as one stick, passing it on to each other, he intercepts him; makes them sighted, they are partridges; they send him to their blind wives; they give each other food, he intercepts it; gives them back their sight; they send it to his Grandmother the Crane; she sends it to the Face Maker, tells them to choose the last one he will show; when they return, sends the girl who comes to him to wash, etc., as she sent him, chases him away; she turns her excrement into a bird, the young man and his younger brother follow her, the young man hits her with an arrow, the bird again turns into excrement; the bailiff to the shore, the young man hides his brother under the boat, injures himself, lies down; a duck, a dive, an eagle come one after another; he catches them, puts the duck skin on his brother, the dive on the boat, the eagle - at himself; flies away, brother and boat in the form of a duck and a dive fly home; the young man is in the sky; old people lower him on a rope to the ground (he opens his eyes three times prematurely when the basket hits clouds, into the crowns of trees, then raises him back); for the fourth time he reaches the ground, arranges a holiday]: 354-357; sechelt (sisiatl) [the young man has two wives; he shot an antelope, sent his father bring meat; his strap bursts at the crossing, he is carried away by the river, he turns into a piece of wood, the woman picks it up, uses it as a plate, the food disappears from it; the woman throws the plate away, she turns into a baby; a woman raises him, four days later he grows up, leaves; turns his excrement into birds, talks about it to her son, he climbs a tree, the father tells the tree to grow; there is a son in heaven He comes to two blind women, slowly takes their food; makes them sighted; catches salmon for them; they open a hole in the floor, they lower it in the basket; he opens his eyes ahead of time, the basket returns; the second time he goes down, his little son recognizes him; he and his mother say that his second wife left with the boy's father]: Hill-Tout 1904a: 43-45 (retelling in Lévi-Strauss 1971, No. 676:338); clallam [see J4B motif, K27; two girls make a boy out of resin; he comes to life, takes one of them as his wife; melts in the sun; her two sons make a chain of arrows, climb into heaven to take revenge on the Sun; return The sight of two blind old women Otter and Blue Jay; they show them the way to the Sun; they marry his daughters, kill him; the youngest becomes the Month, the eldest becomes the New Sun]: Gunther 1925:131-134; upper chehalis [Brother Spear catches fish and eats alone, and his sister collects fern rhizomes and when he brings them, the brother comes to eat them; realizing that she is deceived, the sister leaves; where the sky is converges to the ground, marries Salmon, she has a child; the spear comes there; the old man calls the elk, kills, takes the carcass out of the skin with his legs, tells the elk to leave, the elk (i.e. the skin with legs) leaves; sister Sister Spear's husband (her name is the End of the World) gives him a fraction of berries, but there are a lot of them, you can't eat them all; at dusk, salmon people come into the house dancing, each holding an object to catch or cooking fish; so 5 types of salmon; The End of the World killed Sister Spear's child, cooked, ordered not to throw away the bones; then the bones were covered with a handkerchief, the baby came to life; so every day; on the fifth day, the Spear hid his cheek bone with meat; the child could not be revived, he died; his sister told him to leave; he came to Thunder's house, who allowed the Spear to take his daughter; father-in-law teaches the Spear to become Thunder, he can't do it, he afraid that he will be killed, leaves; marries in another house, cannot get up in the morning, a board sticks to her back; the old woman separates her, tells her to leave - these are Resin People; The spear comes to the old man, he warns: when meeting another old man, you have to climb a dry spruce tree, its bark will fall on him, otherwise he will eat it; that old man is killed by bark, his Spear burned him; the giant offers his daughter, asks for help defeat another who breaks its peaks; the giants began to fight, the Spear killed both; comes to a blind old woman, blows in her eyes, she saw the light; warned to shoot first when the Puma meets; the spear killed, burned the Puma; Wild Rhubarb screams that they will kill the Spear but do not recognize it; he turned them into wild rhubarb; his sister is waiting for the Spear at home; it has turned into a flower that blooms in May, the children play with it; the sister too It has become something]: Adamson 1934, No. 45:87-94; Kurdalen [Skunk and Fishing Marten (Fisher; KR) live together; hunt deer; Skunk tells him to give him only giblets and meat and fat at the tail; Chief Eagle sends his daughters Chipmunk and Squirrel to go to the Kyrgyz Republic; their mother warns that Skunk eats garbage and KR eats good meat; sisters hide in the house, hear Skunk approach, blowing the winds in front of everyone Step; The chipmunk giggles, the Squirrel tells her to remain silent in vain; the Skunk heard, hid the girls behind his bed; when the KR brings deer, he speaks as if it were him - the KR (telling him to give him ribs, not giblets); The skunk offers to feed their pillows, the KR is surprised that the plate of meat for the "pillow" is soon empty; prevents Skunk from extinguishing the fire at night, although he tries to do so; the next morning the KR pretends that leaves; waits for Skunk to leave too, finds the girls in Skunk's bed; tells them to set fire to the house, take the meat and go with it; when Skunk sees the smoke, he thinks it was the kayuz who attacked the curdalen, but then runs home; not finding girls' bones in the coals, begins to pursue; drinks water under a rock, sees the reflection of KO, demands the girls back, lets a stream into the water; when he looks up, he sees fugitives on the rock; lets a stream into the eye of the Kyrgyz Republic, makes the sisters let the sisters down, tells Belka to lie under his head, the Chipmunk under his feet; in the morning the sisters leave pieces of wood for themselves, run away; the Skunk comes to people; says that he ran away from the cabins, they captured his three sons; kills everyone with his jet; two blind old women make her see; they agree to take him in a boat for this, he tells him to be treated like a leader; they sail to the village, to him do honor, raise them in their arms; everyone is transformed (perhaps turning into stars)]: Reichard 1947, No. 23:77-80; Takelma [Daldal (dragonfly) lived near the mouth, chopped bodies float along the river; goes upstream; shoots an arrow into the sky, it falls to the top of his head, a second person, his younger brother, separates from him; they successfully fight oaks and fir trees; they come to Blue Jay, she is a mother forest man K'uk'u; reluctantly agrees to give them her son's big shell in exchange for bundles of dentalium money; son comes, kills her for it; catches up with brothers, demands that the shell be returned; D. with a stone breaks his leg; he weakens and dies, repeats everything that is said in front of him (he is probably an echo); the old man always turns into blood, travelers try it, die; his younger brother almost died choking , D. extracted blood from his throat with a flint squeezer; the woman offers to warm her back by the fire, D. tries, burns, turns the woman into a burning plant in the swamp; another woman lies with her legs apart, offers to have sex; Brother D. tries, is wounded; D. puts a push-up in her vagina, turns her into a freshwater shell, throws it into the water, it will become people's food; two blind women crush seeds; brother D. takes them quietly, ties the women's hair; they accuse each other of stealing, fighting; D. touches their eyes with the burning end of the stick, they see the light; D. looks into the house, there are tendons, this is a character, tries to burn those entering; D. turns him into reindeer tendons, attach feathers to arrows; in another house, D. sees baked salmon, eats, Ostrog attacks him; he turns it into a jail to beat it salmon; brothers look into two empty houses, in the fourth an old woman and a girl; the girl is afraid to go for water; D. sends her, she is grabbed by Cancer, D. turns him into cancer, crayfish are boiled; brothers meet two bad people, older and younger brothers; defeat them; D. turns the elder into the Evening Star, the youngest into the Morning Star; tells the Coyote to catch not salmon, but gopher; turns into a low mountain, his little brother to tall]: Sapir 1909, No. 2:34-42; upper coquill [Noise-under-ground and Big Fat talk about the ocean overflowing; people get on boats, but boats and oars turn into snakes; to prevent this from happening, they had to be smeared with crap; a young man, a girl escape at the top of the mountain, an old man, his wife, daughter and son sail in the boat; 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 have married, repopulated the ground; the Coyote comes to the woman, tells her daughter to bring water; she is afraid of those who come for water Crawfish drags away; Coyote insists, girl goes, Cancer grabs her, Coyote turns Cancer into cancer, cooked and eaten; two blind women push acorns; Coyote slowly picks up a handful; blind they feel it; he cuts through their eyes, turns them into partridges, tells them not to grind acorns, but to speak out while sitting on a branch; the man says that they don't go across the river, there Ostrog kills people; turns it into a salmon jail; River Oyster woman lies on her back, offers to copulate, bites off men's penises; Coyote turns her into a river oyster; Deer tries to pick up a Coyote Hook, Coyote tells him to be a deer, deer are hunted]: Jacobs 2007:132-135.

California. Karok: Kroeber, Gifford 1980, No. A10 [two blind female moles cook meat under their arms; Anhush comes in, steals meat, they cry; he opens their eyes, makes a fire for them], III38 [two blind women cook meat under their arms; Laska comes, opens their eyes, makes a fire for them]: 16-17, 252.

Big Pool. Northern Payut [two blind old stars tied rabbit trap ropes to their ears; Orlitsa takes and eats the food they pass on to each other; one blind man recognizes Orlitz his father's sister; Orlitsa regains their sight by running her pen over their eyes; warns them not to name the objects they see; they call them, they will soon go blind again]: Lowie 1924, No. 19:238-239.