M86. The boulder punishes the offender. 43.-.46.49.50.
A rock stalks or otherwise punishes a character when he unfairly insults her (usually takes away her property, see motive L33).
The coast is the Plateau. Flethead [Coyote takes the blanket back when it starts to rain]; curdalen [Coyote sees the rock, he likes it, he craps on it, moves on; The rock follows; the Coyote crosses the river , hopes that the Stone has lost its trail, but the Stone is already climbing ashore; the Coyote asks the Nightjar for help; he tells him to cling to his belt, lifts him into the air; the Nightjar rushes at the Stone, splitting it to pieces; He falls asleep with a nightjar, the Coyote steals his cape, puts it on, but begins to take off and fall like a nightjar, breaks against a tree; the Nightjar finds him, takes his cape; when the Nightjar woke up, his head was crushed by the Stone, so it became flat, the mouth wide]: Reichard 1947, No. 19:143-144.
The Midwest. Like a flethead; Vesakaicak. Cree; steppe crees.
Northeast. Naskapi [Wolverine teases the Boulder; he rolls after her and presses her down; Wolves, Foxes are unable to move the Boulder; Lightning breaks it]: Turner 1894:336-337.
Plains. Blacklegs [Napi picks up his cape when it rains or snows]; assiniboine [I n ktum n i, Lowie 1909a, No. 10]; crowe [Coyote picks up his cape when it starts raining]; hidatsa [like a crowe]; arpahoe [Nikansan gives Scala soiled clothes, she gets clean, N. takes it]; throw off the pawnee [Coyote takes his knife]; arikara: Dorsey 1904d, No. 58 [Coyote comes to dancing people; it's Rabbits; they take giblets out of the fire; when Coyote gives them an eagle feather military hat (status sign) Rabbits agree to share a secret, throw red willow branches into the fire, sing, burnt branches turn into bison giblets; after eating, Coyote asks for his hat for a minute, runs away with her; Rabbits shout that his branch focus won't work more than three times; on the fourth branch they just burn out; Coyote spews rabbits out of their ass; tries to catch them with his cape, but they turn into excrement; gives a soiled cape to the Stone; it starts raining with hail, the Coyote returns for the cape, it turns out to be clean; the Coyote carries the cape; the Stone rolls after him, the Coyote asks for two Bull- birds Bats to help, says that Stone spoke ill of them; he, Coyote, allegedly promised to tell them about it and he now wants to kill him; Stone called Bull-Bats the ugliest birds with short beaks, with broad mouths, short legs, dirty; Bull-Bats split the Stone with their intestinal gases; it was the only Stone everyone else in the world came from it; Coyote decorated Bull-Bats with white clay], 59 [The Coyote suggests to Rabbit that the first to sleep is used by the other for sex; the Coyote does not understand that the Rabbit sleeps with his eyes closed and falls asleep in the morning; when he wakes up, he spews rabbits out of the ass, catches with their blanket, they turn into excrement; he gives a dirty blanket to the Stone, when he returns, sees that it is clean, takes it away, it is dirty again, he returns it to the Stone; looking around, he sees that the blanket now clean and colored; so four times; after that, the Stone rolled after the Coyote, who asks the male and female Bull-Bats for help, says he called them names; they tell Coyote to climb the tree where they are chicks smash the Stone with intestinal gases; the Coyote ate the chicks, which call their parents from his belly; they kill the Coyote the way they broke the Stone]: 144-147, 147-148; Santi [The spider promises his blanket to the Rock]: 144-147, 147-148; Santi [The Spider promises Rock his blanket if she sends him a dead bison; the Spider finds a bison; it starts to rain, the Spider takes the blanket back; only bones are in place of the bison]: Wallis 1923, No. 25:96-97; Yankton [Iktomi asks The rock will give him food, promises his blanket in return: he immediately finds a freshly killed deer; it gets cold at night; I. takes the blanket, instead of roasted meat, cuts off old bones]: Zitkala-Å a 1985:19-24 .
Big Pool. The coyote finds valuables from the Rock and takes them for himself. Western shoshones [beads]; oriental shoshones [beads]; goshiyute [blankets]; utah [blanket; ear pendants; beads]); northern shoshones: Lowie 1909b, No. 16 a [Coyote urinates and defecates on the Rock; she rolls after him, crushing trees, rolling across the river; the Bear, the Moose, unable to stop it, crushed; Tosakiyakatsi breaks it to pieces with his elbow; to his elbow magic beads are attached; the Coyote kills him with a stone, takes the beads; breaks another Rock; the next one presses him to death], b [The fox tells Coyote he took the beads from the Rock, but they must be paid for; Coyote He takes it and does not pay; the Rock follows him up but down the slope, through the forest, across the river; Snipe says, Boo! , hammering the Rock to pieces (now rocks in the Rocky Mountains)], c [starting in (b); The Rock opens and closes, the Coyote is caught; the Fox tells it to open; from another Rock, the Coyote takes beads, defecates on her; bird, Crane, Rattlesnake crushed; Night Hawk (Nighthawk?) says Boo! , smashing the Rock; Coyote says Boo! another Rock but crushed]: 262-265.
The Great Southwest. Chiricahua [Coyote relieves the Moving Boulder; he rolls on him, makes him lick his tongue]; lipan [like a chiricahua; the Coyote must also take the Boulder back to its old place].