M97. A blind man asks trees, D1313.4.

.31.35.41.43.-.46.48.

Blinded or far from the target, the character walks, bumping into trees of various species and asking everyone a question or request. He eventually achieves his goal.

Estonians, Western and Eastern Sami, Ket, Kuchin, Chipewayan, Thompson, Okanagon, Kutene, Menominee, Fox, Chippewa, Ojibwa, Timagami Ojibwa, Algonquins, Attikamek, Western Marsh Cree, Eastern Marsh Cree, Western Forest Cree, Steppe Cree, Steppe Ojibwa, Seneca, Sarsi, Grovantre, Arapahoe, Iowa, Shasta, (Maidu).

Baltoscandia. Estonians: Jakobson 1954 [The fox bothers the fisherman with stupid questions, who throws her on a rock in the middle of the water; the fox pretends not to swim and calls the fish to transport her ashore; rejects Pike, Burbot, Ruff; agrees to the offer of the Eel, grabs it, throws it ashore; roasts the eel, takes the crackling of fire for the barking of dogs, gets frightened, then hits the fire, hot coals burn her eyes; The fox asks Birch, Pine, Spruce to give her eyes, they refuse; Aspen believes that the Fox has forgotten her eyes on the mountain, that she goes for her own and will return it to Aspen; the fox leaves, singing like deceived Aspen; she rushed after her, but only stepped on her tail blindly; the tip of the fox tail is now white and the Aspen leaves tremble with anger]: 91-95; Kippar 1986, No. AT 8+ AT234:44, 153; 2010, No. V.5 (Ä ksi kihelkond, Tartumaa) [The fox put the fish in hot ash, fell asleep; when she woke up, she did not find fish; began to hit the fire with a stick, the ash scattered blinded her; the fox is coming, asking for trees lend her eyes; Birch, Spruce refuse, Aspen gives, Lisa did not return it; Aspen saw her, chased her, grabbed the tip of its tail, it has since turned white]: 90; Western Sami: Klaus 1995 [Fox pretends to be dead, the man with the caravan picks it up, throws it on the first sledge, it slips off; stays lying only when thrown on the last one in which salmon; throws salmon off the sledge, runs away; He replies to the Bear, Wolverine, the Hare that she caught fish in the ice-hole; ties one salmon to the tail, says that it has pecked; shouts that a man is coming, others jump up, their tails are cut off ( Wolverine is in the middle); The fox hides under the roots of a pine tree, the Bear tries to get it, she says that he did not grab her leg, but the root, and when the Bear grabs the root, the Fox pretends to grab it by leg; yet the Bear took out the Fox, carried it, she sees the motley Woodpecker, says that she painted it at one time; the Bear also wants to be specked, promises to endure; the fox ties him up, leaves him in a hole with with burning brushwood; the bear is burned, the fox carries his bones in the bag, hits one in the bag, replies to the passerby that her parents are in the bag; the shepherd agrees to buy it, gives a reindeer team in exchange; The fox hired Stallo, the Wolf and the Mouse, told them to slaughter the deer, told Flea and the Hare to cook the meat; went to wash her stomach, hit them against a stone, shouting that it was not her who killed, but the workers; Stallo and others they were afraid that the owner of the deer had come, ran away; the fox threw hot guns at the Hare (hit the tips of her ears) and Flea (burned her tail), they ran away; that shepherd came, Lisa said that everyone ate it workers and relatives, one of them is Laska; the shepherd threw his head at him, the tip of his tail turned black; the fox on the shore calls the fish to transport it to the other side; consistently rejects all (listed), takes the help of salmon; calls it to the shore, grabs it, carries it to fry in an empty plague; the roast hisses, the Fox thinks that people have come, jumps out; realizing what's going on, hits salmon, splashes of fat burned her eyes; The fox goes asking the trees if they would lend her eyes; two species of pine do not give, the birch gives, the fox runs away, the birch has time to hit her tail, since then the tip is white]: 3-10; Kohl- Larsen 1982 [retelling the same source in Dähnhardt 1910:129; the fox begged the fisherman for fish; he asked her to eat moss, then grabbed the tail and threw it into the water; the fox swam to the rock, then ashore, found one fish forgotten by the fisherman, a hot fire, began to fry fish; noticing that people were approaching, the fox decided to eat the fish faster, hit it against a stone, the hot piece flew off, burned her eyes; the fox went asking the trees to lend her eyes; birch: I only have one, I need it myself; the pine tree also refused; beech: why are you going straight at me? fox: forgot her eyes, lend her eyes; beech: I won't give it; aspen agreed to lend the fox's eyes for a short time; when she saw the light, the fox shouted that she would never return her eyes; the aspen tried to hit her, but only hit the tail so its tip is white]: 177-179; Poestion 1886, No. 1 (Karasjok, North Sami dialect) [when the fox saw a man with a sledge caravan, the fox pretended to be dead; the man put it on the first sledge, the fox slipped off ; shifted it to the second one, etc.; when the fish was last, the fox threw it off and jumped on its own; tells the bear that it caught the fish with its tail in the ice-hole; when the tail froze, the fox began to call people; the bear cut off its tail, ran away; the fox also ran away, hid under the root, asks its dicks how they helped; leg: ran fast; ear: listened sensitively; nose: sniffed well; tail: showed them to run here; the bear pulled the fox by the tail, carried it to eat; walks past the spotted woodpecker; fox: this was the time when I painted birds! the bear also wants to be colorful; fox: to do this, you must tie you first; the fox tied it and burned it, put the bones in a bag, they rattle, the person he meets with deer pulled into sledges believes that gold and silver in the bag; gives deer for a bag; fox: you can open it by passing five or six mountains; wished a person's skis to break; they break; for the remaining deer to break their legs; broke; when the fox came to the deer received for the bear bones, the fox called his assistants to kill them: bear, wolverine, ermine, mouse, fox, snake, snake, snake, frog; the bear shot in the chin (now deer spot - "bear arrow"); wolf - in the back leg (there is a "bear arrow" spot); wolverine - in the back of the head ("wolverine arrow" spot); ermine - in the throat, mouse - in the hoof, even in the ass (everyone has the same), fox - at the base of the ear (there is now a "fox arrow" bone), in the intestines (a sign on the interior fat), the frog is in the heart (there is a "frog arrow" cartilage under the fat); so they killed all the deer; the fox went to wash the intestines, disappeared behind the stone, screamed as if she had been captured; the animals were frightened and ran away, leaving only an ermine and a mouse; at that time a deceived man came up; fox: it was my assistants who swapped gold with bones ; the man hit the tip of the tail with a pot hook over the fire, the tip turned black; the mouse hit the smut so it turned black; the fox came to the man who made the boat; I also want like this; in response, a man threw a fox into the river, it climbed onto a stone; each fish offers to transport it ashore, the fox rejects each; the pike is slippery, I can't resist; the perch - the dorsal fin scratches ; trout did not fit either; salmon; fox: swim closer; the fox grabbed it, threw it ashore, made a fire on its own, began to fry salmon; the branches are cracking, the fox thinks people are coming; then I realized; threw a stone at the salmon, fat splashed into her eyes, the fox went blind; she goes, asks the trees if they have an extra pair of eyes; the birch refuses to give, the aspen agrees to borrow for a while; the fox took it forever her eyes; aspen only hit her tail, it turned white]: 7-15; Eastern Sami: Yermolov 1959 [the fox is so cunning that all animals are angry with her; bear, wolf, marten, fox and hare came to her; fox: let's eat the smallest; ate the hare, then the marten, the fox and the wolf; the bear is going to eat the fox; the fox: not here, carry it across the mountains; pointing to the woodpecker: painted his back well; the bear agrees to be painted by the fox; collects branches and willow branches; is tied with branches, covered with branches, covered with branches, the fox burns him alive; carries bones in the bag; replies to the person that he carries his uncle's bones and grandfather; the man gives her a vazhenka for them; the fox cannot kill her, calls for help from a bear and a wolf, they gave her a stomach; the fox stepped aside, began to shout that she did not kill the vazhenka, but the wolf and the bear; those ran away, leaving the meat; began to fry it; fat drips on the hot stone, hisses; the fox hit the stone with meat, the spray burned her eyes; pine, alder, birch did not give her eyes (their spring resin floods; fragile; narrow), oak dal; fox asks his eyes if they see far; eyes - far away; ears (hear far); legs (run fast); tail (I will cling to trees, bushes); fox got angry at her tail, returned to the lair, made a fire there, began to warm up, and put her tail out to freeze]: 40-43; Kharuzin 1890 [the man and the Fox lived together; left alone, the Fox began to fry bacon, burned her face is blind; the man brought her to a pine tree, stuck resin into her eye sockets; the fox sees, but her eyes stick together; then to the birch tree, put pieces of birch bark; the fox went home; another fox digs a hole under the tree; the fox thinks , this is a house; a man pulls her tail, tears it off; finds gold in Fox's house]: 344.

Western Siberia. Keta [The mouse swam along the river in a birch bark glue cooker; found a broken needle on the ashes (it should push off), on the second - a kiss, on the third - a thimble (her hat); swam to the old man with a blind man old woman; agreed to cure her if he put them both in a bag, tied them; tells the old woman not to scream, otherwise she will not heal her; ate her eyes, gnawed through her bag, ran away; the old man found a mouse, broke her legs, pulled out eyes; the mouse rolled, bumping into trees, asking the trees who they are; Birch, Aspen, Pine, Rowan answer that they cannot cure; Cheryomukha has cured; The mouse returned to its children, told them go out only at night so people don't beat them]: Osharov 1936a: 115-117.

Subarctic. Kuchin: McGary 1984:460-468 [Vasaagihdzak sees the birds throw their eyes up, they fall back into their eye sockets; he repeats the trick; the second time he throws him too far, the birds carry him away eyes; someone pokes V.'s eyes, he grabs Fox, wants to tear him, he promises to be a guide; ties a rope to him, runs away; V. bumps into trees, asks their names; when a tree replies that it is Fir, he makes new eyes out of fir resin; the resin is light, so Europeans have bright eyes; Ducks and Geese are dancing; V. fills the bag with moss, says that it is dancing; one dance with with his eyes closed; V. strangles birds one at a time, the White-fronted Goose opens his eyes, raises the alarm; V. steps on the Greaves of two species, since then they have a flat tail; V. leaves the prey to prepare; V. offers Fox to race, whoever reaches the meat, takes it for himself; the fox pretends to be chrome, V. invites him to run straight, and he will run along the long road himself; the fox comes first, hides the meat, sticks his leg bones into the ground; the fox comes again - supposedly just arrived; V. gnaws bones; then finds the Fox who has eaten sleeping; hits him with a stick, covers him with grass, sets him on fire; then sees him in the distance unharmed Fox], 480-489 [Vasaagihdzak replies to waterfowl that he has dancing in his bag; everyone is dancing all night; in the morning V. offers a dance with his eyes closed, curls the birds' necks; White-fronted The goose raised the alarm; when the two species of Toadstool ran out, V. stepped on their tail, so their legs turned upside down; V. bakes game; goes to the lake; the fox pretends to be sick, apparently reluctantly agrees race to baked ducks, comes running first, eats meat, sticks bones into the ground, as if the meat has burned; V. finds a sleeping Fox, covers it with grass, sets it on fire, he runs away; birds they throw their eyes up, V. joins them, the Blue Jay takes his eyes away; the fox pokes V. in his eye sockets with a stick, V. grabs him; the fox asks him to spare him, leads him by the rope; bandages her to a tree, runs away; V. stumbles upon trees, asks who they are; Willow, Poplar; when the tree replies that it is Fir, he makes new eyes out of resin; the fox does not know that V. has regained his sight, comes up, V. kills him] ; chipewayan [rain floods the ground; Visákecak makes a boat, asks the Duck to dive; she brings silt on her paws several times, V. creates land; sees larvae in a deer skull, asks for permission join the meal, sticks his head, gets stuck, swims along the river with a deer; people rush to him, he jumps ashore, breaks his skull; leads the Bear to the berry tree, he eats, gets fat, falls asleep, V. kills him; cooks meat, asks juniper trees to move apart, or he has a stomachache; gets stuck, birds eat meat; twists juniper, since then its trunk is crooked; V. decides that his eyes rather weak, takes them out, goes blind; goes asking trees for their names; rejects poplar, etc., when he finds a pine tree, makes new eyes out of resin; creates landscape features, animal habits; his ass is burned, he throws scabs at the birch tree; asks geese to dance with his eyes closed, kills one at a time; one opens his eyes, the birds are running, V. steps on water-hen and the loon, since then they have not been able to walk on land; V. laughs at the bear's excrement, he rushes at him; V. asks the caress to get into the bear's ass, gnaw his heart; then washes the caress, the tip of the tail remains black; V. eats something black that causes an eruption gases; sits on a hot stone, throws burnt scabs on a birch tree; asks geese to give him feathers, flies with him; they take feathers, he falls, people defecate on him; he runs away naked, turns into a rock that goes into the ground; only his hair is visible on the cliff's surface]: Lowie 1912:195-200.

The coast is the Plateau. Thompson [Coyote's daughter marries Lynx, the lord of the cold; the Coyote comes to her son-in-law, who freezes him; the Coyote melts a hole in the ice with his tongue, disassembles and pushes himself piece by piece; collects, but the Raven took his eyes away; the Coyote bumps into trees, asks for their names; the former grow high in the mountains, then lower down the slope; when poplar and willow appear, there is a river nearby; Coyote goes down with the flow, meets Bird Girls; lures Wren as if he wants to show a star, pulls out her eyes, inserts herself; friends put Wren's eyes made of red berries; people play ball with their eyes with their eyes A coyote; he meets an old woman, asks about her customs, kills her with a stick, puts on her skin; asks her four granddaughters to move him to where they play; the youngest three leave their imaginary grandmother on the way (apparently because of Coyote's sexual harassment, but it's not directly mentioned); the eldest reports; Coyote grabs his eyes, runs away; makes a fog, they can't catch up with him]: Hanna, Henry 1996:56-63; okanagon [Chickady throws his eyes, catches them in his eye sockets; the Coyote does the same; two Crows carry them away; the Coyote asks the trees for their names to go to the river; drinks; asks his little sister Blue Bird, does she see a star; snatches out her eyes, puts her in; her sister Blue Jay makes her new berries; Coyote asks the old pheasant what she is afraid of; Nettles; he hits her with nettles to death, puts on her skin; her granddaughters Blue Bird and Blue Jay tell them how they played with the eyes of Coyote at the Sun Dance; ask why you have a strange voice (Burned your mouth with soup ); Eyes (Injured one with a stick); in the morning they take turns carrying grandmother to the Sun Dance; Coyote makes herself heavy, sisters leave their imaginary grandmother, people scold them for it; Coyote grabs their eyes, runs away, throwing Pheasaniha's skin; sisters revive grandmother]: Guie 1990, No. 16:141-147; coutenay [Coyote sees the Old Man throwing his eyes at the birch tree, they come back; Coyote catches his eyes, makes fun of the Old Man, putting his fingers in his eye sockets; he grabs him, returns his eyes, takes away Coyote's eyes; Coyote asks bushes and trees what their names are; finds blueberries , makes eyes out of blueberries, sees a little bit; the young man calls his sister to pick blueberries; the Coyote kills him, puts his clothes on; kills his sister, puts her clothes on; comes to the old woman, kills her, puts them on clothes, comes to where they dance with his eyes; grabs his eyes, runs away]: Linderman 1997, No. 4:41-48.

The Midwest. Menominee: Bloomfield 1928, No. 92 [The raccoon makes a ball out of his excrement, gives it to the hungry Wolf to eat, hides in a tree; the watchman under the tree, the Wolf falls asleep, the Raccoon smears his eyes with resin; the blind Wolf stumbles upon trees, asks them their names; drowns in the lake; the old man catches a corpse, melts fat, summons birds and animals; who took how much fat is from him now; The bear wants eternal night; Chipmunk - as many summer months and as many winter months as there are stripes on his body; repeats, Day, Day; Bear repeats, Night, night, but accidentally says Day; The chipmunk wins, the Bear cannot catch up with him; the Puma wants to hunt Man, but the Dogs drive him away; the Birds decide to fish; the Turtle chases the Otter; the Mosquito decides to drink Human blood], 93 [ as in (89); Owl starts hunting Hare]: 303-323, 323-339; Fox [The Raccoon set it up so that the Wolf ate his Raccoon crap; the Raccoon hides in the tree, the Wolf is waiting below; the Raccoon sheds its bark, the Wolf catches her; finally falls asleep; the Raccoon relieves the Wolf, who goes blind; walks, bumping into trees, asks their names; finally, he stumbles upon a willow, which means the river is nearby; Laska answers To the wolf, how deep (to the knee, to the waist, to the mouth); The wolf drowns]: Jones 1907, No. 10:121-131; chippewa [Venebozho sees a piece of meat in the elk's skull; after becoming a snake, he climbs inside; returns his appearance, head remains in the skull; bumps into trees, asks for their names; cedar points with a branch towards a river or lake]: Barnouw 1977, No. 1 [V. falls off a cliff, the skull splits], 4 [swims through lake; people think it's an elk, they split the skull by shooting at it]: 25-26, 73; Ojibwa: Josselin de Jong 1913, No. 15 [Nanabojo finds an elk skull; becoming a snake, he climbs inside there is a brain; turns into a person again, cannot remove his skull; bumping into trees, asks where the river is; where are the stones; swims; Indians chase the "moose"; N. jumps on the rocks, breaks the skull, runs away, laughing ]: 27-28; Radin 1914, No. 1 [as in Radin, Reagan; Nenebojo; without asking tree names]: 3-4; Radin, Reagan 1928, No. 10 (Minnesota) [Manabozo kills caribou, roasts meat; creaking trees interfere with him, he puts his hand between them, cannot take it out; wolves eat meat; freeing his hand, M. turns into a snake, eats the brain inside the caribou skull; prematurely regains its appearance, his the head remains inside the skull; M. walks, bumping into trees, asking them for directions to the lake; swims; people take him for a caribou, shoot; he breaks his skull against a stone, they recognize him]: 86-87; timagami Ojibwa [the girl sees the Sun in a dream, now she can't look at it, goes to live for the Sun; after 4 days, four boys, one with horns, find themselves in a wooden bowl left at home, the grandfather sends they are in 4 directions of the world; these are 4 winds; the fifth is Nenebuc; he went to punish the west wind, which was blowing too much, this food was not enough; he broke one horn with a club; killed three geese, told his anus to guard; he gives a signal, N. is angry, tells him to be silent; people stole meat; to punish the anus, N. sits down in the fire; finds and eats burnt pieces of his flesh, thinking that it is animal meat; defecates on partridges, 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 have become lichens; kills a bear; two trees creak, N. sticks between them hand, stuck; all the animals came to eat bear meat; only the rabbit did not eat, remained skinny; N. became an ant, climbed into the bear's skull; became human again, unable to pull his head out; bumping into trees, asks what kind of breed they are; this is how it reaches the river, swims, people think that a bear is swimming; N. fell on a rock, the bear's skull crashed; N. wounds the queen of the Giant Lynxes with an arrow; the Toad goes to heal her; N. kills the Toad, puts on its skin, pierces his arrow deeper into the Lynx's body, killing her; Lynxes send a flood; N. tells Beaver to reach the ground, he does not dive to the bottom; the muskrat pops up dead with the ground in his paws; N . makes the earth; sends the white Raven to see 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; Algonquins [see M53 motif; Whiskejack (Canadian jay) kills a bear, bakes meat, it's stolen; ants have climbed into the skull eat a brain; V. makes his head small as at the snake, sticks it into the skull; the head becomes the same, he cannot pull it out; walks, bumping into trees; asks everyone what his name is; when he reaches the alder, he realizes that the lake shore is nearby; swims; people want to kill a bear; V. gets to the other side, falls, the skull splits]: Speck 1915d, No. 2:6-7; atticamek [everyone is afraid of the huge Skunk; Wolverine crept up, grabbed his ass; everyone the animals ran up, cut the big skunk into pieces, so the skunks are now small; the Skunk managed to stream into Wolverine's face, she is blind; walks, bumps into trees, asks everyone what his name is; when it comes to Poplar, he realizes that the water is close; Wolverine washes her face in the sea, so seawater has a characteristic smell {apparently taste}]: Davidson 1928a: 270-271; western marsh crees (stone Cree) [a huge Skunk goes, kills everyone with his jet; Mink, then Laska pretends to be dead; Skunk examines them, sees their anus, thinks it's from an arrow, throws them away; Wolverine is asked help; he hides in the beaver passages, the Skunk squanders his volley, Wolverine grabs his ass, everyone rushes to the Skunk, divides it into pieces to make it small; holding the Skunk, Wolverine is blind; he is covered his face with a rag; he goes to the sea to wash, stumbles upon trees, asks their names; these are successively Fir, Pine, Birch, Poplar, Willow; every next one grows closer to the water; Wolverine washes, sees the light, the stripes on the face remain]: Brightman 1989:143-145; Eastern Swamp Cree (West Bank Hall. James): Ellis 1995, No. 68 [Weesahkwechahk gathered animals for the festival; a giant Skunk has come, refuses to leave, Wolverine grabs his ass; goes blind because of it; goes towards the sea, bumping into trees asking everyone what their name is; every next one grows closer to water (birch, willow, alder); finally comes across a rock, enters the water, washes his eyes; the sea becomes salty]: 363-367; Skinner 1911 ( Albany) [The Big Skunk chases all animals; they are starving; only Beaver has a large supply of food; the Beaver spoils the air trying to lift his bag of food; the Otter laughs, the offended Beaver does not give food; if animals then they got it, they would eat grass and bark like beavers; the Skunk continues to chase; the old otter (not the one who laughed) pretends to be dead; the Skunk feels him, takes his anus for a bullet wound, decides to pick up the carcass later; Wolverine grabs the Skunk by the anus without letting him shoot; the Otter pierces it with its tail like a spear; before death, Skunk manages to pour his liquid on Wolverine's face; he he is going to wash in the lake, he is asked not to do so, because the water will become salty; he goes to the sea, bumping into trees and asking for their names (Black Fir, Larch, White Fir; the penultimate is a stump on shore, then ice; Wolverine washes, sea becomes salty]: 96-100; Western Forest Cree [Wesakitchak sees the chikadi leave their eyes on the branches, they fall into their eye sockets; decides to repeat the trick , hanging his eyes on the branches, he goes blind, his eyes fall into the mud; he walks, bumping into trees and asking their names; poplar, birch, larch; the last is pine, V. makes new eyes from its resin]: Vandersteene 1969:49-50; Steppe Cree: Ahenakew 1929 [tomtit throws its eyes under the willow; this is how it heals headaches; Vesakaicak repeats the trick every time he sees a willow; his eyes they fall to the ground, the Fox takes them away; V. asks the trees what their names are, finds Fir, makes new eyes out of resin; sets fire to the grass around the Fox; he jumps out of the fire, the tip of its tail turns white]: 347-349; Dusenberry 1962, No. 1 [Western 1905; Wi-Sak-a-Chak sees birds catch their eyes at the bushes, then their eyes come back; the older bird explains that this is done for a headache, nothing more three times; V. catches his eye for the fourth time, they stay in the bushes; he goes asking the trees who they are; the first are poplar, willow, pine; when he finds a marsh pine, he makes new eyes for himself from her resins]: 235-236; steppe ojibwa [Nanibozhu kills a deer, roasts meat; tree branches creak in the wind; N. climbs to unhook branches, his hand gets stuck; wolves eat meat, leaving only head; freed, N. turns into a snake, climbs into the deer's skull has a brain; turns into a person, the head remains in the skull; N. asks trees if the river is far away; goes with the flow; seeing deer horns, boys throw rocks, smashing the skull]: Skinner 1919, No. 9:288-289.

Northeast. Seneca [The raccoon was smeared with rotten wood decay, pretended to be dead; Cancers gathered around his enemy; one put his hand in the Raccoon's mouth, shouted that he was alive; the other Cancer; but the leader does not believe ; when the third, the Raccoon jumped up, killed the crayfish, only one is alive; he is on a hill; crawls asking the trees for their names; Black Oak, Butter Walnut, Poplar; each species is increasingly hygrophilous; finally, Willow ; Cancer drank water, went down to the bottom]: Curtin 2001:241-246.

Plains. Sarsi [the blind husband asks his wife to aim his bow at the approaching bison, kills the bison, but the wife lies that he missed, cooks the meat herself, prevents her husband and young son; the blind man goes to the lake, bumping into trees and asking everyone's name; when he comes to the willows, he realizes that he has reached the water; the bird, then the other three say that the swan will cure him; the swan puts the blind man on its back, Dives with him four times, his vision is fully restored; the husband forces his wife to eat meat until she dies; leaving the corpse on the ground, he leaves with his son]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 35:43-44; grovantre [Mice celebrate the Sun Dance in the elk's skull; Nishant sticks his head inside; The mice run away, the head gets stuck; N. bumps into trees, asks their names; cherry, poplar, willow; N. realizes that river nearby; falls, goes with the flow; people mistake him for a water monster; Only girls have to pull me out; copulates with one of the girls; her mother hits him; I can only be killed with a blow to the head; she hits, the elk's skull splits, N. runs away]: Kroeber 1907b, No. 7, 15a [women chase him, he hides in a hole; smears clay, looks different; advises women catch N. in a hole; suffocates them with smoke]: 68-69, 71-72; arpaho [Mice celebrate the Sun Dance in the elk's skull; Nihansan sticks his head inside, can't take it out; walks, bumping into trees asks for their names; when he gets to the poplar, he realizes that the water is nearby; floats along the river; he is noticed by women, he asks them to break the skull]: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 52, 53:107-108; iowa [weed ( or a bug sitting on it) sings: If Ishinki eats me, he will have diarrhea; I. chews grass, rubs his ass; defecates profusely, falls uphill of his own excrement that covers his eyes ; bumps into trees asking their names; when it comes to the willow, he realizes that the river is nearby; washes his eyes]: Skinner 1925, No. 28:487-488.

California. Shasta [(apparently a reference to an unpublished myth); Coyote was walking, came across a spruce tree, asked her name; that's what all the trees got their name]: Holt 1946:326; (cf. Maidu [The fox pretends to lose his skin; the Coyote asks how to remove his skin; the fox tells him to lie down, rips off his skin, cuts off the tip of his nose, the Coyote is dead, the Vulture pecked out his eyes; the Coyote has come to life, went, came across a pine tree, made new eyes out of resin, a tail out of a branch]: Dixon 1900:269-270).

(Wed. Big Pool. Southern Payutes (kaibab) [see motive F59; Coyote is responsible for his brother Wolf to die, but Coyote revives and saves him; asks trees that sparkle when burning; spruce answers last; Coyote puts it into the fire, sparks fly, the Coyote discovers that the Wolf has a wife; rapes her in his absence; she glues him to the aspen; the wolf rapes him; tells him to bring a jug, then brushwood; they stick to the Coyote; The wolf sets fire to the firewood, the Coyote burns]: Sapir 1930, No. 1:338-345).