I28A. Animals produce earthquakes. .46.63.70.

Large animals that are hunted go underground, causing earthquakes.

Plains. Blackfeet [during a solar eclipse, hunters drive bison into a cave; the entrance collapses; bison breed; as the hunters drive them, the earth trembles]: Clark 1966: 271.

Central Amazonia. Munduruku [ Karusacaibe sends his son to his sisters for meat; they do not give it; K. tells him to cover their house with feathers; he fumigates it, shouts, Eat your food! they hear, Copulate! , turn into wild pigs, kills them one by one; Dayiru persuades K.'s son to show him where the pigs are, releases them all; they chase K.'s son, kill him; K. covers them with a mound (origin of earthquakes? cf. Kayapo); the rest flee into the forest]: Murphy 1958, no. 1: 72-73.

Eastern Brazil. Kayapo [woman does not nurse her children; shaman burns her, turns her and children into boars; locks her in a cave; kills two boars at a time as needed; people force the shaman's son to show where the cave is; boars attack people, trample and devour the boy; go to the underworld; the earth shakes as they run]: Wilbert 1978, no. 32: 109-110.