K27yy1. Get a feather from a dangerous bird.
.29.34.41.43.44.46.-.48.50.
The hero brings a feather (feathers) of a dangerous bird.
Nogai, Georgian, Chelkans, Pribaikal Buryat, Kuchin, Atna, Khan, Upper Tanana, Tagish, Interior Tlingit, Kaska, Beaver, Slevi, Modoc, Western Swamp Cree, Prairie Cree, Western Ojibwa, Gros Ventre, Tunica, Biloxi, Achomawi, Havasupai, Zuni.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Nogays [ Yauryntak is born when his parents catch carp, immediately grows up, comes to the bay, breaks off the leg of a golden rooster; the bay gives difficult assignments through Bezborodoy {he acts as a vizier}; the Eagle helps to carry out; bring 1) hare bones (the Eagle gives); 2) the Eagle's feather (the Eagle fights, the feather falls from it); 3) the daughter of Almas Khan Bermes (Y. is thrown onto the roof of the house, does not freeze, since the Eagle protects him from the cold, receives B.); the bay finds B.'s golden hair; orders Ya. to bring a piebald, gray, red horse, saddled by the moon, the sun, paykhambar, and a herd of mares biting each other; B. promises to marry the bay when Ya. returns; Ya. dies from the cold three times, the Eagle revives him; Ya brings horses, B. milks a cauldron of milk, boils it; the bai rushes in, gets boiled, Ya comes out a handsome man, inherits the bai's wealth]: Nogai 1979, No. 7: 20-27; Georgians (Imereti) [the king places his daughter and nanny on an island; they eat an apple that rolls to their land, the daughter gives birth to a son named Khvtisavar , the nanny gives birth to 8 smart puppies; the king orders them to be executed, the servants kill hares in their place; Kh. kills 8 giants, moves with his mother and nanny to their house; the ninth was only wounded, becomes the lover of Kh.'s mother, they come up with difficult tasks for Kh.; 1) to get the horn of a dangerous deer, 2) the bristles of a boar, 3) a hawk feather ; they themselves give, promise help (Kh. kills a snake intending to devour the chicks of a giant hawk); the mother and the giant close K. in a cauldron, throw him into the sea; a deer, a boar, a hawk free him; K. kills the mother, the giant, the nanny; a young man equal to him in strength becomes his sworn brother; at the fork he goes left (you will find happiness), K. - to the right (you will not return back); K. jumped over the river on a horse, for this he received a princess; in the forest an old woman turns K. and his four dogs into stones, swallows them; the sworn brother cuts open her stomach, the swallowed ones are dead; she orders to take a towel from the box in the corner of her stomach, wipe K. and the dogs, they come to life; the sworn brother kills her; K. and his wife return home]: Mashurko et al. 1904, No. 2: 17-27).
Southern Siberia – Mongolia. Chelkantsy : Kandarakova 1988 [after the shaman’s calling, the wife of the childless Ak-Kaan gives birth to seven sons; after the second calling – to the six-eyed Karagys ; the eldest son Maka-Maatyr sees the girl rise from the cradle, devour animals, lie back down; MM runs away, marries the youngest daughter of the great khan; two other sons-in-law persuade MM to give difficult tasks, the wife explains how to accomplish them; 1) get a golden eagle feather ; MM cuts off with an arrow the heads of a seven-headed serpent emerging from a lake to devour golden eagle chicks; they hide him from their parents; their father arrives with rare snow, their mother – with heavy rain (these are golden eagles’ tears), they carry deer in their claws; the chicks explain that MM saved them, the golden eagle does not kill MM, but gives a feather; 2) get a tooth of a monstrous wolverine (one of its horns is stuck in the ground, the other props up the sky; MM jumps between the horns, the wolverine runs under the clouds, cannot throw it off, gives two teeth); the sons-in-law do not know how, MM makes a cauldron, working with these teeth like tools; 3) bring Altyn-Tan , the daughter of God; the wife gives MM fur coats to have them, AT's brothers ask her to show MM her face, to drink araki from a thimble; AT loses consciousness, MM takes her away; the brothers catch up, she sends them back; turns the khan into a fox, his people and property into black earth; MM climbs the mountain, sees his camp, cries; says that a branch, pipes, wind damaged his eye; AT punishes them, the wind mother explains what is going on; MM gets home on a six-legged horse; the six-eyed K. has eaten everyone, chases after MM, tears off all the horse's legs one by one; AT tells her not to touch her husband, K. leaves]: 44-72: 44-72; Sadalova 2002, No. 20; Chelkantsy [after turning to a shaman and sacrificing a horse, the wife gives birth to seven sons, the eldest is Maka-Maatyr ; next time he asks for a girl, but sacrifices not a mare, but a dog, gives birth to the six-eyed Karagys ; MM sees K. get up from the cradle, eats the calf, lies down; then a foal, a bull; MM says that he will leave for a short time, leaves forever; marries the youngest of Ulug-Piya's three daughters ; other sons-in-law advise father-in-law to order MM to bring 1) feathers of the Purush bird ; wife says that its nest is on the top of one of the seven larches; a seven-headed snake crawls from the lake to the nest, MM kills seven heads with arrows, climbs into the nest; chicks say that this snake always devours chicks; father-P. flew in with the wind and fine snow, then mother with the wind and rain (these are her tears), gives two feathers; 2) a tooth of a wolverine living at the confluence of seven rivers to make a tagan; wife says that one of its horns is stuck in the ground, the other is raised to the sky, you need to grab both; wolverine gives two teeth; 3) the youngest daughter of Kudai Altyn-Tan ; the wife teaches to make a dwelling where K. gets water; his three sons will come; for a fur coat sewn from what was collected from the mountains, ask to show half of his sister's face; for one sewn from what was collected from the meadows - a button under his arm; from the rivers - let him drink arak from a thimble; AT got drunk, MM carries her away; the brothers who received the fur coats catch up, AT sends them away; turns UP's cattle into black earth, and him into a fox; MM marries AT; she says that only six-eyed K. remains at MM's father's camp; AT gives him a six-legged trotter; K. gnaws the bones of her parents, sees MM on the chimney, chases, cuts off, eats the sixth, fifth legs of the horse, fights with her brother; AT tells her to leave, she returns home; AT and MM live on]: Sadalova 2002, No. 20: 173-201: 173-201; Baikal Buryats (Balagan) [in old age, King Bogdor gives birth to a son, Khan-Khuzhir, with a golden upper body and a silver lower body; B.'s brother Zoton-Khara tames a horse for him; XX goes to woo Gonok-gokhon-dukhe, the daughter of Guli Khan (GH); wanting to test the groom's foresight, the bride gives poison, XX does not drink; GH demands 1) to defeat the 58-headed mangadhai; he comes out of the sea, his dog, golden eagle and kite sense danger, he kills them in anger, XX hits him with an arrow; 2) to bring the dog Gunir; XX approaches her while she is sleeping, puts on a collar, brings her, GH is horrified, XX releases the dog, who promises to help; 3) a feather of the Khan-Heregde bird ; her chicks tell her that a 25-headed serpent will come out of the sea to eat them; XX turns into a birch tree standing by the sea; the serpent comes out, XX becomes a man again, hits all the serpent's heads with an arrow; a drop of blood the size of a tick chases after him, catches up, XX dies; the dog Gunir comes running, swallows XX, vomits him out alive, and dies from poison; the bird gives a feather, GH is horrified, the feather remains with XX; 4) the liver of Naral-Gerel, which contains edible oil; on the way XX sees Khokhodoy-Mergen, who fought with NG, and now he has only the upper half of his body, and below only bones; XX turns into a poor calf herder, comes to NG; he sends him to bring a knife that remained under the body of HM (he himself is afraid to approach him, fearing this knife); HM gives the knife, XX cuts NG with it, takes the liver, revives HM with oil, he flies away to the sky, promises to help; 5) get back from the heavenly Eseghe-Malan-Tengir what GH has sacrificed to him over all the years; lightning immediately destroyed GH, the ashes were scattered by the wind; XX takes the bride, goes to his father, falls asleep; the monster stole half of the subjects and cattle, flew away; XX woke up from the tears of the bride, shot an arrow and galloped after her; the sky beats against the earth, cutting the swallows in half; XX gallops past, only cutting off the horse's tail; the servants in the palace answer that the mistress returned with an arrow in her back, died, her four sons went to bury her; XX defeated and killed them, took everything; his four younger brothers came towards him, they were looking for him; XX shoot an arrow: if they are brothers, they will read his name on it, if strangers, the arrow will hit them; they caught the arrow; all is well]; Dugarov 1990: 231-244.
Subarctic. Kuchin [see motive L5; Jateaquoint and his younger brother escape from their mother's head pursuing them; they play with a ball, it falls into the boat; the owner of the boat (this is Brown Bear) invites D. to take the ball: he takes it away; the younger brother, left on the shore, turns into a wolf; the owner's eldest daughter refuses to marry D.; the youngest marries him, makes him a handsome man; the father-in-law demands 1) to bring material for an arrow shaft from a tree scattering sharp chips around; 2) to get resin from a tree splashing boiling resin; in both cases D. calms the trees by spitting on them; 3) to get the sinews of two animals covered with impenetrable wool; Mouse gnaws out the wool under the hearts of the animals, explaining that her children are freezing; D. kills the animals with arrows; 4) to get the feathers of man-eating eagles ; D. kills a female chick; asks the male how his parents will arrive; The father - with rain and hail, the mother - with a snowstorm ; D. kills adult eagles with a spear, turns the chick into an ordinary eagle; 5) kill a she-bear; D. grabs the forbidden arrow, pierces the she-bear; she turns out to be his wife; the father-in-law turns into a bear, rushes at D., is also killed by him]: McKennan 1965: 100-103; atna [The Lynx came to the Bear; he has two daughters; he insistently calls Lynx his son-in-law; Lynx asks where to get material for arrows; 1) shafts; The Bear sends knocking trees into the forest; The Lynx jumps between the converging trees, brings hard wood; 2) feathers for arrows ; on such and such a cliff; There are two eaglets in the nest, their parents have flown away to hunt people; the older eaglet promises to tell his parents about the Lynx, who kills him; tells the younger one to say that he fell asleep and fell out of the nest; the Eagle flew in, the Lynx killed him with an arrow; then the Eagle, the same; each of them brought half a man; the Lynx told the eaglet to feed on partridges and rabbits from now on; he brought feathers; 3) a bowstring; there lies a deer (moose) as big as a mountain; the Lynx asks the Mouse to gnaw off the wool from the place where the heart is; she gnaws it off, tells the Deer that her children are freezing; the Deer allows it; the Lynx pierces him in this place with an arrow, brings sinews; 4) glue to secure the bowstring; the Bear sends the Lynx to where the resin boils on the fir; he brings it without getting burned; Bear offers to hunt bears (these are his daughters), gives arrows with bark tips, but Lynx uses hers, kills Bear's daughters; he pursues Lynx, Lynx hides in the middle of the lake; Bear tells Frog to drink it; Lynx asks Sandpiper (snipe or curlew) to pierce Frog's belly, water pours out; Bear digs a drain for the waters into the lower lake, but Lynx slips through, Bear cannot catch him]: Tansy 1982: 8-14; khan : Mishler 2004, No. 2 [having killed the man-eating Otter, Tsá'Wëzhaa comes to the Bear; he gives him his daughter, sends for material for a bow and arrows; 1) eagle feathers ; C. kills a male and female man-eating eagle, feeds the chicks ordinary meat, and tells them to eat animals from now on; 2) the tendons of a dangerous elk; C. asks Mouse to climb into the anus of a lying elk and cut its heart; C. made a bow and arrows]: 147-149; Schmitter 1910 (Eagle) [The Bear harpoons salmon; the old man turns into a salmon, lets himself be harpooned, breaks off the tip and carries it away; comes to the Bear in the guise of a man; the Bear suspects that the old man has stolen the harpoon; the old man marries the Bear's daughter; He demands 1) to bring wood for arrows (a stump falls on the son-in-law, he dodges, makes shafts from the stump); 2) to bring feathers of man-eating eagles for arrows (the son-in-law climbs into the nest, kills one chick, asks another how the parents will arrive; Mother with snow, father with hail ; kills adult birds with a spear, brings feathers); 3) to get resin to glue the arrowheads (the son-in-law sticks a long pole into a lake of boiling resin, splashes it on all the firs; since then the firs are resinous; brings resin); 4) to bring sinews (the son-in-law asks the Mouse to gnaw wool from the place on the body of the monstrous moose, under which the heart is (the Mouse explains to the moose that she needs wool to warm the babies; the son-in-law kills the moose with an arrow, brings sinews); 5) The Bear advises to make arrowheads from birch bark; [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ [ [ [ [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ [ ... 2) get feathers for arrows from man-eating eagles (Ts. climbs into the nest, kills the male chick; asks the female how her parents arrive; the mother with a cloud and snow, the father with a storm cloud and hail ; Ts. kills the adult eagles, tells the chick to feed on squirrels and partridges from now on; 3) get larch resin to attach the feathers to the shaft (the tree grows on a high cliff; Ts. wets a branch, touches the trunk, the resin freezes to the branch, Ts. pulls the branch back); 4) The Bear turns his daughters into two she-bears, Ts. kills them; sees how the Bear copulates with the corpses of his daughters; Ts. runs away from the Bear, asks the Frog to drink the lake, hides in the silt at the bottom; becoming a fish, eludes the Bear]: McKennan 1959: 179-182; tagish [The Beaver wants the Bear's daughter as a wife; the Bear demands 1) to cut down a huge tree to make a bow (the Beaver cuts down the tree, it does not crush him), 2) to get sinews by killing a huge grizzly (mice dig a passage under the lying grizzly, gnaw off the fur on its chest; the Beaver thrusts a spear into this place, the grizzly dies), 3) to kill a huge Frog (the Beaver kills it, gets paint for arrows), 4) to get feathers for arrows from man-eating Eagles (the Beaver climbs into the nest; the chick says that its mother brings warm and sunny weather, its father brings hail; the Beaver kills the adult Eagles, turns the chick into an ordinary eagle); the Bear regrets that all his animal helpers have died; the Beaver kills the Bear, his wife and daughter]: Norman 1990: 109-113; Inland Tlingit [a son-in-law asks where to 1) get birch to make a bow and arrows, his father-in-law sends him to a certain place, he disappears; this happens with five of the six (or seven of the eight) brothers; the last youngest is attentive, finds the remains of the dead, kills the beast that was killing people; 2) a bowstring; the father-in-law sends him to a huge bison lying on the ground; a mouse digs a hole to the bison, plucks the hair on its chest, replies that the hair from the tail is not good for making a nest for mice; the young man pierces the bison's heart through the place where the hair was gnawed off, brings sinews; 3) flint for arrowheads; the young man drops the stone on a giant frog, takes the flint; 4) feathers for arrows ; the young man climbs into the nest of bald-headed man-eating eagles; there are two chicks, he kills one, the other answers that the father will fly with a strong wind, the mother - with darkness; answers the father eagle that his sister fell out of the nest herself; that the marks on him are from a dead person brought by his father; the young man kills the male eagle; then the female (all the same episodes); tells the eaglet to feed on fish]: McClelland 2007(3), No. 147: 653-661; kaska [The beaver is floating down the river in a boat; the old shrew woman helps him with advice, gives him two fish; there is a snake on both banks of the river; he throws a fish into the mouths of each, they devour the fish, the beaver swims past; turns into a bird, lets two sisters catch him; the eldest takes him to their bed, he turns into a man; his father-in-law boils him in a cauldron, he flies out as a bird, returns; father -in-law demands 1) to finish the boat (takes out the wedge from the log; the Beaver is not crushed, splits the log); 2) to get feathers for arrows (the Beaver climbs into the Eagles' nest; asks the chicks how their parents will arrive; the Mother at midday with wind and rain, the Father in the evening with wind and hail ; kills one chick, kills adult eagles with a club, brings feathers); 3) get the tendons of a shaggy monster (the Shrew digs a hole under the lying monster, hides the Beaver there, gnaws off the wool from the place under the heart, supposedly to warm her babies; the Beaver shoots at this place, kills the monster, brings tendons); 4) bring paint (the Snake lies on paint; the Shrew sets a clay doll adrift; the Snake rushes after it, the Beaver gets the paint); 5) get a huge fish to make glue (the Beaver kills it with a harpoon); the father-in-law mourns the death of his favorites; turns his daughters into bears, the Beaver kills them with arrows; the father-in-law pursues him, the Beaver hides at the bottom of the lake; the father-in-law tells the Bird (species not specified) to drink water; The snipe pierces the bird's belly with its beak, the water pours out; The beaver revives the wives, comes with them to the people; one day he sleeps with his former wife; new ones rise to heaven, almost all the people die from the terrible heat; The beaver goes to look for wives; his father-in-law comes to him for the night, replaces their pants that were hung out to dry; The beaver throws his father-in-law's pants into the fire early in the morning; he admits his defeat, rises to heaven, he is the Sun]: Teit 1917a, no. 1: 435-441; the beaver [ Tumašale comes to the beaver dam; a girl is crying there; she says that the giant beaver can be appeased only by people being given to him, now they have given her away; T. kills the beaver with an arrow, cuts him into small pieces, from which the present beavers emerge; T. sets a trap, the Sun falls into it; it becomes dark; T. cannot come closer because of the heat; other animals also fail, only Mouse gnaws through the bonds; T. meets an old man, he eats lynx meat, they spend the night in the forest; T. replaces the moccasins drying by the fire in advance; the old man throws his into the fire instead of T.'s moccasins; in the morning T. gives him one moccasin from his pair; the old man gives him an arrow; T. shoots, goes after it, finds himself in the sky; the old woman lowers him down on a rope; he thinks he has reached the ground, gives a signal, the rope falls; in fact, he is in a large nest; kills two chicks; the third replies that the father will arrive with hail, the mother with rain; T. kills adult birds, turns the chick into an ordinary bird, teaches him to fish; T. comes to a woman, she says that inside her three daughters there are bad creatures that kill men; T. destroys these creatures (without details), marries the girls; father-in-law consistently orders to bring various materials for making arrows, the old woman warns each time about the dangers; 1) bring saskatoons (probably reeds) to make shafts (there are snakes there, T. puts on stone moccasins, brings reeds); 2) get a grinding stone; at the edge of the cliff, a male Elk throws down visitors, his wife kills them; T. throws down the Elk himself, the wife takes the falling one for a stranger; T. kills her with a stick, brings a stone; 3) bring feathers for arrows ; T. kills huge eagles, brings feathers; 4) bring sinews of a huge bison; two snipes sit on its horns, warn of the approach of people; T. turns into a rodent, digs passages in different directions, gnaws wool from the chest (shoulder) of the bison, pierces it in this place, brings sinews; 5) bring resin, it is between two collapsing trees; T. puts on stone mittens, brings resin; 6) hunt bears; the father-in-law turns his daughters into bears, T. kills them; chases the father-in-law, he jumps into the water; T. tells the pelican to drink from the lake; the father-in-law drowned; T. meets an old man, who turns out to be his younger brother, they tell each other about their adventures]: Goddard 1916: 232-237; slevi : Moore, Wheelock 1990, № 9 [Yamonhdeyi's father advises him to marry; the old man is ready to give him his daughter; Ya. understands that she already has a husband, he kills sleeping people; Ya. kills him with an arrow; the wife replies that her father gets feathers for arrows from huge eagles; Ya. climbs into the nest in a tree; the eaglet says that the mother will fly with the rain, the father with the snow; the eaglet's sister promises to complain to the mother that he told this to a man; Ya. kills the girl eaglet, kills the female who gave birth to half a man; tells the eaglet to eat rabbits, ducks, fish; Ya. goes to get the sinews that the father-in-law uses for a bowstring; a mouse gnaws the wool under the heart of the lying monster, says that her children are freezing; Ya. pierces his heart, brings sinews; brings flint arrowheads from where they fly like arrows; wife turns into a bear, J. kills her with an arrow; her parents hoped that she would kill her son-in-law; J. runs, becomes a fish at the bottom of the pond; wife's parents tell two pelicans to drink water; J. tells a small snail bird (Tringa melanoleuca) to pierce the pelican's belly; water pours out, J. jumps out, father-in-law and mother-in-law drown]: 43-48; Petitot 1886, No. 5 [enemies kill everyone, grandson and grandmother remain; he gets married, needs arrows; climbs into eagle's nest for feathers ; chick hides him under its wing, replies that father will bring snow, mother - rain; man kills adult birds, tells chick to feed on fish, not on people; asks the Mouse to dig a passage under a huge deer lying on the ground, to gnaw the wool from the skin under the heart; kills the deer, takes the sinews for the bowstring; kills a toad sitting on a piece of flint, makes arrowheads; his wife turns into a bear, he kills her; his father-in-law pursues him, turns into a flying monster; the man, having become a Beaver, hides in a lake; the monster drinks the lake; a Plover pierces his belly, water pours out; the monster flies into the sky; the Beaver makes rapids on the Mackenzie River]: 321-327.
Coast - Plateau. Modoc [old Natanas always kills sons-in-law; Kai (big rabbit) marries his daughter; a white eagle feather helps him; 1) N. takes him in a boat to fish, causes a storm; K. throws seaweed on the water, walks on it to the shore; 2) get reeds for arrow shafts; reeds grow on the island, K. flies there, brings reeds; 3) get round stones - arrow straighteners; they lie on the bottom of the river, the river dries up, K. brings them; 4) get feathers for arrows ; K. takes off his clothes, climbs a tree to the eagle's nest, the tree becomes tall; he plucks feathers from the chicks, descends to the ground as a feather; 5) kill a deer; N. turns his son into a deer; K.'s brother Goshgoyze (small rabbit) shouts to him that the heart is in his leg; K. shoots a deer in the leg, kills one, then four more sons of N.; he mourns for them, hopes to revive them; 6) harpoon a large fish (this is also N.'s son); G. helps his brother to pull it out; 7) run a race with N.'s son; he pushes him into the river so that the others will eat him, but K. flies up, pushes his rival himself, and he is eaten; the same when N. himself runs; his spirit returns; K., his wife, and G. go to live in another place]: Curtin 1912: 359-365.
Midwest. Western Swamp Cree (Rock Cree) [Wīsahkīcāhk and his younger brother are playing on the shore of a lake, throwing their fingernails up in the air; Wīmisōsiw's fingernail falls into his boat as he swims up; he invites him to climb into the boat and take the fingernail; the self-propelled boat immediately sails away; the younger brother on the shore turns into a wolf; Wīmisōsiw shouts at him, chasing a caribou, not to go near the water; Wīmisōsiw is in tears, ugly; Wīmisōsiw's two older daughters reject him, the younger one washes him, makes him her husband; the older one now wants him too, the younger one refuses to share; they have two children; Wīmisōsiw wants to make himself wings to fly; Wīmisōsiw intends to destroy him, 1) takes him to the dangerous eagles, these are the spirit guardians of the father-in-law; throws Wīmisōsiw to them to be eaten; V. calls the eagles his little brothers, they give him feathers , he flies over Wīmisōsiw in the form of a seagull, defecates on him, and arrives home before his father-in-law; he sees V. making arrows; 2) bring arrow shafts, takes them to the thicket, throws them to the snakes; V. calls the snakes his little brothers, brings the shafts home before his father-in-law returns; 3) V. suggests swinging on a swing; Wīmisōsiw leads him to the swing, there are bones around it; V. does not fall, and when he swings Wīmisōsiw, he flies up and falls; he later returns, however; they both spend the night in the forest, V. hides his clothes under his head, hangs his father-in-law's clothes where his were hanging; at night Wīmisōsiw gets up, throws the clothes into the fire; Wīmisōsiw heats a stone, rolls it in front of him; when the stone cools, he heats it up again; larch trees have grown at all its stops since then; Wīmisōsiw admits defeat, no longer pursues son-in-law]: Brightman 1989: 23-26; Prairie Cree [see motif J35; Wisakechah and his younger brother escape from their mother's severed head, which is pursuing them; the old man invites W. into his boat, takes him away; the younger brother is left alone, turns into a wolf; the old man's eldest daughter rejects W., the younger marries him; W. becomes a handsome man; the eldest now wants him, but is rejected by him; persuades her father to destroy him; W. asks where to get arrow shafts, feathers, wood for a bow; the father-in-law sends him to where his spirit helpers live - the White Bear, the Thunderbird, the Snake; V. kills them, the father-in-law mourns their death; V. and his father-in-law spend the night in a winter forest; the father-in-law shoves V.'s clothes into the fire; V. turns into an elk, comes home; next time V. changes his clothes, the father-in-law shoves his own into the fire; freezes to death; the mother-in-law tries to kill V., he kills her and her eldest daughter; see motive B3A], 16 [the old man trains his grandson, he becomes strong, his name is Pine Roots; he overcomes two sisters who possess shamanic powers, takes them as wives; their mother is a sleepwalker; she says that he will recover if her son-in-law brings her the meat of a giant beaver, deer, elk to eat; he kills the animals, the mother-in-law mourns their death; comes in the form of his grandmother to change him into a tree; he recognizes her, turns her into a tree herself, disenchants the other trees back into people; now the eldest sister becomes a sleepwalker; demands that her husband spend the freezing night in a special house; his tobacco pouch turns into a partridge, it cries, Summer, summer ; it gets warm, the berries ripen; the sisters cannot eat them all, they are defeated]: Bloomfield 1930, no. 1: 93-99; Western Ojibwa (Chippewa) [a lonely old woman on the shore of Lake Superior, with her a girl, perhaps her daughter; she grew up, the wind blew under her clothes, she became pregnant; when she was about to give birth, she exploded and disappeared, the old woman found a drop of blood on a leaf, put it under her pillow, from the drop Winabojo arose; all the spirits were afraid, feeling his power; the grandmother answers him that a big fish cannot be killed, but V. prepares arrows; the grandmother answers that only the feathers of a bird living in the sky in a hole in the clouds will give power to the arrows; V. turned into a rabbit on a rock, called the bird to play; he called it an eagle, but it is a Thunderbird; she brought the rabbit to her chicks to play; the bird's wife suspects that it may be V.; while the adult birds are absent, V. takes human form, kills, plucks the chicks; jumped to the ground, the Thunderbirds rushed to pursue, he hid in the hollow of an old fallen birch; the Thunderbirds did not shoot there, because the birch is their own child; grateful V. made the birch a useful tree, birch bark non-rotting, with arrows feathered with feathers of thunderbird chicks, he killed the fish; lightning does not strike the birch; The strokes on the birch were made by V., and the "drawings" on it depict thunderbird chicks]: Densmore 1928: 381-384.
Plains. Gros Ventre [a hunter does not give meat to the father of his four wives; he hides some meat, a clot of blood turns into a youth (SK); kills the hunter and three evil wives; marries; father-in-law gives difficult assignments]: Cooper 1975, no. 11 [1) bring water (young man kills water monster - father-in-law's servant), 2) bring feathers of Thunderbird (young man climbs into Thunderbirds' nest, asks chicks how their parents will arrive; father in black cloud, mother in white cloud ; birds are unable to strike youth with lightning, he wounds them with arrows, returns; kills father-in-law with arrow]: 482-487; Kroeber 1907b, no. 20 [good daughter tells husband that SK is a girl; boy grows up, kills son-in-law, three evil wives and their children; travels, exterminating monsters; tree crushes and swallows passers-by; SK turns into feather, chops down tree, releases swallowed; bridge stands on bison's head, throws passing by; SK jumps over it, the bridge goes under water forever; SK allows the Wolf to swallow him, cuts his heart, comes out, making a hole in his side, releases those swallowed before; a man swings passers-by over the river, throws them to a water monster; SK turns into a feather, allows himself to be swallowed, kills the monster from the inside with arrows, releases those swallowed; kills the owner of the swing; a man with a sharp leg plays with others, kicks them to death; SK substitutes a poplar tree for himself, his leg gets stuck in it; SK gets married; the father-in-law-chief orders 1) to get a luminous object (this is the Morning Star, the son-in-law brings it); 2) to kill a bear (the son-in-law brings meat); 3) get feathers for arrows (the son-in-law climbs into the nest of the Thunderbirds; they produce lightning by blinking, and thunder when moving; Our mother will fly in a black rain cloud, and our father in a white cloud with thunder and hail ; the son-in-law kills the parent birds, leaves the chicks, brings feathers); 4) bring bison sinews (he brings); 5) flints for arrows (a cliff falls on him, he flies up as a feather, brings flints); 6) bring water at night (breaks the horn of a water monster, brings it to his father-in-law); he is furious that all his assistants have died, shoots at his son-in-law, misses; the son-in-law himself kills him with an arrow]: 82-90.
Southeastern United States. Tunica [woman falsely accuses nephew of attacking her honor; uncle demands 1) reeds for arrows (dangerous creatures live in reeds; rabbit gets them), 2) feathers of a dangerous bird (boy climbs into nest, eagle gives him feathers), 3) lures boy to hunt on island in sea, leaves him; he returns, meets his sister; she throws uncle's baby into cauldron; uncle sends two servants to kill her; boy turns them into a vulture and an opossum (their paddle and pestle into their tails), turns himself into thunder]: Haas 1950, no. 4 [eagle gives boy one of the chicks; he carries off uncle's baby]: 31-43, 45-57; Swanton 1911 [an uncle left his orphan nephew to fast in the house; his sister brought him food; the uncle's wife vainly lured the young man out of the house to kill a white squirrel; then asked him to kill the squirrel through a hole in the house; the young man tore out the squirrel's claws, one did not notice; the woman scratched her body with them, told her husband that the young man went out and did it; the uncle demands to bring 1) reeds for arrows (dangerous creatures live in the reeds; a rabbit gets them), 2) feathers of a dangerous fishing bird (the young man climbs into the nest, the eagle gives him feathers and one chick, tells him to let them out at home; the chick carries off the uncle's child); 3) the uncle takes the young man to hunt deer on the other side of the freshwater ocean, himself sails away in a boat; the young man wanders through the forest, curses owls, a woodpecker; The woodpecker asks not to curse, brings him to his house in a hollow; so that the young man can climb up, she makes a ladder out of mushrooms; the cannibal brings her dogs to the tree (these are pumas, jaguars, wolves, raccoons); she climbs the tree, the mushroom step breaks, she falls, screams "It's me", her "dogs" almost bite her to death; the young man goes to the water, climbs the tree; two women catch his reflection; he spits, they see him, take him home as husbands, give him a mirror; these women were stolen by the cannibal in childhood; when she entered, the young man launched a hare with the mirror, the cannibal liked it, she did not kill it; the young man with his wives ran to the shore, began to sing; sends away the turtle, catfish, garfish that had swum up, agrees to swim on the crocodile; shoots arrows ahead; the crocodile swims up to them, bites them apart; the young man throws skins, cakes, the crocodile swallows them; the last arrow falls near the shore, the young man and his wives manage to jump off; the sister recognized her brother's arrow; she was nursing her uncle's child; she threw her into boiling water; the uncle ordered two people to kill her with clubs far from the house; the brother shot lightning, the people turned into a vulture and an opossum, their clubs (oar and pestle) - their tails; the brother began to rise to the sky, ordered his sister to grab his leg, she could not, became a forest night hen, sings before dawn; the brother became thunder]: 319-322; biloxi [(feathers, shafts, bowstring); uncle Tuhe tells him to remain in ritual isolation in the house; uncle's wife asks him to shoot a squirrel for her; T. shoots through a crack in the wall; his sister rips out the squirrel's claws, forgets one; uncle's wife scratches her body with it, blames T.; uncle tells him to bring special arrow shafts, white turkey feathers , deer sinews; Rabbit, Deer help T.; he kills the evil Old Man who whipped him; uncle asks for the Eagle's chick so that the baby can play with it; the Eagle gives the chick, it carries off and devours the baby; uncle takes T. to the other side of the sea to burn grass, leaves; crocodile takes T. back; tells his sister to throw uncle's baby into boiling water; kills uncle's men; one of them is a Vulture, his spade turns into his tail; T. becomes Thunder, sister becomes a snipe]: Dorsey, Swanton 1912, No. 28: 99-107.
California. Achomawi [see motif K25C; Edechewe ('Wanderer', also Fisher) and his younger brother Yahtch (Weasel) live with their grandmother; preparing to go east, where the Sun Woman and the Moon live, they train; they take turns placing each other in their hair; E. cuts firewood for his grandmother; returns several times, seeing from a distance that she has already burned everything; on the way they meet the spirits Shadow of Water, Shadow of Clay; Annikadel (an air deity) gives them advice; they turn into stone, the Whirlwind is unable to carry them away; they drive away the Thunder brothers with a fish's eye, the Lightning brothers with a green reed; the Evil Spirits, a husband and wife, feed E. poisonous food, he throws it into a bag tied to his chin; at night he leaves his wooden image in his place, they beat it and burn it; In the morning E. appears, tells them to live in remote places; E. takes with him the Bee, carries it in a quiver, who gives advice; also the Flower Maiden (carries her in his hair on the left side of his head, and his brother on the right); E. marries the two daughters of the Sun and the Moon; now the daughter of the Moon is the North Star, the daughter of the Sun is the South Star (rising January 20, setting March 20); A. gives E. two obsidian daggers and an invincible weapon made of air, the Big Dipper; with all these weapons E. destroys snakes and winds (including a snake-rope with heads at both ends, p.83); E. falls asleep, the dragon Himnimtsooke carries him off to throw him into the sea; when he wakes up, E. cannot move his hands, but his brother in his hair kills him with an obsidian blade; The sun climbs onto the roof of the house every morning, turns from east (in the morning) to west (in the evening); the name of both the Sun and the Moon is Chool; the Moon demands 1) to go with him to the sweat lodge (E. throws out burning human bones that produce poisonous smoke, burns logs, the Moon almost burns); 2) to hunt grizzlies (10 grizzlies are made of manzanita leaves, have no heart, E. runs, climbs a tree; A. orders to set fire to the vegetation, the grizzlies burn); 3) to get the tail of an eagle; a nest on a burnt tree with a smooth trunk ; E. throws a bowstring made of sinews up, kills two girl chicks; the Moon buries them; 4) to swing on a pole made of resin, laid over a sea bay in which predatory creatures; E. fastens the pole with a bowstring, does not fall; when the Moon steps on the pole, throws it into the sky; the Moon is glad, asks to send his wife and daughters to him by the same way; E. does this; the brothers return to their grandmother; (pp. 102-111: at first the Sun, the Moon and both stars are motionless, are together; eternal day, hot; Annikadel sets them in motion, places them as they are now)]: Merriam 1992: 61-101.
Great Southwest. Havasupai [people live underground; one of two brothers planted a vine by a pond, it grew in a spiral; people climbed one turn in a day, after a long time came out on the ground; one girl slept with all the men, but no one took her as a wife; turned into a tobacco plant; when they smoked, she became a woman again, laughed, left; the women noticed scars on her head; she jumped into the pond, became a frog, the water began to rise; the elder brother created the moon, calling it the sun; the younger sent the real sun to the sky; the sky was low, the sun was moving too fast; the younger brother moved the sky with a pole; by this time the water in the lower world rose, poured onto the earth; people placed a girl, water, food, birds, animals in an empty log; the rest of the people drowned; a woodpecker clung to the sky, the water wet his tail; the water receded, the log sank to the ground at the falls on the Little Colorado; the girl exposed her vagina to the sun, then to the spray at the falls, gave birth to a daughter (var.: she became pregnant by a woodpecker); told her to do as she did, the daughter gave birth to a boy; he grew up; reeds for arrows grew behind the crushed rocks; the young man managed to slip through, take the reeds, slip back; smeared his clothes with blood, the eagle carried them to its nest; he killed 8 large eagles, 4 eaglets; blew, the rock became sand, he went down, bringing feathers for arrows ; his father gave him a horse; cut it, put lightning in his son; said that he was water and the sun; his father showed him the world; the young man went to the east, his grandmother to the west]: Smithson, Euler 1994: 36-39; Zuñi [the girl does not leave the house, does not look at the young men; the rain penetrates into her room, she gives birth to a boy; in a few days he grows up; throwing stones, he hunts small game; he sees bows in the men; the mother confesses that the tree for bows and the reed for arrows grow near the cave in which there is a terrible bear; the young man goes there; his divine father closes the entrance to the cave four times when the young man wants to enter it, but then decides - let him do as he wants; the bear comes to meet him, grabs the young man; he says that he has a beautiful mother; the bear himself chose the material for the bow and arrows for him, taught him how to make a bow; they agreed that the bear would come for his wife in the evening; the young man equipped the arrows with obsidian tips; the bear says that these are just black coals, allows him to try them on himself, is pierced by an arrow and killed; the young man hangs his heart near the house; the mother confesses that there are terrible lizards whose spit burns; the youth goes to them, but their spitting does not harm him, for he has a divine nature; he himself throws a large piece of salt into the hearth, it explodes, the lizards die, he brings their hearts; the mother confesses that there is a giant on the path, pushing passers-by into the abyss with his foot; under the rock his children devour the fallen; the giant straightens his leg, but the youth jumps back; kills him with a club, throws him down, the giant's children ate him; the youth cut out the giant's heart; went down and killed his children, leaving two; he wrung their necks, turning them into a falcon and an owl; the mother confesses that there is a huge bison or elk; the gopher made an underground passage under the lying monster, gnawed the wool where the heart is; the youth pierced the heart with an arrow, the monster stuck its horn into the ground, but the youth ran away; brought home the heart and part of the skin; the mother confesses that there is a nest of man-eating eagles on the top of Shuntekia; going up to the nest, the young man put on a robe made of the monster's skin, attached its intestine with blood; the eagle brought it to the nest for its chicks, the intestine burst, blood flowed; the chicks answer that their mother flies when a shadow from the clouds appears (in reality from her wings); the father flies when it begins to rain (in reality dew); the eagle brought a dead girl, the young man killed the eagle with an arrow; the eagle brought the dead youth, the hero killed him with an arrow; killed the chicks, took their feathers for fletching arrows or to use during rituals; he cannot get down; the bat grandmother puts him in a basket, does not tell him to open his eyes; he does not like her song and on the fourth time he opened his eyes; they both fell, but did not break; the bat leads him to himself, feeds him, but he has poor eyesight, he has not berries, but lumps of clay, etc.; he tells him to go home, going around the sunflower; at first he went around, then he went straight ahead; the feathers he took with him turned into summer birds – goldfinches, sparrows, etc.]: Cushing 1901: 65-92.