K27yy3. Get the fruits of the dangerous tree. .62.68.

The hero must bring the fruits growing on a tree that is dangerous to approach.

Andoke, Bororo, Nambikwara, Trumai.

NW Amazonia. Andoke [The Sun kills and eats sons-in-law by sending them to cut down a tree from which a heavy fruit falls ; the hero is warned by his wife; he builds a shelter; monkeys cut the vines holding the tree from falling, and gadflies bite those holding the tree; the tree falls; the Sun devours the termite mound, thinking he is eating his son-in-law]: Pineda 1975: 452-453.

Southern Amazonia. Bororo : Wilbert, Simoneau 1983, #104 [Toribugu is Kiare Ware's son by his dead wife; his other wife seduced him, decorated him with white down; KV noticed this down on his wife's belt; threw a party, saw that only T. was decorated with the same; KV decides to kill his son, T.'s grandmother helps him; 1) kill a jaguar; 2) get a rattle from the spirits (a locust brought it); get the fruit from a tree growing in the middle of a lake where the spirits live (a spider transported a squirrel, it got it, the spirits caused a flood, but the spider saved the squirrel, it gnawed off the fruit and brought it); 4) go with KV and get mako chicks from a cliff; KV began to swing the pole T. was climbing, he stuck the stick his grandmother had given him into the cliff and climbed up; KV removed the ladder, T. suffered from hunger and thirst; T. made a small bow, shot some lizards, hung them on his belt, vultures pecked his buttocks, raised the corpse to eat on the ground by the water; T.'s food falls right through; T. applied the root given to him by his grandmother, it became new flesh; the people left the village; T. caught up with his grandmother, first in the form of a bird, then a lizard; his grandmother and younger brother recognized him; on the occasion of his son's return, the father organized a hunt; T. made himself antlers from branches, became a deer, before this he ordered the deer to be driven to KV, raised it on its antlers, threw it to the piranhas, and himself returned in the form of a man; KV's wives noticed scars on T.'s head where the antlers had been, they wanted to kill him, he killed them himself], 105 [Geriguiguiatugo has a relationship with a young stepmother; his father gives him difficult assignments, the young man's grandmother teaches him each time what to do; 1) kill a jaguar, 2) get a rattle from the spirits (locusts get it), 3) get nuts from a palm tree growing in the middle of the water (there are dangerous spirits in the lake ; a spider carries a squirrel, it brings a nut), 4) get chicks from a cliff (the father throws away the ladder, the young man climbs down with the vultures); turns into a deer, kills his father with a horn; when the father's wives find out about this, he kills them too; retelling in Lévi-Strauss 1964: 43-45]: 198-203, 204-209; nambikwara [the forest spirit Sivitiyahlusu brings two brothers to him, gives them his daughters as wives; orders 1) to bring nuts (a harpy eagle attacks the elder brother who is climbing a palm tree; he breaks his wing; the father-in-law revives the bird; next time everything is repeated, but the bird cannot be revived), 2) for the elder brother to get an armadillo from its hole (S. tries to kill his son-in-law, who kills him himself); the mother-in-law kills the elder brother by releasing poisonous insects; the wives turn the younger into a pashiuba palm]: Pereira 1983, no. 40: 58-61; trumai [Jemenari gets together with his sister, Kelenawary is born; he grows up, sleeps with his father's/uncle's wife; he orders to get 1) a dyeing fruit from the tree where the snake lives (the hero scared her away), 2) cross the river with piranhas (K. is bitten, recovers), 3) bring valuable wood from Rain's house (Rain has sex with his wife many times, falls asleep, K. gets the wood); K. and J. make a cage for a harpy eagle together; K. sits on the cage, says that it is no bigger than one hair on J.'s pubis; he takes out a vertical pole, the poles spring, K. falls onto a tall tree; the anthropomorphic flying creature Nane heals him; J. makes a deer to kill K., but the deer kills him; K. sleeps with his uncle's wife]: Murphy, Quain 1955: 73-76; Monod-Becquelin 1975, no. 12: 80-92.