L1b1. The Demon Woman and Her Brothers. .21.41.43.46.-.48.50.

A woman comes into conflict with her brothers and turns into a dangerous demon.

Lepcha, Interior Tlingit, Tagish, Tutchone, Quarry, Chilcotin, Shuswap, Western Sahaptin, Klamath, Modoc, Lower Chinook, Sarcee, Blackfoot, Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Crow, Omaha and Ponca, Ioway, Cheyenne, Arikara, Kiowa, Wichita, Caddo, Shasta, Karok, Yana, Wintu, Maidu, Yavapai, Navajo.

Tibet - North-East of India. Lepcha (Sikkim) [ seven married brothers are poor, but their sister, who lives with her daughter at a distance from them, is rich; they decide to kill her; they chop her into pieces; the daughter at that time was sleeping in a building in the yard, came into the house in the morning; there is blood on the floor, but the mother restored herself by magic; warns the daughter that the brothers will take all the property, and they will leave her a calf and three necklaces; no matter: a worthy man will come and take her as his wife, everything will go well; before this the woman asks her daughter to bring branches of a certain tree, throws them towards the sun, eclipsing it; now she will be able to turn into the demon Ginoo Moong; since then she takes revenge on all who are rich, bringing them to ruin]: Kotturan 1976, No. 15: 65-68.

Subarctic. Interior Tlingit , Tagish , Southern and Northern Tutchone [girl steps in bear dung, curses bears; meets a handsome man, he takes her away and makes her his wife; turns out to be a grizzly bear; preparing for hibernation, the wife tells her husband to make a den where her brothers hunt in the spring; gives birth to two (three) sons, each winter month seems like one night to her; in the spring, she rolls a lump of grass down the slope so that her brothers' dogs can smell her; the Bear realizes this, asks his wife why she gave him away; decides to allow her brothers to kill him; the brothers find the den (the sister leaves arrow shafts or her mittens in front of her or ties them to the dog that found the den); the sister teaches how to ritually dispose of the Bear's body; asks her mother to bring clothes for her and her children (they all began to grow fur); despite sister's warning, brothers ask her and her children to put on bear skins, walk down slope; when they start shooting at them with toy darts, sister actually turns into a grizzly bear, kills brothers (or just the youngest, the oldest, the two youngest); rules for handling a dead bear that sister taught brothers are still followed by people]: McClelland 1970: 5 [summary], 5-55 [13 separate texts]; Southern Tutchone [woman picking berries, steps in bear dung, scolds bears; Bear takes form of her husband, takes her away, makes her his wife; her brothers kill Bear, bring sister home; ask her to play bear with them; she turns into bear, kills them all, returns to mountains with her cubs]: McClelland 1987: 261-264.

Coast - Plateau.Coast - Plateau. Quarry [women are gathering berries; one girl brings nothing, says that the bears have spoiled everything; the next day the strap of her basket breaks; everyone goes home; two Black Bears in the form of young men come to her; when she opens her eyes, she finds herself in a large village; all the animals dance in turn and talk about what they will feed their wife; Muskrat, Raven, Weasel, Frog, Caribou, Marten are rejected, she marries Grizzly; in the spring he says that he will be killed by the youngest of her four brothers; this happens; the brothers ask what part of the carcass she will take home; she drags the skin and the head, on the way turns into Grizzly, kills the brothers, then other people; the youngest brother and sister return from a squirrel hunt; the boy tells his sister to run between Grizzly's legs; After this, she takes off the bear skin, promises not to harm the girl; the girl asks where the Grizzly's heart is; he shows that it is on the palm of his hand; the brother kills the Grizzly, hitting his palm with an arrow; says that if they run around the mountain from different sides and jump between two trees at the same time, they will be able to get married; he manages to catch up with his sister, jump; she becomes pregnant from the touch of his foot; gives birth to a son; she is killed by a cannibal; the brother kills the cannibal, burns both bodies; goes to the village, carrying the baby on his shoulders; he kills him by ripping open his throat and pulling out his tongue; in the village he takes out the tongues of sleeping people; two girls who were in ritual isolation are saved; they push the baby into the fire; his ashes turn into mosquitoes; one girl conceives from a stone and dies, the other from a feather, gives birth to four brothers-Transformers; [see motif J55]: Jenness 1934, no.6: 129-136; Chilcotin [girl marries man, who turns out to be Bear; her younger brother finds her, kills Bear; she makes fangs first from roots, then from bone needles, turns herself into Bear; kills everyone in village except younger sister; younger brother returns from hunting, sister tells him Bear keeps her life in basket under roof; he pierces basket with arrow, Bear dies; sister marries brother, bears son; Bear comes to life, kills sister, puts on her skin; boy tells father; he burns basket with Bear's life, brings wife to life; escapes with her and son; Loon and Diver carry them across river; Bear comes to life again, pursues fugitives; while transporting her, Loon and Diver break the boat, the fish eat the Bear]: Farrand 1900, no. 8: 19-23; shuswap[A girl has finished menstruating and is kidnapped by a Grizzly; her five brothers find her; she shoots the youngest one with arrows, he kills the Grizzly; she asks for the skin with claws; makes herself fangs from flint arrows, turns into a Grizzly, kills everyone in the village, makes her younger sister a slave; the brothers return from hunting, give their sister a partridge; the Grizzly is surprised, as the sister had never brought back game before; the sister says she killed the partridge herself; the brothers shoot the soles of the Grizzly's feet, dismember him, keep the heart; they marry the younger sister; the Grizzly comes to life, kills their sister, takes her form; the brothers understand the deception, place the Grizzly's heart between hot stones; she dies]: Teit 1909a, no. 41: 715-718; Western Sahaptin [Coyote hears a noise like a duck flying, something hits him in the eye, he tears it off with difficulty, throws it into the river (var.: the object successively hits him in the jaw, face, forehead, mouth); on the fifth time he boils it and eats it; the object turns out to be a woman's vulva, Coyote's teeth fall out; leaving to hunt, the five Geese brothers tell their sister to marry the first man who comes; Coyote turns into a handsome man, forgets that he is toothless, cannot bite off meat; falls asleep, the girl sees that he has no teeth, she puts in mountain ram teeth for him; Coyote says that in his sleep his teeth grow; gets married; the brothers reluctantly take him hunting, tell him not to make noise, he flies, screams, everyone falls; the next time they throw him off; falling, he cries out "I am a feather!", but at the last moment accidentally cries out "Bitch!", breaks; the wife puts her heart in her little finger, kills the brothers with arrows, two younger ones remain; the younger tells the elder to shoot his sister in the little finger, he kills her; both came to the house of Cold, his daughter is Winter, they are naked; went to the house of Summer, married his daughters; Winter and his daughters came to fight, but Summer shook the blanket, everything melted]: Farrand, Meyer 1917, No. 3: 144-148; Klamath[the red-haired woman is married; having crossed the mountains, she orders only the youngest of her brothers to accompany her; she sleeps with him; he leaves a branch in his place, runs away; the red-haired woman sets the world on fire; only the siblings' mother is saved; in the charred body of her daughter-in-law she finds a boy and a girl; knowing that the girl will repeat the red-haired woman's crime, she glues them together into one two-headed creature; he sees his double shadow, shoots an arrow up, it falls, separating his sister from him; the children force the Sun to tell who killed their parents; the red-haired woman lives in the lake, the girl cuts off her head, brings it to her grandmother; the brother and sister go down through the hearth; the brother's arrow gets stuck in a tree; the sister agrees to get it after the brother calls her not sister, niece, etc., but wife; she becomes pregnant by her brother; the grandmother finds the skin of a bear killed by her grandson, puts it on, turns into a She-Bear, catches up with and kills her grandson; while giving the She-Bear something to drink, the sister-wife throws a hot stone into her rear; she dies; the sister-wife takes the child, throws herself into the fire; Gmokamch snatches the boy, he grows up; further see motive K1 (G. Sends the youth to the eagle's nest, tries to take his wife)]: Barker 1963, No. 4: 25-37, 47; modok: Curtin 1912: 95-117 [(reprinted in Lévi-Strauss 1971: 48-51); the red-haired Tekewas has a husband and five brothers; the eldest is married, the youngest, named Tutats, is hidden from her by her mother; T. learns of him when she finds his hair; makes him accompany her to her house, arranges for the night in the forest, lies with him; he leaves a log in his place, runs to his brothers; the old man-Spider lifts the brothers to the sky in a basket, orders them not to look down; the youngest looks, the basket falls into T.'s house, which has been set on fire; the mother takes the hearts of her sons from the fire, they turn into mountains (the heart of the youngest - into Mount Shasta); the mother finds the corpse of her daughter-in-law, next to her two living babies; turns them into one boy; he notices that he has a double shadow, shoots an arrow, breaking off the youngest brother from himself; secretly brings him up, asking his grandmother for things and food, as if for himself; she notices that now he has only one head; he confesses, brings his brother; the brothers want to kill the duck, it tells them about the fate of their parents; T. swims on the lake in the form of a monstrous duck; the brothers cut off her head, turn her into a duck, whose meat is inedible; they ask for help from water, fire, trees, bow and arrows, all household utensils, but forgot about the awl; they leave through the hearth; the grandmother finds her daughter's head, the awl tells where the brothers went, the grandmother follows them underground; they go west; the Duck is another of their aunts, she has a swelling on her head; they crush it, since then birds and animals do not carry their young on their heads; they kill the Snake - the Duck's husband, turn his remains into rocks and snakes; turn living pebbles into ordinary ones; the younger brother would like to serve the Moon, the elder - the Sun; the eldest defeats the Bald-headed Eagle, turns him into a bird, his servants Raven and Louse - into a raven and a louse; they meet a one-legged giant, defeat him five times, kill him, he now wanders the mountains, appearing in the dreams of shamans; the brothers turn into two stars that appear in the sky before dawn in early spring], 268-271 [five Wild Cat brothers and their two sisters live together; the younger brother is unusually handsome, his parents hide him underground in a basket; the elder sister is in love with him, lies down on the ground over the basket, talks to him; the elder brother hides him on an island in the sea; when the elder sister comes there too, the younger carries him back; the elder in a rage sets fire to the earth; some people are saved in the air in the form of birds, others burrow into holes, most perish; the elder sister makes a necklace from the hearts of her brothers, floats on the lake, making the cries of birds and animals; the younger puts her to sleep, cuts off her head, turns her into an inedible seabird (loon?); revives her brothers and other people from hearts and bones]; lower Chinook [the girl is taken away by the Bear; she gives birth to a son and a daughter; her four brothers come in turn to the Bear's house; his son asks her to remove lice from him, kills the young men; the younger fifth brother does not shoot a pheasant on the way, does not enter the Bear's house; together with the Bear's daughter, he burns the Bear and his son in their house; Bear's wife brings brothers to life; dives into lake, turns into monster ; Chief Blue Jay marries Bear's daughter; she never laughs; promises to laugh if he gets on all fours in the forest; laughs, devours all men; husband's legs below the knees disappear; she keeps him in a basket; gives birth to two sons; does not tell them to go down the river; they go, find there the bones of people that their mother regurgitated; find a basket with their father; he says that their mother has become a monster; the brothers turn her into a dog, put their father under water; go wandering; they see a two-headed swan on the lake {possibly a swan with heads at both ends of its body}; the younger shoots, swims to the bird, disappears; the eldest throws hot stones into the lake; the water boils away; he rips open the bellies of all the monsters; in the last one he finds his brother holding a swan; brings him to life; A man dances with an oar, while fish jump into his boat; his brothers taught him to fish with a net; another man shoots at the rain, because his house is roofless; his brothers taught him to make a roof; they wash dirt from their skin, mold people out of it, blow on them, the people come to life; a man sharpens knives, promises to kill those who fix all things; his brothers turn him into a deer, tying his knives to his head, these are antlers; a woman throws people into an abyss on sharp flints; her brothers throw her herself, cut her body into pieces, throw them in different directions; the Indians who live where the feet fell have strong legs; those who live where the hair fell - long hair; etc.]: Boas 1894a, no. 1: 17-21.

Plains. Sarsi [husband notices wife covered in mud as she returns from forest with brushwood; spies on her, sees her copulating with Bear, kills him, lets her skin him; she keeps it; tells younger sister to keep the worst dog with her; puts on skin, becomes Bear, kills everyone; only sister is protected by dog; six brothers of sisters return from war; at a spring the youngest sister tells them what has happened; they learn from her that Bear's paws are vulnerable; they dig pegs near the house; Bear steps on them, they try to burn her, she pursues them; brothers and younger sister rise into the sky, become seven stars of Ursa Major; star next to sister's dog; Bear turns to stone]: Simms 1904: 181-182; Blackfoot : Michelson 1911b, no. 2 (Piegan) [every evening, older sister goes into the woods; mother tells younger sister to watch, she sees sister copulating with bear; father and men shoot it; older sister asks younger sister to bring her paw, call young people to play bear; asks not to push her hips; girl pushes, older sister turns into Bear, devours everyone, turns younger sister into servant; she meets seven brothers returning from a campaign ; they ask to know how to kill Bear; she tells her sister that she can prick her paw with an awl; brothers give sister a rabbit; Bear tells her to eat it herself, then wants to kill her for not leaving her half; runs out, runs into awls; brothers burn body, piece of finger flies off, Bear is reborn, sets off in pursuit; older brother blows on feather, it flies up, they follow it, become the seven stars of the Big Dipper; sister runs to old man, he hides her, cuts off the Bear's ears and tail]: 244-246; Spence 1985 [a man has seven sons and two daughters; the eldest takes Grizzly as a lover; the father orders him to be killed; the older brothers go on a hike; the sister takes a piece of Grizzly's skin, turns into Grizzly herself, kills everyone except the younger sister Sinope and the younger brother Okinai ; turns back into human form; the older brothers return; they give the younger sister thorny fruits to scatter in front of the eldest's house; the brothers and the younger sister run; the eldest steps on thorny fruits, turns into Grizzly, sets off in pursuit; O. waves a feather, creating a thicket, a lake, a tree; everyone climbs the tree; O. shoots arrows into the sky; with each arrow one of the brothers flies to the sky; they turn into the Big Dipper; the dim star on one side is S.; the four stars of the dipper are the brothers whom the Grizzly dragged down from the tree]: 182-184; Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. 7 [the girl's father and brothers kill her lover; she asks her younger sister to bring her a piece of a bear's paw, invites her to play, tells her not to touch her kidneys; the ban is broken, she turns into a bear; brothers give younger sister a rabbit, she has difficulty convincing Bear that she killed it herself; they all run, splash water (lake) behind them, throw comb (thicket); little bird tells to shoot Bear in the head; she is killed with arrow; six brothers with younger sister turn into Pleiades, younger brother into (North?) Star]: 68-70; Assiniboine [girl warns playing children not to touch her anus; prohibition broken, she turns into Bear, kills them all; younger sister becomes her servant; meets her four brothers ; receives rabbit from them, tells Bear that she killed it herself; younger brother kills Bear with arrow, hitting her vulnerable toes; crushes her bones, puts powder in hearths, people are reborn; var.: Bear pursues brothers; [they are playing with a ball, they turn into the Big Dipper]: Lowie 1909a, no. 23b: 179-180; Gros Ventre [girls are playing; the eldest asks them to bring her bison ribs; she makes claws out of them, turns into the Bear, kills everyone except her youngest sister; their six brothers return ; they ask their sister to find out where the Bear's weak spot is; The little finger on my left hand ; they give their sister a rabbit so that she can throw hot fat at the Bear; they run, the Bear pursues them, the youngest kills her by hitting her little finger with an arrow made of sinew (the only thing that can kill); they burn the body, one spark flies off to the side, the Bear is reborn from it, continues the pursuit; at their will, the brothers create a swamp, a forest, a gorge, a river, fire, cacti behind them; the sister hits the brothers with her ball, raising them to the sky; they turn into the Great Bear or the Pleiades; the Bear remains on earth]: Kroeber 1907b, no. 27: 105-108; Crow [in play, younger sister asks elder to become a bear; she replies that she will become a real one, younger insists; elder turns, devours people; tells younger to get a rabbit; her six brothers give it to her; show how to convince the Bear that she killed it herself; Bear pursues younger sister; she sticks awls everywhere, they stick into the Bear, she wastes time pulling them out; brothers tell sister to throw porcupine quills behind her, Bear wastes time picking them up; given buffalo manifolds {?}, then a piece of bison stomach; sister throws these behind her, manifolds turn into flat rocks, stomach into pits; older sister climbs over rocks, gets stuck in last hole; brothers ask what they should all become; sister suggests what the pipe points to – the Big Dipper; now they are the seven stars of the Big Dipper, sister accompanied by a little dog]: Lowie 1918: 205-211; Omaha and Ponca [girl has grizzly lover; hunters kill him; she asks father to bring her skin; pulls it on, turns into grizzly; kills people except her younger sister; their four brothers return from hunting, flee with younger sister; create thicket, forest, awls, crevice behind them; grizzly falls into it, earth closes in behind him]: Dorsey 1890: 292-293; Ioway [Grizzly rapes girl, she becomes his lover; her younger sister sees them, father kills grizzly; lover herself turns into grizzly, kills people, holds her sister prisoner; their four brothers return from thunder; give younger sister rabbit; grizzly pursues them; they hide on rock, which becomes high; kill grizzly with arrows, burn him; scatter ashes over village; the ashes first turn into ants, then the village fills up with people again]: Skinner 1925, no. 9: 465-468; Cheyenne : Curtis 1976(19) (Southern Cheyenne) [children play animals; one girl asks not to call her a bear; they do; she tells her younger sister to hide in a dog kennel, turns into a Bear, kills many; the sister runs; tells thorny bushes, thorns, a river, a steep bank to appear behind her; the Bear overcomes everything; seven brothers protect the girl; they run out of arrows; together with the girl they climb to the top of a high peak; the Bear tries to knock it down; they rise to the sky, turn into the Pleiades]: 143-144; Grinnell 1926: 220-231 in Gibbon 1964 [as Crow and Wichita; seven brothers and their younger sister flee from a Bear and transform into the Big Bear]: 237; Arikara [oldest girl reluctantly agrees to play bear; tells younger sister to hide; transforms into Bear, kills them all; sister secretly meets their four brothers returning from war; tells Bear that her little toes are vulnerable; brothers give her thorns to scatter in front of the house, they lure Bear out by shouting that enemies are coming; Bear dies, brothers burn her; drop of blood falls on the ground, Bear is reborn, pursues sister and brothers; eldest brother throws down an awl, it turns into a thorny forest; second brother throws a knife, he cuts ravines; third, a comb, turns into a thicket of cacti; fourth, a whetstone, turns into a high rock (Devil's Tower in Wyoming), lifting the fugitives to the sky; they turn into the Pleiades, the Bear goes west]: Park, No. 7: 146-152; Kiowa [every day the husband paints his wife's face red; her lover, the Bear, licks the paint off; the husband watches his wife, kills the Bear; sees his wife crying while scraping her skin; the wife plays bear, turns into the Bear, kills all the people in the village, makes her younger sister a slave; tells her to get a rabbit or he will kill her; six brothers girls return, give her rabbit, teach her how to make it look like she got it herself; brothers teach sister to stick needles into ground, Bear runs into them; while she is taking them out, brothers and sister run away, climb rock; sister tells brothers that Bear has vulnerable spots between her toes; brothers shoot there, killing Bear; they and sister, together with rock, rise to sky, become stars; names of brothers: Sensitive Ear, Keen Eye, Swift Runner, Sure Shot, Keen Mind; others not named]: Parsons 1929a, no. 3: 9-11; Wichita [a girl comes to eldest of seven brothers at night; he smears her back with white clay; in morning asks women to play ball, recognizes his eldest sister; hits her with an arrow; in anger she becomes a Grizzly Bear; The brothers go on a campaign, the Grizzly destroys people; their younger sister comes to the brothers, they give her killed rabbits; to kill the Grizzly, you have to shoot her in four paws; the brothers do this, but she is unharmed; the Grizzly pursues the brothers; they throw a turtle shell, it turns into many turtles, the Grizzly eats them; they throw a red stone, the Grizzly wastes time painting himself with paint; they scrape the dust from their arrows, it turns into thick bushes; they dig a gorge with a bowstring, the Grizzly crosses it; they rise to the sky, turn into the Big Dipper; the Grizzly goes north]: Dorsey 1904a, no. 9: 69-74.

Southeastern United States. Caddo [girl takes Turtle as lover, brings him to her bed, feeds him wild tubers; girl's two brothers are surprised that she collects so many tubers; pretend to leave, return, kill Turtle; sister pursues them and their dog; brothers paint ducks, in return the ducks carry them across a river; one white duck is forgotten to be painted, it carries the pursuer; three doves carry the brothers and dog to heaven, they turn into stars in the southern sky; sister drops dead upon seeing the stars]: Dorsey 1905, no. 11: 23-25.

California. Shasta : Dixon 1910a, #4 [Aniduidui – sister of 10 brothers; while bathing, finds a hair longer than hers; she searches each one's head, trying on the hair, but does not find it; each offers to go with her, but she rejects the brothers; finally finds the youngest, who has the longest hair, this is Ommanutc; she forces him to come with her; they sleep together; he runs away, leaving a log in his place; the whole family climbs to the sky on a rope; A. asks all the objects in the dugout where her brothers are, but no one answers; she stirs the fire, sparks fly up, she looks up, sees them climbing to the sky; one of the brothers looks down, they all fall; A. makes a fire below; nine brothers and mother are burned, the youngest is saved; marries two Duck sisters; they have two sons; lark reports that A.'s heart is in the sole of her foot; nephews kill her with an arrow]: 14-15; Farrand 1915, #5 [as in Dixon; in a basket to heaven; mother looks down; Seagull sisters; son and daughter are born; brother kills sister himself]: 212-214; karok [Loon forces her youngest brother, whom she has never seen before, to copulate; he escapes from her, climbs a pole to heaven, leading the others; his mother looks back, they all fall into the fire; Loon cannot find the bones of her youngest brother, since he rose to heaven as a spark, where his wife revived him; his son and daughter come to Loon]: Kroeber, Gifford 1980, #A8 [Loon learns about her brother by finding his long hair; Loon's heart is in her heel; nephews shoot her in the heel, throw the body into the lake], I9 [the younger brother is married to a heavenly woman]: 12-15, 128-129; yana [the Silkworm has many sons and two daughters, Loon and Eagle; Coyote also lives there - no relation; Loon gets up on the roof of the dugout, demands that she be given a husband; rejecting the others, she takes away her younger brother - Wild Cat; at a halt, he runs away, leaving a log in the bed; the Worm's sister Spider lifts everyone to the sky in a basket; Loon sets fire to the house; Coyote lies down on the bottom of the basket, looks down; everyone falls, only Eagle manages to cling to the sun; the burning bodies burst, the hearts fly out, Loon catches them with a net, makes a necklace, goes to live in the depths of the lake; the hearts of Loon's father and older brother fall past her; father and brother come to life, but are stuck up to their chins in the ground; at the request of the Eagle, two Kingfisher brothers (? Fisher-birds) kill a Loon with arrows on the lake; the Eagle places the brothers' hearts in a steam room, they come to life; digs up the elder brother and father]: Curtin 1898: 407-429; Vintu[there are nine boys and one girl in the family; the parents hide the youngest son, he is very handsome; he bathes in the river every day; the sister finds her brother's hair; she tries it on with everyone, only the youngest Talimleluheres has the same one; the mother sends him with her to the west; the sister calls him husband, then corrects herself - brother; at night at a halt she embraces him; he leaves an alder log in his place, returns to his parents; they set fire to the dugout, everyone rises to the sky; the sister runs to the burning dugout; Coyote looks down, everyone falls, the sister makes herself a necklace from the hearts of fallen and burned people; she has wings; she flies to the lake, dives, rests on a raft; two sisters find a handsome young man; the elder finds it first, feeds him soup, he recovers, marries both of them; each gives birth to a boy; one of them wants to shoot a bird, it tells them about a winged woman; they kill her with arrows, put her hearts in water, the parents and brothers are reborn from them]: DuBois, Demetracopoulou 1931, No. 37: 355-360; Maidu [sisters Loon and Eagle and their brothers live in the same dugout; Loon goes to bathe in the lake, finds hair of her brothers there; but one day she finds a hair the same length as hers; it is a hair of Wood-Bug; Loon paints herself black, lies down on the path; Wood-Bug and the others step over her, only Coyote copulates with her; she rejects Coyote and the others, demands Wood-Bug as a husband, otherwise she threatens to burn down the house; the chief makes Wood-Bug impotent; putting a log in her place, Wood-Bug runs away to her brothers; Spider puts them all in a large net, begins to lift them to the sky; The Loon rushes to the brothers' dugout, flames blazing from its mouth in volleys; the dugout is already on fire; the Lizard, out of curiosity, widens the hole in the net, everyone falls into the fire, their hearts burst and fly to the sides, the Loon makes a necklace out of them, but misses the hearts of the Wood Grub and the Marten (Fisher); the Eagle finds a bow and arrows in the fire and brings them to the Duck (? Water-Ouzel) and her children; the children kill the floating Loon with a bow, the Eagle turns it into a loon, revives the brothers from the hearts, throwing them into the water; two girl sisters find the hearts of the Wood Grub and the Marten, revive them, marry them; the Eagle wants people to come to life if they are left in the water overnight]: Dixon 1902, No. 7: 71-76.

Great Southwest. Yavapai [woman's older brothers kill her husband Coyote; she makes fangs from flint arrows, transforms into Bear; brothers hide youngest in hole; Bear finds him, does not kill him; Vulture tells him she has killed older brothers, that her heart is kept outside her body under a pile of grass; youngest brother cuts heart with hot knife, Bear dies; people are reborn from bones]: Gifford 1933a: 377-381; Navajo [against her brothers' wishes , girl marries Coyote; he dies through his foolishness, she accuses brothers of killing him; makes teeth from bone awls, transforms into Bear; arrows bounce off her, she keeps heart under a pile of leaves; her brothers hide youngest under hearth, flee themselves; she overtakes and kills them, finds youngest; he runs to the place where her heart is hidden, hits it with an arrow; cuts her body into pieces, throws them, they turn into piñon nuts, yuca fruits, bears, porcupines, etc.; see motif G23B]: Haile 1984, no. 16-17: 82-88; Matthews 1994: 99-103; O'Bryan 1956 [genitals turn into pine resin, breasts into piñon nuts]: 44-48.