M73A. Substitution of feces.

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Two characters compare their excrements (with different goals). One of them manages to switch them.

Macedonian, Mordvin, Natchez, Kiowa, Cherokee, Creek, Alabama, Koasati, Kuna, Sicuani, Warraw, Carinha, Trio, Oyana, Macushi, Tenetehara, Kapanawa, Kaxinahua, Riqbaktsa, Paresi, Bakairi, Karaja, Botocudo, Mbya, Cayuan.

The Balkans. Macedonians [a fox and a wolf threshed wheat together; fox: three quarters for me, one for you; they have a pot of honey; the fox pretends to be invited to a christening, eats honey secretly; the child was named Little Cob; next time: little half; the third time – head down; the wolf went to get some honey, blames the fox; fox: you ate it yourself; they decide to see whose excrement is sweeter; fox to the wolf: look, a wedding procession; the wolf raised his head, the fox switched the excrement; the wolf licked – his is sweeter; the fox pretended to be dead; a fisherman was carrying fish, picked up a fox; she threw the fish off, jumped off; the fisherman to his wife: I brought you a fur; but the baskets are empty; she did not share with the wolf; she invited him to her place, offered to sit where she took a board out of the floor; [The wolf fell through and killed himself]: Mazon 1936, no. 63: 229-233.

Volga – Perm. Mordvins [a fox forced herself to live with a bear; tapped her tail on the window as if she was being called to christen a child; she got to the tub of butter herself and started eating; when she returned, she said that the child had been named Pochatochok; then Polovinochka; Bottom; the fourth time she washed the tub, turned it upside down: the child had been named Oprotyshok; finding the tub empty, the bear asked to compare the droppings: whose would be the oily one; the fox switched the droppings with her tail; to the bear: yours is oily, and mine is black]: Yurtov 1883, No. 10: 29-33.

Southeastern United States. Natchez [Rabbit meets Cannibal; offers to relieve himself with his eyes closed, switches excrement; Cannibal is confused; settling down for the night, Rabbit warns that in this area the coals of a fire jump on people at night; when Cannibal falls asleep, Rabbit sprinkles coals on the place where he was lying, then sprinkles them on Cannibal; they cross a stream; Rabbit jumps back, makes the stream turn into a wide river; Cannibal asks Crane to stretch his neck like a bridge; gets halfway across, Crane says his neck will break, Cannibal returns; this several times; Cannibal remains on the other side]: Swanton 1929, no. 35: 259-261; Cherokee [says he is related to Otter; [takes half of his excrement]: Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick 1966, #3:405-406; cries : Swanton 1929, #40 [Rabbit meets Man-Eater; offers to relieve himself with his eyes closed, switches excrement; Man-Eater is confused; settling down for the night, Rabbit warns that in this area the coals of the fire jump on people at night; when Man-Eater falls asleep, Rabbit sprinkles coals on the place where he was lying, then sprinkles them on Man-Eater; he chases him, Rabbit jumps over the stream, makes it wide, Man-Eater remains on the other side], 41 [The Puma ate people, people asked Rabbit to send him to the other side of the sea; Rabbit tells the Puma that he knows where there are a lot of people, he eats them himself; as proof, offers to compare their excrement, switches them; when settling down for the night, Rabbit warns that in this area the coals of the fire jump on people at night; when the Ogre falls asleep, Rabbit sprinkles coals on the place where he himself was lying, then sprinkles them on the Ogre; he is burned, throws himself into the sea, swam to the other side and remains there]: 42, 42-43; Alabama [Rabbit meets the Ogre, they relieve themselves with their eyes closed, Rabbit switches the excrement; at the camp, Rabbit fells a tree on the sleeping Ogre, and sprinkles branches on himself, saying that this is always the case in this place; the same with the coals - cold on himself, hot on the Ogre; Rabbit suggests jumping over a stream; the Ogre falls into the water, is carried out to sea, Rabbit is left with his bag]: Swanton 1929, No. 54: 159-160; koasati [Rabbit paints his lips red, tells the Ogre that he too eats people; replaces excrement; at his night's lodging, Rabbit sprinkles himself with cold coals and the Ogre with hot ones; knocks down a large tree on the sleeping Ogre and a small one on himself; suggests jumping over a stream; after the fourth time the stream fills with water, the Ogre is carried away, and Rabbit is left with his bag]: Swanton 1929, No. 55: 205-206.

Honduras - Panama. Kuna [Tortoise invites Jaguar to compare their excrements with his eyes closed; switches; Jaguar suggests a race, Tortoise places his relatives along the course]: Chapin 1989: 89; Scherzer 1997 [Jaguar asks Tortoise if she eats the meat of certain animals (lists); offers to compare excrements; Tortoise places some of Jaguar's excrement under her own; Jaguar says they are friends]: 13-15; Wassen 1934b, no. 5 [Jaguar mocks Tortoise because she eats grass and not meat; Tortoise offers to compare their excrements, asks Jaguar to close her eyes, switches excrements; Jaguar asks why Tortoise has a dirty hand; Tortoise replies that she got it by accident]: 11-12.

Llanos. Sicuani [Anteater offers Jaguar to relieve himself with his eyes closed; replaces excrement; Jaguar waits in ambush to kill Anteater, but he kills him with his terrible claws; therefore jaguars are afraid to attack large anteaters]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 79: 291-292.

Guiana. Warrau : Roth 1915, no. 160 [tortoise tells jaguar she is no worse than him; offers to compare excrements, switches them; offers to race, puts other tortoises on the course; offers to paint each other; jaguar did it badly, tortoise painted jaguar beautifully; stole necklace from sleeping jaguar; he offers to wrestle; tortoise asks for a delay; escapes], 161 [jaguar and anteater agree to compare their excrements; anteater tells him to close his eyes, switches excrements, jaguar believes that it was anteater who ate meat; they fought, anteater killed jaguar with its powerful paws]: 223-224, 225; Wilbert 1970, no. 183 [Tortoise pretends to eat meat; Jaguar, ashamed, explains that he ate the leaf by accident]: 410-411; Carinha (Guyana) [Anteater speaks disdainfully of Jaguar's fangs, says that he himself eats meat; offers to relieve himself with his eyes closed, switches the feces; Jaguar offers to fight, Anteater kills him with his powerful claws]: Roth 1915, no. 161: 225; trio [anteater, jaguar]: Magaña 1987, no. 27: 137; Oyana [Jaguar offers Anteater to compare feces to find out which eats which; Anteater offers to close his eyes before doing so, switches the feces, laughs at Jaguar for eating ants]: Magaña 1987, no. 91: 52-53; makushi [Jaguar invites Turtle to run a race; Turtle's relatives, placed at different distances, answer for Turtle; Turtle claims that he is hunting tapirs; Jaguar offers to compare their excrement; Turtle shows Jaguar the stars, at which point he replaces the excrement; Jaguar believes; Turtle goes first to hunt tapirs; tells Tapir that he can only drink from a vessel; this vessel is Tapir's penis; Tapir allows her to take it in her mouth, Turtle bites it off; plunges poisoned arrows into an already dead tapir; throws poison into Jaguar's portion, he dies; Turtle sings that she has a necklace of jaguar teeth; Jaguar's wife wants to kill her; Turtle replies that she will only die in water; swims away; next time he tells Jaguari that a tapir is running down the slope; [drops a stone instead of a tapir, the female jaguar is killed]: Soares Diniz 1971, no. 15: 88-92.

Eastern Amazonia. Tenetejara [anteater, jaguar]: Snethlage 1932, no. 3: 377-378; Wagley, Galvão, 1949, no. 34 [two anteaters stick their snouts into thorns; jaguar does the same, goes blind; another time argues with anteater about which of them kills more animals; anteater offers to defecate with eyes closed, replaces excrement; on seeing its excrement, jaguar leaves, dies of grief]: 159-160.

Montaña – Jurua. Capanahua [Jaguar wants to eat Rabbit; Rabbit says they are related; Jaguar suggests comparing excrement; Rabbit places some of Jaguar's excrement under himself; Jaguar jumps across a ravine, Rabbit clings to his tail, also ends up on the other side; Rabbit cannot roar; substitutes a toad for himself, hides in a fruit peel; Jaguar eats toad, nearly poisons himself to death]: Schoolland 1976: 24-26; cashinahua [Rabbit places some of Jaguar's excrement under himself; Jaguar is forced to recognize him as his equal]: Ans 1975: 67-68.

Southern Amazon. Anteater, Jaguar. Bakairi [The Anteater offers the Jaguar to relieve himself with his eyes closed; replaces the excrement, tells the Jaguar that he ate termites, and he himself ate meat; then the Jaguar offers the Anteater to kill a tapir; he cannot; the Jaguar himself kills the tapir, fries the meat, gives the Anteater the tapir's excrement; he goes off to look for water to drink, pees, fish swim in a puddle of his urine, he brings them to the Jaguar; he believes that the Anteater has found water, and also goes to drink; the Anteater collects the meat in a basket, lifts it up a jatoba palm tree; eats the meat, throws the bones to the Jaguar; the Jaguar sends biting ants to the palm tree, this does not help; then he calls the wind, it breaks the palm tree, but the Anteater runs away; Jaguar comes, Anteater says that Little Anteater ate his meat; scratched out Jaguar's eyes, ran away; Agouti (Dasyprocta aguti) found Jaguar's eyes, returned them to him; Jaguar caught up with Anteater in his house, ate his legs; Termites cured Anteater; Little Anteater left a vessel with poison in front of Jaguar's house, he opened it, died]: Steinen 1897: 330; rikbaktsa [Jaguar sees two tiranídeos birds plucking each other's eyelashes to make pastinha on their heads; asks them to do the same for him; they tell him to close his eyes so that hair does not get in them, pluck out his hair on his head, pluck and swallow his eyes, climb a tree; Jaguar grabs Turtle by the tail; he stops laughing, the Jaguar decided that it was a piece of wood, let it go (later he caught it and ate it); caught a curiango bird (Caprimulgídeos); it asks to pluck only short feathers, leave the long ones, promises to jump into the mouth; relieved himself there; Odontophorus guayanensis birds insert Maximiliana regia (or tucum) palm pits into the Jaguar's eye sockets; the Jaguar can see again, chased an agouti, his eyes fell out; the birds glued them with resin; chased a tapir, they fell out again; they glued them with fresh resin; the grateful Jaguar painted them with genipa, does not hunt them anymore; began to fight with the Anteater, the forces are equal; in order to compare which animals each eats, they decided to compare excrement; The anteater made a change, the Jaguar does not believe, but is afraid, they parted]: Pereira 1994, no. 8: 93-99; paresi : Pereira 1986, no. 25: 320-321.

Araguaia. Karaja [Jaguar negotiates with Anteater to compare their excrements; he offers to close his eyes, replaces the excrements; Jaguar is frightened; wap. Baldus]: Baldus 1952: 486.

SE Brazil. Botocudo [Jaguar negotiates with Anteater to compare excrements; Anteater offers to close eyes, switches excrements; Jaguar is frightened; W. Baldus]: Baldus 1952: 486.

Southern Brazil. Cayuá [A jaguar and an anteater agree to relieve themselves with their eyes closed; the anteater switches excrement; the jaguar is surprised that with such small eyes the anteater is such a good hunter; the anteater advises the jaguar to narrow his eyes by rubbing them with a thorn; he pricks his eyes; Inambu agrees to switch eyes with the jaguar; in return the jaguars do not hunt the inambu]: Schaden 1947b: 121-122; mbya [A jaguar and an anteater agree to compare their excrement; he offers to close his eyes, switches excrement; the jaguar is frightened]: Baldus 1952: 485.