942 TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY [bth. ann. 31 



1.32. The bungling host — Continued. 



(f) Wood transformed into meat (p. 698) Quin, Chin, Sh, Ute, Shoshoni, Pawnee, 

 Apache, Mescalero Apache, Navaho, Crow, Arapaho. 



(jr) The host obtains food by killing his children (p. 698) Nu, Quin, Chin, 

 Shoshoni, Fox, Kickapoo, Ponca. 

 As incident: Ts, Tl, Kai, Sk, H, Ri, Ne, K, Nu, Sta, Squ, Quin, Chil. 



(h) Diving for fish (p. 699) Ne, K, Quin, Wasco, Lil, Ntl, Sh, Kutenai, Shoshoni, 

 Apache, Fox, Kickapoo, Ponca, Arapaho, Micmac, Penobscot. 



(£) Miscellaneous tricks (p. 699). 

 a. Deer caught in net Ntl, U. 



As incident: U. 

 6. Magpie picks up fish egg Quin, Chin. 



c. Excrement turns into rice, Ponca, Fox, Ojibwa. 



d. Ice turns into potatoes, Ojibwa. 



e. Woodpecker pecks food out of tree, Fox, Ojibwa, Penobscot, Micmac. 

 /. Food animals are called, Shoshoni, Arapaho, Fox, Ojibwa. 



g. Water Ousel kills Buffalo with his leg, Arapaho. 



h. Fish Hawk spears fish with a string attached to his head, Wichita. 



i. Woodpecker produces liu'ht. Apache, Caddo. 



j. Fruit shaken down from tree, Apache, Caddo, Cora. 



it. Cock presses eggs out of skin, Cora. 



I. Lion jumps on horse, Caddo. 



1.33. Raven marries Hair-Seal Woman, and eats her son (p. 702) Sk, Co. 



1.34. Txa'msem visits Chief Echo, steals his food, and is beaten by the invisible 



people (p. 702). 

 a. He Bteals the food of invisible people and is beaten Ts, N, Tl, M, Sk, 



BC, Chin, Till. 

 6. He steals food in the house of Salmon Spear, who fights with him, Takelma 



(also Sh). 



1.35. Txa/msem kills Deer. 



(a) He kills Deer with a hammer while chopping wood (p. 703) Ts, N, M, H. 



(6) He pushes Deer over a precipice (p. 704). 



a. He mourns with Deer close to a precipice; when Deer brags of his family, 



he pushes him down (p. 704) BC, Ri, K, Nu, Co. 

 5. He causes him to fall off a bridge leading across a canyon Tl. 

 As incidents: 

 Quarrel over the greatness of two families (see p. 666) Tl, Kai, K, Co. 

 He asks Deer when he is fattest Sk, BC, H, Ri, Co, Ntl, See also Chin 

 119. 



1.36. Raven steals salmon eggs (p. 705). He pretends to be sick, is placed next 



to a box with salmon roe, and is covered with a mat M, Sk. 



1.37. Raven steals his sisters' berries (p. 705). He causes his excrements to cry 



"Enemies are coming!" While his sisters hide, he eats their berries 

 BC, Ri, Ne, Nu, Co, Lil. See also 1.27. 



1.38. Raven's gizzard is torn out (p. 706). A person's gizzard, musk -bag, anus, is 



torn out and used as shinny-ball Tl, K, Co, Kath, Takelma. 



