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Sapir, pp. 23, 25, 27, 31: Mouthless man sniffs food; Coyote cuts him a mouth. Makes man walk upright. Makes man conceive through copulation. Makes fish traps. Coyote tries to lock up his story.

Sapir, pp. 35, 39: Coyote tells At!at!a'lia he must cover her with pitch and burn her. Turns her husband into Owl.

Sapir, pp. 41, 43, 73, 79: Coyote cuts the heart of Merman who was swallowing people. Coyote ties himself to a hill for swallowing contest. Coyote tries to kill his reflection. Man swallows smoke.

Sapir, pp. 101, 103, 105, 109, 111, 113, 115: Coyote gets advice from two sets of own dung. Maiden. Eagle and Coyote (mentions Orpheus and Pandora). Loss of wife. Origins of death.

Sapir, pp. 135: Rabbit won race because Fish Hawk is wet from rain. Mouse cuts his trap.

Sapir, p. 139, 147, 149, 163, 165, 173: Deserted youth left on island, people starve and ask for food, boy drowns them all. Bungling host. Skunk's odor fails. Shaman doctor. Fatal imitation. Vomits with fire and pitch, swallows red-hot rocks. Arrow chain.

(2)Jeremiah Curtin and Edward Sapir, 'Wasco Tales and Myths' in 'Publications of the American Ethnological Society,' Vol. 2, pp. 242, 244, 250: Woman feigns death to marry lover, who digs her from grave. She is discovered by her children in the next village. Arrow motif and wife's deceit.

Curtin and Sapir, pp. 257, 259: G.S. [Guardian Spirit], taunting father causes boy to overstep bounds and kill G.S., divulges on deathbed. Boy brought up by seals, recovered by parents but returns to seals.

Curtin and Sapir, p. 261: Boy deserted by people in abandoned camp is protected by supernatural woman. He drowns the chief when the people return and becomes chief of all the people. Supernatural woman is still G.S. for finding.

Curtin and Sapir, pp. 264, 266, 269, 272: Coyote gets another wife by having Eagle climb onto a rock that rises in the sky. Thunder helps Eagle get down; Eagle tracks Coyote by campfire ashes. Baby lure. Bungling host. Coterie of animals. Rolling rock.

Curtin and Sapir, pp. 275, 280, 282, 285, 289: Children escape Giantess by filling basket with stones. Giantess recovers children by sucking in her breath. Boy hiding from Giantess overcomes her by blackening his face and making her laugh. Gluttonous woman eats the food given to her to take to her parents in another village. She eats all the village. Her sons turn frogs into dancing groups; she joins the dance and her sons escape. Coyote overcomes her by crushing her leg between stones. Nobility and generosity in escape.

Curtin and Sapir, pp. 292, 293, 298, 302, 307, 308, 310: Eagle loses his life gambling. His sons get guardian spirit powers and win back his remains. Locating the guardian spirits of the rocks. Star husband. A man sees his old home and leaves his sky-wife to return on Spider's rope. Boys cut in two - one dies (Sun's children born as Siamese twins). Snakes, frogs, etc. come out of the big belly of Spider's son. Child is sent to old man to hear stories; he tells just a sentence and mother scolds old man five times. Two brothers become Sun and Moon after killing in spite of heat.

(3) Roland B. Dixon, 'Maidu Texts' in 'Publications of the American Ethnological Society,' Vol. 4, pp. 173-183, 189: Frog swallows Sun at eclipse because he stole her grandson; her stomach bursts. Sun-Man makes willow valleys to tempt Frog-Woman. Rolling Skull - after eating himself up 'loses his mind.'

Dixon, p. 197, 209, 203-227, 239: Snake lover - girl who bathes every night. Snake comes to her house and she goes off with him, but her father gives her powers and she destroys Snake. Invitation string. Maidu pattern - Bat very dangerous but after adventures is transformed. Sun kills old father and lays him in a spring; rises as young man.

Notes also cite numerous comparative sources.