J4B — Revenge within the family.

The children (son, sons, son and daughter) of the murdered person take revenge on characters who are related to the victim by marriage or close kinship.

Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle

J4.  The heroes avenge the death (enslavement) of their father, uncle, grandfather, or mother and father, or in general their descendants, with the loss of men being the most painful.
J4a.  A woman is killed. Her son or sons (rarely: grandsons, nephews) avenge her.
j4b.  The children (son, sons, son and daughter) of the murdered person take revenge on characters who are related to the victim by marriage or close kinship.
j4c.  An egg remains from the deceased water character. The young hero who emerges from it avenges his father.

This motif has been recorded in 62 traditions: Ancient Egypt, Egyptian, Mehri; Harsusi, Jibbali (Shahri, Shauri), Arabs of Iraq, Iraqi, Tuvalu (Ellice), Ancient Greece, Finns, Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia), Mansi, Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar, Altaians, Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir, Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw), Malecite, Passamaquoddy, Micmac, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Yuchi, Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Lillooet, Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz, Quileute, Chemakum (Hoh), Takelma, Coos, Lower Chinook (Chinook proper), Klamath, Modoc, Yurok, Wailaki, Mattole, Lassik, Sinkyone, Cahto, Yuki (Yuki proper, Coastal Yuki, Huchnob), Wappo, Pomo, Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov, Sierra Miwok, Cahuilla, Cupeño, Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos), Diegueño: Ipai, Tipai, Kamia (Kumeai), Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa, Pima, Papago, Bribri, Cabecar, Terraba; Chiriqui (AD 800-1500) iconography, Choco: Embera, Nonama (Waunana), XVI century Dabaiba, pre-Columbian iconography of Sinu, Chimila (Ette), Sicuani, Siona, Secoya, Coreguaje, Mai Huna (Coto, Orejon), Chayahuita , Karijona, Andoque, Witoto, Ocaina, Yagua, Lima dep: Costa and adjacent Sierra (Spanish, Kechua, and Jacaru-speaking communities, mostly in Pachacamac, Cajatambo, Canta, Huarochirí; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries), Kechua-speaking communities of Apurimac, Cuzco, Arequipa, Puno departments; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries; Callawaya (Kechua with Pukina substratum), Suruí, Gaviâo, Zoro, Arua, Cinta Larga, Mataco, Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay), Chorote, Northern and Southern Tehuelche, Manao, Katawishi (Teffe lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda, Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet, Salars, Egypt, Halkomelem (Snaymuk)