—E o João Jiló?
O João Jiló caiu pra trás e morreu. (de Magalhães Pinto, 1907, pp. 39-44).  
In the example above, as in other versions collected in Brazil, we note that it is the male protagonist - boy or man - who goes against the prohibition. In the five versions compared by Virgílio Coelho, all collected among Kimbundu speakers in Angola by Héli Chatelain (in 1894), Óscar Ribas (in 1961 and 1967) and Ladislau Batalha (in 1891), the narrative is built around a pregnant woman who wants to eat fish and defies the prohibition. The effect of the transgression is essentially the same: the piercing or bursting of the transgressor's belly by the fish (or bird) that was wrongfully eaten. In all these narratives, the animal asks to leave the transgressor's belly, in some of them through song.