Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
A43 — One foot is shod, the other is not.
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe character runs away in a hurry and undergoes a metamorphosis, turning into a bird or rising into the sky. He is missing one trouser leg, or a shoe on one foot, or one mitten.
Berezkin category: The Sun and Moon
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part of group 3, Cosmogony, the earth and the sky, etiology of the elements, natural and biological phenomena (fire, water, soil, thunderstorms, dream, etc.), cataclysms and cosmic threats, spirits of nature.
A43 has 1 other sub-motifs
RelatedA43. The character runs away in a hurry and undergoes a metamorphosis, turning into a bird or rising into the sky. He is missing one trouser leg, or a shoe on one foot, or one mitten.
A43a. The moon or character currently visible on the moon hastily ascends to the sky. He is missing one trouser leg or shoe on one foot. Cf. motifs A43 and K13A.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| M29A1 | 96.26% | In three or more different episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is raven (crow) |
| E9M | 96.18% | A man marries a bear (white or grizzly) that takes the form of a woman, or a woman who takes the form of a bear. |
| C19A | 96.03% | The character (except Quileut: Raven) turns into a child, asks for and receives heavenly bodies to play, or (Chukchi) comes to play with the little daughter of the owner of the stars. |
| B44F | 95.90% | In the dispute over whether the world should be bright, the fox is on the side of light (almost always against the bear). |
| F30A | 95.87% | A woman nurses a worm (caterpillar, reptile, fish) instead of a child; people kill the monster. |
| I133 | 95.75% | Star objects in different parts of the sky are associated with separate parts (as well as items of clothing, jewellery, etc.) of a single anthropomorphic or zoomorphic figure. |
| A13A1 | 95.58% | The raven rescues or obtains the hidden or stolen sun (daylight). |
| K32C | 95.58% | The deceiver takes the place of the real wife, and the real wife becomes an owl. See motif K32. |
| M123 | 95.58% | A bird of prey or scavenger (raven, owl, hawk, coyote) marries (or attempts to marry) a partner who (or whose brothers) are geese or other waterfowl. The marriage is disrupted or proves unsuccessful. |
| M61A1 | 95.58% | The character (always a raven) provokes a seagull to quarrel with another bird, telling each one that the other was hostile or offensive towards her. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
16 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 16 traditions: Kazakh, Bashkirs, Khakas, Shor, Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit, Altaians, Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar, Altaians, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Central Yupik, Chipewyan, Han, Tutchone, Ingalik (Der Hit’an), Koyukon, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), Southern Altai: Teleut, Japan
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