Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
B57 — Bloody sunset.
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Summary of motif
OverviewBlood spurting from a killed or wounded person or animal colours the sky (dawn, northern lights) or other natural objects (moon, vegetation) red.
Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
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.
B57 has 1 other sub-motifs
RelatedB57. Blood spurting from a killed or wounded person or animal colours the sky (dawn, northern lights) or other natural objects (moon, vegetation) red.
B57a. Seeing the reddened sky, the character understands that another's blood has been spilled, or that another has spilled red liquid. See motif B57.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| I27A | 91.14% | The souls of dead dogs go to a special place in the afterlife and/or go to the afterlife along a special path. |
| B36C | 89.26% | Animals receive meat and fat rendered from a certain creature or obtained in some other way. Some received a lot, others remained thin. |
| L33C | 85.21% | The trickster and the boulder agree to race down the slope. The boulder rolls faster and faster and crushes the trickster. See motif L33. |
| M93A | 84.54% | The character punishes a part of his body (burns his ass, breaks his eyes) for not sounding the alarm. See Motive M93; cf. Motive M142. |
| J12L | 84.51% | The murderer pretends to mourn the victim along with everyone else. The deception is revealed, and the murderer is pursued. See motif J12. |
| I2 | 84.25% | Lightning bolts fly from the eyes or mouth {specified} of a creature embodying a thunderstorm. See motif I1. |
| M93 | 83.84% | When falling asleep or going to do something else, the character tells a certain part of his body to wake him up in case of danger. The organ did not give a signal or the character himself did not listen to it, as a result, the misfortune happened. |
| M62B | 83.42% | Two or more characters aim their weapons at the hero in between, but they hit each other. |
| B42O1 | 82.95% | The Big Dipper is identified with the fisher (Mustela pennati). |
| K27N3C | 82.67% | A character who gives the hero difficult tasks or subjects him to trials is associated with a land or water animal or a fish. See motif K27. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
38 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 38 traditions: Maori, Moriori (Chatam Islands), Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kedang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor), Thai of Vietnam, Tai Lue, Khao (Kho, Tai Don, White Tai), Tai Dam (Black Tai), Nung; Zhuang, Buyi; Shui, Bhils (incl Barela-Bhilala), Lithuanians, Western Sami, Eastern Sami (including Skolts), Chuvash, Mansi, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Nenets, Nanai, Chukchi, Chipewyan, Hare (K'ahsho Got'ine), Kaska, Koyukon, Tanana, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island), North Alaskan Inupiat, Micmac, Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario), Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree), Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Osage, Plains Ojibwa, Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam, Moseten, Chimane, Tupari, Makurap, Sakirap, Ajuru (Wayoro), Paresi, Ayoreo, Caduveo, Mbaya, Northern and Southern Tehuelche, China
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