Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
G29 — Demon from artefacts.
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe character consists of various artefacts of domestic and industrial use or transforms into them.
Berezkin category: Fertility and Agriculture
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part of group 8, Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| J52B | 95.51% | A girl, young woman or children associated with hares (rabbits) are heroes-victors or successful tricksters. |
| E9E | 94.32% | An animal or object received by a young man from supernatural beings as a reward for his kindness, upon the young man's return home (to earth), turns into a girl. |
| L42D | 93.91% | A man runs away from a cannibal across the ice, the cannibal pursues him, licks the blood spilled on the ice, his tongue freezes, he dies, or falls to his death after slipping on the ice. |
| K98 | 92.37% | An animal or (less commonly) a woman who gave birth to a hero or helped him turns into a house and property. |
| A44 | 92.15% | A character fleeing from pursuit, wronged or suffering on earth, asks the Moon to take him to her, or climbs up to the moon himself using a ladder or rope that has descended from there. |
| C6I | 92.03% | A zoomorphic character returns from the underworld covered in mud. He shakes himself off, or the mud is scraped off him, and earth emerges from it. |
| I60 | 91.59% | The Milky Way - a seam, a crack between the two halves of the sky. |
| M147 | 91.29% | A weak animal tells a strong animal that everyone is afraid of him, the weak one, and suggests testing this. He walks in front of the strong animal, everyone runs away, and the strong animal believes that they are running away from the weak one. |
| D4AA | 91.14% | Moths try to steal the fire that humans possess. |
| B1E | 90.88% | The protagonist of the narrative is one of many (seven or more) brothers with whom he is in conflict, but who are not his irreconcilable enemies. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
40 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 40 traditions: Bidayuh (incl. Maloh), Iban (Sea Dayak), Sakarram; Brunei, Eastern Arunachal Pradesh: Abor (incl Minyong, Shimong, Padam, Pasi, Panggi), Apa Tani (Apatani), Bori, Bugun, Dafla (=Nyishi, Nisi, Nishing, incl Tagin), Gallong (=Galo, Adi), Mishmi, Kafir, or Nuristani: Prasun; Kati (incl. Paruni), Ashkun (Ashunu), Waigali, Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China, Lithuanians, Vepsians, Mari (Cheremis), Chuvash, Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Tungus (Evenki) of China (Solon, Birar, Oroqen, Manegir), Evenks, Tungus (Evenki): Russian Far East, Evenks, Western Tungus (Evenki), Western Siberia Tungus (Evenki): Sym River, Ket River, Udeghe, Oroch, Uilta (Orok), Nanai, Negidal, Kerek, Chukchi, Central Yupik, Iglulik, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario), Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree), Eastern Cree, Teton (incl Oglala), Omaha, Ponca, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Choctaw, Chicasaw, Hopi, Karijona, Ilimpii Tungus/Evenki, Yerbogachen Tungus/Evenki, Tungus/Evenki of Nercha - Chita area, Russian Federation
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