Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
H24F — Meat in a bag.
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe character has the ability to put a large amount of meat or fish into a bag or container that is easy to carry.
Berezkin category: Paradise Lost
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 10, Adventures.
H24 has 7 other sub-motifs
RelatedH24. A vessel or other small container with valuables or living beings (creatures) is opened (prematurely). Its contents get out of control or disappear.
H24a. Opening the bag, the character releases stars that rush chaotically into the sky.
H24b. The character must open the vessel containing the soul of the deceased when he reaches the place or after a certain time has passed; if he opens it before the time is up, the soul flies away. See motif H24.
H24c. People open a vessel (a bundle, a basket, etc.) containing death (or old age, illness), and therefore they are mortal.
H24d. An animal character who released the contents (darkness, insects, reptiles) from a vessel is still trying to gather everything back (etiology of the behaviour of a certain species of animal).
H24e. Having brought the seeds of humanity into our world, the character drops or prematurely opens what he has brought. (Sometimes this explains the inequality of people and disorder in society).
H24f. The character has the ability to put a large amount of meat or fish into a bag or container that is easy to carry.
H24g. A woman returned from the other world or obtained there disappears when a man opens the vessel in which she is kept prematurely.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| M14A | 98.22% | To take revenge on his wife or her relatives for (allegedly) causing him offence, the husband roasts his wife alive. See motif M14. |
| F42 | 98.00% | Feeling wronged, men leave their wives or sisters. |
| F43 | 97.90% | The women of the community of the first ancestors kill or abandon the men. |
| B36 | 97.72% | Birds, fish, and four-legged animals deliberately or accidentally smear themselves with colouring substances or divide parts of another's body among themselves, thereby acquiring their current appearance. |
| F44 | 97.64% | In the community of the first ancestors, women and men quarrel, leave, kill, maim each other, etc. |
| L36 | 97.43% | At the moment when the husband climbs or descends from a tree, his wife (or her brother) kills or maims him or turns into a demon that pursues him. |
| B36A | 97.33% | Two zoomorphic characters adorn each other, after which one is satisfied with the result and the other is not. |
| C9A | 97.19% | During the flood or when crossing a river, those who drowned or were saved turn into aquatic or amphibious animals. |
| E13A | 96.97% | Sacred knowledge, objects and rituals were first obtained by humans from the inhabitants of the underwater world. |
| J36 | 96.78% | The turtle drags the hero's parents under water. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
12 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 12 traditions: Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw), Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Yana, Navajo, Warao, Waiwai, Trio, Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan), Wayapi, Emerillon, Aguaruna, Huambiza, Amahuaca, Cashinahua, Sharanahua, Yaminahua, Yawanahua, Capanahua), Tacana
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