Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
I14A — Ejecting food through the mouth.
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Summary of motif
OverviewPeople without anuses regurgitate what they have eaten through their mouths or other (marked) orifices. See motif I14.
Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
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.
I14 has 1 other sub-motifs
RelatedI14. Creatures without an anal opening are described.
I14a. People without anuses regurgitate what they have eaten through their mouths or other (marked) orifices. See motif I14.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| I4A | 96.41% | Thunder falls to earth and cannot rise. Usually, a person helps it return to the sky. |
| I29 | 94.87% | A character climbs into an animal's burrow and finds himself in the underworld, or digs a deep hole and finds himself in a world inhabited by burrowing animals. |
| E5D | 94.31% | The first people to arrive on earth and settle within a limited space are threatened by a predator or monster. |
| F24 | 93.58% | Women lose blood when they are bitten by fish, snakes, etc. |
| D2 | 93.11% | A woman gives birth to a son who is very hot. |
| H8 | 92.47% | Unable to bring themselves to touch something unclean, poisonous, dangerous or hot, people lost their immortality (var.: did not receive the blessings that came to Europeans). |
| J2 | 92.25% | Husband or lover â tree (temporarily transformed into a human). |
| F76 | 91.96% | People learn how to make love by watching birds, fish or animals mating; animals teach people how to make love or arouse desire in them. |
| E17 | 91.90% | People get the idea of ornamentation of vessels, baskets, bodies, etc., or of a sign system after someone manages to see a pattern on the body of a zoomorphic or supernatural creature or make an imprint of it. |
| M33 | 91.36% | The character plugs or seals his anus tightly (with wax, clay, grass, etc.), or someone else does it. See M32 motif. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
1 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 1 traditions: Polar Inuit
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