Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
J52B — Heroes – female hares or baby hares.
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Summary of motif
OverviewA girl, young woman or children associated with hares (rabbits) are heroes-victors or successful tricksters.
Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 10, Adventures.
J52 has 2 other sub-motifs
RelatedJ52. A character (usually zoomorphic and female) treacherously kills another. The victim's children take revenge by killing the murderer's children.
J52a. A she-bear or bear treacherously kills his companion, neighbour, etc., who is associated with a herbivorous animal or a weaker predator. The victim's children take revenge by killing the murderer's children or flee. See motifs J52, J54.
J52b. A girl, young woman or children associated with hares (rabbits) are heroes-victors or successful tricksters.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| I60 | 97.93% | The Milky Way - a seam, a crack between the two halves of the sky. |
| E9E | 97.69% | 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. |
| B1E | 97.52% | 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. |
| N13 | 96.36% | A girl, a girl is associated with scissors (and a boy, a boy with a knife or an ax). |
| C6I | 95.64% | 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. |
| L42D | 95.64% | 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. |
| G29 | 95.51% | The character consists of various artefacts of domestic and industrial use or transforms into them. |
| K98 | 94.65% | An animal or (less commonly) a woman who gave birth to a hero or helped him turns into a house and property. |
| B1C | 94.57% | Two creators agree that the older of them (the main creator) will be the one whose object is in a certain state (usually: whose tree or flower grows or blooms earlier). While one was asleep or absent, the other switched the objects and deceitfully achieved primacy. |
| N37 | 94.36% | The character is said to sleep under the sky (like a blanket). |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
25 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 25 traditions: Lavrung, Jiarong; Qiang (incl rGyalrong), Ireland, Lithuanians, Ossetians, Kalmyk, Uyghur, Hui (Dungan) of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan (Dungan texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones), Turkmen, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Daur (Daghur), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Khakas, Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit, Altaians, Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar, Altaians, Southern Selkups, Northern Selkups, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Tungus (Evenki) of China (Solon, Birar, Oroqen, Manegir), Evenks, Tungus (Evenki): Russian Far East, Evenks, Nanai, Tlingit, Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal), Salars, Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori
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