Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif

J66 — The straps are bitten through.

105 Myths, legends and folktales

105 Unique narratives for motif J66

62 Cultures & traditions where J66 is told

0 Sub-motifs of motif J66

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Summary of motif

Overview

The character cuts or bites through bowstrings and other straps in advance, punctures boats, preventing opponents from fighting or pursuing him.

Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle

This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 10, Adventures.

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Phylogeny

Motif	Similarity	Motif summary
C16A	93.17%	The offended mistress of animals or fish takes them and food supplies away. See motif H32A.
K44	92.91%	The character kidnaps the boy or hides him from his mother or father, pretending to be his mother or father. The kidnapped boy learns the truth and leaves the kidnapper.
B42B	92.16%	In the cosmic hunting plot, the objects of pursuit are hoofed animals (elk, deer, mountain sheep). See motif B42.
H22A	91.97%	Large game animals were concentrated in one place and were not afraid of people. They scattered after someone touched them, hit them lightly (often on the nose), or smeared them with something. Cf. motif H22.
C6C	91.85%	The bird dives and brings up the desired object from the bottom. See motif C6.
B42	91.52%	Hunters, their dogs, fleeing or killed animals are visible in the sky in the form of stars and constellations.
C38	91.39%	Characters from the time of creation say that real people will appear soon, so we must do this and that.
H23	91.27%	This hard and now inedible object originally consisted of fat.
H28A	90.42%	When a character is burned, the smoke and sparks turn into mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects that scatter throughout the world.
B42G	89.95%	The Big Dipper (as a whole or only the dipper) is identified with an animal (animals) pursued by hunters / attacked by other characters.

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Traditions

62 recorded

This motif has been recorded in 62 traditions: Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru, Koreans, Western Sami, Eastern Sami (including Skolts), Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin, Azeris (Azerbaijanis), Uyghur, Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks), Mansi, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Tofa (Karagas), Nenets, Nganasans, Southern Selkups, Northern Selkups, Kets, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Udeghe, Nanai, Reindeer Koryak, Maritime Koryak (Alyutor), Chipewyan, Upper Tanana (Nebesna), Tanacross, Tutchone, Inland Tlingit, Iglulik, Tlingit, Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw), Bella Coola (Nuxalk), Micmac, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario), Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree), Naskapi, Montagnais, Plains Ojibwa, Lillooet, Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam, Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz, Quinault, Tillamook, Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Coos, Alcea, Karok, Hupa, Chilula, Pomo, Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov, Owens Valley Paiute, Northern Paiute (=Paviotso), Ute, Southern Paiute, Baniwa (incl. Wakuenai), Bare, Piapoco, Curripaco, Siusi, Guarikena , Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal), Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet, Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori, Itelmen, Egypt, Greece, Russian Federation

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