Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
K13C — The cannibal's daughter avenges her mother on her husband.
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe cannibal's daughter takes revenge on her husband for her mother's death and manages to cut off his leg. See motif K13A.
Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 10, Adventures.
K13 has 3 other sub-motifs
RelatedK13a. The character's leg (rarely: both legs) is cut off, bitten off, torn off, or damaged. The character ascends to the sky: to the moon; becomes the moon; turns into a star or constellation; becomes the sun; blood flowing from the leg colours the sky.
K13b. A man crosses a body of water on the back of a caiman. The caiman bites off his leg. The cripple undergoes a metamorphosis, turning into a constellation or an animal.
K13c. The cannibal's daughter takes revenge on her husband for her mother's death and manages to cut off his leg. See motif K13A.
K13d. A group of boys reaches the sky, the last one's leg is cut off or torn off.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| F12 | 99.02% | A husband kills his wife by inserting her lover's severed penis into her body. |
| F28B | 98.57% | A woman uses a penis made of wax, wood, fruit or root. Usually her husband or male relative smears it with pepper, and the woman is maimed or killed. |
| M76 | 98.02% | A woman cuts off a man's leg when he climbs a tree; a man cuts off a woman's leg when she climbs a tree. See K13A motif. |
| E14A | 97.01% | People kill demons, examine their bodies, make ritual costumes and masks, reproducing the appearance of the slain. |
| A27 | 96.90% | The light and/or heat of the sun and/or moon is contained in their crowns, necklaces or clothing (made of feathers or animal teeth). |
| B17 | 96.61% | Darkness is a special object that can be carried and transferred (usually brought from the original owner in a vessel or bag). |
| C11 | 95.69% | A father with magical powers destroys people (all or many) who have insulted or harmed his son. |
| E3 | 95.69% | After the destruction of the previous world, new people (rarely: new earth) are made from the remains of the dead. |
| F27 | 95.60% | It is dangerous for girls or women to approach water (water creatures drag them away or swallow them; a girl who approaches water dies; she becomes pregnant by a snake; through her fault, a flood or other disaster occurs; water spirits themselves come to a girl who has her first period). |
| M8 | 95.36% | Some characters (not humans) are struggling to break a strong barrier that prevents access to the desired location or to a high-value object. See also M8A - M8D motifs; they are included in the M8 motif in the correlation tables. |
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Traditions
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