Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
L90A — A hut on chicken legs.
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Summary of motif
OverviewDescribes a house that stands on the legs or a single leg of a bird or small animal and/or rotates (is capable of turning).
Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
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.
L90 has 5 other sub-motifs
RelatedL90. One lip (one fang, horn, etc.) of the creature reaches the sky, while the other drags along the ground.
L90a. Describes a house that stands on the legs or a single leg of a bird or small animal and/or rotates (is capable of turning).
L90b. One tooth (fang) of the creature touches the sky, the other reaches the earth or the underworld.
L90c. One horn of an animal (deer, ram, bull, goat, wolverine) touches the ground, while the other is raised to the sky or reaches the sky.
L90d. The hero attaches the upper lip (jaw) of the monster to the sky, and the lower lip to the earth.
L90E. Human heads are impaled on stakes outside the house of a dangerous character, and one head is missing (or there is a wall of heads, with one missing). It is assumed that the head of the hero of the story should be there.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| M109A1 | 99.92% | A zoomorphic character smears his head with dough (sour milk, butter, etc.) to make it look as if his brains are spilling out from the beatings. |
| M74D | 99.91% | God (the saint) travels with his companion. When he leaves, he eats the kidneys (heart, etc.) and says that the animal did not have kidneys. He continues to persist (even in the face of death), but confesses when he is promised wealth. |
| K117D | 99.91% | The princess, lying between two suitors, must choose blindly the one she likes best. The suitor of low birth arranges things so that his noble rival emits a foul odour (while he himself emits a pleasant fragrance). The princess turns to him. |
| I87C | 99.86% | Animals use a small object belonging to the human world (skull, mitten, jug, etc.) for shelter or transportation. Cf. motif I87: characters use an object (skull, animal shoulder blade, mitten) belonging to the world of giants as a shelter. |
| K128B | 99.86% | The ruler will give his daughter to the one who can herd (gather, train) hares (squirrels, sheep, poultry, partridges) without loss. A poor young man accomplishes the task with the help of a magic device. To have an excuse to refuse, the ruler's family members try to buy one hare (a magic pipe, etc.) so that the suitor cannot fulfil his promise, but as a result they find themselves in a humiliating position. |
| M193A | 99.85% | A woman baked a flatbread (pancake, pie, dough figure). It rolled away (ran away). On its way, it encounters various people and/or animals who want to eat it. It rolls away from each of them, but a fox (rarely another animal) eats it. |
| K35C2 | 99.85% | When the ship unexpectedly stops, the hero descends to the bottom of the sea, behaves correctly with the local inhabitants, and returns to the ship. |
| K93B1 | 99.85% | After eating fish, a childless woman gives birth to a boy or twins. |
| M39G1 | 99.83% | fool does not pull pants or boots over his feet, but jumps in them from above. |
| K93B4 | 99.83% | When a woman gives birth to a son, at the same time a mare (dog, and/or other domestic animals) give birth to a boy. These boys grow up together and then set off on a journey. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
23 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 23 traditions: Poles, Slovakians, Slovaks, Hungarians, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Lithuanians, Latvians, Setu, Finns, Karelians, Vepsians, Western Sami, Eastern Sami (including Skolts), Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Avar, Andi, Akhvakh, Armenians, Anatolia Turks, Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks), Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Lutsi (Ludza), Russian Federation
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