Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
M100 — Dream on the edge of a cliff, ATU 10***.
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Summary of motif
OverviewZoomorphic characters lie down to sleep on the edge of a cliff. At night, one of them suggests moving (turning), and his companion (companions) falls and breaks.
Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| C6J | 97.43% | In the same narrative, the story of the creation of man and the attempt to prevent it follows immediately after the story of obtaining earth from the bottom of the sea or from the underworld. |
| M39A | 97.01% | fool lives with his brother (and mother), is sent on business, does ridiculous things (all or part of the above): releases animals from the trap, kills (trapped) mother ; cuts off the pet's legs or skins; takes the fontanel on the baby's skull for a boil and squeezes it out; tears a large piece of cloth and ties the pieces to swaying reeds; hearing the murmur of water, throws food into the water; puts the plague in the water; wants to salt the water and pours all the salt into the river. (There are other common episodes as well). |
| B48A | 95.51% | The bodies of animals, birds or fish contain internal organs or muscles that were originally parts of the bodies of other animals, birds, fish or monsters. Cf. motif B36C. |
| B68A | 94.53% | Birds quarrel, and the one who claimed high status cripples the weak one. For this, the others order her to carry the crippled one on her back. |
| I56 | 94.33% | Moving between worlds, the same living person is visible to some and invisible to others. |
| K89B | 93.90% | At the beginning of the story, the sister parts with her brothers (or one brother), who die, remain on trees, on a hill, ascend to the sky, etc. Usually, after a successful marriage, the sister meets her brothers again, who have acquired superhuman nature. |
| B38E | 93.81% | The character kicks a loon or other waterfowl. Since then, it has had a flattened tail and finds it difficult to walk on land. |
| I50 | 93.44% | Describes or depicts a hoofed animal with six or more legs. |
| M108A | 93.39% | A lonely elderly couple adopts a trickster. He steals from them (and runs away). |
| B45B | 93.03% | The bull or cow is the embodiment of cold, the reason why winter is cold. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
24 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 24 traditions: Algeria Arabs, Lampung (Lampong); South Sumatra Malays (incl. Bengkulu), Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai), Lavrung, Jiarong; Qiang (incl rGyalrong), Serbs, Monte Negro, Balkarians, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Vepsians, Norwegians, Armenians, Kazakh, Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Mongols (Khalkha), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Tofa (Karagas), Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar, Altaians, Nganasans, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Kerek, Han, Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal), Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori, Sundanese, Morocco, China
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