Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
M18A — Obtaining arrows.
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe character becomes the object of fishing or hunting, presenting himself as a target for enemies. Numerous arrows, darts, and harpoons stick into his body without causing harm, and he carries them away. See motif M18.
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.
M18 has 2 other sub-motifs
RelatedM18. The character turns into an object of fishing or hunting and presents himself as a target. The fisherman or hunter does not harm them, but they take away what they use: arrows, darts, harpoons, hooks, bait; or they catch fish, having turned themselves into hooks; or they are caught but escape death by taking on human form again.
M18a. The character becomes the object of fishing or hunting, presenting himself as a target for enemies. Numerous arrows, darts, and harpoons stick into his body without causing harm, and he carries them away. See motif M18.
M18b. The character turns into a fishing object in order to carry away the hook with which he is caught or the spear with which they try to harpoon him, or he turns into a hook to catch fish. See motif M18.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| M14A | 98.71% | To take revenge on his wife or her relatives for (allegedly) causing him offence, the husband roasts his wife alive. See motif M14. |
| L20 | 98.27% | Two characters hunt or fish. One turns out to be or becomes a cannibal, which is revealed when he/she begins to eat the prey raw. |
| F48 | 97.74% | Individual women differ physically because the pieces of flesh divided from the first woman were not identical, or because the males who copulated with the first woman were animals of different species. |
| M11A | 97.48% | The character gives others the fish extracted from his body. |
| F42A | 97.47% | In the community of the first ancestors, young men or boys turn into birds or bats and fly away. |
| F95 | 96.83% | Two companions or brothers live together. One has a wife, whom he hides. The other suspects her existence, destroys her, or tries to get a wife for himself. |
| B19 | 96.72% | Before nightfall, people could not make love in peace. |
| H24F | 96.37% | The character has the ability to put a large amount of meat or fish into a bag or container that is easy to carry. |
| B34 | 95.72% | After the vessel of night is opened, a person caught by the onset of darkness turns into a bird or animal. |
| G12B | 95.54% | Cultivated plants â a gift from a male star or female star. |
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Traditions
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