M57D1 — Donor Bird

bird consistently gives a person magical objects (or gives one, with which he receives the rest) or consistently fulfills his wishes.

Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes

This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part of group 9, Identification of protagonists of the stories with particular animals or persons with particular qualities.

M57a.  Instead of the usual secretions from the human body, beads, flowers, gold and other valuables pour in.
M57a1.  When a beautiful woman walks on the ground, jewels appear under her feet, flowers bloom, etc.
M57a2.  Instead of common body discharges a a man urinates, spits, etc. beads, flowers, gold and other valuables; valuables are produced by the very presence of particular male person. See motif m57a
M57a3.  Instead of common body discharges a a woman urinates, spits, etc. beads, flowers, gold and other valuables; valuables are produced by the very presence of particular female person. See motif m57a
M57b.  Beads or metals are the bodily secretions of a deity.
M57c.  An animal (donkey, bull, horse, goat, bear, leopard) or inanimate object makes gold or food stand out, or a character makes others believe that this is the case.
M57c1.  A man fights a bear or (Malayali) leopard and makes another person believe that this animal is defecating with gold.
M57d.  A person consistently receives magical items that bring wealth. Others replace them or take them away. A person returns what has been taken - usually by receiving another wonderful object (baton, whip) that hits the kidnappers.
M57d1.  bird consistently gives a person magical objects (or gives one, with which he receives the rest) or consistently fulfills his wishes.
M57d2.  The man was about to cut down a tree. It himself, or the creature living on it or in it, asks not to do so and fulfills the person's wishes.
M57d3.  A person receives a reward from a character who is associated with the wind. Cf. Motive K175 (“The wind carried away the flour”).
M57d4.  A person receives a reward from a character who is associated with frost.

This motif has been recorded in 36 traditions: Slovakians, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Latvians, Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Uzbek, Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi, Tajik, Persians, Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin, Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Karachays, Balkar, Avar, Andi, Akhvakh, Georgians, Kalmyk, Kirghiz, Turkmen, Bashkirs, Mari (Cheremis), Mordvins, Chuvash, Udmurt, Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks), Mansi, Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots), Mongols (Khalkha), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Tungus (Evenki) of China (Solon, Birar, Oroqen, Manegir), Evenks, Tungus (Evenki): Russian Far East, Evenks, Nanai, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Toto, Rabha (northern Western Bengalia), Bhutan, Russian Federation