Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
N34 — Honey and oil
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Summary of motif
OverviewStreams (jets) that consist not of water but of honey (honey and butter, butter and milk, milk and blood) are mentioned as signs of generosity and abundance. Cf. H16 motives - H16B, K33F.
Berezkin category: Fabulous and epic formulas
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 13, Formulae.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| K561 | 97.95% | A poor man brings his master a chicken (goose, etc.) as a present. The master asks him to divide the bird appropriately among the members of his household. The poor man does it considering the symbolic meaning of particular parts (gives the master the head, his daughters the wings, etc.) and receives rich compensation. A neighbor brings the master five chickens but is unable to divide them approppriately. The first man does it again. |
| J25A1 | 97.59% | A woman dies, but remains incorrupt and gives birth to a child in the grave. He is found and brings his mother back to life. |
| K9A | 97.59% | The punished character is suspended on a chain or metal thread between heaven and earth. |
| M114F | 97.59% | The girl has a minor physical defect. Man: The house is nice, but the pipe is crooked. Girl: But the smoke comes out well. |
| M39A4B | 97.59% | foolish woman thinks that frogs will make yarn or cloth for her, or buy yarn and throw the material into the water. |
| M39A4B1 | 97.59% | Foolish woman throws her yarn ways (into the water, into the bush) and believes that somebody with weave it |
| M147A | 95.66% | When the foxes (wolves) meet and one of them (one of the wolves) asks when they will see each other again, the other replies that it will be at the fur market (at the furrier's, etc.). |
| K143 | 95.62% | The protagonist of the narrative is a bird catcher or bird hunter, or the son of a bird catcher (hunter). |
| K33F | 95.55% | Sources of at least two valuable liquid edible products (honey, oil, etc.) are available or imagined. Cf. motif N34. |
| M187B | 95.20% | Two animal characters agree to give the harvest from the field they have cultivated together to the one who runs faster than the other. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
23 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 23 traditions: Old and New Testament, Ugarit, Phoenicia, Mehri; Harsusi, Jibbali (Shahri, Shauri), Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai, Arabs of Iraq, Iraqi, Arabs of Egypt, Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria, Maltese, Sicily, Sicilians, Sardinia, Corsica, Sardinians, Corsicans, Ancient Greece, Vepsians, Yazgulami, Persians, Tats, Armenians, Anatolia Turks, Kara Kalpak, Kirghiz, Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars, Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,, Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio), Oman
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