Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
B75B1 — Sounds of the era of creation: the voice of a wife or mother-in-law.
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe character pushes his mother-in-law or wife into a hollow, and she turns into the creaking of trees or an echo.
Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part of group 7, Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar.
B75 has 4 other sub-motifs
RelatedB75a. The voice of a character who once lived can still be heard (most often it is an echo; A1195, The origin of Echo).
B75b. The creaking or crackling of trees is the voice of a transformed character.
B75b1. The character pushes his mother-in-law or wife into a hollow, and she turns into the creaking of trees or an echo.
B75c. The sound of the surf or water on the rapids has been heard since the time of creation.
B75d. The sound of leaves or grass rustling in the wind has been heard since the time of creation.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| M42A | 98.55% | The character (usually after losing his own eyes) inserts seeds or berries into his eye sockets and sees again. |
| E30 | 96.72% | A man has no wife or a woman has no husband, and uses a wooden substitute as a spouse. |
| B51 | 96.08% | Thanks to a deliberate lie, Thunder did not learn from the bloodsucking insect that it had drunk human blood. |
| M87 | 95.37% | The character comes to a place that is abandoned or seems to have been abandoned by the inhabitants. He tries to take or touch things, but invisible owners prevent him from doing so, or the things themselves hurt him. |
| F74 | 95.26% | Upon seeing a dangerous character, a man or woman undresses and pretends to be dead (or the character undresses the woman). Examining and sniffing the supposed corpse, the character finds what he takes to be a wound or signs of decay and leaves. |
| L31A | 95.26% | An object descends from the sky. Children playing climb into it or stick to it, and it carries them away to the sky. See motif L31. |
| M42B | 95.07% | After losing his eyes, the character makes new ones out of resin or wax, sees again (often this is an episode on the way to finding good eyes, while tar eyes do not see well). |
| I112 | 94.87% | The boat is a living creature with a mouth, a fish. |
| F58 | 94.74% | The character spends the night with a group of women, concealing his nature and/or intentions. In the end, he is either identified and punished, or he slips away to continue his mischief. |
| M32 | 94.70% | The character swallows food or water, or his own entrails, pieces of flesh flow out and fall out of his ass. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
6 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 6 traditions: Inland Tlingit, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Maue (Mawe)
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