Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
B85A — Regulating the wind.
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe wind stops blowing (after blowing too strongly). A character approaches it and establishes the necessary balance. Since then, the wind blows, but usually not too strongly.
Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part of group 3, Cosmogony, the earth and the sky, etiology of the elements, natural and biological phenomena (fire, water, soil, thunderstorms, dream, etc.), cataclysms and cosmic threats, spirits of nature.
B85 has 2 other sub-motifs
RelatedB85. The wind blows too strongly, it is forced to calm down.
B85a. The wind stops blowing (after blowing too strongly). A character approaches it and establishes the necessary balance. Since then, the wind blows, but usually not too strongly.
B85b. The wind was or is in a small container, released from it or flying out of it from time to time.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| L97 | 98.20% | Seeing a character who is unable to move (nailed to the ground, his lower body rooted to the ground, petrified, completely absent), the hero himself manages to avoid a similar fate. |
| J40B | 96.91% | After the hero comes back after a long absence and finds his parents enslaved, he tells them to demonstrate openly a lack of respect to their masters and punishes those who were cruel with them |
| L33F | 96.66% | A rock or boulder pursues a character. The character calls for help, and the nightjar splits the rock into pieces. |
| J45 | 96.59% | The character extends his leg (dafla: arm; upper tanana: tail) or neck as a bridge across a water barrier. Usually, those being pursued or walking ahead cross such a bridge to the other side, while the pursuer or those walking behind fall into the water because the character removes his bridge. See motif J44. |
| L33A | 96.50% | The trickster takes an object lying on or near a rock or other inanimate object, which he has given to that object. The object pursues or otherwise punishes the offender. See motif L33. |
| M22A | 96.44% | In a foreign house, in a foreign country, where the hero finds himself, the crane or heron is a watchman who must raise the alarm in case of strangers appearing. |
| J61 | 96.26% | The character has the ability to move or hover in the air like a feather or a fluff. |
| M86 | 96.04% | A rock stalks or otherwise punishes a character when he unfairly insults her (usually takes away her property, see motive L33). |
| L33E | 95.87% | The trickster demands back or takes the cloak belonging to the skale or another character (usually he himself had previously given this cloak as a gift). |
| L1B1 | 95.78% | A woman comes into conflict with her brothers and turns into a dangerous demon. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
13 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 13 traditions: Estonians, Mansi, Inland Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw), Malecite, Passamaquoddy, Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario), Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree), Plains Ojibwa, Hopi
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