Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
B97A — Bird or animal necklace.
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Summary of motif
OverviewA strip of light or dark feathers (rarely: wool) on the neck of a bird (animal) is its necklace (scarf).
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.
B97 has 1 other sub-motifs
RelatedB97. The character rewards (rarely punishes) a bird living by the water, determining its current appearance (crest, beak, feather colouring).
B97a. A strip of light or dark feathers (rarely: wool) on the neck of a bird (animal) is its necklace (scarf).
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| L10 | 99.81% | The character has a sharp (biting) tail or a protrusion on its back. See motif L9, cf. motif L9C. |
| M29F | 99.45% | As a result of its stupidity or antisocial behavior, the wolverine dies or suffers damage. See the motives in square brackets. |
| M16A | 98.77% | A character (usually a loon) restores a person's sight and/or health by diving into the water with them. See motif M16. |
| J41A | 98.52% | The son returns and finds his mother, who has been humiliated and tortured in his absence. The son turns his mother (and usually himself as well) into a bird of a certain species. |
| C19A | 98.39% | The character (except Quileut: Raven) turns into a child, asks for and receives heavenly bodies to play, or (Chukchi) comes to play with the little daughter of the owner of the stars. |
| L102 | 98.33% | A girl or woman (for various reasons, jokingly or seriously) calls an animal or animal remains her husband, or steps on bones and addresses them. The animal (comes to life and) carries her away. Her human husband, parents or brother come for her, and they flee; usually the animal husband pursues them, but stops the chase or dies. |
| B96 | 98.33% | The heroes' enemy turns into a large commercial fish (usually a sturgeon) or (rarely) a commercial aquatic mammal. |
| A13A1 | 98.21% | The raven rescues or obtains the hidden or stolen sun (daylight). |
| K32C | 98.19% | The deceiver takes the place of the real wife, and the real wife becomes an owl. See motif K32. |
| M123 | 98.19% | A bird of prey or scavenger (raven, owl, hawk, coyote) marries (or attempts to marry) a partner who (or whose brothers) are geese or other waterfowl. The marriage is disrupted or proves unsuccessful. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
22 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 22 traditions: Nganasans, Central Yupik, Hare (K'ahsho Got'ine), Upper Tanana (Nebesna), Tanacross, Kaska, Athna, Denaina, Koyukon, Tanana, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), North Alaskan Inupiat, Eyak, Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah, Bella Coola (Nuxalk), Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree), Yuchi, Carrier, Chilkotin, Shuswap, Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam, Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
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