Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
F58 — The trickster and women.
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe 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.
Berezkin category: Gender and sex
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| K86 | 98.26% | A small (usually capricious) child is ignored, sent away from home, abandoned on the road, or given to another person for a time. As a result, the child is carried away by an animal or a spirit. |
| M32 | 97.85% | The character swallows food or water, or his own entrails, pieces of flesh flow out and fall out of his ass. |
| L15A1 | 97.48% | The character's vulnerable spot is located at the bottom of the foot (heel, toe, sole, ankle). |
| M42B | 97.27% | 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). |
| M22 | 96.98% | A long-necked bird living near water (crane, heron, bittern, swan) helps a fugitive escape from his pursuer (indicated in brackets). See motifs J44-J46 (a long-legged bird helps cross the river, drowns the pursuer; the pursuer is most often a bear). |
| M19 | 96.71% | The character ties another person (usually a child) to the end of a line, using them as bait or forcing them to catch fish with their hands. |
| M87 | 96.47% | 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. |
| M42 | 96.42% | The character takes his eyes out of his orbits and loses them. He usually regains his eyes later, makes new ones, takes away from another character, etc. See the M41 motif. |
| L31A | 95.88% | 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. |
| L15A | 95.77% | The character's vulnerable spot is located on the surface of the body, but not in vital internal organs. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
58 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 58 traditions: Saibai, Dauan, Boigu, Badu, Waraber, Wet, Warei, Dauar, Badu, Moa, Papua-NewGuinea Highland Papuans:Trans New Guinea & unclassified:Chimbu,Gimi,KaugelHuli,Gadsup,Kuman,Kutubu,Foi (Foe),Kyaka,Kamano (Kafe),Mawatta,Kukukuku (=Anga,=Sambia;Manki,Nauti,Ejuti),Baruya,Kewa,Tembregak,Menya,Melpa,Wiru,Pondoma, Wa (incl Kawa), Bulang, Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf, Croatians, Croats; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians), Anatolia Turks, Kazakh, Reindeer Koryak, Maritime Koryak (Alyutor), Chukchi, Haida, Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw), Micmac, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario), Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree), Western Woods Cree, Eastern Cree, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Yuchi, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Comox, Pentlatch, Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla), Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Yuki (Yuki proper, Coastal Yuki, Huchnob), Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov, Yokuts, Kawaiisu, Owens Valley Paiute, Northern Paiute (=Paviotso), Northern Shoshone, Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Eastern Shoshone, Ute, Southern Paiute, Hopi, Papago, Huichol, Choco: Embera, Nonama (Waunana), XVI century Dabaiba, pre-Columbian iconography of Sinu, Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi, Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Aimara, Amahuaca, Cashinahua, Sharanahua, Yaminahua, Yawanahua, Capanahua), Moseten, Chimane, Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay), Chorote, Caduveo, Mbaya, Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal), Wolof, Mukulu (Mokilko), Bosnians, Bolivia, Comoros
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