Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
F63 — Man marries, K1321.1, ATU 1538*.
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Summary of motif
OverviewA male trickster transforms into a woman and gets married. In the end, he is exposed or runs away from his husband.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| K35 | 95.15% | The deceiver pretends to be a hero in order to take his place (to possess his woman). (This motif includes all texts with motif K35a3). |
| F83 | 94.07% | The character does something forbidden and indecent in a place hidden from prying eyes, and then asks people what's new. They reply that there is no news – except that so-and-so (the character) did such-and-such. |
| I65 | 94.01% | The Milky Way is a path to another world, followed by the souls of the dead and/or shamans, or it is the path of a funeral procession. |
| M62A | 93.34% | The hero quietly damages each of the two characters; they accuse each other, quarrel, fight. |
| M81 | 92.83% | Wandering, the hero finds himself in a place where blind or blind (two or more) live. |
| M84 | 92.23% | A person, animal, fish, or (rarely) a large fruit is killed and eaten. After a meal, what is eaten revives, usually after the bones (seeds) are put together. Cf. motive C16. |
| A42 | 91.97% | The character comes to the Sun, tries to fulfil its role, but deliberately or through incompetence breaks the rules, usually causing disasters on earth. |
| K27S | 90.48% | Competition: running, racing. See motif K27. |
| K23 | 89.97% | Birds attack inhabitants of another world or a person who has entered another world. See motif K22. |
| K22A | 89.65% | Birds or other creatures that are harmless to ordinary people attack dwarves living in another world. See motif K22. |
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Traditions
64 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 64 traditions: Saudi Arabia, Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai, Arabs of Iraq, Iraqi, Arabs of Egypt, Hausa, Batak (Toba, Dairi), Bulgarians, Balkarians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Finns, Karelians, Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Svans, Kazakh, Turkmen, Mari (Cheremis), Mordvins, Chuvash, Udmurt, Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks), Mansi, Chukchi, Inland Tlingit, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Micmac, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario), Algonquin, unspecified Algonkians of the Midwest (probably Old Algonquin), Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree), Menominee, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Winnebago, Arapaho, Omaha, Ponca, Iowa, Pawnee, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Comanche, Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Crow, Nez Perce, Okanagon, Sanpoil, Wappo, Pomo, Chumash, Mono (Monache), Northern Paiute (=Paviotso), Southern Paiute, Chiricahua, Bolivian Guarani: Chiriguano (including assimilated Chane Arawaks), Pauserna (=Guarasu), Guarayu, Tapiete, Makka, Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon, Mataco, Toba (incl Pilagá), Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights), Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Russian Federation
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