Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif

F64 — Incestuous parent, T411.1.1.

176 Myths, legends and folktales

176 Unique narratives for motif F64

80 Cultures & traditions where F64 is told

2 Sub-motifs of motif F64

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Summary of motif

Overview

The character is presented as another person in order to mate with a close relative in the descending or (less commonly) ascending line.

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.

F64 has 2 other sub-motifs

F64.  The character is presented as another person in order to mate with a close relative in the descending or (less commonly) ascending line.
F64a.  Leaving or pretending to be dying, the character gives instructions to a relative regarding what he or she should do to get married, indicating a partner with certain characteristics, or the character indicates the place of a future meeting with this partner; or (Philippines) describes a person who should be accepted as a guest; comes himself under the guise of the person mentioned. See motif F64.
F64b.  A woman pretends to be someone else in order to seduce her son, brother, daughter or grandson. See motif F64.

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Phylogeny

Motif	Similarity	Motif summary
L1B1	99.13%	A woman comes into conflict with her brothers and turns into a dangerous demon.
D4M	99.05%	The thief comes to the owners of fire or light. They feast or dance. He joins them and steals their valuables when the moment is right. See motif D4A.
M59	98.91%	A small animal asks a large one to transport it across the river; consistently rejects all the seats on the carrier's body that he offers; climbs to where the carrier is You can kill when the crossing is over.
K21A	98.76%	A celestial being marries an earthly woman. She longs to return to earth and secretly descends from her husband.
A32B1	98.71%	A woman sits (jumps) on the face (back) of the Moon Man and is now visible in the silhouette of the moon spots.
K27T	98.67%	Competition: climbing a pole. See motif K27.
F18C	98.63%	The character sees a girl on the other side of the river and copulates with her in an unusual way (sends his penis across the river; turns it into a bridge for the girl to cross the river; into a dam that blocks the river in front of her; dives, swimming up to the girl underwater; sends an object into the girl's vagina). See motif F18B.
B92	98.39%	A character whose body is hard and has broken into small pieces, or (rarely) a small object, turns into flint or other hard stones (the origin of flint).
M54	98.37%	The character lives or stays at someone else's house; then goes far away, falls asleep, but wakes up again in the same house.
K8C3	98.35%	One (zoomorphic) character refuses to use any part of another's body except the one he uses to kill him.

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Traditions

80 recorded

This motif has been recorded in 80 traditions: Yoruba; incl Ife), Nupe, Bini (Edo), Engenni, Chamba, Dakka, Kukuruku, Mangareva, Marquesas, Minahasa (incl. Tondano, Tentemboan), Bantik, Northern Taiwan: Atayal (Tayal; Taruko (Toda, Taokas, Torok, Taroko), Pazeh, Sedeq (Sediq, Seedeq, Sazek), Saisiyat (Saixia), Toda, Kota, Kuruba (Kurumba), Badaga, Maravar, Pulaya, Kadar, Li , Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Svans, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Tungus (Evenki) of China (Solon, Birar, Oroqen, Manegir), Evenks, Tungus (Evenki): Russian Far East, Evenks, Aleuts, Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island), North Alaskan Inupiat, Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah, Bella Coola (Nuxalk), Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario), Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree), Eastern Cree, Miami, Illini, Winnebago, Blackfoot, Arapaho, Osage, Iowa, Pawnee, Kiowa Apache, Gros Ventre, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Crow, Hidatsa, Chilkotin, Shuswap, Lillooet, Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam, Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Nez Perce, Quileute, Chemakum (Hoh), Quinault, Tillamook, Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Coos, Okanagon, Sanpoil, Karok, Hupa, Chilula, Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki, Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov, Kawaiisu, Mono (Monache), Owens Valley Paiute, Northern Paiute (=Paviotso), Northern Shoshone, Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Eastern Shoshone, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Ute, Southern Paiute, Chemehuevi, Serrano, Navajo, Jicarilla, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos), Western Keres (Acoma, Laguna), Eastern Keres (Cochiti, Sia, San Felipe, Santo Domingo, Santa Ana, Paguate, Seama), Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambe; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez), Lipan, Warao, Colorado (Tsachila), Siona, Secoya, Coreguaje, Northern and Southern Tehuelche, Selknam, Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet, Matses (Mayoruna), Scythians, Scythe

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