Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
F83B — Rape of a woman in distress, ATU 36.
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Summary of motif
OverviewA strong female animal chases a weak male, but gets stuck between trees, rocks, etc. The fugitive mocks his pursuer, usually raping her. {In ATU, motifs f83a and f83b are described as one plot type, ATU 36. The degree of their plot connection can only be determined by having the original texts}.
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.
F83 has 2 other sub-motifs
RelatedF83. 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 â except that so-and-so (the character) did such-and-such.
F83a. One character asks the children of another to convey an insult to their mother or father â usually announcing his intention to make love to their mother. {ATU data is included in the correlation table, but not in the text}.
F83b. A strong female animal chases a weak male, but gets stuck between trees, rocks, etc. The fugitive mocks his pursuer, usually raping her. {In ATU, motifs f83a and f83b are described as one plot type, ATU 36. The degree of their plot connection can only be determined by having the original texts}.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| M112B | 99.93% | Animals that do not see the sun (moles, shrews, earthworms) refuse to build the road with everyone else and are punished for it. |
| C30C | 99.82% | A man promises to drink the sea (to count how many drops of water there are in the sea), but asks his opponent to first separate the sea water from the water of the rivers flowing into the sea. |
| M39A8B | 99.82% | Using a stratagem, someone who hides in a tree cuts (bits) off the tongue of a dangerous person and the latter is unable to describe situation to his partners |
| M78C | 99.79% | A tiny little man emerges from a severed finger. |
| M114D1 | 99.72% | The character demands that chicks be hatched (from boiled eggs), a chicken be raised, and it be cooked within a day. Another character responds with equally absurd demands. |
| J62 | 99.46% | The character turns those who come to him into inanimate objects (usually stones). (In variants of the ATU 303 plot, the motif is often absent; original texts are needed). |
| E9O | 99.39% | A man marries a woman who has the appearance of a frog or toad. |
| F83A | 99.33% | One character asks the children of another to convey an insult to their mother or father â usually announcing his intention to make love to their mother. {ATU data is included in the correlation table, but not in the text}. |
| K103D | 99.25% | An animal (rarely a demonic creature) orders the hero or heroine to retrieve necessary items from its ear or to enter its ear in order to transform, fall asleep, etc. |
| K2B | 99.24% | The occupations or names of the hero's companions are unusual and different for each one, but their specific abilities, which can be inferred from these names, are insignificant for the development of the plot. Cf. motif K66, "Heroes with different abilities". |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
25 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 25 traditions: Karen, Pa-O, Padaung, Kayah, Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij, Assamese, Spain, Spaniards, Portuguese, Portugal, France, Albanians, Balkarians, Latvians, Estonians, Finns, Western Ukrainians, Tajik, Ossetians, Azeris (Azerbaijanis), Kazakh, Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks), Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Khakas, Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal), Galicians, Dhimal, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Frisians, Russian Federation
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