Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
F90 — Tragic incest.
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Summary of motif
OverviewA brother and sister marry. When the children born of this union learn of their origins, the marriage breaks down (the children kill their parents, the father kills or attempts to kill the children, the parents commit suicide, the wife/sister commits suicide after the death of her husband/brother, the wife/sister leaves her husband/brother).
Berezkin category: Gender and sex
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 10, Adventures.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| D13G | 98.26% | When the character starts laughing, people see his or her scary mouth (lots of teeth, human flesh on the teeth); they kill the monster or run away. |
| M74 | 95.29% | A weak character regurgitates previously swallowed unusual food, or replaces his belching with a strong character's belching, or interprets his secretions as remains strong animals he ate. The strong believe that the weak are strong or have unusual abilities. |
| G23B | 91.77% | People from different ethnic groups arise from parts of the creature's body, or people from different groups receive their names (and characteristics) depending on which parts of the creature's body they have received. |
| B28C | 91.47% | Lice grab a person and drag him into the sea. |
| C16A | 89.97% | The offended mistress of animals or fish takes them and food supplies away. See motif H32A. |
| L1C2 | 89.55% | Fleeing from a demonic creature, the characters hide their children (younger brother or sister) in a camouflaged pit, usually under the hearth. See motif L1C. |
| F72 | 89.00% | A woman asks a man to tie her up before intercourse so that it looks like she is being raped. |
| E4 | 88.65% | From mud on the skin (rarely: from under the fingernails), the character creates the earth, people or other creatures. |
| J59A | 88.26% | After shooting an arrow (rarely: throwing a ball), a person flies on it, behind it or in front of it, or sends another person on the flying arrow. Cf. motif J59. |
| H2 | 88.14% | Animals ask God to make humans (tigers: domestic animals) mortal or otherwise reduce their numbers, as they fear that humans will trample them, deprive them of food or habitat, force them to work, etc. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
23 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 23 traditions: Hausa, Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups), Kirati (Kiranti): Rai (incl Thulung), Limbu, Newar, Finns, Kalmyk, Mansi, Udeghe, Oroch, Uilta (Orok), Nanai, Olcha (Ulch), Nivkh, Reindeer Koryak, Maritime Koryak (Alyutor), Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir, Chuvans, Russian-speaking Creols of Markovo, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla), Quileute, Chemakum (Hoh), Tillamook, Okanagon, Sanpoil, Klamath, Modoc, Halkomelem (Snaymuk)
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