Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
I92B — Treasures under the rainbow.
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Summary of motif
OverviewWhere the ends of the rainbow reach the ground, there is treasure.
Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part of group 8, Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects.
I92 has 2 other sub-motifs
RelatedI92. A person who has come into contact with a rainbow in a certain way (walked under it, drunk water where the rainbow drinks, etc.) changes their gender.
I92a. A person who jumps or steps over a rainbow changes their gender.
I92b. Where the ends of the rainbow reach the ground, there is treasure.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
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| K103C | 99.48% | Sitting on a bull or a cow, a young man or woman runs away from their stepmother's house. Along the way, the bull fights other bulls (monsters), the last of which usually kills it. |
| K56A6 | 99.31% | On the way to another world, people or objects ask a child (girl) to taste the food they offer or to do some work. The child (girl) does everything (rarely does not do) and therefore achieves the goal. |
| M197F | 99.29% | The dialogue plays on the fact that in youth the beard is black, and in old age it is white. Usually a person explains why his head has turned grey but his beard has not: the beard is 20 years younger. |
| M128 | 99.24% | Having agreed with his opponent that he would get animals with certain external characteristics or behaving in a certain way, the hero takes all or almost all of them when the livestock is divided. |
| M147B | 99.07% | To get rid of fleas, the fox (jackal) takes a bunch of moss (hay, grass) in its mouth and dives into the water. The fleas, in order not to drown, move closer and closer to its head and then fall onto the moss or hay. The fox leaves the bunch in the water and comes ashore. |
| K107D1 | 99.02% | Waiting for his magical wife, the young man falls asleep. The wife cannot wake him up and leaves (this episode is often repeated). |
| K101B1 | 99.00% | The enchanted character (the castle where the action takes place) gradually changes its appearance over several days as the spell wears off: it acquires human features, turning from black to white, from ugly to beautiful. |
| I95C | 99.00% | Orion's belt – staff, stick, three sticks, rod, crutch, etc. |
| K57B | 98.94% | To stop a beautiful woman from running away, a man in love with her smears resin or glue on the threshold (porch). The shoe sticks, and all the girls try it on to find its owner. |
| K127A | 98.91% | The heroine must remain silent for a long time and therefore cannot respond to the accusations. They want to execute her, but at that moment the restrictions expire and she is saved. |
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Traditions
16 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 16 traditions: Malay; Temuan (incl Mantra or Mentra), Jakun (Moken), Ireland, Portuguese, Portugal, Catalan, France, Germans: North (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pommern, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Rügen, Czech, Czechs, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Western Ukrainians, Nogai, Mordvins, Udmurt, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Russian Federation
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