Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
K162 — The villain enters the bedroom (ATU 956B).
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe antagonist (robber, sorcerer, witch) sneaks into the house of a girl or young woman, hiding inside a statue, in a wardrobe, etc., and/or putting her husband (guard, etc.) to sleep, but is destroyed at the last moment.
Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 10, Adventures.
K16 has 1 other sub-motifs
RelatedK16. Taking the form of a bird, bat, insect, small animal, or fish, the man enters the young woman's home (her father's house).
K16a. In an effort to show that he is a good hunter, a man regularly walks in front of a girl, pretending to carry prey. Once he slips, and the imaginary prey turns out to be a scarecrow stuffed with ashes or a bundle of termites.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| K56F1 | 99.71% | Five chickens (geese, etc.) must be divided among six eaters (other numbers are possible). The solution is to give each pair of participants one chicken and take two for oneself (two chickens and one person â three, two people and one chicken â also three). |
| K134 | 99.63% | A guest is planted with treasure in order to accuse him of theft. |
| M90A6 | 99.53% | Owning some apples ensures eternal youth. |
| M182A | 99.31% | A person smears resin on a bull, a horse (usually making a figure that comes to life), or some object; wild animals or demons stick to it. Cf. motif K133. |
| B106 | 99.09% | First, the heavenly rooster crows (or the underground roosters crow), and only then do the earthly roosters crow. |
| K35A6 | 99.09% | The character illuminates the room with a light-emitting object (usually a feather) that he has found. |
| M39D | 98.99% | A person consistently and unintentionally harms others. The victims take him to a judge. He saves a person from punishment by making a formally logical but clearly unacceptable decision in each case. |
| K33A6 | 98.92% | A kid (lamb, gazelle, etc.) runs up to a pond into which its owner has pushed it and says that knives are being sharpened and water is being boiled to slaughter and cook it. |
| I59B3 | 98.91% | The Milky Way â the road of salt traders, "Chumak Way". |
| K56F | 98.88% | A man divides a roasted rooster (goose) according to the social ranks of those present (the head to the host, the wings to the daughters, etc.), usually taking the least prestigious but meatiest part for himself. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
15 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 15 traditions: Algeria Arabs, Rajasthani (Radjasthan and Madhya Pradesh), Portuguese, Portugal, Maltese, Sicily, Sicilians, Sardinia, Corsica, Sardinians, Corsicans, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Western Ukrainians, Persians, Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin, Armenians, Anatolia Turks, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio)
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