Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
K78A — Swallows and heals.
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Summary of motif
OverviewA demonic character swallows cripples and regurgitates them healthy and beautiful.
Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 10, Adventures.
K78 has 1 other sub-motifs
RelatedK78. The cannibal swallows people. When he is killed, it turns out that they are not in his belly or that they are dead there. They are found alive not in the belly, but in the cannibal's finger, or there is a means of reviving them in the little finger, or the cannibal's finger must be cut or severed to find the people.
K78a. A demonic character swallows cripples and regurgitates them healthy and beautiful.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| N23 | 100.00% | fairy-tale text ends with a formula that says that the characters stayed or left where the action took place, and the narrator returned home and/or came to the place fairy tale performances. |
| L100D1 | 99.94% | A person endowed with (spiritual) power comes to a woman in the evening. When there is a knock at the door, the woman, having agreed in advance with her husband, tells the guest to lie down in the cradle and replies to her husband who has entered that their son is in the cradle. The man begins to turn the adult into a baby or threatens to do so: he shaves off his beard, knocks out his teeth, and grabs an axe to chop off his legs. The disgraced and exhausted guest runs away. |
| B73 | 99.79% | The character turns into a cuckoo. This happens so quickly that one foot remains unshod or one braid remains unbraided. Therefore, it is believed that the cuckoo's legs or wings are different. See motif A43A. |
| M197D | 99.79% | To find the thief, a man gives sticks to the assembled crowd and says that the thief's stick will become longer overnight. The thief cuts off the end of his stick and is thus discovered. |
| C33B | 99.71% | The demise of the first race is associated with the appearance of wind. |
| F100A | 99.71% | In order to revive a man or remove an arrowhead (bullet) from his body, a chaste girl or woman must touch (step over) the dead or wounded man. |
| J59C | 99.71% | A character strikes the remains of the deceased with a whip or a lash, and the deceased comes back to life. |
| K167B | 99.71% | A boy is able to determine the sex and colour of a young animal in the womb. |
| K172 | 99.71% | A man describes his daughter to a potential groom as ugly and crippled. The groom agrees to the marriage, and the bride turns out to be beautiful. |
| K182 | 99.71% | A supernatural defender comes to the rescue upon hearing the alarm, but stops doing so after the alarm has been raised in vain. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
15 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 15 traditions: Uzbek, Yagnobi, Abaza (Abazins), Ossetians, Avar, Andi, Akhvakh, Nogai, Tats, Kalmyk, Kara Kalpak, Kazakh, Uyghur, Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars, Bashkirs, Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Chechens
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