Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
L36 — A woman attacks when a man is in a tree.
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Summary of motif
OverviewAt the moment when the husband climbs or descends from a tree, his wife (or her brother) kills or maims him or turns into a demon that pursues him.
Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
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 |
|---|---|---|
| M8D | 99.22% | Birds break through the hard cover on the character's body to reach his entrails. |
| L44A | 99.12% | The demon demands that the man hiding in the shelter give him parts of his body. The man gives the demon parts of the body of a dead animal. The demon does not understand the deception and dies, giving parts of his own body in return. |
| I63 | 98.86% | The Milky Way is the tapir's trail; the tapir can be seen on the Milky Way. |
| B36A | 98.86% | Two zoomorphic characters adorn each other, after which one is satisfied with the result and the other is not. |
| C37 | 98.86% | The sloth causes a global catastrophe or saves people from it. |
| K27H | 98.86% | The hero must carve an image of the character's head, which he never shows. It usually adorns a wooden bench. |
| B58 | 98.83% | After the first ancestors steal the original fire, a forest bird the size of a partridge (Penelope sp.; Anhima cornuta; etc.; jacu, paujil) swallows a hot coal. As a result (except for the Andoc), its neck turns red. |
| D4P | 98.83% | The parrot obtains fire for humans. See motif D4A. Australian data is not taken into account, as the common origin of the motif in America and Australia is excluded. |
| D6B | 98.83% | The one who is burned turns into a crocodile/caiman. |
| E21 | 98.78% | A child catches fish (with poison), or fish poison is secreted from his body. Fish or water snakes kill him. Death is avenged. |
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Traditions
11 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 11 traditions: Wappo, Choco: Embera, Nonama (Waunana), XVI century Dabaiba, pre-Columbian iconography of Sinu, Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami, Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan), Akawai, Palikur, Orinoco Kariña, Yaruri, Tamanak, Mehinaku, Waura, Yaulapiti, Caraja, Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon, Chorote
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