Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
L68 — Two in the night.
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Summary of motif
OverviewLeft alone (usually at night in a deserted place) with his companion, a man undergoes a monstrous metamorphosis.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| F92 | 96.33% | A male character allows himself to be used as a sexual object. |
| B27B | 95.69% | The characters ponder what they should transform into and decide to become a celestial object. |
| L5C | 95.22% | The monster head pursues celestial bodies, people, or attaches itself to someone else's body. See motif L5. |
| L31 | 94.93% | People are forced against their will to follow an object, person or animal (usually sticking to it) that carries them far away (usually into water or into the sky). |
| B59 | 94.14% | A group of people (usually children, brothers or sisters) play, dance, rise to the sky and turn into the Pleiades or another small constellation. |
| J16 | 93.75% | The character perishes because, being forced to look for insects in the head of another, he refuses to chew insects, spits them out in disgust, or is suspected of doing so. |
| K10A | 93.60% | Heroes kill a dangerous bird; during or before the battle, they hide in a shelter (hut, cage, vessel, sack, well) or cover themselves with an object that protects the body. |
| M8B | 93.60% | Animals, and often birds, struggle to break through the rock to get water or honey hidden inside it. |
| L31B | 93.53% | Upon discovering a reptile on land, people touch it or sit on it, stick to it, and it crawls away with them into the water. See motif L31. |
| C34 | 92.95% | The flood begins after people kill (harm, maim) some kind of creature (usually aquatic). |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
54 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 54 traditions: Northern Luzon: Apayao, Bontoc, Nabaloi (Ibaloi), Ifugao, Igorot (highland people, not specified), Ilocan, Ilongot, Isneg, Kalinga, Kankanay, Tingian (Tinggian, Bilongan Itneg); Ibanag, Kasiguran Agta, Keley-i Kallahan, Svans, Southern Selkups, Northern Selkups, Western Woods Cree, Eastern Cree, Menominee, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Cheyenne, Arapaho, Teton (incl Oglala), Mandan, Arikara, Pawnee, Tonkawa, Kiowa Apache, Gros Ventre, Plains Cree, Assiniboine, Crow, Hidatsa, Carrier, Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Kutenai, Caddo, Hitchiti, Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell, Navajo, Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos), Yucatec, Itza, Paya (Pech), Sumu, Misquito, Locono, Wayapi, Emerillon, Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”), Kofan, Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Aguaruna, Huambiza, Puinave, Yagua, Ticuna (Tucuna), Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo, Mehinaku, Waura, Yaulapiti, Kamayura, Trumai, Rikbaktsa, Bororo, Canela: Ramkokamekra, Apaniekra, Craho, Apinaye (Apinage, Apinaje), Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay), Chorote, Kpelle (incl Kono)
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