Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
L7B — Mistakenly chasing a calabash.
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Summary of motif
OverviewWhile chasing a person, spirit, monster or beast, he mistakenly throws himself after a calabash floating down the river.
Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 10, Adventures.
L7 has 2 other sub-motifs
RelatedL7. While chasing a person, spirit, monster or beast, mistakenly chases after a large two-legged object passing by, usually an animal.
L7a. A character who sticks to another creature and refuses to let go, first sticking to a human, then to an animal, or first sticking to an animal, then to a bird.
L7b. While chasing a person, spirit, monster or beast, he mistakenly throws himself after a calabash floating down the river.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
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| B7D | 100.00% | Water pours from a broken bone, flooding the earth. |
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| G11 | 99.90% | The squirrel plays an important role in cutting down a giant tree (usually chopping or trying to chop the vine that holds it, see motif G10). |
| L1E | 99.83% | A monstrous bird is created from a small amount of human or animal flesh (usually from the heart) or from lumps of manioc starch. |
| A13B | 99.71% | During an eclipse or at the first appearance of night, ants eclipse the sun. |
| A9 | 99.71% | The moon-woman does not allow her son or husband, the Sun, to destroy people. |
| L3A | 99.71% | Left alone, a woman carelessly calls for someone to help her with the housework; a demon comes and kills the woman or her child. |
| I27B | 99.38% | A dog carries a person across a river to another world. See motif I27. |
| M47 | 99.38% | When punishing a person or animal or restoring a dismembered body, a character intentionally or accidentally puts his head to his ass. |
| G10 | 99.03% | A tree whose trunk has been cut down remains hanging because it is held up from above. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
4 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 4 traditions: Colorado (Tsachila), Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”), Kofan, Yagua
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