Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
M114F — Crooked pipe.
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe girl has a minor physical defect. Man: The house is nice, but the pipe is crooked. Girl: But the smoke comes out well.
Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior.
M11 has 4 other sub-motifs
RelatedM11. The character gives others food extracted from his or someone else's body or contaminated with bodily secretions, without revealing the source of the food.
M11a. The character gives others the fish extracted from his body.
M11b. A woman feeds a man with good-quality meat or fat, which she cuts from her own flesh or extracts from her body, and stops doing so when he learns about the source of the food.
M11c. Without harming himself, a male character cuts off, pierces, roasts, holds over a fire, etc. a part of his body (or his wife's body). The character cooks the meat, fat, etc. obtained in this way and treats his guest to it. This food is not perceived as unclean (cf. motifs M11B and M38).
m11d. The character makes food taste good by adding salt to it. Another character learns that the cook extracts this salt from his own body (it is contained in his bodily secretions).
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| J25A1 | 100.00% | A woman dies, but remains incorrupt and gives birth to a child in the grave. He is found and brings his mother back to life. |
| K9A | 100.00% | The punished character is suspended on a chain or metal thread between heaven and earth. |
| M39A4B | 100.00% | foolish woman thinks that frogs will make yarn or cloth for her, or buy yarn and throw the material into the water. |
| M39A4B1 | 100.00% | Foolish woman throws her yarn ways (into the water, into the bush) and believes that somebody with weave it |
| M147A | 99.01% | When the foxes (wolves) meet and one of them (one of the wolves) asks when they will see each other again, the other replies that it will be at the fur market (at the furrier's, etc.). |
| M90A3 | 98.02% | plant grows from a killed snake or part of a snake's body. |
| N34 | 97.59% | Streams (jets) that consist not of water but of honey (honey and butter, butter and milk, milk and blood) are mentioned as signs of generosity and abundance. Cf. H16 motives - H16B, K33F. |
| L4A | 97.31% | To test the loyalty of the heroine (hero), the demon demands that she eat food that humans should not eat. Usually, when the heroine reports that the food has been eaten, the demon asks where the food is, and the food answers him. |
| K561 | 96.85% | A poor man brings his master a chicken (goose, etc.) as a present. The master asks him to divide the bird appropriately among the members of his household. The poor man does it considering the symbolic meaning of particular parts (gives the master the head, his daughters the wings, etc.) and receives rich compensation. A neighbor brings the master five chickens but is unable to divide them approppriately. The first man does it again. |
| I68A | 96.49% | Once a year, water briefly acquires unusual properties. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
6 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 6 traditions: Albanians, Balkarians, Crimean Tatars, Karaims, Anatolia Turks, Azeris (Azerbaijanis), Kurds, Bashkirs
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