Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
M52 — Mascara fresheners
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe character (by deception) kills an ungulates. He asks another to refresh the carcass, looks for a knife to do it, or a fire to fry the meat. The other freshens the carcass, gives fire or a knife, but takes or tries to take all the meat for himself.
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.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| M11C | 98.32% | 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). |
| M51 | 97.47% | One of the two characters gets meat. The weaker deceives the stronger one, hiding the meat in his absence to eat alone later. |
| F28C | 96.88% | A woman masturbates with the penis of a large animal that one of the men killed while hunting. |
| K42 | 96.50% | A young bird woman energetically searches among a group of men for one she likes, takes him by force and makes him her husband; she turns into a monster, pursues and kills men, but is ultimately killed herself. |
| F64 | 96.41% | The character is presented as another person in order to mate with a close relative in the descending or (less commonly) ascending line. |
| F82 | 96.39% | The son-in-law resorts to trickery to sleep with his mother-in-law, or the mother-in-law with her son-in-law. Usually, the son-in-law insists that his mother-in-law, rather than his wife, accompany him on a hunt. |
| F51A | 96.39% | After incest is discovered, the sister openly demands her brother as her husband, turns into a monster, and kills people. |
| K21A | 96.26% | A celestial being marries an earthly woman. She longs to return to earth and secretly descends from her husband. |
| F56 | 96.16% | Upon seeing the vagina of his mother, daughter, daughter-in-law, sister, niece, or mother-in-law, a man or boy thinks about incest or commits it. |
| J22A | 96.14% | Two men or a brother and sister emerge from a single body or embryo cut in half, or the second emerges from a part of the body or from the secretions of the first. Cf. motif M37. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
37 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 37 traditions: Nuba, Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang), Other West Chadic: Ngas, Bolanchi, Tangale, Yoruba; incl Ife), Nupe, Bini (Edo), Engenni, Chamba, Dakka, Kukuruku, Ontong Java, Nukumanu, Takuu, Nukuria, Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Baree (=Eastern Toraja), Garo (Atchik), Kachari (Bodo, incl. Lalung), Dimasa, Tripuri, Riang (of Tripura), Khami, Riga, Mori, Nenets, Menominee, Blackfoot, Pawnee, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Kiowa Apache, Crow, Chilkotin, Shuswap, Nez Perce, Okanagon, Sanpoil, Klamath, Modoc, Cherokee, Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov, Owens Valley Paiute, Northern Paiute (=Paviotso), Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Ute, Southern Paiute, Chemehuevi, Jicarilla, Zuni, Lipan, Aztec; Aztec and Teotihuacan iconography, Sanema, Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi, Kayabi, Caraja, Senufo
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