Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif

M61 — Incitement to quarrel (by words), K1084, ATU 1577

72 Myths, legends and folktales

72 Unique narratives for motif M61

52 Cultures & traditions where M61 is told

5 Sub-motifs of motif M61

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Summary of motif

Overview

The character provokes a quarrel by telling each of his opponents how one of them allegedly used hostile or offensive language towards the other.

Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes

M61 has 5 other sub-motifs

M61.  The character provokes a quarrel by telling each of his opponents how one of them allegedly used hostile or offensive language towards the other.
M61a.  To get valuables, the character provokes a quarrel between their owners. When they start fighting each other, valuables fall out of their bodies and end up at the character's disposal.
M61a1.  The character (always a raven) provokes a seagull to quarrel with another bird, telling each one that the other was hostile or offensive towards her.
M61a2.  The character provokes a quarrel between two stones of different breeds. To do this, he told everyone how the other supposedly spoke hostile or offensive towards the former.
M61a3.  The character tells each of two different species of fish how the other allegedly used to be hostile or offensive towards the former. Fish kill each other and the character prepares them to eat.
M61a4.  character lies to each of the spouses as if the other had a misfortune. They run to each other in panic.

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Phylogeny

Motif	Similarity	Motif summary
A1	0.00%	Another sun — less powerful or less favourable to humans — existed before the appearance of the current one.
A10	0.00%	The sun gets its sparkling eyes (eye) from an animal.
A11A	0.00%	The visible sun or moon are their eyes; if the eyes of the luminaries were not damaged, it would be much brighter and hotter.
A11B	0.00%	The sun or moon has one eye (usually the second eye is knocked out or sucked out, but sometimes the reason is not explained; among the Munduruku, the sun of the rainy season has lost both eyes, while the sun of the dry season has retained both). See motif 11A.
A11C	0.00%	The Sun and Moon kill a monster whose eyes shine differently. At first, the Moon takes the brighter eye, but then swaps with the Sun.
A12	0.00%	A creature or creatures regularly (sunrise and sunset, winter and summer, night and day, phases of the moon) or occasionally (eclipses, eschatological catastrophes) attack the luminaries or block their light.
A12A	0.00%	During an eclipse or under other circumstances, predators attack the luminaries: wolves, bears, jaguars, pumas, dogs, foxes, raccoons. See motif A12.
A12B	0.00%	During an eclipse or at sunset (marked *), the luminaries are swallowed by a toad or frog.
A12C	0.00%	Eclipses of the sun, moon or their setting (marked*) are caused by a snake, lizard, dragon, fish or crocodile; these creatures attack the luminaries now or attacked them at the beginning of time. See motif A12.
A12D	0.00%	Birds attack the sun or moon during an eclipse (covering them with their wings) or (*) cover the sun during sunrise or sunset. See motif A12.

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Traditions

52 recorded

This motif has been recorded in 52 traditions: Arabs of Iraq, Iraqi, Malay; Temuan (incl Mantra or Mentra), Jakun (Moken), Central islands and Bikol: Vizaya, Mansaká, Bikol, Mangyan, Panayan, Sulod, Cebuano (Cebu), Capiz, Romblomanon, Manuyu, Karen, Pa-O, Padaung, Kayah, Katu (Ködu); Bru (incl. Van Kieu, Khua), Eastern Arunachal Pradesh: Abor (incl Minyong, Shimong, Padam, Pasi, Panggi), Apa Tani (Apatani), Bori, Bugun, Dafla (=Nyishi, Nisi, Nishing, incl Tagin), Gallong (=Galo, Adi), Mishmi, Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru, Bengali, Sinhalese; Vedda, Spain, Spaniards, Catalan, Dutch, Flemish, Germans: North (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pommern, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Rügen, Poles, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Finns, Ossetians, Ingush, Azeris (Azerbaijanis), Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks), Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots), Inland Tlingit, Tahltan, Upper Kuskokwim (Kolchan), Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island), Tlingit, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario), Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree), Eastern Cree, Naskapi, Menominee, Teton (incl Oglala), Arikara, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Crow, Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Tillamook, Okanagon, Sanpoil, Kutenai, Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam, Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio), Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori, China, Japan, Russian Federation

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