Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
M66 — The root eaten, J2154
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Summary of motif
OverviewAfter eating certain foods frivolously or rubbing his body with his spine, the character suffers from itching, diarrhea, or an irrepressible eruption of intestinal gases.
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.
M66 has 1 other sub-motifs
RelatedM66. After eating certain foods frivolously or rubbing his body with his spine, the character suffers from itching, diarrhea, or an irrepressible eruption of intestinal gases.
M66a. After eating a certain food, the trickster leaves a mountain of excrement that is larger than himself.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| B95 | 99.05% | The appearance of the sphincter or buttocks is explained by the fact that a certain character burned his backside. |
| J12M | 99.05% | A woman or two sisters come to two men and become wives of one of them. The other kills or tries to kill his rival or the women. As a result, the women turn into waterfowl. |
| M69 | 98.54% | character is attracted by the inside of a large animal's skull (small animals or insects are dancing or feasting inside, or eating some meat); he sticks his head inside , it gets stuck. |
| K1J | 98.25% | The abandoned one turns into a bird and returns home faster than the one who abandoned him. |
| L5E1 | 98.18% | A woman who has become a monster pursues her own children. |
| C6B | 98.13% | The desired object is brought up from the bottom by a muskrat (rarely a beaver or otter). |
| J41 | 97.91% | The hero leaves for a long time. When he returns, his relative does not immediately believe that it is really him. All this time, someone has been mocking him or her, imitating the voice of the departed, saying that he has returned and/or throwing ashes in his or her face. |
| J19B | 97.63% | An evil spirit kills a woman by burning through her body. |
| H53 | 97.40% | The wolf participates in the creation of the earth or is the brother of the creator and/or conqueror of the demons of the underworld. He dies and/or is considered the first to die and/or becomes the lord of the land of the dead. |
| L86 | 96.85% | Having turned into a demon, a woman pursues her children. Cf. motif K102a2: A mother seeks to destroy her son (children) because he interferes with her love affair and/or sides with his father in a conflict between his parents. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
23 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 23 traditions: Chipewyan, Micmac, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario), Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree), Eastern Cree, Montagnais, Menominee, Winnebago, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Santee, Iowa, Arikara, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Kiowa, Gros Ventre, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Crow, Chiricahua, Lipan
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