Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
M81E2 — It attracts people and animals
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Summary of motif
OverviewBy playing an instrument or otherwise, a character is able to attract an animal or person far away from him.
Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 10, Adventures.
M81 has 8 other sub-motifs
RelatedM81. Wandering, the hero finds himself in a place where blind or blind (two or more) live.
M81a. The hero meets two blind women and makes them sighted. These women are birds (geese, ducks, hazel grouses, partridges).
M81b. The character is warned not to try to reach an arrow if it gets stuck in a tree. He breaks the ban and gets into trouble.
M81c. A person goes to heaven or (rarely) to the lower world, where he meets blind people (one or two), usually makes them sighted, and returns to earth himself.
M81d. A person meets (most often in the sky) one or two blind people and restores their sight.
M81e. young man undertakes to herd cattle and is warned not to cross the borders of a giant, dragon, witch, etc. The young man violates the ban and kills a giant.
M81e1. A young man lives with an old man whose eyes or eyes were carried away by a giant. The young man goes to the giant, kills him, brings his eyes, the old man sees the light.
M81e2. By playing an instrument or otherwise, a character is able to attract an animal or person far away from him.
M81f. blind beggar robs an honest man. He watches him and, when he enters the house, takes everything the blind man has accumulated. He often takes money accumulated by other blind people as well.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| A32J | 100.00% | A shaman with a tambourine ascends to the moon and remains there, visible in the silhouette of the lunar spots. |
| B42M1 | 100.00% | The three main stars of the Big Dipper's handle are associated with people of three different nationalities. |
| B64A | 100.00% | Fish and birds fight (usually by shooting arrows at each other). Since then, fish have had many small bones in their bodies and/or birds' legs have taken on their current form. |
| B72D | 100.00% | A woman makes herself wings (beak, tail) from clothing accessories and turns into a bird or a flying creature. |
| B74A | 100.00% | Red cloths are sewn over the character's eyes (threads, eyelids are painted red) or he does it himself. He sees everything in red or his eyes have turned red forever. |
| D1A1 | 100.00% | Because a woman offended the fire, its mistress takes her child away. |
| E13 | 100.00% | The shamanic tambourine is compared or associated with a lake. |
| E1E | 100.00% | The son of the first human couple initially takes the form of a small plant that has grown from the ground, a stalk. |
| K32H2 | 100.00% | A man executes his wife by leaving her to be eaten by ants. |
| K56A1 | 100.00% | The groom, the bringer of prosperity, orders the girl who has come to perform work that she herself is unable to do. The groom's mother performs the work, and the girl is accepted by the groom. See motif K56A. Except for the Ket people: the work is performed by tiny women sitting in or behind the mother-in-law's ear. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
5 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 5 traditions: Mansi, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Khakas, Southern Selkups, Northern Selkups
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