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A35B - Covering the moon with resin.
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Summary of Motif
The character tries to cover the moon with resin (so that it shines less brightly).Berezkin category: The Sun and Moon
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 2, Moon spots, stars, constellations
A35 has 4 other sub-motifsA35. Dark spots on the lunar disc – dirt, blood, paint, marks from blows, burns on the body or face of a character; they do not form a specific image. See motif A31. A35a. Moon spots - mud (manure, clay, ash, dough, dirty rag) thrown in the face of the Moon/Moon as a result of a family or love conflict - often by a brother/sister or mother. A35b. The character tries to cover the moon with resin (so that it shines less brightly). a35b1. The criminal tries to make the moon dim because its light annoys him or prevents him from committing crimes. A35c. Moon spots are scratches and wounds on the face of a character. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of A35's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
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| A32M | 100.00% | The moon is called the "Gypsy sun". |
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| B124 | 100.00% | Ever since a piece of flesh was torn from a person's foot, a hollow has formed between the toe and the heel. |
| B49B | 100.00% | In the past, cows had more teats on their udders than they do now. |
| C32 | 100.00% | Demonic characters will make a ship out of nail clippings. |
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| F57 | 100.00% | A girl or her father (rarely: mother) picks a plant (usually a flower) and as a result encounters a character with a non-human appearance and/or inhabiting the underworld. The girl becomes the character's wife. In some cases, the picked plant is the character's hair, but more often there is no direct association of this kind. |
| F87B | 100.00% | A snake crawls onto the clothes of a bathing girl, climbs down in exchange for a promise to marry him, and takes her to the underwater world. She is happy there and gives birth to children. Together with them, she visits her relatives. They call the snake out of the water and kill it. After that, the wife transforms her children and/or herself into plants. |
| H52A | 100.00% | Returning from the land of immortality, a person must not touch the ground. However, he dismounts from his horse to help an old man (old woman). Death, who has taken the form of an old man, immediately kills him. Rarely: at the last moment, the hero decides not to perform actions that are fatal for him. |
| I42G3 | 100.00% | In the forest person comes across a house that is made, completely or partly, of edible matter |
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This motif has been recorded in 11 traditions: Kashubians, Livonians, Estonians, Finns, Karelians, Vepsians, Western Sami, Eastern Sami (including Skolts), Swedes, Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam, Russian Federation