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B98A - The bat becomes an outcast, ATU 222A.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
The bat becomes an outcast among other creatures (usually after trying to join either the animals or the birds).Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 7, Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar
B98 has 3 other sub-motifsB98. The bat (rarely: ostrich) tries to join either the beasts or the birds, or finds itself excluded from both. B98a. The bat becomes an outcast among other creatures (usually after trying to join either the animals or the birds). B98b. The Bat comes into conflict with other creatures in connection with someone's death or funeral. B98c. The heavenly deity could have healed the bat's mother or child, but did not do so, and they died. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of B98's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M185 | 96.95% | A fast-footed animal (a flightless bird) and a slow character agree to compete in running or jumping. The slow character secretly clings to the fast-footed one (or to a vehicle) and at the finish line pretends that he has run at the same time as him (jumped just as far) or before him. |
| M185A | 96.92% | Birds, animals and fish compete to see which of them can run or swim fastest or climb highest. A weak character secretly clings to the winner and wins. There are 3 key versions: A. Birds argue about which of them will fly higher or arrive first. The winner is the one whose victory seemed unlikely, ATU 221A. See motif A23C.B. A fast and a slow animal (insect) agree to compete in speed or long jump. The slow one secretly clings to the fast one, ATU 275B. See motif M185.C. Two fish (fish and whale, dolphin, squid and dolphin, etc.) agree to race each other. The weaker one secretly clings to the tail (fin) of the stronger one and wins, ATU 250. See motif M186A. |
| M124 | 96.79% | The character buries the tail (head, ears) of a domestic animal, claiming that it has fallen into the ground. Usually, he asks others to pull on the tail (head), and when it "breaks off," he accuses others of stealing the animal. |
| B89 | 96.31% | The eagle owl (owl) was the chief among birds, claimed this position or behaved badly when choosing the head of the birds; now he avoids other birds and/or other birds chase him. |
| M106 | 94.96% | The character calls himself by a fictitious name, which others understand not as a proper name, but as a common noun with a specific meaning. |
| B98 | 94.95% | The bat (rarely: ostrich) tries to join either the beasts or the birds, or finds itself excluded from both. |
| F28A3 | 94.83% | A girl (woman) possesses an object that is pleasant (useful). Once in the hands of others, it becomes harmful (dangerous). |
| K56 | 94.45% | One of the girls, young women or young girls (wives of one man) meets a character who is able to reward and punish. She behaves correctly and receives a reward. Another (others) tries to repeat everything, but behaves incorrectly and is punished (rarely: not rewarded). |
| K33D | 94.30% | A man discovers that a beautiful girl is hiding under the guise of an ugly hag or under the skin of an animal. |
| F28A2 | 94.22% | The owner of the field, either intentionally or having misheard the question, replies that he grows penises. After that, penises grow in the field instead of crops. |
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This motif has been recorded in 47 traditions: Algeria Arabs, Amhara; Zay, Harari; Silte, Gogot, Gogo, Kaguru, Luguru, Zigula, Taveta, Shambala (Sambala), Bondei, Taeta, Dabida; Zaramo, Sakata, Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo), Ronga, Boa, Komo, (Ba)Nyanga, Mbole, Hausa, Igbo (Ibo); Isoko, Urhobo, Yoruba; incl Ife), Nupe, Bini (Edo), Engenni, Chamba, Dakka, Kukuruku, Kposso, "Togo-Restvölker" (Adele, Akebu, Akposso, Bowiri/Bowili, Santrokofi, Lelemi, Borada Akrade, Teteman, Baakwa, Bowiri), Bia: Anyi, Agni, Baule, Nsema, Niue, Burmese, Intha, Nicobarese, Rawang, Dulong; Anong, Drung, Kachin (Singpho), Chak, Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani), Early Chinese written sources, Lepcha, Spain, Spaniards, Portuguese, Portugal, Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia, Dutch, Flemish, Czech, Czechs, Hungarians, Ancient Greece, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Finns, Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Georgians, Kalmyk, Azeris (Azerbaijanis), Hui (Dungan) of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan (Dungan texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones), Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Khakas, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Yuchi, Klamath, Modoc, Cherokee, Western Keres (Acoma, Laguna), Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights), Prussians, Congo