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D13C - The trickster makes his brother's wife laugh.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Two companions or brothers live together. The older one has a wife, whom he hides. To discover her, the younger one, left alone in the house, makes her laugh.Berezkin category: Fire and Laughter
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
D13 has 11 other sub-motifsD13. A character loses their values (gives them away) and/or suffers damage/is healed/is transformed if they laugh or hear laughter. D13A. To amuse the owner of fire or the Sun, others dance indecently, imitate copulation, display their genitals, or publicly relieve themselves. D13B. Menstruation passes from men to women after women laugh at an old man. D13c. Two companions or brothers live together. The older one has a wife, whom he hides. To discover her, the younger one, left alone in the house, makes her laugh. D13d. One character tries to make another character, who is hiding somewhere in the house, laugh in order to find them. D13e. Hunters perish because they laughed at the killed (and revived) animal. D13f. Laughter causes the appearance or spread of fire or the sun. Usually, the owner of fire or the sun loses it after bursting into laughter. D13g. When the character starts laughing, people see his or her scary mouth (lots of teeth, human flesh on the teeth); they kill the monster or run away. D13h. Those who have entered the world of the dead should not laugh. D13hh. A person visiting another world should not laugh or show surprise when seeing strange things. Those who break this rule will perish or suffer harm. D13i. The character amuses the audience in order to identify the deceiver and thief by his broken tooth. The latter laughs and gives himself away. D13i1. The characteristics of a character can be determined by his teeth. By laughing and showing his teeth, the character reveals himself. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of D13's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| I28A | 100.00% | Large animals that are hunted go underground and cause earthquakes. |
| J36 | 99.65% | The turtle drags the hero's parents under water. |
| J60 | 99.44% | A woman conceives twins from two different fathers. |
| C9A | 99.00% | During the flood or when crossing a river, those who drowned or were saved turn into aquatic or amphibious animals. |
| E13A | 98.52% | Sacred knowledge, objects and rituals were first obtained by humans from the inhabitants of the underwater world. |
| L9A | 97.63% | The character's leg is crippled (intentionally or accidentally) or originally pointed. He uses the pointed bone for hunting, fishing or killing people. |
| F44 | 97.34% | In the community of the first ancestors, women and men quarrel, leave, kill, maim each other, etc. |
| F42 | 97.17% | Feeling wronged, men leave their wives or sisters. |
| F96 | 96.94% | A girl or wife rejects an unattractive man. He becomes handsome (usually after encountering a supernatural being), and those who treated him badly are punished. |
| F43 | 96.24% | The women of the community of the first ancestors kill or abandon the men. |
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This motif has been recorded in 5 traditions: Malecite, Passamaquoddy, Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Okanagon, Sanpoil, Mundurucu, Curuaia, Umotina (Umutina)