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E30A - The ersatz spouse is replaced by the real one.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
A man without a wife or a woman without a husband uses a substitute spouse made of wood or other material until a real spouse appears.Berezkin category: The origins of people and culture
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 5, Origin of human beings, ethnic groups, etiology of human anatomy, strange body configuration, ways of behavior, marriages before the establishment of the present norms
E30 has 2 other sub-motifsE30. A man has no wife or a woman has no husband, and uses a wooden substitute as a spouse. E30a. A man without a wife or a woman without a husband uses a substitute spouse made of wood or other material until a real spouse appears. E30b. A man makes a figure or receives a woman. She comes to life and becomes his wife. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of E30's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M81D | 98.55% | A person meets (most often in the sky) one or two blind people and restores their sight. |
| F15 | 98.20% | The character sticks his plant-like penis out of the ground (provoking a woman to sit on it). |
| J57 | 96.93% | Conceived by the Sun, a woman gives birth to sons or a son; when they come of age, they visit their father. See motif J56. |
| M46A | 96.83% | The character turns into a baby, is picked up by the owners of valuables, and then steals valuables or converges with a woman. The baby is not a demonic creature and does not intend to kill those who pick it up (cf. Motive L60). |
| J53B | 96.81% | Two women live together, both have children. One of them leaves the house with the other, kills her, brings her meat home and starts cooking it. The children of the deceased notice their mother's breasts (in California – eyes or liver), or the mother's breasts themselves turn to her children. |
| H12A | 96.70% | The wife dies, the husband comes for her, or he kills her himself for adultery; she turns into a monster and haunts him. |
| H22 | 96.36% | Large game animals did not have a sense of smell. They acquired it and began to flee from hunters after someone created olfactory organs for them or gave them a strong smell to smell. Cf. motif H22A. |
| F45B | 96.07% | A woman gives birth to a son conceived by (the rays or light of) the sun. |
| K27T | 96.00% | Competition: climbing a pole. See motif K27. |
| J53C | 95.77% | Two women live together, both have children. One of them leaves the house with the other, kills her and (later) eats her. The children of the murdered woman escape. See motif J52. |
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This motif has been recorded in 10 traditions: Papua-NewGuinea Highland Papuans:Trans New Guinea & unclassified:Chimbu,Gimi,KaugelHuli,Gadsup,Kuman,Kutubu,Foi (Foe),Kyaka,Kamano (Kafe),Mawatta,Kukukuku (=Anga,=Sambia;Manki,Nauti,Ejuti),Baruya,Kewa,Tembregak,Menya,Melpa,Wiru,Pondoma, Melanesians of the northern coast New Guinea, nearest off-shore islands and Huon Gulf (Morobe district): Watut, Bilbil (Bilibili), Jabim (incl Kai), Tami, Bukawac, Wogeo, Tumleo, Yakamul, Manam, Sissano, Sio, Northern Vanuatu: Banks Islands (incl Mota, Mota Lava, Gaua, Santa Maria), Torres Islands, Tuamotu, incl Pukapuka (different from Pukapuka in Cook Islands), Vahitahi, Anaa, Hao, Fangatau, Mansi, Baffin Land Inuit, Tsimshian, Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah, Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)