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F28A1 - Jumping penis.
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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 living penis is a dangerous creature that attacks people.Berezkin category: Gender and sex
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks 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
F28 has 9 other sub-motifsF28. There is a separate penis character with whom the first women, Amazons, or simply some woman copulate. F28a. A penis grows out of the ground or out of the water in a lake. Women summon it as needed. F28a1. The living penis is a dangerous creature that attacks people. F28a2. 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. F28a3. A girl (woman) possesses an object that is pleasant (useful). Once in the hands of others, it becomes harmful (dangerous). F28a4. The fruits or stems of plants are penises. F28A5. The penis and vulva (in the singular or plural) are separate beings and characters. F28b. A woman uses a penis made of wax, wood, fruit or root. Usually her husband or male relative smears it with pepper, and the woman is maimed or killed. F28c. A woman masturbates with the penis of a large animal that one of the men killed while hunting. F28d. By masturbating with an artificial penis, a woman conceives children. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of F28's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
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| E9B | 96.48% | Before meeting the hero, his beloved (wife, helper) has the image of an elephant (elephant tusk). |
| H3 | 96.39% | Death is sent to people as punishment for excessive sympathy for a dead animal or for funeral games, during which they bury an animal, tree, etc. |
| M151 | 94.59% | A dangerous character pretends to be dead or absent, or pretends to be an inanimate object. The potential victim says aloud that the deceased (object or place – house, burrow, log, etc.) should do or say something. The character does so, revealing himself. |
| F97A5 | 94.39% | Being responsible for breaking food tabou by humans, snake lost its limbs as a punishment |
| H44A | 94.39% | Two characters, one associated with the sky or water, and the other with the earth or the world of spirits and humans, divide the child they have given birth to or the people they have created. Usually, the sky (water, spirit) takes the imperishable part, and the earth (human) takes the perishable part. |
| I119A | 94.31% | Creatures shake the earth, either upon learning that there are no longer any inhabitants on it, or to check whether they are still alive, or to show that they themselves are still there. |
| L44B | 94.22% | The blind and deaf (lame) began to live together, helping each other. After being mortally frightened or fighting, both (less often, one of them) got rid of their disabilities. |
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This motif has been recorded in 5 traditions: Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups), Toda, Kota, Kuruba (Kurumba), Badaga, Maravar, Pulaya, Kadar, Kets, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Siona, Secoya, Coreguaje