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F28D - Children are born from a wooden 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
By masturbating with an artificial penis, a woman conceives children.Berezkin category: Gender and sex
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| M71 | 98.88% | A character (usually carried away by a river or fallen from a height) turns into a piece of wood. Someone is picking it up. The character then takes on his true form, usually in the absence of the hosts. |
| B28D | 98.75% | Not understanding who they are dealing with, the characters respond to the wandering Transformer that they are preparing weapons to kill so-and-so or a hiding place to escape from so-and-so. The Transformer kills them himself or turns them into animals. |
| B1G | 98.45% | Four brothers change the world, freeing it from monsters, transforming its inhabitants and obtaining valuable resources (water, fire, cultivated plants, etc.). Usually one of the brothers is the leader, and the others help him. All four often have a common name. |
| K15C | 98.27% | The owner of stone (ice) clothing kills people. By hiding or replacing his clothing, the hero kills him. |
| H24E | 98.04% | Having brought the seeds of humanity into our world, the character drops or prematurely opens what he has brought. (Sometimes this explains the inequality of people and disorder in society). |
| A32C1 | 98.01% | The figure or imprint of a predatory mammal (fox, wolf, dog, coyote, jaguar, lion) is visible on the lunar disc. Either this animal is associated with the moon, belongs to it. See motif A34. |
| D4E | 97.78% | The thief or giver of fire, light or sun is a coyote or fox (indicated in square brackets). See motif 4A. |
| K27N3A | 97.51% | The character who gives the hero difficult tasks or subjects him to trials is associated with the sun, moon, thunder or wind (cloud, downpour). See motif K27. |
| I9A | 97.34% | Zenith and/or nadir are considered together with the four cardinal directions as one (or two) more main directions. |
| K87A | 97.30% | A forest woman receives or kidnaps a little boy and raises him to be her lover. |
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This motif has been recorded in 17 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), Tanana, Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Lillooet, Tillamook, Yokuts, Owens Valley Paiute, Northern Paiute (=Paviotso), Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Southern Paiute, Navajo, Hopi, Kogi (Cagaba), Sanha, Creols of Aritama Valley, Yupa (Yukpa), Tacana, Chacobo