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F35 - Feeding meat from a lover.
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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 character offers another person the meat of his sexual partner, and the other person, unaware, eats or cooks it.Berezkin category: Gender and sex
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
F35 has 1 other sub-motifsF35. A character offers another person the meat of his sexual partner, and the other person, unaware, eats or cooks it. F35a. The character, unaware of this, eats or prepares meat (slowly kills) a member of his household (a relative, rarely a servant or spouse) or feeds it to his acquaintances, or uses its bones for household needs. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of F35's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| F34B | 97.30% | A girl, woman or group of women voluntarily take as their lover a penis that exists as a special creature, snake, moray eel, lizard, worm, crab, large aquatic animal or aquatic monster, or large terrestrial mammal. People kill or maim the lover, the woman and/or her offspring, or she herself loses her human nature. The woman's behaviour is condemned. |
| G26 | 95.65% | After swallowing or hiding food in their mouth, the character brings it to earth (passes it on to people). |
| M8 | 94.91% | Some characters (not humans) are struggling to break a strong barrier that prevents access to the desired location or to a high-value object. See also M8A - M8D motifs; they are included in the M8 motif in the correlation tables. |
| L48 | 94.38% | The hero (usually somewhere on high ground - on a tree, rock, at the edge of a precipice or well) kills and/or throws one of his opponents down from there. The other opponents do not recognise their comrade and believe that the slain man is the hero they are pursuing. |
| L22 | 94.26% | Having broken some taboo, seen an unusual object or a strange character, people fall into a deep sleep; at night, while asleep, they are killed or maimed. |
| B54 | 93.51% | Wood chips, branches or pieces of bark that have fallen or been thrown into the water turn into fish and aquatic animals. |
| I34 | 93.48% | It is necessary to approach a tree that is surrounded by fire, spews fire, throws sharp splinters, etc. |
| F9E1 | 93.45% | A woman's womb is dangerous because it contains a toothy or stinging animal (not just its mouth) or many such creatures. |
| L22A | 92.92% | Having broken some taboo, seen an unusual object or strange character, people fall into a deep sleep and wake up in the morning blind. See motif L22. Among the Watut, Khmou and Trumai, a spirit eats out a person's eyes and they die immediately without waking up). |
| C13 | 92.67% | During or before the onset of a global catastrophe (flood, darkness) or (surui) at night, household items and/or stones, trees, domestic animals, and cultivated plants turn into wild birds and animals or come to life. |
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This motif has been recorded in 67 traditions: Nyatutu, Kiniramba, Isanzu, Yoruba; incl Ife), Nupe, Bini (Edo), Engenni, Chamba, Dakka, Kukuruku, Sepik-Ramu stock: Abelam, Yatmul, Aibom, Ayom (incl Tembregak, Asai-river pygmies), Tangu, Porapora (Ambakich), Rao and other groups of Middle Ramu and Upper Keram River tribes; Kwanga, Watam, Kaian, Gamei, Awar; Kire (Lower Ramu), Torricelli family: Valman, Samap, Arapesh (Upper, Coastal), Monumbo, Lilau, Ngaimbom; Moando (Banara); Menya, Olo, Niue, Maori, Moriori (Chatam Islands), Ontong Java, Nukumanu, Takuu, Nukuria, Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kedang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor), Khmer, Chipewyan, Tahltan, Tsetsaut, Tanana, Iglulik, Polar Inuit, Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot, Naskapi, Montagnais, Menominee, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Blackfoot, Teton (incl Oglala), Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Klamath, Modoc, Caddo, Yana, Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam, Tzutujil, Pipil, Zapotec, Chatino, Tzotzil, Chorti, Kekchi; Mopan, Yupa (Yukpa), Sanema, Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi, Wayana, Aparai, Cañari, Siona, Secoya, Coreguaje, Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Karijona, Barasana, Taibano, Macuna, Desana, Siriano; Tatuyo, Bara, Tuyuca, Wanana, Tucano proper, Pira-Tapuya, Arapaso, Cubeo, Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna), Tariana, Andoque, Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor), Tenetehara, Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo, Amahuaca, Cashinahua, Sharanahua, Yaminahua, Yawanahua, Capanahua), Parintintin; Villa Bella (tribal affiliation unknown), Suruí, Gaviâo, Zoro, Arua, Cinta Larga, Rikbaktsa, Kayabi, Paresi, Craho, Suya, Txukarramae, Chamacoco (Ishir), Ofaie, Selknam, Greenland