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F47B - New people in the same place.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
In order to create new people (new women) to replace those who have been destroyed, the character leaves something (feathers or pieces of flesh) in each empty hut (in the hearth, in the hammock, in the village), from which new people (new women) appear.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
F47 has 2 other sub-motifsF47. Pieces of a creature cut into many parts or a lump of living flesh are scattered or dispersed. After that, people emerge from them. Cf. motifs E38A and K98. F47a. Men use each part of the body of a single woman for copulation, or each man takes a part of her body cut into pieces. F47b. In order to create new people (new women) to replace those who have been destroyed, the character leaves something (feathers or pieces of flesh) in each empty hut (in the hearth, in the hammock, in the village), from which new people (new women) appear. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of F47's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| B36A | 99.11% | Two zoomorphic characters adorn each other, after which one is satisfied with the result and the other is not. |
| B36 | 98.86% | Birds, fish, and four-legged animals deliberately or accidentally smear themselves with colouring substances or divide parts of another's body among themselves, thereby acquiring their current appearance. |
| F47A | 98.65% | Men use each part of the body of a single woman for copulation, or each man takes a part of her body cut into pieces. |
| M8C | 98.65% | Birds pierce through a layer of clay, wax, resin, etc., that covers the character's eyes or anus. |
| K27YY2 | 98.62% | The hero is sent to bring the chick of a dangerous bird. |
| E20 | 98.21% | When a certain person enters the water, the fish die. A plant grows from parts of his body or on his grave, from which fish poison (timbó) is made. |
| M70 | 97.61% | The oldest character poisons the youngest with his intestinal gases. |
| L36 | 97.55% | At the moment when the husband climbs or descends from a tree, his wife (or her brother) kills or maims him or turns into a demon that pursues him. |
| C9A | 97.47% | During the flood or when crossing a river, those who drowned or were saved turn into aquatic or amphibious animals. |
| M35 | 97.37% | Two zoomorphic characters compete to see which of them will spend the whole night in the cold and stay alive. By morning, one of them dies. Cf. K27A motif (the cold test does not involve a two-animal competition). |
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This motif has been recorded in 9 traditions: Assiniboine, Wappo, Pomo, Wayapi, Emerillon, Craho, Shavante, Sherente, Cariri, Chamacoco (Ishir)