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F53 - The ugly husband.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
An unattractive man marries, but hides his face. When he is seen, the marriage is dissolved.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
F53 has 1 other sub-motifsF53. An unattractive man marries, but hides his face. When he is seen, the marriage is dissolved. F53a. The husband hides his face from his wife because she does not know that he is a bat or an owl. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of F53's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| B29 | 98.53% | People turn into animals, birds or stones, living beings acquire their current characteristics at a general meeting, festival, after a festival, after performing a ritual or after defeating a common enemy. |
| K10 | 97.94% | A monstrous bird (bat) attacks people, heroes engage in battle with it. See motifs K10A – K10G. |
| M8A | 97.91% | Animals, and more often birds, find it difficult to break through a rock from the outside or inside, make a hole in the tree, in the body of an absorber creature, tear fetters, etc., to help a character or get out of the confined space by yourself. The list <b><i>includes</i></b> groups whose texts deal with the exit of the first ancestors to earth from a confined space. |
| F33 | 97.21% | A woman or group of women take a water animal or water monster as their lover. The husband(s), brother(s) or (adopted) children of the woman(s) kill or maim the lover and (in some cases) the woman(s). |
| J59 | 96.55% | To reach the sky, one must shoot an arrow that will pierce the vault of heaven. See motif J58; see motif J59A: a man flies after or on an arrow (without the motif of an arrow piercing the vault of heaven). |
| C34 | 96.45% | The flood begins after people kill (harm, maim) some kind of creature (usually aquatic). |
| F51 | 96.42% | Someone under cover of night/incognito approaches a person of the opposite sex. The marriage partner deliberately (to determine who it is) or accidentally (thereby exposing the visitor) makes a mark on his/her body (clothing). See motif A31. |
| M11 | 96.26% | The character gives others food extracted from his or someone else's body or contaminated with bodily secretions, without revealing the source of the food. |
| B27 | 96.24% | The characters ponder what object or creature they should transform into, and once they have made their choice, they undergo metamorphosis. |
| L46 | 96.14% | The character walks, climbs or descends upside down, or sees the world turned upside down. |
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This motif has been recorded in 20 traditions: Samoa, Tuvalu (Ellice), Bugi, Macassar, Batak (Toba, Dairi), SW Arunachal Pradesh: Sherdukpen, Tawang (Monpas), Aka (Hrusso), Miji, Aleuts, Iglulik, Polar Inuit, Klamath, Modoc, Cherokee, Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Chemehuevi, Cahuilla, Cupeño, Kekchi; Mopan, Guajiro, Kofan, Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo, Kayabi, Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon