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F64B - Incestuous woman.
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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 woman pretends to be someone else in order to seduce her son, brother, daughter or grandson. See motif F64.Berezkin category: Gender and sex
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
F64 has 2 other sub-motifsF64. The character is presented as another person in order to mate with a close relative in the descending or (less commonly) ascending line. F64a. Leaving or pretending to be dying, the character gives instructions to a relative regarding what he or she should do to get married, indicating a partner with certain characteristics, or the character indicates the place of a future meeting with this partner; or (Philippines) describes a person who should be accepted as a guest; comes himself under the guise of the person mentioned. See motif F64. F64b. A woman pretends to be someone else in order to seduce her son, brother, daughter or grandson. See motif F64. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of F64's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| D10 | 93.59% | A couple of people serve as the embodiment of a tool for obtaining fire. |
| B1B | 92.18% | Two female progenitors participate in the process of creation. The actions of one bring good, the other evil. |
| A21 | 91.54% | The sun and/or moon were objects that were thrown or placed into the sky. |
| G23B | 90.40% | People from different ethnic groups arise from parts of the creature's body, or people from different groups receive their names (and characteristics) depending on which parts of the creature's body they have received. |
| L105 | 90.37% | A wounded animal, fish or anthropomorphic character runs or swims away – usually with a hook, harpoon, arrow or other hunting or fishing implement stuck in its body; local healers cannot cure the wounded creature (usually because they cannot see the object that caused the wound); a person comes to the wounded person's village and successfully treats them (usually by removing the object that caused the wound). Cf. motif M60A. |
| L111 | 89.96% | The inhabitants of the sky or shamans catch or want to catch earthly people with a hook, net, noose, etc., dragging them up into the sky (somewhere above) like fishermen pull fish out of the water; the inhabitants of the earth fish with hooks for fish, which in their own world are people or domestic animals. |
| B41 | 88.59% | Because the dog spread certain information, argued with its owners, and spoke at inappropriate times, it lost the gift of speech. |
| I8I | 87.69% | Initially, the earth rocks, unstable, and must be specially secured. |
| B3A | 87.49% | The waters are primary. The earth is lowered onto the water, appears above the water, grows from a piece of solid substance placed on the surface of the water or liquid mud, from an island in the ocean, is exposed when the waters recede, etc. |
| H9A | 87.45% | Of two women, one of whom is associated with a stone and the other with a plant, only the plant woman leaves offspring, which is why people are what they are (mortal, capable of speech, etc.). Alternatively, children born to two women have opposite characteristics (skilled and unskilled, etc.). |
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This motif has been recorded in 20 traditions: Ontong Java, Nukumanu, Takuu, Nukuria, Minahasa (incl. Tondano, Tentemboan), Bantik, Bali, Lombok, Aceh (Acheh), Mentawai, Northern Taiwan: Atayal (Tayal; Taruko (Toda, Taokas, Torok, Taroko), Pazeh, Sedeq (Sediq, Seedeq, Sazek), Saisiyat (Saixia), Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Mansi, Udeghe, Oroch, Nivkh, Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir, Chuvans, Russian-speaking Creols of Markovo, Aleuts, Osage, Quileute, Chemakum (Hoh), Tillamook, Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Colorado (Tsachila), Sundanese