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H19 - The raven interferes with hunting.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
The raven hides game animals in a pen or cave or scares them away from hunters. See motif H18.Berezkin category: Paradise Lost
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 7, Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| J61 | 99.49% | The character has the ability to move or hover in the air like a feather or a fluff. |
| L33 | 99.18% | The stone rolls after the character, trying to crush him. |
| M49A | 98.83% | hero needs to penetrate unnoticed into the locus of dangerous creatures; he meets an old woman (usually a shaman, a doctor) going there, puts on her skin, and penetrates into dangerous ones in her guise creatures. |
| K43A | 98.74% | People leave a boy, a girl, a sister and brother, a young woman or young spouses alone and depart. Someone sympathises with those who have been abandoned and secretly hides fire for them. |
| L67 | 98.59% | Having dug an underground passage to a lying monstrous hoofed animal, a small animal gnaws the wool from the place on the skin where the heart beats; the hero thrusts a spear or arrow into this place. See motif L66. |
| B44C | 98.14% | The characters argue about whether there should be darkness or light, cold or warmth on earth. See motif B44. |
| F68 | 97.98% | A woman pretends to be dead or actually dies. Her (former) lover comes to her grave. She goes with him, trying to avoid exposure, puts on men's clothes, but is eventually recognised. |
| M29C | 97.98% | See the motives in square brackets. |
| K27B | 97.60% | Test: smoke a huge or poisonous pipe or breathe in clouds of poisonous smoke. See motif K27. |
| K52B | 97.47% | The hero comes to capture the daughter of a supernatural creature. He sees a slave breaking an axe (adze, wedge). The hero repairs the axe, and the slave helps him in return. See motif K52. |
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This motif has been recorded in 21 traditions: Shan, Ahom, Khampti, Chipewyan, Tutchone, Tagish, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), Beaver, Blackfoot, Arapaho, Teton (incl Oglala), Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Kiowa, Kiowa Apache, Hidatsa, Nez Perce, Flathead, Caddo, Natchez (incl Avoyel), Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Jicarilla, Chiricahua, Cañari