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H37 - The spirit's superweapon falls into the hands of the hunter.
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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 magical item that makes hunting or fishing easy and reliable falls into the hands of a character who is unable to control it or abuses it.Berezkin category: Paradise Lost
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
H37 has 2 other sub-motifsH37. A magical item that makes hunting or fishing easy and reliable falls into the hands of a character who is unable to control it or abuses it. H37a. A character gives another the ability to easily light a fire. The latter uses it unnecessarily and loses it. H37b. One character gives another his power (usually a skunk gives his volley). The other wastes the resource unnecessarily to test its effect. Usually, when the need arises, the resource no longer works. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of H37's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M75 | 99.22% | The character attracts and catches corpse eaters (usually birds) and as a result obtains valuables or returns something valuable (fire, woman, animals, etc.). |
| F40A | 98.48% | A male character, androgynous, with a monstrous penis, single-handedly possesses all women, rules over them or leads away the first women. |
| G13 | 98.12% | Before the advent of cultivated plants, people ate rotten or soft wood (ceiba – Ceiba L., balsa – Ochroma (Bombax) Sw.); some people eat rotten wood. |
| F34 | 97.87% | A woman takes a large land animal as her lover. Her husband, brother or (adopted) children kill or maim the lover and (sometimes) the woman herself. Sometimes there is mention of a group of women and their husbands. (Unlike motif K102, "The Demon's Mistress," the lover is not dangerous to the hero and plays a passive role, and the woman, if she becomes hostile and dangerous, does so only after the lover's death. Unlike motif K76, the woman and her husband/lover of non-human nature are clearly evaluated negatively). |
| D7 | 97.73% | The frog or toad possesses the first fire, steals it from its original owner, and tries to extinguish it or save it from dying out. See motif D4. |
| I83 | 97.59% | Birds (especially vultures and eagles) lived or live in the sky, usually on one of several tiers of the upper world. |
| F13 | 97.45% | The genitals of humans or monkeys acquire their current shape and colour as a result of copulation with a girl who had a toothy womb or no vagina. |
| M5 | 97.40% | Once in a situation where his life depends on the will of a demon or animal, the hero feels like insulting or hitting him. See M1 motif. |
| M8D | 97.05% | Birds break through the hard cover on the character's body to reach his entrails. |
| K183 | 96.93% | The character cuts open the bellies of aquatic creatures (birds of prey) or looks into their throats to find the swallowed person or part of their body. |
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This motif has been recorded in 31 traditions: Batak (Toba, Dairi), Kashmiri, Mongols (Khalkha), Ainu, Inland Tlingit, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Tuscarora, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Yana, Mestizos of Soconuzco; Cotzumapguapa iconography, Lacandon, Trio, Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan), Wayana, Aparai, Siona, Secoya, Coreguaje, Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”), Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Aguaruna, Huambiza, Urarina, Karijona, Cocama, Omagua, Machiguenga, Kamayura, Rikbaktsa, Kayabi, Paresi, Umotina (Umutina), Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay), Toba (incl Pilagá), Yellowknife