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I95 - The Pleiades – a sieve for grain.
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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 Pleiades are a sieve or riddle for sifting agricultural products. See motif I95.Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 2, Moon spots, stars, constellations
I95 has 3 other sub-motifsI95. The Pleiades are a sieve or riddle for sifting agricultural products. See motif I95. I95a. Orion (probably always Orion's Belt) is Libra. I95b. Orion is a yoke. I95c. Orion's belt – staff, stick, three sticks, rod, crutch, etc. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of I95's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| N27 | 99.87% | Bird milk (variant: chicken, pigeon, hawkish, etc.) milk is mentioned in fairy tales, riddles, paroemias and conspiracies as something very rare and difficult to obtain or non-existent actually. |
| B32A | 99.76% | The enemies of a hero sailing the sea turn into seals or dolphins. |
| I137 | 99.76% | One of the constellations is associated with footwear, usually with (worn-out) bast shoes. |
| I95B | 99.76% | Orion is a yoke. |
| K35A7 | 99.76% | A character finds a feather, the touch of which brings health and beauty. |
| K38F3 | 99.76% | To kill the dragon, the hero digs a pit and hides in it. When the dragon crawls nearby or over the pit, the hero strikes it with a fatal blow of his sword. |
| M39A2A | 99.76% | fool buys spoons and/or a table, tells the table to go on its own feet, throws away spoons because they rattle. The two episodes are usually combined. |
| M39A3B | 99.76% | fool decides that stumps need hats, puts pots on the stumps. |
| N28F | 99.76% | It is said that water has no boughs or twigs |
| N31 | 99.76% | Late autumn and then winter sets in line with the departure of two or three species of birds flying in a wedge (Zugvogel). |
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This motif has been recorded in 17 traditions: Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia, Poles, Hungarians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Livonians, Estonians, Finns, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Russians: Central part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Vyatka, Perm, Kazan provinces), Kalmyk, Crimean Tatars, Karaims, Hui (Dungan) of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan (Dungan texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones), Bashkirs, Chuvash, Udmurt, Prussians