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I95C - Orion – staff.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Orion's belt – staff, stick, three sticks, rod, crutch, etc.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
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| K56A4E | 99.91% | After meeting a supernatural character, a kind person receives valuables, while a greedy person burns to death upon returning home. |
| K101B1 | 99.89% | The enchanted character (the castle where the action takes place) gradually changes its appearance over several days as the spell wears off: it acquires human features, turning from black to white, from ugly to beautiful. |
| K119D | 99.84% | A cat helps a poor young man marry a princess (a girl marry a prince). |
| F73B | 99.81% | The bear (wolf, lion, dragon) believes that the vulva is a wound inflicted on a human being. |
| M101B | 99.80% | A large predator wants to see a human being. First, it meets a child and learns that this is a future human being, then an old man – a former human being. The encounter with a present human being (a hunter, a soldier) ends badly for the beast. |
| M38C1 | 99.80% | The character (supposedly) forges a person, rejuvenating or reviving him, the other unsuccessfully tries to imitate him. |
| M197E | 99.79% | A man smears himself with resin, rolls around in feathers, crawls backwards on all fours, lets his hair down, etc. The demon thinks he is facing an unknown beast. The man escapes. |
| K61C | 99.76% | A demon agrees to help (agrees not to harm) a person on condition that the person guesses his name. At the last moment, the person accidentally learns the demon's name, and the demon disappears or rewards the person. |
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Map of Motif Dispersal
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This motif has been recorded in 16 traditions: Sicily, Sicilians, Sardinia, Corsica, Sardinians, Corsicans, Germans: North (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pommern, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Rügen, Poles, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Serbs, Monte Negro, Balkarians, Slovenians, Slovenes, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Livonians, Estonians, 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), Ossetians, Armenians, Amuesha, Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio)