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J11 - Asks to pick flowers.
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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 son in his mother's womb asks her to pick flowers or fruit for him (usually when a woman picks flowers, she is bitten by an insect). See motif J9.Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| B28A | 99.99% | A character pinned to the ground by a rod, transported somewhere to the edge of the world and associated with an object that continues to influence people. |
| B32 | 99.99% | As a result of conflict with their husbands, women turn into fish. |
| J10 | 99.99% | A woman loses her way after being stung by a wasp (or bee, ant, snake). She slaps her stomach (either to kill the insect or to punish her unborn sons, because of whom she went to pick a flower and was stung; see motif J11). The offended sons fall silent, ceasing to show the way. See motif J9. |
| I5A | 99.94% | The tapir is associated with the upper world (thunder, sky, moon). |
| K13D | 99.94% | A group of boys reaches the sky, the last one's leg is cut off or torn off. |
| K19F | 99.94% | A star or many stars descend from the sky to work in the fields. See motif K19B. |
| M139 | 99.94% | The fox caught the birds and put them in a bag. Another character secretly replaced them with thorns. |
| C37 | 99.89% | The sloth causes a global catastrophe or saves people from it. |
| K27H | 99.89% | The hero must carve an image of the character's head, which he never shows. It usually adorns a wooden bench. |
| B99 | 99.85% | A person or their head left on a tree turns into an insect nest. |
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This motif has been recorded in 14 traditions: Yana, Trio, Locono, Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”), Zaparo, Tupinamba, Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor), Tenetehara, Machiguenga, Culina, Paumarí, Arauá, Apurina, Cuniba, Bolivian Guarani: Chiriguano (including assimilated Chane Arawaks), Pauserna (=Guarasu), Guarayu, Tapiete, Chacobo, Caraja, Guarani of Paraguay and Brazil: Caygua, Mbia, Apapocuva, Nyandewa, Chiripa