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J12G - Waterfowl or marsh bird.
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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 false bridegroom is a bird that lives on or near water. See motif J12.Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle
J12 has 13 other sub-motifsJ12. A girl or two sisters wander, usually in search of a suitable groom or husband who has left or lives far away. Along the way or upon reaching their destination, they encounter false suitors. (Traditions in which two heroines travel rather than one are highlighted in bold (motif j13). J12a. A girl or two sisters come to an old woman who invites them to marry her son. In reality, he is a worm, a snake or a penis, which his mother hides in a vessel during the day. The girl (sisters) do not allow him to approach them and run away. See motif J12. J12b. A honey groom or a skilled honey gatherer is attractive to a girl. J12c. A girl meets her fiancé at a dance and then follows in his footsteps. See motif J12. J12d. After a girl marries a worthy suitor, the rejected suitor or his relatives kill the rival. See motif J12. J12E. The false bridegroom - skunk. See motif J12. J12F. False groom - eagle owl/owl. See motif J12. J12G. The false bridegroom is a bird that lives on or near water. See motif J12. J12H. The false groom - the opossum. J12I. A desirable marriage partner secretes beads instead of saliva or excrement. See motifs J12 and M57. J12j. A girl or sisters end up with a false groom who plays the role of a jester in the chief's house. See motif J12. J12k. Desirable and undesirable marriage partners live in the same house. The undesirable partner is a servant or junior partner, usually pretending to be the master. J12l. The murderer pretends to mourn the victim along with everyone else. The deception is revealed, and the murderer is pursued. See motif J12. J12m. A woman or two sisters come to two men and become wives of one of them. The other kills or tries to kill his rival or the women. As a result, the women turn into waterfowl. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of J12's motifs? |
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Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A1 | 0.00% | Another sun — less powerful or less favourable to humans — existed before the appearance of the current one. |
| A10 | 0.00% | The sun gets its sparkling eyes (eye) from an animal. |
| A11A | 0.00% | The visible sun or moon are their eyes; if the eyes of the luminaries were not damaged, it would be much brighter and hotter. |
| A11B | 0.00% | The sun or moon has one eye (usually the second eye is knocked out or sucked out, but sometimes the reason is not explained; among the Munduruku, the sun of the rainy season has lost both eyes, while the sun of the dry season has retained both). See motif 11A. |
| A11C | 0.00% | The Sun and Moon kill a monster whose eyes shine differently. At first, the Moon takes the brighter eye, but then swaps with the Sun. |
| A12 | 0.00% | A creature or creatures regularly (sunrise and sunset, winter and summer, night and day, phases of the moon) or occasionally (eclipses, eschatological catastrophes) attack the luminaries or block their light. |
| A12A | 0.00% | During an eclipse or under other circumstances, predators attack the luminaries: wolves, bears, jaguars, pumas, dogs, foxes, raccoons. See motif A12. |
| A12B | 0.00% | During an eclipse or at sunset (marked *), the luminaries are swallowed by a toad or frog. |
| A12C | 0.00% | Eclipses of the sun, moon or their setting (marked*) are caused by a snake, lizard, dragon, fish or crocodile; these creatures attack the luminaries now or attacked them at the beginning of time. See motif A12. |
| A12D | 0.00% | Birds attack the sun or moon during an eclipse (covering them with their wings) or (*) cover the sun during sunrise or sunset. See motif A12. |
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This motif has been recorded in 9 traditions: Malecite, Passamaquoddy, Micmac, Menominee, Potawatomi, Arapaho, Gros Ventre, Plains Ojibwa, Choctaw, Chicasaw, Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon