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J23A - Snot turns into a boy.
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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 woman cries, and the discharge from her nose (her tears) turns into a boy, who grows up and defeats strong opponents.Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
J23 has 6 other sub-motifsJ23. People in general or older brothers (siblings, older sister) disappear one after another. A woman raises a boy or twins from infancy. Sometimes, left alone, she miraculously conceives a son or finds a baby. He defeats the antagonists, usually reviving or freeing the missing ones. J23a. A woman cries, and the discharge from her nose (her tears) turns into a boy, who grows up and defeats strong opponents. J23b. To defeat the monster, the young man (twins) prepares spears in advance and leaves them along the supposed retreat route. Fleeing from the monster, the young man throws spears at it one after another and eventually kills it. J23c. People in general or older brothers (siblings, older sister) disappear one after another. A woman raises a boy from infancy or, left alone, miraculously conceives a son or finds a baby. He defeats the antagonists, usually reviving or freeing the missing ones. J23D. People in general or older brothers (siblings, older sister) disappear one after another. A woman raises two twins (or several children) from infancy. They defeat their antagonists, usually reviving or freeing those who have disappeared. j23e. Wanting to make sure that the enemy is really dead, an insect or bird penetrates its body from one end and exits from the other. j23f. Something inanimate incarnates in a human being to solve people's problems and then returns to its original state. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of J23's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| D4K | 99.97% | The deer obtains fire for humans. See motif D4A. |
| K25C | 99.85% | While digging roots, gathering shellfish, etc., a woman finds a baby. He grows up and enters into a struggle with dangerous characters. |
| K43B | 99.78% | People leave a boy, a girl, a sister and brother, a young woman or young spouses alone and leave, or drive them away. Those who are left behind or driven away discover unusual abilities or helpers, obtaining blood and food. Those who are abandoned eat their fill, while those who abandon them go hungry. A character (often a bird - a crow, magpie, seagull, etc.) visits the abandoned and brings a piece of fat or meat to the camp of the starving. |
| M81A | 99.72% | The hero meets two blind women and makes them sighted. These women are birds (geese, ducks, hazel grouses, partridges). |
| L72F | 99.68% | Fleeing for his life, the character throws behind him the entrails or stomach contents of an animal, which become an obstacle in the path of his pursuer. |
| M122 | 99.66% | In a difficult situation, the character asks for advice from his tail, penis, or some creatures in his stomach (these are excrement, intestinal parasites, his "sisters," etc.). |
| K50 | 99.55% | A man approaches the enemy disguised as a woman and kills him at night (usually cutting off his head and taking it with him). |
| K52A | 99.36% | The hero goes to the bottom of the sea for a woman. The slave pours water into the hearth in the house of the water dwellers. Hiding behind clouds of steam, the hero takes the woman away. See motif K52. |
| K27B | 99.36% | Test: smoke a huge or poisonous pipe or breathe in clouds of poisonous smoke. See motif K27. |
| M59A | 99.29% | After asking a large animal to transport it across the river, a porcupine kills or damages it. See M59 motif. |
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This motif has been recorded in 9 traditions: Inland Tlingit, Tlingit, Haida, Heiltsuk (Bellabella), Oowekeeno, Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah, Bella Coola (Nuxalk), Shuswap, Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam, Maldives