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J30 - Remains of parents.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Before the heroes defeat their antagonists or flee from them, they find or receive the remains or property of the victim.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 |
|---|---|---|
| D4F | 98.44% | Once in the fire, the beaver (in North America) or fish (in South America) scatters and/or carries the fire away from its original owners. See motif D4A. |
| B28 | 97.45% | Travelling from one locality to another, the character successively transforms people into birds and animals, into stones, sanctuaries (or transforms monstrous animals into ordinary ones), establishes cultural norms, determines the biological characteristics of creatures, the appearance of the locality, etc. |
| M12 | 97.23% | Unable, unwilling or unable to obtain game (fish), the hunter (fisherman) cuts flesh from his own body, removes his own entrails and collects his blood. He usually offers this to others under the guise of animal meat or fish. Alternatively, a woman cuts flesh from her own leg to feed her husband. |
| E14A | 96.63% | People kill demons, examine their bodies, make ritual costumes and masks, reproducing the appearance of the slain. |
| K4 | 96.09% | The character climbs a tree or rock to get a bird, bird eggs, or chicks, climbs into a bird's nest, comes into conflict with another character, and/or cannot climb down. See motifs K1, K2A. Traditions in which the nest destroyer is a woman are highlighted in italics; bold italics indicate those in which the character falls into the trap not through the fault of another person, but by accident, or, having climbed up to destroy the nest, does not fall into the trap at all, although he quarrels with his companion; an asterisk* marks those in which the character remains in the trap (undergoes a metamorphosis). |
| J59 | 96.05% | To reach the sky, one must shoot an arrow that will pierce the vault of heaven. See motif J58; see motif J59A: a man flies after or on an arrow (without the motif of an arrow piercing the vault of heaven). |
| J12 | 95.88% | 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). |
| M8A | 95.70% | Animals, and more often birds, find it difficult to break through a rock from the outside or inside, make a hole in the tree, in the body of an absorber creature, tear fetters, etc., to help a character or get out of the confined space by yourself. The list <b><i>includes</i></b> groups whose texts deal with the exit of the first ancestors to earth from a confined space. |
| K87A | 95.65% | A forest woman receives or kidnaps a little boy and raises him to be her lover. |
| L63 | 95.39% | The character eats food with the womb or anus. See motif F9A. |
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This motif has been recorded in 56 traditions: Arabs of Sudan, Sudanese, Somali, Bugi, Macassar, Batak (Toba, Dairi), Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Sah-nameh, Marzban-nameh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees, Zoroastrianism, Mansi, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Southern Selkups, Kets, Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir, Inland Tlingit, Menominee, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Kiowa Apache, Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Comox, Pentlatch, Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Quinault, Tillamook, Kalapuya, Takelma, Lower Chinook (Chinook proper), Klamath, Modoc, Wailaki, Mattole, Lassik, Sinkyone, Cahto, Yuki (Yuki proper, Coastal Yuki, Huchnob), Wappo, Sierra Miwok, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Chemehuevi, Serrano, Zuni, Diegueño: Ipai, Tipai, Kamia (Kumeai), Bribri, Cabecar, Terraba; Chiriqui (AD 800-1500) iconography, Makiritare (Yecuana), Colorado (Tsachila), Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Aguaruna, Huambiza, Chayahuita , Karijona, Barasana, Taibano, Macuna, Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna), Witoto, Ocaina, Yagua, Maue (Mawe), Machiguenga, Bolivian Guarani: Chiriguano (including assimilated Chane Arawaks), Pauserna (=Guarasu), Guarayu, Tapiete, Kuikuro, Kalapalo, Calapalo, Nambikwara, Bororo, Chamacoco (Ishir), Mataco, Chorote, Toba (incl Pilagá), Manao, Katawishi (Teffe lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda, Greenland