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K1C - He who comes to look at the bones perishes himself.
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Summary of Motif
A man is abandoned on an island but survives. After some time, the person who abandoned him comes to look at his bones. The abandoned man sails away in his boat, leaving him to die.Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
K1 has 9 other sub-motifsK1A. A young man or man finds himself in a place where he is unable to move, but which is isolated from the ground: the top of a tree, a rock, a cave, a burrow, an island. This happens through someone else's fault: the antagonist lures or traps the hero, or (less often) leaves him no other option but isolation. After some time, the hero either finds a way to salvation himself, or is saved by someone else (often a bird or animal), or (rarely) undergoes a metamorphosis and no longer returns to his normal life. For texts with a fairy-tale episode in which the hero is sent down to the underworld and abandoned there, see motif K2A. K1B. A woman is lured onto a tree, rock or island and left there. K1c. A man is abandoned on an island but survives. After some time, the person who abandoned him comes to look at his bones. The abandoned man sails away in his boat, leaving him to die. K1d. The hero's wife's brothers try to kill him by leaving him on an island. K1e. The character is abandoned on an island or on the other side of a river or sea. See motif K1A. K1f. One man traps another, driven by jealousy or the desire to possess his rival's wife. See motifs K1A, K1E, K2A. K1g. The hero turns into a deer or creates a deer to gore the relative who sent him into a trap. K1h. The character finds himself inside a tree trunk or inside a rock; someone frees him by making a hole from the outside. K1i. Near the cliff, at the bottom of the pit, or in the underworld, a tree, reed, or vine grows, which the character uses to descend or climb to the ground. K1j. The abandoned one turns into a bird and returns home faster than the one who abandoned him. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of K1's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K51B | 96.02% | The bodies of the slain are left in such a position that it seems as if they are rejoicing – smiling, laughing, dancing. |
| K26A | 95.34% | The hole in the sky is covered by a flat stone. Moving it aside, the character sees the earth. See motif K26. |
| M46D | 94.39% | A small child cries and calms down only after being given a valuable item hidden in the house to play with. After receiving an item, a child or an associated character takes it away. |
| M68 | 94.30% | Because of his own stubbornness, the character suffers from an irrepressible gas eruption and scares away the game with a loud sound. Almost starves to death. |
| M46C | 93.55% | The character turns into a needle, a garbage, a small insect. A woman swallows it and becomes pregnant. See M46B motif. |
| F30A | 92.97% | A woman nurses a worm (caterpillar, reptile, fish) instead of a child; people kill the monster. |
| I133 | 92.89% | Star objects in different parts of the sky are associated with separate parts (as well as items of clothing, jewellery, etc.) of a single anthropomorphic or zoomorphic figure. |
| A7A | 92.61% | The light of the sun (moon, Venus) is a burning torch in the hand of a celestial body. |
| M46B | 92.31% | The character turns into a tiny object or creature, swallowing or touching which a woman (usually a virgin) becomes pregnant and gives birth to a boy. He steals valuables or gets along with a woman. See M46 motif. |
| K10H | 91.53% | A bird carries a woman or boy to its nest, feeds them, but does not let them go. The captive runs away. |
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This motif has been recorded in 19 traditions: Melanesians and Papuans of Central Solomons: Vella la Vella (Bilua language), Shortland islands (Mono language), San Cristobal, Saint Georgia, Eddystone, Vangunu, Tikopia, Bellona, Rennell, partly Aneytium, Futuna (=Erronan, not to be mixed with Futuna in Western Polynesia), Vaeaka-Taumato, incl Matema, Nifeloli, Nukapu, Nupani, Pileni, Uzbek, Tajik, Kurds, Turkmen, Chukchi, Central Yupik, Athna, Tanana, Beaver, Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island), North Alaskan Inupiat, Copper, Polar Inuit, Baffin Land Inuit, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Blackfoot, Comox, Pentlatch