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K30 - The flying enemy carries off the woman.
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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 flying creature carries a woman away. The kidnapper is killed and/or the woman escapes from him. See also motif L102A (Escape from a seagull husband).Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
K30 has 2 other sub-motifsK30. A flying creature carries a woman away. The kidnapper is killed and/or the woman escapes from him. See also motif L102A (Escape from a seagull husband). K30a. The wife of the first ancestor flies away with the vultures (usually voluntarily, after she has already cheated on her husband), and the chief (Uito: her brother) brings her back. See motif K30. K30b. A woman or girl is forbidden to go outside. As soon as she does, a flying creature kidnaps her. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of K30's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A32 | 95.34% | A figure or imprint of some creature or object is visible on the lunar disc. Statistical calculations also include motifs A32A – A32J (a rabbit, frog, predatory animal, human, tree, etc. are visible on the moon). |
| I22G | 93.19% | Mountains (rocks) are mentioned that constantly collide and diverge, or a crevice or gap in a vertical rock that opens and closes. Cf. motif I22g1, Colliding rocks. |
| B75A | 92.43% | The voice of a character who once lived can still be heard (most often it is an echo; A1195, The origin of Echo). |
| A32D | 91.11% | The figure or imprint of an anthropomorphic creature is visible on the lunar disc. |
| I22 | 90.84% | There are objects that, while remaining in place, move constantly or periodically (collide and diverge, fall and rise, open and close, rotate). |
| K1F | 90.64% | One man traps another, driven by jealousy or the desire to possess his rival's wife. See motifs K1A, K1E, K2A. |
| B3B | 89.74% | Initially, the earth or the world as a whole was small in size, then it grew; fertile soil grew from a small amount of initial substance. See motif B3A (the earth grows from a piece of solid substance thrown onto the surface of the water). |
| K176 | 89.56% | A man sets out on a journey to find or bring back a bride or wife. |
| L42 | 89.06% | After capturing the character, the enemy brings the prey home or to the place where he intends to eat it. The character runs away and escapes. |
| C19 | 89.00% | The missing, hidden, concealed or stolen sun (daylight) reappears. See motif C18 |
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This motif has been recorded in 51 traditions: Tuamotu, incl Pukapuka (different from Pukapuka in Cook Islands), Vahitahi, Anaa, Hao, Fangatau, Hawaii, Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Bacop, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan, Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China, Early Chinese written sources, Serbs, Monte Negro, Balkarians, Western Ukrainians, Russians: Central part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Vyatka, Perm, Kazan provinces), Kalmyk, Crimean Tatars, Karaims, Hui (Dungan) of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan (Dungan texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones), Udmurt, Mansi, Forest Nenets, Darkhad, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Evens (Lamuts), Udeghe, Nivkh, Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir, Chukchi, Tahltan, Koyukon, North Alaskan Inupiat, Copper, Caribou, Polar Inuit, Baffin Land Inuit, West Greenland, Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah, Blackfoot, Teton (incl Oglala), Comox, Pentlatch, Quileute, Chemakum (Hoh), Pomo, Yokuts, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Hopi, Zuni, Pima, Papago, Kekchi; Mopan, Sicuani, Guayabero, Makiritare (Yecuana), Karijona, Barasana, Taibano, Macuna, Desana, Siriano; Tatuyo, Bara, Tuyuca, Cubeo, Machiguenga, Greenland