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L108B1 - The blacksmith makes his voice thin.
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Summary of Motif
To make his voice thin, the character turns to the blacksmith.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
L10 has 1 other sub-motifsL10. The character has a sharp (biting) tail or a protrusion on its back. See motif L9, cf. motif L9C. L10a. A demonic character approaches a man's campfire. The man leaves a log in his place and hides. The character throws himself on the log, mistaking it for a sleeping man; usually, the hunter kills or wounds the demon. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of L10's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K93 | 99.96% | After a series of adventures and victories, the hero finds himself in trouble. His twin or brother follows in his footsteps, meets the same characters, but when he encounters the final enemy, he defeats him and revives (frees) the hero. |
| M83B | 99.85% | Two (or more) characters agree to give food to whoever has the best dream. One talks about a feast he went to in a dream (or says he was in a different world), the second admits that he ate everything alone - he was sure that after the feast, the first one would not qualify for food (which someone who finds himself in a different world does not need food). |
| K8C1 | 99.70% | A tiny man is first accidentally swallowed by a large herbivore, then carried off by a wolf that began to eat the carcass of this animal. |
| K77B | 99.69% | Having left their owners, domestic animals find an empty house or build a house. Robbers or predatory animals come there. Domestic animals attack or simply scare them away. Predators do not understand who they are facing and flee. |
| L122 | 99.59% | The character rides on a rooster. |
| M39A6G | 99.58% | person explains that he lends part of his earnings, and pays the debt in the other part, i.e. raises children and supports parents. |
| K100B | 99.53% | A person helps to bury a dead man (pays his remaining debt, honours a saint). The revived dead man (saint) helps him overcome difficulties. See motif K100A. |
| M74AA | 99.48% | The character (several times) pretends to be his name (that he is going to visit), and eats up supplies himself. See M74A motif. |
| L100F1 | 99.45% | A worker (the young son of the master) arranges things so that the food prepared by the mistress for her lover, who is working in the field, goes to the master, and when the master goes to the man, not knowing that he is his wife's lover, the man thinks that the husband is coming to kill him and flees. |
| K27G5 | 99.45% | A person tries or must try to chop or dig with a wooden (lead, felt) tool instead of a steel one. Cf. motif L84. |
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This motif has been recorded in 25 traditions: Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai, Arabs of Sudan, Sudanese, Shilluk, Anuak, Ganda, (Ba)Nyoro, Nyankole, Masaba (Gisu), Luia (=Luyia, Haya, Luhya, Bantu Kawirondo; incl. Vugusu, Maragoli), France, Poles, Slovakians, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Lithuanians, Latvians, Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Baluch, Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin, Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi, Tats, Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars, Bashkirs, Mordvins, Chuvash, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Transylvanian Saksons, Russian Federation