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L1C2 - Hiding under the hearth.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Fleeing from a demonic creature, the characters hide their children (younger brother or sister) in a camouflaged pit, usually under the hearth. See motif L1C.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
L1 has 8 other sub-motifsL1a. A young woman turns into a bear (in Asia, a tigress) and attacks her close relatives or husband. L1b. A young woman turns into a monstrous bear and kills most people except her younger sister (Ojibwa: the younger sister of her former husband). Their brothers (or one brother) return from hunting and kill the bear, or she dies while chasing them. Cf. motif L65D. L1b1. A woman comes into conflict with her brothers and turns into a dangerous demon. L1c. Those fleeing from the monstrous bear ascend to the sky and turn into stars. L1c1. Fleeing from demonic characters, a group of men – relatives of a girl – ascend to the sky and remain there. See motif L1C. L1c2. Fleeing from a demonic creature, the characters hide their children (younger brother or sister) in a camouflaged pit, usually under the hearth. See motif L1C. L1d. The jaguar-werewolf kills most people and is killed by the woman who survives. L1e. A monstrous bird is created from a small amount of human or animal flesh (usually from the heart) or from lumps of manioc starch. L1f. The sister, using magic or transforming herself into a monster, kills her brothers in revenge for the death of her lover or husband. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of L1's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| B46D | 98.78% | Men, each of whom excels others in a particular art, turn into stars. |
| I73 | 92.72% | Stars (rarely suns and moons) – sparks, hot coals. |
| A32C | 90.37% | The figures of a man and a dog are visible (or should have been visible) on the lunar disc. |
| M74 | 89.78% | A weak character regurgitates previously swallowed unusual food, or replaces his belching with a strong character's belching, or interprets his secretions as remains strong animals he ate. The strong believe that the weak are strong or have unusual abilities. |
| A37 | 89.64% | The character deliberately and by resorting to special means (usually shooting with a bow) strikes the sun or several suns or attempts to do so. |
| E4 | 89.57% | From mud on the skin (rarely: from under the fingernails), the character creates the earth, people or other creatures. |
| F90 | 89.55% | A brother and sister marry. When the children born of this union learn of their origins, the marriage breaks down (the children kill their parents, the father kills or attempts to kill the children, the parents commit suicide, the wife/sister commits suicide after the death of her husband/brother, the wife/sister leaves her husband/brother). |
| B6 | 89.37% | The first or only remaining man and woman move towards each other, going around a mountain, a pole or otherwise following a circle from opposite sides, and when they meet, they get married. |
| H34E | 89.01% | The snow was edible. |
| D13G | 88.72% | When the character starts laughing, people see his or her scary mouth (lots of teeth, human flesh on the teeth); they kill the monster or run away. |
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This motif has been recorded in 11 traditions: Kumyk, Terekemen, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Mongols (Khalkha), Dolgans, Udeghe, Oroch, Nanai, Tuscarora, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Navajo, Northern Ukrainians