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L1B1 - The female demon and her brothers.
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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 woman comes into conflict with her brothers and turns into a dangerous demon.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 |
|---|---|---|
| D4M | 99.38% | The thief comes to the owners of fire or light. They feast or dance. He joins them and steals their valuables when the moment is right. See motif D4A. |
| F64 | 99.13% | The character is presented as another person in order to mate with a close relative in the descending or (less commonly) ascending line. |
| F18C | 99.13% | The character sees a girl on the other side of the river and copulates with her in an unusual way (sends his penis across the river; turns it into a bridge for the girl to cross the river; into a dam that blocks the river in front of her; dives, swimming up to the girl underwater; sends an object into the girl's vagina). See motif F18B. |
| K21A | 98.95% | A celestial being marries an earthly woman. She longs to return to earth and secretly descends from her husband. |
| M49A | 98.89% | hero needs to penetrate unnoticed into the locus of dangerous creatures; he meets an old woman (usually a shaman, a doctor) going there, puts on her skin, and penetrates into dangerous ones in her guise creatures. |
| M59 | 98.89% | A small animal asks a large one to transport it across the river; consistently rejects all the seats on the carrier's body that he offers; climbs to where the carrier is You can kill when the crossing is over. |
| A32B1 | 98.73% | A woman sits (jumps) on the face (back) of the Moon Man and is now visible in the silhouette of the moon spots. |
| M41 | 98.68% | The character throws his eyes (an inhaler has a tooth) up or into the distance. At first they return to the eye sockets, but then they disappear. |
| L33F | 98.63% | A rock or boulder pursues a character. The character calls for help, and the nightjar splits the rock into pieces. |
| L97 | 98.40% | Seeing a character who is unable to move (nailed to the ground, his lower body rooted to the ground, petrified, completely absent), the hero himself manages to avoid a similar fate. |
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This motif has been recorded in 23 traditions: Lepcha, Tutchone, Blackfoot, Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Cheyenne, Omaha, Ponca, Arikara, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Kiowa, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Crow, Chilkotin, Shuswap, Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla), Lower Chinook (Chinook proper), Shasta; Chimariko, Karok, Klamath, Modoc, Caddo, Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov, Yana, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai