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L28 - Snake meat.
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Summary of Motif
A person who eats unusual or forbidden meat or fish, or touches something forbidden, turns into a reptile or a fish.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
L28 has 1 other sub-motifsL28. A person who eats unusual or forbidden meat or fish, or touches something forbidden, turns into a reptile or a fish. L28a. People (or a certain person) eat the meat of a snake (dragon, unusual fish). This results in a flood, landslide, or the appearance of a river or lake. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of L28's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| L29 | 93.45% | A person catches fish where it should not be, usually in a small forest pond isolated from running water; those who eat this fish die, undergo metamorphosis and/or are attacked by monsters. See motif L28. |
| B52A | 91.79% | Flying over the world, a bird (usually a vulture) dries the earth after a flood with its wings or otherwise gives it its present appearance. |
| J22E | 91.65% | The second character emerges from the afterbirth of the first. |
| M24A | 90.27% | turtle man goes to war, kills people (usually a woman). He gets caught or killed. In his animal form, he continues to live on. See M24 motif. |
| K41 | 89.88% | A character representing a thunderstorm or a giant bird fights a snake or other large creature living in water or underground. |
| J25 | 87.60% | Heroes (one, two or one of two), while still infants or embryos, disappear or are thrown away (often into water). To bring them back to the world of humans, they are lured, persuaded or (with difficulty) caught. |
| J12D | 86.68% | After a girl marries a worthy suitor, the rejected suitor or his relatives kill the rival. See motif J12. |
| H13 | 86.47% | The character comes to the underworld, brings back the dead person or brings back their remains. The dead person comes back to life and (for a while) remains among the living. |
| J19 | 86.19% | While her husband or brother is hunting, an evil spirit comes to his wife or sister; he kills her or takes her away. Her sons, who were torn from her womb or born at that time, are saved. |
| I9 | 85.97% | Each (or at least three) of the four cardinal directions (as well as the zenith and nadir) and/or the objects located there have their own colour. Abbreviations: E: east, S: south, W: west, N: north. (Cf. Podosinov 2000: 143-147). |
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This motif has been recorded in 46 traditions: Papua-NewGuinea Highland Papuans:Trans New Guinea & unclassified:Chimbu,Gimi,KaugelHuli,Gadsup,Kuman,Kutubu,Foi (Foe),Kyaka,Kamano (Kafe),Mawatta,Kukukuku (=Anga,=Sambia;Manki,Nauti,Ejuti),Baruya,Kewa,Tembregak,Menya,Melpa,Wiru,Pondoma, Northern Vanuatu: Banks Islands (incl Mota, Mota Lava, Gaua, Santa Maria), Torres Islands, Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kedang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor), Shan, Ahom, Khampti, Tjam, Ede, Jörai (Jarai), Nicobarese, 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), Tanana, Menominee, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Tuscarora, Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Yuchi, Arapaho, Teton (incl Oglala), Mandan, Omaha, Ponca, Arikara, Pawnee, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Tonkawa, Kiowa Apache, Gros Ventre, Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Crow, Hidatsa, Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Caddo, Tunica, Alabama, Koasati, Hitchiti, Choctaw, Chicasaw, Navajo, Kekchi; Mopan, Paya (Pech), Sumu, Misquito, Bribri, Cabecar, Terraba; Chiriqui (AD 800-1500) iconography, Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”), Kofan, Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Aguaruna, Huambiza, Barasana, Taibano, Macuna, Witoto, Ocaina, Kuikuro, Kalapalo, Calapalo, Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon