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L43 - Dangerous characters devour refuse.
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Summary of Motif
Characters dangerous to the hero (demons, robbers, merchants) mistake excrement, insects, snakes and other disgusting things (not intended for food) for something pleasant (edible).Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| B102 | 92.56% | Clouds are formed from smoke rising from the ground. |
| H7G1 | 92.53% | A man (usually looking for a godfather for his newborn son) rejects God (the saints) and the devil, but praises Death: it treats everyone without prejudice (or is richer than everyone else). |
| M38A1 | 92.10% | The character imitates the sisters' sons-in-law or husbands, or the wife's brothers (shoshone's) or wives (comox and chalkomel). {ATU combines a motive with another}. |
| I102 | 89.88% | The Milky Way – a tree, the trace of a tree. |
| F86 | 89.43% | A character calls another character of non-human nature (a mate or ward) with a conventional signal; the other character sees this, makes the same signal or utters the same words, takes on the appearance of the character they have come to replace, kills those who come out to meet them, or makes use of their sexual services. |
| L39 | 87.94% | By force or deception, the character forces another to climb down from the tree in order to harm him. |
| I122 | 86.78% | The Pleiades – a beehive, a nest, a cluster of bees or wasps. |
| F20 | 86.67% | After copulation, the man and woman are unable to break their embrace. |
| L49 | 86.64% | Individual parts or pieces of a character's body are successively thrown down. (In American variants, those below usually mistake them for game, honey, or fish). |
| H28B | 85.47% | Shorn hairs on animal skins or ash and smoke from burnt skins covered with wool turn into blood-sucking insects. |
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This motif has been recorded in 25 traditions: Melanesians of southeastern New Guinea: Mekeo, Motu, Sinagoro, Koita (Koitapu), Mukawa (Are), Wagawaga, Taupota, Awaiama, Gelaria, Goodenough Bay, Bartle Bay, Wedau (Wamira village), Batak (Toba, Dairi), Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks), Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Mongols (Khalkha), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Kets, Athna, Tanana, Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island), Assiniboine, Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov, Kogi (Cagaba), Sanha, Creols of Aritama Valley, Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan), Cañari, Karijona, Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna), Andoque, Amuesha, Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo, Cashibo, Mundurucu, Curuaia, Rikbaktsa, Kayabi, Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay)