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L57A - The hero's companion returns his organ.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
The enemy takes possession of part of the character's body (remains). Another (usually resorting to trickery) returns what is missing, and the character comes back to life or recovers.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
L57 has 2 other sub-motifsL57. The character loses an internal organ or part of the body, which is taken away by others; he approaches unnoticed and takes back what was lost. L57a. The enemy takes possession of part of the character's body (remains). Another (usually resorting to trickery) returns what is missing, and the character comes back to life or recovers. L57b. A person tears off or cuts off a part of the body of a predatory animal or demonic creature and uses it. The creature comes for the lost part, usually killing or maiming the person. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of L57's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M84 | 96.69% | A person, animal, fish, or (rarely) a large fruit is killed and eaten. After a meal, what is eaten revives, usually after the bones (seeds) are put together. Cf. motive C16. |
| J51 | 96.61% | The character is dismembered or eaten; he is revived from his remains, but since one of his bones was broken, swallowed or carried away (or a drop of blood or a piece of flesh was lost), the revival fails, or the character remains defective in some way. |
| I45A | 96.21% | Pointing at or staring at the moon or stars will cause illness (death) or the pointing finger to rot or wither. |
| K102A2 | 94.86% | The mother seeks to destroy her son (children) because he interferes with her love affair. Cf. motif L86: Children flee from their demon mother. |
| L118 | 94.01% | One character provokes another to stick a part of their body into a split log (between two boards, etc.) and knocks out the wedge. |
| M62A | 93.48% | The hero quietly damages each of the two characters; they accuse each other, quarrel, fight. |
| K27S | 93.34% | Competition: running, racing. See motif K27. |
| K27E | 93.03% | The character is offered to eat or drink an unusually large amount or poison. |
| K177 | 92.62% | A girl or woman sets off on a journey to find or return her fiancé or husband, or flees from danger, and her journey ends in a successful marriage. |
| B87 | 92.56% | Alcor (a faint star next to the second star of the Big Dipper's handle) stands out as a separate celestial object. |
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This motif has been recorded in 69 traditions: Mehri; Harsusi, Jibbali (Shahri, Shauri), Arabs of Iraq, Iraqi, Arabs of Egypt, Arabs of Sudan, Sudanese, Shilluk, Anuak, Tswana (Chwana), Suto (Soto; incl Pedi, Mbire), Akan, Ashanti, Akwapim; Ga (Accra), Kra, Twi (Chwi, Chi), Truk, Eastern Fayu, Losap, Pulap, Puluwat, Mortlock (incl. Satawan), Bali, Lombok, Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar, Tamils, Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani), Spain, Spaniards, Portuguese, Portugal, Catalan, Poles, Czech, Czechs, Slovakians, Slovaks, Hungarians, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Serbs, Monte Negro, Balkarians, Croatians, Croats; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians), Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Albanians, Balkarians, Ancient Greece, Lithuanians, Latvians, Norwegians, Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Russians: Central part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Vyatka, Perm, Kazan provinces), Uzbek, Tajik, Persians, Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Karachays, Balkar, Georgians, Armenians, Kalmyk, Anatolia Turks, Azeris (Azerbaijanis), Kurds, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Kets, Chugach, Chipewyan, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), Menominee, Winnebago, Teton (incl Oglala), Omaha, Ponca, Iowa, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Comox, Pentlatch, Tillamook, Takelma, Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Alcea, Kawaiisu, Tubatulabal, Northern Paiute (=Paviotso), Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Serrano, Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa, Pima, Galicians, Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio)