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L6 - The clingy demon.
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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 creature demands that the person carry it constantly, not allowing itself to be thrown off.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 8, Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
L6 has 1 other sub-motifsL6. The creature demands that the person carry it constantly, not allowing itself to be thrown off. L6a. An unremarkable, weak-looking character asks a person to carry him or her on their back, and then refuses to get off. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of L6's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A3 | 87.94% | The Moon is female or hermaphroditic, the Sun is male or, possibly, male. |
| D4O | 87.91% | In order to steal fire from its owner, the character pretends to be wet and cold, and after receiving permission to dry off, runs away, bringing fire to the people. |
| I41 | 87.90% | A rainbow is a reptile (usually a snake), less often a fish or snake-like, usually dangerous, object (snake tongue, scorpion tail). |
| E5A | 87.46% | The first humans (or only the first men or first women) were not created by a demiurge, but emerged from under the ground (from a cave) or from a small object on its surface (a tree, stone, pumpkin, etc.). There are many emerging humans (or humans and animals). Cf. motif E5B: first ancestors from the underworld. |
| A14 | 87.37% | The meeting of the sun and the moon is the cause of eclipses or lunar phases. |
| I72 | 85.71% | Stars – anthropomorphic beings. See motif K19 (marriage to a star). Cases where the Star is a unique object, e.g. Venus, rather than one of many Star-people, are not included. |
| L17B | 85.43% | A character or creature has a second face or a second mouth on the back of its head. |
| H24 | 84.86% | A vessel or other small container with valuables or living beings (creatures) is opened (prematurely). Its contents get out of control or disappear. |
| M21 | 84.82% | The character runs away from his pursuer. The person, animal or object that the character asks for help hides him (and kills the pursuer). |
| I82B | 83.62% | The Morning and/or Evening Star – a female character. |
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Map of Motif Dispersal
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This motif has been recorded in 64 traditions: Mehri; Harsusi, Jibbali (Shahri, Shauri), Algeria Arabs, Ngbakka, Mbum (incl Mbai), Mundang, Fali, Tupuri, Maya (=Bali), Nyong, Zande (Azande, incl Nzakara), Masai, Boa, Komo, (Ba)Nyanga, Mbole, Tswana (Chwana), Suto (Soto; incl Pedi, Mbire), Cross-River: Efik, Ibibio, Anaang (Anang), Ikom, Abua, Hausa, Other West Chadic: Ngas, Bolanchi, Tangale, Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula, Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo), Bushmen (all groups), Sepik-Ramu stock: Abelam, Yatmul, Aibom, Ayom (incl Tembregak, Asai-river pygmies), Tangu, Porapora (Ambakich), Rao and other groups of Middle Ramu and Upper Keram River tribes; Kwanga, Watam, Kaian, Gamei, Awar; Kire (Lower Ramu), Koreans, Germans: North (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pommern, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Rügen, Karelians, Vepsians, 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, Persians, Armenians, Anatolia Turks, 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), Darkhad, Menominee, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Tuscarora, Omaha, Ponca, Iowa, Arikara, Pawnee, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Tonkawa, Plains Cree, Assiniboine, Nez Perce, Tillamook, Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Natchez (incl Avoyel), Alabama, Koasati, Cherokee, Yana, Pipil, Tzotzil, Lacandon, Kekchi; Mopan, Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan), Wayana, Aparai, Colorado (Tsachila), Siona, Secoya, Coreguaje, Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”), Kofan, Wanana, Tucano proper, Pira-Tapuya, Arapaso, Cubeo, Tariana, Witoto, Ocaina, Ayacucho department (Kechua-speaking communities; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries), Machiguenga, Trumai, Paresi, Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights), Papua-New Guinea Southern Lowland Papuan groups (Trans New Guinea and unclassified): Gimi, Kiwai, Bina, Mawabula, Mawatta, Keraki, Gambadi (incl. Kwavaru), Purari River delta, Masingara, Wiram (=Suki), Ngain, Daga, Elema, Germans: South (Upper German dialects): Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Bawaria, Swabia, Switzerland, Bohemia, Sudeten, Austria