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L61 - Samoyed, F1035.
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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 character eats himself, guts himself, or kills himself in order to be eaten.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 |
|---|---|---|
| K20 | 96.13% | Looking at the sky at night, a man or woman expresses a desire to marry a star or the Moon (kuchin: to possess a star as an object). See motifs K19a, K19b. |
| K10 | 95.53% | A monstrous bird (bat) attacks people, heroes engage in battle with it. See motifs K10A – K10G. |
| J44 | 95.26% | The hero lures the enemy onto a rickety bridge. The enemy falls into the water, into the abyss (see motif J46). See motif J52. |
| F53 | 94.79% | An unattractive man marries, but hides his face. When he is seen, the marriage is dissolved. |
| I1 | 94.54% | Creatures that cause or embody rain and/or thunderstorms are birds or winged anthropomorphic characters. {Traditions in which birds are associated with thunderstorms and rain, but Thunder itself is not a bird, are marked with an asterisk (*). |
| C34 | 94.31% | The flood begins after people kill (harm, maim) some kind of creature (usually aquatic). |
| M18B | 93.66% | The character turns into a fishing object in order to carry away the hook with which he is caught or the spear with which they try to harpoon him, or he turns into a hook to catch fish. See motif M18. |
| L5C | 93.65% | The monster head pursues celestial bodies, people, or attaches itself to someone else's body. See motif L5. |
| B18 | 93.60% | Daylight, warmth, sun or moon are stored in a vessel, under a vessel, under a cover, in a bag, etc. |
| L46 | 93.39% | The character walks, climbs or descends upside down, or sees the world turned upside down. |
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This motif has been recorded in 35 traditions: Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa, Hausa, Mon, Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples, Ancient Greece, Tahltan, Tanana, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island), Mackenzie Delta, Polar Inuit, Eyak, Naskapi, Montagnais, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Arapaho, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Plains Ojibwa, Crow, Nez Perce, Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Cherokee, Wailaki, Mattole, Lassik, Sinkyone, Cahto, Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov, Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Cuiva, Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Aguaruna, Huambiza, Tenetehara, Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo, Chacobo, Chamacoco (Ishir), Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay), Chorote, Greenland