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L7A - Sticky: first to humans, then to animals.
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Summary of Motif
A character who sticks to another creature and refuses to let go, first sticking to a human, then to an animal, or first sticking to an animal, then to a bird.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
L7 has 2 other sub-motifsL7. While chasing a person, spirit, monster or beast, mistakenly chases after a large two-legged object passing by, usually an animal. L7a. A character who sticks to another creature and refuses to let go, first sticking to a human, then to an animal, or first sticking to an animal, then to a bird. L7b. While chasing a person, spirit, monster or beast, he mistakenly throws himself after a calabash floating down the river. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of L7's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| H21A | 99.01% | The fish are concentrated in a small container, from which the owner takes as many as he needs. Another character opens the container, breaking the rules, and the fish escape. |
| F34A | 98.94% | All women of the community of the first ancestors or all Amazons have a common lover of non-human nature or simultaneously mate with animals of a certain species, summoning them with a conventional signal. |
| M72 | 98.82% | The character puts his hand into the anus of a tapir or other large herbivore and is unable to pull it out. The animal rushes to run and drags a person with it for a long time. |
| H21 | 98.66% | The character controls animals or fish; a boy, young man or girl knows his secret or serves as bait themselves; another character forces the boy (girl) to reveal the secret and/or help him in the same way that he or she helped the first character, or leads the boy to go fishing but kills him, or the boy himself starts hunting, breaking the rules; as a result, the boy or girl is killed or carried away by animals or fish. See motif H18. |
| J15A | 98.65% | Setting off on a journey (usually in search of a fiancé, husband, or relatives), a woman finds herself in the lair or settlement of large dangerous predators - pumas or jaguars. See motif J15. |
| L88 | 98.64% | A man kills a demon, but when he touches its remains some time later, it comes to life. |
| B99 | 98.62% | A person or their head left on a tree turns into an insect nest. |
| B24 | 98.61% | People who have entered into conflict or violated a prohibition are transformed into wild boars or peccaries. |
| B63 | 98.61% | Children lie to their mother, pretending to work in the fields. When the deception is revealed, they are left without a harvest and are transformed into atmospheric phenomena or celestial objects. |
| E19 | 98.61% | Narcotic plants arise from the body of a human being torn to pieces by others. |
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This motif has been recorded in 11 traditions: Masai, 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), Eastern Arunachal Pradesh: Abor (incl Minyong, Shimong, Padam, Pasi, Panggi), Apa Tani (Apatani), Bori, Bugun, Dafla (=Nyishi, Nisi, Nishing, incl Tagin), Gallong (=Galo, Adi), Mishmi, Yana, Pipil, Trio, Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan), Wayana, Aparai, Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor), Ayacucho department (Kechua-speaking communities; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries), Trumai