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L86 - Children run away from their demon mother.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Having turned into a demon, a woman pursues her children. Cf. motif K102a2: A mother seeks to destroy her son (children) because he interferes with her love affair and/or sides with his father in a conflict between his parents.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 |
|---|---|---|
| J19B | 97.39% | An evil spirit kills a woman by burning through her body. |
| M69 | 97.05% | character is attracted by the inside of a large animal's skull (small animals or insects are dancing or feasting inside, or eating some meat); he sticks his head inside , it gets stuck. |
| F59 | 96.99% | Pretending to be a woman, the trickster transforms part of his body, another character, or some object into a swaddled baby, female genitalia, or a female household item, or disguises an animal or object as a baby born to a new husband. |
| M66 | 96.85% | After eating certain foods frivolously or rubbing his body with his spine, the character suffers from itching, diarrhea, or an irrepressible eruption of intestinal gases. |
| M53 | 96.70% | The character invites others to gather around him, focusing on an activity (usually dancing with their eyes closed or lowered), and then kills the crowd (usually one at a time). |
| A38D | 96.43% | Because the Sun has harmed the character (ruined or burned his cloak, the fur on his skin, etc.), he catches it in a trap or kills it. |
| L5E1 | 96.40% | A woman who has become a monster pursues her own children. |
| M80 | 96.27% | The character insults a partridge bird, kills or offends its chickens; the partridge suddenly takes off in front of the offender, he falls (usually into a lake or river). |
| I22H | 95.46% | The character must jump over a gap (abyss) beneath his feet, which alternately widens and narrows, or a river whose banks converge and diverge. |
| C6B | 95.22% | The desired object is brought up from the bottom by a muskrat (rarely a beaver or otter). |
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This motif has been recorded in 19 traditions: Maori, Moriori (Chatam Islands), Batak (Toba, Dairi), Chukchi, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), Menominee, Tuscarora, Blackfoot, Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Teton (incl Oglala), Pawnee, Kiowa, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Kalapuya, Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambe; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez), Guajiro, Sherente, Toba (incl Pilagá)