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L99 - Bring the skewer!
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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 captured the character, the ogre orders him to bring wood or a spit to roast him. The character deliberately procrastinates, brings the wrong thing, or is helped to escape by some animal.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 |
|---|---|---|
| M97 | 96.01% | Blinded or far from the target, the character walks, bumping into trees of various species and asking everyone a question or request. He eventually achieves his goal. |
| B42C | 95.62% | In the cosmic hunting plot, the object of pursuit is a bear. See motifs B42 and B42P. |
| D4C | 95.47% | Characters obtain the warm season from its original owners. |
| L5E | 95.27% | The decapitated body of a woman pursues her husband, while her head pursues their children. |
| A38C | 94.89% | The Sun exchanges a cape made of animal or bird skins with a boy or girl, or spoils it. As a result, the boy or girl raises their status or takes revenge on the Sun. |
| K27YY1 | 94.82% | The hero brings the feather (feathers) of a dangerous bird. |
| A38B | 94.74% | The sun gets caught in a trap. Only a mouse or other small animal manages to gnaw through the trap and free the sun. |
| L9B | 94.31% | The sharp elbows or (rarely) knees of the character resemble knives or awls. |
| M30C | 94.00% | A character flying through the air falls, violating the ban on talking, looking down, flying over villages, etc. (The character is not dropped by the person carrying it and flies above the ground, not descends from the sky or rises to the sky). |
| C6B | 93.72% | 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 20 traditions: Western Sami, Eastern Sami (including Skolts), Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit, Altaians, Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar, Altaians, Chukchi, Koyukon, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), Malecite, Passamaquoddy, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario), Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree), Eastern Cree, Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam, Lower Chinook (Chinook proper), Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori