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M182A - Animals stick to a horse (ATU 159).
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
A person smears resin on a bull, a horse (usually making a figure that comes to life), or some object; wild animals or demons stick to it. Cf. motif K133.Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
M18 has 2 other sub-motifsM18. The character turns into an object of fishing or hunting and presents himself as a target. The fisherman or hunter does not harm them, but they take away what they use: arrows, darts, harpoons, hooks, bait; or they catch fish, having turned themselves into hooks; or they are caught but escape death by taking on human form again. M18a. The character becomes the object of fishing or hunting, presenting himself as a target for enemies. Numerous arrows, darts, and harpoons stick into his body without causing harm, and he carries them away. See motif M18. M18b. 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. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M18's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| B106 | 99.76% | First, the heavenly rooster crows (or the underground roosters crow), and only then do the earthly roosters crow. |
| K35A6 | 99.76% | The character illuminates the room with a light-emitting object (usually a feather) that he has found. |
| I59B3 | 99.62% | The Milky Way – the road of salt traders, "Chumak Way". |
| J32B | 99.57% | In order to accomplish what he wants, the hero prolongs the night by changing the behaviour of the character on whom the alternation of day and night depends. |
| M39A2D | 99.57% | Fools plant meat, horns, or bones in the hope of raising animals. |
| M39I | 99.57% | After going broke, a person decides to hang himself, but finds gold (specially put by the father where his son hangs). |
| K56F | 99.40% | A man divides a roasted rooster (goose) according to the social ranks of those present (the head to the host, the wings to the daughters, etc.), usually taking the least prestigious but meatiest part for himself. |
| K134 | 99.40% | A guest is planted with treasure in order to accuse him of theft. |
| K162 | 99.31% | The antagonist (robber, sorcerer, witch) sneaks into the house of a girl or young woman, hiding inside a statue, in a wardrobe, etc., and/or putting her husband (guard, etc.) to sleep, but is destroyed at the last moment. |
| K35A5 | 99.31% | An authoritative character leaves an object (a letter) for a little boy, by which he will be able to recognise him when he grows up and comes to him. |
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This motif has been recorded in 19 traditions: Arabs of Iraq, Iraqi, Lithuanians, Estonians, Setu, Finns, Karelians, Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Tajik, Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Rutul, Tsakhur, Kumyk, Terekemen, Armenians, Anatolia Turks, Bashkirs, Mari (Cheremis), Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Russian Federation