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M41 - Eye juggling, J2423
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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 throws his eyes (an inhaler has a tooth) up or into the distance. At first they return to the eye sockets, but then they disappear.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
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| L1B1 | 98.68% | A woman comes into conflict with her brothers and turns into a dangerous demon. |
| M49A | 98.45% | hero needs to penetrate unnoticed into the locus of dangerous creatures; he meets an old woman (usually a shaman, a doctor) going there, puts on her skin, and penetrates into dangerous ones in her guise creatures. |
| F64 | 98.15% | The character is presented as another person in order to mate with a close relative in the descending or (less commonly) ascending line. |
| D4M | 98.14% | The thief comes to the owners of fire or light. They feast or dance. He joins them and steals their valuables when the moment is right. See motif D4A. |
| K27B | 97.93% | Test: smoke a huge or poisonous pipe or breathe in clouds of poisonous smoke. See motif K27. |
| M59 | 97.87% | A small animal asks a large one to transport it across the river; consistently rejects all the seats on the carrier's body that he offers; climbs to where the carrier is You can kill when the crossing is over. |
| F18C | 97.81% | The character sees a girl on the other side of the river and copulates with her in an unusual way (sends his penis across the river; turns it into a bridge for the girl to cross the river; into a dam that blocks the river in front of her; dives, swimming up to the girl underwater; sends an object into the girl's vagina). See motif F18B. |
| H15 | 97.74% | The dead or spirits cannot hear cries when the living call them, but they can hear whispers, yawns, gurgles, etc. See motif H12. |
| F28C | 97.74% | A woman masturbates with the penis of a large animal that one of the men killed while hunting. |
| K43B | 97.70% | People leave a boy, a girl, a sister and brother, a young woman or young spouses alone and leave, or drive them away. Those who are left behind or driven away discover unusual abilities or helpers, obtaining blood and food. Those who are abandoned eat their fill, while those who abandon them go hungry. A character (often a bird - a crow, magpie, seagull, etc.) visits the abandoned and brings a piece of fat or meat to the camp of the starving. |
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This motif has been recorded in 34 traditions: Shan, Ahom, Khampti, Nganasans, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), Blackfoot, Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Arapaho, Osage, Arikara, Pawnee, Kiowa, Kiowa Apache, Comanche, Gros Ventre, Plains Cree, Assiniboine, Shuswap, Nez Perce, Okanagon, Sanpoil, Klamath, Modoc, Caddo, Northern Paiute (=Paviotso), Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Navajo, Jicarilla, Chiricahua, Hopi, Zuni, Western Keres (Acoma, Laguna), Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambe; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez), Seri, Pima, Sanema, Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)