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M65 - The trickster was pinched and the meat was eaten
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
trickster bakes meat obtained by trick, deception; immobilized by sticking to a tree, ground, or stone; at this time, another character (fox, wolf, coyote, birds) eats all the meat. See M53 motif.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
M65 has 2 other sub-motifsM65. trickster bakes meat obtained by trick, deception; immobilized by sticking to a tree, ground, or stone; at this time, another character (fox, wolf, coyote, birds) eats all the meat. See M53 motif. M65a. The trees are creaking in the wind. Hearing a creak, the character climbs a tree and gets stuck. See M65 motif. M65b. Having resorted to deception, the character kills the game, but the thieves take the loot. See M53 motif. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M65's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M65B | 99.86% | Having resorted to deception, the character kills the game, but the thieves take the loot. See M53 motif. |
| M29Q | 99.41% | See the motives in square brackets. |
| B95 | 98.73% | The appearance of the sphincter or buttocks is explained by the fact that a certain character burned his backside. |
| J12M | 98.73% | A woman or two sisters come to two men and become wives of one of them. The other kills or tries to kill his rival or the women. As a result, the women turn into waterfowl. |
| J41 | 98.71% | The hero leaves for a long time. When he returns, his relative does not immediately believe that it is really him. All this time, someone has been mocking him or her, imitating the voice of the departed, saying that he has returned and/or throwing ashes in his or her face. |
| J12J | 97.72% | A girl or sisters end up with a false groom who plays the role of a jester in the chief's house. See motif J12. |
| J18 | 97.55% | A pregnant woman or a woman with a child falls from the sky. She or her newborn daughter dies or undergoes a metamorphosis. Her son or her daughter's son survives and grows up. Cf. motif K9. |
| J19 | 97.25% | While her husband or brother is hunting, an evil spirit comes to his wife or sister; he kills her or takes her away. Her sons, who were torn from her womb or born at that time, are saved. |
| K43C | 96.64% | The bound children (a young man and his sister) are left alone in an empty camp, and the animal frees them. |
| M66 | 96.59% | 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. |
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This motif has been recorded in 19 traditions: Shan, Ahom, Khampti, Chipewyan, Menominee, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Winnebago, Arapaho, Teton (incl Oglala), Yankton/Yanktonai, Omaha, Ponca, Iowa, Pawnee, Kiowa, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Crow, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Coeur D'Alene, Kalispel (Pend d'Oreille; incl Spokane)