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M66 - The root eaten, J2154
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
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.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
M66 has 1 other sub-motifsM66. 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. M66a. After eating a certain food, the trickster leaves a mountain of excrement that is larger than himself. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M66's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| B95 | 99.05% | The appearance of the sphincter or buttocks is explained by the fact that a certain character burned his backside. |
| J12M | 99.05% | 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. |
| M69 | 98.54% | 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. |
| K1J | 98.25% | The abandoned one turns into a bird and returns home faster than the one who abandoned him. |
| L5E1 | 98.18% | A woman who has become a monster pursues her own children. |
| C6B | 98.13% | The desired object is brought up from the bottom by a muskrat (rarely a beaver or otter). |
| J41 | 97.91% | 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. |
| J19B | 97.63% | An evil spirit kills a woman by burning through her body. |
| H53 | 97.40% | The wolf participates in the creation of the earth or is the brother of the creator and/or conqueror of the demons of the underworld. He dies and/or is considered the first to die and/or becomes the lord of the land of the dead. |
| L86 | 96.85% | 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. |
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This motif has been recorded in 20 traditions: Shan, Ahom, Khampti, Chipewyan, Micmac, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Montagnais, Menominee, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Winnebago, Arapaho, Iowa, Arikara, Pawnee, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Kiowa, Gros Ventre, Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Crow, Chiricahua, Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon