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M84B - The dice are thrown into the water
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Summary of Motif
An animal, bird or fish that is killed and eaten comes to life after its bones are thrown into the water. See M84 motif.Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 8, Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
M84 has 7 other sub-motifsM84. A person, animal, fish, or (rarely) a large fruit is killed and eaten. After a meal, what is eaten revives, usually after the bones (seeds) are put together. Cf. motive C16. M84a. After supernatural characters put the bones of a dead and eaten deer, cow, ram, or goat in its skin, the animal is whole (and usually comes to life). See M84 motif. M84b. An animal, bird or fish that is killed and eaten comes to life after its bones are thrown into the water. See M84 motif. M84b1. A person enters a country from where fish come to people (and comes back). M84b2. The character carefully preserves the bones of migratory birds eaten (not fish or animals) and the birds come to life again. (Episodes of reviving a domestic goose or rooster are not taken into account in everyday tales). M84b3. M84c. Sleeping in a deserted place, a person finds himself among spirits. One of them explains that he has a guest, that is the same person. M84d. A person hears trees talking, one of which is (fatally) ill and suffers. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M84's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K8C5 | 98.42% | A zoomorphic character no larger than a fox allows itself to be swallowed by a bear and kills it by tearing it apart from the inside. |
| E30 | 97.95% | A man has no wife or a woman has no husband, and uses a wooden substitute as a spouse. |
| J40B | 97.77% | After the hero comes back after a long absence and finds his parents enslaved, he tells them to demonstrate openly a lack of respect to their masters and punishes those who were cruel with them |
| I112 | 97.73% | The boat is a living creature with a mouth, a fish. |
| K27B | 97.65% | Test: smoke a huge or poisonous pipe or breathe in clouds of poisonous smoke. See motif K27. |
| L98 | 97.60% | The demon that carries off children and threatens heroes, people, etc., is the eagle owl; there is a race of owls that is hostile to humans. |
| M49A | 97.60% | 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. |
| K43B | 97.42% | 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. |
| J61 | 97.23% | The character has the ability to move or hover in the air like a feather or a fluff. |
| K8C4 | 97.22% | A small animal (bird, mouse, porcupine, fox) or (rarely) a tiny human being allows itself to be swallowed by a large ungulate (elk, deer, bison, tapir) in order to rip open its belly (and eat it). |
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This motif has been recorded in 13 traditions: Mansi, Chukchi, Tagish, Tanana, Tlingit, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Comanche, Plains Ojibwa, Chilkotin, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Sechelt (incl Sisiatl), Squamish, Halcomelem, Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Maldives