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M84B1 - A trip to the land of fish
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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 enters a country from where fish come to people (and comes back).Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 7, Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar
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 |
|---|---|---|
| M29X1 | 97.09% | See the motives in square brackets. |
| K47A | 94.84% | A woman mates with a dog. Her children grow up to be humans and usually become the ancestors of certain ethnic groups. |
| F72 | 94.81% | A woman asks a man to tie her up before intercourse so that it looks like she is being raped. |
| B85 | 94.53% | The wind blows too strongly, it is forced to calm down. |
| C16A | 94.10% | The offended mistress of animals or fish takes them and food supplies away. See motif H32A. |
| L119 | 93.85% | The hero and antagonist fight in the air, tearing off each other's limbs. Usually, their allies on the ground try to preserve the limbs of their leader and destroy those of their enemy. |
| M53D | 93.64% | The character pretends to be enemies coming; when people run away in fear, the character takes what the deceived people owned. |
| F10 | 93.49% | A woman has a second mouth (usually in her vagina) with sharp teeth. A man inserts or throws a stone, bone, stick, etc. into this mouth, knocking out the teeth or extracting toothy animals from it in this way. |
| K10E | 92.83% | In the bird's habitat, the hero finds the people it has kidnapped and helps them return home. |
| H22 | 92.60% | Large game animals did not have a sense of smell. They acquired it and began to flee from hunters after someone created olfactory organs for them or gave them a strong smell to smell. Cf. motif H22A. |
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This motif has been recorded in 14 traditions: Ainu, Nanai, Olcha (Ulch), Nivkh, Tagish, Inland Tlingit, Tlingit, Haida, Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw), Bella Coola (Nuxalk), Carrier, Chilkotin, Sechelt (incl Sisiatl), Squamish, Halcomelem, Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz