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M99 - The threat to exterminate birds, AA 981.1.
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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 is going to abuse all birds or (less commonly) animals, but after hearing wise advice, he abandons his intention.Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
M99 has 2 other sub-motifsM99. The character is going to abuse all birds or (less commonly) animals, but after hearing wise advice, he abandons his intention. M99a. The character is going to build a house (tower, etc.) from the bones or feathers of birds. M99a1. The character is going to pierce all the birds with their beaks (to string them on a rope) or cut them off altogether. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M99's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M98 | 99.17% | The character counts the number of members in two huge and alternative sets (dead and alive, men and women, etc.). Usually numbers are distributed equally, and one term (or some) is endowed with the properties of both. By referring it to one of the sets, the character proves a thesis. |
| L39D | 98.66% | A boy climbs a tree to pick fruit. A demonic character asks him to share, but not to throw the fruit on the ground, but to pass it from hand to hand. He grabs the boy and carries him away. |
| K77B2 | 98.61% | The goat (goat, ram, etc.) responds to the predator's questions in the sense that parts of its body are weapons and other objects designed to kill the questioner, or that the goat is actually armed. |
| K82 | 98.46% | A man's wife or another woman tries to destroy his sister. |
| K93B2 | 98.25% | A childless woman conceives a child after eating a fruit (usually an apple; in northern traditions also cabbage, eggs, peas, etc., in India – mangoes). |
| K38 | 97.72% | For doing good to chicks (rarely: young of non-ornithomorphic flying creatures), their mother or father does a favour for the person. |
| M39A6D | 97.51% | One of the relatives or spouses transfers a text or object to the other through third parties. Only the recipient understands the meaning of the words or the item handed over, saves the sender and/or destroys his enemies. |
| K27Q | 97.41% | Task: to obtain the milk of a wild animal or milk possessed by a dangerous creature. See motif K27. |
| M152 | 97.40% | Seeing a predator (a giant, etc.) approaching, the weak character pretends to thank the one who is leading the predator for his promise to bring prey, or his wife and children (rarely: he himself) begin to talk aloud about how they are going to eat the predator or how they have eaten his companions before. |
| L90 | 97.27% | One lip (one fang, horn, etc.) of the creature reaches the sky, while the other drags along the ground. |
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This motif has been recorded in 35 traditions: Algeria Arabs, Tunisia Arabs, Sindhi, Sinhalese; Vedda, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Macedonians, Balkarians, Serbs, Monte Negro, Balkarians, Albanians, Balkarians, Norwegians, Danes, Danish, Western Ukrainians, Russians: Central part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Vyatka, Perm, Kazan provinces), Abaza (Abazins), Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Karachays, Balkar, Ossetians, Nogai, Georgians, Armenians, Kalmyk, Crimean Tatars, Karaims, Talysh, Kara Kalpak, Hui (Dungan) of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan (Dungan texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones), Mansi, Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots), Mongols (Khalkha), Darkhad, Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Shor, Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal), Morocco, Berbers of Algeria