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N11 - Like snow and blood, (ATU 709)
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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 wants to have a child or spouse who is as white and blush as snow (milk) and blood.Berezkin category: Fabulous and epic formulas
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 13, Formulae
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M114D | 99.80% | A man eats boiled eggs and leaves without paying. Much later, he returns to repay his debt. The owner demands payment for the chickens that would have hatched from those eggs, become hens, laid eggs themselves, and so on. Someone comes to court and pretends to be boiling seeds for sowing. The judge agrees that chickens cannot hatch from boiled eggs. |
| B33F2 | 99.78% | At night, the fire goes out. The young man goes to look for fire and on the way ties up an old woman or an old man (usually a character responsible for the length of night and day). |
| L131B | 99.76% | To make a bird or ladybird fly away, they are told that the place where their home and/or children are located is engulfed in fire. |
| M154B | 99.65% | The husband (rarely: son) stays at home instead of his wife (mother), but does everything poorly and ineptly. |
| K38E1 | 99.63% | Characters pass through a forest with metal trees of two or more types (copper, silver, etc.). |
| K27X7 | 99.63% | On the way to their destination, people meet characters who have power over animals (birds, fish) or demons. They summon the animals (demons) and ask if anyone knows the way to a certain place. Only one person knows, usually the last to appear. |
| M39A8 | 99.59% | A fool drags the door from the house with him (usually raises it to a tree and drops it, scaring the crowd under the tree). |
| B33C | 99.59% | The month on the border between winter and spring (usually March) takes (rarely: buys, steals) a few days from its neighbour. |
| K99A | 99.57% | A young man or woman (often after having a dream) declares that a great future awaits him or her (usually that his or her father, parents, brothers, or sisters will show him or her signs of respect). The young man or woman is expelled, but the prophecy comes true. |
| M135 | 99.56% | Two ungulates – usually after the wolf agrees to share the meadow between them – gore the predator from both sides, killing or maiming it. |
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This motif has been recorded in 16 traditions: Algeria Arabs, Ireland, Portuguese, Portugal, Germans: North (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pommern, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Rügen, Poles, Slovakians, Slovaks, Albanians, Balkarians, Estonians, Norwegians, Tajik, Crimean Tatars, Karaims, Anatolia Turks, Mongols (Khalkha), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio), Frisians