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B54 - Splinters turn into fish. D441.10+.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Wood chips, branches or pieces of bark that have fallen or been thrown into the water turn into fish and aquatic animals.Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
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
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A20 | 94.98% | The Sun and the Moon (less often the Sun and a star, the Moon and a star) are brothers (sisters, brother and sister) who initially live on earth, but at the end of the story, as teenagers or young adults, ascend to the sky and become celestial bodies. |
| F28 | 93.78% | There is a separate penis character with whom the first women, Amazons, or simply some woman copulate. |
| F35 | 93.51% | A character offers another person the meat of his sexual partner, and the other person, unaware, eats or cooks it. |
| M75D | 93.01% | A man bereaves vultures of their hunting weapons or amulets |
| J37 | 92.81% | Transforming into a powerful bird or creating one, the hero lifts his opponent into the air and carries him away. |
| F28A | 92.31% | A penis grows out of the ground or out of the water in a lake. Women summon it as needed. |
| F9E1 | 91.89% | A woman's womb is dangerous because it contains a toothy or stinging animal (not just its mouth) or many such creatures. |
| L22 | 91.43% | Having broken some taboo, seen an unusual object or a strange character, people fall into a deep sleep; at night, while asleep, they are killed or maimed. |
| L22A | 91.31% | Having broken some taboo, seen an unusual object or strange character, people fall into a deep sleep and wake up in the morning blind. See motif L22. Among the Watut, Khmou and Trumai, a spirit eats out a person's eyes and they die immediately without waking up). |
| K27O2 | 90.96% | To destroy the hero, his opponents play ball with him, throwing a heavy dangerous object (a ball made of ice, bone, stone, iron, a walrus head, a biting skull, etc.). |
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Map of Motif Dispersal
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This motif has been recorded in 36 traditions: Eastern Arunachal Pradesh: Abor (incl Minyong, Shimong, Padam, Pasi, Panggi), Apa Tani (Apatani), Bori, Bugun, Dafla (=Nyishi, Nisi, Nishing, incl Tagin), Gallong (=Galo, Adi), Mishmi, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Chukchi, Chugach, North Alaskan Inupiat, Copper, Netsilik, Caribou, Iglulik, Polar Inuit, West Greenland, Haida, Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw), Tzotzil, Bari, Sicuani, Makiritare (Yecuana), Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami, Locono, Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”), Chayahuita , Karijona, Barasana, Taibano, Macuna, Letuama, Tanimuca, Ufaina, Yahuna, Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna), Andoque, Witoto, Ocaina, Yagua, Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor), Tenetehara, Paresi, Bororo, Umotina (Umutina), Caraja, Apinaye (Apinage, Apinaje), Papua-New Guinea Southern Lowland Papuan groups (Trans New Guinea and unclassified): Gimi, Kiwai, Bina, Mawabula, Mawatta, Keraki, Gambadi (incl. Kwavaru), Purari River delta, Masingara, Wiram (=Suki), Ngain, Daga, Elema