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B57 - Bloody sunset.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Blood spurting from a killed or wounded person or animal colours the sky (dawn, northern lights) or other natural objects (moon, vegetation) red.Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 3, Cosmogony, the earth and the sky, etiology of the elements, natural and biological phenomena (fire, water, soil, thunderstorms, dream, etc.), cataclysms and cosmic threats, spirits of nature
B57 has 1 other sub-motifsB57. Blood spurting from a killed or wounded person or animal colours the sky (dawn, northern lights) or other natural objects (moon, vegetation) red. B57a. Seeing the reddened sky, the character understands that another's blood has been spilled, or that another has spilled red liquid. See motif B57. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of B57's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| I27A | 91.14% | The souls of dead dogs go to a special place in the afterlife and/or go to the afterlife along a special path. |
| B36C | 89.26% | Animals receive meat and fat rendered from a certain creature or obtained in some other way. Some received a lot, others remained thin. |
| L33C | 85.21% | The trickster and the boulder agree to race down the slope. The boulder rolls faster and faster and crushes the trickster. See motif L33. |
| M93A | 84.54% | The character punishes a part of his body (burns his ass, breaks his eyes) for not sounding the alarm. See Motive M93; cf. Motive M142. |
| J12L | 84.51% | The murderer pretends to mourn the victim along with everyone else. The deception is revealed, and the murderer is pursued. See motif J12. |
| I2 | 84.25% | Lightning bolts fly from the eyes or mouth {specified} of a creature embodying a thunderstorm. See motif I1. |
| M93 | 83.84% | When falling asleep or going to do something else, the character tells a certain part of his body to wake him up in case of danger. The organ did not give a signal or the character himself did not listen to it, as a result, the misfortune happened. |
| M62B | 83.42% | Two or more characters aim their weapons at the hero in between, but they hit each other. |
| B42O1 | 82.95% | The Big Dipper is identified with the fisher (Mustela pennati). |
| K27N3C | 82.67% | A character who gives the hero difficult tasks or subjects him to trials is associated with a land or water animal or a fish. See motif K27. |
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This motif has been recorded in 32 traditions: Southeast Australia: Kamilaroi, Yualarai (Ualarai, Euahlayi), Milpulo (Mailpurgu), Wuradjeri (Wiradjurim, Wiradjeri, Wurundjeri, Yarra, Yarra Yarra), Wongaibon (Wonghibon), Noongahburrah (Narran, Narran River), Kurnai, and many others (see file 0.doc), Maori, Moriori (Chatam Islands), Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kedang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor), Lithuanians, Western Sami, 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), Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars, Chuvash, Mansi, Forest Nenets, Kets, Nanai, Chukchi, Chipewyan, Koyukon, Tanana, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), North Alaskan Inupiat, Micmac, Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Huron (incl Wyandot), Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Osage, Plains Ojibwa, Flathead, Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna), Moseten, Chimane, Paresi, Ayoreo, Caduveo, Mbaya, Northern and Southern Tehuelche