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B60 - Offended children leave their parents.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Children come into conflict with their parents over food, clothing, attention, which they demand and which their parents deny them, and sexual behaviour. They leave their parents, turning into birds, bats, stars or atmospheric phenomena. See motif B59.Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| F42A | 93.60% | In the community of the first ancestors, young men or boys turn into birds or bats and fly away. |
| B13A | 93.29% | A stream of water (with a predator in it) rushes after a character who is trying to escape from it. |
| F42 | 92.83% | Feeling wronged, men leave their wives or sisters. |
| H24F | 92.26% | The character has the ability to put a large amount of meat or fish into a bag or container that is easy to carry. |
| M18A | 92.19% | The character becomes the object of fishing or hunting, presenting himself as a target for enemies. Numerous arrows, darts, and harpoons stick into his body without causing harm, and he carries them away. See motif M18. |
| F95 | 91.77% | Two companions or brothers live together. One has a wife, whom he hides. The other suspects her existence, destroys her, or tries to get a wife for himself. |
| L9A | 91.67% | The character's leg is crippled (intentionally or accidentally) or originally pointed. He uses the pointed bone for hunting, fishing or killing people. |
| E13A | 91.53% | Sacred knowledge, objects and rituals were first obtained by humans from the inhabitants of the underwater world. |
| M73 | 91.26% | Two characters compare their excrement or vomit to learn about each other's diet and decide which of them is the more powerful beast. One of them manages to replace the selections. (Traditions in which vomiting is substituted are greasy). |
| L21 | 91.03% | A cannibal or demon under a tree intends to grab a person who has climbed a tree; the person throws his prey or some object far away, and while the cannibal is looking for, picking up or eating what has been thrown, he runs away. |
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This motif has been recorded in 21 traditions: Society Islands: Tahiti, Borabora, Raiatea, Southern Cook Islands: Mangaia, Rarotonga, Atiu, Iatutakim Pukapuka, Tubuai (=Austral Islands, incl Rapa), Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kedang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor), Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Baree (=Eastern Toraja), Minahasa (incl. Tondano, Tentemboan), Bantik, Batak (Toba, Dairi), Nanai, Negidal, Nivkh, Lenape (Delaware), Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Blackfoot, Caddo, Chumash, Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami, Aimara, Bolivian Guarani: Chiriguano (including assimilated Chane Arawaks), Pauserna (=Guarasu), Guarayu, Tapiete, Bororo, Apinaye (Apinage, Apinaje), Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay), Chorote