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B68A - The bird is punished: let it carry another.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Birds quarrel, and the one who claimed high status cripples the weak one. For this, the others order her to carry the crippled one on her back.Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
B68 has 2 other sub-motifsB68. The giant hazel grouse became small – it was usually torn into pieces, which turned into the current hazel grouse. B68a. Birds quarrel, and the one who claimed high status cripples the weak one. For this, the others order her to carry the crippled one on her back. B68b. A character who, by his appearance, behaviour or unexpected appearance, tried to frighten God (people) and was turned into an animal (with a different appearance than before) for this. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of B68's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| B45B | 99.15% | The bull or cow is the embodiment of cold, the reason why winter is cold. |
| B38E | 98.47% | The character kicks a loon or other waterfowl. Since then, it has had a flattened tail and finds it difficult to walk on land. |
| M108A | 97.42% | A lonely elderly couple adopts a trickster. He steals from them (and runs away). |
| C6J | 97.01% | In the same narrative, the story of the creation of man and the attempt to prevent it follows immediately after the story of obtaining earth from the bottom of the sea or from the underworld. |
| I56 | 96.96% | Moving between worlds, the same living person is visible to some and invisible to others. |
| M91D | 96.01% | The character deceives others by passing off the dead as alive, directing suspicions of murder to innocent people, etc. When a shaman (less often a shaman) is ready to discover the truth, he succeeds in it kill and avoid being charged with murder. |
| B1E | 95.34% | The protagonist of the narrative is one of many (seven or more) brothers with whom he is in conflict, but who are not his irreconcilable enemies. |
| M171B | 94.67% | The character pretends to have brought meat on a shoulder blade and gives it to the hosts to cook. Taking a bare bone without meat out of the pot, he accuses the hosts of stealing the meat. |
| M100 | 94.53% | Zoomorphic characters lie down to sleep on the edge of a cliff. At night, one of them suggests moving (turning), and his companion (companions) falls and breaks. |
| J27B | 94.44% | An infant is thrown into a lake or river and occasionally comes ashore. In addition to his earthly parents, he has a father (and mother) in the underwater world. He does not want to part with them, nor do they want to let him go. |
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This motif has been recorded in 6 traditions: Karachays, Balkar, Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Khakas, Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit, Altaians, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori