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E30 - Wooden substitute spouse.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
A man has no wife or a woman has no husband, and uses a wooden substitute as a spouse.Berezkin category: The origins of people and culture
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 5, Origin of human beings, ethnic groups, etiology of human anatomy, strange body configuration, ways of behavior, marriages before the establishment of the present norms
E30 has 2 other sub-motifsE30. A man has no wife or a woman has no husband, and uses a wooden substitute as a spouse. E30a. A man without a wife or a woman without a husband uses a substitute spouse made of wood or other material until a real spouse appears. E30b. A man makes a figure or receives a woman. She comes to life and becomes his wife. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of E30's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K8C5 | 98.71% | A zoomorphic character no larger than a fox allows itself to be swallowed by a bear and kills it by tearing it apart from the inside. |
| M42A | 98.33% | The character (usually after losing his own eyes) inserts seeds or berries into his eye sockets and sees again. |
| M84B | 97.95% | An animal, bird or fish that is killed and eaten comes to life after its bones are thrown into the water. See M84 motif. |
| F67 | 97.49% | An old woman lives with her (adopted) daughter, niece or daughter-in-law. She (supposedly) turns into a man, marries a girl or tries to do so. |
| J61 | 96.75% | The character has the ability to move or hover in the air like a feather or a fluff. |
| B75B1 | 96.72% | The character pushes his mother-in-law or wife into a hollow, and she turns into the creaking of trees or an echo. |
| M49A | 96.56% | hero needs to penetrate unnoticed into the locus of dangerous creatures; he meets an old woman (usually a shaman, a doctor) going there, puts on her skin, and penetrates into dangerous ones in her guise creatures. |
| K27B | 96.55% | Test: smoke a huge or poisonous pipe or breathe in clouds of poisonous smoke. See motif K27. |
| J40B | 96.52% | After the hero comes back after a long absence and finds his parents enslaved, he tells them to demonstrate openly a lack of respect to their masters and punishes those who were cruel with them |
| M41 | 96.43% | The character throws his eyes (an inhaler has a tooth) up or into the distance. At first they return to the eye sockets, but then they disappear. |
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This motif has been recorded in 15 traditions: Papua-NewGuinea Highland Papuans:Trans New Guinea & unclassified:Chimbu,Gimi,KaugelHuli,Gadsup,Kuman,Kutubu,Foi (Foe),Kyaka,Kamano (Kafe),Mawatta,Kukukuku (=Anga,=Sambia;Manki,Nauti,Ejuti),Baruya,Kewa,Tembregak,Menya,Melpa,Wiru,Pondoma, Melanesians of the northern coast New Guinea, nearest off-shore islands and Huon Gulf (Morobe district): Watut, Bilbil (Bilibili), Jabim (incl Kai), Tami, Bukawac, Wogeo, Tumleo, Yakamul, Manam, Sissano, Sio, Tuamotu, incl Pukapuka (different from Pukapuka in Cook Islands), Vahitahi, Anaa, Hao, Fangatau, Mansi, Udeghe, Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir, Baffin Land Inuit, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah, Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot, Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Yuki (Yuki proper, Coastal Yuki, Huchnob), Asurini, Parakana; Arawete