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F14 - Son of a man and a stone.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
The hero is born as a result of the union of a man with a stone or rock.Berezkin category: Gender and sex
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
F14 has 1 other sub-motifsF14. The hero is born as a result of the union of a man with a stone or rock. F14A. An anthropomorphic character emerges from stone. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of F14's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K174 | 98.47% | To signal their arrival, a person places, or more often discreetly throws, a ring or other small item of personal jewellery or toiletries into the jug of a maid or servant. Upon discovering it, the other person understands that the first is nearby. |
| K38B | 98.31% | A snake or monster of aquatic-chthonic or indeterminate nature eats or maims the young of a bird or other flying creature – in most cases, the chicks of a huge bird. A man kills the snake (monster). See motif K38. |
| L90 | 98.29% | One lip (one fang, horn, etc.) of the creature reaches the sky, while the other drags along the ground. |
| F9F | 98.26% | Without the woman's knowledge, the demon regularly kills her suitors on their wedding night. |
| L125 | 97.47% | After meeting a beautiful woman, a man finds her in a situation where her inhuman nature is revealed. After that, the marriage falls apart. |
| K38C | 97.31% | After the hero helps the bird (usually by doing good to its chicks), it takes him to the place he desires, or instructs its chicks to do so. (This does not involve movement between levels of the universe; in the Sumerian version, the bird gives the hero the ability to move with lightning speed and directs him to his goal). |
| K27R | 97.28% | The person giving the task requires an item or message to be brought from the world. |
| M195 | 97.17% | The character must guess which of the two horses or cows is older. He does this by knowing the behavioural characteristics of these animals. |
| K82 | 97.07% | A man's wife or another woman tries to destroy his sister. |
| K93B2 | 96.98% | A childless woman conceives a child after eating a fruit (usually an apple; in northern traditions also cabbage, eggs, peas, etc., in India – mangoes). |
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Map of Motif Dispersal
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This motif has been recorded in 14 traditions: Tuvalu (Ellice), Northern Taiwan: Atayal (Tayal; Taruko (Toda, Taokas, Torok, Taroko), Pazeh, Sedeq (Sediq, Seedeq, Sazek), Saisiyat (Saixia), Ami, Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Ancient Greece, Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Karachays, Balkar, Ossetians, Ingush, Svans, Armenians, Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots), Mongols (Khalkha)