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F18A - Long penis.
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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 penis of a male character is much longer than normal or becomes so. During intercourse, it usually crawls towards the woman like a snake. (Only texts with a focus on authenticity are included, not anecdotes).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
F18 has 3 other sub-motifsF18a. The penis of a male character is much longer than normal or becomes so. During intercourse, it usually crawls towards the woman like a snake. (Only texts with a focus on authenticity are included, not anecdotes). F18b. After intercourse with a forbidden partner (incest, intercourse with an animal or spirit), a man's penis becomes so long that he is forced to carry it in a basket, etc. F18c. The character sees a girl on the other side of the river and copulates with her in an unusual way (sends his penis across the river; turns it into a bridge for the girl to cross the river; into a dam that blocks the river in front of her; dives, swimming up to the girl underwater; sends an object into the girl's vagina). See motif F18B. F18d. Female genitals were enormous in size. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of F18's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| F9C | 96.13% | Snake (in Oceania – moray eel) in the vagina; vagina – snake's mouth; snake crawls out of a woman's mouth and bites off a man's penis during intercourse; woman with a toothy womb is associated with a snake. |
| I82A | 96.12% | The Morning and/or Evening Star – a male character. |
| M11 | 94.98% | The character gives others food extracted from his or someone else's body or contaminated with bodily secretions, without revealing the source of the food. |
| L46 | 94.44% | The character walks, climbs or descends upside down, or sees the world turned upside down. |
| D4A | 93.51% | Fire is stolen from its original owner, returned to people by the thief, or (the motif of theft is not expressed) brought with difficulty from a distant place. |
| G13B | 93.43% | Before the advent of cultivated plants, people ate mushrooms. Creatures of a non-human nature feed on mushrooms. Mushrooms are imaginary, inferior food. |
| H12 | 93.43% | The living visit the afterlife to bring back the dead (except for texts about a shaman bringing back the soul of a sick person), or, without a specific goal, go there accompanied by or following in the footsteps of the recently deceased. |
| F53 | 93.40% | An unattractive man marries, but hides his face. When he is seen, the marriage is dissolved. |
| F53A | 93.35% | The husband hides his face from his wife because she does not know that he is a bat or an owl. |
| L54 | 93.33% | To overcome the disaster, hot stones or ashes are thrown into the water. |
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This motif has been recorded in 22 traditions: Central Australia: Kaitish, Warramunga, Arunta (Aranda), Loritja (Kukatja), Pijandjara (Pitjantjara), Adnjamatana (Andjamathana, Wailpi), Aluridja, Walpiri (Walbiri), Aluridja, Matuntara (Maduntara), Nambutji, Wamma (=Wommana?), Nicobarese, Chukchi, Tanana, North Alaskan Inupiat, Yana, Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Chemehuevi, Huichol, Bribri, Cabecar, Terraba; Chiriqui (AD 800-1500) iconography, Sicuani, Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami, Kofan, Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Tariana, Andoque, Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo, Mundurucu, Curuaia, Mehinaku, Waura, Yaulapiti, Trumai, Paresi, Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon