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F42A - Men turn into birds.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
In the community of the first ancestors, young men or boys turn into birds or bats and fly away.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
F42 has 1 other sub-motifsF42. Feeling wronged, men leave their wives or sisters. F42a. In the community of the first ancestors, young men or boys turn into birds or bats and fly away. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of F42's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| F95 | 98.60% | 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. |
| F48 | 98.15% | Individual women differ physically because the pieces of flesh divided from the first woman were not identical, or because the males who copulated with the first woman were animals of different species. |
| M18A | 97.47% | 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. |
| I30 | 96.82% | In the world of the dead, its master or mistress copulates with all new arrivals. |
| M14A | 96.21% | To take revenge on his wife or her relatives for (allegedly) causing him offence, the husband roasts his wife alive. See motif M14. |
| F42 | 95.87% | Feeling wronged, men leave their wives or sisters. |
| F43A | 95.67% | In the community of the first ancestors, women kill, attempt to kill, or transform men. |
| H24F | 95.15% | The character has the ability to put a large amount of meat or fish into a bag or container that is easy to carry. |
| G28 | 95.08% | The tree contains a fish in its trunk. |
| B34 | 94.78% | After the vessel of night is opened, a person caught by the onset of darkness turns into a bird or animal. |
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Map of Motif Dispersal
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This motif has been recorded in 4 traditions: Saibai, Dauan, Boigu, Badu, Waraber, Wet, Warei, Dauar, Badu, Moa, Sepik-Ramu stock: Abelam, Yatmul, Aibom, Ayom (incl Tembregak, Asai-river pygmies), Tangu, Porapora (Ambakich), Rao and other groups of Middle Ramu and Upper Keram River tribes; Kwanga, Watam, Kaian, Gamei, Awar; Kire (Lower Ramu), Trumai, Bororo