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F45A1 - Accidental conception by the wind.
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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 woman, against her will, conceives from the wind.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
F45 has 4 other sub-motifsF45. There are or were settlements where only women lived or live (cf. motifs F8, F45C). F45a. A woman or female animal conceives by deliberately exposing her genitals to the wind. F45a1. A woman, against her will, conceives from the wind. F45b. A woman gives birth to a son conceived by (the rays or light of) the sun. F45C. There were men who lived separately from women. See also motif F8. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of F45's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K104 | 100.00% | The youngest of the brothers stays at home, wounds a red swan or duck, and follows its trail. |
| M75A | 99.50% | The character lures a veteran to avenge his fall from the sky. Either the (potauatomi) shovel drops the character or leaves him on top to avenge being lured and caught. |
| M66A | 98.99% | After eating a certain food, the trickster leaves a mountain of excrement that is larger than himself. |
| M13A | 98.47% | A deity and a human meet so that the former can fulfil the latter's request. As a result, the human is turned to stone. Usually (except for the Squamish), one of the supplicants wants eternal life and is turned to stone. See motif M13. |
| B42A | 98.06% | Hunters chase a bear across the sky and kill it in August-October. The bear's blood or fat falls to the ground in the form of dew or colours the foliage red. See motif B42. |
| H37B | 98.06% | One character gives another his power (usually a skunk gives his volley). The other wastes the resource unnecessarily to test its effect. Usually, when the need arises, the resource no longer works. |
| L75 | 97.62% | One of two brothers is the embodiment of evil; at birth, he cuts open his mother's body, killing her. |
| M53C | 97.17% | trickster, inviting birds to dance around him with their eyes closed, kills them one at a time and threatens to turn red at the one that opens their eyes; this is an empty threat, or for a bird that opens eyes and eyes have really turned red ever since. |
| G30 | 97.01% | A long penis is cut into pieces, which turn into many edible plants or different types of trees. Cf. motif B53. |
| M26 | 97.01% | The character dives under waterfowl and ties a rope to their legs to catch them. Birds soar into the air, lifting the catcher with them. It later falls. |
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This motif has been recorded in 7 traditions: Lenape (Delaware), Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario), Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree), Menominee, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Plains Ojibwa