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F64 - Incestuous parent, T411.1.1.
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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 character is presented as another person in order to mate with a close relative in the descending or (less commonly) ascending line.Berezkin category: Gender and sex
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
F64 has 2 other sub-motifsF64. The character is presented as another person in order to mate with a close relative in the descending or (less commonly) ascending line. F64a. Leaving or pretending to be dying, the character gives instructions to a relative regarding what he or she should do to get married, indicating a partner with certain characteristics, or the character indicates the place of a future meeting with this partner; or (Philippines) describes a person who should be accepted as a guest; comes himself under the guise of the person mentioned. See motif F64. F64b. A woman pretends to be someone else in order to seduce her son, brother, daughter or grandson. See motif F64. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of F64's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| L1B1 | 99.13% | A woman comes into conflict with her brothers and turns into a dangerous demon. |
| D4M | 99.05% | The thief comes to the owners of fire or light. They feast or dance. He joins them and steals their valuables when the moment is right. See motif D4A. |
| M59 | 98.91% | A small animal asks a large one to transport it across the river; consistently rejects all the seats on the carrier's body that he offers; climbs to where the carrier is You can kill when the crossing is over. |
| K21A | 98.76% | A celestial being marries an earthly woman. She longs to return to earth and secretly descends from her husband. |
| A32B1 | 98.71% | A woman sits (jumps) on the face (back) of the Moon Man and is now visible in the silhouette of the moon spots. |
| K27T | 98.67% | Competition: climbing a pole. See motif K27. |
| F18C | 98.63% | 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. |
| B92 | 98.39% | A character whose body is hard and has broken into small pieces, or (rarely) a small object, turns into flint or other hard stones (the origin of flint). |
| M54 | 98.37% | The character lives or stays at someone else's house; then goes far away, falls asleep, but wakes up again in the same house. |
| K8C3 | 98.35% | One (zoomorphic) character refuses to use any part of another's body except the one he uses to kill him. |
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This motif has been recorded in 56 traditions: Bia: Anyi, Agni, Baule, Nsema, Saibai, Dauan, Boigu, Badu, Waraber, Wet, Warei, Dauar, Badu, Moa, Mangareva, Minahasa (incl. Tondano, Tentemboan), Bantik, Northern Taiwan: Atayal (Tayal; Taruko (Toda, Taokas, Torok, Taroko), Pazeh, Sedeq (Sediq, Seedeq, Sazek), Saisiyat (Saixia), Mon, Li , Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Aleuts, North Alaskan Inupiat, Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah, Miami, Illini, Winnebago, Blackfoot, Arapaho, Osage, Iowa, Pawnee, Kiowa Apache, Gros Ventre, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Crow, Hidatsa, Chilkotin, Shuswap, Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Nez Perce, Quileute, Chemakum (Hoh), Quinault, Tillamook, Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Okanagon, Sanpoil, Karok, Hupa, Chilula, Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov, Kawaiisu, Northern Paiute (=Paviotso), Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Chemehuevi, Kitanemuk, Serrano, Navajo, Jicarilla, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Western Keres (Acoma, Laguna), Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambe; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez), Colorado (Tsachila), Mehinaku, Waura, Yaulapiti, Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon, Selknam, Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet