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F93A - The talking penis and the mother-in-law.
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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 man's penis begins to talk incessantly, falling silent only after his mother-in-law takes it in her hand.Berezkin category: Gender and sex
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks 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
F93 has 1 other sub-motifsF93. After a person performs a certain action, his penis begins to speak (often repeating what the person has said). F93a. A man's penis begins to talk incessantly, falling silent only after his mother-in-law takes it in her hand. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of F93's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K68 | 99.85% | A strong man takes food from a weak man and forces him to work for him (usually a son-in-law mistreats his father-in-law). A boy appears in the house of the wronged man from a clot of animal blood that has been collected. He kills the offender. |
| L91 | 99.65% | Two or four young men go on a journey or return from one. Their path is blocked by a long creature that cannot be bypassed. They burn a passage through it. One eats roasted meat, turns into a snake himself, or dies. See motif L28. |
| K48A | 99.45% | The hero's costume and/or headdress are decorated with live birds or animals. Usually, the antagonist steals the clothes and pretends to be the hero, but the birds and animals on his headdress remain silent or cry out differently. See motif K48. |
| M24 | 99.28% | turtle goes to war and/or is captured. See M23 motif. Cf. motif K77 “Verlioka”. |
| J12J | 98.77% | A girl or sisters end up with a false groom who plays the role of a jester in the chief's house. See motif J12. |
| J19 | 98.52% | While her husband or brother is hunting, an evil spirit comes to his wife or sister; he kills her or takes her away. Her sons, who were torn from her womb or born at that time, are saved. |
| K25B | 98.38% | A woman climbs a tree trying to catch a porcupine and ends up in the sky. |
| M79 | 98.38% | A person joins the dancers; it turns out that the dancers are reeds or trees in the wind. |
| M24A | 98.29% | turtle man goes to war, kills people (usually a woman). He gets caught or killed. In his animal form, he continues to live on. See M24 motif. |
| M29Q | 98.27% | See the motives in square brackets. |
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This motif has been recorded in 6 traditions: Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Santee, Pawnee, Kiowa Apache, Assiniboine, Crow