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H33 - Children walk from birth.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
At first, children walked, had to walk, or could walk immediately after birth.Berezkin category: Paradise Lost
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 4, Origin of death, diseases and hard life
H33 has 1 other sub-motifsH33. At first, children walked, had to walk, or could walk immediately after birth. H33a. God wanted to throw a newborn baby (over a fence, house, etc.) so that it would immediately stand up and start walking, but the woman was frightened and did not allow it. Therefore, children do not walk from birth. See motif H33. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of H33's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A39A | 99.13% | Each of the calendar segments (usually months) that make up the year is represented by a special object or creature. |
| M178 | 98.59% | The owner successively sends others to graze the goat (herd of goats). The goat eats grass to its heart's content, but each time replies to the owner that it has been kept on a starvation diet. The owner is outraged and kills or drives away the shepherds. Convinced of the goat's deceitfulness, he decides to kill it. Either the owner begins to skin the live goat, or the goat runs away. In most versions, both motifs are combined. |
| M199G1 | 98.57% | A human (a weaker animal) deceives a strong giant (a demon, a stronger animal). One of the episodes: both carry a tree, the strong man takes hold of the top (by the crown), the man supposedly takes hold of the crown (by the top), but instead sits on the tree carried by the strong man or walks along pretending to support the branches. |
| B33D1 | 98.54% | In narrative folklore, the days of the week (most often Friday and Wednesday) are special (female) characters with a more or less pronounced demonic nature. |
| F9G1 | 98.54% | On her wedding night, the bride-heroine throws herself on her groom to crush him. |
| I100D | 98.54% | Stars are associated with kids. |
| K73B3 | 98.54% | A person who is asked to count the nuts in a barrel (taking them out one by one) accompanies his actions with a revealing story. |
| M171C1 | 98.54% | The character has only a bast shoe with him (or he pretends that he had a bast shoe). He asks for a place to stay for the night, and in the morning he claims that he had something more valuable with him. At each new place to stay, he continues to exchange something less valuable for something more valuable. |
| K57D | 98.53% | The prince marries the girl who fits the shoe. The girl cuts off her toes or heel so that the shoe will fit. |
| K56A4A | 98.49% | Left alone with the demon in the bathhouse (mill, etc.), the girl demands that he bring her new clothes, jewellery, etc., and while the demon is fetching them, morning comes. |
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This motif has been recorded in 36 traditions: Saudi Arabia, Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai, Arabs of Iraq, Iraqi, Arabs of Egypt, France, Dutch, Flemish, Poles, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Macedonians, Balkarians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Livonians, Karelians, Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Georgians, Mari (Cheremis), Chuvash, Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks), Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario), Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree), Plains Ojibwa, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov, Northern Shoshone, Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Eastern Shoshone, Yaruro, Warao, Trumai, Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights), Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Russian Federation