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I127 - Ursa Major – bed.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Ursa Major – bed, couch.Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 2, Moon spots, stars, constellations
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K27Z2C | 98.00% | After marrying a poor girl, the prince locks her up. She turns out to be more cunning than him. |
| M60A1 | 97.37% | The hero meets a servant (usually a shepherd) and takes his form, after asking how he acts, how he talks to the hostess (usually finds out what to say in order transport the herd across the river). |
| K27Z4 | 96.83% | The character always wins bets or outplays others thanks to a trained cat (mouse, rat) that holds (or extinguishes in time) a lamp, turns dice, etc. The hero releases the mouse (or cat, mongoose, respectively), the cat rushes after it (or the mouse is afraid to come out), and the character loses. |
| K92A | 96.62% | A girl who has been driven from her home or has become the wife of an insignificant pauper becomes rich and respected. |
| K136C | 96.47% | Upon leaving, the demon temporarily kills or puts the girl to sleep, and upon returning, revives her. |
| M78F | 96.18% | When a woman falls asleep, a joker (usually a tiny boy) places an embryo or the entrails of an animal or something similar next to her to make the woman herself or others think she has a miscarriage or that her viscera has fallen out. |
| M38D3 | 96.15% | The character, who is a lump of earth (oatmeal, salt), blurred in the rain or after going to get water. |
| M60A2 | 96.15% | The servant must lick the master or mistress's feet or wound. The hero comes disguised as a servant and instead of licking his heels, touches them with the animal's cut off tongue. |
| M125 | 96.10% | One character lies to another, pretending to eat his own eyes. The other agrees to eat his own. The first character gouges out one of his eyes and gives him something tasty in its place. The character believes that this is the same eye that was gouged out and agrees to give up the second. |
| K120A2 | 96.00% | Family members want to marry their daughter off to a man who is unacceptable to her (usually they want to marry her off to her own brother). The girl refuses to address her father, mother, etc. as close relatives, but calls them in-laws (mother-in-law, sister-in-law, etc.) or enemies; or the relatives themselves demand that the girl address them as in-laws. |
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This motif has been recorded in 13 traditions: Algeria Arabs, Arabs of Sudan, Sudanese, Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij, Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups), Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga, Telugu (incl. Yanadi, Chenchu), Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani), Brahui, Tajik, Udmurt, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Bedja, Kolam