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I140 - Moses' rod.
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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 staff thrown to the ground turns into a living snake.Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 8, Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
I14 has 1 other sub-motifsI14. Creatures without an anal opening are described. I14a. People without anuses regurgitate what they have eaten through their mouths or other (marked) orifices. See motif I14. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of I14's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| N39 | 100.00% | The image of a three-ply rope is used to describe the invincibility of two close-knit friends |
| M39A4D | 94.87% | Fool sells property a lizard and believes it will pay him. Trying to get his money, he finds treasure |
| M138A | 90.45% | At the beginning of time, the supreme deity or his messengers decided that the maximum lifespan of a human being would be 120 years. |
| K180 | 89.45% | The ruler demands an explanation of his dream. The snake tells the man that this dream signifies the coming of a time when people tend to behave in a certain way. This happens several times. Each time, the man's behaviour towards the snake confirms her words. |
| K32B | 83.21% | The man's mother takes on the appearance of his wife in order to take her place. |
| K33F | 81.92% | Sources of at least two valuable liquid edible products (honey, oil, etc.) are available or imagined. Cf. motif N34. |
| L94C | 81.65% | If a deity grants victory, a person promises to sacrifice to it the first person who comes out to meet them at home. A son or daughter comes out. |
| F98 | 76.98% | A heavenly anthropomorphic deity descends to earth and mates with a cow. |
| B1A | 75.59% | Anthropomorphic characters agree to divide the tiers of the universe among themselves – heaven, earth and the underworld. |
| K102A1 | 74.62% | To hide the truth, a person buries an animal or an inanimate object and says that the grave supposedly contains the remains of another person's wife (bride, mother, daughter, sister, children). |
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This motif has been recorded in 3 traditions: Old and New Testament, Armenians, Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)