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I14A - Ejecting food through the mouth.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
People without anuses regurgitate what they have eaten through their mouths or other (marked) orifices. See motif I14.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 |
|---|---|---|
| I4A | 96.41% | Thunder falls to earth and cannot rise. Usually, a person helps it return to the sky. |
| I29 | 94.87% | A character climbs into an animal's burrow and finds himself in the underworld, or digs a deep hole and finds himself in a world inhabited by burrowing animals. |
| E5D | 94.31% | The first people to arrive on earth and settle within a limited space are threatened by a predator or monster. |
| F24 | 93.58% | Women lose blood when they are bitten by fish, snakes, etc. |
| D2 | 93.11% | A woman gives birth to a son who is very hot. |
| H8 | 92.47% | Unable to bring themselves to touch something unclean, poisonous, dangerous or hot, people lost their immortality (var.: did not receive the blessings that came to Europeans). |
| J2 | 92.25% | Husband or lover – tree (temporarily transformed into a human). |
| F76 | 91.96% | People learn how to make love by watching birds, fish or animals mating; animals teach people how to make love or arouse desire in them. |
| E17 | 91.90% | People get the idea of ornamentation of vessels, baskets, bodies, etc., or of a sign system after someone manages to see a pattern on the body of a zoomorphic or supernatural creature or make an imprint of it. |
| M33 | 91.36% | The character plugs or seals his anus tightly (with wax, clay, grass, etc.), or someone else does it. See M32 motif. |
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Map of Motif Dispersal
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This motif has been recorded in 13 traditions: Sepik-Ramu stock: Abelam, Yatmul, Aibom, Ayom (incl Tembregak, Asai-river pygmies), Tangu, Porapora (Ambakich), Rao and other groups of Middle Ramu and Upper Keram River tribes; Kwanga, Watam, Kaian, Gamei, Awar; Kire (Lower Ramu), Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga, Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf, Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Bacop, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan, Polar Inuit, Cuiva, Yabarana, Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan), Juruna, Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor), Kamayura, Rikbaktsa, Paresi