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I27D - The mouth of a black dog.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
There is a certain black or red dog that (is associated with objects in the night sky and) negatively affects people's lives.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
I27 has 4 other sub-motifsI27. The dog and/or (rarely) the domestic cat is the master, guardian of the land of the dead, guide on the way there; dogs live on the way to the land of the dead. (For indirect evidence and similar beliefs, see also Benson 1991). I27a. The souls of dead dogs go to a special place in the afterlife and/or go to the afterlife along a special path. I27b. A dog carries a person across a river to another world. See motif I27. I27c. Dogs with two spots above their eyes stand out and are usually called two- or four-eyed. I27d. There is a certain black or red dog that (is associated with objects in the night sky and) negatively affects people's lives. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of I27's motifs? |
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| K138 | 100.00% | A person gains the ability to revive the dead by incarnating in their body. While they remain in it, their own body is dead. Another person takes the body of the first, leaving them with the body of an animal. |
| K155C | 100.00% | The father regularly weighs his daughter and learns of her pregnancy when she becomes heavier. |
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| K12A | 99.45% | An unrecognised hero arrives at a place where his bride or wife is to be given to another man or turned into a servant. Contrary to expectations, he manages to draw a tight bow (raise a spear), with which he kills his rivals. |
| N1 | 99.38% | The fabulous and epic texts start from the beginning, which states that today's huge objects were tiny at the time. |
| M91B | 99.27% | A person manages to fraudulently sell or exchange ash for gold and money. Others are unsuccessfully offering ash for sale. |
| B47A | 99.23% | A cow steps on the Pleiades stars lying on the ground, which were demonic creatures. Some of the stars slipped through her split hoof. |
| K38B1 | 99.00% | Every time a mare gives birth to a wonderful foal, a bird carries it away. Setting out in search of the foals, the hero kills the snake that was devouring the bird's chicks. The bird returns the foals. |
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This motif has been recorded in 2 traditions: Kalmyk, Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans