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I61 - Milk on the Milky Way, A778.5.
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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 Milky Way is a trail of spilled milk.Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 2, Moon spots, stars, constellations
I61 has 1 other sub-motifsI61. The Milky Way is a trail of spilled milk. I61a. The Milky Way – the heavenly belt. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of I61's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M74AA | 99.42% | The character (several times) pretends to be his name (that he is going to visit), and eats up supplies himself. See M74A motif. |
| L100 | 99.30% | A young man and woman fleeing from their pursuers take on the appearance of different but associatively related creatures or objects (a pond and a duck, a minaret and a muezzin, etc.). Usually, their pursuers do not recognise them. |
| K93B3 | 99.25% | To have a child, a woman eats fish, an apple or something else. Part of it (often the peel, broth, skin, etc.) is eaten by a mare, dog or other animals. The woman gives birth to a son (twins), the mare to a foal (foals), the dog to a puppy (puppies). |
| L120 | 99.20% | After overhearing a conversation between demonic characters who are planning to turn themselves into something edible, attractive, and safe, and to destroy anyone who touches them, the hero neutralises the demons. |
| N15 | 99.20% | fairy-tale text ends with a formula that says that the narrator ate food and/or drinks, but they did not get into his mouth. |
| K156A | 99.14% | People suspect that the young man is a girl in disguise. Tests are proposed to determine this, but the girl manages to avoid exposure (for a long time). |
| M39A6G | 99.09% | person explains that he lends part of his earnings, and pays the debt in the other part, i.e. raises children and supports parents. |
| M173A | 99.06% | A character throws one of a pair of objects onto the path of another. The traveller passes by, but when the deceiver throws the second object, he leaves his belongings and returns for the first. At this time, the deceiver steals the belongings. |
| M199F | 99.03% | The character pretends to want to deprive the devils (water dwellers) of their habitat (pull the shores of the lake together, two mountains, muddy the lake, dry up the sea, build a church on the land of the devils, etc.). To avoid this, the devils (fish) comply with the character's demands. |
| K181 | 99.03% | The hero finds a suitable horse in the dungeon (in the basement, in an empty castle, in deep mud, etc.), where it has stood for many years. |
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This motif has been recorded in 23 traditions: Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Baree (=Eastern Toraja), Ireland, Sicily, Sicilians, Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia, France, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Ancient Greece, Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Armenians, Azeris (Azerbaijanis), Kirghiz, Turkmen, Chuvash, Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Kerek, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio), Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori, Russian Federation