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J12C - Acquaintance at a festival.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
A girl meets her fiancé at a dance and then follows in his footsteps. See motif J12.Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
J12 has 13 other sub-motifsJ12. A girl or two sisters wander, usually in search of a suitable groom or husband who has left or lives far away. Along the way or upon reaching their destination, they encounter false suitors. (Traditions in which two heroines travel rather than one are highlighted in bold (motif j13). J12a. A girl or two sisters come to an old woman who invites them to marry her son. In reality, he is a worm, a snake or a penis, which his mother hides in a vessel during the day. The girl (sisters) do not allow him to approach them and run away. See motif J12. J12b. A honey groom or a skilled honey gatherer is attractive to a girl. J12c. A girl meets her fiancé at a dance and then follows in his footsteps. See motif J12. J12d. After a girl marries a worthy suitor, the rejected suitor or his relatives kill the rival. See motif J12. J12E. The false bridegroom - skunk. See motif J12. J12F. False groom - eagle owl/owl. See motif J12. J12G. The false bridegroom is a bird that lives on or near water. See motif J12. J12H. The false groom - the opossum. J12I. A desirable marriage partner secretes beads instead of saliva or excrement. See motifs J12 and M57. J12j. A girl or sisters end up with a false groom who plays the role of a jester in the chief's house. See motif J12. J12k. Desirable and undesirable marriage partners live in the same house. The undesirable partner is a servant or junior partner, usually pretending to be the master. J12l. The murderer pretends to mourn the victim along with everyone else. The deception is revealed, and the murderer is pursued. See motif J12. J12m. A woman or two sisters come to two men and become wives of one of them. The other kills or tries to kill his rival or the women. As a result, the women turn into waterfowl. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of J12's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A1A | 100.00% | Before the sun appeared, the world was lit by a large bird with bright colours (a parrot or toucan). |
| A26 | 100.00% | The bird embodies the sun, daylight; it can be caught, released, killed. |
| B25 | 100.00% | Characters who climb trees or vines and then fall turn into wild pigs or other game animals. |
| B75D | 100.00% | The sound of leaves or grass rustling in the wind has been heard since the time of creation. |
| F29A | 100.00% | To kill a woman's lover, who has the appearance of a worm or snake and crawls into her vagina from under the ground, boiling water, resin or hot coals are poured on him. |
| K8F | 100.00% | The swallowed one discovers a living deer in the belly of the monster. See motif K8A. |
| B56 | 99.70% | The crocodile/caiman is left without a tongue after swallowing or losing the fire (which it previously possessed); something associated with heavenly fire (lightning, sunbeams, etc.) emerges from the crocodile's severed tongue. |
| F19 | 99.59% | After copulating with a frog, a man's penis is crippled (unless otherwise stated: it becomes long, see motif F18A). |
| M9A | 99.59% | A character who eagerly sucks honey from a hollow and/or gets stuck in a hollow turns into a tree frog. See M9 motif. |
| L78 | 99.50% | In the images, the character has the features of a jaguar and a toad; the toad/frog turns into a jaguar; the toad/frog is the mother or wife of the jaguar. |
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This motif has been recorded in 8 traditions: Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambe; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez), Chayahuita , Barasana, Taibano, Macuna, Desana, Siriano; Tatuyo, Bara, Tuyuca, Wanana, Tucano proper, Pira-Tapuya, Arapaso, Baniwa (incl. Wakuenai), Bare, Piapoco, Curripaco, Siusi, Guarikena , Suruí, Gaviâo, Zoro, Arua, Cinta Larga, Paresi