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J66 - The straps are bitten through.
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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 character cuts or bites through bowstrings and other straps in advance, punctures boats, preventing opponents from fighting or pursuing him.Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| C16A | 93.17% | The offended mistress of animals or fish takes them and food supplies away. See motif H32A. |
| K44 | 92.91% | The character kidnaps the boy or hides him from his mother or father, pretending to be his mother or father. The kidnapped boy learns the truth and leaves the kidnapper. |
| B42B | 92.16% | In the cosmic hunting plot, the objects of pursuit are hoofed animals (elk, deer, mountain sheep). See motif B42. |
| H22A | 91.97% | Large game animals were concentrated in one place and were not afraid of people. They scattered after someone touched them, hit them lightly (often on the nose), or smeared them with something. Cf. motif H22. |
| C6C | 91.85% | The bird dives and brings up the desired object from the bottom. See motif C6. |
| B42 | 91.52% | Hunters, their dogs, fleeing or killed animals are visible in the sky in the form of stars and constellations. |
| C38 | 91.39% | Characters from the time of creation say that real people will appear soon, so we must do this and that. |
| H23 | 91.27% | This hard and now inedible object originally consisted of fat. |
| H28A | 90.42% | When a character is burned, the smoke and sparks turn into mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects that scatter throughout the world. |
| B42G | 89.95% | The Big Dipper (as a whole or only the dipper) is identified with an animal (animals) pursued by hunters / attacked by other characters. |
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This motif has been recorded in 37 traditions: Koreans, Ancient Greece, Western Sami, Russians: Central part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Vyatka, Perm, Kazan provinces), Azeris (Azerbaijanis), Uyghur, Mansi, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Forest Nenets, Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Nganasans, Southern Selkups, Kets, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Udeghe, Nanai, Chipewyan, Tutchone, Tlingit, Micmac, Naskapi, Montagnais, Plains Ojibwa, Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz, Quileute, Chemakum (Hoh), Quinault, Tillamook, Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Alcea, Karok, Hupa, Chilula, Pomo, Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov, Northern Paiute (=Paviotso), Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal), Egypt