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J7A - Bringing lunch to father.
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Summary of Motif
A girl (less often a boy) brings lunch to her father or brothers who are working in the field (in the forest), but encounters a demonic character.Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
J7 has 1 other sub-motifsJ7. A woman or girl sets off to her husband (beloved) or relatives, or a man sets off to find a bride. She or he loses their way after a certain character substitutes the signs indicating the way. See motif J12. J7a. A girl (less often a boy) brings lunch to her father or brothers who are working in the field (in the forest), but encounters a demonic character. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of J7's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A8A | 100.00% | The sun, moon and star (stars) appear as three consecutive and comparable objects/characters in narratives about the abduction and subsequent liberation of celestial bodies. |
| H52B | 100.00% | Setting out in search of a land where there is no death, a man encounters characters engaged in tasks that can only be completed in an impossibly long time. However, the man needs eternal life, and so he continues on his way. |
| K149 | 100.00% | The character has a rope or reins with three knots, allowing him to move faster or slower. Usually, untying the first and second knots causes the character's ship to sail faster (thanks to the rising wind) or his horse to gallop faster; however, contrary to the warning, the character (when almost reaching the goal) also unties the third knot and as a result loses the ship, the horse, ends up not where he wanted to be, etc. |
| M114B3 | 99.99% | When a girl is asked to weave clothes, given a negligible amount of yarn, she asks in return to make her weaving tools from sticks, twigs, straw, etc. |
| F87 | 99.94% | The snake forces the girl to promise to marry him and takes her to the underwater world. She is happy there and gives birth to a son (or two sons) and a daughter. Together with her children, she returns to visit her relatives. They learn what words she must use to summon her husband from the water, summon him, and kill him. Seeing the bloody water, the snake's wife (rarely the snake himself) turns the children and herself into birds or trees. |
| I113 | 99.94% | A pig or boar made of gold or with golden bristles is a precious object. (In ATU, "a pig with golden bristles" is one of the possible miraculous objects; the presence of a corresponding number in regional indexes does not necessarily mean the presence of an image; only cases where the image is directly named are taken into account). |
| I87E | 99.94% | After the present humans, dwarves will live on earth. |
| K168B | 99.94% | A person makes another person believe that he has turned into a bear (wolf), found himself in the forest, etc. When he wakes up, the bewitched person finds himself where he was before. |
| K67G | 99.94% | Pretending to carry out his master's orders, the worker cuts off the animals' lips (to make them look like they are smiling). |
| G25 | 99.91% | Cereal seeds are scattered across the world, fell to the ground, now people grow bread. |
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This motif has been recorded in 11 traditions: Sardinia, Corsica, Sardinians, Corsicans, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Estonians, Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi, Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz, Mordvins, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Russian Federation