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K23 - Battle with birds.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Birds attack inhabitants of another world or a person who has entered another world. See motif K22.Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 8, Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
K23 has 1 other sub-motifsK23. Birds attack inhabitants of another world or a person who has entered another world. See motif K22. K23a. Birds use their feathers as arrows, or falling feathers cover the mouths of their victims. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of K23's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K22 | 98.66% | The inhabitants of a distant land, who differ from (ordinary) people, occasionally fight off enemies of a non-human nature who attack them. |
| K22A | 97.41% | Birds or other creatures that are harmless to ordinary people attack dwarves living in another world. See motif K22. |
| B87A | 96.57% | A dim star next to the second star of the handle of the Big Dipper (Tibetans: Little Dipper) Ursa Major – dog. |
| L15A | 95.45% | The character's vulnerable spot is located on the surface of the body, but not in vital internal organs. |
| K22B | 95.44% | The inhabitants of another world are attacked by certain enemies. A human helps them to defeat these enemies, because these creatures are not dangerous to humans. See motif K22. |
| L87 | 94.83% | A character accidentally tastes blood or human flesh, after which he devours himself and/or others. |
| B42P | 94.36% | The Big Dipper is identified with a bear. |
| M81 | 93.16% | Wandering, the hero finds himself in a place where blind or blind (two or more) live. |
| C6A | 92.79% | A turtle or toad (frog) brings a desired object from the bottom or from the underworld. |
| I13A | 92.15% | A huge aquatic or celestial serpent, dragon, or snake-like creature with horns on its head. |
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Map of Motif Dispersal
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This motif has been recorded in 31 traditions: Chagga (Jagga; incl Wasu), Pare, Digo, Early Chinese written sources, Ancient Greece, Finns, Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia), Georgians, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Nanai, Chukchi, Tagish, Tahltan, Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island), Polar Inuit, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Blackfoot, Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Gros Ventre, Crow, Comox, Pentlatch, Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla), Natchez (incl Avoyel), Alabama, Koasati, Cherokee, Zuni, Warihio (Guarijío), Tarahumara, Yupa (Yukpa), Kuikuro, Kalapalo, Calapalo, Kamayura