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K33A5 - The heroine is turned into a duck.
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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 woman who has been turned into a duck (goose) by her rival's scheming tries to establish contact with her children or husband.Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 9, Identification of protagonists of the stories with particular animals or persons with particular qualities
K33 has 29 other sub-motifsK33. When a malevolent woman pushes another woman into a body of water (a well), the latter drowns or loses her human form, but manages to return to the world of humans. Cf. motif k32m K33a. Young siblings (most often a brother and sister) leave home. One of them (rarely: several brothers) accidentally breaks a taboo and is transformed into an animal (usually a hoofed animal) or (rarely) a bird; later, the spell is usually broken. K33a1. A woman is thrown into a well (pond, pit, etc.) or becomes a water bird. In the water, she gives birth to a child (twins, triplets) or is thrown into the water with her baby. She is rescued along with her children. K33a1a. A woman thrown into the water finds herself in the belly of a fish (whale), but is then rescued. K33a2. A brother takes his sister to her fiancé. She cannot hear her brother's words, and the witch distorts them (as if the brother is telling his sister to throw herself into the water, to blind her, etc.). Having got rid of the heroine, the witch replaces her with her own daughter. K33a3. A woman, turned into a turtle because of her rival's intrigues, tries to establish contact with her children or husband. K33a4. A woman, transformed into a medium-sized forest animal (lynx, wolf, vixen) by the machinations of a rival, tries to establish contact with her children or husband. K33a5. A woman who has been turned into a duck (goose) by her rival's scheming tries to establish contact with her children or husband. K33a6. A kid (lamb, gazelle, etc.) runs up to a pond into which its owner has pushed it and says that knives are being sharpened and water is being boiled to slaughter and cook it. K33a7. After the death of a woman, her daughter or son advises her father to marry a neighbour, teacher, etc., who usually persuades the teenager to give such advice. After marrying the widower, the new wife begins to tyrannise her stepdaughter or stepson. K33a8. A woman transformed into a dove by the machinations of a rival tries to establish contact with her children or husband. K33b. A girl goes with her friends to the forest, to the river; everyone returns home, but she is forced to stay or return. She escapes from a dangerous creature, becomes the wife of a supernatural character, a leader, etc., or dies, but is avenged. K33c. A young man obtains a girl who is inside a fruit or (rarely) a flower, stem, leaf, or egg. K33c1. A character thrown into the water is transformed into a flower (usually a lotus). k33c2. A young man obtains a girl who is inside a pomegranate. k33c3. A young man obtains a girl who is inside an orange or other citrus fruit. k33c4. A young man obtains a girl who is inside a pumpkin, eggplant or cucumber. k33c5. A young man obtains a girl who is inside an egg. k33c6. A young man receives several fruits (eggs, reeds). When he opens the first one, the girl who comes out of it disappears, either because the necessary provisions (usually drinking water) have not been prepared for her, or because the fruit has been cut incorrectly. Only the one who comes out of the last fruit (egg, reed) remains. Cf. motif k33c7. k33c7. A young man obtains a fruit from which a girl emerges (rarely: two girls from two fruits, both remain with the young man). There is no episode of the loss of the girls who were in the other fruits. Cf. motif k33c6. k33c8. A young man obtains a girl who is inside a nut (walnut or hazelnut, but not coconut). k33c9. A young man obtains a girl who is inside an apple. K33d. A man discovers that a beautiful girl is hiding under the guise of an ugly hag or under the skin of an animal. K33d1. The young man does not know that a beautiful girl is hiding inside the object brought to his house. K33e. Newborn children disappear (die) one after another, but are returned to their wife or husband grown up and in good health. K33f. Sources of at least two valuable liquid edible products (honey, oil, etc.) are available or imagined. Cf. motif N34. k33f1. A person promises to create a source from which a valuable product (most often oil) flows and honestly fulfils their promise (rarely: promises to distribute a large amount of such a product). K33g. The person who eats the fruit (leaf, etc.) grows horns (long nose, etc.) or turns into an animal, while the other fruit (leaf, etc.) returns to its normal appearance. K33h. A person finds a magical object that grants any wish. This object is stolen. It is returned by animals (which the hero had previously saved). K33h1. The hero's wife (mother, servant) is unaware of the magical properties of an object kept in the house and exchanges it for something more attractive, but in reality incomparable in value. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of K33's motifs? |
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| A32M | 99.85% | The moon is called the "Gypsy sun". |
| A35B | 99.85% | The character tries to cover the moon with resin (so that it shines less brightly). |
| B123 | 99.85% | A fly lands on the chest of the crucified Jesus. His persecutors, who intended to drive a nail into his heart, do not do so, believing that the nail has already been driven in. |
| B124 | 99.85% | Ever since a piece of flesh was torn from a person's foot, a hollow has formed between the toe and the heel. |
| B49B | 99.85% | In the past, cows had more teats on their udders than they do now. |
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| F101 | 99.85% | With the help of magic, a rival or the spouse's mother tries to prevent a woman from giving birth. |
| F57 | 99.85% | A girl or her father (rarely: mother) picks a plant (usually a flower) and as a result encounters a character with a non-human appearance and/or inhabiting the underworld. The girl becomes the character's wife. In some cases, the picked plant is the character's hair, but more often there is no direct association of this kind. |
| F87B | 99.85% | A snake crawls onto the clothes of a bathing girl, climbs down in exchange for a promise to marry him, and takes her to the underwater world. She is happy there and gives birth to children. Together with them, she visits her relatives. They call the snake out of the water and kill it. After that, the wife transforms her children and/or herself into plants. |
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This motif has been recorded in 10 traditions: Sardinia, Corsica, Sardinians, Corsicans, Germans: North (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pommern, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Rügen, Poles, Slovakians, Slovaks, Hungarians, Western Ukrainians, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Germans: South (Upper German dialects): Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Bawaria, Swabia, Switzerland, Bohemia, Sudeten, Austria, Russian Federation