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K35C3 - The ship stopped.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
For reasons that are not immediately clear, the ship stops in the middle of the sea (rarely: a horse stops in the middle of the road).Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
K35 has 13 other sub-motifsK35. The deceiver pretends to be a hero in order to take his place (to possess his woman). (This motif includes all texts with motif K35a3). K35a. In exchange for improving his current situation, the character agrees to have his body injured or branded. K35a1. Setting off on a journey, a person (often against the advice of their horse) picks up a precious feather. Upon learning of this, an authoritative character gives them difficult tasks. K35a2. A man kills an animal with glowing fur. Upon learning of this, an authoritative figure gives him difficult tasks. K35a3. In order to obtain the privileges enjoyed by the hero, the deceiver manages to swap status with him. K35a4. In order to get rid of the hero and take his place, the deceiver pushes him into the sea or leaves him on a distant island. The hero survives and returns. K35a5. An authoritative character leaves an object (a letter) for a little boy, by which he will be able to recognise him when he grows up and comes to him. K35a6. The character illuminates the room with a light-emitting object (usually a feather) that he has found. K35a7. A character finds a feather, the touch of which brings health and beauty. K35b. The hero gives his rivals the food that the king sent them all to get, but what the rivals got turns out to be poisonous, useless, or tasteless, while what the hero brought, regardless of how it looks, gets praised. K35c. The dev (ajdaha, sea king) did not kill the man who descended to him, as people assumed, but rewarded him because he greeted him and/or answered his question correctly. K35c1. The young man is not killed, but rewarded, because he answered correctly (evasively) the question of a powerful character – which of the two women he should marry, which is more beautiful, which object or material is more valuable, etc. K35c2. When the ship unexpectedly stops, the hero descends to the bottom of the sea, behaves correctly with the local inhabitants, and returns to the ship. K35c3. For reasons that are not immediately clear, the ship stops in the middle of the sea (rarely: a horse stops in the middle of the road). Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of K35's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M136E | 99.63% | Instead of asking a person to bend down in front of a low lintel, others suggest cutting off his head or legs. |
| M39A8 | 99.55% | A fool drags the door from the house with him (usually raises it to a tree and drops it, scaring the crowd under the tree). |
| I25B | 99.53% | This refers to women who work without the simplest tools, using parts of their bodies instead. |
| K163 | 99.52% | A sorcerer orders a young man to retrieve a magical object (often a lamp) from a hard-to-reach place. The young man finds the object (but refuses to give it up), and the sorcerer grants his wishes. |
| K92B | 99.51% | A daughter tells her father (rarely her brother) that she loves him like salt (or that salt is more important than him, etc.). He sends his daughter away (gets angry with his sister), but then realises she is right. |
| I22D | 99.50% | To obtain a miraculous life-giving (healing) remedy, one must penetrate the space behind the shifting rocks. |
| M39A4G | 99.50% | Fool sells property to the dogs and believes that they will pay him. Trying to get his money, he finds treasure |
| K120 | 99.38% | The girl's father (rarely: stepfather) intends to marry her (since she is the only one who meets the requirements for a bride). Usually, the girl manages to avoid the marriage. |
| I92 | 99.36% | A person who has come into contact with a rainbow in a certain way (walked under it, drunk water where the rainbow drinks, etc.) changes their gender. |
| K33A7 | 99.36% | 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. |
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This motif has been recorded in 23 traditions: Arabs of Iraq, Iraqi, Arabs of Egypt, Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples, Bengali, Portuguese, Portugal, Sicily, Sicilians, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Setu, Finns, Karelians, Western Ukrainians, Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Anatolia Turks, Bashkirs, Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights), Chechens, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio), Russian Federation