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K37E - Three-legged cast-iron bird.
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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 clairvoyant cannot identify the person who revealed the secret, because that person does so while hiding among objects that are never found together in everyday life.Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
K37 has 5 other sub-motifsK37. In order to return or obtain a wife, son or husband (in Africa also a domestic animal or object), a person must identify her or him among several identical people or animals (objects). K37a. The character must identify his son or husband among many identical people or animals. See motif K37. K37b. A man must identify his chosen one blindfolded. He does this by touch, knowing that one of her fingers is damaged or missing. K37c. The character must identify an animal or object among several identical ones. See motif K37. K37d. The character recognises the presence of another by noticing traces of their teeth or nails on fruit or leaves. K37e. The clairvoyant cannot identify the person who revealed the secret, because that person does so while hiding among objects that are never found together in everyday life. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of K37's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K27Z2 | 100.00% | A noble woman is forced to leave her home, gives birth to a son, and is separated from him. The young man grows up and almost marries his mother, but at the last moment everything is explained. {The Sudanese text, attributed to this plot in el-Shamy 2004 and subsequently in Uther 2004, does not fit the definition; it is quite possible that the Latvians, Romanians and Ukrainians are also mentioned incorrectly in Uther 2004}. |
| A12F | 99.71% | The stars fade because the moneylender demands that they repay their debt. |
| A37C | 99.71% | The character shoots an arrow into the sky, aiming to hit a celestial body or deity, but the arrow hits an obstacle blocking the target. |
| K33C1 | 99.71% | A character thrown into the water is transformed into a flower (usually a lotus). |
| K76H | 99.71% | A young man, temporarily having a strange or monstrous appearance (freak, animal, etc.), woos a princess, but is rejected. Then he causes natural disasters or creates personal troubles for the king, who is forced to give up his daughter. |
| L39B | 99.71% | The tree grows from a flatbread (pie, etc.) and usually bears flatbreads instead of fruit. |
| K116A | 99.27% | The king takes or is about to take the poor man's wife. She suggests that the king put on clothes that are not his own (usually those that belonged to her husband). After that, the king is killed by his own soldiers (dogs), who believe him to be a poor man (jester, devil). |
| K136 | 99.23% | The young man turns out to be the owner and leader of a herd of cattle, and with his herd of cows or buffaloes he is summoned to the king (usually after his hair is found by the princess). |
| M100A | 99.23% | One of the characters leads another to the edge of a cliff with the aim of lighting a fire, or lights a fire at the edge of the cliff. As a result, the other falls and is killed. |
| A37B | 99.00% | A small animal (marmot, rabbit, mole, frog) or a person who turns into such an animal tries to hit a target in the sky (a celestial body or a bird) with arrows and as a result loses their thumbs. |
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This motif has been recorded in 5 traditions: Kalmyk, Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Mongols (Khalkha), Mustang, Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori