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K83A - Where the father did not go.
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Summary of Motif
To fulfil the task, the character's sons must travel to a place where he has never been (or once was).Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
K83 has 1 other sub-motifsK83. To heal, rejuvenate or save one's father, father-in-law or sister, one must bring medicine (bring a doctor) from a distant country. The medicine is brought and the sick person recovers. K83a. To fulfil the task, the character's sons must travel to a place where he has never been (or once was). Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of K83's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| E41 | 99.41% | A skilled blacksmith, as a special gift, can take iron heated in a furnace with his bare hands, knead it like dough, and shape it as desired. Usually, he breaks a certain taboo and loses his gift. (The motif was identified and the material collected by Ruslan Doutalieyev). |
| I87AD | 99.00% | A giant hides a persecuted person in his mouth – usually (perhaps always) in a tooth cavity; or the person remains alive in the giant's mouth, hiding in a tooth cavity. Cf. motif M21a. |
| B46A1 | 98.82% | The stars of the Big Dipper – thieves or robbers. |
| I89 | 98.80% | There is a star that brings death and misfortune; it is usually told how people mistake a star or constellation rising at night for the Morning Star, set off on a journey and lose their way. |
| M29Z | 98.73% | hero of the story is a character named “Beardless” or Aldar-Kose (Aldar is a “deceiver”, a braid is “beardless”). |
| J32C | 98.72% | At night, a demonic character comes to the grave of the deceased, intending to harm him. |
| N24 | 98.60% | You can see a light that resembles a second moon or a second sun. It comes from a pretty girl. |
| M91C3 | 98.58% | A person releases an animal or a bird - supposedly with his wife instructing his wife to cook food, etc. Another does not understand deception and buys an animal. |
| K90B | 98.56% | The antlers of a deer or the tusks of an elephant, which a snake or dragon is trying to swallow, get stuck in its mouth. |
| K85E | 98.55% | Magical horses live in water. |
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This motif has been recorded in 11 traditions: Slovakians, Slovaks, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Russians: Central part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Vyatka, Perm, Kazan provinces), Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin, Karachays, Balkar, Ossetians, Armenians, Kalmyk, Crimean Tatars, Karaims, Anatolia Turks, Terek Cossacks