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K98 - The slain man turns into a camp.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
An animal or (less commonly) a woman who gave birth to a hero or helped him turns into a house and property.Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| N37 | 95.22% | The character is said to sleep under the sky (like a blanket). |
| J52B | 94.65% | A girl, young woman or children associated with hares (rabbits) are heroes-victors or successful tricksters. |
| D4AA | 93.99% | Moths try to steal the fire that humans possess. |
| K77A | 93.95% | Various objects and animals (rarely: only animals, but including those that are safe in reality) defeat a strong enemy (usually joining the hero who is going to take revenge on the strong enemy for an insult and hiding in the house where the enemy is supposed to appear), attacking him in turn; he dies or flees. Either someone or the attacked character himself places objects in his dwelling that then harm that character. |
| I27C | 93.30% | Dogs with two spots above their eyes stand out and are usually called two- or four-eyed. |
| L64 | 93.17% | A certain character removes, takes out a part of his body (head, scalp, lungs), takes it in his hands, puts it back. |
| B116 | 92.96% | The first book (writing, important document) is eaten by an animal or a person. (In some European traditions, the eating of the book is not described, but is implied from the context). Cf. ATU 200. Cf. Thompson 1955-1958. †A2219.2. Cow swallows book; cause of maniplies in stomach. |
| A44 | 92.65% | A character fleeing from pursuit, wronged or suffering on earth, asks the Moon to take him to her, or climbs up to the moon himself using a ladder or rope that has descended from there. |
| K167 | 92.39% | A boy plays, pretending to be a king and demonstrating wisdom and/or magical abilities. |
| I50 | 92.37% | Describes or depicts a hoofed animal with six or more legs. |
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This motif has been recorded in 30 traditions: Kikuyu, Chuka, Embu, Emberre, Mwimbe, Safwa, Mkulwe, Ngonde, Kinga, Nyakusa, Nyamwanga, Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups), Portuguese, Portugal, Sicily, Sicilians, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Western Sami, Western Ukrainians, 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), Uzbek, Baluch, Persians, Ingush, Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz, Georgians, Hui (Dungan) of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan (Dungan texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones), Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots), Mongols (Khalkha), Darkhad, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Dolgans, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Evens (Lamuts), Oroch, Nanai, Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal), Mustang