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L13 - The raised monster.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
People feed a dangerous creature, or it grows on its own in a man-made enclosure. Once it becomes big and strong, it starts to destroy people.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
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 |
|---|---|---|
| L14 | 97.19% | People bring a small creature (usually a worm or reptile) into their home and raise it, or it settles into a man-made dwelling on its own. The creature turns into something terrifying or magnificent. See motif L13 (raised monster attacks people). |
| F16 | 95.73% | Men possessed biological characteristics that are now characteristic of women, or vice versa (beards, menstruation, breasts, childbearing). |
| B2E | 94.16% | The Earth or the world as a whole is a male character (alone or alongside a female character). |
| I108 | 93.45% | The Pleiades are a single character, not a group of people. |
| I16 | 93.41% | Early humans have no mouth, anus, or genitals, and their women are unable to give birth. |
| I8G | 93.25% | A single giant holds up the earth or the sky. |
| A3 | 93.21% | The Moon is female or hermaphroditic, the Sun is male or, possibly, male. |
| F30 | 93.19% | A girl or woman takes a snake, eel, moray eel, lizard or worm as a lover or spouse. People kill or maim the lover, the woman and/or their offspring, or she herself turns into a snake. Cf. motif K76B (the snake-husband becomes and remains a handsome man). See motif F29. |
| A14 | 92.24% | The meeting of the sun and the moon is the cause of eclipses or lunar phases. |
| J21 | 92.05% | Gods, ancestors of humans, and founders of dynasties are born from eggs. |
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This motif has been recorded in 48 traditions: Mangbetu (Ngbetu), Mangbutu, Moru, Madi, Lugbara, Lendu (=Bale), Ganda, (Ba)Nyoro, Nyankole, Masaba (Gisu), Luia (=Luyia, Haya, Luhya, Bantu Kawirondo; incl. Vugusu, Maragoli), Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula, Trans-New Guinea and unclassified Papuan groups of Irian Jaya: Mejprat, Arandai-Bintuni, Inanwatan-Berau, Papua of Gelvink (Cenderawasih) Bay, Kamoró, Marind Anim, Sawi, Mafore; Korowai; Kwerba; Momina, Eipo, Yale, Awyu, Samoa, Tikopia, Bellona, Rennell, partly Aneytium, Futuna (=Erronan, not to be mixed with Futuna in Western Polynesia), Vaeaka-Taumato, incl Matema, Nifeloli, Nukapu, Nupani, Pileni, Gilbert Islands, Nauru, Banaba (Ocean island), Ontong Java, Nukumanu, Takuu, Nukuria, Burmese, Intha, Tjam, Ede, Jörai (Jarai), Katu (Ködu); Bru (incl. Van Kieu, Khua), Khasi, Early Chinese written sources, Aragon, Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia), Armenians, Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island), North Alaskan Inupiat, Mackenzie Delta, Tsimshian, Lenape (Delaware), Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Karok, Yurok, Western Mexico Nahuatl, Bribri, Cabecar, Terraba; Chiriqui (AD 800-1500) iconography, Choco: Embera, Nonama (Waunana), XVI century Dabaiba, pre-Columbian iconography of Sinu, Yupa (Yukpa), Guajiro, Makiritare (Yecuana), Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami, Waiwai, Hixkariyana, Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan), Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Aguaruna, Huambiza, Barasana, Taibano, Macuna, Letuama, Tanimuca, Ufaina, Yahuna, Witoto, Ocaina, Machiguenga, Moseten, Chimane, Kamayura, Paresi, Caraja, Icelanders, Shandong Chinese, China