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L33B - The trickster provokes a stone.
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Summary of Motif
The character challenges someone who, at first glance, is unable to move (a stump, a boulder, fire) to race or roll over it. The challenged party sets off, crushes or burns the character, or runs away with their property.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
L33 has 7 other sub-motifsL33. The stone rolls after the character, trying to crush him. L33a. The trickster takes an object lying on or near a rock or other inanimate object, which he has given to that object. The object pursues or otherwise punishes the offender. See motif L33. L33b. The character challenges someone who, at first glance, is unable to move (a stump, a boulder, fire) to race or roll over it. The challenged party sets off, crushes or burns the character, or runs away with their property. L33c. The trickster and the boulder agree to race down the slope. The boulder rolls faster and faster and crushes the trickster. See motif L33. L33d. A rolling stone-monster kills people. The hero destroys it. See motif L33. L33e. The trickster demands back or takes the cloak belonging to the skale or another character (usually he himself had previously given this cloak as a gift). L33f. A rock or boulder pursues a character. The character calls for help, and the nightjar splits the rock into pieces. L33g. A tree, a creature on a tree, a stone kills (seriously injures) anyone who calls it a certain way, climbs on it, etc. The character provokes others to do this and eats the dead, the last of the invited guests deceives the provocateur himself. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of L33's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| B27A | 97.00% | The characters ponder what they should transform into and decide to become thunder and/or lightning. |
| I60A | 96.39% | The Milky Way – a stripe associated with a longitudinal stripe on an animal's body. |
| L33C | 95.83% | The trickster and the boulder agree to race down the slope. The boulder rolls faster and faster and crushes the trickster. See motif L33. |
| M30A | 94.25% | The character flying over the village falls, is tied up, and defecated on him. |
| M16 | 93.36% | The wife or relatives (often the mother) of the sick person do not care for him. He recovers, and those who treated him badly are punished. Cf. motifs F62 and F96. |
| K32B1 | 92.83% | The man's mother-in-law takes on the appearance of her daughter to take her place. See motif K32. |
| B96 | 91.20% | The heroes' enemy turns into a large commercial fish (usually a sturgeon) or (rarely) a commercial aquatic mammal. |
| B101 | 90.70% | Angry at the birch tree, the character beats or cuts it, leaving stripes on the bark that remain to this day. |
| K51 | 90.58% | The husband feigns death, disappears or leaves home for a long time. The wife learns that he has married another woman, finds and, as a rule, kills her husband and/or rival, who often turns out to be a creature of non-human nature. |
| E9M | 90.52% | A man marries a bear (white or grizzly) that takes the form of a woman, or a woman who takes the form of a bear. |
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This motif has been recorded in 11 traditions: Nenets, Kets, Malecite, Passamaquoddy, Micmac, Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot, Naskapi, Montagnais, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Northern Foothills Yokuts (Chukchansi, Dumna, Kechayi), Northern and Southern Tehuelche