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L59 - The stingy woman: metamorphosis.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
A woman eats the best food or eats fruit before it is ripe; as punishment, she undergoes metamorphosis.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
L59 has 1 other sub-motifsL59. A woman eats the best food or eats fruit before it is ripe; as punishment, she undergoes metamorphosis. L59a. People who mocked the hero or his son were dragged into the sea and turned into sea animals or parts of its body or parasites on its skin. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of L59's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| I15A | 95.32% | Due to ignorance or haste, the mouth of anthropomorphic creatures is first cut vertically. |
| G1 | 95.05% | In order to acquire or regain values (land, soil, cultivated plants, sun, fire, shamanic knowledge, luck), people lure or steal the son or daughter of a certain character. |
| L74 | 94.25% | A bear or other powerful character tears off and carries away another character's hand. A third character steals the hand and returns it to the one from whom it was torn off. |
| A20 | 92.85% | The Sun and the Moon (less often the Sun and a star, the Moon and a star) are brothers (sisters, brother and sister) who initially live on earth, but at the end of the story, as teenagers or young adults, ascend to the sky and become celestial bodies. |
| M75D | 92.80% | A man bereaves vultures of their hunting weapons or amulets |
| I18 | 91.97% | Visiting the world of people without an anus or mouth (the underworld, if not otherwise), the hero or heroine enters or attempts to enter into sexual relations with the local inhabitants. See motif I14. |
| F79 | 91.24% | The character successively marries various women of non-human nature, but each time (usually, except for the last) he is disappointed. |
| B26 | 89.78% | A person who follows wild animals (temporarily) turns into one of them or their master, or lives with animals that look like humans to him. |
| K22C | 88.90% | Inhabitants of another world who are birds (bird-people) are afraid of birds or animals that are not dangerous to ordinary people, but which regularly attack them. |
| I106 | 88.14% | The Great Bear is one anthropomorphic character, not a group of people. |
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Map of Motif Dispersal
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This motif has been recorded in 20 traditions: Inland Tlingit, North Alaskan Inupiat, Iglulik, Polar Inuit, Baffin Land Inuit, Labrador Inuit (Koksoagmiut), Tlingit, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw), Bella Coola (Nuxalk), Tillamook, Serrano, Guajiro, Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”), Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Aguaruna, Huambiza, Kechua-speaking communities of Apurimac, Cuzco, Arequipa, Puno departments; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries; Callawaya (Kechua with Pukina substratum), Amahuaca, Cashinahua, Sharanahua, Yaminahua, Yawanahua, Capanahua), Lisu, Lolo (incl. Bai), Achang, Yi, Axi, Nasu, Jino, Taungyo, Greenland