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L63 - Eats with the anus or vagina.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
The character eats food with the womb or anus. See motif F9A.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 9, Identification of protagonists of the stories with particular animals or persons with particular qualities
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| E3 | 98.86% | After the destruction of the previous world, new people (rarely: new earth) are made from the remains of the dead. |
| E14A | 98.00% | People kill demons, examine their bodies, make ritual costumes and masks, reproducing the appearance of the slain. |
| M12 | 97.09% | Unable, unwilling or unable to obtain game (fish), the hunter (fisherman) cuts flesh from his own body, removes his own entrails and collects his blood. He usually offers this to others under the guise of animal meat or fish. Alternatively, a woman cuts flesh from her own leg to feed her husband. |
| J58 | 96.68% | Characters shoot arrows (darts) that stick into each other and form a chain. They usually climb up the chain to the upper world. |
| C11 | 96.66% | A father with magical powers destroys people (all or many) who have insulted or harmed his son. |
| E14 | 96.44% | Rituals received from the spirits of the dead. |
| K4 | 96.36% | The character climbs a tree or rock to get a bird, bird eggs, or chicks, climbs into a bird's nest, comes into conflict with another character, and/or cannot climb down. See motifs K1, K2A. Traditions in which the nest destroyer is a woman are highlighted in italics; bold italics indicate those in which the character falls into the trap not through the fault of another person, but by accident, or, having climbed up to destroy the nest, does not fall into the trap at all, although he quarrels with his companion; an asterisk* marks those in which the character remains in the trap (undergoes a metamorphosis). |
| F96 | 96.12% | A girl or wife rejects an unattractive man. He becomes handsome (usually after encountering a supernatural being), and those who treated him badly are punished. |
| M8A | 95.82% | Animals, and more often birds, find it difficult to break through a rock from the outside or inside, make a hole in the tree, in the body of an absorber creature, tear fetters, etc., to help a character or get out of the confined space by yourself. The list <b><i>includes</i></b> groups whose texts deal with the exit of the first ancestors to earth from a confined space. |
| J30 | 95.39% | Before the heroes defeat their antagonists or flee from them, they find or receive the remains or property of the victim. |
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This motif has been recorded in 21 traditions: Yao, Makua, Maka (Makaa), Baya, Kaka, Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo), Batak (Toba, Dairi), Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China, Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Pomo, Owens Valley Paiute, Northern Paiute (=Paviotso), Northern Shoshone, Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Eastern Shoshone, Southern Paiute, Kogi (Cagaba), Sanha, Creols of Aritama Valley, Sicuani, Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan), Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna), Marubo, Makka, Mataco, Toba (incl Pilagá)