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L7B - Mistakenly chasing a calabash.

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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.

Summary of Motif

While chasing a person, spirit, monster or beast, he mistakenly throws himself after a calabash floating down the river.

Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits

This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures

L7 has 2 other sub-motifs L7.  While chasing a person, spirit, monster or beast, mistakenly chases after a large two-legged object passing by, usually an animal. L7a.  A character who sticks to another creature and refuses to let go, first sticking to a human, then to an animal, or first sticking to an animal, then to a bird. L7b.  While chasing a person, spirit, monster or beast, he mistakenly throws himself after a calabash floating down the river.  Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of L7's motifs?

Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns

Motif	Similarity	Motif Summary
B7D	100.00%	Water pours from a broken bone, flooding the earth.
I129	100.00%	The rainy season is associated with the appearance of the Heron constellation in the sky.
G11	99.90%	The squirrel plays an important role in cutting down a giant tree (usually chopping or trying to chop the vine that holds it, see motif G10).
L1E	99.83%	A monstrous bird is created from a small amount of human or animal flesh (usually from the heart) or from lumps of manioc starch.
A13B	99.71%	During an eclipse or at the first appearance of night, ants eclipse the sun.
A9	99.71%	The moon-woman does not allow her son or husband, the Sun, to destroy people.
L3A	99.71%	Left alone, a woman carelessly calls for someone to help her with the housework; a demon comes and kills the woman or her child.
I27B	99.38%	A dog carries a person across a river to another world. See motif I27.
M47	99.38%	When punishing a person or animal or restoring a dismembered body, a character intentionally or accidentally puts his head to his ass.
G10	99.03%	A tree whose trunk has been cut down remains hanging because it is held up from above.

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Map of Motif Dispersal

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Terrain Minimal Countries

This motif has been recorded in 4 traditions: Colorado (Tsachila), Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”), Kofan, Yagua

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