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L81D - After fighting, the cripples recovered.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Two cripples with different physical disabilities quarrel and fight, and as a result become whole and healthy.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
L81 has 7 other sub-motifsL81. A man who goes in search of fire finds it with a demon. The demon pursues the man, harms him, and kills him. Traditions in which there is only a story about men who are promised fire for a fairy tale (a tall tale) are marked with an asterisk*. L81a. A girl offends a cat (rarely: a dog, a rooster) and the cat takes revenge by causing misfortune to befall the girl (usually by extinguishing the fire, after which the girl falls into the hands of a demon). L81a1. Noticing a red bead (pebble) that has fallen into the hearth, the character thinks it is a coal and does not understand that the fire in the hearth has gone out. L81a2. While the men are away, a demonic character comes to a girl or woman to drink her blood or otherwise torment her. The men notice that the girl is wasting away, but at first they do not know the reason. L81a3. A girl sees a demon in a frightening and repulsive form. When he asks her what she said about him (what she saw), the girl replies that she praised his beauty and manners (she saw him in an attractive form). Usually, the girl eventually tells the truth, and the men hiding in ambush kill the enraged demon. L81b. The hero's rivals abandon him, cutting off his legs (usually leaving a sword at the entrance to his tent, and when the hero rushes out, the blade wounds him). L81c. The legless man lives together with the blind and armless man (or with one of the two). By working together, they are healed. L81d. Two cripples with different physical disabilities quarrel and fight, and as a result become whole and healthy. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of L81's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M167 | 98.44% | In the dark, a person mistakes a tiger (lion, demon) for another person or a domestic animal (bull, ox). |
| E9B | 98.01% | Before meeting the hero, his beloved (wife, helper) has the image of an elephant (elephant tusk). |
| F28A1 | 97.78% | The living penis is a dangerous creature that attacks people. |
| I88 | 97.60% | Describes a creature with several tails. |
| H36G1 | 97.16% | When a bull (ox, cow) is ordered to convey certain instructions to people, he confuses them or deliberately distorts them. |
| I119A | 96.27% | Creatures shake the earth, either upon learning that there are no longer any inhabitants on it, or to check whether they are still alive, or to show that they themselves are still there. |
| L93B | 96.01% | The hare or rabbit, resorting to cunning, helps the hero or heroine, saving them. |
| F77A | 95.70% | A huge penis serves as a bridge. |
| C30D | 95.64% | The character agrees that his locus will be contaminated with excrement, but only on condition that not a drop of urine is spilled. It turns out to be impossible to fulfil this condition. |
| H3 | 95.37% | Death is sent to people as punishment for excessive sympathy for a dead animal or for funeral games, during which they bury an animal, tree, etc. |
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This motif has been recorded in 10 traditions: Malagasy, Tonga, Khmer, Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples, Marathi (incl. Bhamta; incl. Mumbai area), Tonga (Tsonga; incl, Soli, Sala, Lenje), Lisu, Lolo (incl. Bai), Achang, Yi, Axi, Nasu, Jino, Taungyo, Toto, Rabha (northern Western Bengalia), Arakan, Chakma, Khyang, Japan