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L89 - One secretly feeds another.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
One person, wishing to harm another, secretly gives him certain food to eat or a certain object to use. As a result, the other person dies (usually undergoing a metamorphosis). Cf. motif K82a.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| C12A | 97.72% | The dog warns of an impending global flood or fire and advises what to do. |
| I70 | 97.72% | Trees or reeds grow on the back or head of a reptile. |
| E20 | 95.66% | When a certain person enters the water, the fish die. A plant grows from parts of his body or on his grave, from which fish poison (timbó) is made. |
| M73A | 95.39% | Two (animal) persons compare their feces (with different purpose). One of them gets to exchange them |
| K27YY2 | 94.36% | The hero is sent to bring the chick of a dangerous bird. |
| L84 | 93.99% | The character attempts to chop down a tree with an axe made of obviously unsuitable material. Cf. motif K27g5. |
| F47B | 93.66% | In order to create new people (new women) to replace those who have been destroyed, the character leaves something (feathers or pieces of flesh) in each empty hut (in the hearth, in the hammock, in the village), from which new people (new women) appear. |
| B65 | 93.02% | A mischievous character imitates other animal-people. As a result, his belly is torn open and his spilled intestines turn into vines. |
| B59 | 92.58% | A group of people (usually children, brothers or sisters) play, dance, rise to the sky and turn into the Pleiades or another small constellation. |
| F47A | 92.54% | Men use each part of the body of a single woman for copulation, or each man takes a part of her body cut into pieces. |
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This motif has been recorded in 18 traditions: Sinhalese; Vedda, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario), Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree), Menominee, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Plains Ojibwa, Caddo, Tunica, Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi, Machiguenga, Cashibo, Tacana, Mehinaku, Waura, Yaulapiti, Kuikuro, Kalapalo, Calapalo, Nambikwara, Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay), Terena (Tereno)