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M14A - Roasted alive.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
To take revenge on his wife or her relatives for (allegedly) causing him offence, the husband roasts his wife alive. See motif M14.Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
M14 has 1 other sub-motifsM14. A man brutally murders his wife (rarely: children, fiancée, sister) and/or eats her flesh himself, or brings her flesh to her relatives (if he kills children, he brings the flesh to his wife). M14a. To take revenge on his wife or her relatives for (allegedly) causing him offence, the husband roasts his wife alive. See motif M14. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M14's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| B36A | 98.78% | Two zoomorphic characters adorn each other, after which one is satisfied with the result and the other is not. |
| M18A | 98.71% | The character becomes the object of fishing or hunting, presenting himself as a target for enemies. Numerous arrows, darts, and harpoons stick into his body without causing harm, and he carries them away. See motif M18. |
| B19 | 98.38% | Before nightfall, people could not make love in peace. |
| H24F | 98.22% | The character has the ability to put a large amount of meat or fish into a bag or container that is easy to carry. |
| E18 | 97.91% | People learn to make or decorate ceramics or baskets (usually learning to apply patterns) thanks to a water creature. |
| B36 | 97.90% | Birds, fish, and four-legged animals deliberately or accidentally smear themselves with colouring substances or divide parts of another's body among themselves, thereby acquiring their current appearance. |
| G12B | 97.85% | Cultivated plants – a gift from a male star or female star. |
| M11A | 97.71% | The character gives others the fish extracted from his body. |
| F31 | 97.57% | A girl or woman becomes pregnant, without knowing it, by a reptile when she unknowingly touches a dead reptile or when a liquid that has leaked from the reptile gets inside her (usually when the contents of a snake egg accidentally flow between her legs). |
| A28 | 97.38% | The clever sun-man involves the foolish moon in various tricks that the latter is incapable of devising himself. Trying to repeat the sun's actions, the moon suffers a fiasco. Cf. motif B1F. |
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This motif has been recorded in 11 traditions: Marshall Islands, incl Ailinglapalap, Arno, Jaluit, Kili, Lae, Maloelap, Majuro, Ratak, Wotho, Ujae, Jaluit (=Jalooj), Namdrik, Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi), Yana, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Warao, Trio, Locono, Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi, Wayapi, Emerillon, Iranxe, Guarani of Paraguay and Brazil: Caygua, Mbia, Apapocuva, Nyandewa, Chiripa