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M16 - The healed cripple.
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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 wife or relatives (often the mother) of the sick person do not care for him. He recovers, and those who treated him badly are punished. Cf. motifs F62 and F96.Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
M16 has 1 other sub-motifsM16. The wife or relatives (often the mother) of the sick person do not care for him. He recovers, and those who treated him badly are punished. Cf. motifs F62 and F96. M16a. A character (usually a loon) restores a person's sight and/or health by diving into the water with them. See motif M16. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M16's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M17 | 96.52% | A wife, mother or grandmother directs the arrow of a blind man or boy at game, lies that he missed, cooks and eats the meat herself. See motif M16 (man is blind, K333.1). |
| M20 | 95.87% | The character does something unacceptable, is caught, and his beak or jaw is damaged. Usually (except for the Koryaks), people keep the torn-off beak (jaw) in their homes, and the character comes and takes it back. |
| L102 | 95.71% | A girl or woman (for various reasons, jokingly or seriously) calls an animal or animal remains her husband, or steps on bones and addresses them. The animal (comes to life and) carries her away. Her human husband, parents or brother come for her, and they flee; usually the animal husband pursues them, but stops the chase or dies. |
| A13A1 | 95.63% | The raven rescues or obtains the hidden or stolen sun (daylight). |
| B27A | 95.41% | The characters ponder what they should transform into and decide to become thunder and/or lightning. |
| L10 | 95.16% | The character has a sharp (biting) tail or a protrusion on its back. See motif L9, cf. motif L9C. |
| C19A | 95.02% | The character (except Quileut: Raven) turns into a child, asks for and receives heavenly bodies to play, or (Chukchi) comes to play with the little daughter of the owner of the stars. |
| M16A | 94.98% | A character (usually a loon) restores a person's sight and/or health by diving into the water with them. See motif M16. |
| I6A | 94.49% | The male and female of a huge bird carry different types of precipitation (for example, the eagle carries snow, and the eagle carries rain). Or (Buryats of Mongolia) the same bird carries different types of precipitation depending on whether it is angry or not. See motif i6. Traditions associated with Na-Dene languages are highlighted in italics in the list. |
| B97A | 94.48% | A strip of light or dark feathers (rarely: wool) on the neck of a bird (animal) is its necklace (scarf). |
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This motif has been recorded in 32 traditions: Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Nganasans, Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir, Tutchone, Tagish, Inland Tlingit, Tahltan, Athna, Tanana, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), North Alaskan Inupiat, Copper, Netsilik, Caribou, Iglulik, Polar Inuit, East Greenland (Angmassalik, Kulusuk), Eyak, Haida, Tsimshian, Blackfoot, Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Arapaho, Assiniboine, Chilkotin, Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Flathead, Yana, Witoto, Ocaina, Paresi, Craho, Apinaye (Apinage, Apinaje)