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M171B - A shoulder blade without meat.
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Summary of Motif
The character pretends to have brought meat on a shoulder blade and gives it to the hosts to cook. Taking a bare bone without meat out of the pot, he accuses the hosts of stealing the meat.Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
M17 has 2 other sub-motifsM17. 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). M17a. The mother or grandmother of a blind man or boy secretly eats (the meat or fish he has caught), pretending that there is no food in the house. M17b. The wife directs the blind man's arrow at game, lies that he has missed, and eats the meat herself. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M17's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| L42C | 99.44% | The character hides from someone stronger, sometimes inside the house, sometimes outside, and the stronger character cannot catch him. |
| I55B | 99.00% | The hero chases a deer or elk carrying the sun. |
| N5 | 98.63% | Long trips, hikes, flights, or battles are described using a formula that indicates that characters learn about winter through snow or frost, and summer through warmth, rain, dew or other similar signs. |
| M108A | 98.33% | A lonely elderly couple adopts a trickster. He steals from them (and runs away). |
| B45B | 97.88% | The bull or cow is the embodiment of cold, the reason why winter is cold. |
| M38D1 | 97.73% | bubble-head, the straw leg, the hair-neck are successively dying, trying to act like ordinary people. |
| B74 | 97.24% | The eyes of the capercaillie or black grouse turned red from tears. |
| K27N3A1 | 96.90% | In the course of his courtship, the hero enters into a struggle with characters (more than two) who embody the elements, celestial bodies, and parts of the universe. |
| A32G | 96.59% | On the lunar disc, a character can be seen holding onto a tree or bush and ending up on the moon with them. See motif A32D. |
| M91D | 96.19% | The character deceives others by passing off the dead as alive, directing suspicions of murder to innocent people, etc. When a shaman (less often a shaman) is ready to discover the truth, he succeeds in it kill and avoid being charged with murder. |
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This motif has been recorded in 16 traditions: Abaza (Abazins), Nogai, Kalmyk, Kara Kalpak, Kazakh, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Darkhad, Tofa (Karagas), Khakas, Nenets, Nganasans, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Dolgans, Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir, Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori