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M17B - Wife deceives blind man.
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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 directs the blind man's arrow at game, lies that he has missed, and eats the meat herself.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 |
|---|---|---|
| F67 | 96.83% | An old woman lives with her (adopted) daughter, niece or daughter-in-law. She (supposedly) turns into a man, marries a girl or tries to do so. |
| B7A | 96.23% | Someone possesses water or a drink. Another character swallows what is hidden, runs away and spits out what is hidden, making the water or drink available to everyone. |
| M46 | 95.92% | Some creatures steal or own valuables. To return (get) them, the character turns into a small object, from contact with which a woman becomes pregnant, or into a baby. A picked up or born baby takes on its true appearance and steals valuables (including making the girl who picked it up pregnant, if that was his goal). |
| B97 | 94.81% | The character rewards (rarely punishes) a bird living by the water, determining its current appearance (crest, beak, feather colouring). |
| M53D | 94.34% | The character pretends to be enemies coming; when people run away in fear, the character takes what the deceived people owned. |
| J65 | 93.68% | After the attack by enemies, a woman and her daughter remain. She rejects the marriage proposals of animal suitors and agrees to give her daughter to the heavenly deity (the Sun). The children from this marriage take revenge on their enemies. |
| M53A | 93.68% | raven gathers seals or other marine mammals around and deceives them into killing them. |
| K87B | 93.66% | A woman is picking berries, steps in bear droppings, and scolds the bears. The offended bear takes her away and marries her. |
| K8C5 | 93.58% | A zoomorphic character no larger than a fox allows itself to be swallowed by a bear and kills it by tearing it apart from the inside. |
| F74 | 93.38% | Upon seeing a dangerous character, a man or woman undresses and pretends to be dead (or the character undresses the woman). Examining and sniffing the supposed corpse, the character finds what he takes to be a wound or signs of decay and leaves. |
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This motif has been recorded in 21 traditions: Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Forest Nenets, Nganasans, Evens (Lamuts), Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir, Tagish, Tahltan, Kaska, Athna, Tanana, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw), Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Arapaho, Chilkotin, Flathead, Paresi