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M22 - The crane as saviour.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
A long-necked bird living near water (crane, heron, bittern, swan) helps a fugitive escape from his pursuer (indicated in brackets). See motifs J44-J46 (a long-legged bird helps cross the river, drowns the pursuer; the pursuer is most often a bear).Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 9, Identification of protagonists of the stories with particular animals or persons with particular qualities
M22 has 1 other sub-motifsM22. A long-necked bird living near water (crane, heron, bittern, swan) helps a fugitive escape from his pursuer (indicated in brackets). See motifs J44-J46 (a long-legged bird helps cross the river, drowns the pursuer; the pursuer is most often a bear). M22a. In a foreign house, in a foreign country, where the hero finds himself, the crane or heron is a watchman who must raise the alarm in case of strangers appearing. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M22's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M19 | 99.35% | The character ties another person (usually a child) to the end of a line, using them as bait or forcing them to catch fish with their hands. |
| M42B | 98.38% | After losing his eyes, the character makes new ones out of resin or wax, sees again (often this is an episode on the way to finding good eyes, while tar eyes do not see well). |
| M32 | 98.10% | The character swallows food or water, or his own entrails, pieces of flesh flow out and fall out of his ass. |
| B51 | 97.56% | Thanks to a deliberate lie, Thunder did not learn from the bloodsucking insect that it had drunk human blood. |
| M29H | 97.26% | See the motives in square brackets. |
| M87 | 97.04% | The character comes to a place that is abandoned or seems to have been abandoned by the inhabitants. He tries to take or touch things, but invisible owners prevent him from doing so, or the things themselves hurt him. |
| F58 | 96.98% | The character spends the night with a group of women, concealing his nature and/or intentions. In the end, he is either identified and punished, or he slips away to continue his mischief. |
| M41 | 96.76% | The character throws his eyes (an inhaler has a tooth) up or into the distance. At first they return to the eye sockets, but then they disappear. |
| K86 | 96.71% | A small (usually capricious) child is ignored, sent away from home, abandoned on the road, or given to another person for a time. As a result, the child is carried away by an animal or a spirit. |
| L31A | 96.56% | An object descends from the sky. Children playing climb into it or stick to it, and it carries them away to the sky. See motif L31. |
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Map of Motif Dispersal
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This motif has been recorded in 28 traditions: Tutchone, Malecite, Passamaquoddy, Micmac, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Menominee, Pawnee, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Tonkawa, Assiniboine, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Nez Perce, Tillamook, Takelma, Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Yurok, Wailaki, Mattole, Lassik, Sinkyone, Cahto, Wappo, Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov, Northern Paiute (=Paviotso), Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambe; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez), Desana, Siriano; Tatuyo, Bara, Tuyuca, Tenetehara, Bolivian Guarani: Chiriguano (including assimilated Chane Arawaks), Pauserna (=Guarasu), Guarayu, Tapiete, Trumai, Botocudo, Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet