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M24A - Kills a woman, captured
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
turtle man goes to war, kills people (usually a woman). He gets caught or killed. In his animal form, he continues to live on. See M24 motif.Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 7, Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar
M24 has 1 other sub-motifsM24. turtle goes to war and/or is captured. See M23 motif. Cf. motif K77 “Verlioka”. M24a. turtle man goes to war, kills people (usually a woman). He gets caught or killed. In his animal form, he continues to live on. See M24 motif. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M24's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K25B | 98.90% | A woman climbs a tree trying to catch a porcupine and ends up in the sky. |
| M79 | 98.90% | A person joins the dancers; it turns out that the dancers are reeds or trees in the wind. |
| K68 | 98.82% | A strong man takes food from a weak man and forces him to work for him (usually a son-in-law mistreats his father-in-law). A boy appears in the house of the wronged man from a clot of animal blood that has been collected. He kills the offender. |
| J19 | 98.34% | While her husband or brother is hunting, an evil spirit comes to his wife or sister; he kills her or takes her away. Her sons, who were torn from her womb or born at that time, are saved. |
| M48 | 98.33% | Trickster asks another zoomorphic character to turn him into a creature of his kind, but if he breaks the condition for transformation, he becomes himself again. Usually, a trickster asks a bison or elk to turn it into a bison or elk. The bison (elk) rushes to the trickster, which bounces off in fear. The next time the trickster stays in place, metamorphoses, but regains its former appearance after trying to turn another trickster into a bison, etc. |
| F93A | 98.29% | A man's penis begins to talk incessantly, falling silent only after his mother-in-law takes it in her hand. |
| M29Q | 97.52% | See the motives in square brackets. |
| E6A | 97.13% | People walk across a (frozen) body of water to reach their current place of residence, while some remain on the other side or drown. |
| J12J | 97.08% | A girl or sisters end up with a false groom who plays the role of a jester in the chief's house. See motif J12. |
| L91 | 96.93% | Two or four young men go on a journey or return from one. Their path is blocked by a long creature that cannot be bypassed. They burn a passage through it. One eats roasted meat, turns into a snake himself, or dies. See motif L28. |
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This motif has been recorded in 7 traditions: Shan, Ahom, Khampti, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Menominee, Miami, Illini, Blackfoot, Teton (incl Oglala), Navajo