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M30D - Holds to a stick carried by birds, ATU 225A
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Summary of Motif
To get into the air, a character without wings (usually a turtle or a frog) grabs a stick with the ends held in their beaks by two birds.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
M30 has 4 other sub-motifsM30. character who has no natural wings or can't fly long distances rises into the air, but falls or, having lost its wings, stays where he can't return from. (The motive includes several options, but even when taken together, they don't cover the whole world. Texts with M25 and M28 motifs are counted as including the M30 motif). M30a. The character flying over the village falls, is tied up, and defecated on him. M30b. Birds give a non-flying or ugly character feathers so that he can fly or become beautiful, but then take them away. M30c. A character flying through the air falls, violating the ban on talking, looking down, flying over villages, etc. (The character is not dropped by the person carrying it and flies above the ground, not descends from the sky or rises to the sky). M30d. To get into the air, a character without wings (usually a turtle or a frog) grabs a stick with the ends held in their beaks by two birds. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M30's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| J47B | 97.61% | When a character runs away from a pursuer, a strong rope (chain, etc.) is lowered (thrown) to him. A rotten rope is lowered to the pursuer, it breaks, and the pursuer crashes (drowns). |
| A12G | 97.31% | The character tries to eclipse the moon for telling on him. |
| A2B | 97.25% | In addition to the current sun and/or moon, other suns and moons shone in the sky, which were then destroyed. See motif A2A. |
| K29C | 96.96% | They hope to kill the hero by knocking a tree down on him or tying him to a tree. He comes back alive, dragging the tree behind him. |
| M198B4 | 96.69% | The fake fortune teller, expecting to be exposed, utters words that reflect his state of mind. The thieves standing nearby perceive some of the words as their names, believe that the fortune teller has found out about them, and ask him not to reveal them. |
| H6D | 96.62% | Having obtained a means of ensuring immortality, the character falls asleep or leaves the means unattended. At this time, another character steals the means. |
| A2A | 96.56% | The world was or will be (almost) burned when several suns lit up or will light up simultaneously; or destructive heat (or light) once emanated from one sun. |
| F51B | 96.14% | To find out the nature or location of a character's locus, another person secretly attaches a long thread to it and follows it. |
| B43 | 96.03% | Elements of the landscape or parts of the universe are created from the body of the original being. |
| A4A | 95.34% | So that people do not look at it, the Sun blinds their immodest eyes (usually with needles, which are its rays). |
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This motif has been recorded in 16 traditions: Khmer, Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples, Sinhalese; Vedda, Early Chinese written sources, Portuguese, Portugal, Catalan, Maltese, Kara Kalpak, Hui (Dungan) of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan (Dungan texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones), Turkmen, Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots), Mongols (Khalkha), Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu, Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal), Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha), Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)