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M32A - Eats what falls out




12 Myths, Legends and Folktales
11 Unique Narratives for Motif M32A
6 Cultures & Traditions where M32A is told
34 Mythemes Indexed
1 Sub-Motifs of Motif M32A


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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.



Summary of Motif

character's insides or pieces of flesh fall out of his back. He eats them, mistaking them for regular meat and fat.

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


M32 has 1 other sub-motifs


M32.  The character swallows food or water, or his own entrails, pieces of flesh flow out and fall out of his ass.
M32a.  character's insides or pieces of flesh fall out of his back. He eats them, mistaking them for regular meat and fat.

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Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns

MotifSimilarityMotif Summary
B42O199.39%The Big Dipper is identified with the fisher (Mustela pennati).
M29J99.17%See the motives in square brackets.
M53B98.88%Trickster claims he's carrying songs in his bag. See M53 motif.
J41B98.80%The son returns, finds his mother, who was humiliated and tortured in his absence, and burns his tormentor and his men, summoning fire and heat with magic.
J27A97.78%One of the babies is abandoned and lives in a river, forest, etc.; the other remains at home; after the abandoned brother returns home, the brothers kill their father or his men. See motifs J19, J25.
H5397.26%The wolf participates in the creation of the earth or is the brother of the creator and/or conqueror of the demons of the underworld. He dies and/or is considered the first to die and/or becomes the lord of the land of the dead.
A38A96.74%The sun is caught in a loop made of a woman's pubic hair.
C25A96.00%In the sky, on the moon, somewhere outside our world, a character (usually an old woman) cooks soup. The fate of the universe depends on his (her) behaviour.
K1J96.00%The abandoned one turns into a bird and returns home faster than the one who abandoned him.
M93A95.67%The character punishes a part of his body (burns his ass, breaks his eyes) for not sounding the alarm. See Motive M93; cf. Motive M142.

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This motif has been recorded in 6 traditions: Attikamek, Winnebago, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon


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