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M53 - Game dances around the hunter, K826
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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 character invites others to gather around him, focusing on an activity (usually dancing with their eyes closed or lowered), and then kills the crowd (usually one at a time).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
M53 has 6 other sub-motifsM53. The character invites others to gather around him, focusing on an activity (usually dancing with their eyes closed or lowered), and then kills the crowd (usually one at a time). M53a. raven gathers seals or other marine mammals around and deceives them into killing them. M53b. Trickster claims he's carrying songs in his bag. See M53 motif. M53c. trickster, inviting birds to dance around him with their eyes closed, kills them one at a time and threatens to turn red at the one that opens their eyes; this is an empty threat, or for a bird that opens eyes and eyes have really turned red ever since. M53d. The character pretends to be enemies coming; when people run away in fear, the character takes what the deceived people owned. M53e. A character (always a raven) kills a whale and points others to imaginary signs that whale meat is not suitable for food. People believe and all the meat goes to the deceiver. M53f. The character is involved in preparing food supplies. After leaving under some pretext, he returns in the form of a monster or predator. Everyone runs away, the deceiver eats supplies, and then returns as usual. As a result, it was exposed. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M53's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| J19B | 99.82% | An evil spirit kills a woman by burning through her body. |
| M69 | 99.26% | character is attracted by the inside of a large animal's skull (small animals or insects are dancing or feasting inside, or eating some meat); he sticks his head inside , it gets stuck. |
| A38D | 99.19% | Because the Sun has harmed the character (ruined or burned his cloak, the fur on his skin, etc.), he catches it in a trap or kills it. |
| A38C | 98.69% | The Sun exchanges a cape made of animal or bird skins with a boy or girl, or spoils it. As a result, the boy or girl raises their status or takes revenge on the Sun. |
| D4N | 98.69% | A boy or (among the Kutené) a woman cries, demanding the absent elements - summer, fire, rain. See motif D4A (demand for summer). |
| I22H | 98.35% | The character must jump over a gap (abyss) beneath his feet, which alternately widens and narrows, or a river whose banks converge and diverge. |
| M80 | 98.13% | The character insults a partridge bird, kills or offends its chickens; the partridge suddenly takes off in front of the offender, he falls (usually into a lake or river). |
| C6B | 97.60% | The desired object is brought up from the bottom by a muskrat (rarely a beaver or otter). |
| B42C | 97.45% | In the cosmic hunting plot, the object of pursuit is a bear. See motifs B42 and B42P. |
| B48 | 96.85% | Harmless and herbivorous animals were or could become dangerous predators. |
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This motif has been recorded in 41 traditions: Kikuyu, Chuka, Embu, Emberre, Mwimbe, Songhai, Marshall Islands, incl Ailinglapalap, Arno, Jaluit, Kili, Lae, Maloelap, Majuro, Ratak, Wotho, Ujae, Jaluit (=Jalooj), Namdrik, Shan, Ahom, Khampti, Mongols (Khalkha), Chipewyan, Koyukon, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), Beaver, Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island), Eyak, Malecite, Passamaquoddy, Micmac, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Naskapi, Montagnais, Menominee, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Winnebago, Blackfoot, Arapaho, Teton (incl Oglala), Yankton/Yanktonai, Osage, Omaha, Ponca, Iowa, Pawnee, Tonkawa, Kiowa, Comanche, Gros Ventre, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Crow, Chumash, Kawaiisu, Jicarilla, Chiricahua, Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon