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M53B - A bag with songs
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Trickster claims he's carrying songs in his bag. See M53 motif.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 |
|---|---|---|
| M29J | 99.56% | See the motives in square brackets. |
| B42O1 | 99.49% | The Big Dipper is identified with the fisher (Mustela pennati). |
| J41B | 99.25% | 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. |
| A38A | 99.15% | The sun is caught in a loop made of a woman's pubic hair. |
| M32A | 98.88% | character's insides or pieces of flesh fall out of his back. He eats them, mistaking them for regular meat and fat. |
| H53 | 97.87% | 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. |
| M93A | 97.55% | 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. |
| M93 | 96.72% | When falling asleep or going to do something else, the character tells a certain part of his body to wake him up in case of danger. The organ did not give a signal or the character himself did not listen to it, as a result, the misfortune happened. |
| K1J | 96.70% | The abandoned one turns into a bird and returns home faster than the one who abandoned him. |
| L9B | 95.71% | The sharp elbows or (rarely) knees of the character resemble knives or awls. |
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