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M53F - Pretending to be a monster, it eats supplies
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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 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.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 |
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| B2G | 89.45% | The chameleon walked on the ground when it had not yet hardened. |
| B98B | 89.45% | The Bat comes into conflict with other creatures in connection with someone's death or funeral. |
| B98C | 89.45% | The heavenly deity could have healed the bat's mother or child, but did not do so, and they died. |
| C30B | 89.45% | In response to the claims of an animal or spirit, a person offers to remove their traces from the field or to walk without leaving any traces. The spirit is unable to do so. |
| D13HH | 89.45% | A person visiting another world should not laugh or show surprise when seeing strange things. Those who break this rule will perish or suffer harm. |
| E1B1 | 89.45% | A man who has married an unusual girl is warned that she must not perform certain tasks or eat certain foods. Other members of his household ensure that the young woman breaks the prohibition, and as a result she dies or disappears. |
| E31B | 89.45% | Several women participate in reviving a dead man and argue about who did more to revive him. |
| F73A | 89.45% | The vulva is an unhealed wound on the body of the first women, or the first humans did not copulate because they thought that the vulva was a wound. |
| H1BB | 89.45% | One character refuses to resurrect another's beloved dog, and this conflict is linked to the loss of the ability to resurrect people. |
| H31 | 89.45% | God summons several characters, including man and the heavenly bodies, and makes man mortal and the heavenly bodies immortal. |
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This motif has been recorded in 3 traditions: Malawi (incl Nyanja, Banyanja, Manganja), Tumbuka (incl Henga), Nsenga, Matengo, (Ba)Wenda, Safwa, Mkulwe, Ngonde, Kinga, Nyakusa, Nyamwanga, Tutchone