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M66A - A mountain of excrement
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Summary of Motif
After eating a certain food, the trickster leaves a mountain of excrement that is larger than himself.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
M66 has 1 other sub-motifsM66. After eating certain foods frivolously or rubbing his body with his spine, the character suffers from itching, diarrhea, or an irrepressible eruption of intestinal gases. M66a. After eating a certain food, the trickster leaves a mountain of excrement that is larger than himself. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M66's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M75A | 99.91% | The character lures a veteran to avenge his fall from the sky. Either the (potauatomi) shovel drops the character or leaves him on top to avenge being lured and caught. |
| B42A | 99.85% | Hunters chase a bear across the sky and kill it in August-October. The bear's blood or fat falls to the ground in the form of dew or colours the foliage red. See motif B42. |
| L75 | 99.71% | One of two brothers is the embodiment of evil; at birth, he cuts open his mother's body, killing her. |
| M13A | 99.22% | A deity and a human meet so that the former can fulfil the latter's request. As a result, the human is turned to stone. Usually (except for the Squamish), one of the supplicants wants eternal life and is turned to stone. See motif M13. |
| F45A1 | 98.99% | A woman, against her will, conceives from the wind. |
| K104 | 98.99% | The youngest of the brothers stays at home, wounds a red swan or duck, and follows its trail. |
| M61A3 | 98.39% | The character tells each of two different species of fish how the other allegedly used to be hostile or offensive towards the former. Fish kill each other and the character prepares them to eat. |
| K69 | 97.47% | Several men walk towards the horizon to ascend to the sky and visit the Sun or another supreme deity. Usually, one or more of them perish along the way, while others reach their destination. They return by a shorter route than they came. |
| M53C | 97.25% | 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. |
| H37B | 97.07% | One character gives another his power (usually a skunk gives his volley). The other wastes the resource unnecessarily to test its effect. Usually, when the need arises, the resource no longer works. |
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This motif has been recorded in 8 traditions: Menominee, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Winnebago, Iowa, Pawnee, Gros Ventre, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa