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M70 - The elder poisons the younger ones with intestinal gases
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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 oldest character poisons the youngest with his intestinal gases.Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
M70 has 1 other sub-motifsM70. The oldest character poisons the youngest with his intestinal gases. M70a. A character on whom an old woman defecates or whose face blows the winds pierces her from below with a sharp object. See M70 motif. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M70's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| E21 | 99.17% | A child catches fish (with poison), or fish poison is secreted from his body. Fish or water snakes kill him. Death is avenged. |
| L82 | 99.17% | A person deliberately or accidentally burns his foot in a fire or burns himself completely; he turns into a demonic creature. See motif L9 (man with a sharp foot). |
| M29QQ | 99.17% | See the motives in square brackets. |
| M6 | 99.16% | A young man or girl spends night in the forest. The forest partridge (Tinamus sp.) provides him or her a fire, a shelter and/or a hammock but takes them away and flies away itself when the person does something wrong |
| B58 | 99.13% | After the first ancestors steal the original fire, a forest bird the size of a partridge (Penelope sp.; Anhima cornuta; etc.; jacu, paujil) swallows a hot coal. As a result (except for the Andoc), its neck turns red. |
| D4P | 99.13% | The parrot obtains fire for humans. See motif D4A. Australian data is not taken into account, as the common origin of the motif in America and Australia is excluded. |
| D6B | 99.13% | The one who is burned turns into a crocodile/caiman. |
| B1F | 99.10% | In the era of creation, two men have a common origin, are not antagonists, and display their characteristics in a series of episodes. One is intelligent and successful, the other is simple-minded and irresponsible. |
| F47A | 99.06% | Men use each part of the body of a single woman for copulation, or each man takes a part of her body cut into pieces. |
| M8C | 99.06% | Birds pierce through a layer of clay, wax, resin, etc., that covers the character's eyes or anus. |
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This motif has been recorded in 10 traditions: Micmac, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Yana, Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami, Trio, Rikbaktsa, Kayabi, Nambikwara, Bororo, Suya, Txukarramae