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M70A - A pierced old woman
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
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.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 |
|---|---|---|
| F46 | 99.00% | At the beginning of time, two or more men (human-animals) had only one woman. |
| L135 | 98.54% | A person leaves home and finds himself in unfamiliar places. His journey is marked by encounters with various strange creatures. In the end, he either returns home or leaves the earth for another world. (With an abundance of episodes, the story often either breaks off or does not contain the initial episodes explaining the reason for the hero's departure from home). |
| H29 | 98.53% | A woman mates with an animal. The people of a hostile tribe originate from or derive their culture from the descendants of this union, from the relatives of the animal or from the children of the woman's brothers. |
| D8 | 94.90% | The first fire (or summer) is stolen from a large predator – a lion or leopard in Africa, a tiger in Asia, a bear in northern Asia and North America, and a jaguar in South America. |
| M70 | 94.77% | The oldest character poisons the youngest with his intestinal gases. |
| B36 | 92.45% | Birds, fish, and four-legged animals deliberately or accidentally smear themselves with colouring substances or divide parts of another's body among themselves, thereby acquiring their current appearance. |
| E15 | 91.84% | People learn how to build boats and row from birds; a bird or part of its body serves as a model for building a boat. |
| M75 | 91.62% | The character attracts and catches corpse eaters (usually birds) and as a result obtains valuables or returns something valuable (fire, woman, animals, etc.). |
| H37 | 91.07% | A magical item that makes hunting or fishing easy and reliable falls into the hands of a character who is unable to control it or abuses it. |
| E21 | 91.01% | A child catches fish (with poison), or fish poison is secreted from his body. Fish or water snakes kill him. Death is avenged. |
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This motif has been recorded in 7 traditions: Naskapi, Montagnais, Arikara, Plains Cree, Yana, Trio, Chamacoco (Ishir)