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M78F - Substituted embryo
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
When a woman falls asleep, a joker (usually a tiny boy) places an embryo or the entrails of an animal or something similar next to her to make the woman herself or others think she has a miscarriage or that her viscera has fallen out.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
M78 has 7 other sub-motifsM78. A tiny little man performs a series of tricks, mocks people he meets and opponents. M78a. A tiny little man emerges from the severed tail of a goat or sheep. M78b. Wishing a baby, a childless woman gives birth to many tiny boys. She or her husband kill them or throw them away, but she stays alone and helps their parents. M78c. A tiny little man emerges from a severed finger. M78d. A tiny boy (rarely a girl) comes from a pea (bean, seed) or from a spool of goat droppings, he is almost as tall as a pea. Or he was born after his mother ate a pea. M78e. A tiny boy comes from an animal's ear, compared in size to an ear, his name is “ear”. M78f. When a woman falls asleep, a joker (usually a tiny boy) places an embryo or the entrails of an animal or something similar next to her to make the woman herself or others think she has a miscarriage or that her viscera has fallen out. M78g. When the inhabitants of the house fall asleep, a joker (usually a tiny boy) ties them together in pairs so that when they wake up, they quarrel. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M78's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M38D3 | 99.08% | The character, who is a lump of earth (oatmeal, salt), blurred in the rain or after going to get water. |
| N28C | 98.80% | In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a pillar of the sky is mentioned |
| K27Z5 | 98.80% | Two men agree to marry their children if one has a son and the other has a daughter. The girl's parents do not fulfil the agreement. The boy grows up and finds his betrothed. |
| M106B | 98.78% | The character who caused harm to the antagonist calls himself by a fictitious name such as "Last Year," and the other antagonists understand this to mean that everything happened a long time ago and there is no point in looking for the culprit. |
| M125 | 98.51% | One character lies to another, pretending to eat his own eyes. The other agrees to eat his own. The first character gouges out one of his eyes and gives him something tasty in its place. The character believes that this is the same eye that was gouged out and agrees to give up the second. |
| M91B | 98.39% | A person manages to fraudulently sell or exchange ash for gold and money. Others are unsuccessfully offering ash for sale. |
| K12A | 98.25% | An unrecognised hero arrives at a place where his bride or wife is to be given to another man or turned into a servant. Contrary to expectations, he manages to draw a tight bow (raise a spear), with which he kills his rivals. |
| M60A2 | 98.20% | The servant must lick the master or mistress's feet or wound. The hero comes disguised as a servant and instead of licking his heels, touches them with the animal's cut off tongue. |
| N1 | 98.18% | The fabulous and epic texts start from the beginning, which states that today's huge objects were tiny at the time. |
| K76F | 98.04% | A young man with the appearance of a calf marries and then turns into a handsome man. |
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This motif has been recorded in 21 traditions: Burusho (Hunza), Lavrung, Jiarong; Qiang (incl rGyalrong), Western Ukrainians, Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Nogai, Anatolia Turks, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Bashkirs, Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks), Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Mongols (Khalkha), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit, Altaians, Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar, Altaians, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal), Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori, Terek Cossacks