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M81F - A blind liar is robbed, ATU 1577
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
blind beggar robs an honest man. He watches him and, when he enters the house, takes everything the blind man has accumulated. He often takes money accumulated by other blind people as well.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
M81 has 8 other sub-motifsM81. Wandering, the hero finds himself in a place where blind or blind (two or more) live. M81a. The hero meets two blind women and makes them sighted. These women are birds (geese, ducks, hazel grouses, partridges). M81b. The character is warned not to try to reach an arrow if it gets stuck in a tree. He breaks the ban and gets into trouble. M81c. A person goes to heaven or (rarely) to the lower world, where he meets blind people (one or two), usually makes them sighted, and returns to earth himself. M81d. A person meets (most often in the sky) one or two blind people and restores their sight. M81e. young man undertakes to herd cattle and is warned not to cross the borders of a giant, dragon, witch, etc. The young man violates the ban and kills a giant. M81e1. A young man lives with an old man whose eyes or eyes were carried away by a giant. The young man goes to the giant, kills him, brings his eyes, the old man sees the light. M81e2. By playing an instrument or otherwise, a character is able to attract an animal or person far away from him. M81f. blind beggar robs an honest man. He watches him and, when he enters the house, takes everything the blind man has accumulated. He often takes money accumulated by other blind people as well. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M81's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M38B | 99.79% | The first wife, rejected or taken later than others, performs certain actions with the help of magic. Other wives try to imitate her but are killed, maimed, or disgraced. |
| K56A8C | 99.24% | A young man brings an animal to his home, and it turns into a girl. Imitating him, another man marries a dog (pig), but it remains an animal. |
| K56F2 | 98.82% | In order to divide a certain number (often five) of eggs equally among people of different sexes, a cunning woman takes into account that each of the men already has two eggs. |
| K27Z2B | 98.82% | The complicated relationship between a simple girl and a prince leads to the prince intending to kill his bride on their wedding night. The girl substitutes a doll for herself, the prince stabs the doll with his sword, mistakes the spurting juice (syrup, honey) for blood, and repents of the murder. The real girl appears, and the young couple are happy. |
| K33A8 | 98.45% | A woman transformed into a dove by the machinations of a rival tries to establish contact with her children or husband. |
| M39A6I | 97.70% | A person sends food or things to another and tells the messenger to give the recipient some words that the messenger does not understand. On the way, he stole or ate some of what he was supposed to bring. From the messenger's words, the recipient understands what exactly was transferred and accuses him of stealing. |
| K33H1 | 97.53% | The hero's wife (mother, servant) is unaware of the magical properties of an object kept in the house and exchanges it for something more attractive, but in reality incomparable in value. |
| K157A | 97.01% | In order to find a missing husband (wife, saviour), the character regularly gathers random people to tell stories (usually keeping a shop, bathhouse, etc. for this purpose). From the conversations, it becomes clear that one of the visitors is the person they are looking for, or his story helps to find the missing person. |
| K107C | 96.93% | A magical spouse who arrives in the form of a bird or appears in some other way meets a woman. Jealous sisters (stepmother, brother, etc.) wound him (usually by placing razors, glass shards, etc. in his path). The wounded young man disappears, and the woman goes in search of him. |
| M39A5B | 96.85% | The wife throws fish into the furrows or into the beds. My husband believes that the fish ended up there on its own, he is mistaken for a madman. |
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This motif has been recorded in 15 traditions: Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani), Poles, Slovakians, Slovaks, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Slovenians, Slovenes, Latvians, Estonians, Western Ukrainians, Persians, Georgians, Anatolia Turks, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Russian Federation