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M84 - Revived from bones, E32, E33
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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 person, animal, fish, or (rarely) a large fruit is killed and eaten. After a meal, what is eaten revives, usually after the bones (seeds) are put together. Cf. motive C16.Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 8, Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
M84 has 7 other sub-motifsM84. A person, animal, fish, or (rarely) a large fruit is killed and eaten. After a meal, what is eaten revives, usually after the bones (seeds) are put together. Cf. motive C16. M84a. After supernatural characters put the bones of a dead and eaten deer, cow, ram, or goat in its skin, the animal is whole (and usually comes to life). See M84 motif. M84b. An animal, bird or fish that is killed and eaten comes to life after its bones are thrown into the water. See M84 motif. M84b1. A person enters a country from where fish come to people (and comes back). M84b2. The character carefully preserves the bones of migratory birds eaten (not fish or animals) and the birds come to life again. (Episodes of reviving a domestic goose or rooster are not taken into account in everyday tales). M84b3. M84c. Sleeping in a deserted place, a person finds himself among spirits. One of them explains that he has a guest, that is the same person. M84d. A person hears trees talking, one of which is (fatally) ill and suffers. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M84's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| L57A | 96.69% | The enemy takes possession of part of the character's body (remains). Another (usually resorting to trickery) returns what is missing, and the character comes back to life or recovers. |
| J51 | 96.64% | The character is dismembered or eaten; he is revived from his remains, but since one of his bones was broken, swallowed or carried away (or a drop of blood or a piece of flesh was lost), the revival fails, or the character remains defective in some way. |
| K27S | 96.37% | Competition: running, racing. See motif K27. |
| I45A | 95.54% | Pointing at or staring at the moon or stars will cause illness (death) or the pointing finger to rot or wither. |
| K102A2 | 94.83% | The mother seeks to destroy her son (children) because he interferes with her love affair. Cf. motif L86: Children flee from their demon mother. |
| M29B2 | 94.73% | As a result of its stupidity or antisocial behavior, the bear dies or suffers damage. See the motives in square brackets. |
| F83 | 93.50% | The character does something forbidden and indecent in a place hidden from prying eyes, and then asks people what's new. They reply that there is no news – except that so-and-so (the character) did such-and-such. |
| I22C | 93.36% | The character safely slips, sails or flies through the opening, which then slams shut, but the edge of the stern of the boat, the tail of an animal or bird, the body of a riding animal, the hero's companion or his own heel is crushed, torn off, etc. |
| M62A | 92.70% | The hero quietly damages each of the two characters; they accuse each other, quarrel, fight. |
| F63 | 92.23% | A male trickster transforms into a woman and gets married. In the end, he is exposed or runs away from his husband. |
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This motif has been recorded in 58 traditions: Arabs of Sudan, Sudanese, Malayali; Kannikaran, Sindhi, Ireland, Wales, England, British, Bretons, Scotland, Scots, Picts, Scotti, Scottish, France, Germans: North (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pommern, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Rügen, Hungarians, Croatians, Croats; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians), Slovenians, Slovenes, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Estonians, Western Sami, Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia), Russians: Central part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Vyatka, Perm, Kazan provinces), Uzbek, Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Georgians, Armenians, Anatolia Turks, Hui (Dungan) of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan (Dungan texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones), Bashkirs, Chuvash, Mansi, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots), Chukchi, Tagish, Tanana, Caribou, Tlingit, Haida, Montagnais, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Winnebago, Arapaho, Osage, Omaha, Ponca, Iowa, Comanche, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Chilkotin, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Sechelt (incl Sisiatl), Squamish, Halcomelem, Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz, Lower Chinook (Chinook proper), Alabama, Koasati, Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal), Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet, Chechens, Wallons, Picardie, Maldives, Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio)